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The Illumos project, open community fork of the OpenSolaris operating system
Do you think everybody finds growth and meaning in their job? Many people find it in their family, in sport, in clubs, and work is just a wage.
Alright, IMHO, you don't have a product market fit. For a B2B product, you need at least 10 paying customers before you can declare some sort of product market fit.

You won't have a "real" product market fit until you have 20 "solid" customers. "Solid" customers are less likely to churn and use your product on a regular basis. It always takes longer for the deals to close and the money to hit about bank accounts. Of course this depends on your deal size too.

As far as equity is concerned if you want a co founding CTO you need to part with at least 20%. The CTO should feel invested enough. With low equity, he/she is more likely to leave you on first signs of trouble or slow down.
WhatsApp mainly displaced SMS and MMS, some users of other chat protocols slowly migrated, but by and large WhatsApp mainly ate cellular carrier's lunch. Hence why most carriers offer unlimited calling and texting, discouraging use is just pushing their customers to these OTT apps.
Will they do a hold-down test with all three boosters strapped together? As that may incur that risk of non-synchronized ignition "side-effects".
Your position is that increasing the estate tax would do nothing to help segregation? Or that it wouldn't do enough and we should also do more?
The heirs would presumably be buying homes, cars, vacations, food, night clubs, etc.
Will some illumos related projects be interested in those people?

And on related note, I suppose Oracle won't open their diverged Solaris even if they plan to shut it down? In the past, Sun also planned to open their Sun studio and C/C++ compiler. That never happened because of Oracle.
I think there is a whole scene of street fashion which is basically this, but applied to hats, hoodies, and other garments.

Folks like their beautiful (to them) objects and they like to share that with their friends.

I don't think there's any deep answer to the question of why sneakers. The high value may stem to some extent from limited production but it also arises because there's a willing market.
warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose exist in the US. Whether it can be disclaimed is per-state though.

(Some states allow disclaiming implied warranties, some do not).
TIL taxes only benefit the government and never go to anything useful like the food stamps my family sustained itself on while my baby brother went through chemotherapy, or the Post 9/11 GI Bill that allowed me to get degrees in CS and ECE which led me to a job at one of the world's largest tech companies, or the unemployment that allowed me to properly transition from the military into the civilian workforce.
> C++ does make code reuse a lot easier.

Not really, with ABI issues and compiler incompatibility widely used C++ libs are either header-only, or have an "extern C" version of the public API. Id say C++ makes reuse much harder.
>We're not a startup and not looking to reach a broad audience, get investors, or create a product. We even wrote a thing a while back regarding our not being a startup, because it is an unfamiliar concept to many people: http://elevr.com/were-not-a-startup/

Huge respect for the work you guys have done, but I think this is an unfortunate mindset. The real magic sauce for American capitalism that has driven us to such heights of technological achievement has always been about the synthesis of lofty, idealistic goals combined with the desire to make lots and lots of money. I don't think those two things should be separated as an either/or. There is certainly a need for pure basic research funded by private industry. But the real goal should be figuring out how we can do that in a way that is economically sustainable both short and long term.
How do the kids learn rabbits are fast and turtles are slow, along with the cultural significance of the pairing? I also think changing our traditions of story telling based on one study without even understanding the long term outcome is a bit too eager.
> I guess you could also argue it's used as currency for illegal activities, so I guess that's a use case for it

Except, from my understanding, it's becoming less and less useful for that - high fixed fees, and not really anonymous. Aren't these illegal activities moving to Monero?
Medical tourism is an idea worth going after if it's something you're passionate about. There are players in the space but it's still early days.

- marketplace play
- moral good
- huge market
It's a similar experience. PHP is slightly more Perl-ish (dollar signs, no namespaces for built-in functions, `or die`, native string interpolation) and has type declarations.
Foreign (to the US) oil, and limited gold. Dollarising petroluem sales in particular served the interests of much of the world: the US, because it kept oil affordable (dollar didn't deflate more), OPEC, because it kept oil affordable (their currencies didn't inflate more), gold, because there's only so much, other nations, because they could exchange for dollars via reserve currency markets.

The gold-backing was dead by 1970. Petro-dolarisation occurred in 1974. The UK all but went broke in 1979. The USSR did go broke in 1987-89, courtesy the US and Saudi Arabia (something Putin may well have in mind now).

Money is weird. And the gold standard and "end the Fed" nonsense is ... complete bullshit.
You don't have to spend $$$ on an iPhone. If you want the latest factory fresh bling, sure. But an iPhone 6s goes for about 350$, a 6 for around 200$. Given that Apple supplies most of their devices with 4-5 years worth of updates that's something to consider. It ends up boiling down to how much is your privacy worth to you vs. how much do you want the latest and greatest, assuming you're comfortable with having an iOS device.

That said, Apple isn't the only one you can turn to for more privacy concious devices. And even on Android devices you can do a whole lot to stay fairly private, but you'll need to avoid Google services as much as possible. Unfortunately protecting your privacy requires much more (active) effort on Android.

One of the reasons I'm actually looking forward to postmarketOS is the ability to use a lot of my older devices in a much nicer, privacy sensitive way. If this takes off postmarketOS has what it takes to make privacy a lot cheaper. Unfortunately nothing stops you to then go around and continue using tools that have an interest in eroding your privacy, but Apple won't stop you from that either.
> How is C-like syntax a plus?

Well, versus whatever abomination bash uses, it's quite readable…
>You are making the classic mistake of conflating equality of outcome with equality of opportunity.

Outcome and opportunity is a false dichotomy. But if we were to go along with it, isn't a tax on inherited wealth a great way to maintain equality of opportunity?
It's deep geothermic energy, you gotta drill >500 meters to get to it. So indeed not as easy as for example Iceland.
SPARC died the moment every developer had a good enough x86 desktop running a Unix flavor (and Sun decided it'd be happy not to build desktops anymore). At that point, we cease to imagine deploying our stuff in SPARC. We test on x86 and make it run well on x86 before it gets compiled for SPARC.

At that point, unless the SPARC hardware has some definitive cost/performance advantage, we'll buy x86. SPARC is for legacy.

Same applies to POWER, BTW. How many new apps have you seen in the past 10 years that were designed for POWER?
Interesting post.

I'm not sure that not asking questions is how you get to be part of the abundance.

I'm not familiar with how Patreon works so I can't be sure, but my gut feeling is that you screwed up.
Any tips or pointers on how to go about this?

EDIT: Nevermind, I have (bonded) VDSL running through a 5268AC so I don't think I'll be able to do it. If it was "normal" Ethernet it would be possible.
"Less than a decade later, Ms. Evans was chief technology officer of the whole company"

From a Janitor to CTO in under 10 years - I wish I could dream that. I started playing with code around 6yo and now 33..

Could it be that it was really rare period of time where such thing was possible?
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Won't it actually pose some problem in regards to clean room implementation and etc.? Oracle are known to be nasty.
Sure but who owns the rights to it? That's what we mean by lost. It's locked up in a way to make it less usable.
I know it when I see it. Having more precise words makes communication faster and I agree that people who talk about transpilers know what they mean. I suspect that most people who criticise the term understand its meaning very well too. They just don't like it.
What did the Netherlands had to do with this? The only thing I know is that done Dutch people sold illegal medecine to Belgian farmers and the Dutch were informed, but didn't alert Belgium

That's what they had to explain, because it endangered the did supply
OPEC oil crisis, US peak oil, associated political shifts in conjunction ith that. Gradual outsourcing of industrial productivity (high-paying factory jobs) from the US. Loss of bargaining leverage by labour.
I agree, it will be very hard to convince a CTO or any good engineer for that matter to join for even 20%, especially since you are pre revenue.
I'm not confident enough to make a definite prediction, but it seems plausible that it could make some forms of inequality worse. Attempts to level out education, for example, have resulted in the truly wealthy finding other outlets (private schools, expensive zip codes) to create the educational experience they want for their children.
If poverty is a relative measure - and as a child who grew up poor, I can assure you that the lived perception of poverty is relative, not absolute - then large inequality implies substantial poverty, for usual income distributions.

This is relating to your parenthetical, not your quibble with causation, of course. But inequality of income is different to inequality of wealth, and there can be a causal link there.
Oracle won't do it because they are Oracle. They actually had zero valid reasons to close OpenSolaris to begin with, so I suspect they'll care even less about their dead project.
I'm not convinced that it always works like this. Flight, for example, was always one of the "big" ideas that people were quixotically chasing. It just needed the right technical solution.

It involved a revolution in the theory and practice of aerodynamics and the ground-up engineering of a complex system unlike anything that existed before. But it worked and it changed the world.
No, the right to be forgotten is not a separate issue.

The new EU privacy regulation is the GDPR and it has a data deletion clause but it's not absolute.

There is no EU law that mandates hard deletion of data.

Member states can have stricter laws but the two I am familiar with which are the DPA (U.K.) and BDSG (Germany) also do not mandate it.

There is also no definition of data you've submitted or data that has been collected only consent to store and or process data.
Comments about why you are doing things and the wider context can still be useful.
> But, the thing that struck me about this project and the examples is just how verbose PHP has gotten over the years. It is strikingly similar to old Java, in terms of class definitions and the like.

Something that probably hurts the language here is the lack of autoloading for functions, whereas it exists for classes, so exposing bare functions is a runtime performance penalty (their containing files must be loaded on every request, if you use Composer), which results in a preference for putting everything in a class. :/
Not really no
It's for sale on the dark web right next to other hacking tools. It wouldn't surprise me if laypeople think it's the exact same thing.
Yes, but AR is really just a means to an end.

ARKit could lead to the discovery of a killer app or two, similar to how Uber/Lyft's ride-hailing app is the killer application for lots of people with GPS-equipped smart phones, even though phones have had GPS tracking for ages but use was limited to mapping apps.
Hi Vi - HN's audience varies and topics take time to evolve while sometimes some comments may seem irrelevant they can also lead to interesting sub threads. For the little it is worth - I have been involved in the VR industry for 25 years on and off doing either basic and applied research or commercial developments and gone through a lot of similar transitions facing you and your team. In case it helps - there are a few groups in the US that are doing similar research / learning efforts such as the entertainment tech group at Carnegie Melon (http://www.etc.cmu.edu/) and the virtual human interaction lab at Stanford (https://vhil.stanford.edu/). Since your leaving YCR, it may be worth while for you and your team to reach out to them. Good luck.
>I'd be very curious to see a proof of an impossible sequence which adheres to the official rules, as that would be quite a feat indeed!

It sounds like, given enough piece previews, you can play without ever losing: http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Playing_forever
> you don't know how to weed out the bullshit a candidate might spew without shoving a code editor or dry erase marker in their hand

I'm sure we could figure out a non-code non-marker way. I'm also sure I could figure out a commute involving only right turns.

But why would I arbitraily constrain my solution like that?
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In any case those would be devices that terrorists (usually kids who excel more in ideology than in training) on the run would not have with them, to quickly change the identity of the car they stole.

This is not a sophisticated anti-forgery scheme, it's a no-cost layer of tamper resistance.
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JavaScript has gotten extremely concise in recent years, even with type annotations (with TypeScript or Flow). Perl with Moose/Moo is very concise. I dunno about Ruby or Python in terms of type annotations, but both have more concise class definition syntax. So, kinda all of the direct competitors to PHP have a more concise syntax for the same features.

But, maybe more importantly, this seems to be using classes where it makes little sense to use classes, but I see it a lot in PHP code. An idiomatic implementation of the same kinds of tools in JS/Perl/Python/Ruby might be shorter simply by virtue of not wrapping everything in a class. It's sort of an anti-pattern to OOP-all-the-things in those languages, while in PHP there seems to be a religious zeal for classes.
Java and the JDK are the main ex-Sun products that're still being actively developed, I think.
"Humanity" may be overstating it. In Brazil people very commonly use WhatsApp to send short spoken messages, for instance.
It isn't. But, they're assholes, have no understanding of the work that has been done (substantial) and if we quit on them it could have really negative results on their business. Which could lead to legal action.
php.ini has its problems, but I don't understand this remark:

> External modules that allow certain features to work also need to be loaded from this configuration file.

What's wrong with this? The modules in question (at lest, most important extensions) are part of the core codebase and will be available as packages on whatever platform you're using, and the package manager should configure them for you.
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Are returns to capital earned?

Certainly it's not easy getting outsize returns reliably, but the idea that the return is earned in a way that scales with the amount invested sounds very dubious to me.
Syscalls are not POSIX APIs.

Do you know that by default GNU tools don't respect all POSIX expected behaviours and it needs to be explictly enabled?
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You'll love The Netherlands. Your ISP is forced, on your request, to put your modem in bridge mode. Ie. the ISP isn't able to force customers to use a certain modem as router.
Please expand. You take one line, attach some deeper meaning to it and then denigrate those who "misunderstand" a single phrase. Also, you attempt to make me look the fool by not understanding the simplistic genius of your comment. If it is so easy to get - then why didn't I get it?

So, no. Your comment is BS - making computers invisible, if its such a deeper meaning that I missed -- explain.

That's as infamous for you as the "you're holding it wrong" statement is for Jobs. :-P

Thanks
https://php.net/getopt
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These ideas are great on paper, but in real life, don't really work.

Most developers (especially senior ones) have their preferred IDE/editors/tools/etc. Forcing them to use a custom one for an interview, where they have to constantly fight memory muscle and work with a new tool is likely to give unrealistic results.

Quick example (by no means the only one!): On vim insert mode, ctrl+w deletes a word. On a browser, it closes the tab. It's really hard for me avoid memory muscle jumping in and closing a tab. TBH, I simply cannot code python on a browser textfield, since I end up closing the tab sooner or later.

Screen sharing works great, and has really no drawbacks.
Ah, that explains it. I didn't know about that, but my first thought was, "Why the hell is every single thing wrapped in a class?" That'd be considered non-idiomatic in JS/Perl/Python/Ruby, I think. Maybe not Ruby; Rubyists like their classes.
Hypothetical scenarios are only valuable insofar as they're close to reality.

In real life, if I'm taking home $400k/year in salary it's because I'm creating $1 million/year in revenue. Also in real life, a start-up business that will be worth $50 million usually has more like a 1% chance of success, so it's expected value is actually just about 25% more than the proposed salaried job -- less than my value-per-year at my job, actually.

Finally, in real life, most people don't want to maximize expected income -- its buying power in terms of personal needs decreases logarithmically.

Tax law really has little effect once we use a less imaginative scenario.
Which funding priority supersedes this, then? Funding the prevention of nuclear war, for example? Disaster preparedness for large cities?
Italian here. I don't think we really want to "keep the best produce for ourselves" - I'm sure our producers would just like to sell at the highest price. Instead, there is a problem with transportation and timing: if you harvest well-ripened tomatoes, they spoil quickly, which is something big distributors hate. Here you can usually find the best tomatoes in small markets in the right season; tomatoes from big supermarkets are usually pretty tasteless (unless you get lucky or know how to choose).

It's the same reason people tell me that bananas in banana-producing countries are way better than what you can find here: our bananas ripen during transportation, and the end result is very different.

PS: it's much easier to find very tasty cherry tomatoes, but they're also much more expensive.
I have AT&T U-verse (Gigabit fiber product) at home and I believe that I an not vulnerable to public Internet attacks because I've configured my modem in pass-through mode. The AT&T pass-through is pretty weak and is really only a 1:1 NAT, not a bridge, but as far as I can tell, the modem does not answer to the Internet when configured in this mode.
Then why Chrome?
Exactly. Oracle+Sun allowed 'vertically integrated' solutions with their Engineered Systems. You could literally buy your entire rack, software, storage, infiniband, even the network portion (Oracle has copper ethernet switches believe it or not) straight from them. It would be under one contract for support etc.
Your statement "not everyone can handle social or intellectual labor" is a larger sociological problem. If we insist that the only people allowed to participate in the labor market are college educated white guys, maybe; I don't see that statusquo continuing.

The hoops some members of this forum will jump through to convince themselves that building CRUD apps is some zenith of intellectual might just continues to astound me.
Being unremarkable is easier to accept if you tried and failed than if you know you never really tried at all and you squandered the chance.
> The financial penalties for violating a signed contract can easily drive one into bankruptcy, and the reputational penalties can make it very hard to recover.

If you are properly incorporated, can it really do more than drive you out of business?

Also, sadly, being sued for a business deal can drive you out of a small business even if you had exactly the right contract and were completely in the right and would _probably_ have won the lawsuit eventually. Going to court is fucking expensive, if they have more money to spend on it than you, they will drive you out of business. And anyone can file a suit against you no matter how much you are in the right.
You might be looking for the term 'SOLID' ;)

e: it may be worth noting that I can't for the life of me remember what the I and D stand for... clearly I am much more of a KISS kind of programmer.
What about ReOS, as in reuse and recycle, which fits the mission (and logo)?
I've seen places (well, one place) that have "team meetings". You just have an informal group talk with a few members of the team, and just usually reveals a lot -- to both sides!
Right, it's insulting to the memory of Turing to suggest giving a prize named after him to Rasmus Lerdorf.

How about the Thomas Midgley award, for having "had more impact on the internet than any other single organism in Earth's history"?

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley

Thomas Midgley (born 18 May 1889; died 2 November 1944), was an American inventor. His two most famous inventions are both now banned because they are dangerous for the world environment: the use of lead in petrol (gasoline) and the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigerators. Midgley was accidentally killed by something he was inventing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Legacy

Midgley's legacy has been scarred by the negative environmental impact of some of his innovations. His work led to the release of large quantities of lead into the atmosphere as a result of the large-scale combustion of leaded gasoline all over the world. High atmospheric lead levels have been linked with serious long-term health problems from childhood, including neurological impairment, and with increased levels of violence and criminality in cities.

Thomas Midgley Jr. died three decades before the ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas effects of CFCs in the atmosphere became widely known. Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny." J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, opined that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
Objective physiological and neurological differences in brain structure?
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Most wealthy people don't keep their wealth in currency. Profit generating entities keep on generating profit even with inflation - input prices go up but so do sale prices. Inflation had a bigger affect when it changes, rather than when it is staying steady. If anything a higher inflation rate would mostly hurt homeowners because prices would be less supported by cheaper money.
In education we never actually integrated though. A few locations were integrated but only for a little while. It seems more like that the truly wealthy found those outlets regardless of what else was happening in education. It also seems strange to say: we shouldn't tax rich people because somehow, through a plausible method that I can't explain or predict, it will make rich people better off and poor people worse off.
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