VladimirGolovin

Judging from the video, the resolution / dot size is about 1 µm (one micrometre). For comparison, the thickness of the tape in a 120-minute compact cassette is 9 µm, the diameter of a typical bacterium is 1–10 µm, and the diameter of the nucleus of a typical eukaryotic cell is 7 µm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_micrometre).

Dropbox + Backblaze.

I have two rules when searching for domains.

First, I never search for a complete name. I use www.namedroppers.com that allows partial name searches. E.g. if I'm looking for 'coolwidgets', I'd search for "olwidge".

And second, if I see a potentially interesting domain, I grab it right away, without any worries about the cost -- I'll just drop it a year later if I don't need it.

Have your lawyer write a good, detailed DMCA complaint to Google and, possibly, cloner's hosting provider -- and make it quick, before they change the copy. If they modify the page later, use archive.org (hopefully it will pick up the current page) or google cache as a proof.

We once DMCAed a Romanian cloner who blatantly copied our top-selling shareware app and refused to take the clone down when I emailed him. His reply was along the lines of "suing is too expensive, you won't sue me".

We sent the DMCA complaint, and a result, he got kicked out of Google and all payment processing services (ShareIt, Regnow etc.) He later emailed me with peace offerings, but I just hit Del.

Do you check candidate names for possible trademark conflicts? (I understand that you are not a lawyer, but at least some preliminary checking would be nice.)

So, one needs just about 13.5 attempts to attain 50% chance of single success:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.5+%3D+1+-+%28.95+^+n%...

I'm currently reformulating my hiring requirements. Last time I hired people was about 9 years ago. Some of them were great (they still work for me), some awful.

I looked at the most awful cases and I think I've figured out what was missing -- a personal productivity / GTD system. From now on, all my candidates must demonstrate their personal system for capturing ALL their tasks and keeping their todo lists synchronized with reality.

Allen's GTD style is not a requirement here. It can be a paper todo list, a Google doc, a mindmap, or whatever else they chose to use. The key here is that they don't forget their tasks, and they get them done without babysitting on my part.

If they don't yet have such system but show promise, I may still hire them, but I'll make it clear that a personal GTD system is a requirement, so if they want to continue working for me, they'll have to develop such a system. And of course I'll be happy to coach them on this.

And there's another key requirement, also related to Allen's GTD. I'm still looking for appropriate wording, but here's a rough draft: The candidates must strive to understand what do I want them to do, i.e. what shape I want to bend reality into using their hands and minds. They must be able to understand and imagine what I want to achieve.

1. Make sure that new versions of IE are standards-compliant.

2. Implement a more aggressive IE update policy to quickly remove older versions of IE from the browser market.

Dropbox is not a backup.

Backblaze is.

I HATE videos with no transcript, but I like karma, so here's the summary I made for my bookmark:

Best piece of advice you received? -- "It's the people, stupid." Everyone ignores it, he ignored it too at first. It's the same advice anyone who's been in business for a long time will give you.

What advice do you give entrepreneurs? -- Find a great partner no matter what you do. Qualities to look for: high intelligence AND high energy AND high integrity. Every one of these is important.

How important is it to be in Silicon Valley? -- A: It's more important than people outside the Silicon Valley really realize. He learned this the hard way: he started out in Boston. Networking. The atmosphere -- "It's in the air, it's in the water". If you're doing a consumer web business, it's winner-takes-all. No place for second Facebook, no place for second Twitter, so you need every advantage you can get.

What do you look for in an entrepreneur? -- You're not evaluating the product as much as the person presenting it, what are they capable of. "Show don't tell." Separating talkers from doers.

How to get a meeting with an investor? -- Sorry, didn't watch, it's irrelevant to me.

Whether you should be public or private with your idea? -- Again, didn't watch, it's irrelevant to me.

They won't stop. Warm-cool color combos (orange/yellow vs blue, teal vs orange, cyan vs red, steel vs red etc.) provide the most color contrast, so the picture always looks "bright" and "vivid" to a casual viewer.

BTW, the trick is far from new. Some examples that come to mind are Aliens and Terminator 2 (blue/gray vs red/orange, done via lighting) and Empire Strikes Back (again, blues vs reds/oranges -- very well nuanced across the entire movie except the Yoda swamp scenes).

See also: "Superstimulus": http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Superstimulus

To borrow Warren Buffet's term, the in-crowd are the winners of the Ovarian Lottery, and the normals (with me among them) are the losers.

"I’ve had it so good in this world, you know. The odds were fifty-to-one against me born in the United States in 1930. I won the lottery the day I emerged from the womb by being in the United States instead of in some other country where my chances would have been way different.

Imagine there are two identical twins in the womb, both equally bright and energetic. And the genie says to them, “One of you is going to be born in the United States, and one of you is going to be born in Bangladesh. And if you wind up in Bangladesh, you will pay no taxes. What percentage of your income would you bid to be the one this is born in the United States?” It says something about the fact that society has something to do with your fate and not just your innate qualities. The people who say, “I did it all myself,” and think of themselves as Horatio Alger – believe me, they’d bid more to be in the United States than in Bangladesh. That’s the Ovarian Lottery."

This may happen when the interviewer is younger than you -- young inexperienced managers are often underconfident and they just don't feel comfortable interviewing people older and more experienced than themselves.

I started hiring people when I was 26 (now 37), and I can tell from my own experience than my first attempts of interviewing people older than myself were quite uncomfortable -- so it's not surprising that I tended to avoid such applicants.

There was a comment on LessWrong where a poster suggested using Yahoo over Google for non-quoted search. I tried it myself (I need to find an article based on several words mentioned in it) -- and was pleasantly surprised. Yahoo seems to be doing much better job than Google for non-quoted search requests.

IANAL, but here's my bit of non-legal advice -- DMCA them.

We once nuked a Romanian cloner who copied our app -- our lawyer wrote a DMCA complaint to Google, ShareIt and his hosting company. As a result, the cloner was thrown out of Google, and ShareIt / Element5 blocked all his products (some of them were clones of other authors' apps).