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I think you're missing one point that I get from 37Signals, which is the "be happy baking good bread" angle that DHH has espoused on at least one occasion I can remember. What he means by this is that not everyone feels like they have to crush Google to call themselves a success. Some people would be happy to be doing a (likely self determined) job they enjoy that provides what they need to maintain their chosen lifestyle. There's a lot of niches out there waiting to be found.

Granted, not everyone is happy just to "bake good bread" and that's cool, I'll be the first to cheer you on as you enter the area with Google/MS/Symantec/Digg/Facebook/whoever but on the flip side, don't assume that no one is.

This may be a hard concept for a lot of people to grok in a world addicted to "more" and possibly an unrealistic concept to entertain if you have a big VC expecting X return on their investment in Y amount of time.

But to write off companies that obviously have their own idea of how to proceed and seem to be doing just fine from their point of view is overly myopic on your part.
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It's considered bad form to reply to yourself, but "solely makes up for the gaps in jQuery" shouldn't be there in 10 - who knows what I was thinking?
Seems like business as normal. I couldn't tease any palpable changes from that article besides a general feeling of worry.
How about a good basic Chemistry book?
Mingle good, flow bad.

I actually think "flomingle" would be better. It de-emphasises the less pleasant connotations of "flow" while getting closer to the "flamingo" connotation.

"Flamingle" on the other hand would only be good if it were a gay dating site.
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Can you substantiate that comment? Are you referring to salary/bonus growth being slower in leaner years? Is there a significant difference over a 40 year work life?
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That's called an 'embarrassingly parallel' problem, it's not the general case. I guess, just like 'big O', people have to take a class to appreciate the space of what it's possible to parallelize and how much it buys you.
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The article confuses work ethic and intelligence and ability. I think that although there's overlap, they're quite different things. And using grades as an intelligence indicator is horribly flawed.
I would add a link back provision to that license.
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Same here, almost. I'm right-handed and I can raise my right eyebrow but it's not as easy as the left.
Look on the bright side. This is actually good news for startups overall as it usually means less competition and survival of the leanest.

If you are bootstrapping, you should be particularly happy because you'll be seeing less competitors who are better-connected than you and have more funding. This very much levels the playing field between the davids and the goliaths.
No, not contradictory. Apple is going down with all the other stocks. It has had a high multiple (Price of the stock/earnings) and still has IMO. The growth in Mac sales is not news and has been known by the market.
A couple of points which stopped me from signing up:

* Why do I have to sign up using my real name? I'm not sure I'd want that plastered all over a dating site.

* As someone living in Canada, I don't have a valid ZIP code.
Bad number of significant figures used: his correlation coefficient's 95% confidence interval is 0.51 to 0.89, so he should only be using 1 or 2 significant figures.
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Good! now startups will be forced to restructure their business and actually find a way to make real revenue.
I think the line this article is taking is one that has been told for a while. It's just now possible that it will become visible in the next few years.

The US may continue it's first place in % of world GDP for a long time (depending on how we define the EU), but that's not going to mean what it used to. First with 15% when second third & fourth come in at 14, 13 & 12 doesn't have the same sort of affect on the world.

In 2006 the surprise free (exact continuation of existing trends) prediction for the economic superpower map was China surpassing the States by 2040 with India not far behind & several countries at around 50% of the US's GDP. The China-US equivalent was then moved to 2025 in 2007 (when the dollar went on the move).

Now, a year down the line we hit another bump (so much for no surprises). China's political dependence on economic growth & preference for good news, might mean it's a while before anyone knows how China is affected. They could come out more affected then the US. But that said, it seems possible that the US will indeed be only one of several big players very soon. China doesn't seem too interested in exerting political influence beyond their immediate interests currently. Russia does but is not likely to wield enough power soon. The EU is not a great mechanism for converting economic power to military & political power. So the US will probably have a little more pull then their % of GDP should entitle them to, for a while. But USA 2020 is not the same kind of a power as US 1990. Potentially similar to Russia 1970 vs 2000.

The reality about things like 'The War on Terror' is that opinions of it among academics, analysts, intelligent politicians (who by definition do not disclose their true feelings on the subject) and importantly security/military experts are that it is a threat on par with organised crime, HIV, traffic accidents or whatever other troubles they might have. Only a small handful of countries are seriously threatened by 'terrorists' either in terms of affecting the lives of citizens (eg Israel) or politically (eg Lebanon). And that is a far less serious threat then your average border conflict between nations (which is likely result in loss of sovereignty or territory) or internal conflicts.

The thing is, that makes sense. Britain copped a bombing. I don't want to belittle that but if not for the political ramifications, that's no worse then what a month of bad weather can do to traffic accidents. Certainly affects people's lives a lot less then things like healthcare, policing or education. It's not a danger of the 'Napoleon is coming' kind nor is signing up to the a war effort controversially effective in stopping it.

If that's the opinion of most while the US president is still talking terrorists, the US comes off as irrelevant. Almost like talking about making a choice between Socialism & Barbarism.
Yes. In this case its terrorism, not extortion. I did a double take on this as well. I guess I'm just so used to the extortion angle that the terrorism caught me off guard.
At University we used to refer to big O as Roy Orbison. Just an example of our kind of smalltown humour.
So am I allowed to peak at pages 73 and 14? Gotta find out what I missed.
Quick correction. You mistake the effects of terrorism to only be immediate-damage-related. Terrorism is an existential threat in a democracy because the goal is to create wide swings in public opinion to make the democracy do things which are harmful to it.
Not quite true. If a word ends in an r and the speaker is thinking about what to say next, he may in fact roll the r. Think about this sentence: "Estuvimos allí por... un rato." Often it'd be punctuated with ellipses, but in some sense it might be better written "Estuvimos allí porr un rato."
I don't know how many words that is, but it's all worth substantially less than 1 good picture would be.
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Reminds me of the dress like Best Buy employees live skit:

http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/
Maybe that's why the brain decided to go with parallel processing...
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I thought Godel, Escher, Bach to be too hard to read.

Instead I recommend Kip Thorne's Black Holes & Time Warps, a great book.
I agree. But political, psychological implications considered, Britain is not under a serious threat from terrorism. Neither is France, Germany, Canada, Japan or virtually anyone else.

The US is more susceptible to terrorism largely because of its rhetoric. They could for example, get drawn into or prolong a war. But that's not the same kind of threat that even dwarfs like N. Korea or Iran present. Terrorism fast hits a brick wall. If attacks become common in The States (eg 5 per year) long term, they will get used to it. Just like gang violence. You could theoretically just ignore it & the US would still be the US. The same could not ba said of the Cold War War II, or any other 'real' war.
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this is very known, and there has been lots of articles about it. You probably could google this yourself:
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2008/06/04/...
The marketing effect has already exceeded the ticket sales proceeds.
Sounds like you're describing curated search for a particular set of queries (text books). Isn't this a subset of what Mahalo does?
Also, a lot of native spanish speakers pronounce all initial r's as rolled r's.
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The worst case scenario for a startup entrepreneur is failing out and having to get another day job. Skilled software engineers are still in high demand, and a recession will not change that. Therefore, the safety net (corporate America) is still there for anyone who quits.

However, if you like your current day job, it might not be a bad idea to hold on to it for a while.
do you think that apps should be translated before attempting to link over to friendster?
Looks like legitimate data.

Even if real, doesn't necessarily mean they aren't confounded by another factor.
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Yes, matching distorted shapes w/ noise attached to a set of 26 to 62 unique shapes will bring self-aware AI.
World trade will become irrelevant once we develop our own energy independence and desktop manufacturing. These two technological breakthroughs will render cultural and economic hegemonies irrelevant.

The next great economic triumph won't be the victory of any particular country or region. It will be the emergence of distributed and decentralized economic power.

That's how I'd like to see it go down, anyhow..
He seems to be making the argument:

1. The US government can borrow money at extremely low rates
2. Purchasing mortgage-based securities at the current market price will eventually make you a lot of money
3. So.. the government should leverage up and buy 700 Billion worth

This sounds awfully similar to the advice given to people buying homes during the real estate bubble. "Buy the biggest house you can get a loan for.. it'll be worth more tomorrow anyway, so you can just sell it and make money!"
It seems that key-value database is still hot. Agree that "relational database seems a bit overkill". In fact, I am considering refactor a whole site to with key-value backend.
Will I ever be able to buy a 10Ghz CPU?

Someone please comfort me.
How is this easier/quicker than real life dating? The difference between online and real life 'dating' is that online dating takes way too much time.
Well that finally answers the question of "what will web 3.0 be?"
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Would there be an energy crisis if we replaced all powersources with nuclear power plants?
And then started using electric cars?

And then put all energy-research into solarpower to replace nuclear power when there is a major breakthrough?

I'm hardly an expert but it seems most other alternatives are either not viable or they are just a trade-off.
The point of having a backend queue is that on very large scale systems an easy way to boost the "speed" of your site is never do synchronous writes (writes being loosely defined as anything that needs to be changed or executed, examples: inserts, updates, email notifications). If a users updates a title or description, return the result page right away and queue the actual operation to update the value. Locking a row or table for update is relatively slow in large databases (ones measured in TBs for instance). The extra tens or hundreds of milliseconds you gain from using a queue like this helps your users perceive your website as "fast" even though technically it takes longer than you've led them to believe.
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I've been reading www.homelessman.org -- it chronicles the daily life of some guy in SF (hayward now) who graduated from Stanford 20-30 years back, but seems to suffer from some kind of mental illness. He started keeping archives (on the top left of thes ite) a few months ago, so if you haven't seen it, check it out. I'm almost always astounded by what he writes.
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It's only a crisis if you're relying on VC funding for your continued sucess.
I kind of feel like Resig is misunderstanding what embrace and extend usually mean. (Or at least, glossing over it.)

I kind of imagine it more like that Java debacle where Microsoft installed a version of Java but never updated it, severely retarding the growth of the language and basically killing off the "original" web application sphere...
In addition, I assume Android has the (old) sexy that is accelerometers. So sitting at your desk or only walking a bit might not trigger it.
It has to do with market forces and politics.

Disclaimer: These are not necessarily my views, but views I believe others hold.

A: Nuclear energy is dangerous and a terrorism threat (political)

B: Electric vehicles are not practical (market) and there is a ton of money in oil (market) and our relationship to the oil providers is frail (political)

C: Wind energy is not very profitable (market) or practical (market) because the technology isn't there to harness it efficiently

I agree with most of my market reasons, but the political ones I think are unfounded.

I also think that there is a great reward awaiting those who find a way to make electric vehicles and wind power practical and profitable (and a great deal of headache awaiting those who attempt to change the political aspect of energy).
Agreed. Its as if someone wrote an article about how to do pointer manipulation chicanery and then commented "this wouldn't even be possible in Java." Its a technical "fact" of sorts here.
I entered my PhD in 2003 (remember, it was after a kinda big crash). I beat out 160 candidates to get one of seven slots. Since then, like many junior scholars, I've been watching faculty retirement stats for new jobs. Now, I'm finishing my dissertation, and here we are. I hope to either help create a cool start-up or pray for a faculty position in 2010.

Oddly, PhDComics is one thing that's kept us going.
I think the "cut cost" idea is correct. Startups who survived from series A fund should be really careful about its cash flow statement. Especially in the economic winter, who can last longer who will be able to see the spring sunrise.
First, Good luck. There needs to be a winner in this area & I don't know of any candidates. I kind of feel that the secret sauce is something that needs to be discovered not invented. These are my thoughts (no particular order).

1. Most players are paid services. I think there is a good chance that whatever winner emerges will be a free service or at least free for 90% + of active users. The service is essentially better if it is free (network effects but more then that: You can take it lightly if it's free. It's serious business if it's paid) so any paid service would be in constant danger of a free clone emerging.

2. Let non-singles get involved. Encourage meddling. Set other people up. Introduce, create polls on who should be together. I dunno, something in that area. Maybe think along the lines of 14 yr olds instead of 30 somethings using a professional dating service. The former have fun. The latter do not.

3. Let people approach this from an angle. Just like in real life. Meeting in singles bars, via introductions, pickups etc. is only one way. Most people prefer meeting someone at work, meditation workshops or University. Dunno how you'de do that online, but it would be interesting if you could piggyback on ways people interact with each other online already. Facebook/Myspace is an obvious path. But maybe Digg, blogs, wiki editing, amazon reviews or even HN might provide a thread to pull on.

4. Be un-sleazy & you have an immediate edge (design looks right for this). That feeling that half the users are fake, that they inflate women or men's numbers... That's will be on users minds (good reasons too). All that damage needs to be mended.

5. Try to build in dynamism. However this is gonna work, I doubt anyone can predict the whole picture. Find some ways to let users find ways of dating online rather then handing them a system.

6. Let the kids show you how to do it. Maybe you should try & focus on getting dates for 14 yr olds. They might pave some sort of a path.

7. Maybe focus on the non market. There's a tendency to focus on those people that are having trouble. They're very goal oriented. There is a problem that they're going to fix. So many services are tailored around filling that whole. But there it might be easier to get earlier successes with those that will probably get a date this month anyway. You just fill the 'how'.
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Meh. Those of us who entered the workforce during the last real recession in the early 90s (not the hiccup some techies wet themselves over in 2001) did just fine, thanks.

Look, if you're planning to graduate over the next while, things are going to suck. Not "will I be able to get a job at cuulCmpny.com" suck, but "will I be able to both pay rent and eat" suck. Nasty, soul-crushing stuff that'll make you wonder if you were really as smart as you thought you were all this time.

Just keep your head and you'll come out of it fine. Your character will be stronger, you'll have superb perspective and your long-term earnings will be spiffy.

Don't waste energy worrying about whether or not you'll have a few more bucks on your paystub in 20 years. There are a whole ton of other factors which can affect that a lot more than the birth-sign of your economic zodiac.
So I heard that some think that is because for a long while the R/D effort was outsourced to other companies, away from larger ones. I dunno if that is the case but in the company I worked for got acquired and did some pretty serious R/D. It could have been profitable but acquisition was obviously the easier way out so the investors took it.

I'm sure something like Twitter is useful but only to a large company, perhaps? I dunno.
Hmmm, can't think of one. There's a lot of freshman chemistry textbooks, but they're all pretty similar, and pretty boring.

Chemistry, the in-between science, doesn't really lend itself so easily to popularization as physics or biology. There's no deep principles, and no amazing phenomena, it's pretty much just stamp collecting.

Maybe somebody else will have some suggestions though?
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In Microsoft's case, their strategy was "embrace, extend, and extinguish". I doubt Microsoft wants to "extinguish" jQuery. Why would they care? jQuery isn't a threat.
The cheapest energy source right now is coal, even if carbon-offset costs are factored in. So it would be cheaper to do the electric car thing right now with the existing power sources than with the nuclear option -- but we haven't done that, because electric car designs aren't quite ready yet, and because the demand for raw materials for all those new lithium-ion batteries would push the cost through the roof. (That actually happened this year with laptop batteries, somewhat.)

But yes, nuclear power stands a better chance of being able to fully replace fossil fuels than most of the other options in the next few decades.
It would have been nice had the article gone into a little detail about what a `non-replicable element' could be. I mean, for programming projects that you intend to market, it kind of goes without saying that there should be a differentiator that would give you a sustainable advantage. This article kind of left me hanging. Beyond that, I'd argue that although the _mechanics_ of software development has improved quite a bit, there is still plenty of room to mess things up if you aren't good at thinking about programming problems.
He was using that phrase to embody some of the general sentiment that recent news has brought. He knows what he means and explains it.
It's really exciting to see the framework thriving the way it is. Hopefully the recent uptake will mean an even brighter future for the community and the team.
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I think the GIMP is one of the biggest casualties of pirating. It's ironic.
It's worrying how the IPO market has become completely moribund - has there been a significant tech IPO since Google? I can't think of one offhand. It makes me wonder what will happen if the credit crunch makes established companies less willing to part with cash or borrow to acquire the way they have in the past.
We do know how to write AI, problem is it stops being AI just as soon as we've written it.
Umm, no. From the Boston Globe:

"American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory, or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year.

They also get more done per hour than everyone but the Norwegians, according to a UN report that said the United States "leads the world in labor productivity." The report was released in Geneva today, which is Labor Day in the United States.

The average US worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, followed by Luxembourg at $55,641, Belgium at $55,235, and France at $54,609.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/09/03/...

My guess is that the Norwegians are doing so well because they are a tiny country with a massive amount of oil exports.

These figures are all the more surprising since, when one works fewer hours, the rate of productivity should be higher, not lower, as the low-hanging fruit get picked first (law of marginal utility). Moreover, the trend is that the US productivity rate is increasing faster than that of Europe. At current trends, it won't be many years from now when the EU has a per capita GDP less than half that of the US.

<rant> One of our problems is that we are working long hours to pay for the defense of the rest of the free world while Europe goes on vacation. When you get up and go to work in the morning, think a fond thought for our European "allies" who are taking the day off.

We need to get out of NATO now. Let the Russians shut off the gas to them (again), or the Arabs and Iranians shut off their oil, or the "youths" of indeterminate cultural background burn a few thousand more cars. The Europeans (it wasn't just the Germans and Italians) have killed about 400,000 of our young men. That's enough, I think. </rant>
I called them. They couldn't be bothered to show up.