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I interpret this comment to be an entirely new line of criticism of the HFT ban. This one is based on an assessment of the applicability of the motivations behind the ban, the previous one was an attempted reductio. The polite thing for you to do would be to admit that your first criticism failed, or mark in some other way that you are starting a new line, not for you to speak as if you are simply backing that first criticism up with new information.

As for the new point, your example of absurdity includes a solution that is obviously decoupled from the problem it is stated to be addressing (download speed and lyrical content), that is why it is absurd. However you have not shown that the HFT ban is similarly unrelated to the problem(s) that it is intended to be addressing. The length of delays on feedback loops in control systems is very related to the performance of those control systems. Thus, the absurdness is not conveyed over of the HFT ban idea.
Problem is, you die before ever getting there.
Trust is key no matter where they work. With a small company if you can't trust someone to be as productive as you need them to be (regardless of if you're looking over their shoulder or not) you probably shouldn't hire them. The exception to that I guess is people who just don't work well remotely. But the whole comment about monitoring code commits just seems nutty to me. My company is remote, and it works because I trust everyone to do a good job. I wouldn't hire someone I didn't trust.
"3 employees, 2 interns, 1.4M in funding"

What will the money be used for? Are you still trying to reach product/market fit?
As someone who was experienced I did find it frustrating -- I can recall almost wanting to write a new editor because doing things like I used to (cutting and pasting loads of buffers and refactoring code) just didn't work very well. Again this is pre-1998, so I'm sure now this works just fine, but then it was just frustration. Or at least that's how I recall it.
Python was my first language and the white space rules simply "made sense" for me at the time. In fact, using Python for a while at such an early stage started to ingrain a oneness with Python's unique syntactic idiosyncrasies. It seems somewhat second nature at this point.
nice idea, less intrusive for sure
I do think the loss of a more intimate social cohesion does increase the risk of off-shoring/in-shoring positions to cheaper locations. As someone who moved from the Midwest to be closer to where the action is, I suppose that would have been good for me before, but both nationally and globally it won't be a transition without a lot of growing pains.
Indeed, this has become a secret recruitment tool: http://www.flickr.com/photos/technomancy/tags/remoteoffice
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Scam? Wow, that's pretty snide. The kid enrolled University classes at the age of 8:

By the age of eight he had left high school and was attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis advanced astrophysics classes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369595/Jacob-Barnet...
Corporations generally hire outside counsel to handle most of their legal practice. So Sony (or their subordinate companies) would hire megafirms that employ lawyers allowed to practice law anywhere in the world.
I think it would also change the job market. With the artificial boundary of geography lifted, suddenly companies will look for employees very differently. What would the effect of that be? Rock star employees can demand higher salaries? Average joes forced to accept lower salaries? Will every company incorporate in Delaware? :) I'm not an economist, but I do think things along those lines would happen more.
I wouldn't mind seeing this pop up in my apps, especially if it provided me with some sort of in-app reward for reviewing...
What commute time? I work from home.

When I am on the road, I "read" audio books.
>21st century business model

would definitely involve being nimble, adjusting quickly (and relatively cheap). 40M on such a change doesn't look nimble.
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My response always is:

1) Pick one. It doesn't matter.

2) If you're still asking me after I've given Answer #1, then Ruby or Python. But really, it still doesn't matter.
And there's nothing that says you can't put work brokered through 99designs in your portfolio
It's called "garden leave" in the UK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave.
Yes, it's possible to get good stuff from 99designs. No doubt about that.

But I've worked with a fair bit of designers in the 'creative' industry and the good ones could go on 99designs and win close to every competition they entered (barring terrible taste from the submitter).

The lesson is that separating great design from good design isn't subjective (as opposed to some kinds of art) and I've noticed that design is one of those things that only delivers an effective punch when it reaches a certain level of quality. Once it hits that level, it has a disproportionate amount of power to influence potential customers, particularly in spaces that aren't used to great design (b2b products, etc) and the majority of the non-tech public.

That would lead me to believe that, for the long term, it's far better to hire out a reliable, kickass conceptual designer (freelance contract/hire) that can consistently make everything you release look cohesive e.g. e-mails, business cards, website, t-shirts, etc etc. These hires/contacts don't even have to be that expensive: You just need to know where to look and recruit from e.g. NOT Internet boards.

If I was a small startup just looking to gain some traction, I might use 99designs, but with the understanding it was a temporary solution. Because once things get rolling, you're probably going to need a good designer to come in and either redo the brand or try to salvage the existing logo.
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Podcasts and occasionally audiobooks (would do that more often if they weren't so expensive).
> Any programming language, when not influenced by external forces, will be unable to grow and eventually cease to exist unless there is a demand. Any languages that remains is, by exclusion, a useful and good language.

For very small values of "useful" and "good"...
Ah yes, there was no need of using min_i in my benchmark.

That's a pretty big difference, and I wouldn't have expected that much of a difference for assigning one extra variable in the loop.
You could also segment the market by knowledge, and time in business. Each would yield different results.

What you might find is the market aggregate is a lagging indicator or that any summary is void of true detail.

Besides the language measurement quanta here is so far apart, no?
Before learning programming, you better learn how to express your thoughts on paper using a formula, a condition, a repetition. For that, Python is the best "editor" out there, whatever you write is easily understood as pseudo-code.

Then when you are ready to make the jump, use Python, you already know how to, just continue using it, you are now a programmer.
"Update: The ISO committee approved the final draft of the C++ 2011 standard 25 March 2011."
Interesting how you completely missed the section where I cited Sebastian's blog as a source of inspiration for my article. To prevent any further misunderstandings, I've denoted the origins of the text with a big block of quotes to make it absolutely clear. I reject your assertion of "theft".
that was my point. the part you quoted from my comment was an idea from the original post.
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Heres a link from a previous conversation on HN about the Apple appstore. I'm not sure if your comment is directed at just the Android store, but what you say is relevant to both markets. Except maybe implying they are crap. What people like or enjoy is subjective.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273557
*My theory is that you'll need probably a dozen or so apps in the $1.99 - $4.99 range.
What's the best way to interview UI/UX candidate?
I'm a rails developer, not designer. I plan to revamp my site (http://lovewithfood.com) to accommodate a fluid design for web, tablets and mobile. What's are the best ways you've used to interview UI/UX candidates? Is looking at their past portfolio enough?
Clarification: He was wealthy but illiquid before the Tesla IPO. He did not realize how ungodly expensive his divorce would be - he had to pay for both sides since he was wealthier and his ex was happy to use his money to pay for legal time to maximize her take.

Details: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elon-musk/correcting-the-recor...
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Seeing as you're a photo sharing site, I'd recommend using photos rather than drawings to get the point across.

You show a map of cuba, a bunch of smily faces, a bunch of cameras, and then the numbers for your math of 5000+ photos.

That could be done much better with a photo of cuba, photos of the friends, photos of the friends taking pictures together (or photos of a bunch of friends together), groups of photos in a disorganized mess.

I wouldn't bring up other photosharing sites. you're a photo sharing site. What makes you so special compared to the others. What photo sharing site causes you to pay?

I'd get rid of the slide about other photosharing sites, usb, or email. I don't think you need to say 'here are your options, we're better'. You can probably get away with just saying 'we're the best way to get all your photos in one place'.

You can also get rid of the 'that's why we created flicsy bit' it doesn't really add anything to your video.

when you get into describing your product and how it works, you've started using photos (good), but you've got horrible looking power-point arrows and labels. You should be able to get the point across without the labels and arrows. Either doing a bit of stop-action animation of moving the pictures, or something like that.

The slides aren't on screen long enough for the viewer to read the labels anyway.

On the 'One big shared album' screen, show me a screenshot. that is what you are actually selling. Show what that 'one big shared album' looks like, as that is possibly a conceptual piece that viewers won't relate to. Is it just a folder somewhere? Is it in album format with a bunch of photos on a page? Is it just one photo on each page that I can scroll through? etc. etc. Show IT!

You could probably break up your 'from there' into multiple slides for favorites, fb/flickr, download and photobooks. Again, show images.

Then you say 'so the next time'... don't use drawings, go for images. Those things should be really easy to display in an image.

hope that helps.
I'm building a demo video for my newest project right now, so I'm at a similar stage as you and have been thinking about this a lot lately.

Not sure what you're using for your editing, but I've just started using iMovie, and am going to use some "Ken Burns" effects on photos for zooming in and out of an image to highlight areas. Thought that might be useful for you.
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I've written in C++ professionally almost 12 years (17 years counting College), and in my opinion it is a shame how the language has not evolved properly.

Unsolved things:

- Unified C++ ABI call for making shared libraries without worrying about compiler manufacturer or version.

- Massive bloat. Take a look to the Boost libraries and cry.

- Poor debugging tools for templates (debugging templates it is crazy, and the promise of easy template debugging is almost a decade old).

Ridiculous things (in my opinion):

- Obsession for doing everything in "user-land" (e.g. source code templates) instead of built-in abstractions at object code-generation time instead of compile-time.

- Willing to introduce functional programing in the language, when, in my opinion, it makes more sense just to interface with true functional code (e.g. via SBCL).

C++ hour will come, with a non-bloated, system-software capable, "better than C", which could be labeled "simple C++", as in "simple English".
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For my 15 minute bus ride (2 miles) I sometimes crack open the textbook on probability that I'm working through.
Even if you don't support piracy, you can easily avoid paying Sony by just buying used.
You are presumably operating under the assumption that geohot really is blickmaniac^. If he's not, any possible further details SCEA has either would not be in their best interest to share, or would fall apart upon further examination. Furthermore, as none of us, I assume, are currently under oath, or even in the court room, there is realistically little harm in publicly claiming to be blickmaniac.

^And he's not, because I am blickmaniac, and I'm not geohot.
I see how that could sound inconsistent. But I'm not bemoaning the time it takes between changes to the standard as much as pointing out that these long intervals show that the language is done. I'd rather see the standards committee give up than hurry up.
The Lib Dems wanted one, but they decided to scrap that if the Tories scrapped their "Starve On The Streets" alternative as well.
There are student scholarships that aren't super difficult to get, but I think that's it.
Don't make C++ into some fly by night whore language like Perl.
Or the new Jim Jones.
I don't find it inconsistent at all. The author explains that C++ has become sort of a niche language for him.
Less than useless if you already know of several accountants in the area, including one which happens to be a former employer on your own curriculum vitae, and whom you already hire to do your books.
The original: http://arashpayan.com/blog/2009/09/07/presenting-appirater/
Pretty cool conceptual logo, but the type is where the lack of professional attention is evident.

Not trying to be nitty-picky here. You got a GREAT deal. And depending on what your needs are, you're probably fine. I'm just surrounded by pro designers everyday and have analyzed what they do ad nauseum.

The other problem is simply that a logo is but one piece of a big design solution for your entire company. You could, by yourself, fit the rest of your company's design assets around the logo. However, from my experience, without a great designer, you'll probably end up with something pretty spartan or messy. They know what to add and what to remove to the design in different realms (layout, color palette, interaction, etc) to make it have a professional look.
I disagree. If I get a warning out of the blue, yeah, I take it seriously: something unexpected is going on, and I'm not going to trust the server until I know what it is. But if I know there's going to be a server upgrade overnight and I get an SSH warning in the morning, I figure odds are good that it's because of the new server rather than a coincidentally timed MITM attack. That's not perfect security, certainly, but as long as MITM attacks are rare it doesn't cost you that much of SSH's value.

(All bets are off if someone is targeting your organization specifically, of course: they'd presumably have heard about the server changes in advance and take that opportunity to attack. If I considered that a serious concern in my circumstances then I'd ramp up my security level across the board.)
The problem is that 'trigger it' means a judge decides that oracle "a computer company" and google "a computer company" are in the same business.

Or simply that it wasn't worth the risk. Gosling is being hired to give Google Java-cred it's not like they were waiting for him in order to ship a product
I typed in the examples from the paper and tried them out with the Digital Mars C compiler. They all passed, as well as http://blog.regehr.org/archives/482. I hope the authors will try to break dmc with their test suite generator, and look forward to fixing any issues they find.
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Citation, for FB and Microsoft?
It also isn't mutually exclusive. Just because you don't work from home doesn't mean you have a 1/2 hour commute each way. It also doesn't mean that you spend your commute by yourself. Carpooling, taking the bus, or metro all offer chances to socialize with people outside of your current friends and family group. A large part of interacting with people at work is that they are outside of your current social circle. You can branch out and get to know people that you wouldn't normally associate yourself with.

Also, working from home doesn't guarantee that you will be working the same hours . I know a few people that are expected to work extra hours because they have more free time from not commuting.
I hate to break this to you, but using art from iStockphoto as a logo is prohibited. From the license agreement:

"For greater certainty, the following are Prohibited Uses and you may not: ... 4. use any of the Content as part of a trade-mark, design-mark, trade-name, business name, service mark, or logo;"
C++ is the only language I'm aware of where every extension made to the language is careful to only affect compilation time/complexity, while preserving the speed and operational semantics of the code at runtime. This makes it perfect for some domains, e.g. console game development, where the speeds required are only attainable by dicking around with pointers in C, but people want to use better abstractions than C is capable of. So no, continuing to add those extensions is not wasted effort; we'll still be learning and using them long into the future.
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Even if the theory he's working on turns out to be wrong, the fact that a kid his age can arrive at even a wrong theory is a sign that he is smart enough to merit attention. The specifics of what he's thinking at the moment are far less important than encouraging him to keep on thinking.
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Thanks for the great slideshow.
I've found another slideshow that is realy great: "The Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data Systems"
I think the author is referring to the "slide to unlock" explanation, with a reference to the infamous Win95 "Click here to Begin" that used to appear above the start button.

I don't necessarily agree that it's a horrible design decision, but it is very unlike Apple to invent a control that needs on-screen instructions instead of just being intuitive.
I'm not sure why they actually need that much money at this stage of their company's development. With that said, I certainly wouldn't turn down $41 million if someone wanted to give it to me :) However, the fact that they now need to produce returns on this large of an investment may add a whole new level of pressure to the already difficult task of launching a viable startup.
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The parody is spreading across Facebook and Twitter faster than the site it is parodying.
I'm actually researching CRM's right now. I copy pasted 4 links out of some searches I'd been doing.

My particular requirements:

Works well on iOS (ipad and iPhone)

Works well with GoogleApps for your domain

If it integrates with Highrise, it supports multiple highrise accounts.

Does not have history of f-ing up calendars

Let me know if you know of something that fits these mr snark
This may just be me, but the article did not answer the question at all. At the end, the author basically washes his (her?) hands of the question and says that there is no reliable data to make a decisive statement.

So, I'm not so sure about Bill Gates' statement about the "noveau riche" being more generous. Maybe at the billionaire level, but what about the measly millionaires? Are they also generous? Also, what kind of charities do they give to? Giving money to their alma mater to build a statute or to name a building is quite different than what Bill Gates is doing.
It is possible to sell web apps and extensions (almost same thing as greasemonkey scripts) on Chrome Web Store at https://chrome.google.com/webstore. For Chrome only obviously.
Reminds me how facebook was almost suing suicidemachine.org [1] just because they allowed people to commit online suicide from facebook (unfriend everyone and set random password).

For me, facebook is just another bigheaded company, that is trying to turn your social life into their product [2]. And that is not the place, where I want to hang out with friends online. (And I dont.)

[1] http://suicidemachine.org/download/Web_2.0_Suicide_Machine.p...

[2] http://twitter.com/#!/librarythingtim/status/13226541303
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The cynic in me theorizes that "color" is a term perfectly targeted to the company's real customers, advertisers, as it implies a deep store of data on the targets of advertisements. The "color" is that which has been added to potential ad viewers' demographic profiles through use of the service.
The remarks about coverage are interesting, and lends support to something I was thinking about a while ago (maybe this is common knowledge):

If I'm writing test cases with the goal of increasing (line) coverage, I first look for large sections of code that aren't yet covered, then test the most obvious path to reach those lines (usually its some sort of special case or error handler). Sometimes this catches really simple mistakes, but generally those lines were written specifically to handle the the path I'm testing. The problem is that once I've tested that path I'm inclined to move on to un-covered lines, and don't test a lot of paths that exercise the same code, but that aren't necessarily obvious to me. Such paths, of course, tend to be more likely to contain bugs because they weren't as obvious to, or considered as critical by whoever originally wrote the code.
I never saw a link to Sebastian's blog in your original article. So, yes, maybe I missed it. However, it was not "inspired". It was a verbatim copy without any indication of it being so.

I am glad you edited the article to explicitly give credit where it is due.
That was the true spirit of Agile. Which unfortunately was lost in the Chasm: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...

Lean Startup seem to be more immune to it, as the very need of the process is filtered through the process (do you really need it? test it!)
Thanks for sharing! It makes sense that significant white space would only seem odd if the habit of insignificant white space had already been acquired.
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That's interesting. In Java, escape analysis wasn't really a win from a memory perspective when there were good GCs involved. Why is it different in Python/PyPy?
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