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As frivolous as this seems, I think it's actually a really good idea. Google do this in a bunch of places. However unlike the MS flight simulator they are discoverable with use.

The reason why this is important is it both delights the customer as well as giving them an incentive to share that delight. Since it's a "secret" feature they gain social kudos for sharing it with their peers. This of course encourages to people to use Google, both through recommendation and for the chance of more delight.
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I never really looked at the answers before but I know this has been talked about many times. So, I suggest that you comb through the results here: http://searchyc.com/arduino
If you know the resulting product is almost certainly not going to look anything like what they're proposing

Big difference between "about half" and "almost certainly not".
http://www.adafruit.com/ has nice kits, and friendly people.
An artist friend of mine bought the search phrase "Is Peter Dyreborg the coolest guy in the world?" When people searched for this phrase they would be presented with an ad reading "Yes, Peter Dyreborg is the coolest guy in the world".
Perhaps We shall settle upon the Imperial We in the future.
I doubt that could successfully be done more than rare occasions, for some of the problems see Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin...
Yes, that's exactly what I would have expected to happen, with the // as a prime candidate for that separator.

Big-endian domain names would have been very nice to have though, if only because it would have been a lot more orderly than the current jumble.

Big-endian for the 'major' components and the path name, little-endian for the host portion seems a bit weird.

mail:/com/domain/hostname//username

Would look strange though...
I've always thought of "scrappy," as more like an indomitable underdog, not someone belligerent (which has negative connotations) or necessarily undignified.
No one is Awesome by default. We all suck when we start out. No one is "expected" to be awesome - be they male or female. So I don't see how "Awesome Female Coder" implies that females are not expected to be awesome.
This is true. In fact, he points out in the original article that a degree in engineering will hold value better than one in communications.

With that said, you can get into at least some of those fields without the degree if you wish. I have for instance known a few very successful programmers with good jobs and no degree. They are in a minority compared to those with degrees and they had to break into the industry, but once they were in they earned just as much as those with degrees.
I'm not sure that's a good analogy. People would not use Google if it had "hand-dug" search results. It's that algorithmic edge that makes Google useful for finding things.
Yeah, I had never heard of the author before this article but he certainly got me to dislike him very quickly.

Must not be a very good salesperson...
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Huh, I always thought of "scrappy" as a willingness to get into a fight, despite the odds being against you.
Well, I don't actually think that edw519 is, in actual fact, in danger of going insane due to loneliness, since I assumed, as I would guess most did, that he was using "go nuts" casually, in the way that people say things like, "Wow, if the Cubs don't win the Series after that streak, I'll just die" without meaning that they will actually cease living should their team fail.

I don't think you're sounding trollish, but I do think you may not be treating this forum as a casual social setting in which people sometimes make statements to convey a feeling, rather than because they are literally true.

Edit: I forgot to say:

I also think that for a lot of people who hang out here, and to a lesser extent on proggit, etc, this online community really is one of the most fun, engaging things they have available to do. Conversation online with those who are interested in similar topics could easily trump conversation in person with those whose interests bore you. Even if we grant that being in the real world is an important attribute of "fun things to do", it's unlikely to be the most important.
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Having someone that's actually working on a problem also helps weed out those who are competent but unable to self-motivate and focus (like me, unfortunately) both of which are needed for startups.
It is so annoying when some finance person decides to apply rules of finance to things they do not apply, and then pats himself on the back for being oh so clever.

No college is not a bubble, because the definition of bubble does not include things like college education. A bubble refers to things that can be re-sold. More specifically a bubble refers to things whose sale value is much higher than their intrinsic value because of irrational expectation of ever-increasing resale value.

Education cannot be resold. Once you get some education it is yours. The only value of education is its intrinsic value, there is no resale value.

So there is no college bubble unless you are referring to college stocks. Now is college education too expensive, or overvalued? Perhaps. Are university of phoenix diplomas not worth the tuition? Probably. But one can express these ideas without making nonsensical comparisons with bubbles for tradeable commodities.

Talking about bubbles, anybody know how one becomes a "professional derivatives trader"? None of those guys seem very smart and yet they seem to make a lot of money.
Thanks. Okay, I see what you're saying. Actually, they still won't make that information available, though we have been asking a while. That was a big challenge when we started, but I think it was a good constraint because it pushed us in this direction to think about how the text itself evolves. Upcoming work will be looking at new signals to inform the page quality, such as activity on the Talk pages -- so there's no shortage of ideas, only of time to work on it.

On the page views signal - there was a great paper in the last few years that came up with a way to estimate it from multiple other data sources (eg, Alexa). I don't remember the title, but it was an impressive bit of stitching together. If I had the time/money/resources, I would love to get that as a signal in our work and see if it helps. I'm not 100% convinced it would, because of vandalism I've seen which lasted for years on a somewhat popular page -- so even many eyes does not help if no one will take action to fix incorrect data.
How? It's hard to buy some education, wait a month, and sell it.
I felt likewise, but maybe he's still a good salesperson. Ever have the experience that someone made you feel too embarrassed to walk away without buying something?

I feel like he's hinting at a technique that would work with me. "What? You don't want to buy our database software because there's no support for transactions? I'll get the coders to write it for you special. How could you say no if I'll do that for you?" I never feel good about those transactions afterward.
"other than as an indicator of the aforementioned smarts & personality"

Shouldn't that be enough? Having an idea gives you a starting point from which to iterate.
IPython is great and I used to be a huge fan before I found Spyder (formerly Pydee.) It is somewhat a matter of taste, but when working interactively I think Spyder is one of the best shells. It is available at http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
Even using an expanded definition of racism -- discriminating against someone based on the country they or their ancestors came from -- you are still using the term incorrectly.

Apple imposes the restrictions within Poland on both Polish and non-Polish people alike, and they do not impose the same restrictions on Polish people living outside of Poland. Therefore the restrictions are made by country of residence, not country of origin, so it is not racism, at least not overtly.

In fact, it seems the real reason for the lack of iTunes in Poland is because the music licensors won't allow Apple to distribute music within regions known to have high rates of piracy. And this is due to change in the near future with new EU regulations (http://www.krakowpost.com/article/1336). It's hard to say if the new regulations will result in more iTunes for Poland or less iTunes for the rest of the EU, though.
Actually I've noticed that online communities can provide some sort of minimum level of social interaction required to keep one sane. I don't think it's a good strategy for long-term social interaction, but if you're going through a phase of your life where you're optimizing all parameters for maximum productivity while staying 1% south of jumping the shark, it kind of makes sense.
I definitely meant as a Microsoft competitor. I read the article's emphasis on virtualization as an explanation of VMWare's product, not as the emphasis of the article.
Do you see it as an excuse for not having someone with 20 years of experience, or as a way to distinguish from a company with no experience?
They meant "are expected not to be".
Have you ever seen Vint Cerf speak? I wonder where you'd place him. He's been wearing suits regularly since Junior High.
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Semantics notwithstanding, 50% is still a significant rate of death for a process which is focussed heavily on the incipient idea.
"By all means express regret that a previous government did such and such"
Of course the government didn't act unilaterally against the wishes of the people - they implemented the laws as required by society at the time.
Number 4 was a surprise to me. And I'm not sure I really get the meaning of "If you're not threatening, you're probably not doing anything new, and dignity is merely a sort of plaque".
I think you'd have trouble getting close enough to do that without first being vetted in some way.

Similarly, I've been introduced to the Queen (twice), addressed her as "Your Majesty" followed thereafter as "Ma'am" (to rhyme with "jam", not "arm"), and held an intelligent conversation. Again, no way that would've happened without first being vetted.

Random people in the USA don't get simply to walk up to the President, random people in the UK don't get simply to walk up to the Queen.
It's difficult to engage with someone while you put a thought on the back burner for 5 or 10 minutes.
Holy crap- so much for porting to Android, that's absolutely abysmal.
I find it interesting how some wise teacher told me to do one thing at a time and to put all of my effort, all my focus and all my skill into this single action, no matter how insignificant it might be and then my performance will be great -- and now, this post says the same (in other words)
My ideas for a wireless arduino project/startup:

1. Build a wirless mesh tower that send a stronger signal than of your typical internet router.

2. Connect a server to it.

3. Write docs and plans so others can build it too. Sell arduino kit for lazy people.

4. Build a UAV that retransmit wireless signal to other mesh tower.

5. Again, write docs and plans so other can build transmitter UAV too. Don't forget selling the kits.

6. Use profits to build next generation of wireless mesh towers(solar powered? long lasting?) and transmitter UAV(higher up? Bigger payload? Stay in the air longer? More pointers?)

7. Repeat the cycle of improvement, selling, and education.

As a bonus, you get FREE internet.
Thanks for the fantastic feedback everyone! I was hoping to respond and discuss things as comments were left but it was busy day. I hope to address some of the suggestions directly tonight.
My only real concern with this is that Disney will decide that the more adult titles don't align with their core values.

Disney is a media company, and will make money any which way they can. They will only put mouse ear logos on family friendly stuff, but the worst that'll happen to Marvel properties is that The Avengers will be a Miramax film. (Miramax, virtually synonymous with hard-R movies like Kill Bill, is also a Disney subsidiary.)
About point #1, does anyone have data on how many startups really fail? I have found answers from 70-90% on google, but those numbers come from blog posts and not from 100 times the number of failed businesses divided by the number of successful businesses formed in some reasonable grouping of time and space.
Symbolics.com, the first registered domain name, has been sold to a link farm.
I recently bought and arduino and have been having a LOT of fun with it...

Last night, actually, I was the most giddy I think I have been in YEARS...

I stole two servos out of a remote control plane from my childhood, and connected them to one another so that I could point a stick at almost any point...(think like what an observatory does...the end of my servo was the telescope)...

Anyhow (this is going to be a birthday present for my friend that introduced me to this)...I connected an LED to the end of a stick that was connected to one of the servos, then wrote some code to spell out words with it in the air...

Set a camera in front of it, turn the lights out, expose for about 30 seconds (or however long the drawing takes) and get a word...totally stupid, totally pointless and TOTALLY fun...

For this project I needed:

2 servos (any servos will pretty much work...you can buy them at your local hobby shop)

1 LED

some wire.

Some Spaghetti sticks (I used these to make an "arm" for the LED).

The birthday present is going to be a program that spells out "Happy Birthday" in the air, as well as the source code for it :).

Honestly, after the servo went back to its "home" position, and shut off the LED, it took about 10 seconds for the photo to process. Seeing the photo come onto the screen with my message in it was AMAZING.

Seriously, if you're even thinking about buying one of these, JUST DO IT! Playing with this thing feels like when I first started to code way back when...
That's the weirdest story, if true there ought to be some fallout from it. Koala being an endangered species...
Was he homosexual or bisexual - his engagement and his acknowledgement to his fiancée that he had "homosexual tendencies" (eg http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clarke_J... ) suggests that he was not exclusively attracted to men what actual sexual activity he undertook is not known to men nor I suspect to anyone else who didn't share whatever arena he chose for his affairs.

The manner in which he was arrested rather suggests a honeytrap [I'm speculating here, assess for yourself] - which could account for any animosity of the UK Government, not particularly wanting to reward spies that fell victim to enemy traps. The other point at issue may be that Turing as a 40 year old was picking up teenagers for sex (according to the reports of his arrest) - would someone now be knighted who knowingly followed that sort of promiscuous lifestyle? Would you expect that to be true also in the mid 20th century?

Turing was a great mathematician and left a great legacy in that field, other aspects of his character appear less clear.
That was one of the places I had looked at, and was seriously considering: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&... . My primary concern was whether or not that would be able to get me from "Huh, these sound cool" TO "well, if I go out and buy X and Y, I'll be able to make a really cool Z".

I guess its finding that balance point, a kit with enough parts to take you through learning the process, but not so much stuff you end up with things you never use.
I heard they taste like cough drops.
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One way this isn't exactly like Time Machine: since it doesn't hook into the FSEvents journal of file system modifications, rsync has to check the modified dates of every file in the backup set. With FSEvents, Time Machine knows what's changed (or at least which folders contain changed items) and can deal with only those.

But, yeah, same basic concept for sure.
I haven't heard anything specific, so certainly take it with a grain of salt. I was considering using ZFS on my home backup server a while back but didn't want to deal with OpenSolaris, so I did some Googling to see if the BSD port was worth it. This was two or three years ago so I don't remember the specifics, but I decided it wasn't worth it and people griping about disappearing data, disappearing zpools, and stripes that acted like black holes.
I have no idea. GitHub isn't "certified", I guess?!
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Wow, I had no idea you could transform the [statistical] 'mode' to the word 'modal.'

Although, honestly, it took me a moment to parse it that way, as opposed to "on a [pop-up window that you can't background] day, I see 0 people..."
I don't always understand why everyone is so extremely hung up on PG. I respect the guy, but he's human after all.

Anyway, this might have something to do with it:

"By inverting this list, we can get a portrait of the "normal" world. It's populated by people who talk a lot with one another as they work slowly but harmoniously on conservative, expensive projects whose destinations are decided in advance, and who carefully adjust their manner to reflect their position in the hierarchy."

That made me smile for about 30 mins.
Awesome.
Along those lines I'm curious how many of the YC companies make it to a next round of funding? Or make it to profitability and don't seek funding vs. those that formally wind down. I went to a TechStars meetup and something like 10 of 16 from the inaugural class got funded, 4 didn't because they were profitable, acquired, or otherwise all set, and 2 formally closed. Is that kind of data available for YC?
Yes, no one is awesome by default, but it implies that females are less likely to be awesome. Unless, of course, when you describe a male hacker you also call him an "Awesome Male Coder".
It's all in the number of devices out there. As the number of devices goes up so should the sales.

Using google checkout is just plain silly though, buying an application for a phone for the most part would be 'impulse' buys, in which case you want to remove any possible barrier. That's good business sense anyway but for this kind of product it is an absolute must.
But that's exactly what I mean: ZFS snapshots make copy-on-write branches of a single volume. Time Machine backs up files to an external disk. Unless there's some proposal to make Time Machine-managed external volumes be part of a pool that's only attached some of the time and thus get some ZFS benefit from that, I don't see how TM would be any different in a ZFS world.

Now, local snapshots would be useful for sure (and could be integrated into the TM system in various ways), but they're totally orthogonal to separate-disk backup/versioning systems like TM.
And the more likely you are to have trouble porting it in one jump from ancient to new hardware.
With a time machine, you could be doing that and something much cooler, simultaneously.
Not like that. I mean, for example, that value investing principles can be applied.
I get the casual context, but that's not to say there could still be an imbalance. I do agree with the rest of your comment and will try and not take things a little too literally.
It comes from old-school boxing. "Inclined to fight" was the original meaning. Bellicose is closer than belligerent. Certainly undignified, traditionally at least. In the last few decades it has been used for underdogs, as in "he's small but scrappy-" giving it that positive implication you mention- small but always ready to fight. Think scrappy-doo
I got an HTC Magic recently for development, and the first thing I did was check the App Store (sorry, the Market) - I can't find ANY paid apps, even if I mess around with the buried menu setting mentioned by the article.

Google checkout only way to buy

And that could be why - last I checked, Google checkout wasn't available in Canada.
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A heronie habit?

Guess you don't need to proofread if you're God's gift to salesmanship.
There is absolutely nothing interesting about a developer being female. Nothing.

Quite frankly, it confuses and disappoints me that anyone would think that gender matters enough to call attention to it. We're not in the 1950s, let's stop with the notion that it is a big deal when a woman does something that mostly men have done before.
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Ah you see, your premise is wrong. To go looking for someone is the polar opposite of how to find capable founders, very simply because it implies they need to be found. Don't take this the wrong way, but I think your ideas are too academic. You don't just "go to a college and find entrepreneurs".

There certainly is value in the effort one engages in when self-developing, self-formulating, self-revising, self-actualizing, self-motivating, self-preserving and finally self-sticking-your-neck-out, which is what the YC process is sort of about.

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About the rumor of eating koalas on a boat: Scott McNealy said he never owned a boat in his life.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9950324-36.html
MS's compilers have always been free(As far back as I can remember which would be VC6 where only the non optimizing compiler was free.) They charged for the IDE, and the optimizer. With the switch to .Net the optimizing compiler became free, and then a release or two latter a basic version of the IDE was released for free as well.
I'm the guy behind TimeCert.

The git time stamp is provided by the committer and not a third party. As such the Git timestamp amounts to a claim by you, that you committed it at that point. TimeCert simply provides extra backup to that claim.

TimeCert is definitely not a certified notary here (I never paid the $20 application fee nor took a test).

However it is a third party. Whether you choose to trust TimeCert or GitHub is completely up to you.

However in a dispute the evidence is provided by both TimeCert and Github is still third party and it isn't possible for you or a disputing party to tamper with the evidence provided. This evidence could be used in court the same way ISP logs are used.

TimeCert attempts to be trustworthy. The source is on http://github.com/pelle/TimeCert and the new audit page http://timecert.org/audit shows exactly what code is released.

It would absolutely still be possible for me to modify database records, just like it would be for your isp to modify mail logs etc. While a very good question, my reply would be what could I possibly gain from doing that? This still doesn't remove the question of course and that question is really the last hurdle.

There are various ways of solving it but it would require some one else running a similar site. it could be solved by adding a couple of other similar services in the mix sharing digest feeds that we each time stamp.

In the end it is all about who you decide to trust.
Comic books are an expensive habit.
That's figlet output, by the way, in the "small" font.

Someone at Google likes figlet. There's a Gmail theme that uses it, too.
Thanks for that. So there is a commercial version of the IDE that basically has more features?
I had VLC player on my iPhone, lost it upgrading to OS3. Put it back on yesterday and it no longer does shoutcast radio.

Themes have nothing to do with that, but on the subject of themes they are no more an enhancement than wax crayon is on a fridge door.