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That is like saying the 100m for men has changed. It hasn't, you just have to be better at it than 40 years ago.

Nothing has really changed: build something people want, using terminology they use, and get third party citations.

Job done.
Sure. I agree, which is why my original statement was essentially, "Yes, there are loads of examples of it being screwed up. This doesn't sound like one of them."

I definitely agree that the US immigration system is pretty broken, but assuming that the US system was fixed, and there were still different kinds of visas, it wouldn't magically be broken again because people got denied for applying for the wrong kind.
The last sentence is crucial: there's no way the US Air Force would ever let the GPS satellite network fail or lose accuracy.
"... but it does show plenty of promise."

"Personally I would much rather see feature completeness first"
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I built a mediocre prototype around November, and am currently working on a hopefully better prototype.

Useful info about the following: I am a cheapskate, and am interested in producing this very cheaply. If you're willing to drop $80 on the compass module, certain aspects of this will change.

My first prototype was built out of cell phone vibrating motors, a belt I stole from a friend that had good holes for the motors, and a compass from http://www.robsonco.com/Dinsmore/. It worked alright, but the motors were prone to getting stuck, the compass module wasn't as consistent as I'd like (eg, it gave around 30 degrees to cardinal directions and 60 degrees to diagonals). To build this, you'd probably want basic soldering skills and preferably a basic understanding of electronics. If you were seriously interested I could send you instructions.

For my second prototype I'm using coin-type pager motors, so I don't need to worry about the heads hitting anything. Specifically, I'm using: http://www.pagermotors.com/index_files/Products/DiskL/DiskL.... (and fwiw I measured them at 40mA). I'm also using an AK8973 compass chip, although I haven't yet tested it. This is _not_ a hobbyist friendly chip, and it's kind of a pain to get. On the other hand, I got them for $7 a piece and I expect it to give me better accuracy than the Dinsmore module. I expect to use a microcontroller interpret the output and activate the motors (I may need more cir. For the belt I'm essentially using a canvas strap. To do all of this (mostly to deal with the newer compass chip) I've so far needed to etch my own circuit boards (you can get around this pretty easily for approx $20), will need to solder better than Santa's elves, and will need to program a microcontroller.
Bookmarked, I'll get around to reading this later...
Agreed, the probe requests and probe responses do not hog the medium. As noted most of us do not enable RTS/CTS, it would be clear if the researches pointed out the exact conditions under which they performed their tests. With out which the statement has no weight.
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Ive yet to make strong connections with Twitter. Or rather I have made connections and thern taken them to other media.
I thought the Yahoo Research team was canned.
Aiiyyeee!! "6. Build Your Personal Brand"

Whilst the other steps[1] can be done privately, without annoying anyone, Personal Branding by definition is about enforcing your success on other people.

"Personal Branding" can lead to an instant NO for positions. You are pigeon holing yourself and people may have bad experiences with that pigeon hole.

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[1] They seem to be of the garden variety "Work hard and focus on results" advice. Note, they give no advice on how to enjoy life
/In economic terms, liberty translates into the entrepreneurial spirit of hard work, risk taking and self-reliance./

America definitely has a wonderful entrepreneurial spirit of hard work, risk taking and self-reliance.

/And this spirit has made America rich beyond compare./

This is what many American believe but it's not true. There are many richer countries and what the author might find interesting is that they are all "Socialist" countries whose citizens are provided with such benefits as universal healthcare and free access to the university system.

Whenever you find a Bete Noir, look it in the eye. Running away from it will most always end badly. Being afraid of Socialism when wealthier countries use it to great effect is holding the entire country back -- and American are finally waking up to that fact.
"Personally I would much rather see feature completeness first"

As I said in my comment, the BTree rewrite was a breaking change. It required all users to dump and reload their DBs. (1)

You do agree that things like that are best done ASAP, right?

I want to see feature completeness too but with more people adopting the project every day, and beginning to use it in semi-serious situations, pushing file format changes through quickly is just good release practise.

(1) if it's the one I'm thinking of. The other you could be referring to just needed a view rebuild; still annoying but nothing like the file format change
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The site's absence from the time the content was deleted until the time it would have taken to restore a backup is the fault of the dirty, stinking crackers. From that point onwards, it is the fault of the person who decided on the backup scheme as, evidently, it was insufficient.

If I don't wear a seatbelt and am thrown from the car in a crash, that is my fault. The crash itself and injuries I would have sustained anyway might be someone else's fault, but anything resulting from the difference between wearing a seatbelt and not wearing a seatbelt is my fault. I'm negligent from the instant I put myself in a position where I could conceivably have a crash without having put a seatbelt in place.
The critter-guitari Pocket Piano is a great shield for Arduino, and it has the advantage that it gives you a lot of hardware to play with as well ..

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I built one for fun, and ended up using it in jam sessions as a serious synth. Great!
I don't think it's that hard. But I did notice that I could give an almost immediate answer the question "An example of a bird is ______", whereas my first reaction to "A bird is an example of ____" was "uff" and just kept on reading the article.

Then I read your comment and I thought, is it really hard? And then I actually tried to get an answer. It was even easier than the first one (I just said "animal" :P).

So I think the article does have a point. It's not that it's harder, our brain's initial reaction makes it look hard. And maybe it's because it's easier to process and deliver concrete information rather than vague or abstract.

On a side note, I wonder if these two questions asked to little kids instead of students would have different results...
And then there's Nintendo, at an estimated $1.6 million per employee:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/16/nintendos-profits-per-empl...
@davidnwelton - this question has been asked before, too.

"Twitter - the CB radio of Web 2.0" - over'n'out, good buddy.
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The BarCamp Los Angeles mailing list just had a long post-event conversation about talks and scheduling. I believe the consensus was that if disclosed and something that people are truly interested in discussing and listening to, that marketing your own product is not taboo. And that we should feel free to walk out and/or publicly let the presenter know that you believe s/he just crossed the line into too much marketing territory.

Although I really hate product pitches, the last BarCampLA I attended had a pitch/presentation that I thought did a good job keeping it appropriate to BarCamp: one of the awe.sm founders was presenting his service and the audience-driven conversation was a lot more about analytics for short urls and how to deal with issues that may arise from the general idea, rather than about awe.sm itself.

Anyway, back on the actual topic of the link: I hate the idea. Mostly because all the fun in presentations about startups (in my opinion) is about being able to chat with the founder(s) about growing pains and experiences and more that other people merely demoing your product wouldn't be able to discuss. And also in my opinion, it's that extra bit that's way more appropriate to a BarCamp than a demo.

If this person is so interested in doing demos in such a manner, he should just go create DemoCamp Bangalore. Or maybe sponsor the next BarCamp in his area and similar events.
It's not true. Skype comes from Sweden which has a famously high top tax rate. The experiment is being done everywhere, everyday, in all 193 countries, and I don't think we should measure the success of a society by the technical innovation it produces.

Further, you don't need a high tax rate. Slovakia is currently the country with the least wealth disparity and is a happy, healthy EU country with a U.S.* / European-like tax rate. The individual income tax rate in Slovakia is a flat 19%.

I don't think anyone is talking about "punish the winners" but about providing true equal opportunity. No one is talking about making everyone finish at the same point, but truly having the same starting line. What Slovakia and the rest of Europe get for their taxes includes universal healthcare and a free (or very low cost) university system -- and those two things alone can go a long way toward a more equitable, and happier, society.

* U.S. tax rates appear lower but when you combine federal, state, local and property taxes, it is similar to most European nations.
Have you ever heard of anyone applying for an Indian residency visa (IE not tourist)? I have heard everything from you can't get one to they don't even do them. I know they have visas for employees of big companies like Microsoft or Intel. But I have not heard of a single instance of a foreigner going to India as an entrepeneur.
No. Right side is not aligned.
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If you are traveling to Tokyo, they have one of these at the science museum in Ueno. I had a chance to try it just recently, although the one they have is not stereoscopic 3D. Still just being totally surrounded by a screen is surprisingly immersive. The screen is not all around you just in the sense that it is front and behind, but also above and below you. As you start moving upwards, being able to look down and see the ground getting farther really adds to the effect.
# $210k profit per head in 2008: Google
# Just over $30k: IBM, Yahoo, Amazon and Dell.
# Around $64k: Oracle and Intel.
# Around $120k: Adobe and Cisco.

Does it exclude their market capitalization?
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Its true in Bangalore too but there are always sessions where you can talk about your service or general ideas. The intention is surely not to piss off the other barcampers.

May be the idea is not specific to barcamp but in general can be used to spread your service in areas you can't go to personally. May be if not a pitch a tshirt exchange. It can something like http://girl.inyourshirt.tv/ but at a peer level.

Btw, I wrote that original post.
"Your income depends on the social value of your work" - so it's gongs all round to drug dealers!
It's there, but it disappears after a certain time.
> If this person is so interested in doing demos in such a manner, he should just go create DemoCamp Bangalore. Or maybe sponsor the next BarCamp in his area and similar events.

As the original blog post says I am a bootstrapper and I think its really hard for bootstrappers to sponsor event.

That said, I do understand/appreciate the other points you mentioned.
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Eli White was the 3rd developer we hired. Kevin must have been confused because I'm pretty sure Eli never participated in elance.
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This is an oversimplification. I have a project that I care about immensely and still procrastinate on. It's because I want to get it right first time, and spend my time mulling it over instead of just doing it. I'm working on shaking that approach :)
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Well that's exactly it. Kids these days are adept at using the toys the grownups - us - built for them, but that's all they know. Ooh, another website, how exciting.
> As the original blog post says I am a bootstrapper and I think its really hard for bootstrappers to sponsor event.

Yeah, I had that in mind when I was writing that sentence, and wasn't sure how to approach it because "sponsor" usually tends to imply money and there'd be an obvious shortage of that - I'm well aware, I'm trying to bootstrap my startup too :) But I don't mean you should necessarily be contributing money to the event, but rather that there are things that can be done without spending extra money that could still help a lot towards organizing a BarCamp that can help spread the word about your product. (Did I use enough "that"s in that sentence? hah.)

Anyway, I still think you should fork and start a DemoCamp or StartupCamp in your area if there are enough interested people. It not only means you can set the rules (like, oh, 10 minute slots for demos) but also would attract more people that weren't interested in the free-for-all-ness of BarCamps but have an interest in one that is startup-specific: investors, other founders, you get the idea. And of course, you could use a BarCamp to get things started in a myriad of ways and to let people know that there is such an event and oh look, here's some demos of products you might be interested in. Or maybe it could be a sub-camp within the BarCamp where you can just have a dedicated area with shorter sessions for people to demo their stuff.
The power to move to the US or to Western Europe has not shifted anywhere if the news and personal anecdotes are to be believed. A lot of developing countries don't have the infrastructure or the intelligence to create another Silicon Valley. If anything they are further cementing their power because of the credit crisis. I was on the phone with a colleague in Hyderabad and he told me the R&D companies are starving for capital. When everyone was flush with cash it was easy to open a branch in India, China, or Eastern Europe, but a lot of companies are running low and those foreign offices are the first to get cut.

I am aware that they are trying to build their own middle classes, these things take time and it's going to be a long wait before they can be completely self-reliant.
This mightn't be interesting to US readers, but here in Europe, where there is no Kindle, it actually sounds quite a lot more compelling.

The most widely available reader on sale here is Sony's at around 250GBP, so something costing 80GBP less for similar functionality sounds quite enticing.
Yes. It's profit per employee. Market cap is based on (shares) x (stock price). Stock price is based on the whims of investors, and profitability is based on product costs and the whims of consumers :)
I'd be interested in knowing how Blizzard and Valve fare in this sector. Specifically, I'd like to know the labor efficiencies of running virtual world game services and digital content delivery platforms.
IBM has almost 400,000 employees? woah that's crazy.
Ok this may be a repeat, but what you are looking at is about immigrant visas, a.k.a. Green Cards. I believe what OP is talking is a nonimmigrant visa, probably E-2 treaty investor kind.

Those two visas are so different, thus typically when people are talking about visas they mean nonimmigrant ones, while the immigrant ones are refered as Green Cards. But if you look at the official documents, be careful not to be confused.
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I especially liked this tip:

Buy a big whiteboard. Don't use calendaring, bug tracking or project management software. Put it all on the whiteboard. At the start of each week, erase and start over. Worried about losing something? If you erase it and forget, it wasn't that important in the first place.
It doesn't go down easily the modern OSs we use are either a GUI-based desktop OS that wouldn't be serious and compete with OS/2 with a billion patches applied or some rehash of 70's Unix.

Really... Why is that Smalltalk/80 and Lisp'56 still make Java'2009 seem primitive?

Even the Smalltalk/80 environment makes Windows'2009 look primitive (colorful, translucent and primitive).
That's different. They still want the cigarette itself, they just don't want to be someone who wants cigarettes, if you see what I mean. The 'really caring' about stopping applies to a wider scope than the single cigarette you'd have to decline in order to start quitting.
"Norway has 20 times as much oil production per capita as the UK. That's the real Norway lesson. Sit on tons of oil."

Haha, brilliant. Sounds a little like a lottery winner offering financial advice.
So? It's still near the title...
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Indeed, I commented it myself a few days ago.

'Distraction from distraction' is my take - don't worry about everything else in your head, just open notepad and start making notes on whatever it is you're trying to put off. You'll forget the rest soon enough :)
I don't know about you, but I don't move my mouse pointer along the title as I read it.

It may just be that I'm old and clumsy, but I would find it very difficult to point to the end of the title. Habit and alignment makes it reasonably possible for me to hit the right thing most of the time currently (I still accidentally hit the down when I meant the up, or vice versa, on occasion...which is very disappointing here, since the arrows then disappear and I can't fix it).

I'm very, very, very much opposed to randomly placed arrows, rather than aligned ones. I would find it deeply disorienting.

I don't usually have strong feelings about bike shed type questions...but on this count I am emphatic. In my estimation your idea is terrible. I can't think of a single benefit to having the arrow at the end of the title rather than the front.
Interesting that it's $500k more than the fund Y Combinator recently announced. Do I sense a little "Y" envy? Either way, it's good that more capital and resources are being allocated to startup stage companies. Can't we all just get along?
We are still living the American Dream on the Internet too.

Given that I'll loose all my HN karma points I'll have to ask stop thinking in Internet Startup = US.

Stay with your family back home and run a successful business.

Or maybe I'm missing out completely why there is such a gold rush to the valley.
It's $967k profit per employee.
The $1.6 million per employee is apparently cash flow, not profit.

The most recent report has them at a great $2.9 billion profit over last year, depending on yen/$ conversion rate.
http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/financials.asp?symbol=jp:79...

The article says they have 3000 full-time employees even though many company functions are handled by contractors/outsourcing. The full vs. contract employee argument throws some noise into the original article's conclusions, since some of those high-tech companies probably use fewer contractors (more full-timers) than Google.
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I'm indifferent to it, and thought I'd probe your (and others') reasoning. My criterion is that it needs to be close to the title - visual clustering if you will.

But without a proper test, I don't think you or I will be able to judge which is "better".
Well, it is exciting especially if you built it.

We have the luxury/advantage of knowing how things work from bottom up, starting from semiconductor physics and logic gates to web server and browser architecture, but an important thing for us, grownups, is to never stop getting excited with new stuff.
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It should be fairly obvious from the address bar if you're being proxied - it will show the proxying site's address rather than the site you use as your OpenID provider.

Also - I'm logged into my OpenID provider all the time, so I don't have to enter my login details in order to use a third-party site - so they can't actually capture anything at all.
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Putting on a barcamp/democamp is very easy. I put together MobileCampBrighton in a few spare hours and it only cost about £50 of my own money. There's usually some company/coworking space/pub you can use for free.
... as long as engineers keep up skills ...

This is a good point that probably seems so obvious to most people here, but none the less is overlooked by many elsewhere. Where I work my day job now, I can see a clear delineation between those that left their "official" studying years with the conscious or unconscious idea that they really no longer had to learn anything new, and those who know that especially in our industry, you must actively and continuously put time into developing your skills and knowledge.

The sad thing is that in many if not all big organisations (particularly government), you can be the first kind of person and go through the motions each day just fine. They don't even get called on it most of the time.

I know which kind of person I get along with better and which shits me to tears when I have to deal with them.
i was denied usa visitor visa in 2007 -- the interviewer said i didn't put specific date, despite me having entered usa multiple time during the last 25 years

i guess she got a point. i never really miss usa much so i never really intended to go there, that's why i didn't buy ticket and put specific date

bad things hurt you ONLY if you allow it

i haven't re-applied any visa since then :D ... and no i don't want to go to usa either, even third-world countries are pretty good these days (i only need wifi, laptop, really minimalist stuff)

here i got servants for my family, life is pretty relaxed. actually i must say that my standard of living is higher here than when i lived in usa. the girls are nicer too, not as materialistic as the usa counterparts.
I made the same mistake when he interviewed me...I heard "helped start Digg" and I made an assumption. Funny how the "young startup founder" stereotype is so strong.
Why? frankly. My work environment is very relaxed and i often work from home (as the office is closed).. there is no particular benefit and I tend to get less done...

Most people I know prefer to work in the office..

Perhaps a BETTER idea is to try and improve office conditions....
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Well, true, but there's no technical reason that all this Web 2.0 social networking stuff couldn't have existed in 1997. Endless variations on the theme of "generate some HTML from a database" are just not significant in the wider sense.
But it still does not solve the problem of not being able to demo in a different city/country.