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I still hang out with many people I've known since I was 2/3. Seeing them basically every day at school for ~11 years helped keep those memories of when we were 2/3 fresh, I think. Seeing them now again The result is similar - I have very good memories of being 2-6, but for almost the opposite reason as you it seems. My childhood was incredibly continuous and yours was discontinuous. Maybe we're both flukes...

He's hating the fact that we are in an environment where a single site has so much power, not taking issue with the particulars of this decision.

Its effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l56AfUTnQ

Not quite: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Working backwards, the Minitel failed because in 2012 when it was discontinued it was hardly different from its 1983 incarnation. I agree it isn't likely to be a single-cause explanation, but when you examine the history of the Minitel and the ways it failed to adapt, it becomes evident that a huge factor at play was that the Minitel didn't have to respond to market pressures.

  And this wasn't a case of the "free market" winning again. This was just America winning again.

Could you propose alternative explanations at to why the Minitel failed despite the fact it had such a head start? Do you think the internet would have prospered as it did if the only way to access it through the present day was through terminals developed, built, and lent to you by the American Gov't?

  Today we know we need both the private market and the government to build an economy that is both prosperous and beneficial to the people. 

Elaborate? I think it's still hotly debated and certainly not 'known'.

I think the fact that managed to call out the 22 year old French author (me) as a 50s era frenzied McCarthyist betrays a stronger, far more irrational ideology in you than is present in my writing. I'm extremely proud of the Minitel and its amazing run (a sentiment shared by other commenters) and simply shared what I believe to be the most plausible and strongest explanation as to why it didn't make it's way out of France and eventually failed.

A/C doesn't follow you outside.

My first time with Oculus demos I got very nauseated. The next day I tried playing HL2, I got a little queasy for sure. The next day it was totally fine. I'm sure that your mileage will vary, but it is entirely possible to feel sick the first couple times you use it and then get used to it over a couple days.

Just a few cases for the app other (as of 50 minutes since post time) commenters aren't appreciating:

-I want to split a bill at dinner with friends

-I want to contribute to a charity fundraiser while at the event they are holding

-I want to snag tickets to an event that might sell out while out and about and don't want to wait till I get back to my computer to do it

-I want to snag tickets to an event while at the entrance to that event

How about splitting a bill at dinner? Or contributing to a campaign on the go before it sells out?

Huge huge fan of Screenhero. We use it all the time to help our devs debug issues. When trying to help someone fix a bug in their code remotely nothing compares.

We have some tutorials that may be helpful if you want to make iOS games at https://www.makegameswith.us/tutorials/learn/. They guide you through learning Obj-C, Cocos2D (a game engine for 2D games), building an iOS version of Conway's Game of Life, and then cloning Angry Birds.

I wonder how many more are founded by children of immigrant parents. My YC batch felt 1/3 immigrant founder, 1/3 child of immigrant founder. Quite the overrepresentation since they each comprise just over 10% of the population: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/foreignborn...

It's on the developer to disclose to the user that they are recording video and beaming it back up. Companies that sell call-recording software leave it up to the recording party to say something like "this call may/will be recorded".

What they are saying is that assuming that you are a good dev and care about privacy, the tools they provide to preserve privacy (ie pixelating text out) show that they care too.

We invite cool guest speakers and make sure they all interact with each other. The best games aren't built in isolation, feedback from peers is extremely important.

Here are some pictures from the location covered in the article, as you'll see it's not like everyone is silent and asocial: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.262781033863020.10...

I'm sitting in the middle of the internship as I write and there are at least 3 collaborative discussions going on around me right now.

Hey I'm Jeremy, one of the founders.

MakeGamesWithUs is about making, creating, learning. We teach them for free where many others would charge, then give them the option to publish with us if they would like to. It's entirely their choice to publish with us, they are free to publish their games on their own. We also only take 30% of revenues, not half.

Since many of them are minors their parents have to sign off on them attending the internship and publishing with us. The fact that 100+ parents have agreed to let their children intern with us and 30+ parents have agreed to let their children publish their games with us is a testament to how good of a deal we offer them.

I am aware of developers who have literally gotten their careers started thanks to us, as in gotten jobs as mobile developers by showing off the games they built with us. Nothing exploitative about it.

Good point on the location of H1B hires. I wish we had more info too, it almost feels like nobody is genuinely trying to measure the right things and instead retro-fitting data to fit their conclusions :/

I don't think there's granular enough information in there to support your conclusion.

To illustrate, imagine that IT workers used to get paid a $100k real wage in 2000 and a $50k real wage today. Imagine computer scientists and programmers got paid a $100k real wage in 2000 and get a $150k real wage today. Bundling them all into IT would lead you to mistakenly conclude that a computer scientist would expect to make as much today as they did 10 years ago.

Can someone confirm this logic is correct?

I don't know what the real stats are, but you haven't provided them. I also notice that the Brookings article you linked states that real wages have increased for those occupations in the past few years, but I don't how if at all they are bundling professions differently.

"Or is the hidden truth quite simply that large supplies of guest workers allow many firms to swap out higher-paid, high-skill domestic workers for lower-paid, high-skill guest workers?"

The Brookings article you cited states the opposite. Foreign workers get paid more. If there truly are enough good programmers and computer scientists available in the states is there a conspiracy to subject oneself to the nightmarish visa system and pay high legal fees to be able to hire foreign workers and pay them more than Americans, all the while not offering high salaries to qualified Americans? What would motivate one to do that other than a shortage of qualified candidates?

That doesn't sound right - if I speak fluent Russian and I'm older than 15, it's probably easier for me to move to a Russian-speaking country (where I might have family) than learn Latvian. Especially if my social circle in Latvia is exclusively Russian speaking.

Agreed about the pre-planning. Organized a 50 day trip through Europe once, had every flight and hostel booked for all 50 days + got a rail pass, then ended up having to reshuffle things around 20 days in once we realized we had way overplanned, wanted to leave the city we were in several days before we had planned, and really preferred to figure things out as we went along.

For companies raising $1.5 mil or less, from my (very limited) anecdotal observations it seems like investors have a base usefulness that may or may not fluctuate as a function of the amount they have invested. It also may or may not fluctuate depending on how interesting your startup is, how much they like you, how often you run into each other at social functions, etc...

From what I've seen (certainly a small sample, so may be wrong, curious to have others chime in) there are investors whose lowest possible usefulness (they invested the smallest amount they ever invest) still exceeds other investors' highest possible usefulness (however invested they would be if they were responsible for the entire round - $1.5mil or less). As a result I see the appeal of a party seed round - you increase your chances of getting investors who are useful by nature.

That's unfortunate. I have the opposite anecdote - they've been extremely kind and responsive every time I've been in touch.

The relationship gets even more complex because, along with going Galt, simply moving can be a viable option. If moving to Bruxelles from Paris is really easy, the impact of higher taxes in France vs Belgium may be felt very differently than if a) it were more difficult to move or b) there are no places to move to with lower taxes.

Thanks!

Interested in a ref.

It's case by case and there is no general rule. My hunch is that in this case it makes decision makers at big companies feel like they'll be around for longer.

Does anyone have stats for the silicon valley specifically?

Super, moi aussi. Still impressive - translating/maintaining our materials in French seems daunting even though I'm a native speaker. Perhaps it'll be more feasible with community involvement.

Very (pleasantly) surprised to see a full French localization. Would love to hear whether it was worth it, wondering if I should translate my startup materials. Anyhow, félicitations!

We'll cross that bridge when we get there?

Incidentally, a couple days ago I spoke to someone wearing sunglasses. I did not find myself wondering if he was zoning out even though I couldn't see his eyes because there were other indicators that he was engaged. I did not check to see if the iPhone in his pocket was recording, nor did I really focus on his button up shirt to see if there was a tiny camera recording me.

In an essentially pre-Glass world all the technology needed to zone out in social situations while surreptitiously recording audio and video already exists and is accessible, yet I've never really worried about it. I strongly suspect this is a made-up problem. There may be many issues with Glass, but my hunch is this won't be one of them.