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I sense a slight tinge of guilt in your post where you mention being selfish. Choosing what is right for you is always acceptable. If any of your co-founders cannot release you with love, then it is they who are being selfish. I'm going through the opposite right now, losing one of my best employees to a better opportunity. She has to choose what's right for her.

I would not rule out other, perhaps funded startups, during your job search. You won't get as big a piece of the action as a founder, but that may be irrelevant, depending on where you land.

On the other hand, being an entrepreneur is not for everyone. You seem to deeply desire autonomy. The are two truths about autonomy. First, one is never fully autonomous, there are always customers that will hold you accountable. Second, autonomy has it's price. The most successful entrepreneurs usually have a long stream of failures in their wake. It's about taking and applying the lessons from the failures, redoubling efforts, sometimes living an austere lifestyle while figuring out how to keep the bills paid, and trying again. Like I said, it's not for everyone. I have many times considered leaving my venture for the stability of a steady paycheck at a "regular" job. I would be much less concerned about the future for my family and children. But I know that choice would be a choice to accept a mediocre vision for my children, cutting off access to the best toys/learning tools, schools, etc. and I want better than that for them. I believe the same mediocrity would ripple through my career path as well. That pressure has caused me to apply the past lessons, and take risks, some of which are paying off.

The bottom line, reward comes with risk. At a corporate job, the big wigs and shareholders are taking most of the risk, so they get most of the reward.

Your CEO, from the limited information you have presented, sounds perhaps like he is more charismatic than he is in possession of the skills necessary to steer your venture toward profitability. If he has time to check in on all the guys 2-4 times a day, it sounds to me like he has run out of ideas or has no real sense of direction for doing what is needed, securing customers or funding, or just choosing a vision for a product and keeping the lid on the feature set until v1.0 is achieved. I am also wondering what kind of legal agreements you have in writing for your startup. He sounds like he is setting himself up to be the lone founder, claim the lion's share of the spoils, and screw you and the other co-founders.
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He has a place to live and $100,000 in cash. If you buy a house, you don't have the $100,000 in cash.
I actually had a look before, and they confirmed my impression that they're pretty much a waste of my time.

The point is not whether I clicked through or not, the point is whether I'm going to spend my free time on my own projects, or completely useless projects for some company - they're not even things the company needs!

I'm more than happy to be judged on the merits of what I've produced, both proprietary and open source, rather than fooling around with invented puzzles.
With a team this size, I think it's spot on given their caveats: http://www.quora.com/Does-Quora-engineering-use-a-code-revie...

I assume they have a culture of shame and pride for power and responsibility afforded to each developer.
You might want to check out wepay.com / not sure whether that is what you are looking for, but it might be worth taking a look.
"You gave a significant chunk of their profit to Amazon"
Are you implying this gives Manning reason for the disdain they showed him? From the rough translation it seems disdainful. He/she is a customer regardless of whatever vehicle (Amazon) he/she uses.

Personally, they should work with you to remedy this situation through various steps. The first should be try to cancel your amazon order and place it through Manning. If that doesn't work, then ...

You have every right to be angry at your bad customer service experience.
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Presumably, Quora is still actively growing its feature set, whereas Reddit is mostly in maintenance mode technology-wise.
To provide a good education, public school systems need all kinds of supplies, products, books, services, etc. that don't make sense to produce in-house. This is where the private sector comes in -- though it's hard for small companies (who can often give the schools the best value for their money) to build relationships with schools, get through the red tape (getting onto vendor lists, going through bid systems, etc.), so often the schools are getting lower-quality supplies/services for more money.

...so wouldn't it be nice if there were some group that would help new education-focused companies to get their innovations into the (free) public schools?

I hope this makes more sense now.
I don't know if this will come across as immoral, but you can actually benefit from helping out people that are negatively affected by disasters.

By creating or driving discount-rated sales of products/games and donating ALL proceeds to a charity to support the victims, you get catalytic traction of your deliverable.

At a later stage (not related to the timeline of the disaster, but obviously a significant period later), you leverage the highly successful revenue model of in-game micro-payments by releasing premium features or levels, what-have-you to the now substantial user-base that you have.

The only caveat is that a disaster trending in the news is a prerequisite - although, objectively, you are helping the support cause.
Read the article. The author is definitely saying nobody should buy a home again. He structured the article as advice using his own personal experience.
Go for it. Take a quick detour job to build up savings, and then find (or create) another startup in a year or two.

>Strategically, what should I be doing to maximize my chances of getting a decent big-company job?

I had a hell of a time getting interviews as a 'co-founder', and ultimately ended up changing my title to 'lead developer'. YMMV.
I think the GP was saying that the landlord was announcing a 10% increase in rent with only 30 days notice not an increase of rent for the last month of the lease.
On Chrome(Mac) as well.
He structured the article as advice to others. The title is interchangeable with you should never own.
Tsk, tsk. It's trendy to blame PHP for every problem out there.

Also, it's trendy to drop unseasoned developers onto it and expect them to build complex applications that are publicly accessible yet 100% foolproof. Go figure.

If you asked me, I couldn't even tell. I've encoundered some in the past, sure, but found (in docs) both rationale and the correct way to use stuff.

There was that reference-vs-value matter when passing objects around, in PHP v4.x, but that's fixed by v5.
Never mind you are totally right. Definitely nothing about crying or killed. He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

I don't know if its fake, to me it almost sounds like the the people on the radio are repeating what he is saying or asking him to repeat something, but one can be fairly confident that the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.
I think they need to further explain what exactly happened than simply stating "human error". If it is avoidable, admit what it is and also let other people to learn this lesson.

What configuration error (technically, by definitions from some IEEE guidelines, mistakes) did they make to have this happening?
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During his OSCON 2007 talk, Steve does say that "NBL" is JavaScript 2. Watch http://blip.tv/file/319044/ around the 24:40m mark.
Then again, I don't know what's his opinion at press-time.
You arent taking into acct the investment value of the downpayment. Plus the benefits of having high liquidity
I pretty much agree with jjm comment. I never have ONE config file but a directory of config files, everything is separated : database, memcache, heywatch, s3, routes, ... It's way easier for the developer, the sysadmin, the deployment, ... Of course it would multiply the risk of this happening by n files.
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Why is the grandfather paradox the grandfather paradox and not the father/mother paradox? Why go back a generation more than is necessary? I've always seen it staged in this way and have never understood why.
Yeah, the book goes into a LOT more detail. It's actually a detailed step-by-step roadmap for how to go from and hypothesis / guess, to a validated product idea with a defined, existing and profitable market. It's oriented mostly towards enterprise software scenarios, but he does point out where the same ideas can be applied to consumer products to some extent.

Honestly, if enterprise scenarios are on your roadmap at all, I think you may find it to be one of the most valuable books you'll ever read. I'm just now in the process of putting his process into action for my own startup, and I'm solidly convinced that this is The Way To Go (esp. for enterprise software, which happens to be what I'm doing.)
Yes, you're over-reacting. Your post sounds spiteful, and your threat of bad publicity sounds more like revenge than warning your fellow consumers. The way I see it, it would've been nice of them to give you a free MEAP copy, but it was well within their rights to refuse. Similarly, it's well within your rights to write a nasty blog post about how Manning is a bunch of meanies, but it'd be nice if you let it go, admitted that you made a mistake and got on with your life. It doesn't seem to me like there's anything to be gained by taking the low road here, even if you feel that it would be fair.

I have a story that starts similarly to yours, but ends very differently. I discovered "The Joy of Clojure" from a post here on HN, and after some consideration, I decided to pre-order. I was familiar with Amazon, but not with Manning, so I checked them out a little. I read their page about MEAPs and preview releases and really liked what I saw, so I pre-ordered the e-book copy from them directly, got my MEAP copy immediately and started reading. Since then, I've purchased/pre-ordered a half dozen other titles from them (frequently on steep discount thanks to their daily deals and newsletter sales) and they've become my go-to publisher for tech e-books when O'Reilly doesn't have what I'm looking for. I can't help but feel that my life would be ever-so-slightly poorer if I had had a bad experience with them right off the bat and decided to avoid them in the future.

Regardless of which path you decide to take, I hope that you enjoy reading the book. As someone who's fairly new to Clojure and functional programming, I've found it to be a great way to get deeper into the language as well as expand my horizons by exploring concepts like laziness and immutability that I don't see often enough as a Python programmer. Happy reading!
It was sponsored. I have my own too at home. Others use other keyboards. Whatever makes you productive.
No. I don't think they do. They've made a mistake and as long as they are willing to take responsibility for the consequences then I don't see the need for a public post-mortem just to satisfy our curiosity.
Maybe we're in 1998.
The purpose of the new TLD is not to segregate the internet, that's just what the porn sites fear will somehow happen.
Very nice. I like the way you add new tasks/subtasks by using the edit box at the bottom. I also like that there's no Settings page.

You should probably charge something for this app.

Only one nitpick: Remove the alert box that comes after syncing is complete.

Are you going to add any more feature (reminders or due-dates?).
No works great for me!
Not everyone eats together everyday. And no one will be considered outcast if so. There are many ways we interact on a day to day basis besides meal times, and we're all in the same room.

Folks also bring their own food sometimes. I'm sure something can be worked out for you too if you have special dietary needs and what we have isn't appropriate.
What's wrong with a job at a small or medium sized company? I'm guessing you're very, very young (18-22) to have such a myopic view of things. "The career game is just about spinning the wheel, repeatedly, until you actually win." Wow. Really? How about making things happen for yourself instead of spinning a wheel? There's more opportunities in this world beyond startups and "big" companies. Plenty of mid-sized companies would love to get their hands on a talented individual like you. And not all jobs will suck your soul and drive you to the edge of sanity.

BTW, at 3 years in, you guys aren't "startup"-ing anything. You're playing around at best. Time to get out and get some experience.
In an ideal future, we'd have something like x86, but for graphics hardware. Standardizing the assembly language would go a long ways towards encouraging good compiler design and third-party libraries for rendering.
Sorry to hear that. What would appeal to you? This is just a single post. Maybe you'd like to come by :)
Chrome on win, works well for me ver 10...
Yeah, its a buyers market but if you already bought a home, you're a seller and likely hate the current situation in Detroit.
This interesting blog post mentions this too (namely don't invest more than 2% of your wealth at once):

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/11/what-do-you-do-after-yo...
Just tell me how this is different from http://www.reddit.com and please convince any of us here that this is better than reddit for the premise in your post.

[edit]

Sorry I found that my comment is very similar to michael's (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343485)
I guess the point is very clear, if it is not different from Reddit, (think how Facebook is different from myspace), then the only deterministic factor is the niche user-base which makes it viral.
9%? Yah, um, don't plan on that.
Quora has taken code quality very seriously.
And yes, it was setup for CD pretty much near the beginning.

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Author: Adam D'Angelo <dangelo@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Author: Adam D'Angelo <dangelo@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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You could look that on the plus side and start doing a bunch of pair programming. I have started doing bits of pair programing and found it to be very productive.
what browser are you using?
> it will just pull it from the cache, not needing to be parsed or read from disk.

I don't believe PHP's ini_read caches anything. Sure, your OS cache is going to have that file in, but PHP still has to do the fopen(), fread(), parse, fclose() dance on every page hit. This does not happen with an opcode-cached source file.

I have actually benchmarked this. Amortized across billions of page hits per month it produces a notable saving.

Kudos points out that you could use APC - this is absolutely true but IMO it basically equates to doing the same thing in a more complex way.

> Configuration stored in a PHP file is bad. Changing working code simply because you want to add a new slave is a horrible idea. It would be like having to recompile Apache from source every time you want to add a new vhost because all the entries are written in C.

This is a false comparison between interpreted and compiled languages. Not to mention that plenty of C programs use #defines for configuration. Varnish even translates its configuration language into C and dynamically loads it as a module, which provides significant flexibility.

In a dynamic language, and where you trust the person doing the configuration, there's no reason why your configuration shouldn't be in a source file. Both Django and Rails do it this way.
One thing you'll notice is that Quora doesn't really give its employees any desktops. Instead, all development is done in the cloud with Amazon EC2 instances, provisioned specifically with custom software scripts.

So are all team members using the same EC2 instance? Or they each get their own different cloud-machine?

(Do EC2 instances support persistence in the file system anyway?)
Another good reasons to own is that when you own a home, no one can kick you out. When you rent, whether you live there next year is at the landlords discretion. A landlord may decide to sell next year, to renovate, to find tenants who never complain, to let their children live there, etc.

Also, fixed mortgages stay the same price, but rents rise.
Wait, why is a US company is sending Japan robots? Aren't the Japanese decades ahead of everybody else on robotics?
We also do pre-commit reviews for the important stuff, especially things related to privacy and anonymity. We know when to do them pre-commit or post (which is the norm).
I'd say we're in pre-2008 post 2003 again. Web2.0 (the conference) in 2007 had a ton of non-startuppy attendees. In fact, IIRC, there were a ton of similar "OMG BUBBLE!" articles at the time.
Have you tried asking for a different desk? They end up with the same ikea desk because no one cares about it that much.
If most real estate investors agreed on that, wouldn't the prices be higher?
Great.

Except that money can't go into an investment account because you still need it for rent. Actually, around here I'd be paying about 50% more than my current mortgage to rent the same sort of house, so month-to-month it is a greater expense. So the only difference is you still have the down payment.

And even then, for me, having that downpayment makes little difference financially over the course of 25 years. I seriously doubt it would stay in the bank over that time.

I had an argument with a friend a couple of years ago along these lines; he claimed that renting was much more financially stable, but now he seems no more or less stable than myself... There is a lot of FUD around the "buy a house", "don't buy a house" argument, it's best to treat it all with a pinch of salt and make your own decision.
Seems like everyone trying out node.js for the first time wants to make chat-room apps. At least this one doesn't have an immediately obvious script injection vulnerability :)

Interestingly, none of the chat apps I've really used are built on node: convore is python, mibbit is java, irccloud is erlang. Too new I guess.

If anyone's interested in a tasteful, persistent, web-based IRC client (ie, bouncer-like) - albeit not using node.js - mention HN in the invite box on https://irccloud.com/
.... and he ends with this sentence:

By the way, this is going to sound like a
contradiction: but I think housing is a great
investment right now.

Go figure.
We all get our own. Mine was named "devkahseng" if you saw that :) Yes EC2 supports persistence in the file system with Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes.
> Forcing every file to start with <?php is just PITA for developers working on templates.

Yep, our templates were .tpl files, which is probably a good convention to have even if you use raw PHP as your templating language.

But you get the drift. This is something you have to deal with when you use PHP.
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I guess you're right. Anyway the reason is pretty clear enough after actually reading the pasted code.
Finally! I've been watching the news and wondering why they aren't using aerial drones to get up-to-date video feeds and robots to access the dangerous areas and at least _see_ what is going on there.

I mean, even the cheap (by military standards) Parrot AR.Drones could be used to get some imagery, assuming wi-fi relays are set up first.
Right. Maybe I overexaggerated by saying 30 days instead of 90. But sooner or later you get that notice "Hey, it's time to renew your lease. By the way, it's a 10% increase on the next year. Take it...or start looking for a new apartment. Good luck with the market out there."
This page is just a thin wrapper, with a link to the _actual_ overview: http://tomazkovacic.com/blog/14/extracting-article-text-from...

And here's his list of resources: http://tomazkovacic.com/blog/56/list-of-resources-article-te...
Not when it comes to hostile environments. The US has a much greater need than the rest of the planet in that niche.
Exactly. I'm sure that the author's reasons for not buying a house are all perfectly valid to him, but there are many other people who don't just see their home as a pile of dollar bills with a bed inside.
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My favourite prompt-hack is to colourise the $ when the previous command exits non-zero, here's how I have my bash PS1 set up: http://www.metabrew.com/article/updated-bash-ps1

If you exit `top` by pressing q, it exits with non-zero - who knew? :)
Er. http://identi.ca ?
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You're exactly right -- if all your EBS volumes are served out of the same SAN hardware, or worse, served from the same physical spindle in the SAN, you're still toast.

When I was testing with bonnie++ though, I saw 2x better I/O numbers with raid5 or raid6 with these volumes, which I would not expect to see if they were served out of the same spindle.

If only AWS supported SSD-backed EBS volumes, eh?
And yet: if there's not yet the funding for a 'market' salary, nor the momentum towards a valuable equity position, and the habitual mode of operation from the CEO isn't to his liking, then any changes extracted through 'leverage' are going to be superficial.
The ob_start thing is an exceedingly good point and I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. Probably because I haven't touched PHP in 3 years.
The March 14 google cache of JoyofClojure.com says "can be preordered [link to the Manning preorder page with explanation of MEAP], which gives you access to the entire book as a PDF now".

The current page has been amended to say "can now be pre-ordered from Manning [link to the same MEAP purchase page], which gives you access to the entire book as a PDF now".

It looks like you helped them solve the "user reads about the preorder bonus and then chooses not to click on the nearby purchase link; instead bounces to Amazon, buys the book for half price, and then comes back asking for the PDF later" edge case.

They could certainly have just given you a copy of the PDF though. Probably not worth the hassle for Manning to argue the point.
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It would be nice, when there is a thread on Clojure, if at least one person chimed in and gave an example of a problem where this lisp dialect on JVM helped them to solve a problem faster than using an existing language, like Python, C#, Java, or whatever.

"Drinking through a fire hose", "understanding corner cases", and such are just euphemisms. Where's the beef?
I run a startup news website. I review press-releases and pitches every day. The basics in this post are solid, but the two most important things in a pitch are
1)exclusivity
2)currency (that is a media term for "the story is relevant and current for right now, it has currency")
Here is my guide to getting a write-up about your startups
http://www.scandinavianstartups.com/article/how-get-write-yo...
I strongly disagree. Enforcing an ISA would prevent a lot of the technological advances in graphics card design.
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Hopefully the edit clarifies things
This. This is why I do not read newspapers or most non-academic journalism. I have taken journalism courses at grade school, high school, and college levels and they ALL cover the idea of finding and citing primary and secondary sources and that all other sources are dubious, yet somehow once you get a degree in journalism this entire idea goes out the window!