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Read "Disrupting Class" by Christensen:

http://tinyurl.com/6a9vmf

Christensen is a business school guy, but he understands how technology can disrupt well established markets. In the book above he covers technology and education.
I think that is his character's name in Wyvern.
We've already got one. Its called the lobby. It works all too well.
I dunno. You could argue the same about the works of Shakespeare, Citizen Kane, The Big Lebowski, and on. Really, you could say that anything great is a time drain. (I'm about to start watching all of The Wire, which is a hundred-some hours long. But from what I've heard, it'll be worth it.)

I'd have preferred something great, and then decided not to play it if I wanted to spend my time more wisely. There's no excuse for what Spore became.
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I am happy to hear that Torvalds doesn't have too much emotional investment in politics. Reality is that presidents and Congress should have less power over our lives, and we should never hope they have more.
Nice post! You said you hadn't realized your idea wasn't exactly unique until after you had started working on it. Some may call this a stretch, but I think this is similar to Steve Wozniak often creating things that already existed, just not to his standards or accessibility (i.e. costs, limited time and place, etc.) When a startup doesn't have it's hopes up on just trying to be the first to accomplish something, but more importantly to create a quality, accessible product, that is probably when things come together for them.
Excellent article. It explains one of the things that sets OS X head and shoulders above Windows.
2.4: Then why are array and pointer declarations interchangeable as function formal parameters?

Classism. We consider arrays "second class objects". They don't vote, and they get treated as pointers.
Additionally, they're merely objects, not citizens. Marx wrote about this a lot.

That is gold!
I'm both happy and sad that they're not doing the same thing this year. I really liked interviewing all the companies, but it also monopolized a couple days. I think they took my advice an all of them actually, so it didn't feel like a waste of time.
Personally, I'm in Lake St. Louis MO and planning my escape.
Damn, I was really hoping for a 257 core machine.
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Minimum requirements eh?
its also just a really fun book, though I think his Real & Complex book is much more pretty in terms of exposition and topics
256 cores ought to be enough for anybody.
>If life expectancy increases to 120 due to some new medical miracle, we're hosed.

Not really. They would just increase the retirement age.
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Sounds so easy! 40 hour mock up, off the cuff interview, and head to the bar! I can handle that.

But seriously, I'm sure all the hard work that's not mentioned in the post is starting to pay off. Congrats, and thanks for the encouragement and advice.
While it certainly isn't terse, Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel, and Spence is comprehensive and rigorous. It has everything you would ever want to know about linear algebra with some applications too.
pg said almost the same exact thing about arc's design philosophy:

"Good design is timeless, and if you want something timeless you can't pander to the limitations of some hypothetical 'average' user. It's too vague a target. It's also a moving target: the average user might not be as stupid as you think."
http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html
Jokes aside, a 64-core Larrabee (should it exist) would have 256 threads. A two-socket Larrabee system would have 512.
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Blaming the educational system without even a mention to family values is the same old ineffective approach we've been taking for years. A good education starts in the family. Good students have a positive attitude toward learning and they understand the importance of an education. Parents have a responsibility to develop these values in their children.
I'm not yet convinced that the hard work ever pays off, it just begets more hard work ;)

It's like, if you have 2 apples and eat 1, how many apples do you have? Normal life? One apple. Start-up life? 17 apples. Want to know what happens when you eat another one? No. No you do not.

... Just make sure you really like apples.
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It was Oct 16 when this was written. It's now Nov 03 and the number of (technical & political) holes being punched in this idea are increasing. A good summary (as of OCT30) can be heard here "Silicon Beach #5 Mark Pesce on ISP filtering - the social, political, economical and technical", mp3 22.4Mb ~ http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/10/30/si... and another transcript from the same commentator with the Senator ~ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2405376.ht...
Agreed, however the ability to print ON anything is not the same as 3D printing as far as I'm concerned. Custom poker chips, for example, are decidedly not "new" -- and if it isn't new, it's not worth pointing out that it can be done "now".

The "How It's Made" series is safe for a while yet -- someone has to make the skateboards before they can be printed on.
I don't think you get it. For us not to be hosed in this scenario, the retirement age would have to be increased now, not in 50 years when we realize that the boomers have all survived to age 120.
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Should read "May Have Just Figured Out." Why do people have to write such over-the-top headlines?

Let's give the technology a few weeks and then judge its efficacy. Techcrunch is the same site that claimed Hulu would crash and burn.

Oh, don't forget to read the last linked story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSWEN87182007061...

Apparently, Google tried something very similar _last June_.
Well, that was in the pre-9-11 world. You have to admit that was sort of a game changer. Even though I didn't agree with the Iraq war when it happened, at that point it was clear that something has to be done about radical Islam. That wasn't the answer, but not being the world's policeman isn't possible when people are flying planes into buildings and bombing subways.

I would say that one was less an act of hypocrisy on Bush's part and more an adaptation to the post 9-11 world.
actually there are two things about python, which kind of backs yegge's opinion:
1. there is "the only true way" to indent your code;
2. type ctrl-d to exit; :D
Ask HN: Anyone have experience with FLEX + HaXe development?
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Can any of you point me out to the right direction?

Thanks!
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That may be true - and I would agree with you if the startup in question was selling a service to paying customers - e.g. eBay or Amazon. The cost of supporting an extra customer is quite small in their cases, and being online certainly gives them an advantage over brick and mortars.

The problem is that most web startups don't sell anything. They give their most valuable work away for free in the vain hope that showing ads or selling premium accounts will magically rescue them from inevitable collapse.

If you're not making any significant amount of money off a single user, it doesn't really matter HOW low your marginal cost is, you're still screwed. I have very little faith in companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, and the such - their per-user costs are ridiculously low, but so is their per-user revenue.
Someone should goad Linus in creating an account w/ Hacker News so he can join the discussion.
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This is a major deterrent to hackers considering whipping up education 2.0. Who would bother with it when they are busy with their real classes?
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There's a Wikipedia page about the song, which dates it at 1959, in contrast to the preface of the animation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_song
I'm pretty sure we'll be spending more than the amount in that original reimbursement check that night.
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50 Mb? I couldn't find any mention of this anywhere on their site. Is this per app or per invocation?
If we're lucky enough to make it that far, the goal will be to keep it under six figures.
Wow. Awesome thread. This is really encouraging to read given that I also thought I was all alone out here in Indiana. I gotta about one year left to get my degree at IUPUI, which honestly just feels like a waste of time and money, but would loved to involved in something local like this. Maybe we can start a news-letter or something for starters? I dunno, you tell me, just lemme in. BTW, I'm in Fishers. =/
I am not saying it gives everyone an equal education. I just think calling it luck is unfair to those parents who are working hard to get their kids into a better school.
40 whoopers per session!?
I'm in Spokane, WA for a while and would like to meet up and talk startups. Anybody else here here?
Just to clarify a bit...Dan is one of the best "off the cuff" speakers that I know, and Tom is almost inhuman in his ability to work for countless hours straight and turn out an amazing product.

The Ticketstumbler advice is definitely spot on:

- Make sure that you know your shit when you're going in for the interview. Know your competitors inside and out (there will be laptops open during the interview and active googling will be conducted while you're talking), and be able to articulate why you're different.

- Be confident in your idea, but also be open to suggestions/recommendations. Push back if you feel it's necessary, but being open and flexible are traits that YC is looking for.

- Anticipate obvious questions and have intelligent answers ready.

- Definitely have a demo/prototype.

We'll be writing up a more in depth blog post in the next few days on the Anyvite blog, but just wanted to toss some ideas out there now in response to the TS blog post.
http://interactions.net ; you might find interesting. Their most accessible client for the public is Hot Box Pizza. If you've ever ordered a pizza from them you are using their product.
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(Did you need to call me "a jerk"?) OK, I'll bite...

Perhaps I didn't put enough emphasis on the "making a scene" part and didn't explicitly put he was asking about things out of his sphere. He was talking in a very aggressive tone in Spanish after he saw I could speak English fluently, after I showed him both my European and US visas, and after I explained it was a trip to my employer's HQ. He wasn't saying "como esta amigo", he was asking random questions that didn't make any sense related to migrations and completely unrelated to customs. I've been many times through different airports in US and never a customs officer asked me those questions. Specially in front of other people. It went on for at least 10 minutes while people were almost walking by in the other queue (including a friend of mine who had to wait and later told me he was thinking in calling the office for help.) I was the only one stopped out of dozens of people, just after he noticed my passport was from south of the border.

At that point I decided I rather get rejected from US and perhaps lose my job. And you know, if US rejects your visa, for whatever reason, you never get another one again. Luckily most people present clearly thought the guy was out of line.

This random uneducated guy on a power trip surprised me because it happened just a few minutes after maybe the nicest migrations interview I ever had (we even talked about football and his recent holidays in South America while we had to wait for a software reboot of some kind.) This is why I put the "to be fair" disclaimer on migrations vs. Customs and TSA/Homeland Security.

Normal in exchange with customs on every other country in the world:

* In the most common case you just walk.
* Second most common, one question: Something to declare?
* Worst possible case, rare: Can you please take your luggage over here?
I didn't say he stopped supporting Net Neutrality. I only said his campaign was caught changing their stance. Not even Obama himself, as I'm sure he doesn't have time to review edits on his website.
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Actually I think the dynamic may be a bit more complex than that, CNET will probably end up paying some of the people who moved to YouBeMom to feed the visitors at the original site. You see the same dynamic in indie music scenes, people who are happy to play for free at house parties with an audience of mostly other people in bands whose 'day job' is playing music in commercial venues.
When you design by consensus, you end up with this. When a single person is responsible for most of the major decisions on a project, the project will either spectacularly fail or will be amazing, depending on the genius of the person. But when you take the same genius, and force him to change his concept to bring in elements of more traditional people, you will tend to create a normal product.

Designing by consensus will always lead to an average product. The only way to create a blow-out success is if a single person handles the design part of things.

No major artwork was created by a comittee. None of the great books were written by a newsroom team. Engineering has to go the same way. Let people use their imaginations without being constrained by the opinions of tens of other people.
It sounds like Will Wright wanted something like that too.

Have you ever played sim earth? I liked it a lot.
I learned almost zero in school that was valuable, and picked up (or had reinforced) much that is detrimental, including laziness, procrastination, and desire/need for external validation. I was lucky enough not to have my ability/desire for learning not crushed, perhaps due to supportive home environment (more books and less tv than most).
brilliant. Hats off to philovivero.
I installed the BlockSite addon for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145) specifically to disable techcrunch.com links on this site.

It's works WONDERFULLY! I see a sensational headline, and even if I give into impulse and click on it, it's not an active link, and I'm reminded about headline pandering without having wasted the time to read the blog post.
Check out:

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-haXe-Neko-Programmer/dp/0...
Never, actually. It always seemed too out there. Is it worth a look?
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I went to school at Rose Hulman in Terre Haute, IN, where an impressive concentration of hackers attend. They've even got Rose Ventures (http://www.rhventures.org/), a start up friendly organization (using appropriately educated students as cheap labor for small companies).
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My new company just went live to public beta today - Offbeat Guides. After months of effort, over 6,000 private beta testers' feedback, and hundreds of bugs quashed. we just went live.

What's the big idea? On-demand, personalized travel books, for over 30,000 cities around the world. All the details are here: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/11/offbeat_guides_public_beta.html

Would love to get your thoughts and feedback!
Even so, being able to change your mind is a sign of intelligence. Being able to publicly change your mind is a sign of moral fortitude.

Being incapable of either is a sign of stupidity and moral whoredom.
I was going off of http://changelog.appjet.net/change?id=obj-Ly6j6D3po - it's per-app.
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I would rather blame their protectionist policies, not the success in exports.
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The whole point of our releasing appjet-in-a-jar is that if we go bankrupt, you can still host your app yourself.

We'll definitely charge money at some point, but right now we're focused on improving the platform for developers. Also, we have a spiffy virtualization engine for hosting apps that allows us to do it at negligible cost. So it costs us next to nothing to host our current load of 2,249 apps and ~3M combined monthly pageviews.
Blog post announcing the public beta, along with a whole raft of informationa bout what it is all about is here:

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/11/offbeat_guides_...
As the CEO of AppJet, I can tell you authoritatively that this is exactly the direction we are heading in.
A great idea poorly implemented. Most of the info seems to be cadged without attribution from wikitravel, often with the formatting poorly stripped.

I'd really love to be able to create a guide tailored to my interests, but this isn't anywhere near it. The best thing they could do right now is discard the whole database and start small, with one city at a time done in extreme detail. Know how to get from any point A to point B in a city at any time of the day, by every means and keep that info up to date. List every possible tourist attraction, categorise them and keep that list up to date too. Get more detail on local events. Contract a local contact on a piecework basis to help maintain the city guide and add to it as appropriate. If this is too expensive, do one city and seek funding based on that demo.

As it stands, the guides offered give far less value than an off the shelf travel guide.
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I actually agree with your assessment that AppJet seems limited as compared to renting your own server or part of a server, for general development. The original idea of AppJet was for it to be a place for simple 1-page apps -- apps where the effort required to set up hosting greatly exceeded the effort to code the app.

A natural extension of this was to write a guide to teach people how to program. AppJet is still the only place I know of where you can learn to program and actually build an app that you can share with friends via a URL, all without downloading any software or configuring a development environment.

Now we are working on addressing all the limitations of AppJet as compared to having your own server, and therefore make it a platform that you'd use for more "serious" apps, not just 1-pagers. Hopefully when we release the next version, you'll give us another look and decide we compare favorably to the alternatives for general development.
the same technology could be used to point to free full versions of the clips.. wooohoooo... if only...
Thanks for the feedback - we're learning a lot and all feedback and commentary is valuable and useful, so thanks for your comments! We have a team of editors and curators, but obviously we can't cover every place at launch, so we work hard to cover the long tail of destinations algorithmically. What city did you try to build? I will have out content team have a deeper look into it to fix it up.

Regarding attribution, we do use information from sites like Wikitravel and Wikipedia, and there's a References chapter in every book - you can find it, along with the URLs that we used to pull together your book in that section.

Your points are excellent ones, thanks for the feedback! This is just the initial release of the beta to the public, and getting feedback, criticism and suggestions like yours is VERY valuable. Thanks again!!!

Dave
That and SimLife were pretty much scientifically based models of planets and biological systems. They were both quite difficult to play (you had to understand quite a lot) but very engaging. They definitely taught me a lot. But I don't know where you'd find them any longer.
excellent!! Maybe things will be in play for my next webapp.

I have been a believer in your approach to webapp dev for a while. I'm happy to see someone carrying the torch. Good luck to you.
Not really a fair comparison - the 700BB is not being spent in the consumer sense of the word. It is being used largely for investing (albeit sometimes in toxic assets). Those may in time deliver a return.

I'm not saying it's the best (or only) thing that could have been done, but buying McDonalds pies it is not.
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I fully agree with his view on Stalman.
Nothing on the front page of the website says beta. It's only when I get to the step of my book being created that I have multiple timeouts and I need to refresh multiple times. In fact, the page even has in bold:

"We're having some occasional time-outs; until we crack that, if the information takes longer than a minute or two to come up, just refresh this page."

I think this is poor user experience, and not having the site clearly marked as beta may give users undue expectations. Not trying to be too harsh, but I have spent five minutes and haven't seen even the TOC of my personalized travel guide.
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does anyone have experience with windows based HPC? Seems like this is an area where *nix has long dominated.
Woah. I think remembering the song might be harder than memorizing the elements in their rows.
Back in 1996, OS/2 (the unloved stepchild of Microsoft and IBM) could scale to 64 processors. I believe it was actually higher than that, but IBM would only certify it as 64 CPUs because that was what they'd done the testing on.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245393.pdf