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To be honest the dot com crash caught me unprepared, and the feeling of having 10+ million dollars in future equity go to less than $100K is not something I'd wish on anyone. But not all of my investment value was "future", I had a bit more than $500k in Sun stock that I could sell at "any time." When I sold it when Oracle bought them it was worth about $12K.

I did not make the mistake of buying a big house on the promise that in the future I'd be able to afford it. A friend of mine bought his house and his neighbor's house to combine into a larger lot, but since the stock was going up he got jumbo loans and was selling stock periodically to make the payments. When things went south he ended up selling the neighbors house at a loss refinancing his own house at a lower rate to stay in it affordably. But I did make the mistake of not paying off my house when I could have using "bubble" stock (like that Sun stock). 2001 to probably 2006 were very wintry years.

I analyzed my behavior during the last dot com bubble and my biggest driver was tax avoidance. How stupid is that? I would say "sure this stock is 'worth' $500K but if I sell it I'm going to have to pay a huge amount of tax on it and that will net out to a smaller number." I was looking at "losing" 25% of the value of the investment by turning it into cash. Ridiculous right? Well now I think it is ridiculous.

Every 3 months I take a long look at my assets and debts and future plans and re-balance as necessary to avoid a single thing from killing me financially.
I hold a similar view. My nation now is heavily incentivized by shallow copy with little for deep copy. I just want to know what would happen next. Perhaps the context change on the global stage would break the balance and force a player to seek risky actions and...
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"Tourist"?
Which is exactly what happened and we fixed it fairly quickly, within the SLA we offer to customers. So I'm happy.

I accept all of the humour on that point with a grin myself, though I must say its a nice problem to have. Thanks to everybody for reading and commenting.

2ndQuadrant is a large enough company that we have CTOs who write blogs and design stuff, we have other people who run blog websites and a variety of infrastructure, but mainly we have many dev and support staff helping customers.
They've actually done very well with "hype" as it were. I guess this goes to show that you too can spend tons of VC dollars, make yourself "popular" and never make any money, but the popularity is enough to make you worth money, even though you're losing money. Fascinating. I almost wonder if they should sell now, just in case they run out of VC "at some point in the near future" and stuff hits the fan...or maybe they'll be "worth" far more in the future, hard to tell...
Updated the service to include the recent feedback from several HN users. By the way, this is a mongodb log file summarizing service. It provides full visibility into several aspects of the query performance, such as most impacting queries and slowest queries.
Lot's of Flash developers got caught with their pants down. If you were good, you moved into iOS (or jumped on the ever morphing javascript train), but lots of them were not T shaped and struggled to transition their skillset.
Yes, and cutting unnecessary expenses is also always a good idea.
Also, what does "convex" mean in this context?
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I don't know who's in the minority, but he's not alone. I hate the ribbon element.

I'm all for context aware UIs, but in today's world of 16:9 monitors, a huge ribbon wasting all that precious vertical real estate is a terrible design choice. A good model to follow is Apple's iWork, where they have a single context aware toolbar with the advanced, detailed options managed in the sidebar. For quick edits, they should use a ‘floatbar’, a UI element that appears above selected text with a minimal set of the most commonly used buttons.

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It's a good idea but ultimately the people who don't care about this will start doing:
git commit -am "" /y
What about not having to patch a security bug every five minutes? I very much doubt the messy codebase has no impact on WP's poor security track record.
Solution: Have a backup plan.

;)
> Really? Not doubting you, but that would mean a whole fairly big pile of money already.

It would entail moving to a lower cost locale (ie. not SF/NYC), but certainly doable. It would also mean tapping everything besides my IRA.

I'm not really worried about layoffs. It's more that I would like to be prepared. Also, even if I can survive financially, I'd rather avoid going without an income for any extended period.

In terms of small/medium companies, it really seems like most of them outside tech don't value IT at all. If they even have developers, they seem to underpay them.

This might just be my bias though. I appreciate the advice and will be sure to include a few smaller non-tech companies in my next job search.
> I am talking about the noise from big websites trying to push their content to HN hoping for a bigger audience.

Does this really happen? If so, it's hard to imagine even 10% of the sites listed actually doing this. It doesn't seem like there would be any overlap between "big websites" and sites where traffic from HN would be noticeable.
But then -- to bayonetz point -- are we really giving any negative advice? Just learn? There are only so many hours in the day. Is there anything we are recommending against?
As a Vancouverite (well, metro at least) who moved here from Toronto 15 years ago, one of the things that has bothered me most about BC and Vancouver specifically is how reliant the economy is on a few distinct sectors.

In BC, it's resources and literally nothing else. In Vancouver, since resources overall are declining, we run the economy via real estate investment. That's moronic.

As you say, we could become a tech hub easily if we leveraged our easy connection to Seattle and the gateway to Asia that we are. We could become a medical tech hub as well. We could be a centre for finance as well if we invested properly, particularly since oil is now on a downslide.

Our local governments simply have no vision. Our residents are too afraid of change to actually do, well anything really, and all our innovators simply move elsewhere.
I wonder how much that guy who bought Facebook ads to be the leading referrer will get...
I like Agent Ransack on Windows; much faster than the regular search. I've never looked into how it works.
I'm not trying to win anything. The author's observations are wildly inaccurate and this matters because he using these observations to illustrate a contrast.
Among my most successful people, about 80%. Counting only those who are actively programming it drops to around 50%.

It's easy to forget that the definition of success is relative. Someone you consider a success might be considered a miserable failure in life by others.
There's a search bar for that in Office 2016.
Gosh if you can show me a system that non-technical people can install, load up with plugins, and start building sites with right away, I'd happily start telling people about that instead.

These days, for the audience Wordpress serves, there is no competition. Not even close.
>Personally, I found the discussion about flossing quite interesting.

You should check out the latest episode of the Surprisingly Awesome podcast.
See https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/functions.html#diverging-func... and https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html#diverging-functions
Stockholm is not entirely free from homelessness issues; there are lots of people - largely Roma, according to relatives and my own judgement - begging on the streets and in the train and metro stations. This is not something I used to see there.
> I'm not sure I'd agree that WP is undeserving of some sneering. It is one of the worst made things I have ever seen.

You mentioned custom auth plugins and custom theme - did you build those yourself, or use third party ones?

One of the biggest issues I have is that the more popular a plugin is, generally the worse it seems to be from a code standpoint (I'm talking about understandability, testability, performance, readability, etc). Yes, it works, but... if I need to extend it... it seems like it was written by and for people who do not understand programming (and yes, I realize that's generally exactly what's going on).

When you try to do a large WP project, you're suddenly dealing with a dozen or more separate plugin authors/companies, all of whom have different styles and competency levels, and some of whom break other code (unintentionally almost always). Trying to 'support' that is a logistical headache, on top of whatever else you're trying to have the system do.
I keep two offsite backups!
All services that serve Quebec have to be available in french. So if you're making an application front end, you have to provide a french version even if your userbase doesn't care. It's just extra overhead.
You miss out on special education support. Have reading troubles? Behind the curve in math ability? Have motor skills issues that make writing difficult? You're told to drop out of French immersion and return to the main English stream. It's a de-facto removal of anyone with any academic problems at all.

And by extension, English schools that overlap with French immersion schools become biased towards kids with learning difficulties which makes them that much less attractive to high-achieving parents. The TDSB elementary system isn't supposed to be streamed but effectively it is.

(I had two kids in TBSB French immersion until grade 4 when we moved away)
I agree with him. I would never hire someone who mixes tenses.

I.e.

"And I guarantee that even if other companies aren’t issuing grammar tests, they pay attention to sloppy mistakes on résumés."
I'm not sure the right conclusion here is "oh, well then that is reasonable."
Wow, really sorry to hear about the struggle. And I hear you on this process undermining confidence.

I think going for a startup is a great idea, and it's awesome you have the family support to do this. Any ideas on what the startup will be yet? Lots of friendly people here who are willing to help in whatever ways they can!
Your choice ;-)

Did you actually use Windows 10 you're complaining about?
This reminds me of a fundamental concept of New Trade Theory. This is a theory that Paul Krugman won a Nobel Prize in Economics for in 2008 (although the theory first gained attention alongside "globalization" in the early 1990s).

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution provides a good explanation:

Consider the simplest model (based on Krugman 1979). In this model there are two countries. In each country, consumers have a preference for variety but there is a tradeoff between variety and cost, consumers want variety but since there are economies of scale – a firm’s unit costs fall as it produces more – more variety means higher prices. Preferences for variety push in the direction of more variety, economies of scale push in the direction of less. So suppose that without trade country 1 produces varieties A,B,C and country two produces varieties X,Y,Z. In every other respect the countries are identical so there are no traditional comparative advantage reasons for trade.

Nevertheless, if trade is possible it is welfare enhancing. With trade the scale of production can increase which reduces costs and prices. Notice, however, that something interesting happens. The number of world varieties will decrease even as the number of varieties available to each consumer increases. That is, with trade production will concentrate in say A,B,X,Y so each consumer has increased choice even as world variety declines.

Increasing variety for individuals even as world variety declines is a fundamental fact of globalization. In the context of culture, Tyler explains this very well in his book, Creative Destruction; when people in Beijing can eat at McDonald’s and people in American can eat at great Chinese restaurants the world looks increasingly similar even as each world resident experiences an increase in variety.

In essence, variety within local flavors/variants decreases, but the best brands are exported globally. When applied to furniture/interior decoration this means that you can find archetypes of the popular styles everywhere but that variations within those archetypes is very limited - every coffee shop, loft, restaurant of the same overarching style feels the same.

The solution for those tired of one style - pick another completely different cultural style!

Read more here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/10/wha...
That's not ssh's fault; you can pipe /dev/random into just about anything and get the same result. Rate-limiting isn't the job of the protocol, in this case - it's the job of the chat server application.
The author mentioned the idea that Ikea is what is spreading the aesthetic:

But the similarities went beyond mass-production [like Ikea]. The ideal Airbnb is both unfamiliar and completely recognizable: a sprinkling of specific cultural symbols of a place mixed with comprehensible devices, furniture, and decoration. "It’s funny how you want these really generic things but also want authenticity, too,"
I believe the blog site does run MySQL. We eat our own dogfood wherever possible, especially on important services... we hadn't regarded the blog site in the same category until now.
Submitted earlier by Kent Beck himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218583
It's much less geographically constrained than Vancouver and it has fewer tech millionaires than the Valley. It has also had fairly significant price gains over the last few years though.
Personally I know quite a few BLM members, and the overall opinion was joy at hearing about the cookout (I've heard of at least two). Everyone wants good relations with police because yes, they do make life better for the community. That's pretty clear.

But again, the movement and attitudes vary from city to city and there's a lot of posturing for politics. I think there's a fear that there will be a culture change (which IS positive, I think we can all agree) without changes to the underlying problems that enable police brutality without consequence: lack of civilian oversight, the fraternity order of police, the emphasis of lethal force in split-second decision making. It makes me sick there have been no convictions thus far, and that needs to change before people can trust the police to, well, police themselves.

There's also a huge overlap with gun violence. That's a topic I won't touch here with a ten foot pole due to its complexity.
This looks pretty similar to `git commit -v` which brings up a diff of changes in a text editor and prompts you for a commit message.
End-User-Effort just doesn't work, sadly.

I'm currently rather thinking about some cross-referencing service. A developer would go ahead and register multiple download locations for their product. The system would go ahead and download the file from the various locations, compute checksums and alert if the checksums of different download locations differ.

If this service exists, you'd have to compromise this service and a download location in order to exchange a file unnoticed for more than 2*the check interval.

The major issues I see:

- Updates are a big issue, because updates are a planned exchange of the binary to download. So I guess there'd need to be a set of valid checksums, which weakens the guarantees of the system, but not too much.

- Resources are an issue, especially bandwidth and traffic. Imagine getting all debian isos from all mirrors to verify their checksums.

But either way, such a service could be a good way to detect irregular file changes and notify the security community, devs, site admins and so on.
Anyone wants to work for the federal government or in politics needs French, beyond a certain level. So making sure your kids learn it opens some really valuable opportunities for them.
For anything non-trivial, a poorly written code base and/or poorly implemented database schema/layer becomes a liability, both in time and money.
> Shifting geography.

First thing I thought of with that was: Earthquakes. All these famous tech companies are built in an earthquake zone.

Amazon has the further misfortune of being in an area without a history of preparing for the earthquake.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-...

Discussed https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3da1mh/we_are_earthqu... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160

But I think geography could be referring to the next disruptive technology, or how the existing tech centers are strangling their young and forcing new tech companies to move where it’s more affordable. Different types of geography.
It means that the function never returns (via exiting the process, exiting the thread, or by panicking). It's useful because the result of a function that returns ! is compatible with any type, so you can write things like:

fn usage() -> ! {
println!("usage: myapp FILENAME");
process::exit(0)
}

let filename = if args.len() < 2 {
args[1].clone()
} else {
usage()
};
You're missing the point. The fact that they could achieve this so quickly is the impressive part.
It's slightly ironic that Foursquare, the article's first example of this trend, is based in New York City, not Silicon Valley.
It was always my impression that the "startup" look had more to do with limited finances and cheap IKEA furniture (compared to significantly more expensive designer furniture) than with some kind of desire to look like everyone else.
The issue is that due to the high costs of getting a certificate, a lot of legitimate software for Windows is still unsigned.

I know several large FLOSS projects, with hundredthousands and millions of users, that ship only unsigned binaries, telling their users to turn off SmartScreen.

If Microsoft would have used a GPG-like mechanism, or provided certs for free, it would look very different.
Are there any cast studies on multinational companies that were successful in China and outlined why? Companies like Danone?
I would pay a hefty premium for a well-done dumb pipe.
What's interesting about dealers (at least the very low level ones that addicts typically buy directly from) is that they're often selling dope to support their own habits or to get ahead in a world they see as being stacked against them.

Thus, many of these people are not ruthless sociopaths, and recognize on some level that what they're doing is wrong. Through a great deal of rationalization, they are often able to convince themselves that it's morally OK.

These people would prefer not to have to bring murder into line with their already quite dissonant mental schema.

This is my experience talking to current and former dealers, mostly as part of my work with recovering addicts - I've had dealers help me track down relapsed sponsees, for instance, with very little convincing.
Especially since politifact itself has shown political bias.
That's.......very passionate
I suppose he could pose as the "winner" and claim ignorance, although I'm sure there's much better ways of laundering via a Mixing service [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service] or something similar.
Drone might be faster (ex: traffic)
Most start ups really want people in early 20's, Unmarried without responsibilities, who have a very idealistic view of the world and are ready to fail, without any financial profit in return.

>>stupid ageist algorithm games known as "technical programming interviews"

Unless you are in "exam mode" all the time. Spending away all your life in the pursuit of the interview preparation. This kind of interview preparedness isn't possible anyway.
What do you think the role of a newspaper is if not to report the news literally?
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Hmm, filtering out wikipedia, blogspot and wordpress would eliminate some of the more interesting content.

Surprised medium isn't on here. I'm sort of done with them, signal-to-noise is just not very good.
Or maybe the drone could drop it off in the back yard instead, or what not?
Sick and tired of non-swedes thinking socialists ever did anything for this country. Nothing was "solved" by politics in those years. Quite the opposite, our lean and mean economy faltered until the socialists became fiscally conservative in the 90s.

The sheer arrogance of Swedes dissing US is also annoying. Go to our new ghettos and inspect the great equity the progressives have established lately.
It seems to me that China outplayed the West here by a wide margin.

For some reason, the West has let China get away with extremely protectionist trade policies the likes of which no one else in the world would dare even attempt. I think this was a combination of fear that isolating China vs creating a high degree of economic interdependence could lead to war down the line, and a lack of control over Western companies who sought to break into China.

The situation today is deeply concerning. I think Western nations need to take dramatic action to curb / disincent China's protectionist policies and let their market open up to the rest of the world. If they won't truly do so, then the West needs to respond in kind.
> I would say "sure this stock is 'worth' $500K but if I sell it I'm going to have to pay a huge amount of tax on it and that will net out to a smaller number." I was looking at "losing" 25% of the value of the investment by turning it into cash. Ridiculous right? Well now I think it is ridiculous.

Not that ridiculous! Give yourself some credit. One of the reasons taxes work this way is to incentivize people to keep their money invested.
This has worked with chat apps and other kinds of community-based social networks for ages, where the promise that after you've grown large, you'll figure out a way to monetize later.

What's remarkable is Jet was able to pull this off by being in meatspace, by acting as a VC-subsidized arbitrage broker for consumer products, hoping to get enough mindshare to be considered more of a threat than a nuisance so it can get bought out. It worked!
Simply: It's more difficult to emigrate to the US as a foreigner in many key ways, coupled with the fact that it's a slightly larger city with a much stronger and more diversified economy.
Wikipedia has been long dead for anything that is under controversy. I only use it to look at objective facts like technology topics that are relatively free of controversy.
I'm hoping a genuine, knock-down drag-out economic competition will get an American president back up on the podium saying stuff more like "We choose to go to the moon" instead of this useless, vague "great again" nonsense.