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That's the passage. How could he not challenge Gates on that? Or clarify it. I'm not sure if he gets 100 percent what Gates is saying. This passage is just not accurate.

OS X's importance to Apple can't be understated. Apple, the company that kicked off the personal computer revolution and gave us the GUI, was behind technologically in the mid-1990s. Apple was in such bad shape that they had to buy someone else's OS. Can you imagine the current Apple allowing iOS to get into such bad shape that they have to buy someone else's mobile OS?

There is a big story there, and Isaacson doesn't touch it because he doesn't see the story. And this doesn't have to be a technical story.

It's a story that anyone can understand: Here is a tech company that didn't have good tech anymore. How did this happen and how did Jobs and NeXT save Apple with modern tech?
Cisco completes acquisition of BNI Video
Apparently seats on US-made launches are more expensive.

Does it bother you buying "Made in China" stuff?
Hello, Google Plus. You are being so unfair
A lot of people will focus on the money and come away wondering if they can make a quick buck too. Hopefully people don't miss the point. You made a cool app for a really niche market that had a huge need for this inexpensive tool. And you helped some people really needed it. Kudos, man.

You learned to code for iOS, helped people in need, and made a buck off it. Awesome.
I think it's fantastic for two reasons. First, it keeps the lights on for the Russian space industry (more players makes for a more interesting field). Second, I believe the next big achievements in space will likely be done by private industry. This sets a bar for the cost to get people into space. Whenever some company can safely match the price of $50mil per person we will start having some real competition.
I care vastly more about the problem I'm supposed to solve than how I'm supposed to go about implementing the solution.
If I had the chance, for example, to work on a strong AI but I had to work in COBOL, I'd probably take that chance. Conversely, if I got to work with the coolest DWIM framework ever, but had to implement admin screens or other CRUD, I'd go absolutely nuts. It's the difference between dealing with accidental and essential complexity. If there's not enough of the latter on the horizon, I get very antsy.
>>SALARY RANGE: $64,724.00 to $141,715.00 / Per Year

Space Shuttle Endeavour cost about $1.7 billion, each Space Shuttle flight cost $450 million, $480.1 million has been awarded through the COTS program - and they would pay an astronaut $65k/year. I'm guessing they feel that the rare opportunity to be in space is enough pay for you. ;)

I'd still do it if I qualified for it.

PS: I wish people would stop with the lazy and "funny" comments. It's like wading through crap.
"Build something people want" is not enough
Thank you so much for this. I know I'm one of the less-than-a-percentage-point of users for whom the suggestions were making me cranky; this will make me a much happier Google user.
Still waiting on being able to search for punctuation. Being able to search for "$. ruby" or "$_ perl" or "$: << '.' ruby" would be super handy.

edit: Just realized "$_ perl" actually does work. It would be nice, however, if we could search for these kinds of terms generally and not just in specific case.
I see your point here, but all voters in your mockup presented the Libertarians as their first or second choice. As a compromise candidate, that's not a bad option.

Further, I don't think real-world voting would match up exactly with the above. There are people that would vote R/D/L and D/R/L, both of which are lacking from this example that would swing things away from the Libertarians.
"kernel symbols hiding" ... I always find that to be funny. Once your code is in kernel space, searching for kernel symbols by name is easy. Proof is in the program I wrote called virt-dmesg which uses heuristics to search for the main symbol table, and also for kallsyms if available

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-dmesg/
HP has both 15/8 and 16/8, the latter originally from Compaq. You can see the other "legacy" allocations here:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...

Nicely tabulated http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/02/13/where-did-all-the-ip-num...
"durable artifacts that can put architects in dominant positions for years to come" that statement is why balls of mud work, because the primary alternative to balls of mud are space shuttles designed by architecture astronauts. Space shuttles are generally problems in search of a solution, which is why the ball of mud is seen as the only thing that works. Writing in an imperative language poking and prodding certain bits at certain addresses merely ensures a ball of mud will result.

I would never assert that every type of problem should be solved in this manner, but it's a pretty good framework for taking data from a bunch of different sources and outputting them to a bunch of other destinations. Pipeing and transforming data is not fundamentally a problem of hierarchical types (a problem somewhat solved by C++/Java/C#) but type transformation and streams.

Keep your business logic and GUIs built in Java but use something like this for moving data around the organization and importing / exporting as needed by clients.
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My problem isn't that the seats are Russian, it's that we've let our space program wither away to nothing. I don't mind competition in space industry, what I mind is that our government, and industry, leaders simply can't be bothered.
"Why were you pursuing these loans in the first place?"

As much as I wish I had $250K in the bank....

"Did you need to buy a home? Or did you want to buy a home."

LOL - as a married father of 2 kids in the Midwest I find this quite a funny comment. After renting for many years and dealing with horrible landlords ex: coming home on a cold winter Friday night to find my apartment bedroom with no windows with a little note stating "Be Back on Monday" - sleeping in a sleeping bag as a result.

So yeah, we "needed" our own home.

Also, given it is a great time to buy home (great rates, low prices, we got a tax credit in 2009 too) it felt like we would be stupid not to capitalize on purchasing a piece of earth/dwelling etc. Now we have a fat veggie garden, doing a remodel etc. Sometimes we regret it but overall it was the right decision for us.

Unless mammy and pappy or granny and grampy have the dough, or you sold your last company to Google, I'm guessing if you choose to buy a home, you will be calling your local loan officer and after the meeting wishing you had established some credit.
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"Ranked No.1 for Best Performing Mobile Phone Recycler"

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The bulk of attrition comes in engineering and among pre-med majors, who typically leave STEM fields if their hopes for medical school fade.

I don't know that including pre-meds in the analysis is worthwhile. While medicine is certainly quite technical, I don't really consider it a STEM field. The economic multipliers from improved medicine (increasing productivity for each of a doctor's patients) is qualitatively different from those for "real" STEM fields (increasing productivity for potentially anyone who can get the discovered knowledge).
Oh darn, I'm too tall. At least I've got a good excuse for cough not being an astronaut cough
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No worries.

I'm sure that the penalties for check fraud are quite high. Nonetheless, I don't want to be a victim of check fraud. It's a massive amount of hassle when you have to fight financial fraud, and sending the criminal to jail doesn't change that.
I think he actually said that the walls were to separate those who want it badly enough from those who don't. The point is not just that obstacles test you, but that they give you opportunity because others who want it less will give up and you will be the only one left.
I don't think creating the pipeline is the difficult part at all. When doing this kind of work I think more about things like:

- Designing usable APIs, which is to say identifying which aspects of System A are most important to System B, how the concepts should be transformed, and how the data should be aggregated.

- Catching errors thrown by one system when data is requested from another system and relaying, translating, or suppressing these errors. Also developing policies for dealing with unreliable services.

- Performance issues.
Having trouble hiring talented people seems to be a pretty good problem to have. The logic is flawed - from a guy who stuck his middle-finger at various large companies while working at the helm of Napster.

I think the new economy (eventually, hopefully) will be many small companies with a handful of people (read: democracy) calling their own shots, more creative freedom and an interconnectivity with other small companies that spits in the face of fear-based competitive angst and eventually creates a real revolution that more of us are proud of rather than this disgusting idea that we all should work for the Umbrella Corporation.
Can you hear me Major Tom..
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Fair enough, it was too open. I've tried to narrow it down a bit. My girlfriend is going in to med school and it's made me interested in that industry.

I am interested in helping doctors and patients connect and track progress through web or mobile apps. Practice Fusion's upcoming API has me thinking about that.
Trying Rails and Mac. Confessions of a .NET Developer
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! It sounds like time is the thing that escapes doctors in the most in their day to day work. This is a good thing to think about and base ideas on. Thanks!
I graduated from college with no loans. Then got married and had kids...thats when reality kicked in and life got waaaay more expensive.

Who can agree with me?
Hi, so I created this app and here is a more recent video showing the user interface in the current version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paFiugtZeik

Also, there are a lot of features that I will be working on adding. I started this project without much experience in audio programming (I had an idea for something I wanted to make and decided to go for it and I'm learning as I'm going) so until now I have mostly been researching and planning. Development will be picking up now and I will be adding much more control and customization.
UK bank account numbers is a 6 digit sort code + 8 digits account number. The account number is unique for the bank, and assigned however the bank wants. It might very well have been sequentially assigned for some institutions.

The 6 digit sort code is unique for the bank branch across all UK banks, generally the branch on record for the account (most UK banks use the sort-code for the branch the account was opened at). Unless you happen to mistakenly enter an account number and sort-code that matches, and you manage to mistakenly enter the name of the account holder for that bank account, they'll usually catch it.

The situation is similar across Europe, so if this is a problem in the US, it's a problem of the banks own making, and one easily solved the same way it was in the UK: By adding a sort-code, and matching on the name as well.
When 'Friending' Becomes a Source of Start-Up Funds
Using my awesome math skills, it would take 4 million transactions/year to break $1MM in revenue. Or roughly 11K/day, 460/hour. That's easy, if they can grow their user base.
> it's that we've let our space program wither away to nothing

Maintaining a space program is a very expensive proposition, and given the enormous amont of debt the government possesses, I'd say it was a wise decision to shut the whole thing down.
I think that the price paid for a $7000+ device is that they're buying the whole package, hardware, software, AND support as a whole package. So that when there's a problem there's one person that they need to contact to get it resolved (in the ideal case).

I'm sure the author could go that way, buying iPads or other Android tablets (if the software gets ported), package up they software, make it auto boot, etc and form it into a complete package. The price then wouldn't be just the app, but the tablet, installation costs, and future support as well.

It would be cheaper, but not by the same order of magnitude that the app is cheaper than the $7000+ device.
So, why is it better than Proloqu2go? (My relatives have already bought that for their nonverbal son, so this we are unlikely to be a sale unless you're really convincing).
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I was in the terminal at the time and broke my workflow to reply, I was still in 'sudo' mindset not 'pseudo' mindset
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Sorry, I just realized I misread the entire comment and assumed it hostile, my bad!
that may have had something to do with it, but i think you can probably trust the official sources that it really wasn't used much and was often used incorrectly. i've met more than a few old people who had been told at some point that they always needed to put plus signs between words instead of spaces, no matter what.
There are a variety of scripts that remove the link tracking. I use this one: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/95092
Why don't you go look up Linux, that way I don't have to list tens of thousands of applications, including dozens of language implementations. If you want someone to learn software development, or computing in general, Linux is a far better starting point than Windows or OS X.
Here's what I would do.

1) Get a copy of it in the hands of special ed departments at schools (for free). And the people who oversee the IEP's, counselors etc. You will then get referrals to sell the full priced product after people see a demo.

2) Lower the price of your product so it's a no brainer for parents.

Having the price so high is going to invite competition that will sell the same app at a lower price. While that can still happen with a lower price it is more likely at the price point you are at because people will be more motivated to compete (and anyway you will sell more at the lower price..)

3) Come up with a different name or buy onevoice.com. If the product is recommended you need people to be able to easily find your website. Not only don't you own the domain name onevoice.com but you don't come up (now) in any search results.

Edit: "search results" - as in when someone hears about it and they google it not the app store.
You wrote a website with only the shell and unix utilities?
Pssh. I lost $99 on the App Store, with 20 years experience!
I guess I'm making a more broad statement that IP addresses are rare when, once we migrate to IPV6, they will be free, so we should migrate asap.
Idea to manage methods' result and exceptions
Very interesting. Surprised Twitter doesn't have CESU-8 on lock.
Google: manual underwriting

so I'm told.
>Cost of creating a company (and associated technology) is down over 90% from what it was back when a lot of these companies were started.

The costs in terms of equipment and developer talent may be smaller than they were in the mid-late 90s, but the market is much more crowded now. I don't know that those savings aren't offset by the required marketing and PR efforts necessary to differentiate your company from all of its other "social web 2.0 tweet-a-riffic" competitors.
I've been waiting for this to happen for over 30 years. No one will be happier than I will if/when a real space industry develops. But just like I think it is foolish for the US to outsource its manufacturing industry, it is doubly foolish to outsource our space program.

I'd almost sooner outsource our military... (opps!!!)

(Side note, there's a big difference between space industry and space science research. The needs of physicists/astronomers are different than the needs of engineers, even if there is some overlap. Both need to be supported and encouraged. And both need both private and government funding.)
Fantastic Story! I always love to see people helping each other.

After a visit to India earlier in the year, to oversee development of software for my new biz, I was awestruck at the conditions people were living in. Seeing this made me want to do something to help, and therefore decided to contribute a portion of every dollar earned to build water wells in developing countries for clean water.

I will definitely look into this as well to help...
This is a great summary of the core issues with this. If you or someone else writes this up in an easy to digest fashion for laymen, I (and I'm sure others) would be happy to link to it on our websites. I'm currently linking here: http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/ , but if that can be improved upon with less of an occupy-sounding slant, I'd love to support it.
Funny, for me spelling is least likely to be an exception to the rule. If I misspelled a word in my query then I meant it to be misspelled ... I was probably trying to track down a specific article in which I knew the word to be misspelled, or else I wanted to know how common the misspelling was. And my experience is that Google hates me a little more every year.

Meanwhile, the synonym replacement is actually helpful sometimes. I wish I could turn off one without the other: that's why "verbatim mode" isn't going to do it for me.
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Unfortunately, the FDA is so afraid of alienating existing donors by asking them for a sexual history profile that they would rather stick to the status quo and continue excluding gays altogether.

Which could actually make sense. If (if!) it's correct that asking about sexual history would alienate existing donors, and if (if!) it would alienate enough to compromise the blood supply, it might be "safer" to keep the current rules in place instead of trying to be somehow more objectively "fair".
Ease of use is the big difference. OneVoice is very user friendly compared to all the other applications. Also it uses realistic looking icons rather than stick figure / cartoon drawings.
They don't really offset the fees because the fees are higher! At least in Canada, the high points cards actually cost more for merchants to accept. Merchants are charged different fees per card but by the rules of the credit card companies are not allowed to refuse the high cost, high point cards.

The Competition Bureau (federal government agency in Canada) is currently battling the credit card companies on this point: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2010/12/15/con-credit-card-fees...
Thanks for a starter!

I agree on first point, I will expand "Your Facebook data will become a crazy book." into something more visual and clear. But I appreciate any ideas on the second. We've tried to limit the required permissions to as few as possible, the thing is the more we get, the more funky book we can provide. Initial presumption was that the stylish look of the website will give some confidence for the users to trust their "photos" and "friends" for a moment, but it doesn't. And it is somewhat weird to put any "Privacy Protected" badges to a website, that should be fun and stuff. In addition people do not share their books. That is strange as most of them say that their books are really funny and cool. So they should want to share them?
I also started as CS, and stuck with it all the way to PhD.

I think that CS, CPE and EE are different than the rest of STEM that students get to start playing in their discipline much, much earlier. I know from experience that CS majors are writing code their first semester. Continually creating new things in your discipline sets up a feedback-loop that keeps you interested. I don't think this was true for engineering programs like civil, mechanical or aerospace.

For science, the payoff is much more abstract, since you don't actually do science as a science undergrad. You learn about science.

There are, of course, undergrads who get involved in research projects or extra-curricular activities centered around their major that allow them to actually play around in their discipline early on. But I think those are edge cases.
The idea behind the YC slogan "Make something people want" is not that doing so is sufficient, but that (a) it's necessary and (b) it's so difficult that worrying about anything else is premature optimization. That said, this article does have some useful advice on how to pick a "something" that maximizes your chances of success.
For some reason, the cleanness and crispness of their photographs always prompts me to look through all their galleries, even though I'm not very interested in the guts of a Kindle Fire.
http://helpcenter.ingdirect.com/ingd/Topic.aspx?category=C3B...

This was true sometime ago. Now, the recipient only needs to supply the sender with the last 4 digits. They then verify their own information to complete the transaction.
Can I enable literal mode permanently with a cookie? Otherwise, you better make sure that going into literal mode is fewer clicks than, say, going to DuckDuckGo.
The splash page that drove up conversion by 300%
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I agree. This is the paper that started it all.
Competition implies that less efficient providers are losing customers. US government is making wise move by cutting expenses that way.
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Why aren't they doing those things? Perhaps because that isn't what they set out to do:

We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.

How does selling SoCs at cost or a slight markup serve their aims? My guess, it doesn't.

What is fishy about that?
There's a rich tradition of self-interested complaint in this industry. This reminds me of Fred Wilson's complaining about startup lawyer fees[1], Aaron Greenspan's complaining about the Money Transmission Act[2], and pg's Patent Pledge[3].

Not that people shouldn't speak for the causes of their choosing, but you do lose some rhetorical impact if you only do so once you have a horse in the race.

[1] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/a-challenge-to-startup-lawye...

[2] http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Fifty-Days-Payments-...

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html
That's an interesting idea. It might be fairly expensive to scoop them up, though, since they could reasonably expect to get a good amount of funding for their own idea.
Well, I feel uncomfortable using a product that is designed to fill such people's needs at the expense of mine.

Just like Yahoo's homepage full of entertainment news, Google's aggressive query correction sends me the message "You are not our target audience, because there isn't enough money in catering to you".

And when Google is sending that message to geeks, I can't help feeling there's some brand destruction going on.
Agree. After all, he did have another, non-tech $1MM/year business. Suppose his banker was just going to blow him off when he approached with this idea?

Personally, I think this is Wells Fargo (and maybe a couple others) outsourcing the development of a new payment system/network.
Credit cards are incredibly useful for two reasons, IMHO.

1. It's like having a proxy between your actual accounts and your purchasing. A stolen credit card is annoying and easy to rectify. A stolen debit card is terrifying.

2. Sometimes in life, an expense arises that exceeds both income and savings. When this happens, we either pay with credit (of some kind), we don't meet our financial responsibilities, or we go without. Sometimes the best option is to go without. When that is not possible, the credit card is a good answer. Pay off your balance responsibly and as quickly as possible and either save more in the future or be prepared to pay interest again.
Sure, just turn left on N 400 W. Took me a while to get used to when I stayed there for a summer.