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Whether they could is debatable given that many of them are aggressively trying to raise capital, even if it means laying off workers to cut costs.

They could always, you know, stop paying million-dollar salaries to people with no skills other than office politics. I know this sounds radical, but it would free up some of the money.

Most bankers I knew were much more upset about losing their week-end beer fridge or a $5 reduction in their daily meal allowance than they were about putting in a few more hours.

I'm not talking about "a few more". I'm talking about the difference between 40-50 (sustainable, safe, sane) and 80-120.

In most companies, a 5:00 pm work drop with 6 hours of work due next morning would be taken as a sign of dysfunctional process. It might happen occasionally, such as during a production crisis, but it wouldn't be an everyday event. Bankers like to hire naive college kids because they don't know their rights and don't know that these kinds of late-day work drops are a textbook example of bad process.

they want all the experience they can get so they have a gilded resume at the end of it.

You and I both know that the "experience" most analysts are getting isn't very useful or interesting-- not enough to merit working 100+ hours per week. Checking pitchbooks at 1:30 am? Downloading 600 corporate logos? Do you really think people learn much doing this kind of grunt work that a high-schooler could do?

They just want the name on the resume and the automatic acceptance at a top business school, because for whatever reason B-schools still believe people actually get something useful about being an investment bank's peon for two years.
Thank you for the link - this was a great read =)
It is sad indeed, especially since it was proper factual information properly researched by people paid to do so. But in reality, I, like most people, rarely pick up an encyclopaedia. It's easier when having an argument at the pub to just pull out my phone and check on Wikipedia.

But, just as I was sad to hear that Kodak is filing for bankruptcy, this is more due to nostalgia. Businesses need to keep moving with the times and the way people consume products and services in these fast changing modern times.

Unfortunately for Encyclopedia Britannica they do not have enough income unlike the Hollywood lobbyists to pay the protection money.
Exactly and what will happen when he gets to the US is they will lock him up until he plea bargains i.e. admits guilt to get the thing over with.

If he doesn't plea bargain they'll just delay his trial for longer (happened to the Natwest Bankers who extradited for stuff to do with Enron)
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Channeling Paul Graham: "Microsoft is dead" != "Microsoft is going to be out of business tomorrow". Same with Google. Yes, that company will be around for 50 years, but what Google used to be is gone.

Honestly, I've worked both on Wall Street and at Google. Individual people at Google are nicer, but the careerism and mentality (among people who want to move up) are nearly identical.
I hear a lot of talk about how things have changed. Have you guys read Liars Poker? This stuff has been going on since the dawn of time.
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I've installed Windows 8 on a VM and played around with it for a couple of hours, and I'm honestly wondering if I've missed an option somewhere - I cannot believe that what I'm using is meant to be the next version of MS's main desktop OS.

Just about every W8 program seems to want to run only as a single window full screen app which seems to go against pretty much everything that window-based OSs (certainly multi-tasking ones) were introduced to do. Even trying to switch between multiple open browser sessions was horribly clunky, although at least you do seem to be able to run IE on the old Windows desktop if you want - an option that I couldn't find for most of the other apps.

I'm sure this may work great on a phone/tablet, but seems totally wrong on a standard computer. Apple has had a go at fittin similar iOS features into MacOS (tablet-style program launcher/full screen mode etc), but at the moment they are thankfully entirely optional.With Windows 8, this looks to largely be the only choice.
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That Forbes article is a great one. Personally I think now that the cat is out of the bag, we should start to see things changing at the executive level (though it's going to take years).

For a long time, many of us have speculated that CEOs were overpaid but suggesting this was met with claims of being "anti-capitalist" and other such nonsense. Now thanks to the Forbes article and the book it's talking about, we can demonstrate that CEOs are * clearly* overpaid. Their own pay has gone up, while company performance per salary dollar has gone down. Meanwhile the rest of us produce vastly more than, say, 20 years ago, yet wages remain mostly flat.
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Ranting about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview seems a bit unfair. It says "Consumer" and "Preview". Both words indicating it is not for the more advanced user.

At work we always use Windows Server Edition as workstation OS. I must say that those Server Editions are very good.

So if you don't like the bling just don't use the Consumer Preview but install a Server Edition instead.
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I vote for buying an old house in Cabo San Lucas and setting up a kick ass startup hub in front of the beach with all the modern amenities like huge teleconferencing walls and all. People could just cross over for a weekend on a tourist visa just for the really important face to face meetings.
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See the difference?
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sigh... there goes the GPL hate again.
even more pronounced when you look at web software. look at the most watched projects on Github and play spot the GPL license:

https://github.com/popular/watched

I couldn't count a single project. I have never used the GPL in any software I write because I want anybody to be able to use my software and contributions.

Google, Microsoft, Apple (who are actively purging what remains of GPL code) et al will not adapt your project for bundling or distribution or use if it is GPL. I think most developers are more interested in having users of their software than attempting to shoehorn them into some ideology, which is reflected in the license usage stats you see.

to add to that, the FSF completely screwed up v3 which likely scared away anybody who was on the fence about which way to go (it was also more to do with the anti-commercial rhetoric around the changes as it had to do with the changes themselves)
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Cruise ships are really big. They can have thousands of passengers (mostly elderly) and thousands of staff. It's pretty much guaranteed you'll have a few heart attacks. They have full-time doctors and nurses, and on-board hospitals. If someone dies, they hide them in their cabin (assuming they were not sharing) until they get to the next port. If someone's sick, they look after them until they land, though they can call for an airlift in extreme circumstances. They generally aren't that far from land (because cruising through empty oceans is boring).

The law is either the nearest country (if you're 12 or 24 nautical miles away, depending on the circumstances), or the law of their flag state (if they are in the high seas). Generally, they avoid making arrests, and throw trouble makers out the next port. I think their registered home state generally turns a blind eye on what they do.
This is really cool. It would be awesome if US citizens and residents can rent a room in the ship for 2-3 months and work from there. The rent is cheap and you get the amenities of a cruise ship. Plus US citizens and residents can travel to SF by ferry in anytime they want. Besides it would be difficult host so many entrepreneurs in the city in one place for a long time. Ship is a great idea. Similar idea can be applied to certain types of education too.
It is marketing, because it is sold as Go was the first language to have such fast implementations, which is not the case, but many refer to Go as if it was the first language having such a feature.
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You can't really know until you do something. Two months probably isn't enough time to know before school if you'll be a good programmer.

If you're interested in something, you'll probably be pretty good at it. Not necessarily a star, but more than good enough. So choose what's interesting to you.

DO NOT assume that you'll be doing any one thing for the rest of your life. You won't. And if that's the case, your decision is not as monumental or scary as you think.
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> Unfortunately, they don't care that they don't have all the information; they want Google to work as expected,

OTOH, if they had all the information, they might set new expectations. Essentially you are describing a corporation that is failing to communicate properly.
YC is really moving into the direction of some kind of university where they pay you to learn, interesting evolution
"freedom by requiring" < see the contradiction? true freedom has no requirements or demands.
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IANAL, but I probably have more experience than many regarding immigration issues.

If you sell everything you have to live on this ship just outside of the US to sort of get access to a part of the US that the current visa system says you can't have access to, you may find you have a hard time demonstrating you have non-immigrant intent when trying to go to shore for meetings or R&R.

http://www.visapro.com/Immigration-Articles/?a=1575&z=31

Keep in mind that every entry to the US is at the discretion of whatever border agent you happen to get that day, and pre-approved visa in your passport is merely a guide and not a guarantee of entry.
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It is a bold idea, it is "slightly" crazy, but it is worth giving a shot. Things like this push the status quo and capture mainstream media's attention to cover the issue.
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It's more of a massacre than war.. the strength of parties involved is simply not comparable (mostly due to apparently spine less UK govt)..
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I do, but I care about CODE. Without code, I didn't GET freedom. :)
It's the old "you can catch more flies with honey rather than vinegar".

The GPL is the strongest vinegar to businesses that may not mind participating in open source, but don't want to have their business assets dependent upon something so restrictive.

As a developer you have a trade-off decision to make: Choose the license that restricts the use of your creation in hopes that it forces others to share, or choose a license that may end up being used for private commercial reasons - but will likely be more widely adopted because it's less restrictive.

The beauty of the whole system in my mind is that each developer is free to make his own choice.
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Software patents are an "elephant in the room"? Are you serious? The "tech community" is constantly criticizing, forming campaigns[1] and creating petitions[2] against them! Constantly.

You are essentially making the erroneous generalization of equating a few big companies and patent trolls with the whole tech community.

Hollywood, on the other hand, is pretty much dominated by the MPAA members, who bought most of the small studios of the area. There's a reason why the Sundance, ACE or South By Southwest aren't in Hollywood.

So let’s stop writing posts about how Hollywood and the Music industry is outdated, archaic and evil.

No, let's not.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.htm..., http://en.swpat.org/, http://www.ffii.org/

[2]: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/petition-the-white-house...
We have a test suite covering most of the code. We'd like to do more testing are doinh it.
The judge rules that equivalent laws existed in the UK, which was the basis of the extradition.
I didn't even notice that the top formed an M until you mentioned it, so there you go.
The article mentions the drop since June 2008... AKA, a year after the GPLv3 came out.

But sadly, not a mention of the controversy of the new version was made (directly). Some interesting points about the change in focus were made, but I think that v3 played a large part.
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>Let me tell you, that whole process was far and away the most invigorating and intensely satisfying experience I had all week

For me, this puts the rant in the proper perspective. I recommend stepping away from the computer and going on a date.
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I agree that the quality of an incoming email needs to be measured relative to the recipient.

By using some sort of genetic algorithm that takes the recipient's interactions with other emails (e.g. keywords that attract them, types of emails they respond to), then you should be able to build a system that only allows in quality emails relative to the recipient.

When someone responds to an email, this could be the ultimate judge of quality - especially if the email came in from the outside.
Sounds cool. I don't use emacs at all, but maybe you can post it anyways?
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Nobody ever claimed Go was the first language with a fast compiler, it was simply claimed that it builds much faster than C++ and Java.

There are compilers faster than the Go compilers in terms of lines compiled per second. Even Python parses code faster than the Go compiler, however, Go builds large, real life projects, faster because it is the only implementation that scales linearly with the number of components, other scale O(n^2)

Turbo Pascal, Modula, and Ada, which you bring into discussion may have had fast compilers, but the build process was still O(n^2), not O(n).
It's bullsh*t.

I agree that a person doesn't need to actually visit a country to face extradition. I agree that the US should be able to extradite people who break their laws and harm American citizens and business.

However this doesn't look like a legal action to me. It looks like a political one.

The guy never hosted the content. He simply created a resource that made content already hosted on hundreds of websites elsewhere easier to find.

Where does it stop? If my website links to a site like The Pirate Bay or whatever does that mean I am helping people infringe copyright? If a US citizen verbally asks me where they can 'aquire' photoshop and I say.. "Oh you could probably find a torrent at blah address" does this book me a one way trip to the states?

US silliness aside it is demoralising that the UK Government provides so little protection to residents. This guy didn't physically harm anyone. He didn't make a site that specifically targetted the US. He didn't host the content. He didn't visit the US or host his site there. He didn't even break a UK law...

How you can send a resident to - potentially - be incarcerated in a foreign country for commiting an act which your own legal system doesn't believe is a crime is beyond me.
Are you in favor of this person seeing jail time for his alleged crimes?
It's good to take them with a pinch of salt, just as you take what your girlfriend say about her ex with a pinch of salt. That said, after the salt has been applied you are still left with some useful information.
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Bioinformatics startups?
Is anyone familiar with the startups out there that are developing bioinformatics products, or are employing bioinformaticians/engineers?

I only know of a handful of companies scattered across the US. Would anyone say there's a "hub" where you would focus a search, even internationally?
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jQuery is also MIT licensed, which is why Microsoft was able to bundle it.

large parts of Diaspora are also dual-licensed (not sure what the breakdown is).

I am still going through the list and haven't found a single GPL-only licensed project
Yes, the projects at Google in C++ or Java took an absurd amount of time to compile, even with distributed compiler farms.
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May be the same reason 'lorem ipsum' is used in web templates :)
What about bringing customers to the boat? Weekly "demo days" could bring a ferry-full of future customers to the ship, either dedicated to a single startup (for B2B/specialist businesses) or shared between many (for general/consumer ones). The added advantage? People who are willing to head out to the middle of the ocean to try a new product would, I'd think, be archetypical "earlyvangelists".
The more I read comments down the thread, the more I realize you are right. It looks like people are afraid of the idea that YC could evaluate personality. But this concept is quite visible in pg's essays - he often mentioned that good founders have something distinct in themselves. My guess is that YC already did quite a bit of research into that topic, and is just exploring this concept further.
A lot of them jumped. Some were last seen losing thousands in the casino, some were depressed, and others were from developing countries, good swimmers, and went overboard just off the US shoreline.

It's not that common for people to fall overboard accidentally.
Part of my problem might be that I don't experience this particular problem either. However, it is something I see the target audience complaining about a lot.

I agree that there might be some problems with gaming the system - any system can be gamed, we hackers know this better than anyone.

So what are some ways the system could be made more secure? A LolCat page could get 250k likes on Facebook easily, but could it consistenly get 5,000 likes a week for a year? Maybe staying power should be more important than overall popularity.

What are some better metric to measure importance?
Hmm, I disagree. In my opinion, 'clean' web design means the now sadly old-fashioned approach of: have some text, marked up to indicate emphasis, headings etc., then let the damn browser decide what it should look like.

CSS to change colours and relative proportions is, I suppose, a concession that had to be made to 'designers', but when you, as the page author, are having to concern yourself with typography, then something has gone horribly wrong. Layout, spacing, leading - these are all the /browser's/ job; at most the page should give a few hints ("this section needs to be clear" -> use more leading/spacing), since such hints are meaningful to other renderings than the graphical browser. Did these designers ever stop to think about blind people relying on text-to-speech? It's obvious how that should render <em> - with emphasis - but what does it do with "letter-spacing:110%;"?

As for the advice about using a grid, that should definitely have been accompanied with the caveat that your design should still flow to the browser's width. Fixed-width web pages are _evil_, where by evil I actually mean _stupid_.
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His friends chose to watch Lost because it was the best option at the time. They may have given other reasons, but they all made the same choice: "Watch Lost, or do something better."

As for spending as much time on amazing things as possible... There are many people who believe you need lows to properly appreciate highs. If everything is amazing, then everything is actually normal... And nothing is amazing.

For years, I had a boss who would ask me how I was doing, and I'd reply, "Meh. Okay." And he'd respond, "So pretty good, huh?" He got me. He knew that I had a good life, and I was happy. And that it was relatively free from problems. When I had a weekend of playing video games and generally just having fun, that was perfectly normal. For others, that would be ignoring their responsibilities and goofing off.

I'm not saying not to have fun, just that life is easier to appreciate if you have a proper scale.