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But the argument could be that he was promised half of Zuckerberg's shares, and these shares have benefited from any anti-dilution protection that Zuckerberg got along the way (since this bundle of shares was protected, rather than the actual owner).
I would suspect that he had to go subpoena / pay-off some ISP to recover backups to pull out the emails after the other factors gave his a little bit of leverage, namely the twins case and the fact that facebook did concede that MZ and Ceglia worked together...
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To get yourself off the ground I would recommend hiring someone on elance to do the logo. You'll find someone that'll do a good job for $100-$150.

I doubt you'll find someone who'll do it for equity when most startups fail unless you can really sell them that yours won't.
Possible feature if karmaless posts are kept:
Allow users with certain levels of karma to create a poll on a comment. It would allow people to see what the masses are thinking without spawning a thousand I-agree posts, but still let the really vocal people post comments.
I think the first two reasons affect everyone pretty equally, but the 3rd rings pretty true in a couple ways.

I was lucky enough to attend several city schools with serious technology programs/curricula. This included C++ for all 4 years of HS provided you were on the advanced track.

That said, I still had troubles fitting into the tech world and even left it for a time. There's a variety of reasons for this, but one of them was that I never really felt any sense of camaraderie with the other people who were into this stuff. Outside of computers, I often had very little in common with my white, male peers.

They liked metal and rock, I mostly liked JPOP and Electronic music at the time. They were worried about getting girls to like them and annoyed at the athletes who seemed to get all of them. I was usually dating those same athletes. Even my gaming interests seemed to diverge from theirs. I'm a console gamer, but the guys were busy playing Counterstrike.

This meant there were FAR fewer opportunities to collaborate and learn from a group of similarly-interested people. Thankfully, people are a LOT more open to differences now that I'm older, but it still leaves me pretty far behind.

Note: I'm an Afro-Latina woman.
No.

The argument is that all of the material produced as a result of the agreement is property of the General Partnership, of which Ceglia owns 50%. Therefore, the entirety of Facebook, Inc. would be part of this partnership.

Eduardo Saverin only got a stake in Facebook, Inc., not the partnership, which it's unclear if he even knew existed.
Am I reading this correctly?

No.

1. Almost everything I ever wrote is proprietary. I couldn't legally share it if I wanted to.

2. I have never taken anyone else's code. In fact, I have rarely even ever read anyone else's code. To me, someone else's source code might as well be object code. "learning from them" means getting feedback without getting code. Others make suggestions. I write my code.

3. I prefer these analogies: You can eat in my dining room without going into my kitchen. You can enjoy my wardrobe without watching me get dressed. You can watch the movie or read the book without watching either being made. And you can provide feedback about any of them that can be accepted and used.

My source code is private. My customer list is private. My address book is private. My current location is private. My personal schedule is private. You can, of course, share whatever private information you want, but calling my choices "awfully selfish" is myopic and misinformed.
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It's over 10 year old operating system already. Software has its shelf life. I can't blame them for wanting to not spread their support matrix too wide.
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If they have the actual e-mails, then Zucker will have to pay. It's clear that he gave 50% to Ceglia but never disclosed the success of the site.

Cegila for his part must be really naive.
Fair enough. You must have also hated the original article then ;)
"Do something weird/clever, give them something weird (snacks?), or wear something weird. I believe the AirBNB founders brought their ObamaO's."

I would not recommend gratuitous weirdness actually. The Airbnbs' cereal boxes were interesting because they were an organic part of an impressive story, not just a prop.

The best way to stick out is to seem like you deeply understand your domain and your users. That is (unfortunately) a surprisingly rare quality.
He's not self-taught. He has a coach.
While I work standing, I wouldn't ever say that I work "standing still." I'm constantly shifting my weight across one foot or the other, shifting my upper body slightly, etc...

And if you can't stand for more than 20 minutes, I'd check over your posture. There really is a "right" way to hold yourself, and I haven't found many people (in our desk-conditioned culture) who fall into it naturally.
He's not self-taught, he has a coach. They actually have what looks to me to be a non-orthodox system where he only practices shots from x feet when he is good at shots from x-1 feet. A depth-first approach to learning the game as opposed to a breadth-first approach.
Here's his blog with some updated info:
http://dannychampion.com/blog.php

His improvement seems to be fairly rapid. I guess if this is your sole pursuit, not that surprising. But nevertheless makes I'm rooting for him. I think it would be testament to the theory.
Thanks for that honest answer. You're right, calling your choices "awfully selfish" is perhaps going a bit too far.
HN is a Lisp friendly place and many fluffy Lisp related things make it to the front page on HN, not just Clojure (and this article is not nearly as fluffy as some of the things that make it :)

But I agree, it would be nice if people submitting Clojure articles would submit meatier stuff. Same could be said of the recent Node.js HN contingent. On a related note, one thing I've noticed is that the Node.js troupe seems to flag negative Node.js content - this kind of cargo-cult is a bad sign of where things are going on HN IMO.
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I don't know about your "co-opting" idea. I know next to nothing about the Hollywood system, but I imagine a "middle tier" of studios that are between "indies" and "the big guys". A studio that would do everything in-house, and tap into the emerging distribution networks (Amazon/Netflix/iTunes) for "release". Maybe even working with independent theaters.

I think the other factor here would be promotion. I don't think the distribution networks want to bother with that part, but there are probably a bunch of other players ready to get into that market. (Kevin Smith perhaps?)
Ask PG: Can we see the response to the HN changes?
Have people commented more? Does user karma matter?
Are there more "quality" posts?
Is there a different subset of users posting?

Probably too early to tell, but it would be nice to see what happens when you take karma away from comments. I am trying to imagine reddit without it and it doesn't seem quite as interesting. Some hard data would be cool to look at.
"Faster" is not the holy grail metric. Standard compliance and well-thought-out interoperability are high on my list.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to use a dog of a browser, either, but in modern times with dual-core this and 8GB that, one would probably have to actually work at it in order to have a genuinely slow browser.
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You really shouldn't support the weight of your arms using your wrists or forearms.

If you're standing with proper posture, your upper arms are nicely aligned with the body, and your muscles should easily support the minimal weight of your forearms.

Edit: incidentally, as I'm experimenting with a standing desk, I have a stool which is about a foot too low to stand on. I do, however, find myself using it to accomplish all sorts of odd leg positions and stretches.
Yeah, that could be a real sweet spot if marketed properly. I hadn't really thought about that.
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I have to say, it's really disappointing to see the flagging functionality being abused in this way.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438002 , which has had 47 points in 1 hour (despite being flagged by a number of individuals) is exactly on-topic for HN, It concerns a product that is relevant to HN, it is built by an active HN member, it has been upvoted by a good number of HNers despite its unnaturally low placement (due to the flagging), it is written by an active HNer (me), and it is on a blog which is popular with HN.

It's hard to think of a more on-topic post.

And yet, at least 4 people have flagged it, possibly 5, thus lowering its placement by a lot. Flagging is supposed to be reserved for egregiously off-topic and spam posts.

If this is what happens to on-topic posts, one thing is clear:

Flagging is totally broken.

Why? I suspect too many people have access to flags, so flags have become indiscriminate. Simultaneously, pg made flags have a very large effect on story position (effectively, one flag is worth maybe 5-10 downvotes, no matter who applies the flag).

I have long since learned not to try to coerce pg into doing anything, but I really think this is strong evidence of broken functionality. If you want to introduce downvotes for stories, let's have downvotes for stories. But let's not have mega-downvotes in the sneaky form of flags that are supposed to be for spam.

I'll add that this is not the first time I've seen this happen, though it's the first time I see a perfectly legitimate article get quite that many flags. Is HN skipping the Reddit step and going straight to the Digg graveyard?
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Flaggers: please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438564
Golf certainly lends itself to this versus other vocations.

Why do you say that? I can't think of many that don't lend itself to that. Programming? Math? Chess? Plumbing? Carpentry? Tax accountant? Table tennis? Nurse?

I think the vocations where this seems unlikely to work are rare. Basketball -- due to height, and sprinting, due to the pure athleticism required, being probably the biggest ones I can think of.
I switched to a standing desk about six months ago. I started by piling a bunch of books on my desk and putting my laptop on top of them. Later I bought this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MS70Z2/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...

It's a tolerably good desk, except that it's a bit small and, while it's veneered to look like plywood, it's actually made of pasteboard with a laminate veneer (that was a big disappointment when it arrived).

I would like to make my own soon, as I've been getting into woodworking, at which point I will probably sell or give the safeco away.

A few points about standing desks:

* You should be able to stand all day. At first you will get tired, of course. I found that muscles in my back, butt and thighs were getting very sore, but that goes away once they toughen up. For that reason, I don't particularly see the point in desks that convert from sitting to standing. It seems like that would just encourage people to start "cheating" and going back to sitting the moment they get a little tired.

* I tend to rock from foot to foot, kick my feet around, etc, while standing. A big part of the advantage of a standing desk is that you move around more, but if I were in an open-plan office I'd probably try to stand still, which would tire my feet out quickly and give me less of the movement advantage.

* You need good support for your feet. Either purchase very nice shoes or (like me) get something like this:

http://www.americanfloormats.com/rejuvenator-anti-fatigue-ma...

That mat made night-and-day difference for me. Had I not gotten it I would have given up on the desk, because standing all day on a wood floor (even in decent shoes) was starting to kill my feet.

* I also got this monitor stand and clamped it to the top of the safeco:

http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Monitor-Stand-clamp-monitors/dp/B...

With it, my monitors are about a foot off the top of the desk, while the keyboard is at exactly the right height for my arms. Since I look straight forward all day long now, my posture has improved dramatically.
Was the linked codinghorror article intended to be an example of a well-written, proofread article? It took a glance for me to see "that that" in the third paragraph.
From a visual inspection things look the same as always.
I've heard good things about Play, but we've chosen to go with Spring MVC because we didn't need the full stack -- we have a lot of existing Java ORM-ish code and a bunch of existing JSP functionality which we wanted to re-use. JSP is actually our biggest pain point at the moment (aside from generally suckiness, it doesn't work with scala collections), so we're looking into using SSP via Scalate, but we've yet to make that move.

Aside from JSP, we're really happy w/ Spring MVC. We've managed to avoid the crazy amounts of XML that Spring is known for in favor of its more modern annotation-based way of doing things.
i've been using a standing desk for quite a while now. first i used a small table that i put on my desk, now i use a board on the wall and the sreen is screwed onto the wall above it.

one problem i have is that it seems like all gel mats only ship to the us. amazon.com would ship to germany, but i dont have any way to pay there.

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In light of the effort to improve HN, I 'd like to politely (and humbly) ask for some feedback. What can I do to make HN a better place? I'm not looking for feedback on specific comments (we have downvotes and relies for that), but general advice.

Comment less?
Be more technical?
Be less arrogant?
Be more polite?
Stay on topic?
Anything else?

I have quite a few karma points, but I often say that moderation is most needed when something is popular but unhelpful to HN. In the same spirit, I am thinking that feedback is most helpful for people like me who have a lot of karma but could be even better HN citizens.

Please? And thank you!
I believe the solution to this problem isn't tiny frameworks, it's better tools and/or languages.

Closure Compiler and GWT do a great job of stripping dead code. Cappuccino has a tool I wrote that attempts to analyze your application and remove unused files from the final bundle of code. It could do a lot better though.

One thing these tools have in common is static typing vastly improves their ability to remove unused code. Perhaps JavaScript and other very dynamic languages aren't ideal for large web applications built with large frameworks.

I like the idea of optional static typing. For example, a language in which you can rapidly prototype without paying close attention to strict type rules, but later you can "solidify" your code by enabling static typing. Is anyone aware of a language like that?

Edit: now that I think about it, that's basically what Closure Compiler is
This is such a fluff article. Why is it interesting that someone is attempting to "try really hard at something for a lengthy period time"? Looks like he is pitching for a book deal and a spot on Oprah. When you consider how much time 10k hours is I don't think it will blow anyone away that practice of that magnitude will bring success.
No one flagged it. It set off the voting ring detector.

This is probably why: http://twitter.com/swombat/statuses/57853143689601024
Anonymity is not the same as privacy. Tor is more about anonymity than about privacy.

That exit notes can sniff traffic has been known for a long time. Compromised exit nodes do not compromise anonymity as long as you don't give up personally identifiable information in traffic that gets routed via exit nodes.

More problematic is that compromised exit nodes could inject or run man in the middle attacks on your outbound traffic. These could then make you give up your real IP. This is why you shouldn't run exploitable protocols when exiting via Tor (ie. don't use javascript, flash, etc. if you want to remain anonymous).
Native is to browsers as Open is to Mobile OS. That is a great catchy phrase that will get the tech blogs lots of page views while the fans argue about whose definition is more correct.
I wonder if Polaroid will ever make a version of this that works with AirPrint:

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I disagree, if only because I'm stopping to read comments way more than in the past. Hiding karma really solves the "great comments with only one vote" problem.
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If that was jab at my direction, you got wrong coast :p

You know the "Mom Test" for software? Is your software easy enough to use for you mom? If not, then you probably have work to do.

Try the same with your ideology, whatever it is. I know libertarianism (especially Thiel's brand) fails pretty spectacularly.
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Not to mention that Cherokee's configuration file format is very human-unfriendly, and its configuration utility is a GUI that requires a web browser (and port forwarding if you want to configure a server remotely, which would typically be the case outside of dev environments).
Yeah, he definitely optimized on his choice of sport by selecting one of the few where the advantages of age and genetics are minimized.
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This has been shown off a few times at SuperHappyDevHouse lightning talks doing livecoding demos. The ability to pause the game you're working on, edit attributes and resources, and resume the game is neat (and needs to be shown off better).
What price is too much for a degree? If there's a good return on that $50K liberal arts degree, what if it cost $500K or $5 million?

College costs are rising at a much higher rate than inflation. I've received an excellent ROI on my liberal arts degree but its total cost was less than $10K.

Without changes we are rapidly approaching the point where its a poor investment. Those disagree are like those who said your house would always be the best investment you could ever make ;<(.
Hi Tom, it's hard to believe your snarky-sounding italics were intended innocently when you also had such lines as "Mr. Fuchs has apparently never heard of dependency hell." That is clearly meant as a personal jab, one way or another.

That said, it's true what you wrote, that lots of apps grow bigger and need more functionality as they grow. But "need more" is not the same as "use 100% of a library," so that doesn't really refute Thomas' original argument.

You're reacting negatively to insinuations and attitudes that, as far as I can tell, don't exist on a broad scale at all. Most people you meet in the JS community use frameworks and are clearly not anti-framework. It seems to me (based on the tweets from you and @wycats) that you think this whole thing is about Sproutcore. It's not.

Thomas wasn't "insinuating" anything about Sproutcore any more than he was "insinuating" anything about Prototype.js, another monolithic framework.
Depends I guess. I really appreciated the comments that I receive after getting rejected by a startup funder. And while the OP is not happy, he at least provides constructive criticism to the process.
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Indeed, which is no doubt why Twitter is still using Rails.

The sad thing is that there is an interesting tech story in this recent change in the Twitter Search architecture - "large company moves from synchronous web framework to asynchronous I/O and workflow framework" - but it's getting no discussion, because everyone is misreading Twitter's blog post as another chapter in the "Rails doesn't scale" non-story.

There are interesting discussions to be had about language beauty and performance, but this story is not part of them. (Indeed the closest the Twitter post comes to discussing beauty is saying how their old Rails codebase was full of technical debt.)

Read the original blog post [1] on the Twitter engineering blog - which the author of this article clearly didn't - for the real story, which is not about language wars, but about scaling a non-traditional web app.

[1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now...
I think your final point is the most valuable takeaway here. That's usually the biggest differentiator to me between "good" and "great" developers. The good ones are usually passionate about a particular technology and know it like the back of their hand.

The great ones approach things from a the perspective of "what is the correct tool for this job." They're not firmly in the Ruby, Python, Java, or .NET camp - they approach each technology as a tool in a larger tool belt and bring out the appropriate one for the task at hand. These people also tend to keep up on the latest and greatest - much like people who collect and maintain a garage full of physical tools - great programmers generally maintain a mental library of great programming tools (languages, libraries, frameworks).

Partisan allegiance to any one specific technology rarely indicates overall mastery of the field - at least in my experience.

There are obviously plenty of exceptions to what I've said - but this has been my general observation.
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Right, but I mean is it good to support your arms with your elbows in the same position for hours to possibly years? I didn't mean for fatigue. It just doesn't seem to me (as a layman) as if any of our joints would appreciate that over the long-term.
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Exactly what I was thinking - that to have been fake, he maintained character of MZ quite well. Further, I would doubt that he would have known exactly the whereabouts of MZ during that period. So to be able to know and make claims as to when he was where, refer to the other people and make up stories about wanting to drop the site, take down the server and the fact that his parents could cover his college, all while in character is quite an accomplishment.

BTW, I wrote this in Zuckerberg's voice as portrayed by paul ceglia via DLA Piper dispositions.
If I was going to quit my job and golf for 6 years straight, I'd probably plan a secondary income source as well.
What do they mean by "Spring applications"? That's quite obscure. Do they mean they handle .war J2EE applications? Or they only support Spring libraries?