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I wouldn't say he's nuts per se, but he's comparing apples and oranges.
Steve Jobs made an impact on me through his words, his actions, and even his products. While I was a complete stranger to him, he was not a stranger to me. I grieved.

Keep in mind that grieving is not a binary thing. The grief one feels at the loss of one's children is different than losing one's parents, or a close friend, or a neighbor, or a coworker, or someone in the community, or someone you've never heard of living halfway around the world. Or a visionary business leader.
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For the author, weeding out employers with that culture might be an upside. It depends what he's looking for.
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German newspaper, clueless as ever, show a MacBook

http://www.faz.net/polopoly_fs/1.1486520.1318104289!/image/3...
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This is incredibly fun. When others joined and started making music together it immediately brought a smile to my face.

The greatest part about is the music created isn't terrible.
It definitely varies per person.

There's clearly a level of financial uncertainty where a founder is LESS productive. But, there are ways (which don't necessarily overlap) a founder could spend "excess" money which don't inhibit drive at all.

Probably the lowest hanging fruit would be to eliminate actual debt (founders may have student debt, credit card debt from earlier in the company, etc.); getting rid of debt probably won't change behavior. Maybe other health-related things. Actually, a lot of this could just be handled as "generous startup perks" vs. payouts; if I knew I could always fly in domestic E+ or upgrade-to-F on my preferred airline, and stay in a decent hotel, I'd be a lot more into taking back to back business trips all the time.

Taking care of someone else's expenses (e.g. kids, parents, or other dependents) probably won't reduce motivation, either. Fixing things which inhibit a founder's productivity (paying for a housekeeper, driver in some cases, closer apartment to the office, ...) seems like a good idea.

It's probably a bad idea to pay someone enough to become an investor, or to buy/build a house (oh god no for BUILDING), indulge in expensive AND time-consuming hobbies, etc.

The gray area is when founders would actually take an outright sale, but are given a choice of $5-10mm now and continue instead; that's enough to possibly reduce drive, but not as much as selling out.

One option might be to put some of the payout into a "lockbox", where it's safe for reasons of diversification, but not accessible. e.g. you sell, get $1-2mm into your 401k, or into an account which is inaccessible (but safely invested) for 5 years. That way, your downside risk is covered if the company tanks, but your lifestyle doesn't change.

Although, anything like this will make Bay Area luxury car dealers very sad. :(
and get X.org rendering to <canvas>

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It would also be awkward if an interviewee wanted to come back to my apartment for drinks. Interviewing and dating are two different social situations with different codes of etiquette.
Well, more accurately, Safari was born from KHTML. WebKit was Apple's massive retooling of it, and was widely acknowledged as superior to KHTML (someone correct me if I'm wrong) and in time replaced it. However, your point isn't necessarily invalidated, as iirc the changes were simply dumped in one large mass rather than as patches.

Additionally, OS X was created from NeXTSTEP, which - again, if I recall correctly - was built on a licensed, proprietary UNIX, so claiming that using BSD for the underlying system in some way took something away or co-opted it, as opposed to made use of it as the license allowed, seems slightly inaccurate.

That said, while I am a big fan of Apple's APIs I am astoundingly opposed to the App Store's walled garden - I surprise even myself, a self-professed fan of many things Apple - with the complete and utter disdain with which I view the terms of the App Store. It really is a jail, and it's a huge problem for the company I work at. Other than the BS about how some of our content might offend sensibilities according to some nebulous standard of western values (disclosure: I work at a company that streams anime), the policies applied seem to do little else than stifle competition.

tangent:

With Siri, I see something bad as well. It seems that controlling the user experience of search - the user experience, the anointed services - leads down a path where it is not the search providers with the best results or presentation which win, but the one which Apple anoints with their approval. Apple seems to think that producing the device entitles them to applying rules which enable Apple to step in and compete with an advantage on things which are not their core competencies. I think this is dangerously close to anti-trust territory, in which a monopoly (not bad by itself) could be abused to foster anti-competitive acts.

/tangent
Yeah. Me 'n Hen used to throw rocks at people on horses while we blazed by 'em in his new hotrod, etc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747106
As awesome as JSLinux is, until it gets networking i/o, there's little real-world use for it. Once it does though, the floodgates of awesome will open up.
Is the Web Audio API actually part of HTML5? It looks like it's still just a proposal that only works in Chrome. :(

Very cool demo though. Feels smooth.
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You're obviously not related to Hugo Chavez ;)

Travel does not have to mean 'travel outside the country', so even if most attempts to decapitate a country are home-grown that doesn't mean that heads of state don't travel with a security entourage when they are within their own borders.

On top of that I do believe that heads of state already travel with a security entourage when traveling abroad.

It is not necessarily the other nations they're afraid of but their lunatics. And a small robot drone will be within the financial means of anybody with an axe to grind in the fairly near future.
This comment (and the two below it, since it got too long to fit in one comment) I wrote about 6 months ago covers my best attempt to figure out what the various players do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445866
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I... wish I understood. I'm just a lowly Blub programmer.

An executable is often less than 1MB, and certainly always less than 100MB. In contrast, a 14GB video game still loads pretty quickly, and the data that goes across the bus per frame is often a couple orders of magnitude larger than the program executable itself.

I know I'm missing something obvious...
Just like we have a moratorium on the use of chemical weapons we ought to have one on drones. Not that it would ever be ratified.

There is something seriously wrong with the level of detachment drones afford the actors on any battlefield.

Taking a life should be something done with a large level of reluctance and with the 'taker' risking his own through physical presence. Once that balance is lost it becomes all too easy to resort to violence at a much earlier stage of a conflict.

This is all about reducing the barrier to entry for war and that's a very dangerous thing.
Templates that are valid HTML are the right answer, unlike most templates which are string based because historically most server side templates have been string based (which I personally detest). No need for yet another template language!

An example is http://batmanjs.org/ , and maybe most XML based templates too.

I ended up writing my own pure HTML templates (templates implemented using cloning - super simple and fast), with declarative definitions written in JavaScript. Declarative definitions and events are linked to HTML nodes by data-nodename attributes within the template.
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Martins emotions pale compared to those of the innocent civilians that are no longer around.

Personally I'm happy that there is at least some cost to this but I don't think the cost is quite high enough to prevent a runaway use of this horrible technology.

If I were asked to help design/build such a system I would point blank refuse. I'm sure that some other person would step in to fill the vacancy with a smile on their face but I strongly believe that we all have a personal responsibility in what we help create and I don't see any of the users of these systems with the ability to create their own. It takes a lot of tech to launch a missile by remote control from a plane controlled from a large distance with any accuracy.

The people that built this probably sleep just fine but imo they have blood on their hands. And don't give me that 'guns don't kill people' nonsense, if you make weapons for the military you carry your bit.
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Did any of Grace Hopper's work get released commercially? She was an admiral in the Navy, after all.
It looks like they can afford to hire some PR firms as well.
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You've fallen victim to the AI effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect#AI_is_whatever_hasn.2...

People still need to be told where sandwich shops are. If you walk by any given commercial space, you either need to see that it is indeed a restaurant, or have an explicit mention of sandwiches in order to make a guess at the probability of being able to get one there. Reasoning about restaurants isn't the purpose of the research presented here though.

There is no one thing called AI. AI could involve one or more of search algorithms, object recognition, parsing, statistical reasoning, state machines, and several other things. None of these on their own would be considered AI, but their research is crucial to developing AI.
You could say the same of every new instrument ever. Why use a piano when a harpsichord is so much simpler to build? (Louder, mostly, but that's not my point. And pianos were much more expensive than any previous instrument when they were new.) Why build a harpsichord if you have stringed instruments? Why put strings on an instrument...why not just bang on that stick.

New instruments provide new means of expression not previously available. That alone is reason enough to keep experimenting and building new instruments, even if most of them never go anywhere or see anything resembling widespread adoption. They expand the palette of possibilities.

If you find a full keyboard strapped to a synthesizer more conducive to what you want to express today, that's fine. There are still guitars, and drums, and harpsichords, and pianos, and analog synthesizers. This doesn't close off those options to anyone, it only opens new doors.

Cost, or being "better" than some other option in some dimension, is not the reason for something like this. New means of expression is the reason, and it is reason enough.
That would make a lot of sense, but it isn't the reality. Here's the previously posted article: http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-03/business/29733744_1_no...

TL;DR: Game tester lost their job, and couldn't work for another gaming company because of non-compete. Analysis indicated non-compete is enforcable.
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> Of course. You resent what you see as his spiritual purity in rejecting Trojan horse DRMed products that lock you in because you know you aren't capable of going without something you want now for greater gain in the future.

> You realize that going with the locked-down answer is as smart as selling your house for the short-term gain, but unlike Stallman, are unable to control your urges. Thus you hate him, and those who can.

I am reminded of this quote:

"Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application." - Man Ray
This is amazing. Even with a bunch of random people doing random things the music still sounds great!
When a user installs Linux...

Someone who installs an OS has immediately gone beyond mere "user". A fairer comparison must include pre-installed machines.
How can you argue that it only works in mature products? The point was about revolutionary rather than evolutionary change.
Or am I missing what you mean?
Right, because what Elephants really need is to be hounded by a swarm of drones piloted by people from countries that are too lazy to even go see the world in person?

Besides the risk of idiots crashing their drones in to animals on purpose for kicks you'd have to deal with the effect of animals that are perpetually on the run for these things.

What next? Remote control trophy hunting?
I was lucky enough to see Sam Aaron rehearse his ClojureConj course at skillsmatter last week. The room was full of musicians who know Clojure. Personally, I think overtone has potential. It's already usable as an alternative synth design tool (beats the hell out of visual design). As for taking on Cubase... There are all sorts of features it doesn't have (like a usable UI), but as sam says... pull requests are welcome. :)
Actually it will be interesting and useful if an automaton displayed "common sense" _merely_ in the programming world!

"Hey, make me a web app with twitbug authentication and google payment integration."

Wouldn't you like it if it finds you aren't registered as a developer, applies to twitbug, waits for approval, follows up when approval is received (or whatever that process turns out to be) by creating a stub application, creates an Amazon account on your behalf, sets up a server and launches a proto web app using what it knows to be your favourite setup, or just decides for itself based on what others think is a good idea to use and a while later goes "TADA! Here you go!"?
If you have nested loops, numpy will indeed not help you. Numpy per-item access is actually slower than python usual container (list, tuple). You could post the code that is actually slow, so that one could help you to make it faster.

As for pypy helping you, I hope that's the case. But what's in pypy today has not much to do with numpy, in the sense it is a complete re-implementation from scratch.
To make the "minimize the equation" approach complete, other paths should be considered, such as instead of going up to the ceiling, going to the side and taking a side wall.

Some limits can be placed on the number of possible paths by considering some general properties of an optimal solution:

1. Assuming the start point is A, and the path leaves the start side at point B, the optimal path will take a straight line from A to B. Proof: if it were not straight, it could be replaced by a straight line which would shorten the path, contradicting the assumption the path was optimum.

2. Once the optimal path leaves a side, it will not return to that side. Proof. Suppose the path leaves the side at point B, then later enters at C, and then leaves again at D. The route from B to C could be replaced with a straight line from C to D, which would shorten the path, again contradicting the assumption that the path was optimum.

This cuts down the number of possible path templates greatly, since a given surface can only appear once in the optimal path, and only contain a single straight line segment.

I expect that a little more reasoning can deduce some more limits on possible optimal paths, to get it down to just two or three possible equations to maximize.
Second this comment, the real time feedback that you get and the realization that you aren't making something that doesn't completely sound like crap makes this surprisingly more fun than I thought it would be.
> and no real people get killed.

That's a matter of definition. If a clone is created (assuming for the moment that is possible) with full memory then the clone is a person, and therefore real people.

The fact that in that book they have defined such people as 'not real people' conveniently bypasses the fact that they actually are, they're just not originals.

See Bladerunner.
> Is he saying that GCC implemented them just as they became viable on lower end hardware?

To begin with, gcc didn't target low-end hardware; low-end hardware of 1985 (the beginning of the GNU Project) wasn't capable of running serious OSes, so Stallman ignored it in favor of workstations built around Motorola 68000 CPUs (I believe).

But that's beside the point: He's saying that once lower-end systems began to be as capable of the optimizations as high-end systems were previously, the expectations of compilers for low-end systems began to match the expectations of compilers for high-end systems. He's also implicitly making the point that, once CPU speed is above a certain minimum, the thing that most limits a computer is a shortage of RAM.

A compiler for an MS-DOS system with a few hundred K of RAM can't do advanced register scheduling (not that the 8088 has a lot of registers to begin with) or code transformations but that's OK, because nobody expects it to. All people expect is for their Borland Pascal or Pacific C or whatever compiler to emit machine code that correctly implements their algorithm and, if it's a bit slow, they'll grab Ralf Brown's Interrupt List and other reference material and start hacking assembly.

In Linux, in 2011, people expect gcc to not only correctly unroll loops, but to transform recursive functions into an iterative form and then unroll the resulting loop. (gcc can, actually, do this.) They expect gcc to use MMX opcodes in somewhat-ingenious ways to speed up string handling; and as an aside most of the more interesting opcodes of the x86 ISA are another thing the solo MS-DOS hackers didn't have to worry much about until near the end of the MS-DOS era. They expect, in short, a compiler that would have been at home on a very high-end system as recently as the early 1990s and is therefore too complex for any single human to write unaided. (Well, perhaps Knuth could, but Knuth doesn't scale.)
Am I the only person this isn't working for right now? It loads, I enter a username and then it tells me I've been idle too long. I guess the servers may be overloaded due to HN?
Der Spiegel has now picked it up [1], but of course some people driving around in circles are more important, so it's not in the top spot on the front page :-)

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,790756,00....
I am curious why would you blog about an interview. Most companies ask you to sign an NDA before the interview. Isn't posting a blog about the interview a violation of NDA?
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I think it's just a chrome proposal right now.

Firefox also has an implemented proposal. Not sure if one or the other has any particular advantages?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API
This is pretty cool. What are the potential use cases?
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The article completely disregards that there is a business interest for the investors to align the interest of board and management in a startup.

If a startup is going to take the shortest path from a well-funded garage op to a mature company, you need everybody on the same side of the table.
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wanted to share this tribute I found to everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy6BY_TzX7I
First off, venture capital != investment banking.

Secondly, if your goal in business is to extract what you can from foolish VCs and run, you're destroying many things. One is obviously investor value. But you're also destroying all the other startups that could've put the money to good use. In which case as a founder or director you're no better than these inside-trading Ponzi-scheming main-street-hating 1% banksters your lot loves to hate.

But hypocrisy is lost on the hypocrite...
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Here is where Woz explains how Jobs got the job at Atari. Around minute 9:30 or so. The whole video is worth watching. Woz is a real gem, as always.

http://www.building43.com/videos/2011/01/11/first-look-steve...