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> It seems that all abstractions, from Pascal or Lisp virtual machines to C to higher and higher level languages to the ones popular today, are all descended from the search for a way to deal with that initial lack of protocol (rule) to get hardware makers to use the same instruction set and thereby let programmers use the same assembly language.

Maybe I am misunderstanding this.

But Lisp and C derives from very different views of the underlying machine. It is rather hard to unify a lisp machine (or other lambda calculus machine) instruction set with the instruction set assumed by a language like C. Even assuming extensibility of the instruction set, constructing a machine that can execute both the "usual" instruction set and lambda calculus efficiently is very very hard.

So this may not really be practical.
I think jpdoctor has a valid point. The brain is highly suggestible. It's possible to trick yourself into feeling sad, happy, irritated, bored, excited, or any other state of mind. I could probably conjor up the kind of carefree, impulsive state that alchohol induces just by mindfully directing my thoughts for a few minutes.
Perhaps it's just me but I'm always a bit hesitant to use third party domain checkers. I can't speak for namechk.com but who says the owner of such service isn't logging all entries?

Whenever I want to verify whether a domain is available I use the official whois servers.
This is crazy. If you took this attitude to its logical conclusion, you'd end up with a culture in which human need is almost entirely subsumed by corporate need. Oh, no, wait...
I have been wondering if that's actually required. Take for example the following search

print_r

During the indexing process it would take print and r as separate words. Any search for "print_r" should break up the same way, and assuming the search is phrase heavy return any document with "print_r" near the top anyway.
I'll try this, thanks.
The Kindle Fire is not an iPad 2 let alone a desktop computing experience. Why would you buy one without doing at least that much research on it?
My day job is just hitting 5 years. Of the original team hired under the founders only about 30% of us are left (we've hired some replacements), and the founders were part of the group that was cut.

Watching the founders leave was the hardest because you could watch them slowly come to terms over the first couple of years that:

a) this actually is harder work than what we left

b) it's not just somebody tossing money at you to go work on your pet projects and screw around, treating the expense account like a personal luxury account

c) there is a reasonable expectation by the investors at the end of all of this
that they will make their money back off of your work

Surprisingly, making the transition to a professional management team was easier than working with the original founders. During the tenure with the founders they made all of the mistakes above, plus acted like petulant children when they ran into each of these problems. Whining, foot stomping (literally), crying, flying cross-country to be away from the team and showing up unannounced at a satellite office. Bizarre behavior.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's not just the work that's hard. It's the intestinal fortitude to deal with technology, business and people, day in and day out -- especially when all three of those things are often acting at odds with each other that makes startup life hard, and being small, with startups those things can be magnified out of all proportion. Minor office quibbles turn into nuclear explosions, a broken technology stack a looming iceberg, lack of sales ability into a waiting sink hole.

People often remark about the perks of working at a startup, but it's those perks that make the often miserable part of the work tolerable. Or at least act as transparent incentives to work more, cry less and quit all the whining -- because at least you get three free meals a day!
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Why do they want SOPA/PIPA? They're going to stop making CDs.
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I know how it works. I'm not interested in the ad if I'm not interested in the content, so the impression is invalid. And if the content is interesting, then I'll whitelist it and provide more impressions over however many years the site lives.

You lose the chance to earn those long-term impressions when you block people who use ad blockers. And you can run CPM ads on AdWords, so I'm assuming some AdSense ads are CPM-based.
I do write games, and Actionscript (3, not 2) is a lovely language.
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He directly says (1) you can compare, (2) you can’t compare. Either you can or you can’t. If the author actually means to say “you can get pictures that are better than come from supermarket-aisle instant cameras but not as good as come from a DSLR + a Photoshop expert”, he should just say that.
Indeed, also I can't believe they integrated all those services.
Interesting; I did not realize that InnoDB supported covering indexes. That said, it is still "only" a constant factor: the difference between O(n) (looking at just the index) and O(2n) (scanning the index, but having to also pull that original record, which you now know the exact position of, to see if it is alive for the current transaction).

Thanks for pointing this out, though! I'm going to go look into how InnoDB manages to handle that.
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This isn't confirmed yet: http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630801--facebook...

> "... but nobody at the city, Facebook, the company redeveloping the buildings or the high-tech community could confirm it."

Besides, RIM has very little to do with it. Though keeping an eye on the growing cluster of startups and competing with Google for UWaterloo's co-op / recent-grads talent makes Kitchener/Waterloo an excellent position for Facebook.
I don't think anyone would use any of those as examples of well functioning and efficient markets.
Related to platforms, I think Google still lacks the clear vision that Apple seems to have. Within next few years, one can watch movies, listen to music, browse internet, read books, play games, respond to mails, be in touch with friends, work on docs, spreadsheets, etc., using either iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV [if anything new gets released], MacBook, and Mac Desktop. Most of these are already possible, but what I am talking about is complete interoperability, while still having the same experience of using the specific device. I believe, Apple will work closely with the app developers to make their applications even more portable across the various devices that Apple builds. With Microsoft gearing up for Windows 8, they also seem to have similar future in mind. I did n't come across any such plans from Google. I believe, Google would be at a disadvantage if they don't have a similar full encompassing ecosystem. And I don't see ChromeBook getting significant market share anytime soon [if at all].
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Just what is it you think you'll be doing that the prime will do better enough than others? That and I'm guessing the same argument regarding cameras can be applied here. The tablet you have WITH you is the tablet you'll use.

Why not just use the phone tether with a 7" tablet? Let the phone remain being a phone and the tablet be a tablet?
Dear ....

I admire the work you have put into our project, thank you very much for your efforts. However at this point we would like to look elsewhere for a different perspective. We have a certain style in mind that we do not think you will be able to provide.

We are sorry to have to say this, but unfortunately we will not be able to take advantage of any further contributions from you. The contributions to date will be compensated in full.

The very best of luck with your future prospects.

Sincerely,
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----INSTEAD OF-----

I'm afraid your writing style doesn't fit with what I'm looking to publish. That's not a criticism of your style, it's just a reality. I'm sorry not to be able to go any further. I wish you all the best and will, of course, pay you for the the work you've done so far. If you'd like to have a chat with me that's fine, you've got my number.
>Has anyone here ever been the beneficiary of a concrete effect from a consultant's work, such as a tangible new idea that resulted in better profits/efficiencies, beyond what is merely CYA?

since 9/11 it's become very popular to hire security consultants whose reports would strongly recommend to fly executives on private jets instead of common carriers. Business continuity, etc... So, there definitely are beneficiaries out there. Profit/efficiencies is in the eyes of beholder.
That's not one line of math. That's one line of math and ten years of textbooks. Math just has a bigger standard library.
Recessions are about liquidating previous malinvestment. Thanks to expansionist credit policies, in part.
This could greatly encourage creativity:
Quit a job in spring, record an album/set up an open air festival/shoot a movie, find a job in autumn with better pay.

It's possible when economy is growing, it's hard when it is tanking thus stifling creative activity.
The "tool" decisions are usually made at the begining of a project.

In that context, I disagree with your assesment. It often takes me a week, sometimes more, to evaluate and choose the right solutions for a new product. The techniques that I use when coding matter little during that time.

What _does_ matter: third party services and libraries that will make it easier to build a better product.

However, I agree that choice of language is only tangially significant. It's rarely a "pain point" for me. Gui toolkits, cloud services, hosting solutions, payment solutions, libraries for [you name it], etc. _those_ make up the "tool for the job."
sounds like another "most self-consciously high-minded" firm - Arthur Andersen.
Why does Google ignore HTML validation?
There is a keen difference between not being able to fire somebody while sober, and preferring to not do so. Similarly I can not drink at parties, but I can do so as well, so I do.

You are mistaking responsible drinking for dependancy.
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I too work somewhat the same way. I remember one Friday afternoon in the cab on the way home from work (which we had started drinking at lunch, and it continued until we left). So there I was in the cab, I had a "eureka!" moment, grabbed my laptop, booted up a terminal, and bashed out some code. By the time I got home, it worked, it did what we needed it to do, and I'm there joking with my manager (who was more drunk than I) on the phone telling him about the 15mins of coding drunk in the back of a cab.

Coding drunk is not for everyone, it won't make you into a super-coder that can do everything magically, but if you're like some of us, where perfection limits production, being tipsy or totally drunk breaks those barriers and allows you to just do the job.
I am quite amazed at this PLAGIARISM that you are doing on your blog. Why is it so hard to simply give us (here on HN) a link to the original article which is actually: http://www.slideshare.net/beingpractical/google-in-its-midli... ?

Why do you have to copy the entire article on your blog word for word and then give us a link to your blog? Adsense-greedy?

I asked you the same question in a different thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3283447 but you simply deleted your thread instead of giving a proper response and attribution to the proper article.
Unfortunately the Bandcamp previews also fail to play on Firefox 8 and Google Chrome on Ubuntu, with Flash installed and FlashBlock/Adblock disabled.
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I disagree with his statement about the Kindle Fire not having built-in support for .mobi files. I am currently reading Land of Lisp in .mobi format on my Kindle fire with no problems. The one quirk I did notice is even though I uploaded the .mobi file to the books directory, the book shows up in the Docs view. It seems only books purchased directly through the Kindle store are allowed to show up in the Books view.
I generally like my Kindle Fire but I do find some of the on screen buttons require multiple presses to respond, particularly the back button. Hopefully this will be fixed in a software update.
It creates an incentive for DDG to favor Amazon, or other affiliate pages in their rankings.

A search engine where you pay for Ad placement is very different to a search engine where you (effectively) pay for rankings.
Just to clarify: What do you mean by "children factory"? A factory having children as workers?
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You are talking about polyphasic sleep, which when you train and skill is a great tool to sleep less, but I think these guys are not talking about that, they talk about being "la tête dans le guidon" as we say in France => head in the handlebar litteraly, or "sous l'eau" => underwater.
It is a myth.
Startups are all about creativity.
If you don't sleep enough, you are not creative. PERIOD.
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It would be very nice to have an OS designed for phones which would be a standard Linux with additional stuff on top. Sadly, Android is more of a Linux kernel without standard tools but with a bulky alien Java-based stuff to do everything.

Maemo/Meego is/was exactly that: Debian Linux complete with apt, with a tablet and phone UI.
I tried using this for just a few minutes, since my friend has one.

The slowness is quite staggering. For example, there was a copy of a dictionary on it; I tried to use Search to find a word (since paging through from "A" would be ridiculous) and it took like 20 seconds to show ANY results. This kind of functionality isn't just unacceptable, it's so bad that the Search function might as well not exist.

The ability to hold it in one hand (albeit with stretched fingers) was nicer than the iPad; but since there's no practical way to use that same hand to operate the device it doesn't really matter. When I have to stop and use both hands to operate a smaller device or a larger one, I would prefer to just have the larger one.
Classic indicator of a soon to be failed project: "We didn't like language X anymore do we rewrote the whole thing in language Y"

There are always other "reasons", but they are usually just straw men. Users don't care what your site is written in.
All starts have very small chances no matter what.

Moreover, I think a cofounder would serve you very well based on some of the things you said. (Granted, with few details of your actual product, I could be completely wrong.)

"I would just need a large server" - Another technical cofounder could probably help you with the real scaling problems you will have if you get traction. And sadly, in most technical products, simply having a large server is not enough.

"I would need ... some graphic design company to design the logo and images. I also would need a ad company to create a name" - A creative / design focused cofounder would be of really great use. This is going to cost you a lot of money you probably don't need to spend.

"I.m looking for I think is around 100k." - A business knowledgable cofounder could really ground you here. A VC would not do a deal this small. That is not interesting to them at all. A seed investor, angel, super angel, whatever they are called might be interested but it would really help decide to invest in you if you have someone that has a real grasp on business projection and how much money you will really need.
For speed - some elements necessary to validate a web page aren't necessary to display the webpage correctly - hence discarding it results in a slightly faster page load, without any negative effect on user experience (as everything renders correctly)
Luck would have it I ordered the Uno and it is due in my hands today. Plan on making a hot/dry bulb thermometer for smoking meat in my BBQ kettle. Then moving on to a PID for Sous Vide!
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Alcohol leads to alcoholism. It's an extremely addictive substance. The frequency and volume are what put you at risk, the reasons people drink are only poor indicaters of those factors.

Thinking to the contrary can actually put you at more risk, since you might think yourself not at risk if you "only drink socially".
I don't think people appreciate the money aspect enough. It does change people and not always along a vector you would expect. It also changes people who don't get rich.

Your a low number employee and your company goes public, woohoo you are rich, but people who work with you and came later and are doing the same job as you are not. The cognitive dissonance is huge, people sometimes feel guilty that they are rich and their co-workers aren't, sometimes they feel like they 'must be smarter' because they are rich and their co-workers aren't. Newly rich people want to marvel in it, and share how amazing it is that they can spend 10K on a watch if they feel like it, and the people around them, doing the same work and not rich, well they often aren't all that appreciative of what it must be like.

Those relationships get awkward quickly. And people separate so that they can be with other people where their lifestyle (or lack of it) won't be a source of awkwardness.

Not a lot of people talk about the side effects of 'success' but they should think about it.
I think many of these ideas aren't realistic for a first time entrepreneur. If you've never raised a round of financing before, are you going to be able to set-up a meeting with all the decision makers in a firm and get them to give you a term-sheet.

Notice they say 7 out of 8 times Cassidy has used this tactic. I suspect the 1 time he didn't was the first time he raised.
So with Lisp or even Forth, the proper approach would be to
have "Lisp chips" or "Forth chips" (which were recently discussed here)?
Got one free last week, and for me 7" is the perfect size for typing in landscape mode. I actually quite like the Amazonized android too for the most part. Side-loading apps is a bit of a hassle, but at least you can install any android app. I put Dolhpin HD on it, runs fine. It's also not sluggish at all (maybe they've pushed an update since the early reviews?). It's much zippier than my LG revolution. Some apps seem to run way smoother than on my phone (e.g. TuneIn Radio has been flawless so far). Battery life is good. The easy to accidentally press power button at the "bottom" (using it upside down can actually occasionally be an issue for some apps that only run in one mode), and lack of a SD slot is really dumb. I'd still buy one for $200.
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Talk to the company, but as a general reco if the products you worked on are publicly posted on their websites / marketing materials, it likely isn't an issue, as you aren't disclosing anything which isn't already public knowledge.
Up or out in a growing organization is a lot harder.

It also works best in a professional services firm where your intake is mainly undifferentiated college/professional school graduates, with a clear career progression.

Basically, neither of these apply to (successful) startups. Startups are more likely to rapidly promote people when things are going well, and then to turn into "evaporative cooling hell" once things go badly -- all the good people jump ship to better opportunities, leaving only those who can't or won't leave, accelerating the decline.

In a startup you're much more likely to see roles growing in responsibility or scale faster than some people might be able to adapt, so someone who is hired as head of development in a 3 person team might not be able to be VP Engineering if the company grows to 50-100 engineers. At that point, you have another problem to try to solve -- do you just replace him with another person, or keep him in a smaller role and hire someone above, etc.
Right, you can still get around this with the good old "use freon to freeze the DIMMs then search RAM for the encryption key" trick. Realistically, however, you need to look at the value of the data as opposed to the cost to retrieve it. For example, if all that is stored on the servers are a bunch of MPAA movies for streaming content (Akamai CDN or similar), the cost to a hacker to retrieve the data is not greater than the value of the data itself. After all, any content on Akamai CDN can most likely be found on some other channel like Bittorrent at a much lower cost than drilling out a hardware case and using freon on the DIMMs. The sophistication needed for that type of attack is only viable if the target data is worth $millions, and I suspect that nobody will be using home furnace servers for that type of processing.

The key is to make the cost of accessing the data greater than the value of the data. If the value of the data is < cost to retrieve it you have a viable business model.
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I have given Link to the original post in the first line itself. Read the first line which says- "PJ posted last friday"

Moreover I was trying to put my counter point on that article.
If we're discussing semantics here, when a browser parses it for rendering what would it mean to "add them?" After all, the HTML is only a textual representation of the rendered DOM tree. I think it's perfectly valid to say the inspector is adding them in, since the browser doesn't really bother to adjust the HTML if it can already parse it.
I agree. Remember we're all programmers, which means we all sit around thinking about how to be perfect all the time, because it's out job, which is a FUCKING INSANE thing for humans to do by and large, and can easily lead to analysis paralysis.

I love approaching work from both the hyperfocused left brain and those mental states where I'm not quite so worried about semicolons, so to speak.
From the article: "Users are also more likely to belong to a fraternity or a sorority, and to have a G.P.A. of 3.0 or lower." If what is usually said about grade inflation

http://gradeinflation.com/

fits the baseline at the colleges surveyed, the implication is that the "neuroenhancer" users have below-average G.P.A.s, which then raises the question of whether "neuroenhancer" is really the correct term for drugs used by below-average performers.

What's desperately needed, in the social context reported in the submitted article, is verifiable research

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

showing what drugs might actually genuinely improve performance (as judged by knowledgeable third parties) rather than merely gaining user self-reports of subjective improvements in performance. Maybe there is something that can help a harried parent, or a college student working his way through college, match performance with a colleague or a classmate with fewer distractions in life, but the way to find out what that is would be to do careful research. For the moment, the help that is found from drugs seems mostly to help people at the low end of the performance scale. Again from the article, "Farah told me, 'These drugs will definitely help some technically normal people—that is, people who don’t meet the diagnostic criteria for A.D.H.D. or any kind of cognitive impairment., But, she emphasized, 'they will help people in the lower end of the ability range more than in the higher end.'"
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It's only hypocritical if he also said that the editor must necessarily have the best grammar at any publication, which is of course ridiculous. Only grammar nerds think grammar = good writing.
Which is also a good reason not to forbid it, because then it will be done illegally, and abused children won't be able to get help as easily. This is also stated by the children themselves, for example in the Bolivian Union of Child and Adolescent Workers (UNATSBO).
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