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But, not having the command line to review and edit,
I also need to be able to say this without first
carefully considering the exact structure of the sentence.

That's no doubt difficult, but you just seem to be implying it can't be done, without giving any reasons why.

Being able to control and input data to an increasing
number of applications reliably is undoubtedly very good,
but considering the many many many failed attempts to
replace text entry to describe anything mildly complex
suggests that it's not going anywhere.

No it doesn't. Simply that a lot of people have tried something and failed to achieve it doesn't mean anything. Lots of people failed to make flying machines, until someone did.

You may be able to give particular reasons why it is difficult and why you think it not likely to be achieved, but the fact, by itself, that no one has been able to do it so far, doesn't demonstrate anything.
So it's desirable to eventually converge PHP and JavaScript? You're right: I don't get it. Why then have PHP at all? I'm not saying that retrofitting a language is a bad idea per se, I just don't see the appeal of doing it when there was a perfectly fine alternative to begin with. The new array syntax is great, and introducing closures was way overdue, but this one..?

Oh well, it's in there now, so I guess there is no point of discussing it. But I do believe, on a more general note, that saying "no" to features is important - and bindTo() would have been an excellent point to say no to. For better or worse, PHP is not JavaScript and vice versa. Their paradigms are not really compatible to begin with. Transplanting stuff from one to the other just because it saves 7 bytes in developers' brains is not enough of a reason to do that in my opinion.
"...not associated with nuclear bomb testing"

Although completing the quote makes it far less hyperbolous.
Wicked. Could your regex include £ as well as $? :]
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It would be interesting to have some feedback from startups as well. Have they got many hires from the first fair? What kind of hires?

My intuition is that, on one hand, most graduates do not meet expectations of startups. A startup needs exceptional people to push technology forward. On the other hand, startups presented at the fair do not meet expectations of potential employees. They are not "cool enough". (I registered for the event in May but after looking at the list of companies decided that it was not worth trouble going from Oxford to London.)
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Believe me when I say that this type of treatment happens all the time in the UK, some really amazing stuff is done here and generally there is no recognition whatsoever or classified the moment they are churned out. I think it has a lot to do with our limited resources, so ingenuity has to shine through.
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The bank does have public documentation about those procedures. Edit: I realize now that may have been your point.
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Sadly Germany is missing from the EU beta signup page (http://www.twilio.com/eu-beta-signup).
Do you have any timeframe when this will change?
Reminds me of a 25-year old programmer I interviewed once, who's resume sounded like this:

- 3 years worked with iOS

- 2 years worked with Android

- 6 years PHP

- 4 years Java

Those aren't the exact numbers, but if I were to add the years the guy should have started programming around the age of 5
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Of course all banks could work that way. Their management just thinks it's more profitable to charge the fees instead. (And they may actually be right; these decisions aren't made on a whim; lots of complex analysis goes into it.)
While we're on the topic of lost heroes, it seems appropriate to mention the Biuro Szyfrów (the Polish Cypher Bureau) and in particular Marian Rejewski. By applying permutation group theory he managed to crack the Enigma in 1932. In 1939 this information was handed over to the British and French, allowing Bletchley Park to begin deciphering the Enigma which they had little success with up to this point [1].

The bureau also developed the bomba kryptologiczna (cryptological bomb), a precursor of Bletchley Park's bombe, a device used to expedite the breaking of Enigma codes [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfr%C3%B3w

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe
May sound weird, but don't forget the Job Centre. I got a previous job at a startup via the Job Centre. My employers hadn't thought of advertising there until Business Link or some entreprisey support place like that suggested it. They've got a good job search facility. Don't think it costs anything to advertise a job there. People mistakenly think people only go there to collect dole but actually it is a place to look for a job too!
Ian,

I currently work at onefinestay, one of the attendees at milkroundabout. (I am the one that has been feeding @milkroundabout with some 'reasons why you should work in startups' via Tiff Philippou)

I came to the company from KPMG, having spent 4 years 'earning' my ACA. Those 4 years would have been far better spent learning the operational and technical ropes at a start up but it did give me an understanding of finance and all it entails.

I agree with a number of opinions below that might stifle traction - peer expectation of job/employer/salary, lack of visibility of start ups, location of the Milkroundabout. (Could there be mini satellite events linked by webcasts/interactive discussion boards/MMOG type virtual event?)

But a key one is simply 'What can I/would I do?' Large multinationals have very defined learning and career paths usually linked to professional qualifications that, theoretically at least, will give them at platform in this uncertain world. Start ups offer no standard day/week/year which is their greatest selling point (to those who have tasted corporate life!) but can be daunting for those fresh out of a structured school system. Also for non CS grads - what roles are available to them that they can research prior to graduating.....

There might be an opportunity to develop a learning framework that encompasses the necessary skills that 'Start ups' require and provide support to these new joiners as well as more information from recent employees as to their back ground and current role.

Jed

jed(dot)comyn(At)onfinestay(dot)com
A lot of banks have this option, but you need to ask about it when you open your account. I decline it since I'm well aware of my balance and would rather not have the open line of credit sitting on my credit report.
Sean - thanks very much for stepping in and for the suggestions. We can send some people along to the careers fair today but have also fliered over the college. In general Imperial Careers have not been very responsive so perhaps there's a CS focused liaison we should be talking to instead? Thanks
The presentation was recorded by InfoQ. I hope they will make it available during in the next 1-2 months. There's a lot I said but did not put on the slides.

You are correct in your assumption that each Tile had been a record in a MySQL table (now it is a value i a Redis hash).

Actually we considered using a "blob" approach. But in the client we cannot batch requests as we cannot foresee when the user will simply kill the Flash client to go to some other site. So when a user request (i.e. a game event) arrives in the server there is no way to know if another request will follow. So we have to persist that change right away.

This is using a stateless server. In a later game called Magic Land we are going for a stateful Erlang server. There we keep the whole user state in RAM while the user plays and persist state changes every minute or so. Here we can do without any database and just use S3 for persistence. Works just great. On the upcoming Erlang User Conference we will give an update on that project and slides will be available at Slideshare next week, too. In the meantime please have a look at this old slide set to explain the concept in detail: http://www.slideshare.net/wooga/erlang-the-big-switch-in-soc...
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>"Currently, the decision to drop Meego for WP platform is mostly based on "hopes and promises"."

There's a long track record of successful B2B partnerships between Microsoft and hardware providers, a standardized hardware spec, an integrated lognterm roadmap, and a deep bench of talent in Redmond to provide support.

On the other hand, Nokia woke up to find iOS eating their lunch and realized that OS development was no longer profitable enough to consider one of their core competencies - the paradigm shift had left them trailing.
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Or more accurately: Why an Asian Steve Jobs probably wouldn't start Apple in the US.
Here is how I would have approached. The average commute time is 40 mins for New Yorker. The population is 12 millions and during a work day it goes up to 20 million.

So I assumer 20 Ml . Out of the 40 mins assume 20 mins spend on 15 mins- 20 mins spend on path, LIRR, NJ Transit etc.. so this gives around 20 - 25 mins of average commute in subway.

Assuming arounds 40 percentage uses subway

8 million * 5 - 7 miles= 40 - 50 million miles..
I sort of agree: the biggest "cult-like" effect is how mothers tell non-parent women it is simply wonderful to be pregnant, how small a deal child birth is, and how romantic breast-feeding is, and then later agree with these now-mothers about how ghastly each of these stages can be. It's a sort of selective conspiracy of silence.

The pros and cons of being a parent change with time. If you've built a good relationship with your children and they are not very unlucky in life, then by the time they are 30 they are a huge asset to you. I haven't met many happy 60-ish childless couples.
Snarky remark, but:

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So much for the "infinite scalability".
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Never tried creating any applications for iOS, It is a very good idea working some similar idea, hope it works for me this time.
Cool approach, but if I were a prospective employee or client I'd be weary of a large executive committee that is willing to spend that kind of money on what amounts to a vanity gag.
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We do preload all data on client side as the client must never wait on server responses for better user experience. But we cannot batch on client side as we cannot foresee when the user will kill the client.
And actually we have more than 40K parallel user sessions as players come back more than once each day.
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A CPA! Kudos. I know that is not easy, my fiancee just tested for her CPA...but I would hate to see the code she would write : ) This is way before your time, but Kenny Rogers had a lyric, "Got to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em" which can extrapolate to your perceived need to do everything. You can do everything, or anything, but where do you draw the line? Janitor? QA testing? Chief Bottle Washer? I'd "hold" on running the company, but "fold" on writing the code.

If you do decide to "outsource" do you mean offshore? Perhaps Rent-a-coder isn't a bad idea, but just make sure the coder(s) are available after they write the code, have them sign a non-compete, and possibly outsource a second coder to review the code if you are not getting the warm and fuzzies from the first team. Ask for well-documented code including an overview explanation, approach, architectural considerations, and lots of comments. Ask for their best work. Again, I wish you the best and I hope that once you get your prototype up you let us all know so we can kick the tires with you.

One last thing: Stop worrying about the tech co-founder and get this project in the bag! Heck, the more you type the less likely a Tech Co-founder is going to want to come on board! Get 'er done!
Does anyone know if Education or Music is a bigger App Store category?

I have an app that could fit into both, but went with Music. I'm curious if Education would be a better fit.
Great stuff, looking forward to meeting some Twilio folks at the Silicon Milkroundabout this Sunday.
Finally! This needed to be said a long time ago, especially in the game development industry. I only wonder why Ernest waited so long to say it. He's one of my favorite gamedev bloggers precisely because of his criticisms. They should make his Twinkie Denial Condition list a game industry certification ;)
I don't see the point of this article, even if all the claims are true, (and like PG said they may not be) and Jobs was really a bad man in his personal life, why bring it up? I see only harm in doing so, because people who've already looked up to him as a role model, will continue to do so (I'm presuming it takes more than an article to stop him from being one) and this article only gives them means to be more like Jobs, except that they'll only emulate his bad qualities because it's easier, much easier than emulating his sense of design or for that matter, any aspect of his genius. So if there really is a point, can anyone direct me to it?
Effective Perl is also terrific. I spent a lot of time reading first edition.

One of the problems is Google won't let you filter for tutorials from last, say 2 years. There's lots of solid tutorials for 5.10 and up
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The focus of the article is entrepreneurship and its impact on job creation. Steve Jobs was definitely an entrepreneur but is more associated with perfection and attention to detail for his products and marketing them with great showmanship which is why the title seems misleading to me.

Then there is the rather bizzare relation about Steve's biological father being an immigrant which is kind of contradictory. His growing up in an atmosphere with his foster family would definitely have contributed to his subsequent development to who he was. To put is simply, it's just not immigrants themselves, but the atmosphere around them which contributes to the success.
It will not happen. At the least not in India. The biggest obstacle in the US would be getting a Visa. In India the biggest obstacle would be the amount of money that goes into the pockets of corrupt officials. Sure, you can easily build a small consultancy or web startup in India, but if you're thinking of building factories/getting into manufacturing, you sure as hell will be spending a lot on 'butterring' your way through the system.

And this I think is a big advantage for the US, because if the US can do something about the Visa issues quickly I am pretty sure a majority of Indians would opt to startup in the US rather than return to India.
FTA:

> The returning entrepreneurs bring home what may be even more valuable than the education and credentials they earned from Yale or Stanford (although those don't hurt, either): the entrepreneurial mindset. As recently as the 1990s, says Wadhwa, failure was considered a deep disgrace for Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs and their families. But the Asians have since grown more tolerant and appreciative of their risk-takers, and the last cultural edge that American business owners once enjoyed has eroded.
Yes, you're right. But it's still a step in the right direction and hopefully others will follow suit. And I am really optimistic, looking at the uber-cool initiatives of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/), MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm), Stanford's OpenClassroom (http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php) and their latest online courses in Machine learning (http://ml-class.org), Artificial Intelligence (http://ai-class.com), and Databases (http://db-class.org).
I just discovered it is available in full on archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0

Kudos to the beeb and archive.org for making it available!
This is awesome, thanks!

I just emailed everyone who signed up in the past week using a similar template ...

Obviously I should have been doing this all along, But I'm a first-time founder, I need to be reminded ...
I loved this quote

>("Add buy ketchup to my shopping reminders" failed, but "Add ketchup to my shopping list" worked)

This is exactly the way I would expect it to work. Would you say to a personal assistant: "Add buy ketchup to my shopping reminders"? It isn't natural. The second phrase is much more natural and was understood as one would expect.
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Goto is a low level construct that shouldn't be used if your language has an appropriate high level construct you could use instead.

For example, try...finally constructs allow you to do your clean up once in a single place, and some languages allow you to break out of more than one loop at once.

If your language / operating environment doesn't have these constructs, then yes, fall back on goto.

(When I were a lad, we didn't 'ave IF-THEN-ELSE, all we 'ad were IF-THEN and GOTO. And line numbers. And we loved it. I wouldn't want to go back to that though.)
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I am Indian-American. First generation. My family is from Gujurat, India. I will not be the next Steve Jobs. I am the first Amar Patel. I am 21 years old and I know down to every atom and cell why I was born and how I can serve this world. I am proud to be a Hindu and an American, both are based on the same ideal of UNIVERSAL FREEDOM.
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It’s not the same everywhere, though. In Germany the fees for using another bank’s ATM are quite high. I think the average is something like 5€ or so.
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> 1. It's a phone, not a mass-storage device.

Okay, this is getting silly. It's a phone, it's a mass storage device, it's a computer, it's a global networking device, it's a camera, it's a GPS locator, etc. It's all of them at the same time. Don't call it "a phone" and ignore everything else it can (or should be able to) do.
Thanks for clearing this up.

> Actually we considered using a "blob" approach. But in the client we cannot batch requests as we cannot foresee when the user will simply kill the Flash client to go to some other site. So when a user request (i.e. a game event) arrives in the server there is no way to know if another request will follow. So we have to persist that change right away. <

That's an understandable dilemma. I love thinking about stuff like this and see how other people are dealing with these challenges, so please forgive my Sunday morning quarterbacking ;-) Wouldn't the issue have been solvable by creating an relatively simple persistent software layer between the app code manipulating the tiles and the backend storage? I understand that you moved to this model with your Erlang game, but I'd like to know if a persistence/caching layer was considered for the farming game?

More generally, somewhere in here is an idea for a great Node.js server project that takes coarse grained datasets from a contentious database and serves as an interface for finer grained portions of that data.
I prefer the "deny all" option, where any transaction that overdrafts is simply denied at POS.

This is absolutely no problem for small transactions. For larger, potentially inconvenient ones like bills or rent, I really don't see the possibility. Maybe I'm too careful with my money, but I don't usually try to make large payments without checking my funds first.
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> or small tools hacked together by people who don't know or care about the CPAN.

In some parts, the latter is referred to as BedPAN.
You are right: "no cache" means no cache in the app layer, so no eviction logic and inconsistencies between an app-layer-cache and a database.
And yes the best thing a cloud can offer is lots and lots of memory. That's where it's good. And I/O (disk & network) is where it's weak.
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Different concerns apply to children of different ages or temperaments, and to different situations. My seven-year-old daughter is actually better than most at entertaining herself with books or puzzles etc. She also has a mother who stays home. Thus, when I work from home, she's quite capable of leaving me alone and knows to do so. During the evening or weekends, though, it's perfectly reasonable for her to request my attention pretty often. My wife deserves her breaks too, and there are no siblings. Someone who would completely shut out a seven-year-old during those times, under those circumstances, is IMO too selfish to be a decent parent - or for that matter husband, colleague, ...

If your child is a different age, or has siblings, or is even more exceptional in terms of self-entertainment, or if you're content to plop your kids in front of a TV/computer for hours on end, or if you have other family/friends willing to take your kids often, then maybe you're able to achieve longer periods of concentration. Good for you. Please don't assume, though, that your circumstances and thus your choices are applicable to others. Among the hundreds of other parents I've talked to, this issue of limited and fragmented free time is a major challenge for every single one.
A few remarks:

1. The author's points about self regulation are at the heart of Foucault's Discipline and Punish and in particular it's extension into Feminist philosophy - i.e. the ways in which subjugation to power manifests itself as a person's self-control. [http://www.iep.utm.edu/foucfem/]

2. The idea of wage slavery is hardly novel, though quite revolutionary - see Marx.

3. One of the things which modern US society has lost is casual and seasonal labor as we have moved from an agrarian population toward an urban one. One needs only to hang around the drinking hole with Iowa farmers in January to see how much a clock driven lifestyle affects our outlook [however you might be better served to look in Phoenix for Iowa farmers come January].
Does anyone else think the Nokia Lumia 800 looks like an iPod Nano in design with a touchable screen? The rounded sides and flat top / bottom and the multiple / bright colours.
Great post by Joseph Puopolo and one that the people at RIM/BlackBerry should really be reading given their announcement of pushing off the PlayBook 2.0 release to February 2012
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