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> What _is_ true is that for a VC's business model to work, it's necessary for _you_ to give up _your_ life in order for _him_ to become richer.

Isn't this more or less the case for any profits-go-to-owners business model? Or rather, any business model where employees are viewed as calculated costs and not owners worthy of a commiserate portion of the profit?

I've often wondered how a different ownership model would work for a company. One where the owners still make more money than the VPs, who still make more money than the engineers, who still make more money than the techs, who still make more money than the CSRs, who still make more money than the cleaning staff, but everyone is seeing a salary that is at least XX.X percent higher than it was before. Or perhaps a function of CPI, per Capita GDP, and a few other variables. Honestly, company ownership just seems like one big game of who can grab the most power in a given time metric. Rather than money being a means to an end, it is the end. But that's just my inexperienced, undereducated take on the whole thing thus far.
I get my meat (grass feed, free range) from a local butcher/farmer. I know exactly how it's produced and where it comes from.

There are any number of ways to get your food. Shrink wrapped from a bulk supplier is only one of them.
Of course, AMD has been in trouble before and those times weren't as significant. I think what could end the era this time is not AMD throwing in the towel as such, but the fact that AMD could throw in the towel because there is somewhere else to go.
No, just good old-fashioned hardcopies. From amazon, secondhand stores, libraries. Wherever they begin, they end up back at the library. But I can't do that with ebooks.
There are plenty of junky iOS apps to prove otherwise. And it's not that Microsoft doesn't care about polish - the default, built-in Windows Phone apps are gorgeous and highly functional - but rather many of the app developers care more about quantity/speed to market rather than attention to detail.
Best part of reading a jwz post is the afterimage. Rock on, Jamie.
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I don't use much in the way of Google-branded apps, so that category of integration isn't important to me. I know for others, like yourself, it is and I recognize that gap.
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I think a community of hackers is the best place to ask what people want on the internet. So, tell me, and I'll hack it if it's popular and/or interesting, since I have free time from other coding projects at the moment!
The instructor is actually from University of Michigan, so it appears that this phenomenon is spreading.
> There is no question this is a landmark paper. There has been an enormous amount of work for a very long time on this subject.

I don't doubt that at all (though I personally know nothing about the field), I was only criticizing the linked article.
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AFAIK, they already went over the 500 shareholders limit so they have to open the books whether they IPO or not.
I doubt it, but there are a lot of gated communities in Baja where Americans own homes and they have private security guards. I'm not sure of the safety record of these places, but I think there are some that are pretty secured, you just don't necessarily want to leave the complex and travel to these places can be a bit sketchy. I took a bus down to Rosarito once and not sure I'd want to go back there again.
Interference wouldn't alter the doppler effect, though, it would just very slightly change the frequency that would be interfered with.

In any case, I don't think any airliner flying today is relying on VOR.
I had one more thought on this @danneu, I believe Growl stacks? I'm not a Mac user so I'm not sure if that is true. On Linux, Ubuntu libnotify does not, nor does Gnome Shell's notifications, two leading desktop environments for Linux and I've used both without having that desire for them to stack. Not saying stacking is not better, but I think its usable, and has its pros. E.g. how many should stack reasonably without being an issue, having a bunch stacked can crowd a portion of the screen. This lib may be able handle that in the future, but one of its strengths is that its easy for users to create vastly different themes partly because it doesn't stack. A relevant point of discussion however.
I recall reading once about viruses that would infect dying algal cells, repair UV damage and generally patch things together enough to assemble a new generation of viral capsids. The closest thing I could find with a quick search is this article about coral:

"Research on cyanophages and vibriophages has revealed that under certain conditions viruses have the potential to help symbiotic algae repair damaged PSII reactions centers, increase their nutrient uptake, survive heightened thermal stress, and fight off bacterial pathogens. Viruses that can perform such tasks could be highly advantageous to corals in periods of global warming and periods of heightened human disturbances.Cyanophages and Vibriophages, that are prevented from becoming solely cheaters that rob the coral algal symbiosis of the nutrients it produces, could be considered a third partner in the coral zooxanthellae symbiosis that helps keep the coral healthy and allows the symbiotic relationship to be maintained."

(http://sp11symbiosis.providence.wikispaces.net/Coral-Virus+S...)
jwz would have said this a year ago or three years ago. Timing has nothing to do with it, I think.
Does it still have plenty of battery life when you're doing something besides commenting on Hacker News? Perhaps more importantly, how fast do you need a single instruction stream to be? I'm writing this on my own three-year-old MacBook Pro, but I know that its battery life is mostly contingent on the CPU remaining idle 99% of the time. For any multi-tasking workload, or even for single-task workloads if the software is written correctly, a more efficient CPU architecture with many smaller cores would offer both greater responsiveness and longer battery life even during my most computationally intensive moments. Maybe you're one of the 1% who really need higher single-thread performance, and not just because of crappy multi-core-naive software, but the market is driven by the other 99%.
You're right, you got me. As I'd mentioned in my blog post, these aren't crucial apps to me and so I've been fine to just pin the mobile web version to my phone's start screen. I've since updated the article to include apps that I've previously used and enjoyed: ESPN ScoreCenter, ScoreMobile and Globe & Mail. All solid choices.

And by the way, IE 9 Mobile is pretty darned sweet, as is the desktop version.
What I tell people is that Python (as installed by apt-get, yum) is not on your system for you to develop with. It is there because some of the system tools are written in Python, including at least part of the apt packaging system. It's also there for System admins to use for writing Python scripts instead of bash scripts.

But for app development, get your own Python, manage it yourself and install 'distribute' so that you have both easy_install and pip to work with. I've taken that to extreme by making a portable Python distro that comes in a tarball and runs on any Linux distro, but even if you only untar the source and run ./configure --prefix=/home/python;make

That will build a default Python with support for any shared libraries for which you have a development version installed ( -dev version on debian/ubuntu, -devel version on redhat/suse)

sudo make install will install it, assuming that you have write permissions on the target prefix that you specified. You can even hide it in your home directory with --prefix=~/tools/python272
"I don't think that I'd advise many people to do a 30 year career of crazy startups"

And that's at least what _I_ took away from jwz's rant - doing it to get rich is a mug's game, choose to do "crazy startup" type things because you love doing it. You may get rich, you may not - truth is most of us can't tell from the inside whether we're "improving our chances" or not by slogging through as something we hate, it's ~90% likely to fail anyway. In the long run your chances of "happiness" are probably significantly improved by doing what you love now (instead of what you think might be outrageously lucrative).
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The color theme make my eyes burn here is a readability link http://www.readability.com/articles/dirqhjff
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Wait, why was her left foot on the brake? Is she a leg amputee? Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?
I would also add mobile webkit support, and ability to create themes with Stylus (which renders IE gradient fallbacks, easy vendor prefixing, etc). I'm not sure if the landscape has changed much but I haven't seen many that support CSS transitions. At the end of the day its just a fun experiment that some people may like and other may not :)
Here's a real simple and practical equation:
1+2+3+4 . . . N = N(N+1)/2

This equation represents the number of edges on a complete graph with N+1 vertices or the number of possible pairings given N+1 objects. Useful when estimating O(N) for certain algorithms that involve comparing an item to every other item in a set.
Right, but if Charlie pays, does he know good editors? He might not have the time to research and network (and, in fact, it might be a bad idea to let him choose his own editor). If Amazon pays then they are, for all intents and purposes, playing the exact same role as publisher.

Just because something is possible without a middleman doesn't mean that it is desirable.
A few thoughts:
- You say "Register" twice, very large - once on the button and once at the top of the registration box. What if we call it something other than "Register"? Register feels permanent, committal. How about something like "It's easy, Get started here," "Start here." Not sure what the perfect phrase is, something like that.
- The 100% free is a nice thought, but it's hard to see it over the image.
- I don't think I love that small "Are you a new user?" text either. Of course they are, otherwise they'd go straight to log-in.
- Next thing I would say is that your pitch proceeds down the page (steps, video, etc), which is fine, but there's no call to action down there, after you've sold me.

Hope this helps!
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Thanks for your implementation, served me many projects! Yeah I wonder what Aza had to say about that complaint, seems to be similar here :)
This would be a medical nightmare. People from all over the world commingling their exotic (relative to their shipmates' immune systems) diseases, infections, virii, etc., is a recipe for huge, huge medical issues.
Well, first, shameless plug - I'm a hacker and I can work full time if you're a good match. I know the languages you listed.

But enough about me. Here's what you should do.

1. LinkedIn - Network for experienced programmers, post jobs.
2. StackOverflow/GitHub/Gun.io - Network for experience programmers, post jobs.
3. Definitely make a jobs page and advertise it. Also network with other startups in your area. Are you in the Valley? NYC? Definitely hit up other successful startups. I've been directed work from different founders before - they generally know other people in the business on a professional level, if not personal.

One thing I cannot stress enough - screen by portfolio! If a programmer has no portfolio, it's a good chance they are not qualified. A degree is not a portfolio. Being able to talk about coding is not a portfolio. A portfolio of past and completed coding projects shows practical ability - not just theoretical ability. This is very important.
Good thing it is an 80-bit FP number.
I'm liking this P2P trend which seems to be spreading everywhere. I don't think we're ready to have everything P2P yet, but it's good to see the trend growing. At least now we know that if or when Google will be forced to censor more results than we'd like them to, there will be a P2P alternative available waiting for us.
I believe you and I read different articles.

I also believe the best summary for the post is its title: "Whatever works for you", and a slightly longer version might be "Use whatever works for you, my advice is meaningless because we're different people". This was more about people than it is about a specific brand.
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How are they mutually exclusive products?
Not available for OS/X.

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

Not free if you company has ten people or more.
hahaha i hope this guy is ready to be purified by a storm of angry frustrated entroporn enthusiasts
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One thing that could work against them is their cost structure. Intel is used to throwing a thousand or so engineers on each design. Having so many designers means they can squeeze out every last MHz, but it also means they need big margins and large volumes to recoup their costs.

The other big technical issue is the end of Dennard scaling. For most of the last three decades, scaling CMOS processes bought you three things: more transistors, higher frequency and lower power. Things are different now. We can't really scale frequency any more because we've run into the power wall. We used to get lower power at the same frequency by scaling the supply voltage, but this also required us to scale the threshold voltage (a device parameter). Unfortunately we can't scale the threshold voltage willy-nilly like in the past because leakage power increases for lower threshold voltages and is now a significant contributor to total power. We still get more transistors per unit area, but it's not clear whether the economic costs of building up new fabs and switching to a new process are offset by the benefits of having more transistors to play with.

The bottomline is that it's not clear whether Intel's biggest competitive advantage, that of having a manufacturing process superior to everyone else, is still that much of an advantage.

PS. One thing I find truly amazing is that Dennard predicted that we'd run into all these problems back in his landmark paper in 1974!
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B-2 is for tourists. You're probably thinking of the B-1, but as I understand it that precludes "productive work" and only allows meetings.

The idea is to provide a platform for companies that aren't yet large enough to take advantage of visas that are available to larger firms. So startups that got traction would eventually transfer over to being normal SV companies.
This is othogonal to Charlie's point; the pertitent question is "how many ebooks do you buy from places other than Amazon?".
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You probably just timed it right to get that behavior, bigbox for example, shrinks on hover, other themes will fade or whatever. If you are 'hovered' it will continue the animation at whatever point you were at when it goes to close the notification.
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Things are a lot different now than they were back then. The fact that ARM keeps growing at a very fast rate is very real. ARM will be in billions of smartphones and tablets and who knows what other kind of devices in a few years. If people start using those devices more and more instead of x86 PC's (including ARM PC's), then it's over for Intel.

ARM doesn't have to beat Intel in raw performance. They just need to make them irrelevant to most people. And they are succeeding.

In a classic disruptive innovation fashion, Intel will (continue) to move up market, in servers and super computers, where it will be more profitable for them and where ARM won't be able to reach them (for now). This will become obvious when ARM-based Windows 8 and OS X computers will become available at the end of next year or in 2013. As soon as that happens, laptops will start becoming a low-margin business for Intel.

As a "normal" person, why would you get a $1000 ultra-book, if a similar looking Transformer-like device will be available for $500, and have almost the same "perceived" performance. Dual core and quad core 2.5 Ghz Cortex A15 chips will show how that kind of performance is enough for most people.
wait, does jwz really expect us to believe that he doesn't know who arrington is? I mean, the techcrunch conference afterparty two years ago was at his night club .. and I am pretty sure i saw both of them there.
Facebook is not trying to be a "general authentication provider": they are trying to be a "social application enabler". If you have no interest in making a social application, which to Facebook means you fundamentally at bare minimum are going to need their friends list (or they, and I, would question what you even mean by "social"), then you should not use Facebook's authentication mechanism.

Really, it comes down to this statement you made: "this is one of the appealing parts of facebook auth, imho" <- Facebook agrees, and it is Facebook's vision that that is the reason you are using their login provider. If you weren't intending to do that, in their model you are doing something actively confusing and wrong, not something that requires fewer permissions. ;P

"This is with the most basic authentication mechanism that facebook offers." <- so yes, it is. This is their offering: a login mechanism that isn't just a login mechanism, but in fact a way to build social applications where you can filter content based on users friends, show users how their friends interact with your content, and generally provide an experience based around "the social graph". If you really just want a login provider, you should go talk to Yahoo! or Microsoft, who were both interested in this raw service on various occasions (with lackluster results ;P).

It also is not Facebook's fault if "most apps ask for" a permission you do not want to grant. In fact, it is the fault of the other users on the service who don't care about granting that permission: instead of complaining to Facebook, you should complain to the developers, and honestly instead of complaining to the developers, you should spend your time educating the public on "least priviledge".

To instead claim that is Facebook's fault is an exactly analogous argument to claiming that all computing platforms should be closed, as it is then also Google's fault if a lot of developers ask for permission to run native code on their Android devices, instead of just using Java (which is at least memory safe): better to just avoid the whole mess and remove the functionality, right?
I travel for pleasure and like to stay in new places for quite a while (more than a week if I really love the place). I find it easy to work out most hotels, stay with friends or use AirBnB. If I'm interested in relocating (which I do often) it will be because I've visited somewhere and fell in love with the place, or the language, or just landed in a good spot. The key I believe is just be interested in everything and follow your instincts. If you want to move somewhere really out of the way it may not be possible, but then again I've had great broadband along the Swiss Alps' lower ranges at friend's holiday homes for example, and in unexpected spots along the Croatian, Australian and Oaxacan beaches. Be surprised and hope for the best. Even better, if you can work offline and sync when you get to a cafe. My most productive days come when I'm not near a wifi signal. Oh, and if you're US based just get a wireless card and go roaming. If you can and want to go offline just be extremely communicative with your team, and always always keep your deadlines when possible: they need to know they can trust you.
Don't the same issues apply to the cruise ship industry?
Also the beginning of "good enough" performance? In recent years client side software has not generated any new breakthroughs that require vast amount of computing power. Most opengl v2 + games look more or less the same, raytracing hasnt taken off inspite of intels best efforts and there are multiple solutions to do video decode in hardware. I think intel sorely needs something to come along that causes regular users to want to pay top dollar for top performance.
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1. The potential partner turns you down because they decide to build a similar product themselves. This happened to us a number of times. I think part of the reason was that there was a lot of market buzz around “big data” and machine learning which lead to the perception – rightly or wrongly – that those capabilities needed to be owned and not rented.

This.

Doing NLP and ML consulting through MetaOptimize, this is our biggest barrier to acquiring clients. As Chris Dixon says, ML and NLP are "hot" right now---for good reason---but this hotness can get in the way. So a lot of people want NLP/ML, but want it in the wrong way.

At one extreme are companies that want something difficult and highly custom that's strategic, but then decide they'll try to figure it out in-house. That's fine, because if they can't do it right and it's truly necessary, we can help them in the future, or train them as they build it.

At the other extreme are people that want a baseline implementation for something strategic. This gets strange when they want a textbook implementation as a prototype, but then want to entangle MetaOptimize with onerous contractual conditions (non-competes, exclusivity, etc.) while paying the (low) price for a prototype. I can't tell you about numerous companies who want to be the only company in their space we provide LSA for, or a baseline recommendation algorithm for, and don't want to hear that exclusivity comes with a price. You can't hire us for a five-hour project and then expect to own us in some space.

And, in the middle, are companies that have a NLP/ML need and want to solve their need in a reasonable way. Either it's strategic/core and they will pay market value to own it, or their need is not strategic/core and they are comfortable with licensing it.

Just my experience. Even though Chris Dixon is talking about one product (hunch) and its backing technologies, everything about this piece rang true for me.
I see. One reason I didn't want to go that route was that the Unity bar on the left of the screen takes up too much space on a 13in screen, and I'm not confident I can get the resolution to run right, cuz I can never quite get my graphics card drivers sorted out right in Ubuntu.
It looks good! And the user won't mistakenly think that the web developer messed up on his footer design. The distinction between the website and what the browser is doing is clear by the relative depth positioning.
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I don't think he was ever able to "make or break" a startup.
If I'm not able to do what I want then I cannot accomplish what I want. That makes my life worse.

Another reason: certain people's actions keep government in check (e.g. speech). If government punish for delivering speech then it removes checks that prevent government from turning into dictatorship.

Privacy works in the opposite direction. Privacy adds barriers to the information flow and decreases our awareness, which causes less informed and less efficient decisions.
Probably around the same time people started predicting the end of the PC era as smartphones and tablets took off.