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I didn't downvote you, but I'llgive a counter argument.

If you go back to the 80s it was a very different world. Gates foresaw that by licensing the OS and allowing it to run on any IBM PC compatible computer it would commodify HW. Prices on PC HW just started dropping -- margins all but disappeared.

The model virtually everyone else did -- and note the Apple model was the dominant model in this day -- was you did the full stack. Apple, Atari, Commodore, Sun, SGI, DEC, etc all built the HW and the OS -- with healthy margins built it. But they couldn't compete pricewise with MS + commodity HW.

The other thing Gates did was to realize that disruption works from the bottom up. Microsoft became the master w/ disruptive SW. They would come into an existing market with a powerful, but expensive marketleader and offer a weaker, but far less expensive competitor. I think kids nowadays never knew the old days of computing where the fear was that Microsoft would do a product similar to yours, not quite as good, but sell it at 1/5 the price.

What Gates didn't have a plan against was the natural disrpution to MS's disruption -- free software.

People now say, "Microsoft SW is so expensive!", but few recall that early versions of WordPerfect could cost $5,000 per seat.

Microsoft brought prices down for much of software into the $49-$299 range from the $5,000-$10,000 range. Without the licensed OS model that runs on commodity HW, I'm not sure we would have seen such drastic downward pressure on SW pricing.
Ask HN: I want to turn my old laptop into a Linux server
I have an old Thinkpad that I want to nuke and reconfigure and run as a Linux server for development.

What are some good resources/references for this sort of endeavor? Any advice?
i loved ie6 back in the day, it's just lasted too long. Does anyone like AJAX?

And active directory is actually quite good.
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Plug-and-Play was a shitty alternative when far superior systems existed on other platforms. Instead they opted for a really horribly limited system. Compare Autoconfig on the Amiga, for example, which was older and provided far more advanced capabilities and was well documented if they could've been bothered to at least copy something that worked well instead of coming up with yet another technically inferior solution.
I find it foolish to overlook the fact that the financial engine itself was turned against Wikileaks.

Leaders are hard men. I presume you wouldn't complain about Steve Jobs quashing dissent.

I expect such an organization to be rife with chaos.
A comic book is so far above an ad as to make the comparison silly.
To paraphrase the argument: "If you steal more money than you can possibly spend, giving the rest away makes everything OK."
rb_thread_select is marked deprecated in 1.9.3... so what's the alternative?
The did because they got in there first, not because nobody else where willing to license theirs, so this is bogus argument. The whole point is that original claim I addressed about Microsoft making computers affordable is based on the assumption that Microsoft somehow provided something unique at the time. They did not.

There's little basis for thinking that if you were to travel back in time and take Microsoft out of the equation, IBM would not have been able to quickly sign a deal with someone else, and that someone else - or a third party would not have been able to help kickstart the clone industry the same way Microsoft did by being willing to provide a license.
parent: my family couldnt afford $1k/month, that is upper middle class

reply: a family making $1k/month is upper class actually
Grandparents.com has a 30% conversion rate on their newsletter signup:

http://www.theboomerblog.com/2009/02/how_to_market_to_grandp...

So this sounds believable actually.
I agree with the article that broad patents are harmful -
and if massive banks cannot get a fair outcome in the courts, what hope is there for the rest of us?

I also agree with the implication that patenting "specific techniques" is beneficial. The history of the industrial revolution is littered with such innovation. It's only correlation, but the places with patent laws also had the most vigorous innovation. At that time, the newspapers were filled with new innovations and inventions, and people seemed to be falling over each other to invent something new, and to patent it. They thought patents promoted innovation - and the drafters of the US constitution thought so too.

Personally, I would love to see new specific techniques being invented, rather than the next facebook, or the next webapp of something already done offline. The latter can be really useful and a great benefit to the world, but it doesn't stir my soul. I want new technology and entirely new ways of doing things! To make this more concrete:

- I would say that while Card Case's geofencing payments (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3189438) is a new and cool idea, it should not be patentable.

- I think that Ken Thompson's specific mechanism for rapid regexp matching should be patentable (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/bea...) The idea of using regexp for search was new and cool (actually groundbreaking), but it's only the specific mechanism that should be patentable. Which is what Ken did.
Exactly. Reading that whole page of specialized economic arguments while they ignore the major fact brings to mind the image of The Coneheads debating why people don't drive cars with their feet to leave their hands free, debating whether absolute foot comfort is of paramount importance to humans vs humans having a religious law against touching their feet with wheels.

Missing the forest for the trees.
I'm curious if you've considered work that isn't 100% dev focused, but a combination of tech/people focused. e.g. systems/sales consultant? Do you like to travel? Can you talk to people? Do you desire to be deep in dev, or more surface level?
>Who hates Bill Gates?

Umm, just read some of the comments on this article? Or any Microsoft related posts on Slashdot?
Hm. Trash has a dozen meanings. I guess I would say, its trash in the use-once, disposable sense. Nobody thinks their ad is going to be timeless.
I come from a similar situation. I graduated with a degree in commercial art and illustration. After slinging coffee for a year, and trying to get freelance work started unsuccessfully, I threw in the towel.

I went into programming, as it was a good fit for me. Since I too had no formal experience, I got involved with open source as a way to gain experience and learn from people who were more experienced and knowledgable. Getting involved in open source, was probably the single best move for my career that I ever made. It opened opportunities I would have probably never had, allowed me to talk to really brilliant people, and gave me visible experience that has helped me land all of my employment. I highly recommend contributing to an open source project as a way to get experience and exposure.
Apparently it's covered.

http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/11/anonops-anonymous-messag...
Yeah, I don't know why people hate on ME, I thought it was great compared to 98. I remember being able to run some of the newer software (including Office XP, I think) and yes, it worked fine for two years, I can't complain :-)...
loved for the few seconds before auto update kicked in.

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The point is there were other players with OS's similar to DOS ready to license it. E.g. remember the controversy over how Digital Research supposedly lost out on the contract with IBM? The market for CP/M like OS's (of which DOS is/was one) was not confined to Microsoft. To believe that in that environment if you were to take Microsoft out of the equation nobody else would step in (quickly) seems ludicrous to me.
You might be interested to know that the German guy you instructed to launch immediately back in September has not launched yet.

But I should not be too sarcastic. I really liked these. A lot of the interviewees were very promising even after your well meaning attempts to shoot holes in their business models. And your comments are very informative.

But it seems that your comments and questions also indicate how hard it is to build a successful start-up. It is not merely about making something useful or better than the competition, you have to make something that cures a significant pain point so that your customers are actually motivated to go out and get it. It really does make one take a pause and question things.
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HN has a lot of link bait titles these days, making you click just to find out what they are talking about. How about

Judgment is the number one trait of a great developer
You might check out Tracelytics: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3197490
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Forget embedded systems, cisco routers seem not to handle time zones well. I ended up with a discussion about timezones with one of my network guys and he admitted it was much easier to set the system time on cisco devices to GMT then it was to make the daylight saving switch. They don't have complete timezone databases apparently.

The crux of my conversation with him is that it matters where you are just as much when you are. The fact that America is two weeks off from the rest of the world caused no end of annoyances these past two weeks. It also ended up with lots of debates about how "wall clock time" has little do with the actual time especially when talking about past or future.

(Think 4pm in London 5 moths from now, what time will that be in NY? What about Brazil? Is that the same time of the day if it's 6 months from now?)

Too many internal systems have an incomplete vision of what time means to them and it rarely holds up. I could go on, but I leave it with this. If you can help it, store points in time in a unix timestamp (or at least UTC) and avoid having to write scheduling software.
Make an iPhone app, make some money, and never get a job.

I would recommend you either make a Bible app, or a Menstruation Calendar app. Those would both not require any server-side programming, and they are proven ways to make money.
The OP asked if you had used these services to find work. I think your response counts as a vote for "I've tried, but was unable to find a project that was worth my time".
Despite the hatred for Windows and other Microsoft products, I don't think it is that bad. There has been no OS that has been able to accomplish what Windows has accomplished. OS aside, the Office Suite is a pretty good product. Windows and Office have been very successful not just because Gates is a good businessman.
Nowadays synchronization matters a lot more than knowing "what part of the day" is it in a given place. Take into consideration that "parts of the day" work within similar ranges of distance to the equator.

If we all used UTC, for instance, I'd only have to work approximately what time do people work and have their meals in different parts of the world, and arranging a call, for instance, would always be trivial. When talking about a time all parties would know it they can make it or not straight away.

Time zones are a relic from the 20th century as far as I'm concerned, but they might as well stick forever.
In response to your second question, we provides two things:

- A set of add-on packages in the format of choice for the component we're instrumenting -- Ruby gems, Apache modules, etc. Full support list is here: http://www.tracelytics.com/features/#!/supported-platforms

- A daemon that runs on each machine that is tracing, which collects the partial traces and ships them back to our servers.

We're working on a more complete try-before-you-install experience. If you'd like, shoot me an email (my username at traceltyics) and I'll keep you updated.
This is really good and cuts down on my #1 Reddit pet peeve, blind links / link bait titles.

One weird thing though — all your throbbers/spinners seem to be running backwards.
I see so many people suggesting this, and I just don't get it. A very small percentage of iPhone apps even get into the high four-figures. That's not even quit-your-side-job money, much less quit-your-day-job.
While we're at it, let's switch to haskell (delete the unnecessary people argument):

greetABunchOfPeople = mapM_ (putStrLn . sayHello)

Explanation:

mapM_ is a function that takes two arguments.

mapM_ lambda list

It calls lambda on each element on list.

In the greetABunchOfPeople definition, notice we only gave mapM_ 1 argument instead of 2. That means greetABunchOfPeople would have to take an extra argument for the call to execute.

greetABunchOfPeople $MISSING$ = mapM_ (putStrLn . sayHello) $MISSING$
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The github account is nice, but it requires effort to explore, and you're trying for an entry-level position. You may need a better presentation of your skills.

That probably means an online portfolio with tools, summaries and screenshots. It's not hard to put one together, but here's a really simple "step-by-step" one that you can push to Heroku within about 15 minutes: https://github.com/noahgibbs/bobfolio

ETA: My own portfolio is here, for comparison: http://angelbob.com/portfolio
There is a fine line. Sometimes people work with non trendy tech because they have no interest in developing their skillset.
Uh how is that not a terrible idea / why are we too lazy to click play?
Because most people do not consider the price of popcorn when making a decision as to which movie theater to attend.
For what it's worth, I wrote up my experience and advice for hiring on oDesk and Elance, here: http://sivers.org/how2hire

Some good advice in the comments, too.
Use the same approach that works well for classically trained engineers:

Make something good, keep learning. Then show you are doing both of these.

Hired.
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Funny you should ask. I come from a sales/marketing background and can talk to people. I do not need a 100% dev role but also do not really like sales however something that included consulting and really providing value I could be interested in.
There's no alt text for the images - as a result, when I visit in w3m, I can't actually see whether or not the site thinks I'm on a tty.
One thing to note: 4) says 444.5 million people x 28 k = 75.6 billion spent each year. The 75.6 billion came from 2.7 million * 28K.
http://www.appleinsider.com/print/11/10/20/apple_board_membe...

"Everyone on that management team could be CEO of a world class corporation," he added. Asked if that was a problem because other companies would try to poach Apple execs, Gore agreed, but noted that, as a member of the compensation committee, they "pay real close attention to that."

So I'm not terribly surprised. And, quite frankly, wholeheartedly approve.
I don’t dispute your ire at the statement. And it’s inevitable that people will idolize other people, especially when they’re dead. That’s unfortunate in so many ways, especially if given all of the things he said in his life, someone would pick one of his less exemplary utterances to carry around in their brain.

It turns out people are... People. So I get why you are dismayed at the thought of people carrying Jobs’ statement around in their heads, just as I am dismayed at the thought of looking at Mr. Gates’s choices in comparison with Mr. Jobs choices.
Well, do you have a resume? That's the big obvious box to check, and what I'm surprised not to see here. You can include personal and class projects on your resume, as well as links to your github account and, if you have one, a portfolio or other online project(s).
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You can be very technical and still involved in the sales process and add value! In fact, the combination of people skills and tech skills is very rare and commands a pretty good salary. If you're totally turned off by the sales process, you can go into professional services and be much more technically involved, but still work with people. Professional services requires almost 100% travel, and isn't for everyone. Let me know if you're interested in either of these and I'll reach out to you.
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I think both Gates and Carnegie should by evaluated by how they made their fortune, not how they spent it.

They were both ruthlessly aggressive, yet also made their product affordable to more people. By the very act of creating a monopoly, Gates created a huge marketplace for applications that attracted investment - better in that sense that a fragmented market place. He didn't abuse it by charging monopoly rates (quite the opposite).

Is a beneficial end through nasty means a net positive? Probably... overall..., but I hesitate - and the fact that both felt compelled to give the money away suggests that they weren't entirely comfortable with how they made it. And it seems most people weren't either.

BTW: video of Gate's response http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQxLhlUtr0&t=6m50s (6:50)
http://folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&cha... is full of things Mr. Jobs did and said that appear to be less than exemplary. The thought of disputing each and every one of them is daunting, to say the least. I am not an expert on role models, but since you bring up budding entrepreneurs who may go on to become super rich in the future, here is the entire text of what I would say at Startup School if Paul were to invite me to speak:

“Do not follow in the footsteps of Mr. Wozniak, Mr. Jobs, or Mr. Gates: Seek what they sought."
There was something very similar to Dapper in use inside Orbitz at least as far back as 2008, perhaps earlier (I used to work there, but don't recall exact years/months offhand.) So, outside and possibly before Google? Yes. As a FOSS project? Dunno. If not there should be.
ok... replying to myself here... I think if you're using rb_thread_select the answer may be... use select(2) in an rb_thread_blocking_region callback... still not convinced this is better...
I don't follow that logic. Sure, it stands to reason that if the drug can only kill infected cells, and the human hasn't already lost enough cells to kill them, then the drug won't kill the human.

But let's suppose that you can't measure in advance the number of cells that are infected, nor can the drug actually tell the difference between infected and not-infected cells (due to the aforementioned genetic abnormality.) What happens when the drug kills too many normal cells? The human dies.
Pulled up your github account. Aside from you accidentally adding your home directory, you're making good progress. If you're looking to get a job quickly, I'd encourage you to focus on one area and I think your shortest path is the front end technologies. Pretty much every firm I know of in NYC is hiring front end developers and the main limitation is finding people who actually know javascript.

If you know (not just read, know):

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

And you can demonstrate it by sticking something on github (fix a ticket on stylus/express/some other node.js project, write a jquery plugin, help out with the django admin) then go to some meetups in SF and talk to people who say "we're hiring frontend developers" which is pretty much everybody. Being able to design entire applications isn't generally required since what people are usually looking for is someone they can say "go make this new dialog" and you go do it using their established design patterns. It is crucially important, however, that you can demonstrate knowledge since I have yet to meet a developer who doesn't "know" javascript.

If you do this and want to work in NYC, shoot me an email. I'll at least give you feedback and probably give you a referral for contract to hire. Nobody cares about your education/work background as long as you can get the job done.

This assumes, of course, that you actually like front end development since quite a few people don't.
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Yes, but I like it like that you see.
I think everyone understands your point, but for future reference he grew a conscience cf. conscious.
Nonsense. Whether someone else could have exerted a similar downward pressure on the cost of computers does not change that Microsoft did. "Could have" is worth very little.
I agree. I use Scala for a personal Android app. Once you get over the antbuild and proguard hurdle - agree its no walk in the park - its smooth sailing. Scala meshes well with the android libraries and is fast. Although it gets highly wonky if you need to add a library that is not a jar but instead a package.

The major downsides which are super troublesome are that it takes 2 minutes to build each time - even for trivial changes and I have to debug the old school way with messages.
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