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Apache starts up a pool of processes and reuses them for requests. It's all highly efficient.

It's highly efficient if you have a small number of requests at any given time; It's not as efficient for peak hours.

If you had the need, I suppose you could. Although I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

There are several use-cases I can think of, the simplest being more than one blocking request for rendering your page, and using multi-process to reduce the latency to the maximal block time instead of the sum of all block times.

You don't really need multithreading. JavaScript has callbacks for everything, for example, but isn't multithreaded. So this isn't so much a problem with PHP as it is a lack of design of cURL. But then cURL is a C library.

Javascript on server environments needs solutions such as node.js. On the client side, well, most UI apps have a single UI thread and delegate jobs to worker threads. In javascript, these are usually done via XMLHttpRequests.
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Or just send him an email.
In a similar vein, I'd like to rename my account. Though, I doubt this is easy, so I'll just grin and bear it.
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PG is the site admin, his mailbox is the appropriate place for site admin questions, surely?
I use to have an older account from several years ago (I think the site was less than a year old when I joined).
Good points, but at some point the meta must be addressed. People abusing the system will either cause a ton of meta discussions (like this one) or people who don't fit the group think will simply leave.

A way has to be provided to keep accountability and/or defend one's self. On sites like reddit, at least new accounts have the ability to down vote. If you don't fit the group think here you wont even get that chance.
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The good code / bad code thing is a bit out of context in my slides - what I meant is that if you're using an event loop any blocking function call will stall your event loop and cause all of your other clients to pause. I agree that this style of programming is a lot less clear, although I find that JavaScript's anonymous function syntax makes it less painless than most.
i don't know if this is true, but i heard somewhere that drug companies don't really innovate anything.

it's the NIH and universities (via government funding) that actually discover the drugs, then they sell the exclusive rights to manufacture it to big pharma (who then spends a lot to get it approved and market it and such...)

(this is the book, i haven't read it)
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/...

so in this case (if true) patents fail again.
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The poster has said:

"if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter his inbox"

Since this is standard netiquette, actually his mailbox would be an extremely unusual place for questions like this.
If only that were actually true.

Well, no, a lot of the time it does work, and I never say a word or I'm the one doing the explaining.

The point of the example is that there's a fairly common pattern where people don't listen, don't become enlightened, and don't stop asking the same question because they've managed to get tunnel vision through staring at their non-working code for too long.

At which point a short sharp verbal slap upside the head often serves to dislodge the cobwebs, at which point they start thinking again, read the explanation properly and become enlightened.
This article (linked to from good.is) is better: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2002/05/06/inn_enter/...
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I think the stuff about articulating his vision is a VC's polite way of saying that they don't like the founder. And typically, how they feel about the founder(s) is a lot more important than how they feel about the idea.
I don't think it's at all a given that Hylaean Theoric Worlds exist independently the Arbran Causal Domain.
Thanks. That's what I guessed, but your one-sentence description was much clearer than the article itself :)
Interesting. Thanks for clarifying.
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You're right; the article quoted this statement from another, but didn't refute it. I thought I would.
Such a strict definition prevents you for using "is" for anything at all! Is that your intention?
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I agree with the benefits mentioned. There are probable drawbacks too, however.

Usually the acquirer has some strengths that will expand the market penetration of the company being acquired, in addition to larger coffers to invest. This could mean tougher competition for their competitors (except when the acquirer focuses on different market segments from these competitors.)
Unless you are actually losing business to them I wouldn't worry. You are taking a niche market approach and should be able to find ways to differentiate your offering. From your description you are targeting a different market,
...And then some.

I'm in a similar situation. It's me versus Chegg.
you can: http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Turbo-Assembler-Tom-Swan/dp/...

The cover looks familiar. Maybe I have bought this book too back then but never got around to read. However I did read the Borland C book by him:
http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Swans-Mastering-Borland-Swan/dp/06...
This point has been made many times before, eg. by Feynman in Surely You're Joking, where he points out that jewish people seem to value and encourage education more than other groups. For balance, he also shares an anecdote where jewish students ask him whether pushing the button on the elevator should be considered work [a question Feynman considers ridiculous], which is forbidden on Saturday in the jewish religion. (The two stories may not be told together by Feynman, I don't remember.)
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I realized the other day that I have an experience that not many people do: I've worked for five start-ups, founded two, raised money for four. Of the five, one went public, one was an asset sale/close the door, one was bought out, one is alive and well, and one is new.

I also worked for the top VC firm (Accel Partners) and I've raised money from Greylock, USVP, Mayfield, Accel, ... and I've talked to all the others.

At Accel I sat through presentation after presentation by entrepreneurs. I've seen the good, the bad and the truly weird.

Now imagine the following service. You are a start-up looking for a series A investment (something >$1m). Suppose I consulted for you on how you present yourselves to VCs in exchange for a consulting fee in $ and a small equity position (perhaps as a stock option). The fee would only be payable once series A closed. No series A, no fee. No cash up front.

Is this useful? What help would people like?
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IMHO Clojures steeper learning curve comes from having more features built right into the language. Scheme is refreshingly simple, but Clojure gives me so much more, right out of the box: instead of being based around lists, as Scheme and Common Lisp are, Clojure is based on sequences (which are really just an abstraction over lists, vectors, maps, sets and regexes - but this means you get lists, vectors, maps, sets and regexes built in); Clojure has direct access to the JVM and therefore Java objects; Clojure has built in multiple dispatch, concurrency support (with transactional memory) and a bunch more.

So, while Scheme is definitely a lot simpler, Clojure has a lot more built right in (I'm fairly sure Scheme provides libraries for a lot of, if not all, of these features though). Actually, since most of Clojures advanced features can be ignored, I think the only thing thats more complex is the way the syntax uses () and [] (though, IMHO it does make the code simpler once you understand it) and the list/vector/maps/sets - since instead of everything being a list, it can now be one of many different data structures (though in practice having them makes life easy).

Clojure also benefits from a wealth of libraries, since you can use any Java class directly from Clojure.

Disclosure: my experience with Scheme is limited to reading SICP, but I've been using Clojure a LOT over the past 4 or 5 months, so obviously Im biased :-)
While I agree that being an asshole is more frequently harmful than helpful, I don't think the behaviour in question here is actually assholic in nature. Every community needs to have a way of enforcing community values or that community will dissolve. That enforcement can be a police officer, a drill sergeant, a moderator, or just a loud mouthed member of the community that expresses the group's scorn for the behaviour in question.

What is important is that everyone who witnesses the policeman deliver a lecture to delinquent teens, the sergeant chew out a new recruit, the moderator remove a troll or flamebait, or the loud mouth deliver an invective laced screed to the newbie who just doesn't get it, gets the message that "certain behaviours aren't tolerated here" and by extension, other (more polite) behaviours are.

When the policeman gives you the nod on the street corner on your way to work, when the sergeant says, "Nice work", when the moderator uses something you wrote as an example of what a good post looks like, or when the community loudmouth bastard says "SHUT UP AND PAY ATTENTION TO HIM" and you realize he's talking about you - that's the point when you realize you're part of the community.
I think the people who would most benefit from your help (startups who are likely to fund and want to improve their relative position) are going to see "small equity position" and think "Awww dang, that is going to cause us a million and one legal headaches and is an asterix we will have to revisit in every funding round from here to doomsday -- pass" and the people who are likely to be the clients from heck ("Our deck isn't quite ready yet, but we have a napkin!!") are going to see "FREE!" and jump at it. And then whine at you when they are, predictably, not successful at getting funded, despite "YOU HAVING AN EQUITY STAKE!!1"

Basically, it is the classic adverse selection problem that is eliminated by charging people money.
No, what I'm saying is that they should commit themselves to one OS for high end devices. As a developer, how do I know whether Maemo or Symbian has a future? Neither has a significant installed base outside of Nokia. Right now Nokia doesn't exist for me as a developer. I don't believe a word they say. They are confused and I believe they could announce Android support tomorrow.
Thanks for the follow up.

I do remember seeing these. They're more expensive but do look really quite polished. Certainly more attractive to look at than the tangle of wires I have hooked up to an arduino at home.
I'm not concerned about your second point because my first step would be to walk away from people who are not likely to get funded at all.

The first one is interesting, my guess is that this could be handle just as a normal advisor position where a stock option is given. I've seen this done lots of times with external advisory boards and it doesn't normally cause trouble.
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A Nokia rep announced unofficially that Maemo is the future operating system for the Nokia N series phones. Symbian will be kept for the Nokia E series.
The Apple II was a product of genius.

After that it was imitating and copying, where the only added value was in marketing/colors/user experience. In music, people sometimes would ask "Lennon or McCartney?" to separate the wheat from the chaff. In hacker terms that question might be "Woz or Jobs?"
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On reflection: what am I doing shooting my mouth off on this. I know so little about stock options in the US I could probably misspell Series A. If your impression is that advisors getting them is normal practice over there, I trust your expertise.
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Aren't there things like this already? I think more along the lines of consulting fees rather than equity, though, which makes them seem dubious to me. Equity for results seems fair to me.

Somehow though it doesn't seem very innovative... maybe there's something else that can be done in that space that's more creative (ala YC and its new model).
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Based on your posts here and your blog, if I look at what I would want to use that expertise for in my company it would be something different. You have an experience in tech and entrepreneurship that is one in a thousand, and that shouldn't be wasted on helping companies doing powerpoints. I would much rather want you as a boardmember/advisor. This would give a company two distinct advantages:

1) An extremely knowledgeable person who has been there before with which to talk on complicated issues. Experience in startups is rare as you point out. When it is coupled with deep tech knowledge it's even rarer.

2) Your name on the businessplan/presentation. Namedropping seems to be a major thing with investors. Unfortunately.

Also, companies that are out raising money often aren't good customers as patio11 points out. Besides there's no repeat business, meaning that you'll have to constantly be on the lookout for new customers. Equity payment is great, but it's a lottery ticket. I don't know your personal situation of course, but if you need bread on the table it's probably going to be hard.

But I'm sure lots of companies would pay in either equity/cash to have you onboard as an advisor. I know I would.
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"The idea behind the book, nutty as it might seem, is to teach assembly language as your first programming language."

This is a really interesting idea.

In the debate over whether every programmer should still learn C, a common argument for is "managed languages don't teach you about pointers and memory". Learning assembler would surely do that even better than learning C (albeit probably less practically useful overall). I can't decide whether that's a reductio ad absurdum for the pro-C argument, or support for this book's thesis.
Hmm. Important stuff. But not really hackers news material. Or do I misunderstand the intention of this post?
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I'd be happy to do those things for people if they really think I can help them.
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It's not clear to me that innovation is important. What is important is stressing the things that matter to VCs in the presentation you are giving to them. These are often not the things that actually matter to the entrepreneur.

For example, technical people tend to get really excited about telling the VCs about the technical aspects of their idea/product, VCs often get more excited when you tell them why the team of people you have assembled are the best to solve the problem you are addressing.
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I do think this is much more about search/advertisement than the author think. Google Chrome is Google way of removing all threats between its users and its advertisement, Chrome OS is one step further. It's a perfectly logical move.

Before Chrome & Chrome OS :
You & me -> OS (Windows, MacOS X, etc.) -> Browser (IE, FF, Safari, etc.) -> Google Search -> internet / webapps

Perfect world for Google:
You & me -> Google (OS, browser and Search) -> internet / webapps

Cellular phones, and the iPhone in particular, bring the threat one step further. Because what should be webapps are simply Apps on the iPhone, making Google a complete outsider instead of the gateway toward mobile apps. When you look for an iPhone App, Google is an outsider. A second choice after a failure with the iTunes Store Search.

I see Android as the answer to Apple standing between Google and its customers on the mobile market. And Apple standing in the way today sounds a bit like Microsoft standing in the way back in the 90ies...
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It's one of those borderline posts - on the one hand it isn't really hacker news, but on the other hand it's important and about basic freedom. Which is dear to hackers. I think it has merit,so I upvoted it.
I don't know if that's correct, but if it is, it's patents that make it possible for the universities and NIH to sell the right exclusively.

Since manufacturing, testing and marketing a drug is hysterically expensive, the patent seems to serve a purpose there -- even if pharma companies are more akin to specialized investment bankers than scientists.
Yes. I would say you are wrong. Creating a phone just so people will use the internet + for a longer amount of time seems ridiculous to me. The entire point of the article was saying that Google is trying to make money by creating new opportunities for innovation by forcing standards to be higher. That does not equal "just want that more people will use internet, and for longer time."

For one- I would like to see you connect buying radio stations to using the internet `for longer time.`
And for two- I would be shocked if Google's only business model was "Create things which will force people to look at more of our ads".

On a similar side-note. Youtube has very little advertisement- especially compared to sites like Megavideo and Hulu (kinda not related). So advertisement must not be the number one priority always. (Advertisement on youtube is a recent addition too if I am correct.)
Yeah, sorry for not linking. Tom's a good writer. I also read his Mastering Turbo Pascal (http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Turbo-Pascal-Tom-Swan/dp/067...).
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> It's not clear to me that innovation is important.

May be - you surely know the space better than I do.

If you look up 'venture capital coaching' on Google, this is on the first page:

http://myfirstround.com/

Other sites are quite similar and look just as dubious. Maybe the people behind them actually know what they're doing, but to me it just looks like a market with a lot of ... "cruft" in it, which might lead to it being something of a market for lemons, with people thinking it wisest to steer clear of the whole thing.

By the way, as someone who did a lot of Tcl for a while, I'd be curious if you ever post any 'war story' type stuff from Electric Cloud.
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That's more reasonable.

Still, why do so many seekers-of-wisdom do that? Is it fear of the documentation, which can be pretty intimidating for a novice? Are they truly, seriously lazy gold brickers? Are they just thick? If it is the first, what they need is reassurance and a very simple, unintimidating example.

I wonder if there is a market for teaching chatbots? They'd have a hard time being worse than the endless "tutorials" on the web.
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I think what they asked him was if electricity is the same as fire, which he then started to explain only to be disappointed that they asked it just to determine if using the elevator is work (apparently starting a fire is work, or something like that).
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