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> Investors are not rational. Nor are they able to see the future. Future dividends have next to nothing to do with the present price of GOOG.

Blah, blah, blah. Let's assume google issued a share that had 1/10 dividend rights and 1/10 voting rights. What would the value of the share be?

A share of stock confers two things. Voting rights, and dividend rights. That is what people are buying. Voting, and dividends.

> If they promise today that dividends will be equally split, what stops them from tomorrow saying that class C gets no dividends?

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Why were they sailing way down south and then to the east when going around Africa? Predominant winds or currents?

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"Nokia's poor results with Windows Phone are not due to Nokia's failures. The Lumia devices have attractive and differentiated industrial design, in a smartphone market where every handset maker is struggling to stand out. Nokia shipped the launch devices on time and at attractive prices. Nokia's problem is that Microsoft appears to have stood still. A year and a half after Windows Phone 7's debut, it has changed little. In effect, the gap in features between Windows Phone and Android or the iPhone has widened and not shrunk as Nokia needed it to."
What the hell happened? He was the only one that cared.
if I was Iran's leader I'd want a nuke, as the ultimate weapon. If I was Israeli's leader, I'd everything to to stop them from getting it. Both sides understand this, it's business, so let the cat and mouse games continue. Who said what and when doesn't even matter
Yep, the whole situation is just sad. Until both sides lower their egos, empathize, and treat each other as they would want to be treated, it's just going to be an endless cycle of conflict. Humanity deserves better.
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Yeah, the prevalence of https on the web sure seems to indicate encrypting everything is prohibitively expensive. /sarcasm
I've been working on a product also in this direction but it's more full featured and mature. It's called http://dynado.com and we're launching within a month (don't look at the design - the final main site isn't up yet).

It's basically a webmail where you can decide to either send somebody a task or an email. Everything goes through email though and you can send a task to anyone, even people from outside the system. They can then either collaborate via email or register to use the system themselves.

Of course it's integrated with an IM, file storage solution where you can attach those files, browse a stream of sent/received attachments. It also has a project tree and reports per-user or project, with really simple and integrated time tracking. AND it has a built in calendar with an innovative twist.

Basically it's an all-in-one business management tool tightly integrated with email in order to let you use the tools you know (email) but still capture all the knowledge and track all the tasks without switching to 10 different apps.
False. There is plenty of dispute about the NPV of all future dividends and the discount rate, but the notion is a fundamental truth. It is follows from basic math and is provable.
Sounds like a simple scaling issue
Yes, I expected voyages from the "Triangular Trade":

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

Europe -> Africa -> Caribbean -> Europe with manufactured goods, slaves, and sugar/cotton/tobacco, respectively.

You can see what looks like round trips between Europe and the Caribbean, which probably were about sugar/cotton/tobacco.
I didn't mean to insult anyone. Many of my friends refer to themselves as CS illiterate in a joking way. I apologize if I offended anyone, definitely not my intention.

What would you recommend changing the title to? For the time being I've just changed it to "Really Basic Github Intro For Non-Techies"
Well as it stands, matte screens are:

a) easier on the eyes - you don't have to look through a mirror to be able to see What you want to see.

b) you can actually see something if you are not in your cellar with all lights dimmed (unless your display is really bright, which the mb screens are, or close to, which in exchange burns your battery…)

c) I do not know too much about the polarising effect causing colour shifts, but as far as I can tell, ALL professional monitors use non-glare coating. So I assume that, if anything, matte screens are more colour accurate.
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It would be cool if I could see a sample before signing up.
You're right that it doesn't have anything to do with Computer Science. A lot of my friends who were asking for help, just lump anything that is outside of their Microsoft Office comfort zone as requiring "CS literacy"
You just reiterated my point. This is precisely why your original suggestion of failing an "invalid" conversion is untenable. ALL conversions lack precision -- there is no such thing as an "invalid" conversion.
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So if this team just decided to run off with the $1.6M right now for essentially writing a page worth of text and making a couple concept videos, would there be any legal recourse for the donors? Not that I have any suspicion at all that that's what this team is doing, but Kickstarter projects in general seem like a relatively easy way for someone to make a good chunk of money for the cost of a couple hours' worth of work.

Is there really nothing more to it - donors just have to cross their fingers that the team is legit and isn't just going to run away with the money?
The book itself is decent enough but I think it's way too short to justify the price tag.
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You're missing the point -- there is no such thing as a precisely correct conversion to a floating point number.

Your suggestion would make type conversion utterly unusable as it would fail seemingly randomly -- for example on simple numbers such as "0.1"
What of Computer Science? Is that staying under CLAS/CISE?
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There was a country called Palestine before Israel? Source please!
This argument doesn't make sense. Google did profile pages long before Google+. And advertisers don't need your real name and baby pictures to target advertisements at you. (I personally see no value in this for any advertisers, but I'm speaking for myself and not Google.)
Lets hope we don't end like Google Wave did. Shutting down a service is never fun.
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Or you can do a Ctrl + click to open a link in a new tab.
How typically Euro-centric.
Lots of programs already have this integration. Is it a bug report or feature request? Forward it to FogBugz. FogBugz figures out where it belongs (and if it gets it wrong, you tell it and it learns). Is it a task? Forward it to Flow and it gets entered as a task. Travel itinerary from your airline/car rental service/hotel? Forward it to TripIt. Works like magic.

This problem has, generally speaking, been addressed. You're just not using tools that address it. Which is not to say that there isn't room for improvement, or gaps in this toolchain (e.g., I can't think of a tool for bills/invoices off the top of my head, though I bet one exists). And addressing it by creating a solution for your specific combination of problems is certainly admirable.

But it's not email that's broken; if anything is broken, it's the endpoints (both the source and the destination). Saying email is broken is like saying the | operator in Unix is broken.
online there's browserling and browsershots.Also Netrenderer is not bad.These are mostly free. You can install VirtualBox if you're on Linux and want to test for IE and not use Wine.And Microsoft has virtual machines, I forget the name,but you can install different versions of IE on the same machine(here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575). You can also use the Opera
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One thing I commend you for is to ask when I want to receive the email. It's surprising that barely any mailing-list or newsletter lets you pick that…
I vastly prefer less glare and reduced eye strain (for me at least) over richer and deeper colors, if I have to choose between the two.
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The comparison with Minecraft is absurd. Google already has a whole ecosystem of well-rounded services. They have huge amounts of resources (both money and brains). They removed the "labs" feature by themselves and I take it as a sign that they don't want to push unfinished products to users this way. And when you force users who use Gmail to sign up for Google Plus, it's clearly not a beta product anymore, it's production ready because you are welcoming users by the truckload.

Don't use the "this service is beta" flag as an excuse for the flaws of Google+ and their (mostly horrible) redesigns of their core services. It's clearly not the old Google anymore.
It is unfortunate that we have designers and developers as separate people. Hire someone who is good at both i.e probably a hacker. Yeah... but this species is very hard to find :)
Z3 is great. It pretty much destroys all other solvers in both proof power and performance.

http://www.smtcomp.org/2011/
The usual right-click menu works fine (using FF on linux).
I think an argument can be made that the regulatory failure in the recent meltdown was more a failure to adapt regulations to changes in the financial markets, than it was a failure to uphold 1930s standards.

In that context I think it is heartening that the JOBS Act passed. The outcomes remain to be seen, but it shows Congress can move quickly to adapt financial regulation.
Power is out on my block, so sorry if I'm not answering emails or questions from everyone very quickly. I am currently running on laptop batter (1.5 hrs left) and my cell phone tethering.

sigh - Good ol' Silicon Valley Power.
Well, the baby of Facebook and Basecamp would definitely be online, which makes it impossible for it to even want to compete with email.

If you cannot search, read and write messages OFFLINE it has failed in my eyes. Outside of silicon valley or whereever, there are places where you will not get a connection.

Furthermore, it'd have to be more of a protocol rather than a service itself. many companies will not rely on some third party for hosting their most valuable information and communication network. same goes for individuals, probably <1%, but that is the tech-savy crowd...
Am i the only person who uses middle click(the scroll wheel button) to open a link in a new tab?
This worked for the github icon too; i just checked (Opera 11.61/Linux)
a) I have read Pitman; please stop insinuating that I haven't.

b) Pitman actually points out that dynamic binding makes compilation of fexprs harder. That was also one of the original selling points of scheme: lexical binding simplifies compiler implementation.

c) Issues of practical compilability are extremely likely to be context-sensitive and hard to generalize from. That some lisp 35 years ago had a hard time compiling some language involving fexprs doesn't help decide if this language here and now can use them.

d) Finally, you're attacking a strawman of your own creation. Pitman didn't focus on dynamic binding, sure. Who said otherwise? That insight was one of Kernel's contributions, that a world where lisps are lexically scoped is actually quite a good fit for fexprs.
That's not the same interface that I was referring to. I was talking about this: http://i.imgur.com/8lzif.png
I'm sorry you feel that way. Just trying to add a little humor.

Three of my friends have been able to use these instructions to share some code with me on Github. I figured that I would share the instructions with everyone else.
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That link is broken, can you fix it please?
I totally agree with you, except for the last sentence.
Email is great, yes. However, please continue to innovate, because there could be something more awesome than email which would render email redundant.
I already do this with Seamless. And I don't have to press any buttons on my phone. Actually, I don't need a phone at all. And I can make special requests.
Of course it has a backend, but so do the Firebase apps that this entire thread is talking about. Referring to a JS app as "client-side" doesn't imply that there's no backend logic.

My point is that you can't just de-obfuscate a primarily client-side JS app and replace the Firebase (or whatever) endpoints. Proprietary obfuscation is more than just variable name munging and minification..
Its possibly that Posterous had a hiccup. I have only written 2 posts there so they probably didn't expect 8000 views in a few hours.
Incidentally, the only one-character ticker symbols that seem to be unused are J, Q, and W.
I would pay $10/month (or more) for a individual designer or store to send me interior designs pieces / artwork that I can try out in my home that month. Items I really like I'll buy, items I'm not crazy about I ship back. I'd pay an additional fee for insurance to cover accidental damage.
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> but tmux is much nicer

I agree, but I was giving them what they asked for.
Just discussed this bill with the head of a mid-size investment bank today. The crowd funding provisions are not really that important. He said that the most impact will be the reduction of disclosure requirements for emerging growth companies enabling them to raise up to $50 million rather than just $5 million.

It will mostly be institutional investors buying into even smaller size IPO shares -- these are savvy investors and the mania of the dot-com bubble has certainly not been forgotten.

The thing is there isn't really a huge market for these deals at the moment -- his bank specializes in deals of this size and I asked him if he thinks more mid-range banks will popup to serve this market and he said that probably not until the deal flow comes in.
Is it possible to use overtone to send midi to an external hardware device?
I don't know about the inductive logic behind your "humans can solve this problem, therefore it is solvable by a computer". To create an algorithm that could classify email as well as a human, you'd need to create an algorithm as advanced as a human.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10108840/meteor-and-windo...
You are welcome. When you buy a stock, you are buying two things: rights to the profits (via dividends), and rights to manage the company (stock voting). Most people you encounter don't undersand stocks at all, and I'll likely be downvoted to hell, but those fools are wrong. Don't listen.

Valuation is a super complicated subject, but what stock represents is a simple fact.
I just tried to install it on my android, but I couldn't find it in the market.

The web version seems pretty slick though.
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Arbitrary interfacing in Ruby and Python, method_missing, TypeError, ValueError, operations, etc.

Most of the time, you're just map, car, cdr, mapcar, reduce, fold, etc in Lisp. Functional iteration/processing semantics are the default in Lisp. Common Lisp makes it VERY obvious when you're not using a standard data structure so it's hard to mess up.

Ruby and Python proliferate arbitrary Object-Oriented interfaces, combined with dynamic typing, it's easy to get the wrong instance of something-or-other and fuck it up.

Contrary to popular belief, Common Lisp code tends to be more consistent in terms of how you interact with your data, even if they go on flights of fancy re: Reader Macros.
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Where is the Microsoft JSON database?
Does Microsoft have any plans for a JSON database? I can't find any such suggestion on the interwebs.
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This is a project I've been working on for the last few weeks. We'd like to get some feedback from anybody to may be going (or just curious). There are still plenty of issues to be fixed but it should be functional.
I've been legal to vote for 17 years, and I've voted in every election since I became legal. That's about twice a year for 17 years (odd years sometimes only have one), so I probably have around 30ish voting records.
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Yeah, I hate it when someone takes data someone else has curated in their native tongue and then makes nifty visualizations with it. Clearly, he should have gone and tracked down, translated, cleaned and digitized the relevant shipping logs from China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, India and Russia and whomever else before compiling and releasing any visualization. What a racist white nerd.
Totally agree, we should all start charging. As a user, I've become ridiculously cheap. And it's not the price, it's how the ecosystem has evolved. I'm used to free apps now. We need to get people to be used to paying for apps. Not easy though, will only work if everyone starts doing it...
I'm not trying to filter spam. Gmail does great at that. I'm trying to manage the non-spam emails I get. In fact Roockit's goal isn't to be an email provider - we simply want to help manager your current email.
How to share equity with co-founders and employees
Or you could just run the JVMs on the base OS and use good old file system security if you really need sandboxing. The supposed advantages of adding a OS VM layer seem iffy if you're just running one app per.
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That's going to be a major hurdle for adoption among a wider audience. Not that they need it to be successful, by the way. But most people already end up charging their mobile phones everyday, then they'll have to keep remembering to charge the watch as well every week... that's not very user friendly.

If the battery lasted one month, that would probably be a good spot to be at.

I wonder if they could make an e-ink display with a layer acting as a solar panel charger at the same time. Maybe they could recharge the watch this way, continuously.
I use Google+ every couple of days, and I do see new stuff in my stream (mostly because I follow over 800 people) but lets stop beating around the bushes, Google+ is a failure if they wanted to make a dent in Facebook, it's a failure if they wanted the greater world population to care about it, and I don't see how Google can do anything about it now. Sure, just like Buzz, it has its regular users, but it's not what Google was hoping for close to a year after launch I'm sure.
Perhaps I should have said "email management sucks" but that isn't quite as succinct in the title of a blog post.

I am really focusing on ways to turn your email into something that is easy to act on.
This.

I spend most of my time in Asia-Pacific timezones, so most of my automated emails arrive at awkward times. I'm glad that this one won't be staring at me from my inbox first thing in the morning -- helping me to produce first, consume second.
Seriously? This headline is last week’s news. Today’s news is a third subsequent update to Java/OS X.
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The Gmail backend isn't available in the same way as the Firebase backend.
Sounds like a plan. Can we get some consensus on what tool to use for capturing these items and generating the burn down chart?
It's true, I find Marxism morally repugnant.

That said, if you hold Marx's labor theory of value so dear that you feel equity holders should not be allowed to donate their equity to a charity without worker consent, that's your right.

And to be clear, I'm not passing judgment on you as a person. I don't know that you're generally morally repugnant; we might agree on nearly everything. But we disagree viciously on this point.

I don't care if an individual got the equity as a founder, an investor, an employee, an advisor, or a partner. Once they've earned the equity, they're free to do what they'd like with it, even if it's not what I'd prefer. I can't accept your arguments to the contrary.

And frankly, I think it'd be a very unprofessional employee who'd be so bothered by an individual's personal asset allocation choices that they'd refer to it as having a charity inflicted upon them, simply because you provided a portion of the labor that increased the value of the securities.
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I wonder if that gives cause to sue YC for any 404s.
Most startups will not have a 'copywriter'. I've typically seen product or marketing copy from the following functions with the following related issues:

1) Developers: accurate description of product | too verbose/features rather than benefits
2) Non-technical marketing: grammatically correct | disconnected features/benefits/lack of story/too much 'sell'
3) Contract writers: Good story | expensive and time consuming to get writer to point of understanding

The best sites I feel do a good job of understanding what the company's 'secret sauce' is (often what is missing - the sustainable/differentiable/competitive advantage). They have a simple/compelling narrative connecting potential users with the benefits and key features of the solution. And it's usually a very healthy amount of back/forth between 1-2 or 1-3 to get there.

If you don't get any bites on your request, you might consider expanding on what you feel the 'thorn' is. Are you technical, and need help crafting a compelling story? Or do you enjoy writing but are having a hard time extracting benefits and a story from a list of features?
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Awesome intro! Guide looks amazing! Just a a few small things: the Install Git on Windows button on the home page should point to http://msysgit.github.com/ directly. Msysgit also comes with a GUI (that I personally appreciate that one more than tortoisegit).
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A problem I found with Chrome's current implementation is on pages where you don't even know flash is being used, Google Translate and Soundcloud for example, after thinking the site was broken I remembered I had click-to-enable active.