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"In those worlds, you rarely see 19-year-old entrepreneurs who have just started college."

But let's not be confused: you rarely see 19-year-olds starting dazzlingly profitable companies in software, either. You just hear (a lot) more about the few that do.

I don't think a PhD is the greatest idea if your only goal is to be an entrepreneur. But it's a lot better than trying to make a run at the goalposts without any contacts or industry experience. If nothing else, it gives you time to ripen into a mature adult, and learn how to deal with failure.
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Very solid advice Geoff - thanks (for) giving. :) Finding 'the one' is what we'd prefer. The talent vs. availability thing can be tough. We have a friend and talented RoR hacker who's busy pulling a healthy 6 figure salary on account of his skills. He's been helpful in 'networking' to other hackers, but has no interest in leaving the comforts of his paying gig; it's the catch-22 that I imagine plagues a lot of startups.

I think you're right though - holding out for the one that's going to not only put in the time, but be rewarded with a fair founders share and (more importantly) see the product through to it's natural conclusion is the way forward. One more road block seems to be finding someone that wants to go from hacker to team manager.

Either way, and your FWIW is noted, we'd have to create a situation that either sets up a barter contract, an IC agreement that leverages a valuation on time, or create founders agreements that track the input toward future payout (basically what we're already doing) if we invited people over. I think any of those paths would forego any US lawbreaking since they'd be non-employees. It just seems like a lot of legal review (fees) and hassle though vs finding the one engineer and knowing that the partnership and mutual expectations are aligned.

Aloha~
I still get a kick out of people who talk about how education pays but don't the whole correlation/causation thing. Apparently, education for them does not include basic stats.
but aren't nodes supposed to crash, albeit in a tolerable way? Even though I conceptually like Riak I haven't tried it yet, because the problems that I deal with aren't worth the trouble of setting up a cluster and managing it.

I think that the cluster is supposed to be stable. The nodes, not so much.
Out of curiosity, why didn't you fork and use a pipe?
But all else being equal wouldn't you prefer "simple" options to complex if in the end they achieved the same thing? Simplicity is not necessary limiting yourself to only simple results, it is being able to do what the user wants in a clean, elegant, intuitive way.
I'm curious. Would be willing to elaborate a little more?
Lots of wasted time (and $$) on behalf of Google defending itself from frivolous demands, and worse even more wasted time by members of Congress.
I find it fascinating to note which phones people use on the street, in subway, or in public places. I saw countless Blackberry, Android and iPhone devices. I never saw a single WP7 device.
Hey this is interesting, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar:
"Intake of alcohol causes an initial surge in blood sugar, and later tends to cause levels to fall. Also, certain drugs can increase or decrease glucose levels."
AT&T, Telekom to Press Ahead With T-Mobile Deal
I went the opposite way and dumped windows and started telling people I had no idea how it worked anymore (Vista was a blessing, moving everything around into new places :P) which reduced my tech support to pretty much nothing.

Now whenever a novice asks for advice on what computer they should buy, I point them towards a Mac. For the most part, people just dont have problems; but when they do I tell them to go in to the genius bar so I _still_ dont have to do tech support. I offer advice, Apple handles support. Wins all round from my perspective!
Related: Rob Pike's article on GIF decoding with Go: http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/gif-decoder-exercise-in-go-in...
You should checkout Noisebridge and ask over their mailing list! I'm sure someone would be happy to put you up for a few nights and show you around.

Noisebridge is around 17 1/2 and Mission. More info on their website. I'd offer but our hacker house is currently overpacked as it is. If you have any questions, feel free to email me mek@babolabs.com
(Repeating the comment I left there.)

I don't think just giving computers and internet connections would be sufficient - modern computers are rubbish. The generation of kids who grew up with Spectrums and C64s and Amstrad CPCs learned programming because they were presented with a screen like this:

http://www.retroisle.com/amstrad/cpc/Articles/cpc6128.png

That little flashing prompt which promised effectively unlimited potential. You just needed to type the right thing and you could do ANYTHING.

Especially for kids from poor backgrounds, the revelation that you can, by yourself, create anything you can imagine is just huge.

Windows and and Mac computers don't have that. I mean, it's there - I can open a Terminal window on my Mac and type 'irb' and start writing Ruby, but it's not obvious. It's not RIGHT THERE, staring you in the face, daring you to use it.

I think the Raspberry Pi - http://www.raspberrypi.org/ - project might be the solution. It's incredibly cheap, it plugs into your TV (which was why the Spectrum was a huge success at the low end of the home computer market, because unlike the technically better BBC/Acorn or Amstrad machines, it didn't need a dedicated monitor), and it runs Linux.

Yes, it'll boot into a GUI and not that teasing little flashing prompt, but BECAUSE it's a non-standard OS on a non-standard CPU platform - and because it's so cheap and easy to rest if you mess it up - it'll encourage fiddling and exploring and that is what we need to get the next generation of hackers.

This is something I feel really strongly about. It's so easy to dismiss kids from shit backgrounds as worthless neds/chavs, but for every knuckle-dragging thug there's another kid with a spark of potential. I know how easily I could've been a knuckle-dragger instead of the computer geek I turned out to be.
Browser? Why stop there! I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my mother's netbook. It runs about 5 times as fast as Windows 7 was going on that machine and provides 100% of the software she wants to use and 0% of what she doesn't (stable OS, choice of the latest Opera/FF/Chrome, photo management... and no malware).
Would you agree that most marketing case studies and texts tend to concentrate on the mass-consumer style of marketing. I found that most of it concentrating on building of large brands (ie Coke), attempting to conjure demand out of thin air (ie iPad) and a few other megacorp type activities.

This is all very interesting and useful to some, but by far the majority of marketing activity (call it the long tail) is by small and mid-size companies trying to communicate with their potential clients and customers. This is not about mass brand building but more about strategies to find low cost and effective strategies to help people with 'your' problem find 'your' solution.

I actually took a course on marketing for professional and smaller firms, but the whole thing was just about getting box seats at the football in order to grease up key figures in large organisations. It was beyond useless.
It would be easier if there was a set of easily identifiable colored icons so you could click and report someone for being a terrorist, homosexual, gypsy, jew.

Is there any sort of existing standard ?
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The observation this article makes is trivial: Wall Street give a a lot of money to politicians. But the chart it links to has some pretty cool visualizations about everything from political donations to how much it would cost to teach the world to sing:

http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-5296&y=-4944&z=2
I don't have a problem with unlimited liability to do work for my parents...

Anyway, I installed Linux on my mother's system over Win XP years back and it couldn't have gone better. She has been doing great with Ubuntu for 2 years now. The spyware, failed updates and odd networking failures I was summoned to her house to fix frequently went away entirely, so thankfully it was the opposite of your warning. I guess the lesson there is to only provide the best technology, that you trust. Linux is pretty rock solid for home users today, especially people like my mother who primarily use a browser.
6k usd in a year? wow!
There is no connection.
"The Best of edw519", http://edweissman.com/53640595

"How do I find business problems to solve" is answered a few times over, from different angles, in Ed's comments collected there. I'm not going to tell you which answers exactly, because you should probably read the whole thing.
Facebook, Twitter, iTunes and Google: The rise of digital monopolies
IIRC they wanted to make an existing ASP app (FogBugz?) and be able to sell it to Unix shops, ergo a cross-compiler that spit out PHP from ASP. They did not want to maintain two distinct codebases. From that, it evolved into an in-house bespoke development language.

Also IIRC, in its day CityDesk was a fair bit simpler than other website management systems.
I don't think that there is the need for a new character. The problem here is that JS has automatic semicolon insertion. This:

var a = "abc
def";

generate a "unterminated string literal" syntax error cause a semicolon is inserted after abc. Why not using C/C++/ObjC syntax?

var a = "a very "
"very long string";
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Dealers of Lighting by Michael A. Hiltzik. It's a great book about the beginnings of Xerox PARC.
Meetup.com - helps you to meet new people with common interests in the physical world.

LinkedIn.com - after you met them, to keep track in case you are heavy networker.
In addition to all the four in this thread(glucose,alcohol,music and caffeine)...another tool and perhaps the most effective immediately....Adderall.

(Warning:I am not a doctor,and you must fully understand the side effects before using even a mild amphetamine)
A moron "flogging" button would be better
I've never had Riak crash on me. If you are having trouble ask any of the Riak guys and they will bend over backwards to help you. If you have found a crasher bug, I bet they want it fixed more than you do.
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Google should give him what he wants: a prominent button on every blogger page that emails Sen. Lieberman's office directly.

Would last about an hour I think.
Things to be thankful for at a startup
I signed up today. I found an incredible girl whom I'm going to a date with next week, over some sushi! :) Lives 10 min away from our university as well. I like this site!

Disclaimer: I'm 23.
Oh, I forgot to mention I have a place to stay. Just looking for a company and/or guide.
How can I flag Lieberman as terrorist?

No, sorry, he's worse than that. A terrorist kills a couple of people, a few hundred if he's really lucky. By contrast, this guy is a big contributor in screwing a nation of 300 million people. How do I flag such devastating damage?
With that said, it's genuinely possible that AT&T is stringing T-Mobile along.

Would not discount this possibility. I've seen this play out first hand, a company is struggling in its market, a big competitor appears with an offer that sounds like it will save the day, then all kinds of delays crop up. Eventually the company goes bankrupt, all the while thinking/hoping that relief is just around the corner, and the big company buys up their assets in liquidation for a fraction of what the original acquisition would have cost.
In F# it's super easy to deal with the XML stream itself. Define all the records for the stuff you want to deal with and iterate over the stream with a match statement that invokes read(). You can further abstract the code by making it work with a map that maps element names to parsing functions.

eg.

type BookXml =
| Author of { Name: string }
| Book of { Author: Author ; Title : string }
| Document of Seq<BookXML>

let readAuthor (xml:XmlTextReader) : BookXml =
{ Name: xml.ReadContentAsString() }

let readBook (xml:XmlTextReader) : BookXml =
{ Author = readAuthor(xml); Title = xml.ReadContentAsString() }

let parse xml =
match (xml.Read(),xml.Name) with
| false,_ -> bookList
| _, "Author" -> (readAuthor xml)
| _, "Book" -> (readBook xml))

let rec readDoc (xml:XmlTextReader) (bookList:BookXML) =
seq {
yield! readDoc xml (parse xml)
}

It's been a while since I've written F# code to operate on XmlStreams but it's definitely possible and once you get the hang of it, very simple, and you don't have to store the whole tree in memory as you do with the conversion to "objects".
Seems like there's an opportunity here - how difficult would it be for a fan to video / stream the "all-22" from high angle (read nosebleed) seats? I've brought my Laptop and SLR into football and baseball games (Oakland), so they aren't that strict about allowing media/comms equipment in.
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The military is a four dimensional triple edged sword.

1) The war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Antidemocracystan, etc, are NOT part of the military budget, they use their own. Cutting them out and finally ending the wars would cut a large part out of the national budget that shouldn't be there.

2) The military budget includes things that include DARPA projects that are non-military and actually do help people (the biggest example being what we now call the Internet)

3) The military employs a lot of people that, if they were let go and sent back to their civilian lives, would have no jobs to go to. Until the Republicans stop fighting the Jobs Bill, we can't do further Clinton-esque military downsizing.

And re: rich taxes: Warren Buffet is leading a pack of some of the richest people in American that are DEMANDING they should be allowed to pay more taxes. The GOP refuses to let them.

Ultimately, the real fix for the budget isn't to take a hatchet to the budget; the real fix is to stop letting Congress from letting the country fix itself.

Even the Jobs Bill will not be enough by itself, everyone in America has to do their part. We Americans are ready to do that, but our so-called leadership isn't.

</rant>
Replies separated as paragraphs, no usernames, and still civil. C2 confounds me.
There are no void pointers in that example. At all.

All of it builds off of `void( * )(int * )`, which is a pointer to a function taking a pointer to `int` and returning `void`.
That would work for about 20 minutes until they find out your location and throw the book at you for broadcasting a copyrighted event.

You got an SLR in, but try "filming" a game with it - you'll be stopped in under 10 minutes, I promise you

Also, that isn't like the streaming sites where you can be at a desk in Sweden and re-broadcasting games fairly anonymously... they'd just walk up to your seat and escort you out.
There is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badges

(I assume that's what you were referring to.)

Edit: There's nothing like a tour of a place like Dachau to put these things in perspective. I wouldn't say I "recommend" it, because it was one of the least uplifting things I've done, but it's certainly educational.
Does anyone else just see this as them gauging interest in charging for this footage? Some of the wording almost makes it sound like a market segmentation strategy.
I am pretty sure the NFL would shut down any distribution very quickly - not sure how much of an opportunity there is if it blatantly violates someone's IP rights. What I don't understand is why the NFL wouldn't use it to generate more revenue. Do they really think the criticism would be any worse than it is today with 24/7 sports talk and online message boards? Why not have the criticism be more grounded in reality?
La versión en español del articulo esta aqui // The Spanish version of the article is here:

http://jcamarena.com/espanol/encuentra-un-pequeno-problema-y...
I'll tell you my hypothesis some time, off the record and over a nice bottle of Pinot.
What about posting it after the fact? If you were to use a small enough camera (as technology advances, this will only get easier), it's very possible you could make it through a game without getting caught.
Stranded Mars probe sends further signals
Outside of major countries, you will not, for the time being, find any Apple stores (Stores?), unfortunately.

Instead, you get certified premium sellers or something nebulous to that extent whose only relation to Apple is that they sell Apple products; they are basically normal retail stores with some kind of accreditation from Apple, whatever that entails.

I assume Apple will expand globally eventually, but the niceties of the Apple store are a privilege, not a guarantee. :)
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Or better yet, buy them an iPad.
The leagues would take you to court if you tried to openly sell that vision. There's a reason that they have the "expressed written consent" message tacked on to every broadcast.
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Sure, you could have a go-pro or something, but it wont be anywhere near what people will pay for. They want the full overhead view so they can track the plays & the movement of each player - you're still not getting that angle from the nosebleeds.

Regardless, its an awful lot of work which is a) still illegal (therefore risky) b) difficult to market and c) completely obsolete the second the NFL network starts a new TV/online network for it
What's the reason for keeping the footage out of the public's hands? "Proprietary NFL coaching information" doesn't really explain it. Are the NFL making money off the teams by cutting them a special deal of All-22 footage of their own games, and opponents?
I think I understand the author's point. They aren't trying to compete with Facebook, they are just attempting to exist in Facebook's market, make money by all of the same means, and attract the same customers who will then do most of the same things.

Make sense?
NHL podcast, SO freakin' funnyy
Just changing browsers here doesn't really solve the problem. Can't the Trojan target chrome as well?
I want to get into the startup industry, where do I start?
About me: I'm a 3rd year in law school. I'm majoring in tax and intellectual property and I'm very much interested in Entrepreneurship. I am 2 credits short of the required amount to practice before the US Patent Office.

I am tech-savvy, but to an extent. I've dabbled in C++ and Java (beginner skill) and web design (beginner as well). I subscribed to teamtreehouse and I've been learning quite a bit! I enjoy the videos and have worked my way through all the HTML and CSS videos. I've watched videos on iOS development as well.

What I want to do: I want to build upon some ideas but I'm sick and tired of reading books. I like the field of law but I find myself reading tech news and reading about the newest technologies more than law.

I'm finishing up school but I want to work in the tech field. I want to gain experience in startups both in the legal and technical aspect. There are very few opportunities for entrepreneurship in my school thus I'm reaching here for hands on experience. I cannot offer legal advice until I'm a full-fledged attorney but I do want to volunteer and help out regardless of whether its paid or unpaid.

If I don't take some sort of initiative I won't be able to get into the field.
Make it vote-able and we'll have the senate cleared out within the hour.
Seems to me this one button would serve both purposes. Or is that your point?
Not to sound ungrateful, quite the contrary, but finally on the WebRTC stuff. I've been dying to get my hands on it.
W/R to low-res voxel and octree engines, I think we can develop their visual detail considerably further without throwing over the table and trying to eliminate polygons. Nadeo has been taking the "large model blocks" approach and refining it for almost a decade now:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/27/mad-mad-world/
"it's essentially a puff piece"
Sounds pretty insulting to me.
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There are oppressive dictatorships of every political persuasion. It's really quite uncorrelated with what their professed ideology is. I'm willing to bet none of the people who would have been flagged with the hypothetical commie button would have been engaged in killing of political prisoners.

(Besides, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riot. Granted, the scale is different, but it's not like you need to be a communist dictatorship to engage in bloody suppression of prison uprisings.)
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Well, it's better than nothing. From what it said at the end of the article, it doesn't look like the NFL has any plans to start selling this information to fans any time soon.
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Sharp to Makes Parts for Apple Ipad
One of the people well known with the matter said Apples next iPad is likely to start next season and Sharps Kameyama No two place in middle Asia will produce LCD sections for the device.
It sounds extremely challenging, but could someone use image detection to process the existing camera angles and use the field markers to recreate an overhead view of the game? If it worked, you could probably use that to do some interesting play analyses over a large number of games.
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So true.

The problem i see is that people limit them selves saying "to do X first i need W and i don't have W".

You need to start with anything, NOW. No excuses. NOW... then you will find a bunch of new "problems" to solve.

You are in a "blind spot" until the ball starts rolling.
I won't see this sports footage this Thanksgiving because I will be programming and reading the hacker news articles related to hacking.
Third-party intervention
Fibonacci is basically the "Hello, World" program of functional programming--it's trivial but succinctly summarizes several disparate language features. The reason you see it so often is that you are (naturally) reading introductory articles. I imagine if you didn't know anything about imperative programming, the endless stream of "Hello, World" and contrived OO examples (Dog is an Animal...) would also seem onerous.

Lists, on the other hand, are actually very useful in functional programming. Lists and their corresponding higher-order functions are the equivalent of loops in imperative languages.

The real issue you're seeing, though, is that you have to start small to understand everything. This is true of everything, not just functional programming. I remember learning C++ and being really frustrated that all I ever wrote were silly command-line programs; however, I could hardly have jumped into UI development with practically no understanding of the language.

However, most practical applications require you understand the very basics: recursion, list operations, types... An article that just jumped into something like FRP (Functional Reactive Programming, a really awesome approach to making UIs) would just confuse you unless you've spent at least a little bit of time with Fibonacci and friends.

Ultimately, the only way to know if functional programming is better for some problem you have is to first understand its fundamental building blocks.
national governments can just choose to leave the EU treaty if they don't like it

That's like saying living in a dictatorship is not a "democratic deficit" as long as you are free to emigrate.

Which individual issue can you say a national government would choose to rather leave the EU than acquiesce on? just because the system is not entirely undemocratic does not mean it is perfect. While directives originally had to be agreed upon unanimously by all member countries, this is no longer the case. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon: "Prominent changes included the move from required unanimity to double majority voting in several policy areas in the Council of Ministers."