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I am you. I'm in my early 40s. I worked for BigCorp 11 years in my position. I had a long commute. I made lots of money. I have a house and 3 small children. I wasn't seeing enough of my kids. BigCorp is outsourcing to India. I wasn't in jeopardy of loosing my particular job, but I wasn't allowed to program. I had to get the work done through the development teams in India. My immediate boss was ok, the guy a couple up from me I considered completely incompetent. I hated my job. I can't tell you how bad.

6 weeks ago I walked into the bosses office and resigned. He tried all manner of stuff to get me to stay. I wouldn't do it. Previous to me walking in there I had been thinking about in my own head. "If they would pay me BIG $$ would I stay on for this latest disaster project, and get my bonus for this year?" The answer was NOPE. So by the time I walked in there the ship was already sunk and my boss couldn't save it. I had no job to go to. Interestingly my boss gave up after a few minutes and told me good luck, and he felt his job sucked to and shook my hand. My co workers also congratulated me and I left on good terms.

6 weeks later.
I have some savings, my house is nearly paid for and my payment is small anyway. I can make it for a while without doing anything different to our monthly budget. I will need to figure out health insurance soon. That is the biggest thing on my plate. Something else happened. I slowly realized that the pain at work had crept up on me a little at time for about 2 or 3 years. I was like the frog in the slowly heated pot, I was dying there. I feel 100% better now. I can't even tell you how much. I have all sorts of ideas that I might try and do. In the spring I will find some sort of job just to buy the groceries. You couldn't drag me back to where I was with a team of horses and I was making north of 100k base, plus bonuses, and nobody was really telling me what to do. Yet still it was not worth it.

The time with ones kids and family are worth way more than the money. Being able to sit and decide what I might do is exciting. I mean I feel the best I have felt in some years, and I am unemployed with no prospects. I am a happy man.

Don't do anything crazy just because of me, but I am you 6 weeks later...
It would be hard to prove carriers are conspiring to inflate date charges incurred by user error. The placement of the services could just as easily be a ploy to legitimately lure customers in. The early termination issue though is a bit more complicated. If the carrier is going to subsidize the phone hardware through a contract they obviously need to have a termination fee. The exact amount of the termination fee is the tricky part. It would be nice if it had some basis in reality such as the true subsidized cost of the phone hardware varying by handset model.
Robin's also released the source to his bot, if you want to run it locally: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:marioai

All you need to run it is the latest competition code: http://code.google.com/p/marioai/
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Read his first comment. Boss is dutch for master or so I'm told so it is an accurate reflection of the lack of control/power (particularly in the U.S. I gather because of health concerns?) an employee has.
Wouldn't faster internet connections make this whole effort moot?
Depends, the first employee of a startup is probably in a different position to most employees.
A friend worked on a gaming company where you train an algorithm to play a fighter in a mortal combat style game. The way you train it is by playing against it. Then you release it into the wild to fight other AIs using your style. When it came back, it was better than you, but not for long.

Product didn't go anywhere, but the architecture could easily be copied. It would be ridiculously cool to build this into Star Craft. There would be so many more people exposed to the AIs if all the knowledge needed to "program" them was in the game play itself.
looks great based on what I've read in product & demos. would have loved to use this in my last project instead of geonames
No, because they would be even faster when combined with this.
But an employee tends to be paid for performing tasks through an abstraction layer. They may make products but the boss does not buy the product off of them, it buys their service.
This looks awesome, thanks for posting this. I plan on taking a look at it and using it for an iPhone app or two.
The "You make what you measure." quote is attributable to Joe Kraus, from a talk at a y combinator diner in 2008.
Basically, they don't know squat. They had one crater and a theory. Then they found a 2nd crater and a new theory emerges. Presumably there's a 3rd crater somewhere that'll require another theory. I think I'll ignore paleontology for another 20 years and see if the theories settle down.
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No, because this would make internet faster over those faster internet connections.
I hope that this type of action will serve to clean up the web in general. Overall, protecting consumers is a great thing.

This case seems easy because these are real companies committing the fraud, not random Russians who populate a lot of spam.
Sure, I guess “accident” is a vague way of putting it. I mean monospace sucks, but it sucked in a way that people could take advantage of until they relied on it. Now that we have ncurses, it’s hard to call it an accident.

I could complain the same way about practically anything. Cement. Unix. C. The genitive absolute. But granted that great things are made out of hacks, some hacks are uglier than others, and monospace is pretty darn ugly.
Kevin Rose thought that because he had such a large following on Digg that it would just naturally become popular.

Here is his other site: http://wefollow.com/
I was thinking about sending this to my GF till I read that line. Now I will just post it to facebook and assume she read it.
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My wishlist: a Perl successor that takes the functional path, not the OO path (like Ruby). Also, one that plays well with either C/C++/Unix or the JVM, for deployment practicality. I think I want Lua + ML in one.
I disagree with the author that a nerd lives to build things -- rather, a nerd is just really into non-mainstream stuff that the public understands is important but isn't for them.
I think it likely that eventually they will find that the evolution of a new, better adapted animal caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Glad you find it useful! Yes, you can write data to the API via custom views. See Demo 1 at http://code.google.com/p/geo-api/wiki/Demos for an example of writing check-in comments to locations. Full user view API docs here: http://code.google.com/p/geo-api/wiki/ViewUser
Let's hope more and more free and open-source software make x86 compatibility a need of the past.
Do it like Facebook
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But what about the chi^H^H^Hlawyers?
This is a great video - 100% worth watching.
Not if they were arguing over whether he loved his band more than her. Android app - boom - evidence overpowers doubt.

But to go from that argument to insta-lay, he probably also needed to pull some puppy dog eyes, and maybe reminder her of the flowers he bought that day for no particular reason?
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I first met my wife at a getting-drunk-on-tequila party, if that answers your question. :)
I actually was going to start a new thread about making Karma a currency. Happily, I searched this thread first.

I would also add one item to the list. Make all comments cost Karma. If you are saying something that you do not think has the potential to be upvoted, just don't say it.
Interesting

Could you have a site just for music that also helps bands get their music into Itunes Store, Amazon etc, and then makes revenue from referral links to those stores. So on the bands site, the only advertising are links allowing people to buy that band's music from iTunes or Amazon
It's all up for grabs, imho.
I made a rough diagram like this a while back kind of tongue-in-cheek: http://files.dangrover.com/hierarchy_of_work.png

I think if I were to make a blog post or something out of it, I'd have to change a few things
At a certain point the semantics of the content get translated into an output format. In a browser it's italic. In an iPod it's ignored.

The semantic tags are the means, but output presentation is still the end, and there's certainly no reason to expect that all devices can take the original semantic markup and use CSS or some other mechanism to present it. And because of the semantic meaning we can make the em disappear with confidence.
Clinical psychologist do not prescribe drugs (at least not yet), so your concerns would only apply with psychiatrists. Clinical psychologists help individuals tweak the ways they think and behave using "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)", a therapy the author of this post might benefit from.
Curated != Censored.
If making a crappy iPhone app is your definition of success, you and I define success quite differently.
I was never under the impression that Microsoft alone killed ECMAScript 4. My impression was that pretty much everyone except Adobe was dissatisfied with the process and the resulting standard. I wasn't particularly impressed with what I knew about it, either, to be honest, though my knowledge is limited, at best.

The 5th edition fixes several earlier specification failures, that led to incompatible implementations, which will resolve a number of issues with having to maintain multiple implementations of code to support multiple JavaScript engines (though this is less of a concern on the server-side).

JavaScript 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9, as found in Mozilla browsers, include block scope (with let), generators ala Python, more object methods for Array and String, etc.

JavaScript already had closures, first-class functions, reasonable scoping abilities, etc. The biggest arguments against it seem to stem from the fact that everybody has to dip into the global scope a little bit, and that OOP primitives are somewhat...primitive. But, both can be reasonably worked around, even in current implementations. Packages and modules, and advanced OOP have been implemented independently by dozens of people (much as various OO patterns have emerged from Perl's OOP primitives, including Moose, which I know you agree is the current Right Way to do OO in Perl...even though it is not part of the core language). All the major JS libraries that seek to address such things have some sort of module/package and namespace functions built in.

ECMAScript 5 even introduces a strict mode, roughly akin to strictures in Perl, and even uses roughly the same syntax to turn it on ( "use strict"; ) and it is available with function scope.

So, assuming it becomes no longer mandatory to dip your toe into global scope in every program or library (if only to start your own namespace), JavaScript will have no major issues that I'm aware of. Block scope is already more than most dynamic languages have (Ruby and Python both still lack it, as far as I know, though Perl has it), and I'm guessing that since it's been in the Mozilla JS for some time now, it's inevitable in the spec.

Anyway, despite any missing features or misfeatures you might perceive, there are already hundreds of large (hundreds of thousands of lines of code) projects in JavaScript. I just think that adoption will accelerate and expand to the server side, particularly as the few remaining issues are resolved.

I wonder what concrete signs you see that make you think that all the money and effort (which is orders of magnitude larger than the amount being spent on Perl, Python, and Ruby combined) won't result in a language and implementations that are adopted widely for a large class of problems currently being solved by Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc.?
JRuby seems quite slow though. Definitely not 'close to the JVM' like Clojure. Perhaps we could say it's the speed of the JVM versus the speed of the JVM with an elephant sitting on it ;)
I'm really interested in this. How do you deal with stopping doing something you're half way to getting good at (c.f. it takes 10 years to get good at anything)?

- Are you just a freakish genius,

- or do you not consider the feeling of mastery to be essential to happiness,

- or do you continue to build up existing skills AND turn your life upside-down at the same time?

I'd love to be able to turn my life upside-down, but I'm addicted to getting better at certain things and would hate to stagnate..
Wow, this post hit a nerve.

I felt the same way two years ago, so I'm starting a company.

It's called The Fireworks Project, and it is a member owned and member managed corporation. We're formed under the Vermont Project (http://lawlab.org/digital-institutions/vermont-project/) as a digital corporation.

I work from home, I'm married, I'm 31 years old, I have a 6 month old son, and I'm really excited about what The Fireworks Project is building.

Check it out (http://www.fireworksproject.com)
I was on the bus this morning, found a copy of SF Weekly, and read this article. Very interesting, especially in the approach to framing the Apple "monopoly of the OSX". It will be interesting to see what the courts say.
I just had to accept that my self-identity needs to change

You're a brave guy, that takes guts.
Spreedly seems great, as soon as they get PCI compliance they will be an even better option.
Will you charge in the future? Will there always be a free plan with a limited number of hits?
I don't own my home, I don't have lots of savings, I have a job with a difficult boss. Because of the hours I work and commuting I barely see my children. I am utterly unhappy with my life.

This does not seem to be an unusual position, a lot of people are in the exact same boat.

The simple and somewhat contrite answer is, stick it out while looking for a better opportunity. The better opportunity could be working for yourself or for a great boss, it doesn't matter. The key point I'm trying to make is that you're not unusual and it's very common to be in exactly your situation.
Only if your self-esteem is tied to your wealth. That would be a shame.
I disagree. Talk to grad students who both don't want to quit, but also don't see any viable paths to graduation. Being in such situations - where you feel stuck - for long periods of time can lead to depression.
Okay. I tried to find the author of the quote and the top Google result now points to HN.
Is it from the book "Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity"?
Locking you into a pass for six months means they don't have to have as much cash on hand to deal with uncertainty. So they can invest additional cash in securities with 6 month terms.
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What is the name of this operator?
Correction. This event doesn't only support the Nemesis hypothesis.

More precisely it is evidence that something caused excess asteroid activity 65 million years ago. And therefore is supporting evidence for any theory which could explain that. Nemesis is the best known possibility, but is far from the only candidate.
Well I'm 40 and I've seen a number of people drop comments that make it clear that they've been around long enough to not be kids.

That said I'm sure there are a lot of bright kids around as well.
I'm the author of the blog, so if anyone has any questions on the topic shoot :-)
What was the name of your application? When was this?
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Ahahaha. Are you going for Sociopathic Posturetalk, or sarcastic Gametalk, also by a sociopath?

In either or any case, nice!

Edit: Oh, you're serious. Oops. Well I enjoyed reading it as sarcastic gametalk ;-)
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In my Windows days, I used SciTE, and coded all day long in Tahoma. It was a dream. I think it also shaped a big part of why I don't ever try to "line up" code with spaces, favoring logical indentation with tabs instead.

iTerm and TextMate can't handle variable-width fonts, which makes me sad. At least I get my pointy serifs with CentSchBook Mono, though.
Why reverse geocoding but not geocoding?
Is that not why he sends out the information in multiple ways? I count four right now: video, audio, full transcript, and a key points overview. What other ways to present a long interview are there? Are you looking for every question indexed and clickable as a link that seeks to the question in the video? That might be cool for a second viewing when you are looking for a particular answer to a question but for overall watching I think his site is pretty flexible.

Note: This is not a criticism of your comment... more a call for clarification.
Recommendations for stock option compensation for a startup.
I am considering a job at a new startup where I would be playing a very integral role in the product development. The company has not yet secured any external financing and is funding the project out of pocket right now so cash is limited. They are offering me a salary that is about half of the market salary for my skill set with no other benefits other than 1.25% stock options. I will be their first employee. The company also has no valued worth currently as we are working on software. I am trying to figure out if I should ask for a larger percentage of the the stock options considering the salary is 1/2 market rate and that I am playing a major role in the company. Does anyone have any advice?
Actors for Clojure has been mentioned as a future feature, but this would be for remote procs. Clojure has Agents for local async state changes, but these are only used when you need that feature, not ubiquitously. You should ask on on the mailing list - people have worked with osgi and maven.
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Well, that's what science is.

First there's the observation. Then there's a guess. Then there are tests, and sometimes more guesses. Then more observations come along, and everything gets revised.

This is in contrast to faith, where the individual picks the conclusion that they like, and then tries to fit the evidence to it.
We weren't clear about the definition of a "seller" in the Venture Hacks post. I'll revise to say something like,

"The seller doesn't have to be a "salesman" or "business guy". He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs aren't salesmen, but they are sellers."
I've been tossing around the idea of something like this. I don't know if it would be able to compete with something like last.fm, but I think allowing bands to quickly throw up a profile (with the possibility of styling to their liking), then taking a percentage of whatever is sold through the site wouldn't be a bad idea. Bands get exposure and a place to communicate with fans. Fans can discover new artists without the amount of ads MySpace has. Everyone wins.
I recommend listening instead of reading it for those who sometimes find self betterment books hard to stomach.

One of the reasons this book is easier to digest then a lot of its modern equivalents is that because it is old. It's easier to seperate fad from truth. It evokes less troublesome emotional responses for the same reason that the Trojan War evokes less troublesome emotional responses then the war in Afghanistan. Listening seems to highlight that.

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Who cares if it's "slightly embellished"?

Me, if that's my $1.1 million on the line.
Didn't Bill Gates sell a product to someone(IBM?) before they'd a single line of code written?
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Are you technical? Are you one of the few technical people on the team. If so, depending on the type of stock being offered, if founder's stock, 5% seems to be a pretty well-liked number.

If a startup's success depends on the team, then you have to figure out whether or not the current team can pick up additional skilled people. If you're the first technical hire, most likely you will be responsible for gathering a team (though not always). But in either case, you are directly responsible for the value of that stock.

Are you willing to give it everything and make that 1.25% be worth something? Or are you going to sit and rely on hope & expectation?

$0.02
The sticking point with this, as with most geo APIs which depend on non-free data, is the terms of use:

"The data in the API is our intellectual property or that of our partners who provided it to us. It is not yours and we are not granting you any broad license to use this data outside of the use of the API."

"You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to:

a) cache, record, pre-fetch, or otherwise store any portion of the Company Content or attempt or provide a means to execute any "bulk download" operations;

...

j) make requests against the API that are not user initiated;"

http://code.google.com/p/geo-api/wiki/TermsOfUse
Is there any way of knowing how much use your app is getting?
Justin.tv has about 15 engineers (counting designers who work on product as "engineers") and we have 30 million unique users, so our ratio is almost 2 million to 1. This is definitely possible.
I don't understand why everyone is worrying about this. Sure, it's a lot of accounts banned, but they were people who modded their consoles..

Every site I look on has something discussing this.
It looks good but my biggest unanswered question when I saw it: What's the difference between this and the Google Geocode API?
Wasn't Pownce the software where they were using string functions to round floating point numbers?

Doesn't sound like the sort of engineering know-how that would lead to a scalable system.
One difficulty is that qualified co-founders are probably already looking for _their_ idea's co-founder :) Quoting a @venturehacks idea for solving this: get them to work part-time on your startup until you win them over!
It seems that you look down on those who work as salaried labor. I would not want to work for you. I hope that whatever project you're working on can be done with just you and a cofounder.
That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking, with the addition of helping bands get their music into the various online stores.

So yeah, give it a shot. Sounds like there's a market there if done well
why is nobody talking about the fact that google adsense runs the exact same scam ads? they even run on techcrunch, twitpic, mashable and many other "reputable" websites.
Another example: Simon Peyton-Jones and Simon Marlow, which make up a huge chunk of power behind Haskell and specifically GHC, are Microsoft researchers. (Although Haskell and GHC are not Microsoft projects, they get paid by Microsoft to work on them.)
Google gives one metric: The number of "active installs", which is a percentage of the number of downloads. For the paid app, it's 82%. For the free app, it's 59%. I presume that once the free app expires on a users phone, they uninstall the app, which partially explains the lower active install rate. In hindsight, this may not have been such a good idea, because it's possible (though I haven't confirmed this) that the active install rate is accounted for in my ranking in the app store.

For the free version, I also have the app ping my server whenever it is started. I think I may publish some numbers for a later post.
That illustration is way off in the clothing styles. Today's conservative is the one more likely to be in a t-shirt at home. The stainless-steel kitchen liberal will be dressed like Steve Jobs.
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