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I've had that happen before.

Generally, I find I have two types of burn outs.

One is where I am just tired of coding. With those, I focus on being productive during the day. Sometimes, work on improving my diet since I find that influences my energy level and my mood. Beyond that, will leave work at a reasonable time and just not even open my laptop at home and stay off it as much as I can on the weekends. Go out and do other stuff.

The other is more around burnout on the project I'm on. With those, I try to have little personal side projects. Either some idea I had, new technology I want to try, etc. Nothing too big and crazy, but some coding I consider fun and look forward to doing. With that, I find I'm still productive during the day and have my side stuff at night, and then make it through whatever boring project phase I'm in and then looking forward to the next one.
This is a shame, I will miss all that great content. Hopefully this is just a ploy for a better deal and eventually an agreement will be reached...
People who want a fully open-source solution might prefer TrueCrypt. Are there any guarantees that Apple's solution doesn't have a backdoor?
Better yet, do this several times per day -- see how long it takes to get your numbers into Google Suggest :)
I learned to use a computer at 18, when I started engineering at NCSU. I started programming at 19-20. I knew nothing, other than I loved it. Haven't looked back since. That was 18 years ago.

I was a core contributor to Lotus Notes and Domino, MySQL and I am the creator of CouchDB and well respected as a programmer and architect and founder of start up that
s doing very well. I'm still learning and still love it. I plan to do this for another 20 years.
I looked at doing it about a year ago (before Lion) and it's a big project - the current implementation just uses FUSE, and a real IOKit driver has to be created or it'll never be bootable. On top of that, EFI support has to be implemented, and it's a completely different animal than the BIOS hooks that are used for the Windows version.

With FDE support in Lion, and the level of polish that's already there in Apple's implementation, it really wouldn't be worth the level of effort involved to implement.
Like Lisp? Like the JVM? Like data?

We're a 3-year old Clojure startup called Runa, and we're disrupting the eCommerce space. We've only taken a series A, and we're revenue positive, and will be profitable in a few months.

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JQuery 1.6.3 released
Here is something not in the release notes that people may want to watch out for: The format of the session has changed, the FlashHash class to be precise, so trying to load a browser session created on Rails 3.0 will give a marshal load error on 3.1 if it had anything in the flash.

This means you will want to change your SESSION_KEY variable to expire all sessions, otherwise users that are logged in while you upgrade can get stuck until they clear their cookies. (So I postponed the upgrade to the weekend...)
I tried it for a week and enjoyed it, but I needed to split the time with sitting too. On the hunt for an electric height adjustable as my current setup is not practical! https://plus.google.com/109940267018696224506/posts/B144cQj7...
>Where do I really start?

Make a game.
Man, I got some really exotic words that way. Out of 10 words the only one I knew was bitripartite.
Not surprising. The competition to get into a quality African school or get a U.S visa is going to be greater than other areas.
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"I think I'm in a bout of burnout right now. I've opted to work a full time contract, to fund my startup, while burning midnight and weekend oils for my startup. I think a vacation, of simply doing NOTHING would be a good idea."

Yup: but don't do nothing, do family. Visit parents, uncles/aunts, places near where you grew up. I check Mum out whenever things get really mad. A walk on the beach then we do a taxi to a nice cafe. Does wonders.
'Star Wars' changes on new Blu-ray release freak out fans
Replace book titles with "bacon"
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Off Topic for the site: But interesting reading.
Problem with this (and probably with the aspell version too, but I can't test that just now): $RANDOM only generates a number from 0 to 32767, but /usr/dict/words has (on my Mac) 235886 words.
They're used all the time. A workflow engine is basically a big state machine. They're used all the time in the Enterprise.

In object orientated software engineering the State pattern is a pattern for cleanly implementing a state machine* whilst avoiding horrible switch or massive nested if-then statements.
Standing desks seem to be the new fad. I don't believe that sitting for 10+ hours a day is healthy, but I don't believe that standing that long is healthy either.

The bigger problem lie in what motivates us to spend so long at our desks without breaks. I think there's a culture of "strap the developer to his chair" that we need to break out of.

If you're taking breaks every 2 to 3 hours to stand up, get a drink and walk around a while, I can't really see it being as bad as everyone's making it out to be.
I think your broad point is good: startup employees should definitely negotiate for a fair share. But your math is loony tunes.

First off, he won't be on reduced salary for 4 years. Seed-round startups may pay below-market salaries, but with later rounds they typically bump people to market rates. The same applies to things like health insurance, 401k, and the like. He's betting maybe a year of reduced income.

Second, the notion of 3 months severance is... very generous. And unnecessary. At least here in San Francisco, the time between jobs for startup-loving engineers is approximately zero. (Or negative. We just hired somebody from a failed startup and would have been happy to bring her on board early if she needed to work part time to responsibly close out her last gig.)

Third, I'd call the career risk negative. In recruiting, I look for people with past startup experience, failed or not. And one shouldn't account for opportunity cost here. If he has a better opportunity, he should take it. If one comes up, he might; he's not chained to the desk or anything.

You're also ignoring time. It's not like the developer is putting in cash early on as founders and investors do; his contribution comes gradually, and he can quit at any time. Seed money buys much more equity than A or B round money, and for good reason: the risk declines over time.

Developers should definitely negotiate, but only with a clear idea of the negotiating landscape, including how the funding structure of typical startups looks. The should also some notion of the marketplace. If a developer wants 20% of the company when somebody as good will do it for 2%, then they're going to be out no matter what math they use to justify their demands.
While I did not build the entire project in August, I did launch in August. It's been a long time coming, but my SaaS solution for bankruptcy attorneys (http://noticekeeper.com) finally launched last night. I got tired of focusing on item after item and walking down a never-ending march to launch.

So, my business partner and I spent two nights filling in the last "need to have" features and just put it out there as a MVP.
What do you mean by type searching? Ctrl-shift-G finds all references to the currently selected symbol. Ctrl-shift-T gives you a quick find/open on the symbol name you type.

Eclipse is really fantastic. For an excellent demo of how to use it effectively, see Notch's (from Mojang/Minecraft) participation in Ludum Dare this year.
Evanston, IL

Junior Python Test Engineer at Leapfrog Online

We're the leading independent digital direct marketing firm in the country, developing programs for Fortune 500 marketers to find and convert the right customers. We build complex app ecosystems with frameworks like Django and Rails sitting on top, with a mound of open source software supporting them.

We're looking for a junior-level Python Developer to join our Test Engineering team, writing functional, integration, and unit tests in Python for our Django-powered business platform. As part of the Ops team, we also do light system administration and help write monitoring tools.

Requirements: an intense attention to detail, a love of learning, a passion for problem-solving, and a good attitude and sense of responsibility. You should also have experience with Python (or be willing to transition from another dynamic language like Ruby or PHP); be comfortable working on a *nix command line; and have general knowledge about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

We're committed to agile and open source; we use packages like mechanize, twill, Selenium, nose, and PyQT every day.

Interested? If so, we offer a competitive salary plus an incentive and benefits package, and a close-knit team who likes what they do and has fun doing it. If you think you're a good fit for this position, apply with your resume and salary history. kboers (at) leapfrogonline.com
Off topic, yes.
The flame is in the tone, not in the facts. But the power of tone is such that many readers will flame in the facts themselves. Tone alone can discredit everything you say, to the point where you can't even say "Okay, I'm sorry, but […]" because nobody will read past "but" anyway.

Believe me, I've been nearly kicked out of 2 online communities for my tone. Anyway the fighting burnt me out, so I left.
Someone contributed a Java program to the benchmarks game, that used a different algorithm than the other programs, apparently just so they could flame bait.

"Obviously when programs implement different algorithms that difference may itself be enough to explain any difference in program performance."

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
This whole thing is a bit disingenuous, because the type signature argued over is an alternate signature which no one uses, because it provides custom concatenation of Traversables. All of the provided collections have reasonable implementations of concatenation, so this implies you're inventing your own collection.

Everyone uses the alternate form: flatMap [B] (f: (A) ⇒ Traversable[B]): CC[B]. Nevertheless, I'll attempt to explain the provided signature.

If you understand Java generics, you should hopefully be able to understand this response.

A, B, and That are type parameters/generics. So they can be filled in by any type. This flatMap method exists on a trait (think Java Interface) called Traversable[A]. Traversable is similar to Iterable in java.

(f: (A) ⇒ Traversable[B]) means that this function takes one argument called f. That argument is a closure or anonymous function. The closure itself takes one argument of type A (an element in the parent Traversable[A]), and returns a Traversable[B], where B is an arbitrary type.

Skipping ahead, flatMap returns an instance of That. But what's a That? It appears to be unspecified. This is where the "(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[List[A], B, That])" makes it's appearance.

Implicit parameters are like default arguments. "def foo(i: Int = 12)" will use the i if provided, else it will default to 12. "def foo(implicit i: Int)" will take the i given, else it will grab the first available Int in the containing scope. If you, "val c = 11; def foo(implicit i: Int) = i * 2", calling foo(1) yields 2, but calling foo() yields 22.

The object bf is an object that provides an overridable custom definition of concatenation. So when you write your custom collection, you include an instance of CanBuildFrom[List[A], B, That] in the correct scope, and it gets used for the concatenation. CanBuildFrom's type parameters say that it exists in a List[A], takes a B, and returns a That.

So yeah, in your implementation of bf, you could make it a new MyCanBuildFrom[List[A], B, FunkyCollection[B]], and do funky concatenation.

Hope that helps.
Ops, I think AirBnB made someone mad
1) You need a cofounder, for all practical purposes. So that costs more.

2) It'll probably take you longer than 1 year to make $50k/year/cofounder, so in your scenario you run the risk of running out of money after the second year.

Are you suggesting that I am supposed to pay cofounder's living expenses?

3) In your scenario you have to wait a year to start. Plus, you run the risk of getting trapped in the job. Life happens, who knows what your circumstances will be like in a year or two.

So I will not have to wait to start when I work for a startup?

4) You'll be 100x better prepared after working at a real startup for a few years. All of the books and blogs are no replacement for real startup experience.

Why are you still suggesting, that by working for a startup you will learn more about them, than by actually creating one?
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"I do not see wikileaks as any more trustworthy or "better" or "more ethical" than the authorities they are acting against"

Um.. let's see... last I checked, Wikileaks hadn't tortured any prisoners, invaded any countries, or murdered countless civilians. So, yeah, I'd count them as just a tad more ethical than the scumbags they're releasing dirt on.
> pumping out enterprise Java 9 to 5 for insurance companies

This is true, but it's also true that startup founders can make a lot more money working some equally shitty job.

No reasonable person should join a startup based purely on financial comparison with other jobs. For me, I'm doing it because I learn more, have more control, put up with less bullshit, and have more chance of making a difference in the world.
Check out https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges as well.
Thx for the vote of confidence for DoubleRecall. I think that this is an interesting idea but there are lots of obstacles to cross with any engagement ads, so it's definitely an agility test for the concept and the team, not so much about which product is the best. The one who gets the flag with any engagement product will be big bucks :) and we're running and jumping hard.
One that treated my website as a business as opposed to a collection of webpages.

For example I run a job board, the metrics I care about are how often candidates come back to look for new jobs, how many candidates look at each job, how many apply to each job, how this is related to the skill sets for that job, etc.

Technically I can (and do) get this data out of google analytics using a combination of regexes, custom variable and custom segments and a little voodoo. But it's essentially a hack.

Google Analytics feels like I'm using Atari Basic where page urls are line numbers, when in actuality I want to be writing in Python and be talking about business objects.

I want a web analytic system where I can tell it about my business objects. If a user goes to a job page I want to be able to stick some javascript in my page which goes analytics(object="job", action="view", id="232") and then lets me do sophisticated analysis on user behaviour.

I don't want web analytics, I want business intelligence for the web.
Not sure why somebody downvoted you; that is definitely correct. VCs have some very clear notions about the correct size for employee equity pools. They insist on creating one as part of the initial funding, so it doesn't come out of their share. For similar reasons, they will resist increasing it later.
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Ask HN: Do job postings on HN really work?
Are there lots of startups that managed to hire people from their HN job postings?
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Who even thinks TechCrunch still has any shred of objectivity? Let's face it, the days of objective reporting are gone for TechCrunch.

We have to start looking at TechCrunch as the conduit of PR coming from the valley rather than real news. Then I think everyone can chill and just accept TC for what it is and forget the expectations.
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The presentation cleared things up marvelously. It may be worth adding the presentation to the convergence.io details page, even if it was just a clip of the last few minutes where you talk about notaries. Once you went through that, everything cleared up.

Thanks for taking the time to educate me.
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This is gross!

Can they guarantee that the synthetic meat is healthy? Like, will it contain CLA, B-12, Omega-3s (found in grass-fed cows, and well-raised pigs), B-12, and so on? We get a lot of important nutrients from animal meat and fat that are harder to process from plant or synthetic sources.
Comparatively few Broadcom chips are available via channel partners. Unfortunately that's just the way our business model works.
Not only did I notice that, but I also noticed that the very phrase "no compromise" is watered-down, soundbite-speak that means absolutely nothing today whether it comes out of the mouth of a politician or a business exec.
If you chimed in on this thread just so you can say what age you started programming, then chances are, this behavior is just exactly what the author is talking about.

What annoys me the most is when these forms of expression are injected as a way to gain legitimacy, because quite frankly, its just narcissistic and shows insecurity.

Its the same league as saying 'oh, look I believe my penis actually is bigger than yours'. -- 'Oh hmm okay, cool, good for you, you are so special.'

SHOW ME THE FUCKING CODE!
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Commendable skepticism :) It's true though.
It's like a GROUP BY statement in a query.

What are we compromising and not compromising on? Which values/properties/goals? What trade-offs are involved?
Founder-CEOs beat outsider-CEOs in stock market returns
As a current AirBNB host; I'd like to chime in on why the sublet prices seem high.

Everyone on AirBNB currently has their places setup for a nightly rate which is competitive against hotels, then potentially offering a slight discount if they stay for a week; and then AirBNB has always has this 'monthly' price field. I've never had anyone stay a month.

That monthly field is what they're basing these prices off, and they've added a new checkbox just below the monthly price field asking if you'd like to be on the sublet search.

I have no incentive to sublet, or lower my monthly price, because at $99/night, I pay my ENTIRE mortgage every month having 85% occupancy of our second bedroom on a per-night basis. So I have no incentive to sublet for the more reasonable half my mortgage every month.

So what do I believe this means? They're launching the feature with an impressive number of properties, but as everyone is noting, they're expensive.
Once people whose primary aim is to sublet join for that purpose, and NOT to host by the night (in competition with hotels) then they will have sublet listings competitively priced with those on craigslist, and in-line with monthly rental prices in an area.
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We believe in a Web organized around people, not pages; where discovery is social and happens across platforms. New devices like the iPhone and iPad are completely altering the way that users interact with content. They offer tremendous opportunities to create experiences that are personal and human. The news experience must be re-imagined for this level of intimacy.

We live, eat, sleep and breathe this stuff and want to work with brilliant people who care as deeply as we do about what we are trying to build. If that sounds like you, get in touch!

Here's what some people are saying about News.me:

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We are building a world-class team and are looking for people who want to:
- Get in on the ground floor of a well-capitalized startup with a big vision
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2CO do, they're used by a number of startups based in Asia and South America
Nope. BOM cost is well under $25. The price includes a healthy component margin, assembly cost (in the UK), assembly margin, test and OTP programming cost. We are professional electrical engineers; we know how to do this stuff (and in any case, it's not rocket science).

Volume assumption is 10K batches. Anyone think I can't sell 10K of these?
Assuming we're talking a typical Silicon Valley startup, then you're incorrect.

VCs rarely fund a business person without a technical person as part of the package. That person is CTO or VP Eng. They, having committed and worked before money, will be a co-founder and receive a fair bit of equity.

A first employee is somebody who comes after funding. They are hired to help build. They may have a variety of skills that will come in handy later. But early on, they, like the technical cofounder, are their to code, code, code.
I would kill to have Arrington involved in my startup. I'd want him simply for his knowledge of how press works, ignoring the fact that he has such a long history of seeing and reporting on how startups are doing - and his network must be insane at this point. Can you imagine what a seal it must be to have Arrington invest in you?

Who cares if he has or has not created drama? I actually think his ability to report on news regardless of the fact a lot of the subjects are his friends, shows a huge amount of integrity - and I know that Hacker News hates him - but still, he could easily be as trashy as Gizmodo but he has managed to do it whilst remaining mostly neutral to his network. Impressive.
Where are you ?

You can barely throw a stone in London without hitting a startup meetup, there are roughly 40-50 meetups/month these days.
What are you doing to ensure that employees receive that broad an experience? In the startups I've worked for, the founders were loathe to involve employees in business development, let alone financing.
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We're using C2DM at Ravid (http://getravid.com).

In fact, we open sourced our C2DM Ruby Gem:
https://github.com/sghael/speedy_c2dm
That is per person, of course. Multiply by Spotify's million subscribers and you get $10bn of music. Not too shabby.
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Perhaps this should be better written as "Nothing needs gigabit rates of _cryptographically strong_ random numbers."

Yes that's what I meant to say. I probably didn't realize the discussion had widened to include insecure number generation.
Show HN: Glancee, a mobile app to meet people with common friends and interests
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Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new movies
What's the lowest integer that will never have any hits on Google? It must exist by induction, I think.