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I wonder how strongly pair programming is correlated with open office plans. Depressing if true, but if pair programming offsets the distraction of open plans, there may be cases where it's more viable for a company to simply hire twice as many developers and save money on office space, just to get out of having to give people offices.

On the other hand, it seems like people doing pair programming in open plans would contribute to the overall noise and distraction- a warehouse full of pairs of people talking all the time would also be a bad scene. :(
And in particular, the Hawaiian rental car counters will tell you when you rent which roads your car is not allowed to go on.
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I spent 10 years working at GE before I left for SF and the startup world. I was a software engineer at a time when GE was shipping software engineering jobs to India to cut costs. The GE vision for software engineering was that of an assembly line, staffed by large quantities of low wage employees.

GE outsourced the majority of its technical jobs to offshore firms. I remember hearing a statistic that for every 1 GE employee in the technology department there were 4 offshore consultants. The role of GE employees in the technology department shifted from a technical skill-set to a managerial skill-set. Many of my co-workers had degrees in finance and marketing, and had never written a line of code in their life. The lack of technical expertise within the organization created what I would call a culture of fear, where people feared the software they managed because they didn't understand it.

The official term for offshore software engineers was GDC. I have no clue what the acronym stood for, but over time it certainly become a derogatory term. I remember being mocked by my co-workers for writing code and being nicknamed a GDC (as in, why would you do the work we pay people pennies to do). It was almost like a caste system within the company, where these GDC employees were low paid and looked down upon by many.

The offshore model certainly was ineffective and the result of employee discontent, however, the practice was continued and mandated at the executive level. Then the economy crashed. GE decided it was finally time to bring jobs back to the US and hire software engineers. Why? Because they were able to take hundreds of millions in federal tax subsidies from US tax payers. (As an aside, someone mentioned GE moving its HQ to Boston to be closer to engineering talent. Taxes are still the main driver here)

GE soon began hiring US software engineers at a number of designated centers where they were segregated from the rest of the company. The interesting thing is that culturally these employees were largely treated like their GDC predecessors. The perception of software engineers being low-wage assembly line employees was, in my opinion, just too engrained into the company culture.

So when GE describes this transformation to a software company, I believe the most important aspect of this transformation will be changing the company culture and employee attitudes toward software engineers. They will need to undo a decade long effort to turn engineering into an assembly line.
Any new Land Rover or Range Rover? They come with 2 locking differentials, with 3rd being an option that can be added extra. Same with Mercedes G-class - they come with 3 locks as standard. And I've no idea what you mean by "cars don't have proper ground clearance" - just buy a one that does?
I believe you are looking at this the wrong way.

Just as you most probably wouldn't be against a child learning a second language or learning to play music I see no reason why one would be against them learning programming.

Learning to program is like learning a language. The language spoken by most feedback mechanisms in the world, more than any individual national language.

The point is not to turn them into programmers but to make them comfortable and familiar with the construct of computer syntax.

Just like you don't need to learn Chinese you don't need to learn computer programming but just like learning chinese or playing an instrument will affect your thinking so will learning to program even if you don't end up a programmer.

We can't compare this with our own upbringing even though it's tempting just like our parents couldn't compare our upbringing with theirs.
Even a torsen diff, or similar helical/gear type limited slip diffs are "torque multiplying", they need a load on one wheel in order to send the "multiplied" load to the wheel with traction. Modern stability/traction systems equipped with helical diffs will apply the brake to the "free" wheel in order to provide a load to the mechanical diff. You can also apply the brakes yourself if you have a torsen diff but no electronics.

A clutch-based diff or some other type of locking diff would otherwise be required to solve the "wheel in the air" problem without applying an artificial load to the free wheel.
As I said above to another commenter, if you can explain all the observational signatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid... in another way, you should write a paper! If you don't consider all that observational evidence reliable (which maybe you do not, based on your DUNCE name) and will only be satisfied by direct detection experiments on Earth, well, I don't know what to say to you except that lots of things whose existence was deduced from observational astronomy but not from evidence on Earth panned out, including such simple things as Helium.
Author here. There will be an update to this page soon that talks about FreeBSD 11, dual booting, laptops (Mac EFI weirdness, lagg for lan/wlan failover), updates to some out of date sections like the fonts and manually configuring X. To its credit the reason it's out of date is that I haven't had to think about my computer at all since 10.0 aside from updating my packages and freebsd-update-ing to new point releases twice a year.
I don't think they are, there's often comments at the top that are posted x minutes ago where x < 10. I don't think posts that new could have that many votes. There's probably a weighting factor comparing votes to recency, maybe other factors too.
It can hold many more if you use Power Pivot.
Assertions in Java exist. Not really tests per se, but the closest thing I could think of.
> Any idea why these models aren't huge already?

People have looked at stock price impact from breaches & vulnerability disclosure before and found only very mild connections that revert themselves quickly. The only reason it seems to be working now is concentrated media attention, which doesn't seem like a repeatable strategy when the whole medical device sector is a tire fire when it comes to security. After the first few times the stock market should stop reacting to this sort of news.
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What's the salary dispersion among the founders? It sounds like you've solved one of the main issues that prevents good people from leaving their stable jobs to found startups, which is providing actually meaningful equity to a base of qualified and capable people instead of hoarding it between 1-2 founders and investors, leaving only fractions of a percent for the earliest employees.

I'm curious if you also cleared the other huge hurdle: giving up 70% of individual earning power for what is essentially a lottery ticket.
I'm beginning to wonder if income tax should be done away with entirety in favour of Land Value Tax. Yes it's generally easier to track and measure income than land value, but maybe the tax could should do the hard thing rather than the easy thing + a bunch of loopholes. I just wonder if it's possible to find enough revenue from non-income for it to work? (Though a gradual shift, lowering income tax and increasing LVT, would make the transition easier.) Could that be "fairer" to everyone if no one paid any tax on their income?

I can think of many small-business or extra-income opportunities that are passed over due to the burden of filing that income (not even the cost of tax itself!). Then again, there is still sales tax/VAT that can be a burden (e.g. VATMOSS).
> they pay a LOT as a result.

They don't pay a bit. We, on the other hand, pay and don't receive value for our money.
Really great. My only comment would be instead of the terse mathematical notation (as you can do so in this case), a simple example with code would add to clarity, especially for those of us who lack a proper maths education.
I wonder why car manufacturers still use direct force transmission with hugely complex (and in case of ignoring the instructions, outright dangerous) like 4WD/AWD instead of diesel-electric or diesel-hydraulic systems like on locomotives.

A computer could instantly shift torque with both of the hybrid solutions, you wouldn't need a clutch or a gearbox any more, not to mention cheap all-wheel-drive including the trailer in trucks. And a fuel-electric drivetrain could easily plug in a battery or supercaps for braking energy recuperation, and the fuel engine could always run at peak efficiency/exhaust gas condition...
RExcel blows.

https://bert-toolkit.com/
They probably wouldn't be able to find enough assembly developers on any consistent basis (i.e. major risk)
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I'll be there. I'm working on customer feedback and data triage automation[1]. Customers install our tool and it handles collecting customer feedback then creates relevant "buckets" to drop feedback into. Those buckets can automatically forward the feedback to relevant parties within the company, follow up with the customer in a customized way and of course the analytics are often use to drive product backlogs. We're fairly early stage, getting rolling on marketing and trying to find our first non-affiliated customers.

Excited to attend a YC event. I've been aware of the PG/YC/HN scene since Paul's initial visit to MIT that spawned YC but this is my first time attending something in person.

1. https://www.askinline.com
Big short sellers do tend to try to get themselves in the media, and they certainly aren't going to shy away from investigating companies they believe provide opportunities (and then opportunistically sharing the results of those investigations).
What is the ethical implication here?
The article disagrees with you

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Solution #2: Alternatives to Excel
Yalta (ref 1) states that p-values [inverse probability distributions] reported by the free OpenOffice’s Calc spreadsheet and the open-source Gnumeric spreadsheet do not have the same numerical problems as does Excel - their programmers used accurate algorithms."""

It is not surprising because with an open source program everyone who can program can fix such issues, while with Microsoft you are at the mercy of the likely overworked Excel team.
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That doesn't seem that bad for normal traffic, conditions permitting - unless the steeper gradients are markedly so. I'm sure they have their reasons for 4wd only though - picking too many tourists out of the ditches or whatever.

There's quite a few roads in the UK with 1:4 gradient, and one just down the road from me at 1:3 whose only restriction is no trucks and vans. Going downhill on the motorbike makes it feel like you're falling off! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardknott_Pass
Sysv is just kinda... yuck. There's a reason that there's a desire to replace it, and it's not just the desire for proper process supervision. It's a really ugly system. OpenRC is a lot better, but rc.d wins on simplicity.
We can expand this to its partial derivative form, expanding vector components to leave us with only scalar variables.

I don't understand the part where he expands the navier stokes equations to the matrix form. Can some explain how he gets to that step
The package repositories for CentOS 6 and 7 (and Fedora 23, 24, rawhide) are all distinct; each release is a git branch in a given package's repository. Whereas on FreeBSD, the head ports tree is shared between FreeBSD 9, 10, 11, and CURRENT. It's a distinction that makes a difference.
@i_are_smart, ouch, that keyboard thing sounds really weird. Would you be open to joining our public test channel to share a screenshot? https://pre-release.mattermost.com/core/channels/public-test...

Would highly appreciate your feedback on notifications and load times as well.
My two cents: this is all nice and fun if your purpose when using a computer is learning about computers, but you don't do any actual work.

When you stop "messing" and need to do actual work, you are going to really appreciate a system with sane defaults (graphic environment working out of the box, drivers pre-installed, plug&play and audio stuff that just work) that can work predictably.

Of course, no system is immune to stupidity: yes, even on Ubuntu you must be aware of what are you doing and what consequences it will have.

For me, avoiding third-parties repository and going from LTS to LTS solves 95% of the problems, and in exchange I have a stable desktop machine that works all the day, everyday.

I have been messing around with Slackware, FreeBSD, Gentoo and NetBSD in the past and I am now a happy Xubuntu (and ubuntu-server) user.
Yeah, this is a puff piece written by someone who clearly doesn't understand how this technology works.

Proof of Stake, AFAIK has never been tried in a cryptocurrency of any significant value (over $1B). Closest is ethereum which is still on Proof of Work.
This guy has three options: 1) short 2) go long 3) do nothing. Given he knows about this vulnerability, what is the "ethical" thing to do. But the stock? Don't engage?

I think, in fact, he has a duty to short the stock.
> This is an engine for web based message board (forum)
> implemented entirely in assembly language,
> using FastCGI interface and SQLite database as a storage.

Whatever acceleration is gained by writing the middleware in assembly seems like it would be lost by relying on a database written in C, even SQLite.
The big places like Uber, Facebook & Google are always hiring in NYC. Also, lots of ad-tech (ranging from small to huge) and some interesting full stack companies like Oscar hire fairly consistently.

Depends on what you're looking for.
Except that demonstrating a flaw _by predatory profit-driven entities that have a direct stake in said flaw_ leaves plenty of room for spin and hype. This is already obvious if you read the MW report, some of the "vulnerabilities" are so contrived that the real-world impact is miniscule if not entirely absent, yet they present them (whilst omitting key facts and occulting others) in such a way as to elicit a certain response from the readers.

Given that security is not a solved problem, by far, if you allow this sort of behavior you're opening up the gates of Hell.

There needs to be an objective overseer, that is not profit-driven, for proper evaluation.

This Muddy Waters-MedSec fiasco is evoking memories of the Wild West and is surely not where we want to end up.
I think he means regular 'cars' rather than 4×4s (or SUVs).
And for the minimalist, the zero-instruction C compiler

https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc
Arstechnica also runs a story on this and cites a VW case where researchers were ordered by court not to disclose a flaw: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/trading-in-stock-of-...

The real issue here is that stock effects have occurred because of both (i) a potential flaw in a product and (ii) short positions. Carson acts as a monetization platform for product flaws of publicly listed companies, creating value by executing (ii) for (i) and thus creating real pressure on companies to disclose and address (i). To what degree these accusations are true is another question and pulls this into the same reign as the currently ongoing public feud between Ackman and Icahn over Herbalife.
I find this interesting as it is an ongoing conversation with one of my closest friends. I don't think we see that we are living in a golden age because of ego.

This is always touchy when it comes up, but he seems to validate my opinion, time, and time again. From the time that we were kids (he's 40 now, and I'm getting close), he couldn't help but size himself up against some external measure. He did it with jobs, women, cars, homes...The things that are/were important to him.

The data for comparison is more available than ever and as a society we tend to accept if not celebrate gratuitous demonstrations of wealth. I think that when we are focused internally, on our own egos, on our individual place in the world relative to anyone else it easy to see it as unfair. As in, "why don't I have 'x,' I deserve it..."

But as Marcellus Wallace said, "That's pride fucking with you."

If you think about the advancements we have made, and not just through innovation and technology, we truly do live in a golden age. We are all better off than previous generations. The way we think about tolerance, diversity and inclusion continues to progress. All of this eases human suffering and generally improves our quality of life.

It's not perfect, far from it, and I'm not saying that. We have a lot of work to do. However, undervaluing the broad benefits puts them at risk.

Focusing on the value of our individual contributions to the greater, collective good changes our perspective and our internal dialogue.
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So how does it use the blockchain? How does the energy physically trade hands? Bitcoin works because its transactions have no physical backing. But it seems to me that at some point in this system I have to say, "I'll buy <x> units of energy from party <y>" and then there needs to be some verification that the party actually delivers the energy. This can be accomplished by 3rd party peers adding sensors on the lines connecting you to <y> but sensors can be fooled, and true consensus would require every party in the system to listen on every single wire, and that's wildly impractical. Or do I just blacklist peers who don't play nicely?

Additionally, how are blockchain identities linked to physical locations? How does <y> know where to deliver the energy I purchased? I wish the author would have thought these questions worth answering, or at least linked to some paper/report that goes into meaningful detail. I find the prospect of a p2p energy network really intriguing!
Not really. It means there are less crimes and criminals overall, but the criminals that do commit crimes are repeat offenders and hence have a more extensive criminal record than before.

So a few prolific criminals vs many more occasional ones.
Not sure why I was downvoted, I think it's a valid point. To prove it, here's the functionality of your library in ES5 with a naive throttle function: https://gist.github.com/nathancahill/f7ea239306737f2075a94de...

Minified (1.49kb) and gzipped (677b).

Whether lodash functions should be used instead of naive functions is up for debate. My opinion is if the lodash functions are 5x the size of the entire library, it's probably best to not include it, or to include it as a build option (if the user's project already includes lodash for example).
For some people the problem is that Ubuntu offers too much. For some it offers the wrong thing (systemd craze, for a start). Actually, if you're being involved with Ubuntu in a good way, learning things, trying out new concepts, I would say stay with the course. But try *BSD by all means, some time in the future :)
I always find it suspect when people claim that something is so bad that they cannot find a single concrete thing to criticise it on.

I'd suggest you start with the thing you believe they got "most wrong" and go from there. Otherwise this comment seems to lack substance.
The importance of Scribe was that it introduced semantic markup. Previously, formatters -- at least, all those I ever used or heard of -- had only physical markup commands: change to this font, indent by this much, insert this much vertical space, etc. Semantic markup, in contrast, specifies the intent rather than the details: emphasize this phrase, make a heading, make a numbered or bulleted list, etc.

While Scribe itself was never used very widely -- it ran on PDP-10s, as I recall, and was quite slow -- Reid's ideas influenced a number of other designs, most notably those of HTML and LaTeX. (Less notably, but I can't resist mentioning: there was a microcomputer re-implementation of much of Scribe that I did some work on in 1980-1983, that was initially called Scribble, then the FinalWord formatter, and eventually the Borland Sprint formatter [0] [1].)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor)
Isn't this analogous to buying property insurance on your neighbor's home and then posting instructions for breaking into it on the Internet? Or shorting a bank stock and then posting instructions for electronically stealing millions from it? I'm not sure this is a good thing.

Potentially, it's a slippery slope from making it easy for others to attack a company, to encouraging others to attack the company, to actually attacking the company... to benefit financially from a fall in the company's stock price.

At the extreme, this reminds me of the character Le Chifre in the Bond movie "Casino Royale," who at one point purchases put options on an airplane manufacturer and simultaneously hires a terrorist to destruct the company's new prototype airliner to profit from the declining stock price.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chiffre#2006_film_biography
How do you verify that his calculations are correct?
Interesting...

From a social sharing and SEO perspective I think this page (http://dannas.github.io/2016/08/27/review-of-seymor-paperts-...) is better than (https://github.com/dannas/dannas.github.com/blob/master/_pos...) -- but I think one or the other needs to have a canonical tag or at least a NoIndex. I haven't played with GitHub as a blogging platform -- may have to do some more research.
I would rather have heroin be illegal than come home from work every day wondering if I would have a stereo to listen to.

Where you and I differ is on the fact that not only does that very rarely happen these days;† to the extent that it does, you're completely neglecting the possibility that there just might be a correlation between the factors that would drive someone to do that (namely, the astronomically inflated street price, as already mentioned; and the fact that these people are already forced to come into contact with criminal elements just to maintain their metabolism), and the illegal status of these substances.

I wish I could live in a place where heroin users are normal people who inject a drug instead of the ones I've run across who would sell their own mothers for a dime bag.

Again, where we differ is that you're consistently focusing on the extremal cases, and not the average cases. And on top of that, neglecting the factors that cause people to slip from "average" to "extremal" -- among which, in the view of people who have worked in this area very patiently for many years the illegal status of these substances is generally seen to be one of the major, if not the most significant contributing factor.

†If it ever did happen as often as we like to believe it did in the 1970s.
To be fair, if I were to write an assembly project in this day and age, it would be to keep my chops up, not for performance (usually). Optimizers are pretty good at writing assembly these days.
Yeesh, wow, thanks @dbg31415! Have mentioned our Wordpress person to help fix this, appreciated!
You don't need a co-founder, but you shouldn't do it alone.

Every founder will have days where an investor or employee is driving you nuts, or worse - you're struggling to keep the business afloat. At these junctures, an outside coach (not linked to your funding so you're truly open and honest) can be a lifesaver, helping you work through the complex journey of growing a business.

-Single founder, 6 years 20+ employees