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Video boils down to an old skiing saying: A skier says to another - "Hey, did you fall today?" the other skier responds - "No." Then the first skiers says "You didn't go fast enough or went down slopes that were way to easy."

If you aren't failing, you aren't challenging yourself enough.

Procrastination - I haven’t been able to overcome it yet, things that mitigate it is - keep track of tasks, make them small easily achievable. Also make a new list every morning.

College is a great place to start building your network. Teachers, fellow students, employeers... These are all people that you can use later in life to make things easier/possible.

Why would I pay for a user generated link aggregator?! The content and people here are great, but it is all original content or content linked from other sites. Makes no sense to pay for. Are they having trouble paying for hosting the site? ;)

It was probably caused by Robert Scoble unfollowing 106,000 people.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-purge/

I agree with the startup vs. project vs. other is more interesting and your distinction is an important one but more is needed.

Is a buying a corner-store or laundry mat mean you are running a startup? I think there are several other qualifications needed.

1.) There needs to be the intention to hire more than yourself/family as employees.

2.) There needs to be the intention to pay a return on investment to investors.

3.) The organization needs to be structured as corporation.

I don't think that the health of the CEO is the important issue for disclosure. The main issue is the fact or prospective that Apple will fail/falter if Steve Jobs is no longer capable of being CEO.

This is a multi-billion dollar organization. It is the responsibility of the organization to ensure they are not single threaded.

What if he was hit by a car crossing the road while texting on his iPhone? What about a plane crash? Sudden heart attach? or any other horrible accident?

Steve Jobs is obviously a one in a billion (6 people on the planet like him) type of person, but still. If there is one thing that Steve Jobs should do in this chapter of his career is to take that Steve Jobs magic and find, mold, develop his replacement and market the hell out of them.

"Many websites can become faster with little effort, and collective attention to performance can speed up the entire web..."

This is true - I have been working with many over the last 3 years to help them improve web site performance. Most sites will see a huge performance improvement by just concatenating (bundling) their JavaScript and CSS. Tools like; YUICompressor and www.rockstarapps.com Eclipse tools simplify the process.

One issue I have found is that developers always leave performance tuning of all projects to the end.

"If you have to ask permission, or answer to anyone, to make decisions about what you do then you don't have freedom."

Completely disagree. Freedom isn't binary. Everyone has to answer to someone.

- If you own your own company you are responsible for your employees and thus limits what you can do. Probably why he was glad to sell it and get rid of the company.

- Create your own open source project, as soon as it is used by other they will want additional feature and fixes.

- Working with others to create something means that there will be trade-offs on what everyone does.

"If you have to ask permission or answer to anyone then you don't have the kind of freedom I want."

Not sure what kind of freedom you want, but unless you are living on an island by yourself creating software that no one uses it seems your lying to yourself if you think you have achieved.

He gained his "Freedom to create" via his own company and that made him happy, but the "Freedom to create" isn't tied to having your own company. It can come as an employee or intern of a fortune 500 company. Really all depends on the cult around you.

I like venturebeat.com because they have a lot of articles on out-side-the-box (Green energy...) companies.

I usually listen to TWIT as a podcast, but this makes me want to tune into the live feed to see if there is a follow up.

Seems like a challenge to me... so...

NILFS or MILFS whats the difference? About 35 years ...awwwww

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If you look at the links on this wikipedia page you should find useful information. Aza Raskin has been working with command line interfaces and has done some interesting things with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin

Hacker News? Seems like you are using it for that now.

Amazon shouldn't need to warn people of general good business practices. Anytime someone builds a business around a single entity in this case Amazon WS, they are prone for obsolescence when the entity includes "their" functionality into the core offering.

There are many cloud providers now. Startup should be diversifying their offerings to work with all cloud providers this will give their business the best chance for success.

Formal source control is always a good idea, even if you are working on a project yourself. A three person shop will have some overlapping development of resources. So being able to undo changes and resolve conflicts will be necessary. As the team grows putting in other policies on checkin comments and ensuring not to break the build will become necessary.

Lots of people are using github.com, I have been using unfuddle.com and it has worked out well.

I also make sure I install a SVN server on everyone of my development machines as soon as I get it. Takes minutes to do and will keep my projects and files save.

I would agree with also checking with the employer. Any time you want to utilize open source in a project you should see what the employers policies are on this.

You will also need to be careful about contributions back to your open source stuff. This is one of the areas that open source foundations have done really well. The dojo and Apache foundations as an example have you fill out a contributors agreement to ensure the IP of any code that is submitted to them is "clean".

I would publicly open source the code, placing it in either Google Code or Github with a BSD or Apache 2.0 license. Doing this will protect both you and the university from using random (though your) unlicensed code in the project.

Placing the code in Guthub or Google Code will make it much easier to validate that it is truly open source and will allow the next developer on the project to download the latest updates.

If you are looking to do a bunch of network programming in Java look at Netty. I have been using the JBoss Netty Network Application Framework - http://www.jboss.org/netty/ for about 3 months and have been very happy with it.

It is a great framework with a good community around it.

Another important part of comedy is the setup

Comedy isn't going to be funny for everyone. Doesn't matter if it is online or off. I tell my wife many of jokes that get an angry stare while I am laughing my ass off.

You can remember that the most important rule of comedy is timing or incorporate the rule of 3 -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing). Also if you have to flag your joke as sarcasm or a joke then you should put a little more effort into.

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"Oh, and if you have a smarta$$ remark, go for it, but make it clever. After another 300 lines of code, I could use the respite."

Only 300 lines of code and then you need a break, kyro is right you are OLD.

I was going to go with the pussy comment but because I don't know you; so I will leave that until I do. Consider this our introduction ;)

Plus using the OLD comment allowed me to bring in the other person as someone who seconds that.

Hacker news is becoming digg.com with all the Hacker News related content. This is one of the reason I stopped going to digg.com. It was becoming annoyingly self serving and distracting to the original purpose of the site.

Even site that have google ads are now effected. Just tried to do to Techcrunch.com and it is hung on the loading of doubleclick ads and pagesyndication.

I also noticed for the last few days the formatting of my google search results are broken. The first result's title is off to the right after the ebay logo.

Here is a cool startup that I talked to recently. http://www.spotscout.com/. They are making parking spot finding and trading possible.

I have three great ideas for startups that fit this request.

1.) scambledporn.com - If you can remember tv before it went digital, porn used to be scambled by varying the horizontal sync of the tv signal for that channel. This made it unwatchable, unless you were really really patience. My idea is to create a website that has porn that works on the same concept; it would be scrambled until people pay to have it unscrambled. The more you pay the more unscambled it would be.

2.) Fire Energy Convertor (FEC) these are self contained devices that can be dropped into wildfires. Once placed into the fire; the device would convert the heat of the fire into electricity. After the fire subsided, the device would be placed into a grid that would provide electricity. Let's stop wasting all the energy that is release by forest fires. Eventually the device (FEC 2.0) could be placed into active volcano as well.

3.) An exercise device that can be used while you shower. It would be like killing two birds with one stone. People wouldn't have to worry about having to take a shower after working out, because they would already be in the shower and can soap up when done. The marketing plan for this device is a 30 minute infomercial that walks people through its use, with several nice looking and in good shape people. When you purchased the device, you will also receive a instructional video of your choosing (Male, Female).

I see the world as a series of problems that require solutions.

Your still doing CS - not biology and that was my point. The article seemed to be saying if you are not sure about what to do choose CS. I think that is the wrong choice.

I love software and can't imagine doing anything else but if I had a CS and didn't like it I would need to go back to school and get another degree to do something else. That isn't true with say a math degree.

"if you know you want a technical major but you're not sure which, choose Computer Science."

I completely disagree. I am not even convinced that a computer science degree is the best degree to have for a software job, but a computer science degree is useless unless you go into computer science.

The other degrees can yield multiple career opportunities math being the most widely applicable to different careers. Disclaimer: I have a degree in mathematics.