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Beej was there for me when I was a poor boy living in a 3rd world country with no Richard Stevens on any shelf. Along with Beej, I also thoroughly devoured NeHe's tutorials, the DOS assembly programming manual "Help PC", Ralph Brown's Interrupt list, Jack Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler", and many many of the early Free programming texts in the web along with the "free" ones that were floating around in the various underground "scenes" ;-)
Or, you could sit down everyday and pull it into your workflow as needed. No reason to memorize a ton of features you won't use, just know what's available when a problem comes along.
He defined it during that talk as, "the founders are now 'rich', by some definition of 'rich'". Meaning, I think, that 50% of those folks, once vested in their respective acquiring companies, wouldn't actually have to work if they didn't want to.

Note, though, that the first batch was an outlier. No other batch has produced that many exits that fast. One could easily argue that ambition and dedication to being in it for the long haul is higher amongst more recent founders, however, and a low digit millions acquisition isn't as attractive.
Is it too much to ask to be able to view the software rather than Wolfram talking? I know what he looks like SHOW ME THE SOFTWARE!!!
My memory of these terms is weak, but isn't this metalinguistic contrast? You're not using the word 'of' when you stress it here, you're mentioning it.
Any information source as rich and as useful as this would be impossible for the indie iphone developer to obtain for a decent price or free. Apart from social networking based information which would be a very competative market on the iphone already.

I think the real money for the indie developer is in casual games.
Just to add. If anybody remembers a phile by the name "masm32.doc" which was an assembly programming tutorial for 32bit Windows. It came out right around the time Windows 95 was released, and us assembly hackers didn't have a 32bit assembler. This document showed you how you could encode 32bit instructions as inline byte definitions (db in masm/tasm.)

I had this document, the Trumpet Winsock manual, and a b-grade text on BSD sockets programming. I was foolish enough to have written socket code in assembly for a platform I have never programed for before, with an assembler that didn't support the opcodes I was typing in. This is all hard to imagine, FUCK, but I was 17, and I had a heart.

(considered a fool cuz I dropped outta high school, stereo type of another blackhat misunderstood, and it's still all good.)
Being able to make a startup for really cheap is definitely good for younger people who are just starting off in the world, as well as the business industry.

I'd love to see a startup that combines all of this into one simple place.
Hackers should know plenty about betas. I'm not sure I want the beta vaccine. Have a look at how they handled the swine flu outbreak of 1976 and ask yourself if you'd line up for that vaccine.
Thanks, I found this valuable. It's a good advert for Wolfram too; he's a lot more personable when he's talking about something else besides his resume :-)
Maybe Wolfram only agreed to the talk under this condition?
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This doesn't even really exist for Emacs AFAIK, it makes the buffer read-only. it's really a proof of concept.
Not a fluff piece so much as a layman's introduction to YC.
The Tamagotchi funding model... neat. I like the idea, very clever. Though I wonder what happens to your line of code if it gets deprecated...
Naah, it's probably guys like me who are grabbing up names for all their projects, domains, family and friends, and waiting to see if we ever need them.
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Wow. I remember this thing. I'm pretty sure I was a senior in High School when it came out (1994?). Reading through it today is trippy.

Of course --- don't do anything he says anymore; all due respect (because I used to love this thing), but pick up libevent instead. Writing your own select() loop was malpractice in 1999.
Computer education is compulsory as part of curriculum in high schools here in Kerala(south Indian state).Every state controlled schools, no matter how remote, does have computers and trained teachers.

The government has so many programs (akshaya.net) in place to make sure that everyone(not just students) get access to good education. Education is one thing the Kerala government has done right.
Having said that , i dont really know the situation in other parts of India.The point is , its not as bad as you think.
I find it hard to believe that keyword matching has nothing to do with Wolfram Alpha.
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I got about 6 grafs in and stopped being able to deal with the obvious parallels to Liar's Poker --- "I wasn't really one of them", "I'm an English major", "training was a big frat party", "I got put on derivatives with the big swinging dicks"...

... do I really need a third-rate rehash of Michael Lewis, when every financial journalist out there has repeatedly pointed out how well Liar's Poker holds up for the current debacle? Happy to hear I'm wrong.
First, WP has a thing about coordinated editing strikes on articles, especially when there's a WP:NOT question, especially when the subject of the article is coordinating the edit. It's true that WP people are always on the lookout for any perceived slight, but they're consistent about this one.

Second, stoking a minor controversy by creating a WP article about HN that immediately gets flagged NN --- an article with virtually no content, on WP, an article itself inferior to almost any navel-gazing HN debate thread about HN --- and then requesting that HN come in and fix it... that's also an abuse.

And hey, it's just my opinion. I didn't flag the article.
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sorry, you're completely right.
It sounds like an especially sick high conversion rate when your feeders are CNN and the television network news.
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when you get much above 2gb, you should seriously start thinking about hardware. Especially at current market prices for a VPS, it's often cheaper to buy and host your own hardware once you get above the 2gb-4gb range. A core2duo 1u with 8GB ram? around $500-$600 for the hardware. Hosting for said 1u? as low as $50/month.
Nice discussion, but doesn't explore nearly enough. As Don Gause and I showed in http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Exploring_Requirements.h..., you can stress more than one word in a sentence. In fact, you can stress two, three, or any number up to the number of words in the sentence.

This sounds really weird, but if you say these sentences out loud, you can make a different meaning from each variation. Try it:

<i>I</i> <i>didn't</i> say she stole my money. That is, I was one of the few who didn't.

I didn't <i>say</i> she <i>stole</i> my money. I wrote a letter about how she found my money.

See if you can get all the way up to all 7 words stressed. There are lots of cases (which you can computer using the binomial theorem).
yes. Shared hosting instead of a VPS will save you quite a lot of money, if you can do what you need to do on shared hosting. Heck, I'm one of the cheapest VPS providers around and even I can't compete with a shared hosting setup.
If you're not in an industry which requires nation-state level scaling, you can get all of the above for close to eight bucks a month. While I wouldn't go back to shared hosting (doesn't play well with Rails, which I migrated to in year two), I did run my business on it for a year and change without major incident.
I think you're nuts. I get a better newsfeed from BNO and CBS' Mark Knoller at the Capitol than I do from CNN. Show me how to do that on Facebook today.

I also think it's disingenuous to suggest that people don't understand Twitter's functionality when the point you're actually trying to make is that you can't see why anyone would want it. But if you make that point, you have to deal with people coming back at you talking about talking to their customers on Twitter, promoting niche products on Twitter, arranging ad-hoc meetups when traveling on Twitter, getting direct feedback from their fans on Twitter, and it's much easier to pretend like 140 character broadcast messages are somehow tricky.

I also think it's disingenuous to suggest that Twitter's N x 1MM users are the product of 3 years of constant hype, when 1.5-2 years of that hype was confined to the Web 2.0 trade echo chamber. CNN hasn't been hyping Twitter for 3 years.
Examples are also key to reading mathematics. Whatever you are discussing, you should have a bunch of examples in your head. Eg if you are discussing groups, you need to memorize maybe 10 examples of groups -- trivial, nice groups, some finite symmetric groups, some infinite groups, an asymmetric group or two, and one or two weird examples. Then whenever you listen or read a theorem, think about what that means for your examples, starting with nice cases like R^n and proceeding to ugly cases.

Thanks Prof Ram. I didn't really appreciate memorizing all that stuff at the time, but it's handy now. If anybody needs a dozen examples of any type of group you can think of, grab his old web pages:
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ram/math541/
Famous people's communications are most often handled by others, which is part of what creates a perception of social value - you can't reach them directly. If I was well-known enough to have millions of people projecting their personal thoughts onto my image, I wouldn't be in any great hurry to take on a high-maintenance communication channel either. Once you do, you're kinda stuck with it.

1:40: trying to hide from my increasingly obsessive fans. LEAVE ME ALONE!
Sure Michael Lewis saw wrote about a very similar situation, but he was only a salesman. He did not live the life quite like this trader.

This story is similar, but a little different. If you finish reading the article, I think you will find the author has something interesting to add to the conversation.
But what about people well known only in their specialties such as academics? It seems that they are also conservative in this regard.
How did you make that connection? "Fractal tree" doesn't naturally lead me to "cache-oblivious tree".

(Looking at the descriptions it is at least plausible, I'm just curious how you are so certain.)
Couple of thoughts:

1. Maybe a bit fluffy, but since most mainstream readers don't know about Y Combinator, the first cycle of articles are going to trend positive.

2. I think the Y Combinator ecosystem (the program, demo days, Hacker News) itself is going to prove as disruptive (if not more) as the companies they fund. A disruptive "Ivy League of Startup Schools" is starting to form that I believe will have huge ripple effects on our economy.

3. I agree, mainstream media doesn't understand how much hackers are our era's Robber Barons (or Industrial Statesmen, take your pick). Expect a handful of IPO's and at least one billionaire graduate within the next ten years. I expect Y Combinator graduates and their related companies will have billions of dollars of impact on our economy over this period of time.

4. The traditional University model of education is probably as much at risk by ignoring YC as is big Fortune 500 companies. "The average debt for graduating college seniors who borrow to finance their undergraduate degree is just under $20,000." vs. the avg. YC funded company probably gets funded to the order of $15k - $20k.

"In 2003, workers with bachelor's degrees earned a median of $49,900. Those who'd completed several years of college with no degree had median earnings of $35,700, while those with a high school diploma averaged $30,800."

Don't get me wrong, I understand that not every high school graduate can attend YC or some similar program. But I think our educational system needs to create some alternative tracks for education that are shorter in time frame, more entrepreneurial in nature, and more technically inclined. If we simply diverted 1% of college freshman into such programs, this would translated into over 20,000 individuals. Can you imagine the impact on society of 20k freshman attending some Y Combinator-esque hacker / entrepreneurial program every year?

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/17/pf/college/college_costs/ind...
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Plus he thinks at the end that he can write "as Steinbeck did in The Grapes of Wrath" and is surprised that his book was considered "apprentice-level work", because he spent three years working on it, never mind the fact that real writers spent many years and had many false starts while honing their skills (10 years or 10000 hours to master something, supposedly)
I read the first few paragraphs, and I thought the exact same!! It reminded me of Liar's Poker right away.

"the derivatives traders were viewed as the elite - the baddest of the bad-asses."

Sounds like a bunch of baloney to me. I never heard of traders being categorized as "derivatives traders" and "non-derivatives traders". There are tons of derivatives contracts out there, and no one knows how to trade all of them proficiently. What I have heard is traders being categorized as "equity derivatives traders", "fixed-income traders", "commodities traders", etc. I once worked at a hedge fund for an equity futures trader. He loved to bash bankers more than anything else... but he also bashed other traders, especially FX and metals traders, who he considered sub-human morons...

Last but not least, I have never heard of an English major trading derivatives. Never. English majors do corporate finance, not derivatives...
Few quick comments:

It's not available on the Australian iTunes Store. Not sure if this is just a time thing (seems to take 24-48 hours to filter out from the US to other stores)

From the screenshots on your website, the title text is clipped on the top and left of the 'N', on the right of the last 'a', and along most of the bottom.

For iPhone apps, look counts for a huge amount. If you can take the bronzy sort of look you've given the title and apply that as a theme across the whole game I think it would make a huge difference towards how people perceive it. At the moment it screams "I'm new to this and this is my first app". If you could whip up some custom tile backgrounds etc it would change the look (and hence people's impressions) in a big way.

I'm not sure there's much benefit on you doing a Lite version for this. How will you differentiate between the Lite and Full versions? Still, it's probably worth a shot and see if it makes any difference to sales (get figures for the full version for a few weeks, then release the Lite version and see how much it affects things)

Good luck :)
Unless 30% drop out during the second month.
I've worked quite a bit with both LH and Tracker and I can easily say that the latter is far superior, especially in terms of the UI. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you have your feet wet it is quite smooth.

What makes it the worst UI you've ever seen?
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Not fair, the ruby people are going to get the least funding!
Craigslist is not a non-profit. They've had well over $100MM in revenue for several years running, and that is mostly split by Craig and Jim. The "non-profit" aspect of Craigslist is a myth that they play up.
FX traders are sub-human morons.[1] Pick up any book about FX trading - it's all pseudo-math voodoo nonsense. They know it, too. Whereas derivatives traders at IBs and hedge funds are math PhDs from Princeton, FX traders are at best college dropouts and at worst former felons.

[1] former roommate was FX trader, coming from a background in bartending and ski lift operation. Last time I saw him he was renting bicycles to tourists.
This actually might not be a custom product. The website that is hosting this map could be using the Google Maps API with their own map of China.

Would you call the special Google News censorship for China a custom product?
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I would treat users that have not yet registered as closely as possible to normal users. So create a user object in the database for them and keep track of the last access date. You can either mark the account as temporary, or just store an empty password and rely on that to identify accounts that are not fully registered. You can purge inactive accounts after a certain number of days. If it's only keyed by session ID then there's no point to keep this data around past the session expiration date.

Then in a few places in your app you can check if you have the necessary information on file for the current user acocunt, and prompt the user to enter it if not (things like email address, a picture, real name, whatever it is you need). When they finally select a password they become a normal user of the site.
What? Who's doing ActiveX or XUL for websites? Flash is already the most prevalent way to do a "media rich" website; it has nowhere to go but down from here. It's also proprietary and a nightmare to work with, and the runtime sucks for too many reasons to name here.

Your comment reads like an ad.
Thanks, I did see that - the lack of compensation is unfortunately a deal breaker right now :p
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But it's a new article. How should it be improved if not encouraging people to edit it? Isn't that the whole idea behind Wikipedia? There is no need for this process to be contentious. All it needed to be unflagged not notable was some references. I went and Googled up 5 articles; it was painless enough. Where is the abuse?

The article had no content because it was just made; it started with the opinions of one person. That's why it was requested for people to improve it. That's what Wikipedia does, it writes and improves encyclopedia articles by crowdsourcing. Saying it's an abuse because the article is bad is ridiculous. That's the whole point -- to fix the article. And no, it is not abuse. It's an intended use of the system. You are saying it is an abuse because it is controversial? That seems inconsistent, this site thrives on debate and in this case such debate can only improve the quality of the article.

I still don't get it. I went and reedited the article, I would encourage you to give it another pass.
What about FX futures traders? ;-)
"Famous people for example are joining twitter pretty late in the game."

Are they doing so out of proportion to the not famous?

Lots of people are joining twitter pretty late in the game (though how one knows this is late is another matter).

Has Obama previously been less conservative in his use of "novel Web 2.0 services"? For example, prior to running for president, was he posting to YouTube? Writing a blog? Keeping up a MySpace page? Hanging out on IRC?

Famous people's PR people may be the ones joining late in the game.
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I was at gogaruco and at the time of Matt's talk I happened to be sitting next to a woman.

It was clear to me from the title of the talk (and the cover slide, which was published in advance) that the talk was going to rely on some sort of porn analogy.

In my opinion, Matt's talk was quite unsubtle and way overdid the analogy, to the point where I was looking around the auditorium wondering if the women present would be offended. I was quite surprised that none appeared to look offended, disgusted, etc., and that none got up and left in the middle.

I kept thinking, sheesh I would guess that anyone who knows Matt probably finds this funny and harmless... but at the same time it struck me as a few steps over the line... especially since his point could have been made with far more subtlety.

I think _why's comment says it all: Be sure to make it look like when you zoom out it's just two bagels.

The whole apology thing is great, but I think the ideal response would have been "Ok, I see that putting hard core porn in the middle of a slide show is likely to offend some people"... To me that is quite obvious.

edit: I should note that I'm not the least bit offended by most porn, but think it's best experienced either alone or in the company of people who have opted in.
Obama ran for president as an underdog and swung for the fences. Conservative use of technology was not an option.
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I don't suppose anyone could point out the Olympic village on the Beijing map?
To be fair, most of Oprah's viewership are not tech-savvy enough to "grok" Twitter in the first place. There's a certain cultural demographic that it appeals to, and soccer moms generally don't fit this.
Exactly. I never see the reason of trying to memorize stuff like this. Just learn one useful feature a day, and use it! After a while, it'll just be muscle memory.
Huh. I almost find this piece more offensive than the presentation itself. Why can't he just say "I was wrong" and be done with it?