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Broad agreement in general, but I would observe there are still use cases for non-bare-metal languages for mmap. It doesn't conflict with all VMs. Haskell could use it (it actually has surprising interfacing capabilities on this front), Google says OCaml can use mmap though AFAIK it has a less useful threading story, Lua can probably productively use it though again I'm unclear on the threading. Erlang can't use it out-of-the-box but conceptually it could be modelled as a port, though again whether you could get a performance win I don't know. Mono and the JVM could use it, though again, primitive threading story. Python and Perl have interfaces to them but you sacrifice so much performance simply by using them that yeah, it doesn't much matter. But at least in theory there are VMs that can productively use it.
Especially for college students... Which is why they are so heavily marketed to by credit card companies (not to mention the entire high tuition/student loan situation).
Yes. Especially when using a webapp like GMail, the URL doesn't matter once you're in the app. I'm not saying I think URLs should not be accessible if someone wants one, but they're mostly just a user distraction. Perhaps a "who you are trusting" notification would be useful? Basically, just the hostname and the level of trust conferred by SSL certs, lack of inclusion in whatever blacklists Google keeps, etc.
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>Actually, there's a growing murmur of dissent that, at least in the special case of "gifted" children, the constant praise of their intelligence leads to a fear of failure which, in turn, leads to a fear of trying things which others might try without hesitation.

Citation needed. Speaking as a giftie myself, and someone who has many friends who went through various gifted programs, this is not my impression.
I'm clicking ctrl + L before searching anyway :)
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I definitely agree that antisocial behavior should be noticed and handled. I don't agree with asking a coworker to be fired.

Alerting your manager that the situation is intolerable is perfectly cool. Demanding that someone be fired just isn't. (This applies to customers demanding employees to be fired, too.) If the offense is really that serious, the manager already knows how to handle it. If he has a history of these things, again, the manager knows and can deal with it. There is a chain of command in place for a reason.

It's your right to quit whenever you want, for whatever reason you want. I don't argue with that. I would probably refuse to work with the chair-thrower, too, out of safety concerns. But I wouldn't demand he be fired.
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One should be careful when making arguments like "do you think x current problem would happen if y happened?". There are a lot more in play than just voting rights when it comes to country-scale issues like national debt.

Like I wrote in one the last comments in the blog, you should instead consider: given that all systems have good and bad points (and loopholes, etc), which would you prefer, the current one or the system where children can vote? At the end of the day, it's a highly subjective choice, and given that this is a binary choice, the worst case scenario is that we get the second best option.
I bet Chrome/Google is better at identifying phishing pages than users are.
Not until you mentioned it. Thanks for pointing this out.
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If you pick a market segment of founders, focus on it, and stick with it, you're going to get a much better class of founders. Your accelerator will be more valuable to them, and they will get more out of the other founders they meet through the program. You'll also have a brand that will be attractive to follow-on investors who are interested in the space, and you'll be able to get the enthusiastic participation of high-quality mentors.
That's not the point. Crutchfield wrote that article. I want to know if Crutchfield is following his own advice.
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Yes, definitely, let's not tolerate assholes like RMS (almost unarguably an asshole) or Linus (arguably an asshole, although, I for one find his directness and lack of tact refreshing and amusing) in open source. So let's get rid of Linux and GNU and start over.
Section 1.1.1: "Data transmitted over a network, whether wired or wireless, is susceptible to passive monitoring."

Translation: We don't like those creeps on the other side of the building either.
You're out of memory (RAM) in your PHP instance. This has nothing to do with 'disk space'.

http://www.nerdgrind.com/increase-wordpress-and-php-memory-l...
I think you make a good point but I disagree on the conclusion. Even if it works well I don't think Search is the be-all-end-all

In my opinion the ideal web is one that is properly categorized via url. For example, if I knew all magazines had an author listing at "magazine_url/Authors" then it would be easier for me to type in Time.com/Authors then it would be to use Search.

Now obviously things aren't that well organized right now but REST has done a lot to move us in that direction and I have no reason to think that wouldn't continue. If things are someday that organized it won't matter if users have grown accustomed to hiding the url.

So while I agree this is savvy for Google because it makes the user more dependent on search I don't think this is good for the web.
Thanks for doing this, as a fairly rookie programmer I will be reading this all. :)

Would you welcome typo corrections if people are making efforts to do sophisticated formatting?

If so here's one that seems worth correcting:
(from item 2.)

"The most challenging is finding a project big enough to not be boring but small enough that-['s] it's +[not] too difficult to make good progress."
Looks interesting. Their context database seems to have the neighborhood data. Thanks.
Ctrl + K gets you into search mode only. I find it annoying sometimes when what I'm searching is similar to a URL in my history, so it's useful to specify it's a search with a "?" before a query.
So it's a straightforward defect-weighted prisoner's dilemma. The best option for any one party is to settle (regardless of what others do), but the best overall result would be for nobody to settle.

One solution to the prisoner's dilemma is for everyone to get together and give up the ability to defect, say by incorporating it into corporate bylaws. Another is to drastically change the cost structure, such as by insurance or a mutual contract that holds anyone who settles liable for a large amount. If not done carefully, either of these could tie a party's hands against legitimate suits, but they are alternatives (after a fashion).

Game theory has analyzed the prisoner's dilemma to death. If there's any hope for a grassroots solution, it's there.
I was thinking of two specific instances (luckily this sort of crap is rare and it's only happened to me those two times).

In the first instance, the person in question was my direct boss and was responsible for reviewing my code. He'd routinely call me an idiot, a retard, etc., and during meetings he'd often say things like "no, we can't give that to Jacob - he'll just fuck it up." Now, in his defense I was a pretty shitty developer at the time, but I do believe there are more constructive ways of reviewing code than calling the author a retard. I dealt with it for a few months, and finally asked his boss to transfer one of us. When I explained the reasons, this person was fired.

In the second case, my coworker was showing up to work drunk, yelling and cursing at coworkers, and routinely threatened violence -- "I'm gonna beat your ass if you don't shut the fuck up" was, I believe, a common line. Once he threw a chair through a window halfway through a (technical) meeting. Again I was too much of a coward to call him on his behavior directly, but yes I spoke to first my boss, then his, then the owner of the company. Nothing changed, so ultimately I quit.

In retrospect I certainly didn't behave perfectly: I should have confronted the behavior directly, and I should have made clear what my expectations were with regard to a professional working environment. But I was young, and all in all I'm proud of myself for not tolerating abuse (even if I didn't go about it quite right).
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Those are really important and good points...but they're also why the two amigos don't invest in tech

- hard to predict if LinkedIn will be around and in what form in 20 or 30 years

- Munger's statement is true if the company can keep reinvesting capital at that ROE over a long time period. In fact, beyond an inflection point, a company like Microsoft or LinkedIn can become a natural monopoly and increase revenues and profits a lot with relatively little capital - there are actually INCREASING returns to scale. Which is what LNKD investors are apparently betting on.

Tech investing is more about the Next Big Thing, who is the next Microsoft or Google, and less about is there some moat that lets them earn 18% on capital and keep reinvesting the capital over a long period, which is where Buffett is a master.
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Great post. I can relate, and I have always thought the same thing. Starving Musician === Bootstrapping Entrepreneur.
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If I understand your post, implicit in what you are saying is that people skills and even the mere trait "not an asshole" is antithetical to technical competence, which I don't believe.

If that isn't what you're implying, then it seems you are putting up a false choice between merit and people skills.
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If taken from the context that the un-technical co-founder will be conceptualizing, if not creating, the product UI itself, then yes, by all means, this person should get out of their comfort zone and gather as much knowledge and learn as many toolsets as they can and in order to at least be able to transfer their ideas into a visual system of sorts until someone with the appropriate expertise comes around and implements their vision.

Depending on the level of investment that a company is putting into their UX, then maybe this approach makes sense if you're going to be trolling the Craigslists looking for a student who needs to pimp out their portfolio in exchange for a hot meal, but in all seriousness, treating UX like some low-hanging fruit that a business person is going to pick up after a couple of Frontpage tutorials is ludicrous, not to mention downright insulting to anyone who practices the craft. I believe the same applies to anyone who works in the middle-tier or back-end. If the non-technical co-founder is smart enough to partner themselves with a technical person whom they can trust to make the right technical decisions while sharing responsibility for the costs, then they won't need to be poking around in the details trying to micromanage something they have no inkling of understanding, never mind actually designing, developing, deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting or fixing should everything go south.

I'll go back to my original premise: learn to communicate well in English, both in spoken and written form.

A person who can master that will be at an advantage of selling the company's product, services or team to any client, partner, potential employee or investor over someone who cannot speak publicly, has grammar issues and spends their time fucking around with powerpoint-related technologies. Effective communication starts with language, not toolsets, in my most humble opinion.
I could not actually spot the difference between the unaliased and aliased text. Maybe I need a retina display to see the difference?
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I don't think there will be much lobbying from ISPs, definitely not XS4ALL which will probably have lobbied for net neutrality. The telcos on the other hand...
I agree; I think the only real downside of hiding the URL field by default is the loss of the "secure padlock".

A (naïve, immediate) solution I can think of is showing the URL field as you switch tabs―padlock included.
LWN is pretty great, I'm quite happy I bought a subscription. Very few other publications will have long articles with diagrams explaining a kernel memory corruption bug a day after it happens.
So you've gone for the "post at will" mode rather than making it curated?
It means there's a huge potential for that income and revenue to grow.
Some article was temporarily the top Google hit when searching "facebook login". This caused some confusion among URL-unaware facebook users.

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Nice shortcut, I always did F6 since IE6 time. It seems to work with all browser too :)
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Yes, there definitely is. We are trying to structure the team profiles to capture types of experience like this.
Oh, I completely agree that in theory there are solutions to this problem. In practice, it's going to be difficult to get a group of companies to rip off their steering wheels when the game of chicken starts.

Perhaps a group of lawyers and actuaries should get some money together and create an anti-patent-troll company, viz., a company that sells patent troll insurance. They get a whole bunch of companies as clients, and contractually obligate them to litigate (via the insurance company) trollish patent suits. Centralize and incentivize.
Oh, no, heard you very loud and clear. Was just reinforcing your anecdote by saying that it's applicable to a lot more than just scaling apps. :)
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I couldn't agree more. A fair number of the entrepreneurs I know have some sort of background in the arts. I was/am a musician and participated in the high school marching band. This was, strangely enough, a "cool" activity at our high school, where our band was openly appreciated by our sports coaches and student body.

I regularly reflect on the experiences I gained in marching band when looking at my entrepreneurial efforts. Mastery, confidence, leadership, discipline, teamwork... The list of attributes developed when taking part in a performing art is long and strongly correlated with those required to succeed in just about any setting.
I hope they keep the address bar for new tabs. In fact, I just realized this is basically the only time I use the address bar

- ctrl+t opens a new tab with the cursor in the address bar

- after typing 2-3 letters, chrome knows where I want to go

- hitting enter takes me there

I've found this is the absolute fastest way to navigate to any regularly visited websites. No pointing, clicking, or browsing through bookmarks - just a few keystrokes and I'm there. As for new websites, Google search is perfectly efficient.
While I haven't used many of the techniques described in the article, I would imagine in many cases that using the CSS option would produce a smaller web page. This is because all the elements you are modifying (in some way) with JavaScript also are likely to have styles associated with them.

Also, if you're using jQuery (or some other framework) you necessarily add several kB to the file size before you even write any code. While a single style might be on the order of a few hundred bytes. Remember, bandwidth is money and cutting down anywhere you can is important (just ask Google).

This won't hold true for all cases, but seeing these examples has already cause me to think of several ways in which it would. Anyway, creativity loves options! So it’s definitely worth reading.
I thought Obama's father was a deadbeat and his mother was a poor teacher.

How did he afford to become alum to a place similar to the LakeSide School?
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It's also unsustainable. LinkedIn will never be worth however many billions of dollars it's valued at right now without a healthy does of speculation and fad-type demand.

They only made $15 MM last year. That's a perfectly acceptable profit and a well run company, but it is not billions of dollars.
I'm sure this is on your list, but design could use some work -- visually it seems a lot like one of those regurgitate-press-releases-as-content type of sites.

A new header and actual logo (not text-based and losing the &trade;) would probably take care of that. The highlighter-on-text look is apt, but doesn't come out very cleanly. Perhaps a logo that captures the "highlighter" idea, rather than physical mimicry.

Excellent idea.
Very true my colleague was a musician before starting his own (music) related company.
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I'm starting to get really annoyed that the price of some ebooks is actually more than the price of the printed book. That is just ridiculous and publishers better check their greed quickly if they want people to keep paying for books.
An F1 car going 200mph; that's about 293 feet/sec. So a tenth of a second is around 29 feet, which is about two car lengths.

So a few tenths of a second is around 6 car lengths, per lap.

That's one way to think about it...
Ask HN: Why so much "direct" traffic to my blog?
For the past few days, the largest traffic source to my blog has been "(direct) / (none)". However, I'm pretty sure people aren't just typing my URL in their address bar since I have no stable readership. I get most of my traffic from getting up voted on HN / Reddit.

What is the likely source of this traffic? A desktop Twitter client perhaps? A desktop RSS feed reader? Don't those apps send a HTTP referrer?
Also, Safari. My favorite way of browsing docs is to open them up and hide the tabbar, urlbar and statusbar at the bottom of the screen. this leaves me with a very minimalist window and let's me focus completely on what I'm reading.
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They've mentioned it breaking in hot muggy countries, I think Coulthard said he lost a few kilos.
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I couldn't agree with you more.

I'm down 50 pounds on the slow carb diet and I'm loving the kettlebell workout.
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I don't think you can make the driver obsolete. Perhaps some day they won't be physically sitting in the car, but I don't think logics alone can win a race. You need someone in control with a good mix of instincts, timing, and brashness to win a race.
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Are there any Skype alternatives that use the Skype protocol under the hood? Most of my contacts are on Skype...
Perhaps, but it doesn't mean users are incapable at identifying phishing pages. With an address bar both the user AND Chrome can help identify phishing attacks.
People struggling to succeed are all the same. Startups, writers, script producers, musicians, ...

See how much of this write-up rings true with you: http://matt.io/entry/tz (Note: it's a reformatted version of http://www.dannybarnes.com/blog/how-make-living-playing-musi... because the original is nigh unreadable.)

From a screenwriting point of view, John August has well written success advice in his ongoing Q&A series: http://johnaugust.com/answers
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I don't think consumers are totally unaware of it. (Edit: Meant to be in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564228)

I've had people (generally older, nontechnical types, but who aren't about to just trust that Amazon will be around forever) ask me whether it's possible to strip the DRM off of Amazon books. They may not know the term "DRM", but they understand it functionally and that it's a disadvantage.

Unfortunately the de-DRMing tools are a little too complex and have too many rough edges for this audience, right now. (Although there's a Mac version that wraps most of the de-DRM scripts for Nook/Kindle/Adobe in a drag-and-drop GUI that is pretty clever.) I hope that developers of those sort of tools will keep ease-of-use by nontechnical people in mind in their development.

Once you have the ability to strip the DRM and put the ebook file away in a safe place, you really have a product that is better in nearly all respects.
Awesome. Please tell us the names of these companies where managers refer to their employees as "retards", coworkers show up drunk, and it takes direct confrontation to get any of it resolved. Because I doubt anyone here wants to end up working at these places either.

Kudos to you for standing up for yourself.
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I didn't really read the article, but one thing stood out.

It's the use of the word "designed", as opposed to using the word "evolved". Has anyone else noticed this trend in recent popular scientific writings? Has it always been like this or am I imagining things?
sorry - I knew I'd read an article about enticing people to leave school and associated it to YC. It was actually Peter Thiel: http://www.dawnmontgomerypresents.com/?p=2104
Now, having said that, there does seem to be a lot of pressure to go be an entrepreneur when the chances for success are still extremely small (depending on how you define success of course). success != happiness however and I agree that there are a lot of people out there that will grow immensely if they go take these chances.

I would much rather people go take a chance starting a company than go into finance - that's my personal bias.

Thank you for responding to my post and clarifying.
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Thanks for the feedback. Do you think just changing the logo will make it look less like regurgitated press releases?
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