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Yes, employee #1 is almost always the worst-off person in the company. They get to work like a founder, without the financial benefits. I've been there twice; it isn't a lot of fun.

Either found or join a company that has funding.
Gah you are quite right maths on a hangover obviously isn't my strong suite.
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The news industry and the PR industry are about equal in size. Articles like this shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with that fact.

Nuclear power is the future. Ideally, the reactor should be a long ways from any valuable real estate, like at least 90,000,000 miles.

Fortunately, recievers that receive beamed power from the big fusion reactor are dropping in price at a rate of 30% per year. That fact makes VC funding of thorium reactor technology problematic.
Its not really fair to ask the C code to include OpenGL calls -- a pretty verbose API -- to compare it against the Clojure code which has default access to the Java Swing library, and GUI widgets.

Looking at the game logic in both examples, I'm convinced by psykotic. Both programs are fine, but the Clojure one doesn't seem to add any extra higher level cleanliness or abstraction, over the plain old C code.

Not to say that this holds in general, as code bases grow; or to take from the original tutorial in any way; just that I agree with that for a simple game like tetris, you don't see any benefit of the higher level abstractions, as implemented here.

Also, you have to give psykotic some credit for putting the time into writing a quick proof of concept to back up the opinion expressed!
Saved as HTML and reuploaded: http://pastehtml.com/view/b6z5s6bc5.html
Isn't the "one extreme to the other" kind of the point of his post? Following his gut has obviously worked quite well for him.

It's refreshing to hear this side. And frankly, it doesn't sound like you know much about him if you're replying about "being sensible."
Knowing a few friends in retail you find out a lot of these things. I never buy cables from physical stores anymore. At a local JB Hi-Fi you can find the standard $70-$80 HDMI cables in the AV section, however there are similar just as good cables in the Playstation/Xbox accessories section for $20.

I also love how many Apple accessories the stores around my area have, simply because they make more selling cases and protectors than the actual device.

There is actually only one just Apple store in my town, and they have a radio commercial in which all they say is that they sell iPod accessories. It seems almost sad that it is the only thing the store is trying to sell.
I didn't know that series of lectures, so thanks a hundred times. (Just spend the evening watching the first two hours and bought Harvey's book as well.)
I can second this. I hosted CentSports (a recently acquired side project) (~1mm userbase, ~500gb dataset) in a full cabinet for under $1100/mo. At it's peak we did about 80 million pageviews per month on a heavily IO-constrained, heavily active OLTP workload (...not nearly as impressive as mmaunder's!)

By the time the doors closed, we had about 16 RU's filled, IIRC. The beefiest DB box had 64gb of RAM in it, which as it turns out is a $1200 one-time upgrade for colo vs $1500/mo extra on your dedicated (quick price checks on newegg and softlayer, I'm sure both numbers can come down).

Yes, making the leap into colo can seem like a big up front cost, but over time these costs do work in your favor. Yes, there is a support cost involved (either with remote hands or you getting up at 3am and replacing that disk yourself). But If your workload and dataset are such that you don't necessarily require a new box spun up in less than 24 hours, the savings could be quite great for you.
Just because these things can theoretically happen at any company doesn't make them equally likely. Startups are far more likely to go bust or lay off people with little warning.
Make sure that you'd be happy if you worked long and hard for the start-up and all you got was the salary they're paying you + the experience.

Even if the start-up is a huge success, the chances of you making substantial amounts of money are low, unless you have founder-level equity.
reminds me of the good advice, that:
maybe we should learn to appropriately manage fire in the landscape, before we start messing with nuclear fission.

you can't have your yellowcake and eat it too : if the propeller heads want to feed uranium-cycle waste to thorium reactors, there's an implicit WMD risk, both the risk of diversion for weapons production as well as providing a rationale for the ongoing operation of dual-use enrichment and reprocessing plants.
Thorium fuelled reactors could also be used to irradiate uranium to produce weapon grade plutonium.

And the use of thorium as a nuclear fuel alone doesn't solve the WMD proliferation problem. Irradiation of thorium indirectly produces uranium-233, a fissile material which can be used in nuclear weapons. The US has successfully tested weapons using uranium-233. France is suspected of it. India's thorium program prolly has a WMD component - given they refuse to allow IAEA safeguards to apply.

but the worst threat of the thorium reactors is that we'll be fooled into judging the real threats and impacts currently posed by the uranium fuel cycle on the ambitious standards promised by the thorium advocates. The nuclear industry has been over-promising and under-performing for too long - we can't afford to allow their promises for tomorrow to deter focus from today's bitter realities.
Dude, I didn't do the study.

Re: Sub Saharan Africans you can get a decent idea if someone has such ancestry from one allele.

As one example, the Duffy Null allele (FY0) has a frequency of almost 100% of Sub-Saharan Africans, but occurs very infrequently in populations outside of this region. A person having this gene is thus more likely to have Sub-Saharan African ancestors.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry-informative_marker

Obviously the more such alleles you test for the better you'll be able to distinguish the populations.

This page gives links to ~300 AIMs which allow you to distinguish ancestry pretty well within Europe.

http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Ancestry_Informative_Marker

Given that that's possible distinguishing continental ancestry seems to be a problem of application not theory.
Not to worry, they've just read the article on why you should not be the first employee in a startup, and more specifically, what terms you should not necessarily agree too.

Being the first employee of a startup can be the best thing since sliced bread. You take little risk (compared to the actual owners), yet the reward is usually way better than employee number 100. Who do you think is more likely to get 1) a bumb in pay and 2) a better position first?
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Relevant: http://xkcd.com/810/
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I agree with you, but I'd like to point out that the article was expressing apprehension at hiring the guy (e.g.: he was concerned as to whether he'd be able to keep him employed for more than 2 months)... there's no indication that the financial state of the company was hidden from the employee.

At least in my experience, while I haven't known the exact financial state of startups I've worked for, I've generally known the level of risk I was signing up for.
Experience. Every Internet Tough Guy I've met is normal/civil in person. Besides, I left out the "Be civil" part of that guideline. Calling someone a "douchebag" for writing a long-winded post wouldn't fit most people's definition of civility.
As the author of the OpenGL Tetris implementation, I have to agree that the use of exceptions for flow control is a little cringe-worthy. I've been meaning to clean that up since I wrote it over two years ago, and still haven't gotten around to it. Oh well.
Maciej has said repeatedly (including on HN) that disk is the bottleneck keeping him off Linode and VPS in general.

Not all web apps use resources in the same way; you're quite likely making an apples and oranges comparison here (though you don't say what your own web app actually does). It makes sense that Pinboard hits the disk a lot because there's not a ton of shared data -- each user tends to have his own trove of data. Yes, certain URLs will be bookmarked a lot but each bookmark can have different access restrictions, summary data, tags and so on. And no one bookmark is going to make up a big percentage of hits -- you're talking about a ton of bookmarks, each accessed rarely. It sounds a lot more like webmail than, say, a blog in terms of access patterns.

You have questions, and it's nice that you (eventually) asked them and admitted all that you DON'T know about Pinboard. But you should probably ask them before you dole out unsolicited advice, not after.
I think the down vote is mostly because the article is centred on WebGL and nothing to do with the new mark-up elements in HTML5.
If you're completely up-front about the financials then there's no reason to be apprehensive, surely? After all, the employee is deciding their own level of risk then.
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Not if it gets the job done.
For longer projects, you should be asking for some sort of upfront payment (to avoid being screwed over -- i learned that the hard way).

In that circumstance, companies may demand some sort of clawback if benchmarks aren't met.
When are these projects going to switch to YYYYMMDD? It would actually be meaningful then. N and N+1 starts getting silly after 10 or 15.
That is not useful information. It only indicates that someone with package commit privileges decided to package Drupal 6 for Ubuntu 11.10. It doesn't mean anything about usage, developers, community, etc.

To put this into perspective, Debian once had a Webmin package in the distant past (about 10 years ago)...at a time when we had far less than a million new downloads per year (might have even been in the low hundreds of thousands). We're currently at about 3 million new downloads a year, and growing every year, and there is no Ubuntu or Fedora package for Webmin.

All you can assert based on a lack of packages in the standard OS repo is that there is a lack of packages in the standard OS repo.
See also http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/under-the-hood for a collection of awesome posts about maze algorithms.
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Hah check out the newest player in the subscription e-commerce space: www.naughtypotato.com. This space is getting crazy. I wonder if this it's here to stay or just a passing fad. Either way, this takes the whole concept to awesome/ridiculous heights.

Thoughts on birchbox/shoedazzle/foodzie/blissmobox/babbabox/manpacks/guyhaus/naughtypotato?
ugh, most indie platformers haven't yet reached the level of the original super mario bros. nintendo spent a LOT of time fine tuning the controls. The lack of fine tuning is very noticeable in games like this (another really good example is meatboy). Intuitively the controls don't feel "tight". What's really going on is that there is a lack of a way for the player to create repeatable conditions so they can do experiments and thus learn the fine degree of control exhibited in speed runs of SMB. This generally happens below the conscious level.
I was just considering the Apollo program. According to a wikipedia article, it cost $170B in 2005 dollars, or about $190B in todays dollars. The population in 1970, was right around 200M. So roughly $1000 in todays dollars.
There is no question that NASA did produce some incredible useful things and made very cool discoveries (otherwise I'd have added the lack of those to my list), but the fact remains that NASA due to the way it operates and approaches projects did a lot less than what it could have achieved and ultimately presided over the long and painful death of the US space program.

But my comment wasn't even meant to highlight NASA's historically documented failures. Instead it was meant to illustrate what kind of project properties are not appropriate for software projects. I was making a statment to the effect that it should be considered a big warning sign if projects are structured like the space shuttle program.

On a final offtopic note about commenting style: you're complaining about deserving more than a witty one-word answer, yet you have no problem with making comments that consist of a passive-aggressive one-word question, do you? Let's keep it friendly, even if we disagree.
[T]he widely replicated result is that ANY "race" group defined by the varying social definitions around the world will still be highly diverse as to any genetic characteristic of interest.

True, but I can't recall seeing anyone arguing the opposite. And the fact that two distributions overlap doesn't mean that knowing which distribution an individual belongs to contains no information. Men really are on average taller than women.
Perhaps the reason you have trouble thinking of monopolies that aren't government sanctioned is because anti-trust law already prohibits monopolies from forming unless government sanctioned.

I remember anti-trust law being used against smaller companies because lawyers find it easier to persecute than fighting against bigger companies. Even anti-trust regulations can be used to decrease competition.

Sometime it's better to opt for the least worst option rather than opting for a solution that kill the patient.
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My team built the software powering the contest. We aren't involved with the API though. I'm happy to help anyone with questions - Colin at challengepost dot com
Somewhere around 2009 or so it feels like they made the switch from a highbrow Economist-style strategy, targeting upper-income discerning readers of the print magazine, to a linkbait AOL-style strategy, making vaguely provocative claims about economics.
The invention of the lego isn't what the article is talking about. It's more about building something cool in legos and comparing that to building something cool that puts people on the moon.

And I feel you are downplaying the societal impact that going to the moon had on not just the US but the world. Without forgetting the technological advancement that had to be made to make it possible.
The lesson here: it was 1998. "The industry" was still a little fledgling, so the legal territory was still largely unchartered. But it grew into an ugly duckling, quickly.

Sent the contract to my lawyer. She marked it up, sent it to the client. Then the client marked it up and sent it back to my lawyer. And so on, back and forth for almost a month.

Garbage in, garbage out. During the "ugly duckling" phase, the legal machine is just learning that it can spew garbage. It tests its limits. Just how much garbage can it spit before something happens? When the garbage is between private parties? Apparently, a lot.

I charged my first client $1,400. My second client paid $5,400. The next paid $24,000. I remember the exact amounts — they were the largest checks I’d seen up til that point.

Then I wrote a proposal for $340,000...

The Bust was just growing pains.

It probably could be reasonably argued that the industry is still in an ugly duckling phase (multi-Billion dollar valuations, really?)

But this is part of growing up.

In Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace Lessig writes:

It is a lack of a certain kind of regulation that produced the Y2K problem, not too much regulation. An overemphasis on the private got us here, not an overly statist federal government. Were the tort system better at holding producers responsible for the harms they create, code writers and their employers would have been more concerned with the harm their code would create. Were contract law not so eager to allow liability in economic transactions to be waived, the licenses that absolved the code writers of any potential liability from bad code would not have induced an even greater laxity in what these code writers were producing. And were the intellectual property system more concerned with capturing and preserving knowledge than with allowing private actors to capture and preserve profit, we might have had a copyright system that required the lodging of source code with the government before the protection of copyright was granted, thus creating an incentive to preserve source code and hence create a resource that does not now exist but that we might have turned to in undoing the consequences of this bad code. If in all these ways government had been different, the problems of Y2K would have been different as well.

[source: http://www.code-is-law.org/conclusion_excerpt.html]

This is dated (1999), but interesting. He was wrong about Y2K, of course, but not about the underlying issues and problems with contract law and IP.
Re: offline mode.

I've had to deal with this a few times. I make a brief mention of it in my article but gloss over the details because I wanted to get on to more important topics.

In general, offline mode has been a terrible experience for me. It is handled differently in different versions of TFS. In one version (2008?), you go to File -> Offline Mode. In another, you need to either reopen the solution and get prompted project by project to Temporarily Work Offline or unbind TFS manually.

In both solutions, I've had difficulty reconnecting to TFS. In a complex set of steps that were probably "dumb" but seemed like my only options, I have lost changes made on my local file system.

My experience may vary from others, granted. Though, after talking to some colleagues about their experience, mine has been easy.
I know it's probably the furthest thing from your mind right now, but I think it'd be really interesting to hear how this works out, say a year or two from now
The rub is that you already have Gravatar, which is 100% free, offers several options, and is easy as cake to implement... What compelling reason would someone have to use this service (and pay for it) that they cannot already get at Gravatar? i.e. what problem are you solving, or what underserved niche of Gravatar's customer base are you targeting, and how are they better served?
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I built FlickMunk. The TechCrunch description is pretty off: the goal is to show a different visualization of movie theater schedules using your current location.

To be honest, I am very surprised (and glad) of that result. In fact when it was my turn they couldn't project my laptop so they skipped me. I was pissed but they ended up giving me and a couple of others a chance at the end. I was very very close to give up and go home… and was just happy to have been able to present and left before the awards :)

Anyway, cool surprise! Now if people knew how much of a kludge it is code-wise…

Edit: and hat tip to Hipmunk for the inspiration!
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Sorry, but quite honestly it's a low budget wannabe.

Daring Fireball is almost a brand name in the Mac power user world. Love him or hate him, most users that are more than mouse clickers on a webpage typically know about the site by now.

"Anything Fireball" is a rip off of the name, or brand. Whether you implied it or not, you're kinda sorta stealing his hard work to try to make yours more popular. Of course, you won't admit it because that would make you look bad. But it's pretty doubtful you'll fool anyone here even if you deny it.

You'd do yourself a real favor by coming up with a name based on your own creation, not someone else's. I doubt John will care, but you'll alienate your user base a bit by being so "copy-cat-ish."
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If you are the small guy, then try to get YOUR document to be the starting point. Use YOUR law firm to write it. Go to a law firm and tell them to use something from a similar contract before.

If you expect there will be negotiations, basically try to use and re-use your standard document. You are going to be in this business for a while, hopefully. So you only have to pay for your standard document once. Plus you'll know the ins and outs of it better than anyone else.

I think the right solution these days is to insist on standard documents and focus on the amendments rather than getting something from scratch. There is a good list of documents to form startups, for example, here:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/standardized-venture-funding...

Similarly there are things at legalzoom and other places. I realize that sometimes the big company will insist on going with their standard contract, but if they were really that adamant, they wouldn't let you go back and forth with your lawyer too much. Just start with your own document or walk away if you don't want to take the risk.
I don't know anything about him and I don't care. I'm drawing a line between two extremes and talking about the extremes and the middle. If he's somewhere in the middle, that's great. I would just hate for people to get the message from a post like this that legal review is a waste of time. We deal with it every week of the year and it never ends like it did in this story.
> This is as likely and will be taken as seriously as the possibility of addressing the grievances of the people that committed 9/11.

And this is why things will continue to happen to you without your understanding.

> that Anonymous has not (yet) claimed responsibility for any violent acts is the only thing separating the two in the eyes of the government (and the general public.

That you have (yet) to rape someone (or perhaps only to be caught for it) is the only thing separating you from a rapist in the eyes of the public. What was your point?

The government though is a different story, they don't have an opinion, they have spin. If something weakens the USA's unjust power, the government is against it. If it helps them, they're for it. Sociopaths will say anything.
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It's absolutely true. You have to figure out what terms are changeable and which ones aren't, and you have to know that sometimes you'll be accepting things you really don't want to, which means accepting risks, sometimes serious risks. But having said all that: in almost every contract, there's something crappy that can be changed.
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I didn't down vote, so I can't answer to that. The parts I found useful from "everything else" I listed above. LocalStorage is the big one (IMO). You get access to a built in, cross session data store natively. The canvas element has some interesting potential applications. I don't think it's quite "there" yet, as far as performance goes on most systems.

The reasons for the markup changes are to help standardize things. If you don't feel the need to do that, you don't need to.

You won't find a whole lot in html5 that will affect what you do from a design standpoint (unless you start throwing in some canvas elements). Your plug and play jQuery scripts might take advantage of some html5 elements without you knowing, but they've sufficiently abstracted those details away from you, so that you don't need to worry about them. Those elements won't break if you're using HTML4 markup instead.
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I can't speak for them but to be fair it does warn in the IDE when you run using Django, also there is a bug ticket here: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/305801.
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Why? Courier is widely available and code is readable and monospaced.
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The saying is 20 years not 30 and they're saying it without tongue in cheek now.