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"Why can't great hackers indulge in pointless experiments in scalability without suffering the ridicule of their peers?"

There's nothing wrong with that, but you shouldn't do it with your startup. Optimization is inherently limiting -- your product will probably be completely different in three months, and you will most likely find yourself having to reverse or work-around unnecessary decisions that you made early on. I know we did, and now our engineers probably curse my name for it. It has probably cost us dozens of hours (and thousands of dollars).

"Developers acting on their own accord must be allowed to be inspired by their hopes and dreams and not always take the straightest path to the goal."

If your goal is to make awesomely scalable software and learn a lot, then, yeah. If your goal is to build a company, however, you should shed every non-essential and worry about potential problems when they're real problems.
Maybe he shoveled the driveways of the SEC board for free.
> I consider stackoverflow one of the best sites of the whole internet, together with wikipedia and a few others.

Though that has more to do with their community & content than their structure. Of course, SO's structure is part of the reason for its community/content (though I personally believe Atwood & Spolsky's star status was more important), but just copying that isn't going to get a similar site a lot of users or quality content.
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On Saturday, a witch called Bratara told Realitate.net, the website
of a top TV station, that she plans to cast a spell using black
pepper and yeast to create discord in the government.

I bet she took it seriously
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Predictably Irrational talks about what you are describing here. You see, despite many of these technologies having a smaller install base, what they have done is create a new anchor in technology, which allows them to monopolize the conversation. The iPhone and Rails are the most significant anchors within the past 5 years. You can't make Perl popular by acting like rock stars and making videos on youtube, you can only making Perl popular by creating a new technological anchor for others to hook themselves to.
That's the 10%.
You seem to be forcing your perspective on others.

I did no such thing, I said at the last comment that I believe everybody thinks different. All I am trying to do is understand what exactly are they thinking.

Edit: Also, while I may use Heroku (I actually did) or appengine, I wouldn't go straight to rails before learning some basics about what exactly is a website.

Blinking the led must come after learning what exactly is the LED. I am not saying learn all of the semiconductor theory but a small description in your head would be good.
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I believe that while LinkedIn is useful and having it won't hurt in any ways, having resume is also necessary.

I cannot say a receive lots of work requests, but the usual pattern for me is that HR people find me on LinkedIn somehow, contact directly and ask for a resume.
with "failed attempts to copy" I meant they (Rubygems, Hackage, ...) did not succeed (yet?) to replicate the size, diversity, test coverage, community etc. of CPAN. I do agree that they are useful.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Sure, when I say stackoverflow I don't just refer to the technology, but the community, how the site is handled by the founders, the original aims that resulted in the site, and so forth.
Why go with both Linode and Slicehost? I was under the impression that they were pretty much interchangeable...
So why not just export your linkedin profile as a PDF? There's a icon on the right side. Makes a well formatted PDF if you ask me.
I'd be curious to know how OpenVPN helps with file-sharing. Is it to secure a non secure file sharing protocol such as FTP?
I'm not sure why this story made the front page. How is this relevant to Hacker News? It seems more like a fluff piece to me.
I'm inclined to say the MS stack is fairly unconventional for startups these days. One decent heuristic for whether a decision is conventional is whether your peers are likely to ask "why did you do that?". If a startup's stack is Rails on EC2, few in the startup world would bother to question it.

So, why did you do that?
LinkedIn has a "export as PDF" link (see your profile, right column, the pdf icon), you may use that pdf as a printable version of your CV.
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After weeks of PhD bashing here is one article which successfully defends it against a lot of arguments against a PhD.

I especially like the comparison of an academic career with the startup track.
In the link is the same as the PocketMod, only 8 pages. I got the idea from the PM, I just wanted more pages. As a side effect they had to be smaller, which was good because my to-do is usually pretty short, but I like to start a new one for each day.
CPAN is the killer app for developers because it is:
- an archive of libraries for them to use
- a publication mechanism
- a documentation mechanism
- a global distribution mechanism

And most importantly: It provides you globalized automated testing on a variety of systems of anything you upload, through CPANTesters.

Just as an example: I uploaded a module yesterday and now it has 38 tests on as many different configurations already:
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CGI-Application-Plugin-T...

So not only gives it a very useful and otherwise extremely expensive tool to you, the developer, it also shows you this information about other modules, so it lets you gauge the quality of the modules you are considering to use.

Edit: Also, as an additional goody: The testing culture of CPAN allows development of ancillary tools that analyze the current state of CPAN and highlight modules that are having issues with their tests: http://analysis.cpantesters.org/ This can help generate bug reports for developers who don't have time to figure out exactly why a test failed on an obscure combo and they provide an in for CPAN-Newbies by pointing out to them which distributions could use patches.
Terminology has context.

Complaining about an article on perl.org not mentioning what CPAN is, is like complaining about an article on cars.com not mentioning what BMW is.
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I'm not sure why is this a problem, a link can be forwarded through email too ... unless it needs to be accessed offline?
On the other hand it's hideous and you would come off as incredibly lazy.
And CPAN itself was modeled after CTAN, as far as I recall...
Yea, I was also hoping for something insightful about Scala adoption. Doh!

As far as premature optimizations, if they're truly premature and moderate/high effort then yea, you're usually better off getting things working quickly first. But I've seen the admonishment of premature optimization often used to turn a blind eye on the technical debt that can result from simply going fast. Successful projects require doing the simplest thing possible that will work while maintaining a conscious effort to keep track of refactoring candidates, performance inefficiencies and other messes that'd otherwise languish under the rug and, maybe, just improving them before proceeding.
I also used that Flash thing a long while ago. I think it had some relation with the PocketMod site, but I don't remember exactly (and I don't have the bookmark, this was in my Windows days and when the PC died I didn't bother copying bookmarks).
In a bull market, everyone's a stock picker.
At the bottom of each email, Quora provides a link that lets you stop receiving all notifications from them. It's a two-click process.
Ask HN: Any Polish developers or entrepreneurs on HN?
I wonder how big Polish community (or just passive readers) is on HN.
Or, you can forward the link through email.
More or less :) I wanted more pages, and I like it smaller, too.
I completely agree with this. I've just gotten my PhD, and could have gotten some commercial job with a higher paying salary. Yet I've chosen to stay in academia, doing something I love, travelling all over the world and having fun doing it.

I should also note that, at least in the Netherlands, young researchers will be on a temporary contract for quite some time. Circumstances (laws, funds, budget cuts, etc.) are against us and unfortunately create a very bad situation for us.
Don't be lazy about it (recruiters can smell laziness from miles away)

Funny, but I can smell lazy recruiters a mile away too.

"I came across your resume today... blah blah blah ... send me your resume and we can get started."

WTF?

I've had contact with about 30 recruiters in 2010 - the vast majority were 1-off emails or 2 minute phone calls. 3 were non-lazy, in my view, and I got a short term contract from one of them. She was polite, courteous, seemed like she was actually doing some positive work for both parties - a pretty rare find.

Yes, this was a bit off-topic, but, really... they're not doing this for fun - they're getting paid. If they think you're truly lazy they probably won't deal with you. But you shouldn't have to jump through hoops and do their job for them either.
Indeed, and this is no different than the US. A quick search for 'fortune teller tax' actually reveals not only do such taxes exist in various local tax codes, in many jurisdictions, one must be licensed to be a fortune-teller.

Below is the application form to receive a fortune-telling license.

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From the article:

"The iPhone isn't the highest sold smartphone"

Sure it is. At least in the U.S., Japan, New Zealand and Australia. In most other countries, Nokia is the most popular smartphone vendor, but because they offer hundreds of different models, I doubt Nokia has one specific model that sells better than the iPhone 4.

[U.S.] http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/01/canalys-iphone-becomes-mo...

[Australia] http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=pr...

[New Zealand] http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/telecommunications/andro...

[Japan] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-23/apple-iphone-cap...
I chose emacs when Textmate stopped getting updated. The joke page registered at textmate2.com redirects to emacs, and a most of the people harassing Allan on his blog a couple years ago were saying they'd switched to emacs.

I think it might just be that emacs doesn't lend itself to screencasts or golf quite as much as vim.
Here's a simpler version. It has only 8 pages, but the pages are somewhat larger and the whole booklet sits flatter in a pocket. Here goes:

1) Fold (8.5x11) sheet of paper in half (like a hamburger, not a hot dog - in other words, don't fold it "lengthwise".)(Make all folds like this).

2) Fold in half again.

3) Fold in half again.

4) Now open (twice), so you're looking at the paper after the first fold. You should be holding it in landscape orientation in front of you. The fold should be at the top and the paper should be open at the bottom.

5) See the vertical line running down the center? Rip (or cut, but ripping works just fine) that line to the halfway mark (the center of the page). (You're almost done.)

6) Now open the paper all the way, and refold it once lengthwise (like a hotdog). You should be able to grab an end in each hand and see an open diamond shape (rhomboid) in the middle.

7) Gently push the two ends towards the center. You'll see the bottom page start to collapse and fold into the page in your left hand. Just keep folding the pages onto each other, and fold the 4th/last one to make the back page/cover. Voila!

Let me know if I need to clarify my instructions.
Nice site. I folded a simpler version of that "stacked thing" on the right side: it is very fun and looks very nice even done with cheap standard grade paper (although the depicted version is amazing). The design below-left is likely to be Paul Jackson's, he loves this kind of abstract "snake-skin-like" structures.

If you happen to like origami... These masks are terrific: http://www.flickr.com/photos/origamijoel/sets/1783175/ I started to pre-crease a sheet with triangles to try to do one of these but got tired middle-way. It is amazing the work he does with these.
I've been mulling this a lot lately. I'm going to try to remember this when I get too deep into 'designing' a solution.
> I'm not sure why is this a problem, a link can be forwarded through email too

HR isn't as progressive as you might think.
This is the idea in pocketmod.com. I see I should have linked it from my own post, for people wanting bigger pages. Also, if you happen to have A3 paper (or "double Legal"), you can use my method to create a bigger version of yours with more pages
"We are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook"
While this is an anecdotal take on the whole topic of selection, there is research out there that supports this (sort of).

Meta data analysis from thousands of studies shows that there is essentially 0 correlation between where someone went to school (or their GPA) and how well they perform on the job once hired. See https://skitch.com/andyparkinson/reqfj/emotional-intelligenc... for a table of methods of selection and their respective validities.

As you can see, the best thing you can do pre-hire is to have someone complete a work-simulation. If you're hiring a mechanic to fix transmissions, give them a broken transmission and a set time period to fix it. If you're hiring a rails developer, give them a small project that takes a few hours to do and see what happens. It is amazing how much you'll learn about that person in those few hours. You'll see how he codes, communicates, etc. The more you can try before you commit the better.

Here's a simple example... When we hire front-end developers, we have a standard PSD file that we hand applicants and give them 2 hours to slice using tableless html/css. No matter how much I fall in love someone when I interview them, the results of this simple exercise will always sober me up (or throw me head over heals). Its gotten to the point where I don't even want to spend more than a few minutes talking front-end developers until I see the results of this exercise.

Its not perfect. The correlation between results and success is still very weak, but its the best we have.
I'm going to guess that that's what the person/team had experience with already.

I've not known many people who were already technical developers who started a venture and swapped over to entirely 'new to them' tech just because it's what some other people were using.

Go with what you know and have mastery of already - you've got enough going against you starting a new venture already - don't add to it by trying to learn something like django or rails just because someone on HN or TC used it too.

That said, using 'unconventional' tech may make it harder to find more devs in the future if they're needed. Or... it may mean that you're simply pulling from a different pool. If you're one of 15 rails-based ventures someone is looking to join, you won't stand out as much as the one Perl-based operation.
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Normal people don’t study philosophy, and if they’re into computer science,
they don’t care whether P!=NP — they just learn Java, Objective-C, Python or
whatever else they find useful for becoming a successful software engineer.

I resent that. Most programmers I've met find theoretical CS interesting, and learn things simply for the intellectual value of it. They just want to build things people use.
It's just you and me here.
Its only worth it if you practice it. And it gets easier with practice.
Since you mention your counselor, i assume you have been depressed. One big problem (to put it briefly) is that often depressed people identify with their depression/sadness and don't wish to leave it. They are their biggest enemy. You have to be willing to give it up. At the expense of sounding cliched, the only price to pay for happiness, is your unhappiness/misery and for many, its a huge price.
Best of luck. Happiness and freedom do exist. What Bill Zeller spoke off does exist and is possible.

> "I will never know what uncontimated intimacy is like. I will never have an exclusive bond with someone, someone who can be the recipient of all the love I have to give."

So much of what he talks of, even i have suffered _without_ having been sexually abused. He did not realize that many feeling/thoughts he had, come and go in all humans, if they come to his mind. It's fine to just ignore them like all the dust that flies about us.

Please also check out the youtubes of one Mooji. They have greatly deepened my practice.
You can lodge a complaint with the SEC. Manipulation of microcaps is a no-no.

http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml
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Of course it's not the only way, have you seen Google's homepage?

Also, JScript is actually surprising good and is nothing like the DOM or CSS, AFAIK the only known bugs are Named Function Expressions being parsed as Function Declarations (http://kangax.github.com/nfe/#jscript-bugs), and a couple RegExp bugs (http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/category/cross-browser).

I suppose if you count DOM bugs, like the memory leak, that's a problem. That's where jQuery is amazingly helpful(and presumably other libraries like it).

Considering Raphael is as slow as excanvas in IE (but much faster in other browsers), it's probably IE's fault, not excanvases.
How do you print multiple terms out of a random number generator without a loop? That's my point. You haven't solved anything, cheat or not.
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I'd never send an email like that. Nothing good can possibly come of it. That needs an interactive discussion. The email as it was sent is going to do nothing but cause trouble and sorrow. Far, far too many emails are sent in the world that really should have been either not sent or done by voice. Stuff can escalate out of hand way too easily.
The blog was insightful and fun a year or so back. It became boring after it was "outed". Using "Fake" in the blog did not dampen its effect, so why should it do so in the twitter account.
I would say it depends on who you're applying to. If it's a three-person Ruby start-up, just give them links to your LinkedIn and github, sure.

In a larger organization, the chance of your application running into a "why is there a 'link-edin' address in this email? where's the resume? what am I supposed to print?" person somewhere along the process rises fast.

Optimally in-house recruiters would translate/explain the LinkedIn thing to people who wouldn't get it or wouldn't want to get it. Depends if you're comfortable taking that chance or even care for working at companies where someone hasn't heard of LinkedIn.
His solution sounds more like a surrender: just give up on trying to organize data.
Fortunately it didn't miss the brunt of it, but yeah it is a shame that it would be down, ever. There are some issues I need to fix with the server to deal with its growth.
> Perl is for writing things like Amazon or the IMDB and keep it running for 12 years in a row or for creating Nagios and SpamAssassin to watch over half of the Internet.

Perl was the hip thing back when those projects were being developed. If they were being made today, it's overwhelmingly likely that Perl would not be used (see Facebook).
"... that effortless act sent 13,000 people to go watch a 1:41min video. This means that my video was watched for a total of 365 hours. In other words, with 5 seconds of effort Ashton was able to consume 365 hours of his followers time."

Views != Watching your entire video. Many probably bounced after a few seconds.
As it happens, I'm defending my dissertation tomorrow (neuroscience, U.S.) and this post pretty well sums up my sentiment.

I particularly agree with the ending:

Oh you’re saying I’m a dreamer, and that simply never
happens? Well what about those thousands of internet
start-up companies? They waste their time as well, trying
to become another Facebook or another Google. Yet they
still do it, because it’s their dream to pursue.

And so is academic career ours.

I think there are two modes one can do research in: one is a conservative, do-what-you're-told kind of incrementalism; another is higher risk, swing-for-the-fences, and entrepreneurial. I think there is a similarity between doing research in the latter mode and a technology startup, which is why I got sucked into Hacker News when it was still called Startup News. Nearly everybody on it was a maker, swinging for the fences. I felt a lot of affinity for the attitude if not the methods.

Anyway, enough HN procrastination, I need to practice my talk!
For me, definitely not. I want to see what your writing style is like, which is why a summary is important. I need something I can print out and take to the interview.

If you're applying for a job then a CV is pretty much a requirement. You will come across as lazy/disinterested if you tell people everything they need is on linkedin.
No, you can't do that if you want to look professional.

I recommend that you read "Land the tech job you love", which is full of resume writing advice.
Does anyone NOT use Google for email anymore?
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Same here. I recently started a PhD after working in consulting for a few years. It's less money, but I'm much happier.
I've never thought of it like this.
Lately, when I'm asked for a CV, I provide my LinkedIn and StackOverflow profile and it does seem to work :)
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Don't forget Ashton is going to be on the Twitter suggested users list, which means a large number of his followers will have signed up to Twitter once, followed a few suggested users, then left the site never to return. I imagine people with an "organic" follower list get a higher rate of tweet reads/click throughs.
I have just started getting into perl and its terse procedural goodness is a breath of fresh air. Sometimes static types, classes and objects get really old.
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This is more of a problem in corporate IT than in the startup world. I have seen many projects in corporate IT that go way overboard to ensure their apps will scale.

But why? I am working on a major app right now that will have 300 total users. Ever. And yet the team wants to make the system scale to handle tens of thousands. Why?

The key is to know your audience. Is it truly realistic that the entire internet will become users? Or is it a smaller group?
Scale accordingly.
Should be back up, sorry about that!
Sorry but I still can't see the problem.

If you know that a forward "function" exists, you just use it, and it'll forward whatever you have (link or document).

If you don't know that, you'll have to resend the email yourself, and in this case, copy/pasting a link is way easier than re-attaching the attached CV.

What am I missing here?
Penny stocks?