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Yeah, so what's the workaround to that 12 months? When you file simply state you were working on it 12 months prior.

Not hard to game that at all. I'm sure business ethics will prevail though.

Prior art doesn't matter anymore, it's first to file.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/10/04/prior-art-america-inven...

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/09/11/a-simple-guide-to-the-a...

Imagine if the government did its job and protected labor instead of capital. What a world we could live in in the "richest" country in the world.

£26 for Domino's. Sounds like he got bent over pretty hard. I can't imagine spending ~$37 on fantastic pizza, much less Domino's.

Yeah, I saw that on the NYTimes. Glad they did it before it fell into the ocean :-)

70 story high rise in Atherton and Belmont! That will be the day :-)

I quite liked the Peninsula. SF wasn't really my cup of tea. God forbid people like me that lived on the Cliffs of Despair (Pacifica) and were relatively happy.

Sales reset the property taxes on properties. It was one of a few reasons I didn't buy a home in the Bay Area a few years back. Probably should have, my buddy that bought his house for 500k in the city is sitting on probably 1.2-1.4m now. Not bad for 3-4 years appreciation.

I live in Oklahoma currently. I have done 5 of the startups in OK, one in CA (SF) and one in Texas.

You make choices in life and there are tradeoffs. I don't have kids nor do I anticipate having any. If they come, so be it. I partially left the Bay Area because I couldn't see even raising a hypothetical family there. That, the sticker shock never completely wore off and I never donned my rose colored glasses either :-)

I can afford to do it until the day I die. I've set myself up rather nicely in that regard. I'd be retired already if it weren't for my startups & first marriage. But being retired in your mid 30s sounds boring as well (I'm in my 40s now). However, I waffle on that position, so take it with a grain of salt.

Depends on how you define success and failure. I've had 7 failed startups (#8 is in the process of failing at the moment). I consider them all failures because I didn't end up with FU money. Funny thing is startup 6 & 7 really got me close.

Although, even if I won a billion dollar lottery, I'd still move on to startup #9. Half the fun is in the building anyway :-)

American Indian tribes/nations have this down too. Chickasaw is booming here in Oklahoma. That doesn't count all the casinos where money is flowing out the back doors as well.

It's free in your MSDN if you're subscribed. I downloaded them all :-)

So if you're a VS user already, it's likely bundled with an MSDN subscription. Just link it to your Xamarin account and you're done.

Facts aren't copyrightable.

They scrape everything in the world they can get their hands on.

I've worked with fantastic developers without a degree. Typically, I've had to point out gaps in their understanding of the "why" behind things. I also had these shortcomings because I had an MIS degree. The difference when working with CS graduates is simple business knowledge seems to be their shortcoming. So working in accounting, finance, etc. they have a knowledge gap.

No one comes out of college knowing it all, it's just figuring out where your shortcomings are and always trying to fill in those gaps. I'm a mediocre software developer at best. However, I'm better than about 90% of the people I've worked with (IMO). The 10% that are better than me I strive to learn from and discuss topics constantly instead of being intimidated by their expertise.

If companies would simply hire good people and make growing them into well rounded developers, they'd have a hell of a lot better return on their investment than simply having a checklist of "employee must have" when hiring.

I'm on (failed) startup #8 at the moment with one of these friends. Our primary goal is to hire people that haven't had job experience in the field so we can train them on the proper ways to build software (well, our opinions on what's "right"). Assuming we ever get to the point of replacing ourselves. :-)

Yet companies like LexisNexis get most their data they resell this way.

My PocketPC screamed. 206MHz ARM was amazing in 2003.

My wife loves her Band. I offered her the new one but she didn't see any reason to upgrade. If the MS Phone platform weren't such a joke, it would have been a gateway to her getting a windows phone. I got her an SGS7 instead.

She's sad she can't use Cortana with her Samsung, but she's not willing to give up everything she likes for that one feature.

Not sure how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#P...

Exactly, you want to run something like this you have to scrape like LexisNexis, etc.

Quicksilver Mac ~2001 was my favorite mac of all time: http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/mac-vs-x86/macopen.jpg

The difference is when you work for someone, they can fire you and you can quit. 1 to 1 relationship.

When you have a business, you can have tens if not tens of thousands of customers. They can still fire you, but you can fire them as well.

What affects you more. Losing your sole source of income or losing 1/100th of your company's revenues?

All you have to do is think about it's actual uses. I have degrees in finance and economics.

All gold is IMO is a hedge against inflation by tying your monetary policy to the rate at which you can dig some shit out of the ground. Not remotely sane IMO.

It would be like basing the value of the dollar on corn. At least corn would have some real value though (fuel, food, etc.).

I just realized I'm working on a 5 year old Thinkpad (T420).

I upgrade just for the heck of it normally, but I gave my wife my T430 for grad school and I bought her a Surface Pro 3 as well (for notes and just for the hell of it). I'm tempted to buy a T460p (if they ever make it into the supply chain with nVidia FX) or a P50, but this T420 keeps chugging along just fine.

On my current consulting gig I'm working on a VM anyway for all development (interesting change of pace, works well locally but holy crap remotely). I think I paid $400 for this laptop used (bought it after the T430 since I couldn't ask for it back). Popped in 4gb more ram and a mSATA SSD for about $160 more.

I'd like to get an Apple to work on a iOS project on the side I've been thinking of. I just can't see spending $800 on a Mac Mini. I'll probably just do a Hackintosh instead (have a C2D Mini that works fine).

They tried that for 20 years, it never works (having been in Fortune 500 companies as a consultant, it's a fucking train wreck). By the time you handle all the layers, the different time zones, the different cultures, the different values/ethics, etc. It's not even a wash. Which is why H1b is so "needed". When they're on site, it's easier to get the work done.

Gold is just another fiat currency, plus at a high value it's even more worthless as a currency since you'd need such minuscule amounts to trade for goods/services.

Had to stop watching. The Adham guy was beyond annoying. We were the first in everything.

Baldur's Gate got it right. Best game since the Ultima Series IMO (well along with Bard's Tale, Wizardry, etc).

Reminds me of Wizardry.