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Well, there goes half an hour of work time :)

Love the graphics, especially the animations. Found the game difficult initially but got the hang of it after a few games. Good fun.

Think I've found a bug on level 10(?) - the one with a tall column immediately before the exit. Anyway, I crashed during the level, but almost at the end, and it left me with no way to get to the exit except to waste a life flying into the tower to get it out of the way.

Oh, and I'm currently #3 with a score of 12,688. Great work guys.
To me this looks like another google idea to outsource projects to smart volunteer people, who are not on Google's payrol.

Maybe this is similar to the various Google initiatives: android application competition, Google Summer of Code, Google Code Jam etc.

I think this is pretty smart because even if some project do not work out, but Google decides the people were valuable, Google can recruit them.
It might not be like every other corporate venture arm, though. A lot of the things Google does, they do differently from other corporations. I've met these guys and I'd tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.
"If you would like your venture to be considered for funding, email is the best way to reach us. Please limit your presentation to no more than 20 slides or three type-written pages. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of email we receive, we can not promise a response to all inquires."

The ones that we really like, we'll just send to our product team. Those will be the ones with no response.
Oh, I see. PEP 374: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/
One of the central points in "20 years of high tech marketing disasters" is not that Microsoft are so smart, but that they had fewer major screwups than everyone else. I think it's a sensible point of view and highly recommend the book.

My summary: http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/10/in-search-of-stupi...
I can't say enough things about my Mirra. I also agree that it's 50% more comfortable than an Aeron. I think they have much better back support.
I don't think it is born. But I felt curious when I was in teens after reading stories in Jing Yong's novel about Zhou Botong's trick. I started to practice to hold chop sticks in left hand and after a month practice. I can do it without problem.

But some friends noticed that I always unconsciously switch hands when picking up trash on the floor or opening doors. They mistook me as left handed. And you read from Wikipedia that a theory of ambidexterity is that most ambidexterity are in fact left handed by birth. So maybe I just forget my unhappy experience during the right handed when I was kid.
There's some confusion in what "seed" means in investing, since when YC came around it kind of changed the rules. To VCs "seed stage" means "half a million dollars", not "$15k and Paul's secret rice and beans recipe".
1. Get an Aeron or Herman Miller ergonomic chair, the main draw to them is that they force you sit upright.

2. Get a keyboard tray. When you have a keyboard tray, you tend to lean back on your chair when you are typing.

3 Make sure you can fit both your mouse and keyboard on the tray so that you don't have to move your hands around too much to navigate the screen.

4. Get fresh air at least once every 2 hrs. Walking around and stretching is a good way to keep the blood flowing to the rest of your body.

5. Probably the hardest, but something I do, is that you need to make sure you keep to a strict diet and exercise regiment. I run 2 miles twice a week and do interval training on the bike and elliptical in between.

Your body and mind is the major bottleneck to your personal productivity and happiness, treat it well my friends.
I have to agree. I think it's really early to be standardizing in this area. Nobody knows what the right solution looks like yet, though a lot of folks have small pieces (and I like to think my company has a few pieces figured out, as well). I also agree that a lot of folks are seeing Amazon as the 800-lb gorilla in the room, but I do not think the game has even heated up yet...much less a winner already decided. The cloud space is like the search engine space in...I dunno, maybe 1996? I mean, we have a handful of players, and none are particularly standouts in all areas.

I would also wager that the real winner (the Google) of the cloud space, won't be any existing huge company. It will be somebody new with new ideas, and a really smart way to solve one or more of the really hard problems. Given that we don't have enough data to even know what the really hard problems are, I'm pretty sure the real winner hasn't shown up to the table yet.
It's been a couple years since I pulled the numbers, but here's a chart of the undergraduate admission rates for Harvard, MIT, and Stanford for class years 2004-2011:

http://www.keacher.com/files/undergrad-admissions.png

As you can see, the trend is nothing new. The only question is: where will it end?

Updated: I added the data for the two most recent years:

http://www.keacher.com/files/dir3/undergrad-admissions-rev2....
The problem with sharing over WiFi is that it drains the hell out of the battery life, in some cases even faster than it can be recharged from a 500mA USB port.

Yeah, I have this problem with my Windows Mobile phone. (I use WMWifiRouter.) It is better than nothing, but I wish the USB tethering worked as easily as Wifi tethering.
Yep, I guess his point is that someone who only understands code to be a barrier to entry is not really informed enough to discuss the matter properly. As you point out, the important thing is to have some barrier to entry for the competition.
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As you say, trust (or, more specifically trustworthiness). This ends up being a lot in terms of integrity and authenticity.

Conviction -- particularly courage of their convictions.

Understands the difference between fact and opinion. Also known as the Criteria of Reality.

Argues honestly. Especially when combined with conviction and criteria of reality, this allows for the flexibility to to learn and adapt rapidly.
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Mark Davis' Blog has a collection of posts about Starting up

http://www.markpeterdavis.com/getventure/starting-your-compa...
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The tachyon guys came up with quillpad years back, check it out: http://www.quillpad.in/hindi/
There's lots of research that shows that the structure of the brain IS very important in how it works and how we use it. For a good overview see Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works.

Many of these studies include individuals that had isolated damage to one small part of the brain and how that affects them. They show that specific parts of the brain are involved in highly specialized activities and that the brain is not just a big, nebulous general purpose calculator.
I think you have a very high threshold for "valuable" content. Most of the stuff I read and consider valuable has not been translated to another language. There's just too much valuable content for someone to translate all of it, unless it comes in the form of anime. But that's a special case.
Yeah, Google hasn't stolen your idea yet because they hadn't launched a venture arm to serve as a honeypot for hackers and their brilliant ideas.
Do you know those management courses in college where almost everything the professor "teaches" you is common sense?
Somehow this post brought back some memories.
Is this for real or did Google start with the April jokes early this year?
Thank you much. That is perfect.
Those are all very good points, especially the last two. The rush for quality can only go up. And now, it's within anyone's means, provided they are accepted.
Actually, this is the stuff that inspires me.

It's the high level of crap that keeps me going; I have to be able to do better than that.
Agreed. If your strategy to compete with Google is, "They haven't heard our idea yet." you're probably screwed.
Fair enough, but furthering the question:
If you were made an offer by google to acquire your company and google ventures is your sole investor. Who would help you leverage or give your company advice on how much you could really earn from the deal.
Google Ventures would never make a YC like investment. With YC the money is secondary to the rest.
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I don't think in the foreseeable future. tokenadult brings up some very good points regarding the rising number of applications.

Even if domestic student class sizes were to remain flat (which they won't, as class sizes are getting larger by the year), many foreign students (esp from India and China) of the current generation are now for the first time able to apply to college in the United States.
I like the idea of automatically doing a full compile and running all unit tests after every commit (assuming your code base is small enough to make it feasible). But, it seems a little crazy to automatically deploy commits to production.

I sometimes have merged a large feature into the repo's trunk (thousands of lines of code) - and it seems a bit scary to automatically deploy something that large into production (even with adequate testing). Although, I would like deploying onto a test server/vm automatically.

In my experience, changes to the production service have always been manual. Has anyone ever tried having commits automatically deploy to production (when they pass unit tests)?
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I agree that it might not be like every other corporate venture arm. Although, if I had to speculate, I think Google is doing this because it needs to diversify its business outside of generating cash through advertising. By investing in ventures, Google should be able to supplement its income nicely, keep its stock price high, and not have in increase operating expenses too much should anything that they invest in takes off.
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There is a caveat to Mirra - the seat is pretty firm. If you have a skinny butt you will not like it much. :( I still found it more comfortable than the AAeron though. I now consider craiglisting my Mirra and going for a Steelcase instead.

I suggest finding a showroom and trying it out. Herman-Miller has plenty of resellers in major cities.
Thanks very much for trying it out!

It's a good point about the bombs, if you kill a trigger ring instead of flying through it some situations come up like that. I might make a trigger ring trigger everthing that is tied to it if you crash into it and take it out.
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Initial thought: I like this idea. I might actually use it.

I tried it out. The robot voice is a bit hard to understand, but I doubt there's much you can do about it.

I signed on at the website and tried to enter the phone number in the format XXX-XXX-XXXX and it failed to log me in. When I removed the dashes it worked fine. Weird?

Also, on Firefox 3/Ubuntu, the 'add to cart' link goes onto the second line (overlapping 'delete') and didn't seem to do anything when I clicked it.

When I deleted an item, it was gone and there's no obvious way to get it back.

You might want to allow people to add items to their cart from the web interface somehow (paste link to Amazon page?)

The website's favicon is very weird.

Cool idea!
Why do you think time has anything to do with the stability of software? It's really up to them to label their software how they see fit. I respect them for not blinding doing what everyone else does.
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Seems off-topic to me.
I like the idea. I am probably a member of your exact target market: I often wander into a bookstore or library to kill time, but don't always have a notepad with me to jot down titles that look interesting. If I had an iPhone I'd use Amazon's app, but I don't.

I could barely understand the synthesized voice (there was a lot of hissing and other artifacts when I called; I'm nearly certain they weren't on my end of the connection).

I tried a few ISBN's of books I recently purchased on Amazon and fonefu found all 3 titles, but it only gave a price on the one that was available directly from Amazon. I don't know if this is intentional on your part, or a limitation of whatever Amazon API you are using, or what. At any rate perhaps you could make the limitation more clear?

When I went back to the website, I typed my phone number in the 555-555-5555 format like the example. However my login attempt was rejected a few times before I thought to try 5555555555 instead.

As a non-Friendfeed user I am left wondering why Amazon wishlists aren't also supported as an export target. Maybe another API limitation (not your fault)?

I'm going to add the 877 number to my phonebook - if the voice becomes easier to understand I may become a regular user.
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Firstly, as always, congrats for making this happen so far. Two things pop out for me:

1) The brand, url etc is all about Phones and nothing about Books. Do you plan to expand the service into other areas? Because right now it sounds like it will cut your phone bill in half, not your next Malcolm Gladwell purchase.

2) As phones evolve, will your target market be dwindling. Can I go online with my current phone and look up Amazon while I'm in the bookstore? If I can, why would I call you? If I can't, surely it won't be long before I can - and then, why would I call you?

But hey, you've got a revenue model, so who am I to question the niche you seem to be servicing.
Two options to deal with the "scary" part of big integrations in continuous deployment:

Don't. Commit early, often and in small chunks. Just search for Continuous Integration, more than enough has been said on it already.

When you must, roll out features independently of the code being live in production. This means things like using control logic to roll out the code to portions of users, intelligently. We roll out via: on/off switches (mitigate total failure), A/B tests (mitigate poor performance in front of customers), QA-rollout (mitigate bad experiences for customers), etc. Lots of flexibility here, including hidden rollouts: running the code without showing the results to users, so you can figure out scalability impacts.
I haven't tested this yet, but I think that you can create an ad hoc Wifi network and share your 3G connection with 3.0 tethering too.
I personally don't like microsoft because I think we would all be using superior technology had they not used their position to prevent competition.

I don't admire a company's ability to acquire money. I admire their ability to create wealth.
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Or maybe some of us just hate it when people whine about their comment scores, instead of providing commentary relevant to the discussion?
Raises the interesting points of a) when will regular coders start outsourcing their jobs on SO and b) when will the large community of "offshore" coders currently doing this sort of patch work swarm SO. Having said that, I have noticed that people are more likely to help helpful people so unless those people add value to the system first it is unlikely they'll get extreme amounts of help.
If I were a shareholder, I'd much rather have them pay me a dividend than enter the distracting world of venture capital. These types of moves inevitably risk turning the company into yet another bloated enterprise, even if they are successful in their investments.

Google has always had a significant amount of cash. They used to use that capital to do really interesting, strategically smart things, like buying dark fiber. This was similar to Apple's philosophy - you don't see Apple distracting themselves with some sort of "Apple Ventures" play; instead, they will take advantage of their cash position to do things like cornering the market for miniature hard disks, which leads to a direct benefit to the bottom line.

Methinks there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
I enjoyed being able to clearly learn what your product does in 4 easy steps.

However, step 1 (No registration required) is not a step. It told me what not to do, which is confusing. I recommend making it "how it works" in 3 steps, with a bubble or callout saying "no registration required!"

Also, step 4 made me think I should buy the books in the store, which is exactly what you don't want them to do... The icon (books in shopping cart) and words "Purchase your books" don't clearly tell me to drive home empty handed.

I like the concept, would definitely check it out if I was more of a frugal shopper, but I often just buy in store to have the instant gratification.

congrats on getting this out there! That's a great accomplishment in itself
Ah, fair enough.

A few things:

First, such competition is on such a massive scale that local competition against classmates, &c., is harmful. Indeed, I think even thinking about college admissions as zero-sum is counterproductive.

I also still think most of such pressure and competition are self imposed, and frankly often a misdirection of effort and attention: students who care about learning for its own sake and spend effort on what they're curious about and have enough free time to pursue those interests (clearly some who have a language barrier, and must take part time jobs to feed younger siblings, etc. are at a disadvantage here) will manage to get into a decent college somewhere (there are so many fantastic ones!).

Then again, I'm rather less motivated by grades/prestige/promises of future salary/etc. than most students around here.
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I think there's some difference between "work hard" and "think of school as a competitive endeavor".
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I really appreciated your write up as a primer on git. Thanks for writing it. One issue I have with it, though, is that the part focusing on Pushing and Fast Forward Merges is either vague or incorrect and led me down some confusing paths. I'm specifically referring to the part where you claim "one common problem is when you do development on a branch and the branch changes on the remote repository as well... if you pull master from the remote repository, you will get a warning, and if you force the pull to go through, you will lose commit "

First off, a fetch will never result in a fast forward, since it is just modifying remote references, not merging local references. If you fetch in this scenario, it will not cause an error or you to lose your commit. It just updates the remote reference. You can then merge, resolve any conflicts and you're set. Doing a pull is just doing these two steps as one -- i.e. a pull = fetch + merge. After merging, you can push back.
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What I find more interesting than nature and nurture here is the censorship of scientific research.

Many of us would like to base our cultural views, morals and laws on the findings of scientific research. It seems more reasonable than the flying spaghetti monster. But are we really prepared to change our views where the science doesn't match up?

On the other hand, I don't think anyone expects science to always be "squeaky clean", free of all political influence.
I did not mean that people would do a literal translation. I think that people can translate the _value_ of the content into other languages.
Why does it need separate constructs for {.section} and {.repeated section}? You could take the absence of a key to signify "hide this section", its presence to signify "show it once, with these values", and its presence as an array to signifiy "show it multiple times, one per element". That's the way google-ctemplate works, and it seems to work quite well.

(BTW, I had no idea Google's templating library was an open-source project. Kinda fun to see that the stuff I work with daily isn't a proprietary walled garden after all. And some trivia for those who don't routinely Google project owners: it's written and maintained by Google's employee #1.)
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Single sentence quotations are often taken as a whole because there is no other way to review them. That's why it falls under fair use, not the partial-extract part of it. Your example of advertising slogans is a perfect example actually.

Excerpting the tweet stream does seem to be a more logical view of what's going on actually.

I really doubt it would be an uphill battle.
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This seems like just the type of app Twilio was built to be built upon. Are you guys using their API, or something you rolled on your own?
Or simply the fact that you should probably have more than an idea in hand. i.e. early execution.
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> In one instance he like all other programmers was forbidden to use malloc. And everything was on the stack and of size 512 - EVERYTHING. Who made that decision? Why the financial managers obviously!

Many financial software houses operate under very strict latency constraints, where a microsecond or two more means that somebody else got the trade you were going for. I've even heard of hedge funds colocating boxes on the exchange floor so that they can avoid the network delay of sending messages a few blocks to headquarters. In this environment, the cost of dynamic memory allocation can be significant, and garbage collection is most certainly out.

Same thing in the avionics industry and other hard-realtime situations: malloc is forbidden because its time complexity cannot be predicted by the programmer.

I have no idea if this is why he couldn't use malloc or whether it was plain management stupidity. But the idea is not as absurd as it seems at first.
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