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Yes, I would work for a company like that. As long as this configuration of yours makes sense and isn't terribly onerous. In general, I would prefer to work for a company that developed on linux. But that's because I'm a linux user.

I've worked previously at companies that required development environment standardization on a Windows XP machine in the same way you're discussing. That was a little difficult for me. I'd never developed on XP before, I grew up on Mac and switched to Linux in college. But with some help from my coworkers I got used to it. And the standard configuration made sense. It was the configuration our app was intended to run in. The one our fairly small customer base all used. It wouldn't have made any sense to develop in my preferred environment because the application wouldn't have even run in my preferred environment!

If your program runs live only on a system with your particular configuration, such as with web applications, then it makes perfect sense to have the development environment mimic it. In fact, I would want the development environments to minic it as closely as humanly possible. The testing environments on the other hand - are a different story. But I'll assume you have that ironed out too.
I know this was pointed at grellas, but I think this is a misunderstanding when we look at price fixing and collusion. The illegality of collusion is secretly forming agreements to benefit competitors at the expense of other parties. Words like defraud can succinctly help you understand whether it is illegal or not when looking at these agreements.
Your developers need to be able to work how they're comfortable. Ultimately, setting up their development environment makes them more comfortable with it.

That said, give'em a VM, let them use anything they want, and if they want they can attempt to replicate the VM onto their machine. It's us to them to become competant, not you to say "Well you're probably NOT, so no soup for you!"
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It's true they were familiar, but it was just more colour (including funny lines like "fly casual"), and didn't have any effect (or did it? was there any point where they acted on info conveyed, and we saw the result, or it meant something to the plot? Even Han telling Chewie what to do? Maybe there was.)

Also, it's harder to show a relationship when only one side speaks - maybe if I thought of it more as a man-dog relation (a subaltern)? But it's still possible to influence the plot, eg lassie.
I've always thought that a policy of repayment would be both the fairest and most deterrent policy. Jail time should be dependent not on time spent but on time to repayment. Theft should be considered a debt. Repayment of that debt should be worked off.

If thieves could count on having to do real work to repay debt that would both reduce the incentive to steal and possibly reduce sentence lengths for some cases. Spend several months working off a debt for a petty theft and room and board at the prison and that job at McDonalds starts looking a little better. Maybe even that GED.

The goal should be lower incentives for theft, raise incentives for real work and a clear demonstration to the thieves that their sentence is tied to the value of the stolen item.

This obviously doesn't apply in cases of physical violence or murder but for the cases you seem to be focusing on in your discussion I think it's superior to straight time based term.
The trend lately is toward convertible notes issued by the startup itself. This means that nobody is leading and nobody is pricing the deal.

There are plenty of other people (VCs, basically) that do lead, when there is a leader. It's just much rarer right now. And the stronger deals, not the weaker ones, tend to be lead; those are the deals where the entrepreneur has the most leverage, not the weakest.

I don't get the impression that anyone is fixing the market, for what it's worth.

But thanks for the outrage and accusations.
The story itself is 100% generic Wild West. There’s no need to advance beyond the first installment.
There are times where the actions of Michael Arrington make me hate him. And times where I forget all that and appreciate his integrity.

Posts like this keep TechCrunch afloat. Good job.
I hope you mean 'real rate of UNemployment' ?
True, but you need to consider possible sub-markets. They might have much less than 10% of angel funding nationwide, but 60% of tech angel funding in the bay area. Or something like that. It all depends on how the regulators draw boundaries around markets.
Well, im experimenting with the smartest crowd ive met in my life, and i want to bear out my theory about entrepreneurs are more aware of their existence in this world compared with "normal people"
Mine is Shaving the Yak.
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It's important not to get too caught up in the legal technicalities. A strong startup (ideas/execution) still has tons of market power, no matter what a secret group of super-angels agree to do behind closed doors.

And, most importantly, bootstrapping is more feasible than ever and (as noted) YC is coming on strong.
So we need a stateless browser and don't have one.
Personally, I'd like to know why a start _wouldn't_ use Linux without a particularly good reason (e.g. developing for Windows or Mac OS X). I use Linux by preference, both when I'm contract and when I'm working on my own code & products.
Contracting "on the side" can give your startup(s) an effectively infinite runway. Hard to beat that.
Thanks for the info.

We're not concerned about disk I/O but the app does have heavy network I/O. (though latency rather than bandwidth is the main concern).

Also, I assume for virtualization you are talking about the worst case (perf-wise): running Linux in a VM inside another operating system? Rather than the better one of having a hypervisor directly manage both the user's main OS (win/osx) and linux?
If i can customize the Linux to fit my working style, i'd love to. I'm using Linux for work anyway. With a customized Linux i think neither Mac nor Windows can beat the productivity.
If by "legitimize internet censorship globally" you mean the US would set an example of censorship for other countries to follow, I guess that makes sense. Remember, Hillary Clinton took Google's side in criticizing China's internet censorship. China will go into full US-bashing mode when this bill gets passed, not to mention all those blackberry-censoring countries. I'm glad I live in neither country, but my government loves to follow the US's example so I'm concerned. Time to start routing my traffic through Sweden!
I was thinking of implementing first a PHP library, and annotations are not so popular among the PHP community. The binding is achieved through reflection on the functions configured. Different http methods can be configured for every function, and custom complex objects (like a model class) are supported in the response.
I plan to add Ruby support with an annotation based configuration as a next step.
I once watched a panel discussion with him and a representative from Opera and Mozilla. I never understood how someone who is as likeable as him could come up with something as evil as Internet Explorer 6-8.
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I dream of the day I'm allowed to use Linux as my main OS. Maybe time to move jobs.
We're trying to create a hackerspace at my uni.
Yes, there is a Superangel Conspiracy [to get attention]
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I guess I saw that one way conversation as an example that Han knew Chewie very, very well, even being able to understand his completely foreign language. But I guess it's still so nostalgic to me that I try to explain any faults. :(
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i've never heard of this guy before, and he isn't a coinvestor on any deal i've been on...
So if he gets saturated w/ orders all he has to do is... hire another cook, or another delivery guy.

He could have like a whole network of sandwich makers, and a full-on switchboard to take the orders if it got too crazy.
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Most definitely, Hearst et al. I imagine Advil, Tylenol, and all the other pharmaceutical companies are against marijuana legalization as well.
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For the past 10 I've _only_ used linux as my desktop. I was using it pretty frequently before then too.

So my answer would be: If your potential employee refuses to work on Linux, or Windows, or OSX or NeXT or whatever... you probably don't want them.
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a backup fund would be a good thing, but I think 10-20% of my income would be quite a lot, I think.
My buddy and I in college colluded to maintain market conditions on Lamborghini prices. As far as I can say, 300 million other Americans are participating in this. Our agreement was specifically regarding price (and lack of 0% financing).

</sarcasm>

I think in buyer's market it only makes sense when the supply of buyers is artificially limited. Not only it doesn't look like there's any shortage of capital, the conversation in question specifically discussed excluding new angel investors, furthering the point.
> I think Google's standards have risen since [...]

... since hiring the guy that went on to create Gmail!

Yes, this reminds me of what tends to happen as companies get larger: they add more processes and "standards" and management and therefore increasingly lose out on the kinds of opportunities and people they used to be able to get.

Granted, Google stands out as seeming to do pretty well fighting against it, staying fairly "agile" for it's size and age. But if your company reaches the point where it cares more about what university you attended rather than your intellectual qualities and accomplishments, you're heading in a bad direction.
All of our systems (development, live, etc.) run Linux with a relatively complex configuration

Depends on said complexity.

You listed three notes above. (A) is odd. For (B), similar packages should be obtainable unless it's a proprietary package for your startup. (C) Encryption is pretty well supported on OS X and Linux. Scratch Windows.

I'm sure some devs would welcome a new laptop. However, being restricted to just that without good reason will strike most as odd. Trust your devs to be able to setup their own dev environment. Allow other environments if they can make it work.

At the end of the day, it seems like the underlying message is what counts. Does it appear that you are encouraging or dictating ?
Ah my very favorite philosophical rabbit hole. I'm afraid I can't begin to answer this outside of a cozy pub and without a constant stream well crafted beer.
He uses gmail, awesome.
But if he hires another cook, he's paying the cook when he tells the cook his hours are, whether or not it turns out he actually needs the cook for all of those times. If he were consistently saturated, hiring another cook is a good idea, but if it's just saturation that lasts under an hour, congestion pricing is a better model than increasing capacity and losing a lot of money when he's not using the capacity.
Well i'm a linux guy, use it for desktops and servers and love it, find it a million times easier to deal with than windows or osx, so obviously i'd be fine with a linux based startup, however, i dont think the question is for ready made linuxers.

I've come across this same question from a different angle before, when applying for jobs, at the interview stage i always ask if i'm free to chose my dev environment, the majority of companies are fine with it. I've come across a few that require a windows environment and even some that require eclipse or zend IDE (i prefer gedit) and because of this I have passed on the job whether i have been offered it or not.

While the main reason is because i'm a million times more productive on my setup of choice but its not the only reason, its also a red flag that the company's culture is rigid and probably a shitty place to work.

Obviously there are exceptions, but i think the best rule of thumb is to let the developer choose their own tools, set them a task and get out their way.
Is that a good idea? How did it go?
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We're allowed to use anything. The way it's fallen out: 1 person with Linux on PC, 2 with Linux on Macs, 3 on Macs, 2 on Windows 7. As others have said, virtual machines are your friend.
Do you know about http://www.wuala.org ? It's free if you share your disk space, it's redundant, and it's fast and easy. Backups, rsync, and regular file storage via a browser in a Java based client (runs everywhere I have tried) make this universally good. I never paid a cent to them, shared a couple of machines worth of 50GB of extra space that is up 100% of the time, and I have > 100GB of space available to me.

Linux backups are really easy: Wuala's client uses fuse to mount itself as a file system, so you can simply do periodic tar, or you can let their own backup mechanism back up your stuff to a special folder they maintain perfectly. You can get to your backed up files anywhere in the world via Wuala.com. This feature has saved me gobs of effort a bunch of times already.
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I'm still mystified with the seeming adoration that the HN crowd has for Arrington. It's possibly the only thing I don't care for here. The guy mostly spins BS and is generally douchy, so why all the love?
Oh come on! This is HN. Please don't make it like Digg. There is no need to flame people unnecessarily.
Good point on the hardware/software mix. Does the Mac have much value over Thinkpads without the OS though?
If you want a job writing English textbooks, I'm pretty sure you just send your resume in to a large resume company. If you have the right qualifications, and you pass an interview, you can start working for peanuts fleshing out a checklist of points into a nice gooey explanation. You have a nice 9-5 job+, with no real creativity required (or even desired).

I think getting a job as a song-writer is a bit different. I guess there's a continuum between a singer-songwriter like Bob Dylan, and a guy who re-arranges the synthetic drum-beat for "Girl from Ipanema, retirement home lobby edition", but there should be a line somewhere. If a song writer isn't a creative professional, who is?

+ actually, a lot of text-book writers are freelancers, but the creativity they are expected to show is said to be quite low: http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine
I've only ever hired one person, so my experience in this is limited.

I was on the fence between the two top people. Both were great, right out of college and seemed eager to learn. One sent a thank you card, the other did not.

I hired the one that didn't send a thank you card because I was more concerned about keeping out a (potential) kiss-ass in the thank you note writer.

Also, I don't think a thank you note is courteous. If I believed that I'd also need to think that not sending a thank you note is a sign of an absence of courtesy.

Making courtesy a function of thank you notes would cause them be thrown out ad nauseum and would lose some meaning.
Blocking system cofiguration is a totally different issue. A lot of coders are especially tied to their OS of choice, and with Linux, even different distros can be night and day. There are some distros that I don't think I could reasonably work with (not to name names). And I suspect a lot of coders are pretty inherently mistrustful of what might be lurking in a preinstalled system that they aren't allowed to wipe. (Keystroke logging? Remote VNC? Is the camera on right now?)

I haven't worked at a place yet that didn't budget a little time up front for me to get up and running, but it's mainly the feeling of restriction that gets to me. What if the coders get upset enough that they start developing remotely, pushing all their code back and forth over ssh/rsync/whatever, and using their laptops as thin clients? Do you block ssh traffic? Ouch. Lots of coders are brilliant and love subverting restrictions. It seems keeping everything locked up could turn demoralizing for both sides to say nothing of the huge time sink.
I didn't mean to come across as outraged or to make accusations - it was a genuine observation.

When I raised a note I set the price, but it was through talking to the investors. That was a while ago though.

I think the core of what Arrington is saying is that they attempted to fix the market. ie. got fed up with how things are atm and tried to fix it in their own way. I know that some of these guys have been against notes for a while, but end up doing them anyway.
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Great, another Linux elitist.
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Key quote: "I wouldn’t say a lot of employees and owing a lot of money to investors is any guarantee of longevity"
Machine learning jobs outside of Google?
I'm finishing my bachelor and I really enjoy machine learning(one ML course and one AI course).
My uni has a great master in ML available I just wonder if the jobs are there, except for working at Google.
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Realising that the project wasn't going to work out and having to shelve it.
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Which OS was that?
Teams should be allowed to use whatever tools best suit their work style. We stopped the draconian IT practices a year ago and now allow our developers to have literally whatever they want for a laptop. Productivity went up. 2/3's of the team runs Mac, 1/4 runs PC, and the remaining fraction run Linux. Seems Mac is the clear winner in my shop. Interoperability issues are somewhat a part of life, but the good outweighs the bad.
Testing, yes... but laptops?. It is important for QA and or Staging environments to match production, but not developer laptops.
This article seems to resemble PR copypasta, but over-looking that, it is a little comforting that the thing is opt-in.

That kind of sheds doubt on the 250M figure, though. Do they mean 250M potential users?
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So HN downvoters prefer the current centralized model of Internet name services which are vulnerable to a denial of service attack from technologically illiterate politicians?

I just don't understand the world anymore.

Takes all kinds I tell you.
You may also find some nice examples here: http://www.tuteurs.ens.fr/logiciels/latex/

Translation:

CVs: here are several CV examples, with different layouts, and using different techniques. It is true that for someone who is not familiar with LaTeX, common text processing software might be easier for typesetting a simple CV. This said, using LaTeX is also seeing how other people use it...

o CV1 (cv1.txt,cv1.ps.gz): simple

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o CV3 (cv3.txt,cv3.ps.gz): simple and elegant

Files can be found here: http://www.tuteurs.ens.fr/logiciels/latex/templates/. You can also check UK TUG's FAQ (http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=cv).

But in my opinion the best thing is to write your own template from scratch so that it matches best with your personality.
You filled in the blank perfectly, and regardless of whether one is a monotheist, polytheist, agnostic, atheist or the more ambiguous eastern philosophies (taoism, etc) the only thing that needs concern entrepreneurs socially (imho) are the constants that retain social order. That means learning to phrase and word things in a manner that retain those "constants" that keep people feeling "together" as opposed to "apart".

Focus on that and let everyone else "fill in the blanks" for themselves.

:)
I have been trying to move to this model for about a year now. When I can pull it off, this is the best thing in the world. Problems arise when your day job runs into the night, and you cannot get up early to do job #2.
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This although for me on a smaller scale (just personal projects). And ACTUALLY shelving it, not just moving the folder somewhere else until "maybe" I'll keep doing it another day.
Great, a post about open source which requires proprietary software (flash) to view it⸮​ Why not just link to a PDF file with slides?
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We do web dev. The pain point for me is having to use rsync to "deploy" to the vm every time I make a change. That's a pretty decent tradeoff though when the alternative is maintaining tons of different development configurations on your host machine.

Our local deploy process is mostly scripted so it's not much of a pain point to have to redeploy new changes.
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