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According to Wikipedia, The World was the first commercial ISP in 1989. I do remember using MCIMail at a law firm around 1990-91 though, so they weren't far behind.
Lucky HP has kept all DEC stuff alive, so anyone that wants to delve into Modula-2+, Modula-3 and everything that was built with them just needs to dive into the HP Labs repository.
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Joining these groups is rather trivial. After reading them for about 6-8 months, here's my synopsis.

May be useful for Chron's/IBD based on user responses. No actual success in any clinical trials -- members always cite meaningless murine studies. Recently "study" they are citing is just a collection of user-reported results tabulated in a pretty way. Extraordinarily expensive if you live in the USA -- only sold for 3K+ by AIT. Plenty of parents infecting children for any and all autoimmune diseases. Also infecting children for autism (???). Very few members bother to report failure, they just disappear from the forums altogether.

Most members are practitioners of extreme alternative medicine, i.e. homeopathy, leeching, anti-EMF, other ungodly pseudo-scientific procedures I've only heard about from there. Anti-vaxx, everything.

Quite a few of the success stories that are touted are by individuals treating illnesses that are not recognized by modern medicine or very difficult to define. CFS, fibromyalgia, "total food intolerance", chronic lyme, multiple chemical sensitivities, you get the picture. (some of those are not like the others, my apologies if I offend anyone there)

Overall, a very dangerous community with very, very bad advice. Sure, there might be something to autoimmune disorders and parasites, but these communities are spreading dangerous bullshit at best and preying on very desperate people.
do your attempts in explaining this make any difference at all in terms of making things happen? or are they also failures?
This is in an earlier comment below, but I think it's worth repeating:

"We can’t provide a lot of information about where these women are in their pregnancy. We don’t want to inadvertently disclose information about difficult decisions these women are making about their pregnancies"
The basic thing about the MBA is that it boils down the inner workings of a widget factory to generic parts.

This is all well and good when your inputs are chips or bolts, but when they are humans things break down fast.
yeah, a lot of entrepreneurs learn this stuff through a bunch of failed businesses where they do everything themselves. keyword: failed.
Are these real 8 bit CPUs or are they incredibly powerful modern CPUs emulating 8 bit?
I took nothing from that article. Why does he want trump?
Maybe people wouldn't feel "the need to strike out on their own" if they were better treated by their former employers.

It's the number one reason why people generally attempt to "strike out on their own" - lack of recognition and perspectives as an employed worker.
Thanks for the links, my concern is for having affordable hardware to run the stack on.
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but this is unproven I think. Europe also has much better social security and mental health care, to name just a few confounding factors.

I do agree, to be honest
I'd just like to chime in and say that the word meritocracy was not invented in the 50%.

You can clearly see that here: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=meritocracy&ye...
If two things just happen to be similar, you go through a whole lot of work to make them share code, then you go through a whole lot of work to separate them again when one changes.
Or that membership of the EU predominately benefits the middle- and upper-classes? Either that, or the benefits to the 'common man' in the working-class have not been clearly enumerated by the 'stay' campaign.

Personally I was firmly in the 'stay' camp until a Polish colleague, who works in the UK courtesy of the EU, questioned why I would be so cautious.

His argument was that this opportunity will probably only ever arise once since those who have the power to grant a referendum are also those who most directly benefit from being in the EU. A 'stay' vote would basically close the door on any future reappraisal, whereas a 'leave' vote would not be fatal at those same people would immediately start planning how to rejoin in the future.

That was the most convincing 'leave' argument that I've heard to date.
You haven't actually commented on the actual content of the Buzzfeed article or the Fortune article, but instead have decided to go the route of putting forth FUD about sockpuppets and media manipulation.
Which really isn't much of an excuse. There are decades of accepted best practices to responsibly disclosing and discussing cases like this in a professional and non-identifying manner that does not compromise their healthcare or their privacy.

We're also not talking about 2 women or even 20, it's over two hundred. Lots of wiggle room there, there are probably smaller groups of people in the USA afflicted by random diseases discussed in depth with much vigor and zeal at medical conferences each month with no such complaints.
From Ben Rich's biography, about Harvard Business School: 2/3 HBS == BS.
> What's wrong with centralized decision making and planning out everything for years? The rest I can agree with, but 1) in any company, you need centralized decision making or you won't get anything done; the point of a company is not to be a democracy, it's to be a machine that generates profit, and centralized decision making accomplishes that.

No it doesn't. Top-level decision makers are poorly informed about what's possible and what's actually effective. Complete top-down decision making is Dilbert incarnate.

Top-level executives need to make the goals of the company clear to team managers, and that's not just "profit", and they need to set the constraints that any direction in pursuit of those goals must satisfy (such as legal or marketing requirements), and let the engineers find optimal solutions within that space. Engineers excel at finding effective solutions given a set of constraints, executives excel at defining business policies that effectively shape a successful business. Let each employ their appropriate skill set.

> And 2) what can possibly be wrong with planning things out far ahead?

Inflexibility to changing market conditions. Having invested time, money and effort into forming such an intricate long-term plan drives us to stupidly believing sunk cost fallacies, and ignore evidence of ineffectiveness.
It's like a scene out of a Silicon Valley episode.
The problem is when the decision makers are removed from daily events, and they stick dogmatically to the plan and try to change reality to fit said plan.

A non-soviet example may well be McNamara's time as Secretary of Defense.

As one anecdote put it, by the time the report of a shooting of a elderly lady with a bicycle in a Vietnamese village had reached the DoD, it had become a ageless, genderless, combatant, with a grenade...
I can't help but think about the way that Nick Bostrom outlines the AI control problem when I read "differences between implementation and intent." Maybe smart contracts (and automated mediation) is a good place to start cutting our teeth on how to specify machine motivation.
They are awesome!

In the last ten years all my projects and startups failed in the sense of hitting any type of home runs or even a single...but they led me on great, unique journeys that make me a more interesting candidate/coder then those who just code to make a living. After ten years of doing startups and coding/designing for a living I am never out of work and landing jobs and better ones is easy because and again my story is more interesting then the next guy who just codes for a living.

Doing side projects and or startups in the past or even present is a great thing for any coder and or designer for your resume! You will be more then fine and the market is great for us...get a few years under your belt and you will have recruiters banging at your door offering you a better job weekly or daily!
(I'm not a member of The Dao, although I do have some Ether. I switched from engineering to law in the early 90's.)

I'm sure there are some lawyers who got involved--I was tempted to get some experience with the concept early on. I decided not to primarily because the basic concept of crowdsourcing decisions where the ownership interest determines who has most of the voting power and the major holders are likely to be new at it strikes me as, frankly, a silly idea.

But even if all the participants were lawyers or represented by lawyers there are still going to be bugs. Pick up any set of service terms for just about anything and there will be logical flaws. It's just human nature. There is no such thing as a perfect contract.

To me the most interesting thing about this episode is that The Dao included limitations imposing an time lock on withdrawal that gave the community some time to consider what to do and the pros and cons re the whales in the Ethereum community doing a hard fork in the name of justice.
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Many of the Mesa researchers left Xerox PARC to join DEC.

There they created Modula-2+ with input from Niklaus Wirth that had created Modula and Modula-2 after his sabatical year at Xerox PARC.

Modula-2+ eventually became Modula-3, which was used for creating Spin OS, distributed objects network protocols and other interesting goodies.

Meanwhile at Xerox, Mesa evolved into Cedar. Niklaus Wirth on his second visit learned about this new system and created Oberon when he returned to ETHZ.

Oberon then gave birth to Oberon-2, Active Oberon and Component Pascal. The Gadgets framework in version System3 was great for a mid-90's workstation OS.

Nowadays I would say that C# is the spiritual successor of Modula-3, with Singularity, Midori and now .NET Native.

With Go taking the role of spiritual sucessor of Oberon.

Everyone should try to delve into books and papers from Burroughs, Xerox PARC, ETHZ, UK Royal Navy, DEC for an alternative view of doing systems programming the right way.
This comment is exactly what's wrong with the general hackernews community. You couldn't be more off base.
"In my experience, for what it’s worth, consultants monitored the progress of former clients about as diligently as they checked up on ex-spouses (of which there were many). "

Former consultant here. That is 100% true - the metric of success is whether clients buy more work, not how successful your recommendations were (and there can be many reasons to buy consulting services beyond they produced successful strategies)
Dilbert is a comic, not reality.
Fun! So now to find the writeup for the KSP parameters for an intercept. It would be fascinating if it were an alien artifact, designed in such a way that you would have to reach a certain level of technology to actually see it, and then a bit further to go out and visit it. Leave a box on it with pictures for how to call the aliens to have a talk with them.

If nothing else it would be a fun story to write.
It'd be more realistic as well! As space is a vacuum we don't need to apply aerodynamics to the ships and they can be any which design!
Be careful about that as well - I'm pretty sure that in a lot of cases 30 days is the trigger point for a lot of tenant's rights issues such as having to go to court to try to evict someone who stops paying rent.
I closed my startup 1 year ago.

Your career prospects are at least what they were before you started your company, but you will have to answer much different questions than most people.

1. People will be concerned that you don't want to work for anyone else. It is important to remind the people that you meet with that you were willing to take on many, many more bosses than a typical employee. Customers, investors, future employees etc. You can talk about how you helped them etc.

2. If you are a developer, there a lots of options. Business is harder, but there will be life after your startup. (I can code a tiny amount but I am not a real developer. I am really knowledgeable about finance and financial modeling. It took me about 30 days to find something in finance... more on this below)

3. When I decided to shutdown my company, I emailed basically everyone I had talked to about the company and told them first that I decided to shut it down and thanked them for their previous help. I did it because it was the right thing to do, but it actually helped a lot in my search because people all offered intros when I asked later on.

4. Asking for intros is the way to go. Find companies that you like and find a 2nd connection there or 1st connection there. If it is a 1st connection, tell them you would like to grab a coffee with them to get information about their experience at the company you are interested in. If you have someone who is a 2nd connection at a company you are interested in, ask the intermediary connection for an intro. Most people will happily help!

5. When you shut down your company, you will probably want $$$ immediately. Try to resist taking the first offer unless you are sure it is a good fit. I made the mistake of taking an offer from a manager I wasn't sure about and it turned in to a full disaster.

6. Email me if you need help with your story or want to understand the introduction process better. (email in profile).

Best of luck, you will either have success in your company or finding another role. In 2 years, this period of extreme stress will be behind you so just keep doing the right things.
In the USA ...

1) Working for a failed startup will mean reference-checking companies will not be able to verify your employment. In some cases, HR will rescind their offer to you.

2) If you were the co-founder of a small, failed startup, putting CxO on your resume will create all sorts of problems at every step of the interview process if you're applying as an engineering IC. So you're better off just saying "Principal Engineer" rather than CTO.

You can avoid a lot of career grief by selling or acquihiring your company, so try at all costs.

Having said that, if you have a strong personal network or you're famous, you might be able to approach a manager and get them to go to bat for you as a known quantity.
Funny how things turn around.

I remember still to see this type of kits on sale during the early 80's.

For many it was the only path for their first home micro.
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> There have been many solutions proposed to smart contract safety, ranging from better development environments to better programming languages to formal verification and symbolic execution . . .

Why is 'human arbitration as a last resort' not on this list?
Yes, I think the author misses the point, which is that Arch is a mentality not a distro. I built my system from scratch and configured it that way, without any scripts to guide my install or anything else, and now I know Linux and its ecosystem better than ever. The only "Arch" things about my Arch anymore are Pacman and a handful of other tiny things which make life on the bleeding edge more convenient. The idea is to stay as close to upstream as possible while being nearly pure GNU/Linux without the duct tape and bailing wire which holds most distros together shoddily. About every day I'm glad I went this way and I thank myself for doing it every time an otherwise aggrivating experience becomes pleasant by virtue of ironically not using the 'convenience' methods usually provided by inflexible GUIs and scripts which attempt to predict every possible configuration. It's hard to develop for the world when you live in Beverly Hills, I think. I wouldn't call it a community either, so much as a hackerspace.
Leave it off your resume.
What Mac are you talking about? The classic Mac screen was wider than it was tall.
Are there any decent languages that compile to readable Java? I think such a language would have a place in conservative Java shops, where management insists "we only use plain old Java around here". You could program in a "cleaner Java" translate it to vanilla Java, then commit, and nobody would know the difference.
A point-of-view from the essay is the author dislikes employees who can't think critically.

The big issue I have with the piece is that poor critical thinking skills isn't an issue with only MBAs. Every field and every degree has a spectrum of people with poor critical thinking skills to good critical thinking skills.

So yes, dumbly putting up a client-facing diagram of a 5 forces analysis might be pretty stupid, but knowing to think about the role government might play in the firm's ability to capture profits is good practice.

Similarly in hardware, blindly following a manufacturer's board layout is dumb too if you don't understand the specific needs of your application and how the schematic and board might change.
I see the biggest market for Kotlin being Android. It manages to provide features that Java will likely never have while still having a fairly small impact on run time, deploy, and APK size. The conversion tool is really great too. It makes it much easier to migrate a project to kotlin, especially when trying to figure out more complex stuff like annotations. I see Kotlin being Android's Swift in the future.
Any direct link to the slides available?
Would pipes in my 1927 house be made of this brand of metal?
IRL, contract law and courts take precedence over schemes like Ethereum and the DAO, just like arrest warrants do, money laundering regs, etc. Whether this is good or bad, it just is.

In real contract law, there are three elements of a contract.

1. a meeting of the minds: the parties must agree on what is being exchanged

2. an actual exchange, in both directions, it's called "consideration"

3. at least one of the parties must behave as if they are relying on the contract, a party must "make a move" and begin to deliver on the contract.

There may be all sorts of guarantees written into contracts to enhance the security of the either of the two sides. So, these mathematical smart contracts are completely OK under contract law; however, the smart contracts and the surrounding activity must still meet the requirements of a contract.

It is not "a meeting of the minds" for one side to drain the other side of their total balances, and it violates "consideration" as well since nothing is being exchanged for the extra money. So there is ample reason to claim that these were not valid contracts and should be rolled back.

Cuz that's how contracts work, it's the only way they work.
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I'm somewhat unclear why management consultants are hired.

1. Is it to help management solve problems they can't themselves solve? 2. Is it to show and teach how to manage? 3. Is it to help improve the management process and organizational structure?
Heh, searched for IPFS and was disappointed they didn't because it didn't come up. But turns out it did, they just misspelled it "IFPS".
What country are you in? How long was the company afloat? Was it ever cashflow-positive? Were you the technical guy or not?

Your career prospects largely depend on answers for those questions - it is different in US (attitude towards failure), different for non-techies, etc. etc. If your company was cashflow positive, then you can show at least temporary success to others (in objective, business terms).
Unlikely. Even if you have galvanized steel pipes, it's a good bet they've been replaced at some point since the house was built.
This article and the book is exactly what's wrong with personal finance education. There is no special wisdom, clever tricks or golden rules in finance. Chicken soup for the soul won't help.

Personal finance should be taught as a math problem. Figure out the cost of the lifestyle you want, and work backwards from there. If your fancy house, car, and dinners out cost $100,000 then you can figure out if your choices make sense... does you career choice match up? does taking on school debt make sense? etc.

Or if you are older and made these life choices already and make $50,000, your math problem is a bit different. Does the honda or tesla fit? You can very easily see if credit card interest of 20% will help or hurt you achieve your goals/lifestyle if you do the math.

None of this generic "avoid debt" or "house are the best investment" (garbage) advice helps and only confuses the matter. I think the only area that has more confusion and bad advice than personal finance is nutrition. In the letter, grandma says "go for a fixed rate mortgage"... what!?
Pardon my ignorance, but what are UVs?
Definitely can't disagree :) . I've had my reservations about the direction of the internet before, but a Facebook walled garden internet just sounds plain scary. Or worthless.
I understand that language is dynamic, and colloquial misuse turns into accepted use, and so nonplussed means unimpressed and disinterested means uninterested, but with this expression I will stand with the pedants and the original meaning.
> Whenever I want a domain, most of the ones I want are taken

How is this possible with so many TLDs? Or do you mean "whenever I want a .com domain"?
I'm not following you here - the Mac had a wide monitor, standard 4:3 CRT, totally unlike the Alto's portrait display. The Mac's mouse had one button, while the Alto's mouse had three buttons. Both had a rectangular shape, but that's the obvious shape to use (see Engelbart's mouse).
I was thinking something like this in implementation would be a "race" parameter, or something that would generate random ships, but with identifiable traits across the fleet. You get a sort of intellectual stimulation there from a cultural aspect (Klingon design is decidedly different from Romulan), but without the minutiae of actual designing ships.
As far as I know "podunk" is an insult, is that what you intended?

My problem with the planning obsession is that planning is really hard in software development. It's different in production. There you can predict the future fairly well.

When I tell some middle managers that I don't know exactly how long a software project will take they insist on endless planning meetings that hold up work even more. In the end it's best to make up an estimate so the team can go back to work. All teams are forced to do so so in the end you just wait for the first team to fall behind schedule and take the blame.

The whole system is pretty much everybody lying to each other and hoping they won't fall first.
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That's fair point.

""So I’ll start there, and imagine that there are semi-trusted ‘oracles’ that compete to be the most reliable and trustworthy verifiers of contracts. People involved in contracts choose N of them, and then require that contract conditions be validated by one or more of them before the contract pays out. Pick more than one so no single oracle can steal the contract’s funds, but less than N in case some of them go out of business or just aren’t around to validate contracts when it is time for the contract to pay out."

http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2014/06/bit-thereum.html

So you can "just" write contract in some language so that:
- it will cover most of cases without human intervention
- if there will be bug with code oracle will read (as human) content of terms to get idea about contract intent (basically dispute)

But it seems that good marketing and some really interesting technology can switch focus from asking basic question - "we are trying to solve existing business problem or just create cool tech?" And yet when i read blogposts about ethereum i see more and more complicated contraptions (ruby goldberg machines in fact) and reason why this whole thing is even build is not clear.
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I'm growing one of these this year! A friend gave me a 2 inch wide tuber and it sent up an 8 foot vine real fast this spring. Attractive foliage. I'm hoping to grow enough tubers to be able to eat some in a few years...