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Most are saying roughly the same thing (which I agree with)...If you're interested in working at startups, you'll learn more through your own startup. If you're interested in working at a big company, an MBA is worth more.

The only thing I'd add is that an MBA is to prove you've been taught certain things. Just because you don't go to school to learn them doesn't mean you can't go out and acquire the knowledge pretty cheaply (A good starting point is here: http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Day-MBA-Step-step-Mastering/dp/068...).

Between books and the wealth of business advice from proven successful people on the internet I'd think you could do better than an MBA if you try
You can see the start of this with the XBox market place where you buy downloadable games.

If Apple had a app store for a next generation AppleTV, it would be a very interesting platform.
I suppose it depends whether a reliable open platform (i.e. Android) gets established and achieves a critical mass of developers behind it.

Could happen :)
I think JWZ has some of the details wrong. The Palm app catalog may resemble the Apple app store. This is not a bad thing. This is a repository of apps that are easy to find and install from the device itself, and it carries a certain seal of approval from Palm/Apple. There should be quality requirements for this distribution channel.

However, there is no "2nd citizen" app store. What Palm is doing is providing a link to your app that can be posted anywhere that will do exactly what JWZ wants: install the app on your phone when clicked. There is no charge for this link, and the app is not reviewed. Palm is simply hosting the app for you AND providing over-the-air updates for your app. What you don't get is the on-device distribution channel.

(Disclaimer: I work at Palm, but am not in developer relations. These are my opinions; I'm not privy to information on this topic outside of what you fine folks have.)
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Yeah. I'm so in.
Actually, Apple makes a mint on every iPhone and iTouch (see http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/06/iphone_3gs_cost...) to the tune of about 50% of the retail price, or 100% of the manufacturing cost, whatever way you want to look at it. This excludes all research, development, and marketing of course.
I met Dan at a house party last summer. He was a great guy. I only talked to him for a few minutes, but he and his cofounder ended up leaving Boston just a week or two later. I just got an email with the news from a mutual friend, and I'm at a loss of words.
actually, news.yc is not "community-moderated." users have some input, but it is vastly subordinate to the power of the editors. it is them that sets the overall tone of the site. if it wasn't this way, we would have been overrun by trolls long ago.

if your account gets killed, you email pg to find out why. he will almost certainly reinstate you, if you agree to stop doing whatever it was that got your account [dead]ed in the first place.
The article's writer likely intended the "merely" to indicate that the "deterministic" nature of a program is not affected by the "mere" fact of the parallel execution of its parts.

I believe this distinction between deterministic vs. non-deterministic execution is the critical aspect.
I only use that button when I copy/paste a URL using the mouse.
I really think his interpretation on the "second citizen" app catalog is completely wrong. I've read the palm release and it doesn't say that at all..

JWZ had a very valid point the first time around, and he got everyone's attention, deservedly so. But in Part II he comes across as being whiny and rude, even misrepresenting the Palm press release.

Maybe he's just angry and needs to cool down?
Good point! At the moment I am playing around with realtime data and displaying it according to a users preference. The data is being taken from other websites (Not a twitter app!) and is using Oauth to access several external websites.... Some collaborative fuctionality like diagramming and also charting. Using SQL 2008 as well. I'm only playing and was re-evaluating / thinking of trying a new language :)
languages with side-effects cannot be automatically parallelized without changing the semantics and introducing observable nondeterminism

Considering I spent years working on automatic parallelizing compilers for Fortran and C++, I'd say it is possible. I don't know why you consider the heavily computational kernels of C programs less interesting just because they don't have side effects or make IO calls.

For instance I worked on some algorithms to parallelize linked-list traversals, something that you would normally think is by definition serial.
Generally, threads are difficult to use because of what is known as the shared data problem. With threads, generally some global data structure is shared among all the threads. These threads write to and read from this data structure, and those operations are interleaved.

This means that if not careful, when a thread is reading data, that data could be corrupted by a another thread writing data into the same data structure. This in turn means that threads need to lock the data structure when they are accessing it so that other threads can't get to it.

This leads to a whole host of potential problems that can be very difficult to debug because many of them end up depending on subtle timing differences.

Processes avoid this because they can't have shared data. So instead the problem is broken up between processes and message passing is used to share data in between those processes. It's something that generally makes life easier to understand and steers clear of problems that can be very difficult to reproduce and debug.
My biggest problem with your argument is that you haven't presented any reason to get rid of X whatsoever. You've pointed out that somewhere in X.org or supporting drivers there are issues, but that's not a problem with X11.

If you were to say "we need to write a new X server from scratch" I would be somewhat with you, at least your point supports that. And if you were to say "X.org needs more bug fixing and better drivers" I'd wholeheartedly agree.

But throwing out X11 alltogether is just... stupid, at least for the reasons you mentioned.
I don't necessarily agree that you should only get an MBA if you want to work at a large company. Getting an MBA from a solid business school allows you to interact with a lot of smart people with similar interests that you can both learn from in school and call on in the future. Furthermore, most small companies value MBA educations and will pay you more if you have one.

Finally, there's a lot to learn about business that you might not want to learn in the middle of starting one... areas where mistakes can really cost you like accounting, finance, and negotiations. Business school might help you avoid many of those mistakes or teach you how to deal with them appropriately if they do occur.
Ditto.

I also made a skype call from my laptop via a tethered cellphone and the quality was noticeably better: the cpu speed of the phone was more of a limiting factor than the 3g data speed.
Really nice comment Tom. I agree formal education can get your foot in the door of a big company. I also think that a lot of people underestimate the role that a big company can have in helping you fine tune your skills with a safety net of sorts. They can also give you opportunities and exposure you might not get otherwise. Saying that working for a start up can be exciting and you can learn so much from just doing. Also I see you work for a not for profit. I also work for a child focussed charity dealing with children that live in extreme poverty. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on making software/ web... in your part of the woods
Read the New Yorker piece http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/insid...
What he wants is basically what Palm is giving him, except for one point..

The device won't install apps directly off the developer's website - it will only install apps either through the actual app catalog, or through a free link that somehow goes through Palm. However they said that they would provide these links for any app, even without any formal review process. Really, this is a good thing.

Why? Because Palm needs to be able to yank an app if it turns out to be malicious. They are doing this to protect their platform, and it's a reasonable security measure.
Slightly tongue in cheek, but I wrote http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/08/12/the-cheapest-mba-pro... and I mean it.

if(target==bigCo)
MBA = true;
I suspect that this is not an uncommon tactic for some start-ups, iPhone app developers, etc.
> I can drag and drop the dual monitors in the display configuration screen today. I was able to make this work with a few text file edits in 1998.

That is the problem. Linux can do everything that Windows can but it takes a hell of a lot of time to sort everything out.
That's interesting thanks for that. I do have 2 points though.

Firstly that you do really have to include R&D cost - I bet that adds a reasonable amount.

Secondly that your using the retail price of the phone; I don't imagine Apple gets that full amount per sale. Plus dont forget upgrades - my upgrade phone [it's coming tomorrow. woo! :)] is costing £50 ($80 ish).

However; good link. I stand corrected, sorry.
It's a pretty common belief. I've seen it numerous times online, not sure if I've ever seen it tested though.
Google's Better iPhone
The $99 fee is basically the same as what it costs to become a developer for the iPhone. The $50 fee for being listed in the official App Catalog is different, and feels like a good alternative to me since they also have the free distribution option. This should help avoid the App Catalog getting over-crowded with a ton of really poor cheap/free apps, and hopefully means the App Catalog will attract developers producing the higher quality applications.
I didn't say that side-effect-free program kernels are "less interesting" - I said they were beside the point of this post. (But I do think they're very cool and important in their own right!)

The GHC developers' point was that restricted side effects are necessary for automatic parallelization. Your answer seems to be, "I can parallelize languages with unrestricted side-effects... in sections where you restrict yourself to a side-effect-free subset."

Yes, I'm happy when a C++ compiler automatically optimizes my inner loop. But I'd rather be able to use "par" at the highest level of my program, and parallelize anything from XML parsing to physics simulation, without worrying that some library call ten functions down the stack will turn out to be non-reentrant.
I've been using Vision 6 [1], the biggest one here in Australia. Started writing my team's weekly business email about 12 months ago - it adds value to my clients, and both potential and alumni clients get great value from work which is scalable. 'Nobody' visits my blog, but hundreds open my email each week.

[1] see http://www.shirlawsonline.com/blogs/322-eeek-marketing
Sorry, I'm sure I misrepresent the mechanics of how liberally issuing patents is supposed to be a protectionist policy, but it was clear to me that was the guiding principle. I do understand you have to file in multiple domains. But it does at least protect for Chinese (for example) products being sold in the U.S.

I can't provide reference since my post was based on what I was told by a patent attorney. I had reason to believe this guy knew what he was talking about as he is very well known/respected in his field. His description, close to 10 years ago, is far better than I can conjure up on this thread.
I will be there !
Could you share the algorithm (or a link)? I'm very interested.
Gladwell is not talking about the heritability of IQ on an individual basis; he's talking about IQ differences, or the lack thereof, between races.

It's entirely possible that there is some factor of intelligence that is mostly inherited and that whites, blacks, Asians, etc., on average, possess equal amounts of this factor.
I'm lost. I'm getting a rotary. Or maybe one of those phones where you pick it up and tell some nice lately who to patch me through to.

I am being facetious, but in all honesty, I truly am lost. Between the various smart phone models, regular cell phone models, OS's, and the PLANS, it's just a cluster, and it's tiring.

Don't get me started on PC processor naming.
Although I believe you're wrong about the actual utility of this kind of data sharing across processes (and also making exaggerating claims about complexity), I might change my mind if you provided a specific real-world reference example.
ajax commenting.
Also, the majority listed (though not the racetams) are stimulants, either related to amphetamines or e.g. ritalin. Those are generally understood to have troublesome side effects.

Getting enough sleep, exercising regularly, and eating well will have a much bigger impact.
Dilbert Principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_Principle
If someone could build an alliance to get this into next-gen TVs without a standalone STB, they could rake it in. Weather and news apps, live TV guides with video previews, games, photo viewers, etc.

Maybe a modular, generic box to include in the manufacturing process, with built-in wireless or ethernet plug, ability to update firmware via the net, and a central app store and paywall.

Alternatively, just build it as a STB with a fairly killer feature out of the box, loss-lead on getting them out there, and control the app sales. The 360 is probably the closest thing to it, but it's large and expensive compared to what would gain greater market penetration.
I read your article when it was posted and that prompted me to post these questions today :) It also raises the question as to whether the money to pay for an MBA is worth it. Could you start 10 small companies with potential for success for the 150k. But then again if you did the MBA or PhD maybe you'd only need to start one company to accomplish your goals. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result and all that.
I agree with you. Its sad that we have taken all this stuff as being "normal". From start ($99 fee) to finish (30% of sales), they are ripping developers off. They should be paying developers to build apps that are resulting in more and more sales of these phones.
If you are so certain about your understanding, good for you.

I was asking whether you can set terms that limit my rights? You are not government, right?

I don't think you understood my 2nd question at all.

No, as i said, I was not concluding anything.
I don't know if that's complicated or not (it's hardish for me)
The '!?' was aimed at Mr. defunkt who said that

nginx relies heavily on system calls at the expense of portability

Its a oxymoron as you cannot expect a C application that mostly do network and disk i/o not to use syscalls. That said, the author of nginx does an admirable job of reducing the numbers of syscalls and make the application as efficient as possible. In this context a syscall i.e. a kernel call is heavy and something one want to minimize.

The blog post on the other hand was talking about using syscalls from Ruby. I can understand Ruby programmers who wrinkle their nose at this. If you want your Ruby application to be portable then using, for instance, fork is not the best idea. In fact, programing anything long lived such as a server in Ruby is not the best idea. The GC in 1.8.x leaks memory over time and it is a common case that Ruby servers has to be restarted often as they consume all memory on the machine they run on. Adding fork on top of this is bad. A fork will copy the whole Ruby interpreter into the new process and you will end up with a lot of top-heavy processes - not a good idea unless you sell RAM. Basically, using Ruby as a systems programming language and for applications that are long lived is a bad idea.
Ask HN: Need a Terms of Service template for online marketplace
I'm building an online marketplace for users to sell goods to each other. (e.g. craigslist, ebay) The business model is closer to ebay in that a small % transaction fee is taken after each sale. Do any of you have terms of use that I can customize and use until I have the cash to have a lawyer draw up a custom one?
It amazes me that stimulants continue to be called "cognitive enhancers" or "brain-enhancing drugs." ...Really?

Focus and persistence do not equate to intelligence. Not by a long shot, and certainly not at the cost of awareness and creativity.
I really wish people would stop buying into closed platforms. Hook a computer up to a TV and be done with it.
I know a few things about the China patent office. Chinese businesses are getting a greater percent of their applications approved than non-Chinese filings. I have not heard the U.S. being accused of favoring U.S. businesses.
Classic! I have one of the Dilbert books and I remember this particular comic vividely.

I saw this behaviour where I use to work before, the very very technical people who are great at their job don't get promoted because the team depends on them, on the other hand, mediocre employees get promoted because them leaving won't disrupt the workflow as much.
I'm lost. I'm getting a rotary.

Will that be AT&T or T-Mobile?

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/06/portable_rotary_pho...
Indeed, some evolutionary biologists believe that IQ differences exist to allow for dominance and inter-group stability.
Why would I want to develop anything complex?
Another guy and I will be there as well.
It might not work today, but if one day we create strong AI, we can create (a disinterested) one called "the Environment", and give it the property rights to everything not currently considered private.
Sony sued over PS3 update that supposedly bricks consoles
Evgen, the system isn't letting me reply to you directly for some reason, so my apologies if this garbles the thread.

What you have written is so riddled with logical fallacies I don't know where to start, but I'll give it a shot.

You said: "There is a difference between pain response and suffering. The latter requires the consciousness to know what the future has in store for the organism."

Your redefinition of what it means to suffer is entirely ad hoc (and just plain weird). The word "suffering" describes a pained state of being. One who is suffering need not have any beliefs whatsoever about whether or not that suffering will continue. They need not even have a word for it. If you contest this, I suggest you look in a dictionary. And by the way, no creature "knows" what the future has in store, not even members of your delusional humanity. By your sloppy ad hoc definition, then, nobody can suffer. What a meaningless little semantic game you play with yourself.

You said: "Animals can be abused, but very few of them have the level of consciousness required for the abuse to be 'torture.'"

And the trivial game continues. Once again you redefine common words for your own ad hoc convenience. All of a sudden, in your view, one must have some vague level of consciousness that goes beyond the feeling of intense pain in order for the abuse one undergoes to be called "torture." Of course, this is not a part of the definition of "torture." Moreover, you say non-human creatures can be "abused" but not "tortured." That is some pretty... tortured... logic.

You said: "You can pretend that animals are people too all you want, but wishing it to be true does not make it so."

If by "people," you mean "humans," obviously nobody has made the claim that a cow is a human. Straw man fallacy. Also, you are conveniently defining "people" as the only beings who are worthy of deep moral concern to argue that humans are the only beings worthy of deep moral concern. That is, you've assumed a premise that is identical to your conclusion, committing a blatant, egregious fallacy of circularity. Forget about proving your point; you haven't even made one.

With that, I'll throw your own words right back at ya: "Wishing it to be true does not make it so." Quite.
it's not about patent. it's about easy money. imagine if Eolas can make at least 200M for each company they mentioned
YouVersion Live - interact with live events using your mobile device
Updated from Feedback - RateMySite: [coffee][talk] san.francisco
Thanks to everyone who offered up some feedback. Based on all of the comments I've added a few additional items to the site, while still trying my best to keep to a minimalist approach.
Included now are:
- Twitter connection to auto-update your account (uses OAuth so no username/pw necessary)
- Twitter connection to a [coffee][talk] account (this is similar to watching the table update, but through a central twitter account http://www.twitter.com/coffeetalksf)
- Simple message integration (ability to send e-mail to friend(s) to let them know where you are - secondary to this, toying with the idea of throwing in a GMail hook to grab contacts, any thoughts?)
- Ability to change how long you plan to be at the shop for
- Ability to add what you're interested in/where you're located
- Search feature
- Ability to hide/display add'l details on people in the table

I believe that's it. As always, I appreciate any additional comments!
I've tested a lot of ASN.1 implementations and I've never seen a BER or DER parser that even managed to check lengths or parse pathological OID arcs properly, let alone handling restricted character sets in strings.

You might as well say they'd have been better served with a unicorn.
Interesting, is this yours? Or do you know if the planned rollout includes events other than just Church services?
no bsd?
I didn't even realize any browsers still had the go button. That's one 'feature' that has never existed in safari. Here's a screenshot of safari 1.2, circa 2003:

http://www.codescene.com/browsercam/Mac-Safari1.2.jpg
"... positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented. Fear and sadness have immediate payoffs—protecting us from attack or attracting resources at times of distress. Gratitude and joy, over time, will yield better health and deeper connections—but in the short term actually put us at risk. That’s because, while negative emotions tend to be insulating, positive emotions expose us to the common elements of rejection and heartbreak. ..."

Don't worry about your Startup, it will probably fail. Celebrate every milestone, have fun.
hristov didn't really answer your question. I'll try...I am not a lawyer, but have paid tons of money to them over the years ;).

Bottom line is if you sell the product in the U.S., you can be sued by a U.S. patent holder. If you absolutely know you are infringing before you go into the U.S. market, I don't know what to tell you. If you do not know your infringing or there are any number of patents, like so many software ones, that are so encompassing you may be, then your in the same boat with just about anyone else writing software, so go ahead and take your chances.

As to your second question, "if not necessarily me then someone in the distribution chain", I have no idea which party can be held liable and to what degree.
A gift card also lets the store track your purchases (unless of course you give it away).

The anonymity advantage of cash is that it cycles through the register in a non-deterministic manner. If I buy a $20 bill (serial number 123) from an ATM, and it later winds up at PotMart, that is not compelling evidence I went to PotMart. If I bought a prepaid cash card and it was spent at PotMart, that indicates with decent probability that I purchased some weed.
Will it be possible for me to host the app so users can download directly from my server?
I second that. Google Voice + Gizmo5 is working pretty well for me on the iphone using siphon. Free incoming calls (gVoice click to call), call quality is not to shabby, slight delay but its manageable. without using any cell minutes.