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Allegedly, the robbers walked with 100M euros without cleaning the vault. Price would have to be really steep for those additional security measures for their cost to be an issue I think.

> A vault doesn't have to be impregnable, only visibly difficult to steal from.

I'm pretty sure a vault in this situation has to be really impenetrable and definitely not just visibly difficult to steal from.

What you're proposing is the exact situation they had. The result didn't look good.
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Also remember that Notarbartolo stayed quiet for years, and suddenly is willing to talk to a reporter about this. There's a reason for that. Whether he's telling the truth or not, he's speaking up because he thinks it will get him something he wants. What is it he wants?
Another one is salary freeze.

If my only motivation to work is not being fired, then I´ll do the minimum required to stay employed.

That's also called the slacker principle.
It's awful at banks. We're encouraged to spot other employees and write and submit 'good job' cards, which they will receive later. Then at random submitters and their recipients will be selected to win a $25 gift card. It's outsourcing recognition to the frontline employees.

I'm not against recognizing my team mates, but I'd rather not go through a formal channel. It cheapens the recognition.
heh. IOdrive. Like striping 3 intel X25-X SSDs, only more expensive.
"This article is for Paid Print Subscribers ONLY." ?
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I would like think that it wouldn't be that hard to adapt an in-memory system to use something like a memory mapped file or even a custom cached memory mapped file. Of course, such a system might not be designed to avoid page swaps/cache hits.

Of course, this is about how the system could evolve - the possibility might not help a simple user now.
Not only is it technically impressive, it's actually fun too! I'm not a gamer (not even much of a casual gamer) so this may sound like a dumb Q: but are such variations of Tetris common?
hmmmm not bad.

I see that your business model is Amazon referrals... :)
WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION:

Every website out there has a design and each design is potentially a product someone would like to buy.

If a lot of website owners are willing to sell there design then I would consider a startup idea of mine.
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One of the ways I am approaching the crowded iPhone Twitter client space
Every company is different, every individual needs a custom termsheet... They work out the arrangement.
Why not allow people to buy iphone apps and run them via simulator under Mac/Win?
It's not clear to me that this would result in fewer ipod touch/iphone sales. In fact, it might result in more as the simulator would act as advertising.

Even if the simulator only runs under Mac, it would still be a significant improvement over the current situation.
Is there a place where I can read more about this market? Maybe you have a blog post or something? Paying customers is a subject of my interest. :-) Thanks.
What's with all the non-programming related links today? Weekend?
Not everything works (or works the same) in the iPhone simulator on the Mac as the device. You can't make/answer calls, no accelerometer, vibration, certain effects are missing, performance is different, multi-touch is hardly usable, since you use the mouse+keyboard to simulate it, etc.

And there is no simulator for Windows at the moment.

It's going to be a lot of work to package it so that it is secure (DRM), works, and is polished enough for consumers. Probably not worth the cost considering how the App store is selling apps like hot cakes.
I think "quality of user experience" might be a reason.

Operating the simulator feels like doing watch repair with mittens on. You are denied your fabulous desktop input and output devices and can't easily access the fabulous iPhone specific interface devices. The result is a shabby experience.
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Ok, sometimes I feel authors think of a title first, then write a story around it. That being said, I don't have anything against the article.
Can the vetting team ask the FBI for information on an active investigation on one of its job candidates? The FBI should never answer such a question and the mere idea they ever could is a bad sign the Bush administration did some very serious institutional damage.
I'm not so sure. I've seen a couple of set ups like that and I'm always a little skeptical.

There are some barriers that you don't want to remove because they're predictive of other situations that you'll hit down the line. It feels like getting people you know to buy into your concept would be one of those.

Perhaps I'm just overly maniacal in the way I work, but it'd be hard for me to put the amount of work that I'm doing into an idea that I picked from a list with people that I didn't know.
I'm thinking no one did too well. I got the high score of "2". (Unless that's broken.)
I find that steve's stories are much funnier than these. These seem like flat jokes. I usually get flat jokes, but I didn't get davesecretary's.
Sadly, I identified with a lot of these points. Added to them now are a salary freeze and an extremely low bonus not because of my technical achievements at the company, but rather because of what my manager perceives of me. The first one is "due to recession".
The approach of using an embedded interpreter to perform sorting is absolutely viable and sane. With Redis my aim is to build a data model and a set of operations that do not depend on an embedded interpreter.
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I believe you mean indiscreet, not indiscrete.
There are many Twitter clients on the iPhone at the moment. Most of seem to be focused on implementing the API and offering integration to other services. Some are doing very well and are very impressive.

While I'm also doing some of that, I'd like to experiment in a different way, that of building new features. The conversation view, while it is not a totally new concept (it is available in a similar form in the Summize page, and the current Twitter search page), doesn't exist yet on the iPhone clients and it's pretty interesting how much you can do in the backend to churn out just a view of a conversation.

Digress a little: I've been working full-time on iPhone applications for the past 3 months but have only started selling a few weeks ago (a delay of 3 months due to the paperwork blackhole!). And it's been a huge challenge to break into the market and break even, but nevertheless an interesting experience.

As I mentioned in the article, I have a few ideas (for features) in my mind which I'll be experimenting with. If anyone of you have any ideas, please feel free to share them and/or discuss/comment on what I have done.
I would say that anti-intellectualism is more about people putting faith above reason. An intellectual believes they have the superior mind and can reason about anything. An anti-intellectual believes they have no great intellect and rely on alternative senses to guide them.
Old or not, it's still quite disturbing.
i wanna be a kidney repo man for when one of these jerks renege on their obligations...

oh and i watch too much dexter :(
It's probably a good idea to link to the permalink: http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-launc... of the article instead of the main page of the blog.
Last I checked, the FBI was part of the Executive Branch and answered completely to the president.

There's no special agency that doesn't answer to anybody. As president, Obama is also responsible for enforcing laws. He has every right as part of the vetting process to give law enforcement agencies veto ability (or not).

There are some special rules for the Office of Public Accountability, but they're for investigating officials already in power. Even then, I don't think you get around the Executive Branch running the FBI. The president, as chief law enforcement officer, can muck around in any ongoing investigation he deems he should.
Very interesting.

Some suggestions:

1. Consider adding: img {border-style: none;}

2. Consider right aligning images in the column. This will make the differing sizes not stick out as much.

3. (twtr) can be replaced with an icon. (hummingbird?)

4. Change "How-to" to something else or just remove that title.

All the best!
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"placed on leave out of 'an abundance of caution'"

The headline seems misleading since "suspension" implies a punitive action.
You are right, i didn't mean to say otherwise. The original post had a critique of ADTs which i was responding to.
It will, however provide a tool to keep me out of Chrome, IE or other browsers to circumvent LeechBlock.
It would depend on the app.
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Sleep.fm is top Twitter search term (6 month duration)
"lack of meaning"

If I find lack of meaning in what I'm doing I meander. Like I am now.
nice idea of converting blurbs/tweets about stuff people talk into a list.. It might be a nice idea if you had some kind of ranking with things that are most talked about on the top.. got the thought from tweetdeck which shows wordclouds with largest words being the ones most talked about, to see the trend
Same thing on Safari 3.2.1 here. Works fine with WebKit, though.
Plenty of scientists, engineers, etc. use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW , and watching someone use it, you wouldn't believe how easily you can create say, a complex artificial neural network with awesome visualization.

So yes, being biased against a programming paradigm like visual/dataflow programming just because it's organized visually rather than textually is silly the reason disliking Lisp because of the parens is silly.
You'd probably get the same if you wrote a slow paced, event based game in Flash. Dirty rects means that even though Flash rendering is called at x fps, it can be skipped if nothing's changed (at least, as far as I understand it, my games always change each frame).

Generally if a game has focus it should burn 100% CPU in order to update as smoothly as possible, but the real problem is games that still update and consume CPU like that when not in focus.
So why are so few, to no, startups using LDAP? I would think LDAP would be a perfect short and long-term solution for twitter. They could put all of their users in LDAP, and then all of the people they are following into a group (each user gets a group). Now, when you want to know who someone is following, that is one query (no joins like in a DB!), and then if you want to know who is following them, again, it is one query.

LDAP (like Sun's LDAP which is free) scales beautifully (it was designed for this, just ask the telcos), and you can easily put all of this info in memory. Sun's 6.3 version handles large groups like this very well. (I do not work for Sun.) And if you want open source, they could use OpenDS or Fedora DS (but I don't know how well Fedora would do with huge groups).

Looking at those slides makes my head spin in terms of what they have tired to engineer with memcache, etc. It just seems like they are trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

(This is the same comment I left on Evan's blog.)
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Heh. I had an Erlang question classified as "art". It would be interesting to understand how they build and categorize their vocabulary dictionaries.
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Percentages rather than dollars are worthless. There are skewed bets; you can predict "up" rightly 70% of the time and lose money on the bigger downward 30% of the movements.
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I want to create a startup that does the exact same thing as an existing company. The area where we would be competing is very large and there appears to be only one legitimate company operating in this space. I was thinking about cleverly trying to differentiate my company from the existing competition but came to the realization why bother. If the market is large and there are no proprietary issues, there is no reason why two companies can't succeed in this space. It got me thinking, are too many web companies dissuaded by the existence of competition? How does YC and other funds feel about putting money into companies that are not really innovative?
I was struck by the relevancy to writing startup and business blogs. Immediacy is everything - a hindsight view offers a lot of well-selected, edited, abstracted lessons, but it's boring.

Geez, really? I better stop writing blog posts then.

I suffer from always trying to appear rational in my actions, so I spend too much time trying to analyze the underlying motivations about why I did something when I should simply write about what I did and the short, simple thoughts that brought me there.

Good point. Why analyze where we went right or wrong? What's the point of that? It's not like other people, or even ourselves, can learn from our mistakes.

... Amazon is amazing about this ...

Amazon's blog is a start-up blog? Ok, then obviously we have a different definition of what a "start-up blog" is. I thought it was a blog about start-ups, written by an entrepreneur. Apparently tech blogs written by industry behemoths count as start-up blogs, according to this article.

I'm not quite sure what this article was talking about. Perhaps the author should have defined what he meant by "start-up blogs" before writing the article. Not at all sure where the "Indecipherable" part came from either.. who reads indecipherable blogs?? Does anyone intentionally write indecipherable blogs?
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I find this fascinating, I've always been a visual person and drawing my code on paper with connections and such has always helped. I will be looking into this.
I'm not sure that what you say is right. What makes you think that it's the same?
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Be that as it may, if the rats cannot do better than a coin toss, what use is it?
Pretending that something does matter when I've already come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter doesn't work for me. I can't fool myself like that without some other consequence making me do that thing.

I actually want to do things that matter to me.
This is interesting, why an iPhone application rather than something that can be perhaps web-based?

I am working on (and by "working on" I mean, I created some messy code 5 months ago and then abandoned it but cling to the dream that I may one day finish it) something similar, but wanted a web based UI - I have the same issue whether it is on a mobile client or at my desk. I want a twitter client that is smarter than a linear display of what's going on - and instead figures out the context of tweets (like replies and retweets) and intelligently gets me that context

It looks like you are trying to solve that issue with replies, kudos to that.
we were notified of this recently and are/have addressing/ed the issue
all VCs want to see return on their money. if you can convince them that your idea will make that happen, i'm sure you'll find someone to invest.

however, some VCs like to see new ideas, paradigm shifts and bleeding-edge technology. you won't be getting anything from those groups.
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I accidentally submitted his front-page instead of the actual article url, which I've since deleted. Thanks for resubmitting peter!
No, it is competitive with the 24 SSD monster. That is, it is competitive with putting 24 of the SSDs in RAID, which is estimated to be... $12k IIRC. Granted, you get less storage space, but this is for pure IO goodness.

Edit: From the Tom's Hardware article at ( http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/493-8-x25-e-fusion-... )

The database I/O benchmark results are quite interesting. Intel’s X25-E reaches 6,500 to 10,000 I/O operations per seconds at small command queue depths, but drops to a little more than 4,000 I/Os at deep command queues. The ioDrive is different. While it reaches 2.5x more performance than the X25-E at executing individual commands, it drops to a bit more than the Intel’s performance at longer command queues. Switching the ioDrive to one of the faster write modes, which results in reduced capacity, results in more than doubling I/O performance. In such a case, a RAID array of Intel X25-E SSDs could not catch up for the same cost of an ioDrive.
Just happened to us this week. Promise of 7-10% bonuses and now we are told we will get little or nothing, communicated by a faceless email.

Needless to say all my good will has gone along with my motivation!
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I'm in Atlanta too, and there is definitely a startup community, but what I was referring to was this: http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

"It's cities that compete, not countries. Atlanta is just as hosed as Munich."

Its another PG essay, and well worth a read.
FathomDB looking for developers (W08, Databases-as-a-service) 
The response to the FathomDB launch has been incredible:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/y-combinators-fathomdb-...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/27/FathomDB_launches_...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10184579-240.html

There's a lot of work to be done, and a lot of features to add. We're looking for outstanding developers to join the team and shape the product. If you're excited by FathomDB, why not bring your ideas & enthusiasm? What we've done so far is merely the prelude.

FathomDB is built around a solid Java-based operations platform; the front end is built using GWT. We make changes to the MySQL code (e.g. to support our advanced analytics.)

We'd love to talk to you if:

* You're an excellent programmer and the sort of person that would work well in a startup environment.

* You have a preference for equity over salary (this is as much for cultural reasons as for financial reasons.)

* You're great in at least two of: cloud/large scale web-app infrastructure; Java development; in-depth database/DBA knowledge. You're probably looking for a more exciting way to apply these skills than you're doing today.

* You have different skills but know you'd be great anyway - if so, just let us know why your skills will work for us.

* You're self-motivated to work incredibly hard on challenging and fast-paced problems.

* You work largely autonomously and achieve remarkable things quickly.

* You can find the balance between doing things fast and doing things 'the right way'.

* You're willing to work on whatever needs doing even if you haven't 'been trained' in it.

* Most importantly, all of the above appeal to you, rather than put you off.

In return you'll get meaningful equity, 'subsistence' salary, a real say in the company, and plenty of challenging work.

FathomDB is based in San Francisco, but we'll consider telecommuters.

To apply, please email your resume to jobs@fathomdb.com
Yes. I don't know of a transcript, but mostly its about team building and multi-tasking.
Well, the voting system still works.
Ryan, youre awesome, and sleep.fm is pretty cool, but compete screwed up somehow. BESIDES this article, there's barely any tweets on twitter for sleep.fm. http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1323832063&page=...

Traffic is also http://siteanalytics.compete.com/sleep.fm/?metric=uv only at 5k uniques. If the search volume was what they indicated, the traffic would be decently higher (how much higher i dont know).
Ugh, I hate to be 'that guy' but this is such obvious link bait.. these rules don't really tell me anything insightful.
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It's interesting that eBay does seem to be the first web auctioneer of any note. As many have pointed out, others sold books on the web before Amazon, there were many search sites before Google, etc. But eBay basically invented it and has held onto it.

It has been said that Columbus wasn't the first to discover America, but he became famous for being the last. After his legend spread, none could again make that claim credibly to the public.
Being an iPhone application partially solves the selling part of the equation. You still need to market and have a good product, but sales and delivery is done for you, at the cost of 30% revenue and somewhat unpredictable release schedules.

This particular functionality is actually a web service though. I built this running on a server and the iPhone client talks to the service. This provides some flexibility in terms of release schedules and most importantly works around the default Twitted rate limit. There is just no way a standalone Twitter thick client can do this without hitting the rate limit all the time, making the feature useless.

It's interesting you mentioned retweets though, I haven't thought about that. One thing I'm looking into is the timestamp, @names and some herestics based on commonalities between tweets. I come from a search engine background, so mining text and relationship is always interesting to me.

Why did you stop your work though?
I was waiting for him to address the last.fm post about them handing user information over to the RIAA. He really should've taken it a step further beyond merely disclosing your sources, to validating them as well. I feel this was kind of a vague shot at addressing the last.fm debacle. I do think it's noble of him to pull out of companies for the sake of TC's credibility, but there are other changes that should be made as well.
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Sure this awesome & amazing to see for us!

The data compete is stating is the number times people searched Twittered for Sleep.fm and not the amount of Twitters. We do have a somewhat steady stream of people talking about us, but compete's data is not showing the most popular Twitter topic rather most popular searches. Sleep.fm would surely not show up in that report, more so Obama, iPhone and other pop culture attention getters.
It sounds like he was putting his money where his mouth was, but now can't? Which is better, more useful, a blogger that understands and takes part in an industry, or one that strictly comments?