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I agree. I did this for 5 months and counting, and the thing is I am horrible at detecting when I am starting to burn out.

Last weekend, I experienced a very scary panic attack while I was commuting back home. It felt like my brain cells were literally killing each other, and that something extremely horrible was going to happen. I thought I was going to have a heart attack... when I went home, I told myself to take the weekend off which I did.. I got a massage, and now I've promised myself to sleep on time everyday, and get up earlier.

Everyone thinks mental breakdowns and insanity happens to "other people" (the ones in mental hospitals, the ones taking Prozac, etc). What we don't realize is that mental breakdowns can easily happen to us if we don't take care of ourselves.
Just want to say that that is extremely cool and I wish I could see the world through your brain.
It's tough when you're bootstrapping a web app and
still have a day job.

Beware of $dayjob claiming your $idea once it shows signs of taking off.

I think you should tell your day-job about your potential business before you start. Get them to sign something that says

1) You agree not to use equipment/premises belonging to $dayjob to build $idea

2) You will never work on $idea during any hours you're getting paid by $dayjob

3) $idea does not directly compete with $dayjob

4) They recognize that they have no claim to $idea or anything else you build to support it

If $dayjob is a large enough to have a dedicated HR dept they probably have a specific form to fill out.
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It's an awkward title (I had to think myself "What was that one called?") but if I gave it the obvious title it would spoil the surprise ending.
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EA also updated Origin's EULA after that article was posted:

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/26/ea-revises-origin-eula-dat...
No no, I think you misunderstand my point.

It's the suits job, nay legal obligation in the case of a publicly held company, to maximize profits. More and more frequently we're seeing profits take precedence over privacy and customers, and I don't think that would have been possible as a bottom-up change coming from coders.
No, this change came from the top, and coming from the top it spread to the tops of other companies like wildfire.

Also, I have no hesitations about throwing lawyers under the bus as well. They're the front line in the battle that these companies are waging against, what are often times paying customers, never mind that they're paying customers too and that they're ruining the future for our and their own children.
What, you think it's just a matter of perspective and a lawyer sees things differently than I do? Show me one lawyer who has no qualms about arguing that a corporation is a person, and I'll show you a person who's sold their soul.
Thats kind of misleading. First those figures are probably notional underlying, which doesnt mean much. Second contracts have a buyer and a seller, so net value is zero. So it does not work like a stock market crash destroying (presumed) wealth.

They should be teaching kids the basics of this stuff in schools...
Also depends on where you live. For example, in Washington an employer cannot claim ownership of something you built in your own time, assuming that you didn't use any of their resources.
Does Haskell offer any tangible, practical advantages or benefits over other languages in the context of a web framework, aside from just "if you prefer a functional style of programming and you're working on a web project, here's a way to do it"?

I'd love for somebody to convince me why a Haskell approach to web frameworks is superior to Python/PHP/Ruby/JS beyond the usual "it's a matter of taste" argument.
Are you really interested in learning quant finance (learning how to mathematically model various parts of financial markets, pricing/measuring risk of specific instruments, etc.) or are you interested in programming systems for the financial industry (trading/risk/compliance/banking/etc)?

This book, "Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies" (http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Trading-DMA-introduction-s...) is pretty darn good if you are a programmer. However, if you really meant "quant finance," then others can give you better suggestions :)

edit: I just remembered, Paul Wilmott and Hull have several introductory books if you are interested in what is usually called "quantitative finance." This means how to price options, futures, etc. From what I recall, this does NOT mean using statistical correlations to trade two similar stocks, making market-making models, etc.
Wow. I explained the memory usage/needs in a very similar way to my uncle, only I said that the books were 'carried' by the person (memory), not put on a table.

Yours is better, though. I'll be stealing that :)
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I wonder why they didn't use F#.
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Getting Windows to run is the least of problems in the current light. The problem is running something that's not Windows. Nobody cares about some lousy pirates.
Just 'fisheye' seems more natural.
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Someone said that Steve Jobs painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that Dennis Ritchie built. Does that count?
Using twitter gave me a socket error, Google worked.
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And the classic answer for 8, if writing it down on a post it note allows you to keep a more secure password, do it. It's not electronically accessible (barring some clever webcam hacks).
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Sorry for the tangent but is 20 students per class typical for the US? Here in the UK my classes in high school were typically 30. 35 in science! :-) With 5 classes of an hour each. That, to my surprise, drops the 9c/m to 4c/m(!)
This is a very good point.

Also, in my case, I know that there are some things I'd like to do that are almost impossible to do when you're small or it would be a complete waste to reinvent the wheel.

Some biggies already have the technology I'd need to get closer to my dream, so I think the ideal path is to keep developing and getting a high profile in a niche that is under the radar and not easily replicable, and scope out potential buyers, not just by money offered but by product/vision fit.

In short, it's a mental thing, not what happens on contract paper, that counts.
we should develop and promote a more deliberate practice of discovering passions worth pursuing and problems worth solving in a less haphazard way

Sounds like someone who is tiptoeing right up to the edge of recommending a liberal arts education and then shying away. ;)

I understand the reluctance. If I were back in the time of my own college days, I'd encourage people to go to college and study miscellaneous stuff – and hang around with miscellaneous other people – as a way of broadening their minds. These days, with tuition having grown at huge annual rates for years, and the cost of a four-year degree exceeding the cost of an entire house, it's getting harder and harder for me to do so with a straight face.

I guess one cheap alternative is for us to keep trying to start interesting, miscellaneous conversations on sites like this one.
He answered that too: language maturity. He was unfamiliar with the .NET ecosystem in general, and the availability of help/expertise/examples etc was much greater for C# than F#.
High frequency trading and quantitative trading aren't the same thing. High frequency is very basic math and a lot of technology to make trades happen as fast as possible. Low latency becomes difficult when you're running complex math on real time data. HFT is generally used by market makers. HFT is the next evolution of day-trading, since all trading is trying to react to news quicker.

Quantitative finance is very complex math used to model and backtest data. It is used by hedge funds, long-term traders, and shops that analyze data to find securities that they believe are mispriced.

(This is obviously a highly simplified description of the field.)
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I'd love to think that humans would go to the moon again, or Mars, but (http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/why-not-space/) shows that it's not likely.

600 km is a little bit more than LA to San Francisco.
Links to one video per speaker: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos?page=1
> It's just mind-blogging to me how many business owners are so ignorant about the tech that runs their business.

in my mind, this is the very definition of "uninformed choice". you don't have to be uninformed on purpose, you could also be kept in the dark intentionally by salespeople. you're still making a choice based on an incomplete picture.
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Brian just didn't wanted to have another risk,
because F# is less mainstream than C#.
People are freaking out on this like it's already happening. I point out how you can monitor the program and now I'm getting a negative feedback? Fuck this place.
Also don't try to go to a CC to save money first unless you know for a fact that you want to want to transfer to schools they articulate with. Many of the schools with the best CS programs take a ridiculously small percent of transfers.

Are you on the East coast? How were your sat/act scores? I would try CMU, Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Tech, NC Chapel Hill, & maybe Berkeley if you're willing to move that far.

Remember as a nontraditional student you will get increased financial aid availability for housing and other expenses that someone under 23 doesn't get.

Also note that if you can get into a private school, they usually have incredibly high grant offerings. The hard part isn't paying for private, it's getting in.

Lastly, your financial aid works of the previous tax year. While in school I was able to keep my income below 15k / year and got full aid the entire time. If yours is higher, then your expected contribution may match or outweigh the yearly cost of a public school, but you'll still have a shot at very high aid packages at private schools because of the cost difference.

Check financial aid info at http://www.collegeboard.com
Your next step, no matter what, is to fill out the fafsa at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov
You have to wait for a pin so start right now. Then when you get your pin, it shouldn't take you more than an hour with a W2 to estimate your EFC.

Armed with that information, you can start asking the right questions about cost. And if you decide to wait another year, then all you have to do is update your account instead of redoing the whole thing.
I've always used real estate to explain my web business. Americans are (still, somehow) obsessed with real estate, so it goes over well.

Domain Names are land.

Websites/Apps that site on top of a domain name are houses.

A great house on a good piece of land in the nice part of town is what I try to own.

Sometimes I just buy the land and build my own house.

Sometimes I buy a really crappy house in a nice part of town and fix it up.
W12 applicants: remember, your participation in YC isn't something you necessarily want to publicise straight away. Announcing you are YC funded is a press story in its own right (here's our story from when we announced our YC participation: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/lanyrd/ ) - you should hold on to the story until the right moment.

Just something to bear in mind.
Look at it the other way:

China has a big IT ambition and it surely doesn't want to get locked out of its own PCs, so it would try to push their CA into BIOSes just to be a first class citizen if they'll try to build their own OS.
But the fact that they have their CA in the BIOS would be unsettling for some.
Haskell's advantages (and disadvantages) as a Web Framework are generally the same as in any other application domain: performance, concurrency, and correctness.
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Genies don't stay in bottles: if I can single-handedly invent such an important technology now, someone else will independently invent it within the next couple of decades.
The news blurbs I see make me think more and more exchanges around the world actually welcome HFT volume. Exchanges in Latin America, for example, are quickly modernizing to allow automated traders to come in.

Remember, exchanges benefit from greater volume (more fees).

With regards to the quants being trashed, you will always need people who can rigorously describe a system (I do realize that rigor and accuracy are different). The quants are not going anywhere :)
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After poking around little bit, it appears you need to poll for updates. To clarify, when you say "real-time" you mean "changes are reflected quickly" and not "changes are pushed to clients"?
This is a horrible idea. Detecting things like publish date is incredibly difficult. I can totally understand the aversion to wanting to generalize tags but this one is, IMHO, appropriate.
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Absolute rubbish. "Momentum" is just cargo cult talk, meaning "statistics went their way". This article is just car sales pep talk. ABC - Always Be Closing. Yadda yadda yadda.
Going into how to handle a lot of async callbacks/requests would be entirely different subject matter, would it not? The blog post is titled "Nodejs and MongoDB, A Beginner’s Approach" and that's the subject matter it tackles.
And about fifteen minutes later when the catsplosion hit, really, really slow, right? :)
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Apple wouldn't be alive without the existence of so-called "Cash Startups". The entire iLife suite, Siri, and a host of their other products came from buying out small companies. I wonder how Steve would have responded if the Dropbox guys showed him that quote in their negotiations.
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You attacked that sort of thinking a couple of times at Startup School events. In certain ways, it was troublesome, because I like to think that's the sort of person I am, or the business that I want to start. But now hearing you say again (paraphrase) "we did it this way, and we liked some of the problems, but really we thought it was just a great opportunity" is promising. Is what you're trying to say, that the 'best' startups are usually founded by people who have deep emotional ties about the problems they're solving? (say, anybots, facebook, google) but that it can still work with the right people and the right ideas/timing (viaweb, slide, FriendFeed(?)).

IF YCs stance is to pick the former as much as possible (or all the time). What can a valley outsider do to get the later started?

Sorry, this is the type of question I would have loved to ask at startup school, it just took a couple of days to formulate.
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Nope, we push changes to clients.

The exact workflow is: the initial data is pulled over HTTP, the code connects to our server over WebSockets and after that no more requests are made. The real-time updates are pushed over the WebSocket connection.
A magnetic / whiteboard planning calendar might work though.

You'd have current month large, then scale down through future 3 months, remainder of year, future years. Post-its / whiteboard marker / magnetic markers for various events.

The advantage of software is of course that you can have scaled views but infinite (or at least very large) storage capacity.
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Actually, the requirement for adding firmware (something that is loaded onto a chip) to OpenBSD is that it be modifiable. Source isn't required. (Speaking only about firmware that goes on the chip, not HAL layers that run on the CPU. Those are banned in binary form.)

I'd say the biggest difference here is that OpenBSD's goal is to make a free operating system, not a free phone.
Hull is always the first recommendation. After that, it depends what area you're interested in. You could move on to Shreve for more hard core quantity material, or go to Tsay (Analysis of Financial Time Series) for a time series primer. You could try Natenberg for options material or Grinld and Khan for portfolio management. Not too much useful material on HFT out there. Agreed that Harris is useful but out of date.
Can this even be legal? I see this is getting more and more common. Something has to be done about it now before every program you install starts calling home with info about your personal files.

Spotify does the same thing. Read the user agreement, in there somewhere theres a line about giving them full right to analyze and track your personal music collection that you have stored locally on your computer. Yes, that means your local mp3-files completely unrelated to the spotify service.
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Yeah, I'd say many folks will probably end up wanting to use something like Mongoose to abstract the nitty-gritty details of Node/MongoDB interaction, but knowing how to use the underlying library (and node-mongodb-native is the most popular of them by far) is healthy for beginners.
I think I want to have some fun with this. No idea whatsoever what I want to build, but it might be totally awesome.
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Our team's been using node/mongo in production for nearly a year now - on large social games.

The win on engineering productivity alone has made them a good choice for us.
Alternatively, go to school abroad (specifically, Europe.) Tuition is often less than $3,000 USD annually, and you're in a completely different environment, which (hopefully) will expand your mind more than Podunk U.
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I think those are the exact arguments Steve used about Apple (and Mark about Facebook). It was an interesting project; didn't plan it; it took over his life; other people would ruin it; the money was't an important factor.

Interesting. Thanks.
Exactly, Steve wouldn't be back at Apple if he(Next) didn't sell out. No Apple A4/A5 if PASemi didn't sell out. No Siri either if Siri didn't sell out.
Mongoose is pretty good for succinct Node/MongoDB interaction.
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Thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure how I missed that when reviewing the example code.
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> What happens if we, as developers, just keep on using it?

IE6 happens, I guess
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It's worth noting that Steve Jobs was one of the few lucky ones to work doing something that they love. Working hard in this context still qualifies as hard work, but believing that it's all what entrepreneurship is about is a rather naive and delusional view of things.
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The above will help you design trading strategies. For modelling derivatives and such, you'll have to check out books on stochastic calculus (not my thing, so can't help there).
so exactly when are we getting our emails? or will the list be published online?
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(Retrieved by setting my User-Agent to that of an iPad, which causes infoq to serve up a <video> tag.)
Also, starting a company and being an Entrepreneur are not the same thing. There are many owners of small businesses that would certainly not consider themselves Entrepreneurs. I never hear that term tossed around by the owner of the local Deli.
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I own and have read Pearl's book "Causality", and it does not relate to finance at all. It's a good book otherwise, though.
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"because I don't need the money and it wouldn't be worth the risk that the acquirer would ruin it."

last night i watched the movie "meet joe black" and that sentence reminded me of a quote that "william parish" said when he realized he was going to die.

"I don't want anybody buying up my life's work! Turning it into something it wasn't meant to be. A man wants to leave something behind. And he wants it left behind the way he made it. He wants it to be run the way he run it, with a sense of honor, of dedication, of truth. Okay? "

i'm not saying it's the same thing, but, it did remind me of the movie.
While "meditating" one night, I had nearly the opposite perception. I realized that time is just one long stretch, and our convention of splitting it up into weeks, months, and years is just a way to allow us to repeat the same existence over and over again. The day is the only unit that we biologically require, since we have to sleep once per day. We spend five days working, looking forward to those two that we can do what we want, before spending another five working again. We enjoy a given holiday, so we spend a dozen or two days anticipating it, hoping that this year's installment is just as enjoyable.

At the time I had the "insight", it was incredibly sad to me. I felt like we have a beautiful stretch of time laying out in front of us, and instead of enjoying every unique moment, we entangle it with spirals and walk through similar lives, week after week, month after month, year after year.
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It's actually not. The US government doesn't have to worry about malicious hardware spying on them, because all the hardware is designed (and mostly manufactured) in the US. China, on the other hand, can't trust Microsoft or Intel, so they have to develop their own stuff. Since that's hard, they pawn it off on the Free Software community, who wants the same thing they do (but for different reasons). "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to do the display side of this in VERY low power? Are there cheap android tablets or whatever that might be suitable?

I want to do something like this but don't need to consume tons of watts...
I guess you meant this thread -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173000
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