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I read the email that I got in while at the ER waiting for x-ray results for my sprained ankle. I know, could have been a much better story if this was the YC interview invite which I initially thought it was :).
I have an iPad. When I push up on a webpage it scrolls. Which part sucks?
When my friends and mentors asked me why I picked my cofounder and what made me decide to, my answer was that I'd enjoy working with him.

I said that if I was going to be busting my butt for the next few months or years, I'd want someone that I would really enjoy working with and can get along with and that's mellow/laid back/low key/no drama. His talents and skills were lower on the priority list than that #1 must -have.

I hope you have better luck finding someone that's no only skilled but that you can get along with and is compatible with you work-wise/personality wise.
(Curiously enough I ran into thingsilearned as I was bicycling home from lunch today. Or would have if he hadn't scurried across the crosswalk just in time.)
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I think the experiment is misguided for several reasons. One, process/thread creation time is negligible. The general approach is to create worker threads/processes that live for the lifetime of the program. Then you farm work out to them as needed. This separates the concept of "doing work" from their actual execution.

Two, threads don't buy you parallelism in Python, unless the majority of the work is being done in C modules.

Finally, this test is really just testing the multiprocess and thread packages provided by Python. I say this is misguided because the way the author talks about it, I don't think he understands that the difference between those abstractions and OS threads and processes. (Which, of course, are an abstraction as well.) I suspect the Python overhead will be more than the difference in cost between forking OS-level threads and processes.
The whole page can scroll (on iOS 4), but not individual parts of the page. That's what he's been trying to address, and that's the hard part.
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Which doesn't help in all other cities.
A third issue here is that talent is cheaper in (say) MSP than in SJC/SFO. Like, a lot. It's easier to hire and easier to retain. Because locales are sticky, the level of talent available to you is likely to be comparable or better than you'll get in the valley.

Your point about the "general population" is well taken too, especially if you're a company selling to other businesses. Most of the big companies in SFBA, and most of the companies you'll talk to period if you HQ out there, are software companies. Selling software to software companies is hard. Whereas if you HQ in Atlanta, you've Home Depot, UPS, Coca Cola, big banks, and so on.

There is clearly a kind of startup that benefits from being in SFBA so I don't want to sound like I'm saying there's nothing to this "startup hub" thing.
[W]ithin 3 blocks of FeeFighters office are: 37signals, SproutSocial, Threadless, Crowdspring, and several other startups. I don't see how it helps us significantly to bump into them ...

That's because the marginal utility FeeFighters will get on average out of any given serendipitous moment is a lot less than, say, an unfunded startup no one's ever heard of.

If you graphed that marginal utility over time, you'd probably find that it's multi-region: linear in some parts, exponential in others.
(terminating strings with '\0'? yeah, great choice)

Why? What would have been better?

The only alternative I know about is saving the size of the string, but that comes with its own little set of problems.
Isn't that really valuable?

In fact, isn't it worth $800 million+ in this case?
It's not common but not exceptionally rare either. It happened to Reddit, Clustrix, Ninite, and Parse. Reddit was not a happy marriage, but the other 3 seem to be.
They can make for pretty statements in Ruby. But my question is then...why can't you do it in python just like ruby

def go :
this.some_other_method :
here_is_my_block

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After having battled a PHP (mod_php) deployment system and having to hack the hell out of capistrano to get a usable one... Amen to your comment.
Parker's point you missed with native apps is "grey" music files existing locally on the user's computer.

They could be completely pirated/illegal but as a player that isn't your liability - yet you can provide functionality (playing), gleam usage information, meta data and of course still monetize/advertise over the top of the user playing their own songs.

You can't do that with web-apps (EDIT: unless you run a locker service, which is beyond scope of this)
Ada. After all, it replaced COBOL, Fortran, various ALGOLs, and C, right?
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Because the profit comes over a shorter period, i.e. shorting stock from the 3rd to the 5th. If they just bought at the lower price after the announcement they would have to wait for a longer period before they would gain the same profit as through shorting the stock.
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I don't understand -- it says 1.6 out of 5000 are deuterium. Why are we looking for meteorites and comets with precisely that ratio? Why couldn't it have been that the distribution of all comets to impact the earth yielded an average deuterium proportion of 1.6/5000?
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Touch scrolling has become a fundamental interaction on mobile devices and I'd like to see it be leveraged more on the web. That has nothing to do with how the web looks.
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It's like that now, but when my SF startup failed in 2001 and I had to look for a job at the end of the bubble, it was extremely stressful --- and I'm guessing I had an easier time looking for jobs than most of my last-bubble cohort.

Continuing the same point: it is in fact not all that stressful finding tech jobs in any major metro area now. I'm in Chicago, we have offices in NYC (our HQ) and Mountain View, and it's hard to hire in all three places.

I'm sure there's a grain of truth in what you're saying, that SF can accumulate talent because talent moves there expecting the red-hot market in the area to mitigate risks. But things can turn quickly.
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> If you are selling software product

Well then, there is your problem. Your business model does no longer work (or rather, is slowly but inevitably failing) - you cannot force people to pay for the distribution of infinitely copyable data, and neither can you ultimately force them to pay you to use it.

My question is: How exactly does this entitle you to demand laws to save your business model?

You could apply the very same argument you are using against Free Software (the libre kind), which is still nonsense.

Besides, generations of industries have been put out of business by technical advancements. I don't see why the software industry (or any digital media industry, for that matter) should be the first to have a special exception just because they whine loud enough.

How about you stop complaining about inevitable progress and instead try to find new ways to make ends meet? Adapt or face being made obsolete - it's that simple, really.
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Slicehost? This list is curated? [1]

1: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2011/9/23/basics-of-the-sl...
Yeah, between the tone and the length, it doesn't seem like Parker has pure motives for Spotify.
I would want to know what's going on if I were the CEO. And regardless of how many applicants, I believe in common courtesy and being upfront with people. I'm probably going to be very involved in the hiring process until the company gets so big that we'd need a HR department.

I really can't stand all the problems/complaints about the whole tedious job search process right now and that's why I'm going to build my startup to fix some of these problems. It's nice to know that my startup is in the job search industry and how much flaws and complaints there are, so I know I'm on the right track to doing something good for a lot of people.
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If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude.

Silicon Valley has a larger concentration of startups per capita, as people from around the country go there to try a startup. As such, I'm sure it also has a higher number of failed startups per capita. Instead of looking at absolute numbers, the chance that a given startup will succeed is the key metric.
The thing is, these functions were added a long time ago when the language and the project itself was in it's infancy. It's purpose and audience was different. I doubt anyone developing at the time expected it to last this long and be used by this many people. The goal was to put in as much functionality as possible to be useful. It was web scripting for C programmers.

The problem with a language that moves slowly is that if there's an opportunity, it might just miss it. I was working in PHP in the early days and every release brought features you wanted to use yesterday. Perhaps if PHP didn't have the huge rate of change it did then maybe it would have never caught on. Python is several years older than PHP and yet it didn't come to web until long after.
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From his 2005 Stanford commencement speech:

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
I'm narrowly interested in Parker's observations about responsiveness and UX, which I think are unfounded; I think a web app is a better user interface than most desktop players.

I subscribe to Rdio for the value proposition of "I'm not going to buy more music, I'm just going to use this thingy to get it", so the notion of what files are on my hard disk is moot. I'm sure there's some independent dubstep artist who is Very Important to you that exists on no subscription service, but I assure you that my use case represents the mainstream: the fact that I even care about how much of Pitchfork's "Best New Music" is on Rdio already sets me far apart from the Lil Wayne fans that make up most of the market.
Perl hashes don't preserve order. PHP's almost always do.

This is the point at which serious students of language design point out that, if you look at it from a certain angle, PHP doesn't have arrays built into the language. As it turns out, treating two distinctly different data structures with different semantics and performance characteristics as the same thing multiplies edge cases and bugs.
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Actually I disagree about your "cheap talent" remark. When you are building a scalable startup, looking for cheap labor is not a good idea since it's a part of "fixed cost" you have. Moreover, you don't need that many developers nowadays to build a startup. You only need a couple really good developers, and you want to either pay them really well or have them as your co-founders. (disclaimer: I'm a programmer myself).
Steve Jobs has died.
Looks legitimate: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Goodbye, sir. Thank you for changing my life.
I was waiting for something at the end like, "And one more thing. Drop the -ify. Just Spot. Cleaner."
I was honestly kind of expecting this. A person like Steve Jobs doesn't step away from everything that defines him unless something is seriously wrong.
A great man. Rest in peace, my friend.
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I think you should do something you enjoy and love. Life is too short, but then again, I'm not one to ask regarding traditional "jobs" and job longevity. Ha!
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
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While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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I actually cried when I read this.

RIP Steve!
I can't wait to see what he invents at his new place.
Inane anecdata. And marketing spam.

Which is a shame, because the underlying product looks reasonably nice.
I was hoping for some pictures that showed the progression of the UI through those 15 years but their Happy Birthday page didn't have it.

So the closest I could dig up is from the GUIdebook:

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/kde
For real? Sadly, knew he was sick, but wasn't expecting this.

The world has lost a unique and brilliant technology / business / design leader, the likes of which are few and far between.
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I was playing with the new iPhone features page at http://apple.com/iphone/features on iPad running iOS 4 and it has several horizontal scrolling bits that seem to work quite well. swap_view.js is probably responsible for the scrolling but I can't quite figure out how it works, perhaps this could be a viable alternate method?
I think newbies just found easier languages to work with...

Change that infinitive to "to deploy", and you're spot on.
Sad news. He was in the same league as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford.
WoW! Just wow.

Here is to a life of unrelenting pursuit of perfection.
What a strange thing. I'm actually going to miss him a little as if I had known him.

Its not going to be quite the same now that I know "the Steve" is not in his Cupertino lair working his magic.
This is the first "celebrity" death in recent history that's really upset me :/

I feel like he really truly had a rare combination of drive, personality, and talent that is extremely rare, dare I say one of a kind? Our field owes him a great debt for pushing us forward, even when we didn't want to.

RIP Steve.
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:(

I haven't the words.
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very tasteful, props Apple.
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Not a perfect man (who, even among the great, is?), but in his own way he did his fair share for the betterment of mankind. He helped people connect with each other, he helped people do their jobs, he helped people make art. We should all be so lucky.
I will never forget this moment.
here starts the legend, Thanks Steve!
You're not getting what I'm saying. Even if you are super careful, mistakes will be made. What's important is how you deal will them once they're there.

PHP chooses to be ugly, over shafting its user-base by deprecating shit left and right. I like that. It tells me I can use it in a production setting.
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This makes me really really sad deep inside. What an incredible journey.
India is way too crowded. Plus there's the language issue, standard of living, and whether the salary/pay would be the same as the salary in US and other challenges.
I'd definitely make a pro/con list depending on the opportunity and country and make up my mind then.

I wouldn't mind New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, or a nice European country or maybe even Costa Rica. I'm open minded.
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The Chromebook has another advantage related to automatic software updates: by focusing on web apps, it ensures most apps are up-to-date (since web apps, due to the distribution medium, always use the latest version).
Wikipedia also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs

I did not keep tabs on his current condition, but his passing makes me really sad.
He was 56 years old, too young to die :(
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You're not following. Broadly speaking, better talent costs more money. The more money you have to spend on talent, the better the talent you retain will be. It's not about looking for "cheap labor"; it's about being able to find, recruit, and retain better people.

Think of it as a market inefficiency (albeit one that is difficult to "fix"): the stickiness of people's locales prevents them from maximizing their opportunities and decreases demand for their services in SFBA and increases their supply in (say) MSP.
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Almost wierd that I feel sick to my stomach.

RIP Steve. We'll certainly miss the most important innovator of our times.
If Sprint's coverage was a bit better, and CDMA was a bit faster, I would be inclined to agree but as it stands having poor (or no signal) and slower speeds is a pretty big trade-off to make for some people. I opted to go the other direction. I decreased everything on my plan to get my AT&T bill down to $54/month. Tiny voice plan (they don't advertise it, call and threaten to cancel and they will offer it) 2GB of data, 250 texts. Fits my usage needs very well. Cheap. Fast. Good coverage. I would have possibly went with the 250MB data plan, since I use wifi 90% of the time, but they offered me a deal on the 2GB plan. I looked back at my data usage for the last 4 years and I went over 2GB once while I was on vacation.
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This kind of stuff is par for the course when developing for web iOS, sadly.

To get truly good easing functions, you usually have to write your own (the built-in ones in CSS are limited and rarely look good). Scrolling the page disables ALL transform repainting until the scroll has completed, so if you want to do anything fancy during a scroll you have to disable native scrolling and simulate it with scrollability (or something similar). iOS does not handle images well, especially high-res images (or many small images). Nor, sadly, does it handly opacity transforms well.

There are hacks to get around most of these limitations, but if you are, say, in a situation where you want to animate a series of images in a manner that involves opacity, you're going to get a royal headache. Think that's not that common? It happens more often than you'd think, usually in the form of fancy transitions between UI elements.
Steve Jobs has inspired us all, through his business philosophy, through pushing the mobile landscape to where it is today, for changing the music industry as we know it, for his snappy turtle-necks, for the opportunities he has given his employees and developers on iOS.

The world lost one of the greatest business man of all time.

RIP
He's right-- if you're about to die, there are no limitations. You can, for example, cook meth with one of your former students.

The problem is when you're not about to die. Then embarrassment and failure are real issues. You do have something to lose-- your life! Your friends, your house, your possessions, your family, so many things to lose.

If you're going to lose it all anyway, taking risks is not a big deal. If you're 20 something and have your whole life ahead of you, taking risks is a really big deal.

Rest in peace jobs, you will be missed.
My first computer was a Macintosh Plus at age ~5. Not sure what I would be doing with my life without his contribution.
Not entirely unexpected but still sad. The end of an era. He will be missed by many.
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Rest in peace, Steve.

While everything you built wasn't necessarily for me, god damn if it wasn't brilliant. Everybody in the community really seemed to speak highly of you, I wish I would have had the chance to experience this in person.

The world will always, always love you, and love the impact that you made on it. Thank you for that.
Knew he was sick, but wasn't expecting this.

The world has lost a unique and brilliant technology-business-design leader, the likes of which are few and far between.
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Jobs imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn’t have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. “When you’re the janitor,” Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs, “reasons matter.” He continues: “Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.” That “Rubicon,” he has said, “is crossed when you become a VP.

-- Jobs (via secondary source [1])

[1] http://www.macstories.net/news/inside-apple-reveals-steve-jo...
It's almost impossible for me to imagine the tech world without Jobs... the world has lost a visionary man today.
I didn't realize how sick he was. I wish his family well and I hope he was able to enjoy his successors first product launch yesterday and know that he left Apple in good hands. A sad day for everyone.
The homepage of Apple right now is such an appropriate tribute. Stark. Clean. Compassionate. Human.
Wow. He held on just long enough to make sure an Apple product announcement went on successfully without him.
Cancer sucks.

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http://www.apple.com/ apple.com is dedicated to him.
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TCP_NOPUSH is broken, too - if you enable it and then later disable it with setsockopt, it doesn't immediately send any pending data (as it does on FreeBSD, and as TCP_CORK does on Linux).

IIRC, a lot of their code came from FreeBSD back in the day. I wonder why they didn't keep it in sync?
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He held out for one final launch. When I think about that, I cry. His passion kept him going, passion for work, passion for life, passion to make a difference.
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