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Could you say that you were helping a family business or living abroad?
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No other hand required for Animation. It works the same.

Any changes you make to the DOM/CSS are rolled up and happen together. Even changes to position, CSS transforms, etc.

That's why your effects code ends up having all those setTimeout(function(){keepGoing()}, 0); blocks in it. You need to chill from time to time and let the browser render what you've done already.
This is spectacular for small towns or smaller regional libraries but have you ever been to a large city library? It brings out some of the weirdest people.

Collegiate libraries in my experience are nice, but can get crowded at times.
Internet speed can also be an issue, for good or bad. I'll hit the coffee shop if I'm syncing with a server regularly or know I'll be researching a bunch, but the I'll hit the library if I want the internet to feel like dial-up.
Are we talking about a new PC or an oldish one that had become slower over time?

I have never heard a non-techie complain about a new computer being slow despite it being loaded with bloatware.
First, no: the entire "entrepreneurial class", whatever that may be, has not moved en masse to the valley. If you think the entire population of startup entrepreneurs that is seriously committed to tech has moved there, or at least enough of them to support your argument, then what are we talking about? You don't believe there's a latent vein of entrepreneurship that needs to be tapped anyways.

Second: yes. Most of the people who are moving to NYC and SFBA are irrational. Most of their companies fail. Everybody knows that going in. To the extent that they move entirely in support of their startups, they are crazy. (The fact is, most of the people moving aren't doing so entirely for their startup; they want to live there.)

Third, I doubt most entrepreneurs even know about "Romneycare". I'm only peripherally familiar with its specifics, and, as you can probably tell, health care is one of my issues.
I'll splice it even thinner, I think there's a difference between starting a company with a potential $50 product, and a company with a $1 product.

Convincing someone to spend $1 on a crazy but needed solution is much easier than $50.

Add that to the mix.
...absolutely...for some people the hardest thing to do is to fire people that dont fit with the culture....tow ideas....try your darndest to hire right ...not out of desperation
Second....if you are being honest with the person day in day out ...they know they are not fitting in ( if they dont change) and they practically will either leave on their own ...or when you start to bring it up ...they already know its coming ...makes it easier .
Not a stupid question by any means- it's an important one!

In my case it's done based on the original contract, which provides for 30 days notice.
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So I don't see how you can make the statement "the government doesn't understand that affordable health care is the main priority for startups"

Haha, I didn't make that statement.. But you put quotes around it anyway? I was just speaking about my own situation and why I agree that Startup America is DOA.

Edit: Ok, forget about the quotes -- they're irrelevant. I do feel that you are misparaphrasing me, but I don't care. If you want to know what I really believe:

* Of course the current government has made health care reform a priority for everyone, not just startups. Nobody would say otherwise.

* I agree with the goals of the recent health care reform law. I think health insurance reform would have been a better way to approach the problem.

* It's a shame that the democrats lost the PR battle and as a result half the country wants the law repealed. Overall I think the law could be a good thing.

* I agree with the goals of Startup America, to use government influence to remove barriers to entrepreneurship

* Affordable health care for small business owners is a huge barrier. You can't hire most people unless you can afford to pay for their health care or a group plan.

* I predict that this won't be addressed at all by Startup America, because health care reform has become such a heated issue. People are losing elections because of it.

* By addressed I mean, where is it mentioned on their website? What experts do they have advising them? What insurers are they partnering with to provide breaks for small business owners?

I do welcome discussion about this stuff, but let's try not to misrepresent each other..
Is health care not a problem for startups? If it in fact is, then answer this question: what does it matter how many other things the administration got done? How does that make it less of a problem?
This is really cool. I may start with this and then move to OpenCV. The thing about this is that I want to be able to rate how the algorithm did so I can constantly improve the algorithm. Here the algorithm seems to be abstracted.
Choices determine women scientists' success, researchers say
I wonder if there's a market for a coffee shop that has small, private office spaces available, perhaps available for free or for an hourly rent.

These might be the size of a typical restaurant booth (or a bit larger), but would be enclosed spaces that allow you to block out noise and distractions.

It wouldn't even need to be a coffee shop; maybe something like a capsule hotel for workspaces.
Your opinions about the executive suite may change.. During my career I've increasingly found leadership a challenging and rewarding way to 'make things' in an entirely new way. Enabling teams of people to get things done is awesome. I get especially excited when I have the opportunity to help people who are frankly smarter and more talented than I am build things that I wouldn't have been able to build alone.
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I would guess your friend has worked his way up in a large bureaucracy. From his quote: "as long as they know that I make the decisions" he is more concerned with people knowing he is in charge than in reaching the best solution.
I guess it depends on what you thought of the health care reform bill. In my mind it's already taken care of, and things will improve as the provisions take effect.

I would prefer it all come in to effect immediately, but I understand there are business and regulatory systems that need to be developed in advance of implementation.
Does anyone here really think that in the absence of baggage fees, ticket prices wouldn't simply rise to compensate? Taking advantage of customer price sensitivity is pretty much the entire ballgame for airfares.
One of the reasons I left comp.lang.lisp (I used to be part of that community) was because there were so many people there who would, at the slightest provocation, fly off the handle and explain to you their alternative theory of whatever. A lot of crazy people.

It seemed like for every Peter Seibel or Kenny Tilton, there were 8 people who had 10% of 100 projects done, were happy to tell you about the anti-lisp conspiracy, and also had alternative health advice.
I agree with you. Microsoft itself said (some time ago) that many of Windows' crashes were caused by third-party software or drivers, and I believe that.
Even so, they reduced the number of crashes that occur, and greatly improved crash-recovery (you rarely see a BSOD happening these days).

My PC has never had a crash with Windows 7, but then, I chose the hardware by hand.
First of all, congrats on launching. Looks interesting. You seem to be using disqourse and discourse interchangeably, is that deliberate?
I know COLOURlovers had been around for a while before joining YC. Airbnb did a re-launch after joining but had been around perviously as well.
Agreed. I've done it myself, but my main problem with it is simply that it's just not fun to use. It's clunky, having a keyboard and mouse on the couch or having to bounce between the couch and my computer desk. Roku and Apple TV on the other hand are, generally, very nice and actually fun to browse with. They've honestly changed the way I think about TV.

Plus the prices (and form factors) are awesome. $69 (Roku) for a plug and play box that can sit on the shelf with my other components.

But I guess the point here is: If I can hook a computer up to a TV, why do networks try and differentiate between 'computer,' 'tv,' and even 'tablet?'
You didn't answer my question. Would you, please?
I did work for the city gov't too while in college. It was a strange experience, being the only computer intern working for the Dept. of Agriculture, giving my end-of-summer presentation about JS and Access forms to a room full of other students who spent the summer hiking around farm fields taking measurements.
Someone (Ferriss?) once said that your success is directly proportional to how many difficult conversations you are willing to have, which is so true. Something that jumps out at me...

"How would you feel about flying on a plane with a pilot who is a “six?” What about the nurse who cares for your mother in the hospital? The mechanic who fixes the brakes on your car? The person who works for your insurance broker and is in charge of making sure your policies are renewed?"

More like "how would you feel knowing you were flying on a plane..." etc etc. There are people all around us operating as 5s or 6s, even in critical roles like the ones mentioned. It's probably closer to the norm than any of us like to imagine.
N	CPU	Elapsed

500	0.07	0.22

3,000	2.34	2.41

5,500	7.86	8.01

Intel Fortran

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/performance.php?test=s...
I work out the Columbia University libraries, although I'm not a student. For $500/year you can become a Friend of the Libraries and have access to all the libraries. It's a bargain if you consider how much you would spend at a coffee shop. Also, like the article says, fewer distractions and much more space.
I don't think that's nitpicking at all. He did mention that he was going to break down associated costs in follow up posts, but it's very prudent to note the difference between revenue and earnings.
No, what's being said (imho) is that most companies don't want to pay an automatic experience premium unless you can prove you are worth the premium.
My bank has a little lobby with a coffee machine where I and a couple others hang out and work. I like to stand up while I work and they have a couple taller tables that work nicely for me.
Eh. Apologies for snarkiness, but I think reading IT World may be worse for your career than aging.
Actually my experience is almost the opposite. Raising the price of the product made more people buy. There is something to be said about price/value perception.
We weren't all born into money.
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We must be talking about different things. I'm not involved or interested in that line of discussion. The only important part of the post that sparked this was "Looks like partisan raging."
Our wealth has grown exponentially in recent decades but poor people still work 9 to 5 or more.

This is a myth. The poor work very little - their full time labor force participation rate is only 10% or so (this includes both the employed and unemployed). 80% of the poor don't work at all.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf

(Before you criticize this statistic as being too simple, go see this thread where I answer many objections: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129845

In particular, this is not a result of the poor being disproportionately old or young.)
I spent the first year of my company working out of a big city library. It worked great.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758458
We are fixing this right now. First idea was to use Disqourse (we still have disqourse.com) because discourse.com was taken. Now we've seen that Google is changing all the queries from disqourse to discourse so we've changed our domain name to discoursehq.com :)
Not to troll, but why do people consider math "beautiful?" I hardly ever use the word, so I might be missing a nuance of meaning, but when I have used it it's been to refer to something physical and never to an idea.

Elegance, I can understand - it's a lot of fun to see a complex problem get reduced to something simpler by a twist of logic. I can understand calling something compelling as well if the logic is especially clear and concise. But what do people find "beautiful" about math?
--~$250 a month is still an insane price for a single person. I live in Illinois of all places and have decent HMO coverage for less than $100. Granted, I am not currently in a start up, but in a business of about 15 employees. Various catastrophic-only plans (assuming your state offers them) can be had for significantly less if you're healthy.-- //this is clearly not right, being dumb today and forgot to add in the employer contribution (I believe it comes to about 200 to 250 in total for our particular plan, so it is comparable, but my point about catastrophic-only plans (which are often outlawed in states like Massachusetts, still stands //

The problem with MassCare (and ObamaCare) is that their mix of guaranteed issue, mandates, community rating, minimum creditable coverage guidelines, and subsidies still inflates the price of health insurance, and state subsidies can't keep up. This was evident in Massachusetts as early as 2007, right after MassCare began to be implemented (see this report for exmaple: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=14237)

I think the Startup America concept is admirable. Would that the federal government understood the real problem with starting a business in the United States right now isn't the lack of a couple billion in government programs, but the regulatory barriers and inflation in commodities and products like health insurance that prevent new firms from entering the market, inflation that the federal government has in many ways helped create.
Perhaps the time has arrived to dust off the old operating manuals for the CCC and the WPA. For those who don't recognize the acronyms, those were 2 of the major 'New Deal' programs during the 1930's era Great Depression. They were intended to get people back to work, and to try to restart the economy.

The general objective was to renew/refresh our public infrastructure (via WPA) and to reforest-ate clear cut areas and improve problematic drainage (via CCC). Both programs were accused of being socialist (and perhaps they were).
I' also add that these may seem "silly" on the cover but can be put to good use later on. I've known several successful managers (including our current Director) who have their undergrad degree in philosophy, albeit coupled with an MBA.

Generally, I think the more well rounded a person is they can usually lead a more successful (fulfilling) life.
don't have permission to release name or screenshots. but it's basically identical.
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That sucks; you can have coffee in the Chicago and Oak Park libraries.
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I found two simple (but not necessarily easy) paths:
- Solve a problem that YOU are suffering from. Just make sure enough people have the same problem.
- Use Google keyword search ;)
I don't know what that is, some American thing?

Here in the UK every time it's suggested the word "Dickensian" gets bandied about and that's that.
What would they (in reality) do? Make him pay for the music? Isn't that what he wanted to do in the first place? Maybe this is the new economic mode for music...
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Same reasons many people don't like to hire contractors as permies.
No. A bunch of people tried that over the last couple years in Chicago; all of them went bust. There are too many viable alternatives to "rental cubby" to charge enough. And coffee shops of all forms are almost sure-fire money losers.
I've tried to work at libraries in the past, but more often than not they block port 22, which means no workie for me.

Yes, I could set up a proxy server on EC2 or something. Or I could go to a coffee shop.
The Minneapolis Public Library has a coffee shop inside.
Nitpick: Lots of things can happen to otherwise healthy people.
Same thing happened to me while coding with Sencha touch, and I thought it should be something with the library performance (ExtJS).

After measuring everything correctly, and watching at the demo applications (which run fine on the phone) I saw that besides javascript work the difference where the box-shadows... Man that was a huge performance hit, removing them made the application actually usable, not like before.
The TechDirt article advocates real competition as a much better solution than net neutrality regulations. But, as the market exists, we're not going to see widespread competition amongst ISPs. Most Americans have a choice between one or two ISPs.

So that leaves the author with three choices: government-imposed competition (open access regulation), government-imposed net neutrality (network management regulation) or laissez-faire (which he implies is problematic in its current state). Pick your poison.
OK, but if teachers and administrators can't do more than write nasty notes in files and make kids sit in the corner, and we can't expect parents to discipline their kids, then any sort of educational reform targeted at those kids is basically trying to push a string.

This idea that a teacher can stand up in front of the class and say something so inspiring that it magically makes the goof-offs and the slackers want to be A+ students is great for a Hollywood movie, but completely unrealistic. On a 1-on-1 basis, sure that's probably possible if you're really good, and really can take the time. But if teachers had the power to inspire and move those troublemakers en masse with the power of their words without taking half their class time, then they wouldn't be teachers, they'd be world-class salespeople or winning politicians.
Seems different-enough-to-be-risky. Is the revenue share capped in total size/duration? (Otherwise, how is it handled in the event of acquisition?)
Where do you people live? Our libraries open early in the morning and close at 9PM.
Your second link is dead now, too.

EDIT: Now it's come up, upon retrying after some minutes.
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Does the framweork have sound? The example they showed didn't have any sound.
A couple years back, I decided to pay a visit to the campus library during the FISL (international free-software forum) that happens every year in Porto Alegre, Brazil on the PUC (pontifical catholic university) campus. I needed to grab some articles from CACM and their library has full access to the ACM online library, as well as decent wireless, something no tech event quite manages to have.

Porto Alegre is notorious for having a disproportionate number of cute girls. I was on the Engineering floor and, even there, I got distracted several times by them.

So, no, it's not every library that's cute-girl-free.

Unfortunately, they don't serve coffee.
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Gosh... I guess i'm pretty lucky to live near my former Uni which only charges £40 yearly for former students. There's also a nice local council one nearby with free wifi, free membership for taxpayers. Another advantage is all the money you can save on heating bills.

Starbucks is outrageously expensive though - some cafés are much cheaper, and nicer.
It's impossible to determine if the startup area solves a real world problem without talking to people who you think have the problem. And it helps if you can show them your potential solution, even if it's just a hand-drawn mockup. Go talk to the people who have the problem, and get their take.
If we consider mining to be an economic activity in itself - given that it requires capital labor, etc. in order to undertake - wouldn't the scale of mining operations within a given community be proportionate to the scale of the overall economy?

Presuming that mining generates a consistent supply of new silver, wouldn't this actually be a fairly decent way of scaling the money supply in proportion to economic growth?

And if even if the money supply is fixed, wouldn't economic growth cause deflation, and just make each unit of currency worth more?
Sorry, how exactly is Apple "winning"?
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Agile is an adjective, not a noun
That wikipedia link should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
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When I was in school and played cards on the bus, sometimes we played capitalisim, a fun game if you were on the top of the heap. Invariably the lowest status role was named teacher. Next up was garbageman.
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Early in my career, I asked a co-worker why he didn't complain about doing the shitty maintenance coding which no one wanted. His reply in essence: because someone has to do the crappy stuff.

My respect for him went up that day, but I discovered the leadership aspect of that attitude only years later when I applied it as a manager. Thank you, Paul!
This is exactly the reason why every IM network has a limit to the number of contacts that you can have. I recall reading several years ago that this was an incredibly hard problem for IM providers to solve, and AFAIK none of them have allow you to have an infinite number of contacts.
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Yes, this is a great idea. I paid a much smaller fee of $60 to have access to Mississauga libraries as an out of the city resident.

My biggest question is : does the fee include access to library wifi, but at $500, it's still rather steep.
I've worked at the library quite a few times until I found a co-working space.

+1 on the distraction comment.
I understand where your friend's coming from. I've had bad experiences hiring contractors older than me - any disagreement resulted in the attitude (whether made explicit or not) that I obviously don't know what I'm talking about because I'm 24.
What is it with Hacker News and quotation marks? I got called out for doing it a couple years ago by some famous guy on the site, and as a result, being careful with punctuation is the one thing I do differently when writing here (I slipped upthread, as you can see).

But I don't get it. Your initial comment (which I totally agree with) is right there. It is plainly obvious what you wrote and plainly obvious that the response is a paraphrase. You clearly disagree with that paraphrase, but that to me seems like an essential issue in the discussion, not a pointless tangent: "do I correctly understand you to be saying...", "no!", "oh, then...".
That's just depressing. I came here to post that this was probably a non-existent problem – that the middle-aged IT workers not finding work just need to modernize their skills a bit and all would be fine. Your post opened my eyes, I guess.

That said, not everyone is like this. My company prefers experienced developers, so long as they're enthusiastic and have experience with relevant tech. We're a start-up, and find that the "old guys" are easily able to hang with the young guns in terms of energy and productivity.