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Berkeley's definitely the odd man out. Here are some rough approximations on the number of undergraduates at each institution...

Stanford: ~6,800
Harvard: ~6,600
MIT: ~4,200
Berkeley: ~25,000

Keep in mind also that UCB has about twice as high a percentage of low income student (so the class size at UCB is 4-5 times the size of these elite undergraduate schools, with 8-10 times the number of low income students, many of whom are transfer students). Also, UCB is probably more "local" among undergrad populations, since about 70% come from California. So I'd expect a very different profile for undergrads.

Interestingly, the profile of the graduate student population at all four schools is probably fairly similar, as the elite private colleges admit far more grad students than undergrads, whereas the opposite is true for UCB - and PhD programs at UCs aren't subject to the same geographic restrictions as the undergrad program.
So now you have 2 problems:

1) Your website requires backwards compatibility

2) It's not his problem

Better whine and complain on the internet until someone fixes your problems for you.
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It has deterred me from buying BF3 but the BF3 beta also deterred me from buying BF3. BF3 was full of bugs that were also in BC2, based on previous performance these bugs will not get fixed for a long time.

One of the serious things was that I had to change my password to something less secure, huge red flag there, only slightly less concerning than a company sending you your old password plain text when you want to reset it.

My trust of EA is nearing my trust of Sony. I've been boycotting Sony as a company since their whole rootkit debacle and every time I consider rescinding that boycott they do something that totally justifies it. I'm not boycotting EA yet but I'm being cautious, I'm not going to put my neck on the line and adopt their early stuff until I'm reasonably assured it's not going to do something evil through negligence or intention.
That ranks highly among the more perverse cases of refusal to blame the people actually doing wrong that I've ever seen. How about some blame for the douchebags actually doing something wrong? It bears no resemblance whatsoever to "don't leave your things unattended"; in this profession it is essentially impossible not to have an online presence of some significance and that does not mean that some two-bit rectum of a startup has the right to claim that I am "on" their little website (clearly and dishonestly intimating that I am using it).

You are not entitled to use my information to push your service unless I agree to allow you to do so (for example, by virtue of using your service). This just isn't that complex.
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Entrepreneur, defined: "A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so"

http://bit.ly/uMwlXV

Much respect for entrepreneurs that see it through the whole road, but it doesn't make all the other brilliant entrepreneurs just 'unemployed'
If you're not making money, you're not a company.

Uh? You're a company when you sign the paperwork to make a company. I get the sentiment behind what you're saying, but the statement doesn't make sense.

If you're not making money, you're not a profitable company. But that ought to be reasonably obvious.
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Reminded me of the navigation on a javascript documentation website posted a little while ago : http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/

I am seeing more and more of these all over the place and I think they are great for long pages! Would love to see more of them instead of table of contents on documentation websites (for example, using something similar on a site like the HTML5 spec : http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ would make the navigation a lot more efficient)
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It's actually a biography -- the new one by Isaacson called "Steve Jobs".
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Is there an easy fix to get the data off the drive? It worked on a mac and a pc, but now when I insert into my computer, it comes up with a "This drive needs to be formatted" message.

I've tried a whole bunch of programs and none of them worked. The HP File Recovery, Pandora Recovery, PC Inspector, and Recuva.

Which program(s) do GeekSquad or other data retrieval companies use to access? Or should I bring the USB drive to them and get charged an arm-and-a-leg?

Maybe you know of a good program that assisted you in retrieving data of a USB drive? Maybe a friend? Can you tweet this to your twitter or post this to your Facebook? Thanks.
I guess Amazon wasn't a company until years after they went public.
Does this mean I should drop the title "Social Media Expert Bootstrapping Startup Entrepreneur" from my brushed-aluminum oversized business card?
Have you thought about working part time? Work 20 hours instead of 40 hours for your day job. Trying to keep up with this kind of schedule is really detrimental to your health and you can't buy your health with any amount of money. Don't forget, building a company is not just about having a good product, it's also about networking and communicating with your potential users.
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"Don't call yourself a programmer." ;)
This is my personal favourite quote of his:

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.”
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This from the guy who took the $5000 for breakout after Woz stayed up for 4 days straight fixing design issues caused by bad specs from Jobs. Fucking managers.
“I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup, so they can cash in and move on.

Of course, this is exactly what is desired from the investor POV, so why the people they fund should act differently is a stretch.
That seems to show total profit of Apple from Q2 of 2011. See http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/20Apple-Reports-Seco... "The Company posted record second quarter revenue of $24.67 billion and record second quarter net profit of $5.99 billion" and compare that number to the latter graph on the page you posted.

Or am I reading this wrong? I know nothing about finances, so it very well might be that case that I just don't understand what I read.

So, again, how much does Apple and Samsung make money from mobile phones?
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Wasn't me - I thought your breakdown was quite informative. My pricing fits squarely within your range, at just under $0.12 per minute.
You made me look: It's in Safari, too.
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I don't think anyone can predict where Palantir will go. They seem to be doing a lot of things right, but cult-like environments always have a high downside risk.

The one thing that makes me think they are on the right track is that they have the backing of Peter Thiel. Anyone familiar with Thiel's personal philosophy realizes that he's highly individualistic, so let's hope Thiel has enough influence to ensure that Palantir doesn't succumb to groupthink.

I wish them well and if they succeed I am sure there will be a lot of spinoff entrepreneurs who go on to do other really cool stuff.
This site almost broke my noscript plugin with its thousands of facebook this and scorecard research thats.
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On a related note, I'm working on a synchronous narwhal-mongodb compatible driver that would work with common-node (http://olegp.github.com/common-node/), Would anyone be interested in helping out?
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PG wrote a good post on this topic (a counterpoint I would argue). Unfortunately I can't find it. But it's about why selling your company makes sense -- why you should give it to people who are optimzied for running a business. Or something to that effect. Probably worth rereading if I could find it.
You should read the biography to get some context and understanding. I'm not saying that that was wrong, or even that it actually happened, but I'd actually read it before making a comment like that.
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I too find that using real life similes is very efficient for explaining computers to older people. For example my favorite simile to use is to explain how a computer works, typically so an older person can understand why they need more memory for their computer, not a faster processor or bigger hard drive. The illustration goes like this:

A computer is like a person studying at a library. The CPU is a person reading books. The RAM is a table at which they are sitting with their books spread out. The library shelves are the hard drive. The books in the library are their programs and documents.

Using this illustration I then explain swapping to them. Imagine if a person is doing some serious studying and needs to have 20 books open at once to read but their table is only big enough to hold 10 books. As a result they have to get up and put books back on the library shelf, move other books off the shelf onto the table, then put those books back on the shelf to get the first books back off the shelf and onto the table. This slows down the person's studying a lot.

I use this illustration to explain why you need more memory (table space) if your computer is swapping, and why you don't need a new hard drive (shelf space).

This same illustration works for other things as well: A dual core processor is two people reading at the same table. You need a bigger table if you want both people to be able to use the table affectively. If the computer is running out of hard drive space it is like the library shelves are full.

This basic illustration explains a lot about computers in a brief period of time, and I've had numerous people who don't understand how their computer works praise me for it, and say that now they really feel like they understand what is going on.

I like finding simple explanations for complicated things.
I kind of think the opposite. Entrepreneurs are the ones that create viable businesses, cash in, and move on (usually to try to do it again.)

Steve, on the other hand, created the mother of all lifestyle businesses. (for his value of lifestyle, of course)
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Problem solved:

It's very easy to handle a Javascript fallback for Slider.js:
Instead of having an empty container in which your slider will be templated, put the content for the non-javascript into it.

That's it ;)
Just because the Slider Javascript will empty the content of it ;)

(Side thought: maybe I'm wrong, but in 2011, are we still need a JS backwards?)
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But my understand here is that this is being allowed via Twitter. Twitter is knowingly allowing this to take place, and by agreeing to Twitter's ToS, you are in effect, allowing this to happen. Essentially, what I see this as, is you not agreeing to Twitter freely sharing your information the way it does. So maybe instead of being angry with Klout, who has permission from Twitter to do this, you should be angry with Twitter, and revoke your permission in using your information?
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You're making the mistake of assuming your values are universally held by everyone else. They aren't. Some people really enjoy building something, even if that means not spending as much time with family/friends. Different people have different values/priorities and are in different parts of their lives (i.e someone with kids spends significantly more time with their kids than someone without kids).

You seem to be implying that the only value someone could get out of building something is a full time job. That's not true at all. 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.
Oooooh man, Latent Dirichlet Allocation is cool stuff, especially in the context of topic modeling (which is what Chen is doing here). OP actually wrote a pretty accessible blog post about how he does this sort of thing which you can see at [1].

If you don't want to read it, Mike Jordan has a pretty neat presentation about it at [2]. If you're statistically trained and don't want to view the video, you will probably understand this synopsis: is that you can view each document in a set of documents as a discrete admixture of some number of topics. If you imagine that words can be modeled with a discrete exchangeable random variable, and you choose some number of topics to model (let's say k topics), then you can use a hierarchical Bayesian model, specifically with an underlying Dirichlet distribution over the base measure of each Dirichlet process that forms every particular admixture document. This allows topics to share some amount of information, which then allows you to generate some pretty useful topics, like the ones from the OP.

If you don't understand that synopsis, then go look at Jordan's talk. It makes it all pretty clear. :)

[1] http://blog.echen.me/2011/08/22/introduction-to-latent-diric...

[2] http://videolectures.net/icml05_jordan_dpcrp/
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I know how you feel with the belonging. So many smart people around it could really be intimidating. In reality, everyone always _seems_ to be much smarter, happier, and better off than they really are.

Please, you don't have to say "sure, it needs x, y, and z". You built a cool thing and enjoyed it. That's awesome! Don't diminish your skill and effort like that.

I like reading posts like these. I don't want to see anyone fail but its a fact of life and it really comforts newbies like me who have a long road filled with failure before we reach the promised land.
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I can't say he was mistaken, since he was only saying he disliked it. But I don't think there's anything wrong with selling a company at any stage. Steve's problem with selling seemed to be that you're shirking work by doing it. But that isn't necessarily, or even usually, true. A lot of people who sell startups go on to do other things, and often bigger things. If we were still running Viaweb, we could not have started Y Combinator.
Check out the quant.stackexchange.com site. There's a bunch of similar questions there with good answers: http://quant.stackexchange.com/search?q=books

Also, http://quant.ly/ is essentially Hacker News for quants and often has interesting articles.
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I wanted to get your guys' feedback on an idea I'm currently coding up. To keep it short, I'd like to visualize and simplify customer service and feedback more. If you've ever seen http://smiley.37signals.com you'll understand what I'd like to mass produce for businesses.

http://d.pr/SYee
I'd like to create a page for freelancers that their clients can review quickly and they can display proudly on their site. You can get a badge http://d.pr/6r2M to embed as well if you're above 90% positive feedback. Written reviews will be short (less than 200 characters) and to the point. You'll need a Linkedin account to rate a person or write a review to increase legitimacy.

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In essence, showing off your design/code portfolio is great but many of us have very happy and satisfied customers we'd like to display as well and I think this would have a positive effect and securing more clientele.

Let me know your thoughts :) I'm about half done coding it up now.
I don't think he's talking about hard work. He is talking about people who are driven by short term thinking. People who don't really care about their work.
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Code seems to cover similar material to MIT's 6.004: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
I suspect there are some whopping economies of scale to be had here, though. This was a one-off and prototypes do tend to be expensive.

BTW, I'll bet 2/3 the cost was that military-grade omnidirectional treadmill. Mass-produce that and you're back into the realm of possibility.
Mark Joshi's (markjoshi.com) site has a pretty good set of information for aspiring quants (in particular, see the "advice for aspiring quants" bit).

The "careers" forum on nuclearphynance.com is also pretty good, and might also shatter some preconceptions about how easy it is to waltz into the industry. (note: nuclearphynance seems to be down at the time of writing)
Try to go into Steve's mind when he said "OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW"....try going to the mind of a person who is about to die.....try going to the mind of a person who realizes that this is the end....these last few seconds are the last of a lifetime of seconds....I cant either but at least I am trying.
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At my university, this kind of stuff is covered in a class called Digital Logic, which is a precursor to Computer Architecture. I've a pretty good understanding of how all the stuff works that's mentioned in the blog post.

edit: It may actually be more of an electrical engineering class, but the CS program here is ABET certified, so it's essentially an engineering degree itself, but this is the kind of thing that any CS graduate should be intimately familiar with.
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I think Haskell (and functional languages in general) will become increasingly popular as it is (they are) a powerful way to deal with concurrency and can easily take advantage of multiple processors. Languages are tools in a developers toolbox, and Haskell turns out to be a powerful one for several growing problems.
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I got feedback from a couple of folks who had the unfortunate task of going through an insurance claim process. As long as they have receipts, they're fine. Obviously this could pose a problem for some of your items that you purchased years ago but he told me lots of photos that show your item inside the house goes a long way. e.g. This won't work ... Photo of your 47" LCD in a room that doesn't look like anything inside your home.

Generic photos won't work, I know many folks keep a video recording of their home.
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I'm not sure that both Node.js and MongoDB appeal beginners.

These 2 tools are reserved for people who exactly know what they want out of their tools, not for someone who just jumped in to "web development" and wanted to use buzzword compliant tools.

Sorry for being such a snippy on Monday morning but I'm hoping people around me would become better at fundamental as opposed to combining tools w/o knowing what they're good for.
Right. For all of Apple's incredible work, this is a curious quote from a man who commissioned a biography because

"I wanted my kids to know me," he said. "I wasn't always
there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to
understand what I did." [0]

I don't judge him for his life choices, but growing a business is a serious commitment. Jobs is kind of ignoring that point.

[0] http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/148601/jobs-ask...
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Thanks! I need to talk to some folks in finance that handle this stuff. What exactly do they look for, I assume the finance department are the ones who request such a list.
With this in mind I wonder why he chose to sell Pixar. While he made a tremendous amount of money from the sale, I don't think it was really enough to make a tremendous change in his lifestyle.
I agree with the article- replacing <time> with <data> seems particularly unwise, given that the HTML5 improvements are supposed to allow content providers to provide semantic sense to their documents. <data> might just as well be <stuff and things> for all the specificity it brings.

All that aside, I'm baffled that people are still amending and discussing the HTML5 spec. Criticise browser manufacturers all you want for implementing their own standards, but they don't really have a lot of choice when the standards bodies spend all their time dithering about and arguing over tiny semantics.

The HTML5 spec isn't going to be finalised until 2014. Insanity. It'll be out of date before it's even finished. HTML5 and CSS3 should have been finished long ago, and we should be talking about the next iteration of these standards by now.
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I expressed the same thought on my blog a few weeks ago:

"He managed to inspire a whole industry, while doing what he truly loved. Millions of entrepreneurs world wide have been inspired to do the same as a result of his work. This may be his greatest legacy and something that will live on in all of us long after his passing."
Thanks Bill, an honest response. I think you nailed the emotion as well.
I have to agree with the article author. Sure, dates and times are really hard to get right. But to say "you know, times are really a kind of data" is a cop-out. Relevant:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Between this post and comments from startup school along the same lines, there seems to be a lot of people complaining about founders looking to make a quick buck without having to work hard for it.

I live in SF. I'm running a startup, and many of my friends are as well. Where are these lazy, get rich quick people I keep reading about? Am I just lucky to only be surrounded by hard-working entrepreneurs who are trying to build long-term viable businesses, or is this problem being overblown a little?

This is me genuinely asking, not making a statement in question form.
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