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This actually lines up reasonably well with market cap -- Apple is at $85B and Microsoft at $195B. Apple has seen resurgence in growth (75% year over year is pretty kick ass), but they are much more heavily tied to consumers than microsoft so it seems logical that the current economic troubles will hit them harder.

Personally, the only thing I would like more than Apple surpassing Microsoft as the giant computing behemoth is Ubuntu making good on its goal of surpassing Apple in usability/UI.

I work near stanford, maybe I will check out the series in person. Thanks!

Do you have competitors? Large customers? Know any experts in this area? Those are the people I would look into first.

Echo wayne. Also, best way to battle wifi leeches is to properly secure your network. I would find it /way/ funny if someone misconfigured this, left part of their home network open, and ended up getting hacked.

I find this article confusing. The first example given to support a "web is dominated by big players" is the recent failure of bloglines and migration to Google Reader. But RSS feeds are all about centrifugal force! The vast majority of my feeds are full of links to all sorts of random destinations on the web that I wouldn't have found out about otherwise.

As for wikipedia... encyclopedias are not the key feature of a bookstore. Wikipedia may have the lock on answering "What is X?" on the web -- but the web is (obviously?) about far more than that.

Money quote: "This is the first time I've ever said this to anybody, this is an exclusive: this will be my last company. I'm not going to do another company after this."

I'm not a giant fan of Mahalo -- don't hate it or anything, but I don't really believe in it either. Be interested to see how long Calacanis sticks to his word if it goes under.

If you total up those hours, you're getting 160 hrs per 2 months = ~20 hours a week. So

a) that's a pretty large time investment

b) $2500/mo for 80 hours of consulting is pretty poor pay -- $30 an hour?! That's $60k/yr with no benefits...

Seems like a pretty poor deal to me.

I whoised this about thirty minutes in to the debate.

I think the answer to this is obviously yes. Do you use email? Sorting algorithms? Automobiles? Can you not get behind the Internet?

Would anyone really say no? Maybe you meant to ask a more specific question?

Awesome article... just wonder how applicable lessons from the South Korean music industry are to the US, where the market is roughly 30x bigger (according to figures in the article).

I ran into this for the Treasure Island Music Festival. It cost $10 more to order online through TM than buy at the box office. This makes about as much sense to me as CDS financial transactions -- if TM wasn't a monopoly, no way this would be the status quo.

probably a dedicated peripheral, which you need to capture the light patterns anyway (right?).

props to Bebo for cashing out to AOL. $850mm... not bad.

I think you're better off doing a non-distance program, and UW is a solid second-tier school for CS. I would only recommend a professional masters if you can get your employer to pay for it, though.

The actual report is something you have to pay for, right? So, not that interesting of a link.

version control is almost always a good idea. If you're the only developer, then I would recommend svn. git is distributed version control -- its used e.g. for Linux Kernel development, when hundreds of developers are doing independent work on the same codebase.

I've been hot for eInk since Wired ran a feature on it eleven years ago, when I was fourteen:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/negroponte.html

Unfortunately, it seems like all that eInk has really done in the mass-market consumer space is save battery life for eBook readers. I'm still waiting for the eInk product I can many-to-one my bookshelf into and read like a real book, but this doesn't seem to be anywhere close to reality.

imho eInk has Second Life status in reality:media hype ratio.

This is pretty WTF, but honestly your years of PHP experience are probably inversely proportional to your skill at this problem. All you really need is math -- its easier to do this by hand with a calculator than code it. My guess would be that php expertise is anti-correlated with remembering prime factorizations, no offense to php devs.

Hacker news seems to have the best signal-to-noise in its community, that's why I'm here. The spinoffs rms posted are probably the best place to look next, but I don't think they have the critical mass userbase (yet).

Sounds like you're describing curated search for a particular set of queries (text books). Isn't this a subset of what Mahalo does?

Buffet + Rose = win

What to people think about Buffet's post-investment media presence? Is he expending trust-capital by pushing for the bailout when he has $X billion dollars freshly invested?

I liked the article but the title is misleading. IPOs are drying up (no venture-backed company IPO'd in Q208), not capital itself. Money quote from the PWRC report cited by the article: VC firms are "raising funds at a steady pace."

So maybe this is more of a macro-economic or early-exit issue than a "VC is drying up" issue.

I think I agree. If you decide not to get a real job while searching for startup footing, make sure that you're learning enough to balance the opportunity cost of salary, on the job learning, and startup stuff on the side.

What you don't want to do is end up like Seth Rogen in Knocked Up -- unless your goal is to be a stoned slacker. Note that Katherine Heigl is unlikely to sleep with you in real life.

Does anyone have a good writeup somewhere of all such (public) groups? I trust HN pointers/analysis over just searching meetup. I'm relatively new to the valley, it would be nice to figure out what part of the technology social network I fit best with.

Is this just straight contradictory to recent analyst downgrades (and Apple's resulting stock price drop)? I never know quite what to hink of this kind of market data.

Sorry, I used linux in the colloquial sense. I meant GNU/Linux, distributions of which I can install on my hardware. Anything that would replace OSX, Windows, etc...

Storm trooper hoodie with zip up face mask:

http://www.shopecko.com/product/index.jsp?productId=313092

I rest my case (disclaimer on price though).

Exactly what I thought on reading article title. Especially since if you invert the m and the u...

For anyone who has to explain why concurrency is serious business (prof, TA, etc), this is an awesome example.

Hardcore debugging, too. Can't ever be too good at debugging.

What's with the rash of people posting links to wikipedia without context? Is this some research experiment (if so, please tell your human subject oversight board that you're pissing people off)?