04.25.08
Orang Indonesia di Google Summer Of Code 2008
Akhirnya ketemu juga orang indonesia di google summer of code,:
1. Grady Laksmono, project Moodle IDE
2. Samuel Louvan, project openNMS
3.I Nyoman Winardi Ribeka, project openMRS
Selamat Semoga Berhasil. Sayang DownLine ku gagal semua
04.13.08
wxdownloadfast yang aneh
FlashGet, software untuk unduh file dengan kemampuan multithread, karena tidak dibuat versi Linuxnya
terpaksa cari alternatif lain. Akhirnya ketemu wxdownloadfast. Kemampuannya hampir sama dengan
FlashGet bahkan si wxdownloadfast ini bisa sampai 100 thread (hebat). Cuma ada satu kekurangan
yang sangat fatal SERING CRASH TANPA SEBAB.
Untuk mengakali akhirnya saya buat program java sederhana yang mengecek tiap 10 ms apakah wxdownloadfast ini jalan atau tidak, jika sudah tidak berjalan (CRASH) maka wxdownloadfast akan dijalankan lagi. Berikut code java nya
/*
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
package wxdownloadfast;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
/**
*
* @author fuad
*/
public class Main {
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process p = r.exec("wxdfast");
while(true){
try{
p.exitValue();
p = r.exec("wxdfast");
}catch(Exception e){
}
try {
Thread.sleep(10);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
}
}
Kodenya saya lisensikan creative common silahkan digunakan jika berguna. Oh iya jika ada masukan mengenai kode yang lebih efisien tolong saya diberitahu.
04.07.08
My Favorite Quote
Livingston: If you were coming out a little before the market was ready for your products, did you ever have people just not understand how great the products were?
Geschke: In those early renditions of the product, we would focus on a select community of people who understood both technology and the potential. So we would market primarily through technical analysts and product research kinds of people, and not attempt to go to a mass market, because there was no mass market.
“Founders At Work, Jessica Livingston”
Here, as so often, the best defense is a good offense. If you can develop technology that’s simply too hard for competitors to duplicate, you don’t need to rely on other defenses. Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.
“http://www.paulgraham.com, paulgraham”
Among other things, treating a startup as an optimization problem will help you avoid another pitfall that VCs worry about, and rightly—taking a long time to develop a product. 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.
“http://www.paulgraham.com, paulgraham”
what do people who are not like you want from technology?
“Founders At Work, Jessica Livingston”
Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.
“http://www.paulgraham.com, paulgraham”
make people who dont use computer, use it by writing software for them, ex:desktop publishing on adobe case.
“Founders At Work, Jessica Livingston”
04.06.08
How to Make Wealth
Essay from paulgraham.com, http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That’s been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word “startup” dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very similar to the venture-backed trading voyages of the Middle Ages.
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.
Lots of people get rich knowing nothing more than that. You don’t have to know physics to be a good pitcher. But I think it could give you an edge to understand the underlying principles. Why do startups have to be small? Will a startup inevitably stop being a startup as it grows larger? And why do they so often work on developing new technology? Why are there so many startups selling new drugs or computer software, and none selling corn oil or laundry detergent?
The Proposition
Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast.
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. You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate employee, and if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour. [1] You should get another multiple of two, at least, by eliminating the drag of the pointy-haired middle manager who would be your boss in a big company. Then there is one more multiple: how much smarter are you than your job description expects you to be? Suppose another multiple of three. Combine all these multipliers, and I’m claiming you could be 36 times more productive than you’re expected to be in a random corporate job. [2] If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, 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.
Like all back-of-the-envelope calculations, this one has a lot of wiggle room. I wouldn’t try to defend the actual numbers. But I stand by the structure of the calculation. I’m not claiming the multiplier is precisely 36, but it is certainly more than 10, and probably rarely as high as 100.
If $3 million a year seems high, remember that we’re talking about the limit case: the case where you not only have zero leisure time but indeed work so hard that you endanger your health.
Startups are not magic. They don’t change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve. There is a conservation law at work here: if you want to make a million dollars, you have to endure a million dollars’ worth of pain. For example, one way to make a million dollars would be to work for the Post Office your whole life, and save every penny of your salary. Imagine the stress of working for the Post Office for fifty years. In a startup you compress all this stress into three or four years. You do tend to get a certain bulk discount if you buy the economy-size pain, but you can’t evade the fundamental conservation law. If starting a startup were easy, everyone would do it.
The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand- made objects become storebought ones. But with the rise of industrialization there are fewer and fewer craftsmen. One of the biggest remaining groups is computer programmers.
A programmer can sit down in front of a computer and create wealth . A good piece of software is, in itself, a valuable thing. There is no manufacturing to confuse the issue. Those characters you type are a complete, finished product. If someone sat down and wrote a web browser that didn’t suck (a fine idea, by the way), the world would be that much richer.
