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Perhaps some B-schools are the cheerleaders, but I never saw it where I was. Economics departments are where that particular meme came from, and they don't actually teach economics in B-school except tangentially.
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definitely! anyone else whose interested post here as well
No love for the "I don't have a startup (yet)" crowd?
Sounds like there must be major restrictions on this plan to prevent someone from taking a car back before the date without having to pay some sort of fee. To be honest a cars price goes down so quick it is probably in the interest to the consumer to take it back after a year, which means the lawyers must have cooked up some big agreement so that you don't take advantage and that will hurt the honest consumer, without solving the sales problem.
I think it's backlash against the fact that a lot of bad middle managers are MBAs and a lot of programmers have worked for them. They then generalize, "This is what MBAs are." and apply it to the universe as a whole.

There's a similar phenomenon in the startup world when you get some fresh MBA who's ready to try his mojo and "has The Great Idea and just needs to find a programmer", again, annoying and leads to this sort of generalization.

But flipping things around it's like saying, "Haha, yeah, coders never shower and have never had a date!" Sure, there are people that fit the stereotype, but they don't have exclusive rights on business or technical study.

My co-founder has his masters in business and communication. So far as I know, he's never had a computing course. He uses Ubuntu, can sling a little PHP, CSS and JS and discuss graph clustering and collaborative filtering in an overview-ish way. Oh, right, but he's supposed to be dumb.
I have a question about justin.tv's architecture. I always avoided the site because I made public denunciations of its stupid name, but I eventually went to it and was shocked by its similarity to blogtv.com

I grabbed these randomly:

http://www.justin.tv/poshvixxxen

http://www.blogtv.com/People/whiteboy712

There're some obvious similarities here. Did they both just pick off-the-shelf components and host them?
I don't have a startup (yet)
Just to note, this policy isn't new. It has been in place since the SDK came out. So far, it has been neither enforced by Apple nor abused by customers.

Source: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/iPhone+news/news.asp?c...
I added that option.
Good point. On the other hand countries like India and China are already at a point where there are successful startups serving local customers.

Also, a startup that's doing something like, say Reddit, may not need to be physically close to users to be successful.
Kitesurfing or snowboarding. You need a physical outlet.

Exercise will give you peace. It worked for me.
You can give negative points? lol, I require that button ;)

PS. Good luck peoples
As someone with an MBA (though not from a so-called "good" school") I definitely agree with your "know-it-all nobodies" sentiment. In fact this is one of the things I found hardest to stomach about Silicon valley - so many pundits spouting platitudes that would get you laughed out of even the worst B-school get lauded as geniuses.
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> The hard thing to bend my mind around is the fact that many people in China are in favour of Internet censorship.

Wait, where did you get that?
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global is not equal to overseas

(hulu is not available from canada or mexico)
by having humor ?
lim Apple = Microsoft

t→∞

(Eh, HN wasn't made for displaying calc, I guess.)

They're starting to show some of the monopolistic tendencies. For example, newish iPods can only connect via iTunes (at least they said they were going to do that), which not only kinda sucks for people who liked using a different program that didn't suck memory, usually even when "not running", but also made it impossible (or at least hard) for Linux users to connect iPods at all.
I think what Clayton Christensen has contributed in terms of his theory of disruptive innovation at the Harvard program is valuable. An MBA trained under him would have an visionary adavantage in a startup situation.
Android has that (but in 24h)
My experience is the same. I think people are confusing the macro (economics) with the micro (running an actual company). Business schools focus on the micro and in doing so very rarely address economic systems as a whole.

To but it a different way economics is about how the rules of an economic system are created. Business school is about teaching the student to work within the rules already created in the existing system.
That was the joke....
I second the diet recommendation. It makes a big difference for me when I can manage not to eat sweets and empty carbs.

I just throw down an espresso after lunch and I feel good.
My major problem with this console is that the price difference between "a box that can feed the TV with a screen off the network and cope with all the associated problems thereof" and "a traditional console" is not likely to be wide enough to make the inevitable disadvantages worth it.

Cloud mania appears to have obscured the fact that personal computing power continues to grow. We are currently in a momentary I/O bobble that will resolve itself in a year or two with solid state drives (which, by their fast pace of development, seem eager to catch up to all the other components of the computer), leaving only multicore to deal with, which putting this sort of thing in the cloud can hardly ignore either.

By the time this thing comes out, the box + one year of service will almost certainly cost more than an XBox 360, and will probably be going head-to-head with the "Playstation 4" or the "XBox 720" with what is now the current gen readily available for $50. The PS4/XBox360 will probably be bragging about pushing 120Hz of 1080P with surround sound.

My minor complaint is that this just won't work on a consumer grade network, full stop. It will take years to make the deals with Comcast and everyone to get the necessary QoS that this would take. Nobody is streaming video out in real time over the internet. "Real time" here doesn't mean "real time minus two seconds" or "streaming a video while permitting a 5 minute pre-buffer", "real time" means a solid, uninterrupted stream of data with no more than a handful of frames of latency, where the slightest network bobble means your game freezes solid.

Fat chance.
He was claiming that his division wasn't writing CDOs on MBSs. So, it was somebody else's division.
Serving local customers is key, but even if you're Reddit, I think that ideally you are immersed in a community of people doing similar things. You need that feedback and energy.
I think that the intake and exhaust are always in opposite directions, regardless of whether it's efficient.
A friend with a fairly recent MBA from Harvard told me that such professors are highly sought after by students. The school has some sort of lottery/bidding system to allocate slots in those classes.
You should never require a "good reason" for a commodity software refund:

1) Adjudicating reasons requires valuable support time. Refund and move on does not.

2) This causes customer friction. The annoyance of the prospect of having to justify yourself to an uncaring CS grunt in India destroys the value of having the guarantee in the first place, which is to make purchasing from you look like a risk-free endeavor.

3) Any customer can get a refund any time they want by calling up their credit card company and humming a few bars about "Internet merchant did not live up to their claims". This is called a chargeback and it means the merchant just lost $15 to $25 plus the refunded amount.

4) Product quality is much more effective than hoops in decreasing the number of refunds. ("Good relations with the customer" is more important than either. You know how bedside manner is a better predictor of malpractice claims than clinical outcomes? Same story.)

[Edit to add: incidentally, the reason Apple has refunds is to zealously protect their "All interactions with Apple should be mindblowingly awesome for our customers" reputation. This is the same reason that they make it essentially impossible for developers to be anything other than an anonymous cog behind a shiny new icon -- anything else and you're a risk to the True Apple Brand Experience. And that is why I will never, ever develop for any platform that insists that they own the customer relationship.]
I can't speak for blog.tv, but I personally wrote the justin.tv video player, chat client, and chat server software. So the answer would be, no ;-)
Sounds interesting.

Hanspeter Pfister is a very smart guy.
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You've got it backwards with lag. With local rendering power, minor lag can be magicked away as the local machine applies prediction algorithms to make a decent guess as to what the game state will be in the next .25 seconds. With this system, every minor lag blip for more than one frame, which I will be generous and assume will be 30fps and thus 33ms (rather than 60fps) will manifest as total game freeze, because every minor lag blip is logically equivalent to walking up to your real-life XBox and just disconnecting the video cable, assuming a TV that would then hold the previous frame instead of dropping the picture.

There's no way in hell this thing is going to play FPSs. Think "Bejeweled". With no animations, or very choppy ones.

It's a terrible, terrible design suited solely for extracting investment money from credulous investors. If you are a credulous investor doing due diligence on this product and you've encountered this message, if they're promising anything other than casual, graphically-unimpressive games, this is your cue to run.
Jumped in full time after graduating. All three in the team are 1st timers... fingers crossed.
How about the "I had one, it failed/succeeded, and I'm waiting for my next big idea"?
I think this article explains the idea much better: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35391/title/Do_su...
Ours was prepared, and admittedly it looked terrible. I would second adding this to the recommendations.
reminds me of microloans. It's a growing trend in Africa. I believe there are websites that connect you to farmers in Africa and you actually make good ROI.
It's always been just the 4 partners reviewing the applications. We've added a few improvements in the software that manages the process, but mostly it just takes us longer. We are probably getting a little faster with experience, though.
Most people's seem to be, so it won't hurt you much.
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What about percentages? Frequencies are nice, but I wonder what percentage of applications include the optional video.
Part time for 2.5 years now, making about what I do at the day job (scary thought), and I suppose when I eventually separate from the day job I'll be "part time" by your definition as well. (2~4 hours a day is peak productivity for me. I do substantially more at the day job to keep up appearances. Absent that factor, why the heck should I schedule my life around the work hours of a 19th century illiterate textile mill worker, whose life was in turn dictated by the requirements of 19th century textile machinery?)
The Visualizaing Data book from http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514556/ is a good easy way to jump into processing.

There are some frustrating typos in the code, but if you're a programmer you should be able to fix them quickly, and you build some neat stuff.
They're common in all games. Even if the ISPs got their act together (no sign of that) the stuff on the consumer's end is still a problem. Lots of ISPs distribute modems with significant problems. Lots of companies (Linksys, Belkin, and DLink come to mind as offenders) sell wifi boxes that are not only pathetically slow, but come with absurd defaults that make them even slower (Think 150ms+ ping on the wlan).

Not to mention the huge variety of brokenness that happens with PCs, which they're going to have to deal with (they have a client for Windows/OS X as well as the set top box).

To be honest, I would be amazed if latency didn't kill this project. Or turn it into a puzzle game platform.
Right now, part time after my primary job. The ultimate goal, though, is part time _as_ my primary job. ;)
I don't think those would support flash though. Clever link though.
I think it is different for every person, as usual. I am a self-described atheist, and yet I have found much enjoyment in something as simple as The Tao of Poo by Benjamin Hoff. Seemed silly, at first, but I found myself listening to it (book on tape from the library at first) over and over again. Now I own a copy and the hard bound book. I usually get little lessons each time i relisten.

The lessons for me right now are: slow down, figure out a way to enjoy everything, because I'm still alive. Even in the bad stuff, there is some gleaming little tidbit in the corner that is helpful/instructive. And there is great stuff in what I used to consider mediocre. I don't need the extreme highs as much any more to feel good (still learning, still working on it).

I have a tendency to want to find the RIGHT way of doing anything I decide to do. Lots of angst, in that for me. Better to just let go, do my best at the time, and accept it as it is, as it happens. Eventually, it all seems to work out. If it does not look like it, It usually means I haven't waited long enough.

It then starts coming through in my work. Go ahead and ship it. Then keep refining it. Clients are usually nowhere near the perfectionist I am, and are usually quite pleased.

But, we're all different, your mileage may vary. :)
they are in favor of the same things other country's peoples are in favor of blocking: porn, etc.

trouble is once you have a "great firewall" in place, it gets used to block whatever is convenient with no oversight.
I have an MBA from a school that sometimes makes the Top 50 lists. I had some extra scholarship semesters available as an undergrad and was allowed to partake in the MBA program concurrently.

The MBA experience shaped the way I think about problems as much as my undergrad in computer engineering. A good program teaches students to think through problems using an economic framework while engineering school promotes a technical one. Both are valuable (as are many other ways of thinking).

Here's a specific example: Is Amazon's new EC2 dedicated instance pricing a good deal? A naive analysis requires simply adding up the sum total of all costs and comparing the difference. What's wrong with that?

1. A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. How much more? That depends on your unique circumstances. You're a start-up? It's really expensive to spend money today. You'd much rather pay more later when your concept is proven out. Are you GE and can borrow at rates only slightly higher than the government? Then, a dollar now isn't much different than a dollar tomorrow. So, you have to establish what's referred to as a discount factor to compare payments made at different times.

2. The dedicated instance program has characteristics of an option. You have the right but not the obligation to purchase server hours. So, your economic model has to allow for the future decision to switch over to the per-hour model if prices drop drastically.

3. The "strike price" (using the term loosely) of the option is fixed even though Moore's law is likely to hold over the life of the option. Is paying $500 now for the right to purchase server hours for 70% off a good deal if server hours only cost 1/5th of what they do now at the time of the option's expiration? How steeply can prices decline so that you are still at the point of indifference between paying up-front and paying later?

4. A quick analysis of the marketplace for on-demand computing suggests that it is quickly becoming commoditized (at least at the basic levels). Price competition for commodity-like goods is tremendous, so we should expect prices to drop as more competitors emerge. Even if Moore's Law didn't hold, one shouldn't evaluate the option based on today's pricing.

5. The option doesn't appear to be transferable. What discount factor does one place on purchasing something valuable that he can not sell?

I actually put together such a model. Even under optimistic Moore's Law cases and high discount rates, dedicated instances are a good deal (presuming you will use all three years with certainty or can transfer your rights).
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It was a good exercise and now I appreciate much better why Cali Lewis, Amber Mac and Natalie Del Conte - show off their fumbling at the end.

It was done with both hands on the cam. The cam's auto-focus had problem adjusting to the tube light in the basement and created a few blurs.

It wasn't scripted, but i practiced it 4-5 times, everytime missing some links or forgetting a key word!
I doubt such an approach would work 10 years from now when I predict people will be much less honest.
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The difference is that I am talking about funding in amounts larger than what microloan sites like Kiva allow (Kiva's top loan amount is ~2K) but more importantly, provide mentoring like YC does. Therefore, it has to be done by experienced entrepreneurs who guide these new entrepreneurs closely.
this was posted earlier, and i feel like, no, its not.

is it a good idea? will it help? yes. but it won't solve anything. just a temporary fix, like a gas tax holiday or something. the fundamental problem is still there -- people can't really afford new cars right now.
It depends on how much I need to focus on something (and what it is) in order to get it done. Normally: For coding, its probably spans of 75-90 minutes at a time, before a break (20-30 minutes) is needed. After 2-3 periods, food is needed for energy. The cycle can go on for a large majority of the day before sleep is needed. If I'm focusing on design, the spans increase to 1-1.5 hours with the same cycles/time for a break ratio.

I've cut back on my caffeine a lot in the past months, so if I really need a boost, a small amount of coffee/soda/energy drinks will help me out a lot more now then it would have a year or two ago. But once the caffeine wears off, I'm done for the day/night, unless I take more then what I originally took.
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Its not going to become a free trade issue. Not as long as the U.S. needs China to keep buying treasury notes.

Pay attention to want _isn't_ being said in the U.S. press about China. This will point you to the laundry list of things China is telling the U.S. to keep its hands off if it wants China to keep buying US$ debt.
It wasn't just fluff, it was actually misleading and wrong.

acronym should never be used - it is superseded by abbr, and only kept for backward-compatibility reasons. If you are going to use it, then it should be used for tagging acronyms. "Twitter" is not an acronym for "Founded in 2006".

Where's dl/dt/dd? Where are the labels for the radio buttons?

Flagged.
Has anyone else noticed that you can't ping onlive.com? I wonder if they don't want people to see what the latency is to their server.
Maybe this one? http://xmacro.sourceforge.net/
Very interesting. However, in retrospect, it's not very surprising. Story-ish games about having sex and romance have been made before and are extremely popular. Specifically, I am referencing the Visual Novel in Japan (Dating Sim in the US).

EDIT: Sorry, I meant 'bishoujo game' instead of 'visual novel'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Novel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishoujo_game

Even the gameplay looks strikingly similar. In their game, the player needs to pick the correct choice to move on. In visual novels, there are multiple paths and different paths that result in different endings. They both have decision points in common. It just looks like a more graphical, more player-involvement version of the visual novel.

The main difference I can see is that Kelley and Robinson's game is completely focused on sex.

I am not criticizing the creators nor the idea by any means. I am just saying that their idea is similar to another.
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They're physicists; physicists believe everything can be ultimately traced back to objective measurable reality. What do you expect.
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We'd be happy to have funded 37 Signals. We funded Wufoo, which is very much like 37 Signals, and we'd be delighted to fund more companies like that.
>It seems to me like the government is going after AIG only because of all the public outrage.

This is very true. Honestly, I'd go so far as to call it a lack of leadership by Obama.
Remember, everyone, there's no point in sending in more than one copy of your application!

Applying to Y Combinator twice has the same effect as applying once.
The only real change seems to be the removal of the concept of 'D'. This is understandable, D and F were interchangeable anyway.
I think the real problem will be how easily a refund can be generated. If it's a one-click refund, I suspect people will buy a game, play it out and then request a refund.

Hopefully, they require people who want refunds to jump a hoop or two.
Part time. My current primary job is too convenient to quit without good reason. However, my aims are modest. This is an experiment and I'd like how far I can go.
Hardware seems to get cheaper/better faster than networks do. Also the trend in networking is bigger bands not lower latency. Someday cloud based low latency apps will work, but I doubt this will happen anytime soon.

The real news here is that compression card they have created. The article doesn't go into detail but large scale 1ms compression?!

What it would take to make this work:
A unified, or at least more unified internet topology. Latency occurs at the gateways/modems/MUXes where you are translating from one type of packet to another. Perhaps you could get around enough of that with peering... hmmm Ultimately I just don't see a lot of applications requiring this kind of latency so OnLive will be swimming upstream.
flagged? isn't that for spam and such? seems a bit harsh.
Are you implying that you only work 1-2 hours per day at your day job and 1-2 hours at your startup?
Solo founders? Anyone besides me.
Really depends on the day - if I have a lot of interruptions, my "flow" consequently gets shot, and the work I do goes downhill considerably.

However, when I have it going on, I can stay focussed for 2-3 hours at a stretch without needing a break, but generally then my eyes start pointing in different directions. After a short brak / walk outside I can generally pick up where I left off and be good for another couple of hours before I run out of steam...
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