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> I suspect that's because the seeds themselves have been genetically ruined. Same with farmers markets: their vegetables are not only tasteless, but they're also ugly and more expensive.

WTF? Here in California (both nor and so) all our home grown veggies and farmers markets and CSA's produce excellent veggies and fruits.

The stuff you buy at mainstream supermarket is all plastic though.

Also, I'm guessing until probably about age 45, people feel better about hitting the next age bracket so they'll mark the older one if there's any overlap.

It never is, unless you're sending data to satellites in orbit. If they lease the network access, how exactly are they fixing the latency issues on hardware and software they do not control?

Being a self-important egomaniac is one of the most common qualities of people who start their own businesses. Is that what you were detecting in my tone? Well, you're very observant.

> How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a business guy?

Simple. Ask someone who knows. If you don't know anyone who knows, you might want to reevaluate whether you should be getting into the tech industry.

As for the arrogance thing - look at Brin/Page, Ellison and Gates, etc. - all hackers. When a "business" guy's achievements in the hacker space outdo these hackers' achievements in the business world, be sure to let me know.

You're using the @ symbol incorrectly.

> "We've developed specific algorithms in our technology that address latency issues across the GSM networks," Piilani said.

Apparently they're doing time travel in software now.

> This begs the question, What the hell is the point?!

It raises the question. Begging the question means something else. Look it up.

This cloud stuff sounds great!

I can't wait to use it in 5 years when it's reliable.

> Why hasn’t this been done? Why is YCombinator the only place to go?

This has been done plenty of times, and Y Combinator isn't the only place to go. There's lots of places/people you can go to in order to get < $100k of startup capital.

You only know about YCombinator because they have invested a lot of time and money into marketing their brand as a startup incubator. I know that term has fallen out of fashion since the go-go 1990's, but that's exactly what they are. Paul Graham writes essays and publishes them to the internet, he's involved with open source, you're reading his marketing BBS right now, etc.

Get out of your apartment and start networking with people with money. If you can't do that, try to save up some of your own.

I just tell people I invest in startup companies or that I don't really have a job.

... why can't you just add more application servers?

> I would argue that his strategy couldn't be any worse for beating the odds than anyone else's

You're trying to have a better strategy, not one that "isn't any worse". Sigh.

What? This is the formula for building a marriage in which you resent your wife 10 years down the line, not any way to build a successful company.

This is true, and I think the article mentions that explicitly and implicitly. However, that's not the point it's trying to make. The point it's trying to make can be summarized in one sentence:

When starting companies with fellow egotists, do not be passive-aggressive, and do not choose passive-aggressive partners.

> The biggest problem we faced was that my partner had just gotten into a relationship which requires almost as much time as a new venture.

This is when you start giving people ultimatums. Sounds dramatic, but it isn't. It's what's required to run a successful business - having a girlfriend isn't business, it's charity.

In other words, make sure you aren't both a couple of passive-aggressive powderpuffs that will steam roll each other into oblivion.

I think anyone who can figure out what an adjective put in front of a noun means understands what these phrases mean, the point is that they're just so fucking ridiculous as to be laughable.

The antonym of hapless is shrewd.

> As expected, the NTT Open Source team working on Synch Standby ran into some unexpected issues

Is that sort of like a known unknown? Or an unknown known?

I was talking mostly about Eastern Europe, but thanks for your useless input.

> You're right, though

Of course I'm right. I've worked with just as many European H1-B's as I have Indian H1-B's with many coming from Northern and Eastern Europe (scandinavia, poland, ukraine, czech, etc.), yet none of these "patriots" seem to ever mention white Europeans when this discussion comes up, do they?

How did Linus Torvalds get into the US again? Or Sergey Brin's family?

This kind of stuff is just so incredibly obvious to any objective observer who actually pays attention.

Education aside, degrees are useful for determining if someone went to college. If you went to college too, you have something to talk about - 4 years of shared similar experiences during a very formative period in your life.

This is very useful in business and life. Only some kind of sociopath would not see the value in this.

The US government is finally starting to look like the US population.

> They are taking a side in the H1B controversy because he's an immigrant?

You must be new to racism.

This guy Ferriss is a crackpot.

> Innumeracy is embraced by business people

A good businessman uses his numerical intuition far more than his numerical literacy - math is a way to prove intuition as it relates to business.

A good mathematician also operates in this way - a proof starts out as intuition. People with poor business/social/numerical intuition often point to this as a flaw, but it's really an advantage. That's why the best engineers eventually end up as business people. Look at the partner roster and board members of any top flight VC firm in the valley - a high proportion of them are former engineers.

You're not going to find many former accountants or statisticians in the bunch.

If you really care that much about dynamic range in music, learn to play a few instruments yourself. Quit whining about shrink wrapped commercial products, because they're never going to be up to the standards of a connoisseur.

Wow, an entire blog post dedicated to white guilt.

I would have the TV but not subscribe to cable.