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I don't think the problem is one of complexity as such but more of being more complex than people imagine. Very few people have any knowledge of high energy physics, so only those who actually know what they're talking about offer an opinion, but everyone knows about food and diets, so everyone has an opinion.
The problem with technologies like XUL that come out of browser vendors is their intention is to create a platform that brings people to that particular browser, on the assumption that other browsers will be years behind them in implementing the same technology.

If Mozilla really wanted XUL to be widely adopted, perhaps they should have made it work on every browser, either through a plugin or actually implemented in JavaScript on top of the DOM (the former would be my preference, though as one of the creators of the Cappuccino framework perhaps I'm biased...)
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Statements like "Totnes, a town of about 8,000 people" and "In Totnes, there are about 5,000 notes in circulation" suggest to me this is no more than a gimmick. Even as a local currency it can't work.
Whatever you do, make 100% sure you own your project if you work on it while still employed by another company. IP agreements sometimes cover things you work on even when you're at home, etc (though these are supposedly unenforceable in CA and probably some other states).
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Do epoll / other c10k solutions address I/O-bound situations?

I thought that most of these solutions deal with CPU-bound and sometimes RAM-bound situations -- i.e. they fix spending too much time spinning the CPU in various ways waiting for I/O, or too many threads at once taking up too much RAM.
Most of the truly medically actionable genes with high penetrance (a mutation that gives you a 50% chance of developing breast cancer is high penetrance -- a mutation that increases breast cancer risk by 2% is low penetrance) are patented. Navigenics and 23andme only test for low penetrance genes for fishy reasons. Whatever measures you could do to reduce your risk for diseases 23andme says you are at risk of, you should probably be doing anyways. Eat healthy. Exercise more. Get a colonoscopy every year.

However, with some hacking, and the raw dump of your 23andme scan (which may be less useful with the new version, I think they are using a microarray 1/10th the size of the old one) you can check yourself for some patented genes. http://www.thinkgene.com/tell-me-everything-how-to-use-snped...
and then we were discussing about startup founder's salary http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299137

out of 100K 20k for this event only

no way
It was reasonable until I got to this bit...

"Changes the Google logo to a "Gulag" logo showing Google's place as part of the Great Firewall of China, providing a constant reminder to me that for all that I trust Google with lots of key data, I must never forget that it has demonstrated a historical corporate willingness to participate in censorship and surveillance efforts when its profits were on the line"
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Care to explain what's unreasonable with that?
I don't know, these seem like optimizations in the wrong places.

1. Headers aren't always the same for every request. Etags and other cache headers, content-types, etc can/will all be different. They're also comparatively small to most content. And of course you can control which headers you send, so if it's really a problem just send the bare minimum.

edit: I'm talking about the response headers, reading that again it looks like you're talking about the request. In that case you're probably right, there's a lot of duplication, especially user agent and cookies.

2. You don't know every resource you're going to request up front: you download whateverpage.html, decode and parse it, then make all the requests for scripts, images, stylesheets etc. I don't see this working very well.
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Comet optimizes for latency, with the big improvement of avoiding the latency of opening a TCP connection and sending the request.

With both long polling and streaming you could probably send the headers long before the actual data is ready to be sent as well.
Forget google (a change, in verse, for the better)
I find it curious that he is so hostile to Google when he appears to use their services so much.

I think there is a severe disconnect with the rah rah privacy Google is bad and the "oh but I really like their apps". Hopefully the cognitive dissonance doesn't make that poor man's head explode.

Also, all of these "Google won't let Chrome do X" arguments really weird me out. You have the source. Do what you want with it. Seriously, the concept of permission is really fuzzy when talking about adding features to open source projects.
I agree. Can someone explain how this currency which is tied to Sterling protect people from the devaluation of Sterling?
I assume the main argument against this idea is the burden it places on the Javascript engine. Its the same reason people use gzip and not packer (well, assuming packer produces a smaller file, which happens sometimes).

Engines are getting faster, but they still really can't compete with native browser facilities.
Can't be a coincidence that they started pushing this a week after Chrome arrived. I wonder what other proposals Google has coming?
It's no secret that the nonprofit, free, open Firefox browser depends largely on Google's financial largesse and technical contributions

Firefox isn't entirely non-profit. The for-profit Mozilla Corporation exists as a subsidiary of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation and makes a substantial profit. Said profits are reinvisted in the company, but that's not so different from Google. What is different is that there are no options or shareholders.
I like to base my technology related decisions mostly on the technology, not politics.

You could say that it was about technology, since he's talking about GreaseMonkey (though the same thing could probably be accomplished with user stylesheets, which I'm sure Chrome does/will support), but really he just wanted to inject his opinion about something pretty irrelevant and couldn't figure out a better way.

Plus replacing the Google logo like that is a petty thing to do in the first place.
Someone's going to mention forking & rebranding. It's hard, much harder than when you have official support. Google's version has a link on the front page.
thanks for the tip, I'm just about to start investing in the market and I'm glad I read this first.
I read this little gem over the summer:
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At 160 pages, it's the ideal size to carry with you everywhere you go. All summer long, any time I had an extra half an hour, I would take it out and read/re-read a chapter.
Quite honestly I've had my eyes opened. Good nutritionists aren't that hard to find and their expertise involves not just "persistent problems with food", but can also help you to avoid diets that cause health problems in the long-term. Even more amazing to me is that those health problems can be controlled through foods. The nutritionist can go through your family history and help you to understand your relationship with food and how it affects you - now and into the future.

"Though anyone who tells that you should eat more fruits and vegetables is almost certainly right."

That I can agree with. I should have also mentioned Michael Pollan's books. His most recent is an analysis of what to eat - and the subtitle says it all: Eat food^. Not too much. Mostly plants.

^whole, unprocessed.
Future cash flow will not be $0 if there are no dividends paid. If a company has revenue, it has cash coming in and out and hence it has cash flow.

In any case, a company will be worth more if it doesn't pay out dividends since there is no cash outflow from the company.

With a DCF model, you are evaluating the cash inflow and outflow from the company perspective, not the shareholder perspective.

There is nothing concrete to which you can actually tie the current value.

There is - the cashflows of the company.

Imagine a company with net cashflow of -10 million for the first 5 years and +10 billion thereafter. You just discount back the cashflow and you'll get the intrinsic value of the company.
Enough so that everyone with a brain works for one. Then these companies won't be able to hire anyone, and then they'll go away.
The only fish they mention is salmon. I'm not entirely sure all the health issues surrounding intensively farmed salmon have been established yet.

I would say mercury is only one aspect we should be concerned about.
I took "c" to mean "currently unpopular non-hyped language". Much like Java is.

Java is a popular, hyped language. It's just not a very good one.
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The DCF model adjusts to this situation perfectly.

They raised cash by selling assets near the end of the quarter, and promising to buy them back at the start of the quarter

So there is an initial cash inflow at the end of the quarter and a cash outflow at the start of the next quarter.
Just add that in your DCF analysis.

When I say you can't just manufacture cash, I'm talking about free money with no strings attached. In your Enron example, there is a string attached - they have to buy it back in the future, so there is a projected cash outflow in the future. No company can manipulate the books to inject $100 million from the thin air. That $100 million has to come from somewhere - from debt, equity investment, asset sales etc.

Earnings is so unreliable. Eg. this company is projected to earn $1 million with annual growth of 10% from Year 1 to Year 10. But they have a major debt ($100 billion) that is due on Year 11. A DCF model would value this company correctly as bankrupt while an earnings model would not be able to value this company correctly.
A 1-week delay between creating accounts and being able to submit articles would knock this on the head.
http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

Will you sign an NDA? How do I know you won't steal my idea?

No, we won't sign an NDA. No venture firm would at this stage. The informal commitment to secrecy on our application form is more than any VC would make.

In this connection you may want to read the first section of How to Start a Startup on the value of mere ideas.
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I'm not sure I'd label it "unreasonable," but if you feel so strongly about Google's business practices, shouldn't you boycott their services completely? By using their services, aren't you tacitly assenting to their business practices?
Fully agreed. I'm posting for the archives and other readers at least as much as him, trying to add in a reminder that "rewrite the whole shebang in C" isn't necessary for good performance.

I dabble in languages for fun, but find that I ultimately end up using the new techniques I learn in a few practical multiparadigm languages, e.g. OCaml, Lisp, and Python* . If you want to learn about types/powerful type systems, try Haskell or one of the MLs. If you want to see a brilliantly designed module system, look at the MLs. If you want to see well-designed syntactic sugar, look at Python and Lua (among others). If you want to understand OO better, look at Smalltalk. Etc. Spending a week (or weekend) now and then exploring the ideas and mindsets in unfamiliar languages, particularly those influential on what you do your real work in, can really expand your toolkit. (Also, read code.)

* Python is not fully multiparadigm, e.g. it's awkward for functional programming, but it's fairly flexible, and its giant standard library makes up for several weaknesses IMO.

Really knowing any one of the several languages I listed in the initial comment would probably be enough, and some approaches (e.g. Lua in C) could probably be learned relatively quickly. I suspect it would probably take much more time to learn to use C++ really well than OCaml or Lisp, though.
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I managed to get a very valuable name at me.com and I like Mail over Gmail. Push plus iPhone makes it a lot better.

I have literally used up every single color in Gcal. However, I only see about 6 to 8 events per day. The colors are usually used for stuff I want to keep track off, when my domain names expire, school, birthdays, art showings, work, YC, parties, political events, holidays, and etc.

As I rely more on the software the more data I put into it. Maybe I should just stop caring... Or just use one color... but I have like OCD or something.
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Most of the Open Source code is crap. Most of the closed source code is crap. I think it's crap because almost all successful projects expanded far beyond their original purpose and architecture which supported it, and never quite got to whole codebase refactoring necessary to make code nice again. If it's working, they don't care. The only really pretty code I've seen were small things that never went through the massive expansion phase.
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So there is an initial cash inflow at the end of the quarter and a cash outflow at the start of the next quarter. Just add that in your DCF analysis.

But you don't see it! All they have to do -- all they did -- was repo a little more at the end of the next quarter. RJR did this with cigarettes a while back: they offered discounts and 100% refunds to customers who bought just before the end of the quarter, and they ended up with extra cash for their 10-Q even though these actions hurt the business.

A few other scenarios a cash flow analysis misleads you on:

* Gradual liquidation: if a company sells off its inventory and equipment over time, it can show positive, growing cash flow (and a rapidly growing cash flow as a proportion of capital!) even though the business is falling apart.

* A company with a few long-lived assets, like an airline with just a couple planes, will show low earnings and high cash flow when it's not replacing a plane. This is one of those situations in which high cash flow is deceptive and earnings are not.

this company is projected to earn $1 million with annual growth of 10% from Year 1 to Year 10. But they have a major debt ($100 billion) that is due on Year 11

If the debt is normal debt, that shows up on the balance sheet, and the interest payments. If it's a zero-coupon bond, it shows up in the income statement but not the cash flow statement (although the tax effect shows up in both).

The point of earnings is to show what kind of value has been added to the business over time. We might call this Platonic version Earnings. Cash flow is a better way to approximate Earnings when companies are manipulating their earnings, but not when they're manipulating both. In the long run, given a perfect accounting system, DCF will equal Tangible Book + Discounted Earnings. Since accounting is imperfect, and a business can be manipulated to appear better than it really is by any measure that people actually use to value companies, picking just one kind of valuation is folly. I use free cash flow, but I use it judiciously -- I try to make it as much like Earnings as possible.
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Of course the "dollar" sign had to be renamed - it became the "international currency symbol" which looks like a circle with 4 rays spreading from it: ¤
Because it looks like a (small) shining sun, in the German Democratic Republic it was usually called "Sonne" (sun).
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I think the author is a bit off... Apple has done this free iPods for students promo for the last few years. While I don't think they timed it just to move old inventory, I suppose anything is possible.

One thing that you have to accept with Apple is that you will rarely ever have the "latest" something for very long. Personally, I am not all that upset with the company for keeping their product line refreshed, the stuff I've bought has always served me well.
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Since he blocks Google's ads, they're not profiting from his usage of their services. So he could argue that he's not really supporting him if he's merely a drain on their resources.
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