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My parents were both immigrants who came to Canada on "skilled labour immigration" policies. We enjoy pay that's well above the Canadian average (read: we're not working for pennies), and within my family we have 2 masters degrees, 3 undergrads, and 1 soon-to-be PhD.

Overall I think we have contributed to raising the Canadian standard of living, instead of detracting from it, and I wish that the US has the foresight to implement these policies - as a startup-minded individual I'd rather be there than here.
Another reason is that it is a very convenient way to avoid taxes and cheaply transfer some of your wealth to your offspring. Art appreciation is hard to quanitify hence hard to tax.
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Since when is it necessary for a color to be generated by a single wavelength of electromagnetic radiation?
A good way to look at colors their perceptual relationships such as complimentary color is the color wheel used in the HSL and HSV color models. Magenta is at 324° by the way; that's between red and blue (more towards red). Going to the opposite side of the color wheel (324°-180°=144°) gives you (surprise) green, the complementary color to magenta.
Magenta happens to be the area where the color wheel "joins" the opposite ends of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. There is nothing mystical about that fact which explains why greens is the only color that has a complementary color that is not made from a single wavelength.
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> A baby seal walked into a club.

- The favorite joke of the creator of 4chan.

I wouldn't trust this guy too much. It seems strange that he can't monetize such a hugely popular site. Kind of fishy actually. If he has problems with big flashy ads something like google adsense would work out just fine.
Bad UIs is the reason I stick with my Palm PDA, even though synchronizing with a Linux box is not easy.

Actually, it's ridiculous how difficult it is to make a simple appointement with any calendar tool, compared to a physical calendar. I tried KDE's, Evolution, Lighthning from Thunderbird, jpilot, Google Calendar. All very complicated, a lot of <Tab>, mouse pointing, and options to get lost in.

Backpack's UI looks like an improvement, though.
Sure you could view the UI as a set of "motions", but the argument of this article is about how you could simplify such analysis: just count the number of concepts or elements presented to the user. The smaller the count, the easier the UI would feel.
Only if you work for Crayola.
May be this is their evil plan - make The Pirate Bay SO popular, that it won't be able to handle the load and will eventually collapse under it's own weight :)

I guess they haven't heard of http://highscalability.com/
Are you familiar with "smart pricing"? Basically, if your traffic isn't worth anything, you get CPMs to match. This is for the understandable reason that advertisers will go freaking berserk if they run a Placement Report and see they're paying large CPMs for no-conversion traffic from a site of very low perceived quality. (And if you're, oh, advertising manager for a bank, your level of perceived quality of /b/ is probably lower than you can construct a number to represent.)

See also: Facebook and Myspace, which have the same monetization issues minus the whole content toxicity problem.
I just don't understand this mentality. Maybe it's because I haven't had a lot of experience using SVN (without the help of git-svn) in a multi-developer environment. But to me SVN users look like people who have been forced to walk a tightrope -- every time they check code in to their VCS, they have to make sure that the code is free of bugs, or their colleagues' machines blow up. Which is a dangerous situation, so they sensibly erect guardrails, which they then become completely used to, to the point where they don't even feel them - they can follow the path of those guardrails with their eyes closed. They come to assume that the only safe way for a human to walk is in a perfectly straight line.

But then a DVCS user comes along, just sort of wandering around in two dimensions. Because DVCS isn't like a tightrope; it's more like a flat parking lot with a line painted on it. You can stroll wherever you like, so long as you're standing on the line when you type git push. But the sight of a git user makes the SVN user freak out: "Watch out! You're going to fall off that level parking lot!"

And when someone compares the use of git to C, they are not being profound. They are just freaking out. Because that metaphor is poor. The problem with C is that you can easily write code that contains memory leaks or buffer overflows that are invisible to you, and invisible to your peers, and invisible to your automated tests, but that will cause a severe emergency weeks, months, or years from now. This is a problem that is orders of magnitude more serious than any of these alleged problems with git. git is not secretly introducing long-term time bombs into your code, even if you do manage to find a way to make it break the build.
Excellent point, why didn't I think of that right away :)

Or, even more evil, they hope the owners will pull the plug during an attack of extreme anxiety, brought on by the increase in media attention. Or that they will go away when they've made enough money. Your train of thought opens up interesting possibilities...
Doesn't look as nice as the Palm Pre.
Well obviously the owners of TPB bribed some government officials into prosecuting now with bad evidence and an inept prosecutor in order to preempt other possible cases in the future.

Once they are cleared, they will have precedent on their side in any future cases. Quite genius really... vaccinating the court system in a sense.
I am pretty sure that TPB is not going to go away after "making enough money" or getting all the media attention they want. They want to "win", which probably means they will fight until traditional media formats die out. (Which I see as a great thing, FWIW.)
Has anyone tallied up how many of those grid systems there are out there at the moment?

Also, do any of these systems work for email?
errm... yes, we got that :)
There is something very strange about 4chan. You know how people believe in open source, that software should be free? Or how they believe in democracy, or in human rights, or in free speech? I sometimes get the feeling 4chan is way beyond any of that. It's... well, the word sainthood comes to mind.

I know, I know, it's ridiculous. But I simply cannot imagine 4chan, the collective, being racist. It just doesn't fit. Oh, it makes a lot of noise, yes, but to actually discriminate, no. Or any of the principles above, they're so organically _in_.

Well, anyways, about income sources. Amongst the things they could do would be accepting donations. But they don't: http://www.4chan.org/faq#donations The FAQ is an interesting read in itself.
If you're going after an English-speaking audience, look into getting an English-fluent copywriter (or speaker) to give things a once-over.

"Can't Express Yourself in traditional Resume ?" is your tag-line, huge, and very stilted -- that space (" ") should also not separate "Resume" and "?".
Hmmm... that sounds like the premise of a new John Grisham book :~).
Wikipedia lists 23 but there sure are more that have (like this one) not made it, yet.
If the code has any unit tests starting from there can be a great diving point.
I would pay for advertisement on 4chan. It would be perfect for recruitment, especially on the more arty boards like photography. But it would take at least:

- the possibility to buy small packages, partly because the companies who are big enough to buy the big package are the ones who care most about reputation

- the possibility to define your audience, at least by: board, keywords, country/city of origin

None of which are possible now: http://www.4chan.org/advertise/
"Loser pays" might produce the results you want:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/12/10/marie-gryphon-on-l...
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AVC blog has become more of a forum
Is this a parody site? Surely... This can't be for real.
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http://www.vcarrer.com/2009/02/golden-grid.html (linked from the "article") does make it sound like a spoof. e.g.:

"Dimensions

One, Two, Three - jump. Where is four? We usually stop at tree. Why? Three is the magic number. Three is a lucky number. Three is the fourth of Fibonacci. It is the first number that breaks the symmetry of 2.

I decided to build the golden grid based on this number.

3 + 3 and 3 + 3 + 3 +3 => 6/12 grid system"
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Software development is a unique profession in that we can use our skills both on the job and for our hobby.

Unlike, say, photography. Or cooking. Or music. Or...

He kinda lost me there. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
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Overall great article but the "and they're all compatible" bit in the end is not exactly so. Apache v2 stuff can be used in a GPL v3 project, but not the other way around. So that compatibility is not as straightforward as it sounds.
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Personally, having been in TechStars (founder of SocialThing), I think the programs are very different. Both have their merits, one is not necessarily better than the other, just different.

Why the TS vs. YC animosity? We're (startup founders) all in this game together. Of course there will be competition and such, but we're all at the same stage at one time or another, so why not help? Why not be happy that there are 10 more companies that will get funded than last year?
If you're expecting a different language, framework, and platform to behave like a ruby, I would argue no amount of eschewing documentation and getting down to coding will help you. In fact, I suggest documentation to be even more vital to you in this instance.

As to my snark, I'm only faithfully transcribing how I figured out I was supposed to use an NSMutableString instead of an NSString. I was reading the documentation for NSString (and this was back in the NeXTStep days, so it was crap. Thanks Scott for making it a joy!) but I came across a line very similar to what's there now:

"The mutable subclass of NSString is NSMutableString."

"What on earth to they mean by mutable?" I thought. So I looked it up. And that's when it all made sense.

Note that it is highly unlikely I would have figured this out by coding alone. Sifting object dumps of NSString or whatever would not have helped (unless I noticed -mutableCopy and was able to suss out what the NSMutableCopying protocol was all about) -- esp. coming from C where the expectation is there are no string conveniences and you have to roll it all yourself.

Point being, its idiotic to say "Forget theory; ... Just set yourself a project and start working." Cocoa and, perhaps to an even greater extent, Cocoa Touch are hyper-complex frameworks that are made simple and understandable through the theory behind them. If you never learn the method to the madness -- all the patterns and best-practices behind Cocoa and why they're there -- all you will see is madness. You have very little hope of grokking iPhone development by "just doing it".
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I don’t know much about pre-revenue bootstrapped startups but to me seems they carry no risk since everything is paid for them.
So they are company-owners but no entrepeneurs in the sense of the word because that would mean they hold all responsibilities for their doing.
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I'm sure the phone carriers will be thrilled by this
This is more than just the story...it's Schneier's analysis on how to protect yourself from insiders that's interesting, here.
I think tables are still best for email. Here's a nice resource on the subject: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/design-guidelines/
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Knitting patterns make an acceptable Logo, with basic operational commands (KnitML: usingNeedle), subroutines (instruction), and control structures (repeat/until).

Suffice it to say that s-expressions aren't an acceptable lisp. Thanks for keyword doping the subject, tho.
The article has the right idea -- operators are just bit pipes. Did they really think that they would be able to charge more to deliver a 160 character text message than it costs to mail a postcard forever?
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Is there any competition at all in NYC?
Scoble follows everyone and hates DMs, so that's a bad example. I like the idea of trying to break through DM access levels, but this doesn't seem like the ideal solution. I can't imagine enough people following @dmpp to make this work across the board...just seems like another service to monitor.
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Forget unit tests, if the code lacks documentation, I'd first look at the functional tests. The goal is to read the associated comments to determine what functionality is actually being tested. From that, you'll be able to understand what the module/program is actually suppose to do.
No more RT - use Fav.Tweets instead
Ideally, I don’t always like to see the re-tweet noise in my feed so this would be my suggestion for twitter:

# No more re-tweets, use the star (favorites) feature already available
# Clients could implement a 'show your friends favorites'
- for example TwitterFox could have a 'favorites' tab that shows your friends latest favorites
# Multiple digg-like tools could be built on top of this if everyone would use the same method that would allow mass-audience to see that latest trending topics, etc.
This reminds me of what the owners of Kingston Technology did when they sold their company back in the 90s. They allocated a large sum to be distributed to the employees, and also were helping employees with startups. I think they eventually bought the company back.
might want to mention that there is gay porn there...you know for those people who are at work
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That's what I get for believing "science" from a Nat Geo special!

I don't know who's stupid idea was it to rename National Geographic to natgeo but it almost made me stop watching
Exactly. Even if their current intent is good, they are stating something that can potentially be evil for their customers, and only that counts for lawyers.

The argument is: imagine they have financial difficulties and that Dogbert buys them to exploit our data...
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Did the article really end with a sentence about his being a failure on paper? Ending with the word "failure"? That's harsh.
I don't think you fully understood what this thing is. (I'm not affiliated, I just feel the overwhelming urge to clarify.)

They don't have to follow _you_. They do have to follow @dmpp. (I think this may be what you said. "You" seemed ambiguous. Sorry.)

No, direct messages are not in your timeline, but if you want to direct message someone, the rest of their tweets will have to be in your timeline. Using this service, you could direct message some people without following them, hence their tweets not littering your timeline.

Yes, you do decide who you receive direct messages from already. In context, that sentence meant "now that you've opened yourself up to direct messages from people you are not following, we do actually offer some level of control over what direct messages you receive."

I haven't decided yet whether this is useful to me personally or not. Nonetheless, I find it clever.
Sounds like a, "No," answer to Scoble's look at Michael Malone on whether Silicone Valley is already leading a turnaround (http://scobleizer.com/2009/02/13/is-silicon-valley-seeing-an... )
The average person can't hedge their savings/income etc against hyper inflation fast enough.

Usually people just flee to the most convenient hard currency, like the US dollar, then every pay check is a race to convert it before its value drops.

But a lot of those paychecks are not inflation indexed.

Basically hyper inflation makes it impossibly hard to preserve any kind of liquid or semi-liquid wealth.

You can only hope to have all our wealth in things like real estate or perhaps gold. Although dry beans, rice and salted bacon are probably better then gold.
You can't eat gold, and I'm not sure you can trade it for food in some of the worst parts of Zimbabwe.
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My favorite part of that article is the "EPIC WINNING LOL" quotation sourced from Twitter.

I love New Media.
if you are going to sue for millions, shouldn't you get a lawyer who understands technology?

I guess they got used to all those cases suing 12 year olds
I thought I disclaimed it well enough but just in case: THE PREVIOUS LINK IS NSFW, REALLY REALLY NSFW. IN FACT THE ENTIRE SITE IT'S HOSTED ON IS NSFW.
I guess I just read it literally as opposed to thinking about it. Personally, I've never had the need to direct message someone who I'm not following. I _guess_ there's probably an example I could come up with in where I wanted to DM someone that wasn't following me...
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So you trust the developers of a web site's word that they hashed your password, because you don't trust them to not look at it? You trust someone's word that they're not doing something you don't trust them not to do?

Right. Anyway, for future reference, just remember that if you send your password to someone, and they want to look at it for some reason, they can, regardless of their (claimed) database/authentication design.
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I can appreciate the sentiment behind this, but how in the world is this going to change anyone's mind? Do the decision makers in New Zealand even know what Twitter is?
That's just silly. I didn't say a word about any of the startups. Just the organization itself.
While I'm excited by this in a sense, it's not that big a win for the end customer.

To really take advantage of this you need a decent/unlimited data plan. To get that (with most mainstream carriers) you need a voice plan. The cheapest voice plans are $40/mo and offer a boatload of minutes already.

So yeah, the carriers might miss out on charging some overage fees, but they are still going to charge their $70+ a month either way. This would be more exciting if you could get a 'naked' wireless data plan (like 'naked', or dry loop, or toneless DSL).

Of course, at least with skype chat you can stop paying an arm and a leg for text messages.
Does JTV really feel comfortable directing kids to porn? I am a fan of porn, but I'd feel uncomfortable having a hand in making porn so easily accessible to kids.
I wouldn't say it's animosity. I just think they're sort of lame copycats. For fuck's sake man, they stole YC's application word for word. I think that gives lifetime exemptions to those of us calling them a me-too act.
Not available outside the US and Canada tho', and Wolfram UK don't know if/when it will be.
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Depends on the language, if I'm reading Java code, then I'll use eclipse (ctrl+h is much better than ctrl+right click, when searching for a methods definition, it's the only way i can follow code that uses interfaces a lot).

If you're reading C code, vim + cscope + grep work great.
Most of the H1B workers have colluded with sponsoring companies and the clients. And H1B workers are not creating new jobs in America.
So after two years of planning they drop half the case after just one day in court?
I think much of what this guy talks about applies directly to programming, too, and especially speaks to the friction between management and programmers. Managers want hard rules, and programming is not amenable to this.

I've been writing an essay on this topic for a while which really reminds me of this video, and one of the main thrusts is that you can't just learn rules, and it targets the question of how do you develop the wisdom to program. It's not all that great and it's not done (mostly unposted). It's not stuff that would necessarily be news to anybody here, but it's been interesting writing it all out.

There's no substitute for trusting programmer judgment, and that bothers people. Programming isn't unique that way, either, it's just the field I know.
Not to counter your argument against H1B visa, but parts of your arguments are based on inaccurate prejudiced data.

1. "people who are smart enough to get jobs in some of the top corporations" - Not all H1B's work in top corporations, not all H1B's who work in top corporations do 'smart' work, not all employees of top corporations do smart work.

2. "I want get a job doing smart stuff for a smart employer[2], and I don't expect to get that job in India." - Most 'top' corporations have offices in India - where a lot of smart people do smart stuff. Not all of them do it because they dont have an option of going to the US. A lot of them do it because they are happy staying in India. Please stop twisting facts to rationalize your motivations.
This is an excellent article on the subject, hope you enjoy it:

http://mags.acm.org/communications/200810/?pg=38
Even the simplest user language parsing is difficult. It's no wonder that PowerSet never actually launched.
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I have tried to buy ads on 4chan many times. I have emailed them at least once every two months over the last year. I have NEVER received a reply.

My product is a browser based game that is very popular with the 4chan crowd. We already advertise on ED. It's as close to a perfect fit for their audience as anything I can think of.

On their previous ad network (I just learned about the new one), things were self serve, but every time I bought ads I was told there was a conflict and to try again.

They seem completely uninterested in doing business with us, or anyone. Maybe that's why the whole thing is failing from a financial perspective?
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I suspect they did... and they certainly got away with it for much longer than reasonable.

I'm quite excited by this development... it's another hint that the balance of power has shifted from carriers (who have every interest in keeping the services basic and expensive to maximise their profit margins) to the handset makers (who have every interest to build a handset with more cool stuff than other providers, but have been held back by the carriers for a decade).

I think we all know who to thank for this development... Thank you Mr Jobs!
Good job digging this back up. In my opinion, this is one of the best blog posts ever made. The concept is still extremely relevant.
The danger in using Facebook for stock photo's is an uploadeder who did not own copyright on the photo.

Facebook can't really sell the content unless they can prove the person who uploaded it had the writes to distribute it. Which you can't do in an automated fashion.
Video here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/17/htc-magic-first-eyes-on/

Although the phone does not have the most impressive hardware specs, it's nice to see a powerful company like Vodafone show support for Android. (FWIW, Vodafone has a 45% stake in Verizon Wireless, but Verizon, which owns the other 55%, is not part of Google's Open Handset Alliance.)
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