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I think you can both be right, somewhat.

The author supposed the person with 50k hours will be better than the person with 500 hours, but maybe just 5x better not 100x better. And that could be accurate. Put each of them in 1000 identical situations, and the more experienced one will close more deals but not 100x deals, probably.

However, that's not the real world. In the real world, the salesperson with 24 years of experience has contacts and relationships that, to your point, will help them land more lucrative deals. So, yeah, they might not close 100x the number of deals, but they could easily close deals worth 100x to their business.

Or to frame it in software development, if you give the same exact task to a developer with 12 weeks of experience and one with 24 years of experience, the more experienced one probably won't finish it 100x faster. However, if you're giving them the same tasks, that's a gross misuse of skills. The more experienced one might architect the system so that task naturally falls out of the design or knows of an open source tool that can handle it with no custom development or maybe they understand the business well enough to propose a simple tweak to business processes to obviate the need to do the task at all – that is, they might bring 100x value overall.

My point is just that, sure, there are diminishing returns on experience solving the exact same problem, but a person with 500 hours of experience and on with 50k hours of experience shouldn't be working on the exact same problems.

It's kind of like that old question when looking at a résumé: Do they have 10 years of experience or 1 year of experience repeated 10 times?
Is there a conviction or guilty plea on record somewhere? So far as I can tell, the only crime he's ever even been charged with was smuggling weed in 1970 (he pled guilty). The article referenced by this piece cites nothing but third-hand (from TMZ, no less) quotes from a divorce filing. As anyone knows, those can and usually do contain pretty much anything the person filing it wants to say, with no obligation to prove any of it to even the low standard required in civil proceedings much less the reasonable doubt standard required under criminal law.

If not, then I am sure you yourself must have witnessed a crime or have other direct evidence of a crime committed by Mr. Murray, in which case I would urge you to file a report with the police department at once. Those are the only two circumstances under which it's acceptable to call someone a criminal, whether it's a popular figure like Bill Murray or a hated rascal like Sanford Wallace. Otherwise you're engaged in that most sickening and disgraceful act: repeating slanderous innuendo in the hope that people will eventually accept it as axiomatic truth.

Personally, I don't know whether Mr. Murray beats women, and I don't really care about the man one way or another. But I am disgusted by the practice of accusing men of "domestic abuse" in the press and repeating those accusations anywhere and everywhere (except, of course, under oath in a courtroom) in service to some misguided pseudo-feminist agenda. If a man beats his wife, he belongs in prison, and if you have evidence of that, it's your obligation as a citizen to help put him there. Otherwise, knock off the slander already.
Uh...that's not what I read into a 98% election result!
That isn't logically inconsistent, i.e. "if you don't want things associated with your name forever, don't put them on the internet under your name". If someone posts racist bile under a pseudonym, it also won't be associated with his or her name.

kazinator's comment is the real issue with that idea, I think.
Now, choosing a programming language for a project is usually decided on a mix of what a team is most comfortable with, beer-fueled debates on dynamic vs static typing, benchmarks of marginal relevance and that elusive quest for Dev-Hipster points.

How about this for an interview strategy: Have these discussions. Hire the people that realize most of the above mentioned things are meaningless.

(Clarification: Only the "comfortable" part isn't meaningless. But there too, it's only as meaningful as the placebo effect is significant.)
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I think we should strive for more than to be better than most. I would rather be highly competent at something than good enough at many things. But I understand others may prefer the jack of all trades route.
From my experience a few releases ago, the game is completely playable in text mode, over SSH. Like others have said, it's a little slower. I think some key combinations work differently too.
One thing I don't understand is if a startup is a 10 year journey why vesting is a 4 year journey? Is there some tax reason for this?
This is a very well done piece. I love how many links and additional paths it leads to in thinking.

It's a constant challenge for scientists to realize that nearly _everything_ we know is an approximation or only true in certain circumstances. It also takes an amazing amount of humility to work knowing that you may be proving yourself, your heroes and all many people have worked for wrong.

Thank you Mr Wolfram for your thoughts.
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Exactly. I think the author's example of Uber is also way off the mark. Uber did not disrupt the cab industry the way PCs disrupted the mainframe industry. Cabs did not provide a good service; they provided a bad service that was protected by a government backed monopoly. The cab industry was never worried that it would cannibalize existing businesses by allowing people to hail cabs on their phones. They just didn't care if people had a good experience because they had a captive market.

The Uber story really isn't a "good" business case because there are only so many regulated monopolies. Entrenched businesses, on the other hand, are everywhere.
What a bunch of stupid clickbait. Basecamp 3 appears to be a huge step in the wrong direction and I was wondering who would invest after that but now I see the answer is still "no one"....
I dislike that approach (maybe because I'm one of those guys without a trust fund who could never work for a startup without a salary). "Living expenses" are often far more than that for someone in their 30s: mortgage, student loans, car payment, etc.

Right now, founding a startup is overwhelmingly for people from privileged backgrounds who can afford to be bold and work for no money because they have a safety net (parents, trust fund, etc) they can rely on if they fail. It sucks. There's a reason there are hundreds of food delivery startups every year: the only people with the ability to start companies don't have enough experience with the world to know what would even make a good company. Sometimes they stumble onto something wonderful, but most of the time they just fail, go live with their parents for a few months, then go start up something else. Repeat until they get tired and just get a 9-5 job at Google or Facebook.

Every individual has a market value. If I make $200k/yr right now, and I get an offer to work for a startup where I would make $100k/yr, how is it fair that someone who previously made $75k/yr gets the same amount of equity as me? After all, I'm giving up $100k/yr just to work here! It's better to ask someone "what would it take to get you to work here?" and pay them that. Then give them equity as an incentive to be successful.

I know the Silicon Valley hegemony is against talking about money like this, but people definitely think it.
Clojure's core.async has "go routines", (this is more or less the same as in go), basically you can put and take messages on a channel. These operations will block the green thread, so you end up writing synchronous code. The idea is that synchronous, blocking code is easier to understand then async code. Since these are lightweight threads it will scale better than using real threads. I'm pretty sure it's fine to have hundreds of thousands of go routines.

This abstraction sits on top of java's real threads, so you can have several real threads doing the work and they can switch between the go routines once the go routine hits one of the blocking operations.

Or something like that... read this: http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channe...
Oh I see. That is indeed annoying. So I guess this bit from the desktop announcement is a stretch: "....all incoming and outgoing messages are displayed consistently on all your devices." I mean I guess if you ONLY have one phone and a desktop that would be true? And I guess if Signal only allows you to register those two things, it is TECHNICALLY true, in the sense that "all" <= 2
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If I have an operation that is dependent on "now", I typically generate that time at the beginning of the operation and pass it as a parameter to everything else. So now all the important bits I can test with whatever timestamp I want. And if I really want to, I could test that the operation initialization generates the correct timestamp. But that's pretty close to testing whether "new Date()" works, which if it doesn't there's not a whole lot I can do about it anyway.
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For what it's worth, Korma isn't an ORM such as what you would use in Python. It's a relatively thin wrapper around SQL queries. I don't know whether they found that to be plus or not, but it would put it in a slightly different category than the Python ORM options.

I'm also betting that the startup time of the JVM wasn't terribly important in their scenario.
Is there a history apart from the allegations in the divorce filing of his ex-wife?

It's possible that with no further reports, the public are discounting those as legal posturing, to strengthen her negotiating position against a pretty solid pre-nup.
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We're looking for an experienced Clojure Engineer to work onsite at our Westwood, CA office.

You would primarily work on our backend web service, but the opportunity to work on the mobile app as well would be possible if desired (we may soon be rewriting the app in ClojureScript on React Native).

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Ask HN: Recommend a tax lawyer/CPA in SF for a freelance software shop
I am starting a (one person) software consulting shop in the SF Bay Area, and am looking for advice on how to set up a corporate structure to maximize tax benefits.

Can anyone recommend a professional who can help me understand the tradeoffs of various financial and corporate structure decisions? Am I better off with a lawyer or a CPA?
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So would you think that MAS is generally better in terms of perception and trust?
Take a look at some of what mapbox has done, here's a good example: https://www.mapbox.com/drone/video/
(from https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-video-drone/)
In the same vein, the signup form allows you to trivially tell who and roughly when someone has signed up for the beta.
What is childish to you or me may not be to someone else. Yes, I think a curfew is childish, but so is, for example, not allowing people under 21 to drink alcohol, is America a big day-care?

All institutions have rules, the author seems to fake a misunderstanding of what was meant by "day care" in the original post, that is "protect students' feelings at all cost". This has nothing to do with the rules in the institution.
Unlinked footnotes in a webpage?

With all that unused margin space on a desktop, it seems like they would have made more sense as Tufte-style marginal notes anyway.
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It's likely that they're refering to core.async which is a Clojure library that provides IoC threads via the `go` construct.
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I do have an "invite" prompt on my SMS contacts that don't yet have Signal: "Invite to Signal: Take your conversation with %s to the next level.". Perhaps it's a function in the beta version that isn't in the live version yet?

I haven't seen a message with a double-tick that's been dropped yet, at least not on a recent version. It can sometimes behave poorly with Android battery-saving mode - however, so does plain SMS. Turning off sync is part of the actual point of battery-saving, but conversely, I never want to not get messages. That's arguably Android's problem, not Signal's. Still, it uses GCM, so at least there's hope for the deep sleep (which I haven't tried yet).
So I'm writing a lot here because I'm procrastinating finishing a fake Phrack article I'm publishing later today to announce the Starfighter CTF, and we should get opinions from other people besides me.

But having said that: it's probably situational. If all the cofounders have roughly equivalent finances, maybe that's OK. But if some of them have, for instance, just sold a company, and the others are doing their first no-salary startup, it doesn't seem fair to allow the better-off ones to buy additional influence.

I'm using "fair" here as a shorthand for "things that will damage the incredibly valuable cofounder relationship more than it's worth".
It's kind of like building a model with clay or with sticks. The clay model is going to look nicer with rounded curves and no wasted points. The stick model will have bits sticking out.

However when you get 30 people working together to make a big model, the clay model is going to start looking very strange indeed. Different people will have different finger pressure and shape the clay differently. Some people will make more right angled parts with the clay which will clash with the parts of the clay that are carefully smoothed out. Someone might spend a week fixing a perfect parabola for a curve at the top of the model just for someone else to bend it off to the side with an ugly twist to fit with the other side of the model.

30 people on the stick model? Not really a problem. All the sticks look the same. Anybody who needs to attach one side of the stick model to something else just needs to grab a stick and tie it on. You won't see a perfect stick parabola, but then you also won't be stuck with a strangely twisted piece of clay.

You can always create a style guide for using the clay - always keep between a 30 and 60 degree angle on joins. Apply one finger of pressure when doing joins. And so on. Sometimes this works with very diligent reviews that keep everything in place, but as soon as a crisis comes up or the model needs to pivot urgently? Everyone rushes to touch up the model in the quickest way possible and your model starts to get a bit thinner on one side than the other, etc.

So there's nothing wrong with choosing a great clay model that fits well into your hand and you can shape effortlessly - but you need to remember that sometimes the 'painfulness' of using a model made out of sticks can be a big blessing when you're trying to massage a bit of clay that someone else pressed a bit too firmly on.

EDIT:

Also, when you've been making and using models for awhile, the stick models get an added benefit: you can browse through the stick models really fast based on only their outline and be able to understand very quickly how they work. Pretty clear why: the rigid sticks form a very distinct outline (think interfaces and forced directory structure in Java). Being a stick model expert therefore has very good job mobility and high demand.

Each clay model is generally more unique and requires some study to understand even if it does look nicer.
After Donbass Kazakhstan will think thrice before lending their fate to Russia.
Without knowing physics, maybe we should find a good simulator, change the speed of light constant and see how the interactions change.

Alternatively, see if different equations scale differently based on the speed of light.
Guys, I recommend attending WWDC in SF! You can meet all the Apple folks there.

For us, we launched our first web app in 2008 even before the App Store. Apple loved it - they called us and told about App Store that is being launched so they wanted us to be there on day 1. We consistently delivered great products that people loved. Here, I wrote a post on how to get featured on the App Store http://denzhadanov.com/2014/03/26/how-to-get-featured-on-the...
Interesting. In 6_*.doc I can read this: "Long-distance and international operators perform transmission of traffic that uses protocols with encryption support using security certificate, except traffic encrypted by means of cryptographic protection on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan."

So, if encrypted by such means on the country's territory, shouldn't be intercepted? Ha!
Calling someone a crackpot is clearly an ad hominem argument. Claiming it is not in a followup, and then furiously downvoting is neither a valid nor legitimate response.
(Metabase dev here)

> you're going to end up spending time reading Java docs

That's actually a benefit IMHO. If no one has created a nice Clojure library or wrapper for something you want to do it's at least possible to use the massive number of existing Java libraries directly from Clojure.
I think Apple has gone through a lot of trouble to avoid being forced to compromise iMessage, but I am not recommending iMessage. iMessage is orthogonal to Apple's platform security, which is simply better than Android's.

That's all I'm saying.
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> It would probably have been better to omit those heavy guns and turrets and to leave those gunners on the ground to save weight, lives, and resources.

Yep. The Mosquito was the safest (for the crew) bomber of the war, hugely more accurate and effective than the heavies. But heavies were the dogma of the politically influential in the air forces of Britain and the US, so much as battleships kept being considered the key asset long after they were actually irrelevant, thousands of young men were strapped into pointless flying coffins.
"A National Security Letter will not prevent the certificate authority from being blacklisted "
Sure it will, just send another NSL to the blacklisting instance.

And I do not understand that going to jail instantly is a smaller burden for you than living with the small risk getting caught.

Do you really believe the NSA or any of those other patriots do not have a few of the private keys for the certificates you trust?
It might be if you were planning to deploy to end user's machines.
Wow. It's one thing to steal content but this takes theft to a whole new level. This @mitchellharper guy said he came up with the business idea on a napkin. Pretty despicable.
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I like the fact that Signal makes good cryptography available to the masses. But I also share the OP concern about Chromium (and about a central server, but this is technically much harder to fix).

Perhaps it would be possible to have a simple CLI app that is free from these dependencies (which should also be quite simple to develop).
Large, and complexity is a plus? The Campaign for North Africa would be an excellent choice, but its war theme may not be to your liking (1)

Seriously: why don't you let your guests design a game for you? Announce a week or so in advance that there will be a 3D printer, CNC mill, good color printer, pens, paint, etc, tell them your requirements (# of players, playing time, and "we should like it" should suffice) and see what they come up with. If the group is large, make teams that compete for the "best of show" award.

1) see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campaign_for_North_Afric...
True :) they asked us to be on the first day of the App Store 7 years ago!
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> In so much as a solution depends on "cleverness" rather than raw computing power, it'll have room for competition.

Unfortunately, it's looking more and more like it's going to be a competition on training data and raw computational power, and it's hard to compete with Google's corpora from the web, gmail, captchas, maps, etc. -- not to mention Google's tremendous number crunching resources.
For those confused - the visual part is done in a GIF (i.e. http://treyhunner.com/images/list-comprehension-condition.gi...).

I think animating the transformation from a normal loop to a list comprehension is a great way to show how the syntax translates between the two forms. Very awesome and comprehensive post.
My point is that those features are transient. A #1 song today probably can't be #1 in ten years. If Beethoven were born today, he would not be topping pop charts, even if you have plenty of data showing that his style of music is good. Resume writing either comes down to presenting the fact that you are clearly the most qualified for the position, or because you caught the fad of resume attention-grabbing design in the right way. The later will only really help you if you're competing against many similarly-qualified yet boring candidates. It's better to have more valuable content on your resume than to apply statistics to its paint job.

>Hah, that would exclude a large portion of the professional software industry !

It probably does, but I don't actually want to work for a large portion of the professional software industry. I want to work for people that value me and share my vision. And in turn, I want companies that make those kinds of hiring decisions to not have access to people like me.
Yeah, that's not going to fly as a suggestion nor will the public listen to that whole "small amount". I can here the pundits now if that happened today.

Sorry, too many movies and TV shows with nuclear as the bad guy. We need to get over it to replace current power generation, but someone is going to have to do one hell of a sales job.
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I don't have a problem with Java per se. I do have a problem with architectural masturbation the Java community often engages in. I mean both the FactoryFactoryFactory kind and the "you can't instantiate anything directly" (IoC/AOP) kind. I have a feeling that one of the reasons e.g. Go is becoming popular is because it doesn't encourage (or in fact even allow) such idiotic programming approaches.
Is this necessarily true? I can see how it would often be true, in general, but don't see how it's necessary. For example, animals in captivity can often live longer. Lifespan and quality of life are decent enough proxies for "working well".
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last time I checked Google Analytics doesn't record anything like that kind of data.
Why haven't more liberal/agile (no, not Agile) companies beaten these companies? That their policies are harmful seems to be considered a fact, so a company without those policies could be much more productive.
The question there, is how low-level. Are we talking bananas, or Chernobyls?
The one that was painfully standardized to avoid this kind of question?

"The Lisp family of languages" vs "Lisp" is an old discussion: see http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.fr/2013/01/common-lisp-is-just... for a summary.
They weren't really professional programmers though, from what I gather? Tarn was a professional mathematician. And the code base was started earlier than 2006.
This would make a great movie or TV show intro sequence.
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