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Yes. For me, a startup is a new business formed to discover a new product or business model. Then once they've found that, they enter a phase of very rapid scaling. I'm ok with calling those startups as well, as they're still very learning-focused. But once they have a reasonably stable product and revenue stream, I think it's a mistake to call them startups any more. Their values and behaviors become much more like typical companies.
> Would you care to explain how you think he managed to overlook those films in the first place?

Because he's human?

I'm baffled by the number of people who seem to think any individual, even a talented director, is somehow able to bring to mind all films that meet a particular criteria, with such absolute precision that a film's exclusion from the initial list is a definitive statement that he considers it unworthy.
As a js library maintainer and contributor, I do find these arguments flawed:

> There is a culture in the JavaScript community that “types don’t matter”

I don't think that's the case, particularly among seasoned developers: we do care about types and interfaces, but we just don't think writing them down in code is as big a deal as Typescript claims it to be.

> We are already linting because we believe it makes better code.

Linting doesn't require you to write non-javascript, it just works (after configurations). It doesn't force you to write code in any particular ways (see ESLint for example). That's why we find it more acceptable.

> Types are stronger. Types matter.

TS isn't automatically stronger, since TS is a superset of JS, developers can still omit the types. So you either write in proper TS-style and get its benefits, or don't.

And referring to earlier points:

> The types are there. Instead of leaving them implicit, you can just make them explicit.

IMO: there are many ways to setup this contract. And I question the % of type-related issues within a library when you have 100% test coverage and proper linting already.

> Often in JS libraries, the types are vaguely defined as an afterthought when writing docs.

TS can't force you to write strong types, just as JS can't force you to write good doc. You need a stronger will, not a better nag.

My case for writing your next popular library in vanilla JS: your users will already know how to contribute. And you get to choose how to enforce good variable types.

For TS vs JS details, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12694530/what-is-typescri...

Disclaimer: my libraries are nowhere as popular as angularjs or immutablejs, but I do intend to maintain them to a degree that may serve thousands of developers.

(Plus the author uses one of my library so I guess they are not that bad)
Agree - I worked in a call center for several years and it paid the bills, and improved 'soft skills' while letting me develop more technical knowledge on the side. Since I wasn't standing on my feet all day making sandwiches or waiting tables, I could come home after solving problems for angry people all day (thankfully I worked for a place that gave their support people the ability to actually resolve the problems), I would still have the energy and mindspace to be able to work on side projects and learn on my own time.

As much as companies try to automate things, I really hope that localized support makes a comeback.
> "This is a curious point, however: it almost suggests that the proportion of innovators in a given population is (was) fixed, and they would innovate where the promise of rewards is highest."

True but I'll add that often for individuals to quit their jobs and focus on innovating requires more than just "the promise of rewards". Immediate funding often trumps the promise - and that funding comes from some kind of investor. Many investors view patents as: 1) a way to recoup at least some their investment dollars if the innovator can't monetize, 2) prevent competitors from simply copying the results of the R&D.
PEI of Anne of Green Gables fame? Man, now I wish I had visited it earlier ... it's been a life dream of mine to go see it!
> This is not a company where micro-aggressions will fly. This is a company where the first bedrock rule is that nobody gets interrupted, and the second is that everyone gets their say.

If you take the whole quote from the article, it doesn't seem like it would stifle honest conversation at all, if anything micro-aggressions would reduce open communication by making people believe their input is valid or wont be heard.
Coupon circular not worth billions?

Maybe they can hold another round of funding where investors pay $30 for "$100" in stock.
First AlphaGo and now this. Our world has truly come to an end!
These are political favors to local interest groups. It actively hurts the ability to find housing for everyone not blessed by the powers that be.

Dense housing is affordable housing. When there's an empty apartment that you're moving into, where do you think the old resident moved to? There's only a few options - a new place got built that they moved into, the old resident died, the old resident moved out of the housing area, or the recursive option that cashes out into one of the previous ones. If you stop building units ("affordable housing" mandates) or arbitrarily keep low-income residents from making housing bids (rent-control), the only bids for housing are going to be from tech workers and market-rate housing gets ridiculous.

Fundamentally, the problem is that there's X people who want to live in the area, and only Y housing units. The price is going to go up until the market clears. Handing out political favors so that the people who vote for you don't feel this reality isn't solving the problem: only building more housing will.
>> One thing that I think will be challenging is that language has observer depending meaning.

The idea with word embeddings is that they provide a context for words, which informs their meaning.

It goes back to Zellig Harris and the observation that "constituents of the same type can be replaced by each other" [1], or in other words: words that occur in the same context have the same meaning.

[1] Zellig Harris. 1951. Methods in Structural Linguistics.
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The issue isn't a technical one as much as a legal one. If the FBI can get the government to interpret the All Writs Act the way they want (any private entities must do what the govt says to aid a criminal investigation unless explicitly forbidden by law) to force Apple to write a custom version of iOS for them this time, the fear is that they can use the same law to install backdoors in ongoing versions. Legally there would be precedence for Apple to have to allow investigators to access other phones as well by means of making Apple write code to do so, which in the future could mean tracking location, turning on microphones and cameras, etc.
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I do understand what you are saying and it is precisely because of Director Comey's public statements on the matter that I called him an expert statesman in the article, which he is. The legal precedent set in this case when Apple is forced to comply will invariably change how companies implement cryptography within their systems.
I'm seeing a lot of folks here talking about how to-the-minute billing would save them so much money on Amazon, but I think you're not thinking about the problem correctly.

If you want to build for scalability, then it's best to separate the jobs from the machines. Having one job per machine isn't granular enough. It's best to have a farm of machines that can take jobs and process them, and then scale the farm if the jobs aren't processed fast enough. (Incidentally this is what Lambda does for you)

If you do that, then once you have enough jobs to fill a single machine, to-the-minute billing doesn't really save you much money, if any, and you're then on a path to much better future scalability.
Sorry about this. It means Squarespace has black listed your IP for some reason. Unfortunately I can't do anything about it. If you can try from another address it will probably work.
Awesome, I'll take a look!
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If you have savings in this company as a shareholder, you're going to lose your savings. The only people who will make money at this point are the VCs, who by law can't have their "savings" invested in the company. If you're not a VC holding shares at the company you're going to be wiped out via dilution or multipliers in the event of an exit, and god forbid they raise MORE money, because the terms on that deal are going to be pretty rough.

Even if the company manages to turn itself around, older existing shares will probably be wiped out just due to dilution in retaining its executives and share-backed loans, or, again, if it has to raise more money, terms on new money.
Wow, they'll be down to ~200 employees. They were at around ~5,000 in 2011/2012, I think.
Yes, and the point is that the stereotype is stupid and demeaning to a lot of people.
>Most commenters seem to be assuming that he took his original criteria seriously ... Meanwhile, those offended seem to be assuming the worst - some sort of bias.

Firstly, I'm not offended by the original list, and I don't think many people were. Most people arguing here are offended by the reaction to the additions.

But more importantly, I don't think someone has to be biased to simply not think of particular films when compiling his list, nor do I think one has to be "not taking it seriously" in order to do so.
even more complex testing and launching to take advantage of zero'd out memory

I'm very curious to know what code would break with using zero'd out memory vs uninitialized buffers. Seems like there are few use cases where uninitialized buffers are actually desirable.
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LoL - this is great.

This should be what pops up when we press the "Boss-Mode" hot-key on a slow day.
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Pretty interesting but I imagine that any other civilization of complex organisms that have intelligence relatable to humans would devise a system similar to mathematics based on the same principles, doesn't have to look like our math but at the end of the day it uses the same concepts and proofs that ours does.

I suppose the concept of something being "real" is just a way to help understand positive and negative numbers.
Monty Python explains the foundation of frontend web development better than anyone.

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."
I don't disagree, the first two seasons were very much "number of the week" episodes. Season 3 ramps up the plotline quite a bit, wrapping up the big HR story arc early in the season and introducing the new bad guy, Samaritan. Who is an opposing super-AI, btw. The rest of S3 is the team fighting to keep Samaritan from going online, and S4 has the team trying to keep under the radar as the two AIs start battling.

It's definitely grown into a more story-arc driven show, and the Numbers have become more often than not relevant to the ongoing plot.
The slippery slope fear is a bigger than which particular phone models will be made technically insecure by what the FBI is asking here and now in this case. The larger fear is the precedent that will be set by allowing such a ruling to stand--the strict legal precedent for cases much like this one, but also the momentum it will give to large agencies in the cultural fronts of the war against encryption.
Ever seen a busy pub or coffee shop where serving is being slowed down while they wait for the 1 or or two card readers.

If your not grown up enough to mange your fiances so you can keep £50 -100 in change to mange incidental day to day expenses dont be surprised if people treat you with condecension.
>Zuckerberg also rents the houses back to the original owners.

Sounds like a twisted reverse mortgage scheme where you get to pay rent on your old property as well.

Is this what is called financial innovation?
The Wikipedia article on garden path sentences has a good description of that phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
That is, I fear, the sad state of mobile operating systems. On the desktop you can choose from a bunch of GNU/Linux distributions that are generally considered quite secure and are under a lot of scrutiny — when Ubuntu introduced a search feature that sent search strings from their dash directly to Amazon to helpfully present purchasable media, this was strongly condemned and ultimately disabled by default.

But on smartphones your choices are limited. There are a couple of alternatives, but losing access to either Google's or Apple's app-store appears to be an insurmountable obstacle for most smartphone owners. I am assuming (not judging though!) this is the case here too.

On a technical level though, all IP traffic passes through iptables, even on Android. You are right that manually blocking all that stuff is impractical. Doing the filtering outside of the phone won't solve that dilemma though.
Well if it's that or give up, a lot of people choose not to give up.
>> LSTMs ... were only discovered in 1997 by Sepp Hochreiter.

Aye. Hochreiter and the One Who Shall Not be Named. Let's not forget him again, eh?
Light grey sans-serif body text means you hate your readers. Making it small means you really hate them.
So anyone been keeps it a running list of the tech layoffs? We have IBM, optimizely, zenefits, and who else?
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And you can put that in your corporate policy without attaching the hot SJW buzzword of the moment to it.
> But animation students have been producing similar quality visuals for their show-reels for ages. All that has changed is the ability to render faster, but the creation of this content is still being done by the same processes.

Have you seen modern texturing pipelines? It's most certainly not the same process as 10 years ago. Have a look at this procedural wood flooring generator, built in Substance Designer's node-based texture workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc5Pdcbjr0U

Same for animation. Doing it by hand won't get you the quality of results that you need for photorealism, so we're bringing in new processes that require a bunch of equipment, a bunch of time, and probably multiple crew members. Used to be you'd make a walk cycle by hand, now it's mocap. With the same old processes, there's no way Star Wars: Battlefront would have been able to make its content in the volume it needed, even with a large art budget.

Now that we know how to create these assets on at least a somewhat feasible budget (compared to armies of artists manually doing 8K textures in Photoshop), the next step will be taking this high-end work intensive stuff and bringing it down to the point where we can crank out similar quality results with lower time investment. It'll take a couple more years, but there's definitely a demand for it.

Releasing today: Substance Painter 2 https://youtu.be/1pIoA34MVBA?t=26 (warning - annoying soundtrack)
That's quite neat.
Wow :-) I am working from corp office. But thanks!
Seems like it's matching Visual Studio :) - https://woboq.com/blog/qdockwidget-changes-in-56.html

Awesome job Qt folks!
Is that really consulting? I think of consulting as, well, consultative. Normally I call implementation "contract work", in that what you're mainly hiring is skilled labor, not advice.
Nope, I'm also with UBS.

Admittedly, I have never actually attempted to withdraw more than about 1000 CHF from an ATM. I just assumed the limit is the same as the debit card tx limit, which I have definitely hit.
I see, an early adopter!
Closed silo challenges to an open web
We use Google DFP to manage the actual serving of our ads, simply because it is very, very good at it.
Don't know the details of LivingSocial, but in general liquidation preferences can complicate it. Instead of 1x or 2x return for all investors it is often 5x for the last investor and 0x for the rest. So it not all investors have a reason vote "yes" at a given total.
Yep, agree with you that pure "strategy" is rapidly disappearing. I was at PwC -- their whole mantra was "strategy through execution." Which is why they bought all these strategy shops (Booz/Diamond/etc), because clients were saying they were sick of Bain/McKinsey/BCG leaving them with strategic plans they couldn't execute on. Deloitte is pursuing much of the same, evidenced by the Monitor acquisition. And now EVEN the Big 3 MBB strategy shops are getting into the execution side of the game to compete.
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I would love to see a computer-generated simpsons episode.
I bet you could do a basic version using DeepDream applied to the audio and video of a different video / tv show. I imagine the voices and images would morph to sound more simpson-like.
And the hex encoding fails if they require a symbol. No single passphrase generation tool works for all sites... but that's more a problem with the sites' requirements for passwords.
Heluva theory. Now - which media exactly is pro-Trump?
This is a complete plagiarism of another popular Postgres book - https://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/details/eboo.... The title an author appear to be auto-generated as there's 28 other similar books that are a complete plagiarism of the original.
Incendiary language like "you obviously have no idea what you're talking about" is bad for the quality of your comment, and this entire discussion.

Not everyone is capable of looking past personal attacks like yours. It is the first step to a flame war.

You have something to say? Great. Just say it, no need to talk about how little the other person knows.

Aside from "two wrongs don't make a right," do you really feel that this is comparable?

I love the idea of type script but transpiling it down into a language that isn't as type strict just seems silly to me.

And..

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

If you honestly, in your heart of hearts, feel that both statements are ballpark same level of cordiality, then ok.
"He'd just build them" is a huge stretch. Remember who we're dealing with here - guys like Trump are not technology experts and do not really have any conception of what's possible, until the tech guys actually build it and say, hey, check this out. We can hack every phone in the USA and turn its microphone on remotely.
> "Anything that benefits all of humanity is very difficult to recover the value of as a patent because engaging in licensing transactions"

"Anything that benefits all of humanity" should be recognized as inherently valuable to fund and therefore would be useful to look at reducing the costs of "engaging in licensing transactions". In other words, society may benefit by making it easier (or less costly) for the researcher or innovator to be rewarded - thereby increasing the incentive to create something to benefit humanity.
It's important for founders and employees to appreciate how often that happens – a VC might have a dozen bets going but everyone else is committing their future to just one. A great deal of casual conversation treats investment as unambiguously good rather than a real risk to be balanced.
http://www.emojitracker.com/
I've always wondered if there's something inherently collegiate to the culture of tech, at least in SV startup culture. The veneration of youth, the alpha geek posturing, religious wars over languages/platforms/methodologies, work benefits being things like onsite bars and foosball tables, and the gender issues. I'm not saying that the media hysteria is accurate, but it seems like for whatever reason, software seems to have more of an arrested development culture than say, electrical engineering. Or other scientific and technological industries.

Could it be because software has a lower bar of entry, and with many young programmers starting work during college, right out of college, or dropping out entirely to start their own companies, there's less social development and growth than in other fields? In any case, having dorms be the solution to the housing crisis seems to fit with that college culture.
It still does, for a few more weeks.

http://emojitracker.com/

Basically live tracks tweets that use emoji, so emoji are ranked by frequency.
It wasn't written very clearly, I had to reread that paragraph a few times before understanding what you just explained.
Emojitracker gives live, realtime usage numbers for all emoji used on twitter.

http://emojitracker.com/
Of course, it doesn't say that anyone is being ignored. It sounds instead like a type of Rooney Rule [1], where all applicants are considered, and under-represented candidates are explicitly included.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
This approach requires that your badwords.txt is not just extensive, but supports all languages.

Isn't it easier to just generate words without vowels? This is the more common solution to that problem, IIRC.
This made me remember what happened to Maxis.

The company was founded with VC money right off the bat (Will Wright, although a central figure, wasn't the "real" founder, the investors that found him and convinced him to start the company, not the other way around).

When they release SimCity 2000, they were right on track as VC expect... the problem is that game cycle is long, they expected to release SimCity 3000 or TheSims in at least 2 years, meaning 1 year without a big release, VCs weren't happy with this, they wanted exponential growth every year, not a "staircase" growth, so the VCs kept bugging them and the result was a premature exit (where they were sold to EA for a amount of money that I think undervalued them).

Now they are mostly dead :/ (after the massive failure that was SimCity 5, almost everyone was fired, including EA CEO).
Good stuff. All we need now is to marry it with a password manager so that it generates random passwords based on this one passphrase and then autofills the web forms for you.
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A good post. Especially this point:

"Get a lawyer that understands startups. It's important to find someone with experience. Not only can a good lawyer explain what's going on with terms of your agreement, he/she can tell you if those terms are standard."

I would also add parties need their own lawyer. Founders, investors, and the company are all different entities with different interests. If you have multiple founders, it is wise for each to have separate counsel. I've seen too many instances where there is a law firm for the company/one founder, and a law firm for investors, but the other founders just kind of "go along" because they think their interests are aligned with founder #1, when that may or may not be the case.
I miss f*dcompany.com so much. There really should be a 2.0 these days.
I don't think your Groupon experience is representative.
Fair point -- I was referring to management consulting, and acknowledge there are a thousand different types of consulting out there. That said, still maintain that most consultants in a given industry (outside of the top 5% of superstars) are basically pedaling the same wares! (i.e. same knowledge/same best practices).
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