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My first time round was a year spent building prototypes which soon I realised was something I was doing because the non-tech part of starting up was so frightening and alien to someone who has been behind a keyboard their whole life.

The idea was simple: scheduling meetings is a pain, shouldn't this be simple by now. E.g. I don't care when or where I just want to meet with Susan tomorrow for 15 mins. You're my Corporate calendar and you know both our availability. Go figure, I'm busy. It was a search engine of sorts for meetings: "Susan tomorrow 15 mins".

Whilst this solution never intended to replace existing calendering or email, etc and just serve as a front-end, I came to the conclusion that companies already have solutions to booking meetings. The existing system works so why pay more. My USP was in time savings made => less cost. I gotta say in writing this it's making me think perhaps there is still something here I should pursue.. and I later found out another company was doing something similar after I shelved this.

I knew from day 1 I should have been validating my idea but it was so much easier to build stuff. I learnt a lot from failing this way:
1) You may have solved a problem, but it could be insignificant to the target market.
2) You have to listen to people and build meaningful human relationships in order to be successful.
3) Find someone else's problem to solve and you're likely to be on to something.
4) Fail fast, learn more

I just launched https://conciergeapp.uk on the August 5th, after a month of development and then spent a week feeling miserable because nobody will sign up or reply to emails. It's a simple tool for facilities to take utility meter readings in private residential apartment blocks. This tool notifies the residents of their readings, as they cannot get to the meters themselves in order to tell their energy suppliers. As a resident it's certainly useful for me.

This is potentially another failed product because it's not important for facilities management. it's a great tool but it doesn't solve any of their main problems. This all came about because of a conversation in which I got excited about something and then engineered a solution for a non-existent problem. I should have prodded some more to find the real pains.

In the space of 1 month and a week I find myself failing again, but this time I failed much faster and have learnt the following:
1) Find the right problem to solve and validate it before you write a single line of code.
2) Listen more.
3) Get up-front financial commitment prior to writing a single line of code
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Not sure what part of the bay area you live/work in, but where have you been looking? I bought in Redwood City last year and the prices, while high relative to the rest of the country, are probably manageable for many professional Bay Area couples. You can get a decent 3 bedroom for $900k-$1.2m, which is probably ~$3k-$4k/mo for [mortgage + property taxes - tax breaks].
We see the same problem here in Europe, maybe to a less extreme extend. We have a few economy hotspots with rapidly raising real estate prices. One fundamental problem is, that those people, who could change things have litte interest in changes. Homeowners like to see their property value rising and for cities life is easier without a growing population.

If one says: let free markets take care of that, the problem is exactly that there are no free markets. A free market would mean, that anyone owning a piece of land could build there without limitations. But zoning laws and building size regulations prevent exactly that. As a consequence, building permits have exploded in value like taxi concessions once did. They are no longer tied to the economy of building/owning a cab, but of a limited market.

Munich is one of the most expensive cities in Germany, but it is closely surrounded by farmland. The housing problem could be solved easily, if more of it were allowed for building. But as this happens only at a very small speed, land value can multiplay up to 100x when a building permit is issued. This multiplier shows how skewed the market is.
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The computer lab in Cambridge was founded in 1937, before electronic computers. At that time their equipment was mechanical calculators and analogue differential analysers. The purpose was scientific computing, especially theoretical chemistry. There are a few pictures here http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/relics/archive_photos.html
I did that, but facebook tends to remove those accounts after a while if they show no activity and i lost access to some accounts, because people who forget to have alternative login methods also usually dont have ways to login when your facebook is lost.

Facebook only sucks and has to avoided.
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I'm sure he's just a concerned citizen.
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Virtually free but maybe not as relevant for the training it provides or the time it takes (years vs weeks)
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Or just goes away.
Whenever I design and implement software, I expect it to fail. I wonder, "where's the catch?" I almost obsess over finding it. This design will fail. Why?

And like any good software, most of them eventually do. But with that attitude, I had obsessed over understanding the limitations and problems rather than successes, which made the next version much more clear to design.

Failure is part of the process!
This is one of my favorite posts from Paul Graham. I would add one more point to it based on my experience.

- Make something that has value from day one. Many tech based startups have significant value for users only when many other users are also using it. Tech based political startups, for example, suffer from this problem. These kind of startups are harder to build because getting and retaining the seed users can drain you easily. It is easier if you build something that adds value to the life of the very first user, even if he is the only one using it.
Yes, totally agree with you. It wasn't meant as a prescription but rather as a way to highlight what is actually the significant factor in the purported success of charter schools. And the original post made the point that a big factor in getting good teachers was a positive working environment for them that was engendered by having only motivated and behaved students.
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On the flour part we could maybe agree, but telling me that fruit is not good for me is just plain wrong.
That's a poisonous chalice not the holy grail. How can someone to prefer JS to Swift is beyond my comprehension.
Or is that "if the only tool you have is a hammer" situation?
The United States has fast become the land where a wall informed individual should never set foot, if he/she values his/her belongings, freedom and life.
> I prefer to think of the distinction in this way: permissive licenses provide the maximum freedom for downstream developers (including the ability to use the open source code in a closed source project), whereas copyleft licenses provide the maximum freedom for downstream users.

This is a common analogy but it never sits well with me. Really, the permissive licenses allow the code to show up in places that copyleft licenses would not allow it. There are a ton of open source projects used in Microsoft Windows or iOS thanks to their permissive licensing -- and neither Microsoft nor Apple are legally obliged to give anything back.

Copyleft licenses prevent the software from being forked into a proprietary program and the changes hidden from the user. To take a random example, if Microsoft took GNU gzip and included it with Windows, and then extended it with new features, Microsoft would be obliged to provide the source code to those changes. If they took OpenBSD's implementation instead, they wouldn't be obliged in the same way (though they still _could_).

Remaining entirely in the open source world, these licenses concern redistribution of software. A user on OpenBSD does not feel they have any less freedom than a user on GNU/Linux. They don't have any less freedom, after all. Users on both systems retain the full gamut of freedom. To run for any purpose, to study the source code, to modify the source code, to redistribute the software verbatim or modified. The difference shows up when it comes to this: Do you want to be an asshole? OpenBSD permits the option -- you can distribute a fork without the source code. You cannot do that with a GPL-licensed system.

The FSF and other GPL advocates usually ride on the premise that opening up the possibility for downstreams to be assholes is bad, with few exceptions. I do respect their opinions, but I feel like the history of open source (and the *BSDs, even) show that such assholes don't get very far. They simply cannot compete with the pace of open and transparent development and die off on their own. Frankly, being an asshole is an irrational and unprofitable (socially and commercially) move, and trying to nanny the behavior away isn't all that necessary.
This "land of the free" sounds very much like Russia to me. In fact, I would rather live in Russia to be honest.
> "Increasing the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines is critical to automakers. Not all consumers will accept a battery electric vehicle solution.

That's the thesis?
I didn't, but I might soon... I'll email you if I do.
Engine control computers are even more fun. A friend of mine works for Audi's/VW's supplier, and honestly my biggest surprise about the emission scandal was that the code actually worked.

(They had to write their own linter, because they need to ship slightly broken code written by code generators, and last I heard Windows XP is still part of the compilation chain…)
While I agree that wrapping IO in newtypes for various purposes would be useful, from a somewhat more 'pure' standpoint, it's impossible to guarantee. Writing to a file could be network, it could be outputting to a screen somewhere, it could be launching the nukes, as far as I'm aware, it's essentially impossible to tell in many cases, so I think there's an argument for being 'honest' about this and not making type guarantees for things that aren't necessarily true.
I don't think that is correct.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11895084/How-Sw...
The Nordic countries, at least. In general you're not supposed to show your wealth, though wealth in any case isn't very common as the societies are very equalizing due to low income differences and progressive taxation.

Read about the "Law of Jante" for the extreme of this mentality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante). I think the first rule pretty well sums up the thought behind this:

You're not to think *you* are anything special.
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John Oliver did a story on something very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
This is still using ignition timing and spark plugs. Additionally, the connecting shim and the timing advancer/retarder introduce not one, but two points of failure.

Thanks, but no thanks: I'll just stick to my simple (by comparison) direct injected turbo diesel cars.

When there is a gasoline engine which can ignite the fuel without spark plugs and ignition timing, that'll be the right solution. mazda experimented with this (see "VCCI"), but it never made it into production, because it's not a trivial problem to solve. This Nissan patent is a mechanical engineer's equivalent of a duct tape hack.

Or we could just ditch this entire nonsense with pistons and optimize the Chrysler's super simple turbine car engine until it matches today's exhaust emission regulations. This was a tough problem to solve in 1978, but should be doable now with a particulate filter. And that engine isn't picky: since it's a turbine, it'll run on anything that's combustible, from filtered cooking oil to cologne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs
I've been re-reading "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" and am no longer convinced that "2. Launch fast" is true.

Launching and iterating a product quickly can easily lead to false negatives, where an early unpolished product that does not quite meet the needs of the end user might turn off users and harm the brand for good, but by involving user research before launch, product fit for users can be evaluated and iterated on without annoying potential future customers.
I wouldn't paint the world in such stark colors. The only reason you would even consider these people "enemies" is because the respective governments having chosen to be on collision course.

Technicalities aside, these "revelations" should serve as a reminder that when it comes to politics (including every version of democracy), there is a shiny veneer of righteousness, and underneath is intricate machinery that serves the sole purpose of controlling and manipulating the population. Both the US and Russia are extremely good at this in their own ways. The Cold War presented plenty of opportunities to refine the craft.
PureScript is a language that compiles to JS which is heavily inspired by Haskell, yet fixes some of it's "flaws".

Namely it (1) has better record syntax, (2) is employs strict-evaluation instead of lazy-evaluation by default, (3) has a better class hierarchy for "numbers", (4) has a better class hierarchy for control classes[1] (like Monad, Applicative, Functor, etc.). There are more, but to me they are the main improvements.

Compared to Haskell, PureScript fixes some of the "flaws". These flaws are mostly different from the flaws mentioned in the article. Maybe one day PureScript can be compiled to native ...<searching internet>... which is already being worked on[2].

[1] https://github.com/purescript/purescript-prelude/tree/master...

[2] https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native
Kind of foreshadowed in 5th Element when the Chinese Junk restaurant is serving food to Corbin Dallas at the window in his apartment.
and contrast what happened to the secretary that took ~$800,000 worth of information from their company (http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/08/the-dea-paid-an-amtr...) with what happened to Sergey Aleynikov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov)
Yep, your friend is absolutely correct: always buy a model during the mid or end cycle, when most of the bugs have been diagnosed, worked out, and the designs revised.
I would go crazy trying to find a particular house in there. This is worse than Plattenbausiedlungen. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau)
>Obviously it is a great alternative because the selection process in other universities is tedious

That's not true, in France going to the university is open to anybody that obtained the "Bac" (not necessarly a general or scientific one, doesn't matter, you can get in mathematics there with a mechanics degree) and if you don't have it there are some formations to get an equivalence, opening the doors for you. (of course it will be extremely difficult to catch up in compsci for someone without a scientific bac but he can try)
And the university is almost free (less than 500e a year if you don't get any social help)

It is true however that you need good grades to get to the top engineering schools.

As you said the bigger issue anyway is the cost of living.
No, she was hired specifically to make something that looked good with a reasonable budget.

Then when she made something that looked good, someone else was hired to cut costs further.

You might think this makes no sense at all. But to a certain kind of business-oriented mind, it's perfectly logical.

A huge problem with traditional business process thinking is lack of organic understanding. It's incredibly hard to find people who can understand a project/process in the round with a deep understanding of cause and effect, and not just as a collection of formulas - one of which always seems to be "cut costs" - applied mechanically.

Of course it can appear to make sense in pure financial terms. But there are social and environmental costs which don't appear on the balance sheet, and possibly also opportunity costs in lost customer goodwill.
Kilimchoi's link is a great repository! If you want some more good blogs and you tube channels to follow, take a look at my collection here..

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It's long been known by people who play the drug game that the authorities only care about lining their own pockets.

This is an anecdotal story, but could be "New Yorker level" vetted if someone tried.

About 20 years ago my friend John was living in Salt Lake City, Utah -- where he grew up -- and had rented a house in CA for the sole purpose of growing pot in. He spent almost 5 years bringing about 50-100lbs of high potency pot into Utah in his Prius 2-3 times per month, making countless trips back and forth, before his first contact with the authorities.

They pulled him over about a block away from his house and told him they had been watching him and knew what he had in the car -- about 50lbs of pot in duffel bags. He was arrested and charged with... wait for it... failing to pay taxes on the marijuana. He was out of jail within 6 hours.

His lawyer told him he had three choices: pay the taxes, to the tune of about $350k, or fight it, or plead guilty. He wrote a check for $350k and never heard from the authorities again. He continued to do this for another 10 years and was never bothered again. Strictly pot.

You may wonder how he was able to write that check without raising eyebrows. A few of his clients were business owners who had him on the payroll (taxes and all) to pay for their regular supply of pot. Plus he was "an independent artist" and filed 1099-Ts every quarter via his accountant. Through these methods he made plenty of money on paper, and obviously lived very cheaply (in an apartment). He has still never had a real job and retired at 35, with no record what so ever.
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Not necessarily - you can get low emissivity windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_emissivity#Low-emissivity_...
This is alarming and a massive overstep. However why would anyone ever travel with sums like that on them? I don't get it at all. I know that the US is a society that uses cash a lot more than mine, but carry sums like that seems utterly crazy.
Isn't it a very unhealthy thing for a "community" to be protected and serviced by people who do no longer live there? Who get pushed out further and further from it?

A city, where you have separate classes of homeowners and all the service personal commuting in sounds pretty dystopian to me.
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> Additionally, the allure of walking everywhere quickly disappears when you have a 2 and 5 year old.

Does it? Many people have small children in my peer group, and I've seen them moving to walking through their neighborhood rather than driving to their errands. The difference might be that German cities are much more hospitable to pedestrians in general. Also, there is sane public transit which is helpful if your toddler doesn't like to walk anymore.
Sudo/doas never involves giving the root password. (Whether it's better not to use sudo/doas at all is a separate question).
You're comparing users of OpenBSD to users of GNU/Linux, but why not compare both of them to users of Windows and OS X? Why is FLOSS software pitted against each other, instead of FLOSS software against proprietary and closed source software?
"Everything that has been written in JS will be rewritten in every language that transpiles to JS"
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But you don't need computer science to get and perform very well in a programming job. I'm a sample size of one, but I never had any formal comp-sci education and only after about a decade in the industry did I go back and teach myself algorithms, data structures, and all the other comp-sci stuff. I only did this out of interest, not necessity. My experience is not unique.
tar doesn't sort entries on archive creation time. I've tried to use it to compare trees in the past, to notice this caveat. It's a detail most people don't seem to realize about their file system, but files aren't (usually, on most FSes) sorted in any particular order. By creation time order, MAYBE (no guarantee, often not), but as directories get modified and files are deleted an added, this gets clobbered anyhow. Use "ls -f" to see the raw, unsorted list of a directory's contents. Since it is faster for tar to just use this, than to pre-sort entries, that's the order they'll get added in.

What you want is a tar that is deterministically identical regardless of the underlying file system's order. Sadly, no such option exists in GNU tar, but that doesn't quite mean the end of the quest. Behold:

find bin -print0 | sort -Vz | tar -cf bin.tar --no-recursion --null -T -

The first two shouldn't be hard to parse. Find files, separated by NULL characters (so any whitespace or other special characters won't be an issue), pass that onto "sort" that uses a version sort (identical rules to dpkg version sorting, and will disregard the locale sort) and interpret entries as being between NULLs (as well as emit them, likewise). The tar command should be pretty self-explanatory, but the "-T -" tells it to read stdin for a file list, with --null specifying that the input list is separated by NULLs, and --no-recursion prevents it from recursing into directories, instead just adding an entry in the tar for directories -- the find|sort will take care of the directory members already, sorted. Optionally add --numeric-owner to tar, if you want to compare trees on different computers, but results might vary (rsync and tar normally send/store both the id and name, and if the "name" exists on the local machine, uses that instead of id).
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Cognitive load has nothing to do with your ability to "easily onboard".

If you can't understand German, would you say that usage of German increases one's cognitive load? No, that would be preposterous. If you need to speak in German, then you hire Germans or people willing to learn the language. Onboarding might be a challenge, but it wouldn't have anything to do with the performance of those that do know German.

I myself speak English as a second language, because I had to learn it in order to do my job. Seeing you're from NYC, there's a high probability that English was imposed on you from birth. Good for you given our profession, but a lingua franca is context sensitive, temporary and English isn't even the second most spoken language.

And do you know what language is more universal than all natural languages and that doesn't change much? Math. And math uses symbols, not English words. And Haskell is much closer to math than all mainstream languages.
This is why you use Wickr instead.

PS Down vote is annoying. This is precisely why I use Wickr for some communications. It gives me a text message like experience with messages that are automatically deleted from my phone and recipient's.
So one process writes to a flat file, then another process reads the flat file? Wouldn't named pipes be more useful here?

Also it feels like you are just making a seralization format on top of Stdin/Stdout.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pit them against each other, just pointing out that users of either system enjoy the same freedoms regardless of the license choices. :-)

Windows, OS X, iOS, and all other proprietary systems do, in fact, restrict users and objectively have fewer freedoms than free ones.