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Sorry dude, but these places are ghettos. If you have to go to the ghetto, make it your highest priority that you don't stay there. Do the work and try to build your portfolio.

Better yet, create interesting side projects and ship / OSS them. Indirectly, Twistori brought in more consulting work for me than antyhing else I ever did.
Won't do you much good if you can't develop that film.
I like to go through some old stuff from when I first started, most of my 3 line Hello World stuff, or returning form contents. Then even though I'm not working at Google, I've come a long way.
No I can't, I'm not an economist. However it seems to me the tax payers could bail out the FDIC instead, or they could buy the banks instead of handing them a big ass blank check.
All that matters at this point is that you should have a cap table and a stock valuation.

Your investment can be one of the following:

1) cash investment where you buy stock like any other investor

2) loan with defined payback terms.

Just because you are a cofounder or have some equity now does not mean you have to invest and put your money at risk for no ROI
Wow, I've been looking at Perl 6 stuff for a while and this might be the most awesome post I've seen. It's like Perl 5, but Perlier :) Reeally looking forward to golfing in Perl 6.

I can't imagine how I will remember all of the Ways To Do It, though, given that I'm not likely to use only Perl all the time. There are so many builtins, operators, etc. that I'll be constantly living in the manual.
Your code isn't general. You have to change the interface. In Io is there just one interface (send a message). If the slot identified by the message send is activatable (a method), then it is activated, otherwise it is just returned.
Going to college.
It paid for itself after about 1.5 years.
If I didn't go to college, I probably never would have believed that I could start a successful business. I went to college hoping for a good job when I got out. I left college hoping to retire at an early age.
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I don't spend time working on paying gigs so I could put money in other people's businesses.

Instead, I take as few of those jobs I can and invest my time in me.
Are you using Chrome or Chromium?

libpdf.so isn't free (as in speech), so it's not bundled with Chromium.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/use-google-chromes-native...
I don't think you leaving your job factors into how much ownership you should get, as long as this means all of the cofounders are putting in full time at the startup.

If you are infusing cash into the company, you could first ask the other cofounder(s) if they can contribute the same amount and if not, ask them how they think you should be compensated for this investment. They might very well come up with higher equity on their own, or surprise you with some compelling offer of their own.
> I predict this law will get repealed pretty quickly and quietly before it goes into effect.

> They already went through this process with SOX

Has SOX been repealed, then? I know of at least two businesses it's prevented from an IPO.

It only makes sense to repeal if the gov't motive is to maximize revenue. As we've seen repeatedly, "duty" is not a concept that impacts career politicians in the slightest.
IMO it is both/and not either/or. Flogging + making things as interesting as possible. As I suggested on the other branch, I highly recommend calligraphy as, in my experience, appreciating the beauty of the characters helps with retention.

Unfortunately getting good at calligraphy also takes time and effort...
With C comes the pedantry

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
int arr[4] = {0, 1, 2, 3};
int * p = arr + 5; // valid
*p; // undefined behavior
return 0;
}
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Who is "we" ?
When I had cash[1], I mostly kept large cash positions, you'll pretty always find something valuable to do with cash eventually. Whereas getting out of bad/sub-optimal assets is trickier. I've had opportunities to invest cash along with labor to get some pretty good stakes in a couple businesses that turned out right. I also didn't realize this at first, so I tried to buy stocks and mutual funds, thus missing out on a couple great deals later when I didn't have the cash.

If you're good with money, don't be in such a hurry to get out of cash. If you sit on cash for two years, then make a 60% return on it in year 3, you've outperformed anyone making 10% each year. I'm sure there's a personality type that goes crazy if they're sitting on a significant amount of cash for two years that isn't doing anything, but that's not me. I'd rather be liquid than to have money in bad or even just sub-optimal assets.

[1] After the crash, I had enough to live for ~3 years without working too much. I wrote the first draft of a book, wrote some specs out on business ideas to see if any of them really resonated, studied some rationality, biochemistry, and the history of lots of different regions of the world. Did some martial arts, read lots of books, and traveled in a pretty spartan way, mostly slumming it through a dozen or so countries. A couple months ago I felt like it was time to get back into things, my newest professional endeavor soft-launches next Wednesday.
It's a work in progress. It looks up the URL you enter on delicious to see what it's been tagged as, and how much. Then it finds the most similarly tagged pages.

Which URLs did you enter which brought up unsatisfactory results?
But MacPorts requires the Apple Dev tools to be installed, it can't go by itself.
The great injustice here as I see it is, Wall Street destroys the economy, makes billions doing it, passes the cost on to US Government via skilled use of FUD (especially the F part), capture, and paid-for access, and gets away clean (with a few show trials like Madoff).

Now the government is so cash strapped that they're looking to squeeze the rest of the country to make up for it. This appears to be the greatest reverse wealth transfer I've ever witnessed or even read about.
If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

-- Marco Arment

(via http://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/13642753090)
A couple friends & I pooled our cash and gave a buddy $150 for a week's vacation. Our buddy ended up meeting his wife on that trip. Best money I ever spent.
I just a newsyc20 tweet that said (via my twitter-id)

Figuring out the HN poster's twitter id and then including that in the tweet makes newsyc20 even more interesting
Also, you're probably more physically (and mentally) tired.
thanks. i appreciate the reply.
No need to deny the sales pitch aspect so long as you have a product. What exactly is recommended by the CET/IUP folks (I know both FYI) ? Everything?

There were a bunch of sites like yours awhile ago, although I'm not sure how many have survived or become profitable.
Automattic/Wordpress.com does either automated Continuous Deployment or have their deployments so streamlined that releases are made very frequently and are (almost always) non-events.
> I drove an old porsche I found in a junkyard

This (along with a lot of other stuff you mentioned...) is interesting, what happened? Were you just looking around a junkyard and stumbled across it? What state did you get it in and how much did you know about cars when you got it?

I found this on your site but it didn't give much background info: http://trickykegstands.com/porsches.html
There is no easy fix for this. You need to be disciplined enough to keep working when you've done all the fun parts.

The good news is that if you can get better at being disciplined just by practising it, and the rewards are very high, because you become a finisher, and people like and value finishers.

Also, the act of finishing is immensely enjoyable, and is therefore its own reward. With practice your mind will begin to be motivated by that reward, once the little rewards of the early parts of projects have gone.
Other iPad Twitter clients have no problem with throttling. I guess they should have done client-side processing, rather than server-side.
It is extremely annoying to make "recoverable" encryption schemes even nominally secure. Most of the time, anything that can mail your password might as well be storing the raw passwords. It's bad mojo to suggest that "reversable encryption" is a good strategy.

Every time this comes up, someone suggests some rube goldberg contraption involving multiple hosts and escrowed keys which is hard to refute except that it never exists in the real world and, even if it did, would still only provide security that asymptotically approaches hashing.
Finding and seeing a good therapist.
Believe me, I know how it feels. I think the most common thing you might hear is that people just "don't get it". You have to understand that people visiting your site have zero vision of what it is supposed to do, and how they can use it. They haven't spent x hours a day for the past y days with this idea stuck in their head, nor have they loaded the page 10,000+ times. The problem is, it's kind of hard to erase your current perspective and take a fresh look at something. Impossible, really.
It seems fairly similar to a new website launch that crashes under the traffic. Sure you have eyeballs but they just think "oh yeah, that thing is junk" and tell everyone that.

The only advantage for an app is that people might still have it downloaded when they want to try it again. If they don't delete it immediately (and rate it 1 star in the popup).
Next pet peeve to go after: sites that POST logins to https form actions from HTML pages served over insecure connections.
For me, interacting with actual users motivates me to "polish" a project. I can imagine it is very tough if you can't go live. Not launching until things are perfect seems like a problem in and of itself.
As soon as I realized I had to be involved with startups, I quit grad school, bought a one-way plane ticket to California and haven't looked back since. Best $500 spent ever.

You truly can't appreciate the pace, the spirit and the community that is Silicon Valley without physically living in it. These past few years have been the greatest and most fulfilling time in my life so far.
It's possibly time for me to point to the freely available book Arnold Bennet's 'How to Live on 24 Hours per Day' as an interesting read.
Presumably you should be able to setup a digital filter to apply the same effect to any source image.
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Wow; read a bit of this just to get an idea of how stylistically different in presentation the judgments of US and U.K. courts are.
There is much that makes me nostalgic about film but I regret its loss as an educational tool the most. Learning photography is about learning to slow down.

A finite roll, an arduous and tactile development process all encourage patience and being methodological in a way digital photography doesn't.
You can try navigating inside the main Developer Tools package and installing the individual components (although they may not link properly).

I don't see any reason why you can't compilers. Here's the instructions for Clang [1] and LLVM [2].

You can't really do a lot without the system headers and libraries, though, which are installed via the Xcode Dev Tools.

[1] http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/installation.html
[2] http://llvm.darwinports.com/
When I have issues of this ilk, I look for the next, absolutely concrete, thing I can do that will result in a payment.
You've summed it up pretty well.

I saw a survey recently that said the number of young Japanese who have no desire to live abroad is going up quickly. The very next day, I read an article about a big auto show in China, where one of the senior designers at Honda complained to a reporter that his young engineers were only interested in designing cars for the Japanese domestic market's needs.

Hard to say where it's going, though those are certainly disturbing ancedotes. I'm dropping down the rabbit hole; I start Japanese lessons in Tokyo next month, after years of dabbling in my spare time. I think there's going to be big opportunities for cross-cultural folks there.
ToDo lists. I find that when I get bogged down for any reason, if I create a todo list of items that have to get done I'm more likely to do the items on the list. I tend to pick up momentum as I cross items off the list. Make the list a manageable size, finish it off and create a new one.

For product related tasks, getting actual users and feedback from them is a huge motivator as well.
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What I do—and this is definitely easier in a startup where you have a greater ownership stake—is to take pride in efficiency. The number of bugs fixed. The number of tweaks produced.

Having a nice low-friction issue tracking system can help with this. I like Pivotal Tracker.
Character to find : Kevin Bacon

Question	Answer given	Answer expected

Does your character really exist?	Yes	Yes

Is your character an adult man?	Yes	Yes

Is your character a citizen of the United-States?	Yes	Yes

Does your character play in movies?	Yes	Yes

Is your character currently more than 50 years old?	Yes	Yes

Is your character dead ?	No	No

Does your character use intense violence in his movies?	Probably not	No

Is your character white?	Yes	Yes

Has your character ever been nominated for an Oscar?	No	Don't know

Does your character have a moustache?	No	No

Is your character from a TV series?	No	No

Is your character a singer?	No	No

Does your character mostly play in comedies?	No	No

Does your character often play in action movies?	No	No

Is your character a porn actor?	No	No

Has your character ever retired?	No	No

Is your character an actor?	Yes	Yes

Does your character appear in a dance movie?	Yes	Yes

Is your character a disciple of Muten Roshi/Turtle Hermit in Dragon Ball?	No	No

Is your character silver-haired?	No	No

You have to answer the questions accurately. He guessed correctly on the first attempt and in 20 questions. Even though I don't know how a someone can really exist and be a character in Dragon Ball and it asks if he is an actor even though earlier he asked if they play in movies.
I emailed you a copy.
"Artificial pancake." You know, as opposed to the ones that grow on trees. Great.
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I found probability and statistics to be a very valuable thing to learn as well. I wouldn't have done it on my own because it just seemed so boring compared to the other maths(calc, linear algebra, etc...) but it really has a lot of use in those disciplines that you now have the context to understand. Thankfully my college had it as a requirement for cs.
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The quote is spot-on. Almost every investment in oneself will generate a healthy ROI in the long run in my opinion.

Minor footnote: Maybe it is just a pet peeve of mine but I cannot count how many times I have seen the name of Warren Buffett spelled as Warren Buffet. (http://www.google.com/search?q=warren+%2Bbuffet)
We'd love to launch on every platform at once, but given that we're a startup, we are going to start with one platform. Coming soon to others!
The work is not only the flash of the new shiny. Those pesky issues and small annoying bugs are part of the work. Try to raise your perspective from 'what's new' to 'what's great' and 'what's great' requires focusing on what the client needs rather than on your excitement. Delivering what someone needs will, in the long run, give you more enjoyment than the fun of exploring the unknown.
Yeah, it's important to make the distinction between continuous deployment and continuous integration.

Continuous integration is a fairly simple thing: detect a new source commit, run a battery of tests on it, report back. Hudson is a really good one (of which the original author is a main contributor, and I did some plugin work for a while), and I use it as a fairly fancy looking cron as well.

Continuous deployment, as described in the article, is much more difficult. Not only do you have the slew of tests, but maybe you want more long-running tests that you don't care to run all the time. Maybe you want code reviews. You'll need to automate the actual deployment process and so on.
> The number of bugs fixed. The number of tweaks produced.

possibly even better: the number of bugs not produced
"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I only have to get off one more of these :-)
I'm sure practising the writing is a very effective way to learn, but I'm more than a little skeptical when people tell me there's 'only one way to learn'. I've been at it for two years now. I'm not moving very fast but I've learned about 1,700 words so far and reasonably pleased with my ability to communicate. This is all from self study with flashcards and audio (ChinesePod, Assimil etc) plus a weekly hour and a half with a tutor. Whether I can retain the characters over the long term is another question, especially since my interest is really in speaking and not reading and writing, but so far the flashcards and tv are working well for me.
Ask HN:  Meetups in the Bay Area?
I'll be moving to the Bay Area next week. I've searched all the usual websites and there are a lot of things out there. What are some good meetups for a Hacker? I'm interested in just about anything intellectually stimulating. Bonus points if I can meet a lot of HNers!
As cool as I think CoffeeScript is, the annotated source examples are really my favorite part of the language.
We've gotten a lot of good feedback about this and we're changing the way that works. Sorry for any troubles!
I'm in Cambridge, UK. The alumni from the university's Computer Lab have started hundreds of businesses in recent years, many off the back of their academic research, and that is only the ones who have notified the alumni organisation about what they're doing. There are multiple business parks around the city focussed heavily on small business and in at least one case focussing almost entirely on start-ups. This is just in one city and talking about one department of one university.

Of course you haven't heard of most of these start-ups. They probably operate in specialist fields that are of no personal or professional interest to you. So do most businesses in the world, start-up or otherwise. But many of these organisations grow into successful businesses, often without taking much if any external funding.

I don't know what it is about HN recently, but it seems like some people believe your business is only a success if it becomes the next MicroGoogleApple with a multi-billion exit for the founders, and the only path to doing that is getting lots of rounds of increasingly silly money from angels/VCs and then selling out to a major corporation for what we seem to be calling "FU money" these days. The ideal way to do this is apparently believed to be starting a Internet-based, mass-market company providing a trivial service and running it on a web site with a silly name formed by taking a normal word and adding the ending "ly".

In other news, hardly any companies will ever pull off this combination (I can count exactly none so far), while there are countless tech companies working on all kinds of applications that make plenty of profit by actually doing something useful in a certain market, which would probably provide an eight or nine figure exit for their founders if they chose to leave. These don't necessarily hit the headlines, because not everyone cares about specialist software or services, and not every founder wants to run up a company to a paper value of billions in two years and then exit making a good deal for their VCs.
I conjecture that the problem is that cutting a $250 netbook to $200 drops the price by 20%, but drops margins by a much greater fraction. For now, it looks like the market will bear $300+ netbooks, so we'll have to wait until more competitors enter.
Well, that is probably something you can't keep track of.
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I spent a taking English classes at a local community college so I could graduate a year early from high school. I consider the decision to graduate early one of the best I've ever made. Staying there a year longer would have been a complete waste of time, and life since then has been so much better.

In terms of programming, my best investment has definitely been learning Vim. I sacrificed a little productivity for a week or so, and now I'm way more productive than I was before.
I've seen you mention this code generator in a few comments. Can we get more details about this project? I'm sure many here would be interested to know. If you've written another comment on HN explaining it in more depth, or written a blog post about it, I for one would love to check it out.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534794

Just the two comments ...
By responding to fewer of them, more slowly, that's how.
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Oh, how convenient; I don't have to worry about putting this in Perl. Be sure to update to CPAN!
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TLDR:

The public never, ever heard or saw the results of those visits.

It starts with opening up bank operations to public scrutiny.

I wholeheartedly agree that if the prerequisite to the solution, if not the solution itself, is more "sunshine."

We live in the Information Age, after all.
Anything I end up giving away.
Yeah, Frink is a Turing-complete programming language. That's a provably huge difference. You can have loops, maintain state, store results in variables and use them later, and define your own functions, so your calculations are repeatable and can be more than one line. Can't do those things with Wolfram Alpha. Frink has an unambiguous, documented syntax, rather than a bunch of tricky and finicky hard-coded rules that try to parse English sentences.
As awesome as continuous deployment is, it is a large overhead to get going. This is especially true if you don't have high test coverage already. For smaller teams and projects, you can simply remove the automatic step. Invest some time in packaging and deploying your product in a repeatable, reliable way. And don't re-invent the wheel, really investigate the standard tools for your language and platforms.
Logic?
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If the Air Force wasn't a big enough deal to require an amendment, neither is health care.
It wasn't so bad. It took a couple big pushes of effort, but the rewards were great. Going through the inbox instead of just deleting or archiving everything made me find a good 20-30 things I really should have dealt with, and I did. Beyond that, I just handled my inbox when I was tired and wasn't able to do anything more meaningful - it cut my Hacker News time down a little bit for one month, and now I've got a clean inbox that never gets to two pages long. That's really quite valuable for me.