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I think it screams the need for price increase. If not enough people want to purchase coffee at the price to support local labor, then either sufficient demand does not exist or a new method of performing the laborious task needs to be invented.

The reason labor is cheaper in other countries is because those people have no other options, and I see no reason for taxpayers to subsidize a luxury good.
My point would be to do whatever to improve interop. At the least, focus on ux. Intrinsic quality of the code does little to address this, as much as we developers want otherwise.

And as a student, I definitely used free options. I encourage that use. Just don't think you will make much inroads in the commercial world. Until you can use all of the commercial world.
Well, obviously it's easier here, but just because something is easier doesn't automatically mean resources will be allocated to do it well. I was pleasantly surprised that at least for some newer projects Microsoft seems to do a decent job.
The attempts of the EU try to make Europe something like a country ("United States of Europe") and yes, Europe is much more segmented (yet alone by languages​, but also culturally). We all know the problems (a money union without a full political union and Brussel dictating to formally self-determined states/countries). You are twisting reality
I think the problem is that once you consider "features" in general, it tends to diffuse attention from what is absolutely essential. Of course nobody can know what is essential. But someone with vision needs to kick everything non-essential into touch and pick something.

My vote is for speed. Then again, I use almost no non-core features of any browser.
Set up a divesting schedule with regular payments based on the valuation of the company. The longer you're gone the less you have. If you've done work to get the company where it is then it's fair.

I would not take a lump some in most cases.
This is not a blog post about how to write a shell, it doesn't explain how fork actually works, it doesn't actually make the program deterministic, and it takes far too long to explain the concept of independent concurrent processsing. That's what's wrong.

If you want a detailed explanation with examples you'd have to paste several chapters from a book on Unix programming in the comment thread, although in this case there's probably already a StackOverflow thread that summarizes the problems with this post's subject.
Should I eat eggs, drink coffee or have a cup of wine this month? Just these days: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39998678
~700mg of caffeine. Sounds pretty normal.

I'm kidding. In one drink, that's a 'seeing God' amount.
Yep...
McDonald's is inherently unhealthy... And we have a complete understanding of exactly what every human should eat...
Without deviation. One way for everyone.

http://www.today.com/health/man-loses-56-pounds-after-eating...

Eight major food allergens – milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish and crustacean shellfish – are responsible for most of the serious food allergy reactions in the United States.
Allergy to *sesame is an emerging concern.
I hear you, but I think we need to take sustainability a little more seriously now while we have the luxury of a prosperous world. I think it's foolish to assume that technology will continue to bail us out at the current level of pressure we are putting on the planet's resources. More likely we will hit an inflection point where some pillar of our economy (eg. oil) becomes too expensive, and combine that with some refugee crisis created by climate change, and the federal government will not be able to maintain control. I hope it doesn't happen, but I feel like it's the most likely outcome on a 50-200 year time frame.
Generic own-occupation LTD certainly would. The own-occupation part is important, because without it most LTD policies only cover you if you can't work at all. Even then, quite a few generic LTD policies only covers own-occupation for a few years. Own-occupation to social security normal retirement age coverage is surprisingly expensive.
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Why is not every US startup in EU, the biggest western other market? a.) maybe it does not make sense due to the type of product b.) maybe it is not time yet c.) maybe they find their home market profitable enough.
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Do you have a routine you follow? Any chance of getting a more detailed account of what activities you're doing for each?
You write about an application yet not a link to the project's website in the article.
Effect sizes and low power in recent cognitive neuroscience/psychology literature
Ask the CEO whether the investors would buy your shares as part of the funding round. I've seen a company do this. It's a win for everyone. Offer a moderate discount (10-20%) to make it worth their while.

- Company gets to re-concentrate their ownership among active investors/employees, and remove "dead wood" ex-founder with small stake from the cap table. This alone might make it worth their while.

- Investors get shares more cheaply than they otherwise would

- You get cash and get to wash your hands of the company

Where this might get complicated is that you likely own founders' shares/common and the investors are getting shares with a bunch of preferences.

If the latest funding round is $20mil, 5% of that would be 1mil. What's the 409(a) value on the common shares? I doubt the shares would be worth more than 500-600k given the numbers above, so with a 20% discount, you're looking at 400-500k. I have no idea what the headline valuation is but you can probably work something out. Email is in sig if you want to talk.

EDIT: Another option would be to sell a portion, but not all, of your shares as part of the funding round. That might allay any "we can't afford it" concerns from the company while still giving you a bit of upside in case the business is a real home run. Would they take 10% of your position for 100k? That might be a good option.
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Can you build infrastructure for your company's internal processes or marketing? If so, building something that has a net multiplier on your company is very impressive to employers and shows your value. Do so with a hot new technology you want to learn and it's win win.

As an alternative, use the time to contribute to popular open source projects. That will build yor developer cred and make you more attractive to future employers.

Or take on your own freelance work and get paid double.
Here is a guy who has experimented living 'energy positive' for many years[1]. Meaning he tries to get more energy out of farming that he puts into it. In his calculations it does not make sense even to use a horse. Seems pretty tough, I think hunting and gathering would be easier way to go if you had access to the land.

Good writeup, but unfortunately in finnish.

[1]http://rihmasto.fi/artikkelit/elamamme-perusteista

(google translate) https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&...
You want to stick to a sleep schedule but also break it and still have it work the same? Seems unreasonable.
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Do you realise Firefox's marketshare was in large part due Google? It's not surprising that when they decided to go their own way they made rapid gains
Ummm... I've been a strict vegetarian for more than three decades now. I was an extreme endurance athlete, consuming in excess of 12,000 calories a day in my 20's with a vegetarian diet. I've never had a B12 or any other vitamin deficiency and the last time I saw a doctor was in my early 40's due to chest pain after a swimming workout which ultimately was the result of over-developed lungs getting caught on my rib-cage. After running numerous tests, the cardiologist was laughing at me when I walked into his office on my follow-up. He said my physical age was in-line with a 20 year old, not a 40 year old and that he'd seen maybe one other person in his years of practice in as good of physical conditioning. It sucks you had a vitamin deficiency but, you can get all the nutrients you need from a vegetarian diet.
Assuming a withdrawal rate of 4% per year, even a few million in index funds would only yield about $120k annually. And that's not factoring in the risk of a market correction or downturn.

The income you earn from owning your own business is worth at least twice as much as the equivalent income from dividends, interest, and capital gains.
And don't get me started on US visa policies to start an office there. I for one am currently in the surprisingly easy straightforward process of hiring highly qualified Iranians - which surely hesitate to come to you currently.
This. Op, answer this second question... maybe you didn't give us all the information.
Correct. See my post here:
http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-when-to-use-utf8mb3-ove...
I see this a lot too, but I figure continuing to use Firefox and complaining when I see broken websites is a good way forward. Far better than slipping into a browser monoculture.
Yep though you missed the gold standard for 'complete' proteins - eggs.

The biological value of proteins is measured against egg protein as the benchmark (I'm sure there are few proteins that exceed the egg but they are readily available, easily prepared and cheap as a protein source).
And it's very frustrating that Google Images ranks Pinterest results so highly, usually in the first and second rows. What's the use of a search result when I can't actually click-through the result?
There really isn't a conflict between the fact that ruminants can provide an important ecological service to grasslands, and the fact that CAFOS/meat factories cause ecosystem devastation.

The problem is that our economic system doesn't have a clear way to account for the ecological costs of one approach vs the ecological benefits of the other, so good meat is expensive and bad meat is cheap. Whoops.
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What's the point of encryption if you are going to share the keys via fb? That does not seem better than using a substitution cypher.
Here in the UK a single 250ml 'energy drink' gives you 80% of the RDA for B12 (depending on brand), though as with lots of RDA's when you start really digging in you find a lot of them are old and possibly dated.
Something as simple as moving the insertion point in response to an arrow key requires a big table of code point attributes and changes with every new version of Unicode. Seemingly simple questions like "how long is this string?" or "are these two strings equal?" have multiple answers and often the answer you need requires those big version-dependent tables.

I think Unicode is about as simple as it can possibly be given the complexity of human language, but that doesn't make it simple.
Here's more detail on Washington's role:
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/6-12th-grade/operation-history...
That's just insanity. Love Seth's work.
App developer here: there are two answers to that question, and one myth to dispel.

First the myth: apps do not necessarily collect more data about you. In fact as far as sketchy advertisement tracking goes, the web is far more pernicious and gives away much more of your data than native apps.

For one thing, on websites ad networks track not only what you do on that website, but can track you across sites. This is banned in native-land on pain of Apple swinging a very large banhammer on you. App developers are largely only collecting analytics on your actions in-app, and not feeding it into a larger ad network.

Even web views from inside the app (which are often used to show ads) do not have access to the cookies in your standard browser, making cross-app tracking considerably more difficult.

Anyways, to answer your question:

1 - On a strict numerical basis, most apps (70%+?) provide no significant improvement over visiting the website and are largely pointless.

2 - When weighted by installations or usage, most apps provide dramatic improvements over visiting the website and users would significantly suffer if forced into a website-only option.

Which is I guess the obfuscated way of saying: most apps are pointless, but nobody installs them anyway, they just languish in the far corners of the App Store.

The apps people tend to give a shit about (see: Facebook, Google Maps, Spotify, etc) tend to have a significant amount of functionality that is only possible (or only practical) in a native app, and would be significantly worse as a website.
Should you gain more experience with front-end, especially Javascript? Yes.

Should you change career paths to front-end? Absolutely not. Front-end is just that; web development. With Java and Ruby experience, you're not stuck to just web development but can branch off into other fields much easier.
I would expect there to be quite a bit of moral hazard involved, therefore it would have to be expensive otherwise insurance companies would be taking a loss.
It doesn't sound to me like they clearly want the OP to sell. It actually sounds like the opposite. The OP wants to get out, and they responded with a lowball offer which, if anything, would motivate the OP not to sell.
What about Vivaldi? I found it a while ago and Only use it occasionally but when I do it's blazingly fast. Any opinions? Info?
That was pretty much the same story for me. On the negative feeling about google, I seems that Google has done massive work trying to get your whole life (online and offline) into their databases. The whole point is to "enhance" the experience of you as a user and business as a google customer. I am not comfortable with the convience-privacy tradeoff but many people are.
Presumably, someone values your 5% higher than that, based on your characterization of the valuation.

People that know better than me: How nuclear an option would it be to ask the investors directly?
I would work out the difference between the salary at say Google vs what you took during your tenure at the startup then double it because of lack of upside.

Aside: If the co-founder is an HN reader, then they probably know the throwaway account is you. That is going to skew this negotiation.
> especially as research indicates that there are tradeoffs between dynamic and static typing

Not really.

How come there are plenty of dynamically typed languages that are migrating toward optionally static typing but never the other way around?

Even Bracha himself, a very strong advocate of dynamically typed languages, has felt the need to work on Strongtalk and then later, to have Dart support optional static types.

Today, we have very good type inference engines and there is really no reason to ever want to use a dynamically typed language. This is the trend, this is the present and the future.

Javascript is going to be around for a while for legacy reasons but in a few years, we'll look back at dynamically typed languages with a fond "Yeah, it was a good idea at the time but we know better now" look.
Where do they move to?
Lumen (from Laravel) with Nginx on Linode.

PHP 7.1 has given a huge boost in terms of the performance you can get from a cheap VPS.
browser.tabs.remote.autostart should already be default-enabled, unless your extensions aren't compatible with it. It'll tell you "disabled by add-ons" in about:support, if that's the case.

And you can enable multiple content processes prior to Firefox 54 by setting dom.ipc.processCount to a number higher than 1.
This is the maximum number of content processes that it'll use, as you open more tabs. So, if your number of tabs exceeds that value, it'll currently still distribute them among your content processes round-robin-style.

You get the best performance vs. RAM ratio with this value at 4 (or I believe rather just the number of cores your CPU has). This is also what Firefox 54 will ship with. You get the best security and best performance, disregarding RAM, by setting it to something really high, like 500, so that a new process starts up with each tab that you open (which allows each tab to be sandboxed individually).
> However, most Americans

Please just keep this sort of handwavy national generalization off HN altogether. It's unsubstantive and leads to flamewars. Since you've done this repeatedly, it's worth stressing the point.
I'd love to get a 9-5 sleep pattern. Sleep at 9pm, wake at 5am.
Part of the issue is maintenance. Coming back to code you haven't worked on in a while can require more time to load back into your head than a typed language. And speaking from experience [1], refactoring in a typed language also tends to go more smoothly.

> I'm surprised you used it professionally and have that mindset

I used to have your mindset when I first started working with Clojure :)

Keep in mind that not all typed languages are created equal. Clojure is still much better than Java. But I find I'm quite productive with OCaml, due in large part to the simple but powerful type system, plus the fantastic module system. OCaml does have some drawbacks compared to Clojure, but they're not related to static typing. The main disadvantages are the macro system (even the new extension point stuff is cumbersome compared to a proper macro system) and the smaller library ecosystem.

[1] I've done a lot of refactoring in Clojure, and while it wasn't terrible, types can help a lot.

[Edit] To be clear, I do think Clojure has a lot going for it, but I don't think any of it's advantages are due to being dynamically typed, and there's no reason a statically typed language can't have the same benefits.
The number of things people do to break old games consistently amazes me. Glitched speedruns ala 0 Exit in SMW (first demoed on a real SNES by the creator of this video) and Ocarina of Time Any% show an insane amount of dedication.
Except you don't need 100% and it's not even a good idea to optimize for SLOC coverage. Doing TDD for 90+% of stories and reported bugs is sufficient.

Linting also catches variable misspellings.
What can you buy for $100K? It's not worth thinking IMO. Keep your 5% and find a job if you need $100K cash.
Maybe by suggesting that you would contact the investors directly to purchase your shares at a slightly discounted rate?
The last thing we were keeping it around for was the extension support, but they unfortunately killed that so I now recommend Edge over Firefox for resource-constrained systems. It's not there yet, but it's got a brighter future than Firefox.

But yeah nothing pissed me off more than them saying they support choice when they kill off well-supported standards they don't like [1], fire employees over their (common) religious beliefs [2], take the longest to roll out critical security features [3], and prioritize shitty UI updates that nearly everyone hates [4].

All I keep hearing is that the new multi-process is so much faster, everything is great now, but every time I run it on fairly decent systems (i7 from late 2013) it takes multiple seconds to switch tabs.

It really is a joke that their head of marketing wasn't fired for that post, it only supports the true thing that Mozilla has come to stand for: hypocrisy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
[3] https://community.qualys.com/thread/12421
[4] https://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/23/80-unhappy-firefoxs-austra...
Note that the encoding that MySQL calls "latin1" (and uses as its default) is not, in fact, latin1. It is windows cp1252 except with 8 random characters swapped around. I wish I was joking.
Note that he probably owns common shares, and the investors are buying preferred shares. Also, he's going to be diluted below 5% in the post-money era.
The UX/UI on the steam client truly is awful, unintuitive, and the update processes are really ugly (plus, two different updaters actually run, with completely different UIs).

Also, it doesn't even have highdpi support, so it's already small fonts become illegibily small.
Such a check would be very useful for checking domains. Right now, a malicious attacker could register google.com, but with one of the characters replaced by a (nearly) identical looking unicode symbol. Then, the attacker could use HTTPS and create a login page identical to gmail's. No, all it takes to get someones credentials are a link to mail.google.com.

It would be nice if the authorities handling the registration of the domain names could forbid domains that look to much like each other.
You could say that if the CEO doesn't improve the offer, you're going to write directly to the board / new investors.

I'm not saying you should do this. Nor am I suggesting it's a good tactic. But it may provide leverage if you need some.
> Not really.

Can you provide support for this claim? Existing research [1] seems to indicate that it isn't clear-cut at all.

> Today, we have very good type inference engines and there is really no reason to ever want to use a dynamically typed language.

Type inference has its shares of issues once you're dealing with non-local type inference, subtype polymorphism or parametric polymorphism.

[1] https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
Yeah, on linux Chrome just chews through my battery.
Oh, but if people annotate the title, it won't compile anymore.
If that is less than 1/3rd what your shares would be worth if you sold them as part of the funding round you're not getting fair value. You have to decide whether you want fair value or not, but ~1/3rd the value of the shares in this funding round (assuming those investors got preferred shares, etc) is the low end.

Investors in the round would probably buy your shares for 1/3rd - 2/3rds of their value and you should consider asking if that's an option and then negotiate from there. The only reason to let the company buyout your shares for a lowball offer is if you left the company after a short period of time without proper vesting and you want to do the right thing for the company's sake. Doesn't sound like that's the case.
A Fiber is a cooperative multitasking strategy. As such, a fiber must yield at some point to allow other fibers to do their work.

Green threading is just the idea of doing the scheduling of threads in user-space. It can be preemptive or cooperative. Fibers and green threading aren't mutually exclusive, afaik.
Yes I'd take those odds because of the mind boggling social power and freedom that comes with being a billionaire. Although yes, penicillin and vaccines are the best argument for living now than then.
Art is a bit like white noise or a fluffy cloud: You can see everything you want in it – and that's exactly what you see. So basically everything qualifies as a solution. This is easy to see with poems or more abstract music (like drones). But I think the same holds true for pop music only that there are some rules on top of it and a marketing department that "assists" the consumer a bit in what they should see in it.
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