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There's no rules, you can do whatever you want. But i think a lot of people have realized history shows the get rich quick type of folks tend not to actually contribute anything to human progress and more often than not are looking to take advantage of others for their own gain (allowing them to save time to riches). My question: Why would I ever want to deal with anyone like that, and why would anyone else?
"Our teeming population is the strongest evidence our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us from its natural elements. Our wants grow more and more keen and our complaints more bitter in all mouths, while nature fails in affording us our usual sustenance. In every deed, pestilence and famine and wars have to be regarded as a remedy for nations as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race."

-Tertullian (a Carthaginian priest in 210 AD when the world population was 250 million)

Can we improve the ways in which we utilize the resources on our plant? Definitely, but human beings can't be measured solely by consumption, but by their ingenuity and creativity, which help us to develop new resources, find new ways to deal with challenges, and discover new ways to protect the environment.
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Turbo Pascal 6.0 was the pinnacle of IDEs. Or the pinnacle of my joy in programming, which, of course, is difficult to distinguish. :-)

I spent hours upon hours poring over VGA graphics code in Pascal, then assembly (called by Pascal, since I wasn't sophisticated enough to understand how to build a stand-alone EXE from ASM) in high school. I would tweak things, then run against the slick built-in profiler, then refine some more. Some time later, I came across this vast information pipe called Usenet and found out that everything I worked on was years out of date, since ModeX provided dramatically faster access to video memory. Ignorance is bliss...
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I don't see the attribution, so here it is:

Walter Isaacson page 569 of the hard cover.
I didn't catch the stream but I mostly agree with that advice.

I do find myself wondering if it's worth doing any idea to build up capital for something else if you feel an idea has potential but you aren't sure you can sell it to investors without putting in a lot of time and money into it first to show the true potential.
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And it must have made it into another gem from Borland: Sidekick. I used that extensively until I moved entirely off DOS. (Sidekick was a TSR--Terminate and Stay Resident-- utility program that could be launched by hotkey from single-tasking DOS. There was an editor, calculator and ASCII table! IIRC.)
Then the interesting question is: would you be willing to sell YC in the next couple of years if the price is right?

(My hunch is that you're not going to sell YC anytime soon -- even though you probably could sell it -- simply because you're not done yet.)
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> He seems to live a right life. No one in the government cares about whatever petty crimes he may commit.

You've polled every single federal and state employee, as well as various contractors?
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Those zombies look awfully familiar. Are they from Baldur's Gate?
I do love the morning work hours. I've been getting up a bit early lately to work on stuff and I love it.

That being said, I prefer more work life balance. I do suggest looking at how much coding you are doing and make sure you aren't doing too much. One of the biggest mistakes I made with my last startup was thinking coding would make us successful. I should have spent more time measuring and selling and not pivoting every time we received criticism or a "better idea."

Good luck!
Really? "Search Engine Optimization" explains it just fine? Sounds like you're trying to make Google's internal software work more efficiently. Not sure how a lay person would start with that and reach the conclusion that SEO is about trying to earn a higher score relative to every other website like yours.
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Not sure if this is the same thing you're talking about, but I've found a handful of WordPress blogs have some sort of mobile theme that tries to mimic the iOS "bounce" when scrolling all the way up or down. Ironically, most of the time it breaks MobileSafari on my iPad.
Although this might work for some people I have found personally that creating a sustainable lifestyle is probably best. Setting a schedule that is mentally, physically, and emotionally draining is not a recipe for success in my experience.

The process of building something (although difficult) should be fun (at least part of the time). If you're having a great time doing something chances are you are more productive and willing to stick it out over the long term.

If you need more time freelancing could be a viable option that affords you the financial and mental stability of a regular job while working on your own project. The reality is that there are probably many ways to go about this but I think it is important not to sacrifice your happiness. If most startups fail, throwing your life at it (Social, Romantic, etc.) will certainly make things worse if your project does not work out.
If you have any questions, I'll be here all day ;)
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I'm doing a less intense version of this now. Taking breaks (sometimes whole-day breaks) helps prevent burnout. Nontechnical breaks are especially good: house chores, exercise, meals. (I actually let the dishes pile up a bit so I can wash them as a break and come back feeling productive.)
I think you're underestimating the ability to raise money from F&F.

First, I'm sure you have friends with lots of cash, but the beauty is that you don't need 10k from one person -- You could get 1k from 10 people.
> Worse -- much worse -- is that data mining is virtually certain to result in very convincing looking false positives.

Enough false positives will drop the signal/noise ratio.
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I'm not surprised. But why not use this to your advantage as a campaign? On a given day, everyone buys the game, then goes back and asks for a refund. Get everyone knowledgeable about the law, given them leaflets explaining the law to quote to the store clerks, forms to fill in with details if the clerks don't give the refund. Do this a few times.
Huh? What does Tumblr have to do with anything?
31-10-11 is no different than what yesterday was or tomorrow will be.
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It might be a reminder but nothing more than that. it's not the child's fault he/she was born this day .
Another example would be Elon Musk who would still be doing Zip2 instead of giving the world PayPal, SpaceX or Tesla Motors.
notice that ~ 2/3 of the world population is south asia. Dear god. Nigeria and Pakistan combined have the same population as the US. Europe is a statistical error number wise compared to everything else.
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We started it to sell. We were not interested in online stores. Some of the problems were kind of interesting, but neither I nor Robert nor Trevor thought of Viaweb as our life's work.

Incidentally, building a business to sell doesn't mean it can't be sustainable. Viaweb made Yahoo lots of money.
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Two recommendations: "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" by John Hull and "Dynamic Hedging" by Taleb.
I'm going to feel pretty dumb if this: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html turns out to be a joke that I didn't grok. According to the link, he stopped writing checks in 2008. I remember feeling very disappointed when I read that.
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I didn't have computer, so I was running these programs myself mentally or on the paper. Well the simple ones.
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I don't know if there's a definitive definition of "lifestyle business", but I've often seen this phrase used derogatorily, on hacker news, to dismiss any business not taking venture capital, not trying to be the next google, or not being built to flip.

In a way, Apple is, then, a really good example of a "lifestyle business" as that term is used here. They didn't take a lot of venture capital, they weren't built to flip, and they weren't trying to be the next anything. They focused on long term business success.

Choices made based on long term business success (Such as, retaining enough control to make sure the business doesn't get flipped against the founders will) often, on this site, results in the accusation that you're "just building a lifestyle business".
No feed? No problem.

My go-to tool for sites without rss is http://feed43.com which I find easy to set up. Also important to point out that it plays nice with the sites it scrapes.

Example... Problem: I love lurking in ask.metafilter but only want to see threads that have a "best answer" marked. No official feed for that.

Solution: http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml

Problem: I really like the PS238 comic but there's no direct feed

Solution: http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml

Another tool that looks promising but I haven't really dug into yet is http://scraperwiki.com (pardon the pun)
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I'm confused. Would it also be ironic if it were instead funded by the US government?
Terrific video! Thank you very much for posting! UP!
Just to test my understanding on this sentence (I have re-read it 4 times now), JGC is saying that if Kissinger was a programmer, he would be saying "sex is better than power"?
I think I have totally missed the meaning of this - could someone please point it out to me?
I logged into my Facebook account to participate in the chat and now the site refuses to function. Anyone else having a similar problem?
Focardi is a co-author. Andrea Rossi is the one that set up the whole experiment and is in contact with this mysterious US company.
Thats odd. I would clear cookies and then try a different auth method.
Reboot to play a game is way too much of a hassle (IMO). What I'd want is a hypervisor that could handle graphics acceleration for one virtual machine at a time. When I wanted to play I just switched virtual machine and moved the ability to accelerate graphics from my workstation virtual machine to the gaming virtual machine (similar to the way some notebooks that have an integrated and a more powerful external graphics card can switch between them during runtime).

That would be a dream come true for me (if it worked well).
Whatever you do go to a school where everybody is smarter than you. I turned down Georgia Tech for my local state school based on insane OOS tuition and wasn't challenged in the slightest. It was mind numbing.
What happens if we, as developers, just keep on using it?

I personally think the time element is important, and very very useful. How likely is it that the browser vendors will drop support for a new element that's already being used?

My point being, can we simply keep on using it in order to force it back into the spec?
Also having issues; after logging in through google no people appear and I can't type in the chat box; tried twitter and got some sort of socket error after hitting 'sign in'.
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I think it is WAY too early to start giving the new design credit for the surge in sign-ups.

For the last week there has been a ton of press leading people back into the chrome web store.

As the next 30 days go by, the question is really, did the new chrome web store design make a big enough difference that people will actually come back?
Bureaucracies don't have to be slow. Why not publish the draft and say you're going to finalize six months after that? Right now the idea of a W3C certified HTML5 standard is useless- browsers are already implementing what we have now, and people are writing code against it.

If that doesn't work for you, how about the idea of splitting this stuff up? Web browsers are now rapidly iterating through versions, why not do the same with web standards? Small changes each time. Uncouple stuff like the <canvas> tag from HTML5 as a whole. I'm not saying that it's the ideal solution, but it might make the web standards practise at least slightly relevant.
In a world with 7 billion people, even if you are one in a million, there are still 7 thousand people just like you.
He sold Pixar, because it gave Ed Catmull and John Lasseter the opportunity to do what they'd always wanted to do, at Disney.

Pixar was created because Disney was missing he market. When Disney bought them, the Pixar guys started running the show at Disney.

Steve Jobs bought a small division of Lucas Arts that was going to be shut down otherwise, and, along with those guys and others turned it into Pixar for the purpose of realizing this market.

When he sold it, it was a real company, and it enabled the cofounders of Pixar to pursue their dreams. It was a win-win.
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http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Evolution-Complexity-Eco...

don't let the false prophets of equilibrium theory and efficient market theory bend your ear too far ;)

if you get into looking for a job, there are a few books that list common questions for quant jobs also...
How many people are actually contributing anything to human progress?
Designing systems well means understanding tradeoffs when you have choices. And these days you tend to have a lot of choices.

From what hardware you run to what software stack you use. A good systems architect will make these decisions on the fly.

To get better at designing systems you have to actually look at ones in practice. Especially ones you think are bad. Because often what led to that design was a series of tradeoffs. And systems design tends to run end to end. You have to think about not only speed and reliability but often ease of use.
I would say no, it can be the necessary stepping stone to something else.
In that case it can be a stepping stone for both the sellers and the buyers whom did not have the "right" people for the job yet, but by selling got the people who could do it.
those numbers are really bad measures of risk. those are probably notionals on derivatives. if you're trading a swap, the notional may be 100B, but the amount actually at risk may be something like 10 bps, which is just 100MM.

Also, its not like if the market crashed, all of the value of the derivatives go to zero. Derivative holdings always have counterparties. If you make 100MM, someone else loses 100MM and vice versa. this isn't foolproof, as there is counterparty risk, but it makes the system a lot more stable than your statistics make it seem.

TLDR: The total risk of the derivative market is nowhere near 20X GDP.
I don't think YC can be sold. Too much of what makes YC special is tied up in pg and interpersonal connections with angels and other investors in SV. I don't think you could just hand off the process to a VC firm or something and expect to get the same level of applicants.

Maybe someday that won't be true, and maybe I'm wrong today, but my hunch says that once it's sold, it will begin to decline, and everyone who might consider buying it knows that.
I just got one of these "certificates of deposit" from him a few months ago. It looks like a check. Unless you were planning on cashing these checks, I don't imagine you'd be disappointed with receiving one of these.
YC is different. We didn't even think of it as a company at first, just an interesting project. It has turned out to be one of those cases where a side project takes over your life (sort of like Facebook, though much more gradual), but that wasn't planned. We just kept getting more applications and either had to grow or start rejecting people we thought were good.

I never considered what I'd do if someone wanted to buy YC, because companies like YC aren't buyable. But even if someone wanted to buy it I could not imagine selling it, because I don't need the money and it wouldn't be worth the risk that the acquirer would ruin it.
Our app consists of two parts: there's a client component that integrates into Outlook, and a server part that does all the actual heavy lifting.

The client-side code is written in C# because the .net APIs for Office are the easiest to deal with.
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And you imply that there isn't value in having friends and family, spending time with your spouse and kids. When a person has a spouse and kids they have responsibilities to their family. Not everyone has your values either.

As someone who has just taken his first employment, I've only been self-employed up to this point, I've found that even a 40 hour work week is restrictive. I'm still used to spending time with my family when work is low, or when I need to distance myself from a problem to properly think about it. I can't even lean into the other room now and ask, "Hey, anyone else want a cup of tea?" on my weekdays now.

I've fallen straight into schedule hell because I am a morning person, and now my only real time to "do things" with friends and family is in the evening... when I want/need to get some sleep.

You might call it selfish if you like, but how selfish is it to

> There's value in learning and getting better at building things. There's value in enjoying what you do and taking pride in building something you're proud of, even if it never makes a dollar.

at the cost of your friends and family? Especially your family! Too many kids grow up without parents because their parents are selfish workaholics.

Just because the values aren't held universally doesn't make them invalid. Sometimes, what is held universally is the worst thing you could possibly hold. You might grab an electric fence and feel okay, but who are you touching that's getting shocked in your stead?
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Do you have a citation for the "design issues" thing, or are you just making that up?

It was over 4 days because Bushnell needed the game fast. The design was completely in Woz's hands and the incentive was to do it with as few chips as possible, also from Bushnell.

Your claim that Jobs took all the money is a lie. The allegation is he split the original fee with Woz exactly as promised, and simply never told Woz about the bonus. The whole amount was less than $5,000.

It amazes me that people are such Apple haters that they will resort to making up such lies in order to bash the guy who created the personal computer industry (along with woz) and helped create everything from the switching power supply to the smartphone.
Their application is an extension of Outlook,
which only has a dot.net API.
Twitter gives them access to my public timeline. That's fine. If they had a shred of decency they'd remove users who ask them to, and they clearly don't, but whatever. The bigger problem, and one that has nothing whatsoever to do with Twitter exposing this information, is the morally bankrupt turds at Klout asserting that I am using their service when I am not. They have plausible deniability, in the sense that "on" can refer to their harebrained 'analysis' of my timeline, but it's obvious that that's not their intended meaning.

EDIT: There's an argument that Klout is possibly violating Twitter's Terms of Service, too:

C. Your Service should not:

...

impersonate or facilitate impersonation of others in a manner that can mislead, confuse, or deceive users.

I'm pretty sure that "look, this person you know is 'on' Klout!" when I have and desire no relationship with their service would fall under this category (or would if Twitter actually enforced such rules, which it doesn't appear they do). "But we just say 'on' to mean 'we have some stuff about them!'" is unacceptable. Doubly so when they won't stop when asked. But user abuse seems to be endemic to the "social" industry, so while I'm kind of pissed, I'm not surprised.
The hypothetical invention could be anything with the power to do both good and evil. You could imagine the outcomes would be similar for lots of inventions that fit this description. The one I proposed was a new energy source that could be weaponized, but it could just as easily be the discovery of a virus that eats cancer that could also be weaponized to attack healthy cells, or the invention of a chip that could be implanted in the brain to enhance intelligence but could also be used for mind control. The invention itself doesn't matter.
He says on that page, I shall do my best to find a suitable way to send money to anyone who really prefers legal tender.
I don't want to say "nothing to see here, just move on"
But I'm pretty much going to say that.

Any "race problem" SV has is largely a result of any "race problem" that exists in society at large.

For example, why are there not more black engineers? We can elaborate at length on why there's a lack of black engineers. Whatever the reason, the sequence of causality is "few black engineers => few black SV entrepreneurs"

Some people (on the right) might say there are few black engineers because blacks are dumber than other races. Others (on the left) might attribute the discrepancy to sociological factors. Regardless of how you explain the "lack of black engineers" it's this discrepancy that's causing the lack of blacks in SV. I would bet if there were as many black engineers then there would be proportionately more funded black entrepreneurs.
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Trading and Exchanges was my detailed introduction to what really happens in the markets. I wish I could find a similarly detailed and coherent book on corporate actions.

It's a few years out of date, but not painfully so. Madoff was still a huge market maker, not a scandal, and it makes no mention liquidity rebates.

Edit: I should add that I had no trading background before reading the book, I was just an engineer at a finance startup who still thought "order" and "trade" were synonyms.
There would be a fair bit of engineering but I imagine doing secure boot at all would require a fair bit.

Would it be difficult to include a TCP/IP stack? You could probably just use the one from BSD or something.

The root CA would be mainly used to authenticate other CAs , so in this case it wouldn't be much different to how SSL works anyway.

You could presumably just load parts of the software as well as the keys in volitile battery backed memory the same was as bios settings?
Maybe one needs to take care of their own progress before they can take care of others?
It seems to me a silly assumption that selling is somehow a form of giving up: if you stay forever with one thing you might miss an opportunity to do something even more powerful; for Steve I suppose Apple is the exception to that rule, but even so he had influence with NeXT and Pixar while absent from it, albeit a forced absence.

Indeed selling might just be the necessary antecedent to the next big thing.
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