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I did see that article before, but did not consider it relevant to your question. While this study shows that in a "highly demanding [continuous work] situation" people can adapt easily and maintain high performance under polyphasic schedules, it says nothing about how their sleep architecture (the arrangement of their sleep stages in a 24h period) changes.

Incidentally, I think it covers what most polyphasic bloggers get wrong while adjusting: they do not create continuous work demands, and so at some point they get bored, fall asleep, and revert to their original sleep schedule. If you want to do the Uberman right, follow the Pomodoro technique in cycles of 8 pomodoros, sleeping one and working seven. Eat something after each nap.
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Perhaps this is just proof that libertarian capitalism doesn't work (if your interest is real progress rather than wheel 2.0), and that to change the world you have to be actually interested in changing the world, rather than simply turning a buck.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. I've read estimates that Facebook now shows 10% (!) of all U.S. display ad inventory on the internet.
Oh I'm sorry, I work at a social networking entertainment start-up. You're absolutely right, I should be changing the world. I'll get started on that right away.

Letsee, I'm going to need some granola, Beatles tunes, a hipster haircut, and a peace-encouraging, inner-city-black-kid-helping, hippie-esque, capitalism-hating, new-age social-green-Obama-natural job. Doing something. That will change the world. Yeah.
"never ever have to work for the man again"

They already weren't working for the man. They had a startup, and one with huge potential and growth.

And now, depending on how long they have to stay there, they're working for "the man" more so than before.
Oh 37Signals. I can't figure you guys out sometimes. One day, you're telling people to be happy with small niche markets. The next, you're on a soapbox preaching about $170 million exits as merely "bending over." Make up your minds.
Do you use Intuit software? Have you tried Mint? Everyone I've talked to that has a Mint account and has been forced to use Intuit software in the past is uniformly dismayed and confused by this acquisition.

Looks like a business opportunity then ...
I agree with you. My first reaction was "170M? That's it?".
They were working for their investors. Now after a temporary transition stint with Intuit, they won't have to work for anyone.
An LD50 of 113 mg/kg isn't exactly what you would call "Safe" - it's about as dangerous as caffeine (192 mg/kg)

But, point (very) well made (if somewhat subtle for a significant portion of the audience...)

Edit: Actually, knowing this audience, perhaps not that subtle. :-)
"From a genetic perspective, humans beings are still pretty much identical to neanderthals who honed their instincts roaming the Earth for more than two million years."

Pardon, but I'd like to take issue with this. Our (collective, humanity) genome has been evolving faster and faster - to the point where a neanderthal who was taught english could probably not even communicate with you on an uneven level, much less an identical one - and this is from '07 - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071211-human...
It sounds like you're saying that society does not have a diminishing marginal utility of money, and/or that they shouldn't have axed the golden investment opportunity for everyone (had they IPOed). Is that right?
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Right on, here's a story to further make your point:
Teenage lottery millionaire who won £1.9m broke at 22

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208498/Teenage-lott...
Even if it's true [1], lottery winners are a completely different group of people than startup founders who built massively successful companies.

Here are some more examples: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney...
It looks like a street in LA.
I can think of 100 things a startup founder should be doing before writing a public reply to something Sarah Lacey said.
Here's hoping TextMate 2 will be this good.
What's wrong with multiple repositories? It should be easy to add new ones. There's multiple places to get debian packages, there's the main packages, non-free, backports, and other homebrew ones like mythtv etc. It's as easy as adding a line into a text file, but I'm sure the interface could be better... maybe even something integrated with the browser.

Maybe github & sourceforge has a mac repository. So you'd have the default one from apple, plus any open source apps from github & sourceforge. Individual developers who just publish code on github wouldn't need to setup their own repository. In a way, it's kind of how the ruby community distributes their packages.
doesnt this inherently lower performance?

Message-passing rather than shared data structures implies you need to pass around heavy copies of data.

Are Lock-free data structures (supported probably by atomic hardware operations) the middle ground?

http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb/code/lockfree/
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Very relevant. He says very eloquently everything that's wrong with American city planning, with pictures. He doesn't mince words, either.
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When I first moved to the Bay Area, I was puzzled by how "blah" Silicon Valley is. The land of innovation is suburbia and strip malls? A cultural desert? My manager at Palm, who had grown up in Cupertino, said that Sunnyvale and Cupertino were "the two most boring towns in America".

Did they outside all beauty and culture to San Francisco? Or did they just not care?
>I just don't understand the negativity about how this kid's chosen to spend his month.

I don't understand why, in a time when we should be dealing with the problem of climate change, a project that celebrates the pointless use of resources and emission of CO2 is seen as acceptable. Pretending irresponsibility has no consequences isn't positive.
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I think what we don't know here is the dream/ambition of the founders. Maybe their dreams were too expensive to chase or they otherwise didn't feel equipped to chase them.

Fuck you money (for a lot of people) isn't "go buy a Caribbean island" money. It's "I can finally build the company I WANTED to build" money.

(anticipating response of "Why not just build the company you're passionate about to begin with?") Some companies cannot practically be built without vast piles of money/power/connections/etc. As a previous commenter pointed out, you can't bootstrap the SpaceX prize. :-)

Also-- people change! A guy I know's wife just got diagnosed with breast cancer. If he sold his startup tomorrow to chase a different dream, could you blame him?
This would be a huge improvement, in my opinion. The only thing I would change is to rename .appz to .zapp :P
You're posting this on a site built by a guy who had the time and money to dedicate himself to helping create startups because it's a "cool hack". That certainly looks like FU money to me.

And for what it's worth, I think YC is way cooler than ViaWeb.
Running Mint.com probably isn't fun. Money is. That's all.
Mint's backend isn't the point, it certainly isn't what made Mint popular —— it's the frontend.
By going to the domain where it's hosted.
google would've been thought of as "yet another search engine" before the name "google" existed. Nobody knows who or what is going to change the world.
That's being a bit equivocal.

You're using the word freedom in very different way than Jefferson ever meant it. In Jefferson's world, the Mint founders are no more or less free now than before selling to Intuit.

Otherwise, I agree that it isn't for us to judge. The founders were certainly free to sell their company.
I doubt very much that Myhrvold has a guilty conscience. There is no reason for him to have one, anyway: he's just exploiting the current nature of the patent system. That is called "acting rationally" (assuming that his venture works out, which isn't at all clear).
Reminds me of something my uncle told me: "The rich are different from you and me: they have money...and you don't!"

This was a famous exchange between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald said, "You know Ernest, the rich are different from you and me." Hemingway replied, "Yes, they have more money."

The phrase was lifted for the title of a book of anecdotes about rich people that I once saw a stack of on a coffee table at Restoration Hardware. I picked one up and it turned out to be freaking hilarious. I heartily recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Are-Different-Priceless-Quotation...

For example, there was the English aristocrat who, when told he could no longer afford to keep three pastry chefs (French, Danish, and one other), said "What? Can't a man have a biscuit when he wants it?"

Then there was Christina Onassis' habit of sending her private jet out to get a twelve-pack of Diet Coke every time she ran out. The pilot was asked why he didn't just bring back a full load. His answer: "Because Madame does not want old Diet Coke."

I could quote another dozen stories from memory and this book has been sitting in storage for like 10 years. A seriously hilarious book.
Thanks. Will be interesting to see.
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I think what PG's getting at is that you can't "look beyond" the fiduciary responsibility "mindset" without being fiduciarily irresponsible. Which is basically illegal.
That was my first thought too. Here a PBS QUEST feature about sudden oak death in California: http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/sudden-oak-death
Yes, most of the full talks are being recorded and will be posted.
You know they are not?
That's partially true, but what also made them popular is exceptional PR, SEO and marketing. Yodlee has some features Mint does not and vice-versa.
Because the truth is that this is business and all the people who aren't in on the flash would be if they could afford to be/had the expertise in-house.
I drove by today on El Camino and I thought it looked naked. Now I know why. Freaky. That said, I had a diseased oak lose a limb , if it had hit someone , or my car, it would have really done some damage.
That's just the problem -- they do massively more maintenance than any other software project ever to exist.

They waste nearly all of their effort doing the fussiest of tasks. The root issue is the pointless 'version' freezes -- they end up forking every single upstream project, being careful to never backport features (only 'bugfixes', which are never really so when isolated from context), and aim for a zealous consistency in the wholesale removal of any features which conflict with their ideology.

I used to get pissed off when the Debian people quoted astronomical figures about how many LoC are 'in Debian', but I got over it -- they really do wear the hair shirt.
Well no because this is how exchanges have always worked. You can look anywhere and see this, TV, the web, stock prices are delayed by 20 minutes. Market participants get them without this delay and no-one's ever had a problem with this. So the principle of paying a fee in order to get faster access to pricing is well-established. This is just taking it to the next level.

Secondly, anyone who wants to can do this, they just need to pay the fee. There is zero evidence of a cartel.
Textbook example of a strawman attack. A social networking entertainment startup will probably "change the world" about as much as your granola lover will.
One of the things I love about the older bits of town here in Padova is that stuff is 'fractal' in the way you describe. You can look at some old buildings and see the interesting and somewhat random ways different portions grew together. Up close you can sometimes see an old fresco or a fancy door or something. You can walk around and see stuff you've seen before and not get bored by the sameness of it all. I think it's healthy for your brain.
They didn't have to work for the proverbial Man before they got rich, really. I would surmise that one of the reasons they started Mint was to avoid having to work for what most people consider to be the Man (e.g., typical corporate jobs). Not the only reason, but I imagine it wasn't last on the list. Talented, ambitious people have this option available, even without being "fuck you" rich, by joining companies that don't suck; the option they don't have available is "do nothing." Not all work is thankless toiling.

And you don't need FU money to have more than one option available that prevents your family from starving. Others may disagree, but I thought this was a bit hyperbolic and cliche. There are millions of shades of gray between $170 million and poverty, and I can't imagine the Mint guys, and their families, were going to go hungry if they didn't accept this deal.

But I get what you mean, and I'm inclined to agree with your larger point. The founders of Mint aren't beholden to anyone but themselves and their shareholders, and I wouldn't expect them to put their lives on hold for my comfort, convenience, and need to have faith in the goodness of mankind. In the same position, I'd have done the same.

The solution to this, if Intuit completely drops the ball in managing Mint well, is for someone else to launch another competitor to take Intuit on. That gets the best of both worlds, people getting rewarded for creating something great, and people always have another option outside of Intuit.
There's a common pattern in some of the articles submitted here.

Intro (may be >50% the total length): interesting concept, visualization, statistic, or anecdote (that I've seen dozens of times by now)

Body: (sometimes barely related to or supported by the teaser) - some random piece of advice in the vein of the author's coaching business.

It's the tactic of a parasite, and apparently effective, too.
So, leeching your appz directly will cause no need for dmg?

(-:
Just about when Vonage announced that all calls to India is included free in the plans ... sucks!
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I found this fascinating. Does anyone have any knowledge of any other programming languages/environments that focus on time in a way comparable to that suggested in the presentation?
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As for the whole list, it's just a list of plausible theories to me; unfortunately, it would take quite a bit of tedious research to approach figuring out what's quackery. Could you recommend some high quality research (or surveys of it) for any/all of the above?
From the conference page (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/) it seems like the talks were recorded by infoq who recorded last year's talks. If they follow the same method as last year these talks will slowly trickle onto the infoq website over the next few months. See http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit for last year's talks.
I think it's fair to say that 37 Signals' aspirations are, at best, orthogonally related to profit maximisation. They're there to enjoy building things they like, their way.

No, I'm not some sort of Kool-aid drinking acolyte. But ultimately, I'm trying to do the same thing - to have fun and do what I find fulfilling, at the expense of considerably faster and more lucrative routes to making more money - so I can appreciate their general angle.
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This is already implemented on the iPhone.

The main reason they haven't done it on OS X is that it would be completely backwards-incompatible. They should have done it in Snow Leopard (an easy choice if your app uses GC), but if they did they didn't tell anyone. Instead they added optional zip/deflate compression to HFS, and used it for most of the system files.
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I don't know anything about Intuit's history, management structure, internal bureaucracy, vision, or product direction, so it's hard for me to say anything critical about this post in any level of detail.

In general, though, I would point to something that ought to strike anyone with an outside angle on the culture and worldview pervading the tech startup community and much of small business: there is a rather Messianic complex of exceptionalism, particularly with innovation.

While it is certainly true that large companies necessarily homogenize business processes and impart well-known characteristics of "mediocrity," that's exactly what they do best: optimise for profitability. Large organisations are very good at extracting value from existing things. They are also the only ones with the capital to bring many innovations from an incipient level to mass-market; that's a large-scale, and very capital-intensive endeavour.

I think startups often like to imagine themselves leaders in innovation due to hypothetically negligible distribution and replication cost structure introduced by the Internet, but that's a silly thing to extrapolate to a universal. It really depends on what the product is, and certainly on the nature of the innovation. There are a lot of modern conveniences, well-known products, appliances, brands, etc. that would have never seen the light of day - in a household name sort of sense - if they had been left in the stewardship of the original creators. It takes a lot of money - and, indeed, a lot of thankless, cheerless, rather bland and unremarkable process development and management - to get the escape velocity.

My point is that without knowing more about Intuit, I am not convinced, ipso facto, that Mint is going to die a mediocre, bromidic megacorporate death simply because it was acquired by a much, much larger company. That doesn't necessarily follow. That it will undergo considerable change and adaptation to the business imperatives of the acquirer is almost certain, but whether that will turn out to be utterly horrible or something quite pleasant depends on the quality of the acquirer, not the mere fact of the acquisition.
Freetard wankery is the only reason there is more than one place to get debian packages.

Fuck debian-legal. I hope their heads fall off.
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The black background really makes it difficult for me to read for long periods of time :/
Alright, so Jason's post was a bit more vitriolic than it needed to be, but I don't see how this contributes meaningfully to the conversation except as a cheap-shot to attempt to discredit Jason.

You seem to assume that being a hugely profitable company is the right thing to be, and that anyone who isn't is bitter and requires a outlet to vent about how their failure isn't their own fault.

What I've seen 37Signals blog posts advocating is building a business such that it is enjoyable enough to run that it doesn't matter if it has a potential multi-million dollar exit. There is nothing wrong with them advocating such a philosophy, and nothing wrong with running a company that holds to such a policy provided no one involved was bullshitted about the terms.

The terms that Mint was running on are different, though, partly because there are investors and founders involved who entered into the deal expecting a profitable exit. Nailing them to a cross makes no sense, because their goals weren't the same, nor do I think they were ethically compelled to be.

But please, let's not make this conversation about flinging one line barbs at Jason and 37Signals so they can send one line barbs flying back. All that does is raise the heat level in the room.
On the other hand, the Mint guys worked for 3 years, earned $170m, and now they can 'enjoy building things they like, their way', for a long ass time without needing to answer to anybody except people who use their product.

I'm not sure what's not to like about that. The real question is about what those 3 years were like. If they kind of enjoyed them, that's just gravy.

(Of course, I'm aware of Survivor's Bias here. Not everyone gets bought for $170m.)
Why do they need to be named differently at all? One is a directory, the other a file -- no ambiguity.

The Finder and LaunchServices are the only bits of code that care anyway.
I get that. Really, I do. But they keep saying it over and over again in a public forum. Who are they trying to convince: the reader, or themselves?
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What would have happened if Mint had said no, and then Intuit made a bigger offer to Wesabe (and they accepted)? People who were already used to using Intuit products might be tempted to try out Wesabe instead of Mint, making it that much harder for Mint to convince such users to give them a try.

That's not to say Mint did any of us a favor by accepting Intuit's offer, but their decision may not have come as easily as you think.
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For me, 10 million dollars would be enough to satisfy all of my personal and family needs: house, vacation money, pay off close friends' debts, tuition, health insurance, etc. More money just means more good that can be done in the world for my larger human family.

Also, it is likely that nothing was going terribly wrong. The exit was only small for the later-round investors, who also made a killing on their investment, though not as extreme as the earliest investors.

A company should always have a sell price. Intuit met Mint's.
No argument with that. I was just offering a way to look at the "shut up, you've just got sour grapes because you're not making loads of moolah!" line.
Wow, shocking. I can't believe Intuit would pay $170 million for something that has a single point of failure.

Wonder how much those access rates are going up :-)