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You shouldn't see that much difference, at least on a system designed for static linking (modern GNU/Linux is explicitly not such a system, see http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html). There's still quite a bit of potential for interprocess resource-sharing.

If you somehow managed to get a statically linked Firefox (I think it would be very difficult, given the degree to which Drepper has abandoned the idea) on a modern Linux system, though, the resource usage would admittedly probably be quite impressive.
I was initially a bit dubious about the role of CTO for the government, but Aneesh Chopra did a great job -- now I'm sold on the need for someone to fill that role, and hopefully the next CTO will be as good as Chopra.

He came up with a coherent cloud strategy for the government (much better than a lot of large enterprises), hopefully a source of substantial savings (and opportunity for startups).

He has some interesting answers on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Aneesh-Chopra-1?q=Aneesh+Chopra
Congrats on the early traction. If any of the larger companies are comfortable with the idea, consider using a testimonial, profile or logo from them.

Also, since you mentioned it in the above discussion, I think it's worth adding the iPad accessibility to your homepage copy (and iPhone if that's also applicable).
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It's a huge stretch to assume someone's proficiency in a field is due to a trait they were born with. We don't even know the extent that your environment affects your brain versus your genes, so there's no way you could know people are born programmers.
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I've found the most fun I've had was when I was working on side projects while taking relevant courses. I ended up staying at MIT for all four years + an extra year for their 1 year EECS Masters program. After graduating, I got into the YC summer batch. While at school, I was working on a variety of different side projects. I purposely picked relevant subjects like Machine Learning / User Interface Design / Behavioral Psychology that seemed to fit into the project.

Not only did it help me understand the subjects better, it let me master a number of direct cross-applications into web products. It does wonders for your creativity when you are actively thinking about new products while being exposed to so many new techniques.

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On the topic of dropping out, an aspect that gets underemphasized is how strong of an ideation muscle you have. The more you do it, the better ideas you come up with. School for me was an excuse to building new things while hanging around taking a few classes. As each year passed, I realized I got better and better ideas. Back then, the first few "promising" ideas that I came up seemed like game-changers that would transform the world. Now I realize if you are the kind of person who comes up with good ideas now, you'll come up with great ideas later on.

Use those years in college to train up your ideation muscle along with your implementation skills (web dev languages / backend management / mobile dev, etc.) During your final year, apply to incubators using your uber product development skillset and amaze everyone. Not only will you no longer have the temptation to return to school, you will be putting yourself up for review when you are strongest.
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Note that this follows former US CIO Vivek Kundra's resignation last year (he's now an EVP at Salesforce).

I wonder if this is just the typical cabinet exodus for more lucrative private jobs or more endemic of a difficult time advancing tech issues under Obama.
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No one's claiming that every dollar saved will be directed back into lifesaving efforts, but the mere fact that we could be doing that is proof that what we're doing right now is not the best option we have available to us. Once we accept that, we can decide if saving more lives is the best use of that money, or instead we'd rather pursue other objectives such as actually going to Mars.
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The first time you get a spreadsheet that you can't open from a lawyer or accountant or send a spreadsheet that "doesn't work", it'll be worth it to have used Excel.

There's more than enough hassles involved with running a company - doing compatibility work for office software shouldn't be one of them - just use what is the industry standard.
Interesting looking back on the truthiness of "pushing bits around in ways only meaningful to other nerds", then-and-now.
"Connected TVs and settop boxes are not yet a factor. Popular devices (XBox, PS3, Apple TV, Roku) have neither web browsers nor app markets."

The PS3 does have a browser. It's not a very good browser, but it's been there since the system launched.
Of course... every distro becomes the same once you remove their defaults. You can run RPM on debian and APT on fedora. You can compile everything from source on ubuntu and copy binary packages to your gentoo install. You can use ubuntu repositories on debian and vice versa. Amazingly enough, i have the freedom to kill explorer on windows and use an alternative shell+panel there too. The fact remains that Canonical are integrating "the social web" into their desktop and shipping it to you.

At some point you have to make a distinction between the desktop environment, and the increasingly meaningless term "operating system"; once you stray from the defaults, there's no point distinguishing between distros at all.
LOL. Eric Ries would be proud.
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Doesn't the rails csrf token prevent that?
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"He said, she said."

Look, some people just have different agendas than you do. It doesn't mean they're out of touch--just out of touch with your own agenda, the one you don't think you have, but do.
I'm extremely skeptical about the long term growth of tablets.

Personally, I have an Android 10in (Asus Transformer). After 6 months, I use it way less than either my laptop or my phone.

If I'm around the house I usually want the laptop. Even watching videos in bed is better with the laptop because I don't have to hold on to it.

If I'm away from home, or just need to do something quick, 95% of the time I'll use my phone.

My dream solution is one of the new tablet phones, and it should be arriving any day now.
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If you have kids, there is no mystery at all.

The more tablets you have, the more chance you have something charged, ready and nearby when a kid needs distracting.
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In case anyone is interested, I've written another piece on how to attract technical co-founders:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521476
The kind of accounting you need to do to arrive at that 14x figure would get you arrested if you put it in a corporate quarterly report, and anyway it totally ignores lost opportunity costs.
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Thanks for that. Now I am far less sad about stealing Curebit's concept. Their idea is fantastic, but I found it easier to just copy the concept than integrate with their APIs.

Does anyone else find it strange that the article claims they have 1000 customers, and minimum pricing of $50/month, but they raised $1.2M? Why bother raising money if you are already close to a run-rate of $1M? My guess is they have closer to 1000 signups, not active 1000 customers.
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Trains would have helped with Big Problems here in the US (suburban expansion), but Goodyear put $$$ into the bus and automobile industries indirectly somehow (tires wear out faster than steel train wheels). I can't find a direct source for this claim... Wikipedia will help me later....
I do understand copyright applying to avatar and background images. If someone is using someone else's artwork or photography for either one of these, I can see a DMCA notice coming in and being honored.

I suppose there could also be some sorts of material where 160 characters could exceed quoting for fair use. Such as haikus.

I do not understand all the takedowns because of mere mentions of pirate sites, or inclusion of their names, or even linking.

Has linking really become illegal? That was one of the nightmare scenario people were worried about some years ago, but which was dismissed as something that would never happen.

I completely and totally contest that a URL to an actual site is a copyright violation. (Barring the extreme cases such as a URL containing a haiku, but that doesn't seem to be the case in any of the incidents listed.)
The more targeted the advertising, the more effective and therefore valuable it is.

But it's still hard to know what people want or need to buy right now

They can (and do) personalize it somewhat, but just aren't as well-placed as facebook, because they aren't as close to the user (people). People are ultimately where the money comes from. That's how advertisers get it.

So who's information is more valuable? Facebook's because they know more about you overall (your friends, your habits etc.) or Google's because they know what you want right now (because you just entered it right fucking there in the search box)

I'm leaning toward Google. If someone has a problem, they go to Google to search for ways to solve it, and as you point out, that's precisely when they're most amenable to advertising. People go to Facebook to connect with other people. Advertising will always be noise there. (Stupid mindless games notwithstanding.)
While not exactly what you are proposing, NixOS does something similar. It's not perfect, but it's far from hacky.

http://nixos.org/
That would break compatibility with a lot of existing scripts, which look for things in /bin, /lib, /usr/bin etc.

There are specific reasons why having a single mount point for all OS-provided binaries is a good idea, for example because maintaining a split that differs across distros and unixes is a maintenance nightmare. The main counterargument -- that it is desirable to have a minimally functional system without /usr mounted -- has been obsolete for years.
Geoff was great during office hours. Very high-energy and he would give really valuable actionable feedback. Once when we complained about the volume of suport email and time spent on customer support he strongly recommended that we invest some time in building out a great FAQ. For some reason or the other up to that point we had kept pushing it off, but his advice motivated us to tackle the problem head on.

He would constantly make quick small suggestions like this, possibly even obvious things, but his enthusiasm and excitement when he made the suggestions, encouraged us to carry them out and it definitely helped us out.

Congrats Geoff and YC!
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It's not really new. Google has been getting (and posting) DMCA notices asking them to remove links for years now. I think there's even something in the DMCA that deals with search engines, but I don't remember the details offhand.
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I met Aneesh twice, and while I fully agree with your assessment that we need a CTO for the government, and I also liked the cloud strategy [1] document put together - I found him to be very "politician"; i.e. very slimy.

While talking to him - he made very little real effort to listen and was very "wink wink, point-gun-hand-and-shoot used car salesman like"

I was completely turned off by his demeanor and utterly drained by his responses.

There were a lot of people vying for his attention though - so that could have really been it - but it was such a lame experience I had no faith in his being real.

His responses were very canned and far too buzz-wordy to be meaningful I totally wrote him off as a poser.

[1]: http://www.cio.gov/documents/federal-cloud-computing-strateg...
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Certainly if Twitter had to remove a link to a link to The Pirate Bay (http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512c/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1860...), so would Google. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems that Twitter is being "extra cooperative" here; that's not totally unreasonable for a smaller company with limited resources.
FTA: "Rambus' share price fluctuates sharply on its successes and failures in patent litigation and licensing."

That's because they are a patent troll. Nothing more.
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/usr was originally only for home directories [...] /usr/bin popped up

I wonder if this is the origin of the 'bin' user as well, because that's a design decision that never seemed to make any sense.
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"Tearing the screen off of the laptop you're using" is cool, but, for me, the killer feature of my Transformer is "touching the screen of the laptop you're using" (and having it respond, of course). It is so natural and intuitive that for weeks after I started using my Transformer with its keyboard dock I found myself touching the screens of my laptops and desktop expecting something to happen (or catching myself just before I touched the screen).

I now firmly believe that in "the future" laptops will just have touchscreens. I also think that change is likely to happen far faster than most people would expect.
If something provokes interest and generates demand, then there's an economic case for it. Plenty of people want to see manned missions to Mars, etc. as ends in themselves, and this will motivate independent efforts to explore space. We're at the point where political monopolies are a hindrance.
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The bus lanes have ticket-issuing cameras to ensure they stay free of cars for the buses to speed through. It might not be as fast as a subway on a good day, but at least there are attempts to offer new services.
Interesting, but I have to question just how much skin those giving the loans have in the game, given a large and growing part of student loans aren't public and subsidized by taxpayers, but private. And they can't be dropped by bankruptcy.

Up until a few years ago only government education loans were exempt from bankruptcy. I assume private education loans were added to encourage loans... I wonder if the tradeoff was worth it, going by the numbers.

Though in all fairness I say this as someone about to default later today (Saturday) to Sallie Mae because I can't come up with the required amount by noon. Of course, having my wages garnished likely means AES will follow. Yay.
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Not necessarily trying to take anything away from Mr. Chopra here, but the article is (unfortunately, amazingly) light on noting his accomplishments. They didn't even try to summarize or link to news stories documenting what he accomplished as CTO.

What is the function of this role? Is it to define the administration's technology strategy? Is the CTO involved in policy and legislative discussions?
I'm not sure what you're troubled by. They're using Kickstarter to pre-sell rather than a traditional sales channel.
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I think the point is interesting, and I definitely question the social value of the social-media startup, and I hate to be the guy in the room arguing for what amounts to a modern-day aristocracy, BUT...

In a sort of roundabout delayed fashion, startups ARE leading to tackling big problems.

http://spacex.com

http://teslamotors.com

http://gatesfoundation.org

http://startupeducation.org

http://ubuntu.com (maybe stretching it a bit)

http://omidyar.com
Tyler, thanks for the kind words! The original reason we built this software was to increase the security of the Quickbooks file at my last job. We had one guy creating an invoice for $3000, then giving the customer that copy, and then changing it $2000 thereby hiding the fact that he had skimmed $1000. Levion keeps a full audit trail and doesn't allow you to delete.

We hope to increase the security and reliability of Quickbooks data too. We had one customer who would Dropbox their Quickbooks file every week to the accountant. One time, they were working on the wrong Quickbooks file. They lost about a week's worth of data that had to be reentered. And we have plans to allow businesses to open only parts of their data instead of exposing all of it as they would with passing their Quickbooks file back and forth. All of this done securely through SSL. As with any system such as Github, Dropbox, Mint, or Xero trusted with sensitive data, our sysadmins are screened for their personal ethic. We do maintain strong security auditing, including bash histories of commands accessed on our production servers.

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"Startups" is being used in a restricted context here.
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Wow, they copied both of their designs. Ouch.
Probably because fedora has a six month release cycle and they feel the need to make some kind of revolutionary change on every release.

Of course, /bin will never be removed since there are millions of scripts depending on /bin/sh in the wild. So they'll basically end up having to maintain this symlink spaghetti for a long time.
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> NYC has decent transit because the population density is so high as to make it the only viable option.

It's a little known fact that much of the Queens subway lines were built when the area was still mostly farmland. Check this article out: http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2010/06/the-futureny...

We Americans are fond of saying that we can't have muni rail because our cities aren't dense enough. Well, reliable rail is the only thing that allows for greater density. In some cases city planners are starting to realize this and work with developers to add density and transit simultaneously. But it takes real leadership (or cojones, depending on your view) to build municipal rail that won't reach its potential for ten or twenty years -- but that's exactly what happened in New York and it has seemed to pay of very well.