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I just don't get why people always fight about licenses. I would think that developers have carefully thought which license they feel more comfortable with and that they know what they are getting in to. This sort of discussion won't really make anyone change their mind, they're jut a waste of time and energy for everyone involved.
What if I paid for 420 sq. feet and actually needed 420 sq. feet, not 400?
You can also combine the two: staying in the standard plan and paying extra for additional benefits from the 'private' sector.
That's silly. It's unethical like SEO is unethical: annoying, but hardly damning. There must be something more to it than that.
Plenty of them can. I've worked with several myself. As you might expect, they don't need jobs. I worked with a 20-something at my previous job that was as productive on his own as some entire teams.
I don't think the primary driver for any startup applying to YC is cash. The value in YC or Founder Institute or Techstars or any of the other accellerator/incubators is advice, mentorship, learning and connections, and the implied social proof and credentialing provided by acceptance.
It's easier to live on ramen noodles in your twenties out of school. Having done gone down that path, the sacrifices to do it with a family are almost impossible. It is rough when your little kid looks up at you when the school lunch account is overdrawn and says "I'm sick of being poor, Dad. When are you going to launch?"
So it makes sense for YC to focus limited funds where it can get the best yield. Younger, highly intelligent males of extraordinary ability without mates who are out to prove themselves and build social status and wealth often do. That's why the crime rates are higher at younger ages too.
Even if it substitutes for a CS degree, it won't make you a remotely decent programmer. Without books like Code Complete, The Pragmatic Programmer, The Mythical Man Month, etc., your code will suck.
I assume you've rented in NYC. We do, and in Chicago. This is not complicated; landlords will tell you usable sqft, and give you accurate floorplans.

Besides, who rents based on a sqft number? You always visit and work out the space before signing. It's not eBay!
only the INVOICE at the top - or am I doing something wrong?
A lot of people ask me why I applied to Y-Combinator in my 30's with cash in the bank. For me it was because YC offers big picture perspective on internet companies I could not get for a better price anywhere else. I also guessed that the community would be good to know, like a business school class. Now having been through a YC batch I can say the money provided was the least significant benefit and that the advice and community turned out significantly better than I had ever anticipated.
Typeclasses are a fine substitute for polymorphism in behavior (methods). But does Haskell throw out the baby with the bath water? Haskell seems to lack an ability to express a taxonomy of data models. Records are not even close to a substitute.

Why can't Haskell make it easier to express data structures? Something "turtles all the way down" introspective, like a MOF (meta-object facility, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-Object_Facility) would be nice.
If they are making 60k a year, you can make several thousand dollars right now by getting them a rather large pay raise. Otherwise, re-re-read Patrick.

I seem to have been bitten by the radioactive spider that allows me to reliably post the highest-ranking "who's hiring" comment here, and your perspective on the availability of domain expert programmers doesn't square with my reality.
This. Every new user should get a cached random location and immediately start calculating another drop in the background to upload to the servers cache.
Yeah, it's sounds to me that you are being a bit harsh but at the same time I cannot fault your reasoning.
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Someone forgot to sign up for reddit gold account (spez too). /r/lounge without reddit founders just doesn't seem right.
because they spell so well [edit:] more seriously, older founders generally have a network of potential investors. If they don't, that's probably a red flag. Also, they tend to have more stable life situations (read: greater cash needs).

So, they are not likely to benefit as much from either the cash or the contacts YC provides.
ps having said that, the young child in question's favorite foods do happen to be ramen noodles and pizza, he is teaching himself python and wants to go to MIT :)
Maybe someday we'll never need to get up from our computers
Gasp, you mean education should count as work?
Nonsense. One can build a mulit-user database system in a few days. That would have taken months just 20 years ago.
He should have thrown in the new feature for meaningless underscores in numeric literals. I've always wanted this feature in every language, since 1_000_000 is so much more readable than 1000000 or 106.
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If that's your way of covering for ignorance, I suppose you do what works for you. Again, if you had anything demonstrating your completely incorrect position (you won't gain truth through repeated assertion), go ahead and present it. You haven't, and you won't.

The Sun spec-compliant patent grant is impossible to bind to an open source license, outside of the targeted grant they provided OpenJDK (with its own conditions). Feel free to parade your ignorance though insults, but it doesn't prove your (completely wrong) claims.
Read "Bargaining for Advantage" as soon as you can - it'll give you incredible ideas for how to frame your arguments, and how to creatively negotiate a better deal for both you and the acquiring company.

Do you have a lawyer who understands internet companies / startups? I'd highly recommend finding one to counsel you, because you run a high risk of having the acquiring company's lawyers taking advantage of you without you realizing it.
It's (likely) not a strategy. Other explanations exist. You need to know more than just the age distribution of founders YC invests in. You also need to know the age distribution of founders who apply to YC. It's silly to assume that the age distribution of applicants is unlike the age distribution of those invested in if you don't have the data to make that claim.

If, for example, 20% of YC-invested founders are in their 30s and 20% of applicants are in their 30s, then in all likelihood age is a complete non-factor in their investment strategy. YC applicants are just disproportionately likely to be younger, due to the fact that older people are more likely to have financial dependents and commitments which make it far more difficult (if not entirely impossible) to do the 3-month-long YC experience.
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Yeah, but the SEO might cost you a click while such an offer might cost you a physical visit to a crappy office.
As soon as there's a law about how to calculate square footage there will either be an agency to do the calculate the square footage, an agency to enforce it, or both. Oh, and some sort of tax/fee levied against commercial land-lords and the possibility of lawsuits all around. And that's assuming that the law doesn't require auditing and/or some sort of compliance documentation. I don't think you're really allowing for how onerous even "simple" regulation can be when lawyers and bureaucrats get ahold of it.
> 2) For everything else, forget about loyalty and spread your transactions over different suppliers to avoid hitting the threshold and not have to worry about it.

This doesn't help, as several suppliers can just be fronts of the same company. To avoid the prison sentence, you have to do full accounting on every transaction.
What I really appreciated about this interview was Jason Jacobs humility. To me that's one key characteristic of a good leader. Notice how he constantly praises his team? Others CEOs and leaders should use this as a positive example.
Password-protected link to the final movie if I donate? Psh, I'm just going to get it from TPB!
This is about a company, but it sounds like something right up your alley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639523.
As a native speaker, I really don't feel character rote learning is that big of a deal. I was educated in China until the fifth grade - by that time I could read most newspapers and contemporary novels. I never felt the process as gruelling, dry, or a significant time investment.

Most of the character rote-learning and grammar occurred in kindergarden, first, and second grade. The "rote-learning" part was writing each character five or ten times, then use them in sentences. It took maybe half an hour of class + ten to twenty minutes of homework each day.

From the third grade on the focus shifts toward idioms, styles, poetry, etc. Essays began in the second grade. By the end of the sixth grade students are expected to be functional writers. I think high school focuses more on Classical Chinese and western literature.

As a native learner, the process actually felt quite effortless. Most of the student's time was spent on math, science, and classical music, which were much, much more painful for me in terms of the sheer amount of practice and rote memorization.

Character amnesia had never been a problem for me while I was in China (this was before computers were popular). Admittedly it is a problem now, since I haven't written by hand for 10+ years, but the characters come back to me if I write them out a few times.
I know several 20-somethings making well over 100k/year coding and managing teams of much older engineers. For the most part they got the domain expertise that implies doing real research in top undergraduate CS departments, but they do exist.

Of course, the smartest thing you can do as a senior programmer is build domain expertise and get out of the more commodified areas, like web app dev. If that's what you & Patrick are suggesting I agree, but you underestimate your juniors at your peril.
So that's when you do things ridiculously different than other people. If you fail, you've still got this baseline of skills to fall back on, and you're indistinguishable from everyone else. If you succeed, you're very much distinguishable from everyone else, and that's worth a lot of money.

The same explosion of knowledge that open-source and github has spawned has created a wealth of new niches that are quite promising but generally underexploited. Everybody's piling into Ruby on Rails, Django, JavaScript, iPhone, and Android development. How many people are piling into things like computer vision, large-scale data mining, wearable computing, or robotics?

Search was not sexy in 1998. E-commerce was sexy. Everybody piled into E-commerce, which left the field wide open for Google to come in and clean up while Pets.com withered away and died.
I've always used Colloquy, it's an almost perfect client ;)
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I was hoping someone would notice the irony of that one.

Document the largest copyright violation institution in history and somehow hope that your dvd doesn't get ripped.

What could possibly go wrong :)
About the first point: several people have mentioned plan9, GNU awk also handles sockets as a virtual filesystem. You seem to think it's better handled at an OS level (and I agree), but it's a good way to try it out.
You really need to provide much more detail about the type of site you're running, how/if it makes money, whether you're comfortable working as a contractor for the larger company, etc.

Also, know that traffic milestones are way too easily taken advantage of (inflation and deflation of numbers is very simple in practice) -- I would suggest coming up with another way of tracking your growth than by pageviews.
The obvious counterexample is Arabic. Multiple, mutually-unintelligible dialects across national borders, but a single Modern Standard Arabic used in writing and international communication. I expect that as China develops, virtually all Chinese speakers will learn Standard Mandarin in addition to their local dialect, allowing pinyin to become a perfectly serviceable written language.

Most European languages had a diversity of mutually-unintelligible dialects, including English. What did for those dialects was national media and compulsory schooling; I can't imagine China developing any differently, but I don't know enough about China to say with any degree of confidence. I'd be interested to hear if there are any compelling reasons why this wouldn't happen.
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Looks clean. What is the reason you went with a .co.za domain?
few years ago that would be a news
This is just the typical youth Vs experience dilemma. Older programmers - assuming that they keep up with newfangled trends - probably have quite a cushy time compared to other types of engineer, such as electrical or mechanical.
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That's called a 'Martingale'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
The question is inapproportionate!

Without info about the pool of applicants, you don't yet know if YC invests disproportionately in younger founders.

And, even when compared to raw number of applicants, if older founders are underrepresented in those funded, that could be due to the universe of factors other than YC's preferences. For example, the best older founder-types may already be locked into other opportunities and obligations, making good older founders underrepresented in the applicant pool.
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>so few Chinese are immersed in technology to the point they forget how to write, in fact the majority of Chinese are peasants and don't even have an email.

They do, however, have mobile phones, and use texting. And most of them use the "pinyin input method" to input the characters as spoken sounds, not the "wubi method" to input them as strokes. (I know this from casual inquiries.)
I thought it was because they know when to use capitals.
I'm pretty sure that at least some companies compensate for negotiation skill at annual raise time. Google, for example, tries to normalize salaries by performance & job function when they grant raises. So if you're a really good negotiator and managed to get a salary much higher than your equally-performant peers, your annual raise & bonus will be less than if you're a really good programmer but suck at negotiation.

My guess is that all other things being equal, a bad negotiator won't actually catch up to a good negotiator. If things are not equal though, and the good negotiator sucks at his job while the bad negotiator is absolutely rocking it, I think that the strong technical person could easily make up the difference through promotions and bonuses.
I think s/he means editable field names...
To my understanding the point of going to YC is to earn the connections, getting hooked up with really good business lawyer, free PR from TechCrunch, and maybe finding a capable tech co-founder.

$15,000 is just too little money to make fuss about. The free PR alone is probably as valuable as the $15K.
Assume that any money that is contingent is not ever going to be paid. Get enough upfront that you wouldn't feel ripped off if you never got another dime. Shit happens and they'll be in more control than you.

To ensure the highest possible chance of getting the rest of the money have it put in escrow. Structure it so that the escrow service pays out the money according to a very simple metric. Using Google Analytics is probably a reasonable method, as it's a third-party and not open to direct manipulation.

If they're not willing to put the money in escrow that's a huge red flag that they're expecting not to have to pay it out. Accept no excuses on this point, increase the upfront payment accordingly, or don't accept the deal.
Which company was that?

Did you succeed at your goals?
True ediff, vc-dir, and ecb are all in there. And I can only speak for my own work-flow but with each of those I needed to make modifications to have it work in a way that I liked. And ultimately never got to a place where I was totally happy (except with ediff).

I do believe that people have gotten it configured just right and that they are extremely productive with it. But for me there was just always one more thing that I needed to do from change the appearance slightly or override the annoying way that vc-dir takes over existing windows. I end up just wishing that the defaults were a little bit better.
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This attitude was precisely what turned me away from Google. I interviewed for what they call the Rotational Assistant Manager Program (RAMP), which in reality is rotational and management related only in that you go through several different marketing positions.

I'm reasonably well versed in technology; I know my way around a rails or python app, have a good understanding of massively parallel computing, and can explain how PageRank works. Yet as a nonengineer at Google, you get zero input on new products. Development is almost entirely handled by engineers, with very little input from the outside.

Coming from a highly integrated startup perspective, I thought it was crazy. After years of indoctrination in A/B testing and user feedback loops and agile development, a tight integration between development and marketing/customer facing teams is almost an expectation.

But when I raised the idea of bringing in marketing to the start of development, the Googlers gave me funny looks. Engineers run the show, then hand it off to the marketers to sell; there's no real mingling between the two. At the onsite weekend, where we interviewed side by side, the engineers and the marketers weren't even allowed to sit at the same table for meals. Clinging to its technical heritage is hamstringing Google today.
http://www.cineight.com
Clickable link.

I agree with lzw though, you need a better landing page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R3pjDWRKmQ&feature=relat...
Cool idea if you are a composer who likes to use version control! I just recently started putting my GarageBand projects in GitHub =)
I'm a musician ( mostly analog one ) and have no idea from looking at the front page what I could get out of this. Unless you are just looking for a small subset of musicians, I would suggest a more beginner friendly explanation of how it could be used. I had to dig into a non-obvious point to figure out what you were doing and only because I also program did it all really make sense to me.
With only 6 points, how does this submission show up at the HN front page?
or are the submissions ranking even based on points?
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Huh?

(p.s. Yahoo had nothing to do with Google taking over the search world, talk about reinventing history. It was all to do with the simple homepage and great results)
This tells the story of how the USA started a base in Guantanamo Bay (site of the famed prison), and how it maintains a large military presence in one of its supposed biggest political adversaries.
As someone who has a big personal and professional interest in TPB, I think a documentary about TPB is an excellent idea as I feel the project has run its course and so now is the time to capture the story for prosperity.

BUT, I have two issues with this project:

Firstly, the guy asserts that he has met and interviewed Brokep and the other founders of TPB on film. But he refers to Brokep as "BRO-KEP" (which is how most people assume you pronounce the name). If he had spoken with him (like I have) he would know his name is pronounced "BROKE-P" (short for Broke Peter).

It's probably nothing but it's a bit weird and I don't understand how someone who has met the guy AND interviewed him on camera would make such an fundamental mistake.

Secondly, it all feels the wrong order of things - he says he's already done the filming and NOW wants funding for editing?

Simon Klose clearly has editing skills himself and so I don't understand why he wants to bring in an external editor at this point. A "better" editor can only work with the footage he has, so if Simon was going to bring in an editor it would have been better to have started working with the editor pre-filming to consider + agree a documentary style, angles, overall narrative, etc.

To his credit, I would point out that Simon Klose is a Swedish national - and that gives me a lot of faith. I've found that the TPB folks are quite suspicious of talking to anyone who isn't Swedish and so I think a great merchant-of-record documentary on the subject needs to come from a Swedish film maker.

I might still donate something but given the end-footage is going to be released as CC-NC I'd like to know what will happen from the proceeds of the commercialization of the footage by the rights holder (Klose)
That can work but there are some problems:

* you don't have a "git log" with an audio preview in each version

* what about all the samples that your project depends on? Do you add them to the repository? What about when you have two projects that use the same samples? What happens when your hard drive gets wiped and you lose the samples you didn't commit to the repository?

* what about the plugins you use? github can't keep track of the dependencies of the project.

* what if you want to collaborate on a project? if two people edit and try to push, you'll have a conflict which is impossible to merge

SolidComposer solves all of these problems.
That's an information problem, though, right? A McD's manager uses information and domain knowledge they have to lever up efficiencies in the business. They're every bit as much of a knowledge worker as a software engineer.

Now imagine that you partner one of those with someone who has technical skills in data mining, expert systems, and real-time data feeds. They build a system that watches local events, checks the weather feed, looks at traffic, etc, and predicts likely sales and staffing needs. Heck, it could even call the employees in to work while the manager sits on his yacht.

This lets several marginally profitable McDonalds owners suddenly start living the high life on $1M/year. The software might cost say $100K, quite a reasonable price if it saves at least that much on employee costs. There are 12,000 McDonalds in the U.S. The software engineer and his McD's partner are now head of a company doing roughly $1.2B/year in revenue, and there are maybe 10,000 newly-minted millionaires out there.

Any experienced McDonald's managers looking for a technical cofounder?
I think how you find people needs a lot of work. Every time I add a movie, I should be able to see who else watched it or added it, and be able to see the other movies they've added or watched. At this time , its impossible to find users without first knowing who they are.
Good point. I put a lot of effort into this page:
http://solidcomposer.com/article/introducing-solidcomposer/

Perhaps I should try harder to get the user to click the "How does this work?" link or use some of the same content.