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To further my attempt at inserting George Orwell's Politics and the English Language into every conversation, I think this quote applies. :-)

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm)

I think "hipster" is generally one of those meaningless words in a lot of cases. Often times it's not pointing at what should truly be denouncing IMO (doing things for "irony", hating on popular things for no reason, being elitist, etc), but simply as a way of just generally denouncing people.

"Oh you listen to bands I haven't heard of? You fucking hipster." as if there's no way the person in question truly likes that band regardless of their popularity.

That's just an example from the cases where there's a specific objection other than "hipster". It's just become a popular nebulous term to hate on, and I've gotten tired of seeing it everywhere. I luckily rarely come across "hipsters" so I'm not too annoyed by them, but "hipster-haters" are constantly bitching about whatever "hipsters" do.
There was an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit that pretty much says the same.

If you have Netflix streaming, it's Episode 10 here: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Penn_Teller_Bullsh_t_Seaso...
I think you can. Or at least try and have fun doing it.

My personal story:

I was very successful at 27. I reached my peak at this age.

I had to reinvent my self and I was somewhat successful again in my 30's.

At 40, I had to reinvent my self once again. I am doing ok. I am still trying to improve my self.

Forrest Gump was right: "You never know what you are going to get in life". Life is a long road, you will have many ups and downs. I want to be the guy who is 70, still active and competitive.
No, it's not all electromagnetic. Alpha, beta, and neutron radiation are not electromagnetic radiation.

There's also a very big difference between radiation and radioactive isotopes, which can be inhaled or ingested.
Well, C++ compiler is bloat, as is standard library. There's an effort to use Portable C Compiler (which recently reached 1.0 http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/news/) to compile OpenBSD.

Plus, from mandoc website (http://mdocml.bsd.lv/):

Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, ...
I hope they also get rid of 'Blogger' profiles and make Google Profiles more unified instead, amongst all Google-provided services.
Thanks - I was trying to get across that this is a block of water the mass of a small mountain dropping on you.
You can earthquake proof a building but you can't do much against this.

Even a regular storm surge in the north sea needs some serious mega-project engineering to protect a single river/city. Protecting the entire coastline of Japan against a Tsunami would be tricky
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Firefox and Inkscape have network effects, albeit more limited than Skype. The more people using Firefox, the more sites work with Firefox. Not a big issue now, but it was. And Firefox must have spread largely through word of mouth (actually anyone done research on how Firefox adoption did predominantly occur?). More people using Inkscape, more acceptable it is to use, and better it works with files one might receive (assuming Inkscape works a bit better with svg than with Illustrator or whatever that it must import), same for Open/LibreOffice (which definitely works better with ODF than OOXML). All software has network effects to some extent; a significant reason why using free/open source software is a matter of good citizenship, not just getting stuff done.
Thank you for the Oehmen link. Supremely useful.
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Made me remember this: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please...
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> and its replacement is much faster in rendering manpages

Besides the build bloat, that certainly hints at it.
sounds pompous.
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Do you think we can get a couple thousand founders to promote the issue via Votizen?

Nothing is going to happen if US citizens who care about the issue don't speak up for their expat founder friends.
Condescending feedback says more about the speaker than the listener.

I'd take this even further: feedback, period, says more about the person offering it than the person it's about. Hell, anything anyone does, whether about or in response to someone else or not, is about the person doing it.

If I say something and you lambaste me for it, that's about you; I'm just a convenient excuse for you to manifest your dick-nature. If I do something and you give me props for it, that's about you; I'm just an opportunity for you to share another aspect of yourself. Love someone or hate someone, what you say or do has nothing whatsoever to do with that person. It's all about you, all the time, every time. Full stop.

Life gets a lot easier when you remember that other people's behavior is about them acting out their individual dramas, in whatever form that happens to take. Sure, some kinds of responses feel better than others; everyone loves to be praised, and probably doesn't much like being excoriated. That's exactly the point, though: how you feel about what someone else does — and how you respond to it — are about you, not that person, and not what they said or did. That person, and what they say or do, are just excuses (or opportunities) for you to manifest your baser or higher nature.

We've all been pricks, and we've all been saints; we always have a choice in how we behave. So stand up and take responsibility for yourself. That doesn't mean you have to stop being a raging asshole, if that's what you want to be. But you made that choice, and re-make it every time you're rude to someone, denigrate them, or talk shit about them. Own it. And if someone's an asshole to you, instead of being an asshole back, think about how much it must suck to be a person who feels the need to go around being an asshole at other people.
For me, it's more like "Begin with a mission, not a goal."

I originally talked to Ben about this, and it sort of hearkens back to the whole debate on visionary vs. tactical leaders.

Paul Graham said recently, "If you have some kind of big visionary plan, you're probably Webvan." That's absolutely true. Starting with a niche feature (Payments for Palm Pilots, not payments for everyone--PayPal. Profiles for college students, not generic social networking--Facebook) and making it work insanely well is crucial. But, that's all about executing on a certain goal.

PayPal and Facebook also dared to aspire to something much greater from the beginning. As the post mentions, to become truly successful, there has to be a greater "there" there. If you don't have a mission, you'll execute on your goals at half-effort at best.
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How long does the equity take to vest?

I have no direct experience here, but I've always heard 4 years cited as the norm.
This is just for Android devices, right? People with iPhones, blackberries, etc. are still screwed?
Any chance you could switch the rgb value to something we can easily copy/paste in CSS? rgb(128, 128, 128)
Without specifying dialect (ANSI C, C99, etc.), I believe "valid C" really only means "some C compiler somewhere will accept it without generating errors".
>> The real answer is "don't work there

, if you have to ask this question ;-)"
Because using the police power of the state against otherwise peaceful organizations is more convenient than taking your business elsewhere, and allows you to substitute your preferences for the revealed preferences of other consumers.
How convenient! If the situation hadn't turned out bad, we could have rejoiced the safety of nuclear power. Since things did turn out bad, we'll just brush it aside as ancient technology, nothing to see here, move on.

Except there are numerous "ancient" plants in full operation today. Except Japan is one of the most organized, efficient and technically advanced societies on the planet.

Most importantly, you fail to address my actual question: why should nuclear doom sayers have to recant their concerns in the event they are mistaken but nuclear cheerleaders do not in the event they are? You and the OP wouldn't answer that question because you have no logical answer.
That's a good idea.

We were trying to decide between importing content from Github, scraping PDFs/word Docs, or importing from another site. Right now we were going to try to figure out who the first users were going to be (and what they want), but I definitely would like to add the functionality sometime, especially if coders start taking a liking to it.

You are very right about us not having a lot of experience. None of us have ever had any design or UX experience, and are kind of making it up as we go along while making numerous revisions.

As for metrics, do you mean us using Google Analytics and such, or us giving the users metrics about how many views they are getting to their user & project pages?
> Yes, Neil is a real person with real feelings.

AND 30 THINGS HE ATTEMPTED TO SMUGGLE INTO JAIL INSIDE HIS ASS.

There's the proper sense of shame you should feel when considering whether to mock someone or not, and then there's communal shame that should make us think twice before doing something morally, ethnically and criminally questionable.

Perhaps the next guy who considers doing something like this will remember laughing at Neil, and will decide not to become an internet joke.
Make different friends. That's all there is to it, I'd say.
It blew my mind the first time I read the proof that comparison sorts could never perform better than O(n log n) time worst or average-case.

It blew my mind the first time I realized that big-oh notation could be applied to any constrained resource (memory, disk I/O operations, bandwidth, everything) and not just CPU time.

It blew my mind when I realized that malloc and free, of all things, are not typically O(1) operations.

If you're doing anything even remotely interesting in computer programming, you'll benefit enormously from knowing about Big-O.
printf "numbers from 1 to 1000 without using any loop or conditional statements. Don't just write the printf() or cout statement 1000 times.\n How would you do that using C or C++?"
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Unfortunately. I wonder why there cannot be another company like Apple, but with other principles and/or design choices.
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I guess it depends on your definition of success.

I've hated school since about the 2nd grade. I was forced into an "alternative" program in High School where I learned little or nothing but how to play backgammon and eat snickers bars and drink Mt. Dew. I've taken some college courses (Community College) but never came close to graduating. I worked shit jobs until I was 30.

Since then:
I've run for office - lost, but learned a lot. I've been asked many times since to do it again, but I have no interest in becoming a politician.

Founded two companies and sold one of them. The other one we started with $300 and has now grown to over 250K in annual sales and we plan to hire 5 people this year (it is a lifestyle business, but we'll see, it may turn into something bigger).

I've climbed partway up the corporate ladder and currently lead a group of six software developers/DBAs.

I have 2 kids and a wonderful wife. The kids are in a private montessori school which we all love (btw, their school experience is 180 degrees different than mine). We go on vacations together and have no debt.

Am I a billionaire, no and I don't think I ever will be, but I'm 42 now and think my best years are ahead of me.

I don't care how old you are or what your background, you can overcome your obstacles. My God, don't give up at 25, get going!
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And the people who were and still are committing tax fraud on a scale that blows away what any individual could do on their own?

They're fine, thanks. The guy who tries to blow the whistle gets nailed, though.

That's not why they nailed him to the cross, that's how they did it. The why is evidenced by the fact that they're not going after the actual tax cheats in addition to him.
I didn't mean to talk using the lightnings, just to make a background sound. Maybe map to the wave frequency to the speech volume or tone (harder). It would still be sine waves, but sounding slightly different based on the microphone.
The "hive mind" works both ways though. You can find examples of posts with a correct position being bullied and forced out by a mass of self-confirming, yet incorrect posts. "Geeks", who often can't let inaccurate statements stand unchallenged for fear of it self perpetuating in this manner, will fight back in kind. Public forums are often very democratic, in that the majority wins even when the majority is ill-informed. (I'm not justifying the behavior, just proposing a theory as to why this seems perfectly acceptable to many "geeks")
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The irony, of course, is that if he didn't have those transitions -- if, for example, he had actually built such a device -- the video would be much less convincing because it would look too good. Instinctively, we feel a small, hacked-together device should have visible difficulty commandeering a giant screen.
I'm pretty sure decades of mismanagement, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and a broken oil pipeline caused the collapse of the USSR.

Ronny Ray Gun just happened to be in office at the time.

But becoming president of the US is huge! Only a few dozen people have ever managed to do so :-)
I think this is a great comment. (but downvoted). Even if you are not successful at 30. You should be building knowledge, experience, connections or whatever is going to be the basis of success when you are older.
There's two ways to be better than other people; to rise above them, or to drag them down. Bullies want to feel important just like everyone else, but they are not confident in their own abilities, so they are afraid to try growing themselves, because they fear they will prove to themselves they are as stupid as they fear they are. (the ol', too afraid of failure to succeed) They are naturally left with either accepting they are a failure, or throwing other people under the bus.
They were all successful and Groupon is the leader in the space so we figured we would get the most exposure by using them. Despite them being successful there always seemed to be something that went wrong. Groupon tries to sell these things as miscommunications which I don't buy. We have also run deals with living social and twongo. Both of these we not nearly as successful as the Groupon deals we have run.

The problem is that I can't help but get the feeling that Groupon doesn't really care about the success of the merchants business. All they care about is how many Coupons they are going to sell and how much money they are going to make off it.

Another incentive to stay with Groupon is that they have made us a preferred merchant which gives us a couple of advantages i.e. receiving our money from the deal much sooner than the average Groupon merchant.

Yes we are going to use Groupon again and again and again because for our business it has been a major customer acquisition strategy that we have solid numbers to prove is definitely working.
This post as a whole is not a comprehensive discussion of the quake. It is explicitly about the media distortion of the event. If your point is valid it remains off-topic.

Additionally, your language indicates you're still not grasping the problem we are examining. There is no "premise that everything went as planned." That is absolutely not his point at all. His point is that there is a hugely complex system that performed admirably, that emergency relief systems are a war against the unexpected.

I think it's pretty self-righteous to prioritize the decision-making that the Japanese will take care of on their over examining and controlling our own reactions, reactions based on a poor understanding of the emergency response and hysterical reporting.
Well, not really. Web Apps are faster, it is the "packaged apps" using a UIWebView that did not gain anything, and Apple is getting 30% of those as well.

So, it would not have make sense to slowdown UIWebView and accelerate Web Pages only for revenue point of view.

I think it is, as often, a interlaced tech-business issue:

1) Security: There might a genuin security concern the way the JIT works.

2) Exclusivity: I think Apple exec saw #1 as an opportunity to keep the performance gain as an exclusivity benefit for a while (Safari vs other browsers).

3) Developers: Apple's exec are probably realizing that there is a momentum starting to build around "Universal HTML5 Packaged apps," which would allow developers to decouple production from distribution. So, while they probably do not want to completely stop this momentum, slowing it a little might be seen as a good compromise for them.

Now, do not get me wrong, I am really disappointed at this news, and hope Apple will bring Nitro to UIWEbView soon.
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Which works great, if the organizations in question don't have a virtual monopoly on what should be considered a public utility. There is no "elsewhere".
> What the heck is a 4/2 split?

OT, but in case you're actually wondering, it refers to the number of cards of a given suit held by each of the defenders. In bridge, there are four players, conventionally called North, East, South, and West; after the auction, one player becomes declarer; let's say that's South. In this case, North, across the table, is dummy, and East and West, on either side, are defenders. Dummy's cards are turned face up so everyone can see them; declarer plays both her own hand and dummy's.

When declarer sees a total of seven clubs (let's say) in her own and dummy's hand, she knows that the defenders have six clubs between them, but she doesn't in general know how many each defender has; this is called the "split". A 3/3 split means each has three; a 4/2 split means one has four and the other has two. Usually, even splits favor declarer while uneven splits favor the defenders, but there are exceptions.
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Few people would have problems with the deletion of true "noise" -- obnoxious and indecipherable solve-my-homework questions or obvious trolls.

But why delete a programming-related question with lots of healthy discussion and where people are enjoying themselves? Or, for that matter, a wikipedia page that is well-written and accurate, but only of interest to a small percent of people?
Tau is only convenient in geometry. In calculus, Pi rules the day because the natural unit is radians. Since I like calculus more than geometry, I won't be accepting Tau anytime soon.
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The media constantly promotes the idea that success is more important when you're young. For example, it really sells magazines when they publish an article about a 20 years old billionaire. On the other hand, a 50 or 60 year old billionaire is just another number in the Forbes list...
You don't have to be elected to be a politician.
Not really. I hang out with homeless people, hippies, frat guys, and any group I can work my way into.

Geeks ARE angry. They seem to have shittons of pentup rage
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Very good writeup, Chad. I too have, apparently, flunked Silicon Valley up to this point. It's really great that you've been relentlessly pursuing it, though.

I had the same reaction about Chirp. I started to get the feeling from Twitter around the time of Chirp.

I was always wary of building apps that are completely dependent on someone else's platform to live and, indeed, my own startup was dealt a serious setback by the release of OpenVBX. So my fears were valid, after all.

My own Twitter usage has changed quite a bit lately, as well. I've given up on keeping up with what's going on. I check it less and less each day it seems. I had an idea this weekend about using small GroupMe groups to share ideas instead of Twitter because I could segment people better that way...

Anyway, It will be interesting to see what Twitter looks like in a few years...
It is a semantics issue, but just like I expect mechanical engineers to have a strong grasp of Newtonian mechanics, I expect software engineers to have a strong grasp of algorithms and data structures.
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