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It depends on who has a larger profit margin, the shipping companies or the pirates. If a random 5% of freighters are armed heavily enough to destroy or capture a pirate vessel, the pirates have to be making enough profit for a total loss in 1 of 20 raids to be worth it.
I'm getting the full NHL HITS feed now, so it's just a matter of time!
i don't know that I'd start or even look at grep ;)
I don't think you are going to get many takers. In a business, the source code is worth much less than say customers, brand name, etc.

A hobby/project becomes a startup when you have paying customers.

Do you have any?
While the situation is sad,
would you say this increases or lowers productivity? (your own / of your company)
Indeed, a great finale for a great man. My favorite line from that is still: "I never thought I'd be alive when the three most powerful men in the world were named Bush, Dick, and Colon."

Vonnegut always had an immaculate sense of humor!
> >Only if said plan sets aside some of the money that you pay now for your future care

> No, that's just false. It will pay for your future treatment as long as the insurance company is legally obliged to foot the bill.

You're assuming that the insurance will have money then. I'm pointing out what it takes to make that assumption true.

The relevant term is "counter-party risk", aka the "blood from a turnip" problem.

> the whole point of the insurance business is that a company is not guaranteed to make a profit on each individual customer.

While that's true, it's also true that the total payout plus expenses must be less than the total premiums plus any investment income. Savings and borrowing allows some time-shifting and smoothing but if payouts are too high relative to revenue, the company goes down, regardless of its obligations.

You believe that today's young will receive care when they're old that costs more than they'll pay then. Where is the extra money coming from? It can't be the extra money that they're being asked to pay now because that money is being spent now on today's old people. So, it can only be from tomorrow's young people.

You don't believe that future generations will pay your SS benefits. Why do you believe that they'll pay for your healthcare?
I have it. Try academic work.
The themes definitely don't look the same in gvim as they do on the page. Hope that changes soon, cause this is awesome.
I have added a like

alias rm='rm -i'

to my .bashrc. Sure its a pain when i have to delete whole directories but saves my ass.
There's a thing called Delayed Sleep Phase Sndrome. It's a circadian rhythm disorder that affects maybe 1/2 of 1% of people (but seems to be more prevalent among engineers and software people, possibly because DSPS sufferers choose vocations that allow for flexible schedules). Essentially, DSPS people have a natural sleep-wake cycle that's shifted a few hours from the norm. My natural cycle is to sleep at about 2:30am and wake at 11:30. I can force myself into a "normal" schedule, but I can't change my natural circadian rhythm, so I suffer from various effects of sleep disruption that are similar to jetlag. For some reason, a high proportion of teenagers, particularly boys, experience temporary DSPS during their adolescence. It can be as many as 20%. I suspect that the natural creeping of the circadian rhythm that happens during adolescence (as mentioned in this article) kicks into overdrive for some kids, and gives them DSPS-like symptoms during that time. Most of these kids grow out of it and re-establish a normal rhythm into adulthood. People like me, however, keep their DSPS throughout their lives. (And it's hereditary. I got it from my mother)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
I upvoted just because I'd like to know myself and to hear your guys' thoughts =). We're always open to discussion with our potential customers.
We did have clients but, to be honest, we lost them. We're not selling their data, it will be available for them to backup but deleted forever after that.
There, corrected.
Three problems with this:

First, Harris has a degree in philosophy, so he has had your "Ethics class";

Second, you sound exactly like those religious nutjobs that attacked Dawkins for "The God Delusion" because he didn't know theology.

Third, "Statistically that child has a 90% chance of turning into someone who does great harm to human beings." is almost certainly a bogus claim reasoning from that we know most psychos started by tormenting animals to the unjustified claim that most who torment animals go on to harm humans. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name on the fallacy right now.
William Zumeta, a professor of public policy at the University of Washington, produced a pretty good paper addressing the "so be it" argument (ie., the argument that if Americans wish to abandon science and engineering in response to market signals, what's the problem?).

http://evans.washington.edu/files/zumeta-attracting-the-best...

A particularly relevant passage:

"...to the extent policies do respond to perceived shortages, they tend to be shortsighted and exacerbate longer run problems. This is true of recent policies that simply expand the number of visas granted to foreign scientists to fill empty job slits in industry, and of government R&D support policies that pay little heed to impacts on graduate students. Expanding imports of young scientists to fill empty slots at bargain wages dampens the market signal that more opportunities and higher salaries would provide to domestic talent..."

Zumeta also gives some numbers on what top S/E undergraduates are doing instead of graduate engineering programs (interestingly, it isn't law, it's generally MBA or health professions. Of course, there's a potential complication here - Zumeta is only tracking S/E grads with quant GREs above 750, so he isn't considering the undergraduates who decided earlier on that engineering isn't for them (I suspect the US starts to lose most of its engineers in 8th grade).

I'm glad you agree that accusing people like Zumeta of being "xenophobes" is a little unfair (I think it's more than a little unfair, really, it's a pretty horrendous way to use personal attacks to suppress what should be a fair, honest, and open discussion). But a lot of very high profile writers (Moira at Business Week, for instance), continue to do this.
Seconding the advice to read the python source code. It's very clear.
"You should be willing to make this startup the main focus of your life"
I can't help but notice that one of the links on the YC jobs page (viewable above at news.yc/jobs) says that prospective engineers should "be willing to make this startup the main focus of your life". Is this reasonable?

I know HN has been through several equity for non-founders discussions this quarter; there's certainly room for continued debate on whether or not early hires deserve a lot of equity.

That leads me to my concern with the requirement in this post's title: Is it reasonable to expect anyone to build their life around an employer? Unless the employee is a major shareholder (i.e. cofounder) this seems like it's asking too much. In this case the prospective engineer would be the first non-founder employee. Perhaps they'd be eligible for double-digit equity? If so, that pretty much makes them a cofounder and invalidates most of the above questions.
You can't possibly be even half-serious with that analogy, can you?

My knowledge of History is spotty, but I don't recall slaves and indentured servants being able to pick what plantation they serve, or having the option to pack up shop and move on to greener pastures when they felt like it.
I can personally vouch for this myself in practice.

This is a classic case of quality vs quantity. Depending on my workload, I have sessions of varying time of hyper-activity. If something is highly urgent, then these sessions can endure for as long as I need. The only thing I require is that I'm not that tired.

Luckily, I work in an environment that only requires results. Time is of course tracked, but the ultimate reflection of my value is in my creative thinking and the actual work that gets done.
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I have it. It's great. It helps that I'm in EST and my company is primarily in PST so coming in later is one more hour of overlap with that office.

The idea that 9am is holy and if you're not there you're not productive is just flatly contradicted by my personal experience.
Hmmm, I started learning it in 1979 (sic) when my major experience was FORTRAN, BASIC, and an obscure language called PPL who's major features I hadn't taken advantage of (it was for a summer class). I'd toyed with/looked at COBOL, PL/1 and C.

The biggest thing, I think, is that it's based on expressions rather than statements, which is rather a different model than the Algol family (more or less) languages mentioned above. And for me, learning the importance of indentation for code comprehension, but that had already started with my learning C.

And then there's recursion; you can't do idiomatic LISP without it (The Little Lisper or nowadays Schemer is good for that).

Ideally you'll also learn functional programming; optional in Common Lisp, hard to avoid in Scheme, and there's little point in using Clojure without it.

Frankly, I find it delightfully simple. The conceptual base is small, the syntax of parens, atoms, immediates (e.g. numbers) and special forms (e.g. if) makes is a very regular language, no "cancer of the semi-colon.

It's really quite nifty, and of course back then there was pretty much nothing faster with which to develop software. You mostly just have to unlearn some stuff and be willing to put in some effort, which will be well rewarded.
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I use C pretty regularly and I can see why I'd need to keep doing so. If I have a problem that needs a custom data structure and any degree of performance, C is how I can keep from wrestling with metadata bloat and garbage collection.

The problems I tend to solve with C are tightly scoped. They tend to admit to libraries, where I can get a foo_t from foo_open(), and then pass it to the foo_bar() functions. They're inherently encapsulated and reusable.

There are things from C++ that I tend to want when I'm writing C. Most importantly, I want vector, and I want a lookup table that returns results in sorted order. So, I backported those things from STLPort to C and never looked back.

There are also things C++ offers me that I think are bad medicine. Classes with access control (and thus graphs of "friend" relationships): not a win over ADT-style C libraries. Smart pointers: not a win over pool allocators (also: knowing how to write a dirt simple allocator is one of the single biggest performance wins I've seen in my career, and C++ makes that hard). Templates: not a win over clear, simple code and discrete components.

My experience with C++ is that it creates drag. There are more decision points in C++ than in C. Do I write a class or do I abstract into a template? Do I need a special type or is this just a container of primitive types? Do I decompose into a hierarchy or do I write straight-line code? Do I use a functor or do I use abstract classes? C is a get-things-done language. C++ is a talk-about-getting-things-done language. And then code-about-getting-things-done.

It's OK to downvote me.
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Indeed, if the iPhone was sufficiently powerful, it would be faster to do do the transformations locally.

edit: this is not a swipe at the iPhone, but support for the statement that using Opera's severs is not a functional requirement.
It isn't like the money will vanish, presumably it will go to more work to further research in Mathematics.
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The culture sucks, and the reasons for that are deep and sociological, but Wall Street firms are definitely not stupid. As for counterproductive, that's a very long discussion, because financial markets are probably a necessary evil. The short version is: most people suck at capturing the value they add. Wall Streeters are great at snaring this surplus value, so you have a lot of ridiculously overcompensated people at the top.
How are parents supposed to pick their children up during office hours?

Combined with the option of riding a bus, I don't think it makes parent's lives any more difficult. Without a bus, I can see it being a big problem for many families, though.
Right, perhaps I should simply take the habit of using svn status when in svn repositories. Still it would be cool to have it integrated with the regular "ls". Obviously, it's more of a nice-to-have than a must-have.
Manually inserting the `safe=off` parameter still seems to work.
Your argument focuses on whether incremental improvements produced by competition make us happier and, with respect to those, you might be right.

But, in the larger view, competition is what made anyone invent Betamax at all. Or flat panel TVs instead of CRTs or cell phones instead of telegraphs.
No matter how risky it is, I don't know if I would call it a "ploy" to stick to one's principles. I understand the Maoris have a proverb, "Don't hang out with people who don't respect you," which seems to apply here, given the apparent PRC support for the hacking of Google's network.
Thanks for the upvote :)

I'd really like to use Mixpanel, however I fully understand your decision on not allowing historical data. Also, I appreciate how responsive you've been so far.
Leiningen actually isn't that far from being exactly that. It's not a one-liner, but setting up a scratch project that'll give you a repl is very straightforward. Setting up swank is only slightly less simple because you've got to edit a config file. It can be difficult to figure out the right incantation for that because the docs are pretty nonexistent, but google is helpful enough there.
It should also be noted that Apple's approval team doesn't seem especially concerned with consistency. Case in point their inscrutable "explicit/adult" content critera.
Why do they even shut down the computer? Why can't they force it to hibernate, thereby eliminating the need to automatically save documents?
"We’re at a weird time in the history of the growth of the Internet. At this (perhaps anomalous) point, the business leverage resulting from the focused application of human intelligence is so high that all these benefits and all this freedom, considered through a pure cold profit-and-loss lens, are cheap at the price..."

In other words, Google has created an army of superbly intelligent people who are deeply committed to their mission of covering the surfaces of every neocortex in the world's brains with little text advertisements.

If this were a classical legend it would be a tragedy of Olympian proportions.
Most of my co-workers get in at 10am. I often come as late as 2pm.

Did I mention that we are looking to expanding our team in Cambridge, UK? (Send me an email, if you'd like more information. You can also find some positions on http://www.citrix.com/English/aboutCitrix/employment/feature...)
Very interesting.

I find myself stopping just short of the goal-line at times, leaving projects unfinished. Not sure if this is due to a fear of seeing the end result lampooned by users, or whether it is due to self-defeating programming in my brain that is beyond my ability to detect it. Whatever the cause, when I am able to objectify the situation, it appears to me that I am acting quite irrationally.

Anyone else experience this?
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You've made some awesome points, and I don't disagree that C++ has gotten to the place where you're juggling a freaking lot of stuff around. In straight C you start at point A and code until you reach point B. In C++ if you're not careful you create a map of the known world in Portuguese and then start defining what the word "is" means.

I think back on my C++ production code -- heavy-duty COM stuff, device drivers, embedded software -- and I'd still stick with C++. The trick is that I wouldn't pull in every feature from all over the place.

Modern languages -- especially those that have been around for a long time -- have a lot of cruft. Do you need templates on every project? Most likely not. Do you need the STL? Maybe bits of it but not all by any means. Do you need a freaking class graph with 50 nodes to start sorting integers? No, but bad programmers will make one.

One of the reasons I love C++ is that it makes you understand how to differentiate the bullshit from the solution. This is the flip-side of the exact point you made about having so many options. Got a problem with allocation? Roll an allocator. C++ is the nuclear bomb of power tools, and there are a million ways to cut your arm off.

But for small utilities where you don't touch the metal or interact with some larger, more complex system? C++ isn't the tool.

I completely agree that C++ has some really bad/ouch-don't-do-that things in there. I just think that overall the pluses outweigh the minuses for a certain small set of problems. (and coders)
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Even with a bus, not every parent can leave for work at 8:00-ish (even 9) and assume/hope their kids will get up, ready and off to school on time.
Yes, it's listed as the default download at mozilla.com .
> like banning negotiation with the pirates and penalising anyone who pays a ransom.

I wouldn't want to be in a captured ship when this law goes into effect.

I wonder though if some of these shipping companies can hire private security firms to protect them? I would guess that commercial vessels cannot have military on them in order to have access to other countries' ports, but the private security can just disembark before going to national waters.

So here is a business proposal then. Lease a large enough vessel. Hire a bunch of guys with guns. Latest and greatest millitary equipment. Add some deterence devices ( high powered water jets, stink bombs, directed microwave radiation, regular firearms). Then escort and embark on commercial vessels when they are in international waters. Charge by the hour and world region. Provide security. Before the commercial vessel sails into its destination port, disembark and wait in international waters to escort the next vessel out to another destination. Would that work?
Good for him. Having money would disrupt his life and set back his work. I'm waiting to see what he comes up with next.
Hmm. My mouse was on its way to the downvote button when I noticed who made this comment (that I paused is also interesting).

Apple has placed very few restrictions on the iPhone, almost exclusively so that they can control the majority of the user experience. To that end, they have said that applications which can run other applications are not allowed. Reflecting on other industries, this doesn't bother me. Do we expect Barnes and Noble to allow people to run a competing store in their store? Maybe a newspaper giving free ad space to someone who re-sells it at a profit? To me it's strange when people expect Apple to conduct their platform in a wholly different manner than a traditional business.

To put the icing on this cake, it would be a non-issue if Opera-for-iPhone simply augmented the built in browser components instead of shipping something which unnecessarily violates the terms of the store. We could easily see a Firefox, Chrome, or Opera on the iPhone if they used WebKit for their JS and DOM parsing and rendering. Maybe that is too much to expect from a browser company, but I certainly don't expect companies to pout and stomp their feet when Apple doesn't give them what they want.
It’s pretty counterproductive to have 30 or 40 percent of the graduates of the top colleges in the country going to work on Wall Street, as was the case in the mid-2000s, “snaring surplus” rather than producing something of their own.
ClojureBox provides what you ask for, but it's windows-only. To get up and running in Ubuntu you'd have to do the following:

sudo apt-get purge openjdk*

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk git-core

wget http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein

lein self-install

git clone git://github.com/relevance/labrepl.git

cd labrepl

lein deps

script/repl

elinks http://localhost:8080

Edit: To get emacs you'd want to use ELPA to install swank-clojure. The apt commands were lifted from Lau Jensen's video tutorial: http://www.vimeo.com/8398020
Yeah, code is a liability because it rots pretty fast and requires frequent maintenance. True value is in understanding the customers problem. If your unit tests accurately capture the customers needs then it has value.
School start time is changing to 30 minutes later than the current time at a school that my fiance teaches at next year. The decision has come with some mixed opinions, but there is certainly some evidence to support this theory. Although, a lot of the kids are pretty pissed, because it means they have to stay at school for 30 mins later into their valuable afternoons.

My opinion though is that once people get use to the new hours (perhaps after 6 months, 1 year, or longer) that it will become the new "normal" and lose its benefits. But my opinion is garbage, because I wake up and go to sleep at terribly insane hours :)
heh. janqui logic. i guess you have never lived in a poor country.
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Neat feature, I didn't know Chrome could do that.

One of the more amusing auto-translated russian comments:

say, lives on a pension mom.
In place of my mother I would beat his frying pan. But not on the head.

http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2010/03/23_a_3341933.shtml?comm...

I'm going to guess at 'what if his mother lives on a pension? If I were his mother I'd beat him with a frying pan, but not on the head'.
The iPad has no cell connectivity, so the main selling point of opera mini, reduced cell bandwidth usage, is useless on the iPad.
Saying Hi and Bye is a great idea to get you started, because it will do two things for you:

1) They might respond well to you, which can boost your confidence.

2) They look at you like you're a weirdo - this might seem bad, but it's really a good thing because you will teach yourself that sometimes, there's nothing wrong with you, and it's the other person that has an attitude problem!

Good luck, and please report back to let us all know how you get on :)
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nobody is going to buy the code from a failed business. why not open-source it?
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Because the consultant charged $2M for that advice.
In most corporates you leave the machine on because everytime you boot it spends 10mins connecting to various corporate fileshares, 10mins syncing profiles, 10mins downloading updates etc.
And you can't set it to hibernate/sleep because you don't have admin rights.

If you are feeling really green you turn off the monitor.

If companies really cared about the environment they would question why they needed 100,000s of people to drive to a downtown office block to sit in front of computers doing the electronic equivalent of pushing forms around the company.
It's strange that people allow their lives to be disrupted by money. It seems like if you won a million, you can continue living the life you have now plus $1 million in CDs or something.

To me, the negative effect that windfall amounts of money have on a lot of people is the barest example of how people often function better under constraints. Living freely is hard.
You see C++ as a nuclear weapon. I see it as that automatic hammer Homer Simpson made after he visited the Edison museum.
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Smart companies do this where they can.

Even though I'm a night person though, I still find myself much more productive in the morning.

Working until 7 is a drag.
"...then this equally stupid blog" should be flagged