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> Yes, the hash algorithm can be upgraded as computing power increases. This was foreseen and built into it from the beginning.

It's not really "built-in".

Everybody would have to upgrade their bitcoin software, and then the new hashing algorithm would become active after a transitional period. The only thing in the bitcoin protocol which facilitates this is an alert system that can be used to broadcast warnings: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alerts
If a significant fraction of the bitcoin nodes is not upgraded, then the bitcoin network would be split in two.
Agreed, most people have an inflated view of their own startup seemingly because subconsciously they probably feel they deserve it for the hours they put in.

What will be a part of history is the bubble itself.
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It's just a thought. A "what if".

I trace the existence of many languages to having no common instruction set in hardware.

Different assembly languages for different hardware. This was very frustrating for people many years ago.

If protocols (rules) are awesome what if we had had a protocol that asked the chip makers to use a common (extendable) instruction set for all hardware? What if there had only been one assembly language?

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.

I could be very wrong on this.
It will depend on your goals.

Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to gain weight? Are you just trying to maintain?

I personally have not hacked my nutrition. I have used common sense.

If your goal is to lose weight, you will need to burn more energy than you consume.

Do you want to gain weight? Perhaps by lifting weights even, you will need to consume more energy than your body burns.

In terms of nutrient partitioning, just don't be an idiot about it. Experiment, find out what works best for you and you can stick with. Use common sense.

Yes, there are better foods than others in terms of nutrients, satiety, etc. However, No food needs to be eliminated or restricted. It will only set you up for failure and the ability to be consistent. There are no bad foods and there are no magic foods or ingredients that will cause weight gain or loss (for example, sugar causing weight gain).

If you want to lose weight and you have estimated you burn x calories, then eat less than x on a daily average or weekly basis. Do you want some ice cream some night before bed? Sure, go ahead, just fit it in your caloric goals, using common sense. Just don't eat excessive amounts going over your x allotment and you will still lose weight. You can even make calories a weekly goal and cycle them, workout days be higher than say a rest day. Just use your weekly average.

If you want to gain weight you will have to eat more than you consume. Using the same types of guidelines and common sense.

No one is the same. There are no magic ingredients, foods, etc that will cause gain or loss. You will need to experiment to find out what works best for you though (mood, satiety, appetite, attitude, etc).

Define your goal, keep general track of your progress (you don't need to be anal about it), and be consistent about it.
Thanks for making a presentation that's useful to readers. While I'd still prefer to see video, this stands on its own.

I see a lot of presentations hit Hacker News that aren't very useful on their own because they were meant to accompany a talk -- and a good talk usually omits the best material (or a at a minimum, important context) from the slides.
It's also worth mentioning that Jamie Zawinski, cited in the article, burned out and quit the industry. If your startup is really changing the world, fine. But is working on <generic web-app> worth sacrificing your love for programming itself (not to mention the health effects and opportunity costs involved)?
Having difficulty firing someone is normal -- I'm not suggesting that it should be fun. Drinking Gin to give yourself the nerve to fire someone probably isn't fine.

If you have a job to do, you need to be able to do it. If the psychic toll of doing your job requires that you hit the bottle, you probably don't belong in that job.
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Don't know much programming so Just waiting for the answer.
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When I've heard this argument, most people talk about Siri.
You are believing exactly what investors and VCs want you to believe. You aren't escaping wage slavery, you are just substituting a different slavemaster. Wake up.

There are billions of people on this planet. Do you think that the ones who aren't in Silicon Valley startups are all miserable? Their lives aren't worth living?

Ok, but more specifically. Let's say you want to lead a creative existence, working with technology, and you love the SF scene so much you just have to live here. You don't need to be in a startup for that. As they tell you to be frugal with a startup, be frugal with you life and all sorts of possibilities open up.

I know a number of people living in "hacker homes" where they drift in between working on startups, technology jobs, and then working on projects that just interest them. Sometimes they'll take an entire year off work to do something with no monetary gain, like a Burning Man or an open source project. You might have to live in an less desirable area with a lot of housemates, but once your rent is sub-$1000 and you cook most of your own food, you can live for an entire year once you've pulled off a couple of consulting gigs.

You're young, and I presume you don't have a spouse or kids, so this option is very possible for you.
Thanks for the link, but in that article they mention why they moved from Engine Yard to Rackspace. My question was why they didn't move to ec2 from Engine Yard.
I am taking those into consideration. A nuclear plant produces a tremendous amount of energy for the materials it's made from.

I was doing the math, and this document popped up as a search: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:UjtsvTfrOgQJ:...

So they did the math for me - wind turbines require 60 times as many resources as nuclear. The amount of uranium needed is tiny, very very tiny. And all the uranium ever made can be disposed of in one site, it's not really a lot.

They also require far far more land. I don't just mean how much air space, but the actual tower.

Wind turbines are better than coal, and since we are building lots of coal plants I am all for wind. But they are not better than nuclear - not even close.
It's natural for people to whine. I do it all the time but in the end I'm far happier with my life than I was when I didn't work for myself.

Some whining is not justified and done by people who are in it solely for the money. Founders are a tough bunch but even we have to vent at times.

At the same time I'd submit that if you're working all night and day you're not doing it right. There are times we must put in a 16 hour day but constantly killing yourself over work hurts you in the long run. The more punishment you dole out to yourself the less productive you are and the longer you have to work to catch up.

A lot of whining would cease if people stopped trying to keep up with the other guy for the sale of keeping up. Become what you're meant to become and fuck expectations and what other people are doing. Grow to the size you need to be. Too many startups start taking money too soon and are run as if they're a huge company when all they need is a single server and a guy to write code. Premature scaling can probably account for a large portion of the whining and failure out there.

I see way too many startups trying to be something they're not and shouldn't be which leads to burn out and failure. This business is tough and a little whining is to be expected but if we quit making the mistakes I mentioned then the whining will cease to come from cry babies and will only be heard from hard working people who truly need to and should be allowed to vent.
Tim Ferriss described very much the opposite mentality of that of the 22-hour-work-day SV startup scene in his book "The 4 Hour Work Week." A takeaway that I've always held close is you have to be aware of whether you are working effectively vs. working efficiently. While Netscape reached their deadline (I assume) and enjoyed a successful launch, I have to wonder if they could have made the same amount of progress by equalizing their hours of sleep/hours of work, which would have made their work hours more effective. Just speaking from school experience, on 2 hours of sleep personally I know if I continue to try working much I start making mistakes that cost me a lot of time, and my pace just slows in general.
One year ago the nyt ran an article describing how one company makes a killing by angering people into giving bad reviews on such sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pag...

It's rather maddening to think that by actually providing a warning about some shady company they are still helped by such review sites. Consequently I don't write bad reviews, but only recommend either directly or write about very positive interactions.
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Good attempt at a PR puff piece, but I find it extremely hard to think of an organization being pristine throughout with such corruption at the top.
Thanks, that's some cool ideas right there! Upvoted for truth and justice.

I'm all for exploring unconventional lifestyle design patterns. And I have been nursing certain plans of becoming a techno-hippie :)
Paleo baby, Paleo. I've never in my life been into specific diets, and have been very skeptical about crazy sounding ones like Atkins, but I'm sold on Paleo.

The underlying reasoning makes sense to me - homo sapiens have existed for the 200,000 years (and our various ancestors for millions of years before that), and for the first 190,000 years we lived on and evolved with hunter-gather diets.

It wasn't until 10,000 years ago that agriculture was invented and our nutritional intake, lifestyle, culture, economics, and everything else changed with it. But physiologically we haven't fully overcome millions of years of adaptation to the hunter-gatherer diet.

Paleo is about constraining your diet to something as close to the hunter-gatherer diet as possible - no processed sugars or grains, but rather meat/fish/poultry, nuts, berries, roots, vegetables that don't require agriculture to obtain, some fruits, etc.

A few benefits off the top of my head - I'm less hungry, more satisfied, and have more sustained energy throughout the day, with less food. I feel 'cleaner' and healthier, and have almost no gas (the biggest revelation). And I've never had a terribly unhealthy junkfood diet, but Paleo is still a noticeable improvement.

You can also cheat and go 70%-80% Paleo, instead of strictly 100%, and still derive some benefits (enough to sell you on it), although 100% Paleo is exponentially better.

There's also no crazy initiation period like there is with Atkins and South Beach, you just go read a book about what constitutes Paleo food, and start integrating it into your diet and replacing non-paleo foods at your own pace.

I highly recommend checking it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

http://www.arthurdevany.com/

http://reddit.com/r/paleo
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Have you just plagiarized the whole content word for word from http://susam.in/blog/loopy-c-puzzle/ ?

And while doing so, did you miss copying the last line in the "actual original article" which discusses the solutions?
No, we can't really make blanket statements like this anymore. Not all calories are equal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I can envision a relatively easy way to implement this without writing lots of code. How big do you think the market is for internet-based "code search"?

I think code search is very useful and I've come near to trying to construct a searchable database just for personal use. It's an itch I've been tempted to scratch. But it would require some time.
Yep - stimulants will give you amazing focus, but you need to make sure that focus is trained on the right thing first. It's best to take them after you're more-or-less on track, or at least committed to a plan. If you just take them while going through a "morning routine" and haven't decided what you're going to be doing, you can easily burn a day on tangents.

(As a third party, you can notice this behaviour in others if those folks are prone to calling you with all sorts of great ideas and things they're going to do today, but by the evening, they're discussing how to improve TLB cache hit ratios for their Ruby-on-Rails app.)

But if you get on track, wow, stimulants can make an amazing amount of difference. They're great for getting a large amount of work done, as well as dealing with complex problems.
Have you just plagiarized the whole content word for word from http://susam.in/blog/loopy-c-puzzle/ ?
Strange indeed. Uncle Bob was in the Netherlands not too long ago, also on a teaching gig. I don't see why traveling to the UK for the same type of work would be any different.
Some restaurants are already using bitcoin as a payment method, but it's still very hard to use it in real world situations. I still think that when we'll have a lot of NFC phones around, that's when Bitcoin payments will really start to become a common thing in the real world.
People seem to only take part of the stories of those successful people as well. Steve Jobs was at times a workaholic, but at other times a total dilettante who moved to India to seek enlightenment from a guru, and did a lot of drugs.
Anyone have any marketing or SEO expert recommendations?
Finally released a site I'm happy with for our new product - http://www.heroframework.com - and am looking for some recommendations for people/teams who can spread the word and build some search engine rankings up in the tough world of content management system software.

Anyone worked with someone they would recommend? Someone who got results?
I've done it to: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fpndmkcfggkffpablc... :)
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If you use 16px, the 1.5 line height I use for paragraphs becomes 24px, which ties again with the multiples of 6 rule again. So your lines are actually 24px high, if you then use maybe 48px for spacing around your blogpost, things look balanced because they're even.
You're trolling. I know it, you know it, the rest of the readers know it. That's why you've been downvoted. Next time you respond to an article have a think about the issue and how best to communicate your specific problems.
I would recommend you get in touch with the people with whom you signed the NDA with and clarify the scope and extent of the NDA.
I would imagine their bullet point about flexibility and direct hardware access is why Rackspace won over EC2. I've used both ends of Rackspace (colo and cloud) and would imagine it would be simple to utilize both services under a common support account (which is Rackspace's big upsell: their support). EC2 doesn't even have a colo option or partner so you'd have to roll your own solution. Better to take advantage of the integration considdering price is close enough.
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I'm not convinced yet.

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-...
If you want "your own" then there is no point in using a distributed blockchain. You'd just set up a centralized ledger under your control.
> "These two sentences are exactly contradictory. 1) “If you compare... Instagram photos have decent quality.” 2) “Instagram images are certainly not comparable in terms of quality”.

Quality is a continuum. Decent < great < excellent < superb. There's plenty of room for them to be "decent" but still be of lower quality than you'd get with professional-grade hardware and software.
Sometimes I prefer video (esp. if the delivery is very good) but for learning purposes I prefer reading since then everyone can choose their own tempo.
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Big enough for several projects to already exist, koders (and a few others I have forgotten the name of), but not big enough for it to be worth maintaining for Google. No idea what number to put to that, but I would image its less then 5 million users.

So far I have mostly everything working, its just pulling down enough repo's to make it worthwhile.
Not accounting for Peter Principle.
Or if you were a government. If in the long term bitcoin-like cryptocurrency is to play a significant role in society as money (not totally implausible, in the long term), I don't see why any entity with a more or less captive audience of payers (eg taxpayers) wouldn't start its own, taking a large cut ... http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2011/05/30/cryptocurrency-cambr...
Upvoting itself might be all you need.
This is insane. You realize that all the quotes are from a post called the author describes as a 'cautionary tale'? (http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html)

I think jwz sums it up best in another post, where he talks about the best case scenario: becoming rich from your startup:

I've known dozens of instant-millionaires so far (from Netscape as well as other companies), and basically, I don't speak to any of them any more, because the money changed them and turned them into fairly creepy people. People who spend $10k on a wristwatch and then brag about it (while trying to aloofly sound like they're not bragging about it.) People whose sense of self-worth has gone nonlinear, because when they look at their brokerage statement, they forget that, while skill was certainly a component of why they got to where they did, luck was also a huge component. Most of these people have never worked for a company that built a good product and failed anyway. They don't have any understanding of the fact that skill is often necessary, but always insufficient. They believe their hype.

-- http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/corleone.html
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If you ever make it to Germany, do try some of our bread. It is very different from what is called bread in the English-speaking world (to the point where many expats become bakers) and there is a big variety of choices. One of the best sorts contains a large amount of sunflower seeds and is quite dark - I'd argue that it can't be that bad (and I practically live off the stuff). For further improvement you can toast it.
I didn't come away with the impression that it was flimsy at all. The rant linked to is written by Danny Sullivan, an eminent SEO expert (the most famous one I'm aware of). I would tend to trust his estimation of a person's notability in the SEO industry.
How inefficient is Ruby really? This tool surprised me. Can any Ruby-ists chime in?

http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/statements/programs-...
A nation-state may move to adopt bitcoin (think Cayman Islands or similar) or it could operate outside of the old political regimes, like Sealand.

We should cheer this development-- the nation-state historically is responsible for great misery and bloodshed, and most nation-states today operate as barely disguised petty criminal syndicates, shaking down their productive citizens.
I think, Google has been playing rather well. For so long, it was more of a loosely connected free services rather than a single ecosystem that seamlessly work together. There was nothing, for the most parts, preventing any person from moving to a different third-party service [of all the services that Google offers] rather than using Google's services. I don't think Google bothered for so long because it had no reason to. Whether people use Google's services or any other services, Google will make money either way using adsense and adwords. Now the situation is changing, and changing very fast.

Google+ is not just about another social network, I believe it will be the soul of all the services that Google offers. Most of the services that Google offers worked pretty much independently. Except the Google logo at some corner of the site, there was n't much of a similarity in any of those services. The result is a mess. Google+ unifies all these services like never before. Social networking comes much later, I believe. Google is at an advantage over other companies, if it plays well. Facebook/twitter can let users share with their friends. Google can let users share, work and collaborate with their friends. Sharing in every form conceivable - sms, voice, image, blog, book, document, presentation, video, music, app, you-name-it.

Now for the problems that it faces, the biggest problem was with the platform that they were betting on. For long, Google's motto was - anything good for internet is good for google. That's no longer the case, and it won't be going forward. They were pretty successful for the most parts because they bet on open platform, and the reason for present crisis also seems to be because of the same. Google is no longer the internet [they never were but don't take it literally], and not everything that happens on internet benefits google. Facebook has an advantage here given all the businesses that they have signed up to use FB OpenGraph. However, they still have their own issues. If Google acts smart, Google+ has pretty good chance of being successful.
I would prefer to see that rationale in the comments or some implementation doc or something. In the git history it's eventually going to be troublesome to unearth, unless the change remains intact enough for "git blame" to give you a pointer to that old commit, or your whole team standardizes keywords for more searchable commit messages. And if your team does have a way to find that explanation, you then need some way for them to discover whether it has become inaccurate over time.
As a student, I agree completely with your above philosophy. It seems to me that just about everything in your article could be generalized to just all sorts of work, rather than just the sort of works in startups.
I suspect in large part because Rackspace are much better at marketing, or were quicker off the mark than Amazon. They realise that an "en vogue" name like github looks very good hosted with them, and are likely offering a big discount in exchange for the "Powered by..." banner at the bottom of every github page.

We do the same for firms wanting to host with http://bigv.io/ though I'd not imagine github would want a UK-based host.
Thoughts of Yelp come to mind. Businesses paying to protect their reputations. Except we extend this even further.

He envisions "a review site that reviews the review sites".

It appears that's what his employer is doing with his column.
He's reviewing a review site. And as he says, the goal is getting page views. Mission accomplished.

What does he think he's going to do with financing?

Implement a massive marketing and sales campaign, getting review sites to sign up to protect their reputations?

If he wants to review review sites, nothing is stopping him from starting a blog and doing so.

You can write or get users to write absolute rubbish and still get page views. That seems to be a solid way to attract eyeballs. It continues to work, year after year.