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Is the typo deliberate? recuriting?

So sad to lose someone that's made such a dent on the world so young.

It only does good if Google does something with it.

That's why there's a call to tax long-held reserves, rather than profits.

That's probably in breach of your employment agreement, and more than likely criminal too.

I wouldn't.

It'd be interesting to know if it's standard practice for accelerators to do intensive pitch/mentoring days like this, or they are more inclined to pair teams off with mentors that make sense centrally or serendipitously.

GFC, I believe, is a term used in the Australian to mean "Global Financial Crisis".

The URL in the screenshot still works, you can play with it in the browser:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6432940/paper/mixingWell/24/index.ht...

This is so counter-intuitive that I'm having trouble understanding if this is a logical fallacy.

Working for a startup to strike it rich is about as reasonable a thesis as starting a startup to strike it rich.

Both of them are unusual, but not impossible.

Indeed, working for a startup is more sensible than starting one. It's zero risk (you're getting paid), and there's a potentially huge upside. And for career progression, there's nothing like it. People that started as interns at our company are now being paid market rates for jobs that would have been another 5-10 years ahead in their career had they not been in the right place at the right time. Hell, we even relocated one, expenses paid, to the other side of the world.

And if you're the HN type, it's the best place to learn about starting companies, and the fastest way to build a network to help you start and fund your own company.

So by all means, start a startup, but there's NOTHING wrong with working for one - it's way better than a corporate gig.

Sure, STP is described at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_Tree_Protocol

When an 802.1D capable bridge appears on a network with STP, the other bridges will all drop their forwarding table and learn again from scratch.

Failure mode sounds spookily like the one described.

His/her ARP anecdote actually sounds like an STP problem, rather than ARP.

This is really incredible - I first heard of this when the Tottenham Court Rd incident happened a few weeks ago in London, and teleportd had images and detected the event before Sky News.

Well done guys! Really cool to see it launched.

Strange. No email in your profile, drop me one at geoff@editd.com and I'll see what happened.

That's what we thought too - this was the definite first pass, and we always intended to have a challenge/response type question for extra credit.

But we didn't need it - it turns out the kind of people that are intrigued enough to apply, and have enough ability to install a few libraries are likely great people.

Incredibly - applicants through this vector are about 99% quality.

We've been doing this at EDITD for a while too:

http://editd.com/jobs/senior-engineer/

(for example)

Data exploration like this is very interesting, and a problem that's far from solved - so I'm excited about this.

A small UI nitpik: one thing that struck me from the video demo was that your drag targets were on the opposite side of the screen to their source. That seemed a little less discoverable and more involved to use than if they'd been closer.

Interesting you characterise mongodb users as hipsters - why is that? (at the risk of engaging a troll)

We use mongodb extensively, but I get the hipster feeling also, mostly because they hold office hours at Look Mum No Hands in Old Street, which is ultra proto-hipster.

If 70% of the project is complete, and they have been accepted to an accelerator - then 10% is very fair, maybe even a little bit too fair.

Your cofounder has created an immense amount of value already - seems to me you're getting a pretty good deal - grab it with both hands.

And definitely apply to Seedcamp, €50k funding is available, and it's by all accounts an excellent programme.

If you're looking for perfect copy, can I suggest wordy.com - it's a Seedcamp startup that specialises in copy editing, and we've used them with fantastic results.

Australians are pretty apt to type <business>.com.au - it'd be a risky trading environment when that address belonged to one of your competitors and seemed legitimate.

If Moore's Law keeps working, this is a ticking time bomb for him. If the police stay interested and crack his crypto, he'll do more time for whatever he's concealed on his computer (if anything).

I think the point is that it's an -internal- upgrade, that ships with a USB adapter for the existing SSD (that you'll remove).

The concept of "crown copyright" in the UK is stifling to innovation, backward, and shows no respect for those who pay tax.

We should ask our local MPs to do as the US have done, where government created IP is public domain.

In Java, getHardwareAddress() returns your MAC.

Something that's getting my attention lately is contextual and selectively targeted ads, but not in a good way. It's creepy to be pitched on something you looked at on Amazon, or something obliquely related to your interests constantly.

Ads like those will drive me to install ad blockers, which I've never before bothered with.

Techhub has the backing (and involvement) of Mike Butcher, who is the local techcrunch editor - so it's getting a bit of press. Venues like that are great start for the ecosystem, but it's just a for-profit coworking space.

I think the London startup scene is a vibrant from some angles, and extremely dull from others - it's a strange place.

Per capita, people in the UK are more likely to have a degree - they converted all tertiary schools (formerly polytechnics) into universities in 1992.

We use something custom - we deliver contact emails via Google AppEngine, via a private webservice.

It was really simple to set up, virtually free (0.0001c per email), and Google's got pretty much the gold standard for delivering mail.

One drawback is your from: user has to be verified and set up in the AppEngine dashboard (not difficult), and on the free AppEngine account you can only send 2k emails per day. Once you're on billing, the quota sky high.

Let me know if you'd like to see some code.