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One is willing to go to the place of highest potential for success in order to... maximize one's potential for success. Come hell or high water. You do what you have to do.

So perhaps talent is not the right word, but it is rather motivation. And motivation may well be a larger determining factor than talent in the success of a startup.
Absolutely. I'm more of an SVN guy than Git, but you should probably try both to get a feel for what suits you best. Version control is an absolute must for any project above 25 lines.
Hehe, if you watch a game you will notice that most players spend most of the game sitting on the sideline surrounded by sophisticated cooling or heating devices (depending on weather).

Forget tweeting, they have time to write a novel out there.
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You can ask them to start working with you on a small part of your idea for which you want them to partner with you too.

But I think a better idea is to create a new small project. And ask them to work on it for you first. Keeps the real project a bit distanced before you both are ready to commit to a partnership.
Why on earth does a single error message correspond with multiple, completely unrelated conditions? Why can't there be a one to one mapping between error message and error condition?

I am so frustrated with "mysql server has gone away" I am very close to switching to Postgres. We might be forced to put aside 2 weeks learning a new database just because of some avoidable stupidity on the part of mysql.

sigh
People have their opinions on what sort of life is worse than death, so I won't argue with you.

I was simply saying that the parent of my above comment was arguing that the problem is doing bad things to innocent people, and that we are focusing on a subset of that problem, rather than the problem as a whole.

And then I said that the problem as a whole is hard to fix.
I'm willing to bet that this has more to do with the time, money, and risk associated with global patent searches, applications, and portfolio management. Microsoft is sued over patents far more frequently than it sues; it is a difficult problem space.
Or addressing a judge as "Your honour".
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i'm going to assume this post is one of those "irony"/"joke" thingamagigs that have been showing up recently according to some people
Academic?
upvoted for not going there :)
Start working on your own and you will find someone as you go along. Screw this whole "zomg! cofounder bro for startup!" BS; if you're making money and can pay people's rent and mortgages, anybody would want to be on your team. If you don't have money, skills, connections and contacts or industry experience, then nobody will even bother grab a drink while you "interview" them.

Go out there and win your own bread, then look around for who is doing the same; game recognizes game, and a lot of people are just not cut for it, so stop asking the "civilians".
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I assume it's "my whole life! /smilewink".
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Most of you miss the point. I grew up in Switzerland and have a U.S. passport because my father is american. I know countless other people who have U.S. passports but haven't been in the U.S. for years. They will never be in need of medicare nor do they care what the americans do, never the less they have to pay US taxes to pay for politics that they don't neccessarily support in a country they have never lived in.

This has been accepted by the other nations and they have tried to comply with these rules as much as possible. Switzerland has stricter privacy laws which allows people to evade taxes easily. The problem is, the swiss still pay their taxes even though they aren't forced to – and there are numerous studies suggesting that not forcing people to do something actually works better. I can completely understand nations who want the swiss to close this loophole.

Recent events, this was confirmed a friend managing relations with the U.S. at a big swiss bank, made a lot of people rethink whether they still want to keep their U.S. passports and are getting rid of them. These people are have been living in Switzerland for years made their fortune in Switzerland and plan to retire here. Is there really any reason why they should pay taxes, just because they were born in the US?

However you should read the second part, in which they start talking about estate tax. In this example he talks about non-US citizens, people who have invested their money in the U.S. Obama now wants to make a law that will tax estate in the U.S even if the owner is not in possession of a U.S. passport or a greencard. Doing an MBA in the states is reason enough to being taxed. This means that a wealthy individual who owns US property or stocks & bonds and spent some time in the US now has to pay up to 45% of estate tax in the U.S. on his U.S. property. Just because you own German stocks, should Germany get access to all your financial accounts and be able to freeze the assets when you pass away to determine if you should be taxed in Germany? This is absolutely ridiculous and as they mentioned in the letter, the additional tax revenue will not create enough tax revenue to solve the problems of the U.S. That's why they are suggesting that their clients should withdraw from investing in the US, because that 2 month vacation in California suddenly means, that they'll take 45% of your Apple shares when you pass away.
While it's light on details, it's unfortunately something worth getting somewhat excited about. A couple of very nasty vulnerabilities have been found in Flash over the last year or so - vulnerabilities exploitable across OSes.
You can read about last year's stuff in exhaustive detail here:
http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pd...

A more recent advisory is
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-03.h...

There was a blog post by Thomas Ptacek of Matasano security discussing the importance of Flash exploits recently but it seems to have disappeared temporarily in some sort of blog meltdown. Key quotes are still floating around the net though -

"We have different versions of the OS, and we have Mac users. But we’ve only got one Flash vendor, and everyone has Flash installed. Why do you care about Flash exploits? Because in the field, any one of them wins a commanding majority of browser installs for an attacker."
OT: fellow yanks, watching a single game of Rugby Union, say, All Blacks vs Wallabies, will let you see NFL 'athletes' for the panty waisted, overpaid, timeouting-begging wussies they really are. Pathetic.
That's way more than I've ever learned about SVN, and I use it every day. Download a copy of TortoiseSVN and right-click your way to happiness.
It's unreasonable if you want to have both rubygems and some other package system available at the same time, as is most often the case. Having to use the contorted command line is the rare case, as you almost always invoke ruby scripts through the rubygems generated wrapper or some other isolated script intended specifically for command line use, which takes care of rubygems itself.
Learning how to use version control is not such a hard enough task that it will honestly "prevent" you from making progress on programming. This is kind of like asking whether you should figure out how to get car insurance, or not get distracted by that and focus "on the driving" instead. Its not that difficult, and you will regret it. On the other hand, I suppose learning to use version control the hard way is arguably one of the most important milestones in a programmer's career.

Don't get me wrong, you can become a master at certain VC systems and do all sorts of neato stuff with them, but you should focus on getting the bare minimum down (enough to just replicate what you are already doing on dropbox, which should take you a few hours max), and then get back to programming. You will learn the rest along the way. At some point you will say "oh man, I can't believe x happened", or "I really wish I could look at my code this way", you'll ask someone for help, and since you were using a version control system all along, you will be able to do it.

Think of it more like getting a proper text editor to replace notepad rather than "learning" something brand new.
Except that the scenario you've described is not collateral damage. According to the U.S. Air Force:

"Broadly defined, collateral damage is unintentional damage or incidental damage affecting facilities, equipment or personnel occurring as a result of military actions directed against targeted enemy forces or facilities."

Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/usaf/afpam14-210/part20.htm#pa...

If a Predator blows up a car and the family traveling inside it because some intelligence analyst believes it's full of terrorists, that is killing, pure and simple. There's no "collateral" here. If during the same strike, another car with another family is accidently destroyed by the blast, that is, indeed, collateral damage.

To summarize, if you destroy what you're targeting, there's no collateral damage. If you destroy something other than what you're targeting, then there's collateral damage. Collateral damage is unintended killing, but not all unintended killing is collateral damage. Hence, your argument is fallacious.
Learn git.

It's easy to do and will save you a whole load of ballache down the line.

Our front end designers picked it up pretty easily so it can't be that hard :P
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I don't know if it ships with Windows 7 but it's certainly shipped with Windows before.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146623/windows...

Googling around you can also find announcements that Flash 5 will ship with Windows XP.
I had the impression the blog was already pretty big.

Still, I think "aw, shucks, little us?" thing is kind of silly. Without that fame, would they still be raking in so much money?
I hope it never happens.

There are certain Americanisms that have infected other countries patent systems over the years (e.g. software patents) that have done far, far more harm than good AFAICT, especially to the smaller countries that have been strong-armed into efficiently hamstringing their own nascent technology ventures.

The appearance that patent law in America is only about leverage against all your competitors with patent lawsuits rather than protecting truly original discoveries (especially those of smaller companies who can't adequately defend themselves against the super-corp's) is an utter travesty.

It puts me in mind of the same erosion that allowed us to become part of a worldwide debt economy (i.e. hardly enough real resources to back the debt).
Or use 1 & 2 of http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfus...
That was not my point. My point was that death penalty does not prevent actual criminals from murdering people. Hence, I don't see what is the point of capital punishment. Moreover, I don't think that judges and juries should have the right to play God and decide who lives or dies.
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According to Freakonomics it does. But the deterrence isn't the only aspect important to the matter. The risk of false positives alone is enough to forget about possible deterrence value. And that's not even about the ethics of the matter.
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Am I retarded or is said image not included in the article? Would love to see it.
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1) Economics is called the dismal science for a reason. I don't care what Freakonomics says.

2) I believe that the risk of false positives should be enough reason to abolish the death penalty.
Right with you there. However, I do suffer from the people around me bitching about my sleep problems because they see me up at 7 AM after a long night of coding. If one more "helpful" printout with an "FYI" scribble on it mysteriously appears on my desk explaining how to fix a chronic sleep problem I swear I'm going to scream...

But "insomnia" probably isn't the right word for me. I get my eight hours like clockwork, I just take it whenever it suits me. A lot of people think that's a problem, but if it is, it's certainly not mine. I don't have a 9 to 5 for a reason (many, in fact), and I'm going to enjoy the benefits of that as long as I can.

There's just something so productive about that midnight to sunrise stretch that's impossible to replicate during the day...
That was a downloadable service pack, and it was an optional component.

At any rate, I'm using Windows 7 right now. I assure you I'm not lying.
Academic indeed. It's '.ac.in' for India.
They had an about average size blog for the time. It's definitely not like their fame preceded or enabled their success. It's the other way around.

They've explained this on multiple occasions when people ask them how to repeat their success without their advantage of having a big audience and (relative) fame: they didn't have that when they launched Basecamp.

They had a blog, but not a huge audience like they do now — they certainly did not have a bigger audience than is possible to build up through "traditional" blogging means (writing great content that people like to read and link to).
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!

I work as a release engineer, and the sheer number of f*-ups that could be avoided by dev's understanding version control better is truly astonishing.

It doesn't matter very much which version control system you use (though there are a few which will give you a pounding headache) it's more important you understand a few useful processes, like merging and conflict resolution, branch strategies (e.g. feature branches, release branches, does HEAD == all source-code?, etc, and why you'd use one or the other) check-in style (e.g. larger chunk(s) with peer code-review?, frequent updates that allow you to follow your thinking at a later date?, pre-submit unit-tests?) among a few other things.

Even though not all of these things will be needed by your project(s), knowing those things in-advance are what will allow you to use a VCS effectively, even if you work alone.
Nope, it's not a joke, not even close. Perhaps if you've done some hiring over the last couple of years you'd like to contribute something more to the discussion than this random comment.
At the level of 25 line scripts, something like drop box provides about all the headache-prevention and benefits needed. Programming in the large involves a great deal of bookkeeping tasks, which, while important and valuable are about -3.7 on the fun scale. The tools for such tasks also tend to have impressively poor usability.

If you've written a 25 line script, write a 100 line or 5000 line one. And have fun. You already understand the importance of versioning and having reliable backups. Assuming your goal is to become a programmer rather than a book-keeper, stick to the programming for now.
I see a lot of people suggesting git, but I understand the interface is still rather, ehmmm, user hostile, with lots of obscure options, which makes it a lot harder to understand. Perhaps it would be easier to start with svn, using http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.

Concerning the question itself: yes. Yes. YES!
You underestimate the amount of discontent with rubygems. There is at least one replacement available (hellorip.com) and for good reason. I've already come across a few libs that use it exclusively.

Ruby 1.9 actually ignores "require 'rubygems'" entirely which I suppose will make this whole issue moot, as soon as we all start using it.. um, any day now.
I would suggest doing it sooner rather than later - there isn't that much to pick up and if you use a hosting service very little to install (I use the free service from Unfuddle - which is more than enough for my personal projects).
Their effort would be better spent working to get software patent laws globally repealed.
http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2001/fp5_msxp.html

Windows has shipped with Flash. I didn't say you're lying, I said 'Windows has never shipped with Flash' is inaccurate.
No, I don't mean RoR contractors are code monkeys. I mean that if you're an engineer that specializes in RoR then you're expected to have such an phenomenal breadth and depth of understanding that few, other the DHH or Katz, could fill the requirements.
The important thing to understand in your hiring process is not only who you're hiring, but why. If you're just looking to hire a bunch of code monkeys that can crank out fair to mindling code, then look no further than odesk.com. For about $8 an hour you'll find some not bad coders.
If you want real engineers to solve problems, well, you'll need to do more work.
Meebo rooms hasn't really taken off much as far as I'm aware. I think there's plenty of room in the market.

Olark looks cool :) Might have to up my game a bit.
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The iPhone has been out for over two years now. There isn't that much red tape.
Did you use linear programming solvers ?
I think it is pretty obvious that if Bach lived another 10 years (or days), he would have written music that nobody would ever come up with (remember, human existence will not be infinite).

With Turing, it's entirely possible that he could have come up with a novel way of looking at things, or an invention, which we have not achieved today. Thus, even if at some point, all technical discoveries have been made that would have been made in Turing's natural lifespan, we would be much farther along at any point in time if we had those contributions, and our way of looking at our field might be richer.
I decided to use haskell as it has been awhile since I've touched it, I made the mistake of not compiling with -O for the first question (and it did not complete in the 8 minutes). When I re-ran afterwards (sadly no points) with -O it completed very quickly.
The leader is also Neal Wu (http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663...), one of the top contest programmers in the world.
Lot's of people here are suggesting git. I admit that I never tried it and personally use mercurial hg.

I definitely recommend learning version control as soon as possible. It's a life saver, and it's incredibly easy. With mercurial you're up and running by typing 'hg init'. That's it.

And then you get to experience the satisfaction of 'hg commit'. Maybe I feel like this because I've been burned by not using control version system a long time ago. But really, as soon as I've done a commit, I just feel at peace: I can throw myself in large refactoring (unit test helps too), try something that will probably not work and break everything. It doesn't matter because it's so easy to backtrack.

You can do the same with copy paste. But it takes much much more time. It's just too much of a hassle. And it doesn't scale with teams of more than 1 person...
You're the right kind of crazy if you ask me. People travel on a much lower budget and I don't mean hobos. Setting up a blog and earning money with it is not a problem. with an original idea like this you get lots of exposure.

Focus on travel products and advertise with affiliate ads. Get publicity by interviewing people the world is or might be interested in.
You're not doing it for long enough.

Every trip abroad has one week of suck at the beginning and one week of suck at the end. You need to acclimate & buy toothbrushes when you get there, and you need to stress a bit about the real world before you come back. That's a given.

So given that, if all you ever do is little 2-3 week trips then pretty much all your time abroad is smack in the middle of that suck zone.

Imagine, however, that you went away for 9 months. Now that little bit of suck that you describe is relegated to a noise at the ends. In the middle lies the good part. And it really is that good.

Sounds like you've never actually committed, so you've never reaped the rewards. Give it a try sometime and report back!
But nearly every OEM ships Flash in their Windows install, though usually only the ActiveX version for IE.
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That seems like an unrealistic goal. There are many arguments in favor of patent systems and a motion for repeal would face insurmountable opposition. I suspect this to be particularly true of non-software industries.

The design processes that would go into the development of a global patent system would likely re-examine and re-evaluate the principals, successes, and failures of many existing patent systems around the world. In all likelihood, the resulting system would be sufficiently less painful to justify tolerating the inherent problems with patent systems for many more years to come.
Exactly! There are probably hundreds of interesting people where you live you could talk to and you wouldn't have to spend so much money on the trip. You really should just try the whole interview thing at least once or twice before you head off.
I see: sounds like you've got some different roles someone can fill, from the code robot, to seasoned programmer, to software engineer, to CTO, to hacker. In the end it's about someone's point of view and their responsibility to it. I've come across someone who claims to be a jack(or rather master)-of-all trades: has a degree in CS and an MBA and has worked in Sales, CTO, R & D. Says he's not an ordinary freelancer and builds end-to-end systems and uses PHP for the client and also Python on the server (has good reasons for it), whilst also promotes his own version of cloud computing. I have a background in Information System so am not quite the gung-ho programmer or engineer, but am still able. I sort of want to put something out as sexy as possible that works really well. I'd happily micromanage some monkeys to get it right, or give an engineer more free reign. I'm still undecided. But yes, long term, if it's successful, the system needs to be engineered really well, eg Craigslist. Twitter might have been a quickly cobbled together RoR app initially.

edit: don't know anything about DHH or Katz.
Oh, you're right. It looks like Windows XP was the first and last version of Windows to include Flash.
I'm not convinced. I'd rather see a series of case studies of small and successful firms that don't have something like Rails or a huge following (and what other word to describe some of the people who comment on their blog... some of them are really falling all over themselves to sing praises to 37S).
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I'm not familiar with haskell - what is O? Optimization?
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- I always thought it would have been much harder to fake the footage of the moon landing and takeoff with 1969 FX technology than it would have been to actually land on the moon.

- If you can already go into space what's so hard about landing on the moon?

- The Soviet Union would have been all over it in 1969 to score points if the US had faked it.

- People shouldn't mix up Capricorn One with reality. Particularly as they couldn't keep the astronauts in the movie quiet.