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EDIT3: If we're going to go with fiction, this looks like a good list to pick from:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6.Best_Books_of_the_20th_...

Personally, I've read almost none of these!

1) How can you have read none of these? Get started already! And don't wait for others to tell you which books to read!

2) That list is very suspect... I don't know how they compiled it, but it's a bit strange that it does contain some good books but then simultaneously allocates several positions to enjoyable but trashy books such as Harry Potter. Also gives several position to LotR (one is warranted, no more!), including one for the Silmarillion (wtf? I enjoyed it, but "best book of the 20th century"? no way!) Memoirs of a Geisha is also nice but hardly a thought leader. And it seems to be completely missing immortal masterpieces such as Narziss & Goldmund (Herman Hesse), Joseph and his Brothers (Thomas Mann), The Trial (Kafka), and many others.

An "OK" starting point, but not even the shadow of a definitive list.
Because the "cure" threatens to kill the patient. The current recession is deflationary - something we have not seen in the US since the Great Depression. Whereas monetary policy can rather easily counteract a typical recession - and be used to bring a recession on as in 1982 to "cure" the economy of persistent inflation - in a deflationary environment monetary policy has little or no traction. And today, without fiscal stimulus, we could realistically find ourselves in a deflationary spiral. Businesses and assets that are otherwise sound can get pushed down in a vicious circle of deleveraging and shrinking demand resulting from lower prices and lower wages.

This has already begun. We've effectively seen a run on the shadow banking system of investment banks, prime brokers, hedge funds, etc., as initial losses in subprime have forced firesales of other assets to meet margin calls. To be sure, the credit bubble extended far beyond subprime, and the deteriorating economic fundamentals support continuing write-downs and losses on Alt-As, option ARMs, prime mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt, student loans, etc. But the credit market's subsequent freezing has put everyone at risk, so that the recession could potentially far overshoot the "disease" of over-indebtedness and overconsumption. Absent the government stepping in and trying to make use of the wasted capacity in the economy, making up for lost private and business investment, this process could spiral on well beyond what the economic fundamentals justify, and past anyone's ability to predict as well.

Yes, this recession is the result of previous bad choices, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to ameliorate the worst consequences and prevent a negative feedback loop. Telling people that this is the "cure" without trying to end the cycle of loss smacks of neo-Hooverism.
That and MMIX.
Recommend you also read his on-line stuff as listed above. Tim is one of the clearest and most insightful writers I know, as well as being thoroughly nice to and tolerant of lesser mortals such as myself.
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I didn't believe you, but I've been and checked. Even though he was supervised by Bollobas (Erdos Number 1) he appears never to have co-authored with him, an unusual situation. So it seems that my Erdos Number is smaller than his - perhaps I should offer to co-author a paper with him. I'd get the kudos of co-authoring with a Fields Medal winner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal ) and he'd lower his Erdos Number to 3.
I'm guessing there's a large amount of TL;DR reaction... Calacanis really needs to learn to be more brief. Not everything he has to say is insightful. The art of a good writer is to extract the essence of an idea and express that in an elegant, entertaining, insightful and instructive fashion - not to brain-dump everything that comes through his head while he thinks of a topic.

And it doesn't help, when your article is that long, to have it printed in a light grey colour on white... it then becomes TL;CR - Too Long; Couldn't Read.
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Indeed, especially this feature : http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/122.bookclubs_just_got_ev...
For me this was very easy to understand, but as you see others think there should be more text to explain.

I suggest in the search box have the words, "Find a web or mobile developer for your project."
Ah, that makes a lot more sense now!
always inform the user as to whats up - if there are no results, tell them.
I'm sure you read the story of Google having to add the copyright line at the bottom of the page because users thought some of the page simply wasn't loading.
I just did the same on your site - I typed "Ruby" and it went blank ....
NO results? Fetching results? broken?
I like patio11's thing: http://www.bingocardcreator.com

Well, I don't really "like" it, as I could hardly care less about bingo cards, but it's a nice reminder that there is money even in what seems like really weird niches.
Not just on the list, but actually bought and stacked on your desk. Right next to the stack of 5 books you previously purchased to read.
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Looks like the good professor has some other interesting material on his site:

http://www.willamette.edu/~wiltbank/
There's another batch coming of tweets off the data mining feed. But yeah: the focus here was on the graph structure more than the text. We're also hoping someone pipes up with "oh gee I have 750m tweets archived do you think anyone else wants to look at them?"
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I've started keeping quiet when my colleagues in the newspaper industry talk about how to save newspapers. I'm no longer interested in saving them. if they can't support themselves, then they should die and entrepreneurs should put the pieces back together again into something that makes sense.
Is it really that new? Indie games have been popular for quite some time--maybe they're just coming more into the spotlight now, but this trend has been going on for quite a while.

See my post at http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=398305 for an example of a tremendously successful indie game developer who managed--alone--in his free time (!)--to create one of the most popular franchises in Japan.
It's a REALLY bad idea. Just because you know how to use a drill machine does not mean you should use a drill machine as a saw.

If you want to make a game for a particular platform, use the tools designed to make games on that platform. You'll learn a lot and it will save you a lot of time learning one technology, and then having to go back to relearn a new technology when you reach a certain stage where your development capacity is limited by the tools you are using.
why is his site grey text on a white background?
How much productivity are you costing your company?
No, it is not only shuffling money from the future into the present; it is also shuffling problems from the present into the future. When we get to the future, as we must, we'll find today's problems and tomorrow's problems waiting for us, and we'll have fewer resources to tackle them.
I am not sure it makes sense not to count laptops and lathes in the same category these days.
Live search of what? I assumed Twitter because you have a prominent link to your Twitter profile.

And the searches I tried didn't get any results so a message saying "Searching..." and then "Nothing found..." would be good.
40 minutes' time per week of an insightful active investor is perhaps on the low side, but then again, a lot can be learned in 40 minutes.
Just released my annual report, incidentally, if you care to read it.

http://kalzumeus.com/2008/12/21/bingo-card-creator-year-2008...

Highlights:

* $20.7k in sales from 1/1/2008 to 12/21/2008

* $10k in profit, which is about 62% YOY growth (did I hear something about a recession?)

* Works out to about $100 an hour. (It is a part-time thing at the moment.)

* Taking myself full-time in 2009, hopefully. (Got another product in the works.)
Funny you mention dating.reddit -- I distinctly remember PG bringing it up during one of our chats. At the time, it seemed rather laughable, particularly because we were still so small.

I've been pushing for a basic bio for a long time now (it's somewhere on the features todo list) but something like <200 characters and some basic markdown for linking to blogs/projects. Force users to be creative and avoid the laundry list of "movies I like" most proper social networking sites suffer from.

To that point, we've always consciously avoided reproducing elements found on social networking sites because we weren't building a social networking site.

However, helping a few redditors meet up, fall in love, and make babies (or adopt them) would bring more geeks into the world, which wouldn't be a terrible thing...
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Yup, in your method signature you simply have one last parameter called &bl and then bl is set to the Proc object.

You can no longer call yield(...) but instead you have to use bl.call(...)

You can indeed save the Proc object and use it later.
I'm the guy who modeled 37signals revenue. You can download a spreadsheet with all my calculations if you follow the link above... I would appreciate any feedback from those who have experience in the area to improve my assumptions.
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I also bought the Wii version, makes great use of the Wiimote. Lots-O-Fun, Highly recommended.
The RTFMan responses are one of the worst things in Linux culture. Man pages are an exhaustive reference about what you can do with commands, that's true. But they are not written in a helpful way: you pretty much have to read it all every time in order to see what you need. If Google had the same attitude with their search, they would be satisfied with a query for "george bush" that returns the page of some random George Bush out there, you would have to add "US president" to get what you need.
Pleasant company, sustenance, and a good long book. I'm reading Musashi right now, so I'd say that, but I'm already half-done. Maybe Shantaram - that's probably next for fiction.
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Employee salaries in Japan aren't that low. I don't know what is a fair comparison but http://www.worldsalaries.org/employment-income.shtml states that is US 30410/42028 vs Japan 25184/29882.

I would say that the bigger advantage that Japan car industry has is that they actually been always innovative, agile and reactive to markets. Hell, the whole "agile method" has some origination from Toyota. US industry has invented and started some markets like the SUV, but except for you guys, almost no-one else in their sane mind in the world buys them.
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I've ordered it (GBP 60!) but it'll have to go a long way to beat Engineering Mathematics by K. A. Stroud.
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Goodreads looks nice - but is rather unresponsive. There are many similar sites - but I have not yet found any that would make it easy to do the practical things - like finding people who would like to talk about a book (instead of just finding out who has read one), with added bonus if that was also location aware or finding bookclubs with most similar reading taste to mine.
I read a little more about their technology, and they are indeed using up to 5 watt infrared lasers. The "safety" of the product is in a mechanism that immediately shuts off the laser as soon as the beam is broken.

I have a hard time believing the FDA will approve such a device for consumers.
Name is good, idea is reasonable.

You need to explain where the content comes from, does one have to register to be listed as a result? You should be scraping various sources to get content and saying at the top what the sources are. I feel like dev contractor search engines must exist already but I can't think of one.
And they're stacked on the desk because your shelf of books to read is already full.

Or do I just buy too many books?
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Funny -- my intuition of Japanese business etiquette, which is not always correct, suggests that the Chryster CEO if anything under-groveled with the $100,000 ad in the New York Times.

It is a large expenditure to show feelings. Japan is really big on that (as are most cultures, truth be known, but the forms are different).

If it were a Japanese CEO, I predict they would have taken a page out of the politicians' book: go to a busy train station, during the morning rush hour. Stand on a footstool. And shout the following for an hour:

"I am the president of Toyota! I promise you we will not waste your money! Thank you for giving us the chance to keep these jobs in Japan! With your help we will proceed together to a beautiful future! I am the president of Toyota!..."

There is a Japanese politician from the ruling party who is detailed to go to a large train or subway station, typically in Tokyo, and shout something like this. Every. Single. Workday. More than one when the government is hurting, for whatever reason. The point is not to draw a crowd -- most people are busy on their way to work and pass straight by. The point is not to draw a camera -- they could have thrown a press conference in a nice heated room with 15 handpicked reporters and been far less embarrassed about things. The point is to demonstrate that nothing I could possibly be doing this morning is more important than demonstrating my commitment to you. Even the Prime Minister is occasionally expected to put in an appearance.

Of course, the Toyota CEO won't have to do that groveling because he runs a business which makes money. But if he didn't, oh boy, there would be an appropriate level of bowing and scraping.
I'm always up for some more comments/discussion of the business books on Squeezed Books. Many of the books are ones I'd recommend and have read myself. Obviously I'd love it if people wanted to summarize new books, but I find it interesting to learn what people took away from the books already there, what sorts of applications they've found in their own businesses, and so on.
While I'm not necessarily against using private/unpublished APIs, you should know what the hell you're doing if you do.

It's downright irresponsible to recommend such things in a book on developing for the official SDK. The people reading the book are likely people who don't understand the system well enough to safely use private/unpublished APIs like Gruber outlines.

That said, Apple should open up most of these APIs (CoverFlow, prox sensor, etc).
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You can't out innovate someone who can just copy you

Unfortunately in Detroit's case it's just you can't innovate.

And besides, that's nonsense, that's what the patent system is for, precisely to prevent someone just copying you after you've invested in R&D.
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Cheer up! At least it's coming to Linux :-)
Ah, I see. I usually think about IQ in the way Retric describes, where it is proportional to "mental age." That assumption makes it seem quantitative, so yes, it's easy to get it wrong.
That's creepy. When did you come over to my house?
Thanks for your points, I do agree that the saltlicklabs site is very well done graphically.

Thanks!
I've got it, have tried to read parts of it, and have found it mostly too terse to follow. Maybe it's different if you're attempting to read it cover to cover. I bought it mostly as a quick-reference for the parts of physics I'd not had much exposure to.
Hi I agree that adding prebuilt routines is a big feature, it would be included very soon.

Thanks
Hmm I am not usre why I never ran across this tool (yslow). Thanks for the tip it is very useful!
If you're already got some experience with Java, then applets may be the way to go.

Despite what people say, Java plugin penetration is still very high and games like Runescape show what you can do. The ability to run cross-platform OpenGL in the browser is a huge advantage.
Toyota Motor Vehicles (トヨタ自動車), which is what most Americans think of when they think of Toyota, is one of the members of the Toyota Group, which used to be a keiretsu, basically a related family of companies in different verticals. (Toyota is distinct from many Japanese keiretsu in that it is largely concentrated in one vertical.)

There are other big components: Toyota Industries (豊田自動織機) for example, which makes machine tools. Number one customer: well, duh. But they also sell them all to other folks as well.

Now here's where it gets hairy: Toyota Industries owns Toyota Motors (largest single shareholder), but Toyota Motors also owns a quarter of the stock of Toyota Industries.

Now repeat that with another dozen or so major companies which you probably haven't heard of, and any number of minor satellite firms.

This ends up as one big web, which is collectively the Toyota Group. It is very possible for the group as a whole to be prospering while one or several group companies struggle. How they work this out is an exercise in business management and accounting that would boil your brains -- don't ask me, I'm just an engineer (and, er, customer and shareholder and not-quite-employee but as I mentioned disentangling Nagoya from Toyota is like asking for a human body minus all the carbon).
"When you commit to reading a technical book, you're committing yourself to more than just the time spent reading: ..."

I wish more hackers took that attitude towards science books. Can't really get much out of a pop-physics book without solving problems.
"...noting that it's especially difficult nowadays because it's extremely easy to spoof IP addresses."

Is it really? It may be easy to spoof the IP of requests in protocols like HTTP (assuming the networks don't filter erroneous packets), but the RIAA doesn't typically go after people who merely download, they go after the people who share.

It seems like it would be much harder to spoof an IP when you're trying to act as a server (as the people who are sharing on BitTorrent and other P2P networks are) since you need to actually receive the requests to know what/when to respond with.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons they only go after the sharers (and of course, to cut of the supply... like going after drug dealers instead of drug users)
"You can imagine a team of 6 very techy hacker guys getting extremely depressed spending 2-3 hours a day matching IP logs to modem MACs and finally onto a customer."

This seems like a task begging to be automated?
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Frankly, Detroit would do well to copy their foreign competitors a bit more often.

Which American car did the Datsun B210 copy? Which car did Porsche's 911 or Mercedes' S-class? Or for that matter, Toyota's Prius?

I see plenty of examples of foreign competition innovating successfully, often at "non-competitive" prices. Detroit's last significant innovation was what? The 60-month car lease? The UAW job bank?
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A book in a similar vein is "A Grand Unified Tour of Theoretical Physics", by Ian Lawrie. While I admire Penrose's book, I believe Lawrie's is written at a more consistent level and is probably more accessible to many (though not all) people.
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Mine reside on an Amazon wish list. I wish I had the money to buy them all and stack them on my desk where I could put off reading them until I'm locked away in a cabin in Maine without an Internet connection.
The whole auto-industry thing is a huge stretch. People here buy simple toilets, so if his analogy fit, that would mean Detroit would be doing well. Err...

So, I am choosing to ignore that and focus on the neat toilets.

I grew up in a cold climate and the bathroom was a nice 55 degrees on a warm day... what a great way to start the morning! So how come we never got heated toilet seats, rugs, and towel racks? I've never seen them advertised so probably nobody thought of it.

And the other reason is price. A replacement plunger/valve unit is $5.45 for my toilet. How much do those expensive toilets cost to repair?

Finally, the bidet sounds tempting. Do people actually like those things?
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Business books are mostly trash, avoid them like the plague. Also non-fiction does not have to mean 'hacking' books, there's lots of good stuff out there that can fill gaps you never knew you had.

I usually take a note when Charlie Rose has authors on, or even Stephen Colbert (although I skipped the whole doom+gloom book style of the last two years)
I'm keen.

Someone want to hack it together? Maybe have a vote site built similar to YC/reddit where anyone can submit a book and discuss it, then the most popular submission every 2 weeks is chosen and we all read it?

Maybe decide 5 groups of books (business, technology, scifi, philosophy, etc) and choose 1 from each every month, to facilitate those who may want to use this book club for different reasons such as a learning facility (those who would gravitate to functional books on tech for example) or an escape from the every day (and read/discuss scifi or philosophy). I don't know, I havn't really thought this out. Maybe I'm over complicating it - I do that when I'm boozy!

Either way, it sounds like it could be a fun way to play with the Amazon API.