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Nothing I hate more than the "I'm an idea guy" meme. I spend a few weeks trying to meet with potential co-founders who were looking for a tech co-founders. They all gave me this "I'm the idea guy" shit. And the idea was just "Let's do X for Y".

They didn't put any thoughts into how to monetize, what is the short term goal, which customers they would target first, how to gain traction, how to validate the idea, what was the advantage over the competition, etc etc

And when I started pointing out all these things to think about they got either panicked or angry, "why are you not excited?" "Why are you trying to destroy the idea?"

For me, it's actually really hard to do the opposite and find a true non-technical co-founder. Someone who would actually produce something, bring something to the table other than their "idea" of "Uber for puppies" or "An awesome merge of Facebook and AirBnB".
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Stop thinking like QoS has a singular meaning. ALTQ provides the aforementioned '90s-era inferior QoS techniques, and it isn't even available on FreeBSD without recompiling the kernel. The dummynet module is a little more modern, and in February patches appeared implementing the CoDel and FQ-CoDel AQMs that Linux has had for four years.
I was given the reason explicitly that I failed because I didn't use debugger to fix the bug.
Part of my studies took place in Japan; being there certainly helps but it's not the same thing (and besides that, how do you get to Japan? It's almost impossible to get a long-term visa unless you are either a student or have a degree)
Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN. They're corrosive of the higher-quality discussion we're hoping for here, especially because they generate replies that end up taking the thread in a less interesting direction.
This is an indirect answer, but in addition to finding those opportunities (and I know I've seen a couple of companies recently trumpeting these sorts of more "objective" processes), you might consider:

1) How to present the experience on your resume differently

2) How to make the resume superfluous, thanks to open source contributions--particularly reflected by your GitHub profile--and/or a portfolio of personal projects (which could also lead to other opportunities outside of traditional, full-time employment)
...with an automatic win for the team that runs "Spider 2 Y Banana" first.
Because the request went through! /s
Oh, actually I tried typing #f, but the suggestions did not come up in a timely manner so I missed it.

Re. GFW, it's a nightmare of all Chinese information workers including programmers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall)
The problem with Trollius was that packages that asyncio packages needed explicitly to add support for it to work (because Python 2 does not have yield from) Several packages (I remember aiohttp was one of them) did not want to do that.
Slave labor doesn't help much for high-tech projects. Slaves are mostly useful for manual labor that doesn't require literacy or complex skills.

Remember, before we invented tractors, if you wanted to move a thousand tons of rock a mile, it had to be done largely by hand. That is a use case for slave labor. Before we invented harvesters, cotton had to be picked by hand. That is a use case for slave labor. Domestic servants are a use case. But the invention of powered machinery made most slave jobs obsolete.
Replay at 16x speed if you're busy: https://youtu.be/89AIsPTCJLs?t=10m35s
If you're not using interface builder as a developer, you're wasting a huge amount of time. Doing advanced screens (mostly) through code makes sense, but often it's a lot faster to use IB for putting together / building the more basic parts of an app.
Isn't there a danger that if not enough people actively manage their money, the market won't 'correctly' set prices?

If you own all of the stock in the US, and no-one actively trades in any single stock, how do you know how much one sort of stock is worth against another piece of stock?

I think this eventually drives trading of individual stocks, as the market looks to set prices/trade things this that it thinks are over/under valued.

So I think that it's true that on average an active investor will make less money than a passive one, it's the active one's doing the work/generating the value, as well as giving money to the passive investors!

(presuming rational actors, laws are obeyed etc etc)
I hope their infosec is up to spec. A place like this sounds like a valuable target.
ok then explain to us how you did fix the bug without a debugger ?
It's somewhat ironic that Buffett is using this analogy, as he made huge profits by being an active investor. You just need to be smarter than the average active investor, which in reality isn't very difficult. The best strategy seems to be to use value investing, which is how Buffett made his fortune. Buy undervalued stocks, then keep hold of them for the long-term (or at least, until they become overvalued, then sell some).
I worked at a company where the founder had started with some local contractors to build an initial version of the product.

He hired a CTO, who took a look at the current code, list of bugs, and new features desired, and made the call to do a complete rewrite.

In retrospect, this was absolutely the right call. It can definitely be wasteful, but sometimes starting with a completely new design is the right thing to do.
Except anti-intellectualism is hard to define. Not too long ago saying anything critical of communism got you put in re-education work camps for life, jailed, tortured, or killed in many countries. Now it just gets you downvotes from true believers. Afterall, communism was run by the intellectual class quoting Marx, and if you disagreed with Marx then you were an uneducated person.

Everyone thinks they're the intellectuals. Even the people prescribing thalidomide to pregnant women. A strong sense of skepticism should be encouraged, not mocked, and appeals to authority should be seen as invalid on their face.
Consider this scenario (which is not out of the realm of possibility):

You stick $10k in the market when shares are $10 each. This means you get 1000 shares. Then the market crashes and now those 1000 shares are worth $5k. Normally this would be fine; you know the market will rebound eventually. Then you lose your job and have no cash on hand.

You're out of the job for a few months, and you slowly sell your shares until you find a new job. Say it takes $4k to keep you afloat for a few months. You now have $1k left in the market, 200 shares. That $4k of spending actually cost you $8k. Though the market rebounds eventually and your remaining 200 shares are worth the $2k they originally were, you're still $8k short and you always will be. That money is gone. It would've taken more than 20 years for inflation to turn $8k in cash into $4k.

In short, cash is a cheap hedge against some bad luck eating up your investments. The inflation that slowly devalues your cash is a much more acceptable risk than the one I describe. Markets can be rough in the short term. It's easy to hedge against them. Do it.
I don't know that we have to litigate whether general learning is worthwhile; I think we only have to deal with the question of whether it's worth tens of thousands of dollars that millions of incoming college students don't really have.

If you could cut a full year off the work needed for a professional degree by losing "which native Americans lived in Virginia", and thus spare millions of students the expense of a full year in college, you would be materially helping not only current college students but also people who are forced to debate whether or not to attend because of the expense.
What would be your point there? Rolex sells non-smart watches in the luxury segment. And the Edition watch band isn't the same thing...
I'm a slacker and I did fine in IB. She will have to work more than the average high school student (that is to say, more than basically zero) but it's completely possible to have other hobbies and activities.
Yeah, it's hard for Python to compete with languages like Go and Erlang that multiplex IO in the runtime.
Is Your B2B Startup Making One of These Deadly Sins?
AdWords determines your ad's AdRank by its Quality Score (expected clickthrough rate, ad relevance, and landing page experience) in addition to your cpc bid.

Perhaps you had a low quality score (below 8), so Google requested a higher CPC to compensate?
Yeah, really not much of a story here: EA has an exclusive license for an incredibly popular American sport. Sports and video games are right in the young-male, demographic wheelhouse
It's not like manufacturers don't want the strong brand recognition of being well supported and giving their owners the latest stuff. That helps them sell future phones as well, by gaining market share.

The problem that Google apologists/Android fanboys forget... is that deploying an Android update is a HUGE cost to manufacturers for customization, testing, and deployment.

Google ships endless new versions without any respect to this, and leaves most of the work, and the cost, on manufacturers, who already had thin margins to begin with. Especially on entry level phones, hardware costs have been a race to the bottom.

These people are afraid to point out that Google has created an OS that's hard to update universally, requires a custom deployment for each and every hardware model, and is shipped without working hardware support for most of the hardware using it or even a modicum of stability even on their own reference platforms.
It seems papers were still published, but government scientists were not allowed to say whatever they wanted to the media outside of what they said in their scientific papers.

I don't presume to speak for the organization I work for or the industry I work in.
Other UI/uX principles
https://medium.com/free-stuff/500-curated-design-to-learn-ui...
The author recommends 99designs to get your site designed... but in looking at it, it looks like a site that lets you run a design contest for your site, with only one designer actually getting paid for their work at the end. While I can see some benefit to the occasional contest, for special sites where just having their work exposed helps the designers... I do not think this sounds ethical as a standard practice for initial startup site designs.
The four most important things to know about data governance – ReadWrite
Kasich dropping out of presidential race
also I wonder why nobody seems to have a problem when a private company collects DNA data of the general public.
Yea as an Idea guy who knows how to code but isn't the best at it, let me apologize for taking things too sensitively.
Those are def. questions every idea guy should have already thought of. And you bringing them up should not be taken as an attack. I think those are really constructive questions that would help a business succeed.

PS if you want to discuss startup ideas let me know
I put a bunch of effort into database change management over the years and work on a tool called AliaSQL that is a simple command line database migrator for SQL Server.

Using this tool has led to a dramatic increase in productivity on our team since we really don't have to worry about database changes anymore. I won't waste space here with the details but these links will fill you in if you have any interest.

https://github.com/ClearMeasure/AliaSQL
http://sharpcoders.org/post/Introducing-AliaSQL
I would do this, however I mostly read this site at work. Also, plugins add additional stress to browser speed which as programmers, you'd think would be avoided at all costs.
It already does rule the world. The greatest writers, actors, musicians, engineers, salespeople, marketers and entrepreneurs nearly all mastered their craft outside of brick an mortar institutions

You have a PHD in drama? Good for you. I'd rather watch a high school drop out like Leonardo DiCaprio.

You have a PHD in computer graphics? That's nice, but once again a dropout beat you to it. He currently leads Oculus Rift.

Marketers? Salespeople? Businesspeople? Authors? Seriously... try to name even one at the very top of the game who became that way through formal schooling. It's not easy.
Yes but if you're going to be developing an app or service are you going to choose the latest version of Android and get 7.5% of the market or are you going to go down to lollipop and get 40% or down to kitkat and get 70%?

It's webdev for IE all over again supporting balls old versions.
IBM allow free access to quantum processor online
A Growth Hacker's Guide to Blue Ocean Marketing Channels
No, the hypothetical assumes that 50% of all assets are passively-investable. 50% low-energy, 50% high-energy. There are a lot of brilliant, resourceful people in that high energy crowd who are establishing the share prices that the low-energy crowd then gets to take advantage of for nothing. High-energy percentage could likely be much, much less than 50% and passive investing would still work.

There is no real danger that so many people are going to turn passive that it won't work; there are plenty of people out there who think they can do better (and always will be, given human nature), despite the evidence that they won't.
If someone has terminal cancer, gets palliative surgery, the surgeon makes a medical error, and the patient dies on the table has he died of medical error or cancer?

For this reason deaths caused isn't the best metric. It would be better to use QALY (quality of life adjusted years).
Updating through the App Store isn't the same thing as mainly depending on Google Play services. Those apps still might entirely depend on core OS APIs.
The article is based on this video segment, from GJS: https://vimeo.com/151465912#t=59m36s
There was an edition back in the day that didn't have the NFL rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_Football_64

I wonder what the story was there.
I worked on Madden for several years. It would be delightful and hilarious if that were true.

There is some very old code in there, or at least was when I was on it. I recall digging up the code that updated your score on a touchdown—not a bit of logic that has much need to change—and saw Steve Chiang's initials on it, from back when he still coded.

One obvious sign is that it's a fake is that there's no way there would be a shitty emulator in Madden. Icer Addis, the creator of Nesticle, worked on Madden for years and wouldn't have tolerated that. If there was an emulator, it would be a good one.
Because they want developers who develop like their current employees.
> But the shackles have come off. Where are all of these dramatic scientific findings that were suppressed?

The very article you're responding to mentions 3 specific examples of politically sensitive research that were affected by the policy, including the article's featured example about salmon.

> The single example constantly floated is about a guy who got called by a reporter about a paper he released about slime mold.

Of the 4 examples mentioned in the original article (3 specific examples, 1 shark scientist mentioned in passing), none of them are this "constantly floated" example, it isn't even mentioned in passing. Nor is it mentioned in either of the articles that my sibling comment linked to.

This is a bizarre response.
I see. I think maybe the difference is enthusiasm? If someone is going into it thinking "It would be really helpful for my work or business to learn Japanese" versus "Japanese is cool. I would really like to immerse myself in this language and learn how to talk to Japanese people" would merit different results. The business-focused person would be more inclined to trod those traditional routes of instructorship and classes, etc, but being a student of languages myself, as well as knowing 3 of them (sorry if this sounds like I am trying to argue by authority), I can say the latter is the only way you really ever learn a language.

My good friend has a PhD in Chinese, (yes that is actually a thing), and he attests to the fact that he didn't grok the language until his travels and studies there, being immersed.

Now typing this I realize we may be debating across each other, because even if you believe you can learn on your own better, or having structured courses is better, the real answer is none of it sticks unless you fully immerse yourself in it, self-taught or not.
Don't do it. His terms are insane. His value is unproven. It's too risky to do this with someone you don't know at all.

If the alternative is to shut down, offer him equity in exchange for closing deals, or just offer to sell him the UP of the company and move on.
I've only done a couple of hello world+ type apps on android natively and a more involved POC app with Ionic before handing it over to the actual mobile devs, so pardon my ignorance here.

From what I'm seeing, from the developer perspective these releases don't introduce too much fragmentation. Tooling-wise things are reasonably seamless too (with android studio). Am I missing something?
Canadian VC funding for startups hits record as US investors tighten wallets
I still swear by SICP and TAOCP for anyone who wants to learn CS seriously.
Everyone is talking about storage, but why not route power to need? Put 4000 square miles of solar in the Mexican desert and sell the power to to the northern US and Canada all winter. Run power over Siberia and Alaska to get across time zones.
I can tell from first hand experience interacting with most of the top 100 e-commerce european players show that statistical knowledge is sparse at best.

Many players only pilot their activity through basic indicators such as CPM, "our sales are up".

Many marketing teams still operate their business with "gut feelings" rather cold, hard facts & statistics that "us" tech types tend to use...
I read the code just like reading an English article and then I saw the bug and fixed it right on spot. Then ran successfully. No print statements were added. Existing codes were not changed at all.

To give an example, one of the bug is for (int i = 0; i <= len; i++)

It is obvious so I just change <= to <.
This is absolutely a valid use for credit cards if you're careful and disciplined, but it can only stretch you for a maximum of one month before you've got to start making payments. What about when you're out of a job for six months? You've gotta have an emergency fund.
climate change is a fact, not a theory. just like earth is round as irregularly shaped ellipsoid, not flat. if you want to have an irrational theory against a fact, at least you should work on your evidences and experiments about your crazy theory to proof it, otherwise you're just lazy and crazy.
As a flip side to this, I wish programmers who want to be founders would stop trying to come up with ideas on their own, and instead start looking for non-technical co-founders who have practical experience with a specific type of customer and a specific problem to solve for those customers. There are so, so many people out there who deeply understand a valuable real-world problem, but lack the skill to bring it to life.

The worst part of going to any sort of pitch events is hearing just how bad so many of the startup ideas are.
While I agree with most comments and I think the "prediction" on this article is rather exaggerated, I do think the whole industry needs adjusting, is ripe for disruption if you wish. Companies will figure there is a better way to spend ad dollars. Coincidentally, take a look at this retargeting error on my local newspaper today, does SendGrind knows it just paid for printing the same ad 3 times? Did it on purpose? There is nothing else to put (space was not sold) so might as well put 3 of the same?

Take a look:
http://postimg.org/image/58dmkvjkx/

(BTW, this is not the first time I see repeated retarget ads)

(Same site on incognito gives the same repeat ads error: http://postimg.org/image/b89qoca8x/)
Enlightenment thinkers like Adam Smith and John Locke were hugely important historically in making the case for liberty. However, they were still products of their time and retain the influences of Christian ethics and Humean skepticism. Adam Smith, for instance, argued that competition was good because it maximised social well-being - which leads directly to the modern viewpoint that free markets are OK but that the government should step in to prevent monopolies and ensure businesses only make a "fair" profit (as defined by the government). This is what I mean by the pragmatic defence of property.

The most influential enlightenment philosopher was Kant, who was ostensibly pro-liberty but whose work paved the way for Hegel and Marx.

I might sound like a fanatic but if you actually read Rand it becomes clear how revolutionary her philosophy actually was. She's a system-builder, something unknown in modern philosophy (since Kant). Modern-day libertarianism is mostly a creation of Rothbard's, a one-time student of Rand's who later put all his energy into discrediting her while plagiarising her philosophy. (Just one example: the initiation of force as the basic social evil is an original concept of Rand's).
Concerning those who complain about the fork - Debian has spawned Ubuntu and many other distros.

RedHat has spawned CentOS and Scientific Linux.

Is anyone arguing that this has destroyed Linux?
Ambient sounds should be tried to create a unique atmosphere in the office
This only works if you've built the software to be a MVP vs. a prototype.

A prototype is something that you build and then throw away, a MVP is the minimum feature set that can be given to customers, developed with the same quality and values as your eventual product that can be expanded upon.

So be clear what your trying to built at the start, and make sure you build the right thing.
Canadian here. Many Americans joke about moving to Canada if Trump wins. I am open to taking your place in America if he does.
There was nothing "on purpose" about our confirmation (that the bug Halvar posted on DailyDave was the same as Kaminsky had shared with me). It was a pure accident. The person who accidentally hit the "publish" button on the story wasn't even involved with it; they were doing something else on the blog.

I do appreciate the distinction you made between "confirmation" and "revelation". Most of the media at the time ran with the latter, incorrect concept. It's more fun that way, than that someone was simply able to guess the bug from the embargo description.

Clearly, it's hard to come up with a better example of how much a shitshow PR-enhanced embargoes are. I lean your way in my feelings about embargoes and about cool-kids cliques.
Billion-Euro Grid Projects Help Bring More Green Power On-Line
>It's not easy to understand or describe why Jobs succeeded as wildly as he did in his 2nd tour at Apple.

because iOS and Aluminum.

1) Inertia. The flick page scrolling single handily changed touch. I would bet against the iPhone ever taking off without it.

2) Locked down app store. The OS itself is never taken down or modified by apps.

3) Power management. Apps weren't allowed to stay running, and even now silently kill in the background with little visual indication.

Milling computers out of Aluminum was a very innovative decision.
Snow is awesome.
I read the code just like reading an English article and then I saw the bug and fixed it right on spot. Then ran successfully. No print statements were added. Existing codes were not changed at all.
To give an example, one of the bug is for (int i = 0; i <= len; i++)
It is obvious so I just change <= to <.
One option is to have multiple cores dedicated to the same workload and then switch between them as they heat up. There are many issues with this approach which make it impractical, but if your really do want speed at any cost then it may be worth it.

PS: It's a Gatling CPU...
Chinese property investors bet on the Northern Powerhouse