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Without detracting from mediaman's politeness post, this is an interesting topic.

First off, I rabidly limit the "screen time" my kid gets. That's the sum of TV, computer and (nowadays) my iPhone. I'd much rather have him wandering the great outdoors. When he uses the computer, he's got a set of sites that he likes and tends to stick to them. We'll collaboratively use Google to find answers to stuff, but he won't typically do it on his own. He recognizes that as parent-kid activity. I think this is a positive thing.

The "google" is actually about three years old, when I was considering interviewing there and all roads led there. I suspect (and I hope the Googler's appreciate this!) that part of the question was based on how funny of a word it is. Especially drawn out: Goooooooooooooooooogle. Now he knows multiple people there, including his Godfather.

But the money comment is all part of who he is. He loves money: counting it, trading it, scheming about it. He's not worried about money, but he is fascinated by it. He spent more time coming up with the pricing scheme for his lemonade stand than actually operating it. Think Alex P. Keaton.

Then again, he's also fascinated by dinosaurs and how we'd repel their attacks, so I'm not too concerned.

And he knows that I work for myself and that people normally get paid by bosses. So the leap of how does LuckyCal make money struck me as very natural. While I can imagine us having had such a discussion in front of him, I don't think we have. Instead, when he discusses it at all, he's always been very focussed on the application's social elements.

In any case, while I appreciate mediaman sticking up for my kid, I tend not to worry about it too much. I wondered aloud to my mom recently that I thought he was smarter than I was. I expected her to rush to my defense. Instead, she agreed with me.

And I'm pretty damn smart.
There sure are a lot of posts going to this web site on HN lately. These are all exactly the kinds of books I don't like. The only one I have considered reading is "Getting Things Done."
er i'm pretty sure this rubygem is poking fun at the "enterprise" and not a really for the enterprise
In short: "Extreme programming fails because it requires trust."

Disagree!
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The byline to the article is "How to store data for a billion years"
I'd add

Conjectures and Refutations (Karl Popper)

The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch)

Also Feynman has some shorter/easier but serious physics books that some might prefer: QED and The Character of Physical Law. And his computation lectures book is good.
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Did you just return from an executive retreat? Not the list of books I was expecting.
Сайт слишком похож на брошюру и глаза разбегаются по фоткам. Стиль минимализм (как у Apple) более практичен.

Translation: the site looks like brochureware and eyes wander about without finding a place to focus. Changing to a more minimalist design (like Apple's) would be more appropriate.
Why do you say that? After humans spread across the globe in hunter-gatherer societies, we were pretty unlikely to destroy ourselves.

Today we could easily destroy ourselves with nuclear war. It may not be likely but it's more likely than in prehistory.
The same thing happened to VisualWorks Smalltalk years ago. We reimplemented the "change log" to use XML, so we'd be buzzword compliant. Functionality gain: none. Result: embarrassing bugs in Smalltalk training class when I was demoing how you don't lose code even if your image crashes.

(We broke a very cool feature that had been working for decades, which is core to developers, just to be buzzword compliant!)
It would make more sense for them to charge you $(X-Y) if you only bought $Y worth of goods in the month.
It's interesting that he read all the books on his list (he has notes about each one) and was still a success. Most of the people I know who have reading lists like this are a personal and professional mess.

On the other hand, I've never met any rich person with a reading list like yours, but quite a few of my professors had bookshelves like that. Whether or not they actually read any of those books I'll never know. I know I've never gotten through more than about 50 pages of The Art of Computer Programming.
I've really been digging Sivers's blog, but he lost me at Ferriss on this one ...
Great job and a great product! I do have one concern which is that the site is very slow and the scripts on our pages take considerable milliseconds to get. on an average twice as much as Google Analytics. Any reason for this? Also, if we make it so that the scripts load after the page has loaded, will this cause any issues?

I guess I should post this on support
It's surprising that 10% turned out to be such a good target. If it was 5%, it would have been done almost right away, and it looks like 15% might be impossible.
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"General Electric, the world's leading maker of aircraft engines, carries out all such tests on computers in an industrial estate in Bangalore at a fraction of the cost and time."

Except, you know, they don't.

Unless [Peebles, Ohio] relocated to Bangalore when I wasn't looking? - (http://www.geae.com/aboutgeae/presscenter/other/other_200705...)
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> The IFPI is not the government, it's just some guys.

True, of course.

> They should be treated like any other group of random people;

They should be treated like the representatives of any other group of victims, yes. Because the creations of the artists they represent are manifestly being widely disseminated without their authorization. This is against the law.

> i.e., the Internet shouldn't be censored just because they want it to be.

To suggest that the IFPI wants to censor the entire internet is disingeneous IMHO. The IFPI only wants to censor The Pirate Bay, which has always been blatant about what it's up to. You'll note that they're not trying to censor github, for example.
I see a lot of the "work smarter, not harder" mantra... All the way to the 37Signals extreme of "a 4-day work week is just as good. Scarcity forces smart time management"... And, of course, to the ppl who take the 4-Hour Workweek literally (it's not about 4 hours-- it's about working smarter with the time that you dedicate!).

They just aren't mutually exclusive. You can work smarter AND harder and (if you can avoid burnout using whatever strategy works for YOU) that will result in more productivity than just one or the other. If we both work equally smart and I work an extra day a week, I'll have a better shot at success. If we both succeed, I'll probably succeed more.

I'm not saying that trading merely moderate success (or having a lower shot at it) isn't worth trading away for a more leisurely lifestyle. I'm just saying it's absolute bullshit to say, "If you work a lot of hours, you are probably working inefficiently."
Congrats to Dave for going full-time with what is a pretty cool idea.
Much discussion already on
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663462

That appears to be a rip-off of this.
This sounds like my schedule. After the kids are asleep, I usually do the same (though it's more like 10pm-1am).

As for sleep. I get about 5-6 hours. I wake up at 7am, at the latest, on weekdays to get the kids to school. On weekends I'll get more sleep (like midnight to 8 am).

It works for me.
In principle, I agree that sometimes sacrificing rigor for clarity is justified. But in the case of the Theory of Patches, not a lot of people have managed to understand it in detail. (I say this based on about a year of lurking on the darcs-users mailing list, some time ago.) If in addition to being opaque it's also not rigorous, that's a bit of a shame.

That takes nothing away from darcs as a piece of software, though. You don't have to understand the theory in order to use the tool, and it really introduces a revolutionary way of thinking about version control.
> Suppose that whatever agency has tempered the temperature increase has "woken up", and continues to do so as CO2 decreases.

Why is that a reasonable thing to suppose?

We're assuming that we got to here from there before. Why is it reasonable to assume that we can't do so again?

Yes, maybe something else has changed, but shouldn't you at least go to the trouble of identifying actual possibilities instead of just assuming that they exist?
I don't get it....looks like an enterprise product that I don't need...
"My five-year-old child advisor will also be asked to decipher any code I am thinking of using. If he breaks the code in under 30 seconds, it will not be used. Note: this also applies to passwords."
That idea has received a number of scifi treatments. One example:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html
> The amount of global warming we're experiencing is still a matter of debate, and certainly the specific climatic responses are mostly unknown.

Not really. According to the measurements that showed warming up to 2000, atmosphereic temps been mostly stable to slightly declining since 2000.

Of course, the interesting question is what's happening to the oceans, since they have far more heat capacity than the atmosphere.
I count stability and good engineering as a feature. I suppose there's nothing which would necessarily compel anyone to adopt it, but there's a nice sense of integration between everything. Once you've got the hang of Solaris, everything "just works" and fits nicely together. ZFS integrates with zones which integrate with resource caps which integrate with SMF which integrates ... etc.

I would be very surprised if OpenSolaris displaced Linux, but I suspect it'll always have a place in the world. The BSDs are still around and healthy, and innovating quite nicely amongst themselves. Linux seems to be a default choice rather than something you choose to use.

I also hear some people run Windows on servers, although I can't quite believe it myself.
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As we all know, XML is just another word for Productivity! One less thing to compile and throw those pesky errors before we put it straight into production.

I can't wait to show this to the IT guys... if they ever get back from their 4 hour lunch break.

Awesome mullet BTW!
Running 30" and 20" monitors side-by-side using a Macbook Pro
Bezos' claim is bullshit; of course they want to use their reader to advantage their store. Long-term, the book-selling business is probably larger for them than the hardware business. But as long as they have the dominant reader device, of course they are going to leverage that into a position of dominance in ebook sales.

He'd love us to believe that the store and reader are not in some sort of mutually-reinforcing dominant position. But if they really were separate, wouldn't I be able to buy e-books from amazon with a different device? And start my own bookshop for kindle users (maybe paying amazon for traffic to the device)?
Perhaps, but would releasing their music for free increase the demand for their concerts enough to make up for the loss in revenue? A million dollars, even if it makes up a relatively small percentage of profits, is still a million dollars.
From the latest Joel on Software post: "Dave Winer (in 2007): 'Sometimes developers choose a niche that’s either directly in the path of the vendor, or even worse, on the roadmap of the vendor. In those cases, they don’t really deserve our sympathy.'"

That's Netscape. They had a nonviable business model in charging for something that ended up on the roadmap of every platform they were on. You can hate Microsoft all you want, but Apple bundles a browser with their OS for free too, and would have done the same if they owned the market. And then everyone would be complaining that Safari held us all back.

Firefox found a viable business model and the browser wars began again. That's all there is to it.
anyone who needs the above hint is clearly a true blue "enterprise" person.
Don't read Popper without also reading 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' by Thomas Kuhn and 'Against Method' by Paul Feyerabend. Those critiques of Popper put his philosophy in a much clearer light. Both contain extremely pertinent historical facts about the Galilean, Newtonian and Einsteinian revolutions.
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I found your comment:

"But the money comment is all part of who he is. He loves money: counting it, trading it, scheming about it. He's not worried about money, but he is fascinated by it. He spent more time coming up with the pricing scheme for his lemonade stand than actually operating it."

pretty funny. Sounds like you've got a budding entrepreneur on your hands. Next thing you know he's going to start hiring operators for the stand and coming up with pricing strategies to segment the demand curve for cold drinks served by cute kids. (think: organic lemonade for only 2X the price!)
Fully agree - a one liner at the top of the page saying 'you can help support this blog by buying from this link' or so takes only a moment and fully informs the visitor.

I did think the list of books would be better described as 'how-to' rather than educational. There are some great choices (and I own a few of them) but educational suggests something a little more intellectual and less of the moment.

Re: 'The Obsolete Employee'
Very instructive, but also good perspective like how until the industrial revolution, there were no employees: everyone was freelance.

Really! Who knew feudal Europe was such an entrepreneurial paradise :)
I think I enjoyed this the most:

"I’m sure you’re asking yourself, 'how much does this enterprise solution cost me?'. Well, like any good enterprise system, it is insanely expensive. This gem will cost you eleventy billion dollars payable to me, now."
Maybe it's an issue of fear, but I doubt it; probably a combination of cultural stigma (thinking it is "weird" for a white person to go to a rap concert) and relative wealth of the target markets (concerts are much more expensive than albums, especially when you include travel costs).
Yeah, he lost me at Ferriss as well. And when he got to "The China Study", well... http://robbwolf.com/?p=300
Значит, удалось достичь желаемого эффекта :)

This proves, that the desired effect was achieved.
What I'm saying is that this would have been funny 3 years ago.
I found that to be quite the opposite. Having finished my CS degree and taken various analysis of algorithm classes I found proofs to involve lots more hand holding and shortcuts.

I'm working on finishing my Mathematics degree and proofs are much more vigorous.
I've read quite a few of the books on the list, the ones that have stayed with me and actually changed my life are, in order of impact:

1. The Art of Learning - I'll never think about practice the same way.

2. Getting Things Done - Enough has been said about this elsewhere, but the whole concept of "what's the next action" has really worked for me.

3. E-Myth Revisited - This was my MBA in one book. It came at the right time for me and really changed the way I think about creating businesses as assets. I wasn't a fan the cheesy example of the pie shop, but the advice has been invaluable.

Others that I found interesting, and that changed the way I think were:

4-hour Work Week. Yes, there is a ton of hype around this book, but I'd be surprised if anyone read it with an open mind and didn't learn anything or come away motivated to experiment with their lifestyle.

Outliers. This one probably stands out to me since I read it so recently. Gladwell gets a lot of hype as well, but I think he deserves at least some of it.

The Culture Code drastically changed the way I think about marketing.

And, a few random notes on the others I've read:

I found Predictably Irrational, Brain Rules and The 48 Laws of Power to be mostly garbage.

The Wisdom of Crowds, Wikinomics and Made to Stick are decent essays in book form.

Stumbling on Happiness is not nearly as good as Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis which would be in the first list I made above if it were on Siver's list.

Seth Godin's books are good for motivation and for changing the way you think about marketing, especially if you've been doing it for a long time (I haven't). They're quick and fun, I think they're worth reading.

Fooled By Randomness is worth reading if nothing else because Taleb is such an entertaining writer.
He wasn't having a conversation with sanj's kid, but with sanj, without the presence of his kid. I would express surprise at a 7-year old not knowing Google and I fail to understand how that could be insulting.

Or do you think it's insulting to suggest that a 7-year old would try to ape a parent? I wouldn't understand that either: it's just a fact that they do so. That's not a bad thing. At most, it's an irrelevant comment and possibly an insult to sanj's intelligence to suggest he didn't think of that himself, but apart from that...
This is a pretty interesting approach. I have generally used my very infrequently updated blog for recapping something I did that was particularly difficult, or when I completed learning something new. I recently did a post on trying to decide which functional language to teach myself and it had ~1000 uniques (100 times more than my usual posts). More importantly the conversation it generated helped me choose a language.

So blogging before you make a decision can lead to more blogging and better decisions!
[Jokes] are funny only if you accept the premise. If you don't accept [the] premise, [jokes] become cancerous hate speech.

Totally wrong. Try: [racial minority] is [derogatory adjective]. The hate groups who accept the premise aren't laughing when they say it. It's a only a joke when you clearly do not accept the premise.
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Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality is cool. I prefer Greene's The Elegant Universe, though.
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I would also add "Don't Make Me Think" to the non-junk list. Great book about web usability.
He'd need two marks. The other one is to tell you how to interpret the first, that is, the definition of 1.0.

Also, unless he was using a very long rod, he'd have to mark somewhere in the middle of an atom.

I think that issues like this are part of why length is now defined in terms of wavelengths of light. And even then, the number of digits that we use in the definition is relatively small.
I've been doing the same thing for a while, but with dual 23's. My adapter is an IOGear USB 2.0 DVI adapter. I seem to recall I had to download the OSX drivers from their website, but other than that it works very well.

Note the iMovie will not run if it detects one of these adapters though.
Aditya - Thanks for the comment. You're right that we did not include acquisitions in the numbers as we were primarily interested in investment into these startups.

If there any specific startups based on Twitter that you can point us to, do let us know? We'd like to ensure that the list is complete.

Appreciate it.

Anand
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True; the larger problem here is with the medium itself: Twitter does not provide room for context or nuance.
According to my calculations a good enterprise solution costing eleventy billion dollars would require a fourty billion dollars annual support contract.
Apologies. I missed the byline. The writer may be restrained, but the editors/headline writers need a whack on the sides of their heads.
I'm jealous of that awesome setup with a 30 inch monitor. I'm even more jealous that he has his girlfriend as his co-founder. Its extremely hard to meet pleasant, smart as well as entrepreneur-minded females in this line of work.
I just finished The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and I have to agree, it's excellent on its own and it gives context to Popper. I haven't read Against Method yet, but it looks fascinating.
Too bad the guy can't properly scale his photos.
I'd like to know how many paying customers have been acquired (if any at this point?)
EDIT: I'm not sure why you deleted your comment, as there was nothing wrong with it. In the interests of the thread I'll include it here:

I hear you, and probably will agree when the time comes. But when we work our asses off, hopefully we're not doing it because we want a perfect attendance record. We're doing it because we think we're on the track of something great.

Yeah, but those reasons are ultimately selfish. When one becomes a parent, one of the most dramatic changes you will notice is that it will become: What is best for my child.

It's a tremendously powerful bit of evolution.
It does if I don't pay for the ones I don't use.
>You sound down on carbohydrate-heavy diets--

Carb-diets are not bad per se. Western ones certainly are, as evidenced by Dr. Weston Price, Vilhjalmur Stefansson &c. In my own experience, daily arizona green teas and mochas add up, and are loaded with sugar. So is food at every restaurant, from Denny's to the poshest, including steak.

>So, is your recommendation an isocaloric diet, a ketogenic diet, or eating only when you actually feel hungry, and only enough to assuage the hunger?

Others are better qualified to make recommendations: Dr. Eades and Stephan at wholehealthsource.

My protocol: no omega-6, eat 1/day within 5 hour period, eat if hungry, eat till full, overeat if I feel like it [0]. No wheat at all[1], limit sugar to once/wk.

I est. 1.5-2.5 kcal/meal, but because of tabata/kettle-bells etc. my calorie needs are quite a bit higher, so I'll punt and call it iso-caloric.

It is ketogenic, only because I prefer to eat coppa, proscuitto, butter, cream, yogurt, eggs and cheese, rather than spend time to bake sourdough, soak oats etc. Sugar (honey) and carbs (mostly sauerkraut) 1/wk.

I started intermittent fasting based on an article by Dr. Eades, and stuck with it only because it was really easy to do, and lets me program pretty much from 7am to 8pm (a single meal saves time as well as assoc. post-prandial sleepiness). Also Frederick Burnham-Russell[2] is a big hero of mine, and he IF-ed his way through awesomeness.

Other than the above, I don't consider it a diet in the "dieter" sense at all, although it is very Banting[3].

[0] cannot overeat butter! olive oil is allowed, and severely limited EFAs (omega 3-6-9) due to http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=978140...

[1] imho, all wheat-eaters have non-symptomatic celiac disease, and budding diabetes. I used to.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting
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That is obvious, anyone who had a hard problem knows that just talking through it (or writing it down) helps straighten your own thoughts.
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Aside from Founders at Work, how many of the others that you're calling BS and junk have you read?