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How to Make Wealth - 0 views

  • Startups usually involve technology, so much so that the phrase "high-tech startup" is almost redundant. A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem.
  • Here is a brief sketch of the economic proposition. If you're a good hacker in your mid twenties, you can get a job paying about $80,000 per year. So on average such a hacker must be able to do at least $80,000 worth of work per year for the company just to break even
  • and if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour
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  • I'm claiming you could be 36 times more productive than you're expected to be in a random corporate job.
  • then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year
  • f you want to make a million dollars, you have to endure a million dollars' worth of pain.
  • Bill Gates is a smart, determined, and hardworking man, but you need more than that to make as much money as he has. You also need to be very lucky.
  • If you want to create wealth, it will help to understand what it is. Wealth is not the same thing as money. [3] Wealth is as old as human history. Far older, in fact; ants have wealth. Money is a comparatively recent invention.
  • talking about making money can make it harder to understand how to make money.
  • the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.
  • A programmer can sit down in front of a computer and create wealth. A good piece of software is, in itself, a valuable thing.
  • And so it's clearer to programmers that wealth is something that's made, rather than being distributed, like slices of a pie, by some imaginary Daddy
  • we had one programmer who was a sort of monster of productivity
  • A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same period will generate zero or even negative wealth (e.g. by introducing bugs).
  • The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software.
  • Hackers often donate their work by writing open source software that anyone can use for free. I am much the richer for the operating system FreeBSD, which I'm running on the computer I'm using now, and so is Yahoo, which runs it on all their servers.
  • You can't go to your boss and say, I'd like to start working ten times as hard, so will you please pay me ten times as much?
  • A programmer, for example, instead of chugging along maintaining and updating an existing piece of software, could write a whole new piece of software, and with it create a new source of revenue.
  • All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group
  • To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.
  • If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.
  • All you need to do is be part of a small group working on a hard problem
  • Steve Jobs once said that the success or failure of a startup depends on the first ten employees. I agree
  • What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod, rather than the fish. That's the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you solve a technical problem that a lot of people care about, you help everyone who uses your solution. That's leverage
  • If there were two features we could add to our software, both equally valuable in proportion to their difficulty, we'd always take the harder one
  • I can remember times when we were just exhausted after wrestling all day with some horrible technical problem. And I'd be delighted, because something that was hard for us would be impossible for our competitors
  • Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.
  • You'd think that a company about to buy you would do a lot of research and decide for themselves how valuable your technology was.
  • Not at all. What they go by is the number of users you have
  • Wealth is what people want, and if people aren't using your software, maybe it's not just because you're bad at marketing. Maybe it's because you haven't made what they want.
  • Now we can recognize this as something hackers already know to avoid: premature optimization. Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.
  • In that respect the Cold War teaches the same lesson as World War II and, for that matter, most wars in recent history. Don't let a ruling class of warriors and politicians squash the entrepreneurs
  • Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.
Tim Mullins

Mac Fan-boy Trolls My Opinion & What Is wrong with Open Source - 0 views

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    Mac Fan-boy Trolls My Opinion & What Is wrong with Open Source
anonymous

Linux screen command tutorial | Linux Operating System - Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo... - 0 views

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    Linux screen command tutorial ggarron | April 30, 2010 - 3 weeks 5 days  in Linux command line Linux tips I have face this lots of times, I am connected to my server using ssh, then I start a download, a log processing or a bittorrent download. I realize that task is going to take a lot of time. What to do?, well usually one have leave the ssh session open, and the home computer on. What if the ssh session just drops? all work is done, and there is the need to start all over again. I have used nohup command to execute commands after exit from the shell prompt. But there are other options, one of them is screen.
anonymous

IPLobster.com - IP Address | My IP | IP Check | Find IP Address | Whats My IP | IP Lookup - 0 views

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    IP Address , My IP , IP , Find IP Address , Whats My IP , IP Lookup , IPv4 Address , IPv6 Address , DNS Address , IP Whois , IP Locate , IP Trace , Show My IP Address , What Is My IP Address , MyIP , Resources , Networks , Directory , What's My IP , Find An IP Address , IP Adres , IP Adresse , IP Adresse
Yi Wang

In the Beginning was the Command Line - 0 views

  • Like the Earth's biosphere, the technosphere is very thin compared to what is above and what is below.
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      beautiful visualization
  • fossilization process
  • temporal arbitrage.
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  • Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two.
  • But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it.
  • lip service
  • How badly we want it can be measured by the size of Bill Gates's fortune.
  • When TCP/IP was invented, running it was an honor reserved for Serious Computers--mainframes and high-powered minicomputers used in technical and commercial settings--and so the protocol is engineered around the assumption that every computer using it is a serious machine, capable of doing many things at once. Not to put too fine a point on it, a Unix machine.
  • Young Americans who leave their great big homogeneous country and visit some other part of the world typically go through several stages of culture shock: first, dumb wide-eyed astonishment. Then a tentative engagement with the new country's manners, cuisine, public transit systems and toilets, leading to a brief period of fatuous confidence that they are instant experts on the new country. As the visit wears on, homesickness begins to set in, and the traveler begins to appreciate, for the first time, how much he or she took for granted at home. At the same time it begins to seem obvious that many of one's own cultures and traditions are essentially arbitrary, and could have been different; driving on the right side of the road, for example. When the traveler returns home and takes stock of the experience, he or she may have learned a good deal more about America than about the country they went to visit.
  • We like plain dealings and straightforward transactions in America.
  • This would simply not be worth the effort, and so "wc" would never be written as an independent program at all. Instead users would have to wait for a word count feature to appear in a commercial software package.
krowddigital

What are the benefits of RPA? - 1 views

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    The robotic process automation (RPA) is a process whereby actions are automated. and What are the benefits of RPA?
Frank Boros

How to change permissions in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot with the chmod command - 0 views

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    The chmod command lets you change permissions on files and directories from the command line in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

    First, though, what are permissions?

    Basically, every file and folder on a Ubuntu system can be accessed by three different groups of users - the owning user, the owni
Djiezes Kraaijst

Computerworld - The A-Z of Programming Languages: BASH/Bourne-Again Shell - 0 views

  • Interviews The A-Z of Programming Languages: BASH/Bourne-Again ShellWhen the Bourne Shell found its identity
  • in this article we chat to Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash.
  • In BASH's case, the problem to be solved was a free software version of the Posix standard shell to be part of the GNU system.
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  • the original Bourne Shell was very influential, the various System V shell releases preserved that heritage, and the Posix committee used those versions as the basis for the standard they developed. Certainly the basic language syntax and built-in commands are direct descendants of the Bourne Shell's. Bash's additional features and functionality build on what the Bourne shell provided. As for source code and internal implementation, there's no relationship at all
  • Bash will continue to evolve as both an interactive environment and a programming language. I'd like to add more features that allow interested users to extend the shell in novel ways. The programmable completion system is an example of that kind of extension.
  • Do you have any advice for up-and-coming programmers? Find an area that interests you and get involved with an existing community. There are free software projects in just about any area of programming. The nuts-and-bolts -- which language you use, what programming environment you use, where you do your work -- are not as important as the passion and interest you bring to the work itself.
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    an interview with Chet Ramey, maintainer of the bash-shell
Djiezes Kraaijst

Linux.com :: Profiling entire system activity with sysprof - 0 views

  • Profiling entire system activity with sysprof
  • Profiling an application lets you see what functions are taking up most of the CPU time so you can concentrate your optimization efforts on making the those pieces of code run faster. With sysprof, you can profile all the applications that are running on your machine
  • To get the most out of sysprof you should also install the debug information for all the applications you wish to profile. Without the debug information you will see only the name of a shared library in the profile information and not be able to tell what functions are taking up the lion's share of time spent in that library.
Marco Castellani

Linux.com :: What can you do with a second Ethernet port? - 0 views

  • Purchase a new PC or motherboard soon, and the chances are good that it will come with two built-in network interfaces -- either two Ethernet jacks or one Ethernet and one Wi-Fi. Tossing in a second adapter is an inexpensive way for the manufacturer to add another bullet point to the product description -- but what exactly are you supposed to do with it? If you are running Linux, you have several alternatives.
Sandra Nowakowski

The new HP laptop with linux, is it the right choice for you? - 0 views

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    In the Microsoft Windows dominated world, it is big news when a company announces that it is going to implement a Linux operating system on one of its computers. It is even more surprising that when that computer is a laptop. But that is exactly what H...
Sandra Nowakowski

Phishing - How to Avoid Getting Caught - 0 views

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    What is Phishing? With so many of us online nowadays, it's inevitable that criminals familiar with computer technology have found ways to take advantage of it to make money. The Internet is almost impossible to police, as it crosses so many inter...
Sandra Nowakowski

CCSP Guide - 0 views

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    Welcome To Ccsp.us Ccsp.us. Not What You're Looking For? Related Searches. Ccsp Book. Ccsp Guide. Ccsp Certification ... Ccsp Certification. Authorized Cisco Certified Security ... Www.ccsp.us Delphi - Other - Free Downloads At Source Code Online ...
Sandra Nowakowski

Linux Training Online - What is Linux?- A Linux OS Introduction - Linux Software Progra... - 0 views

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    Linux is an operating system (OS), like Windows. Think of there being two general types of software: operating system software and "other" software. The "other" software consists of several types of software programs, including:...
Sandra Nowakowski

CCVP Classes - 0 views

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    Cisco Certification And Testing - Don't Know What I'm Thinking... ... Have My Ccnp Finished, I'm Looking At Working On Either The Ccvp Or Ccip. ... I'm Able To Take The Course Online Through Work (along With All The Ccvp Classes) ... Www.tek-tips.com...
Graham Perrin

What is the best hardware to put Linux, Mac os X and Windows on one computer? - 58 views

I was thinking of getting one tower, put 3 hard disks - one for each system... and maybe several graphic cards and so on? Has anyone something like that? Have any advice?

computer hardware linux mac question system windows

David Corking

Michael Lauer - Freelancer / Back from Switzerland - 0 views

  • And no, Android is not it.
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    We will soon come up with a comprehensive table of FSO-compliance levels to indicate what level of support the FSO middleware expectes from the kernel.
David Corking

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tweeting mouse trap and window | June 2009 - 0 views

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    'The house that tweets' This 2 minute video interview with Andy Stanford-Clark is much more entertaining than the YouTube interview I bookmarked earlier. Lots of action shots of home telemetry, Andy's Java midlet on his phone, and what I think is a GNOME desktop showing his home's web interface.
Maluvia Haseltine

How to set your wallpaper in wmii with feh - 0 views

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