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#1: ".5. Avoid, like the plague, any "I have an idea for a web app" jobs."

You won't get any respect, although if this is the best you can do for now, make damned sure you get immediate remuneration. Anyone offering the "I have a great idea but no money" proposition almost certainly isn't bringing anything to the table. If they've successfully executed in times past they ought to be bringing some money to the table, ought to have a least one techie they can lean on, even if informally/part time, etc.; you'll recognize such people as exceptions.

Option #1 just sounds impractical and is likely to be bad for you (e.g. your professionalism, future job prospects (not something you'll like to put on your resume), etc.).

As for option: "2. Equity. But I don't think you can just answer a job ad on craigslist and say I work for 30 bucks an hour and a piece of the action, or can you?"

I don't know how many of these exist, but the odds you'll realize anything serious from equity compensation in a company like this are nowadays very small. Even if the business guys have the bet of intentions and are honorable, big exits just aren't in the card for all but the most exceptional companies.

The rest of the options should be judged on a case by case basis, but you'll be better off if you can find more realistic people to work with.
Cloud storage is not a backup. "Oops, I deleted that file" deletes it in the cloud too.
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After a potentially fatal car accident, a councillor suggested Victor Frankl's book "Man's search for meaning". I'd highly recommend it.

On the other hand, I'm not convinced that anyone who hasn't faced death can really understand life. You can talk to people and they'll nod and agree but they won't understand. My suggestion for living a fulfilling life would be to nearly die every 5-10 years. It's the only thing powerful enough to remind you what is important about life.
Well this has nothing to do with media or anything else. Before I decided to start my own company I was looking for a job. Moved to few places, and at least in my country I had a pretty decent overview of what is used in where. And the fact is that vast majority was php,rails,net.

"Allows to do virtually anything" {SNAP} are not facts or measurable quantities"
Indeed, they are not - but the amount of programs in your favourite linux distribution based on python is measurable :] I assumed that I don't have to prove my assumptions because it's common knowledge in general.
Stylish Maps That Are Chatty
Not sure breaking with Amazon AWS compatibility is a good idea but rejecting an open core model is the best thing that could've happened to OpenStack.
The Box is a series of short interviews with people who make cool stuff
Um, but look at ruby - it faces exactly same deployment problems if I'm correct, and it didn't stop it's adoption in web development at least.
I think a culprit in age-related decline of fluid intelligence is Careerism.

I don't mean the idea that you should take your career seriously. That would be lower-case-C careerism. What I mean is the idea that you should evaluate every aspect of your life from a point of view of "will this get me a promotion" or "will this get me a better job?"

That not only causes you to stop playing, but in my experience it kills all creativity dead.
Eyelid Surgery Better Than Beverly Hills
Eyelid surgery improves the appearance of the eyelids, for any person who wants to look younger and fresher without making drastic changes to his or her face. Eyelid surgery also improves the visual field should sagging obstruct the field of vision. An eyelid surgery is surgery on the eyelid by removing fatty or excess tissue. Instead of (or in addition to) an eye lift, wrinkles in the crow's feet area or a drooping brow can be elevated by a brow lift procedure.
Having lived in a communist/post-communist society, I can tell you this is bullshit. Communism, no matter what form, does not work. I agree that maybe (maybe), capitalism is a crappy system, but it is still 5 times (I counted) better than any other system we as a civilization currently came up with.

I know there is no way that I'll change your mind on this. All I can say is that there is nothing "free" in the world. Attempting to pretend like there is simply allows someone to take advantage of someone else.

EDIT: First off, thank you for the detailed response. Also, you did not answer my direct question as to whether you have lived in societies that have different systems than democracy/capitalism or the ones with a more socialist incline. The (other) trouble with communism is that it seems that many advocates of it think that it just hasn't been done right yet. Well, I propose that it cannot be done right and any place that had a pinch of communism in it will show it, and in an ugly way.
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Actually, Django is just popular for python. But i consider other tools from the list to be a lot better solution. It's unfair to judge whole ecosystem just based on one framework - which is completly different to what others do.
Defense Department’s Cyberwar Credibility Gap
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Indeed. The key factor is, there is no-one who is a manager in a technical organization who doesn't consider management to be "better" than hands-on technical work - it's not as if there are pressgangs of board members roaming the halls, to move into management, you have to want to.

Now obviously these people consider themselves to be "successful", after all, they got promoted didn't they? So it follows logically that anyone with the same number of years of experience who isn't a manager must be "unsuccessful" and who wants to hire an unsuccessful person?

Some companies talk about creating a "technical" career track but in my experience that's never more than lip service, handing out a few job titles like "senior this" and "principal that".
I wish I had free time too! brainfuck is boring though.. why not some stack based language with lisp like syntax or something like that.
Wow, I remember those days, that was an awesome time to be in computing. The point about NextSTEP was so true it was the ultimate digital media developer's machine back then. It is what IRIX should have been but sadly was not.

More to the point, people had freedom, the world had not become homogenized. People were doing crazy crap like "hey lets do all of our development on a cray". The IT work environment was not far removed from academia and the experimental freedom that came with it. Everywhere you went Bell Labs was the bar of success to be measured by and the focus was on using technology in new and interesting ways.

Sadly with the maturing of an industry those things fade and a replaced by metrics and cost controls. Don't get me wrong new segments arise that generate the same wonder lust, and I am having just as much fun as I ever was. It is just those times where my times, I was in my teens and early twenties through that period and I feel that it was an amazing time to enter into the work force.
One wonders if:

They bothered to do it at all.

It wasn't of the "confirm my thesis" type.
Backup, backup, backup. I keep critical stuff on 3 different physical media and in different locations. Hard disk + DVDs + online. I feel so sorry for this guy but would never put myself in that position.

Now I need to plan for the foretold solar maximum disruption as well! ... whether its true or not isn't the point.
Dojo how to: publish / subscribe
Google code jam solution for alien language
I really recommend fossil. It integrates a wiki, scm and bug tracker in a single sleek package. Its a single stand-alone <1MB executable and the repo itself is a single sqlite file.
Interesting T-Shirt Designs
Take a look some of really funny T-shirts.
Hah. Yeah, I really wanted to fix that but we completely ran out of time at the end. This project was crazy ambitious for 48hrs, I'm just amazed we got anything to work at all! :-)

When you place words, the history shows up on the right. Once the judging is over, I'll make it so when you click on a word in the sidebar, it scrolls the board over to that word. Should help people like me who are always getting lost within the infinite scrabble space.

In the meantime, you can just click "Swap Tiles" a few times to end the game and start anew.
It was a ton of fun and a great chance to learn about node.js.

My team made a simple file sharing application, http://nodeknockout.com/teams/done-js. Our app does not host the upload, it merely connects the sharer to clients over HTTP.
I think games shouldn't ever have to end. Once we get the leaderboard working again, it'll be a competition who can have the longest, largest, and most ridiculous never ending game of scrabble.
MongoDB + geospacial indexing
Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of that one either. It seems like a simpler awk, or at least small subset of awk.
App crashed

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If you're the administrator of this app, please check your heroku logs for the backtrace.
Vjson - claims to be fastest json parser written in c++
The article says, embedded software is completely different.
It hasn't been fair to compare single-CPU performance in a long time, machines on the top500 either use commodity x86-64 chips, or (BlueGene) much slower chips with good memory and power efficiency (NEC is a notable exception). But it's worth noting that supercomputer performance consistently outpaces Moore's Law (http://59A2.org/na-slides/Keyes-PetaflopsSeriously-2008.pdf).
"genetic association plate effect"
"plate effect gwas"

The OP search doesn't turn up anything, while google scholar has highly relevant papers in the top ten. I think they still have some way to go.
That is one of the least usable flowcharts I have ever seen.

Anyone care to knock together a much more readable one that doesn't use a 3d isometric view to not just confuse the read by splitting things over multiple levels, but also to actually obscure the text which is the point of the diagram?

Don't get me wrong - it's a lovely idea, but the execution is...less than optimal.
There definitely seems to be a disconnect between schools forcing laptops and tablets on students without any education in backing up their media.

I'd think there's an opportunity to collaborate with universities and offer a system that's available (and maybe even mandatory) to every student.
Article tries to mean Free Software as defined by FSF yet includes BSDs as Free Software. According to the FSF, BSD software is not free because someone can take BSD code and make it proprietary see Mac OS X, Next etc.
Facebook now 'worth $33 billion'
His company just raised $40+ million

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/30/icontact-raises-40-million-...
Issue Attention Cycles
http://cl.ly/0340cc29b2d0197d936b
Node Knockout was an amazing experience for us (2 person team). Lots of fun and learning!

In one week-end, we learned how to use : RaphaelJS, node.js and Socket.IO (websockets library)

We made a multiplayer geo game at http://nodeknockout.com/teams/error-500
This is going to happen more and more as media moves online.

Are the FTC going to try and prevent Youtube from hosting this kind of content? Or have we broken the stranglehold of government censorship?
Plone 4 Reaches Release Candidate Status
Points I find highly suspect:

Free Software (sometimes in conjunction with Open Source software) offers so much more than proprietary ones

free systems (GNU/Linux, BSDs) are much more stable than proprietary ones (Windows, Mac);

easier to use (with/without command line interface),

prettier

I'd also question the use of this language:

No wonder people still refuse to switch over.

What is a better point would be, most people don't care nor feel any need for the Freedoms provided by Free Software. They just want to send an email, share photos etc. Software is just a tool to get things done.
Do you got any good examples of where it has been used?
GNU Coreutils documentation as a whole is very useful.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
To read on the command line, try:

info coreutils

Also see,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities
Ask HN: Best analytics tools for SaaS?
I'm working on a B2B SaaS app (rails) and it seems like there's an overwhelming number of options -- KISSMetrics, MixPanel, HubSpot, Clicky, Chartbeat, Hummingbird, A/Bingo, CrazyEgg, Optimizely, even good ol' Google Analytics.

Has anyone figured out a good working set of tools that pair well and don't lead to bits of the user experience across many different platforms?

Where does all the talk about these different services happen? (irc, forums, blogs, etc.)
Yeah, Heroku's node hosting has got some issues at the moment (its still in beta). I have to manually restart it whenever that happens :-(
"Linux is only free if your time has no value." -- jwz
The art of classifying computer science research.
How much open source saves you?
Rails 3.0 is Here: 9 Must-Have Links to Get Started
Its all About...: Gmail Call features outside US without Admin rights
> I am not saying fun projects need to be useful (I'd be the last one to say that), I'm saying "why ensure they'll never be useful?".

Because some things are done for learning exercises and nothing more.

Just because that code isn't going to do anything useful when executed, it does not mean that there is no value in the exercise of producing or sharing the code.

Not that it needs that much justification, fun is a good enough reason.
Being in the cloud is orthogonal to that issue, isn't it? After all, you could use a DVCS in the cloud. Or a cloud service could offer this:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/11
I have a feeling the author forgot about the time and man-hours required to invent semiconductors.
Austrian economics always struck me as kind of hand wavy. I never made it more than 1/3 of the way through the Wikipedia article on it before realizing I didn't know what it was talking about.

Does Austrian economics make an testable predictions? Is it based on empirical data? Does it have models? It seems more like a statement of beliefs to me.

What am I missing?
That's not true (and the post's author seems a bit confused on this point too).

FSF say that copyleft is better (in most circumstances) for ensuring Free Software remains Free and also helps encourage the creation of more Free Software, but almost all Open Source is also Free Software by their definition.

"In the GNU project, we use copyleft to protect these freedoms legally for everyone. But noncopylefted free software also exists. We believe there are important reasons why it is better to use copyleft, but if your program is noncopylefted free software, it is still basically ethical. (See Categories of Free Software for a description of how “free software,” “copylefted software” and other categories of software relate to each other.)"

from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

There's a diagram here:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

and a bottom line quote "the differences in extension of the category are small: nearly all free software is open source, and nearly all open source software is free."
As a hired-gun, this article is truly outside my depth. When I'm onsite with a client, I give everything for their success. But heck, I'm a rental. I'm conflicted on how such a strategy would work long-term.

I think the key question here, based on the anecdote provided, is: how was the sales lead treated? Ten times sales volume? 20 times market cap? In such a critical role was the guy well-rewarded for the difference he made? I assume so, but this should be spelled out. Because the whole thing reads differently if the guy got a much worse deal than he earned.

Oddly, this focus on what people can do for my organization is exactly the same kind of ambition that is derided in the article -- just the shoe is on the other foot. Of course, you can make the case that the organization is somehow a much greater and more worthy thing of devotion than some guy's family, but I'm skeptical. After all, you can bet the CEO or CFO is watching the numbers. One would think that any employee would be doing the same for his family finances. Respect is a two-way street.

I think the article is right on the money, don't get me wrong. I just think it could have been written better. There are lots of little holes in the reasoning. Perhaps this idea of understanding that you do better yourself when you help others succeed is difficult to pin down in the context provided. After all, there are lots of companies. And there are lots of people looking for "team players" who will not look after you. While the slogan is easy, the actual implications and implementation of this belief system is not easy at all.
Good marketing in that the computer graphics are compelling. Where's the video of it actually cleaning up anything though?
Ok, you people are seriously failing to comprehend that which I am attempting to communicate to you.

* I have no problems with 'fun projects'. I do them myself.

* I have no problem with 'useless code'. Many fun projects are never useful. I have done these myself.

* I have no problem with learning for learning's sake. I have engaged in lots of that.

What I don't agree with is artificially limiting your project's potential. By choosing to implement brainfuck, instead of Tcl or Lua or Forth or Lisp or any number of other languages (even if it's just a toy version, and not the full spec), you've consigned your project to the dustbin before you've even finished it. To my way of thinking, that just doesn't make any sense. If you want to be artistic, go out and make your own language.
I can't disagree more.

This is a great project for learning how to use LLVM because there is nothing to add complexity. There is no need for a runtime library. There is no need for a complicated parser. With those parts gone, all that matters is building the compiler, JIT core, tracing algorithm, and so on.

Now that the author knows how to do all that, he's mentally prepared to be productive when taking on a more complex task, like writing his own language or improving an existing one.

You seem to think that because it's on Github you're supposed to use it. Incorrect. Github is just a public backup and a way of sharing something with your friends. Kind of like posting your drunken photos on Facebook. Productive? No. Fun? Yes.
This is still very much untested. From the project website http://senseable.mit.edu/seaswarm/ss_prototype.html

"The first Seaswarm prototype was tested in the Charles River in mid-August 2010. The vehicle’s flexible conveyor belt easily adapted to surface waves and succesfully propelled itself through the water. Stay tuned for future prototype updates."
exercise projects do not belong to [sic] HN

You've used HN for 38 days and you are already saying what kinds of programming articles should and shouldn't be on HN?

Sorry, but this is exactly the sort of thing we should see on HN.

But this project is just a JIT for Brainfuck, there's no creativity in it, and all it did was give the author some experience writing JITs.

How exactly do you define creative?

The author applied his programming skills to create something that didn't exist before. That's creative.
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Wasn't 2/3 of the spilled oil not on surface but lurking somewhere? In this case surface robots are not enough, bring on the diving ones :)
Yup! They are killing it.
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Here is a music generator based off SQL code.

http://www.ispysql.com/index.php?option=com_phocadownload...
> You seem to think that because it's on Github you're supposed to use it.

Actually, if you read my post, you would have understood
that that is not the case:-/

Your point about it being a "minimum viable language" is a good one though, but I find it difficult to think there isn't something else he could have chosen.
Wow. This combined with the 40K seed money offered by the Chilean government makes Chile more appealing than ever.

Great climate, government that appreciates the importance of free trade, similar time zone to the USA... I must just be sold!
I would not think the FTC would try to do such a thing. Its more a reflection on how held back our radio and TV content really is.
You know this is a simple but powerful feature. It breaks the mentality of tight function binding and allows you to develop applications in a more broadcast / listen for broadcast manner.

This is extremely powerful in the context of UI development because it breaks the concepts of a controller in the MVC anti-pattern that is responsible for so much spaghetti code. It promotes loose coupling among components so that they can be dropped into a page and auto-wire themselves into the ecosystem that is the page.

For example one can write a edit account widget that upon completion, broadcasts an updated account object. Any widgets on the page that display account information or that do processing on an account can subscribe to the account updated publication and receive the new object or data set. Further a web service service client can be wired to listen for it and publish the information back to a server in which the server can syndicate it to other clients.

The beauty of this style development is: yank out the edit account widget and nothing happens. Due to the loose coupling components can be added and removed with 100% certainty of no side effects to peripheral components.

Further, done correctly it eliminates the need for the concept of a controller, widgets become self encapsulated entities, service calls become self encapsulated routines, each and every routine has a clear entry and exit, with no coupling to other code. Thereby making adding new features and debugging drop deal simple.
"What I'm really worried about is an endless cycle of deficits, debt, and debasement of currency," Mr. Boettke says. "What we've done is engage in a set of policies that's turned a market correction into an economy-wide crisis."

Which is what a lot of people believed made the 1930s depression Great: first Hoover (an engineer) and then FDR engaged in massive and unprecedented intervention in the economy (pre-Keynes-ian, seeing as how his major work presenting his theories on the subject was published in 1936). (Which is not to say that recovering from over-leveraging is ever easy.)

Those didn't exactly take the shape of the above (from memory, aside from FDR seizing the nation's gold at the traditional $20/oz price and the repricing it at $35/oz), but certainly we're entitled to question a "stimulus" bill that cost more than the Iraq war (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/does_barely_true_mean...) that doesn't even look it will accomplish the traditional (e.g. FDR) goal of it winning elections for the party in power.
I tend to agree.

The question, then, is whether TV companies will use this as an excuse to pressure the FTC into letting them use the same content.
It's quite likely a vengeful attempt to prohibit FG from making any money off of it. While the saint in me agrees with your perspective, the devil says "If I'm not getting rich off this pad, then nobody else is either," and that's what I suspect Arrington's doing.

On the off chance that FG turns it around and somehow does manage to take it to market successfully (which this suit will almost certainly impede,) then Arrington and company should get to reap the proceeds (if that is what the court finds.)
Interesting, but it's still in prototype stage, how long is it going to take before it reaches mass production? Funding is a key issue
Not sure why you see implementing a simple language to learn the underlying techniques as "artificially limiting" the project's potential. Maybe this is just a step to implementing a more complicated language.