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I got tears in my eyes reading your comment.

What you've said is the equivalent of saying Odysseus would have been so much better if only he'd brought a cell phone with him, so he could call his wife and let her know when he'd be back.
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Just like financial, health and immigration reforms, Obama should also bring educational reforms ASAP - if americans don't want their jobs to be outsourced then they have to produce more engineers, nurses, doctors etc., period.

The shortage of skilled labor is the major complain and its been actively voiced by all (including Bill Gates) ... the whole H1B issue has 2 major components: 1. shortage of skilled labor and 2. cheap labor available else where. There is also 3rd important issue which is exploitation of H1B visa holders by the employers (the body-shoppers) --- but above all if you have enough supply then employers won't line-up to hire outsiders the way they started doing since y2k, also because of high increase in salaries and other logistics in 3rd world countries (read India) the difference between insource and outsource is not that big anymore ...

while the 3rd issue is more important for all who came here with a dream of easy riding and then getting disappointed also needs reforms in regulation and awareness.
Thanks, I just noticed that the edges where not wet in the pictures so I think you are correct.
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Include a check option for "corrupt document uploads" when attaching assignments (just in case I need a few more days to finish my assignment). Otherwise, nice work!
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Kalah is a simple and somewhat broken game (the first player is heavily favored).

I would very much like to see Oware or Bao supported, these are much deeper mancala games. I haven't seen many implementations of Oware (outside of GNU Aware). The flash/java implementations of Bao also leave a little to be desired:
http://www.baogame.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_(mancala_game)
With respect to cars, I'm a big believer that technology and systems should do everything they can to aid the driver without interfering or taking over the core human task of driving the vehicle.

That's a difficult line to draw, especially when (as you describe with the GTR) the job of the computer is to react faster than the human. For 95% of my car trips, I would feel plenty "in control" if I could tell my car where I wanted to end up and let it take me there however it thought was best, assuming it got me there reasonably quickly and safely. After all, if my car was driven by a human chauffeur, nobody would question whether I was in control. Why would an equally reliable computerized control system present a greater challenge to my feeling of control than a human chauffeur?
That being said, I think you are onto to something around the user experience. Perhaps an option shouldn't be shown to someone if they cannot perform it.

That would be really annoying, because you wouldn't know that these options exist, until you could use them (i.e. you're possibly confused and you don't know what the reward for collecting reputation is.)

Better grey out the things you aren't allowed to do yet, so you can see them and see that you're not there yet - preferably with an explanation of when you will be.

I forgot what the term for this is, but I think it's very often a good way to do it. Stable interface? Something like that.
I heard a rumor that people use twitter like a search engine -- ask a question, get answers.

Make a bot that records such questions, and their answers, and then make a search engine over the records.

Expert Mode: discern between questions like Am I fat?? vs. What is a cheap but nice hotel in LA? -- although it maybe funny not to.

Is there some kind of tweet stream you can process for this?? It seems like it would hammer the twitter infrastructure so it may not be coool.
HA, "methods". This was the late 50's, kiddo. OO was fifteen years off... hell, high level languages were not even there yet. You were lucky if your computer had a keyboard. Your precious "unit tests" would have also been written in hex, and "Melanie's" carefully factored code would spend most of its time thrashing the stack, if the LGP-30 had one. And it didn't.

Anyway, to understand the context of this article, you need to read the "parent post" called "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal": http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/real.programmers.html

And to understand that, check on the grandparent, not a post but a book: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Dont_Eat_Quiche).
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I think you missed the part where it was 1983 (edit: actually even earlier, only the article is from 83).

I remember from "No Silver Bullet" (or was it "Mythical Man Month") how at one time it was a revolutionary idea to store documentation/comments along with the source code. It sounds crazy to ever have done it differently, but in earlier times, disk space was probably too scarce to do that. Likewise I suppose Mel's style was appropriate for the machines of his time.
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Rex pretty much prioritizes getting a 'second move'. I've yet to see him protect against a capture.
I know it's customizable, but: red as the default color for 'OK'?!
The surgical procedure that has experienced the fastest increase in quality and the fastest decrease in price EVER is Lasik.

...because it's not regulated like most other surgeries.

Veterinary care has been improving under the same forces, and at close to the same rate, as tech startups.

Human medical care has been hindered under the same regulation and oversight as public utilities and the DMV.
Yeah, all he is capable of doing is finding an extra turn then it's basically pick one at random. Although, there's a bit of randomness mixed in. There's about a 1 in 6 chance that he will basically become a higher level robot on a given turn.
well... trivial? It could be the difference between 10 sales and 10,000

At the end of the day if you dont want the hastle just say "thanks but I'd prefer a copy of the app please" ... I suspect you'll find them amenable ;)
I think you might be reading negativity into it. The title itself is pretty neutral. I wrote for a newspaper at 13 , and was paid for programming at 15.
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people with canser living 5+ years over the last 30 years.

"The age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rate for U.S. white females dropped 6.8% from 1989 through 1993" That's fast. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/21/15...

Cancer has a single name, but it's really a wide range of different issues. Some forms of cancer are eleminated by taking drugs with minimal side effects others will still kill you.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/first-human-trials-of-prost...
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Plus, when are we going to start to hear the horror stories of nuclear subs cutting cables (again)? If we start to have combat patrols guarding the inter continental cabling...
no, that's not it.... I think it begins with an M. Grr. I'll have to ask a friend who will know :P
Having sacrificed my health for my last startup (and largely failing), I fundamentally disagree with the premise of this article. Over 2.5 years I had gained over 30 lbs, and even now, 6 months after quitting it, I am still dealing with the consequences of being unhealthy.

I can tell you that you will see no gains from forgoing an exercise/healthy eating regimen. The time you save is very minimal, and often offset by the need to "screw around" and surfing the web, or hanging out and talking.

Now that I am exercising and eating (better) on a regular basis, I am more focused on the task at hand, have more energy, and more importantly, the emotional balance to tackle the tough daily challenges that running a business/working for yourself brings.

Others' lives are a testament to this as well. While not scientific, I have noticed that well over 90% of the "successful" businesspeople I know have a regular workout and healthy diet regimen.
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Hear, hear. There is no shortage of examples in which your dog's getting better service and treatment than you because of government interference.

"This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which humans can wait two to three years." (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/international/americas/28c...)
With regard to "It's kinda hard to see the advantages of a one off system like this in that context."

We see this as a major advantage. Most current systems provide (at best) mediocre solutions to the problems their users face. Instead of doing everything and having it all be mediocre, we took a single problem teachers have and solved it the best way we could.
working on a startup is not a sprint, its a marathon and you need good health to run it. Maintaining health is vital to your thought process and your ability to make better decision.

As an entrepreneur, I workout 5 days a week (sometimes more), and it only takes away 1.5 hours of my time. And during which I listen to podcasts, or think about feature designs, etc. so its not total 1.5 hour lost.
Sure, if you look at it strictly as a logical proposition, but is "TechCrunch has Belgians writing stories for them" just the way you'd expect a Belgian would put it?

Even you put it in terms of your achievement, not the newspaper's hiring policy, which is the way most would expect it to be written.
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Aircraft with Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) are certified to use GPS as a primary navigation source. [1] [2]

[1] http://www8.garmin.com/support/faqs/faq.jsp?faq=221

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
I'm not from the UK and I don't know anything about this but it appears this should be sims.co.uk
I was with you until the last two paragraphs. After that point, you got it all backwards. Let's see:

that's what free markets are - a chump's game

You're blaming the wrong thing. I believe you mean to say, "pretending that the markets we have now are free is a chump's game." Is this the sort of hypothetical story that you have in mind:

"Joe the programmer has gotten laid off from three companies that ended up going out of business while watching insurance giants and bankers get bailed out by the government, seeing people in licensed professions (lawyers, doctors, nurses) remain secure in their lucrative jobs, and observing that government employees never get fired, have great benefits, high pay, and low levels of work and stress."

If so, you can make a case that Joe is a chump. You could argue that he should be using force to get a better deal at the expense of others rather than naïvely working to increase total wealth. But in any case, the problem has to do with the breakdown of the rule of law, disregard for property rights, and neglecting to observe the hidden costs. Free markets have nothing to do with this.

Yes, allow talented workers to come here. No, don't issue so many visas that young Americans are rightly deterred from entering the field.

The American economy has grown to its present level because smart, hardworking people built companies in America -- not because people who were Americans at the time of their birth built companies. How would America be any better if Sergey Brin's father had been one of those marginal cases you had decided to keep out? It's easy to forget that if we keep out X Indian individuals, some Y of those individuals might go on to build the next Cisco -- and if they're excluded from America, that company might be built in India. The other governments of the world would love it if we further closed our borders (to any degree).
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That's okay. We're looking for a challenge. And we have a couple ideas on how to tackle this.
I'd say its possible to do this using Drupal in 2 weeks.

Oh, wait, did you say "3" talented developers?

Please, less than a week then. Drupal already has ready-made modules for this type of functionality. All you need is to throw 'em together. The price is too high, sorry.
So, so wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_smoking There is more than enough evidence of its harm.
I'm about to be a dad, and I've been pondering this topic for a while now. Is my kid missing out on the rapid evolution I experienced? Or was that just the tip of the iceberg?

How am I ever going to explain the awesomeness that was getting my first dual tape deck?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think that harvesting a batch of puppies for organs/cells probably has far fewer ethical considerations than when messing with people.

Since you're all about decreasing the cost of experiments and regulation for humans though, I take it you are going to be one of the first to sign up for the next generation of human experiments that have little to no regulatory standards?

All these people complaining about lack of progress in regulated human bio-sciences could probably be put to good use. I think it's pretty easy to examine that increasing the supply of humans willing to advance science in the name of unregulated testing would rapidly drop costs. So let's sign all these complainers up and get them what they want!
(I'm the author of the article)

Good comments, thanks. I was hoping others would argue the other side; indeed that's also why I started the post with four excellent articles about how you CAN have a family and good health and do a startup.

I, too, have done a decent job with exercise and diet. And of course when you allow your health to deteriorate to the point of having medical problems, nothing's worth that (e.g. @pwncat).

Still, I've never seen actual evidence for claims that skimping on sleeping and eating for a few years will cause you to "pay for it in spades" (@trevorj).

The best counter-argument IMHO is along the lines of @sh1mmer -- that over-extending yourself doesn't equal more productivity. Again, I made that same point myself in my post and included a specific argument for why this is true.

In the end though, I maintain that it's the obsession that drives not just the startup but this self-destructive behavior, and the obsession is required.

Thanks all for a great debate!
To follow this up, I would also say the risk/reward ratio is not stacked in your favor.

How happy and fulfilled would you be if you had a successful career but your health and personal relationships where in shambles? In my personal experience, nothing matters as much as those. I have been in a situation where I very nearly died, and let me tell you, you don't think about your career, or the money in situations like that. Those things simply are of no comfort.
I disagree with this. It's a net win to exercise. You're repaid for the couple hours a week you lose with greater productivity during the remaining hours.

This is the crucial mistake:

"How much time does a bootstrapped company take? All of it."

That's not true. What a startup (bootstrapped or not) takes is 100% of your performance, not 100% of your time. And optimizing for performance means spending some time on maintenance.

For the same reason, it's not good to live on junk food. It makes you less productive. The best food for founders is probably rice and beans. That's what we lived on during Viaweb.
Can someone please explain what this really means? I don't understand. I want to.
Yeh your potentially revenue model was what lost me a bit :)

My mother is a primary school teacher and so not quite what your after but her experience would probably scale to higher level education. So hopefully my ideas count as semi-insightful :)

I could see this being adopted by university professors in certain circumstances - but the idea of shelling out for it will definitely put them off (trust me - our lecturers claimed for EVERYTHING :D). Plus many universities already have custom portal software that the lecturers have to use (for whatever reason: usually in case of disputes etc.).

Same probably applies to (UK) secondary school (US = high school) level teachers (i.e. they wont want to pay). BUT in their case getting the school to pay for it on "expenses" would be next to impossible (budgets are super tight atm). As I see it this is probably your target market (definitely in the UK anyway) so if you can market it to the schools themselves you might have more success.

Some ideas for you (I apologise I only briefly scanned your app so they could be in place already :) plus some of this is relevant to UK schools and I have no idea how it works in the US - though I would bet it is similar). This also assumes your interested in grouping teachers by school :)

Firstly allow collaboration. In schools usually assignments are designed by one or more subject heads/organisers. If you let said co-ordinator upload all the assignments to somewhere all of the subject teachers can access and send them out to their students this would probably get you a lot of interest. Mostly because if the teachers / subject heads change the historical data is already there to make use of :)

One other idea is to allow some kind of grouping of gradings for a specific email address. One of a teachers BIGGEST gripes is collating reports for their students. If they could see all the awarded grades by subject in one click I bet you would get piles of "we love you" email.

But yes: the main way I see of selling this is pitching it as a "whole school" thing. Individuals, of course, might make regular use of it (perhaps this is your freemium model - free individual, pay-for school-wide collab features) but it is to schools I think you have to pitch it.

Sorry to ramble - it's too hot again :) hopefully something there is useful.
I would point out that, during the cold war, we never got bombed and yet years later many interesting and fascinating stories about close calls, spies and intrigue have come to the surface.

I don't doubt that a lot goes on that we may not be privy to for some time.
This is correct. The problem is that so many people, including top decision-makers within society, are too short-sighted to care about this notion of deficit. "Someone else" will clean it up. Externalized costs and myriad variations of deficit spending (widespread layoffs despite the long-term costs of an underemployed nation; education cuts; environmental damage; ramping up social inequality on both the national and world scale, setting us up for violent revolution and national dissolution) are being tapped for short-term profit even when it's completely unnecessary. That a sizable portion of people are going to disregard their health, working insane hours and using substances of dubious long-term safety, isn't surprising in the least.
In B2B, does difficult registration get you more users?
I'm working on a B2B startup and we are moving from a free open registration process to a closed registration process that requires a sales phone call to create an account on the website.

Has anyone else found that for B2B sales you paradoxically get more users if you have a closed registration process as opposed to an online user registration process?

So you get more registered users by making it harder for each user to register?
The flip-side of the risk-taking, power-seeking, macho man is the nameless feminine counterpart that exists to gravitate towards them: gifted with symmetry, proportion, and charm they flock towards hubs of power to climb the dogpile towards the best local-maxima alpha-male they can attain before their sexual market value fades. In turn, an endless supply of these fresh, nubile creatures becomes a primary benefit, to men, of seeking such careers.

While Salam's article is interesting, he seems to ignore the fact that even a Great Recession is a tiny blip compared to the deeply-rooted biology behind the male drive to take risks for access to females.
The distinction is clearer than you think. The technology in the GTR and F1 cars is limited to "managing braking, shifting, steering, etc." Intent is still left entirely to the human driver. He decides when to brake, the computer helps to do it as efficiently as possible.
The problem that I've experienced with Hotmail is even with proper SPF, if you do not stay below their 1% spam threshold, they reject your IP.

The solution that I came to in the past to overcome this, working for a large online dating site, was to build a mail relay system that would monitor the response ratio on each IP, and if it dropped below a certain percentage to switch it off onto another. Worked fairly well, only downside is having to manage a lot of IP addresses on your mailer boxes.
I see that to a point: but a teacher always wants 100% the easiest path. If their "generate pupil report" button (guaranteed to be their #1 gripe writing reports :D you should here my mum are report time!) requires them to have used the inbuilt school system to set assignments then they will just use that - no matter how much better your way is (dont get me wrong, I think it's damn good - I wish we had had this kind of thing!)

I think my main point was that it is a 8great* way to approach this problem - but it needs a bit more on top of it to really sell it to a mass audience (IMO).

I could well be wrong, I have been many time before :)
After disease, cars are the leading cause of death in just about any country wealthy enough to have cars

No, they're far down the list. Less than 2% of all deaths are from auto accidents, fewer than influenza and pneumonia and 20x less than cardiovascular diseases.

http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html
> Climate change poses a clear and present danger to our way of life. How can anyone justify failing to act?

Virtually complete predictive failure over the better part of the last decade. How can anyone justify acting?
As the other poster suggested, teachers might not want to pay for your product. To really break [into] this market, you might have to make it free and look for other ways to monetize (which might open other doors of opportunity here..).
I'll never understand why those who argue that there's such a serious problem with climate change also seem to not want to debate the topic much. If this is just a matter of science then shouldn't the facts speak loudly enough that those who argue to the contrary wouldn't have much to say at all? And why all the pressure to force through this issue through Congress without proper time for review? Weren't Democrats mad about it when Bush did that for the Patriot Act? I think they were correct in this objection but now they don't seem to mind as much.

I don't know if Krugman is right or wrong about climate change but one thing is pretty clear to me: If you're arguing about science using words like treason and betrayal is out of line.

I'd be interested to know if someone who believes that global warming is something that requires our immediate attention can explain why arguing against it so dangerous.
The idea is that spammers don't use real mail queues and thus, if you send a temporary error, genuine clients will requeue the message, whereas spammers will just drop it.

Over time, this assertion has become false and now it's just annoying.

Do you have some evidence for this claim?

Greylisting heavily reduced the amount of spam I received when I started using greylisting years ago.

I still see large amounts of spam rejected, so I'd like to hear more about how it doesn't work any more - it seems to reduce the spam-level significantly for me.