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I've always assumed when people said "if you can code" they meant, well.

From what I've heard/experienced the thinking is there is an overwhelming percentage of software developers who are mediocre. So all that I take your meme to mean is that if you are better than that majority then yes, a job is waiting for you - I agree.

I don't think your average developer knows how to write native, optimized, sql queries. I actually am peeved more and more with rails because you basically spend all your time learning how to be a rails programmer. Your world becomes AR voodoo, and you work toward gem integration mastery. It's kind of weird imo. I doubt most rails devs know how to write a gem!

So that's just my take on it from things I've seen and experienced. It's generally good advice to not reinvent the wheel. Well in the rails community I feel they take it too far. How do you expect to get better if you let everyone else program for you? Forcing yourself to build out some of your own components may take a lot more time but those are the things that level you up as a developer.

I can't say this approach is common, and therefore, good programmers are rare.
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why not? As I understand it, it would, as there would be no need to port (La)Tex to anything: just deploy it in a jailed environment on the server, and the thing you need to have on the ipad is a text editor and a pdf viewer.

It does not solve the problem of writing TeX on an iPad offline, obviously.
"I can see no choice other than starting from scratch."

Then good luck! Please post again once you've finished the rewrite.
Thanks Joey for being the voice of reason on this. Though you certainly
nailed the main point, there is an additional supporting point,
namely, the "easy factor."

Take a look at this exchange, particularly the follow-up by
potatolicious (along with the parent article):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264289

The tech-centric view is now, and has always been, completely
unrealistic for everyone except skilled, tech-centric people. It can be
pushed to absurdity very easily...

"You don't know how to program well enough write your own web server?"

"You don't know enough assembly to write your own compiler?"

"You don't know enough VHDL to write your own instruction set?"

"You don't know enough about fabrication to build your own processor
(ASIC)?"

Another way to look at the same "easy factor" issue is imagine you need
to run a multi-million dollar online advertising/marketing campaign and
companies like Google and Facebook with easy advertising platforms don't
exist. Without "other" companies providing easy ways to run campaigns,
the typical advertising/marketing person is essentially stuffed. They
don't know how to do it on their own.

Even if your favorite band, Tool, had the money to finance their
operation, they would most likely be worse musicians if they were
forced to learn all the other stuff they need to know. In other words,
the thing they are good at, music, would suffer due to the need to
invest vast swaths of their time and effort in learning everything else
they would need to know.

As always, specialization has many advantages, but also, preventing the
need for specialization by making things easy can be very profitable.
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For a marketplace, you have an advantage doing it this way. Initially, there wouldn't be a lot of users. So badly performing code wouldn't necessarily matter so much. If you happen to have a Twitter style growth, FailWhale is a good kind of problem to have.

Look for some of the PHP marketplace scripts. Actually, Dating is a typical marketplace (for people). If you have design skills, you can replace the graphics and text and you should have a semblance of a starter site rather quickly.

Whatever you do, only offer equity on the basis of people delivering working code. Otherwise, you'd have a ton of free lodgers.
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There was someone on here a while ago that was concerned that someone stole his app a safe a 'pro' version without ads. The advice you give here is essentially the same advice they got.

If someone rips you off, improve on it and have the better product. It's too bad that your apps are so similar -- but the concept, layout and elements are old-hat. If he ripped you off on purpose I highly doubt he'd be eager about the HN community finding out about it.
There certainly must exist some reasonable snapshot that is less than 4GB as I ran Tex on a computer with less than a 1GB HD in the distant past -- and it didn't consume most of the HD at the time.
Mahalo Shuzchen, the CTO I mentioned in another reply (a Rails guy) is on O'ahu. We've been working with him to try and find local hackers to work with; no cash is the prevailing 'fail' but we'd love to hook up with locals - I grew up on Kauai and our daughter (who's empty room is mentioned) was born on Maui. Was telling a SCORE guy here (also on TechHui) that we'd love nothing more to keep it local and stay brick and mortar here too. Any help appreciated; I'll email now.
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* First of all, the OP mixes up LaTeX and TeX. TeX is written in a very portable language and has been ported to more platforms than most other software, including PDP-10 and others.

* LaTeX is working on the iPad, see for example: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/talks/2010-09-14-arthu...

* LuaTeX (http://luatex.org) is written in C, not WEB.

* You only need one binary to work with TeX. Either PDFTeX or LuaTeX. All other binaries are just glue code (for example to generate missing Metafont fonts, but who wants them these days anyway?
In this paper[1], they say that much of the latex running time is eaten up in the startup and shutdown of the program
and the actual typesetting time is in the microseconds.

A long-running process (daemon) is therefore a much more efficient way to run (La)TeX.

[1] www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb27-0/fine.pdf

"""
On my current 800 MHz PC, the command

$ tex story \\end

takes about 0.137 seconds, while

$ tex \\end

takes 0.133 seconds. The first command typesets a small page of material; the second does nothing but start TEX and then exit. Thus, typesetting the small page takes about 0.004 seconds.
"""
Looks like a great idea. What's your experience with it?

Does it have a good selection of packages, or just the bare-bones?
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> If you choose to do complex things and do them in complex ways, or you can only see complex solutions where simple solutions exist, I guess a module-powered scripting language like Perl becomes irresistable and using the UNIX base utilities becomes a prohibitively painful exercise.

Here again, your ignorance is showing, and you are projecting your own limitation onto others. You suggest that someone who uses Perl feels the need to use it everywhere, that it's more complex than shell tools, and that Perl somehow becomes a crack-like addiction, forcing you to never use command line tools again.

That's just plain silly. There are tons of people who make heavy use Unix tools and Perl. This isn't an either-or situation like you seem to be pushing. They're all just tools for solving problems. The smart thing is to recognize when each tool is appropriate, and then use them properly.

For example, the other day I was working with a log file. Initially, I was beating on it with command line tools: find, grep, cut, sed, sort, uniq, wc, etc. Eventually, I got what I needed out of it, but knew I was going to need something more to present to my team, so I pulled out awk, and I wrote a little script to extract the data and generate a simple report. A few days later, management saw the report, and liked it. But, they wanted some additional features added, and some changes to the processing. I could have hacked what they wanted into the awk script, but the processing had gotten complex enough that I knew I was better off making the jump to Perl. So, I rewrote it in Perl, and got everything they wanted. Additionally, it had the flexibility with Perl that the next two feature requests that management made were implemented in just a few minutes each.

Also, in case you weren't aware of it, Perl integrates and happily makes use of external commands. If there's a tool out there that will do some heavy lifting for you, Perl makes it trivial to call out to that command (just like backticks or $(/bin/foo) in bash).

If you really want to do complex scripting with Unix tools, then you're either limiting yourself to pretty trivial work, or you're making things a lot harder on yourself than they need to be. Perl was created for a reason, and it's a good one. Small scripts or glue to tie things together, use a shell script and Unix tools. Complex scripts, use a real scripting language, make things easier on yourself, and get more work done in a faster, better way.
I agree, might as well compare like with like.

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United States: 2000B
China: 1150B
Wal-Mart: 421B
Exxon Mobil: 370B
South Korea: 250B
Greece: 130B
HP: 126B
Apple: 108B
IBM: 100B
Ireland: 93B
BHP Billiton: 72B
Hong Kong: 37B
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The big problem on tablet devices is constraints in memory. Yes the unix way is to have various small utilities work together through pipes and interprocess communications. The big challenge at that point is how to do you manage memory? What if a single process in that huge chain uses up all of the memory and another process gets killed by the OS which was part of that chain (do note, no swap on mobile devices)... How is the calling program supposed to handle one of its subprocesses suddenly dying?

Do note that the same is true on Google's Android OS. You can run as many threads as you want, but no calling other executables to do work in the background ...
It's not so much core TeX that's a mess as the ecosystem; the set of font-generation, path-management, shell scripts, PS/PDF/DVI code, and special-purpose glue binaries gets pretty hairy.
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I'm curious where you get the idea that LaTeX is bug free. In my experience it is rare to find two packages that work together bug free, yet alone the collections of them needed to form even a respectable document.
Of course not! They promise really hard that they're not keylogging, despite installing a keylogger that sends opaque encrypted data packets back.
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"Beautiful" has nothing to do with whether it's crippled or not. In any case, how is a 4GB executable + several-second runtime for trivial documents Apple's fault? Is the iPad crippled because it can't run a crappy cross-compiled version of OpenOffice with a PS/2 mouse?
They did the same thing back in the days of AMD K6 ... fast integer ops, poor floating point. Then AMD Athlon came, built on the same foundation and Intel never knew what hit them.

Don't dismiss Bulldozer just yet. AMD has this uncanny ability to make short term compromises that benefit them in the long term.
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I assume the op is much like myself in that I need some sort of background noise, and movies can be a great source. I personally enjoy Anti-Trust as well, and Tron: Legacy, but stuff like V for Vendetta or Hackers where I have seen the movie enough times to know the lines are great background noise that I don't have to pay attention to.
You would be very interested in the TropicalMBA.com || They've done something fairly similar with several talented people. Not necessarily developers per se, but they've had some really interesting success stories come out of it. I think they're on their 9th intern in about 2 years. Good stuff.
Also, I'd be interested in hearing what you guys are up to fwiw.
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> has very powerful animation capabilities

OK, please do a simple key frame transformation from a circle to a rectangle.

svg is only suitable for simple animations like move or rotate some nodes.
> Things like WebGL, NaCl, WebM/P, Dart VM, and various extension-only APIs that Chrome has introduced.

Can someone explain this to me: why such a move, when performed by microsoft is considered EEE (embrace, extend & extinguish) and when performed by google it suddenly becomes way to go?
I think the salient question here is why would you want to work with LaTeX on a tablet?
Thanks very much. "Buddhist Without Beliefs" is going in the Amazon basket.
It wasn't my intention to be misleading, I just misread. I've updated the link.
The iPad is made for content consumption, not creation. Trying to write TeX (or any kind of markup) with a virtual keyboard sounds horrific.
Personally, I would feel weird living in the same house with my boss. I would also want to have a real legal eagle go over the equity agreements, because I'm a paranoid git about stuff. =)

However, it doesn't seem like slave labor. It does seem like a situation which could turn sour from interpersonal relations. I would advise care in selecting hackers, ideally meeting them in person first.
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I assume he meant that core TeX (the part written ages ago by Knuth) is in effect bug-free. However you do have a good point that one effect of core TeX being ancient and not really updated is that, in practice, what people actually use is TeX plus giant macro packages whose size is bigger than TeX itself, and those are certainly not bug-free. It's at least plausible that a rewrite wouldn't lead to more bugs total, if the rewrite made it easier to write less-buggy macro packages that interacted more nicely (the TeX macro/module situation is not great for that).
Unless I'm forgetting something from the article, the author never said it was the LaTeX developer's fault -- he simply said Apple was right for not allowing it in its current state. Not all situations are someone's "fault", and thus just because Apple is not at fault doesn't mean the developers are. It's just as you declared it, an unfortunate result of many decisions which were right at the time.

That being said, I also think you have a low bar for definitions of "bugs". Terrible performance is very much a "bug" in my book. Even the things that aren't "bugs" in the strictest sense can still make for bad software. The executable described here is 4GB, that's 1/4 thte total space on a low end iPad! Also, if tomorrow someone does discover a bug, it sounds like this would be a mess to fix. The jumble of source simply won't be attracting many new developers (whether it be to fix existing bugs, add new features, or port to new platforms).
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Not exactly from "other blogs". I mean, yes, other blogs, but within the same site. YouTube doesn't list related videos from DailyMotion.

I think it's a mixture of similar content + user activity.
This sounds great to me! That said, I'm a 20yo finance undergrad who merely dabbles - like yourself - in tech and web technologies and probably am not a useful hacker per se (at least as far as programming goes!).

Your offer appeals to me as a great opportunity, but I'm obviously not who you're after.
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from the article:

"The situation we find ourselves in, is that after over a year of battling against it, PTFS/Liblime have managed to have their application for a Trademark on Koha in New Zealand accepted. We now have 3 months to object, but to do so involves lawyers and money. We are a small semi rural Library in New Zealand and have no cash spare in our operational budget to afford this, but we do feel it is something we must fight.

For the library that invented Koha to now have to have a legal battle to prevent a US company trademarking the word in NZ seems bizarre, but it is at this point that we find ourselves."
Good point! We're early AirBnB adopters so we've had our fair share of awkward experiences - and you're right, the 'fermentation factor' is potentially high; but at least space is somewhat separated (downstairs/upstairs). Skype can be decent, but one never knows. Same feeling re. legal eagle - we're crucial on bullet-proof arrangements prior to any execution.
Yeah, the same thing is said in music all of the time. You should be using social media, leveraging every possible distribution model, putting your music out there, giving it away for free, engaging your audience, designing your own shirts, crowdfunding this and that, and and blah blah. Who has time to do all of that and still practice their instrument, write new music, and carry on some semblance of a life?

Tool lets someone else manage their social media and they use it almost exclusively to promote other peoples' art that they like, because they couldn't care less to promote themselves with it. They're not available on nearly any streaming service. Their best form of marketing is putting out a product that is eons ahead of other bands and they're only able to do that because a label, manager, tour manager and everybody else help them stay focused on what they do best. Everybody likes to hate on labels but the truth is that they are a resource just like anything else, and when properly aligned, can provide the necessary resources and time to focus on the music itself. I far prefer that to a world with no labels and every artist tweeting their sanity away.
Just to corroborate, I've done user testing with young people (13-15) and Facebook is definitely seen as 'the internet' - along with YouTube.
I wish this was available on the Kindle Fire. One of the worst things about my new Fire is that it doesn't have any native Google apps on it... so it is particularly ironic that an Android based tablet has worse integration with Google apps (like contacts and gmail and G+) than the Apple tablet!
Great information in that other comment of yours. When you say "yoga", is it what ladies do following a DVD or is it some other form of meditation I am not aware of?
What tools do you guys use?

Fitnesse?
GreenPepper?
Cucumber?

Is anyone into specification by example?
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> Of course, the very idea of tracking and working on "improving" via meditation goes against the core idea of zen meditation itself.

The - excuse me - postmodern gobbledygook of some schools are is what has turned me off meditation again and again.

I'd love to follow a rationalist, scientific school of meditation that has mind improvement as a goal.
The LaTeX executable isn't 4GB, it's 3MB or so (pdflatex/pdftex) or 16MB in the case of XeLaTeX. The 4GB consists of billions of extension/modules/packages for typesetting documents.
WebGL started at Mozilla, then Opera. Apple/Google/Mozilla and Opera are part of the working group that are developing it.

WebM/P solved a problem that people have been asking for for years.

Nacl and Dart could be considered EEE, but really the web has always been about experimenting to push tech as google are doing, all these technologies are open to be implemented elsewhere. Microsoft actively broke existing technologies and attempted to replace them with closed ones
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How is the iPhone (and FB and Twitter) not a societal breakthrough? Each has developed entire ecosystems around their respective platforms. Hundreds of companies exist and thrive because of these technologies. Their impact on the global economy, and on job-creation, is much larger than the sum of the engineers within their walls.
That's not really the way that the Congressional mail system works.

Also, it's much more impressive to have a barrage of letters to each congressman, rather than a bulk folder that contains all the letters to that congressman.
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this happens to many companies when they get big enough and successful. look at msft post-gates (even during gates, but his authority would overrule deadlocks) and apple etc.
I have a question for you:

How does someone in your position view a low GPA, say 2.5, considering the applicant had to work full time during school? I mean actually pay the bills waiting tables work, not 5 hours a week at a dentists office. (Also, a difficult major, say math at a top though not ivey program)

In this position, what hope if any does an applicant have?

Edit: clarity/typos
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I was also about to purchase the book as well only to find out it is not available on the Kindle. I realized that I never actually read the paperbooks I buy so I figured I'd stop buying them altogether.

Are you aware of great alternative book that might be available in digital format?
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You're an optimist.

I'm a pessimist - Google+ is too little, too late. Facebook is already too big to fail, Google+ being here the equivalent of Microsoft's Bing.

Facebook won't open up. They don't have than in their DNA, their biggest asset is their huge audience and they'll do anything they can to keep that audience on Facebook -- opening up their platform in a way that benefits competitors simply makes no sense.

The Internet as we know it is indeed dying.
Yes I noticed that in the comments before I posted which is why I was careful to specifically say "The executable described here is 4GB" so as to refer to whatever it is he was trying to work with. I suppose whether all of the 4GB is needed for what he wanted, whether it could easily be taken apart, or could now be remade in a much smaller package, are all valid questions.
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Out of curiosity, what features does G+ have that aren't available elsewhere.
Possible AI in a box is easier to understand.

Also, in order to build AI in a box, we need some better knowledge of how to build AI, and it's not a stretch to see that in the future we may have this knowledge.

What is/would be the theoretical underpinning of a fused global intelligence via something like the internet?
> Then what evolutionary purpose do you think mind-wandering serves? We clearly tend to think about various current problems of ours (whether technical, social, or other) when our mind wanders; it's not an accident.

It well might be an accident. It might just be a byproduct of consciousness without any benefit on its own.
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