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Hmm? Their time is valuable. You are being asked to pay for their time.

If there's a broken traffic light in the city, do you expect some workers to come and spend their time fixing it just because it's broken and it's a good thing to do, or do you expect them to get paid to do it?

Now, one could argue that fixing bugs in open source software is a public good, like the traffic lights in a city. So maybe the government should pay for it? Well, I could perhaps buy that argument, but getting increased public funding for that sort of thing is likely to be hard, and it's hard to tell where that money is best spent.

But certain fixes, or new features, will help some people a lot more than others. If you would benefit from a particular bugfix, and someone else will need to do work for it, why not they ask you for money to fix it?
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I can see the guy in Saudi Arabia saying this now: royalty is a "parasitic" class that powers every big oil deal -- the reason that businesses can pay oil workers as much as they do these days.

(I'm not criticizing your conclusion, just your argument)
It's called Planned Obsolescence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Another ex-famous person here (again, short-term-contractor).

The folks focusing on the techcrunch cribs video and drawing damning conclusions from it are, rather predictably, chasing a red herring.

For what it's worth I actually felt more productive, focused, and relaxed (in a good way) in that office than in any I've ever worked in before or since. The high ceilings made a remarkable difference. The mix of open and private spaces worked. Going to work in a place that felt like a higher-class version of your home but where you could collaborate with your coworkers was pretty amazing. It was basically what co-working spaces always try to be but can never fully pull off. It doesn't make sense to complain about the damage open plan offices are doing to productivity and then get angry at someone who does the opposite. Granted, you don't need a semi-luxury penthouse. :) But I think the office was an under-appreciated reason why they were able to get (and retain) a lot of great engineers. It was in general a very sane, reasonable environment to do good work in, in contrast to most offices.

jondubois, aikah, and others are on the right track. Making money off a front-end framework is a long shot. The monetization plan (to the extent there was one) was always heavy on optimism and reliant on a lot of things going very very right.

That's not to say it was impossible, though.

The reasons famo.us failed are the reasons most startups fail:
1. They didn't do nearly enough to truly understand their users and meet their needs
2. They didn't communicate or collaborate well or consistently enough internally.

I could say more about both 1 and 2, but I'll wrap it up there. The real narrative of what went wrong is one that's familiar and pretty generic. The subplots of what they were trying to build and who was involved just makes it all a bit more interesting to speculate about.

p.s. dmvaldman is the man – you should check out his framework and say hi.
I'd argue that rents are high because too many people want to live near each other. Property that people want is a scarce resource so something has to stop people getting it - if not price then what? A waiting list? A lottery? If you set up your lifestyle so you're not dependent on being a short taxi ride from 100,000 other people, then you don't have to pay high rents at all. If you are dependent on that, then you must be doing something fantastically productive so you can afford to pay high rent.
It's a little flowery, but what about it is marketese to you? Other than the fact that they're talking to their new audience; terms like "branded app" are specific terms that have meaning to marketers.
Huh? You'd have to have a tax rate of 90%+ to reduce the cost of housing. If you make a million per year, paying another 20% isn't really going to drastically affect your choice of housing.
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I think you summarize well, and that's one of the main problems with this essay. The author clearly works from the perspective of Marxist theory of capitalism, and manages to miss one of the big points of the theory – that increased productivity always leads to more exploitation in the form of increased extraction of surplus work. The theory is explicit that increasing productivity is the capitalist's last mechanism to extract value out of human labour when constrained by physical and biological limits and organized labour.
Just checking in to see if you emailed me. I emptied my spam folder earlier and like an idiot I forgot to make sure yours wasn't in there.
Of course, to "really" solve this problem you'd have to recognize "mutually unused" arguments: foo(a,b) calls foo(b,a) and doesn't otherwise use the arguments. But foo(x,a) which uses x and calls foo(a,x) uses both. Not difficult to solve, and a few seconds' thought puts it in O(m*n) with m recursive calls and n parameters... but probably not worth the trouble.
Money is subject to the law of supply and demand just like everything else. More money supply, and the value of a unit of money drops, i.e. inflation.

History is full of examples. When Spain extracted gold and silver from the Americas in vast quantities, there was inflation in the Old World. Gold rushes corresponded with inflation. The American revolutionary Continental was printed in great quantities, and became worthless. Inflation results every time there's an increase in the money supply relative to the value in the economy.

Higher prices are the result, not the cause.
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That's only an incentive for developers if they individually are writing the code for both platforms. Many (most?) shops where an app is the main product (or a very important piece of the main product) have separate iOS and Android dev teams.
To be fair, students are mostly learning MIPS32. It's a 'language' great for teaching concepts while preserving the students' sanity. The fact that I have to run an emulator of an effectively dead-for-consumer use architecture to write labs hurts student satisfaction. You can't even be cheeky and use interesting, assembly dominated elements like SIMD.

The true masochists continue to x86 in the higher level courses.
The interesting thing is that it seems to have happened in reverse. In China, Russia and Vietnam, for instance it appears that communism smashed the old systems of power which opened the door for capitalism.
Plus IRC channels existed in a bounded scope which kept them relevant to the interests of their participants.

Twitter hashtags are global in scope which makes many of them useless due to dilution.

I encountered a particular Twitter hashtag the other day: #fog

Imagine every global reference to fog being tagged thus. It's a mess.
I didn't think the focus was men. I keep hearing how there has been no wage growth since the 1970s and this data seems to indicate that's not true.
ok my brain is running on empty right now but I don't really see any explanation about what the problem actually is... I get that something related to some scripting language you're using for your game isn't working, but you never actually explained what is broken.

Are unused arguments a problem when recursing? I can imagine they are if they're taking up stack space and you're doing an awful lot of recursing (I don't really use recursion enough in my C++ code to really run into issues like this, so I am a little ignorant on the side effects of recursing deeply).

Anyway it's time for bed and I'm sure this article is going to be giving me nightmares tonight.
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gcc also doesn't detect the unused variable. Looking at the -Wunused warning description it does so correctly since a variable is considered unused if it is declared only. In this case it is also used as a parameter.

To detect it, split the recursive function into two, one that recurses and one that does the job at the end. Both can take the same relevant arguments and the latter function will detect any unused parameters.
SHL learns a ton from this, gets experience most executives don't have. Optimistic in his future either way.

To the GR team, your work is not marginalized by this speed bump. GR is really good and something people love.

I hope other people recognize that and snap up everyone into good places.
Modern branch predictors handle opaque predicates (assuming you mean branches that don't change). Jump instructions in tight, repetitive loops on superscalar out-of-order processors are basically free.
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Even worse, foo(a,b) could call bar(a,b,c) which calls foo(b,a), all without otherwise looking at a or b. This could get really bad really fast.

But that feels like the wrong way to analyze this. Even though a full solution isn't practical, a limited one may be.
Well, the part where it directly mentions excluded middle is the part where it cites Boolos commenting on just that.
I'm ridiculously excited about this game and don't really mind the astroturfing. The animation is just crazy awesome.
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The world needs more people like Garry Tan. He's one of the kindest, humble, and most genuine people you'll ever meet. Garry helped us tremendously during and after YC.

Can't wait to hear to see what you end up doing next! Thank you, Garry!
There is no way of fully detecting it, because of function pointers.
Interesting how it highlights the importance of independent countries and legal systems.
Yes, you just need to fulfil three conditions:

- Use the new RyuJIT

- Make use of 64 bits CPU

- Use the vector and matrix classes from System.Numerics
I hope you know that energy efficients often means using motors with less Watt so that e.g. your washing machine will take longer to complete the washing cycle and with less hot water. The same with vacuum cleaners, eletronic kettles, etc. Eletro motors aren't a new invention, even brushless motors are there for some decades. Not every energy saving idea is a good idea. Often it's better to buy a few photovoltaic panels yourself and buy high quality brands that last decades (e.g. Miele washing machines). I would buy a 2000W vacuum cleaner that can clean my house in 30min than a 1000W vacuum cleaner that is less efficient in cleaning the floor so it takes at least twice as long to really clean the floor. In the end you often trade time for peak power usage. Sure, power grid operators like that.
Whats your plan for this black friday?
It's hard to get things past the blood-brain barrier, so assuming they identify something useful, I wonder how they'd do that? I wonder if an injection would work, hypothetically?
Most of this thing reads more like an argument for than against.
Author is in a far better position than most projects, since he 1) already has companies using his software and 2) has folks from those companies contacting him directly for help.

Corporations are in the business of making money which also puts them in the business of spending money. They pay for office space, things to put in the office, people, services, insurance, and software. They pay for everything. There are hardly any things they don't pay for!

So as long as the math makes sense and the transaction is presented properly, they are happy to shake hands and pay for your services. In fact, they want to pay you to make problems go away. Red Hat is worth billions for executing this at the corporate scale. Free software is just the hook. Corporations that can pay for software now have money to spend on other services. This realization is what made Red Hat.

The only thing you need to know when freelancing is that if they walk away, they were never shopping to begin with. They were just gaming you. Everyone knows labor isn't free. So if they really need your help they'll pay. And they'll expect market rates, so charge them market rates.
I don't get it. This problem can be solved in software, no special hardware required.

Ergonomic aspect is also misguided since touch typing correctly on a standard qwerty keyboard will not bend wrists, so no need to split the keyboard in half. Your hands need to be at an angle to type (look at the keys, columns are offset to create an angle), if they are perpendicular you need to learn touch typing correctly.
Or writing compilers, OS drivers, to add two more.
planning to buy ferrari high end car. LOL
I played with one of the prototypes. It's quite nice.
100 years ago, the writing engineer would never dare to have used such a narrow evidence base.
That's also how I remember the standard U.S. History textbooks (which were the only ones, we definitely didn't use Zinn). Fairly patriotic tone, lots of focus on important presidents, all generally presented positively. Most of the labor/populist stuff was skipped or glossed over. William Jennings Bryan did get a mention (mostly in the context of a silver vs. gold standard debate that just seemed confusing to me at the time), but you wouldn't learn who Bill Haywood or Eugene Debs were, or why they once had a lot of supporters, or that the "labor wars" included decades of intermittent violence and actual pitched battles (e.g., the Battle of Blair Mountain). Even World War I was more heroic-Allied-victory than tragic-waste-of-lives in tone. There were some exceptions to the general approach: the oppression of black Americans was covered in some detail, during both the slavery and Jim Crow eras, as was Indian removal.

I did go to high school in Texas, though, which has made a deliberate effort to keep a "pro-American" tone in their textbooks.
Thanks for the explanation. It's something worth pondering.
You might consider posting this to workplace.stackexchange.com - they have a good track record for these kinds of questions. If you do, please post the link so I could follow along.
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>> 1) taxing stay at home moms for the value they are creating

> That sounds incredibly distopian.

It sounds a bit sexist (as if moms should stay home and their spouse, male of female should be employed) - but it's only dystopian if society doesn't recognize that the work not only needs to be taxed, but also rewarded.

For example, with basic income - or simply by paying people to stay home to care for their kids. The problem with the latter is that it reinforces gender stereotypes in a job market where there is gender difference in pay (ie: all current real-world job markets) -- it makes financial sense for the one that makes the least above caregiver compensation to stay home. I'm sure there are other ways to combat this (say base compensation on whole-household income, so that the net will end up being roughly the same no matter who stays home) -- but it's not entirely trivial to figure out.
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Yep. Web tech needs all sorts of layers for all kinds of demanding software, so as long as you build something useful/adoptable, there should be ways to commercialize.

I'm more bullish on WebGL. To meet the desire to do VR, gaming, and data visualization on the web, a lot to be done. We went all in for the data side, and surprise, people with data problems are happy to pay for you to help them finally see it ;-)
I don't see how giving blanket exemption to a completely secular industry (education in this case) under the pretext of religion has anything to do with majoritarian excesses. Why not do it in Taxi business or Restaurants or why not let a Muslim get away with 1 murder per year or something like that ?

Unless you are ignoring a distinction no one should be given a right that grossly violates rights of someone else.

I would have agreed with you if the exemption was limited to religious education meant for that community only.

Under the current law Hindu schools can not operate and compete with Church run schools and I find that vile and against basic sense of justice.

Sachar committee is a heap of garbage for many reasons. But even if we accept it only Muslism community among minorities seem to suck not Christian or Parasis or Jains or Sikhs. That despite being the most politically influential community in India.

(This trend is seen in USA too where politically influential Irish Americans score worse than least influential Japanese Americans on socio economic indicators).

RTE's draconian provisions and how they hurt both Hindu community and schools is well documented. Over 15K schools are in danger of losing their legal status because of this law.

Also I am completely unaware how it can be justfied that a Hindu can not preside over NMEC which happens to be a government's administrative body!

Check this:
[1] Over 1 lakh schools shut down because of RTE
http://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/rte-5-years-...

[2] Church runs schools banning pagan practices in their schools.
https://realitycheck.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/analyzing-indi...

[3] Statewise numbers of schools shut down because of RTE
http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures

[4] Constitutionality of NCMEI challenged
https://realitycheck.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/is-the-congres...
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Yeah. Work is interesting, but things don't always work the same in humans. Remember the anti-angiogenesis cancer cure? Worked great in mice, completely ineffective in humans.

And even if it works, it's likely to cost the same as cataract surgery until the patents expire, so all of those blind people in poor nations will stay that way for even longer.
I consult in this space. A few points:

1. Square provides merchant cash advance. This is not a loan.

2. Payment processors like Square have knowledge of a company's credit card receipts but cannot determine a company's cash flow unless they obtain additional documentation from the merchant. Calculating cash flow requires not just incomings but outgoings of cash. Payment processors obviously don't have the latter.

3. Merchant cash advance is a last-resort financing option for small businesses. Despite your implied suggestion that merchant cash advance providers have underwriting advantages over banks, there's a reason merchant cash advance is frequently the most expensive form of small business financing.
Swing is great if one bothers to learn how to use it, instead of relying on the default control behaviours.

What I mean by that, was being aware information like "Filthy Rich Clients" blog, http://filthyrichclients.org/

I have been out of the CSS loop in the last three years.

Can we finally center vertically without lots of tricks in a good way across browsers?

I am not a designer and never managed to control layout in HTML/CSS, as easily as, I do in all the native toolkits I have used thus far.
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The best answer is that we actually do keep having other universals like health care, education, access to water… $15k in SF with that other universal stuff could work if you have small space and roommates. So, get roommates, get some additional income, or move to Kalamazoo. We could also work on building more affordable housing too.
Depends on the state you are in. Education in Germany is federal business.
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But that isn't the W3C way anymore.

True, the XHTML + XML modules would have brought us there, but another path was chosen.
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I don't think any tool can do so with accuracy.

https://flickrcode.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/xkcd-1425.png...
Of course. That's completely within reason to request. The UBI should be something like $20K, you can survive in a lot of places in America for that money.
What about all the consumer routers than run on MIPS cores?
Great work from the new ECL maintainer, jackdaniel!
Doesn't most countries finance school for older children partially or entirely through taxes as well (primary school)?

Obviously, education is seen as a necessity both for (semi)functioning democracy, but also for any modern society to work. It seems odd that we're happy to take care of kids for free (or highly subsidized cost) from the age from 6 to 16 -- but somehow the years 1-6 needs to be paid for by parents? Are those 4 years really so much more expensive, that it wouldn't make sense to just roll that all up into one budget?

I actually need to look at the arguments around this in Norway -- free school from the age of 6 to 18, along with a free college education isn't really an issue - and full coverage of child care services also have broad agreement -- but somehow simply making said childcare free seems to be much more contentious. Or perhaps just overlooked.

I suppose one could make up microeconomic arguments along the lines of a solid education for all benefits all, while allowing all parents those extra 3-4 per child in the job market might not benefit all. Perhaps more interesting is the general trend that there's less work -- so having people spend some time off from work (with eg: pay from the government) might simply be a more efficient model going forward.

But if we accept that free primary school is a good thing, I don't see how we can argue that free kinder garden isn't too.
To clarify: anything you can do just as well yourself will save an enormous amount of money.

But in a highly specialized society, different people do different things very well -- sometimes orders of magnitude better. Paying some guys to replace my windows is much more efficient than trying to do it myself.

(I'm presently a stay-at-home dad. Not only can I do it just as well as others, but the marginal benefit of a second income is much less than the marginal benefit of being able to take care of my child and my house exactly how I want to, and the enjoyment I get from those things.)
You're mistaken in your assertions about our reality. Go watch the documentary "A Place At The Table"
I would never send my child to a school with such a system. Just look at the quality you get from asking teenagers (or even college students!) to prepare presentations. Usually the result is so awful that you can't cover the topic in the exam and expect anyone to pass. I wouldn't want my child to be taught via a game of Chinese whispers. There is a reason why teachers have to be well educated, not only in the field they teach but also in teaching methods.
Well..it was a not a balanced article. What is YC? An accelerators, incubators or VC? I believe YC has changed since 2005. It started as an incubator, then gradually becoming an accelerator with Dropbox and AirBnB successes. And to scale their business fast, it would make sense to accept companies with traction.

The reason they received huge numbers of applicants because their criteria was wide and IMHO misleading.

The originals partners were brilliant founders. They were not young (drop out or out of college) founders. They had 'life' experiences. So they were very nurturing and compassionate and patient. They helped young smart founders to build companies and many become successful companies. With the current goals of scaling fast, and many new partners YC has diluted its success recipe. It's not about 'making what people want' anymore. It's about making what 20 something year old who live in the valley want.

Jessica Livingstone's book 'Founders at Work' contains many different types of founders. And not many of them were fresh out of college or college drop outs.

YC has become a big company, and along the way YC has contributed to build Silicon Valley as the center for technology. However, it needs to have big companies responsibilities as well.
Pretty sure both Goldman and Google pay their employees market rates.