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This is a great and depressing read, and as the CTO of a soon-out-of-cash startup I can only say that we receive this bullshit on a founder <-> investor level day in and out.

I've actively thought about creating something like this where you could anonymously tie those stories to the real names of VCs because some of these guys are totally out of their mind.

As a EU-based startup raising a moderate seed round I could tell you two hours about the incestuous and unprofessional VC scene here. People lie into your face, VCs forward confidential information directly to competitors' management, suddenly 5 emails into a conversation people stop from replying for three weeks, etc.

I can tell you that Greg from Boxgroup, New York, has done by far more leads and intros for our shitty EU-based startup than any of those Mr. fancypants German mega-VCs (or so they see themselves).

We have had several cases where we sent the phone # of a very rich business angel to our VCs after they asked for an intro to him in order to take part in (his, kind of) round. They not once called him.

So depressing, but yet so absurd that you can't keep from laughing manically for what kind of high-paid job people are doing there sometimes.
> In 2007, ﻿Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking initiated a program to allow employees to go home up to three hours early to care for children or elderly relatives. After two years, only 34 of the company’s 7,000 employees had signed up for the program.

After two years, only 34 people were willing to be officially identified as people who go home early.
please elaborate ...
The article claims the hunger for American bands among the Soviet teenagers and describes the exotic method for satiating it. I only pointed that situation was more complicated. There were 'voices of freedom' and anticommunism from one side and propaganda from the other. And yes, thank you for the link. Just this week I suggested Mr Simmons - the black American cyber cop is better to leave the US if he wants to land a better professional future.
Your job descriptions are the very model of clarity.

I wouldn't normally comment, but it makes a great impression.
I'm not implying that the intern lacks merit. She was brilliant. The thing is, this was a company of 5 very busy people working round-the-clock in a startup house while going through YC. We didn't have the bandwidth to offer a proper internship; one where we teach relevant skills at a beginner's pace. I intended for the readers to draw their own conclusions from my note of the founders' gender, orientation and marital status.
Certainly one I favor! But there's still going to be variation with that.

There's the 'soft' cultural variation of expected work hours (duration and placement during the day), remote vs. in-office only, single 20 somethings that work all the time vs. mature family focused that aims to have a healthy work-life balance, star wars vs. star trek, etc.

Some of those soft things can really matter to long term happiness of both the employer and employee.

Then there's the critical 'hard' cultural variations.

Is it a culture of sticking with the tried and true tech stack and focusing on reframing the tech challenges to fit that stack? Or a culture where NewFunStack.js made by Behemoth Tech Company should be used?

Strangely enough I bet both sides of the debate would say they're a culture of focusing on "getting stuff done". I've seen people be highly productive in both approaches, so I'm inclined to say its more a cultural fit question than anything else.
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That might be part of it, but it also speaks to an extremely common mentality among founders that they can (and should) get a business off the ground with only a tiny fraction of the capital that's actually needed to do so. They're unwilling to bootstrap, but they also want to build a business that needs $25m of runway with $5m, and take the rest out of their employees' pockets. There are four parties to blame for this:

1. VCs, who refuse to adequately capitalize their portfolio companies.

2. The cultural environment that encourages this approach.

3. The founders, for their lack of business sense and willingness neither to bootstrap nor demand adequate startup capital.

4. The employees, for going along with it.
Well the police still would have found the loot in their possession so I'm going to say pretty successful.
Oh my god, this is like watching The Office, except without the punchlines. Tim Draper might as well be David Brent and Michael Scott rolled into one person. I'm only ten minutes in, but what I love about it so far is the narcissism: none of it is about like, business, it's about what owning a business says about them.
How about the meeting where the non-problems and false concerns are beaten like a dead horse by people without the knowledge or skill to be in the discussion. But you have to just sit there with your face in your palm because if you say anything to try and correct the misdirection, you will be considered not a "team player".
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For me, as the free market has obviously failed in keeping consumers protected from abuse, this screams for advertising regulation by state agencies and laws with harsh penalties.
It's honestly baffling to me how much #2 resonates with a company I'm working for.

I just don't get it. There typically aren't that many co-founders in a company. How hard is it to keep one another on the same page. Sometimes it's about vacation times. Sometimes it's about resourcing. Sometimes it's about projects being worked on.
I glanced over the site, and was really taken by the simplicity of the approach! I've used Aki in the past, but resorted to scraping the sites I was learning from to create flash cards. This looks like it really takes the pain out of putting material in.

As a memory researcher, I'd love to see a good example of how you (or someone else) implemented readlang to learn a language. The site seems good at conveying how readlang can get flashcards cooking, but it would be interesting to hear how it was used as part of someone's language learning process (the big picture). I saw on the about page that you used it to learn Spanish, and there are a bunch of posts on the site, so it may be there and I missed it.

I'll definitely look more into it later this evening, but a few questions/thoughts I had were..

1. is there a good way to programmatically pull out flash card information (as say a JSON object)? Is the export to Anki as a csv/tsv?

2. How fleshed out is support for Chinese? What should I expect from it being in beta?

3. I was intrigued by the video player functionality, clicked the "Find something to watch now" on the features page. Clicked blindly. Arrived on a page of text in Spanish. Backed up. Realized that it was a mix of text articles and video articles. Scrolled down to a video article. Was very impressed with the player, but thought with a little less patience I may have missed it. This seems like an incredible feature (similar to fluentU's approach), and one that the link should take people to with as little friction as possible!

Sorry if any of this should have been clear from a more thorough read. I didn't have a lot of time to look, and was really impressed, so thought I would fire off my impressions before giving it a more thorough look :).
Second that, also from personal experience.

Well, I sometimes worked longer, but never longer than 3 years at one place. In addition, I don’t remember being fired, my employers were generally happy with my performance, instead I got bored and quit myself.

For me, freelancing is working OK.
Today I’m working on some Windows Store SDK, yesterday I’ve worked on an industrial-grade WinCE embedded software, tomorrow I gonna work on a cross-platform OSX+Windows 3D authoring software, and in my spare time, when I’m bored, I learn CUDA.
I agree with your sentiments, if any college is taking any form of payment from Federal loans, I would say they are profiting. I think the focus on explicit "For profit" colleges is a fake out, as if no other actors are capable of questionable behavior. My parents ~$2k per semester at a 4 year uni in the early-mid 80's makes this all look like a scam… but I dropped out from a ivy and maintain a comparatively little in debt than avg so that's my position… I see it as cutting my losses, and four years since, I think I came out ahead… many ways to pursue knowledge and I rather leave out servicing interest on debt from my life. I'm ok with others having different opinions on this, after all it's their life to live.
While this article cites browsers as an example of 90:9:1 curiously I use 3 of them, generally simultaneously:

Chrome - For work

Safari - For personal stuff

Firefox - For occasional stuff that falls on the other two browsers (sadly more common than one would like)

In the case of browsers there is a huge amount of context related to things like work and private online accounts, e.g., at Google. Using different browsers is a simple way to keep your personalities separate.
Yeah that one always cracks me up. Every startup says "everyone here is really smart."

Everyone says that. So everyone is really smart. So it doesn't matter.
I actually agree, but you have to pay people. That means you need to have enough cash -- either in startup capital or revenue -- to pay a fair market wage for the work you're getting. If you do, then absolutely that's how you should compensate your work force; it's better for everyone. But too many founders take $400k in seed money to start a business that's going to need 12 months and 4 people's time to reach revenue and another 18 months to break even. How are those founders supposed to make that work? The right answer is not to accept the $400k because he really needs more like $2m, but that's not what people are doing, so the extra money has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is the employees' pockets.
Why do you believe this? I have some familiarity with natural language processing and think that generating passable computer poetry is a fairly rudimentary task. Tell your model about meter, tell it about rhyme, learn word associations. Pick a language, give it every line of poetry you can find and hit go. What makes you think you could distinguish computational verse from something written by human hands?

Try these examples. Which ones were written by people?

a)

A home transformed by the lightning
the balanced alcoves smother
this insatiable earth of a planet, Earth.

b)

For it matters not, how much we own;
the cars ... the house ... the cash.
What matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.

c)

It is really hard to
break bad news without crying
or falling apart.
you'd be bitter too if your idea of success consisted, in full, of convincing startups to pay you a rate you pulled out of thin air yet which somehow adequately captures the whole nuance of your existence and career ambitions.

Especially if, like OP, you considered a cash offer for half this amount you've pulled out of thin air to be a damned, laughable insult, a ridiculous slight, completely amateurish, a clownshow run by idiots. (Although multiple of them have suggested this as an appropriate rate.)

I wish everyone in life were as easy to please as OP. (Just pay him the number he wrote down on a piece of paper, approximately twice what he commands in that market.) Of course, you're never going to build something big with him, I would never try.

I have no idea why he's applying to startups.
I love sshuttle - I'd love to see a dead mans switch work with it and/or integration with desktop indicators.

Also, they say these things are "poor mans" but does this mean that it is inefficient than a real VPN? If so, would it be very inefficient?
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"hired as" was intentionally chosen wording.

IME, the easiest path is within a company, not in a new hire situation. You take someone with demonstrated technical skill/credibility, a track record of success, and a desire to lead and you give them progressively more management tasks, culminating in a formal role change to manager. They already know the company, the team, the codebase, the business, etc. and it's much easier for them to step back into a pure technical role if it doesn't work out or if they hate it.

I've had extremely "good luck with that".

It's much riskier to take a fresh new hire with no management experience into a tech manager role at a new-to-them company.
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> That indeed seems very much like something that can be called the "right way".

No. It's just another useful tool in the toolbox. It comes with costs. Sometimes you don't want to pay them. Stop trying to monopolize "the right way."
OP here - thanks for bringing your perspective. I agree that non-technical people can make excellent business people.

What I was saying is that, in my experience, non-technical people who have studied at a business school tend to make the same mistakes when approaching their first startup.

This puts them at a disadvantage compared to others who haven't had the 'fortune' of attending a business school.

I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule.
Three of mine:

Recruiting company: Someone needs a php developer for work in X industry.

I work on the industry, take the test they give me, get a perfect score, never hear a word, no interview.

Big company : I travel across the mountains to an interview, 15 minutes before arriving I get a call, "we can't meet you today, we will come back with another time".

Startup: we need someone with strong cognitive skills and php and javascript experience (8 y ago, before everyone had 10 y javascript experience). In interview: you are one of two qualified, the otherone is from <other country, more than two hours away, by plane>, -goes on to advertise the position again, then after realizing there are no other goes on to offer me below market rates. I go on to learn Java in a better paid job with better well - everything.
Dragonflybsd's HAMMER is a non layer "violator" with checksums (not that I mind the violations, they're great)
Funny thing is, this happened at a YC company.
If you add `--dns` to the command line it will proxy DNS queries as well.
roots in a missunderstanding a lot of people have from my pov

imo company culture isnt how a company acts

it is how people within treat each other
When years ago I started learning Ruby and wanted to use it for the web, my intention was using it like you do with PHP (simply including it in HTML) but I got a bit frustrated because all the resources I kept finding showed the only way of using Ruby in a web context was by using a big framework like Rails or, by choosing a wrong path and playing with stuff which required a lot more in depth knowledge that I did not have (and that I didn't want to be forced to have because I just wanted to focus on app code and experiment).

I only recently discovered https://github.com/migrs/rack-server-pages which allows to simply shove Ruby in HTML the same way as PHP and as a new Ruby dev could expect to be able to do. I think this approach makes learning projects simpler, and at the same has the added value of making people actually learn a lot about those aspects of HTTP that frameworks keep well hidden under their carpet and that can help you become a good web developer instead of "simply" a framework user.

Yes for sure, best practices that frameworks implement are there for a reason, and it's great to have them, but IMHO, this approach has advantages when learning and could also be seen as an essential step to understand what those frameworks you will use next are abstracting and why.

IMHO, what still contributes to new generations of devs approaching PHP, is also its immediateness and simplicity with nothing to do except '<?php' code '?>' and with this comment I just wanted to give a bit more exposure to the fact that a similar solution exists for Ruby too, and that it's a bit of a pity that because of the importance of Rails it got a bit overshadowed.
It's not a question of "how much effort" but more "what kind" of effort. In my situation, I'm getting a firm impression one of the cofounder is "checking out"[1] so the kind of effort needed to notify his fellow cofounder is probably not something he can summon at the time.

I find it particularly distressing because, in my view, your cofounder is like your lifelong partner. Imagine going to another country without telling your husband or wife for a week. Maybe it'll be fine if you apologize afterwards... but what would you tell your kids? Metaphorically, the "kids" are everyone who sat in on that meeting and were amazed at the lack of communication between the two.

[1] He doesn't really seem to have a huge role in the company anymore. He does not seem anywhere near as stressed as his cofounder. He kept silent when there was a "we don't have product market fit, oh shit" situation when it was revealed to the company.
On a related note, the first few pages of my statistics cookbook [1] contain visualizations of several distributions with varying parameterization, both P[MD]Fs and CDFs. I found this quite helpful in getting an intuitive understanding of a function's "behavior."

[1] http://statistics.zone
I agree somewhat with this point of yours:

>It's important when these things happen that there's a sense that the whole world is watching, and

but my reason for saying that every 5 years is too low a frequency, i.e. it should be more frequent, like once in 2 or 3 years, was because 1) a lot can be done in 2 or 3 years, and 2) more importantly, I'd think that reviewing progress (or regress) should not be left for as large a gap as 5 years - so as to be able to either hasten progress or slow/stop regress more often, if needed, considering the huge importance of the issue. Cf. recent live example - Chennai (and Tamil Nadu state) floods in India. Huge damage and loss.

I should mention that I am not a climate expert; saying the above as a layman.
Has anyone done the math to show if your odds are better at the typical startup vs the typical craps table?

Equivalents of time and money, and the odds of wasting it all on chance?
Does anyone know what tool is used to create the stockfighter API doc [1]? Looks really nice.

[1] https://starfighter.readme.io/v1.0/docs
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I'm not denying that gram for gram, gravity is much weaker.
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Out of interest, strongly assuming that you've contracted manufacture to a foreign country from the price point (and assuming your profit in there), could you speak at all about how your contract goes with regards to quality control?

What happens if what you get doesn't match what you're expecting, without an approved sample?

Also, any ballpark on the setup? Or is it per-unit?

(Feel free to demure if you don't want to share, just curious. You see fewer physical than virtual products!)
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They can't be discharged in personal bankruptcy either - perhaps the most one-sided, offensive, corporate-written, f*^%#d up law I've ever seen passed.
Dragonflybsd's HAMMER is a non layer "violator" with checksums (not that I mind the violations, they're great).
VR has a clear application in 3D modeling and CAD. I believe VR could make 3D modeling as accessible as word processing. The software doesn't exist yet, but it will come.
Got it. I've heard from much older friends and relatives that in those earlier days people used to think nothing of driving across the whole of the US, for fun. On the same lines as what you say ...
As someone that would like to see C replaced by something better and has always been a fan for Wirth influenced languages, Swift has actually a better position to achieve that than Rust.

The reason being that Apple, like it happened to OS vendors that adopted C and later C++, can allow themselves to push the language into the developers regardless of what they think they should use.

All the systems languages that have survived in the mainstream, have done so by being adopted by an OS vendor.
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That's a confusing way to look at things. Lets make the two scenarios more similar.

Say "earth" is a sphere with radius 1 meter and you're 1 meter away. And that puny magnet defeats its gravitational pull in the same way it defeats earth. How heavy would our sphere have to be in order to have the same pull as earth if it has a radius of 1 meter and our magnet is 1 meter away?

If you remember Newton's law of gravitation the force an object will feel looks like: F=Gm/r^2. G is small, 10^-11 Nm^2/kg^2, m is the mass of earth 10^24 kg, r is normally 10^6 m (the radius of the earth). Plug in these numbers you get 10 m/s^2. The real answer is closer to 9.8, but we're looking for the order of magnitude here. We're still remarkably close for how much rounding we did.

How lets say that we're now 1 meter away. How heavy would the mass have to be to still pull with 10m/s^2, which we know our magnet can defeat. (10^6)^2 ~> 10^12 so we have to be 10^24/10^12 ~> 10^12 kg.

So to defeat a tiny magnet 1 meter away you need 10^12kg. Lets pretend our mass is a cube whose volume is 1m^3. That's 10^12kg/m^3. The center of the sun has a density of 10^5kg/m^3. This is 10^7 times denser! We're lucky that our sphere is far too light by many orders of magnitude to collapse into a black hole (maybe not so lucky because it's going to explode immediately!) but it's even denser than a white dwarf. This is on the order of the mass of Mt. Everest (this is a very rough and unprincipled comparison and when you unpack it can mean many different things, but it's something easy to visualize).

So you can see. Gravity is indeed insanely weak. A magnet can defeat Mt. Everest.
(a) seems inherently robotic via the phrase "insatiable earth of a planet, Earth.".

That said, there are certainly poems that could go both ways. But art is a weird environment: It's not necessarily a piece in and of itself that creates human interest in there. I'm sure there are a lot of `great poems` out there that nobody cares about because they weren't written by some great poet.
There are any number of wonderful things you can do with a supply of cheap electricity :). I believe desalination is largely uneconomic at current electricity prices but used a little in Israel?
First few people often define the work culture heavily.
Would they have been able to legally search their homes without the wireless bugs and the camera-and-lip-reading surveillance?
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One more thing that just made my life easier: Purescript recently got generic deriving [0], which means that one can derive Eq, Ord, JSON etc instances easily now!

[0] https://github.com/purescript/purescript-generics
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Of course, I am actually using most of tech stacks I evaluate.
pmoriarty just cited one. I have the other:

“Mockles! Fent on silpen tree,
Blockards three a-feening,
Mockles, what silps came to thee
In thy pantry dreaming?

“Well, that’s an improvement!” shouted Trurl, not entirely convinced. “The last line particularly, did you notice?”

Excerpt From: Lem, Stanislaw. “The Cyberiad.” Continuum Book, 1965.
I don't understand, transistors are already dirt cheap compared to what you pay for IP and market segmentation.