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My parents assets are merged with my own. It's 'family' assets if you understand what I mean. Where I come from, we don't talk about money in the family. And I don't plan to work any less harder and earn any less than them over my life time either.
And here is the new 2010 book the interview is from. Best career guide for geeks avaiable IMHO:

http://bit.ly/b08auR
Wow, that first responder is a first-class algorithm weenie.

http://blog.jbapple.com/

I can't wait to see what he does after he graduates. The last guy I felt the same way about is now at Google, working on a javascript library :-(
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>Sounds to me like bloggers are the new journalists

Journalism used to be considered the fourth branch of government, keeping the other branches and large institutions in check. Blogs are the startups of the journalism world.

As America moves from bureaucratic capitalism with large institutions to entrepreneurial capitalism with many small firms & independent players, the responsibility to call out unethical behavior is transferred from news companies to the individual.
Here is also a nice one using XeTeX and some cool fonts:
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex

Or this interesting two-column-CV movement:
http://www.cv-templates.info/2009/05/advanced-two-column-lat...
You beat me to it. However, to give Courtney Love her due I would simply add that it's not really a direct rip. She was certainly influenced and inspired by Steve Albini's rant, but she expanded upon it and added a lot of material.
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Cached version:

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http://twitter.com/speechu/...
This assumes the people developing memcached decided to spend a lof of time optimizing their implementation of the ASCII protocol, despite knowing that performance conscious users wouldn't use it anyway; while it may very well be true (I don't remember), it doesn't seem like something that is safe to take for granted.
The original tweet was removed in the past few minutes (others have dug it up again). His latest tweet doesn't seem to be taking Arrington too seriously:

Thanks Mike for techcrunching me for no reason. Note to self: hold next secret meeting in underground bunker to get the feds off my trail.

http://twitter.com/speechu/status/25174604517
Don't build in the evening.

In the evening, wind down the day, have a beer and plan out how you're going to use two hours in the morning tomorrow most effectively. Set one clear goal. Then...

1) Go to sleep

2) Wake up early (I recommend 6am)

3) Do the work you thought up last night

I find myself remarkably productive in this cycle. If you've planned well, you'll whiz through the tasks. Focus on "doing one thing" each day and you'll be racing through iteration cycles. I find that I'm usually so productive like this that I can comfortably keep the weekend purely for recreation guilt-free, rather than continuing to iterate on my down time and burning out.

This is how I built http://goodgecko.com

It's taken about 3 months* of doing exactly the above, now has paying customers and is an extremely satisfying "side project"!

UPDATE:

*I should elaborate - 3 months since the very barebones MVP. The MVP took about 2 months and featured basic surveys and a one-page sales site. The current product features web, mobile, popup and kiosk surveys and has a fully-realized sales site. The sales site itself took about a month to make...
Nice use of Pycco! http://github.com/fitzgen/pycco
Strangely, it's still on the feed. http://twitter.com/speechu

But the status link is deleted
I'm really disappointed that they chose to implement Priority Inbox before they implemented the much asked for "Send As" feature.
Timothy Galley's Inner Game Of Tennis seems relevant for non-anxiety/mild-anxiety based performance issues. He believes that over-analysis and self criticism prevent both learning and peak performance.
Who are the super angels that were present at the meeting?
Thanks for turning me on to Instafetch, I had been looking for a good Instapaper-esque android client.
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There is a Quora thread for tracking who was there: http://qr.ae/EC7
All of these seem very targeted towards people coming from academia. I have always put work experience up at the top as it has been the bulk of what employers care about.
I like this comment from the post:

"[...], so Gmail updates aren’t tied to Android version releases anymore." and "The Gmail update requires Froyo (Android version 2.2),[...]" just makes absolutely NO sense.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/updated-gmail-app-i...
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Um...generators are Python 2.2+ (introduction of the yield statement):

http://docs.python.org/release/2.2/ref/yield.html

Generator expressions are 2.4+:

http://docs.python.org/release/2.4/ref/genexpr.html

That said, I don't disagree with removing the Python dependency from the "core" of Mongrel2. As was noted in an earlier comment, people can always write a config file management tool in any language they want (or Mongrel2 bindings in general, for that matter).
I was being pedantic in saying that ideas are real. An idea is the subjective experience of a brain state; there's nothing extra-real about that. It's not really possible to own an idea, but then if you deconstruct ownership, it's not really possible to own anything; all "property" is a legal fiction, so that by itself is a dead end.

Now, personally, I believe having access to more information is better than less. Purely on utilitarian grounds, I feel like I've seen pretty strong arguments that short-term patents and copyrights are great at incentivizing creation, which then lapses to the public creating greater good for all. Our IP system may be pretty broken, but that's a different subject.

You seem to be opposing IP categorically because of a moral judgment, but I don't understand what the principle is. You clearly have some consequentialist concerns, but they don't extend far enough to, say, allow a developer to earn a living by selling software. What's the moral value here?

More on point, why doesn't the same thing apply to physical property? Why is it okay for the government to tell you you're not allowed to drive "my" car, but not for them to tell you you're not allowed to reprint "my" book?
Major players in the industry are reshaping it.

One says "I'm uncomfortable."

Another says "I subscribe to Playboy for the articles."

So Arrington doesn't name names.

Fortunately, everyone is now shamed to ethical conduct.
I would argue it's more ethical to discourage and prevent crime from ever happening in the first place. Seeking satisfaction from "catching the bad guy" (naming names) is to setup a market dependent on the need for new crimes.

Arrington did the right thing. It's not about whether he caught a criminal, it's about whether he prevented someone from becoming one.
Ahh, stop reading Hacker News? <g>
I'm pretty sure some of those cache abusing techniques could be made to work without javascript.
YC self-venture fund
Given the recent post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714377) about possible collusion and price fixing between Angel Investors, I was wondering if YC startups could begin providing their own alternatives.

P2P Loans are getting much more popular, which makes me wonder if we even need Angel Investors anymore. Are they still helping the process? I know that almost every YC start up, I would have been willing to invest in. I have like $10,000 sitting in my bank account, because I have no clue what to do with it. I'm sure I'm not the only one on HN with money who could invest in one of these great companies that comes through YC.

I'm suggesting a P2P Investment fund specifically for YC start ups. Sort of a DIY invest-in-us for the YC start ups as an alternate means of funding. I'm sure it could make a great YC project itself.
First: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busin...

Then:
1) I never sacrifice dinner with my family and I try to "be home" from 5-9. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

2) Always prioritize your most difficult work first. If you start with "check HackerNews", time will disappear. Finish a use case first then reward yourself. Pick a new feature to ship each night and the progress will fuel you.

3) I've never liked working super early in the morning, so I take quick power naps in the evening (30min to 1hr.) to refresh and work from 10-1. Solid, uninterrupted 3 hrs.

4) Passive work (like catching up on HN, other sites) can be done with MacBook in lap on the couch if you want to unwind with some Tivo.

5) Don't be afraid to invest appropriately. I'm actually taking vacation next week to complete my punch list: finish coding, meet with an advisor, attend a trade show and prepare product for beta.
June 18th, 2010 was when Google's jQuery went down for me (and many other people).
"3. Parallel action by competitors is in itself normally quite harmless and does not subject them to liabilities."

Not sure what your sources are, but courts have ruled that parallel action can be sufficient evidence of conspiracy under Section 2 of the Sherman Act. See e.g. American Tobacco v. United States (1946), available here:

http://supreme.vlex.com/vid/american-tobacco-v-united-states...

The Supreme Court wrote:

"[The conspiracy's] existence was established, not through the presentation of a formal written agreement, but through the evidence of widespread and effective conduct on the part of petitioners in relation to their existing or potential competitors."

If I remember correctly from my anti-trust class last year, the American Tobacco precedent still stands. You don't need written or audio evidence to get a conviction; anti-competitive behavior in the marketplace is sufficient.
I spent the earlier part of my career working for independent and free media and campaigning for free press.

Of course you should never publish anything libelous or incorrect but it saddens me to no end to think that people wouldn't publish something that they could stand by as true, right and accurate simply because they were scared they might get sued.

And certainly someone as the proprietor of a publication of record like TechCrunch (which while perhaps not the most whitest-of-white media outlet, still has something to stand for) owes it to his readership to do what's right.

I guess it all comes down to why you are publishing in the first place - to communicate truth and facts or for power and ego (which sure, is hard to tell with TechCrunch at times)
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Now I know where those million giraffes really came from.
A friend of mine works for a government contractor software shop started by a nana in her later 60s. Except nana was an old-school Fortran programmer and knew her way around Visual Studio. The cuteness wears off within an instant of hearing her speak: she is just another systems architect robbed of all innocence by decades of requirement analysis and systems integration.

I also met another lady in her late 60s at George Mason university. We chatted up at the library checkout line, and I ended up getting lectured about mobile proof carrying code by someone in a christmas sweater, and bifocals left barely hanging on her nose. My 1337 credentials took a hit that day.
Interviews are a two way process. People seem to think it's about the interviewer showing up and answering a bunch of questions, but the goal is to try to make a connection. Sending a thank you is part of making that connection.

Your 'thank you' can include specifics of the conversation that interested you, or more questions that you have in order to show your interest. It's another opportunity to communicate with someone you may want to work with.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it likely that the angels involved also make up a strong percentage of the people who invest on Demo Day in post-YC companies? How can it be a "PG vs Angels" situation when the parties involved are likely some of YC's portfolio companies biggest "supporters"?
If age doesn't matter, why is it on the application form to YC?
This is spot on, and it is appalling that so little has changed in 10 years since. Luckily, things are slowly changing.
yea, same here. Though I don't disagree, I like to dress [well] in a way that suits my personality as well. Showing up in a suit to a startup does say something about you (not that that's bad, but it says something)
Google is a big company - There's probably people working on both simultaneously.
That's successful parenting.
Love this update. Used to have to scroll all the way to the bottom to reply. Now I can do it from the top of a thread. Thank you, Google.
Didn't rumor get out as soon as the one-on-one meetings happened? Someone was bound to notice all those meetings, or maybe some employees were laid off before others and got the chance to spread the word?
Gotcha. I must have been influenced after having just read the "why I booted python from Mongrel2" article. :)
If it gets conflicting values, it goes with the one that is stored in the most places.
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I find it very hard to believe that a significant part of the US population doesn't know enough about condoms or pills. The problem is that a large percentage of people don't use contraceptive methods and have kids out of wedlock.
The rule of thumb to use in most interviewing situations, not just Software Engineering, is to dress one "degree" up from your interviewers. If you're being interviewed by jeans and a T-shirt, wear a dress shirt and slacks. If you're being interviewed by a dress shirt and slacks, you can't go wrong with a casual suit.

If you're being interviewed by a formal suit, though, don't go busting out the tux :-p. That's the top level.
The same thing can be said about other services and I doubt that Joe's hosting service availability is better than Google's. Though I admit that if Google fails and at the same time your site doesn't, it sucks.
There were some hard decisions, like when I had to buy out my cofounders, or before that, the first time I actually tried getting someone to pay me for stuff. But the hardest? Quitting my full-time job. Even though I had enough revenue lined up, it was still an extremely difficult decision to make.
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Nope, just tried it. Incognito, cookies there. Clear cache, incognito mode again and 3 types still captured. Really quite fascinating.
Its an interesting idea. I'm curious how the legal side of things would actually work. If I find a company I want to invest in and only want to do $1k, do I get stock? Does everything pool together under a single person and some legal agreements split any profit made in the future or something?

If no stock/ownership is involved then isnt it more of a donation? There are plenty of sites for that.
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OF course, as the product of a government school, you believe what you were taught, and you think as you were taught to think, and therefore, simply pointing out obvious history is, to your unthinking mind "absurd". You trot out nonsense like "robber barrons" ignoring the fact that robber barrons were actually a good thing, and were nigher robbers, nor barrons, and did more to increase the standard of living of the poorest in this country than any of the socialist nonsense your addled brain endorses. You are a good cow, and you just mooed, and you are offended that someone might not want to be a cow. Well, the time of your slaughter is getting close, I hope you're nice and fat for the farmer.

Me? I've left the farm. Life's to short to try to educate cows.
dun think entrepreneurship starts in yr 20s and stops by the time we hit 30. it's a passion, something we love to do. anyone out over 30s, GO FOR IT! You only live once!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it likely that the angels involved also make up a strong percentage of the people who invest on Demo Day in post-YC companies?

Yes, I believe so.

How can it be a "PG vs Angels" situation when the parties involved are likely some of YC's portfolio companies biggest "supporters"?

That question might be better put to those Angels in the bar...
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We can both cite dictionaries. My quote came from the OED, which is a far more exhaustive index of English usage than Webster. (Deliberately so: The OED was intended to be descriptive, while Webster believed that dictionaries should instead be prescriptive.)
Is not clever wordplay disconnected from the external world? Is not indulging in one's cleverness narcissistic

No.

Or at least no more so than is inherent in all writing.

As for the good doctor Johnson, I would hesitate to use the inventor of the universal refutation as an authority when arguing against indulging in one's cleverness.

Faulkner is a similarly hypocritical source in a plea for clarity.

"Kill your darlings" isn't terrible advice, but taken alone it's as fatuous "write with verbs." Taken alone the basic idea is don't write anything you personally like, which is exactly the sort of life choice that quickly leads to a bottle.

Just to be clear: I didn't illustrate straightforwardness with that entire passage, but with one specific part:

One specific part preceded by a mountain of shit. I actually enjoy the straightfowardness of his "bad" writing doesn't actually work unless his "bad" writing is in fact straightforward, which is a shaky claim when the supporting evidence is a small fraction of a single very bad sentence.
They could also, you know, do without the fancy garden that needs so much upkeep. Being in Chicago, I doubt they have a large lawn and garden, so how much upkeep could it require?

And they could do the housework themselves or maybe let things get a little dusty, like 99% of the population does.
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@kilian - we fully intend to polish the UI and make it look nicer, but you're right - we've been focusing on getting the backend working well, as that seems to be the biggest challenge. It could like all nice and pretty but people won't use it if it breaks. Looking forward to getting your feedback when you deploy your Django projects!
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Any advice on how to go about getting contracts for, say, server monitoring space?
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@Fookyong thanks for the plan. I have noticed, I am much more effective in the morning and this new plan will help me take advantage of exactly that. Much appreciated.
This is a completely different statement than your original one. I think there's plenty of support for non-webapp Ruby, and that its very competitive with Python outside of web application arena (look at Chef or Puppet for a couple examples). But Python is _clearly_ the dominant language in a scientific environment, at least between it and Ruby. But like I said, that wasn't your initial statement.
Which as far as I'm concerned just makes your statement worse. Those are some singularly (plurally?) innocuous bits of word play, one of which it should be pointed out comes from his autobiography an excuse to be a little extra self indulgent if there ever was one.
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"Update profile" seems more in the style of Computron 5000 to me, but yeah, the move to "update my profile" was an attempt to make it friendly and now it has that connotation. But I think it works mostly by making the idea of a dialog (in the sense of conversation) more explicit, not so much about ownership. Like you also started seeing prompts like "Would you like to...?" or "Are you sure you want to delete?" rather than "Confirm deletion."

Dialog works because my perception of my interaction with software is that I'm in a dialog with it. When the interface mirrors that idea back to me, there's a fit or congruence and it feels comfortable, in the same way that an ergonomic handle is something like the inverse of the shape of your hand while holding it - I say "my profile" so the interface should say the linguistic inverse: "your profile". IMO, it has nothing to do with humanness or friendliness or emotion -- which is nice if it's contextually appropriate, but it can be irritating -- and more to do with cognitive ergonomics.

The idea of making computers more friendly, like a human, to make them easier to use is kind of a dumb idea when you think about it, like saying screwdriver handles should be shaped like human hands because we find it comfortable to hold someone's hand. Anyway, human-to-human interaction is often very awkward and definitely not intuitive, why should it be the ideal for human-computer interaction?
Here is my argument that making it better would make it cheaper:

- Consider what percentage of class time is productive vs babysitting. Not sure where you went to school but in my jr high and high school years, 60% of the classes were 80% babysitting and 20% teaching.

- Now imagine that a school hour could be structured with a 20 minute lecture followed by 40 minutes of supervised study (supervision not necessarily provided by someone capable of teaching the material). Suddenly you have a >100% efficiency improvement for that hour, since the teacher could be teaching another group and the supervisors can be relatively low skilled.

Surely there are some classes/students that would benefit from longer lectures or hour long discussions; the point is intended simply to illustrate that there is substantial waste and inefficiency today.

- Why does the school day operate during the typical school hours? Largely because of the school's dual role as daycare... expensive daycare. Why not have school hours be 8-noon every day and then make the rest of the day a daycare / study hall staffed by non-teachers? This could be done without sacrificing any academic quality.

- Pay distribution. Teachers are paid based on seniority. Switching to merit pay would cut staffing costs significantly while allowing the good ones to be paid a salary competitive with other fields.

- Why are classes overcrowded? Do all classes need to contain 20-30 students? Why not make some classes contain 150 students and others 10-15 students like in college? The problem of overcrowding is due to the unrealistic notion that there should be 20-30 bodies in every room during every period. That doesn't match the distribution of talent and interests, and does not optimize teacher effectiveness.

These are just a few ideas. There are probably many more.
I believe it too. You succinctly enumerate the reasons. The biggest for me was that (he claims) he saw it happen. That puts his personal reputation at stake, which I think will have to meet a far higher standard than the rumour publishing "go tos" of "an anonymous source".

The FB phone was (imho) classic Arrington (the bad side). Posted on the weekend (in the hopes that FB PR would be slow to respond and debunk it), quoting anonymous sources and no substance at all. Basically, link bait. That sort of story does him (or rather his credibility) no favours.
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