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I don't know. I'd argue with that: I think that the ability to have a good idea is one that some people lack to some degree, and it's one that's more valuable than any ability to execute.

The concept I had for my web site hatched about two years ago. I delayed on taking it and using it for that time because I was CERTAIN that somebody at one of the huge sites in the field would have implemented something like that. From my point of view, the problem was immense and there was only a single solution. Since then, demoing my concept pages to various people in the field, I've come to realize that while people can INSTANTLY grasp why the idea works, nobody even attempted to make the same logical approach to the problem as I did.

I think you see this contrast best with Jobs and Wozniak, and with the people who say that Jobs would have been nothing at all without Woz, that he was just a marketer. Strictly speaking, that's true, because Jobs needed somebody else to implement his ideas. However, looking at Jobs' career, that's always been the case. He didn't build NeXT himself: he got people to build it for him. Ditto the iPod, or the iTunes music store, or the iPhone, all of which were things that he purportedly conceptualized himself. I think that his career demonstrates that while Woz was the essential to creating Jobs' concept, that the idealist who came up with the ideas to begin with is the one whose talent is rarest and most valuable.
But all too many people argue that the potential energy is entirely worthless, and that with enough hard work you can do well without having an original idea.
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I went into class the other day, and the professor said during office hours, a female student told him "I feel so depressed when I come out of this class. I want to go home and curl up in my bed and just hide. Because it's that depressing."

And our professor said that in AA meetings, the first step is recognizing there is a problem. The second step is getting angry. And the third is taking action or doing something about it.

I would say you're almost there. These videos are not being circulated because someone wants to destroy the US. What incentive would there be? Have you seen the corruption in the corporations of America? Even if I thought this guy was just making stuff up, I would still be highly skeptic of the entire economic system we have right now. It has changed dramatically since the 30s, and even more dramatically since the 80s. Politicians are now a commodity that can be purchased, it's just lobbying.

There are academic scholars behind this, too. Go read "The United States Since the 1980s" by Dean Baker. Then go read "The Problem With The Media" by Robert McChesney. And you'll "get it." The corporations are after profit, and everything else follows that. The Federal Reserve is not federal, it's run by 12 private banks, and a board that has almost zero oversight. The only people that get voted into the board are those who agree to carry out the private interests of the corporations.

This stuff is created to wake you up to the reality of the system. It's not comfortable, but you should be aware of it. It's always your choice to ignore it, but don't say nobody warned you ;)
That's exactly what I was going to suggest.

If you're doing something computationally intensive (like, a dating or quiz site, for example, with the impressive statistical analysis that OkCupid and HelloQuizzy deliver up very quickly), then it would pay to look at an approach that's working well right now.
good points. i'd like to think he'd take a class in his CS curriculum where he has to learn a few languages either concurrently or consecutively but very quickly.
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Must have been the space.
If networking and protocols are your primary area of interest, then C is what you need for that. I think that C and python together make a powerful arsenal, and recommend you work with both at the same time, but I understand you want to dive full into C if you dive at all.

K&R will be what you need to get started, and past that, you could pick up some protocol specific information. Implementing protocols in C is common practice, and there are plenty of good ways to exercise those skills such as implementing sliding window atop UDP or the like.
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The facts are against you, dude. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch#China

> At the end of the Ming Dynasty there were about 70,000 eunuchs ... Certain eunuchs gained immense power that occasionally superseded that of prime ministers.

The Wikipedia article goes on to make a few mistakes by suggesting that Eunuchs were the Emperors' henchmen, and doesn't mention the fact that several of the Ming emperors were in fact deposed, and more were politically neutered (hur hur) by palace eunuchs.

In other words, despite a total lack of testosterone, the eunuchs' behavior was still generally aggressive and status-seeking.

That makes a certain amount of sense, given the prevailing "design philosophy" [1] of evolved systems. Natural selection only produces incremental improvements, which means there are lots of little widgets doing similar things that are glued on in a half-random way. Self-interest and aggression are central to human behavior, so it seems silly to think --like alchemists who wanted to bottle essences like "heat" or "perfection"-- that all aggressive and self-interested behavior would disappear in the absence of one hormone.

[1] Creationism is bad, but sometimes its terms are handy.
If a court determined that he breached, there could be damages for losses to the company based on his breach, i.e. it could go beyond him just giving back what they gave him. This is really the kind of thing where you need a lawyer's guidance based on very specific facts.
Like Squidoo? Er...
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Good points, but that is hardly a wasted ad. They got in your head enough for you to mention it here as an example, potentially compelling a reader here to go buy some Coors.
Prof. Appel's report (post extensive source code analysis) on security & accuracy of voting machines has been denied.

When you vote in November, you will still be voting on a paperless computer, and it's not possible to be sure that your vote will count.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/voting/record-op-ed.html
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I doubt the front-end stuff, e.g., templating, is written in C++.

Rather, they use C++ because the library that powers their IM client, libpurple, is written in C. Writing a C/C++ bridge to whatever (Java, Ruby, Python, PHP) isn't hard and there are lots of generic solutions out there already, e.g., Thrift.
Yes. Pickup X framework in Y language and watch the introductory blog tutorial.
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I seem to remember the phrase being used to describe writers "hacking" at their typewriters sometime earlier, too...
It does not have to be one or the other. It sounds from the article like you have a number of uncertainties on the company front.

I recommend working along side school work. That is easier said than done in most cases, and you surely don't want both to suffer from each other, but it is doable if you play your cards right.
Ask your lawyer and consider the Facebook and Microsoft DOS tricks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Connectu....

Don't sell out cheap unless a lawyer with vast experience on this tells you there is no other way.
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I'm just curious, the last time the story got submitted, it only got 11 points and maybe a few comments.

Do people just dismiss this as false propaganda? Or do they feel uncomfortable watching it? Or just not care?

I'm really curious why nobody is interested in the way their own economies and governments work, even if it is controversial. If it is controversial, why not argue the points?

*Edit: I have access to one of the world's largest academic research electronic libraries, as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois. Would it help to cite the statistics mentioned throughout the video? Or is that just a wasted attempt at trying to figure out what's true and what's not in the videos?
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They all look decent when you start. In fact, if they look very decent and there's no clear paperwork from scratch watch out. Scammers are charming.
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Of course C++ will beat Python in speed if you invest enough time in it. And assembly will beat C/C++ if you invest even more time.

My point is that some people assume that if they would just sit and write something in C++ without putting enough time and effort and skill in it, it would be somehow magically faster and better than high-level language, just because it's C++. They are mistaken.

Python standard library is extremely fast. For example 'list.sort()' in Pytohn could run 3 times faster than C++ 'sort(vector<string>)'.

Here are few examples when simple Python code runs faster than the same code in C++: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_threa...
Hey, with a 5% chance, all you have to do is send him 20 times more emails!
Interesting. That seems to be the exact opposite of pg's view that Lisp was one of Viaweb's main competitive advantages, because it allowed them to rapidly add new features.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Think of making your own startup with your code and contacting the investor? Ask your lawyer :)
I may very well be naive, but this is the first such situation I have heard of. It is a really fascinating predicament for the writer.
Dankie vir jou kommentaar (Thanks for your comment) - I actually work for Media24, I worked full time on my startup for 4 months and took a job once it was nearing completion.

I get the feeling that growth would be accelerated by going into a partnership, and would also allow me to get back to full time work on it.
As always, blame the market for a failure of government. Government caused the crisis, and it was aided and abetted by the wealthiest people on Wall Street. And, with the bailout, we've insured none of the people responsible will face negative consequences for bad business practices.

And, to boot, it's being used as an example of a failure of markets. The whole sub-prime fiasco has nothing to do with markets. In a free market, government does not guarantee that a risky investment will be repaid (as has largely been the case in the home lending market since 1999). We're simply not talking about a free market. We're talking about government programs gone horribly (but predictably) awry.
My point is that they haven't given him anything, thus there is no contract. The company can try and sue him for breach of contract but the issue is whether or not a contract actually exists. Of course a lawyer should always be involved to make sure that everything is ok legally.
no, its not like squidoo at all.

ive been fortunate enough to have used sharememe and its quite different. i wont spoil the surprise but im looking forward to hearing great things!
Thanks for your advice. My co-founder is moving to New York at the end of the month, he works in post production, the industry we're targeting and he will more than likely make some valuable contacts.

Having read everyones comments I totally agree that worldwide exclusivity would be a foolish mistake.
Only on Slashdot can someone post the question "a company approached me offering money for goods and services", and then find themselves hypothetically compared to prostitutes and Darth Vader. Nobody owes "the open source community" their code.

"It's shameful because it comes with a non-compete that prevents him from working on open source". And? It must be even more shameful to choose not to contribute to open source, which is what the overwhelming majority of developers do.
What about recycling? Apple doesn't use the entire mass in each computer. Most of it would be hollowed out and the scrap could be recycled.
It's not either/or. The best developers happily flit from language to language, as the job requires. Don't be a purist or a language snob. Purists are assholes, and don't get shit done.

C is a fine systems language, and K&R is one of the best programming texts I've ever read. I haven't used C seriously in several years, but I don't regret the time spent learning it (Pascal, maybe, I feel like was a waste of time...but definitely not C).

Learn both. Even better, learn how to use one with the other, via ctypes, SWIG, etc. That'll put you head and shoulders above a large percentage "Python developers" on the type of projects you can tackle, and make you more productive than a large percentage of "C developers".
Perhaps I should take this opportunity to explain that this comment is a joke. You see, the humor is that this is pg's site, I'm a fan of pg, and think extremely highly of him. Nothing is inherently untrustworthy about someone born in Wales, and I was already aware pg was not born in the US. Now you've made me take the joke out back and shoot it. You sensitive Welsh bastards. And I still don't trust the Belgians.
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Yeah...I went to a casino the other day, and for the life of me I couldn't understand why there was anybody playing the tables. The atmosphere was nice; it was a good place to get a drink; but I couldn't see why anybody played.
I'm not sure what to think about the casual use of the term 'lebensraum', originally the Nazi rationale for invading and displacing eastern european peoples, to describe a new, more-spacious HTML page layout.

Is it a positive sign of how far we've come from the horrors of WW2, or a negative sign of how much we've forgotten? (I wonder the same thing about the bay area record store called 'The Vinyl Solution'.)

I'll be an optimist and consider it a positive sign, but it's still jarring to me in context.

[*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
This is not unreasonable. Adam Smith said that no country had ever paid its debt after it had exceeded a certain threshold.
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Anecdotal evidence is very important when it concerns you - if you get cancer or your parachute happens to be the one that fails, the larger statistic is really not all that relevant, unless you're in a competition for "I got screwed in the most unlikely way in the world".

Secondly, even without a larger statistic, applying combinatorics, Markov chains, Bayesian inference can yield interesting insights, even if just for nerdy fun.

Lastly, by using "I can [...] relate" and "In my personal experience" I clearly signaled that I was merely making a personal statement. Cheers.
I have a better theory.

In many societies, the alpha usually dominates the gene pool of the next generation. In some animal and human societies, only the alpha reproduces.

If you're poor, your kids are going to be even poorer, and their kids will be even poorer, eventually leading to a genetic dead end. None of your genes will become a permanent part of posterity unless you are an alpha. In this way, it makes sense to gamble 5% of your income, which would not make a transcendental difference anyway, for a chance of attaining alpha status. From that point of view, it makes perfect sense.
"Read about your business every day (i.e. become the smartest guy in the room)"

Wouldn't that make you the most knowledgeable guy in the room? (of course knowledge and intelligence complement each other very well)
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Seems like the link is wrong... it only works when you replaced that '-' with a '.'. Odd that it already has 4 points but no comments regardless of that....
do both. This way you can do your early stage when you have no money coming in while you have free board and food. You'll have 4 years for it to grow to a good business. And if it doesn't, its no big deal...your 4 years of startup experience will be much more valuable to your resume than a 4.0 gpa, extra curriculars and a crappy internship
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No; I was born in Weymouth, England. My father's Welsh though.
As an aside, I would challenge all of those afflicted with Chronic Humor Deficiency to read twice any statement seeming illogically harsh or which does not make any sense in context. These are jokes, dear fellows, and they're funnier when the rest of us don't have to explain them to you.
>based on fairness instead of naked greed

Would somebody please send that man a copy of "Atlas Shrugged"? And to every school child too.
Works for me. Something with your local DNS maybe?
That was my reaction, too. I want to know what the product is!
I would go so far as to call this a false flag event. The american people are being called to rally around a stupid idea with the threat of catastrophe if we don't.
The future generations will look in the history books at "societies that were greedy" and instead of advancing technology and efficiency, they stifled and discouraged it because it went against established corporate profit motives.

This is about greed, and you're right in saying that government programs have caused this. The greed takes over your logic and diligent decision-making, and we end up trying to make a lot of money on things that are nothing more than speculative.

And so now look at what we're doing from 40,000 feet: we're trying to instill confidence by TAXING firefighters and school teachers all over the country? Are we actually creating value? Are corporate profits going up because value has been created in the market? Is there anything really coming out of this? Is this a reason to be more confident? Is there an economical justification for "bailing out" these firms that have made poor investment decisions? Are the toxic mortgages going to magically "pay for themselves" after all of this money gets circulated?

What really have we solved from any of this?
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atlas shrugged is too controversial to make a strong impact. too many people dismiss the salient points by pointing to some weird ones.

send everyone a copy of Mind the Gap and How to Build Wealth by PG.
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I certainly agree that it doesn't need to be one or the other. Many universities have great resources that you can tap, to help grow your business. The larger state schools are, in many cases, aligned with a small business development center or business accelerator programs. In addition, you have access to the faculty, which can be a huge resource, plus a good source for co-founders. College is a good time for exploration in entrepreneurship.
Coincidentally, I started (re)reading Atlas Shrugged a couple months ago. It's been a surreal counterpoint to events in the real world.
Not having someone to call and Google's poor reputation for responding to Gmail issues (plus data loss) is why I try and stick with domains under my control for (at least important) email. Even if my email provider goes under, I can repoint the domain to another email server and at least recover easier than having to start from scratch, as would be the case if my email address was under Gmail and suddenly was locked.
I think i'll go with both hand in hand, thanks for the advice.
Wouldn't unicode in source code break a lot of UNIX utilities or render them useless? Just askin'
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It's super common, actually. Employer wants to hire expert, so they google for experts. They find one and they've done some OSS stuff in the area. They offer him a job, but with the standard non-compete clause. It's not nearly as devious as it sounds.
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This is a familiar tune. Take a heavily regulated market with massive government intervention, watch it get tied in knots, and then declare that the "free market" has failed. The most dramatic historical example is perhaps the U.S. economy leading up to the Great Depression, but we've seen plenty others in recent years: the "deregulated" energy markets in California, "free market" healthcare, and now the subprime meltdown. I'm beginning to suspect people will never learn.
Short answer: No.

Long answer: It would be impossible for them to distinguish between content that is safe to reproduce publicly. Judging from how they reacted to the ToS and other dings against their public image, they are working too hard to protect that image than to risk something like this nonsense. And lastly, they have had this power with Google Toolbar forever and haven't done it yet.
There is a considerable span between free markets and laissez-faire capitalism. Most modern "left" political movements accept free markets as a good thing, and mainly differ with the right on the level of regulation.

I mainly read Ayn Rand as a criticism of the "truths" of the left wing, not as a very useful proponent of a laissez-faire society.

Anyway, free markets "punish" greed, by forcing those who want material wealth to work for it, instead of leeching of others. The reason taxation and politicians is a problem in free markets is exactly greed: anybody on the receiving end of public funds have little rational motive to seek to end that stream.
The worst is mathematicians only seem to have about 20 words, they just constantly redefine them in context. ;-)
How about HS?
I'm a little confused. Why is somebody who can't decide whether to start a company or not, or indeed what kind of company to start, writing a blog containing "tips for entrepreneurs"?
To me it seems pretty obvious that newspapers should not compete on gossip and up to the minute news, but rather on commenting, in-depth analysis and investigative reporting. The latter is not easy to find on a consistent basis on the Internet, and there is a clear market for it.

The economist, for example, does exactly this - and their circulation has grown 95% in the last ten years.
There is a fairly successful business that was started in my part of the world (formerly my part of the world) - Nova Scotia, Canada - http://www.novascotiabusinessjournal.com/ that's very similar to this.

You'll note there's nearly nothing available on their web site.
I have done something like this. I interfaced with Apache however rather than also writing the web server by hand. I also leveraged libraries when I could.

You may want to investigate the following libraries:

fcgi++: Interface with the web server using fast cgi; keep the program resident in memory between requests.

botan: For generating cryptographic hashes.

cgicc: For handling input from the web browser.

xerces-c: For implementing a templating system and generating the output which gets sent to the web browser.

libpqxx: Interfacing with Postgres.

cppunit: Unit-testing critical or difficult-to-test bits.

It's not as hard as everyone likes to make it sound (assuming you are on the right side of the C++ learning curve). The real question is whether you want to spend your time writing a framework rather than actual applications.