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>this process will be overseen by David Kappos, the current director of the USPTO and formerly an attorney at IBM in charge of their heavy-handed patent strategy.

Looks like the deck is already stacked. Are there any companies or elected officials with significant political/financial capital aggressively campaigning for this? This movement needs a champion to make this topic relevant to bureacrats and I don't know if Stallman's the guy.

Well you can't get divorced if you can't find a wife! I kid. I kid.

But engineers strike a good balance of time at home and financial compensation. If you're making much more than a decent engineer, you're probably a senior exec, lawyer, or business owner with not enough time for the wife. Don't have any data to back this up, but just my suspicion.

If you're making much less than an engineer, you may run into money problems which is a leading cause of divorce.

I don't see the problem here.

For a while I thought Google would be sweeping this under the rug.

Great call on Khan Academy.

But the $1M spent on schweeb could have done more good elsewhere. Nobody wants to go pedaling upside down on a suspended monorail. The bicycle has solved this problem pretty elegantly.

Your argument holds weight in general but Google is a special case.

I'm sure they knowingly turn away bright & competent engineers simply due to the large size of the applicant pool.

Smaller companies would be wise to heed your advise though.

Well people like him and I love to spoil the fun for everyone else.

By the way: Bruce Willis is dead.

Soylent green is people

Kaiser Soze is Kevin Spacey.

It's been 2 and a half years since the end of the wire. I don't think he owes you a warning

Yes. Yes I would.

Out of curiosity: If the FBI or NSA REALLY wanted to get the data on your hard drive, is Truecrypt enough to keep them out?

Quite a bit of it has to do with YC and the tech community buzz and implicit validation. The founder of HipMunk mentioned that CNN contacted him out of the blue within a day after they launched.

If it was the same product done outside YC I don't think they would have got CNN coverage, at least not this soon.

The concept doesn't translate for maps.

An address as entered from left-to-right goes from the very specific to the general. Therefore all the api calls and screen updating you make are completely irrelevant until I type in my city half -way through.

There's no getting around understanding what the value of your technology to your customers is.

The starting point is to find out the raw ROI. So if they use your technology, how much money will they make or save? How does this compare to your competitor? So I would say, you need to take the final step and translate that 10x reduction in error to dollars.

I don't care if my GPS is exact, but to an airline company this is critical and they would spend well to make sure it takes into account the curvature of earth, etc...

But the raw ROI is just the starting point. Companies also pay a lot of money for other intangible features. There are some companies that spend millions on Oracle when they could probably get by with free open-source. Clearly Oracle is not competiting on price here, but on a feeling of 'security', knowing that my site will not go down and if it does, I have someone to yell at and come fix it.

If your product is truly revolutionary, maybe there are early adopter advantages. Could early adopters of your product steal revenue from competitors by using your tech? Price that in.

If your product is truly revolutionary, this final price may end up being pretty high and give some customers pause. A good approach would be reduce the price of your product for a pilot phase of say months. In return for reducing your price, you can ask for some specific feedback or a testimonial. Make sure they understand you aren't just reducing the price in return for nothing.

After they go through the pilot and have a real tangible sense of the value of your product, they may be willing to pay your high price you initially calculated.

There was an article that was linked to here where a French tech guy (speaking in English though) gave a pretty good video blog analysis of how much the average mobile app developer makes (not much).

Can't remember his name or site though.

Of course not Ender. It's just a game. Just a game.

The ACM abstract gave a good overview of what the site was supposed to do, but when I went to the actual site, it was horriblyi designed with no clear description of what the service was supposed to do.

Maybe if the OP Gave a very well designed application using existing implementations it would take off.

I'm watching one of the 2 hours videos from the Stanford professor. He looks like a college freshman! No offense intended.

Do you have any resources on how to use these tools (especially the python library), and examples of implementation? I'm interested in learning more and using these tools on real data, but don't necessarily want to spend the time learning all of the theory behind it.