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So you get a job at a decent startup that actually has viable potential (likely not), get 1% equity (likely half that, since you said you're not an expert), work super hard effectively two full time jobs hardly making ends meet, and then your startup beats all odds (likely doesn't), and gets acquired for 20 million dollars (likely less).

You've just made $200,000 before taxes. Was it worth the risk and the effort?

Correct me if I've got my assumptions wrong please. Chance to unicorn doesn't count, coz at that level of probability he might as well just keep buying the lottery.
Had not noticed it before, thanks for pointing it out
> the dependency on PHP can turn many developers away from using it.

the dependency on <chose your programming language> can turn many developers away from using it.

> Almost all interactive elements are built using jQuery, which, while a great library in many respects, is weak in comparison to many of the emerging front end frameworks we have today — ReactJS, AngularJS and others.

Weak? what does that even mean? Also the author is horribly confused because he compares a library with two frameworks.

Calling jQuery weak in this context is like calling C weak in comparison to Java, however, I would still prefer to write my operating system in C thank you very much.

> I’ve already mentioned using localStorage as a mechanism for providing caching in front end apps, ensuring content is loaded quickly, avoiding ugly loading screens and flashes of blank content, but this only goes so far. As ReactJS (and soon AngularJS 2.0) can be run on the server as well as in the browser, we can pre-render the initial page load for the user on the server, and then hand-off all future content and navigation requests to the browser.

You solve a problem that you introduced in the first place. I'm surprised I don't see MongoDb mentioned anywhere in this article.

Wordpress is a pretty terrible platform to work on as a developer, however introducing trendy technologies will not make it any better. Ironically JavaScript is more similar to PHP than a lot of people care to admit:

* JavaScript, just like PHP was not designed for what people are using it for today

* JavaScript, just like PHP is riddled with bad legacy

* JavaScript, just like PHP is trying to evolve to escape from that legacy and become more like other languages.

The fact of life right now, is that PHP and MySQL are well understood technologies, countless web applications in production are using them, the same cannot be said for NodeJS and this has real world consequences, because running a NodeJS app on your laptop is totally different from running it in production.

On a standard Ubuntu machine, having a production viable PHP installation is 1 apt-get install away and I get: web server set up, error handling, logging and a standard way to customise the system wide configuration. With NodeJS, I have to worry about restarting it if it fails, logging the error, handling them, configuring the web server etc.

I find that people who criticize PHP, have no clue on what makes it so popular.
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This is great news. I'm thrilled that Kickstarter was able to do this, that its investors let them, and that the NYT thought it was worth writing up.

I hope other companies follow suit, and that an ecosystem can develop of such companies. This page goes into how it is apprently very possible to get investment as a benefit corp: http://benefitcorp.net/investors/who-investing-benefit-corps

Here is principle from Kickstarter's benefit charter: "Kickstarter will not lobby or campaign for public policies unless they align with its mission and values, regardless of possible economic benefits to the company." (the charter https://www.kickstarter.com/charter?ref=pbc_letter also contains those values).
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Dude. This is art. No more, no less.
Sorry, I'm confused by the "1996" in the post title.

The article deals with the 1963 American expedition to Everest, and seems to have been published in 2013.

Am I missing something here?

Interesting read anyway. I didn't know much about the first American ascent.
Thats a bit like eating soup with a fork and concluding the fork is broken.
Apparently emojis can have "emoji representations" (colorful) and "text representations" (foreground color) [1]. I feel that emojis have no place in unicode though.

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/index.html#Design_Guidel...
In the enthusiasm to raise the capital requirements there is a fundamental schizophrenia. We can't ask banks to lend more, in particular to borrowers with lower credit quality, and at the same time force banks to deleverage. We can't ask banks to hoard capital to strengthen their capital ratios and at the same time nationalise all their profits by imposing gigantic fines that are scaled more to be headline grabbing that to the actual scale of the misbehaviour.
Don't be rude.
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That project literally requires that you have PHP manage a separate javascript runtime just to compile your templates. No thanks.
Also WWII had 4 major theaters, probably 100 000 000 troops mobilized or deployed, and production lines for armor and planes that would make Henry Ford gawk. The scale guaranteed that the friendly fire will occur often.
Ah, ok. Thanks for clearing that up.
I know different side of story, from Karel Pacner who studied soviet archives, and wrote many books about space exploration history. I do not have English version, but here is a Google Translate link

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

Valentina was choosed for political reasons. She was humble textile factory worker and soviet party official. There were better woman candidates, but they were ignored due to their education and more aristocratic family. Valentine was selected by Khrushchev. She was not a very good astronaut.

> If ground control had not succeeded in sending and installing a new computer program, instead of returning to Earth

There was semi-automatic landing. Vostok was capable of landing unmanned without a pilot. But there was problem with engine orientation (the same problem destroyed first unmanned mission). They eventually fixed the problem and landed in automatic mode.

Manual landing was for backup, if automatic failed. But Valentina did not took flight well, and could not even describe manual landing sequence over radio. Mission control spend big part of mission explaining how to do manual landing.

> She said she was sad so few Russian women have followed her into space, none at all for one 19-year period, but more were now being trained: “I think the attitude to women will change – do you hear me?”

This was her fault from big part. Soviets planned more women after her. Ponomarevová and Solovjovová would fly in a Voskhod 6 at the end of 1966, while Solovjovová should climb into space.
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I'm still hoping that Apple with fix the issues regarding custom keyboards. One annoying issue is that when you are using dual keyboards (one custom keyboard, one non-English native keyboard like Japanese keyboard) and then tne custom keyboard crashes and you can't input using the other native keyboard.
This is awesome, nice work and good luck ;)
A different plane would not have helped winning Afghanistan. suffering might have been even longer. The expectation to win there is an illusion.

Looking for technological solutions - low or high tech - is just more of the same misguided thinking. The case is lost in a totally different way - it's not technology.
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Not sure why people are downvoting the comment though, it's a valid workaround if you needed to temporarily access something.
Yep that ain't likely to work. For every success story there are 99 failures.

Get a popular cert. Work premium contract jobs (£600/day here). Screw the market hard and retire after 20 years with some reasonable cash. Sure you're not going to be Musk or Zuck rich but how much money do you really need?

Take equity if someone offers it but not in lieu of hard cash. I've made about £20k in equity pay outs which isn't a whole lot of money really.

I know no one who got anywhere working hard. It was all sly opportunistic stuff and luck.
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People work because they want their lives to mean something. Usually if you put people in a group with an objective regardless of a reward they will try to achieve the objective.
triangle, how did you "upgrade" the MBP you mentioned? Once ram is at 3 gig and the hard drive is SSD, is there anything else to do?
The fork is the wrong tool.
A little word of caution. You haven't mentioned your visa situation, but given that you said you can stay for 6 months I'm going to assume you are on a B2 visa.

When you arrive in the US, be ready to explain why you are NOT planning on moving here or finding a job. You aren't coming to SF to look for work, you're coming as a TOURIST and are going to see some sights, and then head home. Also, the longer you say you are going to stay in the US, the harder they will grill you. I would even suggest booking a refundable/changeable return flight a few weeks after you land, and say you are only going to stay for a few weeks. You can always "change your mind" after you get here, because they will almost always stamp you for 6 months in your passport regardless of how long you say you want to stay.

Remember: it's against the tourist visa rules to even THINK about working here or look for a job. So do not mention anything about looking for work, or wanting to live in SF, or even that one day you would like to live here. As far as they should know you love your home country and can't wait to get back there. It also helps if you own property or have dependent family in your home country (this gives you a reason preventing you from illegally immigrating). Failing this, get a letter from an employer saying that you have been granted x weeks vacation and will be expected back at work on a particular date.

If you haven't applied for the visa yet, then get your story straight, and everything above applies x10 for the visa interview.

Take it from someone who learned all this the hard way :)

Now, with that out of the way I would love to meet up when you get here. If you're interested, my email address is in my profile.
At least they could have made their mistakes cheaper.
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I wouldn't necessarily take client praise as a testament to being good or bad. When I started out I was pushing WP sites; I usually gauged things by complaints (very similar vibe to when I was working on cars).

I have had very few calls / emails about complaints with the WP admin area, though I do/did generally drop them into a less privileged account with less flashy buttons to break things with, as well as set their dashboard up with some notes about how to accomplish tasks specific to their usage (how to post / edit / delete, how to clear the cache manually if they had to, etc).

I might be in the minority there, and I feel like that contributed a bit to the no-complaints thing... but even a vanilla WP admin area is very usable.
This is the most pretentious article I remember reading in recent history but it seems the author has a few interesting points. Can anyone do a tl;dr in plain english?
On the other hand, you want to be able to throw out people who are a nuisance and it is quite difficult to codify what that constitutes.

The simple approach is to simply allow yourself to throw anyone out who annoys anyone and be the judge of when that annoyance is strong enough to enforce that.
Has to make you wonder if the Taliban have not been the "good guys" from the very beginning?
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I really dont care to be honest. I have properly cycled backups that go back 12 months plus I'm not random clicky instally idiot.
Does "double blind" work in your field? It does not in mine (compilers, programming languages).

As an author, I can usually identify the anonymous reviewers as well, if they are not outsiders.
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Why? Who says you can't be fired next year for dilly-dally-ing this year?
I've read the essay, but regardless of its merits, it talks about unstructured organizations, not flat structures; hierarchy is just one of the possible structures you can use to avoid the problems she describes.
The soldered memory also tends to cost the end-user double than exactly the same memory that is user-replaceable. Just because they can charge more for the "upgrade".
WHY?! Good experiment anyway, well done.
There was a fantastic article and analysis I read some weeks ago that addressed this issue, and I'm trying desperately to find it. However, I remember the key points, and I'll surmise them here:

- The A-10's survivability is overrated. The Air Force conducted studies after both Gulf Wars and found that the A-10 was taking higher damage per sortie when compared in '91 to '03. That Iraq's air defense was in shambles didn't seem to diminish the fact that the A-10 was becoming more vulnerable to more sophisticated weapons. Technology has made cheaper weapons more effective since the 1970s in which this was designed. In a higher threat environment, the lack of sophisticated sensors, threat identification, and ECM is seen as not boding well.

- The A-29 is a fantastic plane. But it's giving the A-10 a run for it's money, not the F-35. In the low-threat COIN environment, it has all of the benefits of the A-10 with none of the drawbacks. That famous cannon isn't always idea against militants in the mountains when you're worried about spraying your own troops. That the A-19 can carry small guided weapons just like the A-10 gives it capabilities where it counts. And it's half to a third of the price to purchase and maintain.

So the A-10 is getting squashed from two sides: The F-35 can penetrate the high-threat environment, and provide CAS in a lethal SAM environment, while the A-29 can provide CAS/COIN against militants in a low to non-existent threat environment. There is no middle ground. It left when air defense systems gained the sophisticated tracking and accuracy that wasn't there in the 1970s and 80s.

The A-10 was a fantastic plane and well designed for the time in which it was envisioned to fight. But even I agree that it's time has passed. Like the F-14, it's sad to see it go, but I think it's the right call.
OK, then just don't negotiate at all (or only negotiate pro forma, if legally obliged), and fire anyway who goes on strike?

Make it clear that this will happen, and if your commitment is credible, you'll never see a strike.
Weren't we also buying a new laptop every 2 years back when they had removable batteries?
I would go with that - the organizer can throw out whoever they want (even without reason). I think society already has a code of conduct. If conferences feel the need to add an extra one, it shows that they tend to think the worst about people, and they have been overtaken by SJW framing.
If by "liquidity" you meant diarrhea, I would have totally agreed! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706

It is a lack of imagination and logically false to conclude that the only alternative to ads is "annoying" management of subscriptions. But we love get rich quick schemes and that's what the advertising "business model" enables: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049494.

Net neutrality has nothing to do with much less rely on so-called "free" ad-supported sites. Net neutrality is not about free access, but equal access and equal cost for the same volume of data transmission regardless of source. Besides, that ads make the web free is a lie: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237

Advertising diminished editorial freedom and replaces the readers position as customer, completely changing who the free market's "invisible hand" serves.
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Fascinating, I genuinely expected asynchronous communication to be almost necessary when working remotely, especially across timezones. Thanks for the great response!
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For what it's worth I agree. Just because we understand that morality is relative and that we cannot expect to hold other species to our standards, this by no means invalidates our own stance. We have a right and a duty to pursue that which we consider to be good or right. Within the context of the organism's experience good/bad make perfect sense, outside in the vacuum of the outer world, all bets are off, there can be no one true north.
Not scale but lack of forward airforce liaison officers. Germans didn't have the same problem.
“The idea, in Europe and beyond, is to limit how far banks can adapt their spreadsheets to make their assets look less risky.”

They should be required to publish live spreadsheets on their websites showing their RWAs with daily marks. SpreadServe [1] would be perfect for this job.

[1] http://spreadserve.com
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was rather surprised as I heard in some podcasts that there was still a few show stoppers, and they where waiting for libraries to make certain changes
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Yeah, that's called ImageMagick. :-)
Or do people not neatly fit into little boxes marked "Good" and "Bad?"
Congratulations, that's great news! What is the documentation status, as http://v2.wp-api.org/ has a lot of gaps?
A delightfully cynical take on it all. I have to agree!
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It would be a horrible reality TV show. Primitive construction techniques are very slow, especially if you also need to worry about acquiring food through primitive means, and each technique takes a lifetime to master. We and our children would all be dead by the time they rebuild the steam engine. But the series would not run that long because it would be boring.

The finale of Battlestar Galactica was totally the Golgafrincham “B” Ark from Douglas Adams. It turns out that “And they have a plan” was a lie, and the series just went downhill after season 2.
I meant to say, when I had projects to deploy, I found jails very convenient and would recommend trying it out.
What the author wants can be done way more efficiently with Drupal and its AJAX, not to mention that Drupal's data and template management is far better than Wordpress'.

Downside with Drupal is that it ships with a stone-age version of jQuery, which sucks if you want to use any modern jQ plugin. Also, Drupal mixes config and data in the database, making proper separation of live/stage/dev a PITA.
Non-technical partners.

My wife constantly gets all sorts of crap on her machine. I have tried to explain to her the difference between popups that says she has a virus on her computer and OS alerts, but it just goes right over her head.
Not that I disagree with you on the morals of this comment, but a lot of confusion would be avoided if everybody just accepted that the US is a normal empire; an empire with geopolitical interest in the region and every reason to keep happy the cadre of monsters they got themselves as alleys.

It is not that they hate the local population, but they don't gain anything by defending them and may loose a lot by playing the role of Knight in the Shinning Armour.
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But CPU spring connectors don't last forever. If you want to ensure the CPU stays reliable for a good long time (at today's clock rates), you're going to have to solder it down.
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> and I feel great.

That's not a good way to assess a lifestyle that has long term consequences.

If a lifestyle increases your risk of bowel cancer that's going to happen this week, it'll happen after you get to fifty. UK screening for bowel cancer happens at 55.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/red-meat.aspx

(90 g is 3oz.)
Who cares about A-29 vs A-10? Both got shitcanned.

I agree the article's title sucks. The point is that military political dysfunction managed to get rid of all ground support airplanes while mumbling "F-35" when anybody asked about ground support.
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Everything is winnable. But the pentagon is mostly a state/corporate subsidy program with some military capabilities as a side effect.

US hasn't been in a war they HAVE to win since WWII (and even then continental US was pretty safe) so the institutional knowledge that was bought with blood is soon forgotten.

Afghanistan was not won, because there was never a criteria for winning towards which the military and the state department to work. And the fact that US has the habit of cooperating with the wrong people in third world countries, makes things worse.

If the US had courts in Afghanistan in which to try corruption, Afghanistan would be a better country now.
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> you can survive purely on meat for decades.

You can, if you have genetic variation that allows you to process the food.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/inuit-study-add...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239256
Your cowardly attempt at legitimizing an abhorrent practice that violates individual rights by attaching it to the mystical word "culture" is downright disgusting. If this is not a troll post, you are the most despicable human being I have ever personally encountered. To even debate the merits of your argument is an insult to humanity and only an ad hominem will suffice. Fuck you.
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Universities do not have such a history at all. Yes, horrible things also sometimes happen at universities. But 'at the centre' since 'long': no. It's just an excuse for using appeal to emotion.

There is a common expression that 'something is about as effective as stabbing someone with a butter knife'. Someone might overhear you using that expression and may unsettlingly remember once being threatened with a butter knife. That sucks and if they told you, you would try not to use that expression around them. That would be a nice thing to do, showing empathy. What would not be a nice or emphatic thing to do for them, is demanding your expulsion from an event for using that phrase. Demanding you not use that expression any more would similarly not be nice or called for.

They are still the one with the problem. If they tell us we should help them and should try to take it into account. But they cannot expect strangers to take it into account, nor can they expect others to always keep it into account. There are too many people with too many different problems for society to function that way.

So, if any mention of a 'bomb', like this one, is 'unsettling' to you, you need help. We have a responsibility to get you that help. We do not have a responsibility to prevent you from feeling 'unsettled'.
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Design as crafty/minimalism/apple's aesthetic is irresponsible in that it refuses to acknowledge that things can break. Design which pays attention to the reality of a thing's environment and usage patterns, and which does not prompt conspicuous consumption of every brand new version after even the slightest failure of the old, is better.
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War is not so subtle any more. Lack of web browser on apple tv. Content blockers on iOS 9. Exclusive content. Makes me want to join ad company and help the fight on their side, just because. Fscked I know.
Why would you need a tl;dr, if you've read it?