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The beta is a closed proprietary system, but it won't always be that way. Google created a proprietary implementation of an open protocol and has created an open source client/server implementation.

Check out http://www.waveprotocol.org/

It's my understanding that you could implement your own wave server which could then interoperate with Google's wave server.

The "Google Wave" web client that's in beta now may always be a proprietary item, but it's my understanding that you could create your own wave client as well.
And so would the clothes they are ostensibly wearing.
I was making an obscure movie reference.*

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I'm sorry I can't convince you, but I've done both, and I know that insights are given in both realms, doing things by hand, and using the computer. To throw away one is to lose an advantage.

The point of doing the expansion of (x+1)^8 (to continue the example) is not to get the answer, but to see the patterns building. You say you can do it easily enough by using Pascal's triangle, but finding that insight alone is worth the time.

Just last week I saw someone differentiate x^(1/2) by using a calculator to convert 1/2 to a decimal, putting it at the front, then carefulyl subtracting 1 from it, and getting 0.5 x^(-0.5). Right answer. Then they did the same for x^(1/3) and got 0.334 x^(-0.667) and got full marks. Follow the process by rote, and don't think.

I know I'm fighting a losing battle, because "Get the computer to do it" is too easy. What is lost is hard to see, and once it's gone it's impossible to regain. I wish I'd learned a langauge when I was 15 or younger, instead of now when I'm nearly 50. I'm constantly surprised that I can get answers to questions far, far faster than my colleagues and employees using techniques I learned when I was 12. I'm not using experience or any great gift, I'm using what everyone was taught in school at that time.

It's still useful. Perhaps I should be grateful that these skills are disappearing because I'm certainly never out of work.
What's so inherently wrong with being boring or not changing much?
Java having lots of jobs isnt a good metric, because theres lots of jobs also means theres lots of people applying, in fact I would say a good reason to not use Java would be to simply weed away (some) people applying
Tell that to the woman who is desperate for a mate.
Finally a software manifesto I can get behind
Thanks for the link. This actually makes quite a bit of sense both in the way google has done business in the past -- with Chrome and even the Google Chat server, and of course from an adoption point of view.
Resumes cannot 'capture' the 'actual' work experience.

they need to do a dummy project after the matching to see for themselves how well they gel together!
I was hoping for an actual comparison instead of a bunch of dirty sales laundry.
Agree 100%. It's a great series with many good talks. One of my all-time favorites is from Tom Kelley (IDEO) on being an innovator for life: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2054
#1&#2: One reason is money has already been invested in tooling, so if everyone stops using connector A and starts using connector B, connector A will drop in price (down to cost of materials+labor) and someone will say "Why are we paying twice as much for connector B?" This goes for metric vs imperial, power supplies, rotors, wheels, and so on

#1&#3: If you come up with a new design, you get royalties if others use it and you don't have to pay royalties to someone else.
There is one problem with the correlation citet by Peter Norvig: since the persons that got a 1 on one of the interviews and are hired are not a representative sample of all candidates that got a 1 on one of the interviews, the real predictor for success is probably not the interview score, but the fact that one person in the hiring process was passionate enough about them to pound on the table and insist that they were hired.
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Just don't make it too smart, or it'll eventually learn that it doesn't need to listen to its imperfect human masters...
So, you've basically proposed slavery, then?
LOL - happy to help - I've worked similar systems before. Another good idea from the top of the comments list was to let somebody totally co-brand the post, backgrounds, banners, etc once you know who your target should be - good luck and do a follow-up post after you experiment!
Background music makes [certain] people less edgy, they relax, silence makes people nervous and feel confronted to engage in conversation. People talk more if there is music on than if there isn't. Music, as you mentioned, affects mood.

And in fact music in supermarkets annoys me too. Over a certain level I find it impossible to concentrate well enough to remember what I set out to buy. Or to remember that if I want Yorkshire puddings I'll need flour and eggs and salt.

Ha. They've done their research!

We no longer play music/radio at our pottery studio except at private parties as PRS said that's allowed without a license. I tried some CC music but found it was poorer than mainstream and couldn't find enough good stuff. I like the quiet but it does inhibit people.

Personally I grew up with ready access to peace and quiet and I miss it terribly now I live in a city.
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I agree that the invite process is all wrong, but for a different reason.
Google should be encouraging users to invite others for a practical purpose, ie working on a project together. Having a specific purpose in mind when being invited to Wave would greatly help people understand and evaluate the usefulness for collaboration.
Instead, people just clamor for invites to try out the hyped new thing by Google rather than to fulfill any real need they have, and then click around randomly, use Wave like a chat, and get annoyed when "nobody's online".
They're setting people up for disillusionment and disappointment this way.
Typically for the guardian there is a worrying amount of misdirection in there...

It's postulation that really has no current possible proofs; so therefore, well, quite useless.
I loved NS1!!! One of my top games for the last decade.
Well, the boss suggested to invest much of what you have early on, but on things with (perceived) returns. Sure, if you can get from 0 to product with nothing more than the laptop you already have, and if your money buys the unknown amount of time you'll need, this sounds like crippling.
I think you can also rent them from Cornell University's Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, at least if you are willing to let them take measurements for their research. Not sure if this project is still going on, but if not perhaps they could at least point you to some resources.
It's not crazy, but in the US, it would require that you register the securities (possibly each person?) with the SEC, or only take investment from accredited investors (http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm). This could well increase the overhead enough to make the project infeasible.
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Well, there is opportunity cost

That's the succinct version of my first thought: "Because one was too busy making something instead of learning languages for their own sake."
I wonder if they can release a virus that brings you up in hives that spell out their company name ... incredibly creative.

One of the other companies present needed to hand out branded flyswats ... perhaps a computer company "we kill the annoying bugs before they get to you!".
Yeah but the guy said explicitly that he was comparing the two providers. It's like me walking into a Ford dealership and saying that I'm trying to decide between a Taurus and a Chevy Malibu.

Direct comparisons would be reasonable and helpful although you'd be a fool not to vet them afterwards. If a competitor is missing a feature (24x7 support in this case), I'd say that's absolutely fair game.
I like Hackathon events better because you get an opportunity to work with other devs.

Google Campout and Startup Weekend are good hackathon events.

On a related note, who's going to DataCampSF next weekend?
That's probably taking it a bit too far; but if you fund yourself by borrowing from someone who will cut off your right hand if you fail to pay him back, you just may work harder to make that money.

This is an old idea. From the Art of War: "At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him. He carries his men deep into hostile territory before he shows his hand. ... He burns his boats and breaks his cooking-pots."
I meant in general, that would be the case where you fill out the form and don't get an invite. Then you would go to beg on Twitter or ebay. Of course I am not complaining that I didn't get an invite without even applying.

Still, asking a woman "would you like to sleep with me" also only takes 5 seconds, but there is a lot of dignity to lose if she says no.
Also IMHO these are just weird feet - the toe next to the big toe, is longer than the big toe :/ Which isn't usual IMHO.
I remember seeing the Google piece and thinking it was a good idea then.

I can see the progression now:

1) local farmer rents out some goats as an experiment

2) seeing positive feedback, local farmer sets up a business breeding goats and renting the herds

3) seeing the success of farmer #1, other farmers set up their own local businesses renting goats

4) one enterprising farmer optimizes the business model and starts acquiring goat rental agencies and setting up regional "goat herding hubs"

5) enterprising farmer gets funding from a prominent silicon valley agency to scale this industrious idea and take it to the masses

6) enterprising farmer's enterprise is acquired by multinational farm equipment company (think "John Deere")

:-)
What is meant by intuitive thinking?
I think it is a signal to noise filter issue. I was at Startup School this weekend and everyone I met was awesome in some regard. I'm sure lots of cofounders met for the first time and everyone expanded their network. You are right that many of these cofounder matching events become lame, they just need filters like the one at SS.
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Based on the spelling, I take it that you're drinking it while working on your costumes?
Can you think of a better mechanism for seeding a finite number of slots to social clusters than giving everybody X invites to share?

From what I hear, the people at the start of the chain have nearly all of their friends on Wave, while the people at the edges (us) have only 10 or so at the moment. As more invites go out the system will get more useful for us

Although I have many questions as to the actual utility of wave, I don't think the invitation mechanism is really at fault.
Maybe on Wall Street, but elsewhere you make a lot of money by creating something people really want, but not generally what they wanted.
From an excuse point of view, its definitely a metric for a 'good' programmer 'without' a job.

I would highly recommend against selecting a technology because you want to weed out applicants who are misfits. A better option would be to have a strong hiring process.
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It was cool to meet you all at startup school! I laughed so hard when Paul Graham had that slide about how a co-founder was like a full time relationship without the sex.

It got me thinking back on why I quit my full time job a month ago to work on Outspokes (http://outspokes.com). I think what pushed me over was how much I enjoyed working with my co-founder Arthur. I thought I'd take a break from yelling at him for once and actually write something nice about him :)

http://whatcodecraves.com/articles/2009/10/30/first_month_of_first_startup

I'd like to hear from other people who started companies. How were your co-founders? Did you guys fight all the time? If it didn't work out, what would you look for in a co-founder the next time around?
I believe they tried to get around this problem by giving each person 10 invites. Some people sold them, other people invited their friend or team which made it more useful.
Even if you want to be very direct about your competitive differences, you can do it without ever stating an overt negative. Just say, "ask them if they can XXX", or "ask them if they really YYY". Then say "we can, and here's why that's awesome:".

One very simple reason why the direct comparison is a bad idea is right there in the blog post: Heroku falsified one of the Engine Yard guy's claims, and blew his credibility up. There's always a risk that can happen to you when you badmouth a competitor.

Be subtle about competitor flaws, and very very overt about your benefits.
"(unless they open this protocol to other companies)"

http://www.waveprotocol.org/
You could do it in Austin.
Sure, and it's why we need to have both regulation on the front-end, and courts on the back end, to discourage attempts to "game" the "system", so that people's actions which benefit themselves are also beneficial to the society at large.
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I think the article is merely suggesting that a previous study (Lindeman, Aarnio) proposed such a mechanism.

At the very end, I infered the proposition that the intuitive-thinking trait[1] is correlated with superstition because the two share the same cause.

[1] The phrase "higher intuitiveness and lower analytical thinking" has a rather glaringly ambiguous "and" usage. It could be replaced by "or," "in addition to," or "and therefore." The last, which is the only interpretation requiring opposition of thinking styles, strikes me as the least likely.
The primary thing you need to know about holding your breath is that there's more oxygen capacity in your blood than there is in your lungs.
Also, do they tell the people they hire what score they received on the interview?

Perhaps the "1" people feel that they have something to prove and consequently work harder.
Skepticism is good and the only way to find out if something like this works is to try it.
Mogile relies on a central mysql db for metadata (e.g. replica locations) so it doesn't scale well at all, especially not when your workload emphasizes many small files ( because then you exhaust mysql that much faster relative to your disk capacity).
did these people read the latest essay from PG?
(http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html)

you'll want your co-founder to be someone you know from some time before trying to found anything with him/her. you'll be a couple (or a threesome, or...) and a serious, long-lasting relationship can't be built on a blind date.
What do you think StartupSchool is for?
How do you get your electricity in towns where there isn't a lot of sun, or where they're going through a temporary rainy bout? Do you have to run a generator during the days? (I imagine the locals would frown on you running it during the night.)
"...Duct tape over maintainable code"

Oh brother.
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>As far as a restaurant is concerned, why would they really care? It might annoy customers, but as long as the tables are still filling up, I feel the restaurant is more than happy, because they're still making the best of their available resources (tables and wait-staff).

It's scalping. It raises the cost of a dinner in the restaurant without additional gains for them. Obviously restaurants would not go this.
"she hands out two artificial constraints"

But that's very important. People are constantly working under ... and handing out ... artificial constraints. Getting outside the box is one of the most important lessons. Who could possibly want to communicate but be limited to only 140 characters?

The US spent a million dollars to develop a pen that could write in no-gravity. The Russians used a pencil.

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally."
But not a better venue, sadly.

Snarkiness aside, constructive criticism:

Somewhere accessible by train and car would be ideal. Downtown PA has, at best, mediocre freeway access and parking.

Somewhere quieter than a bar or pool hall might be more conducive to conversation.

As much as I'm ashamed to admit it, the "trendy" impression I have of Blue Chalk is a personal turn-off. Besides, I'd want my potential co-founder to be frugal enough to avoid such an establishment pre-funding.

Perhaps something like the Hacker Dojo?
Well, here's another approach. We can solve the halting problem for any finite TM (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1052796.1052798), so let's imagine we're looking at a possible BB, n. All we have to do is run all the possible programs, and see whether of the halting ones, one is bigger than n.
Yeah I can't really imagine hiring someone that I haven't worked with before. Odd they don't really mention that.
But it was an excellent post, and the slides are worth looking at too.
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false. adding toppings and shit you don't need is why youre fat and not moderating it. I lost 45 pounds and I often had fast food. The calorie count is what matters. Couple in dedication and consistent exercise.
I have the upmost respect for Mr. Wilson, but no technology-centric VC fund with strategic investment goals in the sub-decade range could ever be considered "slow capital" by the Buffett standard.
There's knowing Java as in having a grasp on the language syntax itself and some parts of it's standard libraries (and of course OOP, as I think most would agree it's a sine qua non for a programmer nowadays), and then there's knowing Java as in JEE and the miriad of associated apis, frameworks and tools. While I (as an employer) am not interested in the later, I would pretty much expect any decent programmer to be familiar with Java at least on some basic level.
There was some confusion since Gmail invites take effect immediately but Wave invites just put people on a waiting list; this turned out to be not as bad as it sounds since apparently the waiting list is moving pretty fast. Even a few days delay to get your team on Wave is disappointing some people, though.
I was relieved to see actual data points rather than a bunch of anecdotes.
On my daily commute to school I pass through miles of pasture, and I've noticed that each day flocks of sheep are being rotated. I guess it's a win-win for the owner of the sheep and the owner of the land.
Desperate for someone to mate with, or desperate for someone to pay the child support? The former would be easy, but I suspect most women who are feeling lonely are really looking for the child support aspect.

As the blogger told us, it is increasingly becoming a non-issue as women are better able to earn money themselves.
It sounds as if you're coming from the perspective of an academic advisor.

Yes, and I appreciate your response and the diversity of responses here. The only programming language I formally studied, a good long while ago, was BASIC, and I'm still wrapping my mind around what personal productivity problems I could solve by programming (as contrasted with being a power user of other programmers' software products). I do have occasion to talk to young people about career planning and academic goals through my math-coaching nonprofit organization, my new occupation, and through a statewide parent organization about education of able learners. My involvement with people in the next generation is what prompted the question.

Would it be fair to sum up the joint agreement of everyone here that one should always be eager to learn that which might bring about greater personal happiness and career development, without being squeezed into a mold by arbitrary requirements of an educational program?
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Hm, to set up the experiment properly could become an entertaining experience :-)

Edit: really, though, what is the actual experiment here? If all external aids are allowed, the only lesson left seems to be to think outside of the box.
But that wasn't what they were asked to do. They weren't asked to develop the best sustainable business model with 2 hours and $5, they were asked to come back with the most money.
Making money.
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I was reasonably healthy and fit in college. After five years of sitting at a desk, I realized I became rather unfit, and accordingly I've been on a reduced-calorie diet the past few weeks.

I've had quite a bit of fast food, especially Wendy's. Down about 16 pounds so far...
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If you change two things at once, you won't know which change led to the response.

(I say this as an idiot who released _three_ big changes today, and is trying to work out which feature the feedback relates to.)
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I think you are right and wish I could take back what I said now. :-)
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Virtually any woman (regardless of all but the most extreme physical/personality/etc. deficiencies) can find numerous mates at any time, she just has to wander into the nearest nightclub, bar, mall, etc. Of course, most of these men aren't going to meet her standards in one way or another but, the point is, on a biological level reproduction is not a challenge for women...sperm is not a scarce resource. This is true both historically (dating back to caveman days) and in present times.

The difficulty is that women usually aren't just looking to reproduce, they're looking for someone to support them and their potential children, thus the high level of selectivity.
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Total shit.

a) BMI is not a good measure of anything. It is based on a flawed methodology [1]. Look at athletes for a concrete example.

b) The data they provide is pretty random and is generalised too much by country to be relevant. If it was all people plotted as points it might have some value, but not just countries. Not enough data to be reliable.

c) I'm fat and I don't eat any fast food. Everything I eat, I cook. Most of it, I grow! I do scary amounts of exercise. Why am I fat?

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1062684...
Associated Content pays a certain amount of money per 1000 page views. If you post original content with them (ie not posted elsewhere) you can also get a few bucks up front (like $10 or $15 -- I really do mean a "few" bucks). Or you can forgo the up front money, republish it with them, and get a little money for the page views through them, plus link back to this page from the approved article if you want.
Or, just not bother and keep your SPO2 up and healthy :)
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Thank you for removing the "FAIL" non-sense from the title. So sick of that meme.
I'm sort of surprised by this. I live and work in the bad end of SOMA/Potrero and I've seen a lot of crack downs in the last 8 years. Admittedly it happens when RVs tend to group up for long periods of time but I have seen the police swoop in, impound and tow.

Might be different if it's just a single well maintained RV.