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اخیرا دوستداران محیط زیست برای استفاده از کیسه های خرید پارچه ای و قابل استفاده مجدد و اجتناب از کیسه های نایلونی (که باعث تخریب محیط زیست می‌شود) توصیه هایی کردند و حال شما را برای استفاده بهتر از این کیسه های دوستدار محیط زیست تشویق می‌کنند.
Would be wonderful if it happened, but Google seems to be a place where good acquisitions go to die.
The thing is that Matlab is problematic for further extension even if the basic code is well done simply because of Matlab's weird function composition architecture and other weirdnesses.

Consider that if biological simulations are going to go to a larger scale, you won't want to simply call a bunch of Matlab simulations from a single C program but rather have a bunch of distinct programs that would be modified to call each other (with each of these programs running as they do now in their Matlab instance).
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It's not just a Valley thing. A local corn maze was using iPads with them last year as the POS terminals for what would have previously been a cash-only affair.
People are reacting to the authors overselling their work, as amplified by extremetech: they're claiming this as hardening against rubber-hose cryptoanalysis, which is simply untrue. Their paper actually describes a system which actually has nothing to with cryptography - it's authentication - and has failure modes which are identical to password authentication, except where it imposes significant new barriers to practical application.

If they'd published it as a minor curiosity suggesting an area for future research there'd be far less backlash.
It is very very easy to create a nice demo, the difference beteween that and a nice product is lots and lots of time, effort and money.

There is a balance to be made between 'we have this idea and need money to build it' and 'we are serious about this, we have done X much already, we need money to go over the finish line'
One of the reasons why user hosted Personal Cloud Storage/Sync services like Tonido (http://www.tonido.com/blog/index.php/2012/07/20/dropbox-secu...) are better than Public Cloud Storage/Sync services.
I discriminate based on who does the agreeing.
No, not at all. At least not if this were in the US (or he was a US citizen). I'm not sure what the tax system is like in Taiwan. If this were the US, he'd still have to pay income tax on the $3 million he received for payment for services, and he'd essentially gift the money over to the 10K employees.

Your allowed to give each individual 13K (last time I checked) in gifts each year—but there's a lifetime limit to watch out for. In either case, even if there were issues with gift tax, it would be the gifter that would have to pay the tax, not the recipient. So, it would still be a win for the employees. Good for them, and for him.
Here's my one missing feature they planned on but never adding: Increase the (reading) font size. It's stuck at 12pt, which is too small for me. Usability 101, no?
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i was reading peopleware recently, and was surprised how much of what they mention comes "for free" with remote teams. there's a whole pile of "give your employees control of their environment" is a no-brainer when remote. of course, there are also things that become much harder...

one hack i found, which has really helped me a couple of times now, is using a tablet and pen (wacom bamboo, on linux) on google meetup, and screen-sharing while drawing. this lets me "explain while sketching on a piece of paper" (the two big wins were a complex technical/maths issue and a gui/interaction problem). i also used it for a talk, which i think went well (a small, distributed company technical talk - worked something like a blackboard, which is a bit old school, but i had pre-drawn diagrams too - we even considered putting the recording online, but there was "frank discussion" at various points during the talk that ruled that out).

and, of course, agree completely on the "communication before skills" thing (well, you need both).

[some notes on getting bamboo working on linux - http://isti.bitbucket.org/2012/04/09/wacom-bamboo-on-linux.h...]

ps could you email me when the talk is online? andrew@acooke.org - thanks.
You really feel OK asking big companies not to outbid you for other people's work? Why is it OK to demand a ceiling to a developer's compensation?
If you permanently eliminate the position for one line worker, there is essentially zero impact to the company; it continues along with only a 0.01% drop of efficiency. If you permanently eliminate the CEO position, there is multiple orders of magnitude greater impact to the company. That's why the compensation for each role is different.
That deal included some of the most foolish business decisions made in a long time and interestingly enough both sides made the entirely wrong decision. Microsoft was stupid for bidding, Yahoo was stupid for rejecting.
While it is somewhat arbitrary and specious to presume that any given argument can be boiled down to an arguable thesis, three supporting points, and a restatement, I think the value of the exercise of writing a formal essay is not so much in slavishly adhering to the form, but in using the form to help you build your case.

If I only had one or two points in support of my thesis, I recognized that I was not yet fully prepared to write the essay: either I needed to dig out more distinct points in support of my position, or find a way to split a point into two, or simply devise a new thesis. If I had more than three points, this could mean that my thesis was too broad, or that I was digging too deeply into the material, and needed to find a level of abstraction that worked better.

And, occasionally, I assumed the risk of writing an essay that did not observe convention. Sometimes you only need two really strong points to support an argument, and adding a weaker point just for the sake of the formalism detracts from the argument. Sometimes you have four points, and simply cannot remove any one of them without feeling like you've weakened your argument considerably. So you roll the dice, go with what you have, and trust that your grader will honor your choices.
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You're missing a level of indirection.

Say you have a median CEO and median line workers. If you got a CEO 20% better than the median, would he be able to motivate the line workers to be 20% more efficient? Highly unlikely. I think you need a 10x median CEO to see something as huge as a 20% jump in the efficiency of line workers.
Religion is a pretext. Greed is a cause. Wars that were driven by leaders' economic motivations used religion as a justification. As religion became less effective as a pretext in the 20th century, other pretexts came along ("progress", "economic justice", etc.) to justify expansionist greed.
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I think these faces are quite beautiful and evocative. So far, I've gotten a sad old man, the west wind, a hound, a hag, and a young woman with flowing hair.
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Still needs a couple more words: "the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
Perhaps once bought by Microsoft it wouldn't have gone so bad.
What about having a "quick commit" branch for the tiny changes and once a day merging the changes into a slower-moving "batch commit" branch with a more lengthy message?
"'I wrote down everything that happened at Twitter, and we corrected all the mistakes,' [Dorsey] says."

This is kind of Zen. I saw this as an example of motivated and deliberate learning. I find that taking notes instead of winging it can lower the chance of making the same mistake twice. You miss and forget more than you realize. To put it another way, you forget what you remember and don't even remember you forgot.
What a self serving piece of crap email. I'm happy he and his team are excited. But it's terrible news for their users.

They make it sound like we should be happy and excited about this. Please... I've lost all respect for this guy.

The right thing to do was spin it off to someone else; or make arrangements with Google to continuing development, or open source the whole app. The wrong thing to do was to screw the "user" by leaving us all hanging.
I would argue that just open sourcing the code could have even worse effects on the app/brand than a simple end of life. Clearly if the app in question had a good following, it was a decent product created by folks who knew what they were doing. By open sourcing it, anyone could jump in and that anyone may not be qualified to make the best product decisions. Maybe I'm just being too sentimental here, but I'd rather the product go out in a nice light rather than watching it slowly creep downhill to death.
...oftentimes by applying the "beatings will continue until morale improves" philosophy of firing teams, cutting departments, slashing r&d and expecting unpaid overtime. There, efficiency *= 1.20.
That's the point. If something is an established fact, I simply state it. Often these are uncontroversial things that have been demonstrated in some way. If I qualify my statement, that's because it deserves qualification. "I think" implies "I believe this to be true, but I do not know it to be true." So, yes, I lack total confidence in such statements.

It's also a way to differentiate objective statements from subjective statements: I think Metallica is a great band.
This is very reassuring to instapaper users in this m&a environment.
Thank you
> I also couldn't figure out how Sparrow would be able to grow on $10 one time purchases.

Can a small company survive on one-time purchases of desktop applications? If Sparrow charged $100, they might have more time to scale up their customers, but they would have fewer customers.

Has Y Combinator invested in startups whose primary product was a desktop application?
I love the incredible attention to detail, both in design and implementation, on just about every page on PicPlum. I've used their site as a benchmark for several projects I've worked on.

I've had a chance to see some of their prints as well, and I can definitely say the quality has been fantastic. From what I understand, when you start printing at very high volume it gets hard to keep the print quality this high.
Being a CEO is way way way way way way way harder than individual contributor technical jobs. The breadth of skill and degree of dedication required to do the job well is just insane.
I had a boss that thought the same thing. He shut up when we showed him an IBM branded ThinkPad with a "Made in China" sticker, but the new Lenovo branded ThinkPad had a "Made in Singapore" sticker.
Might be smart to mention in the title that its just an unstable release.
I agree with the sentiment, but the difference between what you have (a healthy business, as you mention) and some other acquisitions is that some see the writing on the wall. True, some businesses throw in the towel too early for an attractive offer, but others know that without being the leader in a space they can't live up to their valuations, investment amount, or can't find a viable and sustainable business model for their product. It all depends on whether you're still having fun at your current business and whether it has a chance at succeeding. It's going to vary from startup to startup.
DropBox isn't so simple, with Mountain Lion coming. http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-not-on-the-Mac-A...
I worked at a smaller company (100 people in the local office) where the executives gave out a one-time $3,000 bonus per person (~ $300,000 total I figure) that came out of the bonuses they got from head office. They took a portion of their bonus and gave it to us. Not sure how much they got above that, but $300,000 is not chump change.

Same concept as the Lenovo situation. I'm a cynic about many things, but I do believe that they could have kept the money if they wanted but decided to split it among the team. Earned my respect.

I think this kind of thing builds internal loyalty way more than the external PR aspects.
"... an early adopter"
Hardly. Sparrow has been out for a few years.
Not spamming, just don't have much time to spend commenting in the forum...
I got out of the building this past weekend in New York. I know first hand that you have to ask the right questions of the right potential buyer to get useful information.
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I love how everyone here is complaining but if 90% of you were in that position you probably would have taken the offer.
Yeah it's just a tough situation. Even as a developer, I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble turning down a huge paycheck to go work for a reputable company. I've never built anything that's had a huge fan base though.

What are ways to show appreciation for a company/product you like aside from buying their product, tweeting an occasional praise, and liking their FB content? Is that enough?
It's sensible, but how is it Zen? In what way does it partake of the Buddha nature? :-)
And in case anyone is not familiar with just how long "long before" was: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001604.h...
I don't see a problem with it: being vapid is the stated purpose of the exercise. Cyranix did not propose blindsiding the students with this exercise by applying this criteria to essays the students wrote in earnest.
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Remember that msft sold Avenue A/Razorfish [1] to Publicis for $530mm, plus IIRC something on the order of a billion dollars of guaranteed purchases of msft display inventory ([2] mentions but doesn't know the amount), though I could be way off on that. So msft probably got $1B back from the $6B purchase, so I don't understand how they can write down more than $5B. Anyway, it means the aQuantive purchase was 16% less shitty than everyone reports =P

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_A/Razorfish

[2] http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/microsoft-s...
I don't know Taiwan's tax laws either, but assuming they are similar to the US it is highly unlikely he structured the transaction that way. It is much more likely that before receiving the money he renegotiated a contract for the period and then had the company distribute the gain to employees rather than himself.

That should result in zero tax liability for him.
Atomic-level would be overkill for a lot of cellular processes. It's certainly crucial for protein interactions (for example), but affinity/dissociation constants are well-characterized so modelling individual binding site interaction isn't going to make a difference at the (relatively) macro level.
Agreed, i spent a while looking for this. Looking at Figure 1B in the paper though suggests that it is the latter. There are no actual molecules bouncing around.
Thanks man, that means a lot. We definitely obsess over the details. :)
Am I missing the joke?

People are hanged, portraits are hung.
There is no reason he would have actually taken the $3m, then redistributed it. Sure, you can make that assumption but it is the least likely event happening possible.
I've been looking a lot at the 6502 processor simulation (http://visual6502.org) and it's interesting to consider the different levels of abstraction possible for chip simulation. The current simulator simulates abstract on/off transistors, which is sufficient for almost everything, but it doesn't exactly handle some unsupported opcodes that put conflicting signals on the bus. For that, you'd need to simulate actual voltage levels. If the transistors were very small, the voltage abstraction would break down because each electron starts to count. The simulator also ignores propagation delays. Moving up the hierarchy, people have gate-level 6502 simulations, which are tricky to implement exactly since the 6502 uses a lot of pass transistors and stored charge, rather than strictly Boolean logic. And then the typical CPU simulator runs at the register level, which is a lot simpler, but often gets the corner cases wrong (e.g. decimal arithmetic with invalid inputs).

The point is that circuits can be simulated at many different levels of detail, with low-level simulations more likely to get things exactly right, but with high-level simulations much faster, easier to write, and easier to understand.

Likewise, it will be interesting to see with cell simulations how much complexity can be abstracted away and still have a useful simulation. To get all the protein interactions right for example, you'd need to simulate individual atoms, which is insanely slow. So to simulate a cell, you're probably running at the level of protein and chemical concentrations and known interactions, which is faster but introduces error. For instance, how much do local concentrations matter? And to simulate a multicellular organism, you're probably going to make the cells fairly abstract.

Personally, I think the key area for biology is going to be dealing with cell state. Cells hold state in a lot of different ways over many time frames (eg epigenetics), and I think computer scientists have a lot to offer biologists in understanding state. Someone else mentioned the few hundred cell types in the human body, but the internal state makes a huge difference. (Not to mention distributed state, such as how the brain stores information.)
This is about loyalty, definitely. Good luck to the board of Lenovo when they decide to fire the CEO - he's got considerable admiration from the front line workers.
I guess it would depend on who jumped in to maintain it. I mean, look around. There are many high quality open source apps.

Just saying.
TPS reports rule (I know it's really below the belt) . . .

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I had not thought deeply about runtimes in relation to this question. It's certainly true that one reason I can hack around in Clojure and count on that code running on our production servers is that the JVM is ubiquitous there. Quite a different story than when I was doing some stuff in SBCL and had to compile it in my user space.
I bet MS is regretting not pushing it right now. That meant they could have possibly ended up with Mayer instead of Balmer as the CEO.
I'm pretty sure Kidneys sell for less than $3m on the black market.
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That's a really useful trick Andrew.

We often get the benefit of that while sitting next to each other - the whole "let's go to the whiteboard" idea.

I still carry paper with me almost all the time and then take a photo of the page on my phone and mail it off to whoever needs it.

Will mail you when I know the link!
One nice thing about git is that you can easily amend your commit history. If you've done several related refactor commits in a row, then sometimes it makes sense to squash them into one, using `git rebase -i` [1].

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>There is one thing client side js does protect you against very well and that is simple sql-injection style vulnerabilities.

Um, I don't think so. Client side JS is very good at doing SQLi. How on earth does client-side encryption mitigate against SQLi?
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Congrats!

BTW I'm pretty sure Adobe took over PhoneGap to replace its AIR/Flash long-term debacle. Nice move.
But think of the labor costs. Can you get a 20% better CEO with 3 million dollars? Probably. Can you get 10,000 line workers 20% better with 3 million dollars? Probably not. So even if the line workers are more important, a large CEO bonus may provide better value.
That may be, but there's actually little evidence that compensation relates to it. There are all sorts of studies attempting to link higher CEO pay with better performance, and the data is thin. There's also some evidence that firms with less diffuse ownership structures (i.e. owners more informed and in control) pay CEOs less, which at least weakly hints that high CEO pay isn't rationally chosen by owners who are paying attention.

Now, even "less well paid" CEOs still get paid a lot, so that's not an argument for paying CEOs $100k. But it may be an argument to pay CEOs towards the lower end of the CEO payscale, rather than towards the higher end.
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What makes you think that the average user is better able to secure their own hosted system than a company with a dedicated team of security engineers can?
What I find to be most fascinating by this concept is that it walks hand in hand with the theory that everyone in a start up is a sales person. Whether you're an engineer, accountant or marketer, you're all sales people.

By having a fantastic customer service program, they are also creating a brand that people want to use. That's how they are able to grow.
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But that's not the comparison. It's CEO versus all the employees, not a single employee.
It sounds like the model is more postdictive than predictive. Not useless, but more like measuring a huge number of right triangles to determine the ratio of side lengths, versus deriving the pythagorean theorem.
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Your argument is completely rational. Isn't the point, though, that these feelings are irrational? I don't think telling yourself to stop being irrational is the best way to address the problem. Once you have debugged the cause of the irrational belief/behaviour then it might be easy to tell yourself you can now take the desired, rational step, no?
>I don’t want Instapaper to shut down, I don’t want to move my family across the country, and they didn’t want to pay enough

So if Marco was paid enough, would he let big companies shut down Instapaper by acquiring it?
There are some really good gems in there:

"Decide what you want to say and say it as vigorously as possible, without apology and in plain words."
>If you want to keep the software and services around that you enjoy, do what you can to make their businesses successful enough that it’s more attractive to keep running them than to be hired by a big tech company.

Nice words, but I doubt it matters. Sparrow got nothing but support for their entire company history. Every review was golden. Every user was a paid user. And they still sold out.

(Or maybe Marco means people should join his subscription program: http://www.instapaper.com/subscription )
Bull crap.

Having a half-off sale a week before dropping the app isn't honest in any way. What... Google approached them yesterday and they agreed this morning? I doubt that.

More likely they've been in negotiations with Google for weeks. But it's in their best interests to move (in other words squeeze) as much product as possible before dropping the ball. Sleazy.