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thanks for explaining not only how the Silicon Valley media channels work but pretty much how the whole American mainstream media cesspool works ,

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php

DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign).

When Pixar deal closed - Steve Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately seven percent of the company's stock.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Disney Television Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Media Holdings:
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
It bears mentioning:

* 1903 - First manned, powered flight

* 1927 - First New York to Paris flight

* 1957 - First artificial satellite

* 1962 - John Glen in space

* 1969 - Man walks on Moon

* 2012 - ...

Now, I'm not trying to say anything about stagnation of progress, for I feel that is the wrong lesson to take from this story. A similar looking timeline could be constructed for the development of the internet, except shifted about 50 years later, or about the exploration of the Americas, except shifted about 400 years earlier (and stretched out a bit).

This story has been repeated throughout human history. The keys to progress are the ability to identify when a frontier is open to exploitation, and the ability to identify when the frontier vanishes in the face of conquest.

Flight has become mundane. Spaceflight will, I should think, soon become mundane. The internet is becoming mundane. The question is, what events will people be commemorating in this fashion 50 years from now?
Anyone have any experience with Haworth?
I can see where you're coming from, and on one hand I agree because I like to keep a tidy profile, however I think it shows great character to see improvement in code over time.

I would assume that your poorly coded projects haven't been updated in some time, so they will likely be much further down on your Github profile. If you have much more mature projects to compare those old crappy projects against, it shows a real passion for learning, which is massively important to a recruiter.

Also: I added a clarification to the blog post at the end regarding your question.
Heh, I'll chime in as the lone orphan connected to this glorious network as a "video game buddy." Someone from FC wanted me to confirm a few connections and the relevant part of my original response is below (I imagine most people ignored FC and a lot of replies were trimmed -- all mention of my co-founder is gone!):

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It turns out three YC company founders used to all play in the same corporate basketball team back in Microsoft around 2004-2006! It was [redacted] and myself (RentHop). At the time we were all working on Windows Phone 6.0 and Blackberry was our biggest competitor (pre-iPhone days), so the name of our team was the RimBusters; a pretty deceiving name since our entire team consisted of short Asian guys averaging out at about 5'7". We didn't all leave at the same time though, but certainly knowing just a few other people go the risky founder route made the task seem more manageable.

Also, Lux Chen (Anywhere.fm), Anson Tsai (CardPool) and I used to all be connected on a team as well, though this one less athletic and physical, more nerdy and virtual. We were all fairly bored at our software jobs and had plenty of free time for video games. We've joked about this many times but I increasingly believe it is true: playing competitive video games might be a good test of whether someone is a suitable co-founder. Not only do you see someone's raw competitive ability and persistence, but you gain a lot of insight into how they behave and treat others during moments of stress and low morale. I also learned quickly that a person's raw ability in solo playing is not nearly as important as how well the two of you mesh as a team, hence it's better to partner up with a compatible friend than simply the most skilled person you can find. You probably think I'm over-dramatizing here but I've got an incredible number of both positive and negative data points; I almost want to do a Starcraft trial now before I ever agree to partner up with someone! Imagine a future where investors insist on your founding team reaching Master League before they will fund you.

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Certainly check out ScreenFlow for Mac:

http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm

I've used to create many in house training sessions years ago - it will record your lecture (video/audio) via the Mac's camera/mic while simultaneously capturing whatever you are doing or demo-ing on the computer screen.
We should start flagging users who post sensationalist stories on HN. Not reward them with karma.
the way the impacts happen. in rugby contact rarely happens with players moving in directly opposite directions, usually its at an angle that reduces the impact,and seldom involves the head.

football is the opposite, especially with runs up the middle , receivers cutting across the middle of the field, and the smaller, but constant, impacts experienced by the linemen on both sides of the ball.
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YC Alum - www.interviewstreet.com has varying difficulty of problems and supports a variety of languages.

Facebook Engineering Puzzle - has puzzles and there are lots of blogs about solutions to the posted puzzles.
If you want a decent chair, see you can find a cheap clone of the eames management chair for $200 at Target and a few others.
I used one that I bought for about $150 for two years.
http://www.target.com/p/Executive-Mid-Back-Leather-Chair-Bla...
Zynga sued brazilian company Vostu for copying their games
How does Zynga explains the fact they are ok with copying games themselves but are willingly suing people who do the same thing to them?
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My point was that x isn't always better than y. And in the case of turbine blades, monocrystalline is the way they are made.

On the topic of forged turbine blades, the oriented strength of the resultant blade _is_ the advantage of using forging over conventional casting for a polycrystalline blade. Since the load on a turbine blade is mostly axial it makes no sense to not have favorable grain orientation to maximize strength in the axial direction. As a result, turbine blades are forged such that the grain orientation and size is elongated and coarse. This minimizes grain boundary area perpendicular to the load direction and thus minimizes creep at the high operating temperatures of a gas turbine.
The 14 billion number includes cost of capital.

The actual construction cost I recall being cited for this project is closer to $9.5 billion. The remaining $4.5 billion are the interest you have to pay on a somewhat-high-risk $9 billion loan. Oh, and you have to start paying interest when you borrow the money, but don't start having revenues until 4+ years later.

Cost of capital is very different in China, depending on who's funding the project and how. It's hard to compare exactly what the construction cost component of the Chinese numbers is, or whether they're even including the cost of capital at all. I strongly suspect it's not, since the article quoted is talking about the revenue Westinghouse/Shaw will receive, not the expenditures of the purchaser.

So we're really comparing about $4.75 billion in the US to $2 billion in China. If the actual structures are somewhat different, land in the US somewhat more expensive, a lot less in the way of earthmoving needs to be done in one of the locations (say because people aren't worried about environmental impacts), then I can see a 2x difference in the price tag...
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I don't know of anything analogous to codeschool and the like, and I am having a hard time imagining such a thing. Design is in many ways comprable to coding. It encompasses many different skill sets and disciplines. Designers are like programmers in that they must research, understand a problem, visualize, iterate, organize, implement, optimize, etc etc etc. Design can be hugely complex or rather simple, just like coding.

I am not that familiar with the offerings of codecademy etc, but I tend to doubt that anything taught there can replace experience and serious study of algorithms and patterns. So while I suppose there could be a site teaching about fundamentals of composition, line, form, color, typography, etc, I'd think you'd be better off reading a book on those than anything else. Any exercise you would do would have to be evaluated algorithmically, which seems very hard judging by the subjective nature of design.

Like coding most growth in design happens through actually doing it. This means developing drawing skills, rapid prototyping skills, and most importantly your eye. I don't think any of this can be adequately taught through an interactive website. My suggestion to you would be to simply begin designing.

Hope that helps...
It's surprising how fast my impression of "a big acquisition" has changed in the last 10 years. $580 million for a site as big as MySpace was actually sounds low to me now.
How does Zynga explains the fact they are ok with copying games themselves but are willingly suing people who do the same thing to them?
Or just use the Offline NT & Registry Editor. Or, if your password wasn't difficult to begin with, Ophcrack.
I looked it up. According to their own data (see link at the bottom of http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/02/ordnance-su... - also this link is well worth a read), about 1/4 (£24.6m) it is publicly funded (tax money), while the other 3/4 (£68.7m) is self-funded (revenue from sales). However, the government probably gain more than they pay in terms of being able to use the data freely themselves (likely to be more than £24.6m if obtained from an outside source).

So it is possible to consider the OS as more of a publicly-operated for-profit company than as a public-service.
I don't see how it matters?

How many Perl programs launch with -e?
After watching more youtube vids I see your point, the leading with the head especially. Must have serious neck muscles...
I have to disagree, piracy does not only exist due to bad business models. Back in the day, it was generally more convenient to buy a tape instead of copying it from a mate. While convenience/"bad" business models is a big part of the reason for piracy it is by no means the sole reason for it. E.g. people love collecting stuff, but could not rationalise to pay for it. There are people with multiple TB's of music/films/books/pictures that they never consumed, just because collecting it is their only interest.

Also, the Microsoft office Student example is obviously flawed. Office costs $300, if the student cannot/does not want to pay, he CANNOT USE it. There is absolutely NO business flaw on Microsoft's side there, except that their pricing might be a little to high for students. Maybe students are not their target group then. (I only use MS Office in this example because it is a response, students however can of course use the >FREE< MS Office (with ads) for their 3h-late-night-project).
Hopefully more people will start realizing that this is what techcrunch has always done.

I remember watching a techcrunch50. I showed some people I knew the swype demo and everyone was blown away. That's so cool! What won? Yammer. Twitter for the enterprise.

There's no way Yammer could possibly have won other than silicon valley tunnel vision/influence circle.

That was the only tc50 I watched. I also only ever read tc very briefly because the quality was awful. For the occasional scoop they got (and fewer right) it's just wasn't worth wading through the drivel.

At least now they have a new business model I suppose.
I don't know of anything good for under $300.

I would recommend looking at the Discovery Back family of OfficeMaster task chairs: http://officemaster.com/products/index.php?view=family&p...

I especially recommend one with the "DCS" feature (extra memory foam.) I have had an OM chair for a year now (from a different family; the "Yes" line), and the seat foam is still as cushiony as when it was new. Beats my old Aeron hands down. I miss the scapular impedance feature that is in the Discovery Back line, though.

P.S.: whatever you choose, be careful. Mesh chairs are nice for light/medium duty use, but they're just too hard for extended duty use. That's my experience, anyways.
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The fact that they volunteer doesn't stop it from being a scam or an exploitation. Especially when you consider that they're being talked into it at 16, 17 years old and their parents often don't have all the facts.

It can be your dream to play, but in many cases it's about trading 5 years of "living the dream" for a reduced quality of life, for the rest of their lives. Job prospects, marketable skills, physical and even mental health. The current system offers kids the chance to live their dream, yeah, but in doing so it runs them through the mill and tosses them out the other side.

Not true in all cases or for all sports, but true in football far too often.
Seeing Facebook or Mark Zukerberg to be at the top of the success spectrum is really disturbing, much like when most business students see Donald Trump as a smart businessman.
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Also, can anyone figure out what Javascript library is being used here? The visualization seems to be SVG, but I'm not sure what's being used...
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My question would be about SEO. Don't you run the risk of making a site that looks like a single (or just a few) pages regardless of how deep your content might be?
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Your argument beats around the bush. You and I both know that if TPB were to charge, their traffic would drop by several orders of magnitude. This is not because of logistics, not because of image, not because of inefficient distribution and not because of DRM. The simple reason for the huge drop off would be that most pirates want that sh't free. Why oh why do people insist on sugar coating this blatant reality?
The auther should have also mentioned the fast rise of the waiver sport UFC, and the like.
The authors mentioned CTE but didn't spell it out, so I looked it up: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopath...
"Gold Rush" is the definition of "in it for the money". It means people go somewhere / do something to "get quick rich".

And Silicon Valley has been "about the money" for 20-30 years now. When Wozniak left Apple is a good milestone for when it became "about the money".
But more importantly, has anyone gotten a YC tattoo yet?
Rugby Union more so due to its strategic emphasis on territory over possession.
Looks very cool.

You might want to look at tile caching projects which might make the initial tile-generation take less time in exchange for only pre-rendering some tiles. (Perhaps less important in your situation but would be beneficial when you want to cover a larger area.)

I had a quick look at some options, this might work with your set up: http://tilestache.org/
My heart weeps for all that money wasted because of a defunct patent system.

It seems the only way out is for everyone to document, publicly every stupid, little idea they have, so that there is provable prior art for every imaginable idea to patent.

There could even be a book published with these ideas.
"one click shopping", or "device with rounded corners", or "menus of a website" could have been avoided this way.
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thank you ,,,

this is smart, really smart :D
You can delete repos of poor code
Maybe it's not "good business" but many successes and countless hordes are trying to be acquired and cash out. There a many other ways to get acquired other than for selling stuff at a profit.
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I think the warning signs of a 'gold rush' are when ethics go out the window (most recent example is the mortgage industry). Capitalism is all about going where the money is but if the correct rules aren't in place and the culture isn't strong enough the whole system goes to hell like a badly moderated news forum. The key question about SV of today is: are the correct rules and culture in place to keep the gold rush healthy and sustainable?
We can debate whether the rule is good (not all rules are as clear cut as the one we have for murder). I don't think you will win on those merits though re: this reddit policy.

I never have said "this reddit rule is bad". Read extra careful, and you will find no evidence whatsoever of that, only evidence of me discussing human behavior in light of rule changes, and how it is a particularly sensitive topic in the "anything goes spaces". Further I am pointing benefits of those spaces, without actually taking a stance on them. This is how I know you are the morality police, you are choosing to invent words to put in my statements without actually bothering to read them. Those are not the actions of a reasonable person, but rather a lynch mob.

Bullshit. Let me clear up this analogy. I'm saying we have a rule against murder and it's a good rule. You're saying it's a dangerous rule that will lead us down the road to serfdom.

Again not sure where you get this idea... I am simply discussing how people react when rules start encroaching on free-form places, and discussing the consequences of them. This is not declaring serfdom or anything else nearly as dramatic. It is merely me not instantly jumping on a bandwagon. Sorry to be that guy you hate: the one who looks at the world around him and asks questions before deciding.

There's a rule at most community pools that you don't crap or piss in the pool. Somehow this hasn't led to widescale pool tyranny, it's pretty much just a rule not to piss in the pool. Just because there's a slope doesn't mean anyone is going to slip down it.

And yet, you see stories occasionally about how some toddler is banned from the kiddie pool for an accident. This is not tyranny of pools, but it certainly is someone overstepping bounds. Perhaps the public outcry over such things has something to do with it?

Anyway, you are now just tiresome to me. Good night, be well.
It's true, I spent hundreds of hours healing Anson's suicidal gnome warlock in WoW before we ever started working together.
the bang syntax is the wrong way to market this product. i was a fan of ddg until i read about how this bang syntax is the almighty saviour to search engines. the reason why i like google is because i can just search anything i want in plain english w/o any query-language/search-filters. all i'd want from DDG is the ability to get rid of all the fake landing page sites from my searches and i'll be sold from there.
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Free online in all the counties around me in georgia also. This is simply a beuracracy issue nothing else, pretty standard for california and new england.
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Yeah, I ran the wrong example code before I posted. Sorry for the noise.
I've done almost none of that and have had a long successful career.

Just saying there is more than one way to skin a cat.
Content owners cutting out middle men is a good step, but the harder one is getting users to pay for it.

Interesting. By definition, that means middlemen are currently adding value.
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coincidentally, i have just been researching desk chairs, and this is the best-looking one i've found: http://www.overstock.com/Office-Supplies/ECO8.8-All-Mesh-Cha...

it's $430, but as other people have said, i would strongly advise you to give up on the sub-$300 goal. think of how many years you're going to be amortising the cost of that chair over, and how many hours you'll spend in it

i have not got one (and likely will not) because i am very reluctant to buy a chair i haven't actually sat in, and i cannot find a local store that stocks it, but i figured i'd at least share the benefits of my research if you don't have that issue.
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I have Four Steps to the Epiphany and I hate its design (awkward size) and typography (the lines are too long!). It would look much better on my Kindle for sure.
The stories of waste in California's budget are legendary.

There's a reason why a study showed that given a choice between Harvard and the California Prison Guards' academy, you are better off if you pick becoming a prison guard!
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