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It has nothing to do with morality, it has to do with building a sustainable business while retaining full ownership. The notion that you absolutely need to accept funding is getting tired because it's not supported by facts and grounded in reality.

I am currently bootstrapping a business and I have been approached by VCs who asked me to please take their money. I have turned them down because, as I politely told them, I don't need it, AND I am not looking to simply flip the company some day (no sane investor will invest unless the company can be sold in some form and they get their money back). Some people may also wish to avoid having a boss, and if you think your VC is not your boss in some capacity at least, you're in for a rude awakening.

Calling someone's decision to avoid raising money irrational and attaching labels (morality?) is presumptuous. There are certain goals that are incompatible with accepting funding, such as: operating a lifestyle business, not reporting to anyone, freedom etc. I am not sure what's so difficult to understand about that.
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I'm open to other conclusions, but there's absolutely no evidence or reasoning for them, either. I don't see any reason why AR would improve anyone's life. It seems like it's squarely on the road of "notification addiction".
The problem with limiting monkey-patching is that it's used extensively and with great variety in Rails (and other popular Ruby projects).

Monkey patching, done correctly, will "settle" over time. That is, once your rails app has called all the dynamic finder methods it's ever going to use, and `require`d all of the `active_support` extensions it'll need, it's done monkey patching. Of course, there are programming mistakes that can open a huge bag of worms, such as using `OpenStruct`s. Generally, anything that will smash the global method cache[1] is also going to require the kind of `iseq` deoptimization that this pull is about (in fact, smashing the global method cache is a simple case of deoptimization).

This is why deoptimization is so useful - it's almost never going to happen after your app has settled, but it's necessary to maintain correctness while `active_support` is being loaded and adding all of those yummy methods to core classes.

`call_cc` can go to hell though - I've never seen a program that uses it ;-)

[1] https://github.com/charliesome/charlie.bz/blob/master/posts/...
Really? At least with taxes your money is likely to stay local (whether you agree with how it is spent or not), whereas with a multinational corp like Apple, Tesla or Google your money is just as likely to go somewhere outside the country.
"A robot is a device that doesn't work (yet); as soon as it works, it is renamed"

I love this definition.
out of pure curiosity , what would you prefer it be written in?
I dunno about the battery.

But the Drive train of the Tesla Model S is notoriously bad.

http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-tes...

> Drive Unit IV: The Milling

That's the article when Edmunds had to replace the drive unit for the 3rd time (aka: the 4th Drive Unit)
What's missing in regexps IMO is composability so you can build larger patterns out of smaller ones, giving each a clear name. Replacing '[0-9]' with 'digit' doesn't really help much.
Nationalism is exactly what lead to centuries of bloodshed in Europe. Nationalism is the evil: this conceit that people from different nations with different rulers are sufficiently different from one another that it's worth going to war with them.

The EU has its flaws too, of course. Because of its necessarily top-down nature, it tends towards grand aspirational things which it can't quite achieve very well because national governments retain too much power, so it interferes in things where national governments care a little less, not always wisely. It should have more regionalism and subsidiarity.
From a strictly scientific point of view, it's an interesting challenge to have a bot that's trained to mimic interaction with an individual that's no longer alive. If there is enough data points on their lives and and how they interacted with other people, we should be able to create a profile and a trained bot that could to some degree interact as that person would.

But from completely social and human perspective, I question the morality of such a product. Is it really fair to feed into someone's need to hold on to something that no longer exist. Would this product solve a problem, or create a mirade of other issues. I personally would rather be part of a solution that helps people overcome grief and move on instead of feeding their immediate desires of holding on.
Here's why I don't feel guilty:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

> So no, I'm not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan's pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days.

Oh sure I'm not typically over-the-top like the article. I do enjoy the act of programming much of the time, and camel-y jokes. But I don't feel bad that I'm getting paid a lot of money for what I much-of-the-time consider work that a bright high schooler could also do. Having worked with some not-so-bright college interns recently I feel even less guilty, if that's possible. To some extent we all make our own choices, mine led me here, why should I agonize over where other people's led them? I'm not interested in controlling their lives.
Nobody pays a marginal rate > 50% in Canada. However, this will be counted as a capital gain, since Match almost certainly bought his shares in the company. That means 50% of the proceeds will be added to his taxable income. He'll pay around 25% of his total proceeds in tax.

His employees probably owned ~10% of the company, so let's say he sold his shares for $500M. He probably walked away with around $375M after tax.
Ireland though that it was legal. It was not. If Ireland now fails to get that money, then it will be fined (like Greece http://www.dw.com/en/fine-frenzy-in-greece-over-illegal-stat...)

The down side of this approach is that some times big corporations don't pay taxes and then citizens have to put money for the fines. So the final result depends on how corrupt is the government, how much it wants to protect the corporations and how much hate it will accept from their citizens.
... it's either happening for 6 months already, or won't come at all.

I, personally, have no idea which is it.
> I'd be interested to hear the reasons so much needed to be replaced

Seems like a large-scale manufacturing defect affecting 2013 and 2014 Tesla Model S.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tesla-reliability-doesnt...

> The main problem areas involved the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, giant iPad-like center console, and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks.
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> screenplay by the genius Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl didn't write the screenplay, he wrote the book the movie is based on.

edit: Correction, he did write it for the 1971 movie. Oops.
PHP namespacing in many ways ruined the language. I'm not just talking about the poorly chosen use of the backslash '\' path separator or the fact that namespaces aren't automatically inferred which causes me to have to write "use" endless times at the top of the file which destroys my productivity when working outside an IDE.

I'm talking about the heart of PHP which is stream processing. Why in the world would you destroy the notion of simply including other source files in order to wedge in this C++ centric notion of a namespace? Before "namespace" and "use", the idea was that all of the files included together can be treated as one large file, and sadly that conceptual simplicity has been lost.

Also the lost opportunity of having objects be associative arrays like Javascript, combined with namespacing, have convinced me that perhaps PHP should be forked to a language more in-line with its roots. I haven't tried Hack or PHP7 yet but I am apprehensive that they probably make things worse in their own ways.

I think of PHP as a not-just-write-only version of Perl, lacking the learning curve of Ruby, with far surpassed forgiveness and access to system APIs over Javascript/NodeJS. Which is why it's still my favorite language, even though the curators have been asleep at the wheel at the most basic levels.
Fiscal State Aid has been explicitly illegal since the 90s. Why would case law be needed?
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> I wonder if younger folk today watch that and think how quaint, old and dated it seems..

I think many young people today would be horrified at how 'ableist' it was for him to use that gag.
I'm sure their checks all cleared every two weeks.
That's a wonderful idea. I think that all HTML inputs should fork your $VISUAL.
Not really. Apple have been in Ireland since the eighties and are one of the biggest private sector employers in Cork. There are a lot of jobs on the line, it's not like they are some kind of brass plate company with no actual presence here.
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Can smiling make you happier?
You could just put a bunch of tools in a toolbox and figure you probably use the toolbox every week or every month.
Technically speaking, they got their salary.
Is the million dollar check going to me or the company? In the later case the company might not need it.
Dropping call/cc would represent a mindset that would immediately make me skeptical regarding Ruby's future. Limiting monkey-patching would make me immediately drop Ruby. The language's value to me is that I can bend it to do lots of stuff in ways I understand and control. Going away from that removes the reason for Ruby to exist.

What you call "the root cause" is literally why I use Ruby.
It's a spectrum in my estimation between formal proof and being able to manipulate actions in light of some understanding.

We could "control" fire before we understood thermodynamics, similarly flight and aerodynamics. So there is a threshold for making breakthroughs that don't require quark level precise predictions.

We aren't even at rubbing sticks together phase when it comes to understanding the mechanisms of intelligence.
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You must have never heard of situations where a founder gets pushed out of their company by the VC because they are not meeting certain targets.
This is just pure opinion, but to me it is hard to read and unprofessional. It is certainly unique, but it doesn't project seriousness, which is what I want out of a job discovery service. Omitting the vowel just has the ring of a shady knockoff, scammer, or malware site that capitalizes on typos. Maybe I'm just not used to seeing the consonant string in trademarks or company names, but it strikes me as peculiar rather than creative or edgy.

Second thought: this is a company which can't even manage to register "workriot.com". Even if "WrkRiot" is the brand, I would expect them to grab the domain with the more obvious spelling and have it redirect to wrkriot, but it turns out "workriot.com" is registered to a Finnish hosting provider sitting on the domain. So to recap: the domain with the more obvious alternate spelling of the company is (very likely) up for sale but they still haven't managed to acquire it. That does not engender much confidence in their marketing or management.

Yes, I think I would pass on this venture.
When they say in cash, they mean a bank transfer? or is it literally cash?
If he paid a fair market wage and the employees didn't have the expectation that they were being compensated in equity, I see nothing wrong with this.
This seems like a strange objection, relying as it does on "the gain" made by those who control what the "minimum" is. Postulates A2 and A3, which are assumed to hold for this question, make any savings from the cut "costs and expenses" seem a bit ridiculous.

The state can control who can access the Internet even now, via the courts, should it decide someone needs to get b&. I'm not sure why a surfeit of every possible resource is going to make the government get more totalitarian.

If the unrolled form of this argument is "human social competitiveness is impossible to extinguish, and even in the presence of historically unprecedented AI-based plenty, those who desire power will subjugate those they deem lesser, for the hell of it", then this makes a whole lot more sense.
> The tax is VAT and recent changes on electronic services had exactly the goal you mentioned in mind.

Those changes on electronic services make similarly little sense, as they require a service to apply taxes in the jurisdiction of the consumer rather than in the jurisdiction of the business. (And such regulations disadvantage EU companies, as a non-EU company with no legal nexus in the EU has no obligation to charge such taxes.)
Well, round trip time of light to GEO is 280ms plus processing time on the satellite plus "last mile" connections on earth. I usually see closer to 500ms on satellite internet. In most of Canada, I've never seen a wifi network give me better than 150ms to AWS in us-east in Virginia or us-west in Oregon. Even in SF pinging another server in SF with a wifi connection in the middle can get more than 80ms. For a bus system in a constrained area, you may be able to do it, but you'd probably be better off just going with tracks of some kind to eliminate drivers entirely.
There is no way it wasn't legal. It's complete politically motivated bullshit that will be thrown out on appeal to the European courts, mark my words. The EU commission is not supposed to have any say over tax issues, they are overstepping the mark here.
> I think the problem lies with the browser vendors, who aren't implementing the bittorrent protocol in the browser.

browser vendors shouldn't have to implement it. they should expose posix-like APIs (bsd sockets, file IO) or process management+ipc via plain pipes (talk to native bittorrent client) so it could be provided through an extension.

The problem with browsers is that they create a backwards-incompatible API stack. This is understandable for web content. Not so for extensions.
Except for the salary and benefits they negotiated for.
Don't want to spend your salary on your mortgage? Houseshare. Has the added benefit of still living in a house. Cook for yourself. Don't own a car. Live outside the city (obviously some are mutually exclusive). Stop buying useless crap (that includes a gym membership, netflix, prime). You can drive down your expenses to quarter rent and food.

You can live frugally without an RV. Running and maintaining an RV costs money (aside from building it).
It's not the EU's fault if Ireland signed incompatible treaties.
You can capture all DNS outbound (port 53) traffic not to/from your local DNS server and redirect it to your local/internal DNS server if you really wanted to. This is often done in order to jail/freeze all traffic until authenticated as well as whitelist certain traffic for the purpose of authentication.
Check out https://github.com/sindresorhus/term-img if you want to render images in iTerm2 from Node.js
Way to assume the worst of someone without knowing anything about him, or any details of the situation.

I have good friends who work there, and they received generous bonuses when the acquisition happened last year, as well as having been treated well all along previous to that.
I'd agree that "I know kung fu" style memory alteration is probably off the table for the foreseeable future but we've already got people manipulating devices just via sensing caps. The implications of this for prosthetics seem like fairly simple extensions of known techniques
Don't they know about depreciation? Or are these cars riding on perfect roads and in perfect weather? This resembles the fairy-tale of Moses's followers receiving manna from God while crossing the Sinai.

And I really can't understand how some people still think that these cars will run on free power from now to eternity. Energy costs money, be it gasoline, coal or electrical power, there's no silver bullet, there's no free lunch.
Got any examples of a self-funded business that was slow but eventually exceeded a venture-backed competitor? (Serious question.)
In a very similar vein, try this one: https://youtu.be/N5vJSNXPEwA
He wrote the screenplay as well.
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I always read these stories with a sense of awe and wonder. "I took 2 years off of my totally boring office job to X" where X is something that is 1. expensive and/or 2. not generating income or not nearly as much income as Boring Office Job. How the hell does one live without their salary for 2 years without going into debt or depleting savings? Don't you people have student loans to pay off, medical bill payments, or other financial obligations that can't be delayed? I don't think I could last much more than 3 months, and I'm quite proud of my meager emergency savings. What the hell do you people do for a living that you can save such a vast amount of money (and presumably blow it during said 2 year activity)?

I'm not criticizing--just very curious. Most of the time when this kind of question is asked, the response is a vague and coy, "Well I got a little savings..." Awesome--how on earth?
Maybe government is not as efficient providing citizens with firefighters, teachers, and other services.

Maybe that companies are extremely efficient giving money to their shareholders.

But I don't see your point.
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AI and clean energy, once researched and developed, will never go away. The vast majority of government expenditures are for mundane transient things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and bombing brown people across the ocean. None of which will last past beyond our lifetimes.
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Or you could just move to Poland. $33,750 could buy you studio in any medium town in Poland, even in sub-million population cities.

You'd get: no mortgage, apartment with a toilet, clean running water, wifi and all the electricity that you'll ever need. 5-10 times more area for your stuff. Monthly cost of utilities, tax and fee towards building maintenance of about $150 in total, access to a lot of young, English speaking people you could hire for cheap to help you with your projects.
Oops, looked up the wrong movie to confirm my hunch. Thanks.
I imagine if a car company really did invent an autonomous car that works almost 100% of the time, they'd do a joint venture with a car rental place.

But the car company has a competitive advantage in that it could choose not to sell to anyone while they build out a fleet maintenance operation.

But if multiple companies solve the problem at the same time, maybe Hertz has the advantage.
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I'm using Cedar to store arbitrary order preserving tuples.

After a lot of perf testing, and that library along with others had the same issue with not allowing null bytes.

Initially i thought it was a deal breaker, especially since I needed to preserve order.

Ended up doing a possibly mutating prepass on any keys keys that might contain nulls (Which is generally very fast O(len(key)) before storing, to rewrite without them.

It was still worth it.
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Shout out to SmartGit. Syntevo has being making version control that don't suck for over a decade. Tried and true.
Exactly!

On a related note, Buffet vs. Protege Partners: http://longbets.org/362/
Check Udacity, Coursera and Edx.

Andrew Ng's course is a nice one.
Yes. VCs who don't have the big return don't get to have a 2nd fund. :-) I'm bullish on self-driving cars. Even if their cars don't make it, I think the AI behind it will.
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To be clear, I'm not saying this example is good. (Unless you particularly enjoy absurdism).
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Pretty simple — reduce their living expenses to the bare minimum. And I do think most people in this position are depleting their savings to cover said living expenses, at least until they have a profitable side project and/or part-time gig.
That's what I was thinking too. It'd be a great way to get people to understand the power of regex. But yeah, I wouldn't want to learn a verbose language to use regexes as frequently as I do today.
Node/JS is everywhere, it's easy, it works. It's not perfect by any means, it's probably flawed and fails a "perfect language/platform/package manager" pretty badly but for better or for worse people are very productive and ship tons of stuff with it.
Might be a stupid question, but is this performance of just the data structure in memory or with reading/writing to disk also?
I read it that they divide by an 'index divisor' which appears to be denominated in £, leading to the FTSE being a unitless figure.

My point is that if I am right, then the devaluation is taken into account in the numerator and the denominator so cancelled and the FTSE isn't correlated with the £.
Absolutely. That's why we are bootstrapping here, despite being offered funding in the past (unsolicited, I might add). For someone who is trying to build a healthy lifestyle business, accepting money from a VC is equivalent to agreeing to having a boss.

When entrepreneurs who have accepted funding are not able to meet certain targets, they routinely get sidelined and/or replaced. I don't know why so many people here pretend that's not the case.
The downforce isn't there to counteract air under the car (actually fast flowing air under the car produces downforce; read up on ground effect and Bernoulli).

The downforce is there so the car can go around corners quicker; the downforce increases the friction (Ff<=mu x Fn), i.e. the force of friction is less than or equal to the coefficient of friction (mu / μ) multiplied by the normal force. In the case of a tire the normal force is the downward force (provided by the wings or spoilers). Therefore the more downward force the higher the friction hence the more the tire can exert lateral force (cornering force). For example a F1 car at high speed can exert approximately 4Gs of lateral force when cornering, or 5Gs of force when breaking (at slower speeds a F1 car can't brake as hard).
This lib uses term-img internally to print generated png imagery.
I've just driven my 9-year vehicle over a 4,000 km roadtrip in Europe which included going through the Swiss Alps at 2,000 meters of altitude (which was something for a 1.4-liter car). I certainly do expect to keep my vehicle for at least another 5 years. I'm also in the market for buying a late-'90s W202 Mercedes.
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I think what may drive that will hopefully be better auto UX interfaces for devices...
You seem to be very angry with a feature of English grammar. Using they/them/their is a perfectly reasonable, consistent and well-understood way to refer in the third person to someone of unknown gender.

How would you rewrite the sentence "If the light is on when F gets to the room, they turn the light off, and they increment their counter." without using they?