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Whether or not I'm wrong, where are the analogies?

Taxes are indeed forced upon us, but you benefit directly from the system that taxes support. If you do not want to pay taxes, you always have the option to leave the safety of the system (move to another country or declare war on the country taxing you).

Although it is likely infeasible and anti-social to declare war (however, it has been done many times), I don't doubt you could find a country with lower taxes. The issue, however, would then be being able to make the same amount of money as you would in a country with higher taxes. That is to say, you get what you pay for.

Essentially you are discounting (wholesale!) the benefits that you, the individual, derive from having a working system of government. Yes, the immediate and obvious benefits are small, but the benefits that you essentially take for granted, certainly are not small.

I think the quote that life would be "nasty, brutish, and short".

I did the math prior to posting and I do realize that (depending on the sum of money), it could be a very good deal for the investee.

It just seems to have elements of a Faustian bargain.
And maybe part of the reason for that was ctrl-h is backspace and ctrl-j is line feed.
Microsoft had a monopoly on desktop operating system sales. The question at issue wasn't whether bundling unrelated products is bad in principle, but whether it amounted to an anticompetitive practice because of Micorsoft's complete control of the market.

Our memories are fine, you just picked a poor analogy.
Perhaps virtual economies defy the rules of my old college textbooks because, so do real economies? One thing that's become abundantly clear is that, if economists know how economies work, they're not demonstrating that knowledge.

This being said, if one uses a post-Keynesian model, it matches most video games very well. According to such a model, in the real world, any payment or loan by the government is simply a "source", and any payment (i.e. taxes/interest) or loan to the government is simply a "sink". From here, if your only goal is to stabilize inflation at a particular level, you need to reduce sources or increase sinks until such time as inflation reaches that level. This idea gets into trouble in the real world when you have competing goals, but it's probably fine for an MMO.

Post-Keynesian theory has its share of problems, but to its credit, it doesn't start by assuming that the amount of money in play is fixed. That makes it as close as we have to ideal for modeling videogame economies.
In other news, rare space station orbits the Earth. Is 'rare' really the best word for something like this?
Unsupported is a bit strong.

"For pet projects I'd be inclined to give a green light. It's always nice to play with new technologies as it opens your mind and give you new ideas."

I had no success in learning another languages now that I know D... be cautious :p

"For full fledged commercial products you expect to live several years, that's going to be a solid red light. I wouldn't take the risk of using an unsupported language."

I would have said that a year ago, but it becomes less true over time.

You are likely to encounter less bugs in D1 than one year ago. DMD is released frequently, usually fixing a lots of bugs you didn't even worried about.

All problems other than compiler bugs aren't really blocking. There is also bugs in C++ compilers.
Yeah, I was given 20 nominations, and decided to pass them to most of my team, then realized our team is way too big :)

I'm also a little surprised by the author's criticism of having no one logged on at the same time. In our limited application of it, the value is not exclusively in real time communication, but in a better organized (non-linear) communication timeline.
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Maybe they could make it so that you can actually win stuff.

I suppose the jackpot would be 1000 empty bottles crashing on your feet :-)
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For that matter, why did Apple have something like 8 laptop display adapter standards? (before, to their credit, apparently setting on one)
That is what the article says. This thread raises the issue of cell phone fidelity vs. skype (or land line etc) fidelity being a factor.
From the same guidelines:

Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news,
it's probably off-topic.

I'm remaining impartial, not stating my opinion, but I thought I would balance your selective quotation.
It's going to be really hard to compete with Google on these offerings as a 3rd party mobile platform provider or a GPS software provider when there main product is up against a quality product given away to improve the overall advertising business.
As soon as I see people pasting from the guidelines (ESPECIALLY the "anything good hackers will find interesting" bit), I know that the thread doesn't belong here.
Maybe you could have a read at Modern C++ Design by Andrei.
A mind expanding book with incredible insight in meta-programming.

All this "template maelstrom" makes sense and is unavoidable to have powerful and expressive statically-typed languages.
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Of course visual design always comes second to the quality of the actual product/experience, but that doesn't mean design isn't important.

A company's brand is a reflection of their user experience. The main contributer to Coca-Cola's brand, then, is in the actual drink itself. Graphic design, logo design, or identity design is important not because it can really alter the branding or make a bad product look good, but because they can make that branding more apparent to someone before they even take a sip, and guide them towards whatever decisions happen to be the most profitable for Coca-Cola.

So for example, a good Coca-Cola logo would give people the idea that coke is more refined/sophisticated, and is made to be appealing throughout the entire drink, instead of sacrificing total experience for a short rush of sugar flavor. That would get the attention of people who are looking for that sort of drink, and filter out the people who might be better served by pepsi. Whereas, if they had a logo that lead to a greater feeling of spectacle than sophistication, it would be more likely that people who wouldn't appreciate coke would try it (deciding they don't like it and going back to pepsi), and the people who would buy coke would be less likely to consider it.

That's why logo design is important. You may have a great product, but if your visual identity doesn't reflect that, your marketing efforts will be spent fighting against your image rather than running alongside it.
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he mentioned my startup out of the blue. it was cool to hear.
Interesting. I wonder if dcurtis would mind describing some details of the operation. Is the postage being printed too, or are stamps being affixed some other way? And I guess someone is still delivering the mail to a box or post office--would that get annoying?
I used to be involved in some European youth NGO work. Getting participants from outside the Schengen in, just for non-work visits, is also a big nuisance. So at a meeting we adopted a resolution to be put in front of the relevant EU officials that a special youth NGO visa should be put in place (not surprisingly, nothing happened).

If it was, it would have been nice for us, but I have roughly the same feeling then than I have towards this: "We" (not me since I'm not a US citizen and as such don't really get to lobby the US government) are lobbying for something that good for us and "our" people by arguing it's for the greater good of society. But in fact, were we to get this adopted, we'd only further complicate a complicated and broken system.

"Me too" exceptions are poisoning pretty much all areas of the political system in most of the "first" world, and only serves to get in the way of actual reform.

I'd love to come to the US and work for a startup. But I won't subject myself to the uncertainty of having to leave the country immediately if I were to leave that company. The same goes for a transfer under L1. If you want me, I'll come, but don't make me jump through bureaucracy hoops that no-one remembers what are for anyway.
I know YC is all about long term relationships between cofounders. I'm thinking something that would help start that relationship. People could find others with shared goals and similar interests and over time form partnerships. would be a long term project, but could pay off.
The benchmark is a C program. Do any of the clients come close to matching the benchmark?
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I had a beagleboard (beagleboard.org) sitting around in my closet, so I figured I should do something with it.

When you create a letter on Snail, the beagleboard pulls from the heroku database, formats the letter, prints it, and then sends me an email saying it's ready to be stuffed into an envelope.

(Well... sort of. In a perfect world, that is what would happen. Unfortunately, there are some bugs that I am still trying to work out.)
I'd be really curious if anyone has figures on percentage of desktops that were Windows then vs percentage of searches that are Google now.
You have to compare like with like.

At the time MS decided to bundle IE, what was its percentage of browsers?
I actually wonder what is faster. Sending a snail-mail using regular airmail towards the US or sending one through this service :) At least it's 30% cheaper and saves me the time of formatting a letter and walking to the mail-office.
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I suppose if the service gets popular you'll have to find some way to make it pay, otherwise it will cost you a fortune in stamps. Any plans? Or is it "Wait and see.." ??
Yes, it's just about parallelization.

If you meter the performance, even of a C client, in a busy loop, you are really measuring the round time trip, because it's a request-reply protocol, and most clients block until the reply is not ready.

Even using a Ruby / Python / ... client, if you run N of this clients, you'll see that Redis can handle this number of queries every second.
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Love the glowing aura around text boxes. Beautiful design.
The restraints would not be mandated. You can choose to ignore them, but that would mean you would just fail.
Well, the dollar breaks down like this:

* 10c to paypal

* 44c to stamp

* 40c for envelope and paper

I make about 6c on each letter.
This reminds me of the service from the 1980s (was it Sprint Mail?) where you could dial up (over a 300 Baud modem), type a letter, and it would be physically mailed to an address.

At the time, it was several dollars per page.
I agree, except the seasonal "H1N1" flus are not "swine" flus per se. They don't tend to infect swine, and are best considered human flus. All type A flus are, originally, duck flus.
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What about your time? Is that the 6c, or does paypal somehow automate this?
Anti-trust is an interesting area of law and I recommend studying it if given the opportunity.

In the 90s Microsoft abused its desktop OS monopoly to destroy another companies product.

Right now, Google is leveraging its map data to help its smart phone OS. This could be a legal problem in the future if:

Google becomes the dominate provider of such data.

Android dominates smart phones and they change the license.
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Piano Stairs:
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The world's deepest bin:
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Math requires a lot of memorized knowledge to solve anything interesting.

Without knowing the right theorems to use in the proof you are trying to compose ... all your efforts might be futile despite having excellent problem solving skills.

Math uses mountains of knowledge derived over many years by hundreds of the smartest people in history.

You just can't physically repeat their work for the purpose of making your proof. You just have to know what is known so far.

For me one of the most fun parts of educations was non-organic chemistry in primary school. So little to learn and you could attempt to solve problems that twisted your brain like a pretzel (and succeed). I could solve problems my teacher couldn't because I was probably smarter then him and we both knew the same about the problem domain because it was all that was to know.
Okay, I'm totally going to bite on the "find something you don't like in 30 seconds" and it's the hello world example.

void main()
{
writeln("about to do something important");
doSomethingImportant();
}

is this really not going to run doSomethingImportant() if the writeln fails? I find that to be a poor default for a systems language.

This may just be a personal preference, but I strongly want a systems language to do one of 2 things:

1) Require me to explicitly state when I care about an operation failing
2) At compile time ensure that my code explicitly states when it's not going to handle an exception. (Java with this, like so many things, gets it 90% right and then falls on its face)

Silently passing exceptions out to the system is a bad default for something that is supposed to be able to be used to build the system!

Note that this preference does not apply for a large swath of applications programming. For a webapp, it may be reasonable to log any uncaught error conditions to a log file, since we can just signal the client to try again.
I think the reason he points this out is to illustrate the idea that the memorization isn't even necessarily directed towards information which has an direct impact on that person's life and decision making ability
I am definitely sick of the word 'meme'.
Perfect! Now no one will see me when I send my "Dear Penthouse" letters...

In all seriousness, this is a good idea, but you might be cutting yourself short on the profits. 6 cents a letter for probably 5 minutes worth of work? I think you should charge $1.50 a letter and make about 56 cents instead. Overseas business people might still be willing to pay that.
I generally agree, but do you have a better suggestion for how to meet a co-founder if you have a goal and no BFF who is all enthused about doing this with you?

I'm not impressed with online dating sites or the general practice of dating. I think there are inherent problems in spending time with someone for the express purpose of determining if they are long-term mate material. I think it actively encourages deception and game-playing. Both sides will seek to determine if the other is adequate to their needs while simultaneously putting on a facade to try to appear desirable. Many people hide information about themselves that they think might be a deal-killer early on in hopes that it won't be a deal-killer after sufficient attachment has occurred. Yet, America has a 50% divorce rate, so I would say what we are doing isn't working all that well.

I would assume this same paradigm largely applies to co-founder meet-ups. You will both be scoping each other out and both painfully aware of being scoped out and trying to hide anything you think will cause rejection while putting your best foot forward. (Ironically, you may be hiding something about yourself that would make you deemed "perfect" for the job but have no way of knowing that in advance.)

So the question becomes: What would work better? And if you can't answer that, then people will keep doing this (just like they keep dating) because it's basically all they've got.
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Couldn't you argue that they already have used this model before -- with FireFox? Stretching it a bit further, couldn't you say PayPal used the "less-than-free" model by giving their customers money for joining and for sending joins in its early days?
Jared Polis of Colorado is already on board. My cofounder is Canadian.

We invite promising college students so I think it's time we stepped up and invited promising people who skip college.
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Be wary of JPMorgan Chase or Wells Fargo, and I'd outright recommend never banking with Bank of America. I've had business accounts over the years with all of them.

If you have a smaller, regional bank or credit union with good capital adequacy, little/no exposure to construction loans (the next "shoe to drop"), no exposure to sub-prime loans, and strong reserves, consider using them. You'll get better customer service. Just make sure the bank/credit union can provide all the services you need before moving your balances.

The big banks have dramatically raised fees, reduced customer service, and if you ever have a problem you're a nobody unless you have a $100M account.
The equivalent to his complaint would be that nobody was looking at their mail client at the very moment that he sent them an email. Luckily. you don't have to know anything about how Google Wave works in order to declare it a failure!
Professors certainly matter to students. I had one [award-winning] Art History professor who was very accessible despite teaching popular 1st year classes with hundreds of students. I also had a stats prof from China who could barely speak English...
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The CELT developers themselves say "CELT brings CD-quality sound to VoIP-style low-delay applications" but it would be easy to get into an argument about what "CD-quality" means.

On another note, as the other poster stated, AMR is patented. Not everyone includes that in their own personal definition of "proprietary", but the two words are synonyms.
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That's a compiler issue, not a language issue.
Dude, raise your price! The difference between $1 and $2 is immaterial to the buyer (heck, it costs me $1 in lost wages just in the time it takes to fill out the order form). Yet raising the price on your end will result in 1500% increase in bottom line profits. That's a no-brainer. You may even want to go as high as $4.
Thanks for the correction, Walter. As Wikipedia says:

The Digital Mars D compiler is the official D compiler by Walter Bright. The compiler front-end is licensed under both the Artistic License and the GNU GPL; the source code for the front-end is distributed along with the compiler binaries. The compiler back-end source code is available but not under an open source license.
Dumb question: why is turn-by-turn so hard if you already have map data?
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We most certainly do know how to teach problem solving. I do it all the time in my Boy Scout troop. Of course, exactly none of the methods I use would work in the context of a school classroom, but that's as much a critique of our schooling methods as it is of my teaching methods.
Is it just for US? Or can one send letters all around the world?
If this gets popular, you could hire a few helpers to handle the printing/mailing. The job ad could go something like "Work from home. Get paid to stuff envelopes!"

:-)
How fast can you fold, stuff and seal an envelope?
you're almost certainly not going to do anything significant in biology or medicine or chemistry or engineering or materials science or semiconductors or optoelectronics (and even football and basketball) without the training usually acquired as an undergrad (let alone in grad school).

Perhaps this is a direct consequence of the lack of alternative funding? Our society is structured in such a way that you're expected to be doing one of two things at all times: work or school. If you choose to spend time exploring the world in your own way, you're seen as wasting your time and given no support by anyone. As a consequence, this is rarely a feasible choice.

Opportunities such as these are extraordinarily rare, but we have essentially no modern data on how people who have such opportunities fare.

That said, we do have historical data: virtually all academic progress (scientific, philosophical, etc.) has historically been made by the aristocracy -- by people who could spend their time "being idle", neither working nor schooling, and think about big problems.
I do feel that it was sketchy to ignore the rules the way these teams did. However, the restaurants do not have a contract with their customers. If they want to have a contract with their customers, they can, but calling their expectations of what customers will do a "contract" dilutes the term.
And the braid of coax cables.
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The problem is that Governments aren't households. This isn't to say that all the debt that has accrued over the last year is good -- it certainly isn't, but these kinds of analogies really are meaningless.
It could be easier to understand if instead using z-Transform they shown that you could do better numerical second order integration if you take few previous points into account instead of just one as in naive method of integrating twice with forward Euler integration.

Of course purpose of this lecture was probably not to make you understand what you are actually doing while numerically integrating, just to teach you how to put this stuff into simulink that has z-Transform as one of it's primitive building blocks.
Build a API dude. This type of service can be useful to some of us who need to send snail mail to customers when they sign-up, cancel, etc. And I agree with everyone else about the prices. Eventually 6c won't cut it and then you'll have to jerk the price up. $1 sounds sexy, but you need to eat.
A better question is how can you:

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Naysayers to these assertions will likely have the same retort – quality is key. They will argue that Google’s turn-by-turn apps are inferior to their well honed market leading products. ...

I don't think this is credible just from watching the demo. The GPS devices aren't connected to the internet. Satellite data, street view, and maps search with voice are pretty killer. They're ahead of my Garmin on features.

More videos here:

http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/index.html#p=default
Looks beautiful.

Sorry to nitpick. But, in the preview letter page, it reads "Make a mistake?". It should instead read "Made a mistake?"
I understand that. I was gently hinting that the conf. presenter probably was using a (single) client given his audience.

As an aside, from the end user's point of view (assuming the typical end user is a web 2.0 app), the throughput isn't the only consideration. Even with N clients having 100k/s throughput, request latency is likely going to be N* the 1/tps. ~ 0.1 ms is probably the sort of request latency the end user is going to be looking at, and not .03 ms (taking your mac numbers as baseline). Bump up the number of clients and that latency is gonna get higher, even while throughput gets better.

This has nothing to do with redis (which is great). Just something to keep in mind when looking at this sort of performance measures.