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Well I suppose the bigger question is, does everything the technology created go away too?

Technology built everything, but do all our houses disappear or just all the wiring and plumbing and crap? Because if the house goes, then surely so should all the people who were brought about by technology.

Realistically there would be approximately (assuming the max for 10,000 years ago) about 10 million people on the planet. If so, with the distribution spread throughout the world then I think if humanity were born with our present knowledge I think we would do rather well, presuming we were swapped out with the Cro-Magnon. I bet about 50% of the people would probably die off within the first decade just through lack of knowledge (again presuming even IQ and knowledge distribution), but if people managed to start bringing back technology I think we could advance things pretty quick.

I mean one person with the knowledge of how to make steel and devoted their life to teaching everyone how to make advanced tools, well we'd have skipped 9,800 years in the space of maybe 50.

So I suppose it's all in how it would happen and then a large handful of random chance and human nature. I mean if the one guy who remembered how to build a blast forge, also knew how to make gun powder (I know the principle on how to build both) decided to instead of helping the world decided to build a machine gun and build his own country then it could all end when someone usurped him without the knowledge to build tools or weapons.
$66.8 Million isn't in the neighborhood of $100 million. Yes, they're both huge sums of money, but not close enough to go "meh, close enough." Thanks for the link though - I'm somewhat surprised Mozilla made as much money from a non-Google source as they did.
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Maybe consider cutting back on the bouillon cubes.

Beef bouillon cube ingredients:

Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Beef Fat, Hydrolyzed Protein (Corn, Soy, Wheat), Caramel Color, Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Water, Beef Extract, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Spice and Coloring, Dried Carrots, Parsley.

Per your serving size:

1340 mg sodium = 56% RDA

The Knorr vegetable cube trades off MSG for partially hydrogenated oil so doesn't seem much more appealing.
Step 1: Read 'Getting Real' - https://gettingreal.37signals.com

Step 2: Start with a project that would take less than a week to prototype, and then extend it gradually. Release early, release often. Apply feedback and improve. Evolve it into a startup.
After noting the date on the article (actually, the quote pulled for the title pretty much gives it away), I was expecting to laugh a bit at the fools who didn't foresee how profitable Google would become.

Except, reading the article the concerns still make a lot of sense. It's still shocking that little text ads next to searches are worth billions of dollars, if you momentarily set aside the fact that you happen to live in a world where it's true.

For those of you old enough to remember that long ago time, did any of you honestly imagine Google becoming anywhere near as successful as it has become?
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CreamMonkey support is provided by an Input Manager hack; they may go away in a future release of OS X and would need to be redone completely. A better alternative is to make a WebKit plugin with WebKit's API, see ClickToFlash.
Does anyone here on HN have experience with spreedly?
I disagree.

Leaving out the backend stuff, the front-end of web work usually ties into generating reasonably complex HTML or XML.

In dynamic languages it is almost trivial to keep the overhead to a minimum because it's fairly easy to tie into these domains. With languages like Java and C# this quickly becomes a pain and the templating structures provided require learning yet another crazy and inefficient (typing and maintainability-wise) pseudo-language.
Vacuum Tubes. We would go straight to transistors and other solid-state devices.
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Poll: All great companies get you laid, paid, or made...which are you?
We get our users paid.
We get our users laid.
We get our users made.
None of the above(not a great company?)
for definitions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526518
I'd say that secure backups (tarsnap) don't exactly fit into any of the above, but come closest to "get our users made". Secure backups won't do that directly; but if you don't have backups -- or if you do have backups but they're not secure -- you're certainly risking being unmade.
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They can be poorly written, but in Crossing the Chasm http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Mai..., Geoffrey Moore suggests you use a phrase like this when trying to break into main stream. Doing so provides the listener with a "product alternative" beacon that helps them mentally position your offering.
What is a resume and why is it so important?
I just went to a conference where the CEO of SVASE explained this in great details. He said 'Make them fall in love', not give them a hard-on, but the message is IDENTICAL.

Te slide deck is almost exactly the structure they recommended. What I find interesting is that these folks actually request a pitch in this structure.

I guess everyone just wants a hard-on (or to full in love).
You probably fall under paid too, since you save users money(both monthly and in the event of an emergency)
Cybersource is an oft-overlooked option I'd recommend considering. We were going to go with the defacto AuthNet, but ended up choosing Cybersource for the added features (better recurring payments, international currency support) and the fact they gave us a pretty sweet deal (same price as Authorize.Net, which is their lower-priced option).

I think a lot of these companies that typically target larger businesses are more willing to cater to startups these days to drum up new business.
On a related note, could anybody comment on their experience getting PCI compliance?

I'd like to have the payment process a bit more integrated with my web site, but many of those solutions seem to require PCI compliance, and that looks rather involved.
Sites like Craigslist, Rentacoder and Elance are flooded with posts offering unreasonably low pay, as well as responses from offshore sweatshops that produce exceedingly bad code

Hiring a programmer on one of those sites is like hiring a lawyer (or accountant or interior decorator) out of the Yellow Pages. Sure, some people do it; but if you want someone good, you're much better off asking your friends and colleagues to recommend someone -- because the people you'll find in the Yellow Pages are predominantly those who don't get enough business from customer referrals to fill their hours.
That $67 million dollar figure was from 2006, and that was up 26% from 2005. I can only assume 2 more years of continued growth and more market share have brought that number up substantially.
Me too bilbo0s, if you have a blog, I'd love to subscribe to it (seriously). My email is my username @ gmail.com.
Just pointing out... You picked the one quote that was likely to turn an otherwise interesting discussion into a Reddit-esque sarcasm pile-on. So far it has.
10 days ago I suggested Google in a Grid re-design. I suggested one optional button to switch from normal to grid mode. I realized that the people are very very protective about Google. 70% without any particular reason hated the idea of any kind of Google redesign. Even do my arguments were stable "The Grid can hold much more information, more photos and videos and can contribute for better visible experience" almost nobody bother to discus with real arguments. My post (http://www.vcarrer.com/2009/03/google-redesign-google-in-gri...)

I'm first developer then designer and I do believe that one product should constantly be developed in bought direction. In the case of Google they have excellent query search result but can do much much better visual experience. I'm not talking about rebuilding everything but sometimes one pixel can make great difference.
It reminds me of my own pet project that i did in Sinatra (http://montrealhackers.com). It's nothing more than a blog mashup, though.

BTW, nice design.
Whether you own the software or not depends on what the contract says. It is entirely legal to sign a contract to perform a service for somebody for some amount of money without assigning them copyright in the results.
thanks for the suggestions
One programmer I know was making $16k per month, and that was salary. People who assume more of the risk tend to make more than that.
That was just the research staff. :<)
I am shocked and appalled at your suggestion that reverse-engineering is morally questionable. On the contrary, reverse engineering is legally protected, a major part of the foundation of the computer industry, and good fun to boot.
For sure, you can actually get wax printers now, but the properties of wax keep it from being useful in conditions where heat or durability are concerns. Currently, they are used to make patterns for metal casting in the jewelry industry.
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Just out of curiosity, what part of the world are these puddles in? Assuming that all technology won't be disappearing anytime soon, it's probably safe to share ;)
We have computerized factor analysis for stock market dynamics, curiously, the best fit also has 5 components.
Thanks a lot to skrealty and tortilla. I don't do blogs, because I believe there are too many as it is. I try to encourage people to go to actual reliable data sources to get information. My thinking is that this will lead to a more informed discussion, and get at least a few more people in the habit of questioning and verifying news and information sources. I think we are all responsible for what Maria Montessori called, "...Creating that habit of hearts and minds necessary to the functioning of a great democracy..."

In this case however, I think I may have hit a nerve here, and that was not my intention. People seem to be getting really angry, so I thought it was best for me to stop commenting.

I'm out of real estate investing now, and currently do tech investing stuff. Mostly gaming like everyone else it seems, but it is keeping me very busy. I do wish you luck with the endeavor though.

Thanks again guys, it is good to know that there are at least a few people I did not offend.
What jurisdiction are you in? That might help people give you better advice about legal options.
I work at PowerPay which is a payment processor. Unless the person or organization you sign up with is a registered ISO than you are actually doing business with a company such as PowerPay. Visa and Mastercard require the ISO to be clearly stated on the merchant account application. Most of the time merchants go through sales agents who are working for or with a registered ISO. Just an FYI, as the industry can be a bit sketchy. I've been at PowerPay for a few years and for what it's worth I've always been impressed with how we do business.
There aren't a lot of software engineers out there who will do two months of work for US$2500 and nothing else.
I have a love/hate relationship with this guy. He does wonderful Powerpoint presentations. Every slide is packed with great detail. You just have to dig through unprofessional hypersexualized fratboy nonsense to get to it.
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how about not playing prostitute to a VC - most dont have balls anyways.
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There are several levels of PCI compliance. At PowerPay we spend thousands of dollars becoming compliant and staying that way. For most merchants, the requirements are far less onerous. The biggest tip I can give is don't store card numbers. Ever. Just pass the info along to your payment gateway and forget it. Let them deal with the compliance and risk. Take my advice for what it cost and speak with your sales agent for the exact guidelines you need to follow.
It's just the simplest way to start the conversation, a first approximation you then refine. If you explain yourself too generally, nothing sticks in the audience's head.
I genuinely would like to see an example how you think C# is too verbose. I'm not trying to discount your argument, but it is contrary to my experience. We probably just have different ideas of what "too verbose" means.
> Consider a milk bottle. In manufacturing millions of them, there is

> every incentive to reduce costs. So we have the cheapest possible

> plastic which is food-safe but strong and moldable enough to have a

> handle, etc. Another type of plastic for a soft drink bottle. Another

> for a jar of honey, another for your takeaway food container. But

> every single one of these could actually be functionally replaced by,

> say, metal. The different plastics, the use of plastic at all, is not

> fundamental to the function, it is a side-effect of marginal costs in

> scale manufacturing.

I’m no expert on manufacturing, but I think you could use the same
low-grade high-density polyethylene used for the milk bottle for the
soft-drink bottle, the jar of honey, and the takeaway food box as
well. It would be thicker and heavier in some cases, and you wouldn’t
be able to see through it as well as the PET that’s currently used for
the soft-drink bottle or the crystal polystyrene used for see-through
takeaway food boxes. (You could also use PET for all of those things.
PS is less versatile because it’s brittle.)

I don’t think this is where 3-D printing is going to make a big impact
first, though. The objects you’re describing have a large potential
market for them, where they compete on material properties and low
cost with other objects. You can presumably mix just-in-time filled
systems in your 3-D printer to get a wider range of material
properties but I think that may not be a comparative advantage for 3-D
printers in the near future.

Instead, think about objects that are more customized to their
surroundings, where shipping and inventory is a major part of the
retail cost: drawer pulls, power strips for the number of plugs you
actually have (integrated into your 3-D printed desk), planters,
replacement machine parts, prosthetic body parts,
screws of funny sizes, and so on.
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Some friends who have a textiles nanocorp think their filing cabinet full of supplier contact information is their major competitive advantage. (If I were a British headline writer, I would say they have a textiles nanocorp supplier contact information file cabinet competition advantage.)
I mostly agree, but have been using git almost exclusively lately. The big draw for me is the ability to (easily) commit locally (and roll back those commits if I mess something up), then push commits to the "master" repository selectively. If SVN allowed for a similar workflow, it would satisfy my needs just fine.

Of course, any distributed VCS would probably fit that description... I found mercurial to be nice as well, and I used it happily for a couple projects. The primary reason for switching to git was to become familiar with another tool.
Jerf, a couple points:

1. How are those opposing forces? The first statement would be me selecting an item out of a catalog and printing it as a designer intended, so a traditional ecommerce system, but with no delivery, just on demand manufacturing. The second would be more of an open source model, but customization could be limited through DRM.

2. I didn't say people would need to have degrees in mechanical design, just that they would have to become skilled in it. For most people this is going to take an investment of hundreds of hours.

2. I think you are underestimating the "ease" that plastics for manufacture can be lined up. I think people are lulled into a sense of ease when it comes to 3D printing because we have seen such dramatic improvement in info tech and desktop printing. In the case of software your raw materials are 1 & 0's with 2D printing you have cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink. Moving into atoms the variety expands incredibly quickly. Materials all have quirks and the process that manipulates them further complicates the matter.

3. With electronics you are still going to face issues. First what is the "ink cartridge" analog for electronic components? How do you handle the regulatory issues? UL, FCC? I'm sure it can be done, its just not that easy.

4. 3D printing is a 20 year old industry. It faces long development cycles and requires significant and costly improvements in material science. Thanks for your generosity, but I will stand by my skepticism.

In closing I don't doubt the rise of "open source" manufacturing. I just don't think 3D printing will have major role in it. You seem to have confidence and a vision for how to make 3D printing ubiquitous. I hope you help move the state of the art forward.
Thanks a lot. The video will be very helpful.
I was going from memory, and perhaps I meant total over time, not annual.

But the point remains - It's a lot of money.
Thanks for the Helpful comments & a good resource.
I wasn't talking about CreamMonkey. I was talking about GreaseKit.
Never worry about wasting the great books just because you're not reading them between 9 am and 1 pm in a sunlit alcove with two friends (or some other highly optimized conditions). If it's that great, suboptimal conditions don't matter.
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Thanks for clearing up one point I was worrying about.
>Focus less on the legal side of things at this stage and more about the entrepreneurial mindset.
I think Google is getting a raw deal in this argument. This author and Doug Bowman talk about human designers being needed to make decisions about shades of blue and number of pixels for dividing lines. In most cases thats fine, but if you have the number of users google does you might as well let an algorithm figure it out, rather than have a team of designers argue back and forth about whose gut decision is correct.

On the other hand, there is TONS of great human-driven design going on at google. No algorithm came up with emails organized as conversations, or draggable, fast maps, or clean stock-quote pages with huge interactive charts, etc etc.

Fine, have an algorithm do some a/b testing to figure out how many pixels various lines on those pages should be, and which shade of colors to use. Of course designers arguing for their gut instincts on those decisions are going to be frustrated. They should have just let the data make the decisions its good at, and stick to doing the design that computers can't.
Understood sir!
I liked that article a lot but I agree I'd prefer to see it at newmogul or the economics reddit.
I got a local merchant account (huntington national bank), which is flexible, and I get a choice of gateways (we chose authorize.net). Great service at both the merchant account and gateway level, also pretty good rates.
I was working as a developer at Lycos at the time (1998-1999), and we were constantly being pressured by sales to put bigger banner ads all over the place.

We set up one of the first (maybe the first? i don't know) web usability labs with eye-tracking, and we saw how no one paid any attention to the big graphics. They focused like a laser on the most boring part of the page, the text, because they knew that was the stuff we weren't trying to trick them into looking at.

It was totally counter-intuitive, so we screamed from the mountaintop that we couldn't keep putting bigger ads everywhere, they were totally useless. But sales drove the company, and that's what the advertisers, our "customers" wanted.

So Google destroyed Lycos, because they listened to their engineers and not their sales people.
The last time I looked, my car wasn't much like a computer connected to the internet. Since they're going to claim technical expertise in the warrant ....

In any event, I was addressing the assumption that quick action is required as soon as the police know an IP address. It isn't.

As to the additional evidence, some indication that it was actually received at the guy's computer. After all, I'm pretty sure that the police don't raid the post office.
I get by with http://www.privoxy.org/

Adblock is better but privoxy helped me to change. Only open Firefox(which in comparison takes like ages) for development.
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> Once they do that, they'll find there's no compelling reason to keep draining resources into the black hole that is Trident. That leaves them two choices: WebKit or Gecko.

That is totally never going to happen. Gecko and WebKit are both totally useless to Microsoft, because they're good for nothing except browsing public internet sites. The last time Microsoft upgraded Trident's standards support (with IE7), they got bitten badly by all their business customers' intranet sites breaking. With IE8, they've pretty much promised to include the IE7 revision of Trident with every future release, so that none of their paying customers ever have to upgrade their intranet apps ever again.

As for pouring money into the black hole of Trident, they've already stopped that - I believe the new 'standards mode' engine of IE8 is a wholly new contraption, unfettered by all the legacy quirks that bog down WebKit and Gecko.
GreaseKit used to be CreamMonkey. Its still an Input Manager.
They're in the US. One is actually well known, but it looks like no one thinks of it that way, at least for now.
> the female trunk

Slow down, Casanova.
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Yes, but capturing someone else's territory and cards can double your effective strength.
(1) Creating money isn't spending. And, technically congress merely controls govt spending and the fed, so the argument goes, isn't really govt.

(2) "The Fed is unconsitutional" argument was lost long ago.
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Basic procedures: download, install, open configuration, options -> filter targets -> add chrome, now you have an adless lightspeed web. Happy surfing!
> One example: He spends a few sentences explaining how banks created CDOs: take some good loans, take some bad loans, put them together and using some math convince regulators and investors that these things are AAA rated.

You write that like it's wrong or in error.

As Google has demonstrated, you can create something that it is more reliable than its parts.

A bundle of somewhat independent things has less variance than the pieces.
I'm IN the older generation. But I've been using the Internet since before AOL and other commercial online services set up gateways to Internet services. My parents' generation among my relatives includes people who don't use the Internet at all, and some who use it for email. I've had to tell one relative to check Snopes before forwarding emails to a distribution list of all her friends.
Obama's gift demonstrates that Britain is not an ally of the United States, but a vassal or tributary state.
I noticed this when I worked on a trading floor. Even though the amounts of money being discussed were very large (a good trader could send millions across the table in one transaction) the game always seemed sterile to me, but to the traders, it was exciting.

I also never "got" the poker bug. Even though I was reasonably good at the game, it never seemed to be that interesting to me.
The key point to remember: They're not stupid; the internet is completely foreign to them.

This is a very good point about software usability in general. What's habitual to you is annoyingly picky to someone else. Moreover, any computer user has a noncomputerized personal life that sometimes demands time and attention. So it's compassionate to any user to assume that user errors may be because the user was tired, distracted, or never informed about how to use the software.
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