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Depends in which areas. If you are in environmental sector (for example alternative energy) there is a good chance that the technology has been developed in Germany. Same for machines, cars, ... Europe has several companies competing in the area of high-speed trains. The US has none. It is just thinking about having their own high-speed train services (minus the Acela, which is not really high-speed), where Europe has lots of those in France, Germany, Spain... There are innovation areas where Europe actually now is ahead of the US. That happened, because the US was more focused in finance, space and military technology - and less so with other engineering areas (often civil).

The German 'Mittelstand' (medium sized companies) has lots of 'Weltmarktführer' (market leaders) which are based on innovation and technology in their areas. Software is part of their offerings, but it is not the web-based software what they develop. It is often embedded software or applications. Guess what, these companies are fully exposed to global competition. Actually their market is global - which is why Germany has a huge trade surplus - from selling high-tech, machines, tools, cars, trains, robots, ...

The article is also not really correct with respect to 'Theseus'. Theseus is a german research project in the area of semantic knowledge infrastructure. It is not a start up company and it is not done with France. Theseus is basic research.

Volkswagen is also long ago - it was founded by the Nazis. It is not an example how companies are created in Germany nowadays.

It is true that Germany has less venture capital and its innovation is not that much based on creation of startup companies funded by venture capital. But that does not mean innovation is government controlled or induced. The example I mentioned above, innovation in the 'Mittelstand' is the counter example.
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I'm going to ask the local cinema to outsource management and operations to India. :)

Seriously, I almost had to go see a doctor after holding myself in during the second Lord of the Rings movie.
I would rather read what makes Paris different from NYC in your opinion. It would make for a much more interesting comment.
The blurred favicon does look like it says RunPoo if I lean well back in my chair.
Well, I should qualify by saying that the thing I find most salient about NYC is the energy that people have -- which was not the same in Paris. But both are fundamentally large, densely urban, wealthy cities. People who live there are total city dwellers -- it would be feasible (and quite practical) not to own a car and to exist within a 4 block radius of your apartment.

A few years ago I was in London and found it nearly indistinguishable from New York, but Paris was strikingly similar too in some ways.
Okay, so I decided my short term goal is to be making $35/day.

Explained: $500/mo apt + $350/mo food + $200/mo entertainment = $12,600/yr = $35/day

I also have a long term goal to be making $835/day. :)

I want to come up with an idea for a business that could be making $35/day reasonably quickly, but also have the potential to eventually scale up to $835/day.

I order to make $35/day, I need to create something that can do 7 sales of a $5/(month)/profit product every day.
This article is complete rubbish and bears no resemblance to fact whatsoever. I live and work in Europe, run my own business in Europe and have had some involvement in a number of start-ups.
"The weather was mild and the Nile would flood every year, providing them plenty of easy food. There was no need to strive for anything."

I don't know anything about the Indian tribes but I know that slavery, serfdom, superstition, and tyranny were integral parts of ancient Egyptian society.
I've been doing some home molding with High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) and with clear PETG. The polystyrene is opaque, white, strong, and particularly easy to work with. It's also cheap (about $50 for a 1/8" 4'x8' sheet).

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TAPPlastics.com is pretty good for small quantities (especially if you are near one of their stores), but others (like Interstate Plastics) have better prices on full sheets. TAP has HIPS at their store near me, although I don't see it listed on their web site.
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that if you take enough small pseudo random samples, you'll get one far outside the norm eventually, by pure chance.
Ok. I'll mention a few notable things:

- People are more formal in the way they conduct themselves. They say "sir" and "maam" all the time to each other and there is generally an attitude of appropriateness and formality that is quite unlike anywhere I've been in the US.

- Taxis are mostly Mercedes Benz cars and they are driven by people who don't seem to really care all that much about the money earning aspect of the job.

- The cheapest wine in restaurants is usually terrible. In the US it's reliably mediocre but not terrible. The vaklue is in the 6 Euro bottles sold in stores.

Those are the most salient differences. It's really hard to think of any.

The best part of the trip was near the Sienne when a woman drew her son (who had been asking her questions) near her and asked me what kind of bird it was that was floating nearby. "A swan", I said.

"How does he know?" asked the boy.

It's great to see someone that young questioning authority.
I have a Disney quote too:

"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination."

WALT DISNEY
Confirmed. I've worked for plenty of European startups (and other companies) that bear no resemblance to this:

"a company is willed into existence by the government as a public-private partnership when a need has been identified by the bureaucrats and political leaders. The goals are clear, and design happens after the money is on the table and an initial committee of experts has been recruited."

There are things like that, but there are in the US too. It's the exception though, rather than the rule, even here. There are problems in Europe, but my will to continue reading faltered upon reading the silly caricature.
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is this an ad? serious question.
well, if you've worked for startups, then you've worked for the exception. i'm not saying there aren't any, just fewer than would make sense.

i hope there will be more startups in europe in the future, and some people are already doing a great job, but the majority hasn't even taken notice that you can start companies that way, yet.
Come on. Europe is not the Soviet Union, and while the government sticks its nose in things in plenty of ways, there is plenty of space for entrepreneurs, startups, and all kinds of businesses that aren't some kind of government-created entity.

Let's talk about the real problems with Europe & startups, not made-up ones.

Here's my take on things:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/12/13/startups-and-work-euro...
"Every so often, someone will come along, hand you a sword, and tell you to go die for the Emperor; if you aren't killed in battle, it's quite likely that you'll die of disease or starvation hundreds of miles from home."

But less likely than dying at home on the farm, at least in Rome.

"your husband, who may have three or ten or twenty wives"

In which case your husband is probably rich, powerful, and influential, and you share a measure of luxury. Most men in polygamous cultures only have/had one wife because they can only afford to support one wife.

"If you want to live like this, for whatever reason, you still can. Go out into the middle of nowhere and purchase a plot of land (such land is generally worthless). Build a house on it, farm it for food and make all your tools yourself."

There's a marked difference between living in a primitive community and living as a primitivist hermit.
But what if investing in a business isn't a priority, but a flashy new car is?

Utility value isn't a one-off constant, it depends on the user.
To me the author makes one fatal mistake in the article and that is assuming all hospitals could run as well as the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic is the best managed medical institution in the country. There are books written about it's management (http://www.amazon.com/Management-Lessons-Mayo-Clinic-Organiz...). Assuming every hospital can match it's efficiency isn't realistic.

Coming up with a universal system for anything requires planning for the worst possible scenario not the best.
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I watched this video a week or so ago (it was linked in a Tell Me Which Google Tech Talks Are Good To Watch thread) and I was impressed at how well-reasoned his points were, how poorly Java has lived up to them since 1998 when the talk was recorded (still no operator overloading!) and how many subsequent languages have followed his guidelines for growth, either deliberately or as parallel evolution.

For example, although Python's syntax isn't extensible to the extent that Scheme or Lisp are, Python's Decimal class is still fairly transparently interoperable with built-in numeric classes. Other parts of the interpreter, such as object instances, classes and modules are built out of exactly the same dict objects that normal scripts use, which makes it easy to build new language features that feel like part of the base language.
When will you Americans get this?
Europe is not a country, (also a pet peeve, Africa is not a country). There is no over-arching European culture, and I don't think any one would ever claim that there is.
Oh I agree. There SHOULD be privacy controls.

I was only disagreeing with the OP that all contact information should be "not required" at all.

My take is: Yes, collect the contact information (and as much as feasible, ensure it is valid) but also provide options to make it private to an extent (perhaps have at least one public email (protected from spam bots obviously) while making the rest of the info private and available only through a court order etc)

As you can see, I also have extreme parentheses usage syndrome ;)
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Paul Böhm is from Austria. Your point about Europe is valid of course, but please direct your ire at your fellow European:-)
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raganwald, u r totally right, i have updated the post to show the diff.
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Forgive me if I sound rude, but I have to think you weren't paying very close attention if the quality of cheap wine and the make of taxi were the most salient differences you noticed between Paris and New York. I find the two cities nothing alike and off the top of my head could think of about 40 more salient differences. The most salient being: in one of those cities everyone speaks French, and the other one... they do not.
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Damn right. For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, it is NOT ever ok to use your phone in a cinema during a film, even without sound. I find it unbelievable that so many people haven't figured this out yet. If you can't stand being disconnected for the length of the film then watch it at home.
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Discussion over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625746
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Something just warms the cockles of my blackened geeky heart to see that. Its... tactile? Like the Japanese commuter trains, which run on a accurate-to-15-seconds schedule that drives one of the world's biggest economies and has catastrophic consequences for failure.

So are the trains kept in sync with the schedule by their onboard computers or radio signals from an atomic clock or NTP servers over wireless? No. They are actually kept in sync by windable gold clockwork watches, which each conductor keeps with him and places in a special gold clockwork watchholder on the dashboard of his modern technological marvel.

Its partially for historical reasons and partially for aesthetic sensibilities, although I know at least one Japanese railroad engineer who says it is a safety feature. I think that is largely a justification so that he doesn't have to say "We sync the trains with gold clockwork watches because we wanted to sync the trains with gold clockwork watches, as trains were meant to be synced!"
It does advertise Sun's hardware but scaling memcached to heavily multicore setups is interesting, irregardless of hardware used - same points would be valid on highend intel servers. Good to know it's possible to saturate 10G without much tweaking.
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well the language thing is kind of obvious, isn't it? There are infinite differences, but the point of my initial remark about similarity to NYC was to highlight an intangible similarity that I noticed. It struck me because of how different the cities are.

One reason the wine stood out is b/c I had expected that perhaps a more wine-oriented culture would demand better wine at the bottom tier. This did seem to be true of bottled wine, but not of the watered down stuff served in most of the cafes.
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also see the older http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919
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The Hit a Hint ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1341 ) Firefox extension works very nicely for this. Pretty similar to the vimperator functionailty mentioned in the other reply.
Ah I missed that.. Especially with that heading
I think it disappears after a few minutes
Great, but this time the states are getting bigger, aren't they?
And also, we see the news of "vertical integration" in the IT business, e.g. Oracle buying Sun.
What does the author have to say about them?
Does anyone know what the comparable figures for an Intel server cluster are? Looking around the net, it seems like the cost of the hardware required for that half a million ops figure is in the neighborhood of $30k. The article had an 8 core T2 with 64gb of ram.

http://www.google.com/products?client=safari&rls=en-us&#...

Take a look on Newegg, and it would seem that it'd be enough to buy you around 20 Intel boxes with 16 gigs of ram each. The configuration I used put a Core2 Quad on each machine, so our cluster would have 80 cores and 320gb of memory. Unless there's a huge gotcha somewhere regarding the system bus in the Intel architecture vs. the Sun architecture, the Intel cluster still seems to win out. The Sun box indicated that they used DDR2 chips but didn't indicate what speed, so I picked DDR2 800.
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Straight to the point, just wonderful :)
I don't like to be too critical because it is always a commendable achievement to complete any web app. However, I think you really need to get yourself a designer. In terms of appearance, it is one of the worst sites I have ever seen. The text is so small as to be virtually unreadable, the header image is blurred, the page only takes up half the width of my 13inch MacBook - hardly a big screen. Why such a small layout.

The menu system at the top is fiddly to use, probably because it is so small.

The design also does not make it clear what your product offers. I would suggest putting a paragraph of text under the "Welcome to addesk" headline explaining in concise language what the site does.

The failings in the design and message are a shame because it looks as if you might have a half interesting product hidden away there.
Poetic but blatantly false.

False now, but true at the time. For most people who have ever lived, nothing new happened during their lifetimes.
I do. I actually use (lynx+vim) for most browsing, and Opera (which has good keyboard bindings) when I want to post something (like now).

It's not that I have anything against the mouse but I enjoy the workflow and it works very well for me. Plus I don't have to worry about adverts or drive-by infections most of the time :-)
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I think he might say that big companies aren't going to go away altogether but there will be fewer of them relative to the past. I suspect it's overreach for the purposes of selling the magazine but I think his thesis is sound.

Dollar for dollar, I don't think it's ever been easier to start a new business and compete against much larger ones. Outsourcing work is a lot simpler through things Guru, Mechanical Turk, etc. It's getting less costly to launch new websites and with the overall trend towards more transactions being done over the net, this is positive (though I seem to recall that Amazon is accounting for a large amount of those). But it's always the small companies that dominate the periphery - those niche markets - but with the web, this means that what used to be a niche limited by geography is now massive. Living in China this seems obvious to see. As a billion people get wealthier, the need for even the oddest of niches gets at least 5x bigger.
What are good places to look for interesting C and C++ libraries? I am more familiar with the Java world, no idea where to start looking for C libs.
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I always thought it was Woody Allen that said that. Don't tell me he stole it and took credit for it?
That's the stupidest name I've ever heard.
a counterexample doesn't mean there's no trend.

it's a prediction, so i doubt he'll have hard data to back it up, but i think the argument is pretty compelling: if transaction costs hinder smaller companies in competing, but on the upside they have a competitive edge in being able to adapt faster, then lower transaction costs will increase the number of viable small companies, and decrease the relative viability of big companies.

how far this trend will go is hard to say. what advantages of being big are really sustainable?
AFAIK Google has done all of these things for some years. I regularly use it for the sorts of calculations mentioned in this article, such as:

http://www.google.com/search?q=2TB+%2F+1.25+MB%2Fs
Is it just me? I find all the ovi services cluttered and hard to navigate. It just does not attract me as a user to spend time there learning their services or shop for apps. It looks and feels like any other corporate website. As much as nokia wants to concentrate on internet services, i just don't see it happening from the user's perspective.
If you take it to mean human nature and the completely cyclical patterns of human behavior, then it's most certainly correct. That's how I've always interpreted it.
sure. what do people use on a non-touchscreen phone?
It is very nice. It doesn't include everything perfectly, seems to have problems with wikipedia articles and the crawler seems to have been banned from vimeo, but it is still my preferred starting point.

I've actually used it as the starting point for my own yahoo pipe, stripping out some of the less than stellar submissions. One thing I've noticed though is that passing the HN feed through 3 intermediaries, nirmalpatel.com, yahoo and then google reader, does slow down the flow of news articles.
Thanks for that. It looks really useful.
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Since you write so authoritatively, have you read any books on the topic?

There are a lot of them. You could be informing yourself. But instead, you are just making it up as you go.

Creativity is a universal human trait. And it's one that has been extensively studied - and, with the exception of extremely edge case individuals (e.g. Isaac Newton), your theory above has been disproven.
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"After that realization about the web, I felt really idiotic. It forced me to be in the mindset of "Everything I do from now on needs to be thought through carefully." With every major technical problem, I didn't just look at "What is the problem I'm trying to solve?", but I took a much bigger perspective: "How can we really change the game and win this?"

When it came to developing Unreal -- I think we started that in 1994 -- James Schmalz was writing a solo assembly language 3D game with a dragon flying over a terrain, kind of a Magic Carpet knock-off. And I was tasked with writing the editor for it.

But I really thought that through in a huge amount of depth in advance -- you know, looking at what Quake did and Doom did: they had this little crappy editor with a very advanced game engine behind it. Completely separate programs.

I thought it through in a whole lot of detail, and I thought that content development was really the essential ingredient in all of that. It was important to spend even more effort on the editor and tools than the actual game itself, just to empower the artists to make a great game.

So we came up with this editor-centric approach to game development, where you had this integrated editor that used the game engine for real-time display of everything. Real-time editing of everything, and all of that. And that came from really methodically thinking through the problem of "What do you really do, and how do I not miss the point in this revolution?" "

Inspiring!
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ReST makes sense for public APIs.

It's a highly inefficient approach for a database that is only accessed over internal links by your application.

And no, you don't want to let the general public connect directly to your database. CouchApp is the most idiotic idea I've read about in a while.
It does not ship on devices at the moment, making it irrelevant in the great game of app-storeing.
No harm - no foul.
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