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Spending the first half of my twenties working my guts out for a big corporation where my efforts went largely unnoticed outside of my immediate sphere. I'm certain that if I put that time into a start-up I would be much better off today -- even if it failed.
I've been trying to figure this out as well. Maybe people like this kind of thing because they WANT it to be true. The notion that they COULD be doing something better is threatening in a way. They want someone to tell them that their other options are all worse, that they've made the right choices.
Third time lucky?

At least you had the courage to work at various startups, even if they failed, which is more than most.
You know, I just don't see it. Maybe it's because I'm a developer, but I just don't see that many usability problems in open source projects, and these articles are going out of their way to avoid giving concrete examples. I'm marking this (the MPT article) down as Microsoft propaganda until the "interface design experts" start pointing things out.

It's not like it would be hard. Configuring Xorg makes me cry, and CUPS was still no walk in the park last time I checked.
"rather than an individual post"

elsewhere it would be called spam
According to the vorbis and theora FAQs, vorbis is public domain and theora is BSD licensed. This is far from restrictive.
So long as this site doesn't become an Obama/McCain spam site like digg and reddit have become then i'll live without down vote.
Who distributes things as .ps files anyway?

Terrorists, that's who.
I think it's great that Mozilla is promoting royalty free technologies. RAND licensing is fine if you're a megacorp, but for smaller companies and especially startups it can be a big hurdle. And the 'reasonable' part is often questionable in the technical sense when many patents are pretty trivial or should not have been granted at all.
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/ Right to left precedence:

3*2+5 / yields 21

Why should I learn this language that I've never heard of if it can't even do math in any sensible way? Not left-to-right, not order of operations, not lisp-like prefix. Who thought that was a good idea?
God please no... No obama/mccain spam on yc!
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Yeah, not real. Or at least very unlikely...
the same thing occurred to me after reading the first half of your comment..
That's it, we're all just victims of some catchy jingle.
Not sleeping with more women. When I was younger, women were more plentiful (and looking for relationships) but I spent most of my time in front of computers.

Today, computers are more plentiful and most of the nice women I meet are already married or in long term relationships.
Awesome!

Back in college I made a Matlab program that used Genetic Algorithms to find the optimal flight path for spacecraft that had to do "fly-by"'s of particular planets at particular times. It was complicated, but a lot of fun. (Unfortunately haven't needed to do anything with it since.)
If that works, I'm opening my cashierless supermarkets immediately.

I wonder, can it tell the difference between, say, a Fuji Apple and an organic Fuji Apple? Many grocery stores now carry organic/conventional versions of the same fruit.
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Yeah, I do feel for you. But I wouldn't consider this a mistake. I mean what if the startup you worked had become big.
Its easy to say in hindsight. Like they say in stocks - "You are always wise, the next day"
Are you saying Mad Magazine still exists? Interesting.
"tracked... second... by second"

: /
More fear mongering.

You might think you're logging into your bank, but you've actually been redirected to a bogus bank site posted by the Russian Mafia. Suddenly, you've got a zero balance.

There's a reason why banks use HTTPS.
You're welcome - I had seen the schedule on train page, but not the one on the stats page (this may be because I'm on a tiny eee PC, and didn't happen to scroll down... for this (rare) case, I think some sites have subtle guides in the design to suggest the page isn't finished more lower down - I see you have narrow vertical margins, but the RHS is off my screen... as said, a rare case (and it could just be me).

It would be nice to know which each deck is scheduled when (just different colours and a key) - ie, the visualization you suggest.

But you've basically answered my issue - actually, the basic schedule you have now is very important, because you need to know, so you visit the site when the next learning is scheduled. One way is (optional) email alerts, to remind people. (Of course, a serious user would be at the site every day anyway).

BTW: somehow, the info on train and profile pages seems a bit confused to me... maybe there's a better principle to organize it by, in terms of what the user needs, in their work flow. (but I think it's OK as it is - this is just a refinement).

Don't know if any of that helps, but thought I might as well pass on my reactions, just in case they do.
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I'm presently doing research on Genetic Programming. I'm just an undergrad but I've read a fair amount on the subject and feel that I basically understand it at this point. However my understanding is largely academic and I'm curious as to how marketable the ideas are. Since YC is exactly the crowd that I should ask to find this out, I'm asking. Particularly has anyone used any sort of an evolutionary solution in their product, considered it? If the later why did you decide against it? Has anyone heard of it or is it a new idea? Most important question, who's intrigued and sees potential? Because I do.
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And for Gods sake. Stop that 2.0-naming-bullshit. I -can- spell.
I'm lucky to know a little K. The language basically takes this one idea: instead of processing objects one by one with lambdas and the like, use bulk high-level operations on whole datastructures at once. And really runs with it. For example, it has an SQL DBMS written without loops, using only bulk vector operations.
here I'd give it a week between posts
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The ugliest parts of Perl (in my admittedly not-exceptionally-well-informed opinion) are dereferencing variables and automatic list flattening.

I honestly don't know what kind of crazy design process could possibly lead to the way Perl handles nested lists. $a[0]->[0]? @{$a[0]}?

Why? God?
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It handles lists that way because of the braindead idea of sigils which, in order to be semantically consistent, cannot have as an element of a list being a list.
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do you work for a bank? where did you learn K?
I have been trying out Sage. Although it looks very attractive on paper, the browser-based interface seems very odd way to go about it, and I couldn't get over the hump of adapting to that.

Any suggestions as to how to think about that? Could someone explain the advantage?
There is also Scilab
Very interesting, thanks for posting the link.

I'm also interested in what industries this language perfoms well.
I like the interface of nowdothis.com - I like the idea too, well done!
I don't see many problems either, probably because I am a full-time GNU/Linux user, but another application that is often pointed out as difficult to use is The GIMP.
I actually disagree with the premise that GIMP is hard to use, and find it quite intuitive for basic operations; most critiques actually complain that it doesn't have the Photoshop look&feel.

It often boils down to the difficult task of discerning usability, intuitiveness, efficiency, and familiarity.
You're right. In a sense, that's also true of comp sci academics and professionals. The field isn't a disciplined field (unlike mechanics). I think it's partly immaturity (mechanics is older); partly massive opportunity (everyone just reinvents everything); and partly the mathematical nature of comp sci...

In my research, I've seen mathematical models reinvented with different technologies a decade later: e.g. first SGML and OODBMS; now XML and Java. The later writers are unaware of the earlier writers.

There's very little knowledge of what's been published. It's hard to find, and hard to recognize because of different terminology. It can be very hard to recognize in a deeper sense, whether two domains (and algorithms operating on them) are actually equivalent (e.g. languages recognized by automata vs. languages generated by regular expressions).

BTW: Ken Thompson patented his method for searching with regular expressions (expired 1988). http://www.google.com/patents?id=Cx9xAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

As far as understanding the fundamentals of computer science, I think we are very poor at it - much of the mathematics is about very simple and basic stuff (though the mathematics itself is usually not so simple...).

Mechanics can also be described by mathematics - arguably, is mathematics in a sense. I don't think that being mathematical is a killer for computer science patents.
Lost me with the business plan. What if Twitter would charge 5$/month for the privilege to participate? In no time free alternatives would spring up.
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Found it on the internet and was intrigued. Wrote them an email, got an educational version, read the manual very thoroughly, made up exercises and solved them, read and tried to understand a lot of code. I especially recommend "K finger exercises" http://www.kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html . Then I taught my brother a little - he was into trading at the time, wrote his graduate thesis on time-series analysis and now works at a hedge fund.

Also, they recently made q/kdb+ available for download http://www.kx.com/developers/software.php , which turned some of my friends on to it :-)
Does that mantra come on a card with your iphone?
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they've got amazing simplicity, and done client-side so instant response (remembers you with cookies, but seems to be no server storage). But you have to do the tasks in strict order, and you have to finish it before moving on (you can't just "make progress").

whatshallidonow changes the order. it has a "made progress" button. it would be nice if it had a button "skip - I don't want to do this one right now!". (tho you can achieve that effect by reloading, ctrl-r).

finally, the dothisnow guy gave a shoutout to our guy nostrademons here (and also to yetanothersimilarsite) http://nowdothis.tumblr.com/post/44066616/synchronicity

now they have all the momentum.

"Your greatest competitor is non-usage."

That quote is not just encouraging, it's also literally true (unless your market is >50% saturated). Plus, no two products are ever identical (whatshallidonow is a slightly different idea), and no two users are either: some like yours. However, I agree there are benefits to being first, #1, etc (and it's more exciting).
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In that order. In fact, I only really respect the first one, but I've found that the other two can be very strong indicators of the first, and it's generally a bad bet to assume that someone who's clearly more experienced and/or knowledgeable than you on a topic is not also more competent (at least in some way).
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Last year someone benchmarked a simplified raytracer in a few different languages--primarily to show off OCaml. Later, someone wrote the raytracer in 7 lines of K. http://www.nsl.com/k/ray/ray.k. The original comparison: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/index.html
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I'd like to see you back that up. $a[0][0] does exactly what it looks like it should do: it takes the first element of the list at $a[0]. (Incidentally, this is exactly the same as the gp's $a[0]->[0].) The only problem sigils introduce is the -> in expressions like $a->[0]. ($a is a reference to a list, and you can't write $a[0] in this case because it will look at the list @a.)

I'm not entirely sure why perl doesn't have good support for nested arrays and hashes, but I'm pretty sure it's not to do with sigils.
Actually, I do have trouble with Gimp, too. I have to google how to make a straight line every time. Choosing brushes and changing the color are a pain, too. But I don't use it often, and about half the time I'm using it where I would have used MS Paint when I used Windows. There's probably a toy program somewhere that fills that gap, and I just haven't bothered looking. Maybe I should pick up Xfig.
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What's also interesting is that Solzhenitsyn was not necessarily an enemy of authoritarian governments. Time Magazine ran an article in 1974, as he was expelled from the Soviet Union (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943077-1,00...):

Solzhenitsyn questions whether democracy would bring real freedom to Russia. "The multiparty parliamentary system is impracticable in Russia," he writes. "It has never been necessary to the prosperity and high achievements of mankind. Authoritarian regimes are not terrible in themselves--only those which are not answerable to God or their own conscience. Russia will most probably move from one authoritarian form of government to another. This will be the most natural and least painful path of development. Our present system is terrible not because it is undemocratic and based on force--a man can still live without harm to his soul under such regimes--what makes ours uniquely horrible is that it demands total surrender of the soul. What we need is not political liberation--only liberation of the soul from participation in the lie forced upon us."
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I like that idea. It would preserve the egalitarian internet spirit by allowing anyone to join, but prevent waves of new people from joining every time Hacker News gets publicized.
My own personal opinion is that whatever language you're using (or, indeed, in mathematics) using redundant brackets is generally the best idea anyway.

Removes any ambiguity, easier to read, doesn't need you to remember precedence rules and there's negligible difference in execution speed.
This reminds me of Brian Lent. He sort of missed out on both Yahoo and Google. http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-22-n20.html.
Edit: some choice quotes.

"When Filo asked Lent if he would like to join Yahoo! as employee No. 1, in order to keep the founders on their toes with his skepticism, he laughed. 'You couldn’t pay me enough money to work for a company called Yahoo!' he recalls saying at the time."

"In early 1996, Lent explains, “We all said, ’There will never be another Yahoo!’”"
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Just release already.

This from 28 February 08 (and blog posts dating back about 9 to 10 months as well):

We have been working on our Social Marketplace “Onista” for quite sometime and every week (and every month) we think we are almost ready for launch “only if we fix these remaining little issues”. To be honest, there is no such thing called “little issues”. There are bugs in product (tons of bugs) and we must fix those before launching.
"Instead of blaming Russian conditions, he blamed the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, arguing Marxism itself is violent. His conclusion is Communism will always be totalitarian and violent, wherever it is practiced. There was nothing special in the Russian conditions which affected the outcome."

This is an interesting quote. If you replace Marx and Engels with Mohammed, Communism with Islam, and Russian with say Iranian you end up with "something you can't say".

People can criticize communism in Russia today, or outside Russia in the past, but it takes real guts to do what Solshenitzyn did - criticizing communism when he knew it could result in incarceration or worse. It would be like someone in Iran criticizing Khomeini.
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> Most folks who say Perl is ugly are talking about one of two things (or both): Sigils or Regular Expressions.

Regular expressions are expensive. I find a lot - actuially, most - of the things I'd do with RegExs in Perl can be replaced with string methods in Python.

Additionally, it's also common for Perl users to use RegExs to do things like modify markup languages, which is extremely fragile - use a tree data structure and paths. Python has even has element trees built it in recent versions.

> Anyway, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...and conciseness is one of my primary "beautiful" qualities.

You're not the beholder. You're the author. Is your work so limited it has no purpose after you leave ? Code should be written for the people who have to maintain it.

Your beholders value simple code rather you selfishly saving a few keystrokes.
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Has anyone solved the public web site username problem?
The problem is that in most instances individual users of a web site require a unique username to link them and their transactions. The general public will typically try and use all or part of their actual name as this is easy to remember. This results in multiple "collisions" around common names which are often resolved by sites suggesting an alternative with a numeric suffix. This feels inherently insecure to me as it exposes the existence of one (or a sequence) of pre-existing user names and let’s face it many users will chose insecure passwords.

Some sites work around the problem by using an email address as a username (which one would trust was unique) but this potentially makes changing a contact email address more complex than it should be and makes the "tagging" of data items shared by small groups more complex (yeah - I know that partly undermines my first paragraph).

Are the OpenID options the solution as they (at least) do not expose individual site usernames? If so - which have you found the best to work with?
So how much money do you reckon is necessary? Don't you agree with the 2000000$? There is a huge difference depending on your age, too. At a younger age you might not be aware how much money you really need. You still have infinite opportunities to earn money. Once you get older, they fade away, and you might have an increasing number of health problems.

I think it is OK to worry about saving enough for retirement first, and worry about saving the world later.
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Interesting essay. I'm from New York, but I've lived in Sydney for the past 2 years. I think Sydney's natural beauty and physical remoteness lead it to be oblivious. After living here, I've never felt more capable of tuning out anything ugly. That worries me because I think we need to experience ugly things. But it's not just about physical beauty and remoteness because I can think of places similar in those respects that don't seem to express such brazenly blissful ignorance. I think Sydney is about being proud of being able to afford the luxury of obliviousness. Even if you bother keeping up with the world, nobody else here really seems to care, so it leads that ambition to be vestigial. Of course most Sydneysiders would bristle at such an assessment, but that's the attitude I pick up from my own eavesdropping. I think Sydney is also obsessed with youthfulness. Fundamentally, then, it's like living in an American high school. Why did I move here again?