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>Expect to do less actual programming

Even if you don't do much actual programming you need to be the one that monitors and accepts all pull requests.

That also means taking responsibility for any of the subsequent angry users because you merged that code and you could have stopped it.

Keeping an eye on pull requests also means gently guiding the junior devs to amend their code when they head down the wrong path (e.g. by pairing with them) rather than just rejecting it outright or (worse), writing a snarky comment.
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Indeed, since may, I try to check Rotten Tomatoes every week, and I end up choosing good movie openings recently.

Previously subconsciously, I was basing my opening movie choice to actors/actresses playing, to the trailer or the poster. The last 3 Nicolas Cage movies I've seen, ended up being so bad that I started to check Rotten Tomatoes ratings which were in line with what I've experienced.

So review sites are truly killing "cheating" studios' openings which relied on deceptive trailers, posters and "bad-performing" actors/actresses.

[1] Nicolas Cage "overmonetizing his face" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/nicolas_cage/
Consider yourself lucky in the long run.
This is close enough, it's not quite as clear as the demonstration I saw but it shows the same effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOEYNGV5P8
To be fair I think Theranos might have a stronger case, but needs more money to have it implemented

For uBeam I'm just waiting for it to blow up (I wonder if they only saw a high impedance voltmeter showing a big number)
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All this information collected from such a distance with technology, science, and ingenuity from the last hundred years. Even if we have only a hundred or so left, there is plenty of awesomeness that can happen in that time. Good stuff.
What are you buying when the technology is open source?
Check out Theranos on Glassdoor starting on page 4.
The insider scoop seems to be that it's a horror show.
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The TPP vote may be delayed to reduce US election-time scrutiny. It would be better for democracy if the TPP were placed under the spotlight of US primary elections in early 2016, instead of a stealthy vote after the new president is elected in November, http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-vote-calendar-october-2... & http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/257065-white-hous...

“... aides in both parties believe the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will not be brought to the floor before the 2016 elections ... Waiting until the lame-duck session could allow members to take a tough vote on the free-trade deal without electoral consequences.”

The text could be public soon, http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-trade/2015/10/pro-...

“TPP countries could release the final text of the agreement as soon as next Tuesday — the day after elections in Canada — where the trade deal has proven to be a politically charged issue ... The AFL-CIO, meanwhile, is demanding the immediate release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership text ... "Creating a level playing field for American workers includes equal access to information, and the only way to ensure that is to ensure that all Americans have equal access to the text — not in 30 days, after the public relations spin has been spun, but right now."”
The moon is rich in He3 - both mining He3 and creating a rocket fuelled by it are in the realm of theory, but it may be possible.
So there's a huge gap in the market for a nsfw patreon? (Porntreon?)
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I think they're also affected by reruns on TV.
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It is indeed. I'm in the process of porting from Racket to Lumen. It's taking a bit, and it'll be tricky to add true greenthread support to js and lua, but it's a win so far.

Wart is freaking cool! Thanks for showing that. Whoaaa, you use tangle/weave! How do you like it / what do you think about literate programming? I was batting around the idea of writing code that way, but it seemed like tangle might not be the best solution. But I love your 000prefix naming scheme; I instinctively do that for branches. After reading through a few files starting at https://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/master/literate/000org... it became pretty clear how wart worked, pretty quickly. I'm mainly wary of the "compile" step that using Tangle implies; do you find it slows you down much? Would you choose to do it that way if starting fresh?

What would a language ecosystem be like without any backwards-compatibility guarantees, super easy to change and fork promiscuously?

It's fun to find someone has been mulling over the same problems!

I was considering taking Laarc in a similar direction:

(import "akkartik/foo")

That would check whether the folder "../foo/akkartik" exists, and if not, clone foo from github.com/akkartik/foo.

It would also rewrite its own source code to look like:

(import "akkartik/bar" "f1d2d2f924e986ac86fdf7b36c94bcdf32beec15")

That means whenever someone clones your codebase, running the program would cause them to clone github.com/akkartik/bar using commit f1d2d2f9.

So it's static linking, basically. It's a guarantee that "This source code will always work, the same way (+ 1 2) will always yield 3. You could copy-paste this source code into a gist, and whoever ran it would end up running the same program."

That removes dependency hell / worrying about versions entirely. But it's not the right solution, and I've been searching for a better one. What do you think?

The problem is that it throws away the ability for the code to pull updates from library maintainers. If the import is "pinned" at commit f1d2d2f9, then you push a security-related patch to akkartik/bar, most existing code will stay vulnerable forever, because most code is never maintained after being written.

I was thinking of following that model, but using the convention that libraries are expected to use git tags in order to indicate major.minor.patch, and (import "akkartik/bar" "f1d2d2f924e986ac86fdf7b36c94bcdf32beec15") will bump itself to the next commit if it's tagged as an increment of the patch version.

What kind of things have surprised you about Wart during development? Any unexpected pitfalls or interesting discoveries along the way? Thanks again for pointing it out!

By the way, were there any ambiguities with indentation-as-parens? I haven't thought about it rigorously, so I was just wondering if there are any corner cases to watch out for when I add it.
What about listing it on flippa.com?
I liked this concise definition of TPP n the article:

"it is little more than a daisy chain of corporate favors in the guise of removing trade barriers"
You'd be surprised how easy it is for teams to do the wrong thing. Most people have too narrow of a focus, not enough perspective, and not enough wisdom to even care about the right things. Without people with experience, vision, and influence often times the right things just don't get done.

Being nice means not being ruled by your emotions and not slipping into pettiness. If you have a disagreement with someone, do it nicely. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Etc.

But on the other hand, sometimes it's necessary to do or say things that are unpopular or difficult to accept. The difference is doing the unpopular thing that is necessary vs. being mean because you can't control your temper or you're just a jerk or you're trying to "win" some stupid technical argument. Don't be a jerk, don't yell, don't belittle people, but absolutely call people out on their shit when necessary.
$120K in return for 7% of "an idea" with a 90%+ failure rate outside of the YC trajectory seems like a pretty good deal to me.

I wouldn't sell 7% of whatever I'm doing to YC either because I (1) don't fit their profile and (2) am much too conservative to go for VC (the whole 'go big or go home' thing does not appeal to me) but if I were doing high risk high growth start-up(s) then I would definitely come knocking on their door.
Go watch the latest South Park episode ("You're not Yelping"), it's all about Yelp.

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s19e04-youre-not-yelpi...
This reminds me of a comment another user posted

> But we need to take this seriously. I don't want to live in a world where Google, Facebook, IBM, HP, Twitter, Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, Snapchat, etc., decide what content I can consume, what programs I can run, etc. And I doubt most of you do either.

Full comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397034

seems like the trend is to make the devices we use as closed and locked up as possible...
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Just like in early 80s I cannot install an OS on my game console, watch or phone. Just like in early 80s I can install an OS on my PC. There had always been open and locked hardware, even in the blessed 80s. And no, I don't mean that smartphones did not exist. There had been mini-computers, mainframes, various embedded systems from calculators to microwave ovens etc etc.
Very interesting. It is also much more informative than the Guardian article, for instance:
"The data revealed that these groups all sleep for nightly blocks of 6.9 and 8.5 hours, and they spend at least 5.7 to 7.1 hours of those soundly asleep."
What a silly question. Of course it can.
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- Be flexible

- Prioritize everything

- Simplify code, processes, and infrastructure at every step

- Build a well-rounded, emotionally stable team

- Loosely follow scrum & agile

- Be realistic

- Be honest, even when it is inconvenient

- At the tech lead level, the most important skill is your own
psychology. Hone your personality, establish work-life balance,
and take some courses in positive psych

- Have an opinion

- Learn when to talk, when not to talk, when to put it in
writing, and when not to put it in writing

- Adopt a "good enough, and let's move on" design approach

- Build strong relationships with non-technical management
4. Ditch team building gimmicks (see #3 for what's important).

I'd say gimmicks aren't going to save you, but consider morale events and other subtler stuff to help build team cohesion. Things like going to lunch regularly together, for example. When people are more comfortable with each other it makes it a lot easier for them to collaborate, rely on each other, ask each other questions, mentor each other, etc.
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no it isn't. she isn't competing with one person. she's bringing to attention that intersectionality exists and the tech industry isn't paying mind to it.

quote from that link: "Oppression Olympics also tends to ignore Intersectionality"
Which feels like the ratings are manipulated during the marketing period.

I always assumed this was because the people most enthusiastic about a movie see it first, and then everybody else.
Why does everything have to have a new 'paradox' when perfectly good physics exists already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws

It is not as if cars are equipped with some superior intelligence when compared to electrons in a circuit, the behaviour is identical and the normal laws of physics apply.
Why is this so surprising? I will be honest, my reaction after reading the article was "Newsflash, the best data analysts are those individuals with the greatest subject matter expertise." They have an incredible amount of knowledge about the landscape and the flora/fauna that inhabit it. Why wouldn't they be the better equipped to analyze images. Is it surprising that "the natives" have discovered that taller objects cast longer shadows? Or is it surprising that they possess the critical thinking skills to take this height/shadow knowledge and apply it to aerial images? I have seen a lot of aerial pictures in my life, but I would be shocked if I was able to look at the aerial photos and identify a handful of the various species of animals pictured.
It should not, they'll try hard not to let it make a difference (and in the case of the Yuri Milner investments it did not as far as I can see) but it could change if decisions made in one funding round would affect their ability to attract capital in the next.

In other words, LPs have bigger influence in follow on rounds if any of the decisions made in the current round turn out bad for YC, but so far there is no evidence of that as far as I can see.

It's a very interesting question though, sources of funds tend to exert pressure on the places those funds flow to. YC has always been 'as much hands on as you need or want' so in that respect they've been very good about letting their portfolio companies run themselves as much as possible while being there when needed.
FYI- A lot of Ansible employees have a Red Hat past. The lead developer James Cammarata has, and is also the current Cobbler maintainer.
The dev team?
Very smart. And very deceitful.

WSJ called them out for fraudulently gaming proficiency testing:

> The two types of equipment gave different results when testing for vitamin D, two thyroid hormones and prostate cancer. The gap suggested to some employees that the Edison results were off, according to the internal emails and people familiar with the findings.

> Former employees say Mr. Balwani ordered lab personnel to stop using Edison machines on any of the proficiency-testing samples and report only the results from instruments bought from other companies.

> The former employees say they did what they were told but were concerned that the instructions violated federal rules, which state that a lab must handle “proficiency testing samples…in the same manner as it tests patient specimens” and by “using the laboratory’s routine methods.”

And they were very very careful and deceitful in their response:

> The sources relied on in the article today were never in a position to understand Theranos’ technology and know nothing about the processes currently employed by the company.

They were extremely careful in using the word "currently" - admitting obliquely that they'd changed their processes while making it seem that the employees didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, it appears that the former employees (and WSJ) rightly called them out for fraud, and somewhere along the way they "pivoted" to using standard techniques instead of the Edison snake-oil.
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Sure, but water recycling is even more efficient. You can extract pure, drinkable water from used shower water, or even toilet water, using much less energy than it takes to remove sea salt (since you're fighting a much gentler osmotic gradient).

Psychologically though, I think most people prefer the idea of purified sea water to purified toilet water ... even if the sea is a toilet for everything that lives in it!
> I can't remember exactly if it was the GNOME Women Outreach program that was shut down recently, but I remember there being a lengthy author about the president of the organization's decision to step down and close the program (because no one else would step up to the chair, among other problems).

That was the Ada Initiative; see http://blog.valerieaurora.org/2015/08/05/the-ada-initiative-... .

Outreachy is alive and well, and has grown to encompass many more projects beyond GNOME, including the Linux kernel, OpenStack, and others. The Software Freedom Conservancy runs it now.
The big draw of YC to me seems to be the alumni network, that's the real gold and with every class that network expands.
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From the wiki page you mentioned:

> People who participate in Oppression Olympics tend to ignore the fact that it's possible for multiple groups to be oppressed, and necessary to address all those problems, without choosing a single group to get all the anti-oppression activism. Oppression Olympics also tends to ignore Intersectionality, except where the existence of multiple degrees of oppression can help an individual participant "win".

It seems pretty clear that the original article is doing the exact opposite of this. The author's "intersectionality" of a woman of color pervades the entire essay.
The team and the existing user base
"in addition to sex, is also specialized for cooking, backrubs, songs, etc."
Oh man, that market is a huge dormant monster..
I think you might have misunderstood. This example is notable precisely because cars don't behave like electrons in a circuit.

Or do you have an example of a situation in which Kirchhoff's laws predict that adding a wire to a circuit decreases the total current?
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"Intersectionality" in this case means excluding black males right? That seems a bit wrong.
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you're speaking from your experience which is fine and YMMV, but it's useful to listen to hers about how she feels. Discounting others' experiences doesn't help. She's talking about feeling excluded from tech as a woman of color because tech has made a priority to include more women speakers, but has completely ignored that there are women of color who are ignored. The industry thinking that they're"solving" diversity by increasing women, but ignoring women of color are only solving part of the problem. The main point I'm making is inclusion matters, in the workforce and at conferences. And the benefit of having people of color speaking is being exposed to experiences and P.O.V.s from people of color. There are studies that show that people of color or from various backgrounds are better problem solvers because of adversity they've had.

Also, using anecdotal evidence from your circle of friends who have had positive experiences is dismissive of others who haven't.
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Also, Michael DeHaan stepped down and left the company early 2015.
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One hypocrisy is that while the TPP aspires to more-perfect law enforcement around copyright infringement (to be a shared responsibility between member nations[1]), imperfect copyright enforcement has played a role in the success of some products of the (now incumbent) companies. Most recently, in Facebook's rise to compete against YouTube, "freebooting", a practice whereby random Pages steal YouTube content without attribution, has been a major issue that is only being addressed after critical popularity has been achieved in Facebook video numbers. [2]

[1] - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/10/09/leaked-tpp-agreemen...

[2] - http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/7/9114149/facebook-freebootin...
I said incredible, not surprising. As in I find it impressive.
You're absolutely right about the direction moving towards the more intimate relationship (or the illusion thereof).

This trend is not limited to porn actors but everyone - youtube celebs commenting on posts, livestreaming gaming where you interact directly and the audience feels right there with the streamer.

Loneliness is the largest cause of unhappiness in the developed world. Intimacy on demand is something people will pay well for as long as they don't feel to silly about it.
Definition of shitty task varies greatly.

A personal anecdote: I have recently discovered I was bored on a job because the tech lead, after working with a dozens of engineers who considered cleanup and simplification tasks boring and wanted to implement new features, stopped parcelling out those and kept them to himself, while distributing new functionality tasks (which I don't personally enjoy doing 40 hours a week) throughout the team.
That applies too, but she's bringing attention to black women and directly speaking about how the tech industry is trying to fix the problem of women in tech and at the same time ignoring women of color. "solving" the problem of not a lot of women in tech by hiring white women, and completely ignoring black women doesn't solve the problem. Same thing applies to men - hiring asian men (the "model minority"), and ignoring black men doesn't solve the diversity problem.
But even locked back then just meant, "locked for the typical user." We're getting to the point where like cars before us, we aren't working on Chevy small blocks anymore.
> When I was a kid you could hardly get any legal software in Poland too

True. Poland market was so small (and so far away, relatively - that was before fast Internet connections) that no one gave a "flying fuck" what was happening here. I remember buying pirated CDs in broad daylight at the mall circa '95, no one cared. A few years later I wanted to buy Visual C++ 6.0 (standard edition) and it took me half a year to finally get it - nobody had it for sale at all. You theoretically could buy software abroad, but then it was so expensive no one really did this. The only software distribution platform was sneakernet.
Yes. In 2003, when she started the company at 19, Draper etc invested & other well known SJWs like Henry Kissinger & George Shultz joined her board because of her gender. They both knew & give a shit that a decade later people would be talking about diversity. For 12 years, she flipped her blonde hair & the men were fooled-& the money just kept pouring in.

Do you really think VCs would invest $400 million & Walgreens & Cleveland Clinic would do deals with this company, that put people's health at risk & create massive liability, without diligence because she is a woman?

Maybe Theranos will fail. Obviously fraud is unacceptable. And the lack of peer review helps no one. But, the idea that she was funded because of her gender is absurd. If anything, given all the data on this topic, she was funded in spite of it- because she was trying something very difficult & potentially revolutionary--not some dumb app.

I hope you'll reconsider your thinking on this. Its hard enough for women to get funded; maybe it's worth giving them the benefit of the doubt when they do.
I'd like to know the impact that the desalination plants in Israel and Saudi Arabia have on the environment, specificially the sea life in the water being sucked into these plants. It's my understanding that the biggest hurdle for desalination in California is not energy but the ecosystem.
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1 Gbps symmetrical FTTH here. I never need to prepare anything or think about bandwidth.

Want to boot a Linux distribution from a USB memory stick? Don’t wait 15 minutes for the download to finish, just wget to your USB memory stick directly.

Want to download that embedded toolkit? No more finding a different task until that multi-gigabytes download is done. Just start it, wait a couple of seconds, continue.

Going over to a friend’s house? No more asking what movie we might want to watch beforehand and copying it onto my laptop. Just mount my workstation via sshfs and play it.

When I used to live at my parent’s house, occasionally some family member would ask “who’s uploading something? I can barely browse the web”. This just doesn’t happen when you have more than enough bandwidth.

To me, it’s like a flatrate for bandwidth. You just never need to worry about it.