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This is intresting, since some health or fitness advocates has been saying that "no-one should run a marathon" (eg. Art De Vany: http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons.html)

Still it isn't clear that marathon or any massive repentive excercise is ultimately good for you, but if humans are built for running, it might change my mind a bit towards running.
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I hope it would not work just like Google, because "the public good" is harmed by advertising and consumerism.
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I've been running Rosetta@home since 2005 (now on about 16 cores total), and I strongly encourage everybody here to give it a go.

Such a shame to waste idle CPU cycles... It might take a bit more electricity, but buy a few CFLs to compensate or something. This is important science.
We already have this at http://MightyBrand.com which is our main web app. This is a little side experiment to try and leverage some of the infrastructure we've built in interesting ways.
It's very simple: transactional sex is less pleasurable than a sexual relationship. It seems only natural that a market for a higher-end service than simple prostitution exists.

These men could pay for sex, but they are willing to pay extra for the feeling that they are not paying for sex.
I also discovered that I was playing with fire. Whenever I got a team ready to be really useful, there would be a bizarre negative reaction from all sorts of other people who were employed within the same organizations, but were not part of the teams I was working with.

Have you ever been working in one of those organizations and your coworkers goad you into not working so hard? They say things like, "You're making us look bad." or "Take the day off early."

Little things like that. Some have more humor in them than others, but everyone wants to work as little as possible for as much money as possible. If a super team comes in and makes work look fun and easy and they actually accomplish a lot, it raises the bar for every other team and even individual in the organization. Like little self-organized unions who pressure other union members through psychological stress and booby traps.

This is the same problem afflicting our culture at every level, from kindgergarten to the board room to the white house. It has created the mess we are in right now.
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I searched and found products to convert to C (http://www.mpsinc.com/cob2c.html) and to Java (http://www.jazillian.com/howCOBOL.html). However, it is probably easier to maintain the code in the language it was designed in. Also, as the article said, COBOL is very good at what it does.
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Top ten excuses. I'll tell you this for free, runners have longer, happier lives than couch potatoes.
My dependence on Google kind of scares me a bit. I don't just use it for search, it's my calculator, converter (currency, temperature, etc.) and many more things.

And even if I chose to do those things manually (such as temperature conversion) - I could only think of going to google first to get the formula. I'm just glad Google is there to make my life easier.
Imagine if this was happening on the internet -- your ISP refusing to allow certain websites. It is amazing how long this has gone on.
Both Google and Oracle try to use the "market approach" with almost no managers cited as a possibility in the article. At Google, it seems to lead to a lot of people with no direction and a lot of projects with inadequate resources. At Oracle, it led to outright warfare between departments and a total lack of cooperation. The difference is that at Google, failing didn't cost you your job. At Oracle, it did. So Googler's were independent but didn't have to compete for scarce resources the way Oracle people did. People seemed like happy lions at Google. They seemed miserable at Oracle, like bands of warring chimps always afraid of being annihilated by those in the next cubicle over.
Can you make it so that recent comments are at the top rather than the bottom?
Not just cavalry. The Mujahedin do a credible job of out-marching mechanized forces too.
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And yet all this research and hypothesizing doesn't end with grabbing one of these super marathon runners, taking him to the wide open plains of Utah, and asking him to bring back a dead antelope.
When I used to ride the train to work, I sat next to a young man who was looking over a printout of what I recognized as COBOL code. I talked to him, and he was debugging a problem that came up the night before in the back-end of a gas pump point-of-sale system. He was very cheerful and seemed to love his work. After that I thought about that one nice thing about being a COBOL programmer was that you didn't have to keep up with all of the latest frameworks and standards.
Why? Translation would only introduce bugs, and it compiles down to assembly anyway. Better to gradually replace components one at a time (which is, from the article, what seems like is already happening).
When you are ready for a server (probably not until you're about ready to go live)

I'd suggest getting it the day you start your project.

First: twenty-five bucks a month, seriously, what are you even doing thinking about this ($5 extra for backups, which is another "why are you even thinking about this" item).

Second: source control from the very first line of code. The production webstack, from the first line of code. The production deployment procedure, from the first line of code. etc, etc
Reading this article made me think of Jared Diamond's assertion that invention is the mother of necessity, not the other way around.

Before anyone gripes about outdated technology you need to ask yourself a question: what's so great about the new stuff? I'm not saying there isn't an answer to that question (I'm also not saying that there is), what I'm saying is that the answer needs to be better communicated before anything is going to change.
Ubuntu is just.. easier. That's what I get out of it. It's super simple to setup and keep up.
Why would they? The only "problem" with COBOL is that it's unfashionable.
Back in Nov 2007 things were already looking quite gloomy. For instance, Bear Stearns started to implode in June 2007.
I gave up on awk when Perl became available, and after that, Python. However, after reading this interview, I think I should relearn it.
A small warning here, the free express version is a little crippled. I went through the .net mvc Nerdinner tutorial last weekend (was bored), but the express version didn't support the unit test setup, nor does it support scm plugins (So the visualsvn plugin didn't work).

Might not be a show stopper for some people but it's not ideal.
the thing is...even if Facebook or Twitter actually do it...there is nothing to stop Google from utilizing that same data themselves to power their own version of search.
Is it incidental that except for one or two guys in essay review are all people who are small investors who don't have ability to open investment shop in India/China?..

May be 20 yrs back this was relevant but today just because you offer does not mean quality people need it..so before proposing was there actually needs analysis..did somebody read the Chinese social networks are ahead in revenue numbers and there is huge investment in electric cars..same story with other emerging markets and don't think there are no investment funds there..obviously, people will say there is not enough support but in Silicon valley also beyond seed stage very few outsiders get the funding..checkout thefunded.com for more information..so if you are smart/hard working then stay where you are because you can create opportunities..also worthwhile to read mercury news story about dwindling public companies in silicon valley.. the other part of the story is not there but you can very well guess.. world is flat!

Btw, I have 2 investments in Indian companies and I would not advise them coming to US unless they establish themselves well..simply because starting and growing a company is not easy if you do not have well established connections and good market read..hiring good people also needs good connections..most of the time your early employees are your friends or past coworkers.. This kind of arrangement will work only if the people are going to hand over reins to someone local ..this is exactly and only suitable for mass investors like Ron Conway/YCombinator..and I don't want to say anything on this forum but entrepreneurs while choosing the investor need to see lot more than initial recognition.. I know many people will oppose me here but just walk through a case scenario where this will work..also if you are going to throw in Google example then please do thorough analysis.. My advice to young entrepreneur is just go in the market where you understand things not that looks shiny.. there are no overnight successes..and don't quit something you have (can have) simply on the word of an investor..definitely not for the people who can not be with you till you get cash flow positive..(just to be clear I am not taking swipe at either Ron or YCombinator program..i am just talking in context of extending (and "assuming") its relevance to international teams without really understanding the other side)
$20/year. It's just a shortcut for sifting through a website logs and following the referrers. That's unless you have more functionality such as a statistics and pretty graphs to analyze the spread patterns (who said what and who picked it up) and trends (daily/weekly % changes, etc).

In this case I think a small account will be able to justify the $5 month. For the large accounts you can charge $100/mo and they will pay as long as the service in itself is useful.

(edit) Just checked your pricing - 24$/mo. Ehrm .. hrm .. well .. is it working well ? Especially since you are trying to sell the same service to the individuals and the enterprises. The enterprises will likely think it's not "enterprisy" enough, and individuals - that it's overpriced and an overkill for them. At least that's my guess based on what what 5 sec. impression was (and I am in the need of a such as service).
So the question is: how many searches are real-time searches? 10%? 20% 30%?

Try something closer to .001%. Twitter's monthly search volume is probably about equal to what Google gets in the space of a few minutes.
There is quite a lot of space between being a couch potatoe and a marathon runner, on both cases probably the extreme is bad for you. Professional athlethes tend to have severe problems, injuries, joints operated once or several times by the time they retire in their forties. It's a hazard of the job, but should try to achieve the same hazards? I wouldn't.

People tend to think that primitive hunter-gatherers had so good health since they were excercising or were on the run all the time, but it isn't necessarily true. Hunter-gatherers actually had leisure times to sit by the fire telling stories, creating art or tools. Some todays tribes actually have lower or the same activity levels than us westeners(some studies: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/01/exercise-and-b...)
No offense, but I thought that story was messed up. What kind of man forces his wife to live in poverty to take care of him for 7 years so he can be free to read his books? I understand that wasn't the point of the story, but it was hard to ignore.
The author's main premise seems to be that since people are already on Twitter and Facebook, they'll just use that to search instead of Google. Aside from the fact that the results would be terrible, most people have Google search in their browser, which is all of 30 pixels away from the Facebook and Twitter search fields. Plus, I know that I'll be more likely to get the results that I need.

People are way too wrapped up in finding the next Google-killer.
A friend of mine who keeps a small flock of sheep as a hobby swears by the run-them-down technique. He doesn't have a sheepdog and sheep can be difficult to catch for a human. But he says that if he is prepared to chase one sheep round the field for 45 minutes or so, then it will give up, even though he can never catch it in a sprint.
Interesting article. I don't doubt that stress can limit creativity, but from my own experience, some stress seems to make me more productive. At times, a little deadline pressure is a good motivating force, and I find it easier for me to get into and stay in "the zone" where I'm completely focused and able to work at a fast pace. Continual stress would likely make things worse, but a few weeks of deadline pressure can really make me work harder and better.

To be honest, I skimmed through parts of the article so I hope I'm not repeating or misrepresenting what the article says, but it seems like the best process for me is to have some stress free time at the beginning of a project to let things percolate, and then later on, have a looming deadline to help me focus and grind things out.
I've noticed that the laws of supply and demand seem to apply to tax rates as well. NY and CA, for example, are booming business hubs and have very high taxes. Presumably, the government thinks that there is high demand for living and working in such a place and so jacks up the amount it charges for people to be there. On the other side of the coin, tax havens seem to be located in smaller, unpopular regions. A sense of economic equilibrium might suggest that businesses will eventually flow from the pricey regions to the cheaper ones.
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Oh I agree, but most Marathon runners are doing 1 Marathon a year, if that. For many people a Marathon is a once-in-a-lifetime thing that they do and move onto the next challenge or goal. That list is ridiculous, you could make a list of worst-case risks for any activity and not do it.

The top athletes in any sport won the genetic lottery to be well-adapted for that sport. Basketball players don't train to get that tall... It's not reasonable to compare their training and competition volumes with average people. Even a full time professional Marathon runner only competes a few times a year.

Incidentally, if you show up to a Marathon (or a half-Marathon or even a 10k) and look around you, you'll see that 99% of the crowd look perfectly ordinary. If you saw them (us!) in street clothes, you wouldn't think they were anything unusual, certainly not super-athletes. A Marathon is not at all out of reach for the average person.
"grabbing one of these super marathon runners, taking him to the wide open plains of Utah, and asking him to bring back a dead antelope."

you might need a tracker for when the antelope goes over the horizon/out of sight. Most ong distance runners would be clueless about tracking prey. Maybe the tracker can drive/cycle alongside the runner in a hypothetical experiment.
This seems ridiculous to me. I don't go to Google when I want to read news, I go direct to NY Times, Washingtonpost, or WSJ. I seldom search for something and end up at a newspaper web site. Google isn't in the middle of the news business. This is some kind of red herring for the real problems.

Carr really hit the nail on the head in his response to Shirky a few weeks ago. The issue is that there are 5000 articles on the same thing from all of these different news sites. It didn't matter when you got one of these 5000 newspapers delivered to your doorstep, but now that they are online, the 5000 stories are all in direct competition, and many of them are just thin rewrites of AP content. The smart papers will stop printing a daily paper today and start finding niches where they can provide the best content. However, the end state is clearly that we don't need so many newspapers that cover the same things.
Uhh... there is a video not 5 comments below that shows exactly that.
I suppose darting the antelope first and attaching a radio direction beacon would be cheating.
Current Nimitz class carriers normally carry 48 combat aircraft and 16 support aircraft, and have a crew of 5k-6k (2480 in the air wing, the rest as ship's compliment). The upcoming Gerald R. Ford class will carry more aircraft, but only require about 4600 crew, and be roughly the same size.

But quibbling aside, there is no reason you need to send a carrier group to deal with this situation. The (already dispatched) USS Boxer is an amphibious assault ship that supports helicopters and VTOL aircraft (including Harrier II, SuperCobra, and Sea Knights), which will be more suited for dealing with pirate mother ships and coastal bases. It has a crew of roughly 1000.
Very good friends of mine are planning their move out of NYC right now. So the exodus has already begun. The irony is that the net effect of the higher taxes will be less revenue as more people leave and are discouraged from making money. Somehow, basic economic lessons are never learned from the past, especially by governments.
shared some thoughts over here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557552 so my take is not visas for foreign founders but the investors and entrepreneurs here more often crossing the boundaries of US and finding/nurturing growth global opportunities is needed..Just to be clear I am not saying there are no opportunities in US..or you should not start business here..or it is not easier for people in US (if they have roots here) compared to people elsewhere.. only thing if someone wants to tap international resources (either here or outside US) then the old thinking of solution is visas for America is way outdated.. at least it is not that obvious and easy so before developing such "product offering" do study the targeted "customers" well and don't just think from supplier side
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Huh, there hasn't been robots written to do that yet for Twitter? You'd think Twitter would have spam trouble like that, by now.

(I guess that is an open niche for people doing natural language interaction... 1/2 :-)
True, paying ransoms is a better deal for the individual owners of the ships, but at some point you have to optimize for the long-term cost of the entire naval world.

Scorching a few ships with no hesitation would put an end to this line of income, saving everyone money down the line. If the pirates are getting $1 million a week in ransoms, and this trend continues for a long time, that adds up.

Of course I don't expect anyone to sacrifice for the good of the group. It'll probably take government stepping in to make that happen.
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Well, depends quite what you mean, but part of what I'm working on is understanding answers to questions like that. Without actively polling twitter (ie spamming 'Hey guys, what's...').
Well, that's anecdotal. I'll offset yours with mine. My girlfriend and I are packing up and moving out of Delaware (tax rate, 0%) into NYC (tax rate, astronomical).

There is more life than simply how much money is in your bank account, and living in NYC is an amazing experience.
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It's looking like "amazing" won't be the right word in a little while.

To a degree, I'm with you. Since I was a teenager, it's been my dream to live in New York, but hearing things like this makes me doubt seriously that NYC can maintain its bustling stature.
I guess. Depends how strapped for cash you are.

I use GitHub, so I wasn't thinking about version control, but yes, definitely set version control up somewhere immediately.
Amazing. It's also notable how most natural hunters almost always pay respects to their prey.
So what would be the total income tax of someone living in NYC earning (say) $100k, after all the federal and state taxes / levies / whatever apply? The system is so complex I can't make head or tail of it. I thought federal taxes were already pretty high!

Man, the yanks go on about Evil Socialism so much that I always expect taxes there to be like 20 or 30%. Then I go look it up and find it's mid 40s like everyone else!
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You're right, of course, that the weakest edition of Visual Studio is free, but I think it's a mistake to choose that way. If you're serious about programming, you want the lowest lifetime cost per performance ratio, not the lowest entry cost.

Call me cheap, but I think choosing Visual Studio is like training yourself to spend money. I'd stick with Eclipse or Notepad++ or Gedit plus Apache and Django or Rails, or something in that direction. Especially for web development, money doesn't buy you much beyond bandwidth.
Yes, pay the money.

This is probably not what you want to hear, but I would consider consulting a business attorney to get these docs drawn up.

I'm reminded of this: http://particletree.com/notebook/a-tale-of-two-legal-paths/
Historically speaking tax rates are actually very low right now
If startups worked for money laundering, people would be doing it already. There is nothing immigration-specific in the scenario you propose.
Choosing the Windows platform, regardless of any perceived benefits, locks you into Windows-everywhere for the life of your application. Even if it seems easier at first, it could turn out to be a very restrictive and expensive straitjacket in the future. I'd think long and hard about choosing to deploy on anything but linux (or FreeBSD).
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You're new here, so a little advice: Don't ever mention anything outside the open source realm around here -- especially anything about Microsoft. HN'ers hate microsoft. pg writes articles about how Microsoft is dead. Hacker News is an environment that is not conducive to open discussion, only open source.
Taxes are actually pretty low, especially for the very wealthy.

See e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/business/31leonhardt.html?...
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As a once New Yorker, I can attest that there are so many other reasons to move out of New York that I would be surprised if taxes were really anyone's primary motivator for leaving.
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I know it seems like that on the outside, but taxes, rent, food are not all of it. As an employee, you get paid more to compensate you for that. If money is really an issue, live in NJ, CT, or LI and commute in.

My car is $300 a month + insurance + gas, eliminating all that and replacing it with $80 a month unlimited metro card saves me more than the change in cost of living.

As for starting a business, there are three reasons why NYC is the place. VCs, enterprise, and employees. Our startup was 2 floors below the VC in the space previously occupied by del.icio.us. If we were in delaware, sure we wouldn't have taxes but we wouldn't have as much access to the VC.

If you are selling to businesses, where will you be more efficient, the place where you can be at any company headquarters in 10 minutes, or in Delaware with a 3 hour+ car ride to get there (minor caveat with the banks in Wilmington but aside that).

And if you want employees, NYC is a magnet for great talent and they are easy to find.

Its not for everyone, but I highly object to people saying there is an exodus. I am more inclined now after the economic downturn to move into NYC than before. Rents are falling, engineering jobs are still paying well, the wall streeters have less bluster - it sounds great.