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Early in life, or as a means to an end, that's not entirely incompatible. Career success can give you a great leg up in terms of attracting a life partner or supporting a family. But the simple, sad fact is that most work that actually needs to get done is just work. There are aspects of it one can enjoy, and aspects of it one merely tolerates as a means to an end--be it the fulfilling parts of the job itself, or just making a living. It's not necessarily a healthy or fulfilling place to focus one's passions and build one's life around.

Even Steve Jobs said that having kids was more fulfilling than starting companies and creating products. If you're a startup founder, there's a few ways you can go. You can spend a few years working very hard in the hopes that you get rich. Then you have financial independence, which solves a lot of problems and allows you to focus on doing fulfilling but less lucrative things with your life. If you're not going for a huge liquidity event, you can spend a few years working very hard in the hopes that you can create a successful and sustainable business which, hopefully, you can happily spend a good long time working at in a role you created to suit your own skills and interests, like "CEO".

There are always exceptions, and there's a romantic appeal to figures like Erdos, but it's a huge disservice and a huge sense of entitlement to expect a career, of all things, to take a central place in a happy and balanced life.
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Not only that (it would be OK if it was the only problem): the article is in a form of a thriller-movie rather than a scientific (or popular science) article - too many interspersed digressions, you have to read it until the very end to get the basic facts (contrary to the "inverted pyramid" principle). I would expect such an article to be broken down, with trivia such as details about the container markings extracted to text boxes.
Thanks for the feedback and suggestions Ian, as for the design, well, it's a themeforest template ( http://themeforest.net/item/oneland-landing-page/156922 ) and that guy seems to know his stuff. Glad you like the video, I wasn't sure about that, I had the choice between this and a demo video...RSS is very exciting for some folks, the guy love the service, so not much work to convince him. The pain we are solving: Removing all the ads and junk from rss feeds article, turning shortened rss feeds article to full text articles, creating an rss feed for a static page without RSS...that's just some of the problems we are trying to fix, have you tried it with the Hacker News Feed? here it is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/gakK you are fully right about having some example on the landing page, will update
Why do people still use Skype? Just use XMPP. Try to improve that instead of wasting effort on reverse engineering the horrible piece of poo that Skype is.
Google search indexes and analyzes the whole web, which is by definition a decentralised information system. How would popularisation of RSS negatively affect their business? Not to mention that Google Reader is still the best web RSS client out there.
This is because -- with the exception of computer scientific research -- the impact programming parts of one's contributions nearly always pale in comparison to the product or service one has created. Feel free to call yourself a programmer, but be prepared to answer the questions "of what" and "to what end"?
Definitely professional athletics seems to be an exception, since it has a clearly defined metric for merit, and big enough rewards to picking the winners to justify global search.

I'd assume at some level finance is like this; the algorithmic trading parts, not the "we went to Yale together and you have compromising pictures of me with that nun, so I'll give you this business" parts.
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Not that I disagree with the statement, but chess tournaments typically have prices for the most beautiful game. For example, http://main.uschess.org/content/view/10961/616 mentions a €500,- daily prize for such a game (in one of the strongest tournaments in the world)
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You must have seen the latest press advertisement about the new Nokia or Apple iphone and must have also heard about various other such releases this month. Some fantastic reviews about such handsets must have allured you to buy it now and drop all your planning for purchase to be made until Christmas or might have had a hope that you may get it as a present.
I think you have put it very well. This is something that I have always wondered. Leave alone some bad places, lets take the example of a good place. Consider a large corporation which is a pretty good place. But you also have a your usual large organisation crowd-control policies.

If a person can't make use of good opportunities, experiment and learn in such a place, I doubt whether the same guy will do any good at a reputed place(like big web shops today) or even a start up.

Or more appropriately, only people who are capable of doing good in large corporates can do well in a start up. Or vice versa. If you can't do well in big company without any thing stopping you, you are not likely to do well in a start up either.

Start up's are not some magical places of congregation which will give you edge over your career without any considerable effort. Wherever you are, you've got take personal interest and steps to learn, work and make your mark.
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The thing is, in a competitive environment, people end up mismeasuring merit in totally different ways and the ones who end up closest to the mark end up winning. The point of Moneyball is that if you win at moneyball, you can win at baseball, too.

Though baseball (and other American sports) aren't generally a good example. With only 20-30 world class teams, it's easy to get contaminated by groupthink. Soccer is a better example. It's easy for all 32 NFL teams to have the exact same ideas about how to measure playing ability. It's hard for thousands of clubs in hundreds of countries to all have the same ideas. Even if English or American teams focus too heavily on size and strength, a Spanish team might take a chance on an undersized kid with a lot of speed and technical ability.
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I'm curious if this kind of youthful money making is still possible. It tends to be much rarer in the UK anyway, but I'm pretty sure there are a gajillion petty bureaucracies that would stop it - working age laws; minimum wage laws; tax / benefit laws; insurance; health and safety; etc etc etc.

But, see also "The inexplicable war on lemonade stands" which is also happening in the US.

(http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplic...)
Discrete. Why would you tell them?
A bit like mobile operators, pre-iPhone. All of them tried to push their own value-add, operator-specific app stores etc.
Maybe it won't change at all in the end. The situation is not much different than, say, commercial software: You don't expect paid programmers to release their code in the open as long as they can take advantage of it for making money, but when that stops, they do. Similarly, researchers will use it for funding, promotions, prestige etc. However, the problem with academics is that even "archived" science remains closed, not just the papers, but also the raw data. So it would be a big step forward regardless. We need a worldwide repository for scientific exchange. The web is ready with open arms, but researchers are not.
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Lazyness because there is no incentive. Again, the open source analogy comes handy: I usually write hugely embarrassing code for my projects, but if i had to open source it, not only would i write better, i might actually discover errors hitherto undetected. Equivalently, people would triple-check their data to avoid being embarrassed. That would also signal a shift from the "publish or perish" madness to "just publish good", which is huge.
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Nice style, which looks like copied, along with many of sentences, from Spolsky, but that's OK. Most of HN readers don't know who is he.

Now show us your code. ^_^
He is an HN regular too, i think ; certainly the most esteemed scientist i 've seen in here.
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I am using LFS as a primary OS for Linux development and on servers. I can tell my story how I ended up with LFS in the forest of Linux distributions.

Some time ago when I started to learn Linux I have tried a lot of different distributions. All of them had their quirks. Some were buggy. Some were slow. Some had extremely weird and bloated configuration systems. Imagine several layers of abstraction above plain standard configuration files when you have to learn everything basically from the beginning with a different distribution. For example on top of standard config files they may have some configuration system (like YaST in SUSE) on top of which the GUI sits (so 3 layers just to change the screen resolution). Many distros have their own "unique" way of configuring the system. And when something will brake you will have no idea where the problem might be. Is it a bug in the package or in some layer of configuration system or somewhere else? I understand that they try to make the system more user friendly. Well, every one has its own niche.

With LFS you just learn the configuration of basic packages once. The way that package creator intended. Plain text files and nothing more. As an additional bonus you have great performance and security because you only have the packages you need. Plus everything is optimized for your architecture. If you have ever used some distribution in a virtual machine on a slow notebook you know what I am talking about.

When I built LFS for the first time I did everything by hand. It was a very useful experience and a nice way to learn. Of course now I don't do it manually. You can use automated tools (jhalfs for example) which extract instructions from the book and do everything for you. I don't use any graphical environment so no need to build a lot of stuff beyond the base system.

Of course LSF has its own issues. Lack of package management is one of them. But if you like minimalistic and fast systems you should give LFS a try.
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Your comment would be more helpful if it didn't misrepresent the blog post. Hank is nowhere saying that "any news media or investor who is not paying attention is racist". He's also not saying that he and others in NewMe deserve anything just because they're black and under-represented. Finally, it's pretty ridiculous to imply that this guy, Hank Williams - and ALL black people out there - are trying to turn venture capitalism into philanthropy. The other response says your comment wasn't offensive enough to merit a temp account. I think you did the right thing; personally, I would be embarrassed and ashamed to make such degrading remarks.

That aside - I believe the premise of Hank's post is that it's not a meritocracy in Silicon Valley. It's hard to know for sure whether this is true because there's no way to test this hypothesis. But I think it's safe to assume that VC's are still human, and like every other human, they all have biases, including racial biases. There's nothing wrong with that, in my opinion. However, if they're not aware of that bias - perhaps, mentally, they reject that they have any racial bias because they think that will make them a bad person - then they won't take any conscious steps to correct it. The result would be that fewer black entrepreneurs get funded.

You should realize that being black in America is not like being fat. For most of our country's history, black people have been treated as less than human. It wasn't even until fairly recently in our country's history that blacks gained the legal right, throughout the country, to use the same restrooms and water fountains. Can you imagine that? If you think that that kind of institutionalized racism has completely evaporated, you are wrong.

I think it would benefit you to read the book "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin. It will probably change your apparent opinion that black people are a bunch of whiners demanding charity.
I noticed some differences in the code that I think are not equivalent

Perl:
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Python:
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Java:
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I'm not sure, but I think the Perl/Python code sends the strings as arguments to print that will just output them directly. In Java you will concatenate 3 strings before sending it to "print". This adds some extra CPU usage that the other versions don't have
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Same thing here, only with an instrument. I work at home a lot and have a Clavinova in the same room as the computer. It's 10 seconds to change chairs. It clears my mind, and it also helps my piano technique.
I use it pretty often for casual alteration of configuration files.
I really like the background images but the UI in general feels really confusing to me. I click one button and something jumps up in the middle of my screen, I click something else and the background starts changing. You've obviously put a lot of work into the UI but I think you're at risk of confusing people.
What age range are you targeting? I don't think anyone over 20 is going to want to use a website quite as flashy as this.
Cheers for posting this - it was already discussed on this thread => http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3111043
On rudeness: I was using ignorant in its strictly technical sense, as in you didn't know the meaning of the phrases I used. You're right in that it was brash; but I was upset that someone had instantly downvoted me when they were WRONG, goddammit!
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I wonder how many people use git primarily for "git clone <github url>" and that's about it?

I have to admit we still use svn at work (although I've started using git at home on personal stuff) but at the moment the most frequent task I use git for is still simply cloning stuff from github.
The programming language or stack does not matter to whoever is hiring you.

The fact that you knew IRIX was a good indicator that you'd be able to pick up Linux.

It's also today a good indicator that you'd be able to pick up Windows if you set your mind to it.

Your advice is solid from an engineer to engineer point of view, but Patio's advice takes an egineer to business perspective.
Also StackOverflow are one of the few .Net sites hackers/devs flock to and care about. I work on a large scale .Net web app, but I don't think many hacker news readers would really care about the application itself (and, as you pointed out, my company would probably kill me if I started blogging about the internals!).
Here's my use case: if you're not 100% sure how a Linux system is put together, and you want to learn The Hard Way (in a Zed Shaw sense), then put aside a weekend and go through as much of LFS as you can handle. Since it largely works from the bottom up, you can keep going with it until it starts to meet what you already know from the top down.

I'm not sure it's worth the hassle for an ongoing installation, unless you have specific requirements around a minimal tuned distro. But it's excellent for learning.
It doesn't have to be obvious. It can just look like you're thinking.
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That's a good point, it's not just about what you do, the effects matter. But again it fits into the scoring social points game and making yourself look extra important to companies.
What he is doing with his VNC controlled PC is picking content that the PC will play. What you are doing with your AirPlay device is playing it there and streaming it to your appletv. The device is doing the playing though; you are sucking its battery down. This is not what I would call the ideal experience. The ideal experience would be to use your device to tell the appletv where the content is and the appletv then does the playing/streaming. This would be easy for web content with a URI but unfortunately that's the extreme minority of all internet video content.
It's not that easy. The first-gen Google TVs were extremely hard to jailbreak. The Revue was the only one jailbroken and it required soldering.
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Does this cause people to read "The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie"

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(posted last month by an observer of the author of the submitted post here) with a different reaction?
If the hacker could bypass the software on board and directly control the pumps, then no sanity check would help.
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You may disagree with those views, but if they are predominant among the people who have final say in hiring you, and at what salary, then the advice is good.

The whole point of the article is to force a typical engineer to look at how most of the world perceives him, and work with that.

If you have to talk to another engineer as part of a hiring process, talk all the shop you want. If you're talking to business people, try to talk about the business advantages of what you do.
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Well, in essence what they did is just store their tag data right on the stack, using CLR structs (which are pretty similar to a C struct or c++ struct/class - allocated on the stack by default). I guess they could have also wrote their own memory allocator, but I'm not so sure it would have been any simpler than the custom allocator they would have implemented in C#, had they went with the AllocHGlobal route. And then they would still have to deal with data marshaling between their native and managed code. Not saying that is necessarily a problem, but it's not always trivial either (especially marshalling custom struct types without causing boxing).
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When you have insanely overly funded law enforcement geared for massive threats that don't exist, then they are most certainly going to use all that manpower and equipment go after easy targets that cannot defend themselves, to justify their salaries somehow.

They know it's a hassle to go after people who are wealthy and can afford their own lawyers so they avoid it unless there is something political to be gained.

This theme repeats itself at every level, local, state and federal.

This is why when I see things like a national database for facial recognition it's pretty easy to accurately predict for every one "terrorist" caught each decade, thousands of people will experience life-traumatizing hassle that they didn't deserve.

Just look at the TSA and their VIPR "squad" - if they are not defunded soon, they will become the nightmare of the USA, never catching one "terrorist" but themselves terrorizing millions of citizens for no purpose but to "keep us in our place".

I think we will really get a demonstration of this at the upcoming RNC and DNC conventions (ironically funded by taxpayers).
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Probably because the number of people who can read English greatly outnumbers the number of people who can read Japanese?

It's very common for Japanese to use English labeled slides and diagrams for presentations that they know they will be taking abroad because it is much easier change the language of the explanatory text than it is to edit images to make them English.
I was expecting the title to be a metaphor for something, the fact that it's completely serious and that cops are actually shutting down lemonade stands for permits is utterly pointless.

I could maybe get if they were selling complex food stuff that the kids couldn't make themselves and the parents were using them to make some money using a loophole.

But I highly doubt this is the case with 25c lemonade stands.
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