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... and promptly takes up spewing trash again, which is being gobbled up by the whiny masses on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/77sl1/paul_grah...

What a nasty individual.
The original blog post: http://teddziuba.com/2008/10/moving-on-out.html

Kind of brings to light where all of his anger comes from. Maybe he will ease up for a while and enjoy life.
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I find it quite surprising that they're still going at all!
Europe delays its ExoMars mission
I wonder if this is going to be another hubble - costing many millions, taking many years, but finding out many interesting things?
I am sure I have heard this before as an anecdote, not involving Steve Jobs (I recall it was someone at a church that Don Knuth happened to attend).

I am too lazy to check snopes for this though.
Note the comment:

from Mike Boich:
I was actually present for this. My recollection was that Don Knuth's response was more along the lines of "I seriously doubt that". (It was still quite amusing though!)
DoS attack reveals (yet another) crack in net's core
if you did that, obese kids would be the norm, school (if kids went at all) would end up teaching the finer points of getting to the next level of supermario. Kids need guidance, but also a forum for innovation.
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What about to build guns which are intended to kill human beings?
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In respect to being a "self-starter," I believe that schooling doesn't matter. You just need creativity and discipline. And good for you for sending them to public school; some here may think I'm off my rocker, but I think that public schools are a superior learning environment (for social skills, pragmatism, etc.).
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From Open Source Software to Open Government.
The more salary you make, the more money you lose.
The Erlang article here by Jim Larson is very good.
Seriously, what's up with people on the internet always seeming to say the same thing. It's like this:

- One guy says that the financial crisis is the terriblest thing to happen to us since 1939. Then a bunch of blogs come up saying the same thing

- Then someone says that all the startup apps that just try to gain users should suddenly all buckle down and start making money. Then a bunch of blogs suddenly pop up saying the same thing.

These are just thought trends. Wake up sheeple and think for yourselves. If the media starts panicking, there is one thing you know for sure - everyone will start panicking too. Now, once you know that, you are now well positioned to take advantage of the other peoples panic.

If people are telling you to start making money now, and you observe your competitors following that advise and avoiding to grow, it's exactly the right time to grow quickly - because others are doing the opposite, implying that growth is cheaper. Later, you can monetize your userbase even better, because you can see what worked and what did not work for the competition.
I usually don't take pleasure in the misfortune of others, but I'm having a real hard time not pulling a Nelson, "Ha ha!"
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Sounds like you're getting to an age where people expect your intelligence to have panned out productively in some way or another.
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I agree. School has nothing to do with it. Some areas of hackerdom (web developers for example) are heavily populated by one man businesses. For many, this route is actually easier than getting hired and working in an office. As a business owner, taking it easy is nice. Being broke, not so much. If you actually want to pay those bills, you will become a self starter. ;)
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Have you seen the articles about tracking all web, email and mobile communication in the UK?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgo...

(via /.)
I have submitted my applicaiton. But it has very low chances for getting through !
in response to the article:

1 - Windows Server is not used much in any open Internet context. Even if you look at using this in-house, using Microsoft's cloud to run your windows clients from 1000 miles away will always have bandwidth hiccups. i.e. "GUI replication doesn't belong in the cloud"

2 - This article assumes only the U.S. Maybe EU where Amazon also has servers now. There are severe restrictions for hosting in other countries, like China, where growth is high and this type of model won't work due to gov restrictions.
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Ask HN: After school learning?
Been in school for a while, done now, getting my degree soon. I've been pushed into using things that I don't like (java) and studying without coding (Information Systems).

I'm teaching myself django and python. Want to head into full web-app dev.

What other things/tools do I need to throw myself into?
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Mike Lee (Formerly of Tapulous) attempts to explain fundware...
... but doesn't do such a great job explaining it.

Mike Lee formed Tapulous, one of the more successful iPhone development shops, but left after a dispute a while back.

Links of note:
http://tapulous.com/
http://unitedlemur.org/
http://fundware.info/
http://puzzllotto.com/
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After long time easy to use site which is all about game play and not about fancy designs
When you're introducing revenue later, you have to provide extra value. This means more features and so you're endangering your core values.

When you're starting to charge for existing features, by limiting the free accounts, you will surely upset your existing users. Google tried to introduce advertising in YouTube videos, and the community was not happy about it ... and imagine a site like YouTube placing a limit on how many videos you can watch. No matter how hooked your users are, you still can lose them, not to mention that popular services like YouTube got cloned and there is competition waiting for those users.

People have been charging money or other goods in exchange for products/services since forever. I don't really understand this trend of releasing products for free. The only viable exit strategy is for your company to be acquired by a big player, but if you want your business model to be sustainable you should question this trend.
Velshin,

That is reality. But it is also reality that these kind of amounts (if you're careful in what you're spending), can be earned in a few days a month doing something you're good at. Just trust in your own qualities.
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That is kind of interesting. I would like to know if anyone have more on this.

I do feel that many of googles products are not used as much as one might expect.

Any more on this matter?
It comes down to even more APIs while giving the user control over his data.

So, Web 3.0 == Web 2.0 + Privacy? Sounds more like Web 2.1 to me.
You're probably being downmodded because you wrote "unmodded" instead of "upmodded", which sounds like it means "downmodded" - reversing the meaning of your question.

Anyway, this article probably looks good to people who are looking for Truth, but don't want to spend a lot of time thinking bout it, hence bite-size truthiness. It does intrigue me that they are alphabetised...
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uncov should mock PressFlip.
He does have the virtue of being entertaining.

And the 'speaking truth to power' schtick is an evergreen.
The firetruck seems difficult to pull off, even with a helicopter. Perhaps its a 3D cardboard model? Anyone know?
What we should all learn from this is that when you want to mock the masses, it's best to do so from the balcony of a mansion. Not from within the crowd. It's a fine line between a crowd and a mob.
Don't forget that economic downturns, whether real or imagined, are another barrier to entry for your competition.
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Why? Most of math does not deal with anything like precision.
This looks like a perfect thread to ask a real question that's been on my mind:

How do you write a business plan? More specifically, what are the conventions (format, language to use, etc) for writing one which will be shown to potential investors?
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This article missing the point completely. There are two valuable point to make about earning more money, and neither of them are in it.
- When you make more then you need, making more doesn't make you happier.
- When you make more then you need, you might adjust your spending to it and start believing you need so much money. Then having a high income actually reduces your freedom.
De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but... that kind of thing is generally not my idea of entertainment, and maddox does it much better in any case.

The thing with speaking truth to power is that it helps to actually speak... well, "truth". There are pg essays that I'm not wild about (the unions one, to single one out), but come on, he's hardly the only one saying that now might be a good time to start a company. The recent Warren Buffet article conveyed some similar ideas. And in any case, I've found it possible to disagree with pg's ideas without foaming at the mouth. Admittedly, I've gotten a bit less attention because I don't, so if that's his goal, he succeeded. I just don't think it's a very honorable way of going about it.
Definitely. The ideal (for me anyway) would be enough of a salary to live on, and a good bonus - to stay lean, but still be well rewarded.

High salaries are a two-pronged strategy for a company. First it aids retention by "trapping" employees in a lifestyle. Secondly it raises barriers to entry for direct competitors. So long as you are aware of what's happening, enjoy it while it lasts, and make sure you stash some away.
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Something I remember from when I was touring colleges, the hiking club at Harvey Mudd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College) was called "Delta H".
Oh, and I forgot to say --

Because of Haskell's type classes, it's able to recognize that any construct that supports that kind of chaining behavior (among other things) is an instance of the same general construct, and is therefore able to work with them in a common way. That's surprisingly useful, much like when an object's class is a Class object that supports various interfaces for interacting with the OO system itself (A "meta-object protocol").

Haskell makes a big deal of monads because it needs them to do some things in a functionally pure manner, of course. Still, they shouldn't be considered some completely alien by-PhDs-for-PhDs concept. (I remember Simon Peyton-Jones saying he wishes he'd instead named monads "warm fuzzy things"... :) )
Hi,

Do you mean metrics from your program under test, the program testing it or the system?

We have the test metrics from the tester, the logs from the software under test, but it's working out how to properly monitor the machines and tie them to specific test runs we haven't managed yet. The tests start up from around 8 at night on a seperate 10 machine subnet. We are looking in to setting up munin in a controller-slave setup on one machine to take aggregate data from the other 9 test machines and somehow tie it to a specific test run and provide us with report graphs using both the throughput data from the grinder/jmeter. This is the bit I can't seem to find any information about doing. I've seen a lot of documentation and tech talks telling how you must monitor the system as well as the software, and they show throughput against memory usage and throughput against cpu usage, file IO etc. We do a lot of this stuff manually, after we see a spike in system usage stats during the night we will go digging in logs comparing time stamps finding out what was running and what went wrong. It's painful and it's slow.

It would be great to read how some other people solved this problem.
I think we've slashdotted it...
On average the wealthy attend better schools, receive tons preparatory courses, are providing with learning assistance, receive better health care and endure more plastic surgery than the not-wealthy. Do you disagree with that?
This is not a fast reaction, it's the correction of a situation that shouldn't have existed in the first place. Searchme is cutting excesses. If your big plan is to cut in gym memberships and massages, then you're in trouble. The people they are firing are probably support staff, not hackers.
Actually, I did claim to be motivated by money. I said the only thing that motivates me more than money is history.

I don't necessarily associate fame (or celebrity) with being remembered. There are many great filmmakers or company founders who have left an important mark on history and have easily walked into a mall without getting recognized.

That is how I would like to be remembered. Being super famous in my own time would not be very cool at all.

I know this sounds like egomania, and maybe part of is that., but this is what it boils down to: I want to leave this world in a significantly better place than I found it. And I'd like that legacy to last for a while.

(I had to avoid writing: "And I'd like people to know it". Wow, that does sound terrible. Maybe I need I do need to rethink that particular philosophy.)
Sorry, off-topic: How do you people manage to get -2 points? Not that I would like to myself, but I can't see downvote/bury/etc buttons anywhere...
Why are you curious to know this? You can ask this question about the complete Diagnostic Statistical Manual, so why are you so interested in autism?
i think you missed the subtlety of travisjeffery's post. the montessori method of teaching is all about "Let your kids do what they want to do.". most young children have a natural "i'm full" signal that prevents obesity (any parent knows this). most kids are naturally curious. many of our greatest historical thinkers did not attend school and had lots of "do what you want" time. the "let kids do what they want" works surprisingly well when they have opportunities to explore and good role models.

my only other addition to the travisjefferies post is "and allow children to fail". too often we don't allow children to learn from their failures. this is part of being a "self starter". you don't fear failure because it has happened so many times though personal experimentation that you have an intrinsic understanding that "it's no big deal, i'll eventually figure it out".
I'm skeptical of this approach. I've had very poor results with eating whenever I feel like it, and continuing until my body tells me to stop.

Obviously, my ancestors didn't evolve in an environment in which they had continual access to an abundant food supply. I can't say for certain, but I suspect they didn't have unlimited access to sleep either.
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Ive always had a f-u attitude. I never listened to the teachers at school. It started in middle school, I realized my grandfather owned his own business and was his own boss. In high school I slept in class except when an assignment was due, i skipped class and came to school wasted.

At that point, I started reading books (I was about 15), my first was rich dad poor dad (which had no real substance besides widening my prospective). Then I started reading real estate books, then 'business' books, automotive books, medical books, biographies, books on philosophy & finally programming books (where ie settled for now). Along with that I started making friends with the 'smart' & 'creative' kids at school, which led to meeting 'rich' & 'successful' people and being able to observe, what I thought, were their strong and weak points.

I feel that 'self-starting' comes from awareness that you can do whatever you want and become successful. How you reach this awareness, I'm not sure (my path was basically family, books, new people).

disclosure: i am on my mobile, so my grammar and spelling may be more off than usual.
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Like anything else, depends on how the test code was written to begin with! :-) SilkTest supports class inheritance, so if you have a good set of core classes, then, when application functionality changes, you can just change your inherited class implementations which makes it easier than having to re-invent the wheel every time.
Why not start with looking to reduce montly spending, then cutting incidental spending and then see if you can earn more? If you are unwilling to look at your spending, more income will not save you.
There's a minimum karma requirement: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
It was a replica; see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/PDF/N37.pdf for a better photo.
I disagree with comments attacking a money motive. If you don't want to get rich, than do something significant with your life - if you can, then give the money away or help others in some way. And I don't think you really meant greed or you would have said that, and the essay doesn't say go be greedy.

I also agree strongly with the consequences of fear, and how everyone else seems to be cowering in the corner. I am on the tech train and I have it almost entirely to myself. I recently attended some security functions, and it suddenly hit me how this field is begging for innovation. Of all the products and all the big name providers, it was nothing but me-too and do-it-again in a different package. Everyone I talked to from sales to tech, wanted one thing and one thing only - to play it safe and keep their job.
Hey by the way, that was a quote from "Office Space". It was meant tongue-in-cheek. Personally, I think lay-offs suck, and if you have a good business plan (focus on being cash-flow positive) than you lessen your chances of needing lay-offs. I have seen the "hire too many people in good times", "lay them all off in bad times" approach with no regard to wanting to be cash-flow positive. That is certainly not how I would want to do business!
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PG's killer point is that the success of your startup depends on whether you can make it a success more than any other factor.

More than your technical skills, more than the economy, more than your education, more than other people's belief in you, it's your determination to overcome that makes it.

To learn what you don't know, to break down difficult obstacles and go around impassable ones, to raise investment where there was none, to build confidence where there was fear, to adjust to new conditions when existing ones change, to think of any other breakfast cereal motivational slogans that you can, eat Frosties and win.
It is because the human brain tends to be wired in a certain way. One guy says something and other people begin to reflect on what he has said. Since their entry barrier to publishing has been lowered by magnitude via blogs, it is easy to put these reflections up for others to grab and reflect on. The ball is now rolling.

Some times, when reading blog posts like these, I wonder if the point of the post is to disagree for the sole purpose of driving traffic and gossip. The problem is not that these people publish. The problem rather is that they get upvoted on a site like this one. The article lacks a number of compelling arguments as to why his viewpoint is true. On the contrary, Grahams article backs the statements up by history.
No, we can't. Because we will not know what will be done with the information about the packets that are not blocked eiter. And because there is a lot of other information that "the authorities" will not want us to have, if it's possible to block child pornography it they will get a lot more idea's about what they want to block.
I clicked on the link expecting to be totally appalled by the article, but...OK, it was pretty funny. I'm a PG fanboy with the best of them, but this was still quite entertaining, if nasty. I don't agree with Ted, but he's got the Maddox gift.
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Oh the spam. "Why do I get spam?" "I didn't tell anyone to send me these emails about genitalia."

Gmail is not for moms I think.
Why is this here? It isn't insightful, doesn't have any discernible point, and isn't even humorous.

I feel like stuff gets a pass here just for saying bad stuff about YC. It doesn't get deleted because that might look too self-promotional.

This is actually one of the few sites I'd be in favor of blanket banning, and I spoke out against doing so for Valleywag.
WTF? Taxes are done in brackets there is no practical case where earning more income nets you less, the higher taxes would only be on the incremental income.

And here is another news flash, you can SAVE/INVEST some of that higher salary, you don't have to actually spend it all. Doing this makes you less tied to your job, because if you manage your money well, you can have savings to carry you through a jobless time, and no debt because you pay your bills in full each month.

Every once in a while you read articles like this and just wish you could revoke someones blogging license.
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Bruce, I spent all of my years in the (Canadian) public education system.

The trick is to be supportive, as my parents were, of not letting the school get in the way of what the kids want to do.

My kid is on his way to a mastodon tusk excavation this weekend. Crazy.
YCombinator required 6.4% of your already funded company? How much funding did you secure before?
No, because this time it's not a stock market bubble that burst. It's a credit bubble caused by very low interest rates. You could say that the stock market bubble of 2000 lead to the low interest rates, but it's not true. Money supply has sharply increased in the US since the 1980s. Now it's payback time for a few years I'm afraid.
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Agreed, I don't see myself cutting off but decreasing.

The four hour workweek helps with this too. Don't have email that says hi every 1 minute and if you really need it then hire someone to do it for you.