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SFBA is a better place if you're willing to offer above market (or find someone who wants to leave the Bay Area), specifically to hire a couple of experienced people who can be the core of a company, or who have specific technical expertise. Basically this is the same pool as startup founders.

My startup is in SFBA. I'd love to be in Seattle or Austin instead (I like guns; taxes are secondary consideration; and I'd love a 5k ft2 house), but from a hiring perspective, it's easier to find people who have already done something successful in the bay area.

Maybe set up a second US office for development in one of those two later, but initially, it's hard to beat SFBA. (I guess I'm in the "boring enterprise software" space, at least more so than Facebook, but less so than SAP).

Recruiting from elsewhere (especially Boston/Cambridge) makes a lot of sense, but people are generally more willing to relo to SF than to either Seattle or Austin, at least from my experience.
Agree. I've seen 10+ variations of this over the last 20 years and they've all lead to dead ends, fireballs coming off wafers and 12 inch long heatsinks (HP PA-RISC for example).

The miracle solution is change the way we do things rather than rice up our existing architecture.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is out of place.

It's a good book for what it is: young adult absurdist comedy. But it honestly never occurred to me to classify it in the same genre as the other books in the list.
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If RAM clocked higher and pushed closer to a processing cpu would make everything 50 times faster it'd still need 20 times as much silicon. Considering ideal heat dissipation such a system would still need let's say 20x100w = 2kW of input power. Which is about what a fast boiling kettle needs. How much realistic is that?
The volume is where McDonalds is making the massive profits.
To all those who are comparing a computer/laptop with a car/television/refrigerator/wherever. There's a big difference between the two classes of machines. Cars don't deal with your personal data. Talk about not caring what your car does (or how it works) when it's connected to the internet and stores the details of each location you drove to, who you were with, and how long you stayed there.
I never knew him personally, but I definitely felt the loss.

I happened upon the Internet in the late 80s, a wide-eyed college freshman, and the early RFCs taught me a lot about systems design and protocol design.

More than that, they taught me to see the Internet as an endlessly collaborative process. There was no central king-like authority. We were all in it together, figuring it out as we went. We still are.

For that, I owe Jon Postel a debt of gratitude. I always will.
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I was under the impression that the Facebook presence in Austin was a sales office. Do they have engineering there now?
>5) Client fails to monetize application because users think it sucks.

Cute theory, but lots of good apps failed to get monetized as well, even when users like them (say 4.5 stars, and lots of great reviews?).

The failure can be in the promotion or marketing of apps at this point. There are too many apps out there for good apps to be discoverable without promotion.

Also, good and bad UI can be written in native and HTML/JavaScript. Some apps really don't need native to be good. It really depends on the app; the content and the UI design really trump fancy native-only effects.
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the top has had the biggest improvement compared to other groups during the great depression in the 1930-s and during the current recession

thats an indictment of Fed which has probably intentionally caused all of the crisis in the usa in the 20th century , to benefit Fed-s owners - few commercial banks ..
Let me get this straight. Today, we have trouble dissapating the heat produced by a single die.

To solve this problem, we are going to stack 1000 dies, and produce 1000x as much heat.

Who cares about whether the heat can travel up the column- where is the improvement in cooling technology to remove 1000x the heat from the die stack?
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Very much alive in the European Union still. If you just lost billions of dollars in legal entanglements, I doubt you're going to do it again. No matter how valuable it might be to customers.
With PhoneGap you can have what looks like a "native app" to end users that's written entirely in HTML5/JavaScript.
As are those who use just any language/environment of their choice. So what?
Seen this for a while the new updates look clean and awesome. Good work Pud. Big inspiration.
Have you ever run any kind of business where you are giving away something for free? People will eventually take more and more until you go out of business.

"I don't think that leeching lies in human nature"

I think many thousands of years of human history proves this statement false. Leeching is one of the core components of human nature. Businesses (or governments) that take this into account will be successful. The ones that don't will fail miserably.
Nobody is asserting that it has zero thermal resistance, or that the stack will have zero thermal resistance. Only that it may have adequately low thermal resistance.

Random people on the Internet calling "bullshit" isn't how science works. Whether or not they are able to produce results is the only thing that matters.
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I dont think that would have made for a good blog post.
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Im a web developer and I agree with the speaker. Native apps are cool and have shown what people really want from their interface but are only a stepping stone. Web apps/browsers will catch up to native apps in capability and surpass them value. see WebAPI http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/introducing-webapi/
Any legal way to hack this by, say, something along the lines of "Glassdoor for founders/VCs/etc."?
Gettext now offers quite the same solution

http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Cont...
Thats an interesting article you linked to but the original article is about peer reviewed academic papers.

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Thank you for making this post, Luyt. It is a good thing to be reminded of those who did so much to make the present day what it is for us.
There is a lot of sensationalist PR from IBM.
The Cat Brain, the Smarter Planet thing, the AI processor and now a 1k times faster processor..... some arbitrary stuff an nothing concrete. I wonder what this PR strategy should accomplish and who is the target for this.
Really, is that hacking? That's more like someone chose a bad password or didn't practice good password policy.
You know what makes a state seem 'super liberal'? 60% Democrat-leaning. You know what makes a state seem 'super conservative'? 60% Republican-leaning. That's a net swing of just 20%. The other 80% of the people? Similar between regions, or different in dimensions that are not political – as politics is a sideshow, not the main-act, of most peoples' lives.

You will see more Democratic lawn signs, bumper-stickers, and billboards in conservative areas of Texas than you'll see Republican signage in liberal areas of California... conservative politics is strong but does not enforce the same orthodoxy as in the cities of California.

Over the last four decades, Calfornia has been led by Republican governors for more years than Texas has. Houston is the largest city in the world to elect an openly gay mayor.

People, companies, communities, and regions are a lot more interesting, and compatible with each other, than reductionist left-right political averages might lead you to believe.
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I can't believe any self-respecting dev would ever use the term "lingua franca".
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The glue helps with heat dissipation, that heat came from using electricity. 10'000 systems stacked on top of each other would consume 1MW assuming each one would consume 100W of power at full usage.
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I assure you it wasn't me.

The Offline feature for Gmail I was referring to was the new Chrome app. It's mentioned in the Google Blog post I linked to and can be found here on the Chrome Webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejidjjhkpiempkbhmp...

When you wrote "Google and Offline are like Oil and Water", I took you to mean (1) that the two don't mix, and (2) you think this is a deliberate strategy or approach by Google, and that it's wrong.

I think (1) is correct, but I accept that I may have inferred too much with (2).

If so, please accept my apologies: newish user here finding my feet.

I just felt it necessary to point out that Google has not abandoned offline capability, and understands its importance. I believe employees use a version of Google Docs internally that has offline functionality, as they have beta-tested new Google products / features before.

In the HN thread from last week for the new app announcement, one of the Gmail offline team members contributes with comments about why offline is proving tricky to implement:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946150 (user's name is nex3)

There's also further comments about how other Google employees have contributed on HN about how offline access to Gmail, Docs and Calendar is understood to be fundamental for ChromeOS.
I agree, but maybe they're just treating this a warm-up/practice visit, and chance to scout their main competition for the rest of the country. The visits to other non-tech hubs will be the real outreach.

A direct appeal to founders and investors to start more ventures and offices in Texas, for the advantageous business climate, would make more sense.... but such an effort wouldn't be led by CEOs/recruiters from established firms... who probably don't want the competition of more employers.
To me, this was the point of the post: You see, the app, and more broadly Holler in general, can never possibly meet our expectations. We have spent months dreaming about the immense value we could bring to peoples’ lives with our product.

The reality is that it is only the users that will be able to tell us what value we can bring though. That’s why we decided to launch.

So even though the app wasn't perfect, not just incomplete but actually buggy, it was still usable enough to start getting feedback from users. Of course there's a line somewhere, if the app crashes for everyone you aren't going to get useful feedback. But if it mostly works and crashes occasionally, you probably will.
Paying $200-$300 for OSX, a MagSafe, glass trackpad, aluminum unibody, glass screen is just fine.

Who knows, maybe OS X will have better battery life, and cooler operation?

Then again, I'm a programmer, but still the type of guy who would get one of those new, overpriced, Commodores or VICs.
Thanks. I was just asking because I have a program I use to calculate the actual net pay. Most of the time when people propose these sorts of moves to me, they either did not do the math, or their math is factoring in other CoL adjustments I don't care about, or they are actually lying. It's almost never been a decision between $120K in the Midwest vs. $140K in NYC. More like $75K in the Midwest.

FWIW it looks like $120K in Austin is indeed almost exactly the same take-home as $140K in NYC. Austin you would make about 20 more dollars per week.
Atlases certainly contain a staggering amount of information, but with their usual size I would be hesitant to say that they are without equal in terms of information density. Unless perhaps we mean bits/page, but that seems like it's cheating a little.

This said, I do love my old atlas.
"Does a file containing one method need comments?"

So, the whole whole jQuery source is just one function, because its wrapped in one?

It's not so much the lack of comments, but the whole formatting of the source. It's just hard to read.

On a lesser note, it also seems that the author is pretty new to JavaScript. Underscores in variable names instead of lower camel case, "wrong" bracing style etc. (I'm ok with this, when it's applied consistently - which it is for this lib).
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> I wonder what this PR strategy should accomplish and who is the target for this.

'No one ever got fired for buying IBM.'
IBM talks about up to 100 layers, not 1000. Not all components have the same power requirements or are even powered up at the same time.

Also this is IBM research. They don't need to make robust processors for the consumer market. If the CPU requires watercooling or better, IBM can do and sell that. They already have such solutions for super computers and mainframes in the field.
Is there a good equivalent for the USA?
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I said that degregulation was part of the usual conservative shopping list (which it is). That particular remark was no more or less snarky than the rest. But if your primary objection is that I'm snarky...well, that's great. My argument remains.

In any case, I'm the first person to admit that there are problems with Sarbanes Oxley. I think that parts of the law were a total over-reaction to the situation, solving nothing. But I'd rather see ammendments to the law than a wholesale retraction. And that's where I differ from most conservatives.
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I read it a few months back, it's still a good read. PG's blog posts aren't easily dated, as you'll often see posts from 5 years ago linked here on HN.
That's a nice little bit of history there. Not sure how much apocryphal and how much true though.

As I understood it one of the reasons js really took off was Microsoft's addition of XHR requests. Is that right?
You can do anything in ctypes, though. :3

$ python -c "import ctypes; ctypes.memset(0, 0, 42)"
Segmentation fault
Links to buy/sample the book:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hackers-painters/id396767497

BN: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hackers-and-painters-paul-gr...

BN (nook): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hackers-painters-paul-graham...
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Austin is just about as liberal as it gets. There is a reason that local politicians will try to move the seat of government back to Houston or Dallas every so often ;)

Texas, though still a 'stronghold' for the Right at the moment, is getting whittled down. For example: in the Fort Worth area, one of the reddest in a red state, 12 years ago was voting 96% Republican. 4 years later it was 88%. These days it is around 65%. Strongly red to be sure but the trend is unmistakable.

Also, a lot of 'Rockstar, Ninja SuperHumans' in SF are eventually going to want to raise a family. I love SF (aside from the slight claustrophobic feeling it gives me) but it is terribly hard to raise kids there. Aside from the tiny living spaces and lack of places to play, child care is astronomical. Austin is a great place for raising a family.

Everybody's mentioned the cost of living.

Some differences with the Austin 'scene' as opposed to CA. Ideas are greeted with a bit more skepticism...the second or third question that will always be asked is 'Sounds great! How is it going to make money?' That can be a bit of a wet blanket but it could also serve to keep you focused. Not to say that there is a lack of enthusiasm. There is plenty of that, but it is a bit more sober. Also, entrepreneurs seem to be a slightly older set of people. Not much but it is noticeable. One problem is that traditional banks around here (Austin) seem to be next to clueless or just extremely cautious when it comes to technology (if someone has a favorite tech savvy bank(er) in the Central Texas area, please let me know).

Anyway, I have convinced people to move from SF kicking and screaming. They have had a lot of the same reactions of people here ("I never want to be a Texan!", "Where will I get good beer?", "Is there any good food there?", "The jobs are not as exciting." etc, etc.) and they have ended up being very happy here.

Austin is awesome! Just my 2 cents.
well, except for the current bottleneck
Just another guy selling hopes and dreams to people who won't achieve them. I'm all for "lifestyle design" and think that it's not unreasonable that some people will be able to willingly create a lifestyle that allows for lots of free time, traveling or other desirable things.

However, the idea that just anyone is going to be able to sell shitty diet supplements online and work four hours a week while banking tens of thousands of bucks a month is highly improbable. Also, anyone want to bet that Tim Ferris is a workaholic who just classifies 95% of his business as stuff he enjoys so much it isn't work?
I still don't really see how it would help with heat dissipation overall. Most low power desktop CPUs seem to run at around 45W these days. If you stacked 10 of them, presumably you'd get somewhere around 450W. 100 of them would give you 4.5MW. First off, how do you get the electricity to power these, and secondly what do you do with the heat after it's left the CPU?

For servers, you face the same problem. It's already possible to get power and heat density that is more than what your typical datacenter can handle. If the density increased by even 10 times we would presumably need some serious advances in cooling to be able to handle all those servers.
For those who don't know, Hackers and Painters is essentially a collection of his essays on paulgraham.com

The essays are great, read them.
The bottom end of the scale isn't fixed. A person taking a vacation in 2011 adds more value to society by doing so than someone taking the same vacation in 1950.
I'd like to see a study/some evidence that shows that Pandora has low ROI. For the business I'm at now, it has just about the best ROI of any ad source. (obviously I can't go into too much detail here)

As for DJs, did the author completely forget about 'older' streaming internet radio? There are tons of stations that stream music, curated by live people. If people truly wanted great DJs to pick out their music for them, why haven't any online streaming stations taken off the way Pandora has? (or any of the others)

Further, the author says modern rock music is bland etc. That reads more like a criticism of modern rock music, and less like there's a lack of big ideas in music. I'm not familiar enough with modern music in general to say anything on it myself, but perhaps the 'rebellious youth' have moved on from rock?
You'll always have an IO bottleneck of some sort, even if we get memory back up to CPU speeds again.
I put together this 76-point summary of Hackers and Painters on my blog: http://www.rosshudgens.com/thoughts-from-paul-graham/
To that extent, the answer to the OP's question is likely "See the essays I've written since Hackers and Painters came out."
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Why does HW seem to advance more than SW?
Heh, shortest I could do in Python after several hours was 62

for x in range(1,101):print'Fizz'*(x%3==0)+'Buzz'*(x%5==0)or x

Off by 6 bytes!
The iPhone's screen looks really bad.

Also, I'm not sure what problem I have meeting people outside of school/work. What is the specific problem that you're trying to address? Also, you probably don't want to advertise that you haven't solved the problem yet.

EDIT: grammar & last sentence
Same, though I wonder if his thoughts on languages has changed much, if at all.

I was looking at learning a new language and considered Lisp, but decided on rails because it seems to be the most common language for web-apps these days, and therefore it should be easier to find good Rails developers than Lisp developers.

I'm curious if PG feels the same way about using Lisp/Arc for business reasons vs. Lisp for technical reasons.
Ask for feedback when it's a product...
I still recommend it and lend it to friends. It's mostly made up of essays from his website, so if you want to avoid spending money, you can get most of the book from simply reading the essays on his site. The age of the essays is not a good reason not to read them, however.
Don't think you can do $i%15, still need to do that check separately. I like how you can leave out the closing ?>. you can also save 2 spaces by getting rid of whitespace between statements and symbols .

The comments on the RapLeaf blog post I linked to in this thread has a guy trying out different Ruby solutions. Very clever!
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I will have to look at it more. I have found "using capistrano for system administration" articles however.
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Doing 14 with an option to extend may often be superior to starting at the full term. It makes them say "yes."
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What life saving things are currently CPU bound?

so, asking questions now results in downvotes?
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Actually, it wasn't 10 days. As I recall (and I was at Sun at the time in the 'liveoak' group which was to become the Java group) Netscape already had been thinking along these lines and something they called 'netscript' which was their view of how to increase the interactivity of web pages. The original suggestion was to flush it and go with Java to fill this niche, but it was pointed out that having a 'light weight' interpreter already in the browser was useful when all you needed was a "little" interactivity (like a pop up over a form field to tell you what it wanted). No doubt somewhere I've got a 1/4" (QIC) tape with my old Sun email which would let me tell you definitively but that is my recollection. There was concern that people would not know which to use 'netscript' or 'java' and so somebody (and I don't recall who) suggested it be called 'javascript' so that it would be clear it was a lighter weight way of adding interactivity than 'Java'. (most folks at the time thought of 'scripting' languages as light weight languages). The thought being "If its small and trivial just do it in javascript, if its bigger and more sophisticated step up to the power of Java." At the time I don't think anyone anticipated how much could be put into Javascript, nor how tight fisted Sun would become around Java.