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Law of leaky abstractions at its best (or worst): you decide to use a vm and gc to abstract from manual memory management only to deal with gory details of memory padding and internals of jvm later. Ouch.
Give it another try. We made a few small improvements that turned out to be quite significant.
PPs (and similar shenanigans) are a great way to turn your company into a smoking crater, programmer-wise. Doubly so for relatively insignificant things like not turning up at 9.00am...
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True, but when entering a new line of business, the ability to solve difficult problems is a competitive advantage that a small start-up can leverage against a large company.

"Use difficulty as a guide not just in selecting the overall aim of your company, but also at decision points along the way. At Viaweb one of our rules of thumb was run upstairs. Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him."

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Most crackpots are quite aware of the public, and expert, opinion on their ideas and use that to strategically undermine criticism by acknowledging at upfront. Drawing attention to criticism lowers the chance that someone will be influenced by that criticism: "if the crackpot himself draws attention to the argument, surely it can't be any good?"

The fallacy here is that acknowledging some opinion exists in no way implies you have have seriously considered it; let alone have refuted it.
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A heads-up for patio11: There is lots of good stuff here, but it needs to be copyedited. There are a bunch of little errors like the one quoted above.
Wow. Good catch. When the main element of an app's pitch is that it looks great, it removes a lot of the cool factor to find out that the look was achieved by dropping in a canned theme.
I doubt anyone will use this to kill someone, but it's good that the vulnerability was discovered so soon - the next models will have protection. Besides, people have been killing each other for millions of years - doing it with a wireless device instead of a knife doesn't change much.
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That is pretty much the center of the debate: since that funding comes like an investment for research (think angel funds), shouldn't a greater of such return be given back as intellectual products?

I really don't know if the current return of those IP portfolios are enough to offset the money required to be poured in to the research community. Given that every government on the earth still need to subsidy many researches, it is pretty likely that the system are simply losing money.

We all know the incentive/motivation part of psychology, that if researchers get nothing in return (justifiable salaries or IP rights) they won't work as hard to solve the problems. The point of balance, given the current status of capitalism is really hard to redefine.

We always hear companies started by members from previously government/university funded projects. The public should be more informed for the process of how that company would pay back the researching funding the research projects have spent on, and the risk inferred for sponsoring any researches.

Sounds like VCs, but that's how it should go.
It's not impossible to make it symmetric for both, though. With consistent spacings. E.g.

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The stock JVM is exceptionally bizarre about this because of the insane decision to pad all fields to memory boundaries (which means on a 32 bit machine a class with 10 individual bit fields consumes 40 bytes of memory instead of something sane, like, say, 2). It also has an enormous amount of header overhead; a smallint on a competent Lisp or Smalltalk image takes up, say, one 4 byte word and can use 30 bits of that for data. Java's Integer class which is similar in intent is (in stock JVM) somewhere between 12 and 32 depending on VM settings. I've never seen another VM quite like it. In a previous job we got burned pretty hard by the amount of sheer overhead in this and I had to spend about six months converting everything over to use raw int arrays and copy-on-write objects so we could fit a reasonable but not really huge dataset into memory.

Despite this, Hotspot is very good and the stock JVM GC is very useful and it is reasonably straightforward to get visibility into the state of the heap and what is going on with the GC. I've never worked in a professional capacity that has anything comparable to VisualVM, although I gather Smalltalk and commercial Lisps have comparable offerings, and you only have to program in Ruby for a while to learn to appreciate the GC quality.
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"Protecting his business interests"

Who funds his research? If he is funding it out of his own pocket then yes, I think it would be fair for him to have some joint ownership of the IP. However, if it was funded by someone else (e.g. the public) then my view is that everyone who contributed to funding that research should have the ability to access and use the results.
As I've said below[1], less margin on the edge will make more room for app title for the 2nd and 3rd icons.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171496
I'm never going to be modest from here on out and will act like a pompous douche when deemed necessary. I see people act this way ALL the time, and I figured people could see right through their bullshit. Apparently not, as it clearly does not matter if they are right - only if their bullshit is passable. Apparently being modest does not work to my advantage. I have no choice but to play the game.

The question you have to ask yourself is "am I an exceptional software developer?"[1]. If you are at all unsure about that then the answer is probably no (the fact you are even on here at all worrying about these things indicates the answer is no).

Given that you are not exceptional, the first thing to do is stop listening to the career advice of exceptional people: they base their advice on their own personal experience[2]. They were able to start their own successful companies, or got well rewarded and promoted/hired for top jobs at the large companies, because they are exceptional. 'Restrained confidence' won't get you very far if you don't have extraordinary skills to make you stand out; you will be competing with many others of similar skill level who are quite happy to play the 'pompous douche' character, to lie about their experience and skills and so on. That problem you solved last week that saved the company X$? Your 'pompous douche' colleague has already taken credit for it. You will be annihilated by these competitors every time unless you play the game because bosses and recruiters won't even realise you exist.

Or you could go your own way, if you are happy struggling to pay the rent every month (please don't go this route if you have family/children).

The final 'nuclear' option is to quite the entire industry for one that is less psychopathic, but I've yet to identify such an industry; if you find it please let me know.

[1] as the article points out, if you are referring to yourself as 'programmer' or 'software developer' then you have already gone wrong

[2] this is also why you shouldn't listen to people like Steve Jobs when they give a graduation speech telling you to 'take big risks because it will all work out in the end'. No shit it all works out if you are Steve Jobs, but you aren't Steve Jobs. They don't get people who took huge risks and crashed and burned to give graduation talks.
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted, either. Your comment contributed positively to the discussion. No need for downvotes here.
The way they are proposing is clearly not the way to do it. Just because Hollywood is contributing to the economy, doesn't mean they are the only ones, and you should throw the Internet away just to save Hollywood. Because apparently that's how they think, when they try to push for laws like these. They really don't care about the consequences. They just want something to stop piracy.

And worst of all, just like DRM and any other anti-piracy measure in history, it will still probably not stop piracy. There will be made other encrypted and anonymous tools to deliver piracy files to the people who want them, and so on. In the meantime, it will break the Internet for the rest of us.

Plus, who's to say the Internet isn't disrupting the big content industry, just like it has disrupted pretty much everything else? So far it has turned out a net positive results. Why should the Government save an industry from disruption? It's not their job to do that, and it will have a negative effect in the long term. This is almost like the bailouts all over again.

If you ask me, I think we'll need an #OccupyHollywood soon.
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Why aren't there many over-weight entrepreneurs in the Vally? I mean just look at how many over weight americans in US and they are under-presented in tech. I'm pissed. I'm going to start a OverWeightMe incubator that helps fat people. And any news media or investor who is not paying attention is a a weight-ist. You all should all write about me and fund me because i'm fat and under-presented so I deserve it.

Sarcasm aside, let me tell you why there are so few black tech entrepreneurs. Fact 1: Most successful tech founders in the Valley are themselves technical. Fact 2: Go to your favorite college, how many black people there studying math or computer science ? how many white or asians?

If there are very small percentage of black studying math and computer science, of course, the number of the black tech entrepreneurs would be small.

To all the black people out there, please don't turn venture capitalism into philanthropy. You will destroy Silicon Vally.

The whole sport (e.g basketball) industry is dominated by black people. Do you see asian people crying around shouting 'racism'? If you are really good (like in sports), you gain success. If you are not good, you're not (like making tech companies). It's simple.
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People complaining that these channels don't have broad appeal are missing the point.

The cheap economics of Youtube broadcasting make producing content for micro-market segments economically viable, in exactly the same way that many niche blogs are profitable in segments that would have struggled to support a print magazine
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Google removed "Reply by chat" if recipient is off-line. Insanity
If I got a question via chat when I was off-line, I want to respond via chat as it's important (at least to me) to preserve discussion continuity. And that is also what "reply by chat" is for, to not start new conversation. Not everyone is on-line all the time, so it's fine to reply even if my interlocutor is not on gtalk/gmail/whatever right now.

But since today (or maybe earlier, but I did not notice it before) I cannot (seeing only "XYZ is not available to chat") and it's ridiculous. Don't you think?
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When I mean legally, I mean to protect the company against being sued for firing you. Yes, there are cases where there are immediate terminations. PP assist in the less egregious cases where there is gray areas. In fact, you can argue that the entire point of an HR department is to protect the company from getting sued.
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Not very good advice. It's basically an accountants view of engineering, which can be summarized as follows:

- Only be interested in increasing profit or reducing cost

- Don't care about what you do unless it conflicts with the above

- Treat people you meet as commodities

- Produce cruddy code, because "good enough" is all that matters

- Good engineering is not a "profit center"

- Don't bother keeping up with new programming languages or new techniques
It's a great way to learn how Linux works. I don't know of anybody using a Linux they've built from scratch for anything other than their education, though.
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Just yesterday I was forced to take SCREENSHOTS of a 15 page doc because the save button was greyed out. Why? why even give uploaders the option? /rage
I'd imagine most high-school level physics teachers make those kind of jokes, I know mine did. I never really liked them, or things like this: http://xkcd.com/123/ Regarding the jocks, they're still struggling with the fact that words don't have meanings, as properties of the words themselves; let alone the secondary problem of the same word having drastically different meanings.
Oh true, missed that. Finally pulled out the phone to realize this. And then the other option 16+20+20+20+16 / 32+40+40+40+32 already has too big a difference between the margins on the edges compared to the ones between the icons. Makes perfect sense now.
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I am very much against restrictive systems.

But standards compliance is a sort of restriction on the apps the user can run. If you make the standards stricter and stricter, you restrict the space of configurations more -- and make it easier to get configurations that work together.
I find it amusing that people hate on regular TV for being brainless junk, even going as far as to sell the TV they own...then as a replacement they watch youtube videos for hours a day. Ridiculous and shows people just don't get the concept of why to get rid of the TV in the first place.
Fair enough, it's difficult. I'm sensing a lot of hatred for suits here though :)

I'm not sure what to say about choosing who to work with. It's difficult, but frankly you have to trust people now and again or you'll have a rubbish life. I suggest you try working with someone on a small project and see how it goes.
One caveat to the replies here, is not to price yourself out of the role. If you're dealing with someone smart, they will want to negotiate benefits early in the process, rather than later - exactly because of the reasons in the article.

If this is early stages of the hiring process, then just move the discussion on, "It's OK, but other things are more important to me than salary..." then ask a question about something you are interested in - vacation days, free lunches, opportunities for travel, whatever.

If you do disclose numbers at early stages, and your number is over budget, to the point where it will need the approval of senior management, then you'd better hope you're #1 on their candidate list by a good margin. No one wants to go to senior management, cap in hand, to ask for a budget extension for someone they've not yet worked with. It's too big a risk unless your reputation precedes you.
I remember writing one on my Atari ST.

Boot viruses were to major form of viruses back then, there was a fun one that reversed your mouse's y-axis after a while. There weren't many destructive ones though.
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So we only disagree in edge-case terminology. I think your trying to worm out of your missclassification, but no worries.

Yes, to get these numbers i have had to minimise syscalls. Thats the advantage of hellepoll. I wrote the http server just to release it, as before it was an rtmp server but it was commercial and couldn't be released. That had write buffers usr side too which helped even more.

And i understand what ab and httperf test, and yes i am counting served pages.

Finally, i spend a lot pf time staring at linux perf reports and timecharts.
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Yes. Many Apple products are very symmetrical, even looking at our old iBook G4, there has been an attempt to make it as symmetrical as possible.
Having an over-inflated ego can backfire badly in all aspects of life. If you are involved with any aspect of engineering or delivering any good or service then as soon as you start believing that bullshit is more important than reality then you're setting yourself up for a fall of monumental proportions.
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It's big endian.

The CIA or somebody limited it to 8000Hz. They do shit like that.
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I'm kind of terrified of "At the end of the day, your life happiness will not be dominated by your career." Hopefully he means that primarily for employees, not for startup founders, and even then, I know a lot of people who work in research, engineering, etc. where career is by far #1.
Lots of (especially cheaper) machines ship without a TPM, so it's difficult for anything to explicitly require it yet. It's something to be concerned about in future, but not an immediate issue.
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These comments are not offensive enough for you to wuss out and use a temp account.

When it comes to sports, it's easy to claim they are a meritocracy because the players don't always look like the coaches or GMs. If the players and coaches always looked the same, people might question it.

People are generally blind to their biases, and some biases are wrong. For example you mentioned most founders being technical, but some VCs have promoted picking startups run by designers.

Let's not pretend venture capital is a completely neutral meritocracy. There are plenty of VCs who speak about the herd mentality within their profession and how many social factors like "who's already invested" have an effect on where money goes.

I thought venture capital would be full of strictly analytical decisions, but the more you listen to VCs talk about themselves the more you realize that they use many social factors to try to mitigate their perceived risk. It's possible things could be overlooked. It's not just complaining. How else could a person bring attention to something without talking about it? Edit: I don't see a difference between this argument and the belief that most of the startup talent is in Silicon Valley. Convincing and generally accepted, but not necessarily true.

edit: Don't just vote me down because you disagree. Please respond.
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That wasn't point of the post, the point was mere doing technically difficult work and then assuming that will help you get that edge is often wrong. Or putting it the other way, you must do what it takes.

The problem is few people take it as a gospel truth that if the problems you work on are difficult you've got win bigger than the guy working lesser difficult problems.

This goes even further with some people who consider the only way to win big is to work with difficult problems.

That is when people get it completely wrong.
When you have become sufficiently well known for your technical expertise, you can once again call yourself a programmer. If you're lucky, you may have gotten there while calling yourself a programmer. Patrick's point is that most people can more easily get there by not calling themselves programmers.
I personally wouldn't use it, I don't feel the pain that this service is trying to solve. Maybe some better examples on the landing page would persuade me.

The design and layout needs a lot of work. At the moment it's got that "Designed by a developer" look and feel.

Only one redeeming feature.

The video.

Who is that ? How did you persuade them to be so excited about RSS.
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Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter.

It does matter in so far products come and go and you don't want to accumulate knowledge on a product that's going to disappear from the market.

I worked with SGI IRIX from 1991-1996. The company has since gone bankrupt twice and IRIX has disappeared from the market. All the knowledge I accumulated on IRIX is worth nothing because it's no longer in demand. Practically noone still has IRIX machines in production.

In 1996, I switched to Linux. It had a vibrant community and you could feel it's growing rapidly. Turns out that knowledge is still valuable.

So it's really important for engineers to keep a close eye on the marketplace: If something's getting out of business or out of fashion, stop investing time in it. Instead, be on the lookout for stuff that's growing. In general, open source stuff has a longer lifetime because it can be forked if need be, wheras proprietary stuff is often problematic as companies change their mind on a whim. HP/WebOS is a recent example.