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Man, when I was in middle school I was so proud of myself for devouring The Lost World in like 4 days. I loved his work, and though I haven't read one of his books in some time, I will miss him greatly.
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when i first suspected it i cut up all my identification cards. so by the time the trigger actually hit and i was compelled to vote for him, i couldn't.

suck it obama. i love you, man. you'll never take me alive. god bless you
But isn't it like this with any president?
CNN officially out-gimmicked the other news stations. No small task.
Well, the determination was made partly on what I and my co-founder have both experienced (being we're both students, freshmen in college), and additional talking we've done with both teachers and students in various types of classes. We've also done a fair amount of reading from studies about the usage of laptops/tablets in the classroom and read opinion articles like these to observe the issues.

In your case, you're one of the students who has already made that digital jump over and has all the gear you need. You, being the geek that I'll assume you are (-don't take that as an insult, I am too...), got these tools and self taught them and are self disciplined in their usage. However, most students and most schools don't have this.

While my venture is specifically interested in K12, we are interested in college too. For most classes (a ceramics class could be an exception), you have your basic necessities and then some additional tools you could be using. That's what we're focused on in our works, is creating the basics in a way that can be easily and seamlessly used in classes so that every student has access to the tools and resources they need, and with a certain degree of personalization to fit the different needs of different people.
the etf management fee is much less than you would pay on trading charges to individually transact even a small number of positions aggregated in any etf

the only other route is vanguard which tends to have low fees for index funds
You just can't unless you can somehow get that many users and have a healthy markup on them. Perhaps Toyota is a good model for that.

Most of good support is eliminating the need for it I suppose.
Quit depending on your resume and start a business :)
yeah , that's a pretty good idea.
thanks !

(runs off to update website)
If historical prices were any indicator of future performance every software developer with some simple AI knowledge would be a trillionaire :)
"It's like running a store, you might have an amazing manager running the place but if you've got a guy working the till who can't push a button then all the managerial magic is useless."

But won't the managerial magic prevent the guy that can't push a button from working at the till there or at least fire him quickly?
I liked the original version. I'd put it up there with One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest on the list of best adaptations. But I've seen some god awful remakes, most notably the recent miniseries with Benjamin Bratt.
Supporting the fam any way I can...
There's also some good info on what you can do with it at http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/11/announcing-g...
Wow, for an apparently worthless comment, it sure has generated a lot of discussion!
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You can't even sell the domain names you purchase with the google for business thing. Maybe you can if you shell out the money for the 'real' account, but for the 10$ domain and normal account, as far as I can tell, you are SOL if you want to sell the domain to someone else:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/09/23/caveat-emptor-dominium
I'd strongly consider going with some working remotely. If you can find someone who is a self-starter, it shouldn't be much of a problem.

If you manage to survive (get revenue??) for the next few months, then you can figure out the next step.
Yeah, over time an ultra etf should make 2x what the s&p gains (and a short one would lose 2x). In the short term though that's a hell of a profit (on the ultra shorts) when things go the way they have.
His most recent work and speeches support the idea that we should be skeptical of popular opinion, as wildly popular opinions in the past were both popular and wrong. This includes opinions held by the scientific community. That strikes me as a good point to make.

He gets flack because he applies that skepticism to mainstream views on Global Warming, which many people insist should not be criticized because it is really really right and ought to be beyond skepticism. I guess time will tell who was right.

I was always a fan of his work. I loved the idea-centric fiction style that he pioneered and that authors like Neal Stephenson still use today.
This would carry more weight with me if he weren't a politician. Let's hope he practices what he preaches.
The marble demo is impressive!
Thanks for the suggestion. I just changed all the ads to include the perks you would get from working with us.
even though my original comment was about the appropriateness of paying homage to someone not 100% black as though he were

What does "100% black" mean? I have reason to believe I have some black folks in my family tree three generations back. Does that make me 6.25% black and 93.75% white?

A lot of your comments in this thread are being voted down, a lot, which I don't think is entirely useful. You have opinions and thought processes that I find interesting...I simply don't understand them, and I'm trying to. What is it you're trying to say? Are you saying that Obama thinks like a Muslim because some of his relatives are Muslim? That he's thinks half-black/half-white, whatever that means? Are we talking about racial/ancestral memory here? I'm confused. Folks seem to think you're being racist and intolerant, but I'm not sure that's what you're trying to say. But I can't ferret out exactly what it is you are trying to say.
I'm just saying that it's surprising how many people still appear to be patently racist, even here.

I think it says a lot about a person's intelligence if they still carry around these weird racial biases in this day and age; especially as hackers - you would think people would know better.
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In that case it sounds like laptops are not the real problem.
"FTP" is a giveaway. One doesn't normally know all those other things without this "FTP".

I've seen ads that had listings like this:

- Expertise in Oracle.
- Expertise in Data Mining.
- Must know SQL

...it's just some HR drone writing these.
Just because that's how it should be doesn't mean that's how it is.
Well, considering how much more you pay in the US, you would expect better service.

The trick would be to design a system where some minimum is guaranteed for everyone, and things are nicer for those willing to pay more.
I actually find the lightening of the text attracts me to it. I'm always curious to see what made a comment so controversial / bad.
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Short and sweet. Your thoughts, please.
I think that market is predicting an acquisition...
I always find his work enjoyable and present enough level of detail to make me feel "reading fiction and learning heaps". RIP.
Steve Jobs gasses up the Gulfstream again
Cisco says October was terrible, expects revenues to *shrink* this quarter
Why not advertise the post on Elance / Guru, if anything at least if you put the project on there you will get a host of companies (mainly India based) that can work remotely. Might be worthwhile outsourcing some so at least you are gathering some momentum for someone to take over.
A consensus needn't have every single person on board. It need only have most, and the prevailing arguments.

Has anyone mentioned what such 'major mechanisms' and global temperature trends Timothy Ball is talking about? It is at least fair to ask what physical effects or which models they're referring to. The climate models that, for example, the IPCC works with, are all out in the open. Here's what the radiative forcing factors are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Radiative-forcings.svg

Crichton talks about the over-reliance on 'models' to understand the climate. What else are we supposed to do? Science relies on models, without which we can't predict anything. If we agree that high levels of global warming are bad, then prudence dictates that we look into seeing if it might actually happen, why, and how we might prevent it. It's too highly nonlinear to prove out analytically: computer models, carefully constructed, and verified piecemeal by experiment, are the best we can do. The physics is easy to understand: carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, letting visible light in, and reflecting infrared back. This warms the earth. I haven't yet heard a single plausible possibility floated for why carbon dioxide wouldn't increase temperatures. It is only fair to ask these skeptics, who make bolder claims than we, that they argue using scientific tools that are as good, or better. Claiming that "Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science," and then pointing towards our over-reliance on computer models, simply won't do.

Here are sourced statements from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Ball that Tim Ball has made. They are false claims!

"Water vapor is effectively ignored in the computer models. Yes, that's right. The climate models used as the basis for the entire global warming argument do not include the effect of clouds."[6] -- This is trivially shown to be false if you look at the climate models in use.
"Since 1940 and from 1940 until 1980, even the surface record shows cooling. The argument is that there has been warming since then but, in fact, almost all of that is due to what is called the “urban heat island” effect – that is, that the weather stations are around the edge of cities and the cities expanded out and distorted the record."[7] -- meteorological surveys include regularly sampled far flung regions, and the weather on the entire planet is observed by satellites on the infrared spectrum.
I suspect the text has the objective of hypnotizing you,
and talk to you on a subconscious level, to make you
believe that Obama is using "Hidden Hypnosis Technicques"..
Very clever...
So far I've seen no business models for this new technology. So who knows who is going to dominate. But you can't rule out incumbents now or in the future.
Good point. I think I'd considered that at some point but lost track of the idea somewhere before implementation. :)
"... When the start up leaves the programme, either by staying in business for three years, being acquired or surpassing the revenue limit, they will owe Microsoft a $100 (£62) fee and then transition to the normal licensing fees for the software they continue to use ..."

Is this a sort of cheap MSDN arrangement. I don't understand why anyone would want purposefully use MS toolset for a Startup - unless you are Xobni trying to bridge the desktop email gap.
I am trying to ferret out the truth: just as you are with my comments. Basically, I think my main concern is with people who were born and raised as children in the USA (not raised in Indonesia and Hawaii [well Hawaii is USA]) to two black parents and very poor in a poor neighbourhood. Barack shouldn't represent that stereotype, but people credit him for it and energize his persona on those sympathies - to the detriment of those who really come from such a background.

edit: I might add that really going beyond race is saying:

"We can look at the candidate's policies regardless of the candidate's color or religion."

...instead of being tainted by the color or religion of a candidate as an automatic promoter or detractor of proposed policies.

The downmodding of my comments borders on extreme political correctness and censorship. It's not a good way to head. I've said nothing unreasonable, racist or irrelevant.
I was never able to get much out of lectures in college. My ability to remember what people say out loud is practically nil. My handwriting was poor, and I could not write quickly. In any case, what was the point of my transcribing lectures instead of just reading material?

The only time I ever learned anything directly from a prof was talking to him in his office until I could put things into my own words.
With a laptop i could record the lecture while surfing the web and paying attention here and there as i always did.

With the audio recordings Im sure Id want to listen/study to the bullet points only. Thus, I'd create a program that did this and sell the audio cliff notes to my fellow classmates.

He should say laptops are optional...not outright ban them; let students do what is best for them. Have a row of laptop users ..row non laptop users.
Really impressive, love the concept but unsure if that would actually boost my productivity.
"... SimplyHired will just tell them to use their xml-api interface ..."

Didn't know they had an interface. Wonder why they didn't try this or do you think the Journo misunderstood their technology?
From my experience I can tell that it's almost always possible to find better alternatives for Microsoft products and technologies. It seems like the only people who use MS stuff are those who don't care about what they have at hand.
With the BizSpark program, you can skip the Express Edition and go right to Pro or even Team System
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Or those for which it would cost a substantial amount of time (and therefore money) to learn a new stack of technologies when they can use existing skills to build stuff more quickly.
What more do you want?!
One metric for greatness is how long a work survives. If people are still reading Andromeda Strain in 100 years, then it may be considered a great novel.

For example, Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist originally started out as a newspaper serial. It probably wasn't considered great literature at its time. Now, however, it's classic reading material.
Let me preface this by saying I've had similar problems in other parts of the country when hiring developers. Below is just a loose collection of thoughts/ideas on the topic.

Your job post is probably only halfway there in attracting totally awesome people. You dont make the job sound AWESOME.

1 - There are no specifics mentioned regarding compensation. Although this is the standard elsewhere in the world, and for non-hacking jobs, we had much more success just being completely upfront with people about what we were offering and why, including stock/healthcare/benefits. Hackers are generally pretty no-nonsense people when it comes to $$, and in your area (like ours) your best chance of getting someone is stealing them from another software job.

Generally people don't list exact salary because either (A) they dont want to tell so that they can feel you out (what was your salary at your last job bullshit) or (B) its actually under market pay. If you are SURE you are over market average, say so with actual numbers. If you aren't, then don't expect to find someone quickly.

2 - The remote worker is a good idea if your team can handle it and your requirements don't change rapidly. Regardless, to everyone saying 'remote is the way to go' this is very hard to find and hard to make work for most teams. It shouldn't be, but it is.

3 - Pictures actually do a lot of good in attracting good talent. Is your office neat? or boring. Are the desks awesome? or crappy. Are the monitors big? Chairs Comfortable? People Friendly looking? Pictures answer all of these questions, hopefully to your benefit!

4 - You might start by trying to find someone who wants to do part-time or contract work, but who is local. They may already have a job, but want some extra cash. You wont get to place the same time or job constraints on them, but you may get better work. And if you really like them, you'll be in a better place after 2-3 months to really make them an offer they cant resist.

5 - Startups are tricky in other parts of the country than CA and MA. If someone quits their job to work for you, they may have to find another in 6 months. This means you wont get many people to move to your job from a national job circuit. In addition, it also makes it hard to steal someone from a bigger/existing software job. This is something you will either have to overcome by showing them how well funded you are (VC?), or that you are already making $$ (are you?).

Anyways, hope this helps, good luck. At one point we waited 9 months to find the right developer, and it really paid off, but the waiting sucks balls.
> A small project that does something cool ..

I know just the thing,thanks!
Interesting question.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Education.
That was my conclusion as well. And unfortunately, it is a somewhat depressing conclusion. It means that not everyone is able to rise to the level of Mozart or Newton or Michelangelo (or Carmack, to use a more modern example). Certain problems are simply beyond the capabilities of certain people.

I honestly don't care whether this topic rises to the front page... I'd just like to talk about this with others. Do you have some time to chat here?
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One way around this is to include the technologies used along with each project on the resume. That way, a prospective interviewer can cross-reference your skills list with the particular project and see if it was 10 years ago, or if you only had a cursory role in the project.

You need to include all those skills, because so much headhunting is done by automatic keyword searches. I usually include anything where I would be comfortable writing code of that technology on the whiteboard with minimal reference support. I've dropped some skills over time (eg. Perl, which I last used when I was 19), but I try to keep everything that I wouldn't mind taking a job in. Otherwise, your resume will tend to get dropped on the floor of HR's automated screening machines.
You should not pick a project because it is built on a language you know. You should pick a project because you like what it does, you like using it, or you want to improve it. Hopefully you use free software if you are asking this, so just look at what you use and evaluate becoming a contributor.
I disagree with the premise: people are not logical.

There are a lot of people with great analytical skills, but even those people consistently act illogically. It comes with the wetware.
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Are you referring to Balsamiq? http://searchyc.com/balsamiq
Update: I just spent a couple of hours getting imap-ssl and smtp-ssl setup with mysql auth etc on my server. Mail config isn't something I enjoy, but I guess if you want something done properly...
Thanks for all the answers!

My venture would be pay-as-you-go SaaS app. But I dont think I'd be profitable right away so I'll probably keep freelancing for some time. And I sometimes get paid via ScriptLance/eLance/etc, which are US-based..

Yes, the main reasons why I want US-based LLC is that it looks much more reliable for some americans. Also, it's very expensive to form a company in my home country (Lithuania).

Now the only very unclear thing is if renting servers in US and having customers with US billing address counts as US-based incomes.

Customers probably doesnt count as 'infrastructure'. But what about servers, payment processor etc?

Does anybody know a good (and not that expensive) lawyer to advice on all that stuff?
at your stage you gotta hit up local colleges.
Since you are selling something, why you keep that as a secret here? Someone here might buy your product.

No hacker steals people's idea.
It's so stupid everyone's concentrating on race... seriously. You're just making the situation worse rather then better. Racism will only be gone once a minority is elected president and no one cares to mention the fact they are a minority.

Also, he's as much white as he is black. Everyone is pretending like the one drop rule from the slavery-era south is still in effect.

Come on people!!!!!!!!!!
That makes no sense. It's almost as if you did not read the article. [i did not either =p, but it still makes no sense.]

The laptop has much more of a chance of being distracting. Pen and paper can and does, such as old school IM (passing notes), but its about killing the slippery slope.

I personally support all bans on all (personal)technology in a classroom setting. This includes phones, laptops etc.

What happend to the Socratic method of teaching/learning?
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Barack shouldn't represent that stereotype, but people credit him for it and energize his persona on those sympathies

So, Cuban's actual words, in the blog post we are all discussing, that I guess you're referring to were:

"In a single day of voting, our amazing country once again reinvigorated the dream that any child in this country, no matter what circumstances they are born into, can grow up to be anything they want, including President of the United States."

I'm not seeing anything about two black parents and being very poor in a poor neighborhood anywhere in the blog post. I didn't take the post to mean, "He was an inner city gangster and he became president, so put down your guns and drugs and go run for state senate!!!111!!"

I took it to mean exactly what he said, that Obama being elected president is a great way to show a kid that they can grow up to be anything they want, and that America won't limit them based on the color of their skin or whether they grew up without the benefits of two wealthy, married, parents and a private school education (because Obama clearly does have much darker skin than any of our prior presidents, though we have had a few presidents with black folks in their family tree, even if it doesn't get talked about much). He is "black" by the definition that matters in this context: The definition that racists follow, since racism is the barrier we're talking about. He looks black, so he is black to the Klan and anybody else that holds that sort of philosophy.

to the detriment of those who really come from such a background

How is it to the detriment of anyone?
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You may actually already have all of the talented hackers in Florida working for you.

More likely, you have all the talented hackers who are willing to sacrifice job security for excitement and potential upside.
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His talk at Stanford was excellent. Business school always teaches you to be customer-focused but its so easy to lose sight of what that actually means.
Certainly. Rumor has it that Einstein had at least one or two mistresses that he would visit from time to time. Those visits probably did nothing to improve his personal life, or benefit him in any way except emotionally (and even then, only in the short term; his jaunts probably had long-term emotional consequences). Therefore, those actions were probably illogical.

However, setting that aside for one moment... Imagine someone who most people would classify as "developmentally disabled". (I don't like over-general labels, but it is a relatively specific one in this case.) Now, the million-dollar question is: would it ever be possible for that person to solve a problem of the magnitude Einstein has solved?

It seems like the answer is no.
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