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Well yes of course, but that's only one side of the story. In almost any scenario, you need other people's help. Offering equity can be an excellent way to get that help, especially in a startup context. Yes, you lose in percentage terms, but the final numbers are all that matters really.

Would you rather have 100% of $1m, or 50% of $1b?
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I know folks who regularly shoot guns and ammo from the 1890s.

The last B-52 was built in 1962.
I have the same experience: I've clicked on facebook and google ads at about the same rate (maybe 5ish times each) in the last year.
Unless you're posting from beyond the grave, how do you know they will be (were?) lifelong friends?
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Spoofing of email addresses?

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Great service, really very nice.

One problem obviously is there's no verification of the email address being yours to send.

So annoying spammers can 'remind' people of their viagra and what Paris Hilton has been up to lately.

This is an SMTP problem, not just 3mindme. Maybe they use DomainKeys or some other cert scheme.
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An SPF record would be useful, so mail doesn't get unnecessarily queued with some providers (like GMail.)
F5's next blog posting ought to have been an apology for getting so wrong about construction of the Starship Enterprise.
My parents were the same way.

There was a very clear line drawn, and we knew the consequences for crossing it, thus we didn't (too often at least).
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I find it quite amusing that the folks at NPR, who live largely off of taxpayer dollars, whether the economy is doing well or poorly, have the gall to call anyone else "oligarchs".

The salaries for lots of NPR folks are available in public filings (IRS 990 form for National Public Radio, FY 2005).

Here are some of the hosts:

* Renee Montagne: $308,374 salary + $30,640 benefits

* Steve Inskeep: $301,856 salary + $35,572 benefits

* Robert Siegel: $288,795 salary + $24,480 benefits

* Scott Simon: $266,821 salary + $33,572 benefits

* Alexander Chadwick: $235,173 salary + $29,564 benefits

I don't mind high compensation for folks who take risks and create tons of value, but when you effectively can't be fired, and the majority of your funding comes from taxes, it gets under my skin.

...and then to decry OTHER folks as being compensated too highly... ?
I entirely support your point that folks shouldn't dump waste in Somali waters.

However, I'm not prepared - without evidence - to accept the assertion that the acts of piracy are explicitly aimed at ships that dump waste.

In fact, all the evidence I've read says the opposite - the pirates attack ships with high value cargos (food, machinery, etc.)

Also, if the pirates are political freedom fighters, why are they asking for bags of unmarked cash, instead of asking for a resolution condemning dumping?

Care to provide any evidence ?
I have a bookmarking problem...~17000 "To be read later" bookmarks in Instapaper. Mostly from this @#%! site.
Personally, as I'm about to embark on a similar life, I find these articles (as in, the articles on this blog, as well as this specific one) extremely interesting.

It's good to see numbers that prove that it's possible to leave more cheaply in an idyllic location while still working on my start-up, blog, etc.

I wonder why more start-up founders don't take that option. What ties you to a specific place? For me, until recently, it was a relationship..
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At first, I thought that you could secure the different "lists" (personal, professional) for different users. I would have use the public list to post to twitter and the "profesionnal" list to share with my colleague. That's really not that way. There are things that I don't want to share on twitter that I want to share on friendfeed so I have to maintain two different accounts. But, congrats to FF for the IM and remember that Twitter failed at it completly.
Relationships are a big one. Not just dating, but being isolated from family and friends can be hard (I lived in Beijing for 4 months, and enjoyed it, but it does get lonely).

Also, not every one is ready to live somewhere foreign. Especially if they don't speak the language.
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It's revenue, not profit.

Yes, the distinction between revenue and earnings is what makes all the difference. Investors invest to end up with more money than they put into a business enterprise.
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I guess I feel that less since I jumped country (from Switzerland to the UK) once already, so I feel less attached to where I am (though I do have many friends around here).

With respect to language, it seems to me there are so many ways to learn common languages these days, that this should not really be an excuse. Anyone can go on Bit-Torrent and download some language courses, and speak a language passably well in a few months... (well, unless it's a ridiculously hard language like Chinese...) Btw, for that, I recommend a combination of the Pimsleur courses, + a book about grammar, followed by reading a fiction book in the target language, before actually moving there.
For every stage.

Give stock in compensation for calculated value add. As you move through stages/growth, the value-add of each new employee will (should!) diminish if you're doing everything else right.

.35% was my example, based on rough memory of a prior startup. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited by law..
Maybe FF should market their product to clearly differenciate them from Twitter... giving more importance to private groups and small communities for example.
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Dating someone who speaks the language (before, as well as while you are there) is also very, very helpful. (I didn't do this in China, but my friends who did definitely had a leg up).
Very simply: some people like where they live enough that being a 'traveller' isn't very appealing.

I make a distinction between "travelling" and "being a traveller." The former means you like to go places on vacation for a short time. The latter is actually living in a location for a while long enough to assimilate the culture, live like the natives, etc. and requires much more time.

Besides, who would feed my chickens while I was away :-)
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"if you are already confident you don't need VC"

Eterno said "do real entrepreneurs need to be less excited about this YC interview thingy." and "please stop this gushing/blogging over your yc interviews". I think his ire was targeted at the "gush" factor vs the more rational question of whether a YC acceptance would be useful (I imagine it would be).

I have some sympathy for this view point. The blog entry certainly seemed to have an element of "gush" to it, along the lines of a Biz school admission process. That said, hey if two entrepreneurs find every detail of the YC interview process worth gushing about, what is our problem? :-).

If i were ever to apply to YC (and I probably will once I come (back) to the United States), my reading is that except for the actual presentation preparation most of the other thinking should have been done while a startup is being conceived of , well before YC acceptance becomes a factor.

"How will you distinguish yourself from your competition" for example is (I would think) an obvious question entrepreneurs have to answer well before a YC interview. Preparation for the YC interview would more or less be just be figuring out what to fit into the 10 minutes I get. It should take about an hour or so I imagine.

I didn't quite get the ecstasy/depression/all-consuming preparation vibe in, for example, "We walked back towards downtown Mountain View, talking a little but not making much sense, as the intensity of the experience dissipated. As my composure returned," This sounds like someone coming down from a drug high!

In my (undoubtedly too cold blooded for some) view, PG, Trevor, Jessica etc are just very talented, nice, well connected people, not demi-gods to be worshiped or placed on a pedestal to the degree where their approval (perhaps in the form of a YC acceptance) invokes some kind of mind fogging ecstasy and their disapproval a corresponding level of disappointment, which is a bit of the vibe I got from the post.

So I understand what the OP meant by (paraphrasing) "you are entrepreneurs. Don't gush!", but hey it is your blog write what you want! :-)
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I've always felt that writing code on a whiteboard is a crap way to interview people, and I feel that way every time I'm interviewed that way. At least give me a text editor so my mental associations come back to me quick enough.
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Remember: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

Here we have a single programmer -- about whom we know very little -- and his personal experience. It says nothing about the state of the industry as a whole

My personal experience, by the way has been precisely opposite: my open source experience has led to more job opportunities, easier interviews, and more career freedom in general.

But again, that's just another anecdote. The only way to draw a conclusion like "open source experience is overrated" would be through a study that pits potential employees with open source expertise against those without.
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Same concept, but for SMS.
Surely the same could be said of Google. Their revenue is some tiny fraction of 1% of the value they create for users.
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"One of the reasons I worked so hard on open source projects was to make job interviews easier."

Well, that shouldn't be the primary reason to work on open source projects.

I don't know his background; however, most people I know have exactly opposite experiences with regard to open source. But I wouldn't hire anyone either who would try to impress me like that.
That's a rather bonkers article - so Lehman's did commodity trading, who'da thunk it?
"Few academic fields have been left untouched by postmodern thinking, and you'll quickly run into it if you're studying art, literature, philosophy, architecture, social science, feminism, political science, and more."

Though, if you're studying philosophy in the analytic tradition (most English-speaking philosophy since the turn of the 20th century), postmodernism and its antecedents in continental philosophy have been consciously rejected in an attempt for greater linguistic precision.
Although it's not quite the same thing, this reminds me my semester in Budapest (undergrad math program). I actually saved a few thousand dollars by doing so. American tuition is just really expensive.
Pretty sure that your answer should adjust for whether it's employee #4 or employee #20,004.
If you do this, beware that some languages are enough different for male and female speakers that you may end up learning lots of gender-confusing idioms. I've read that English-speaking men in Japan sometimes end up speaking fairly fluent "Japanese girlfriend" rather than the Japanese they'd be speaking if they'd mimicked other males.
If you restore a browser session with 800 tabs mostly on the same server, wouldn't that be 800 simultaneous requests which would look like a DOS attempt by a security system?
Todays landscape is vastly different from when MS and Apple were founded. Even Google for that matter.

In reading through most of the YC-funding companies, it seems they cater not only to Web-type startups, but also very young (on average) founders.

If you've been doing startups for a while, you don't need YC. If you're new to the whole starting/operating a business and raising money, it would seem to be a very valuable relationship. I learned most of the lessons that YC-funded founders will learn along the way. But I did it on my own, and at a cost of about $500K of my personal money when I was in my 20's. I would have gladly given up a few % for the money, and most importantly the advice and experience.
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Just a reminder: build something people want, but make sure that those people are not programmers / IT people, because we (rightly) expect that most things are going to be free.
At first I thought this was just a smartass, exaggerated headline. I was a bit surprised to see that it's the original headline from the Yahoo article.

I was even more surprised to find that the "toxic nuke stockpile" doesn't refer to so-called toxic debt, but rather an actual stockpile of yellowcake uranium.

This thing reads like an article from the Onion. There's even a quote about how we were looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq while they were sitting in Lehman Brothers' portfolio. Google News has some links to more articles about this. As unbelievable as this seems it appears to be true.
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Absolutely. It also matters where you apply-- obviously everyone here would want to work in an environment where they value open source, and we actively seek those workplaces out.
It's not that it's overrated, but rather that it doesn't fit into the company's interviewing process.

He said they gave him a test: that implies they have a set way of evaluating the code he produced and they want him to meet their criteria. They're not going to value unknown OSS over a test they created themselves.

We only give "coding" tests to people with no professional experience. Even there we don't care much about the code. We care about the process you use to arrive at the answer: the code is written while the interviewer watches and asks/answers questions. You can make all kinds of mistakes and I'll still give you thumbs up if you know what you were doing but were just nervous.

I hired someone with impressive OSS experience, but never looked at their code. I care less about code than I do about design, knowledge of how to architect something, deal with bugs, etc. I can learn all that stuff and more in 30 minutes of interviewing; it would take a lot longer than that reading your code to get the same information.

I've yet to meet a good designer/architect who couldn't code well, but met lots of good coders who couldn't design their way out of a paper bag.
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It's very easy to speak a language passably, it's much more difficult to speak it well enough to have friends and in-depth conversations. It can get alienating when you feel like you're not in on the joke everyone else is.
Keep in mind that it was probably chowhound.com's logo in the late 90s. I agree that it looks ugly now, but in the late 90s it wouldn't have been too out of place.
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"My personal experience, by the way has been precisely opposite: my open source experience has led to more job opportunities, easier interviews, and more career freedom in general."

This is my experience too and that in a screwed up job market like India/Bangalore where most companies are essentially bodyshoppers who couldn't care less.

Open source has helped me (a) get interesting job/consulting offers (b) cut out large chunks of useless interviews from the recruiting process(One interviewer started the interview with "Your open source work is impressive enough to the point where a technical interview is not required and to be honest you are much better technically than I am, but hey we have to go through the motions of an interview so tell me what you want to know about the company and what we do ") (c) connect me to very talented people in the fields I am interested in (d) generally open all kinds of doors I didn't know existed.

I've also been on the other side of the process where someone started his cv with "I wrote [impressive piece of code we used every day] that is shipped with the Python distribution". I checked out the repository, just to make sure - his code was very high quality -and added my comment to the electronic copy of his cv "hire this guy NOW. Pay him whatever he wants. Don't let him get away." And since I was known to be a "tough interviewer" who rejected large numbers of people, HR was happy to oblige. The rest of the recruitment process was just a formality.

All this is so contra the experience narrated in the blog that I found it very surprising till I happened across this line

"One of the reasons I worked so hard on open source projects was to make job interviews easier."

This doesn't make any sense to me. I can't imagine writing open source code in order to make interviews easier. That is (sometimes) a side effect certainly, but I've chosen projects based on what interested me and "scratched my itch". I frankly could give a damn if no one else used it or found it interesting as long as it tests out a theory/ saves me time or money/ teaches me something.

Open Sourcing the code is something I do besides whatever value the code provides to me, as a behavioral norm in support of a community that has given me so much quality code. (I have an Ubuntu workstation , use django, gcc ... ).
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Besides, who would feed my chickens while I was away :-)

The thing that dissuades me the most from a nomadic lifestyle is the inability to engage in long-term hobbies like planting/tending fruit trees long enough to enjoy the results.
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I have interviewed people recently with the same view.

They pushed their (admittedly good) OS projects at us heavily as examples of their greatness. But it was quickly apparent their interest was held only as long as it was useful to their job prospects (aka no passion) and that these projects were covering a lack of technical ability for the job in hand.

We used OS projects as a benchmark to see how well someone deals with bugs, user feedback, community and support issues. The code is fairly immaterial (ot a point) because you have no way of knowing how many man hours went into making it as good as it is....

The best programmer in the world is useless if it takes him a year to complete simple commerical projects ;)
SQLite hits the disk on each transaction. It's up to the app developer to group their operations efficiently. Most don't. Did you make good use of transactions in your tests?

In this respect I feel like SQLite is also the OpenGL of data... not just the MP3. It's up to you to understand the correct methods of using it that result in acceptable performance.
I don't understand this. What do you mean by mental associations?
As the old saying goes, whereever you go, there you are.

As someone who does not have an Internet-based income stream (e.g. has a job) and has been close to pulling the trigger on this several times, I think you have to consider why you want to be in a different location. I think I was thinking that I'd do a radical lifestyle/social makeover (e.g. all-in = quitting job+going abroad) but that probably would not be the case.
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I've had similar experience. My wife and I did a RTW trip for about $27K (and we lived it up quite a bit) covering 12 months. We were surprised at just how affordable it is to travel, and it's cheaper to travel long term than short term.
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It seems more like an example of why the interviewee should get a good night's sleep before the interview.
Business cycles are well understood in neoclassical economics, too.

The Depression started 80 years ago. That was before the advent of econometrics, before monetarism, and even before behavioral economics. What have the Austrians given us since? Behavioral economics is a lot like Austrian economics (it bases economic theory on human psychology) except better (it uses empirical measures of actual human behavior instead of unfalsifiable first principles).

Austrian economics, 80 years ago, was an innovation. It had its influence, particularly in the marginal revolution, and we moved on. Since about Rothbard, Austrian economics has been more about "let's come up with a nice-sounding argument for anarcho-capitalism" than "let's study how the economy works".
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They are different beasts really. It'd be hard to implement something complex, like the PageRank algorithm, in SQL. On the other hand, MapReduce is not designed for tasks such as "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field > 5", which is one of the benchmarks the paper uses.

Also, parallel DBMSs don't handle failure well. Ask any of the MapReduce developers at Google and they'll tell you failure handling is the hardest part of the problem.

With all that said, I'd be very interested to see a comparison between Vertica, DBMS-X and MySQL, running in sharded or MySQL Cluster mode.

PS The paper is coauthored by Microsoft.
For the most part, I agree with what you've chopped, but I'd leave the developer's information on that page--it's small enough that, with the rest of the edits, it'll be above the fold and present the entirety of the app's information in one screen!
In Germany it is not done much either. As far as I know it was forbidden until a few years ago, and companies just have not started to do comparatice adverts. Perhaps they can still get sued saying the wrong things.
As I also posted there: Open source can help land a job, but it certainly can't be your only experience, only relevant experience, or only recent experience, if you're looking for anything other than entry- or junior-level. Personally, if people write worthwhile whitepapers, do UG presentations for their development communities, or found/contribute to viable open source projects, yes, they get bonus points with me when I interview them. However, I'm still going to grill them, and I still want to see and hear answers that are relevant to MY company and the role we're looking to hire the candidate for.
I think Xoxohth/Autoadmit (a law school admissions forum that is actually about 20 trolls using 800 user names to "flame" each other) is more artsy than /b/, though it doesn't have quite as much force. XO has resulted in lawsuits, and it has also brought to trolling the "heroic women" and "guys at my high school" memes, the WGWAG acronym, whokebe and the word "pwnsive" (a corruption of "pensive").
And the romanticization continues...

Just like the Wild West outlaw or the medieval highwayman (like Robin Hood), there seems to be this weird sense of elevating thuggery to heroic status when the metaphorical statute of limitations runs out. It scares me a bit to think the people like Timothy McVeigh, the Columbine killers or these Somali pirates are going to be fondly remembered as I approach my retirement years...