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I'm trying to take the perspective of a founder here. Let's suppose I have a startup that's showing signs of success and growth. I'm some combination of funded and profitable that means I can keep running for awhile. My startup have the potential to grow into the billions. I'm earning a subsistence salary and have no significant assets aside from my equity in the startup itself.

If an acquirer offered enough for the company that I personally would make at least 10 million from it, I wouldn't hesitate to sell at that point. My VC isn't hungry or broke like I am, he's just an investor who rationally wants me to go for the billions. My employees aren't hungry or broke like I am, they're earning market salaries and their only hope of a decent equity payout is for me to go for the billions. But I'm just subsisting and I don't have the stomach to avoid cashing out early from an acquisition. We have a problem.

Now let's suppose I raise another VC round and partially cash out. Now I have my millions, just like the VC's. I'm still left with a good stake in the company. Now our interests are aligned; I want to go for the billions now too. I no longer have any reason to sell it short.

Truth be told, I'm not a founder and I've never faced this myself. Maybe even taking a startup to this point requires crazy, dedicated risk-takers who will turn down significant wealth for the promise of absurd wealth, and I'm just not that kind of person. Maybe if I ever invest the time and effort into a startup necessary to get to that point I'll grow the stomach to take crazy risks. But I just don't understand the argument that paying founders a few million in a late VC round makes them less motivated to swing for the fences and build billion dollar businesses. Hungry people don't turn down a decent meal for the promise of a huge feast later on.
It felt out of sync. I could move up and down, and clicking made the circles solid, and there were some other players, and some sounds. I suppose moving up and down and clicking changes the sound, but I'm not sure how.
This is amazing, and not only as a demo of the API. I was waiting for a uniform raw audio standard to be implemented by all browsers, but after this I'm motivated to start playing around now. There are so many interesting possibilities for musical improvisation interfaces.
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it also requires authority in the same amount as responsibility - something few organisations get correct.
just plug in your ipod with the excuse of power charging it. no one is going to complain, the ipod is considered just a player by common people, e.g. your managers. the truth is that you are plugging in 8Gb or more of free disk space.

and while you steal data, you can also listen to your favourite music!

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I wonder whether, if there were all 12 tones on the Western 12-tone scale, it be more cacophonous. Somehow, with two octaves of only white notes, as it were, and the tendency of users to move about constantly (because it looks pretty and you get the exciting perceptual feedback of changing the sounds), most of it doesn't sound bad. Great idea.
I love it. I'm musically challenged but feel like I can actually make reasonably not-horrible music. And it's like a video game. Love it!
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm all about nerdy, so I tweeted from Google Plex (which is all I could do since everything there was closed), then went over to Apple's Headquarter's and paid my respects to Steve Jobs at the little memorial next to 1 Infinity Loop (Apple Store's only open M-F, ah well, got a pic). Then I drove over to Fry's Electronics and OMG I don't think I've seen such a huge store in my whole life, I mean, they literally had to kick me out because they had to close the store. All in all an awesome 1st night at Si Valley. Oh yeah, I had a burger at In-n-out, heard that was a very California thing, and those burgers really are as big as the ads! Plan on hitting Stanford, Golden Gate Bridge and Berkeley tomorrow after CodeCamp lets out at 3pm. If I leave Berkeley at 7:30pm, should I have any trouble getting to SFO for a 10:30 flight? I hear SF traffic can be pretty bad, but is it that way on a Sunday evening as well?
Very cool. This reminds me a lot of playing around on a korg kaossilator, a very nifty toy with an xy pad where you can pick a scale, bpm and an "instrument" and jam away without worrying about hitting wrong notes.
I agree, but I think that threshold was crossed with the invention of the bow and arrow.
Just played this for 5 minutes. Absolutely fantastic! I had a riot, and seemed to play some music with other people. Really cool!
This is surprisingly addictive and the music actually sounds cool too. It would be nice to hit notes without sliding though.
What if you programmed a human to enjoy finding sandwiches?

Well, now that you think of it we are all in a way programmed to enjoy certain things through classical conditioning.
Planning on doing this tomorrow. Are there a lot of startups along the way by Stanford? Any place where I could just walk down the street and see a whole bunch of cool startups?
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What part of "every situation is different" made this some sort of absolute for you?
Super fun. I'd like to see some keyboard suport, like up and down arrow keys and space bar to play a note.
Well put. It's definitely a balancing act to go down this path.
I highly recommend 'Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python' http://inventwithpython.com and How to Think Like a Computer Scientist http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/ Both are great books that walk you through the basics up, without talking down to you.

I assume that the kid is on Windows. Using a UNIX-like system (Linux, BSD) is definitely a good way to understand computers better, especially because of the large amount of programming libraries available often by simply running one command. It's not required of course, but it might help him/her. Yet again, it might not. :-)

Once they've learned the dynamics of Python (or other) setting up a GitHub account might not be a bad idea.
And maybe keyboard support for 'notes' - every letter on the keyboard assigned to ABCDEFG and the black notes in between. Then you could, say, plug in a written text and see what happens.
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Plus, stripe.com has become visible only so recently (couple weeks) that other discussions linked here may not even include stripe. "A game changer by introducing developer-friendliness" is the takeaway that I got from the HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883
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Well said.

Some people think they can collect hundreds of thounsands of euros by just providing an email and a name to Paypal. Then they wonder when their funds get freezed (see minecraft) and then thy complain that they have to provide ID to get their funds released.
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"Oracle" and "easy to use" just don't match. Sorry, but unless Oracle acquire such a tool (and doesn't have time to make it crappy), I don't think they can have something user-friendly, useful and working.
Thank you for mentioning WriteThat.Name.

I'm sorry if we've hurt anyone sensibility by this joke about Calvin & Hobbes. We'll take it out in our next Design iteration.

Regarding market size, we feel that keeping your address book up-to-date is a real issue for most business people. Some of them might still have PA, but most of us don't, and less than $2/month strikes me as fair enough. This is a market space where we are competing with the likes of Plaxo or Xobni.
"Oops! Your browser doesn't support Web Audio."

Meanwhile, Adobe just announced that the Unreal Engine runs in Flash Player 11. That's AAA quality 3d gaming in the browser (and not just Chrome). I am so bored with "HTML 5" game (that aren't even HTML 5 official spec) announcements getting such a ridiculous amount of play.

Imagine if someone went out to E3 in 2011 and announced that they just came up with this crazy TV game concept called Pong, but it only works on Magnavox TVs. Absolutely no one would care.
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The overall response to Steve Jobs death has been staggering. A fact clearly supported by the peak in google's traffic. What's interesting is that the top correlated searches are mostly about his marital status...
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i sure hope no investor is ever so foolishly naive as to accept claims like "50:50 chance to grow the business by an order of magnitude...in the next 2 years" without the heaviest grain of salt.

More realistically, chances are that any contract between them and the founder(s) states clearly that a sale within the first n# of years can only occur if the offered on the table is m%, m being >= 100 (more likely, m >= 120, 150 or more).

If OTOH only a fraction of the offer has been invested, then it is nearly guaranteed that they will be highly motivated to sell.

If the company is growing fast, it is not in the founders' interest to sell themselves so short. In fact, i doubt there exists empirical evidence that would support the likelihood of such a situation. VCs are logically only far less motivated to keep a business operating (after all, likely their only tie to it is financial) than the owners themselves -- whose baby, after all, it is. So when the founders are ready to bail, a sane investor would immediately pick up on the ominous implications regarding the future viability of the business and try to moderate their personal exposure as much as possible.
You trotted out his point of view: "One should not use proprietary software! It's evil, according to Stallman.", sounding like it is because of his moral judgement that you do not support him.
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Agreed, but some of these questions-- the ones about indent style in particular-- don't seem to me to be the kind of things a developer needs to be thinking about while they're working on getting code written. The endless bickering and bikeshedding that arguments over coding conventions always result in are one thing, but having these arguments with yourself, every time you write a line of code, is crazy!
Similar to "humans aren't meant to be happy, we're meant to want to be happy", founders aren't meant to get rich, they're meant to want to get rich.
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As a novice programmer, I found this article to be a good bump towards thinking for myself. Too often I find myself doing something because its what the tutorial or book I was reading said was best practice, without really thinking the situation through. Being able to explain why you are making the decisions that you make seems like an important step between just haphazardly piecing together snippets of code you memorized and actually logically solving problems.
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I am hooked! Who was i playing with? Need keyboard shortcuts. Sometimes there are too many guys playing (sorry guys, some of you suck :P), have separate rooms.
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> Is this full type checking overkill?

Yes.

> But considering the huge number of websites and web applications written every year, and the massive difficulties we consider with browser testing and compatibility, it sure would be nice if web developers no longer had to consider whether their HTML was valid or not, and instead have more time to focus on the things that really matter.

As a web developer I can tell you that generating valid HTML is trivial. Even when working with large, multipart systems like Drupal and Wordpress, the developers and plugin writers do a phenomenal job of creating a single, unified DOM. This is remarkable: thousands of individuals can contribute to a project that outputs a single page of perfectly valid HTML and corresponding CSS/JavaScript assets. (This code is not always optimized, but it is valid).

Generating valid HTML is a solved problem - even in complex systems. Creating a new templating engine doesn't add any value.

The time and aggravation that occurs in web development is as follows: even if I create a perfectly valid & consistent HTML/CSS/JavaScript web page it will not be rendered the same across web browsers. Let me repeat that: as a web developer even if I honor the contract outlined in a specification there is no guarantee that the same contract will be implemented in a consistent fashion across browsers.
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The best way, if you really want to hide data, is steganography. Embed the information into innocent looking pictures and video. The trick, of course, would be to either download decoding software or upload somewhere when you want access the hidden data.
But the point was exactly not to be making these decisions consciously every time you write code. The point - in agreement with you - was that these decisions are not necessarily important.

The argument is that these decisions are made, whether you are aware of them or not, and in this case Beck was undertaking to understand them in nit-picking detail so they can be made visible and better understood, rather than remaining implicit, ill-understood, and possibly sub-optimal.

The author wasn't advocating that this sort of thing be done of every line of code - that would be ludicrous in the extreme. Don't attack the extreme strawman, try to understand and appreciate the underlying purpose.

In my 35 years of software work, far, far too often I see people concentrating on the pointless - bike-shedding if you will - and sadly, this is another case. Concentrate on the point that matters - understanding the processes and decisions of coding, and not the details of the specific instance.
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Sorry for the lack of enthusiasm, but so what?
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That scenario is likely precluded by the conditions that come along with the investment capital. Nobody has ever gotten rich from signing blank checks. And while there may have been the occasional, foolish investor to do just that, everybody else in that position has already internalized the rules of what not to do if they want to have a hope of hanging on to some of their investment. If in life there is no such thing as a free lunch, then by extension, nobody in the position to be directly involved views VC as a free handout.
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I took a decision 1/2 year ago to concentrate on one thing. Little by little I scrapped side projects, brilliant 'other' ideas, stopped taking new clients for my web design studio, wrapped up old ones and finally today is the first day I can fully enjoy just sitting at home and coding my startup, watching the controllers grow. It's a feeling of freedom, peace with myself, hopefulness and fulfillment.

How about you? Were you able to do that, why or why not?

[Maybe if you could start with a digit for quick reference and then write your thoughts, experience, and interesting notes, that would be nice]
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Interesting. But from the heading I thought this was going to be about something else. Articulate coding could mean 'using bigger words' in the sense that you'd refactor your code and use built-in functions wherever possible.

Point being that most people probably don't get the most out of, say, Python's standard library.
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This post reads more like the author trying to come to terms with his own tortured, confrontational, win/lose outlook on running a company. It also reads like a case of passive/aggressive venting on a portfolio company CEO who is driving him nuts, or the aggregate of several such cases.

In any case, this is not useful advice. And patently untrue. When the chips are down, people do care, and people help out, if you explain the challenges you are facing and the odds you are up against. Not least of all, "your mama".

The article also strikes me as a misinterpretation of the quote and the exchange between owner and coach. I would read it differently... the coach is at his wits end, calls the owner for advice, and the owner doesn't merely say "nobody cares"! He says "just coach your team". Meaning, don't worry about all the things you thought you were going to do (with the team roster you thought you had) and just hang in there, stick to your core strength (coaching) and do your best to make it work.

No wonder the author has anguished posts on his blog like "What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology" wherein we read such gems of wisdom as "It’s like the fight club of management: The first rule of the CEO psychological meltdown is don’t talk about the psychological meltdown." Not really. The first rule is relax, don't take yourself so damn seriously. Actually, there are no rules. Isn't that why you became CEO?

People infected with attitudes like this suck all the life and joy out of doing business. It's not all about people standing around yelling "no excuses! yo' mama don't care!" at each other. Carrying around excess psychological freight like this only slows you down, makes you hate yourself and the industry, etc. If there are problems, you deal with them. Often times, solving problems means figuring out the parameters of the difficulty, putting all the resources you can against the problem, and then going and finding the right people who care to help you out with the rest.
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As far as I know, while a Tornado (framework) application can run in a WSGI server via tornado.wsgi, Tornado's evented server does not support mounting WSGI application.

thadeus_venture was specifically asking about WSGI.
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It's also what Hollywood thinks music is like: pure improvisation. In the real world, both require an amazing amount of rehearsal and frustrating lack of progress on your own time before the 'performance'.

I always thought the best moment of 8-mile was when Bunny stops talking and sits down with a pen and a paper in his bedroom. It's fairly explicit that that's the point he starts on the road to being a successful musician.
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Pretty cool. A time-quantised version would probably have the potential to sound better though, as the latency makes it difficult to get any kind of rhythm going in this version.
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Modern computers are extremely fast, and can still do tremendous amounts of computations despite the limitations of the Von Neumann architecture. But make no mistake, the Von Neumann bottleneck is a serious and fundamental problem. The CPU has to spend a lot of effort shuttling data back and forth. Worse yet, it has to spend a lot of time waiting on data (swapping to/from disk, for example). Even when you're CPU is at 100% utilization the vast majority of cycles are spent doing nothing but waiting. That has huge ramifications, affecting everything from performance to power efficiency, etc.

Consider a typical snippet of CPU's life. The next instruction is read from memory, it tells the CPU to move a value from memory into a register. The next instruction after that is read from memory, it tells the CPU to move a different value from memory into a different register. The next instruction is read from memory, it tells the CPU to do some operation with the values in those two registers. The next instruction is read from memory, it tells the CPU to test whether the result from the previous instruction is 0, if it was then jump to a specific address. Since it was the CPU fetches the next instruction from that location in memory. And so on. It only takes following this process for a little while to see how tedious it is. We've managed to significantly improve it by adding fast local memory caches to the CPU but even if the memory operated at the speed of the CPU it would still be inefficient.

Now, imagine if instead of megabytes of low latency cache you have gigabytes. Now, imagine if instead of having a low latency cache at all the processor is directly wired to the RAM as if the RAM was just a large collection of registers. Instead of "fetch me X, fetch me Y, add X + Y, put the result back to Z" all of that could be a single CPU instruction. Moreover, it would be far, far rarer for the CPU to be waiting for data merely due to local latency. This would improve the effective computing power and power efficiency of CPUs by several orders of magnitude. The impact it would have on computing is truly mind boggling.

Let me express it in a different way. Imagine if your cell phone had the same raw computing power as a top of the line GPU does today, with the same battery life and with the same transistor count and clock speed on the CPU, just with a different architecture and different RAM.