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I signed something a little less intrusive than #2 - in practice it just meant updating them whenever something major changed with your company so they could put out a press release and get more incubatees. Nobody who'd ever been through the process had ever submitted accounts, a balance sheet, etc. Though I was getting money, it makes a bit less sense if you're not :/

I'd ask to get around #1 though, that could get nasty...
It sounds like the reporting requirements are quite heavy for something that is basically government supported cheap business space.

I'd assumed they were heavy precisely because it was government supported cheap business space ;)
I purchased two condos, living in one and renting out the other. That might sound pretty crazy for a guy fresh out of university

Raise your hand if 50% of your income at that age went into partying and having good times; I can't even remember what I did at that age :-(
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I interned at Yahoo for two summers, but I worked in Break/Fix for the search clusters. I was no where near marketing.

As far as I could tell, non-tech-savvy users are their target audience... and there are way more of these people than you might think. Plus, Yahoo's finance property is pretty good.

Funny that you mention netvibes - I use it, but I use it as a glorified post-it note rather than a portal.
We all love our text/plain communication, but it's the other 99% of internet users that drag us kicking and screaming into fads. I didn't own a mobile phone with video support until a few months ago when my sister had a baby and I was added to her daily video-update list.
I remember playing with it in 2000 on IE5, though I remember having to download new version of MSXML for it. It might have even been the first browser to support it.
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I hate the notifications, too, so I've set my feed to show status updates only by default. Occasionally, I'll switch to the links or notes view to see what's trickling around, since I usually miss these in news feed mode anyway.
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Sudoku Magic allows you to take a photo of sudoku on iPhone and it solves it
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You've got to be living under a bridge if you don't think the current crisis is affecting the chinese. It hasn't hit Beijing or Shanghai in a major way but all the manufacturing cities across the southern and east coasts are taking it pretty hard. There has been a sizable exodus of laid off workers leaving the cities.

I don't know what counts as a small percentage to you but exports make up 35-40% of their GDP since 2008. There has been a precipitous drop and changing from an export economy to self-sufficiency doesn't happen in a day. Luckily, the gov't has loads of reserves to weather that storm. But it's still a storm.
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On an Amazon Door Desk I built myself, with whiteboard glued on the top for quick note jotting.
Using a laptop's built-in keyboard & monitor for long stretches of time is unergonomic.
The better touchscreen may actually just be a better corrective dictionary... It seems reasonable to me that some Googler got to write a mapreduce for thumb-type correction.
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Apple is the most closed software company I know of. I see no reason to blame it on someone else.
It all depends on whether you're talking about page-based or no-refresh web apps. For the former, you're right: the framework is less relevant, since the system is just basically responding to page requests. However, for a no-refresh app, the opposite is true, especially if the app is highly complex. The framework must manage the transfer of all code and content, which is where pre-fetching and factoring become particularly important.
That's great news. The beginning of the end of the App store.
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Oops... Jstevens85 got it right. It was the 13 inch that had no FireWire before being renamed a "pro".
I find this view disappointing. RMS (famously) remarked that he uses open source software, even if there is a superior closed source version because by using it, he can contribute to an open ecosystem.

When I look at the mobile phone market, I am quite willing to use a G1 solely to support the prospect of a handset that I can control. The more people use an iPhone because it is epsilon better, the less companies will be inclined to give users freedom.
Nope. This article is a week old.
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As should be automatically mentioned whenever someone asks for legal advice - don't trust self-selecting smartasses on the internet, go talk to a lawyer.
With regard to negotiating this, i'd suggest to delete item (1) in a first turnaround of the draft agreement and, if they don't accept the deletion, to change it to some sort of right to information or observer's role at meetings.

With regard to item (2), water it down to non sensitive information. This should be acceptable as this seems to be, as jlees points out, only for statistical and promotional reasons.
Well, it's certainly just a personal preference, but I tried both, and liked the Kindle more - I like having my thumb firmly on the bottom part of the device when reading, with Sony's reader I felt constantly afraid of touching the screen.
it also gives you the possibility to play the photographed sudoku on the iphone. reading the headline, I tought the app only solves a photographed sudoku, which per se is not very useful (except you want to impress your friends). it's a pretty cool app. I recommend you to watch the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO8QjTZkcmw)
I'm thinking that over the next 5 years, the simple act of giving every geek a powerful, programmable computer with a camera attached (that fits in their pocket) is going to do more for computer vision than all of the years of research that came before.
I'm a big fan of the whiteboard top myself although lately I've switched to cheap spiralbound notebooks so that I can look back at my random notes.
That whole mockup is badly done; the page shown in the browser there was almost certainly copied from a screengrab of a Mac browser without any thought for the fact that it was supposed to be a mockup of Windows.
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Is this understandable: The article really claims that evol psychology says that the environment shouldn't influence behavior!

(English isn't my native language and the only thing I can write clearly, without a few rewrites, is code.)

It is a nice link, a long while since I read it.
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As an iPhone developer, Apple vs. developers reminds me a hell of a lot of the MPAA vs. filmmakers as documented in "This Film is Not Yet Rated". The more I've experienced, the more it amazes me how true this analogy is.
It might not be safer, perhaps just a better environment. Most of the people I know who work at EY seem to love working there.
Thought this was an interesting tack given the highly publicized Associated Press dohicky and the decline and fall of printed media
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Thanks for the heads-up. A 5-inch e-ink touch screen is a novelty - I believe only larger Sony and iRex models have it.

A search on "Samsung reader SNE-50K" yielded a few good short notices - seems it's only S.Korea for now, priced at USD 274, in line with other 5 or 6 inch e-ink readers.

P.S. The note at jkOnTheRun (http://jkontherun.com/2009/07/27/samsung-sne-50k-e-book-read..., with stylus photo) ends with a fully deserved barb:
"The Samsung reader features no wireless capability, unlike Amazon’s Kindle. Maybe that might be a good thing to protect reader’s content."
I think most people try a variety of things in their life, eventually hit on something that yields good returns, and then milk it for all it's worth. So that "beautiful daughters" guy has found a gold mine. Who cares about science - tell people what they want to hear, and what they can use to chat on parties, and you can make lots of money. (Not only selling books, but also getting grants and invitations to universities, no doubt).

With that thesis the author can get famous, where is his incentive to be honest about it?

I am waiting for the corresponding articles to appear in all major magazines in my country (presented as established fact, of course). It just makes for too good a story to pass on it.
Sudoku Grab (http://sudokugrab.blogspot.com/) has been doing this for a while - I'm not sure how Sudoku Magic compares.
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Well, if they help EY develop products based around Java and JRuby, that opens up a potentially very profitable market for them. So I think they'll have more incentive to keep them on board for a while.
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that was my first thought too.

The BBC is in a funny position here in the UK. Personally I find it's news (especially the online division) divisions excellent compared to other broadcasters and online news agencies.

So this is a good thing (spread the content out etc.)
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Photograph all sides of a Rubick's Cube and it shows you step by step instructions to solve that particular cube. Pretty cool.
I don't know, I'm seeing this for this first time.

But for some it might already be a timeless classic ;-)
Hover windows at all. Please stop it.

For 15 years, the way you open a new page of content is by clicking something. This interface breaks that expectation by following links as soon as you mouse over them. That is a terrible UI decision.

If I want to open one of those panels, I'll click on it. That's what I've been taught to do by every website I've ever visited. There is absolutely no reason to change such a valuable affordance. So don't.
It's a reasonable assumption given that they're laying off Rubinius developers and hiring JRuby developers.

Tho' you'd be hard-pressed to do that in the UK, an industrial tribunal would wonder why you didn't even attempt to cross train them and offer them jobs doing JRuby.
"What keeps people from starting startups is fear".

Fear due to lack of knowledge about how to start a business. Last I checked, this isn't something they teach in school. MIT and Stanford should have (undergrad) courses on founding startups that covers all the major steps. Students can make rational choices once they have the facts.
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>things like having the ability to set heap sizes

Oh that has always irritated me, and others - having to know what to set it to up front - interesting that you like it?
"refutations of some simplistic eve-psych explanations"

That's one of the classics, though. For the same reason creationists think they have refuted evolution theory if they find some bone in some hidden corner of the world that some random biologist had a wrong hunch about.

Some of the claims of "evo-psych" often seemed simplistic to me (like the hip-waist ratio), but then these were often the ones spread by journalists in popular newspapers, not by scientists. I wouldn't assume that they were as universally accepted among scientists.

For a long time "strange" variations of sexual preference have been known, for example the mutilations some people seem to prefer (small feet in chinese women, elongated necks in some tribes where they put rings around their neck during growth and so on). I can't imagine any serious scientist would not know about them.

Many of the "refutations" seem a bit weak, too. For example the rape gene: let's accept that for the average member of society rape makes no "economical" sense. But is the typical rapist an average member of society? If rape is your only chance at spreading your genes, the economics might be different. From the article it did not sound as if that was taken into account in the "refuation".

Another thing I am 100% sure: evo-psych did not predict that women would prefer to be monogamous. So refuting that is just a strawman.

The final straw for the article is when they describe how evo-psych can now only fight back by getting personal and unscientific. Followed up by a personal and unscientific quote by the anti-evo-psych guy.
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Wouldn't combining the algorithms of several teams lead to significant overfit?
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Yeah, I reckon it's a step in the right direction. But I have often thought about why the BBC hasn't embraced new media in an attempt to project the corporations aims onto a much higher plain. Their whole "bytesized" revision gumph was a heap of shite compared to what they could offer considering the vast amount of programme data they have available. Why this model is being restricted to previously broadcast news, is beyond me. The revenue that could be generated from selling high quality documentaries and other archived material (Reith Lectures, The Forum, BBC Proms, etc.) could be huge. Guess "Dave" is a case in point for this in terms of light entertainment, but I would prefer to see some more forward thinking initiatives (I've talked about my desire for BBC iPlayer to embrace torrents on HN before - share the load, localise data, distribute the cost of archiving and retrieving).
The point is to spend all your time working on PRODUCT and not cooking. Otherwise a pot does a better job of cooking rice than a rice cooker, and dried beans beet canned hands down. But those things take time. Were talking bare sustenance, to support that weak flabby life support system programmers call a body until the attached brain has finished making a product.
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Of course not. Google Wave is not accessible to people who barely understand e-mail and don't even use IM. (much less video chat, twitter, or any other fancy new communications mediums) As part of our normal lives we have to interact with these people on a frequent basis so you use the communication tools they are comfortable with. In small, technically literate, circles it may become a very valuable tool. In the real world people will still have to write e-mails. It's 2009 and I still have a handful of business contacts who reply to my e-mails with a request to call them on the telephone. This premise is a prime example of practical real world usage meeting carefully constructed bubbles of people who are highly prone to adopting new technologies.
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Don’t miss this blog post about the technique behind Sudoku Grab: http://sudokugrab.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-does-it-all-work....
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Some differences between Grab and Magic:

- Magic also has a very powerful playing interface - big numpad buttons for two-humbed play, undo/redo, a nice pencil mode(the numpad buttons even change colour depending on which numbers have been pencilled in), movable highlights for the current box, row and column. It is actually better than most playing UI's, even for dedicated sudoku playing apps. Grab's playing UI is a bit simpler.

- Grab has skins for the playing UI (you can change colour schemes) and an animated main menu.

- Magic scores the puzzle for you when you capture (e.g. 4832 - hard), which is cool if you want to beat your personal best. As a bonus, the checking screen (where you can fix digits) doubles as a puzzle editor/creator. You can add/remove numbers and see how the difficulty score compares in real-time. It also tells you if the puzzle is unsolvable (e.g. due to multiple or invalid solutions) :-)

- The capture process for Magic looks much nicer (a spinning cube + music rather than a progress bar) and seems more reliable but you can't adjust the grid boundaries.

- You can contact the developers from the main menu in Magic
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See, funny thing about that, I hate drinking water because it makes me have to leave my desk a lot. I still do it because I know I need the water intake. Usually my day is 50/50 between Coke Zero (or Mountain Dew on a bad day) and Water. Sometimes it slides to 30/70, but I do my best.

Edit: And by 50/50 I meant one or two cups of water and one can of soda (or on bad days, a 20oz).
Sudoku Magic is similar to Sudoku Grab, but we improve on the two main use cases:

1. Playing Sudoku. We want to give players a better Sudoku experience. Simple things like tactile sounds and highlighting the current row, column and square make people happy. (The aesthetic still has a long way to go though.)

2. Showing off. People mostly use our application to amaze their friends. That's why we show as-it-happens images of the vision algorithms. We're still finding ways to make it cooler. Any suggestions would be much appreciated :)

We actually got this working in J2ME back in 2005. We were negotiating a distribution deal with a handset manufacturer, but the discussion slowly went nowhere. They wanted it on a wider range of handsets than was feasible, as camera access on various handsets was significantly broken. For example, checkout http://www.scribd.com/doc/17740520/Samsung-Z-Series-Handsets...

- In the Z140, asking for a 640x480 image gave you a 320x240 image, squashed and repeated twice.

- In the Z540V, asking for a 320x240 image gave you an image which was green and skewed!

Thank god for platform homogeneity.
What a happy end, we finally agree.
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Except that almost all these comments seem to assume a long-running / web process.

Start-up times and memory requirements for the JVM are just horrendous; I can't write a serious command-line tool in Java because of these constraints. Even Scala has a compiler-tool which runs as a background task (fsc) because of this.
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The problem is even worse: they become addicted to the net + Anti Viruses software like KasperSky and Macafee are doing nothing.

This result for system instability. My clients are running windows, so I wonder if anyone has previous experience in this field.

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Yeah I see that and I agree with much of what pg had to say. Sometimes however it might be better to just shoot str8 for 1 million. He used the facebook example and I do not think that was profitable at all before it gained traction.

I can see scenarios where the start up is making profit, say $100, but needs a lot of investment to move forward, or of course it can go slowly and take 10 years.

I guess what I am trying to say is that from the essay you get the impression that you should not think about raising money at all before it hits the $3k target, when sometimes perhaps you should.
I spent a while coding on a 15" Lenovo laptop and it works because the resolution is 1920 x 1200. I still like to use multiple monitors but it's not really necessary.

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Look - I love WoT as much as anyone - but this would be better discussed at http://tor.com or http://dragonmount.com -- where you would find that this isn't news at all (as mentioned in the article) - it was announced in May.
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It also explains why I can't manage to get to certain meetings on time.
The Linux Fund has had this for many years. I'm not sure how well it's working for them. http://www.linuxfund.org/
With that thesis the author can get famous, where is his incentive to be honest about it?

Well, this article is about a scientist, or statistician, alleging that the results are "speculation". She is being polite of course and in the scientific lingo she is probably saying that he is a fraud. So that is his incentive, he can be honest and find a "true" goldmine, or gamble and either go to the top or sink to the bottom.
Something the pro/con list misses (and it's kind of a big point) is that distance to a UI element isn't the only thing that affects how easy it is to get to.

http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html#fittsLaw

Putting the tabs at the very top means that they're on the edge of the screen, which means that in one direction, they're (effectively) huge. Choosing a tabs-on-top design makes the tabs easier to get to, not harder.
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