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I have one built-in hard disk /dev/sda which looks like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00042134

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   293048319   146523136   83  Linux
/dev/sda2       293050366   312580095     9764865    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       293050368   312580095     9764864   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Now I can easily find the MBR with xxd /dev/sda | less, it's located in the first sector. According to Wikipedia the VBR must be in the first sector within the first bootable partition, in my case /dev/sda1. But in the first sector of /dev/sda1 I only see zeroes when I do a xxd /dev/sda1 | less.

I actually thought to find binary code of GRUB in there, where could it be then?

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It is usually not installed there. Most of the time, GRUB (stage 1) is installed in the MBR only on Linux.

Although GRUB version 1 will always overflow a little in the 30 kB following the MBR (stage 1.5, i.e. filesystem drivers), with GRUB version 2, the code installed within the MBR can load some other and bigger code (stage 1.5) by raw reading any sectors from the disk (but will usually stick to GRUB 1 behavior -- that is, loading code from the 30 kB after MBR).

Those 30 kB are usually available non-partitionned "free" disk space, because for historical reasons it is pretty rare for the first partition of a disk to start before sector 63, which leaves at least 512*62 = 31 kiB after MBR.

Then, it loads some files, usually from /boot, like the menu (menu.lst or grub.cfg), more filesystem drivers, etc. This is stage 2.

After that, is has enough to launch an OS.

As for the VBR now, it is not commonly used on Linux partitions because it is not reliable enough, but MS Windows usually installs one at the beginning of system (C:\) partitions. GRUB will just execute it if you want to start Windows. This process is called chainloading: a bootloader which launches another one. This also means that the filesystem used there must leave untouched the beginning of its partition, because it could overwrite the VBR otherwise! The amount of "untouched" space available depends on the filesystem, so there is no good guarantee: it could well be very small...

About loading stage 1.5 from an "unusual" place, as I said, GRUB 2 can load its stage 1.5 from any sector on the disk. It may be from a file, but this can be dangerous because the filesystem can decide to move that file to other sectors on the disk anytime (or even worse, fragment it!), and GRUB would need to update the new sector number in the MBR each time...

An interesting case is GUID Partition Tables (GPT). They are too big to ensure that enough space (30 kB) will always be available for stage 1.5. The recommended solution in that case is to use a dedicated "boot loader partition" (not a problem since GPT can support 128 partitions) that will not host a filesystem but GRUB's stage 1.5 data. This way, it shall not move anywere, and you can give it plenty of space.

You should really read wikipedia's GRUB article where I got most of this information.

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I just found out that apparently on sector 1 of /dev/sda - directly after the MBR - there is a copy of /boot/grub/core.img or /boot/grub/diskboot.img. –  Ian Mar 22 '13 at 13:47
But how does GRUB have access to the filesystem in this stage? –  Ian Mar 22 '13 at 14:11
@Ian I think you answered your own question. –  Michael Kjörling Mar 22 '13 at 14:14
@Ian The GRUB code within the MBR (stage 1) is very small (limited by the MBR size), but big enough to load some other code from the disk (stage 1.5 and/or 2), wich can then load modules, and the OS. It is explained in wikipedia. –  Totor Mar 22 '13 at 16:15
@Ian updated answer. –  Totor Mar 25 '13 at 22:02

Actually GRUB2 is not normally installed to a VBR. It recommends against this practice.

It's something like there not being enough space there to bundle a filesystem module for /boot. Historically, MBR disks give you 62 "reserved" sectors for such boot code. (Because the first partition starts on a cylinder boundary. Nowadays we ignore cylinders, but it's aligned to a whole megabyte instead, to support 4K sector drives, help with SSDs / RAID, etc.). You don't get such good guarantees from the VBR.

The message GRUB2 gives you explains that VBR (partition) installs have to rely on saving the block numbers of modules such as a filesystem driver. This is less reliable; it means grub has to be reinstalled when those module files are updated.

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You don't "get a whole megabyte" because the first partition starts on a cylinder boundary, but because starting partitions on sector 2048 (1 MB), or a multiple of 2048, permits to avoid all sort of partition/filesystem/raid alignment issues, so it has become best practice. Most of the time, a cylinder is considered to be approx. 8 MB (but cylinder doesn't really mean something anymore nowadays, because we use LBA, not CHS). –  Totor Mar 23 '13 at 0:15
Also, there is no such thing as "standard MBR disk". It is a de facto thing, because old MS-DOS used to require that partitions start on "cylinder" boundaries. Linux doesn't care and you can create your partition wherever you want (even before sector 62). However, this de facto practice has become a default setting in Linux fdisk for a while, to ensure old DOS compatibility. –  Totor Mar 23 '13 at 12:53

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I just installed jdk1.6.0. I have tried multiple ways to set the path variable and make java 1.6 my new running version. And nothing is working. Running centos5 virtual machine.

alternatives --config java returns the following:

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*+ 1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java
   2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java

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Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_19-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_19-b04, mixed mode)

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1.6.0 is installed in the following location: /usr/local/testing/jdk1.6.0_23/bin

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Try removing /opt/j2sdk/bin and /usr/local/testing/jdk1.6.0_23/bin from your PATH.

When you ran alternatives --config, it should have changed /usr/bin/java to point to the 1.6.0 version.

If you add them to PATH and are using alternatives, you will have two places to configure things, and it will get confusing.

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I figured this out. I just appended the new java path to the beginning of my path variable instead of the end and it worked.

export PATH=/usr/local/testing/jdk1.6.0_23/bin:$PATH

That worked. Now i am going to set in my script so it will do automatically.

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To explain the genesis of ‘The Bleeding Heart’, I need to explain something about the series it fits into. For the past eleven years I’ve been writing a set of stories that have become incredibly close to my heart. The Bryant & May mysteries started with a single novel called ‘Full Dark House’, which centre-staged a pair of argumentative elderly detectives. The book was filled with arcane London lore, and I imagined few people would be crazy enough to buy something that harked back to Golden Age fiction while set in the present. I didn’t realise what I’d set in motion.

‘Full Dark House’ was in effect an ‘origin’ story. It’s therefore the first one new readers buy if they decide to start the series. Which is wrong, as each volume is an entirely separate entity typifying a certain kind of mystery , from Whodunnit to Locked Room to Chase.

Which brings me to ‘The Bleeding Heart’. London is so packed with myths and histories that I never know where to start with each new volume. For a lunch with my publisher, we went to Bleeding Heart Yard in London’s Clerkenwell. It’s where my mother met my father, but it also has a strange tale to tell, involving a seduction, a murder and the Devil himself. Dickens used the tale, and so have other authors, but now the legend is rather forgotten, so I thought I’d give it to my detectives to test-drive, as it were.

What came from this is one of the craziest books I’ve yet written in the series, because when I drew a radius around the site I realised I could include other strange tales, one involving bodysnatchers.

London has a lot of odd little green spaces, and one thing that has always struck me is how we accept that they might contain tombstones around their edges. But instead of the park having a sign that reads; ‘Caution – May Contain Tombstones’, Londoners sit on them and eat sandwiches, oblivious about who is contained inside. They’re just a part of the landscape.

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Ah the wonders of chalkboard paint!  You can turn just about any piece of trash into a work of art or something that is super useful with a few strokes of a brush.  Today, I'll show you my new sandwich board that I plan to use at craft fairs this Spring.

Lovely, eh?  Want to give one a whirl for yourself?  It would make a great chalkboard for a wee little one's playroom too.  To make yours, gather up the following supplies:

  • Two kitchen cabinet doors of the same size. Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is a great source for these.
  • Chalkboard paint (you can make your own if you don't have any laying around the house - or don't feel like giving your right arm and leg for it)
  • A couple strips of fabric about an inch or two wide and 10" long.  I'm  using strips of denim from an old pair of jeans but you could use an old belt or anything that will keep the two doors from sliding all the way open
  • 4 Nails or decorative brads
  • 2 hinges (mine were still attached to the cabinets when I bought them)
  • Screwdriver and screws to fit the hinges
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Let's start by prepping and painting  those doors.
  • Remove all the existing hardware and set it aside for later use
  • Sand the doors down so that the existing paint or finish is no longer shiny.
  • Prime both sides completely
  • Paint the front and back.   If you plan to paint a border that is not chalkboard paint like mine, I suggest you do your painting opposite the way I did it.  So start by painting the back side and the border.  Then glaze with a protective glaze.  I really like this crystal clear enamel  protective glaze, it doesn't yellow like so many others.  THEN paint out your chalkboard area (do NOT spray with the glaze).  I did the chalkboard area first and then had to cover it so I didn't accidentally coat it with glaze.
Glaze all of the non-chalkboard areas

Let your doors cure for 24 hours, then start putting everything together.
  • First line up your hinges on the back side of the doors where the top of the doors meet and mark the holes
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  • Screw your hinges into place
I added a bit of purple paint to the bit of hinge that shows on the top

Now add a couple of strips of fabric with nails or decorative brads.  Once you've primed your chalkboard you (or the kids) are ready to draw all over it.

To prime your new chalkboard: Rub the side of a piece of chalk all over the board, make sure you cover it completely.  Erase it and you're chalkboard is now ready.

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Thailand's army is now running the country. Two days after declaring martial law — and saying it wasn't staging a coup — the military has changed its mind, Thailand's army chief says.

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha announced the coup d'etat on national television, saying the military is taking over to give Thailand a chance to "return to normal." The country has been locked in conflict since at least November, and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was removed from office by a court earlier this month.

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From Bangkok, reporter Michael Sullivan describes how the coup took place. He tells NPR's Morning Edition that many see the takeover as an inevitable continuation of events that began with the martial law declaration earlier this week.

"The surprising thing today was that the leader of the army was actually meeting with various representatives of the pro- and anti-government forces," Michael says. "He was trying to come up with some sort of a compromise."

"When that didn't happen, he just pulled the plug on those talks, and actually detained several members of those parties."

Michael says that in a sense, the events were "sort of like one of those scams the cops run, when they want people who are out on a fugitive warrant — they say, 'You've won a free TV, please come and claim your prize.' "

The Thai military last seized power in 2006. Michael says it will again try to craft a constitution that can bring a unified government not controlled by people linked to wealthy former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed in 2006. He is the brother of the recently ousted Yingluck Shinawatra.

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Some of Thailand's broadcast TV stations ceased transmissions Thursday, Michael reports for our Newscast unit, adding that others are running loops of the general's statement.

Citing Gen. Prayuth, The Bangkok Post reports that the country is now being run by "a national peace-keeping council."

The newspaper adds that the move came after representatives of the seven groups that had been trying to work out a plan to rule the country failed to reach an agreement.

One order that has gone out to the general public is that they should observe a curfew, from 10 o'clock each night to 5 the next morning.

Update at 11:35 a.m. ET: The Scene In Bangkok

Michael Sullivan sends a quick note to describe how the curfew is affecting everyday life.

"Traffic tonight was horrendous, even by Thai standards," he says. "And the place I went to get my takeout was mobbed by people scrambling to order/eat before the curfew."

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Just like always, the Super Bowl yesterday was the only event of the year when people actually watch, let alone discuss, commercials. Almost all of them try to be funny these days, but it might surprise you to learn that a committee of professional salespeople trying not to offend anyone may not be the most effective way to create comedy. The only thing sure to be must-see TV are the GoDaddy commercials, because not even a thousand monkeys on a thousand tabs of acid with their brains set on shuffle could come up with as strange a combination of “hot-chick” spokespeople as Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels from The Biggest Loser. Tim and Eric could huff ether-soaked rags for a week straight and not achieve that level of pure randomness.
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Act of valor

Here’s Act of Valor, the Navy Seal movie starring actual Navy Seals, which opens February 24th. I don’t know what to think about this one. I like the idea of it, but something about the way it actually looks… I think they may have over-glorified. Now it looks vaguely porny, or like visual Christian rock. Also interesting to note, they stole Eminem from Chrysler, and Chrysler upgraded to Clint Eastwood:

I’m not sure if Chrysler wants me to buy their cars, or be afraid of them because they’re from the streets. I see a Chrysler coming down the street, I clutch my purse a little tighter, that’s all I’m saying. Anyway, it’s halftime, America. I heard Mike Singletary was originally cast in this, but instead of giving a speech he just mooned everyone.
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Every movie trailer had lots of ‘Splosions, but I think The Avengers may have had the most. (You can see the in-depth breakdown over at GammaSquad). It looks like they nearly exhausted the comic book visual cliche machine on this one. There’s a Predator bro handshake, the Spider-Man three-point stance thing, Black Widow all diagonal for some reason (?) and enough serious faces for three more Fast and Furious movies. Also, I was able to obtain the director’s cut of that exchange near the end.
TONY STARK: The Avengers. That’s what we call ourselves. Earth’s mightiest heroes-type thing.
LOKI: I have an army.
TONY STARK: We have a Hulk.
— [extended director’s cut]—
TONY STARK: Not scared yet? We also have a Russian chick with a pistol and a jockey who fights using obsolete technology from the old west.
…Did I mention the Russian chick knows jiu-jitsu? Yeah, that’s what I thought. (*flips Loki the bird, chugs energy drink*)
John Carter

Man, if there’s one thing Disney wants to get across in their John Carter marketing, it’s that John Carter’s name is John Carter. “You are John Carter of Earth?” “YES.” [Cut to] “RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, IT’S JOHN CARTER!” “Grrrr, I’m gonna kill everyone here, or my name ain’t John Carter! Which means you’re dead, because my name is DEFINITELY John Carter!”
I could never have imagined a film by the guy who directed Wall E and Finding Nemo and co-written by Michael Chabon could look this crappy. What happened? This is a mystery. Of Pittsburgh.

Rumor has it this one cost $200 million to make, and all I can tell you for certain is that the script was terrible. It’ll be interesting to see whether the American public devours this as voraciously as they seem to devour all alien invasion movies, no matter how crappy (a la Battle:Los Angeles), or whether they’ll be as indifferent as everyone seems. All I know is that the way for it to be a sure-fire hit is if there’s at least 15 minutes of Rihanna sass-talking the aliens in patois. “Hey, mon, I and I no ya-gwan let dem bumbaclot aliahn tief me batty ship. BUH! BUH!”
Opens May 18th.
The Dictator

Here’s The Dictator, starring Sacha Baron Cohen. In the same vein as John Carter, for a movie that re-teams the director and star of Borat and Bruno and based on a novel written by Saddam Hussein, this looks remarkably pedestrian. Kardashians are hairy, and dictators shoot people. Okay. Sacha Cohen needs some regular Americans to interact with or this is going to be a long movie.
Opens May 11th.
GI Joe

The GI Joe trailer opens with a pro wrestler quoting a rapper as if he’s the pope. I don’t know what else I need to say here.
The Lorax

The Lorax looks great. What can I say, something about the voice of Danny DeVito coming out of a curmudgeonly, orange otter thing with a walrus mustache just appeals to me.
Opens March 2nd.

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Dan Harmon is absolutely winning SXSW 2014. There’s no denying it at this point. First there was the D&D movie pitch. Then he absolutely nailed how we should feel about the True Detective finale. And now a Redditor just shared the above side-by-side image with the caption, “I told my wife that if I ever met Dan Harmon, he’d replace her picture as my phone background. Guess who I bumped into at SXSW this weekend…”

And while that’s a super odd and particular thing to preemptively declare to your wife I’m sure glad this dude did. Because in conclusion…

Winners: Dan Harmon, the internet. Losers: This guy’s wife and this guy when she finds out she’s been plastered all over the internet. Good times. Five MeowMeowBeans and so forth.

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The actress who plays Sarah Barnaby in the hit ITV show, had revealed to HELLO! how her surprise pregnancy at the age of 43 had been a 'blessing' after a string of heartbreaking miscarriages with her ex Martin Curry had led her to give up all hope of ever becoming a mummy.

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Tuesday July 13, 2004
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Dear Log,

Where is my EMULATOR FOR IT!?!? I need to play Abfahrtslauf! And carry on the electromagnetic traditions of our forefathers!

Abfahrtslauf! Abfahrtslauf! Abfahrtslauf!

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  • It's available for MAME and has been for awhile. In fact, it's one of the few truly legal MAME games, since the East German government that granted the copyright monopoly no longer exists.

    I didn't know that; I just read it on slashdot earlier today.

    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
  • I want to play Scheissbude: CrapBooth 2000.


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I believe it was Larry who said, "You can write baby Perl and we won't laugh." I like that, and I've adopted it when working with new Perl programmers. We've all seen Perl as written by C programmers or as written by shell programmers. But some code I saw today really takes the cake. I think this is "Perl as written by a non-programmer"...

Here's the beginning, as the script's processing its args:

for (@ARGV)

for ($i=0; $i < $size; $i++)

I won't post the part where the code reads the input file twice: once to count the lines, and again to pull it into an array...

I think the programmer just liked two-pass algorithms.

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Wednesday October 09, 2002
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Storable for WIn32

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Seeing as I thought Cache::FileCache would be a good idea to implement on our new mod_perl system, I thought I'd try installing. Unfortunately ActiveState only have a PPM version for Solaris.

Never mind I'll use my new mini-CPAN to get the latest version and install it myself. Until that is it requires Storable. Now ActiveState have version 1.12 of Storable, which I duly installed, but Cache-Cache requires version 1.14 or above.

Never mind I thought, I'll just go back to my mini-CPAN and install the latest version of Storable. Then I discovered the fatal flaw in my trail.

I don't have a C compiler on my windows box, and Storable seems to be asking for a C related thing called "cl". The last time I had one on a win32 box brings back some horrific memories. So alas I won't be getting to use Cache::FileCache in production software :(

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  • By using an alternative PPM repository I've been able to get my version of Storable up to 1.011 and install Cache:Cache 1.01 on NT. Works quite well - though some functions can't work. Jolly good module, and it's author is a helpful person.

    See here for a list PPM repositories with newer software than AS: Re: Modules in the Windows environment []. I've found the University of Winnipeg repository in particular to be very good for mod_Perl and XML modules.

    -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
    • Brilliant there are 2 on that list I already use (Theory for mod_perl and OpenInteract for Template Toolkit), but the others are very welcome. Thanks.

      It would be nice if, like CPAN, there was a central repository for all ActivePerl packaged modules. Perhaps ActiveState could open up their repository a bit, so it becomes a one stop shop, rather than having to search other repositories or do-it-yourself (which sometimes isn't an option).

      • This has come up a few times on Perlmonks [] hence my suggested link. From what I gather there are a number of alternative repositories out there with various things on them, but it's not co-ordinated like CPAN.

        As far as I can work out AS only build modules when a paying customer asks for them or if they think they are useful. For example Crazyinsomniac started up his own repository, here is the announcment [] which covered some of the topic.

        As far as I'm aware no one has yet produced a single meta-PPM tool,

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I'm probably the only one here who even cares, but Apple's latest open source license is finally officially a free software license, according to the FSF. FWIW, I agreed with the FSF's assessment before that Apple's license was slightly less than free. I didn't let it affect my personal relations with friends or anything like that, though. ;) [I didn't use Mac OS X mostly because RedHat 7.1 and GNOME won me away from the Mac world, not because it was proprietary or anything.]

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  • First, I appreciate the schadenfreude here as much as the next hacker, but it appears this bug was in the Freescale code for the platform, not the code Microsoft wrote for the Zune. So it effects more than just Zunes...

    Second, the "some type inference systems" is misleading. The one type inference system that Andrew Koenig and MJD discuss is the Hindley-Milner [] type system, which is used in ML and its descendants (OCaml, F#, Haskell, etc.). Koenig's example demonstrated that a recursive algorithm would have never worked properly because it was missing a base case. That's totally different from a while loop in an imperative program. No type inferencing system can find a bug like this in an imperative program.

    Third, this is not the kind of problem simple code coverage would be able to isolate. What happens if $days is 367 and $year is a leap year? Then the inner if branch fires, $year increments, and $days decrements by 1 leap year.

    That's why this code works perfectly, except for one day every 4 years -- the last day of every leap year. You could try 1000 random inputs and demonstrate all branches are exercised, and still miss the case where $days = 366 in a leap year.

    Date math is hard, and full of corner cases like this. This is a problem that by its very nature isn't amenable to automated reasoning, whether you're talking about type inferencing, theorem proving, automated testing or code coverage analysis. Your best bet for all date math related code is to build up a body of known edge cases and try them all, in a brute force manner.

    • Thanks for the extra information.

      I think, ultimately, that part of the problem here could be alleviated by coupling things which must be coupled. For example, having a DayOfYear type with a type coercion system could partially help. Imagine the following type definition (in Perl 6, which doesn't do inferencing, of course, but bear with me):

      subset DayOfYear of Int where { 0 <= $_ <= 366 };

      Obviously, that still leaves edge cases, but I would imagine with inferencing, while you wouldn't get a compile

      • All of this, of course, if from a typing newbie, so if I'm talking complete bollocks, feel free to correct me!

        You're talking complete bollocks. :-)

        The kinds of things a strong static typing system can do is let you create types like DayOfYear, which let you specify a single calendar date, and prevents such nonsense like the 47th of April as being a "date". From there, you can create functions like addDays that take a DayOfYear and an integer number of days and return a new DayOfYear.

        What this code was doing was taking a count of days since the beginning of time, and figuring out the current date by subtractin

      • I think the mindblowingly clever technology you are looking for here is called a truth table. :-)


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Letter: Responding to the OS Economic Development Commission on The Preserve

To The Editor:

The OS EDC, which has itself endorsed the acquisition of The Preserve, recently released a letter asking five questions.  They deserve a response.  In order of importance, they are:

  1. Cost to the taxpayer.   In short, very little and perhaps nothing at all.  Read on.

    Acquiring The Preserve under the proposed agreement saves Old Saybrook potentially tens of millions of dollars the town would have incurred if development as planned had gone forward—and might still incur if The Preserve is left open to development.  Perhaps more important to some residents is that acquiring The Preserve will almost certainly save Old Saybrook money.  First, the cost to taxpayers for the bonding required for the town’s share of the purchase price—less than 40%–implies annual property taxes for a median home of $12 to $24 dollars, depending on the form of bonding.  So for $1-$2 a month, residents take control of an extraordinarily important 1000 acres, the headwaters of three rivers, a critical source of clean water for the area aquifer, and an environmentally important area.  Second, the costs the town now incurs will almost certainly go down.  The proposed agreement includes a very substantial permanent endowment (perhaps reaching $1 million) which will provide funds to cover proper management of The Preserve, including trail mapping, trail marking (so folks no longer get lost on the unmarked, tangled trails they now hike), and permit sustainable forestry practices.  In addition, because of the partnership with the State, state conservation officers will share the responsibility for policing the area, relieving Old Saybrook police of some of that responsibility.  And because the area will now be managed properly, residents in Old Saybrook and adjacent towns no longer face the very real threat of damage to the aquifer and degradation of their water supply—thus again saving potentially thousands of dollars for every household affected.  On balance, it is almost certain that town costs will fall by more than the cost of the bonding.

    Wen considering costs, beyond the offsetting savings we can immediately recognize, preserving The Preserve will create value for the town and the region.  Real estate professionals will tell you that the two things potential home buys ask about are the quality of the schools and access to public open space, whether parks or forests.  Multiple studies confirm that towns that acquire and manage significant open space clearly benefit along a host of vectors.   Given how well this acquisition is planned, with the creation of an endowment to provide continuous funding and the partnership with State, preserving The Preserve will deliver real value to the town and the region.

  2. Why the State is interested in assuming more than 40% of the purchase price: Connecticut has, since the early 1970s, taken a very strong bipartisan interest in preserving open space and improving environmental quality.  Perhaps some remember when the lower Connecticut River was heavily polluted and the target of quite embarrassing coverage by the New York Times.  The river is now remarkably clean and a major asset to the region.  Moreover, the Federal government provides significant financial incentives and support for these kinds of initiatives, which are so important to sustaining and strengthening a healthy natural environment.
  3. Has anyone approached Lehman Brothers directly?  I don’t know; I suspect not.  Frankly, Old Saybrook could acquire very little by trying to “go it alone” with its $3 million.  Buying two fifths of The Preserve appears absurd on its face—it avoids none of the potential costs the town would incur if the balance of the land were then developed (new school, new police and fire stations, roads and bridges to maintain—a frightening potential cost)—and captures almost none of the benefits.  It would not achieve environmental protection nor guarantee against degradation of the aquifer with the threat to the three rivers that draw on The Preserve; it would not create well-managed public access; it would not provide an endowment to provide funding to manage and maintain the property.  It is an approach that would have secured virtually no benefit but left the town open to potentially massive expenses in the future.
  4. Is hunting allowed?  Just as with the existing 500-acre Gleason property that Old Saybrook owns, state law does permit “regulated hunting” on these kinds of open spaces.  But Old Saybrook has never permitted hunting on the Gleason property, and it is unlikely that the town would permit it on The Preserve.  Moreover, given that this a state statutory requirement, if the issue ever did emerge—and there is no reason to anticipate that it will, as it has never come up with the Gleason property—then modifying the state law would be quite straight forward.   Besides, leaving The Preserve in private hands would make hunting in all forms much much more likely—just as leaving it in private hands runs the very significant risk of future developments that will impose significant continuing costs on the town.
  5. What are the pros and cons?  The comments above point to multiple pros.  Whether your interest is in environmental protection, assuring access to high quality water (the aquifer), avoiding degradation to rivers flowing form The Preserve, having easy access to a wide array of passive recreational activities, making the region more attractive to potential residents, or simply preserving the forest canopy which mitigates global warming (the NE is an important carbon sink, especially during some months), acuiring The Preserve for a comparatively small sum makes eminent good sense.  And then add the shared responsibility (and costs) with the state and the first-ever dedication endowment in support of a part or open space, and it is extremely hard to find an argument against this acquisition.

    The cons?  I have been listening intently for nearly a year.  I haven’t heard one argument against this initiative that withstood careful scrutiny and thought.   I believe that the answers to the OS EDC questions strongly confirms that view.

Acquiring The Preserve and thus preserving it for all time is simply a winner on every count.  Old Saybrook will be quite wise to join with the Trust for the Public Lands, the State of Connecticut, and hundreds of individuals who have pledged more than $1 million of their own money to make this happen.  Let’s take control of our future: vote “Yes” on July 8.

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1 Nov. 11 vs the Ottawa Senators

As I said, People don’t respect what Alex Burrows does. Not only does he retrieve the puck for the Sedins, but, once they have it, he is constantly in motion, trying to put himself into a scoring position so that they can find him. With the way the Sedins move the puck around, Burrows has to move around just as much to stay in a passing lane. Let’s start with this goal, for instance: after Kevin Bieksa holds the puck in the zone, Henrik charges to it along the far wall, and Burrows makes a line to the net, looking for Henrik’s pass. When Henrik instead moves it to Daniel (with a slick, tape-to-tape backhand pass), Burrows changes routs and spins back to the goalmouth, making himself available for Daniel. Thankfully, his button hook shakes his defenders, leaving him wide open, and Daniel finds him for his first of the season.

2 Nov. 24 vs Colorado:

Once the Sedins force the turnover, Alex Burrows joins the rush on the far side. He’s in a shooting position from the moment he re-enters the zone (watch how long he glides with his stick out to the side), and sure enough, the Sedins move the puck to him beautifully. He finishes in similar fashion. My favourite thing: about this clip: Daniel Sedin doesn’t just knock this puck away from Ryan O’Reilly. He does so while intentionally banking it off the boards to Henrik. In other words, his sweep check is a pass. My second favourite thing about this clip: the way the Sedins make this entire play happen with all five Avalanche players within a foot of them.

3 Nov. 26 vs San Jose:

Normally, Burrows is only in his scoring position for a half a second before he has to readjust but, on this goal, he actually has time to call for the pass by tapping his stick on the ice. What are the Sharks doing? Watch the replay that begins at 0:35. Their coverage actually breaks down when, with Henrik Sedin set up behind the net, Daniel Sedin cuts across the goalmouth, seducing confused rookie Justin Braun (in his first NHL game, the poor kid) into following him. This creates problems, as it forces both Torrey Mitchell and Kent Huskins to abandon their defensive posture. That’s Braun’s vacated post that Huskins’ now has to cover, and he doesn’t move quickly enough, as a lefty, to get his stick out to the other side. Huskins knows Burrows is calling for the puck, but he can’t do anything with his stick on his forehand. To make matters worse, the moment he takes his eyes off the puck in order to bring his stick to the backhand, Henrik threads the pass through and Burrows scores.

4 Dec. 1 vs Calgary:

Here’s Burrows’ first goal scored on the rush, as he takes a perfect Henrik Sedin pass to break in two-on-one with Daniel. Drawing from his years of experience, Miikka Kiprusoff assumes that Daniel Sedin is going to receive the pass. Unwilling to be scored on by Daniel Sedin for the second time that evening (or the 20th time in his career), Kiprusoff cheats right. Unfortunately, Burrows surprises him and keeps, putting the shot just inside the post.

5 December 12 vs the Edmonton Oilers

Here’s one of the prettiest goals of the season, as the Sedins set Alex Burrows up for a tap in after bewildering the Oilers with the longest give-and-go play in history. It begins with Daniel making a calculated, diagonal dump-in from center, firing the puck into the far corner for Henrik to skate onto. It’s a play the Sedins would use all season, to great effect, but never better than here. Henrik collects the puck as it comes off the boards, takes a quick look, then turns on a swivel, and fires the puck back across the zone to Daniel. The Oilers swivel too, but, by then, Daniel has centered the puck to Alex Burrows for the goal. It’s ridiculous. But let’s not give all the credit to the twins: Burrows does a great job here to follow the play and make himself a passing option from the moment this puck enters the zone. Watch the way he repositions himself by spinning off his man when Henrik makes the cross-zone pass to Daniel.

6 Dec. 18 vs the Toronto Maple Leafs

You don’t often hear about Alex Burrows as a net presence, mainly because he’s not the traditional net presence that plants himself on the edge of the crease and refuses to move, but he’s just as much a threat in the goalmouth as a Tomas Holmstrom. What Burrows lacks in Byfuglienian girth, he makes up for in tenacity and quickness, maintaining position in front by knocking guys off balance and darting around the crease like a squirrel in the street. We see evidence of that here, as Burrows makes space for himself by crosschecking Carl Gunnarson (pushing down, rather than out, to knock the Leafs D-man off balance), then pounces on this loose puck in a split second, swatting it into the net before anyone else on the ice even knows where it is.

7 Dec. 23 vs the Columbus Blue Jackets

Two things you need to know about the Sedins: 1) they always, always run a set play off a won faceoff. 2) they never give up on a play. Had the Blue Jackets remembered both of these basic tenets of Sedinery, they might have prevented this goal. While Daniel’s puts the puck wide on his initial scoring chance off the set faceoff play, the line gets another chance when the Blue Jackets forget about rule number two. While they’re breathing a big sigh of relief, Henrik digs the puck out from behind the net, and Burrows darts to the front of the net to bang in his pass.

8 Jan. 3 vs the San Jose Sharks

This goal bears a striking resemblance to goal #6, as Burrows is the first one to a loose puck in front, chopping it past Antti Niemi for the late third period go-ahead marker. Burrows does a great job, too, of even getting to this puck. As the Sedins dig it out of the scrum along the wall, he darts to the net at top speed, so as to to give Christian Ehrhoff a net presence to shoot at, and his efforts pays off. He arrives at the same time as the puck, tipping the shot — originally going high and wide — back towards the goalmouth just as Niemi overplays it. This leaves him the entire net into which to bury the rebound, and, like the zippy squirrel that he is, he buries his reward.

9 Jan. 11 vs the New York Islanders

Here’s that classic Sedin set faceoff play: Henrik wins the draw back to Daniel, who then switches places with Burrows, taking the puck to the boards while Burrows cuts to the net and looks for a centring pass. A year after the Sedins introduced it to great success, the Western Conference wised up in 2010-11, and the play was less effective as a result. However, it’s still relatively new to Eastern Conference teams like the New York Islanders who don’t see the Sedins nearly as often. The Islanders almost prevent it nonetheless, but after Travis Hamonic limits Alex Burrows to almost no contact with the puck, it goes off his leg and into the net. So close.

10 Jan. 24 vs the Dallas Stars

Daniel Sedin makes like Chris Campoli here, setting up Alex Burrows with a chest-high pass that the Canucks’ winger has to snatch out of the air. Just like he did for the classic overtime goal versus Chicago, Burrows puts the puck from his glove to his stick to the back of the net in about half a second, beating Kari Lehtonen with a laser slapper. And, just like the goal versus Chicago, Burrows gets lucky when the puck stands on end before the shot.

11 Jan. 26 vs the Nashville Predators

Hey, is that Scott Rintoul at the 0:22 mark of this clip? If it’s not, there are two Canucks fans in this town that bear an uncanny resemblance to the Sherminator. Anyway, Burrows scores another goal on a rebound in front of the net here, beating Shane O’Brien, his best frenemy, to a loose puck in front of Pekka Rinne. Great job by Dan Hamhuis on this one to chase this puck down at the point and slap it right back into traffic, knowing full well that with two Sedins and an Alex Burrows in front, there’s a good chance someone would find a way to put it in the net.

12 Feb. 1 vs the Dallas Stars

Burrows’s 12th of the season comes on a give-and-go with Henrik Sedin versus the Stars, the Gabby Jay of the Canucks’ 2010-11 season. Everything went Vancouver’s way versus Dallas, and this goal is no exception. As Burrows comes streaking in, he tries to pull this puck to his backhand. Instead, he loses the handle on it. However, rather than get away from him, it merely rolls forward and stays with him, waiting for him to bat it in. Seriously, another friendly rolling puck for Burrows. Does he get a lot of those or what?

13 Feb. 2 vs the Phoenix Coyotes

Burrows’s 200th career NHL points comes where — I’m gonna guess — about 190 of the others came: directly in front of the goaltender. After a turnover in the Coyotes zone, Daniel Sedin pounces on a loose puck and puts a wrist shot on net. Burrows is already there, and he tips this puck past Ilya Bryzgalov for the goal. And again, in case I haven’t made clear how well Burrows reads plays and how hard he goes to the net when the Sedins have a chance, watch how quickly he changes lines when he sees Daniel pick up this puck. He goes from coasting out of the zone to backing in on Bryzgalov in the blink of an eye. He’s ass-to-face on the Russian netminder in half a second. Heck, Burrows might have the highest ass-to-face transition time of any Canuck. That’s legit.

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  1. immie_8
    July 24, 2011

    Awesome, I can’t wait to see Part II. (He is indeed quite the zippy squirrel!)

    Just one note, on goal 11, I’m pretty sure that that wasn’t Neimi in net for the Predators. ;)

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  2. BECanucks
    July 24, 2011

    mmmmh, Alex goodness.
    Thank you!

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    July 24, 2011

    This makes me so excited to see what Burrows is going to do in this coming season.

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  4. Kate
    July 24, 2011

    I’m looking forward to the next part because this was a great post and all but…the squirrel burying nut video is so hilarious I’m not sure it can be topped.

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And the award for trouper of the year goes to … It’s a tie! Christina Applegate and Charlotte d’Amboise for “Sweet Charity.” Who showed more spunk, more “the show must go on” determination regardless of her reputation or tendons? After breaking her foot during a March 11 perf in Chicago, Applegate would not take Barry Weissler’s no for an answer. Playing the hooker with a heart of gold, she truly became the trouper with a will of iron. Meanwhile, there was d’Amboise, her standby, then replacement, then standby again. She gamely played one week of previews in New York before going back to whence she came, with only a one-day break, playing Roxie Hart in “Chicago.”

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BRUSSELS — France’s culture minister Frederic Mitterrand has called on the Iranian authorities to release the director Jafar Panahi, arrested along with members of his family on Monday night.

Mitterrand’s statement of solidarity with the helmer came as Gaul’s leading association of film directors, the Societe des realisateurs de films (SRF), demanded action to free Panahi.

“We call on our government, and in particular the minister of culture and communication, to do everything possible to secure the release of Jafar Panahi and his family,” the SRF said in a statement.

News of Panahi’s arrest reached Europe through news agencies Tuesday morning. According to reports, the director, his wife and daughter plus some 15 guests were taken into custody and his house in Tehran searched.

Panahi was briefly arrested in 2009 for taking part in a memorial to anti-government demonstrators. He was subsequently forbidden to leave the country.

Panahi is one of the leading voices in modern Iranian cinema. He won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 for his debut feature “The White Balloon,” Venice’s Golden Lion for “The Circle” in 2000 and the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2006 for “Offside” — films that are all banned in Iran.

Last month, the travel ban prevented Panahi from attending the Berlin fest, where he was to participate in a panel discussion on Iranian Cinema: Present and Future during World Cinema Fund Day.

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Andy Warhol mused that everyone got 15 minutes of fame in their life. Now a new Website is offering wannabe musicians 3-6 minutes of that. Thestage

Launched in January, – a live streaming site, allowing performers to perform for whoever's watching – has attracted more than 1,300 performers to day – who have put on over 50,000 performances.

The site is akin to an open mic night at the local watering hole. Anyone with the desire to perform publicly can do so and receive immediate feedback in the form of adulations and cash tips. An extended spot check of the site found a collection of fairly accomplished guitarists and a few singers who… well, have an obvious love of music, but will likely never attract the attention of a  major label.

That seems sufficient for the user base, though, which is generous with its virtual cheers (which earn performers extra camera time).

"We developed as a new and valuable form of web-based live entertainment, where users can enjoy diverse talent from all over world, and performers get an instant audience," said co-founder Lisa Hull. "The open mic format is ideal for performers who want to promote a new song, attract new fans and subscribers, and sell their music."

While there's no chance for wannabes to advance in the music industry directly via TheStage (unless a talent agent happens to be watching), the site joins a growing movement by the entertainment industry to seek out talent via the Web.

Openfilm, a community for independent filmmakers, lets auteurs upload their short works and get feedback from peers and pros, including advisory board members James Caan, Robert Duvall and Scott Caan. A competition on that site awarded one indie filmmaker a $250,000 prize last September, and the opportunity to expand his short into a longer feature.

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Disney has elevated “Planes” and will open the animated comedy movie theatrically on Aug. 9.

Studio had originally intended to release “Planes” on direct-to-video. The story focuses on a cropduster named Dusty.

Jon Cryer had been attached previously to voice the lead character but that deal fell through.

“Planes” will open against Sony’s sci-fier “Elysium,” starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, and New Line’s road-trip comedy “We’re The Millers,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis.

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Time Warner Cable chairman-CEO Glenn Britt has had a recurrence of cancer but will continue to run the cable operator through the end of the year, he announced in a memo to employees Tuesday.

In July, Time Warner Cable announced that Britt will retire at the end of 2013. Rob Marcus, currently president and COO, will take over the top job at the start of next year.

In the memo, Britt said he recently underwent tests to determine the cause of an ongoing issue with his voice since mid-summer. A few weeks ago, “the doctors determined that I have cancer,” he wrote. The exec is a cancer survivor, having recovered from melanoma five years ago.

“I have begun treatment and am getting terrific care,” Britt wrote in the memo. “I feel good and am optimistic about my prognosis. I have no intention of letting this cancer slow me down, and will continue to work until my retirement at the end of the year.”

Britt said the transition to Marcus’ taking over as CEO was well under way before his diagnosis. “The transition has been seamless so far and is nearly complete,” he wrote. “Your well wishes mean the world to me, so thank you for all you have done and will continue to do to support me as I fight this illness.”

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Kelloggs Gluten-free Rice Crispies

I am soooooooo excited!  Those of you familiar with this blog will be aware of how I feel about breakfast (LOVE IT) and very shortly there will be a new, super-convenient way to start the day.  Kelloggs are launching gluten-free rice crispies, in ordinary sized boxes and, rumour has it, at the same price as gluten-ated (TM) crispies!  Here's the announcement.

I'm expecting to see it on the cereal aisle at any moment.

It's so normal!

But the big question is: Will they still snap! crackle! and pop! ?

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  1. UPDATE: I have still not seen these on the supermarket shelves. I live near a medium sized Tesco's and a large Sainsbury's and despite many a happy hour spent gazing at the shelves, I am still buying the teeny tiny boxes of over-priced gluten free cereal from the 'foods for special people' section. If any of you readers are the boss of a large supermarket, explanations please! ithankyou

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Houston Texans’ running back Arian Foster has decided to train on a plant-based diet.

Since announcing his new status as a vegan via Twitter on July 5, Houston Texans’ star running back Arian Foster has received kudos from fellow vegans—and some unanticipated controversy from fans. Foster referenced the popular documentary Forks Over Knives as an excellent resource, and changed his Twitter profile icon to an image of longtime vegan cartoonist Dan Piraro’s comic showing a skeptical meerkat asking a gorilla if he gets enough protein without eating meat. To those who’ve questioned his ability to train and excel on a plant-based diet, Foster tweets, “Lol, I had no idea so many of my followers were nutritionists.”

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Gaming is in its golden age, and big and small players alike are maneuvering like kings and queens in A Game of Thrones. Register now for our GamesBeat 2015 event, Oct. 12-Oct.13, where we'll explore strategies in the new world of gaming.

A Little Mac life lesson

Gamers often feel a need to defend their passion. My mom used to question the value of the stuff I played while growing up. I eventually convinced her that games were worth a damn when I explained the Civilization series to her over the course of two hours. It would’ve been a lot easier and quicker to just show her the work of artist Kathryn DeFeo (known as Juuhachi).

DeFeo and her fellow artist PaperBeatsScissors created a Tumblr blog to showcase their What Video Games Have Taught Us series of prints. Take a look:

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“Video games are just starting to shake off this bad reputation that they’ve acquired over the past two decades,” DeFeo told GamesBeat in an interview. “People who are not familiar with games or gaming culture are finally learning that they’re not all about violence and sexism and that they can actually have a profoundly positive impact on an individual. Personally, I’m using visual art as a way to let people know that video games aren’t all that bad after all.”

Many of the lessons represent the types of things that any parent would hope a child would get out of their favorite pieces of media. Although, it can be hard for a mom or a dad to see through the confusing technology and flashy graphics. That’s something that Defeo says she dealt with.

“My parents never really understood how crucial video games were to my creative development as a child,” Defeo said. “However, they supported my decision to go to art school and still support my decision to pursue a career in illustration, so I hope these little drawings will help them understand. To me, video games are the pinnacle of visual storytelling.”

If you like the images so far, DeFeo is announcing plans to continue work on more.

“I got to meet Hideo Kojima at PAX Prime last weekend, so I’m thinking of featuring Metal Gear in the next one,” DeFeo said.

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Gaurav Jain is a Principal at Founder Collective and previously was a Product Manager for Android. He or his firm are not investors in AngelList. Follow him on twitter @gjain.

Just as Google’s Android operating system has disrupted mobile rivals, I think AngelList will do the same to most incumbent venture capital firms and put some out of business unless they make significant changes. This tectonic shift will have major ramifications for both investors and entrepreneurs and we better fasten our seat belts!

In my opinion, Android’s meteoric growth can be attributed to three key factors: open platform, modularity and network effects.

  1. Open/Free: The fact that Android was open and free to use significantly lowered the barriers to adoption for OEMs and made it a compelling option compared to the alternatives (license or in-house).
  2. Modular: Android’s modular and flexible architecture allowed OEMs to augment the operating system to suit their needs and innovate on design, form factor and functionality. This encouraged healthy competition even within the Android ecosystem and prevented all Android-based phones from looking the same.
  3. Network effects: Android has built a thriving developer ecosystem around it. As the number of developers on the platform increases, it gives OEMs (and users) even more reasons to adopt Android.

Of course, market timing was also crucial to Android getting 75 percent market share, as measured by Gartner. As users were starting to spend more time surfing the web on mobile, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) were keen to ship cutting-edge web-enabled devices. Android made it easier and more efficient for them to do so.

AngelList is adopting a very similar strategy and I assert that it will become the unifying “Android platform” of the venture community. Here’s why: AngelList does not cost money to join, has a modular architecture and exhibits strong network effects. And the fact that both the number of early stage companies looking for funding and investors looking to seed those companies has increased substantially makes the timing perfect.

AngelList is an open and free marketplace for startups and investors. Accredited investors and entrepreneurs can connect with each other without spending a dime. Yes, AngelList founders Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi do some curation at this point, but my guess that it is only an interim solution until the platform reaches escape velocity. Long term, I can see AngelList becoming a vibrant and thriving community that is entirely democratic and promising entrepreneurs can easily connect with credible active investors, for free. If you are an investor just starting out, your time and energy are better spent on AngelList than building proprietary deal flow.

If you haven’t already, checkout AngelList’s applications programming interface section. The product has been clearly designed to be a platform, not just a destination. Through the API you can access pretty much any information about a company, including who’s following it, jobs posted and what reviews it has received. AngelList recently launched a product called Syndicates, where anyone can become a VC and invest on behalf of LPs. Talk about disruption!

AngelList is a two-sided network with entrepreneurs and investors and if the platform hits the tipping point, then there will be no stopping it. It will be really hard for another platform to catch up. It is still early days, but traction thus far is early validation for my prediction:

  • Moving $10 million/month offline through intros made on AngelList and $2 million/month online through AngelList. If you do the math, that’s almost $150 million/year going through AngelList, more than most funds invest in a year.
  • 67,000 companies have been claimed on AngelList
  • 20,000 accredited investors and 6,000 investors with track record of doing deals
  • Best known graduates include Uber, Leap Motion and DuckDuckGo
  • Placing ~60 candidates into AngelList companies every week

Based on anecdotal evidence, most early stage companies that are receiving financing have a profile on AngelList. And why wouldn’t they? More visibility means more potential investors that will probably result in quicker fundraising at better terms. Even better if you can garner strong social proof. Worst case, it’ll help you recruit team members. Of course, there is no reason that these companies will not tap AngelList again for their future rounds of funding.

So what should VC firms and entrepreneurs do if AngelList does become the “Android” of venture capital?

First, don’t be in denial! If you are a VC, make sure you have an AngelList profile and are actively using it. If you are an entrepreneur that’s raising money (even if you have done this a million times before and will have no trouble raising!) you should invest in building a strong AngelList profile. The only good excuse to not be on AngelList is if your company is in stealth mode, which to be honest, is only applicable to a very few of you.

And, second, VCs should build on their strengths and leverage the platform to create and offer value. Facebook has not created their own mobile OS, but instead uses the massive distribution that Android and iOS have to reach its audience. OEMs such as Motorola and Samsung have prioritized Android over their own proprietary platforms. It allows them to focus on what they do best and offer differentiated value. In my opinion, the fact that BlackBerry builds its own OS (and hence needs developers to do extra work) is holding it back and preventing it from leveraging its strengths.

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In a similar fashion, VCs should leverage AngelList’s deal flow, curation functionality and rich information base instead of reinventing the wheel. Starting from that baseline, they should offer value-added products to augment the platform and effectively differentiate from other investors. These “products” could range from unfettered access to other entrepreneurs in their portfolio, their speed in making a decision or their ethos around being founder-friendly. If you are an entrepreneur, you should make sure your investor has a differentiated product that goes beyond just capital. What is it that they do that’s better and different from everyone else? And how valuable is that to you?

The venture industry moves slowly because of long fund cycles (typically 10 years) so I don’t expect these changes to happen overnight. This will take at least five years, perhaps even 10. But I am confident it will happen sooner rather than later. And smart VCs will adapt and evolve before it’s too late.

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Next month, Google plans on introducing a new content-recommendation system for publishers’ websites, VentureBeat has learned.

The search and advertising giant is pitching content companies on joining a beta of the service, according to an email from a Google sales representative obtained by VentureBeat’s news team:

Our engineers are working on a content recommendation beta that will present users relevant internal articles on your site after they read a page. This is a great way to drive loyal users and more pageviews.

The new program could present competition to companies like Taboola, Outbrain, and Zemanta, which recommends multiple articles from a given publisher on that outlet’s website. (Disclosure: VentureBeat uses content-recommendation tools from Taboola and Zemanta on our site.)

Unlike other recently released products like the Google Compute Engine and the new ChromeBox for meetings, this service aims at Google’s more traditional business partners: publishers. Google first announced its advertising platform, AdSense, more than a decade ago.

The backend formula for this system is different than the one that Google launched for mobile sites last year, according to a Google employee who is familiar with the new program. When Google launched that program last year, media outlets such as Business Insider, Forbes, Mashable, and The Verge were partners with Google+.

Google had nothing to announce about the program, a spokeswoman told VentureBeat in an email.

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VentureBeat » 128 gigabyte iPad News | VentureBeat News About Tech, Money and Innovation Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:27:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Copyright 2015, VentureBeat Apple rumored to be releasing 128GB iPad Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:32:11 +0000 The new model would double the permanent storage in a high-end iPad.

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Apple is preparing to release a new iPad model with 128GB of Flash memory storage, according to a rumor published by 9to5Mac.

That would double the amount of permanent storage in Apple’s high-end iPad models. The new model could be a separate version of the fourth-generation iPad with a Retina display. 9to5Mac said it didn’t have any pricing information.

The device is reportedly not a new design. It would come in both black and white color options. It would have both Wi-Fi-only and Wi-Fi-plus-cellular options. And it would sit alongside the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB fourth-generation iPads. Educational institutions would be able to purchase them in 10-packs for a discount.

Developers have already found code in iOS 6.1 that points to 128GB iOS devices, and Apple’s iTunes 11 release has references to 128GB storage. We’ve checked with Apple but haven’t heard back yet.

Adding new memory makes sense because power users are storing a lot of data on their iPads, from apps to videos and photos. And Apple can add more memory as prices for flash memory chips fall over time.

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