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Why should I have to pause the comment auto-updater just so that I can finish reading the article?
"if my company failed in the Valley I could probably get an equivalent executive role with a technology company" --
This statement seems a bit weird and naive (or wishful thinking). Do you really think people are going to give you executive positions and that just there are no talent around in here that is even more proven than you?

Hint: You are more likely to become to become an executive if you have a previous good track, and having one insignificant failure on your belt, is not.

Come in the valley:
1. if you want to seriously start anything that is very technically challenging. The top talent of the world is here.

2. If you want to join an existing company and learn a lot. Then you can move in your country an open whatever you want there.

3. Scale up. If you have a decent idea, a working product, and some good traction, but you need to scale up (more funding, people to work on it, etc).
Yes, I think he does.
Even if you do accept the dubious assumption that Mad Men is an accurate depicition of "the good old days", the author seems to have missed the point (or just wasn't paying attention).

The constant drinking has caught up with several of the characters - one character has his foot mashed, permanently disabling him, during drink-fuelled office "fun". In the latest episodes, even Don is cutting down...
Out of local spending, almost 30% come from federal government grants. Only 45% of the federal tax base is income tax, and only 15% of the local tax comes from income taxes.

Out of federal expenditures, about 45% of them are covered by defense, healthcare and medicare spending.
So little spam makes it through to my inbox that it seems like this approach would take more time than it is going to save. Interesting observation though.
It's funny 'cos it's true - this is a conversation you can even have here on HN.
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Great point, but you should have stated that in your original comment.
Getting rid of sugar subsidies and tariffs on foreign sugar would be nice too: http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/27/florida-sugar-crist-biz-bel...

We have more sugar than we know what to do with - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=ene...
He was involved with Edgeio during TC which was "an effort to build a fully distributed advertising platform for the Internet." I know it went through an identity crisis and even spent a bizarre period in the digital download space before an asset sale in 2008.
The Vancouver Translink map is missing the new Canada Line.
Let's put it another way: when is that love not worth it? Is it worth $50 a trip? $100? $500? At what point do low ridership numbers to far-away places cease justifying the construction of dedicated fixed-rail infrastructure? (the highest of the high-density modes of transit)

I may love taking a train straight to Paris, but that doesn't mean it should be a part of my city's metro system.
People keep saying this but is there evidence that this attack doesn't bring down the mail server too? I'm not making assumptions, but for what amounts to a brochure site, it wouldn't be that surprising if mail was on the DoS'd servers.

Of course, if not, I agree this is kind of pointless.
It's quite likely he meant 'overripe', which might be considered one form of 'unripeness' (though 'unripe' usually means pre-ripe).

Even though there are many sources touting unripe bananas as a folk cure for diarrhea, an article from the 'World Chiropractic Alliance' wouldn't be my go-to source.
I very much doubt the IRS is going to mind if they send them bigger checks than they have to.

So why not do that, rather than demand that the tax level be increased?
I use more than that as well, and you're right. My life got simpler when I switched to a regional accounting firm that specialized in smaller businesses.

I was simply trying to note that tax compliance is cheap enough that there's really no reason not to do it.
San Francisco faces a lot of problems which DC doesn't when designing a subway system. Apart from the fact that there's a honking great bay in the middle of the metropolitan area, I'm not sure it's possible for BART to serve much more of San Francisco proper than it already does.

Why? Well, if you go north of the BART line you're rapidly into the hills, so either you have to take the trains up the grade (bad idea) or you have to build your stations thirty storeys underground (also a bad idea). If you go past the hills and up to the Marina, you're into reclaimed land so I don't think it's possible to build a tunnel (civil engineers out there to comment?)

You could probably extend it out into the Richmond and Sunset districts, but that part of town is served reasonably by buses anyway.

While I hate to defend BART almost as much as I hate to ride on BART, its main purpose is really all about linking the cities of the East Bay with San Francisco, and San Francisco with the airport. Comparing it to a proper metro system in a city not subject to the weird geographical limitations imposed by the hills and the Bay isn't really fair.
Yeah, at first I thought it was Chrome's AutoPager plugin, but even after I disabled it, same thing happened. I had to resort to the print-friendly view.
supposedly the Coke released once a year that's kosher for passover is also made with sugar - http://consumerist.com/2010/03/kosher-coke-is-here-for-passo...
don't ignore the social stuff. If you feel like an outcast nerd elsewhere, moving here to feel like a real person might be worth it by itself.

Another thing to consider is that (technical) standards are higher here. Be prepared for a 'big pond' experience. Yeah, salaries are higher here, but so are expectations. If you were always the best person in the office elsewhere, it might be something of a shock to come here and find yourself closer to average. But that can be a good experience, too.

Of course, you are talking about executive roles, so probably none of this applies to you.
Well what do you expect to happen when you put them out in the cold for so long?
Personally, I think touchscreen layouts should start making more commonly-used keys bigger in accordance with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_law
They're still coming, but have been put off until JDK 8, which is scheduled for late 2012 (about 6 months later than the original JDK 7 scheduled date). By the fast-moving standards of the software world this does make them a long way off, though...
Looks good too. Ruby is not a problem.

I've now got multiple choices that seem like they can do the job and just need to decide which one is the best fit.

Thanks
Whether or not TechCrunch is reasonable about pointing out when they're wrong doesn't seem relevant. Facebook "attacking" their post has nothing to do with what TechCrunch might do if it turns out the post was wrong.

Facebook knows if the post was wrong, they're not "attacking" anything to make a point in case it turns out to be wrong.
No. No. Sorta. (crappy neighborhood in a nice general region (CA central coast))

Then again, we're only staying here for 6 months. Wife and I both have used cars ('o6 & '04) that we bought cash. Home furnishings are all used/cheap as we've learned our children tend to destroy things. We don't buy many "nice/expensive" things other than my camera gear and my wife's shoes/clothes.
I've always asked that to anyone who advocates for higher taxes yet have never heard of anyone who actually does.
How would you go about testing system calls?
Unfortunately for me, I'm stuck with the other 96%.

I would say "Fortunately for me, Google is stuck with the rest."

About once a year, spammers find a way around Google's spam filters for 3-4 weeks, which means I might see a non-flagged spam message show up in my mailbox every couple of days. Beyond that, I don't even think about spam anymore (including worrying about false positives, which I haven't seen in years [if at all]).

Above and beyond everything else positive or negative about Google, this one thing will cause me to always have a warm place in my heart for Google.
Of course Facebook is not building a phone.

This is why they are apparently talking to hardware manufacturers to build the actual thing.

Provided, of course, that the article is true.
No. I meant interstitial:

Interstitials - On the World Wide Web, interstitials are web page advertisements that are displayed before or after an expected content page, often to display advertisements or confirm the user's age.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitials
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This is correct but I omitted it for the sake of simplicity. I think this will turn out to be important because it impacts the rates of metabolism of various bio-chemical processes. Also, per Taubes, its not just blood sugar and insulin spikes that are important but the processing of fructose in the liver that impact the levels and types of cholesterol, etc, that end up in the blood, not to mention actual liver damage if over taxed (which has similarities to alcohol induced cirrhosis).
I launched Safari and used its Reader feature.
Yes. Hardware acceleration is available in Flash10.1 for Android. Flash leverages on hardware acceleration only when absolutely needed( for H.264 decoding etc ).

As a simple ball bounce animation, i dont think hardware acceleration kicks in during this demo. With all the html5 love Apple is showcasing (apple/html5), they should have enabled hardware acceleration for html5 long before.
As a developer, i hope Flash and html5 will coexist ,innovate and outperform each other to blow our minds.
A decent set up is multiple job servers and having worker daemons for the difference queues on multiple machines. As long as you have at least one job server and worker daemon going, you're in business (and you should probably put a Nagios alert on that stuff anyway). It's naive balancing, but it will taking you surprisingly far (we've been using this in production for about 6 months). That said, it's got it's own set of quirks: job servers accepting jobs when they're unable to process them while they replay a transaction log for starters -- and there's a few other subtle "job complete" bugs we haven't been able to figure out yet.
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Keep using Scala ;-)
Some are just compelled to act on their ideas. Unfortunately, it doesn't always result in success.
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The Pirate Party lost my vote because they focused more on antics than politics; i.e. that they would host the piratebay and wikileaks from within the parliament.

The Pirate Party has alienated those who supported them not because they want to legalize filesharing, but because they had a strong stance on personal integrity, privacy and so forth.

They've lost their focus, and with it their credibility, I'm sorry to say.
In addition, Delayed Job is also a battle-hardened/tested queue system too, with better retry / error rescuing (ironically enough). It is slower due to MySQL locking though -- Resque is built on top of Redis and is lightning fast.

We use DJ for jobs that MUST succeed (e.g. autopost) whereas we use Resque for more frequent but less essential jobs.
i use http://www.mozy.com
You can try condor http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Features like invokeDynamic don't impact Java developers much day-to-day, but they should make JVM languages like JRuby and Scala faster.
But that's just my point: my son, in 5th grade in a US public school, hasn't gotten "one homework assignment after another requiring them to cut, paste, draw, and color". In fact, last year, he didn't score well enough on a math test, so he spent an extra half hour every morning for the rest of the year going to another teacher for rote arithmetic drills, which I thought was a bit excessive.

Maybe you need to read fewer right-wing rants about what educators say they're trying to get teachers to do, and pay more attention to what teachers are actually doing in classrooms.

Also, I believe most of your citations pre-date "No Child Left Behind", which from what I understand greatly increased the emphasis on standardized test scores.
I rarely work with Oracle, so I'm not very familiar with the product line. Thanks for the correction.
HN doesn't even do a consistent equality-based dupe check of the submitted URL!

Submitted URLs are only checked against the URLs of past stories that are cached in memory, and the Arc process crashes regularly, which invalidates all comment forms and starts the cache fresh again. The result is that the duplicate check is only processed against stories that have been displayed in some form in a response since the last crash.

That end result is actually kind of elegant — you can only submit a direct dupe if nobody cares about the old one, but the means to that end is pretty fucked up. A worthwhile accident.
Where other realistic options do people have to invest their money but to put it in the hands of a financier? Put it in a bank/retirement account it goes to/through the financiers.
Too bad :(
hopefully they can come back stronger
Y'all need to take a chill pill. As I'm a New York-born, Houston-raised, SF resident, no ad hominem was intended, except to emphasize that outsiders can miss things obvious to a resident. That's why I also mentioned that even when I lived in Berkeley, and took BART to SF regularly, I didn't understand MUNI.

The link you provided overlooked the key fact that SF has another system that's far more like SF's version of DC's Metrorail: MUNI -- even though the MUNI cars and payment-mechanism doesn't look as much like Metrorail as BART does.

The idea of extending BART to provide more central-city service isn't even considered, because the BART system was created primarily to serve regional, long-haul, city-to-city needs. BART is the LIRR or PATH trains, not the MTA subways, of the bay area.

The internal SF system at the dense core is being extended -- a controversial new 'Central Subway' from Chinatown to CalTrain/SOMA -- and it will be part of MUNI, not BART.

And you pointing out that the California state government isn't high-functioning? Well, that's just mean. Fortunately, as an authentic Tex-Yorker, I have a tough skin and am not particularly sensitive to such slights.
I wonder what's going on in that Java group at Oracle. How can it possibly take three more years or so to implement something like list and map literals or a data picker UI component?

The one and only change to the VM that I would like to see is not even planned: structured value types. This single issue is responsible for Java's massive memory usage. Half of that memory is used for completely unnecessary pointers and it will lead to C or C++ grabbing the title of 100 year language.
Check out his LinkedIn profile for details about his work experience:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelarrington

Aside, from First Data Corp., he doesn't list which companies he founded. I would assume that he was the co-founder in those that he held a C-Level position: RazorGator and Pool.com.

He has an interesting background. For example, I don't think a lot of people know he has a Stanford Law degree.
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To me, the surprising fact isn't that the man who wrote "all men are created equal" owned slaves; the surprising thing is that a slave-owner wrote "all men are created equal." Talk about having ideals that transcend one's upbringing...
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Melbourne, while nowhere near the valley, actually has a fairly vibrant and growing startups/ co-working community. Granted this wouldn't affect you getting venture capitol or more jobs but it's defiantly something to explore before your count out staying in Melbourne as an option.
The psychologist who discovered this, Seligman, had since turned to studying the opposite: the psychology of happiness. Check out his TED talk, where he talks about his new research: http://www.ted.com/speakers/martin_seligman.html

In summary, according to Seligman, the three levels of a happy life (in order of short to long-lasting):
1. pleasure (physical comfort, great food, etc.)
2. engagement (loving what you're doing, e.g. getting into flow state while coding)
3. meaning (be part of something larger than yourself, e.g. Mother Teresa, Gandhi)

Of note is that, in Seligman's original experiment, a percentage of the dogs never gave up, i.e. never learned that they were helpless. they kept on trying despite their efforts never paying off. when they were put in an environment where they actually had control, they quickly took charge of their own lives (at least in terms of avoid electric shocks) -- a heart-warming story to entrepreneurs.
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I use zipcar because I usually don't need a car, not because when I need to use a car its use isn't critical.
That's true "so far" but i think we should wait more and see new improvements coming.
Looks like a very cool and well built product. Congrats to him. I'd be interested in knowing what sort of market their is for this software?
If people were getting the deserved salary for their job/skills then we would all be multi-millionaires.
Not really. The Weimar Republic's hyperinflation preceded (and contributed to) the rise of the Nazis.
We use Delayed Job at AdGrok for both for async jobs kicked off from user activity as well as nightly maintenance jobs.

If you need support for "job prerequisites", (one job to not start before other jobs have finished successfully), we'll be adding that to our fork from collectiveidea soon. The DJ codebase is pretty nice to look at, too. Note also that there are capistrano dj deployment recipes in the git source.
Agreed. I like the style of his writing, it doesn't seem at all glossed over, comes off very honestly.
There are people who like a "fun" office culture, and there are people who don't. What these companies are doing is creating workforces that are, in part, self-selecting.

I have my opinions about the value of workplace wackiness, but it gets the hires in the door. The question is, are those the right hires?
wikipedia says 'People with pessimistic explanatory style—which sees negative events as permanent ("it will never change"), personal ("it's my fault"), and pervasive ("I can't do anything correctly")—are most likely to suffer from learned helplessness and depression.'

It seems to me that if you tended to believe "it's my fault" then you would have the opposite result - empowerment. When you admit that something is your fault, you now are responsible for overcoming/solving/fixing it, which is the opposite of helplessness.
I think the purpose of the Inc interviews is to just get the author to say everything, and I think a lot of people appreciate the honesty and lack of editing (removal of irrelevant content) in this article. I liked it.
It's not clear how long it will take for web applications to completely displace desktop apps, if this ever completely happens at all (it can't today, and HTML5 still isn't enough for it to completely happen either). They've already got a big investment in .Net, they should leverage it.
On your first point, local spending is so small that the 30% coming from federal grants is insignificant.

On your last point, the following pie chart seems to disagree: http://bit.ly/aG9Oj5
Obviously, it is possible to break unsigned cookies. However good luck with dictionary attack protection, session-id, ssl, most banking sites are mandated to have.
Especially when you are writing Java code to run on client machines. There it's not even safe to rely on 1.4 features yet.

So I guess I'll be able to use closures the moment I can stop trying to make my web pages work in IE 6: in the yeat 2040
I assumed the intent would be obvious... alas I hope the comment triggers further discussion at this point.
I absolutely, positively second DropBox. It integrates seamlessly, and you may have 100GB for only $200 a year.

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The main motivation for adding closures was not having to include a big pile of boilerplate interfaces coming from the jsr 166 fork/join framework. Now fork/join is in JDK7, but closures wont make it till JDK8, which means we'll be stuck with the crappier API forever.

In my opinion, JDK7 wont have enough incentive for corporations to upgrade Remember how long it took for JDK6 to be adopted? So why release a JDK version if the majority of people wont use it? Why not spend a year or more on building new cohesively designed APIs with closures in mind?
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Unfortunately JSR 292 will not deliver as you'd thing.

Some people don't have such a good impression of it, e.g. Rich Hickey (Clojure): http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2010-06-01.html

method handles are just going to be an entirely new thing hotspot et al
are going to have to be taught to optimize. They are already awesome at
optimizing ordinary class method dispatch
bobo_: invokedynamic is not needed for removing reflection
....
it is just a different way of doing call site caches, which you can already
do today with classes and methods

What JSR 292 does is to simplify the work a compiler architect needs to do, since implementing call-site caches is hard work, not to mention memory management since interpreters like JRuby are generating lots of classes that are entering PermGen ... so stuff like java.dyn.AnonymousClassLoader may provide some relief.

But on the other hand, compilers will still need to support Java pre-7, since adoption in the enterprise is really slow (many companies are still on version 1.4)

There is a backport for invokedynamic though, but it remains to be seen if it's any good: http://code.google.com/p/jvm-language-runtime/

Notably missing features with a lot more bang than InvokeDynamic:

tail-call optimization
fixnums
coroutines

All in all, Java 7 is a monumental failure and Oracle is waisting resources on merging JRockit with Sun's JVM, instead of saving it.

Say what you want about .NET, but their releases have been coherent with each one adding value. If only Microsoft's management would see this as an opportunity and open up .NET a bit, probably not.
Read carefully:

"Deferred to JDK 8 or later"

In the Java world, this is a good way of saying never ...
Did they really reference "ninja" developers as an example of title inflation? That must be what it's like to be completely on the outside of tech community in-jokes.
Around 400 taxpayers (out of 1.54 million) in Massachusetts opt in to a higher state income tax rate. (see http://dailybabenews.com/article.php?article_id=6842&typ... ).

That said, I think this a terrible argument. Changes to the tax code only have an effect if they take effect across the broad tax base. That said, maybe someone should start a "I'll pay higher income taxes if 1,000,000 people join me" petition on Pledgebank.
Wow. What a brilliant concept. I would love to be able to work with someone over Skype and this, and discuss a bit of code, and fix it collaboratively. Epic!
Hm? Though on Linux I'm sure it varies from distro to distro, my Fedora 10 box has ulimit -u at 1024, and my OSX 10.6 install has it at 266 (2^8 + 10? Wonder how they decided on that number).

(And yes, I tried forkbombing them for the hell of it, both systems took it entirely in stride, as would be expected.)

Does anyone know of any current distros that don't set a sensible process limit in the default install?
4 posts from the same blog within 30 seconds? Flagged x 4. One is plenty. Please be more considerate.