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That sounds quite intruiging -- did it include anything like FCC licenses, broadcasting equipment, studio space? (Link?)
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I used to work in finance and these guys:

http://www.platinumequity.com/site/action/home

did this on a much larger scale. They were always doing the deals no one else wanted.
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It may give you the wrong answer, but it makes it hard to be led astray:

Evaluated area = pi * radius^2 giving AREA = 3.1415926535897931 * 2x^2

That description makes it obvious that a pair of parentheses are the only thing lacking.
Point taken re: console support. I was thinking about the menu bars, too. Many users probably have them turned off, though.
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What a silly article. These companies are hardly free.
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The ultimate recent example being Chrysler, in which Fiat got a 20% (later rising to 35% and beyond) stake for "free". (They're sharing IP, etc.) http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13610819
Ionic air purifiers emit a significant (potentially harmful) level of ozone. That might also be a problem with this.
Can I just say that I loathe the trend of speakers wearing headset mics? And since I don't like headset mics, it's plausible to conclude that I also don't like it when they walk around constantly while talking, thinking that they are creating visual interest.
Depends on who you're talking to
There's an excellent movie called "Outsourced" about a call-center manager who is forced to move to India to train his replacement.

It's a silly B+ grade movie but it really gives you the feel of what it would be like to go work in a culture which is totally different than your own.
The problem for most ISPs, in the UK at least, is not the last mile but actually the last hundred miles. We have one Telecom monopoly: BT and one cable monopoly Virgin Media.

I agree with you that costs to Virgin Media should be quite low, as they own all of their infrastructure and most of it has been in place for 20 years or more.

The problem for the ADSL ISPs in the UK is BT. There are some IPSs which have installed their own equipment in BT's telephone exchanges and hence only pay BT for use of the 'last mile', but most of the ISPs in this country have to pay BT for not only the 'last mile', but also for the hundred or so miles before that. BT charges the ISPs based on how much bandwidth they consume, so for the majority of Internet users in the UK, the amount of bandwidth they consume is an important cost to their ISP.
Hi Drew,

thanks for the response - elevation will indeed play a role. I don't know by how much though.

However, I would say that for a v1 possible obstacles (mountains, other houses, fence, ...) could be ignored and just imagined by the user. If they have a good idea of the arc through the sky then they can make a judgement themselves.

For me, the key to v1 is to not go too accurate in our algorithm by taking into account all variables. Aim would be to make it useful for those who just need an estimate.

Thanks,

Stijn.

PS: I will look at the site more closely tonight to see how they manage it. No time now.
Thankfully we snatched up the "American" TLD early on.
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My painful experience is the flashy office, biz cards, etc actually don't work. The only faking that's worked for me is to say I can do it, when I haven't yet. BUT knowing that I can quickly learn and have talked up the complexity so that I have enough time to raise the bunny to be a rabbit before pulling it out of the hat.
I actually am an immigrant (to at least 2 different countries) and coincidentally helped my father start a business. But I don't traffic in generalities. I'm sure you worked hard, but it's still anecdotal.
This has somehow become a cause célèbre for native Spanish speakers, but it's simply not accurate. The correct translation from the English "American" (or German "Amerikaner") to Spanish is "estadounidense", not "americano". This would be like English speakers correcting Spanish speakers for using "pretender" and not meaning "a faker".

As for the continents themselves, it just depends on who's doing the teaching. English speaking countries define North and South America as separate continents:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents
>India's economy will grow by 5.8 per cent [...] that's exponentially better than the negative growth predicted for the US

What does exponentiation have to do with this at all?!
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>getting mugged, pickpocketed or swindled

Those at least are direct threats which you would at least be conscious of (and may be avoid learning some self defence and having some 'tools').

But there's a lot of silent thieving that's going either unnoticed or ignored. From shopkeepers to rented auto-rickshaw owners, everyone charges an American 5x to 10x more (some even start charging for something that's supposed to be free). Since they do not know the actual rates, they end up paying the (relatively) huge amounts without even knowing they are being ripped off.

If you're an American considering visiting India (or probably any third world country for that matter), make sure you befriend someone there and learn the prices and rates of common necessities. If you make people realize you know the actual price and perhaps negotiate a little, they'll give in very soon. You'll be saving a lot of money that way.
IAAP. This has nothing to do with the uncertainty principle, because your intepretation of the popular rendering of the uncertainty principle ("observing something changes it") is wrong. I grant that nearly everyone, including many physicists, think your interpretation is correct, but it is in fact wrong.

The uncertainty principle even holds when the measurement procedure could not possible transfer enough energy to the system being measured to change the outcome of the measurement. It is a fundamental property of the mathematics describing quantum phenomena, that does not just come about when factoring 'the act of measuring and the consequent perturbation of the system' into the equation. Measuring a system disturbs it, but that also holds in classical systems. Any first year physics student should realize that after his first few experiments and will be able to take it into account when presenting his results (for instance: a thermometer takes heat away from a system, because it heats up itself). However, you can often take this into account exactly or at least so precisely that it does not influence the overall uncertainty of your measurement (due to the thermometer having only a 0.1 degree measurement accuracy). This isn't true for uncertainties due to Heisenberg's principle: they are always there, always have the same relative magnitude and are independent of the kind of measurement. Taking measurements causes you to notice the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, but it does not cause that relation.

This Google thing is more like the point made in Frank Herbert's Dune series over and over again: if your predictions are taken seriously, then you cannot predict the future without causing it to come about. This doesn't hold for the carny kind of predictions, because most people don't believe in them. In does hold for Warren Buffet's kind of predictions, which is why he doesn't want people reading the annual report of his company.
Interesting. Italian has 'americano', which is sort of the common way of putting things, even if not entirely correct. 'statiunitense', similar to the spanish word you cite, is the more formal term. It is however, an unwieldy word that's mostly limited to news or official things, and 'americano' is what I am to most people here.
Guice is a very cool dependency injection framework. There are some good google talks presentations on why and how to use it.

In a few days google i/o developer conference takes place and im waiting to see http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/BigModularJavaGuic... being published online from it.
Not that flat. If that were really the case throughout the company, it would have about 2.15 layers of management, i.e everyone would report to someone who reported to Eric. (log100 of 20,000 is 2.15).
>> "A great deal of scholarship and innovation is included in the results generated and displayed by Wolfram|Alpha, including the presentations, collections, and juxtapositions of data, and the choices involved in formulating and composing mathematical results; these are also protected by copyright."

Maybe I'm missing something, but how can formatting/data layout be protected by copyright? Is this why they use images instead of text?
The more informal Spanish version would be "norteamericano", which also packs some odd ambiguities, since it is mostly a reference to people from the US.

The bit I was digging into there, by inference (not necessarily clear for those not familiar with Spanish) is that because North and South America are taught to be one continent in Spanish, and "americano" references the peoples from that aggregate, Spanish speakers (mostly Latin-Americans) have a habit of correcting English speakers in online forms when they use the word "American" to refer to people from the US.
I think you're right in that it's the limited supply of high quality projects and people, but the rest of your comment just focuses on the people.

IMHO, the biggest problem facing big companies is that they can't think of what to do next. They already do a pretty good job with their core businesses - that's how they got to be big in the first place. And they might try to branch out into new markets, with things like 20% time or skunkworks projects. But the problem is that truly game-changing inventions almost always look small and insignificant at first, so it's never rational from a bottom-line perspective to pursue them.

Entrepreneurs have this problem too, but they solve it by always being delusional. It's not rational for them to pursue these tiny opportunities that are almost certain failures, but they do it anyway. And once in a blue moon, they're right. In a big company, someone would probably have killed the project with a reality check first.
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In many cases the data you are shown never existed before in exactly that way until you asked for it

If the answer didn't exist until I asked for it, am I not its creator, using WA as a tool?

Imagine a painter buying paint which says: "anything you paint with this paint is ours." Or a Rails eula saying "anythins you build with Rails is copyright DHH."
Is there a difference?

(I understand that WA can slap on any TOS they want, I'm just wondering if this one is reasonable)
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Apart from the "deciding what to get" part. I haven't twigged why the Palm Pre is expected to be particularly good.
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laying people off in this economy would be horrible long term PR

Laying people off in this economy is minimal PR damage compared to laying people off in any other situation.
Aquiring a company that's losing money is hardly "free". After Nick Leeson's rogue trading spree, ING bought Barings for £1, but they then inherited a good chunk of its liabilities.

The author's advice is trite. Who would ever go knocking door to door at a business park looking for failing businesses? It often makes sense to aquire businesses in a field in which you're already established, but doing it essentially at random? That's just stupid.

It's also bad advice because it's pitched at a general audience, but it's really a specialist field for people who know how to cut costs and turn around a business (during a major recession btw). It's the business equivalent of learning to surf on a 20' break - astonishing if you pull it off, far more likely to end in tragedy.
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I've found it quite an efficient editor with MacVim+Ruby and Jamis Buck's FuzzyFinder TextMate.
Please don't generalise women - some of us really don't care.

(I'm 15 weeks pregnant, I have no intentions of getting married.)
(For my own curiosity+better editing-ness, how did you do that?)

(And I swear the link looked fine when I typed that comment out. Not sure what happened. Thanks parent and grandparent!)
Of what value is this, except as a salutory lesson that having a high IQ doesn't necessarily lead to success, nor help you to contribute positively to society or technology?
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Very good article.

It also neatly explains why certain magazines/papers, like, for example, the Economist, are doing fine even as the industry collapses: they provide hard, strong value in the form of unique insight and analysis communicated extremely clearly.
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I just wanted to bring up a counterpoint. I work on Google Moderator, with a smattering of other 20%ers. My boss semi-discouraged me from putting time into it (he would prefer I spent my "20% time" on a project within my department), but its been a pretty positive experience all around. When we were used by change.gov (and then whitehouse.gov), we basically all took a deep breath and asked very politely that the appengine guys turn up the scaling-knob. (And miscellaneous other jiggery-pokery that deserves tons of praise but I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to talk about it.)

We built on Google infrastructure (app engine, gwt), and pulled in people from all over who were interested. I don't think it has much profit potential (which is part of why I like working on it), but the concept of being able to take a nifty idea and transform it into a working product that has more users than anything else I've ever directly made? Thats pretty awesome.

(This is basically why I joined Google actually. The food is definitely better than warmed-up pizza, or the hot pockets I've eaten elsewhere ;) but the technology, infrastructure and people are all awesome. There are definitely rough patches, but compared to the 3 startups I've worked at, there certainly are advantages to being able to shout for help and have people come running.)
yeh I think that was what I got from it too: but I just didnt see any valid connection to the argument of removing all sessions because they were inherently bad :D
I used both Google and Wolfram on a High School math project (about Archimedean spirals and such) -- Wolfram Alpha gave succinct information. Google gave details. Both were useful.

I'm also using it for a statistics project. The comparisions you can do with Wolfram are awesome. Type in "New York City, San Francisco, Taipei" and it gives a triple-city comparison. Type Chicago Bears, and it gives stats I can use on my project.

Good stuff. It was slow as heck the first few days but now it's working well. Alpha def. has its strong points.
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Verbose and not worth the read IMHO. The best tip in this entire document was changing a sentence to title case.

>Select the text you want to convert, hit :, then enter the regex:

s/\<\(\w\)\(\w*\)\>/\u\1\L\2/g.

And, even this is not completely correct. The expression will not work if you select part of a line. Your best bet would be to remap the following:

nnoremap <A-c> :s/\<\(\w\)\(\w*\)\>/\u\1\L\2/g<CR>
vnoremap <A-c> :s/\%V\(\w\)\(\w*\)\%V/\u\1\L\2/g<CR>

To get key bindings that you like (I've defaulted to the EMacs capitalize-word binding).
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If you are interested in this, you may also enjoy this presentation on "hacker space design patterns":
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2133.en.h...

These design patterns proved helpful when setting up Noisebridge, a hacker space in San Francisco.
Link to a single page version:

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All companies have churn - it's unavoidable. And in any company you will find people who don't get along with specific other people who they happen to work closely with, or who get put on projects they are unhappy with etc..

It's just sound people management for any to try to figure out why, so you can try to find ways of retaining the ones you'd like to keep. Even more so if the company is overall a good place to work, and the causes might possibly be easily/cheaply rectified if you just know about it.
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How would be the option to clone any successful product as a start-up, as a cheaper and open-source option?
When I asked same question with many friends they are saying every body is doing that including Google. For every product there are many segment, you need to tap that segment.
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> Ok laying people off in this economy would be horrible long term PR but it's still an option.

The "nice" way is "exit management". Or in other words, you find ways of making the bad people want to leave and the good people want to stay.

At Yahoo a few years back, for example, a policy was put in place where managers were explicitly told to not give any raises (not even to keep in line with inflation) to lower performing staff - effectively cutting their pay year over year in order to make it desirable for them to leave. It was meant to be applied to something like the bottom 10-20% or so. Of course not all of them would leave, but if they didn't at least they'd be cheaper to have around, and you always need someone for the boring jobs low-level jobs anyway.

Well executed exit management is both cheaper (fewer lawsuits...) and better PR than firing lots of people. Of course badly executed exit management can easily lead to more lawsuits (must be careful not to step over any boundaries that can be construed as discrimination or bullying etc.)
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I would go so far to say that the HN community/startups are already "acquiring companies for free" all the time - open source software.

It's a ready-to-go free asset without which I wouldn't be able to bootstrap my startup.

Of course, we don't own the "asset" and as such, the distinction.
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Something I recently learned that is really cool:

:<area>!<command>

will export the <area> to <comand> and then replace <area> with the output of the <command>. So you can do:

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first word/column.

So much power with this really simple set of commands. You can also highlight the an area using visual mode, and then just type ':!<command>' and it will autofill in the area for you.
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if you clone an application you won't be in tap with why the developers did what they did. It's all about the endgame for companies.

If you clone an application, you have no idea what their end goal is, so how can you ever compete/innovate?
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Very true, DNA evidence alone conclusively demonstrates the truth of evolution. However, DNA alone cannot tell you the path through which humans arose.

This path is called the phylogenetic tree. Fossils help fill in the gaps in the tree, and clarify any ambiguities from genetic comparisons.
It's nice to hear that someone is actually using both tools to their strengths and to complement one another, instead of just dismissing one as being worse than the other.
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I agree with the general gist of the article, but I'm not sure I agree with this:

"Wages are compensation for value creation"

This implies that compensation in general (not wages in particular) is always relative to value creation, which I don't think is true for most definitions of value (other than monetary.) 'Wages are compensation for the creation of financial value' would be more correct.
3. Code samples in books are more likely to be in Java or Python than C++.

6. Libraries are more likely to have native C bindings than native C++ bindings.
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When i say clone the application mean, with some innovation in same product and attract some initial customers then make own path.