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Picasso said "Good artists copy, great artists steal" which is quoted again by Steve Jobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

Even to do something like a simple library and to publish it professionally will need `high quality`: code, tests, documentation (user/developer/guides), examples at a minimum. Basically the long tail of polishing is that 80% perspiration, 19% perspiration is to get to the stage (MVP may be) where you get on to polish it and that 1% innovation is when you kick your backside to get going!
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Great idea, we will stick Farmflo up there, we are looking for new devs just now!
> I meant anyone already in the country and legally permitted to work, not the country you were born in.

Ah, fair enough, I guess the reason is to "avoid the process of bringing someone from abroad". Sounds pragmatic enough to me.

> One objective reason to favor hiring a candidate living locally over one abroad is effective communication. The less local a candidate is, the greater the chance of poor communication due to increasingly diverging dialects and cultures and a lack of knowledge about the local culture.

You have just contradicted yourself; but let's bite: Even if this looks reasonable to you, it's nowhere near the problem you think it is and most of the times far outweighed by the other reasons you had to choose a non-locally-born-or-raised candidate.

It also decreases diversity, which studies show is an advantage and not just a nicety.
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Ugh sorry, either osx or firefox is screwing with my clipboard, marked
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This is a really facile comment; markets are not an infinite continuous smooth differentiable array of feature/price points, they're a mess of bundles with obfuscatory pricing an some negative added value features that have been stuck on there because the OEM was paid to do so.
Fiwix, a hobby posix kernel started in 1998 and still gets constant updates
TL;DR - have a rich family or marry a rich person. if neither work - go to harvard and hope
This is fantastic success story! Thank you for sharing. A schoolbook example of disruption howto.
I have only 76 posts, and all of them cached on disk take 3MB, so don't have this problem yet.

However I'm thinking about something else: I'm going to write a blog software with a nice api. It will be storing posts in a database on the server side, and will store them on the local too (as cache) - however the source files will be on disk, versioned by git. And it will send just new versions to server using a local command line utility. I really love publishing with a one liner.

This way I could have fast search, and comments on the server side.
Once was speaker before a few hundred recent grads and asked if they wanted to be a billionaire. Only a few raised there hands.

My theory is most people want more stuff, few really want to be billionaires, or even just part of the 1%.
You're basically talking about building another emergency spillway. We could build one, sure, but why would it be any better than the existing one? It would still have the same risks of e.g. rapid erosion (making a concrete one isn't going to be any quicker than repairing the main spillway, I would think), and whatever was at the bottom of it would probably be less prepared to receive a surge than the river is.
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The most cited deep learning papers: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="deep+learning"
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> If someone had said 10 years ago that an organization like NSA exists, and that it is conducting electronic surveillance at the level that it currently is, they would have been laughed at as a conspiracy theorist.

No need to imagine. They did, and they were.
Yeah, more engineers will be needed (possibly), and so also more managers, project managers, product managers etc. will be needed. So I doubt this is going to resolve the problem.
It's turds all the way down.
FWIW Racket has two types of cons cells: mutable and immutable. And if you know what you are doing - then you can abuse the FFI to mutate the immutable ones (but don't tell anyone) using unsafe-set-mcar! and unsafe-set-mcdr!.
If you actually want your software used, then a known license is the best. In a corporate environment, it will be much easier to approve BSD or even GPL than WTFPL. There's most likely a preapproved list of known licenses and everything else needs to go through legal.

You want your library used in the next big project? Don't use WTFPL.
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That took some guts
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> That suggests that the simplest way to become extremely rich is by being born to the right parents. The second-easiest way is to find a rich spouse.

Articles showing just how unattainable wealth is in the USA always remind me of this quote which seems to be the most concise summary of why many poor and middle class people vote against their own economic interests:

> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Poe's law I guess then, sorry about that. You didn't make it easy to see, judging by the serious responses you got!
Basically having Rich parents makes it easier to become rich. This is even true in the Netherlands. I see children buying houses with parents money and subrenting it to make a profit. I just cant do this, i don't have the capital
What's wrong with the MIT license? It's almost the same as WTFPL, but actually recognised.
> My theory is most people want more stuff, few really want more enough money to be a billionaire, or even just part of the 1%.

Or it's unreasonable to expect to be able to, and few people dream about stuff they know can never happen. To avoid disappointment.
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Really would've thought that with high resolution, time series, and sophisticated algorithms to look at the structure and location relative to what's expected/likely, you could make the data useful. I know what you're saying is true now, but is it inherently true or just a factor of immaturity in the technology?
Rebol/View (& SDK) was a great alternative. An extremely light weight language, library & cross-platform GUI (exe was under 1mb). Ideal for very rapid GUI prototyping...

* http://www.rebol.com/rebol-view.html

* http://www.rebol.com/docs/sdk/

* http://re-bol.com/business_programming.html

NB. I say "was" because Rebol 2 SDK has (i believe) been discontinued. Rebol 3 & Red do offer new GUI / encapping replacements but not at same level of maturity.
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I too have learned Elixir and am interested in these sort of small scale Internet businesses. If you want to chat about ideas and do a regular office hours style meeting that would be cool. My theory is that just doing the office hours each week will focus minds and help us to clarify the most important things we should be working on.
Microsoft stopped distributing individual patches, all updates are now rolled up into one package. Therefore, if one patch causes issues, none of them can be released.

Windows 10 already worked like that, last fall they started doing the same for older OS'es.

See: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/...
I think the priority was to reenable discussion of new movies and TV shows, that would be useful moving forward. But maybe they could make an API.
Rockstar North are missing too. Probably one of the most successful Scottish tech companies.
The question may be the same, but it's answers that count.

If you're talented and/or motivated enough, you can get from zero to a decent salary in software in a year. Decent developers are rare, hiring practices are mostly wrong, the need for developers is sky high and grows.

You may have some trouble getting your first position - lack of degree and experience can be limiting - but that's expected, I think. However, once you get your foot in the door you just need to work there for three to six months and suddenly you'll become hireable by almost anyone. After another half a year you can start getting picky about your offers.

I'm not aware of any other industry where you can get good results this quickly (although I'd be thrilled to know if there is one, as I'm starting to feel a bit burnt out) while - on the other hand - in many industries, people work for years on end without a raise, being constantly threatened by lay-offs and so on.

I think software devs are playing the game of life in the "easy" (or even debug) mode and that it's going to stay that way until around general-purpose AI. The only thing I fear is that I won't be retired before that happens, but that's still (I hope!) a bit far off in the future.
Interesting also about the data interface, I wonder whether you can get full data out of a standard MRI, or whether you can only look at it through a proprietary interface.
This is an interesting project. As someone who has struggled up and down with weight at different times in my life I know having structure has been a huge benefit. Having plans that fit my needs is the most challenging and offloading that would be a huge time saver. I'd be an ideal target customer for you, but, based on the MVP today I'm not ready to buy.

Here are a few pieces of feedback/considerations:

1) 'Automated Accountability' is very unclear. Many consumers look at your pricing table first and may not read into more details. Consider A|B testing clear language around this or letting people hover over for a description?

2) I'm not 100% about the legal situation in various US states, but, in Canada for example meal plans and exercise plans should come from registered professionals (Personal Trainers, and Registered Dietitians or Registered Nutritionists). You may reduce your legal liabilities and increase consumer confidence if you have these people involved in your project even as advisers. If that is the case currently, consider making it more clear.

3) Some level of "About Us" seems crucial. In the health industry a lot of people by into the "why". What is your expertise or story that makes you the right choice for them.

For Geek Fitness (http://www.geekfitness.net/) it was personal weight loss stories.

For Jenny Craig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Craig,_Inc.) it was Monika Lewinsky [et al] whose stories put them on the map.

For Janet Jacks (http://discoverthepoweroffood.ca/) it was helping combat her husbands diabetes.

For Joe Cross (http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/) it was reclaiming his health from weight challenges and skin issues (and making it into a great documentary).

What's your story that will connect personally with the struggles of these individuals? They need something to say "Hey, that's where I am at. If it works for them it could work for me!"

4) $6 seems low for personalized meal plans. In fact, it seems too low. Personalization is a premium product. As a consumer I'd be skeptical that anyone is spending any time validating meal plans at that price point. For $6 introduce generic meal plans for weight loss. Charge me a premium price for personalization. You make more money and I have more faith.

5) Do you account for allergies or health issues? If I am diabetic would there be too many carbs or sugars for me? It's worth thinking about. I would estimate that those who pay a premium for personalization are those under-served by automated solutions currently. Having one customer who pays $45 a month for a well personalized plan is much easier to manage than 45 $1 a month customers!

Best of luck!
That would probably be illegal for unlicenced use. WiFi firmware the way it's written now is considered hardware (at least in the US) just like the parent of your comment said.
By America they mean the country "USA". Not Brazil or Mexico or any other part of America. Given the salary inequality between the USA and most of the other countries in America it is easy to automatically imply that you only need to be in the USA to get rich in America.
Scheme (as in the R5RS spec and earlier) is a very minimal language specification. This means that all practical Scheme implementation add features not present in the specification. In some areas the Scheme implementors agree - and in others: not so much. Racket has many features not covered by R6RS/R7RS. However due to the module and macro system that enables you create languages (that compiles to Racket modules), it is possible for Racket to provide a language compatible with Scheme. That is: Racket includes an implementation of Scheme.
Of course you need an audience, people who want your product.

Do you expect to make a product that no one wants and somehow succeed?
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Or they know that even if they could they would have to step on a lot of people's toes and compromise many of their own principles to do it. That's kind of the problem of rising in any hierarchy -- you basically have to become the sort of person you'd likely dislike to do it.
I deeply respect and admire Torvalds, but in the corporate world, the hypey/trendy thing helps tech people getting important changes approved by upper management, at least in my experience.
I work in a tech company whose culture is primarily driven to productivity (read: getting business features delivered using the established stack and tools, as quick as possible). There is certainly an upside to it, but it produced a mindset in wich, in the face of a new problem, developers didn't even think of the possibility of bringing another tool to the toolbox. I mean seriously, to the extent of building their own xml parsers.
Only recently we have been able to assemble an architecture team (i know, i hate the concept) to actually find adequate solutions to the bigger issues, and the hype is sometimes a powerful enabler to push things forward.
I doubt both claims are true, especially the one about his annual salary. I would like to see a better source; I googled it, but the only other answer I found was that in 1999, he got some shares from Redhat worth of about $20 million.
Chris Anderson: So you spoke to me last week about these two guys. Who are they and how do you relate to them?

Linus Torvalds: Well, so this is kind of cliché in technology, the whole Tesla versus Edison, where Tesla is seen as the visionary scientist and crazy idea man. And people love Tesla. I mean, there are people who name their companies after him.

The other person there is Edison, who is actually often vilified for being kind of pedestrian and is — I mean, his most famous quote is, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." And I'm in the Edison camp, even if people don't always like him. Because if you actually compare the two, Tesla has kind of this mind grab these days, but who actually changed the world? Edison may not have been a nice person, he did a lot of things — he was maybe not so intellectual, not so visionary. But I think I'm more of an Edison than a Tesla.

http://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linu...
I love Heisenbugs because I have seen one in the wild. It's the most absurd thing ever.
As though a huge number of poor immigrants haven't come to the US and succeeded massively, after coming from nothing?

Is this person serious?
MIT and all other BSDish licenses require attribution.

There's an understandable wish by some people to just radically reduce the complexity of this whole topic. I don't want to have to say "You can use this for whatever, you just have to ...", even if "..." just means "you have to keep this line with the copyright info". I simply want to be able to say "you can use this for whatever you want, no restrictions".
It's probably no surprise that the same people that think hard work is what leads to success are the same people that don't understand what the wealth distribution actually looks like in america.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wealth_Inequality_in_Amer...
Basically all the childish and immature ones.
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I second this. Not having parents who spend their life accumulating wealth (read: bought a house which increased an order of magnitude in value over the last 20 years) makes it very hard to even afford a house for your own use, let alone buying one to rent out. With the wealth gap growing ever larger, it becomes increasingly hard to 'break out' of the (lower) middle class.
I never thought of it that way. Thanks for the insight.
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I agree about #3 - right now it looks pretty faceless and doesn't have a story. In fitness we seem to need an exemplar who is fit, talks the talk and walks the walk.

The stock images of attractive skinny people don't establish the same credibility as a first person or team bio.
I don't really want more stuff, and I could comfortably live off of ~$20k per year here in LA, but I would love to be a billionaire.

On second thought, I do actually want more stuff too, I'd love to have my own welding/machining workshop.
Hence not disputing the deportation, merely the level of border security.
Totally agree with you. Further to that he is assuming that picking up Swift or Objective-C is the hard part of developing in the Apple ecosystem, when in my view it's picking up the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch APIs which are shared by either language.
The companies house data should be useful in that the company name is different for companies registered in scotland (Starts with SC) compared to those started in england and wales which just have a number.

I'd say there's probably a big correlation between that and companies operating primarily in Scotland as there's no major difference in terms of tax etc (for now) on where companies are registered, so no incentive to put in an artificial registration.
The actual distribution looks exactly like the 80/20 rule. So even though that may not be ideal, it is definitely not shocking or unexpected.
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With asses price inflation, depressed wages, insane taxes and and overaged population it is very hard in the EU. Only few make it. By plain luck or maybe by ability.

But you can leave. Best decision I ever made.
No. It doesn't. More like a 60/1 rule. Or a 40/0.1 rule.
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I would invest my time reading http://darebee.com - it's free (a.k.a donationware, crowd-funded) and contains valuable exercise and nutrition information just within the reach of a click. And if you want to spend money, you can always click the donate button.
Ja cause if you tried 2% innovation you'd need 198% perspiration to go with it.
I know it's very confusing to a lot of people, but USA stands for United States of America. It's also the only country in the world that has America in its name.
Putting Java on nuclear subs would allow the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to turn the doomsday clock back by ten minutes or so, thanks to the infamous InvalidCoordinateArgumentYouCannotTargetTheMoonException. ;-)
Your good point is getting very unfairly down-voted by disagreers. Sure, he's set for life, but compared to his massive contribution to the industry, Linus seems to have left a lot of money on the table. I know--it's stupid to believe in the just-world, but it grinds my gears that in our world talkers tend to be rewarded orders of magnitude more than doers.
Blah blah college. Degree has nothing to do with getting rich
This article is about employers hiring Ivy League graduates. Why is this news? The phenomenon is just as acute in SV as it is on Wall Street.

The Tier 1 schools in the US are the Ivy League, MIT, and Stanford.

Getting into these great schools starts by being incredibly precious in elementary school and middle school, and really accelerating the positive energy and focus in high school.
Stupid question: why not unsigned int?
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I don't think it is because he couldn't generate a fair amount of wealth from his work, but rather that he chose not to, and I believe that is what lead to the success of the project.

I also don't see him as a world-renowned genius (as you put it), because he isn't one and from what I've understood from watching his talks & reading the mailing list he himself does not want to be refered to as one either.
I think that people should keep that in mind when they read articles about Linus, because most articles tries to portray him as some kind of higher form of being among the likes of Steve Jobs & Gabe Newell, which I believe is not the way he'd like to be perceived when you read a sentence he spoke.
>judging by the serious responses you got!

Yup, I'm surprised too ;) At least it shows how much respect MS and NSA have now.
I wonder if uemacs is now that rarest of beasts, a piece of software that is actually _done_.

Edit: apparently it has no undo. The rules:

1) Linus does not make mistakes

2) In the event of Linus making a mistake, see rule 1

3) ...

4) git reset --hard HEAD
I'm 50, been programming for >30 years, and never had a client ask me that either, but recently I've found myself asking that a lot of the time.

I am at that stage where I know that I cannot work as fast as I did 20 years ago, and that my endurance for all night programming sessions is not like it was. Add to that back and shoulder problems, and degraded eyesight from sitting in front of a monitor for years, and I am thinking about what happens to my clients and my work if I am forced to take a break for health reasons.

I've spent time talking to a lawyer (and some of my clients) about putting source code in escrow with them, and letting other family members know where they can find a list of critical logins for all the services I use in my day to day work. Call it a 'work will' if you like, but I want to ensure that if I am not able to do the work anymore, for whatever reason, I want my clients to be looked after.
May I ask what the software you created was?

Doesn't have to specific.
> which barely worked for him in terms of earnings.

100M$+ or so? Barely? Where do I sign?

You could not spend > 10M$ on yourself and your direct dependents meaningfully in a lifetime.