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AEI is pro-capitalism / freedom, not pro-business, they also do a lot of work on the ridiculousness of the war on drugs. AEI is fairly consistently against distorted markets, I believe they were consulted on the recent Republican paper that came out against the copyright policies with regard to the DMCA and fair use.
This is a really annoying scam, and sadly I have had several companies coming to me asking if we'd ever done their event at Twilio (we never did) and if it was a good idea. Stuff like this can be a huge time suck for founders, and if they don't find out it isn't legit then it can be a big money drain as well. Does anyone know what people behind Red Herring? I have wanted to know for some time, so I can avoid anything else they are doing.
I suppose I have to asterisk what I said. My university didn't, and few friends with eng/cs degrees from other schools did anything like that.

I'd be interested to know why you find writing Android apps disgusting. My personal opinion is that hands on, real world experience like actually building software drives home theory far better than talking about building software. I'm not saying that schools should only teach android or something, but I would have been far more satisfied with my education if I had actually built things as part of it. Have students build a webapp one year, one or two mobile apps another, an os another year, a compiler another year. Something like that with the order shuffled, and you should be able to ram home all the theory you want AND students can graduate with a small portfolio, a strong understanding of current topics in industry and computer science, and strong theoretical knowledge.

Maybe what I'm saying is that the current "accredited" degrees are so sparse compared with these bootcamps that the value proposition of a 200k, 4 year cs degree vs a 10-20k, 10 week program is so fatally flawed as to be... not worth it.
> The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to
> read license plates on moving cars.

That's an urban myth, assuming that by "bird" you're referring to an orbiting satellite and not terrestrial equipment like airplanes, quadcopters, and so on: http://everything2.com/title/Spy+satellites+can%2527t+read+y...
Sounds like an app called CleverBot that my son talks to on his iPod touch. Its generally pretty funny ... if you swear at it it swears back etc ... http://www.cleverbot.com/app
Why would you send your valuable autographed boxset?
Saving money is business. As far as I know no capitalist in history likes being fleeced and when others do the fleecing it erodes confidence in the system. Never good for a true capitalist. Also, conservatives are not all alike. This appears more Libertarian than say, a neo-Christian group.
Indeed, Pinboard's PIC-PC had over 300 applicants, and they are hearing responses already. I'd be interested in seeing how many also are applying for this, or if less are interested, since the stakes seem higher.
Yo dawgs, the mailchimp, aws-sdk, jenkins and twilio gems use HTTParty which uses multi_xml. You should look into this.
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This is exactly what I've been thinking. I'd love to track the statistical outcomes of legislation in a way that's meaningful to both the public and politicians. I know some non-profits do similar stuff in some areas, but I'd like to turn data into a real tool for politics.
Knowing your product too well is not necessarily an asset when it comes to marketing, especially if you created it yourself. There is often a tendency to overvalue features which were difficult to code rather than features which add real value. Knowing your consumers is far more important.
This is really great - love the idea.
Just in case you hadn't spotted, I think there's a punctuation bug whereby characters are sometimes omitted, although it doesn't happen all the time. Not a big deal though.

Example:

Correctly punctuated original: http://tinyurl.com/b6sbozh

Bookbookgoose ignores the apostrophes: http://imgur.com/4U9Ow

[EDIT: Dropbox link was broken - using imgur instead]
You could but it would waste space. In my setup, I only need a single pixel to serve as the multiplier, but if I added a whole new layer, that's width x height more pixels.
Also, time of day. It turns out people talk about guns a lot more when they are not sleeping.
As someone who doesn't know what you do or who this is for the home and about pages both need a lot of work. From what I can see your service lets me give money to someone in a 'fun' way but you guys get a %?

Other than that I have no idea
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Its not fair capitalism, students are forced to buy the books .
a problem for sure, that's why startups like http://www.bookrenter.com/ are turning a nice profit.
Many thanks for purchasing the app. I'd certainly value your feedback if you have a chance to have small children play with it.

Yes, at one point you have to hire-in help. I am on the camp that an experienced solo founder could be better than inexperienced young co-founders. You can hire-in (and fire) help but if you discover that your co-founders are, shall we say, problematic, it can get ugly fast.

Prior to this I started a tech company in my garage that did pretty well until circumstances around the economic collapse of 2008 imploded it. Basically, most of our business was through leasing and when banks stopped lending our customers (and orders) evaporated nearly overnight. Ugly. Anyhow, I started it solo. Spent two years locked in the garage developing hardware and software. Grew it to twenty employees and a 10,000 square foot manufacturing facility at the peak. It was a fantastic ride. Not without peril, but, putting aside the pain of the loss of a twelve year effort, a wonderful experience.

You comment about scam artists one to heed. Newbie entrepreneurs can be prime targets. I have my share of scars to prove how "real" it can be.
you could generalize this to crowdsourcing non-tech founders - call it kickstartup.com.
I'm not generally someone that supports illegal acts, but I fully support pirating/copying of textbooks. The fact that textbook publishing companies have a virtual monopoly and then do other things like coerce professors to continuously force students to use yearly new editions of textbooks makes me believe that the only solution is to pirate their material and starve them of money.

Sorry that some good textbook authors are affected by this, but frankly, there is a bigger issue here, and collateral damage is to be expected. The only solution is to charge fair prices, and until that point is reached, I believe students should pirate textbooks to their hearts content.
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There is no contradiction.

Instagram was started with the hope that if they gain enough users, they will be able to figure out how to monetize those users. It's not much of a business today, because they still have not figured out a way to do that.

Those who have invested in Instagram either believe they will be able to figure that out, or they believe they can sell it to someone who believes they can do so.

This is no different than if I were to open a convenience store. I open it -- I'm losing money on rent, the renovations, inventory, etc, etc, etc -- I hope that after a certain amount of time I will be able to attract enough customers to make up for that.. but until I do, I do not have much of a business.

In a way, Instagram is at the opening stage. They're building a user base (what would be the store in my example). And when they figure out how to monetize the users, they will 'open for business' and accept their first customers (probably advertisers.. but they might come up with something else).

There is no contradiction, and there are plenty of analogues in history.
Quick clarification: The multi_xml gem has _not_ been updated, so there is nothing to upgrade, correct? Just the monkey-patch fix?
Also like in Medicine, the US publishers charge US students much more than they charge students elsewhere (even in other Western countries). I think part of the reason they're able to do this is because college itself costs much more here. When people started importing international books, they started changing the questions in those books.

That's also how they are able to sell new editions constantly. Many subjects (math, mechanics, etc.) don't change much, but the publishers come out with different editions every 2-3 years so people can't just buy used books.

It's a ridiculous system, but hopefully open textbooks and online education will help change things.
How is this possible? Is there a built-in certificate on Nokia phones that accept the proxy server certificate (which must be a wildcard for everything)?
My friend's project - SportsLab: The Next Generation Football Playbook iPad App
Mindfulness in Plain English is good - there is some weird stuff in it (something about levitation) but it is a very minor part and the rest is solid. It's free:
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html

If you need more guidance get the MBSR/MBCT (I did the latter) book + audio tracks from Jon Kabat-Zinn - it takes all the buddhism out and teaches just meditation and mindfulness (and little bits of yoga).

MiPE was the first book I got, but the guidance of 'sit down, listen and follow this program' really helped me get on my butt.

Edit: I can't find the levitation part in MiPE - but there was _something_
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I wonder if there is Anything like this in the Atlanta area, if there isn't, then I think it would be a great idea, there is a very vibrant rails community here, lot's of startup activity, mentoring programs, incubators and accelerators, and the number of recruiters in the ruby meetup is almost larger than the number of developers, if I wasn't too busy doing my own things I would have opened a program here, cost of living is very low and salaries are not that far from NY / SF (buying power is much, much higher, and housing is pretty cheap) so more and more companies move things to the area.
If anyone reads this and plans to open a similar program and can allow themselves to be geographically flexible, I would have Georgia on my mind.
So your solution is for them to charge fair prices? While we are fixing prices, I suggest we also fix the prices of DeBeers diamonds to appropriate market value. Then why stop there? Lets have the government set the prices of all overpriced commodities, including outrageous salaries. Someone's already beat you to this idea though, it's called communism.
There are very few things I hate, but textbook publishers is certainly one of them. Really, a Calculus book with material from a century ago costs 150 bucks? And they change the order of the exercises every 2 years so you can't get a used one? A F#$%^&* hate those mafakas.
Just tried it and it made a huge difference :-) Thanks for sharing.
Lets narrow it to tech startups. When I started my company in 1999 if you weren't in a startup hub it was very hard to come by certain knowledge. Usually you learned the hard way which shortened your runway of both cash and time.

Now there's a lot more information on the web. It requires some study for the first timer to decide which is the correct information and what is just noise. But the resources are there and I would bet this information is changing much slower than from the nineties to present day.

HN and around a dozen blogs are the biggest resources that I've got.
Doesn't look like it has - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhy...
I suspect that many faculty do recognize the issue and are taking steps to correct it, but are held back by systems put in place by college admins.

Anecdotally, over the course of my program (CS) I paid around $50 per term for textbooks. The majority of materials we worked from were either open source/free (e.g. SICP) or canonical texts (e.g. CLRS) available electronically from the library. That said for each course, there were other very expensive textbooks listed as required on the syllabus. We'd always get the "required, yes, wink wink" from profs on the first day of class, with a strong statement that all of the course material could be gleaned from the open-source or free resources we'd been given. But yes, the expensive texts were "required". By someone other than the professor, obviously.

I don't know how common it is for universities (or specific departments) to have relationships with textbook distributors. But I suspect that's what went on in the courses I describe. A large publisher makes a deal with the university, like "all students in {A, B, C ...} courses must be instructed to purchase Y book from our catalogue", in return for who knows what.

Or maybe I just like conspiratorial thinking.
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I am really excited to see what companies like Boundless (http://boundless.com) do to disrupt the college textbook market.

Boundless is taking OER resources and syncing it up to the chapters in existing textbooks, so a student can enter the textbook for the course and get a customized online replacement.
Oh hmm, I guess that's a good thing to point out. Yes, the multi_xml gem has not been upgraded, and the listed dependencies for httparty and mailchimp haven't changed either.
Price sorting will be most useful when it shows price / weight~
Maybe the problem is not copyrighting itself, but that the US education system is entirely a rip-off? The copyrighted books not touched by the educational hoax are pretty cheap.
How is this any more insidious than already trusting the company to remotely update code on the device? Or (in the case of Google) on your desktop.

As for the marginal gains you get from a direct SSL connection, at this stage it's been long demonstrated that the average Joe government can get their hands on CA certificates pretty easily.

So the question really is how you expected to benefit from a direct SSL connection, given the already explicit trust you have in the company to provide secure software on your device with which to make the connection?
From what I read, he was committing $3k towards marketing and gathering users, but did not specify how much work he'd personally do. Just want to make sure any people new to this ask the right questions up front, I'm not implying that hmexx is trying to screw anyone
Have you already looked at this - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732470(v=ws.10)...
Why are the quotes from Schiller borderline incoherent?

It sounds like they were made up by someone with a poor command of English.
I think this is incredibly hilarious?
Some feedback: very very very wordy ! I would not explain how it works (GA) but show some examples right away.

Your audience is the parent and they are viewing on behalf of their child. So they want to have an immediate experience of how their child is going to shortly learn and have fun. Need to get them to feel the game right away. Their brain is going to be in "playing with child mode" during the time they are shopping.

So you could use somebody who really gets this kind of communication and sculpting down the landing pages and text (much shorter !) and so on. That's real marketing : not just pestering blogs or magazines. Its communication, an intrinsic part of the product itself.

> I am more than willing to consider a partner for Tommy Teaches. However, this partner needs to bring to the table a really convincing value proposition that goes beyond money.

Totally agree. Would any of us hire a programmer without anything more than "I'm a programmer !" ? A successful product is not just an idea and an implementation.
Why not save up the $8000 yourself. Take leave (without pay) from your day job and pay yourself a regular wage from that $5000. Work on your MVP for two months. When you're done, use the remaining $3000 to crowdsource some beta testers, get feedback and start some initial marketing to gain customers. Who needs the OP?
There is no "market" for textbooks. Professors assign a single textbook, and students are forced to buy it. If a class could somehow allow for different textbooks would allow students to pay for cheaper textbooks and create price competition. But it's hard to do in practice if not impossible.

I didn't say they should mandate a fixed price. I said the book publishers should charge a fair price, one that decreases the amount of pirating because it's low enough so that it's not worth it for students to pirate. That's up to them. Until they do, I fully support pirating of textbooks.
I think his point is that the nomenclature is overloaded.

What accountants call a transaction is similar to, and probably inspired, what computer scientists call a transaction. But they are not strictly isomorphic.
Every decision made by a company can be evaluated in the context of the culture that influenced that decision. The fact that Watson's babysitters got embarrassed when it learned a new word from the Internet says something about society, IBM, and the Internet.

Why couldn't they have Watson curse on national television? Cultural expectations. Why avoid any words at all? They're all just phonemes strung together with no inherent meaning.

Not looking deeply is not looking at all.
As long as your JavaScript doesn't touch the DOM, there is no need to wait for DOM ready. BUT if you mess up and try and modify the DOM before it's ready, things break pretty horrifically. If your code is loaded async, you open yourself up to ugly race conditions that are tough to debug.

Start with the best practices (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html). Once you've nailed those, then you can start thinking about optimizations like this.
But he never mentioned government intervention. He suggested that students vote with their wallets, and since they can't decide to purchase another textbook (as one would do in a typical market, which the textbook market isn't), the solution is to pirate.
I'll take you up on it - please shoot me a note.
Or reference HTTParty from git, which has been fixed, in your Gemfile:

https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/53a812426dd321...

Correction: Although this might not have much to do with multi_xml if that security risk isn't mitigated.
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The publishers will tell you that it is because it is a lot of work to produce new editions every couple of years to keep the textbook up to date.

I'm pretty sure they are lying, at least as far as that explaining the high prices. Here is why I believe this:

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471000078

These are Apostol's excellent two volume undergraduate calculus textbook. Volume I is $231.25, and volume II is $189.49.

They were around $22 each when I bought my copies in 1977. I'm sure that NONE of the subsequent price increase is due to revisions and updates, because there have been no revisions or updates. Volume I is still the second edition (from 1967) and volume II is also still the second edition (from 1969). (There has been no need to revise or update them).

Based on inflation, these books should be about $80-90 per volume now (if we assume that $22 in 1977 was a reasonable price).
With one caveat: all your code that deals with positions and dimensions now needs to be smarter and handle the pushing around that comes during the loading of CSS and images. This will probably break the jQuery plugins that you're using if they deal with sizes and dimensions.
I've worked at three Canadian universities, including being a senior administrator at two of them, I've been to meetings with other senior administrators accross the country ... and I've never heard anything of the kind. Profs always have the freedom to decide which textbook(s) to recommend/require - something that is fundamental to Academic freedom.
This kind of thinking is one of the reasons I spent my teens and 20s emphasizing things like mathematics and human languages instead of something more applied.
Just curious, what kind of site are we talking with your 3rd model? IOW, what would I Google to find sites like that.

Thanks
I propose an alternative: after some number of years of teaching, professors get a year off to write textbooks; these books are then distributed under a creative commons license, with university libraries acting as archives and hosts for textbooks. Encourage students to share their books with others.

We do not need the textbook publishing industry in this day and age. They have outlived their usefulness: we can distribute books without them. When their idea of a "new edition" is to change the problem sets, when their idea of an electronic edition is "something you cannot read past the end of the year," we do not benefit in any way from their existence. We are not talking about entertainment here, we are talking about an important medium for preserving and propagating human knowledge -- the very thing that has led to the overwhelming success of human civilization.
Indeed. And there are numerous reasons why C++ code can be/is significantly faster; firstly code inlining for code that would be required to use function pointers in C (ala qsort vs std::sort), secondly, things such as expression templates for things such as Matrix libraries.
If there was some way writers could license out their work to multiple publishers that could create competition. Alas, as far as I know, a publisher won't touch a textbook without exclusivity.
You would lay out how things are divided in your paperwork when you form the company. If there are no outside investors, it's simpler for a company to fold.

In the case of one person leaving, all their invested shares fall back into the management pool and are distributed proportionally amongst the remaining co-founders (but not investors, they always only have the number of shares they paid for).

Also make sure you do an 83b election (in the US) for vesting shares. Otherwise you pay income taxes on the value of them as they vest. Google it for lots more info, it's pretty straightforward
I was excited when Anandtech announced that Nixeus would be selling a 27" @ 2560x1440 for $430 4 months ago. I bought one as soon as they went on sale, and when I started my new job I asked them to buy me another one. Now I have dual 27"ers. I will never be able to go back to smaller screens and less resolution.

I can have my IDE split my files into two panes @ 120 character widths and they'll comfortably fit in a single monitor, including the sidebar containing the tree. This is great for TDD!

Unfortunately it appears the price has jumped to $620 (http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?id=1218348). They have been sold out since they started, so I'm guessing they just want to match demand.
Good grief, get over yourself. There are not communists lurking under every rock trying to grab your ankles, FFS.

The solution to piracy is for the publishers to charge fair prices. In other places such as the UK where textbooks are sensibly priced, there is almost no incentive for piracy and people are far more inclined to buy the text from a bookstore than used.
YAML can still be loaded from XML response bodies, it just doesn't parse response bodies that are pure YAML anymore. Something like <tag type="yaml">yaml here</tag>.
>it's called communism

No it isn't, but thanks for the 1970s propaganda flashback. If the government is setting prices that private producers are bound by, then that's some form of socialist/capitalist mixed economy. If it were communism, the means of producing textbooks, diamonds, etc. would be publicly owned in the first place. That is, DeBeers wouldn't even exist unless it were some kind of state appendage.
Nice! Also, some obscenely rich guy in the east built a full-scale Whitehouse as a personal residence. In the southwest, there is giant 'Optimus Prime' Transformers statue advertising a car-yard.

China and America are pretty similar, all things told.
I think you're both overthinking it. Storage snapshots, bros.
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