theoutlander

Yes, you are right. My wife keeps saying the same and I can't do anything about it. I can at least raise him vegetarian for as long as I can.

Yes, I contemplate about the same and it drives me nuts! Lol, speaking of which I keep wondering if we were meant to simply eat fruits and nuts. I keep wondering how many I kill every time I walk or when you dig for building a house for instance. Someday if I found roadkill, I might consider eating it.

I agree that if you can kill the animal humanely and eliminate (?) suffering, it might be a good alternative.

One of these days I'm hoping to experiment in our lab on a project growing meat from stem cells. Wonder if it would be ok to eat that?

I just completed 13 months of being a vegetarian. I wanted to convert since 10 years prior to that, but couldn't get myself to do it because I grew up eating meat as a treat once to twice a week. It got progressively worse after I moved to the states as I started eating it three times a day and expanded from Chicken to all other red meats.I loved it!

Fast forward to last year and we were having a baby and that's when it struck me - Animals often watch their family being slaughtered. The young ones before they're even allowed to walk. They scream all along. They're mistreated extremely inhumanely and the people handling them - let's just say there's a special place in hell for them! I NEVER watched a single video until I had converted and people kept asking me if I saw any videos....they're horrible!

We grow up being masked from how animals are killed. If you can't even watch your meat being slaughtered, you shouldn't be eating it! Luckily, we're raising our child a vegetarian. We've found great vegetarian alternatives and yes they don't taste anywhere as great as a steak or smoked ribs, but they're still very very close and I think I can make that sacrifice because I don't ever want to see another animal deliberately hurt because of me or my family. I truly hope our society can make the necessary changes to treat animals humanely. Granted, there's no humane way to kill anyone, but I'm sure there's a quick/painless way to do it.

I'm not trying to change anyone. I just wanted to share my story.

Ryan - I'm on the Epidemiological Modeling team funded personally by BillG. I concur that the skillset required to solve problems on our planet (eradicating infectious diseases in our case) is completely different than those required for inter-galactic exploration. Perhaps the only overlap would be Mathematics, but that's the foundation for pretty much everything.

Shantanu - You're right. Simply throwing money cannot solve global issues and no single person including Mr. Gates and Mr. Buffett combined have the monetary resources at their disposal to tackle even 5% of global issues. However, they're the right kind of people to take on sociological challenges and eradicating diseases because there's a lot more to the problem than that. For instance, bureaucracy, corruption, beliefs, natural causes, etc. I was really surprised (shouldn't have been) to learn that a significant portion of their funds are allocated for dealing with corrupt governments for our mission to globally eradicate diseases like Polio, Malaria, HIV, TB, etc. With my limited experience in that realm, I can state that the problem is definitely way more complex than it appears at the surface (and I think you get that as well).

It would be cool if my alias was printed on it.... and maybe my karma and my #1 post/comment (which would force me to purchase a new one every time I hit a new milestone, haha!))

Interesting extension. I think you need to address a couple of things:

1. Try to maintain state for all the content in the controls. For instance, if I'm on JSONlint.com with some complex JSON in there, I'd like for that to be there when I re-open the tab. So, simply storing historic reference and reloading the pages doesn't add so much value for my use-case.

2. Can you do the same with other extensions? I have a ton of things running and it would be nice to disable all on-demand via one-click. My memory consumption was still over a GB with all the running extensions.

Thanks & Good luck!!

I agree with you that everything should be in memory, but I wouldn't call saving memory pointless. The cost of RAM isn't the issue here... we all know RAM is cheap! However, the problem in my case is that my laptop caps at 16GB. I'm also using a RAM drive and no page file (for obvious reasons) and all temp/cache files are also in memory. I'm working on an app that does some heavy lifting on the browser. At times I have tons of reference material open, examples for third-partty controls, sites with flash or controls leaking memory, etc. Memory usage in Chrome was ~8GB.

I could certainly benefit from reduced memory usage while still being able to go back to all those tabs. My overall system usage was 15 GB and with any more stuff I risk losing everything (since I'm not using a page-file).

This might be a very specific use-case, but I do see a lot of value in the extension. (Now, only if I could further hack my machine to use 32 GB :>)

IMO, whiteboarding is only a part of the interview process. Probe their breadth and depth of knowledge relevant to the expertise you seek (for instance, if you were seeking an expert in databases, ask about pros and cons of various data stores, search, RESTful access, scaling), look at community (online/offline) presence (Github, HN, LinkedIn connections, Tweets, Klout, Meetups, etc.), agility (since you're probably a startup - simple stuff like how fast they type or how efficient they're with the keyboard and mouse together), etc.

Most of all, if you don't feel that they're smarter than you, they're probably not right...

Very interesting. Can you share an example mapping to a data source?

I almost gave up after a while as it was evident that there was nothing substantial other than marketing for LinkedIn. I think marketing has hit a new low. On a somewhat unrelated note, we have Elon Musk standing up for his product...I'd totally buy it if I were into that kind of stuff.

They certainly can't go into space unshielded, so human waste & water will only be the secondary/tertiary shields.

That's epic!

Embracing targeted ads requires a mind shift that the per-Facebook generation will not be able to conceive. Most people worried about targeted ads are merely riding the ill-fated privacy bandwagon without weighing the pros and cons of such a system. The future generations will prefer targeted ads.

Founders at work by Jessica Livingston, Rework by Jason Fried and DHH, The Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank...

No wonder my wife was just asking me why Netflix is down on Xbox live here in Seattle.

People won't start investing necessarily. Look at the 10,000 millionaires that came out of MSFT in the Redmond area...... only a fraction are investors.

Thanks, I should have realized the FAQ was probably revised over the years.

While I agree that advice is priceless, don't most startups join YC so they can connect with VC's by the end of the program?

Looks pretty cool! Good luck to you guys!

Yes, we are exploring speech recognition programs for contextual ads. I've heard that there is another advertising service that does this on the fly.

Good point on the broadcast TV for soccer games! Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Guess we need to wait till we hit 1000 active daily users before we can use VideoEgg.

Yes, that is what we are planning to do.

Unfortunately, Adsense for video is only available to sites with 1 million video views per month.

#25 - A craigslist competitor.... used to be http://expo.live.com, but it seems like even Microsoft couldn't compete against them! If you log in today, you will see the following message:

Windows Live Expo will discontinue service on 31 July 2008. In preparation, the following features are no longer available:

    * Create a new account.
    * Post a new listing.
    * Extend a listing.
    * Upgrade a listing to a premium listing.

All current listings will remain on expo.live.com until they expire.

Yes, but guess what? Craigslist ended up buying Craigslist.com because it was a porn site and majority of the people ended up there because of habbit.

Facebook, Youtube

29 months is a long time to start something and launch. I think finding a local co-founder would always be helpful!

He makes an interesting point. It is quite a process to find the right data.

I think it is the company as a whole and the benefits that they provide make ppl very comfortable with where they are. Plus, a lot of them don't won't to take chances like us!

I would have to disagree with you. And the reason being that my boss got fired 2 weeks ago!