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I don't think that's true. Speaking of India, I can tell you since I'm from India... You can't possibly imagine the food crisis here. We are nation of people with millions of people not having access to even to meal even once a day. And that is not by option, but they simply have no way out.

We have farmers committing suicide almost everyday, there is no water or very scanty amounts of water in many parts of the country. Unlike the US where is there is proper planning and good infrastructure(Irrigation, equipment, fertilizers, information, equipment etc) for agriculture. Farmers here back in India are purely dependent upon rains(Monsoons) and ancient methods of planting seeds(using cows). The land is often passed on from generations to generation and undergoes division as a part of inheritance due to which most farmers never get a large chunck of land. Adding all this the farmer productivity is very low, there is no support from the government, no rains, no equipment etc etc. And Farmers really are very poor and not as productive as ones in US. And prior to this there was slavery sort of set up, where you give away your whole life for a land lord.

The country is very big, and there are too many people. The prices keep on rising. The middle class can't afford even grains and vegetables let alone meat and other stuff. The poor hardly get a meal a day. And few just eat a single roti(Indian flat bread) with salt for the whole day.

Compared to this the Americans are feasting everyday. AMERICANS ARE LUCKY, I repeat AMERICANS ARE LUCKY. You are lucky to be eating stomach full everyday, You are lucky to be worrying about iPhones and not hunger and diseases.

Be grateful to God and thankful. There are many places in the world where there aren't even the most basic necessities what you take for granted.
Dark arts indeed. Emacs is an usability atrocity.
You know, I've never seen that movie. I suppose the techno-blasting isolation room with tons of monitors is some kind of archetype, to be stumbled upon time and time again by coders throughout the ages.
"[A] [T]erminal and decent editor is all you need."

Just to give the other side of the "argument": "all you need" isn't something to strive for. An environment which makes you the most productive is what most people strive for, not the minimum environment to be somewhat productive. IDEs make a lot of people a whole lot faster, and for good reason - smart people have worked really hard to make it that way.

(I mostly use editors and not IDEs these days, but the allure of good IDEs is strong.)
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> I don't personally know whether this is valid or not but there are comments on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502477 [URL repeated, may have triggered spam filter?] that suggest that in at least some cases it's possible to charge a credit card without the CVV.
What I find interesting, is that you can build a fairly large and profitable bootstrapped company, but unless you got VC money in the Silicon Valley the standard way, from the right people, you will always remain a bit of persona non grata, not particularly liked by Arrington, Techcrunch and the establishment. There will be no hype, no press, even if your revenue is larger than say Digg's in its heyday. I am speaking from experience, but I know of many other examples.
I'm sure a lot of people here would love a follow-up post about your Vim setup.
> When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say "wow, that was an adventure," not "wow, I sure felt safe."

A great conclusion to a great article. Definitely a motto to live by.
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I'm considering getting a MacBook pro or MacBook Air.

Can you hook them up to 2 external monitors? Or are you limited to one external monitor plus the laptop's screen?
I don't know about the whole asia, but processed food is very scanty in India. Most of the processed food is Jams, Ketchups etc. Which is hardly consumed by the poor.

But unlike the US its very easy to buy fresh stuff here.
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I had assumed the plan was, when the bloom filter does reject a certificate, go and check if it is actually valid or not.

I imagine 99.9% of the time (totally made up), certificates will be valid, and the bloom filter will agree they are valid. In the 0.1% of the time the bloom filter rejects, go and actually check.
Loved Tom's social hack for finding cofounders, from Startups Open Sourced. He also has a really good outlook on the role of design in startups.

Q: So, the best way to get to know somebody is to go drink with them?

A: That is absolutely the best way to really get to know a person and what they really like and are interested in because if they are interested in technology, then they will have no problem geeking out with you about Ruby or Node or something for three hours, over drinks; that’s when you know that you found someone that could be a really successful cofounder. I think there really is something to doing business in bars. In the early days when there were four of us—we had hired Scott Chacon—we would go to this bar called O’Reilly’s, up in North beach. We went there almost every week and that’s where we would talk about what we had done. This is after we had started full time and it was where all the decisions were made. A couple of drinks in, you start to just say what you mean instead of thinking so much about whose feelings you are going to hurt or whatever, you say things very bluntly, like, “I think we should do this, and I think you are wrong for saying we should do it a different way,” and now you can have an honest argument about what needs to get done and what the concerns are about the company or how it’s structured or how the stock is going to be split. All this stuff will come up over drinks and as long as you are not too drunk, it can be helpful.
We ran into a number of issues with Neo4j. The main one was that the database would periodically get corrupted and throw exceptions when we tried to use it, forcing us to rebuild the index. This was over a year ago though, it may have improved since then.
Near the villages and country side most of it metal. Most due to high durability.

But in Metro's Plastic is pretty famous and is widely used. Its in our culture to carry tasty food cooked by moms to schools/offices. But it seems like that culture is changing big time. McDonalds et al, have started offering good enough meals for 40 rupees onwards(less than $1 approx).

Having said that, 40 rupees very unaffordable for a lunch meal. Even for a software engineer. Dining in all these McDonalds sort of restaurants is considered as for rich people.
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https://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine if you're deploying a Rails app to a VPS like Linode or Slicehost.

It's a handy wrapper around puppet that lets you go from bare server to fully deployed Rails app with one config file, two commands, and about 10 minutes of automated package installs.
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I guess a candidate could say "I would solve this problem by making a hash table keyed on the number of years, except that unlike the hash table that ships with my language, this hash table will expose its constituent linked lists to me directly, guarantee that each unique key maps to a different bucket, and not enforce uniqueness of elements (so as to avoid performing a linear scan of the element's bucket upon insertion)." I probably wouldn't reject someone who said that, but I would wonder what prompted such a complex answer.
Only one. You can use USB2DVI or some other awkward solution but its not going to be like 2 native monitors. 2 external Monitors will also probably heat the machine up quite a bit.
1. But interpretation grades smoothly from "google this text string" to "evaluate a complicated formula published last week". For many variants, seq + google = interpretation.

2. The FDA is a LOT dumber and slower than you might think. Very few graduates of George Church and David Reich are going into the federal bureaucracy rather than starting companies or becoming profs.

If you have ever worked with them, the FDA is the TSA, third tier guys who do "safety theater". They assuredly do not keep you safe. They keep their budgets and jobs safe. Their general orientation is "restrict everything so we can't be blamed for anything, and then cry that we're underfunded when we've bitten off more than we can chew".

This is a much longer story but if you have an open mind on the topic start by googling "Jeffrey Shuren FDA" or the lawsuit between the FDA and the FTCLDF. Or just talk to some friends at biotechs. Most people won't talk on the record for fear of FDA retaliation, just like everyone goes along with the idiocy for the 10 mins the TSA has power over you. It's not worth losing your company/flight over a stupid rule that a bureaucrat is mindlessly enforcing.
What is there to learn? There is no way I'm going to waste my time packing a box lunch regardless of what appliances the company provides to heat it up.
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>>The workforce for the dhabbawallas is cheap and they live on a fairly low income. The way I understand it only a certain caste are dhabbawallas (correct me if I'm wrong).

You need to understand the way this system works. In India the smaller cities and towns have virtually no opportunities if you want to financially well off. There fore the metros are flocked.

When such a large population of people gather at a city. There are huge opportunities for anything and everything. Tiffin delivery system is one such opportunity. You will see many other things in India. Roadside Coffee, tea and cigarette vendors. In the US you people buy everything in super markets. But here vegetables are sold by people who wander street by street selling vegetables on push carts. Heck there is even a market for people who take care of your slippers when you leave them behind while entering a temple/mosque.

Even though what they earn is very meager and may be nothing. But at least they have some means through which they can fill their stomachs. So dabbawallah's may be earning purely on basis of volumes alone.
No kidding. Coming from a guy who has never raised a single round of funding and has operated profitably every single month since launching (except for one month where he hired two people), they're doing really, really well.
Startups are harder than anything I have read online (yours definitely put another well needed perspective on this subject). I have also wondered why none of my investors (or even YC) asked what the founders sacrificed to do what they do.

I"m so glad that your plan to go thru YC again worked out. Beer time! I so believe in you two and can't wait to see what comes out.
The ranking algorithm might be influenced by the point-to-comment ratio, which PG has noted in the past to be a fairly good indicator of article value.
I think that was sarcasm - perhaps a 'basinga' would help?
Still, there might be considerable interest in at least some tutorial blog posts ;-) Consider this a subtle request :-)
I've been toying with this idea for a while, but haven't really started looking into it seriously, mainly because, as you said, at least at a cursory glance there are not a lot of in-depth and accurate resources for setting up a mail server with security in mind.
If I had to guess, I'd say a stylus and a straightedge on a soft mat. Draw stuff with the stylus and then flip the paper over.
er, i dont think anyone who approaches parenthood as an operator of a finite state machine deserves to be a parent. just saying....
I only see the register page when I go there, which doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
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Since you sort by digit, if you're going to make your radix be the size of an integer, you'll to construct that many empty lists; in actual practical implementations of radix sort, the radix is some relatively small number, and so you end up with O(nk). I guess if you want you can say that k is actually O(log(maxint)), if all of your integers are < maxint. But that ends up being quite a sizable constant term if you really want to consider it constant. If you're going to do algorithmic analysis that entirely ignores large constants, it's a bit strange to simultaneously declare that all your integers will be bounded by some particular cutoff.
Please do!

I think something like this could be valuable to a lot of small to medium companies who atm can't resist subscribing to Google Apps (50,- per user you could have instead). I think with a service like that, the main goal would be to stay as simple as possible while still offering the "Exchange" integration with people's current infrastructure.

I would do the user side web frontend last and concentrate on a simple but empowering foundation plus administration interface first.

Clearly with the PSN breach and all the bad press Google, Apple & Co. are getting with location/mobile I can see a shift in people's minds towards more privacy and security similar to when people started to get used to anti-virus/firewall software.

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Not exactly, there is difference between offering quality of service out of professionalism and offering quality of service out of the fear that if you don't some body else will and take away your job.

And if you lose your job you have no other option but to starve(With your family and kids). Its a little bit to imagine this in the US, partly because you haven't even the outside idea what sort of poverty is there here in India.

They are not the same. And that sort of desperation can't be felt unless you are in that situation.
I can't really help with the others, but LessWrong has some pretty readable, if scattered, treatment of cognitive biases.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_peo... is a decent prelude and a taster of LessWrong's peculiarities; http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Category:Biases is a long list of references.
Can't believe I wrote "series" instead of serious. :|
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I have a feeling there might be more, as they refused to participate in the US Senate hearing..
There are also specifics to other types of design.

Web: sRGB, design with technology in mind (grid systems and other), different views on the same design (mobile, monitor resolution), things that are consistent across browsers.

Mobile apps: platform convention, touch oriented.

I suppose print takes the cake in terms of annoying details, however.
Travel in the Mumbai local once and you will know why. You may probably even feel wearing clothes is a burden.

And this isn't the case only during peak hours, this is the situation 24x7.
Very cool. If you add "respond with a voice message", it can help spread the Parrot goodness :)
Except that Fedex and UPS will never be able to beat that price. For a simple reason Fedex and UPS do it for profit and Dabbawallah's do it for poverty.
Having grown up in Sweden, I guess the answer is quite obvious to me: my mother isn't at my house (i.e., in my apartment) when I'm at the office, minding the house and cooking me lunch. In my case, my mother is at work, and of course we don't live in the same apartment anyway. That would be weird.

Note: I'm exaggerating a bit in an attempt to be illustrative.
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Sure, it's not really historical, but it is certainly indicative of the new age. If you look at the top articles right now, not one of them is particularly important in the grand scheme of things. I think this is surely more interesting that finding out that some data center management tool that perhaps a few dozen people on here will ever use has switched to a different open source license.
That is already there from a long time. Mobile phone charges have become dirt cheap. Sometimes free calls to some 10 numbers, billed per second(1ps per second).

There are pre paid cards. For even 25 rupees(25 cents). You can even avail internet access for a day! From some carriers. I hope you are getting a glimpse of how messy the market is here.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/03/your-genes-yo...

^ Watch that video. You don't even need to postulate insurance as the hidden hand behind this. In the span of four short minutes, FDA head honcho Jeffrey Shuren manages to commit perjury before Congress while explaining that "traditional manufacturers" will be helped by the new regulations. Who woulda thunk?

Truly blood boiling clip. The entire genomics blogosphere exploded over this guy back in March. No one has any idea why he's still employed.

Some links:

http://massdevice.com/news/fda-device-chief-under-fire-did-d...

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26499/?p1=A4

http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/10/fda-regulation-of-direct-t...

http://www.fdablog.org/2011/03/controversy-grows-around-fdas...

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/biotech/testing/fda-dtc-m...

http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/03/why-dtc-genetic-testi...

http://blogs.plos.org/genomeboy/2011/03/09/making-movies/

http://www.harappadna.org/2011/03/your-genes-regulated/
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I've found Alain de Botton interesting if somewhat...um depressing isn't the right word, but somewhere south of exuberant. He is fairly easy to read though, unlike some of the more "academic" philosophy that I've dipped into.

Not sure it counts as philosophy per se, but I also enjoyed Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace in Every Step.
Because CoffeeScript already builds to Javascript?
Its about priorities. Lunch/Food is something that impacts your health over time. I know time is a priority, but if you are not healthy nothing else matters.

A sick persons time hasn't much value.
Kind of the latter, really. While the true meaning was clear from context here, it's very easy to make the same mistake in other contexts without the true meaning being so clear. And, unlike a number of other common mistakes, this is one that can really bite you in the ass in some contexts, so it's good to set the record straight before your gluteals are masticated.
Websockets were featured pretty prominently here for a while. A lot of interest died down when people found that Firefox 4 and Opera 11 aren't supporting websockets right now, and Chrome may follow suit pending security issues with the technology.
Just curious (and only marginally, if at all, on topic):

- Why is that assert there?

- Why aren't that "len = (1.0f / len)" and the "= len" statements in an else clause? (are there CPUs where always doing the division and those 3 multiplications is faster? Will compilers optimize that, anyways? Are there IEEE subtleties that make x= 1.0f not a no-op?)

- Wouldn't it, on some platforms, be better to use double for intermediate results?
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I've been travelling all over the world for the last year and a couple of beers is the key to socializing everywhere. I'm not really a big fan of alcohol but getting people's defenses down at least a little bit makes all the difference.
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I found myself recommending it to a business student recently. He was saying he's having conflicts with his technical cofounder, so I told him to just stop working and go grab drinks, talk about anything except work. Put your keyboards down and go be normal for a few hours.
Yeh, that was Fit Finder, which had a great growth immediately after release, but was pulled after UCL threatened the developer's degree as it apparently bought the University into disrepute.

He's come back with Floxx now that he's graduated, though possibly slightly annoyed that LikeALittle has stolen his thunder.
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"I think $80 bn valuation (or $70 as it is now) is way too inflated for the kind of revenues Facebook is making, and I think some of the investors are realizing this and are starting to cash out now before all the others figure it out."

What makes you think that?
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Websockets was a google initiative that they pushed for their own product, google wave. Since wave failed, the push from google is not as strong.
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ya, but they didn't have any kind of advanced statistical analysis in the old days, they couldn't do keyword searches, and they couldn't graph your relationships - they just read the letters.
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Agree, I use iTerm too. I wish it could do proportional fonts.
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So now do you understand why tiffin boxes are made of metal. Not that microwaves can't work with plastics or all sorts of plastics.

But because most people in India can't afford to buy a microwave at the first place.
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I must tell you that I just read your post, because I wanted to be able to say this: 12 steps??? I give you 3 steps to successful x-step posts:

1. Don't overthink things! Make x<=5.

2. Be the first to listen to your own advice!

3. Help others not to procrastinate with writing only things who have value and where not written trillion times before!

Thanks!
I'm interested, I'm a 24yr old college dropout. I was doing Bsc Biochemistry but I loved tech more. I am learning php and node.js but RoR would be interesting. I'm currently working on an ecommerce startup in Zimbabwe so I have time on my hands. Shoot me up if interested.
Oh, I'm very late. Thanks for the information, I really thought it was not legally possible to have RTT as a cadre (a quick Google search proved me wrong and, as I see, you too).

So I guess, that's because there was a negotiation with your employer to work on a 37.5h per week basis and get 37.5 - 35 of compensating RTTs (hence the name, by the way).

I remember being paid on a 35h per week basis as a cadre a few years ago. I guess this is what led me to a broken conclusion.

BTW, I'm French too, enchanté.
Alas, it doesn't appear there are any M.C. Escher creased pages. I was really hoping to see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Escher%27s_Relativity.jpg
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Presumably you're customers will be using similar logic so it's not completely invalid.