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You can still technically write someone in as a cofounder -- both in terms of equity and pay.

You can give someone the amounts of equity and salary which are normally given to cofounders, but that doesn't make them a cofounder. The word "cofounder" doesn't say what you do; it says what you did -- specifically, it says that co-founded something (in this context, a company).
It's the natural result of the spate of 'iPhone developer gets rich' articles that were popular several months ago.
Carl Sagan.
Maybe we should pass parameters in registers... :-)
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pg, because this is a cult. ;)
Depending on the state, brandishing a weapon, which is exactly what he did, is itself illegal. All you have to do to brandish is show it. Did I mention IANAL?
Yukichi Fukuzawa anyone?
No it doesn't. You're just playing semantic word games.

If I incorporate a company one day and bring you on board the next day with half of the available founders equity then would you argue that you're "just an employee" because you weren't there on the day that the company was incorporated?
Jesus, because the world would be a better place if we were more like him.
If you wish to make a hero from scratch,
you must first invent the universe.
I know this was probably to provoke a reaction but Jesus as I understand him was a revolutionary who pushed people to stop following the established religion and financing its greed and instead to start living a good life. In this sense he was like Martin Luther in that he envisioned decentralised religion as the ideal - moral living for the masses not blind expensive ritual controlled by the few.

But I could be completely wrong.
Albert Einstein. The greatest scientist ever lived.
Just a little factoid, because I think a lot of readers here might be too young to know the significance of the title of this rant. When Windows 95 was released, Apple took out ads in major newspapers worldwide with the text C:\ONGRTLNS.W95.

I remember, because back then I was a 15 year old rabid Apple hater who stumbled on the ad while browsing the business section of the newspaper before heading out for school and the ad got under my skin :)
I'm so glad you said that, because I was primed to think only of entrepreneurs. But in many ways — especially the most important ones — Mr. Rogers is a better guide. Seriously.

This video of Mr. Rogers is a huge help if you're ever in need of a pick-me-up. I always go back to it during the occasional rough patch. Like my sibling post, I should warn that it will make you cry. But in a good way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcvRMHz4mb4
Thomas Jefferson.

A man who saw the world as it could be and did everything he could to get it there.
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"Of course other people had different and contradictory books, all claiming equally fantastical fiction as 'THE Truth'..."

Interestingly enough, the solution to that was to have the emperor sit everyone down and make a canonical version. Perhaps management theorists need a Constantine?
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You're just playing semantic word games.

When did attempting to maintain consistency in how the English language is used become playing semantic word games?

... would you argue that you're "just an employee" ...

No, for two reasons. First, I wouldn't say just an employee, since I don't consider that word to be derogatory; and second, I wouldn't stop at saying that I was an employee (unless I was deliberately attempting to obfuscate) because that would fail to mention a large equity stake. I would probably say "early employee", "co-owner", or something else along those lines.

But if the company was founded without the intention that I would be part of it, I would never claim to be a co-founder.
Really? Where did you get your CS degree? I thought complexity theory is an essential part of any algorithms module, and an algorithms module is in turn an essential part of any CS degree. I'd hate to have to hire a CS grad who hasn't taken a class in algorithms.

Are you sure you didn't just not turn up that day? >:)
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Leo Szilard. Had the idea for fission chain reaction, realized what would happen if Hitler got hold of it, and kept his mouth shut... while browbeating the skeptical Fermi into starting the Manhattan Project, and ghostwriting Einstein's letter to Roosevelt.

Right up there with Norman Borlaug and Stanislav Petrov on the list of people you've never heard of because CNN is too busy covering Michael Jackson.
so the 'almost all' in my above is wrong? you basically said what I said, but with your favorite smalltalk GC.
Google Suggest always wants to autocomplete my searches for "site:news.ycombinator.com" as "site news.ycombinator.com pg cult." (try it yourself)

Do people actually search for the term "pg cult?"
I totally agree with you on all counts. Except for the moral living part. It's establishment religious types that promote moralism-- Jesus' whole point is that your good works don't do jack squat.
> While this theory sounds good, it is disproven time and again by initial half-baked versions of sites that then go on to take off. Just check the original launch of YouTube, Digg, facebook.

It is easy to disprove the theory if you get to cherry-pick your examples. Would you like me to list the thousands of other companies that had a couple of poorly implemented features masquerading as a "beta" that were stomped into dust by others who worked a bit harder to do the job better?
I'm a pretty good engineer, and I think I'm better than I am, but I'm pretty sure I'm not smart enough for this gig. Seems like one of the few job descriptions that requires software/hacking skills as well as computer science skills.
Twilio's REST API (http://www.twilio.com/docs/api_reference/REST/) is really easy to understand, very sensible. It's practically self-documenting, but it's backed up with thorough documentation and examples. One can get up and running very quickly because of that. They have clearly spent a lot of time getting the API right.
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I hate to nitpick, but

the computing time required to solve them increases exponentially. In other words, one more city makes the problem 10 times harder.

That's just sloppy.
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If you aren't joking, I want to see this.
And you make a good point. Some will bite.

My pondering was merely a function of - is it enough to build a business?

For instance, if Google wanted to become your one-stop-shop for online desktop-grade web applications (aren't they kind of already? GWT?), developing a tool like this in house would be a fantastic idea as it would increase the productivity of the developers.

But that's Google. The exception not the rule.

How many desktop-rich web applications have "made it." Facebook, Google Applications, the newly exiting Mint come to mind. How many of you hackers here have created incredible technology with 3 hits a month and no paying customers?

I guess the point I'm trying to press here is how many tech companies can exist to feed the need of other tech companies (which presumably make money from other sources)?

Start ups like 37 Signals were smart as hell because they saw the demand for simple services (communication, version control, project management) from a large pool of willing customers ready to cut their costs (other tech start ups).

But where do THOSE start ups get their money? VCs? Acquisitions? (That money only counts if the founders reinvest it in the industry) This begs the question - are the large successes like Facebook/Google/Twitter/Mint/etc feeding a working-class of willing tech "entrepreneurs" for money that simply doesn't exist?

I encourage debate as this seems like a gaping hole in some Valley-Hacker mentalities.
Who is downvoting the man for his beliefs? grow up.
It doesn't if I'm trying to do something at the same time and the logo is in the way. That makes it feel like it takes at least 3 billion times longer to start, just enough time for murderous thoughts against the developers to form in my mind.
We did rework the micro-kitchens, but there's still some solidly awesome junk food there. (pocky!)
Deng Xiaoping. In the pure utilitarian sense, he may have had the greatest positive impact of any person in the 20th century. In a century wracked by war between the ideologies, his philosophy was just the tonic the world needed: "Who cares if the mouse is black or white, as long it catches the mouse".
Joss Whedon.

Because damn, Buffy was a brilliant show.
My thought exactly when I read that part.
No, Charlie actually wasn't into French Fries. They were quite rare. Even now, Fries are kind of a treat.
And there you have it. Given that Pocky is decidedly overpriced and overhyped, the fact that Google's serving it is proof that they're still perk-happy!
Growing up, my mom was basically the smartest person I knew, and it drove me to work harder. She had 2 annoying phrases that really pushed me.

"Tell me something I don't know"

"If that book is so good, why are you telling me about it instead of reading it?"

She was a great motivator.
His biography has been sitting on my shelf for a while, I really need to find time to read it.
Isaac Newton - Newton's Laws, Theory of Gravity _and_ Calculus.

and

William Shakespeare - basically invented modern english.
Paypal has one of the worst APIs I've ever used. It's a useful model of what to avoid, particularly its multiple formats and its flakey and often outdated sandbox testing servers.
A few off the top of my head (most are self-explanatory):

Charles Darwin,
Richard P. Feynman,
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
John Von Neuman,
Paul Erdos,
Alan Turing,
Albert Einstein,
Benjamin Franklin,
Richard Dawkins,
Carl Sagan,
Thomas Jefferson,
Aubrey de Grey,
Eliezer Yudkowsky,
Douglas R. Hofstadter
I think it was an Office Space reference.
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I'll stick with Borlaug. I know singing his praise has become slightly cliched on this forum, but he very objectively deserves it. He's done more for humanity than anyone since whoever it was that discovered how to make fire.
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Winston Churchill. Saved western civilization.
Any reason for choosing abebooks per se? or for why people seem to like this comment so much?
I wasn't sure if you were kidding so I tried it. It's true!
I grabbed http://startup.stackexchange.com/ :)
You could, but then you'd be prancing around the battlefield in a very visible shiny thing. They wear camo for a reason.
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"A spokesperson for Amazon refused to say why the device is not being made available in Canada."

I was hoping the CBC had managed to find out why.
May wish to see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/P%3Dnp#Conseq...

Besides the obvious repercussions (some optimization problems get easier, a lot of crypto and I think most every one-way function turn to junk), P=NP does something else: it means mathematicians are unnecessary.

From Godel's letter to von Neumann, where P=NP? was first posed http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/the-gdel-letter/ :

> One can obviously easily construct a Turing machine, which for every formula F in first order predicate logic and every natural number n, allows one to decide if there is a proof of F of length n (length = number of symbols). Let ψ(F,n) be the number of steps the machine requires for this and let φ(n) = maxF ψ(F,n). The question is how fast φ(n) grows for an optimal machine. One can show that φ(n) ≥ k ⋅ n. If there really were a machine with φ(n) ∼ k ⋅ n (or even ∼ k ⋅ n2), this would have consequences of the greatest importance. Namely, it would obviously mean that in spite of the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the mental work of a mathematician concerning Yes-or-No questions could be completely replaced by a machine. After all, one would simply have to choose the natural number n so large that when the machine does not deliver a result, it makes no sense to think more about the problem.

Being computer users, we should be astonished since we know that everything is math, or can be made math. But here's a restatement from Scott Aaronson http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=190 :

> That said, certainly if P=NP there would be dramatic consequences for AI. For example, you could efficiently find the shortest program that outputs (say) the complete works of Shakespeare or stock market data in a reasonable amount of time. The question is just how much that would do for you — i.e. once you had that short description, could you use it to predict the future or write plays that Shakespeare himself never wrote?
I'd give Chiang Ching-kuo the credit for preceding Deng in that point of view.
I think what the author is getting to is more the transportable nature of the data itself, and that in the past we have repeatedly paid for format.
8-track, lp, cd... or VHS, DVD, HD-DVD...
At the same time, the content of these formats (the actual movies or the music) is available for free, so what we are really paying for is the format.

I think that is what is being said. I had higher expectations of the article, but coming from cnet, I'm not surprised.
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Sola fide is a controversial stance, at best. Consider James 2:26, "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
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Some interesting points in there.
Just speculating but: Rogers. They own the GSM networks here and they are utterly awful. Worse than AT&T.
It's interesting to see just how fragmented the advertising space really is these days.

I think there is a real opportunity for the creation of unified marketing tools to bridge the disparity between all of these (advertising) services.
80% of users use only 20% of software features - but they don't all use the same 20% (according to Linus, anyway).
David Chappelle

I hate that he has faded so much from the public eye. If you've never seen Dave Chappelle's Block Party get it and watch it, whether you enjoy hip-hop or not. If you've seen that and are otherwise interested his Inside the Actors Studio interview is pretty solid too.

He is basically the type of role model I wish I could be someday.
I've been pretty fascinated with the IAmA subreddit lately.
John Carmack. I think I've just always been an Id fan since I grew up with Quake, and I was just blown away the first time I read the Quake 1 source. I have just always dreamed of being a great C hacker like him. And he's doing even more amazing stuff now with Armadillo.
Heck, the Blackberry OS is terrible on even worse hardware, but still manages to sell a metric truck load.
Last night I spoke with the creator of Prey, he told me thousands of people are using it and that about two days ago they had an awesome case here in Chile where they got a lot of info about the robber, including name, email, msn account, picture and other relevant data.
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Indeed it did, and I have read it many times.
I read a LOT about that problem at one point and seem to recall that someone had proven that a naive solution was only on the order of 17% less than optimal in the worst case.
I am sure many of us look to our parents, grandparents, and other relatives as heroes.

For me, I look to my dad as a hero, which is kind of funny considering how often have disagreements. I'm reminded of that line from Randy Pausch's last lecture, "Just remember, when your father was your age, he was fighting the Germans." Growing up I always heard stories about what my dad was like and what he was doing when he was in college, and the stories always seemed so distant. Now, I am going through those same years, and it blows me away to think about what my dad went through when he was at the same point in my life as I am.

Coming to the US with only a few dollars in his pocket, not knowing the language, working full time at bad jobs in rough neighborhoods in Houston, going to school full time in engineering, and building a life based around making sacrifices for the benefit of his family -- comparing this to my own life, which has been free of these hardships ('cept full time school in engineering, of course!) largely due to his efforts, I can't help but be inspired.

Thanks dad.
Is the Hitler story true? Wikipedia says that he got the idea in London, where he filed a patent (!) for the fission chain reaction.

Here's the link to his patent, btw: http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&...
Richard Feynman, because he showed me through his writing that we all, no matter our backgrounds, can be enthralled by the mysteries that surround us.
My father has a daughter with his second wife. I call her my sister, not my half-sister, because I love her and would never want to connote that her value is in any way diminished because we have different mothers.

Sometimes using a label that is technically incorrect is the most succinct way to make a point.
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=865310 for a zdnet article on same topic.
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Take a look at Friendfeed's API V2 (http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation). Not only does it use very intuitive RESTful architecture, but it also has very awesome documentation and libraries.

Of course, now that they're with Facebook the developer support will likely not be as good, but the API is great as it is regardless.
What's a good first step to finding this literature?
Literary:

george orwell
douglas adams
leonard cohen
+1... You learn quite a lot about a wide array of professions, conditions, life experiences, etc.
That is a fairly profound statement when you consider the general state of the American educational system. I never fail to be amazed at how poorly US college and university systems are run. They are full of bureaucracy and little good teaching is done.

I'm an American who's traveled in Europe a fair bit. I've had several conversations with Greek, Swedish, and Hungarian teachers. All were universally critical of teaching in their countries, the main thrust being that it was almost all driven completely by rote. Teaching in greece was so bad that a large number of families hire outside tutors just to teach things like English and classical greek and latin.

There's a Chinese institution that publishes a comparison of all the world's major universities, based on number of paper citations to its faculty. It's been a while, but US
universities held all but 2 positions in the top twenty (Cambridge and Oxford were the only non-US universities). Research is not the same as learning, but its probably as good a proxy as we've got.

Two other proxies would be number of Nobel prizes and number of patents issued. At least in absolute numbers, the US does quite well. Not sure about the more relevant per capita numbers, though I'm certain Israel would crush in the patent category.

While I largely agree with your statement in broad terms, it's too sweeping and doesn't control for things like ethnicity. We will never have great teaching anywhere until we get rid of the teachers' unions.
Well, it's the fact that they can act independently, verses having to seek the board's approval that makes this an interesting case.
Threads like this are almost a poll. I don't see why beliefs can't participate in this discussion.
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I suggest taking your time when you implement the first version of your API. Nothing is worst than developing based on a rushed v1 API, which later gets modified without you knowing. No one wants to be caught calling a deprecated function that then gets removed.

Furthermore, try to keep all of your API libraries up-to-date. For example, I was almost driven crazy by Google's v1.0 Python Spreadsheet library's lack of support for insertion based on case-sensitive row names (See http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/1.0/developers...). There is no documentation regarding the requirement that the row name must contain only lower case characters. The .NET library is v3.0 and appears to offer much greater support for this type of basic functionality.
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You've spent a lot of effort commenting on this post, and I think you've missed the point entirely. In Jacob's and Ryan's originals, the point wasn't to assert that preforking is the right way to structure a server -- that's not really the salient issue. (And I'd suspect that these two -- serious Web devs who are familiar with deployment -- probably are well familiar with {epoll, select, kqueue}-based and similar non-blocking, concurrent I/O servers.)

The point was that, as Rubyists and Pythonistas and Perl hoo-has, we shouldn't be afraid to delve into POSIX syscalls and take advantage of the wealth of functionality they provide, and that our languages have thin wrappers over those bare syscalls that make it easy to write idiomatic code that utilizes them.

The examples were echo servers, for murphy's sake -- are you really worried that we'd have a rash of poorly-thought-through, inefficient echo servers bogging down poor servers across the Internet? They're clearly intended to be simple examples about syscalls not the (yes! very important!) issue of how to handle concurrent connections efficiently.
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Of course that 'solution' eventually led to the great schism and many different versions (king james, etc.). So maybe the deeper truth is that people enjoy arguing?
awesome. I've been looking for something that talks about api design...
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That's not what the article is about. Mac OS X already used file extensions to derive UTIs in the absence of type & creator codes. It's a fine and practical replacement for type codes, in that they both describe the content, but they do nothing to replace creator codes, which can't be derived from an extension. There is no interoperability gain, because again extensions were already the primary way to determine type and application binding for things without type/creator codes, which means everything from other systems.

The point is that the new way is significantly more limited than the old way, which was the way the Mac had always worked. Understandably, this can be seen as a step backwards.
I would definitely pay money for this.
There's a Chinese institution that publishes a comparison of all the world's major universities, based on number of paper citations to its faculty. It's been a while, but US universities held all but 2 positions in the top twenty (Cambridge and Oxford were the only non-US universities). Research is not the same as learning, but its probably as good a proxy as we've got.

Journal publishing and citations are heavily based on social networks and the intricacies of the modern grant system. I really wouldn't trust citations to be a good indicator of research or advancement. A better thing to look at would be the flow of real world improvements that come out of a universities research. Unfortunately, there is no systematic measurement of that flow.
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The heat maps of eye movement were fascinating...I noticed the almost complete lack of activity on the advertisements immediately. Users appear to do what I do, just simply ignore them or try and filter them out.
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