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Outrage fatigue: www.theonion.com/content/node/30624
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Thanks to both. Added to my wishlist.
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Matt Mullenwegg is a University of Houston dropout. Steve Jobs went to Reed College.

Traction solves all other problems. Make something people use.
Nicely done. Interesting (but true) jab at FP towards the end. Sometimes C++ is still the best tool for the job.
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I don't know if Craig is "anti-business" or not, but it doesn't appear he's "anti-making-a-ton-of-money"

Check out the tax returns for the foundation:
http://craigslistfoundation.org/about.html

It's safe to assume the site makes a whole lot more than $650k/year, so not a whole lot of it goes to the foundation. Where do you think the rest of the money is going?
If anyone is interested in knowing, Iwata was at HAL Laboratory (before recently moving to Nintendo proper) where he programmed such games as Kirby, Earthbound, and (at least the original prototype for) Super Smash Bros.
If you look at their tax returns, $650k of it went to the foundation. That's spare change relative to their probable earnings.
"He found that Cox Communications charges $2,500 to fulfill a pen register/trap-and-trace order for 60 days, and $2,000 for each additional 60-day-interval. It charges $3,500 for the first 30 days of a wiretap, and $2,500 for each additional 30 days. Thirty days worth of a customer’s call detail records costs $40.

Comcast’s pricing list, which was already leaked to the internet in 2007, indicated that it charges at least $1,000 for the first month of a wiretap, and $750 per month thereafter."

Ah, now I see. It's a profit deal.

I suppose if the police just demanded the information free, the telcos would cite the Constitution. But since they're paid ...
The Streisand Effect has more to do with calling attention to something with your efforts to suppress it. The fact that they are trying to block the FOIA requests is putting the spotlight on themselves in a greater way than just releasing the information would have.

The Streisand Effect as defined by Wikipedia is the same thing. People set up mirrors and spread it all over the place in reaction to the the heavy-handed attempts to suppress it because: 1) people are rebelling against the heavy-handed attempts to censor the information and 2) the heavy-handed attempts to suppress the information call greater attention to the information in the first place (i.e. more people hear about it and join in on the attempts to spread/mirror the information). The effects of (1) wouldn't be so great without the effects of (2).

In this case, the actual information isn't out in the wild, but the attempts to block the price lists from being released are drawing greater media attention to the FOIA requests.
Check the Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis (AGORA)

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and post there. Maybe there will be people interested to help.
"Iwata: Donkey Kong involved jumping, as did Mario Bros., so you felt that Nintendo were the real originators of this kind of game.
Miyamoto: I did. I went as far as thinking that jumping is an original idea and that it should be patented! Anyway, I thought: "Right, I'm not going to let those other games top us!" (laughs) We had done tests where a large character jumped around with the blue sky in the background…"

Now, close your eyes... then, try to imagine a world in which nobody other than Nintendo can legally sell a game which involves jumping in some way (unless they have a license). The terror.
True, there are people constantly judging a musician, even people who have no understanding of the art; however, when a musician is really really good, all that practice pays off in big ways (full stadiums, fame, riches). The best programmers of our age are not celebrated with even remotely the same amount of fervour.

Additionally music is recognized as a legitimate, serious form of artistic expression. Complete strangers can have deep conversations over people they've never met and techniques they don't understand. If you bring up programming as an art form, a lot of people will just laugh. Start talking about closures and their eyes glaze over.
Very good tutorial on one of the recent Code Jam problems. The solution does at first seem mysterious, but the article does show how it works nicely.

Browsing through some of the solutions to the code jam, c++ seems frequently used. It is also sort of amusing to see how many participants apparently have a stock set of utility code. There is a lot of use of the STL to do things just as the article mentions.

The inventor of STL did have some fairly scathing words to say about OO programming.

Also, speed does sometimes matter, as occasionally the large data sets do require a bit of computational power, and you are under a time limit.
To those who have said and are going to say that the time they have spent isn't worth anything, it is. The time you spend on your start-up is time you could be spending working a paying job, be it a "real" job, a freelance job, a consulting job, etc. You time is not free!

Now there is nothing wrong with this. You are investing your time into something you believe will be worth it in the end, but don't think you time has no value.

Evaluating how much your time is worth is another question though.
I believe that this kind of thing is why Congress, the courts, and regulators do not break up certain industries even when there is clear cartel or monopolistic behavior.

It is just so much easier to control an industry sector when there are just a few large players.
This is a good place to start: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/

It's a rather broad resource, but to be honest I'm just starting to get into the subject. My earlier snarkiness was caused by frustration at how quickly people are willing to dismiss feminism or make sweeping generalisations about it, without bothering to learn much about it.
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Huh? Those prices are for all taps. If a court orders a wiretap, how are telcos supposed to resist, and on what grounds? "All wiretaps are illegal?" This says nothing about how prevalent illegal wiretaps are.

There may be some profiteering going on here (see the discrepancies between Comcast's prices and Cox's prices), but where is the illegality/immorality in complying with a court-ordered wiretap and charging money so that each wiretap doesn't end up costing your business money to implement?
Disclaimer: I had full-time employment to put a roof over my head and food on the table for the entire duration I've had a business.

$58.17 of my own money, spent in the one month before I had enough sales to fund all business expenses out of incoming revenue.

If I had to do it over again, I'd tell my younger self that the "bring it in for under the price of a video game" discipline was worthwhile, but $500 or so on icons, visual design, domains, and directory submissions in the first few months would have made my life much easier.

If you (somewhat arbitrarily) say having a day job is cheating and that my basic living expenses were de-facto invested into the business, then I'd estimate I probably spent something on the order of $15,000 of implied investment prior to ramen profitability. I think that is a pretty useless statistic but, hey, full disclosure.
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This is an interesting question because I spent the better half a year ignoring consulting work and focusing solely on our mobile software company. So if you include opportunity costs, you could say about $60k was "spent" over the course of about a year (about $5-7k or so was hard cash, the rest was 6-months of not doing service-related work).

The company became ramen profitable pretty quickly but I went back to doing part-time consulting work to maintain a lifestyle. As the AppStore grew exponentially, our apps pretty much remained ramen profitable. We missed our opportunity to make a bigger return when we launched our first app in Nov/Dec 08. Part of that was my fault based on how I setup the company, and being way to tolerant of lack of effort from developer-partners. Fortunately I learned my lesson with my own money.

We received angel funding about a month ago to start a new company, we'll have 1 (maybe 2) apps on iTunes but we won't be solely dependent on it for our success. This will let us stay focused on making a really fantastic mobile app, not only for Apple but also for Android and other platforms.

Right now I'm trying to decide if I should sell my former small business on SitePoint or something. I'm not sure we'd get much for it but it would be nice to put a nail in the coffin since I don't have time to really maintain the company. Anyone have any experience with small sales like this?
Thanks, it is a gold mine. Interesting to see huge variation in October and November revenues.
Well, it's not selling crack cocaine, but hey, its more than Twitter.
Well that would be stealing, the same as if you walked out of the room during a commercial.
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Another interesting stat: their conversion rate (paid/all users) is 3.38% (62/1830)
On the topic of games moving to the cloud:

perhaps the next generation of game machines will be lightweight clients with games run on the server. I'm picturing XBOX designed for MMORPG's and similar.

Agree/disagree?
Sorry, I was sloppy. The more taps, the more profit. You can make more money from warranted taps plus unwarranted taps, instead of just warranted taps.
I think comparing TeX to twitter is a serious insult to TeX.
What motivates one to expose all their internal business data? Call me an old fart, but I just don't get it... can someone please explain?
So long as removing regional networks is only a temporary solution (as they move towards a better privacy implementation), then there's nothing wrong with their approach to a production issue.

It's a bit unfair to expect them to rollout the perfect fix for security. This could have been a simple mistake, where one team pushed out a great new feature that had unintended consequences.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they were working with Palantir (ex-paypaler company) and using their fraud detection software, since PayPal has already been through this whole ordeal, its probably a much more solvable problem now than before, at least someone has figured it out.

The interesting thing here is that PayPal made all their margins by encouraging people to use bank accounts rather than credit cards because they made almost no profit on credit card transactions. I'm interested in how this revenue model will work out, it seems like merchant services providers have arrived at their current model of business (arduous checks before granting accounts) out of necessity. Since Square is basically in the merchant accounts business (that's where their margin is) it will be interesting to see if they actually know something that merchant service providers do not about granting accounts to anyone who wants them without more verification.

I've always wondered why merchant service providers didn't instantly verify accounts and allow people to start charging immediately, but hold the captured funds while the account was verified with all the proper checks. Maybe that is what Square is doing.
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... and therefore essentially meaningless.
What about those of us incapable of the speed?
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The barriers are not high at Y Combinator. Most of the people we invest in are not from fancy schools. A Harvard degree suggests 3 good qualities in a founder: at least medium-smart, fairly ambitious, and won't be intimidated by VCs with Stanford degrees. But there are lots of other things I see in founder biographies that suggest the same qualities, so impressive academic credentials are by no means required.
I'm somewhat bewildered why you require users to provide their real names. I also notice "thou shalt not block our ads" in your TOS. It's understandable from your perspective, but surely a negative from the user's perspective. Note that Opera installs with ad blocking on by default (if I'm not mistaken).

You could use an explicit "Dashboard" button someplace, because otherwise the layout is a bit disorienting after adding your first repo, then wondering how to get back to "that first screen". (I eventually figured that out.)

Otherwise, this seems like a good tool for teams. Good job.
I've been trying to do my part to get rid of the dryness found in most science papers but they keep rejecting the ones I send in wet.
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Just checked it out. The ability to chain calls is pretty awesome. I also liked how the route callbacks are called on env, so you can say this.env_var to get at your params and such. Very cool.
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I can understand why you want to go fast. You learn at lightning speed and high school classes seem beneath you. I did the same thing and ended up taking Grad level math courses at JHU my junior and senior year of high school.

Looking back, I wished I had slowed down. Being years ahead has certainly put me ahead of my age group, but there's a huge amount of value you miss when you dump all your effort into academic learning.

My advice is to take 20% of that passion and speed and put it into learning about people and social interactions. The high school theatre class I took has been more valuable in the real world than number theory or compilers.

TL;DR - Been there, done that. Found out that being well rounded and socially engaging is a force multiplier on being deeply technical.
Why, specifically? Because they don't know what SarbOx really and truly demands of them. They only know what the consultant said long ago, and they know when the PM says they would be "out of compliance" with SarbOx if they did so-and-so instead of such-and-such.

That's why SarbOx is a boogey man: it's huge, it's legal (rather than technical) and That Enron Dude Went To Jail because of it.

The nature of boogey men is never made clear, now is it? From Lenin to Mao to bin Laden, the DoD has its boogey men used to scare Congress into funding more and better toys. SarbOx is a boogey man in exactly the same way.
You are so totally screwed.

But seriously. Maybe the message would then be: there is no curfew.
Thus far, it seems like most of this piracy has affected commercial shipping and civilian vessels. It seems likely that eventually, somebody is going to hijack the wrong boat and the owners will turn out to be willing to retaliate with excessive force, at which point innocent bystanders - for example, anyone else living in Haradheere - will get dragged into the conflict and lose their lives as a result.
OnLive (http://www.onlive.com/) is doing exactly that. My brother was looking into doing cloud gaming, but this company was so far ahead of him that he moved onto different ideas.
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The danger you face, and I speak from experience here, is that because you get such good results from studying math, you neglect other things like learning about history and developing social skills. You probably can't make progress 2-3x as fast as normal people there. So concentrate on your strengths, but don't neglect the other stuff. And please consider applying to Y Combinator and starting a startup when the time is right.
Thanks for this, always good to have real data!
i wonder if there is a correlation between initial spending vs later success.

In some cases, i would be willing to bet that high initial spending lead to a greater turnout because you're able to leverage the money and convert it into increased traffic and sales.
Big deal. Unix got all the malware first, from a /bin/login trojan pre-Version 6, to Fred Cohen's 1984 virus, to the '88 RTM worm. Heck, rootkits were invented for Unix, and only later migrated to Windows.

Whatever resistance is conferred by discretionary user/group/other access controls seems to be enough to prevent pandemics like Windows experiences.

Or maybe Windows is just so darn baroque and non-orthogonal (file extension determines whether it's an executable or not?!?) that it can't be secured.

Either way, bring it on.
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Might be done by IP.
> Two of them, John Petrucci and John Myung, spent their high school days fanatically devoted to practice (before applying to Berklee together). During that time they had an agreement with each other to practice their respective instruments six hours a day, and if they hung out in the evening it was with the understanding that they'd finished their six hours practice.

Source?
(Not that I doubt what you're saying. I want to read more from where that came from)
Back when I competed regularly in TopCoder for food money in college, std::next_permutation saved my bacon. I got so good at whipping out <algorithm> in C++ that every other language's standard library felt deficient. Python's basically caught up with itertools and the built-in set type.

Often you can replace dozens of lines of for loops and if statements with set subtraction and some generator comprehensions. Sometimes the code ends up faster, to boot!
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It is a very good writeup. I like his point that Clojure sets a high bar for concurrency features. His dislike of Lisp is my only disagreement.
I don't have any real data or direct experience to back this up, so I'm really just pulling this out of my ass, but the NSA seems like a very different entity than "law enforcement" when it comes to privacy.

The rules, laws, hiring, and budget at stake is very different at the NSA versus your local FBI or police office. Think ten or eleven figures versus six. Polygraphs and M16's. Football fields of data centers.

Frankly the NSA can read my email. Law enforcement is a whole different beast.
I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't matter if there is no 'sign' of commercial purpose. Are you a non-profit? If you are, let them know. In my experience they'll hear you out.
If I'm building an ad-supported site, I don't care about users who unconditionally block ads. Those users clearly don't care about the people who make the sites they're using.
> somebody is going to hijack the wrong boat and the owners will turn out to be willing to retaliate with excessive force

It's been known to happen: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/l...
Of course, the real privacy issue with Facebook is the applications: http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=590
Funny that no one seems to mention that IIS runs JavaScript (aka JScript) on the server, and has since the beginning.
i'm more looking for the break-even point. How long people supported their startups on their own dime, before the business finally took off, and started bringing in enough money to pay for itself.
The best target customer for this sort of business would be angels, particularly unsophisticated angels. VCs have associates to do the due diligence grunt work, but angels have no such resource.
Well, I spend enough for a nice new BMW or Mercedes Benz and I'm no where near ramen profitable after 6 months.
"Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google."

I actually cancelled my wsj online subscription because i would would just type their headlines into a google news search and find free stories of the same topic. I actually told the customer service lady that when she asked why I was canceling.
I doubt it's deliberate. Someone probably just wasn't too creative with the URL and didn't bother to put in any kind of authentication.

I don't see this stats page mentioned on their front page nor their blog's first page.
That's precisely why the only acceptable way to do this is with VML on the IE side. VML is surprisingly good for something so old. It's essentially SVG avant la lettre. Its main problem is that it's very poorly documented.
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I hadn't thought about it that way before. You make an excellent point. The most worrying part about losing your privacy isn't that someone like the NSA might read your documents. Mid-level or lower-level officials are the ones to worry about, because (1) they are not screened as thoroughly and would be more likely to abuse your rights, and (2) if the NSA wants to infiltrate/detain/kill you, you're probably screwed anyway.
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These days the operative buzzwords are open and transparent. I don't advocate both of those concepts blindly but I do ask, what is the potential downside of offering this level of data to the public?

If you keep everything private then you have something to hide, better yet you have something to manipulate. Perhaps you want to go public or attract investors with your projections not your reality.

In appropriate cases this type of sharing can bring your users into your business in ways no other tactic can. Devout users want to see you succeed and this gives them that barometer.

All in all, I applaud them (assuming making it public was intentional.) Not only does it help me benchmark my business but it helps me connect with Tweetminer in a way I otherwise wouldn't.
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Not sure about that. It is true that no space overhead might be a good thing, but other reasons simply don't look that good.

"algorithms which loop rather than recurse" - something like (primitive example, I know) `f(a, x): f(a+x, x-1); f(a, 0): a` with a tail call should be compiled into a loop he's talking about. There is no difference. There is no overhead. (single `jmp f` at the end and even the arguments should be in the right place)

"Sometimes it’s about shuffling, nudging and swapping" - apart from the situations where by simply inlining/analysing some functions which do the swap you can eliminate the swap completely and simply specialise the function to swap the places it reads the values from. Sometimes you don't need to swap - you just want the values in the right places and don't care how it is done under the hood. Swap done directly with a machine operation in C++ has to do the actual swap.

It was a cheap shot at FP tbh :/ Still right that C++ sometimes gets things right, but for 2 wrong reasons this time.
they probably saw how well that worked for Balsamiq, and think it'll work for them too.

I don't think it'll work as well, since they have a different business model.
Courtney Love gave an interesting speech several years ago on this very subject:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love
Based on the TC description, there's a fundamental difference between what he'll be doing and what an EIR does. An EIR primarily helps with deal sourcing and evaluation. An EIR becomes a quasi-VC.

But it sounds like Bessemer is going to be a glorified service provider for portfolio companies. What's next, and Accountant In Residence?