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That he complained that he "never even got a card" meant that he was not appreciated as a friend by his manager-- that's something completely beside the monetary wage. They should have been friends, after 10 years together.

And even if the manager was earning a low amount there's no reason that in just one year out of those 10 he could not have given him a Christmas bonus. Even a small amount, so that Mr. Smith would not have been able to say that he "never got a [...] Christmas bonus."
Yes. They always seem to have fired in short bursts.
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Before Gates dropped out, he got a publication in a discrete math journal. If you can pull that off, feel free to drop out.
This is an interesting move for IKEA. I wonder if the real reason behind releasing their numbers is they are thinking about selling, and want to generate some quick interest. For a company to be so closed door with their earnings for so long and then suddenly open up when the economy is shaky seems unusual.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
The real question you should be asking is if his pay is so low, why didn't he get another job? There's a reason he stayed.

Did he deserve it? Maybe, the article mentioned he started out as a waiter and (moved up?) to dishwasher. Maybe dishwasher paid more, who knows. But my whole point is a manager in a restaurant has less control over raises than you seem to suggest.
I'm in! I even had a dream last night that I wasn't accepted. I feel rather ridiculous.
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Woo! I got in (I don't know if it's that exclusive, but I'm still very happy).

Who will I be seeing there?

Now, to plan how to get there from USC...
It might work, but you'd need a hell of a runway. Think year plus sales cycles, if you're lucky. Not a real good fit for an agile, non-vc backed startup. Banks are slow, conservative, and no two are alike under the covers, even the ones running the same outsourced core software.
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I went from Perl to Ruby about 10 years ago, and I can't say there's anything I miss. Certainly, at the start, running Web apps was easier in Perl because most servers had mod_perl out of the box. But for day-to-day tasks I found I much preferred Ruby. The reasons for this, though, are as likely personal aesthetics as anything else.

Nowadays Phusion Passenger makes Rack-based Web apps snake-simple, and using JRuby gives me all of the Java libs out there (including Swing for insanely-easy cross-platform GUI apps when teamed with Monkeybars), as well the option to deploy Web apps as war files to Java app servers.

At this point the interest in Perl would have to be due to some intrinsic language feature that might help broaden your ideas about programming in general (the way that, say, Haskell or Io might).
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Optional parenthesis on method invocations? Yes, but that comes with Perl. (I don't find that even remotely useful. I like to know if a variable is calling a method or a member simply by looking at the code.)

Considerable use of convention over configuration? Not sure what you mean here.

Built-in object mapping to database schemas? Yes.

I'm also referring to the clean MVC/OO style project architecture.

Here's how I described it in another thread:

With modern Perl, code is usually clean and free of crazy syntax. With a OO architecture where the base classes do most of the work (such as auto authentication, auto encoding/decoding, auto DB joins, etc.) and you do business/game logic in the upper modules.
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While not completely clear, I believe the article is stating that clicking affected "like" buttons will cause unwanted actions including unauthorized wall posts.
.. or COBOL
WW II fighters shot down a large number of aircraft. Erich Hartmann alone claimed 352.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_air_aces
I'd like to think this was the case, but I think they're just going with the hot new thing.

If Python on Skates took off tomorrow, every startup would start using it ...
thegyppo, no. this idea came from Webbynode's Readystack system which we developed about 2 years before linode decided to launch their version (they launched it February 9, 2010, we did 2008). (Yes, we're the guys behind Webbynode)

This is our original concept, back from 2008, they launched theirs in 2009.

Check this out http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4459&highli... and also our original 'readystack' idea post http://blog.webbynode.com/2008/10/29/webbystacks/

This is our original concept, back from 2008.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1749849
> With inflation, he was actually being paid less 10 years later.

I looked this up and Neil Alan Smith's wages grew by 41% from 2001 to 2010, outpacing inflation of 23%.

Inflation from Aug. 2001 to Aug. 2010 increased prices by 23% (http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_Rate/historical...).

Neil Alan Smith's wages started in 2001 at the federal minimum wage of $5.15. The federal minimum wage was constant from 1997 to 2007, but Florida passed a minimum wage law increasing its state minimum wage to $6.15 in 2005. Other adjustments to the Florida minimum wage increased his wage to $7.25 by 2010. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Florida_minimum_wage_histo... and http://www.floridajobs.org/minimumwage/index.htm)
I moved from Seattle to SF in 2008 and have lived in 3 places in the city.

Border of Bernal Heights / Mission district - shared a Victorian with 2 roommates, paying a total of $3700. Large house, more space than what we knew to do with. 10 min walk to the Mission & 24th BART. Neighborhood safety is spotty - my car was broken in twice that year.

6th and Howard - $3200 for a 3br (cramped) apartment. Very nice foot commute if you happen to work for in the SoMa or financial district. Very close to Westfield Mall and downtown shopping. East/West wise, the difference between 5th and 6th is vast. North/South wise, I would consider Folsom street the south end of the shadiness in the Tenderloin Market area, so we didn't quite avoid the crackheads and homeless. One night some homeless guy broke into my car and slept there. The stories of some guys laying turds on the street in broad daylight are true, I've seen it, I've smelled it, I put up with it as a neighbor for a year. If you have lady friends, it's not a very nice place to invite them over to. I can only describe 6th and Howard as an eyesore.

25th and Judah in Sunset district - I moved here in August. Really love the proximity to the park and ocean. I'm from Seattle so the fogginess is fine, don't see what the big deal is if you just want to live well and work on your hobbies. Cheap food, safe neighborhood, win.
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I got in and I am not not even a active contributer to HN (read everyday, just don't comment or post). Pretty excited to hear PG, Ron Conway, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Zuckerberg. Should be a good time.
Does anyone by any chance know of a Zooming UI (ZUI) WM for linux ?
I've been looking to replace my Gnome desktop I've otherwise been running for years.
I'm no fan of tiling WMs so a ZUI seem a good next step.
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I would recommend that anyone who is interested in this and related topics to study the work of W.H. Zurek. His work on quantum information theory over the past few decades is absolutely superlative.

http://arxiv.org/find/quant-ph/1/au:+Zurek_W/0/1/0/all/0/1
I setup a saved Twitter search to make sure I didn't miss anything. That said, see you guys there!
I refuse to accept that I suck Paul. Seriously. You're 1-5 people trying to judge on what you think is going to work. I personally think reddit gave you a bit of an ego trip. I think your vision of the future is clouded by visions of the past. The future is strange and you're going to miss it. Enjoy your 15 minutes.
Deprecated is past tense so either "was deprecated" or "has been deprecated" works.

Can someone, more knowledgeable than I, confirm this?
Rejected! Guess that means I can do rails rumble now.
When I say that he's not a genius hacker, I mean he is not a great programmer but I'm sure he's pretty smart. However, being smart doesn't equate being a great programmer and that's how the movie seems to describe him writing math formulas on a window, which is ridiculous.
If you're looking for something a little different, I'm working on low-power high performance computing for military and intelligence applications.

Place: Washington, DC (but virtual may be possible at first)

More details available to anyone who wants them.

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Why would you hope a startup fails?
Police said that Mr. Smith was following bicycle safety recommendations such as wearing light-colored clothing, using reflectors and riding in the bicycle lane.

This is a common misconception. Reflectors are worthless. Riding in the bike lane exposes you to great danger -- car doors flying open to the right, aggressive motorists passing too closely on the left. If you take the lane, you're out of the "door zone", and motorists have no choice but to slow down and pass you like they would pass any other vehicle on the road. You may feel like you are being an annoyance, but annoying people is what makes them pay attention and not kill you.

As for reflectors; they only work when there is a clear path from an illumination source to the reflector and back to your eye. Sometimes that happens, but more often than not, it doesn't. You don't need a $300 super-bright rechargeable light system -- get a $5 blinky and throw an extra AA battery in your seat bag. It may save your life.

Also, read Effective Cycling: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Cycling-6th-John-Forester/dp...

Please don't get yourself killed because you don't want to inconvenience a motorist or buy an LED light. Oh, and get a helmet; the $30 ones are just as safe as the $200, if not as comfortable.

I hate to be preachy, but it makes me sad when people die because they are using a safe and efficient form of transportation. (And believe me, I am not blaming the cyclist for his own death here -- the motorist who murdered him is to blame, with a close second to poor city planning and the total lack of bicycle education in the US.)
Odds are if the manager really liked him, the manager would have liked to give him a raise.

However, sometimes available finances simply do not warrant a raise. Sometimes higher management who does not know an employee says "why should we pay him more, we can just find another Joe to do the same job", without knowing the measure of the man.
Not in. Oh well. Sounds like an overwhelming response and bigger venue again next year. Looking forward to watching some of it on justin.tv though.

Have a productive day everyone who made it in. :)
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The comment on the article reveals completely the lack of intelligence and elitism of the commenter.

It may be wonderful to think that the people who man lower-end jobs are somehow less deserving than you, and somehow should be executed. But without those people filling those low-end jobs, our world would fall apart. No matter what you think of them, you need them, whether you realize it or not.

And on the other hand, if the commenter was thinking "he will most certainly be happier dead than working at that job", that illustrates that he has never been in a position lower on the economic scale. While low-quality jobs are no walk in the park, it is possible to enjoy one's self and take pleasure in life without being at the top of the totem pole.

Either way, it is obvious the commenter is a fool.
i'm not sure what the startup school email said (i live on the east coast), but my rejection from yc was pretty civil...

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications
continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit
on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain
that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.
If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us
about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Likewise denied. A bit of justin.tv and hackin' away on a current project will occur in its place.
So my real fear is we’re going to lose control of this animal... I just want to reform [copyright] to make it make sense.

As one of those "revolutionary", I thought any possibility of sensible copyright reform is utterly silly and impossible.

Instead, I thought the business case will determine the survivability of copyright as an institution in Western civilization.

In my opinion, the laws will cramp down on those pirateers, but in reality will not drain out the revolutionary impulse. Piracy is not a revolutionary act. It is an act that support the copyright interest, but not the interest of anti-copyright. The Pirate Party are not revolutionaries, but reformers. Nor are they're a bunch of people who want free musics as far as I know.

Instead, the revolutionary spirit seem to be embodied in anarchistic techno-libertarianism that infect some of our fellow hackers.

Lessig have nothing to fear from the current population revolting. In my experience, most young people actually have no opinion on intellectual property right. It is probable that once young people actually have money, they'll just purchase musics out of convenience. I tend to find that copyright abolitionism has won most people on the techno-libertarianism spectrum. You're more likely to see them concocting business models and engaging in counter-economic activities rather than concocting silly legislative effort.
I've been working with Perl on and off since 1997 and similar to many I've been disgusted by some of the code I've come across created during that time. Perl has come a long way even since version 5.0.0 and is quite a different character these days. The problem I've had with recommending the language is that unlike C which really hasn't changed(at least to me), Perl has slowly evolved but many of the books in print still point to the older version. While Perl is excellent in maintaining backward-compatibility with earlier versions, knowing and learning the "modern" versions has been a more painful task then it should be. I think this book changes that.

I just spent about 30 minutes skimming through it. It's only 260 pages in clear and articulate English. Should this be THE new Perl book? Could be...I think this coupled with Effective Perl Programming that came out a few months ago are great for getting onboard or returning to the world of Perl. Hats off to you Chromatic for your work on this.

There may not be any reasons to learn Perl if you already know Ruby/Python/Tcl/Lua but you certainly won't be worse for it if you do. At the end of the day, it's just another tool and I love having access to so many great ones these days.
I suspect that as with any large enough organisation there is a spectrum of competence across their workers, raging from high to low. I obviously have no proof that there isn't some big conspiracy afoot, but given the choice to bet on conspiracy or incompetence as the primary factor for the issues we're seeing, I know what I'd put my money on.
I found the most interesting part to be when the author admitted to overlooking the idea that users might want instant gratification from a useable site. seems like in this day and age that would be the #1 priority of any company/website/startup.
He explained that, because he doesn't like the idea of dumbing down reading. There are plenty of startups that should fail out there.
I wish I could work for justin.tv! But I live way too far even if they were interested in me. I live in Riverside county - it's not a tech hub by any means. Most internships I've been able to find so far are either in the SF area or the LA/Long Beach area. Hence why I'm looking for internships that allow me to work remotely - some experience is better than none. But it seems highly improbable that I'll find one...
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>That he complained that he "never even got a card" meant that he was not even appreciated by his manager

"I kind of forced him" to celebrate holidays, Rogers said.

That quote kind of puts a different perspective on it. His roommate had to force holidays on him, so is it a wonder his manager didn't give him cards? Maybe that's just the way he came off.

"He might not have meant something to somebody else, but he was like family to us. He meant something to us." - Dayhoff, his boss at Crab Shack. That sounds like he appreciated him to me. Quit acting like you guys care about Neil Smith more than his no-wage-raising, no-bonus-giving, no-card-giving manager. That guy actually lost somebody, you guys didn't. So don't be so quick to call him uncaring.
Amazon doesn't strike me as being the best of the bunch in terms of i18n, really. Here in Italy, their presence is kind of limited in terms of countries/languages where they are present: only Germany, France and UK. Granted, it's more difficult for a company trucking in physical products to move into new markets, but they seem to be taking their sweet time about it.

Google is a bit better, but still strikes me as very US-centric in some ways.
this bias tends to come up frequently on HN (often as a reminder that this community shares more articles about businesses that succeed than those that fail), so many may recognize it (and upvote it) --- it's sort of like saying tl;dr and summarizing the article it it's own way.
And i forgot to mention a Vimperator project. It's really useful peace of software. It let you to surf the web with keyboard only. http://vimperator.org/vimperator
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There's a difference between being rejected from something (which has a fairly low acceptance rate, strong applicant pool, and brief application) and sucking.

Now, if you're going to complain and get discouraged by one unimportant failure (hell, you can still see the talks on Justin.tv), then you do suck because everyone that doesn't suck has failed lots of times and gotten over it.
He explicitly complained to his friend of not getting a card or getting a raise.

Celebrating holidays or not is a completely separate issue.
Use this "rejection" to empower you to build something amazing. I know if I was rejected I would use it as motivation to be great. No one can tell you what you are made of besides yourself.
"out after saying Jews are not oppressed minority" or maybe, if you actually listen to the interview, because of accusing Stewart of being a bigot and basically pulling the "Elders of Zion"/(or a "Mel Gibson" if it sounds more familiar to you) shtick? I think it used to be called anti semitism.
I wonder what the breakdown of the payout is. I'm sure Arrington got a nice chunk of cash/stock, what about the other writers, developers, ad sales people, etc...
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I took a six month break from Perl. I know it better than any other language.

I recently started using it again for one offs. I love Perl. It is so much fun to be totally fluent in a language.

Then I wrote a one page app in it. Oh my god, I can't believe anyone still uses Perl.

Its strange. I love it. I hate it. Its great. Its a piece of shit. I am familiar with Modern Perl practices... I just can't understand why anyone without a massive legacy codebase bothers.
Im not a tech person and I saw it the opposite way. I really wanted to paint my car red a few weeks ago but I dont have the tools, skills, or means to paint my car so I took it to someone who could.

No different from what entrepreneurs due to coders and vice versa.

If you truly feel this way, next time you have an idea pitch it yourself, sell it yourself, run the books, hire employees, etc.. I mean, if you REALLY wanted to do it, you would and teach yourself accounting, finance, and get a sales background....

The idea that you have to be all in and proficient in every aspect of your company is absolutely ludicrous.
Afterparties?
I don't see the point of posting digs at someone who just handed you millions and millions of dollars. Nobody forced TC to sell.
great scene in the movie and definitely the most "fincher-esq" part of the movie.

THe movie was scored fantastically as well.
Ugh!!!! This guy is so full of stupid it hurts. Ok, let me not fall into rant mode and just be nice and logical.

The fallacy some people fall into when presented with a new product or service is to make an assumption that this new product or service is meant to replace current methods......entirely. It's a black or white world to these people. What you should be thinking instead is how this service could e utilized in a more useful way than SOME current methods of doing things. This is the same crap I read when augmented reality was coming about. Stop thinking A versus B and start thinking A + B!

Regarding the authors rant, of course a wikipedia type page of text has huge advantages when wanting to learn about a subject. But there can be times when Qwiki's method will be advantageous too! For example, what if Qwiki became embedded into interactive TV products. I'm sitting on the couch, watching Mythbusters, nowhere near my computer, and a term is brought up that I'm unfamiliar with. I could pause the tv and initiate Qwiki through a voice command and, still in my sunken-into-couch-ain't-willing-to-move-an-inch position, I can sit through a quick brief on said term before continuing with the show. That's just one example and there will be many more.

So again, stop it with the this versus that thinking!!!!! It's so simple- and single-minded! See the pluses and minuses with every solution and consider how each can serve in different scenarios!
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I am a 20 year old studying computer science and industrial design.

I am looking to compile a list of startups that invented smarter business models, democratized private industries, and created new opportunities.

Why? I would like to know how these rebels changed the world and how they kept evolving. Please include any quality learning materials if you can.

Please and thanks.