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That's great that it works for you - and I don't think anyone is suggesting it's a bait and switch (I tried to be very careful with the post's wording). My point in this thread isn't that it's duplicitous - more that it's not free.

I'm sure you guys had to work some licensing (which probably came under an agreement to enroll in another program). This isn't free - it's an engagement. If you left the program you would have to pay, I'm sure.

And if it works for you - that's good stuff. I'd be very interested in reading about your choices and why you went this route.
Rasmussen is more a Republican lobbying organization than a polling firm at this point. Scott Rasmussen, the namesake founder, is very clearly also a Republican activist. Personally, I wouldn't believe him if he put out a poll that said 90% of Americans believe the sky is blue.

Their "political class" spin is even more complete BS; they routinely say the "political class" is like 5% of the US population, and assign it all sorts of boogey-man positions based on a sample size that can't exceed 100.
I don't understand. I downloaded skype on a nexus s using a canadian carrier without issue. It seemed to work fine. Is it somehow different for other android phones?
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Unless there is going to be a national plebiscite, whether or not a person plans to vote in some election (he doesn't say which) shouldn't really be relevant here. Congress and regulatory agencies are supposed to represent all the people, not just the ones that vote.
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I think real procrastination richly deserves the rap it gets.

If you've ever found yourself frantically slaving away at priority # 10392 while priority # 1 goes all to hell, and you're miserable because you know exactly what you're avoiding (and what it's costing you), you'll have some idea of why procrastination has an evil reputation.

I think your point is more that "be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all" is absolute crap advice. I'm absolutely agreed with you on that. There are also tasks that should be delayed, because they may change or even prove unnecessary if you put them off.

Procrastination, though... chronic procrastination (and a whole slew of psychological defenses that grew around the basic action paralysis) has pretty much destroyed my father's life, work, relationships, etc.. I've had my own issues, though I do a lot better now than in the past.
I usually just give them some money. I love Wikipedia and I give them $20 a year or something. I'd much rather see a banner once per year asking for money than crazy CPU hogging flash pop-up banners all year round like a newspaper outlet.
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Thank you for these tips. I'll try them out later today.
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Seeing the title on the front page, I came here to post "Monetize it, baby!". Now that I've read more detail I'm in the camp, "Put out those fires NAOW and put some extra water buckets nearby too."

Then monetize it, baby.
perhaps he has a very different keyboard?
You are using CEO salaries of publicly traded companies as comps for the "CEO" of a startup journalism nonprofit (with NO employees to manage, as of the CEO's first day on the job). You don't see anything wrong with that?
If you want to see how much CPU is being denied to you because other XEN VMs on the box are using it, in top, look at "steal" - that's the percentage of the CPU that you want that you are not getting because it's been allocated to other people.

Xen is pretty great about partitioning everything except for I/O. Network I/O probably won't be a problem for you (xen doesn't really start getting tripped up until you are well above 1G/sec. I /believe/ linode has a 10,000 packet per second limit on top of that, but that's a whole lot of packets. This is probably not your problem.) but disk I/O will be.

Cache everything. If you cache enough, and have enough ram, slow disk I/O may not be a problem at all. watch your linode to make sure you don't go over quota on your disk I/O allocation... maybe email support to make sure you are in the clear. My understanding is that linode has better disk I/O than I do because they have a process in place for limiting heavy disk users. (my understanding is that it's a good process, they warn you before limiting you and generally do it in a fair manner. I plan on emulating them in this regard. )

No two ways around it; I/O to spinning disk and virtualization go together poorly. What would have been a sequential access on a dedicated server becomes random access... and on a good day, that means 1/10th the performance.

If you are using a lot of disk I/O, a dedicated server is about your only option. Considering the prices nearly all American providers charge, if you plan on keeping it for more than 2 months, you are nearly always better off buying. (and that way you can buy better disk, too.)

Of course, if you aren't limited by I/O, or if you can solve the I/O problem using ram caches, then it might make sense to stay 'in the cloud' on linode or ec2 or the like until you are sure you are going to need the space long-term.
Yup, all those YC CEO's are sure rolling in the dough.
I don't think it is nuts if it is clear in your hiring process. Grockit has you pair for a day for your interview (or they did a few years ago) so you can experience what it is like, and see if you are a good fit. I agree that surprising people with pairing or trying to mandate it on an existing team is unwise, but building a company upon an ethos (to the exclusion of certain personality types) is a reasonable decision.
The fact that the Google dudes got a brilliant, attractive woman on team google that early was no doubt a terrific qualifier as to the character of the founders and other early team members.

Investor think: "If she's cool with these guys, they must be cool dudes."
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You're absolutely right. I didn't intend to put words in your mouth. I've just had discussions before where that came up.

Loopt was paying for licensing before we joined, and will be paying less after.

I could be wrong, but as I understand it:

* The dev tools are free, and continue to be so at the end. This is a huge deal by itself.

* Some number of server licenses are perpetually free.

It's possible for it to be completely free, though it needn't be if you aren't careful or choose to exceed the limits.
"I've also run into a fundamentally flawed hiring scheme at every company that uses Ruby on Rails in which I am flat out not considered if I do not have experience working on an "agile" team doing every day pair programming."

This sounds like sample error. It is true that RoR culture overlaps with pair programming/XP culture and agile culture, but there are VERY MANY RoR places that do not pair every day.
It's actually about respecting the fact that women are great judges of men. They're designed to be super discerning. So if a high-value woman singles out a guy as worth her time, it's a safe bet that he's worth your time, too.
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If it's really a daily dose, the HN front page provides a mere subset of "what matters." There's so much good stuff that never makes it out of /new or that flies off the front page within a few hours..

I tend to treat news sources like rivers that I dip into - I'm always going to miss something. But it's always a little depressing when I skim a few hours back with something like HackerSlide and see what great stuff I "missed" while sleeping, etc.
The grandparent post spoke of "absolute terms", not me. You'll have to ask them about that part.

If I think about things logically to that degree, entropy will screw us no matter what we do, so we might as well live as well as we can under whatever circumstances we find ourselves in. Everything we know about universe formation (which isn't much) indicates that we start from zero. After all, if a civilization before us started out with the tech to make new universes, you'd think we'd have seen evidence of them by now.

And now that we're done with that tangent, I do think that people who make life-or-death decisions need to do it based on facts, not anecdotes. And that's hard, because the tendency is to hear this story about how someone's kid fell out of a bus and want to fix it.

Because, hey, anybody can make up statistics and studies to say whatever they want and most people don't know if they're lying, so even the legitimate studies are given a credibility rating of zero and they listen to whoever they trust the most. Who might well be some idiot on TV that they happen to agree with on other issues, even if they don't know anything about anything. But that goes down another long tangent, if you get into it, because there are so many strategies for evaluating the information you get from other people and they all have some flaw or another in that you can get bad information if you're not careful. But nobody really has the time to get all the information they need and that leads to problems.
There's a bit of magic involved with things like compass/sass and Paperclip on Heroku (you have to use Amazon S3 for storage and there is some other setting I can check on).

Anyway Mark, I have a bunch of apps on Heroku that use all kinds of wacky stuff—including the aforementioned gems—so email me at jarin (at) robotmodehq.com if you decide to try out Heroku and get stuck. I can send over working code snippets that you should be able to just drop in.
Don't let the haters win! All you were doing is pointing out some facts:

1. Woman are crazy discerning about the men they hang around.
2. Smart men recognize this.
3. Therefore, if you see a high-value woman identifying a man as someone she thinks is worth her time, and you know she is crazy discerning about who she hangs out with, it's a safe bet that person is worth your time.
Hmm, that's interesting. Very popular users might find some use for that kind of thing. For example, up and coming music artists trying to build a following and connect with fans maybe... I definitely think sites should consider charging when and where possible, but sometimes there is good opportunity for it, and sometimes not.
what do you do? stick ads all over the place!
what do you think, you have a business there?
like twitter? yeah, sure, raise another 200 million...
Google's DNS is a pain in the ass. They either go OTT with the caching or it's really slow to deal with nameserver changes as I've encountered this myself (when all other servers I tested were OK) and advised people on IRC with similar issues.
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The internet puts us in an incredible point in history where facts are non-exclusive. We have all the facts we could ever need, and it's gotten easier and easier to locate them. This major barrier to being an intellectual, historically provided by academia, is almost completely gone.

I agree the internet makes it even easier, but access to raw facts hasn't really been a barrier for decades, if not a century, at least in the United States. The average person has long had access to a ton of information they simply didn't use, via libraries, especially in major cities with good library systems. You occasionally read about people even some decades ago who became experts in a field by just sitting in the New York public library reading all the books on the subject they could get their hands on, but it's not the usual case. Many university libraries are open to the public as well, but most of the public doesn't take them up on that offer, either.

Maybe the internet will be what changes that, but I have some doubts. My guess is that the people who will use information on the internet to truly become experts on a subject overlap heavily with the kinds of people who, 50 years ago, would've been in the library becoming experts on the subject (though it's probably the case that there will be more of them).

If anything, the library is probably still a better resource, at least for now. If someone wants to learn physics on their own, to the point where they could really be an expert in some area, grabbing a bunch of the best physics books they can find and reading them cover-to-cover is going to get them there faster than reading physics blogs and Wikipedia will (though blogs and Wikipedia do have some quite good information, and are good for keeping up on recent advances).
Do you have any reference for this ? Delicious' problems as far as I've read anywhere are due to Yahoo's cutbacks, plus having to integrate with Yahoo services, making it hard to break off and sell to another company. However I've not heard about any specific technical issues with Delicious itself.
It's not the culture. I care about what people think about me, but not as much as asking my friends to describe me it three words.

I think I understand it now. People use this, because they wanna hear people saying good things about them. I think most people would send link to their friends, because they don't feel very confident about themselves.

It's the basic principle of Facebook (or of whatever Facebook turned into) - people post things so they would get positive feedback and they would feel better about themselves.
Harris wants to do more than fix potholes, if he can. He wants a few smart, rich, and reasonably sincere people like Gates and Buffet to come up with a plan for him to do a lot of good with his money. When he says that repaving roads would be better than doing nothing, he's just saying that a good plan executed now will be better than a perfect plan executed never.
It just leaves me wondering, if space was so important, why represent numbers as character data/BCD? I'm assuming it must have been some holdover from punchcards or some other input format?
Plenty of Americans view a contract as a starting point for future negotiations. The trouble with AdSense is that Google has corporate autism. They appear to be single-mindedly obsessed with cutting customer service expenditures to zero, which is not even remotely the same thing as maximizing net revenue. Hell, even AT&T will send somebody out to plug in your new telephone as long as you can cough up the per-incident fees.
For a short, intense period of time - pair programming can produce the same benefit as code + code review, without taking as much time.

Plus code review has an inherent context switch (for the reviewer) that is even worse during a crunch time.
Not so sure about incorporating, but that's because I spent my day writing up notes on Camz's talk on incorporation. He gave the three reasons to incorporate:

1. You have significant profits or net income.
2. You have high liability.
3. You're getting funding.

I doubt this meets any of those criteria, unless someone offered to fund him.

Here are the relevant links if you want to see what I'm talking about:
HN Story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2047818
Podcast - http://cameronkeng.com/podcast-ep-1-incorporation/
Summary/Notes - http://pastebin.ca/2033868
I missed this the first time round so thank you.

BTW Dear Authors, I appreciate that your site context means that "book.pdf" is meaningful on your site but when I download it.....
Odd. Are you getting the correct certificate? You should be getting a certificate with a fingerprint of: "ea 22 6c ac ce 3f 1c b3 47 d9 f7 8f 60 31 d3 ba 41 07 91 99"

You can use this command to double-check the certificate on your local (POSIX) machine or on a remote server:

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It also would have encompassed several factory spaces.
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I would imagine that most exploits like this, at least if black-mailing the telco is the objective, would be launched through an SMS gateway. There are a limited number of those onto any carrier network, and I suspect that any telco would rather shut those down temporarily than surrender to blackmail. Maintaining the integrity of their relatively closed network and the phones on their network is a lot more important to them than maintaining Twitter's and Twilio's access to said network.
You expect Android apps to run properly on every device?
>In a way, to put it bluntly, they’re not usefull to me.

(yes, I know this was the author quoting /someone else/ but I think the rest of the article was saying something very similar, albeit in a much more tactful way.)

Huh. I guess I have a similar exploitive attitude, but it drives me in the opposite direction. Having poor friends is /incredibly useful/ - need help moving but don't want to reciprocate? call up your highschool buddy who works at home depot. He'll be happy to help you out for a few bucks. It's only weird if you make it weird.

I've always kind of gravitated towards people who are smarter than I am, so my highschool buddies were an awesome recruiting ground. People who are smart but work cr-p jobs because they lack the social skills or confidence to advance make great employees for your small side businesses. And the great thing about that is I'm helping my friend while I'm exploiting him or her. Most of the people I've hired in this manner have gone on to get "real jobs" after gaining experience working for me.

Of course, all this is predicated on your ability to live a different lifestyle from your friends, and being willing to fire a friend. Never hire anyone you can't fire. On the other hand, if you loose a friend every time you fire someone, you are doing it wrong.
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Great article. I like to see people giving a detailed critical response about a practice which has increasingly become a kind of "Politically Correct" element in software development. Must always write units tests, for everything, and first -- hallelujah! Must pair program -- praise be thy name, thou art in heaven!

My own take: if it works well, do it. If it doesn't, do something else. Repeat. But your bottlenecks in the larger world tend to be talent, time and cash (though the latter is becoming less so in software development). If you have (enough of) those, use them and ship, get profitable, and anything procedural or paradigmatic should be far down your list of priorities.
I can really relate to this post a lot. While I have feelings of being sort of a dick when I come to terms with this, it is completely true.

I don't really hang out with a lot of startup people (perhaps I need to). But mostly it is because I really need a break from the scene sometimes. However, my only friends in the area are the same friends I had in high school who aren't doing a whole lot with their lives. It is frustrating to say the least.

Just tonight I got text messages from my friends telling me they drunkenly ran in my ex-girlfriend and are all having a great time out at the bars. Meanwhile, I'm sitting programming stuff into the night trying to make a business that could ultimately fail. But I'm learning a lot. Sure, I'm living in near-poverty. But I'm overall really enjoying myself -- even if it is quite lonely.

In a way, it is motivating. On the other hand, it bums me out quite a bit.
About monetizing: you could show the first 2 words only, and charge a small fee for the third ?
I guess people would pay to see what is said about them at least.
This was around 2001 or so, I think. Never really thought about it until today, so I've never looked it up. Always seemed like a good idea though.
>To be fair, Reddit has a noted capacity for charity and generosity

Understatement of the year.
Yeah, and I met Mark 3 or 4 years ago and he had already started at least one and maybe 2 successful startups.
How incredibly self-obsessed and shallow.

I guess this is usual for the kind of material that comes from Sebastian.

There need be no mystery why the poor have such irrational loathing for the middle and middle-upper class when you witness this kind of attitude.

Part of being better person and an exemplar is to improve without an attendant increase in ego.

Humility and sincerity are critical virtues to have as a whole person.
Weird http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050168
>Understatement

Entirely necessary here, even a hint of hyperbole and the pedants come out of the woodwork.
i agree with all of what you said, but not necessarily in the way you express it (or the examples/references used)

i prefer the term "intelligence" rather than intellectual. any idiot (every one of us) operates on intelligence, tho it might not be well developed for all domains.

i'm unsure if intellectualism was historically provided by academia tho. nor whether that matters. intelligence is everywhere, and can manifest itself in any place and medium.

this has a minimum grace of style:
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so... it is better to watch your friends continue to work in the sandwich shop than to hire them to work on a tech project at below market (but above sandwich shop) wages?

I dono about you, but I'd rather be "used" and get the job with opportunities for advancement (and higher wages) I can count several people who were in this position who now make a good bit more money than I do.

edit:
to be clear, I don't think I'm better than people I've hired. I am more confident, to be sure, but that's something other people value. I don't value confidence very much at all ( I have perhaps more of that than I'd like. But other people eat it up, so why not?)

Nearly all my friends are smarter than I am. (I'm not saying that people who are more intelligent are /better people,/ but it's a better standard than money.) and besides that, no competent manager hires people who are not better than he is (or who can not shortly be made better than he is.)

Hell, even if you keep score with money, several of the people who have worked for me in the past now make more than I do, and a few make more money than I would be able to make if I was working for someone else.
Even after all these years, I can't say I really understand the internet.
Gmail is normally so reliable for me that, up until a couple of weeks ago, I only checked my spam folder every month or so. For some reason, Gmail decided an email (forwarded from another address of mine that I linked to my account) from someone I regularly communicate with was a forgery and put it in the spam folder. All it contained was the sender's phone number and some instructions regarding meeting him at an airport before a flight we were going on. I didn't meet him where he asked me to because I never saw the email. Thanks Gmail; I check my spam more frequently now.
I, too, am irritated by people who advocate raising taxes for (or greater charity in) every bracket above their own. But Harris isn't doing that. He's asking the two former richest people in the world to tell him how to spend the fruits of his own labors.

But beyond that, Harris points out that a significant fraction of your "fruits" are not of your labors but of your favorable circumstances. He's telling you that you ought to share some of the fruits of your good fortune.

Even if you deny the role of chance in your financial success, how you spend your money has strong ethical implications. If other people believe I'm acting unethically in some way, I do consider it their duty to tell me.