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Building the best product is how most startups win, not by marketing

Funny, after building many things, I'm starting to think the only thing that matters is marketing. It certainly isn't the tech or product quality.
>Getting admitted isn't as valuable a signal as getting a degree.

It depends. In the limited world of software startup hiring, a compsci student that got admitted to MIT/Stanford but drops out after his freshman year conveys a more valuable signal than graduating from the University of Alabama (a much lower ranked school) after 4 years of study.

If it's an older institution doing the hiring such as IBM or Goldman Sachs, they'll want that official piece of paper showing you graduated regardless of the school's low ranking.
Maybe the guy just wanted to use his personal laptop rather than set up a new one, and it wasn't a decision from OP to save money.
Lack of synthetic events is a huge one for me.
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As others have indicated, it's a proxy server rather than a general purpose webserver. There's no code relation between the two servers; it's simply that the team at Yahoo chose to pursue it as an Apache Foundation project when they open sourced it.

ATS scales orders of magnitude better than Apache, due to its process model. Whereas at Yahoo we would budget between 30-200 simultaneous connections per Apache server (prefork), the proxy service which I ran using ATS was budgeted for over 100,000 concurrent connections per machine.

It's significantly less featureful than Apache, but it does caching substantially better than any other cache server commonly available (nginx, apache, squid, varnish).
Yes, there is a serious gap of logic in the linked article. In fact, it appears that if the O-Rings were better checked and improved, as the letter indicated they must be, the Challenger would not have exploded as it did.
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You've addressed none of the points that I made. You claimed that school is the only way to learn how to think critically and should be used to take away the suffrage of millions of people. In response to me calling you out on this very dangerous and ignorant opinion, you've chosen to derail by linking to reddit, talk about "life lessons" you learned as a teenager, and brag about the college you went to. Nice.
I suppose another person would solve this issue? Or is it an even worse condition than I think it is?
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A company hiring someone out of this new kind of university would look at projects the student worked on as well as their subject modules. But large projects can get fuzzy as to what the specific contributions might be, and the subject modules then give you an idea of that candidates background skill spread. So if the company were looking for someone in robotics for more of the software side, then it would be apparent from the studied modules that they might be a good fit.

But more than that, it would give universities a model to continue creating a range of advanced or specialized subject modules. This would allow students or employees to come back and pickup new subject modules in a more integrated way to how the whole university operates.
Well 100 is average so you're pretty much riding the top of the bell curve with this comment.

But then, there are house plants that decided not to invade Iraq and Afghanistan...
Young would-be developers who grew up on touchscreens, and find the notion of pushing around a pointer — instead of directly manipulating things — to be archaic and silly.
My experience definitely does not match yours, poor people are just like everyone else and I actually find the communities in areas like that to be MUCH stronger if you take the time to get to know people.
Gates (and Page, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerburg, Kalanick, etc.) don't say they're more brilliant than everyone else, they act like it. Rather than say they're going to take over the world, they actually do it.

It's a little fascinating to me that culturally, we look down upon people who talk about dominating their opponents, but look up to people who say nothing but actually do dominate their opponents. But then, I suppose it fits with "actions speak louder than words".
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The city should budget an amount for each year in payouts. Start with the average amounts over the past 5-10 years plus 10%. When all of the complaints for that year have been settled, anything left goes out to the department as bonuses.

We've got sticks that don't seem to be working. Let's throw some carrots in as well.

Good performance -> good bonuses.
Also property/attribute normalization.

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React: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/3b96650e39ddda5ba4924...
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if the speedups pan out, that is the plan! the work on performance has not been started yet however.
Something that concerns me, unless I missed it, is that there is no mention of the liberal arts. What is described here is closer to my view of what a university should be. (I'm in year 14 as a professor.) I think it would be a huge mistake, though, to not have a liberal arts core.
>It should be assumed that everyone gets to eat and have shelter.

Would this include intimacy?

Consider that babies who aren't physically touched suffer extremely high mortality rates even though all other needs are provided (to the extent that even studying the effect is banned as unethical). This alone shows that physical touch should be considered a need.

And then there is the topic of needing human emotional intimacy, where loneliness is shown to be very unhealthy.
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I agree with you; I think there are some amazing strong communities all across the poorer areas of Chicago. But there are also people who will fuck with you there. The communities don't support them; in fact, on the west side (where I live), they put up signs on every block saying they want to chase those people away.

Ask people who bike from the loop to Oak Park if they've ever been fucked with in Lawndale. I have a friend who was ambushed and knocked off his bike right by Garfield Park.

I have never been mugged in Lakeview. I have been mugged in Austin.

Dangerous neighborhoods aren't a classist myth. In fact, I've come to the conclusion that part of "respecting" the poorer neighborhoods is not pretending like you can walk in front of a crowd of young men hanging out on a corner as if you have just as much a right to be there as they do.
Even with afs3-rxkad-k5 the wire encryption is a watered down variant of DES called fcrypt and the use of encryption is the choice of the client. There is nothing that an administrator can do to prevent AFS3 clients communicating with AFS3 servers from leaking sensitive information onto the wire. The AuriStor File System solves these problems with the yfs-rxgk security class, volume and file server security policies, combined identities, perfect forward secrecy, and much more ....

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... "no grades, no teachers, no students, no books, no learning!"
reboot # And pray it'll boot.

Let's do this in production.
My friend's book is indeed a series with different formats and updated editions. The challenge is getting Amazon to care.
I too learn more deeply outside of the confines of a structured class. However, I find the structure of an OCW course nearly ideal for many subjects.

For me it seems to be at least partially a function of my ability in an area. The stronger I am in a subject, the less structure I need.

I suspect the optimal amount of structure varies from person to person and within a person from subject to subject. People learn differently.
A000027 almost certainly has a lower Kolmogorov complexity. Nothing wrong with the other sequence, per se... the maxim "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras" appiles.
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Who has time to go through 18TB of data? The guy probably hasn't even viewed the data. Maybe it includes information from PC hard drives and he doesn't want to just release it without review.
On higher Ed:

There is far more to a degree than the classes and the piece of paper with a GPA. It is also an environment where young people grow as themselves for the first time in their lives in many ways. There is also more that can be done to ensure strong job placement, like my alma mater, RIT, in requiring a full year of paid co-ops before they grant a degree.

On hiring:

There are infinite metrics that assign value to a candidate regardless of the school they attended; culture fit, for instance.

However, hiring is an expensive and labor-intensive process, and every moment an engineer is looking over resumes or conducting interviews is time that could be spent fixing bugs or creating valuable features. Pedigree, for better or worse, simplifies the decision. When you have a stack of resumes to deal with, half from small colleges you've never heard of, and the other half from, say, Cornell, whom do you prioritize?
Probably commenting too late but I find it a lot simpler to just compile from source. After you're initially setup (you need a go1.4 installation in your homedir), you just pull the latest repo updates, checkout the release tag and run all.bash or all.bat each time. This also gives you cross-compilation and ability to contribute bug fixes.
A couple of suggestions of ideas that have worked well for me.

- Find a purpose in life. This does not have to be some big, grand thing but just something that you are passionate about. For example, I like to create products and businesses.

- Help others because that gives greatest joy. I have deeply thought about what makes me very happy and I realized I feel really good when I have helped someone even in a small way.
shouldn't there be a sed line to uncomment some locales before actually locale-gen them ?

ps: I was completely blind to that vim statement just above. Ha, humans.

pps: also learned about mount --move and pivot_root from util_linux.
Looks like Fedora 24 is going to get an astronomy spin. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Astronomy_Spin It'll be based on the KDE spin, so it's general purpose but then has astro specific stuff included.
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Teaching licensure by itself already requires at least a year of post bacc courses, IIRC.
It's crazy how the world is held hostage economically if they aren't paying enough for oil.

"Squeeze consumers or the world gets it!"

Still, I'd like to see taxes go up on gas in the USA with a specifically funded program based on the excess. Something like holding gas at $2/gallon - if it goes up, then the extra tax ends.
Theres clearly alot of data, I doubt whoever is in possession has gone through it all.
Not really at small scale, but if you're building a large service there are several advantages.

For one thing, not having to copy response data between processes improves throughput. Since Varnish is so resistant to supporting SSL natively, you'll always have to place something in front of it to use it with the modern web. Whether it's haproxy, Apache or nginx, that's just one more thing to deal with.

I have some other beefs with Varnish, but the most annoying one is the absence of a persistent disk cache. If the Varnish process dies, there goes your disk cache. Even though cache data is written out to disk, Varnish punted on saving an index and re-using an old process's cache, so it writes the cache to an unlinked file.

Imagine a bad code push or new traffic pattern that causes core dumps across your entire service footprint -- and now it isn't just a problem of getting the process back up and stable, you have also lost hundreds of terabytes of cache data. Or something as simple as rolling out a new version. You can architect around the problem, but why should you even have to?

ATS also (recently) supports Lua for plugins, which is way more powerful than VCL. It is a finicky piece of software though, and there are a lot more sharp edges that you're likely to cut yourself on during the initial honeymoon period versus Varnish.
I agree. Collective bargaining for public workers is overall absurd, IMHO. It injects a layer (the union) between the voters/citizens and the public employees. We don't get to elect/control the union or see their dealings? BS!
For someone who can't see nuance, this is a remarkably perceptive comment.
The question is whether that ~15 lines of code, written once, is worth the substantial increase in the surface area of the language, especially when overlapping so much with the existing prototypal inheritance mechanism. The choice to use Java/C++-style inheritance is a design pattern that doesn't necessarily reflect the only (or even the best) way to accomplish things.
This is why one should always lock his computer if he's going to be away from it. (Someone may sneak and print something from it while you're not looking).
I'm sure game developers are really looking to capture the "low setting adequacy" market.
Companionship? Loneliness is quite unhealthy. And if that doesn't count as a need, then what if the food is about as unhealthy as loneliness?

Touch? As shown with old studies on babies who died without physical contact, humans have a need for physical contact.
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Personally I love this idea. If I could send my high junior there I would in a heartbeat.
But I learn by doing. Pattern for me is do, learn, do learn, repeat until complete. Never cared for the learn learn learn, forget 90%, now do.
I would love to, but unfortunately I have signed a contract with Manning so I can't just release it for free. Once the book goes out of print it will likely become free though.
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>They are the most ... actively dangerous group of commuters I've witnessed.

Do people commuting on bike in Chicago kill more people than commuting in cars?
Marcus Aurelius wrote fondly of having avoided public schooling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_ref-35
It has to be the Double-Slit Experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

I still remember how my mind was blown when I first saw it.
The creator? I may be daft but that is someone saying he/she has been using Nim for one year?
30th in murder rate though: http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/top-lists/highest-murder-ra...
Ehh I think there is definitely a value in allowing a large group of employees to collectively negotiate as one entity with their employer (if only to ensure parity of resources & skills at the negotiating table) but the results should definitely be public (for public service employees).
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So labor should just take whatever management and politicians feel like giving them like obedient little servants? How has that worked out in the past? Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers?
Do you have any proof that the person releasing this is seeking extortion money? Cthulusec hasn't previously made a habit of selling wolf tickets.

Is this just baseless speculation on your part? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
the police officers have been fired?
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In case the main story goes down, here are several mirrors:

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https://archive.is/https://fop.thecthulhu.com/
Perhaps they consulted with HR/Legal and were told firing you would be a bad idea.
Something like holding gas at $2/gallon - if it goes up, then the extra tax ends.

It's an interesting idea, but I think it would cause havoc with gov't budgets. Could you imagine if oil prices went up and suddenly that $0.50/gal tax disappeared overnight?

It seems like gov'ts in oil producing countries have a hard enough time budgeting based on the oil royalties they receive. I know Alberta, Canada has gotten hammered again and again when they assumed royalty revenue would stay high and it dropped like a rock.
> corporations require you to pass their own exam before they hire you

If you're talking about software interviews, know that you need to have pedigree even to get an interview. See Twitter or Palantir recruiting.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is all very pertinent information to be looking for in collective bargaining agreements, even if they are a few years old.
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> I've come to the conclusion that part of "respecting" the poorer neighborhoods is not pretending like you can walk in front of a crowd of young men hanging out on a corner as if you have just as much a right to be there as they do.

Well this is part of what I mean by treating people respectfully. As an outsider I always respected that the locals "owned" the neighborhood. You have to be cognizant of the local culture and try not to clash with it.

Any neighborhood can be "dangerous". I'm pretty sure you're more likely to get in a car wreck in the suburbs than mugged in the inner city. Just as you have to practice safe driving in the suburbs, you have to be careful of different things in the inner city.
There is a pretty tight formal argument that, whether one is for or against unions, public unions are clearly bad. Here is the latest thing I have read on this: http://www.amazon.com/Government-against-Itself-Public-Conse...

EDIT: Comment below is hysterical and political. This book is a good read. Chuck Reed, former mayor of San Jose, says this about it: "Daniel DiSalvo has laid bare the harsh political realities facing mayors across the country who want to improve the quality of life in their cities. In the annual battles over cutting services, raising taxes or controlling costs to balance the budget, public employee unions usually have the upper hand. In many jurisdictions, costs are skyrocketing, taxes are up and services are deteriorating, yet fiscal reform seems impossible. This book explains how and why the narrow interests of unions in improving pay and benefits frequently overwhelm the broader interests of the people in improving services."
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"Osama Bin Laden is dangerous" is pretty far from actionable intelligence, though. I think it's an example of hindsight bias to think that if President Bush had been more prudent in dealing with Bin Laden then the 9/11 attacks would have been prevented.
Exactly. The memo was a way to put a stake in the ground that can be impossible at a meeting that someone else is conducting.

At a meeting, if the organizer chooses to move on to another topic after you present an issue, you have no choice but to go along. Here's a Shuttle Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center:

http://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/12/06p...

It's hard to stop a train like that.

Currently, the (large) meeting room at NASA JSC where flight decisions are made has many big red hand pieces at which anyone who has an issue can break in.
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> And the way to counteract this is by speaking up and showing them that the victims are real people

How's that been working out for hard drug users, file sharers, and non-molesting pedophiles?

> hiding is not going to be an option

This is such an utterly defeatist conclusion. There will always be some types of information that are impossible to keep private and some that will be easy to, but there's a huge middleground that requires organization and resources (eg traffic cameras, credit bureaus) to collect, aggregate, and exploit. The entities currently doing are centralized, so they could easily be put out of business. Individual actions and peers will only leak certain things through eg mass photos, and to presuppose omniscience on the part of a would-be decentralized reconstructor is to ignore how that capability would be bootstrapped - the economic advantage from private surveillance that currently goes unregulated.

Obviously the existing power structures have a lot more to gain by developing surveillance than prohibiting it. But a decently secured computer containing one's private files is a shining beacon of a Schelling point as well. I really don't see the point of capitulating early and backfitting it into a philosophy of openness. I guarantee our rulers won't be quick to do so either.
> it sure would have been easier to have done it in my 20's

Not necessarily. It might have required less determination to go along with what others around you were doing, but a lot of people who try learning subjects like calculus as adults report that it seems easier. They have better focus, and most important, they understand why they are doing it.

In short: it's never too late! Study on!
Or a completely content employee who just happened to make a poor security choice at home.
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Exactly, we started on Windows out of ease-of-start/momentum. There are absolutely no plans to make this a Windows-exclusive. Basically we want to show this work pans out before working before putting in the work to make it cross-platform (we have an open issue to move to CMake to help solve the cross-platform problem: https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion/issues/76).
Speaking as a person who knows nothing, where do you get astronomical data to work with?

There has to be something more than just setting up your own telescope out there, which I couldn't do where I am.