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Laywers and the law don't care about provable security models and neither do the gold owners who want the system. Zed is absolutely right, build what they want even if it isn't provably secure. Test it sufficiently, cover all the cases you can, and move on.

Something doesn't have to be provable to work, the same applies to type systems. Lot's of things that aren't provable and would be forbidden by a static type system will happily chug along just fine in a dynamic system that does what you tell it.

When it's law vs theory, law wins. Unlike theory, the law doesn't have to make sense but you sure as hell better be able to show that you attempted to comply with it.
Let's accept the assumption that iTunes pricing doesn't obey the rule of lower price implying greater volume. For the theory to hold up, iTunes would have to represent a significant share of an artist's total revenues. Otherwise the artist wouldn't be bothered by a decrease in iTunes sales volumes.

But! As the importance of iTunes sales grows, an artist's incentive to keep a record label as distributor diminishes. Any artist can list themselves on iTunes - why would they share revenue with an evil record company if they don't need help with distribution and marketing?
My first impression is that this doesn't do much that Firefox doesn't already do (ok, maybe Opera/Chrome style thumbnail quick start but I don't care too much for that anyway). There's no compelling reason for me to come back.

Maybe if you can expand on the shortcut idea, something along the lines of what Ubiquity is doing, then you might have something that appeals to the hacker crowd. Honestly though, I think you'll have a tough time creating something that goes beyond what all the other start page sites out there are doing.

Nice URL btw, like the alliteration.
I suspect that the immigration attorney quoted in the article is exactly right, that you aren't allowed to make extra money as an immigrant.

Of course, this is probably the perfect example of a rule that's been taken to the extreme. And, therefore, the law should either be modified to be realistic, or be thrown out.

I can't imagine the average person screaming "hell no, deport him!!!" if they found out an immigrant made a few extra bucks here and there on a blog. Especially since blogs, of all things, could easily be produced from other countries.
Huh. I suppose that just shows the subjectivity of such things; I found the site to be quite easy to use and well-designed, other than the letter-spacing.
Art and intellect are solitary vocations, and their practitioners often require a common enemy to sustain the lonely effort. The suburbs continued to serve that purpose, but the type of antipathy toward them changed in the late '60s and '70s.

Some of the stuff this guy decided to put on paper is just truly idiotic. There are a few bits of insight in the article, but it seems to mainly just be some poorly aimed anti-intellectual, anti-urban diatribe.
Even their intentions weren't all that good- from the beginning this was about sticking it to Microsoft, not about helping kids in developing nations learn.
Dr. Dobb's was one of the few magazines with real code on bookshelves. My first publication was in Dr. Dobb's so it'll always be special to me. Shame to see it fade like this.
she says apparently there's a big debate going on at the WHO about whether everything should be done in R. currently they use R, Stata, and SAS.
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That's a real shame. First C/C++ journal, at the time they said they would continue on in Dr. Dobbs, now Dr. Dobbs, which says it will continue on in InformationWeek. I could see how C/C++ could continue on in Dr. Dobbs, but InformationWeek isn't compatible with Dr. Dobbs. Furthermore, I wonder what will happen to my subscription, I already receive InformationWeek. It's likely they'll send me duplicates, they always do.

I'm hoping they at least follow in C/C++'s footsteps and send out a CD/DVD with all the past issues.
I initially interpreted that comment to mean corkd.com at this point runs itself(code wise at least), so the developers are working on other projects. But you raise a good point, and I surely do not have any knowledge to say otherwise.
Both. Sort of. OpenJDK is on mercurial but core java is still on SVN (I think...). Checkouts here: https://openjdk.dev.java.net/svn/openjdk/jdk/trunk
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Music? It's a reasonable indicator of lifestyle choice (so good chance of bringing compatible people together), not male dominated and it could be multiple niches (adding up to something on a much bigger scale).
> Obama is the first black President

If you google something like: black US presidents

You will find out that isn't true. Plus Obama isn't black, if black means African American.
Posted if only for relevance.
Still a massive improvement over the SAT et al. At least we have some correlation.
You won't have this option with the 17" MBP though coz Apple doesn't license the Magsafe connector. It's the same reason you don't find 3rd party adaptors connecting via Magsafe.
I'd say that you haven't provided enough info.

Important data points include:

- How long did they do the startup before you? Did they take more risk? Is anyone getting paid now? If they got it to the point of being angel funded, they've hit a milestone and might deserve a bit extra. I dunno why Austin would deserve more than Michael.

- What do they do for the startup? Is Austin valuable? Experienced? Expensive? Incredibly knowledgeable about the market you're attacking? If he's verifiably badass and is critical to the success of the company, he might deserve more. If he's setting aside a $250k gig, he's probably risking more than you and might deserve more.

- You're clearly valuable from a implementation angle... Is the startup solving a technology problem? Sure there's coding, but if you're building a niche CMS for dentists or something, technology isn't going to make or break you. Sales will.

On a higher level, my gut tells me that the team composition is off. Two guys who don't design or code and one guy (you) who does both? Totally depends on the type of business, but for many startups I'd wonder what they're doing all day for the first 3-6 months.
Spoken like somebody who doesn't use Tumblr. Making multi-content posts east is not the same as "short blogging." I mean, you can't make a short blogging criticism considering Twitter's out there, but Tumblr's system isn't short posting. Marco's a co-founder and he writes long posts frequently. Rather, it's a method of streamlining: if I want to discuss something I can. Tumblr used to call itself a scrapbook, and that's as good a description of it as any.
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To prevent such frauds, I believe all stock exchange listed companies in India must comply with RTI Act (Right To Information Act).

In Bangladesh all listed companies comply with their RTI Act.
turned to alcoholism to escape their mundane lives

Women in prior years (and I mean, stretching back for 100s of thousands of years) had rough lives of childbearing and scrubbing and not much access to booze or Diazepam, and those changing factors led to (a number of) problem women, rather than...mundanity. I mean, do you know many women? They seem comfortable with mundanity.

The author was correct (and unoriginal) when he pointed out that class and geography combined to give the reds a new focal point of hatred against the bourgeoisie.
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I think people give up mainly due to lack of momentum leading to lack of motivation.

I can tell you how we failed with our first product. Bad design choices (that people would accept a large client download, that Mac wasn't that important) and a bad UI meant a bad user experience. Plus a lack of up front planning about why would users want to use us. Therefore the users never returned - the lack of momentum had a big negative effect on morale. Every day in the office was miserable then because we knew people weren't using/enjoying our product and we weren't growing.

We made a tough choice to abandon that first product and our new site is starting to rock and is heading in right direction. The positive momentum has such a big impact on morale and every day hearing a user say "I'm so glad I found this site" is best motivation to keep going through all startup challenges. So it comes back to momentum from users, and that comes back to good design and understanding what people want and why they would use your product.

just my $0.02
Simply say that your 20% was already agreed to and that it's not negotiable. It seems to me (and of course, I can't know from short post) that Austin is negotiating for the sake of negotiating... maybe because he was taught to be a "hard charger" in business school? Regardless, you have already framed the situation as "try to receive more." No, you already have 20%, and now Austin wants 4% of your 20%. The answer is "no," unless you have something you want to "purchase" for your 4%.
The OLPC people were not enthusiastic in the slightest about going for windows. Unfortunately, they found that in their target markets, people cared basically zero about the software being open source and in principle modifiable, and they cared a lot about getting experience on a standard platform. Many governments explicitly chose more expensive laptops from commercial manufacturers only because they offered windows and OLPC didn't. Like it or not, windows is what most third-world countries WANT. No one is forced to use windows, of course, they are just now being given the option.
youre a moron. a bunch of hackers doesnt just make a company. if the team is well rounded, everyone has a specific role, then it's a strong company.
1 The first one I agree is a huge problem. Their machines are not inherently better then commercial machines that can produced. They may be designed with a particular purpose in mind, but they are vision driven, not market driven. There is an ideological notion here about what sort of machine should be available that just shouldn't be there.

2 & 3 I think they were trying to address these with the software & the personal laptop issue. Sticking a few machines in a school means they support whatever the school was doing before, innovation will probably not happen this way. They probably don't have that much of an advantage there.

The way I see it, they're not that far off base but they still may be completely irrelevant. Computer literacy is important in that later on, at 15 or 18 or 25 those kids will be able to decide "I want to learn to program" or "I need to know accounting" or "I want to know if what this politician is saying is BS" or "I want to start an internet business" & go do it. You need to be comfortable enough with the machine to know where to start.

I know that if I want to know about bookkeeping or the French Revolution or growing sweet potatoes in slightly acidic sandy soil, I can do it online. It's about making it cheaper & easier for people everyone to know this too.
You don't think there is any correlation at all with the SAT and intelligence? Come on.
We're based in DC and right now traffic flow is all the buzz. It turns out that sometimes adding more roads can actually make a traffic situation worse. There are lights and whole lanes that change function based on traffic flow.

There are cameras everywhere but all they are used for is checking for accidents radio personalities chattering about where its backed up. The most high tech measuring device in use is those goofy rubber hoses that they lay on the roads. High tech camera based flow monitoring would be huge. Predicting impending traffic jams before they're 10 miles long would be gold. The mind boggles at how much that real-time data would fetch.
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That assumes that the login name is the same as the account name.
We have had a couple of CS interns work with us (1 on remote basis), and it's been great for both sides.. send me an email if you're interested simon a/t frenzoo d/o/t com.
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Even on Windows, I find it hard to think of a power user who isn't at least passingly familiar with the command prompt.

I'd recommend either O'Reilly's bash shell book or 'classic shell scripting' which covers a bit more than just a shell like bash.
You clearly don't have a written agreement about equity stakes. Otherwise you would be getting screwed in much more interesting ways. So it sounds like you don't have 20% equity you have 0% equity.
Most VCs see investments of under $5 million as a waste of time
What I experienced [before coming to Cali] is that social welfare has its costs.

Well, then we're definitely just coming from different places, and arguing that we should head in opposite directions, while looking at the same goal. By American standards, California has very high tax rates, as well as an excellent system of public higher education.

I'm also glad we agree that taxation should be about maximizing overall productivity, not about idealistic comfort.
I don't agree with that. Running a profitable business doesn't automatically make your opinions on everything unusually worthy of consideration.
For 3 years - guaranteed, yes, that would be nice.

If you can replace it - what is the big deal? just not user replacable?
Recently moved a client off engine yard that was paying ~$2600/month they are now having substantial savings for more capacity with EC2/AWS.
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Your knife comparison is interesting because of the current really low interest rates. The IRR of the $100 knife is probably more competitive with the 10 $20 knives right now, compared to a couple of years ago. It seems conceivable to me that low interest rates would encourage people to buy a few quality items rather than a lot of crappy ones.
As a sort of sequel to "Getting to Yes", I recommend Shell's "Bargaining for Advantage": http://www.amazon.com/Bargaining-Advantage-Negotiation-Strat...
I was hoping for a less partisan source.

Sorry about that, was in a rush. Here's one for total spending:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget,_2...

Here's one for discretionary:

http://www.cdi.org/issues/discret.html

Here's one in relation to GDP, as well as historical discretionary:

http://www.truthandpolitics.org/military-relative-size.php

there is a difference between including it as part of the US budget and portraying it as the US budget

Yes, absolutely. I think one would have to be quite confused about all this to mix up the two. One is what the president proposes and congress debates and votes on. The other is that, plus the laws that have already been passed in the past. The GDP figure is even farther complicated by uncertain estimates.

This might be my bias coming in, but it's pretty clear that if you want to talk about what our elected officials are doing with our money, we have to talk about discretionary spending.
You will probably also die because of a lack of oxygen supply to the brain but some people like to look for precursors. I agree with the broader point as it applies to life in general but obviously at a project, business and even career level it is important to know when to cut your losses.
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Yes that's what I want to know. My company is incorporated in Hong Kong and apart from paypal I haven't found other payment processors I could use (that are not too expensive)... BTW, if anyone has some tips on that I'd be interested.
This is pretty much what I'd do. You could also make it a test. Tell him you're not giving up any equity and see if he handles it in an ethical and respectful way. If he doesn't I'd walk. Not because 4% is that important, but because he's going to suck to worth with.
Hah, I thought that was Dr. Dobbs...

Well, glad to her you're not dead...
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How sad is it when EC2/AWS represents a substantial savings over your service?
But that's a great example of a lesson to be learned from stories about quitting: sometimes you do it because a hard reset is the best option. Knowing where that point lies is valuable knowledge.

Personally, I want to hear stories about failure more than stories about success. Stories about success are boring and repetitive, because they usually revolve around some combination of luck and persistence. But the truly hard decisions in life come when you're spinning your wheels, and you need to determine when it's time to cut your losses.
If they offered you 20% initially, they're obliged to give it to you. Once someone names a number, they have to stick to it.
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Your comment does not state that you believe he was wrong. You should be more specific, it doesn't read the way you think it does.

Where do you think it rates on the DH scale?
Ask HN: What's better: Having multiple side projects; or devoting all time to one single app? Which has better chance of bringing in more revenues?
If the original battery works well before I replace the notebook, yes.
Haha, I had the same thought today : http://twitter.com/officiallyrad/status/1102966972

(I know, kind of ironic I posted it on twitter...)
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With whom was the arrangement that you get 20%? Austin, Michael, and the Angel? Some subset?

If Austin agreed you would have 20%, but now wants some of that back, some options other than shifting the full 4% from you to him include:

- be firm: tell Austin to stick to his agreement; dare him to leave. (If he quit another job, and is fighting for an extra 4%, he thinks the company is valuable. And even if they're great guys, does the company need two non-coders at this pre-incorporation stage?)

- acquiesce but in an equitable fashion: agree that as a beautiful and unique snowflake, Austin deserves 4% more... but take it pro-rata from all other partners (including the angel if at all possible)

- seek compromise: while asserting that the original 20% agreements for you and he should stand, also say you respect his unique value, his longer tenure as a contributor, other opportunities he gave up, whatever in his mind justifies 24%. (Also, perhaps, that you've drawn a small stipend from invested funds while he may not have.) So offer to cede to him a little of what he wants. At the smallest, this is 1% more for Austin taken pro-rata from everyone; at its largest this might be 2-3% from you given to him. If his real psychological need is just acknowledgment of his slightly-higher founder status, even a slight 1% bump may be enough to put the renegotiation behind everyone.

Also consider whether the level he's seeking, in combination with other owners, changes the possible majority-interest (50%+epsilon) coalitions. That may be the real agenda.

Sticking up for yourself is important so you are respected and fairly treated in the future. (It's also a signal that you highly value and are dedicated to the company, and can discuss difficult issues involving founder tradeoffs.) On the other hand, seeking a mutual compromise, if Austin does have any plausible claim to greater value/sacrifice/seniority, shows a willingness to be flexible in aligning interests. Just make sure if you compromise you earn some kudos for a being a team player who is owed some slack in the next dispute.

If negotiations get stuck, and the Angel is truly locked at their share, perhaps they can be a neutral mediator. Or maybe there's another person everyone trusts.

Usually, someone in particular is the de facto leader/prime-instigator/CEO. Whoever this is should nudge everyone towards a fair resolution (which might be 'live with the original split' if the original split was a firm and well-understood arrangement). Otherwise, this leader is abdicating their responsibility for establishing an environment of trust and predictability.

I've given Austin some benefit-of-doubt in the above options -- there legitimately may have been some tentativeness about the original split discussions, or some reason he has greater value and deserves greater equity. But if in fact Austin is the 'de facto CEO', I'd be more worried. This sets a precedent of him renegotiating to his own benefit, which could turn toxic down the road.
How many hours a day did you put in on average?
Geshwiler's mistaken. The more progressive VCs are happy to deals of half a million or less. Even the stodgiest are interested in deals under 2 million.

A partner at a famous firm was recently telling me about one of their favorite portfolio companies. Their initial investment was $300k. He was not bummed about that; he was delighted.

What "moves the needle" for a fund is the ultimate value of the shares they buy, not how much they cost. That only moves the needle of the fuel gauge.
Like it or not, windows is what most third-world countries WANT.

Bullshit. Most people there want Windows as much as I want to use the IDE my boss's boss's boss decides to buy for all developers.

It's all about sales: steak and strippers, baby!
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This reminds me of something I wrote to do this with YUI.

http://kid666.com/yui-event-list-bookmarklet/

I also wrote a rudimentary Firebug plugin but yours looks way more slick :)
1. Accept everything just the way it is.

Not a big fan of that one, I think some situations are out of your control however nothing would have gotten done in this world if everyone followed this moto.
There is clearly a cultural disconnect between liberal urban artists, writers, and directors that manufacture the media of our culture and the suburban middle class. There are clearly happy and healthy people that grow up in the suburbs, hundreds of millions of them, in fact. And the schools really are much better.

I think the writer is spot on for noting the cultural disconnect and blaming it for suburban hatred in mass media. The red/blue line is much sharper between city and suburb than it has ever been between states.
If we did accept everything just the way it is, then we would have to accept ourselves the way we are, too. Since we are motivated by the pursuit of material possessions, comfort, good food, desire and pleasure (among many other things), then I am tempted to conclude that Miyamoto Musashi's work is a little bit self-contradictory.
That's really mean.

You can't generalize about that many people - care to name who, exactly, you are talking about?

IMO, everyone has different motives, and those I know anything about were 100% care-driven. The people I know who worked on OLPC have no beef with MS whatsoever, use MS products every day, but believe strongly that proprietary software has a very different role to play in the long-run that it does now.

In countries that can pay it, software and marketing are a significant cost in producing computers, one that is passed on to the customer. Now, in an over-abundant economy like ours (USA), this is not morally questionable - without advertising budgets, my children would have nothing to eat. However, when you're talking about a country that will be increasing Microsoft's bottom line instead of investing in roads or basic education, that's plain wrong.
My 2 cents: Numpy+Scipy+Matplotlib and other packages, which u can download together in a convenient package at Enthought. That enthought distribution also comes with Ipython, which, is, REALLY nice. I checked out R, Sage and am still sometimes forced into Matlab, but u just can't beat a programming language (Python) which can be used OUTSIDE of whtever problem space you happen to be working on.