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As someone who develops Facebook apps, I think one of the problems is that there is usually a gap between the reason you need to ask for a permission and what a permission enables you to do. For example, if you want the ability to create albums and post pictures on your users' behalf, you have to request permission to read their albums. This seems to surprise most users: "why do they want access to all my photos?" Answer: the developer probably doesn't care about your photos, but they have a feature that posts pictures. The "offline access" permission is often used to get around rate limits, but users think it means an app is harvesting their deepest secrets. Unfortunately, I can't think of a clear solution to this. Finer-grained permissions will probably look even more nefarious (because the list of permissions being requested will be longer in many cases) and be more confusing to the user.
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It's the height of ridiculousness for someone who retired, at like age 30 to run a nightclub, after working at a startup to say it's a "con". What kind of terrible "con" turns the victim into a millionaire.

There are far more startup employees that have become rich than founders or investors. Tens or hundreds of thousands of them. Of course they don't get as much money as the founders or investors, but how is that anything other than perfectly fair?

Empirically it does require extremely hard work to make a startup successful. You can't point to any major success like Netscape or Google that didn't involve someone at some point sleeping under a desk. That's really all Arriington is saying, and it's quite obviously correct.

For some people it might be no better than playing the lottery, but for other people their odds are going to be very high. Someone like Bill Gates would have been hugely successful as a McDonald's franchisee or anything else he chose to do.

Just because some people are delusional about their odds doesn't make it a con.
Border waiting times and visas will be similar or worse with this scheme too. At least with the car border crossing, you have the option of a NEXUS card and your not prone to the TSA style procedures due the xray scanner you driver through.

I was going on travel times alone comparing the two, treating the border wait times as identical in both schemes. I've lived with ferries, the trip from the cruise boat to the shore will be 1 hour typically plus an extra 30 minutes for boarding/disboarding procedures and then another 45 minutes driving minimum to get from half moon bay to palo alto. So you'll be half an hour faster on average compared to vancouver-seattle. A helicopter taxi would be faster, but they typically cost $100 per one way trip.
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X86 fails miserably at lower power computing

x86 currently doesn't scale down to the level required for smartphones.

However, it is getting close in the tablet space. Estimates for the Tegra 3 are around 3-4W TDP[1], while the Cedar Trail Atoms are around 5.5W TDP. In early 2012 Intel will release their Medfield Atom chips, which will make the competition even more interesting.

[1] http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4169

[2] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/94184-early-cedar-trail...
> Not available for OS/X.

That's a reasonable complaint.

> Wants to force you to wrestle with the 600 pound monster of Eclipse.

The Android SDK is based on Eclipse. If you want to complain about that, talk to Google. Complaining to ARM is just silly.

> Not free if you company has ten people or more.

Yes, it is a freemium model. What's wrong with that?
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I've not seen eye to eye with PG on everything he has written. But this particular essay is one of my favourites of his. PG laid out an upper bound, which he later clarifies:

"If $3 million a year seems high, remember that we're talking about the limit case: the case where you not only have zero leisure time but indeed work so hard that you endanger your health."

And his upper limit for hours worked was 2x that of a corporate employee. Taken literally, this could be 80 hours per week, or 16 hour days. PG is not advocating this lifestyle in his essay. He's saying that it's theoretically possible but at the cost of your good health. Arrington says to hell with your health: quit the whining and work through the pain. This is not an upper bound but in fact an average that he's trying to push.

That's why I despise the Arrington article but don't take issue with PG's.
> what happens in HPC tends to filter down to servers

Is this conventional wisdom? How does a petaflop race affect app servers and databases? It seems like most traditional server workloads could get by without a single FPU. The only thing they have in common is IO. Are there many data centers using Infiniband? (Maybe there are I don't know.)

The Cell architecture is an evolutionary dead end. SPARC is no more of a threat to X86 now than before. GPUs may be the next big thing for HPC but its got a long way to go to get out of its niche in the server market. (That niche being... face detection for photo sharing sites? Black-Scholes? Help me out here.)

I mean, I agree with your overall point, but I think it's more likely that ARM will steal all the data center work before anything from the HPC world does. They are too focused on LINPACK.
for an employee to get rich at a startup...and by which I mean $1 million cashout(which isn't really all that rich anyways)...the company would need to sell for $100mm...and much more likely, the number is closer to $250mm...since employees tend to get ~ half a percent of equity..and that's early employees...so the number is even lower for those that come in later.

So sure, there are billion dollar companies where employees get millions...but those are rare...almost as rare as the number of people who make millions playing the lottery
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Green and black monitors didn't rip my retinas to shreds. This does. I think he just does it because he can, part of the whole jwz f-bomber persona.
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Exactly. Good post.

These kind of events can and routinely escalate just due to fear alone.

It is also often at the expense of specific colored individuals.
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I've booked/had people book the DNA and it's not uncommon to go through someone other than Jamie. So, yes, it's possible.
Oh, of course - I own one myself! But it's rather hard on the eyes, so I keep the Readability bookmarklet around :-)
Some of Google's services are already at 5%. The Chrome Web Store for example: http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/docs/money.html

It wouldn't surprise me if at some point the Market and the Web Store merge and everything gets 5%.
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I know engineers that have made over $250k/yr total compensation (including salary, bonus, and stock options) over the last 2 years alone. And this is for a well established post-IPO company (not Google). I think their take home just from monthly vesting stock was roughly $150k over 2 years.

I still remember the thread where someone asked about how much people made out on an exit, and it seemed like firmly 80% of the people who responded said that they got screwed by the founders or VC, and only one said that he made enough for a downpayment on a house. So to me, 5% odds to make $1MM over 8 years seems really high.

It would be an interesting statistic to see how many startups have been started since 2008 and what their success rate has been.
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"instead of a commensurate portion"

"commensurate."

...I'm an idiot. Today I learned how to spell commensurate!
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Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?

Australia is pretty large...

78 countries (28% of the worlds traffic) drive on the left [1]. These include countries like India, Pakistan and Indonesia with fairly significant populations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Ju...
How many places sell ebooks you can read on your Kindle, though?
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Yep, I remember that line.

But I believe it doesn't speak about "giving up your life" to do the startup. There is a big difference, I feel, between "low intensity work" and "working hard and smart" and "working hard and smart and giving up everything else".

And that "giving up your life" has to be explained with examples: cancel your long due family vacation because the a sales VP wants you to go to a customer site without having a solid reason, camp at a customer location in the carribean until you get a PO because thet want you to make it happen (though you know camping there is going to do nothing). Postpone a surgery because your travel schedule doesn't allow it. A lot of these can be clearly unreasonable which is why it sucks to do a blanket statement.

And investors and business owners like smart work but I believe they eventually like hard work also - they just don't want you to work smart and not work more because you worked smart. They want you to work smart and work even more for the time you saved by working smart. I DO NOT want to generalize this but as people building businesses we are all (including myself) are too focused on growing and more of everything. And sometimes we and everyone with us loose a lot of what won't come back - youth, family time and more. I have been guilty of this myself as a founder and I remind myself to refrain from this as much as I can.

Eventually its a personal decision though. Do what you think is right for yourself and learn from your "own" experiences.
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Yowza. But yeah, lithium batteries do this sometimes on airplanes. Some of the smaller ones don't allow lithium batteries in the cabins for this very reason. That it's an iPhone isn't surprising in the least, and hardly front-page material.

My theory is that it was already compromised somehow (maybe defective), and the pressure decrease popped the container(s). And to people claiming OMG CASE MOD, look more closely. A crack goes right through the line that would form the glasses. It could be a mod, but I highly doubt it.
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1) In what world is this acceptable? Is it okay if I install a keylogger on your machine as part of a job application process?

2) Like watching your search history for terms like "homemade bomb" and putting you on the no-fly list if they find them?

Remember that when you say, "it's okay for the government to do X", you're saying "it's okay for people to do X", because the government is people. And the government is a lot of people, many of whom are good, but some of whom are bad, and others of whom are just plain douchebags.
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Multiplying k arbitrary matrices can be done in less time than O(kn^omega). But certainly for k > 3 you wouldn't multiply naively k times as you've pointed out.
That is an absolutely insane number for Facebook.
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Most of math notation is optimized for allowing people talking to each other about abstract concepts to use blackboards and chalk as memory aids.

Mathematical notation is always supposed to be used in a context similar to literal programming.
Agreed.

Another one who should get some flack is Thiel.

He may just be the worst, suggesting kids should forgo a university education and going so far as to actually debate the "issue" whether an education is "worth it".

For some of these VC to make money, they have no need to see university degrees.

But they have their own interests in mind. And, lo and behold, most of them have university degrees.
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You shouldn't be using the system Python. Should compile from source and put in /opt/<name of company>/. And that shouldn't be owned by some random user. So, you should be using sudo.
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What do you care about someone becoming rich due to your work, if you are becoming rich too?

Let's consider two situations:

1) You work X hours, paid Y dollars for that

2) You work 2 * X hours, paid 100 * Y dollars for that, and some VC is paid 1000 * Y dollars.

Should you chose the first?
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I studied math and CS in Germany. The mathematicians were usually adept at CS, but the computer scientist didn't--with some exceptions of course--even get what math was about at all.

They should probably stop trying to dumb down the math for computer scientist. Math is hard, and pretending otherwise, won't save one from reality.
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Totally agree. Considering companies like BMW and Toyota are only worth 20 billion I fail to see how Facebook (even with the hype) can be considered so valuable. I know which one I would rather own if offered the choice.
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Oh, C'mon.

So I'm not supposed to work hard and get rich because as a side effect that some one else also is?

My dad is a cab driver. He really works his life off. Under absolutely dismal financial conditions he and may mom have given their whole lives to bring us out of poverty. They got me and my sister decent education. They did what every poor family in India does. They worked hard, saved money, invested it and got their kids good education so that we could now stand on our own legs.

He still pushes a 12-16 hours schedule everyday. You know what? Compared to most of his cab driver peers we are like 1000x better. He has achieved what none of them have ever or will ever achieved.

He pays a lot of commission to the travel office which gives him rentals. And sure they are getting rich too. He is using them and they are using him. That's how it all works. But he would not exist without them and vice versa.

He can of course sit back at home, he is old too(like he is nearing 65) and tell the travel office is getting rich because of his work so he won't go to work. But, he doesn't do that. He works hard for everything he has every earned.

Of course most of his friends and peers call him merely lucky. And that he is also a fool to be working hard not smart.

I really want people to define smart work. Its like people try to say there is some magical way to produce wealth and value out of nothing and that only smart alecs are capable of that.
And lots of algorithms named after people. Which is fine (we have lots of things named after people in math, too), but not descriptive.
I did find it ironic that one of Thiel's major complaints about education was the exclusivity of universities like Harvard given that his solution was a program that admitted a mere 20 would-be entrepreneurs.

jwz is right: be alert to the agendas of those who would influence you.
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I think being able to work from anywhere is actually less liberating, because it means you're always battling internally about whether you should be working or not.
JWZ acknowledges that he got lucky with the "Netscape Startup Lottery" and is trying to tell people that most employees at most startups won't see the same results. Even if they are world-class genius coders. Even if they put in 80 hour work weeks for several years.

JWZ isn't a good example to emulate because he is a rare example. Patio11 is a better example because there are literally thousands more devs in a similar position. Self-employed, doing well, but not retired and not outrageously wealthy.
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Facebook. It has all the hype and could IPO soon.

Which would I want to run for the next 20 years? A BMW or a Toyota.
I disagree. A few years ago, what we had for high-end computers was practically equivalent what we currently hold in our pockets. It wasn't long ago I got my first dual core desktop but dual core CPUs in smartphones and tablets is now standard along with powerful GPUs and lots of RAM. And it's not enough. Every year, each device needs to be significantly more powerful than the last. The idea that we've reached some plateau of mobile computing power doesn't hold up to even recent history.

And that's the real problem for Intel. Mobile computing power is improving an incredible rate -- probably faster than anyone could have predicted -- and soon enough they'll reach a level where ARM and Intel are actually competing at the same level. We're not there yet but it's close. At that point we'll see if Intel has what it takes to stay in the game.
This only makes sense if information flows both ways. When one party has significant information about another party, and the second party doesn't have similar information about the first, an imbalance is created that gives the first party power over the second. When I know your secrets, I have power over you. You fear my knowledge, perhaps rightfully so, because your secrets might be enough to destroy your life, or at least cause you significant embarrassment.

When the government engages in widespread privacy violations, they are creating this same kind of power imbalance. You know nothing new about the government, but the government may know many things about you. They may have information tha could greatly embarrass you. They might have information they could use to arrest you, even if you've done nothing wrong or illegal.

This is not an increase in awareness or information flow or efficiency. It is merely an increase in government power.
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So now it's a $100bn? Wasn't it 60bn a few weeks back...
It seems like folks are outdoing each other by proposing higher and higher valuations.

At this rate Facebook will be worth more than the US GDP soon.

I can't wait for the day they actually have to post revenue numbers.

(Don't get me wrong, what they did is pretty cool from a technical viewpoint, but those numbers are insane, and only designed to make a few insiders and many investment bankers rich.)
> Amazon could also eg set very unfavourable terms for authors, so only mainstream literature becomes commercially viable.

Even as a monopoly, why would Amazon do that? The cost of distributing another ebook is negligible (and may even effectively be negative if the competitive advantages of a larger catalog outweigh the server, bandwidth and other operating costs).

It seems to me that, even as a monopoly, Amazon doesn't really care whether the books they sell are mainstream or non-mainstream as long as they make as much money as they can from them. And that doesn't mean jacking up the retail price just for the hell of it (or squeezing authors for fun). That means trying to gather enough data to estimate the supply and demand curves and pricing based on that (something Amazon is already good at).

I think authors are likely to get squeezed regardless because, like musicians, there are too many that are willing to write for (effectively) free just to get the lottery ticket for the big leagues. On the consumer side, it is important to remember that every book is already a tiny little monopoly of its own, so it isn't clear which way things will go if they are aggregated.
Ha ha! We're talking about jwz, and you think Geocities is old.
This is not an alternative to the android ndk, right? I haven't had to use the ndk-gdb debugger so far (I just debug the native linux version) so I'm not sure if this project will help me or not.

Maybe the system profiler is worthwhile? Anyone know?
I think this idea is potentially useful and having a news/tv background, I can see the value both the the broadcaster and to the audience. Have you tried offering this to a large broadcaster, such as NBC, as a test pilot, working together to refine the product and use as a case study? NBC is interested and actively integrating emerging digital tech. Local news is a very tough sell as they don't have much money and take limited risk.
The only thing I run with any regularity, that feels like it could use more raw horsepower is the Clang/LLVM static-analyzer.

Adding an SSD seemed to make no difference, but with luck, the software will get some love and speed up.
Some good advice and wisdom in this post. Getting rich from a startup is a lottery, I've personally worked for many over the last ten years (most fail). What isn't a lottery is your time and how you use it. If you do something that makes you happy every day, you don't need to win the lottery to be successful. Nice article.
This opinion alone will get (and has got) me branded as a heretic amongst many people, and that alone proves how deeply we are stuck in this tar-pit.

Caution is advised when interpreting opposition to a position as justification for the position. This kind of tenuous logic is frequently used to justify continued oppression in e.g. obscure religious communities ("They all hate us, so we must be right!"). I'm not saying your position is invalid (nor as a non-mathematician am I qualified to do so), just that it could be better supported.
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Ironically, this is an advantage of Kindle. The last time I checked, Kindle DRM was relatively easy to get rid of. I didn't research as exhaustively because I wasn't very interested, but it seemed like non-Kindle formats were harder to deal with.
Maybe the website was designed for Netscape Navigator? :)
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There's an Eclipse plugin in the Android SDK, but the Android SDK isn't based on Eclipse.

I use it with the far more pleasurable command line tools and ultra-productive text editor Vim.
Does every person in the world have a BMW? Could every person that doesn't have one be a potential customer for BMW?

Facebook has the potential to be a database of every human in the world with extensive metadata about those people's friends, interests, and a minute-by-minute record of their every activity and action in the virtual and real world.

How much would advertisers pay for access to that anonymized data? How many services can leverage it to build transformative, long-term businesses? How many more "arab springs" will the world see as even more connect and share the human experience with each other in richer, more meaningful ways?

Facebook in 2011 is small beans compared to the effect it could have on our species over the next hundred years. Pretending that there's no long term value in that platform is short sighted.