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I am not sure if breadcrumbs means low compensation, but the comp at Google (especially for people succeeding) is high and low risk.

If you just want to write software (as opposed to run a business), being an engineer at Google is really nice. You get a ton of resources, work on projects that have millions of users, etc. Don't get me wrong, entrepreneurs are awesome. But it's a much, much broader skill set than what is required to be a successful software engineer.

As for academia, my personal problem with it is that it's too focused on elegant/complicated/clever solutions to problems that don't really exist. And the compensation is terrible.
Mr. Spock was always illogically neglecting the reality of emotional behavior in humans. I always thought Spock was the most illogical person on the Enterprise.
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This is such a weird way to compare the costs. You still need a computer to use the Google tools. Also you can get a MacBook Air for less than half that price.
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They're actually hurting their current customers, those that can't get a text message through to their lost Apple brethren. Shame on them for having traitors in their flock, I guess.
This is one of the best digital painting apps out there, on par or better than Photoshop and any other commercial tool I've used.
You can buy the Apple-branded stuff. Or you can buy a KVM switch, a SSD, and two sticks of RAM off Newegg yourself. Monoprice has HDMI to DVI converters for less than $3. Upgrading the internals is about as challenging as upgrading the internals of a non-Apple laptop. It's honestly not that hard.

On the off chance you don't have a mouse, a keyboard, or a display, you can get a decent mouse for around $5, a decent non-mechanical keyboard for $30, and a high-quality display for $150. All three of these will improve your productivity on your laptop if you're not traveling. If you don't have a laptop or a desktop...how are you developing for Android to begin with?
Technically it's both.
The issue that hamburglar seemed to have is that he was relying too heavily on social proof. Something like "My ideas are the best out of the people I know so I should bet heavily on them" does not work well when your friends to do not cover most if not all of the relevent solution space with well thought out arguments.
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> Why would they invest their time if it doesn't benefit their ecosystem.

The problem with this approach is that it only works if you're #1 with a comfortable lead. Apple is #2 and fast losing mind share, and this kind of policy is only going to accelerate that trend.
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When arguing with someone, or even just trying to understand their advice, I often find myself thinking:

"If I actually understood this topic as well as you claim to, I would reveal that understanding much better than you currently are."

The advice to "be yourself" is an excellent example: you can pretty trivially reveal "yourselfs" that the adviser recommends you not be, and "non-yourselfs" that you should be.

And yet ... most people recommending that, cannot open the black box and reveal any greater precision to that heuristic, which I expect I would do if and when I gave such advice (or any heuristic advice).

It's why I distinguish between levels of understanding[1]. There's the level at which you can emit the correct answers with no ability to introspect on them, and the level at which your understanding "plugs in" to the rest of your world-model. If you acquired the former without ever having to reflect on it, you may never turn it into the latter, nor need to. But neither will your advice make much sense.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/1yq/understanding_your_understanding...
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Short piece that pretty accurately represents the feeling of empowerment in San Francisco.
If everyone starts their own company, who's going to work at yours?
Presumably it would display the same "There's no news; you should add some more friends!" message you get when you've first signed up and skipped the friend-recommendation step.
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I suspect the original post was referring to XCode versus Android tools, given the post context of Google I/O, and if so, the statement that the tools have always been better is definitely correct.

At least on OSX, I doubt anyone would dispute that XCode 4 in 2010 was miles ahead of Eclipse and early versions of the Android SDK, and that arguably holds to today, though less so with Android Studio.
> How is it childish?

"If I don't get what I want, I'm going to take my ball and go home" is the epitome of childish reaction.

The mobile ecosystem is not zero-sum. Publishing on Android doesn't diminish the app's benefit to the iOS ecosystem. If anything, it only benefits their ecosystem, since it will improve the app's popularity, and result in more downloads of that app on iOS, by iPhone owners who hear about it from their Android-using friends.
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Which category Microsoft will sit on? Evangelist or Advocates?
oh thanks for the link to the back and forth. I am applying for my own 501(c)(3) - details in the profile - and we are still twiddling thumbs waiting for an agent to be assigned. The IRS is backed up for nearly a year now!
The landing page looks very well designed and inviting to scroll further

In my opinion to the fans part is missing from the messaging of the page. If this is something that you are pushing out than it needs to be a bit more flashed out on the page, in my opinion. I wouldn't necessarily see this app as a way to better engage with my fans/followers straight away so maybe the messaging could make it easier for the average user that visits the page to understand this

Thanks for sharing!
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I think he/she took offense to the "darkest part of the face" portion of the comment; which is clearly false for the majority of the earth's population, particularly since no one draws the iris white so the original comment was clearly referencing the "white" portion of the eye.
Try the math. For a given number of people, centralizing reduces everyone's commutes. The key is to not separate housing from commerce and business.
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We've been looking but besides the clinical reports of sleep disturbances and night tremors, we're not finding physiological evidence of sympathetic activation. It's where we get excited by doing the research as a community of users.
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I prefer 13 inch too. Because most of my bags will not fit 15 inch. It's too big.
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That's why I said that hamburglar might not have a basis for being confident in an absolute sense, but definitely had grounds for being more confident than people who can't even spot a flaw in the argument.

(And FWIW, "trusting social proof", as the term is used, would mean deferring to the group beliefs; I think you mean to say s/he was overestimating the peer group's representativeness. But even then, I think the group was representative of the population at large: very few people possess the kind of understanding to do that, nor hold themselves to the standard that would make them seek it.)
Try 1/2 inch sheet steel instead of a baking stone. More thermal mass, better conduction and more wear-resistant (won't crack from thermal stress). Cast iron is a cheaper alternative.
I'm pretty sure you missed the entire point of my comment. Basically with highly concentrated areas of work for people living in the sprawl that is greater LA, the bigger gains are not in bigger roads, but in facilitating better flows in existing corridors. LA freeways have a lot of room for optimization, the big problem is always cost and lag in implementation. The above "anecdote" took 2+ years to be built.

If you have never experienced 405 in West LA, I suggest you visit :)
Type inference and operator overloading often leads to less-readable code.

IMO when evaluating programming languages, we should not only consider writability but also its readability. This is especially true if many engineers are going to be involved in the development.

It is good to have type inference and operator overloading in terms of writability. Nobody wants to type verbose code.

OTOH some verbosity within the source code helps reading the code. And type information (which type inference and operator overloading tries to hide) is one of them.

So I can respect Go's decision not to support operator overloading / only support some part of type inference.
In Bacon.js it's the Bus. I'm not sure if RxJs yet has such thing :)
As the author was speaking of his experience as a founder, I read his "logic does not always agree with reality" to mean that in an environment of sufficient uncertainty logic is not that useful, because you can think logically as much as you want, but you still cannot predict your environment. No thinking-based solution, be it logic or something else can work if you cannot predict your environment. It does not matter if logic is flawless or not. It is misleading to think about it as putting in the wrong assumptions, rather it is that in an unpredictable environment you cannot know what the right assumptions are.
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Speaking as someone who helped with someone's unsuccessful political campaign, it takes a lot more than just discomfort to be successful in politics. I think the "just don't feel like it, but if I did, I could win" excuse for avoiding politics is like the "I could probably get in, but I don't want to be a member" excuse for avoiding Mensa. Both things are probably harder than they seem (though I only have experience with one).
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so your using function names instead of comments?
The significance is that this is a model of a special, alternate formulation of quantum mechanics called Pilot-wave Theory.
Awesome article!! I am currently in the process of registering in india and it's very frustrating, online payments in india is a mess compared to the US.
Definitely evangelist, promoting the company product.
> Smart people have a problem... an ability to convincingly rationalize nearly anything.

This has a simple solution really. They should be actively trying to prove their assumptions false. Rationalize that their premises are wrong until compelled with extraordinary evidence. Be a contrarian.

It will also help if all the smart people in the group have a diversity of beliefs so that everybody gets his assumptions cross-examined.
Oh great. Now I'll have that song in my head the whole day, you sneaky bastard!

You're welcome to vent on noj.li.

Also a platform where comments are required to be in the form of a poem would mitigate trolls and SPAM.
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The NFL is considered a non-profit organization by the IRS, yet all of the teams which associate with its branding reap enormous profits.

How should all organizations which happen to open-source code automatically be "for profit" just because some other companies might use such code for commercial purposes? The two examples are very similar but the NFL is non-profit. If the precedent is set, the damage to the FLOSS movement would be real and lasting.
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Time for the emperors-in-waiting who run Facebook to just admit they're evil
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> Public transportation is typically worse than using a private car.

Says who? Instead of spending time stressfully navigating through a slow maze of cars, you can read a book while quickly and predictably getting to your destination. (Public transit is substantially more predictable than traffic.)

I'd take a train over a car every time.
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The basic problem is that the solar day keeps getting longer. The definition of the second was based on a length-of-day averaged over the 19th century, so now it's too short. We could keep redefining the second every so often, but that sounds even worse than the system we have now. :)
The robots.txt will not only disallow your blog post, but if you acquired your domain from someone else, the entire previous site will also be removed. That is not something you should have a right to do, unless you also acquired full copyright to all of the previous site's revisions.

So sometimes an IA-friendly domain expires (e.g. accidentally or because its owner died), a squatter buys the domain, and the squatter points the domain at a junk-site landing server with a deny all robots.txt. The result is truly disastrous: IA removes access to the historic, IA-friendly site. Site acquirers who do this deliberately are pure evil.
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They know how to lie, play people against each other, abuse human emotions and so on. It is quite simple to understand this without being in power for various reasons, e.g. different moral standards.

And no, most of them are not smart. Just smart enough. Not the same thing.
So basically, Yorba f'd up by not getting advice from someone with deep knowledge of the proper bureaucratic bs to proffer for a successful application for tax-exempt status.
This is nothing new. Read Robert Caro's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book THE POWER BROKER if you wanna know about roads and highways and freeways and how expanding them only makes traffic worse.
Which incidentally doesn't let you access all of the source...
Why can a physical library collect and display physical newspapers, but a digital library cannot collect and display digital newspapers?
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I'm jealous of those high-energy folks that seem to be running around on even 7 hours without feeling exhausted. Whether I get 7 hours or 12 hours, I feel the same: sleepy.
This is a good explanation, but let me tack on one thing. The original blog post says:

>> There’s a charitable organization here in San Francisco that plants trees throughout the city for the benefit of all. If one of their tree’s shade falls on a cafe table and cools the cafe’s patrons as they enjoy their espressos, does that mean the tree-planting organization is no longer a charity?

In fact, the tree-planting group can easily show that they serve an exempt purpose, namely "lessening the burdens of government". Planting trees is something that city governments routinely do for the purposes of beautification or whatever. If a non-profit wants to do it, that's a perfectly legitimate reason to get tax exempt status. The group would also have to show that they are serving a public interest - for instance they're not just planting trees outside of one company's coffee shops but they're providing a service for the whole neighborhood.
You did have a tough day. I'm glad to see you solved all the problems at last.

I don't think we can avoid bad luck, but we can lend a help to someone who need it around us.
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Quotes From the IRS letter to Yorba:

> You have a substantial nonexempt purpose because you develop software published under open source compatible licenses that authorize use by any person for any purpose, including nonexempt purposes such as commercial, recreational, or personal purposes, including campaign intervention and lobbying.

By this logic, all non-profit educational entities should be disqualified because things people learn through their programs might later be used by those people to make a profit.

> public works must serve a community. Open source licensing ensures the Tools are accessible to the world. We have not found any authority for the proposition that the world is a community within the meaning of § 501(c)(3).

I understand that there are probably real legal reasons for the IRS saying this... but that's bordering on inanity worthy of the Onion.
To be clear, there are significant differences with the legal classifications of various non-profits. 501(c)(3) is much different from 501(c)(6) (the NFL is (6)) I am not a lawyer so I don't know what the differences are, but it's possible/likely that if someone was going for a different kind of non-profit the rules would change dramatically, so they can't quite be compared apples to apples.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)
Never thought about it and you are right on "That is why even the poorest Indian home will be clean, but the wealthiest public street could be dirty". I think the root cause is the discipline in public, i am trying to assert when we (Indians) became so selfish or given up about public issues. One reason i could think is that urbanisaztion is still settling in and we do not know how to behave and live in cities yet because i remember that in our village we use undertake common interest and maintain those like ensuring that the pond are cleaned in time and volunteer one day man hour or equivalent money (coolie) to be given to local panchayat.
10 years is young in industry. I recently saw a VAX 11/780 in the field still operating doing real work.

To throw the towel in on an OS which has the same subset API as a recent one yet has many minor incompatibilities through shoddy API design (win32) is a shitty business model which people shouldn't have to shovel cash at over and over again.

To hell with them.
Huh. I wonder how they defined what was acceptable and what wasn't.

Oh well, I'll be fascinated to read the book if you ever write it.
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I recommend taking a look at the original complaint for even more context, especially with the exhibits.

http://www.rezlaw.com/News-Events/06-30-14_Complaint_with_Ex...
I'm surprised nobody has linked Matthew Yglesias' excellent response: "The Star Trek Economy: (Mostly) Post-Scarcity (Mostly) Socialism".

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/11/18/star_trek_eco...

The most important concept in that article is that of a gift economy. The economy provides people with their basic needs and allows them to do (just about) whatever they wish with their time. Some people will chose to produce goods in old fashioned ways, like fine wine produced by tradtional methods, and these goods would be given to others as gifts.

Such goods will always be scarce by definition, but they are all luxuries. An interesting case for this is looking at the markets that developed in POW camps during World War II and how they collapsed once the liberating armies arived with an abundance of goods.

"On 12th April, withthe arrival of elements of the 30th US. Infantry Division, the ushering in of an age ofplenty demonstrated the hypothesis that with infinite means economic organizationand activity would be redundant, as every want could be satisfied without effort." (Pg. 14 of the linked PDF)

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~hfoad/e111su08/Radford.pdf

Another thing to note is the shift in the means of production. If labor is basically unnecessary in the production of goods you get a shift in modes of production. I could see this happening in the near with the decentralized 3D printing of goods, combined with the massive energy of the sun and the shocking amounts of raw materials in the asteroids around the solar system.

This I think is a demonstration of Marx's biggest mistake. He thought the economic organization would shift without a change in the means of production. Unlike every other change in his economic theories.
Ok, North America then :)
I've tried switching from pathogen to Vundle a couple of times and given up when I couldn't figure out how to get it to find a few of my old plugins. This site gives me the Vundle commands that work. Finally! What a great idea - scanning github for .vimrc's and extracting what folks have done with them! You've advanced the platform with this contribution.
Nobody said they do; nobody said the Internet Archive shouldn't respect robots.txt.

We do, however, have the right to criticize people who ban IA from their site.
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That's the paradox! The difference between a traffic route and a bandwidth-pure pipe (apologies for idiosyncratic terminology, i'm not a trained traffic planner) is that cars will choose their routes selfishly. The way I think of this difference is that even on a straight road that doubles its number of lanes, and we've all seen this, cars will change lanes with the idea that they'll get through traffic. Unfortunately, this lane changing, especially in gridlock situations, slows other cars down more than their overall speed is increased. Thus the overall bandwidth of the road, such as it is, is reduced. Add brake ripples and slow reaction time when moving in bumper-to-bumper, and the reduced overall speed should be obvious.
Exclusivity arrangements are nothing out of the ordinary between businesses. Developers are not regular Apple customers.

What is out of the ordinary is this way of doing it. Simply not responding to emails any longer, without explaining why, is very unprofessional indeed.
By "we thought we could do this ourselves", philipn meant that basically I wasn't up to the task. Myself being not a lawyer and all.

Nolo's book isn't really meant for OSS/software/online projects, so it only really provides a rough outline of the process. Because of that, we got to the point where we did have to consult an attorney to get us back on track.

If you're working with an OSS community, it's important to note that giving stuff away != a charity. You need to emphasize that you are working specifically for the underprivileged. Even if you have an underprivileged community that you are serving, if you serve all comers it could easily seem as if it was self-serving to donors.

The educational exemption is generally much more appropriate for information and technology, like philipn said. When we took the time to explain that our goal was to teach people about their own communities, they were much more receptive. Other orgs like The Perl Foundation were similarly organized as educational (providing training at conferences, educational grants). Likewise with Wikimedia Foundation, which is fairly obviously educational despite major software investments.

If what you want to do is just be tax-exempt -- but not have tax deductible donations -- that's a much easier thing to do. A 501(c)6 may serve any community, so long as it gets most of its funding from donations or membership dues. That's how the Linux Foundation handles it. It's less desirable, but it will prevent you having to pay tons of back taxes.
One can hope, and I would sincerely like to think that new markets within manufacturing or other "old" industries are going to emerge. Off-shoring isn't the cheap solution it once was. Then again, I tend to be very critical of the belief that other industries have "shortages": http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...
I thought this was going to be about existentialism and depression.
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> All statements are true, false, arbitrary, or nonsensical.

In which category do you place the arithmetical statement that Godel showed how to construct?
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