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Not sure why you're having trouble reading the page, but here is the text of his blog post:

"Normally I just ignore navel-gazing tech-industry articles like this, but people keep sending it to me, so I guess this guy is famous or something. Michael Arrington posted this article, "Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining" which quotes extensively from my 1994 diary.

He's trying to make the point that the only path to success in the software industry is to work insane hours, sleep under your desk, and give up your one and only youth, and if you don't do that, you're a pussy. He's using my words to try and back up that thesis.

I hate this, because it's not true, and it's disingenuous.

What is true is that for a VC's business model to work, it's necessary for you to give up your life in order for him to become richer.

Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers.

He's telling you the story of, "If you bust your ass and don't sleep, you'll get rich" because the only way that people in his line of work get richer is if young, poorly-socialized, naive geniuses believe that story! Without those coat-tails to ride, VCs might have to work for a living. Once that kid burns out, they'll just slot a new one in.

I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented here.

So if your goal is to enrich the Arringtons of the world while maybe, if you win the lottery, scooping some of the groundscore that they overlooked, then by all means, bust your ass while the bankers and speculators cheer you on.

Instead of that, I recommend that you do what you love because you love doing it. If that means long hours, fantastic. If that means leaving the office by 6pm every day for your underwater basket-weaving class, also fantastic. "
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Does that mean you're pirating books for it rather than buying them?

I buy lots of books on the kindle. However, I wanted to read "Atlas Shrugged" and there was no kindle book for sale so I found it online.

I take the customer is always right approach. I am the customer. I consume content in the way I find most convenient. If you make it difficult for me to pay you to do what's most convenient for me, I don't.
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Probably OP is complaining about the green-on-black style of jwz's blog.
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I considered reporting the offending site to google (at least because they run adsense alongside) but I suppose that's useless in the long term... I need some kind of defense in my app!
There has been done large amounts of research on heavy overtime's effect on the productivity of software developers.

It doesn't take very much overtime for productivity to absolutely plummet. We're not talking just a small time drop here. Rather it's a free fall of 80% or so. This means that even if an engineer works 120 hours every week, he will still not be as productive as if he worked the standard 40-50!

More goofing-off time, running errands during work, an extreme increases in defect rates etc, are just some of the reasons.

Steve McConnel discusses this at length in his 1996 book "Rapid development", citing large amounts of case studies, books and other research.

The irony is that these guys who give the bravado laden "quit the whining, put in the hours" speech, are actually reducing their time-to-market, while simultaneously destroying their developers!
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Some people may not enjoy the green-on-black text, so this might be of use:

http://www.readability.com/articles/dirqhjff
Not a very helpful comment. Opinions aren't facts - there are two sides to the story. If you agree with the author, there's a better way to go about it then ad hominem insults.
Interesting code base. Java with a templating engine (de.anomic.server.serverObjects) I have never seen before. Worth some reading time.

Bigger picture: YaCy would need to reach a large critical mass of nodes before being useful, so it would seem to be difficult to get enough people to donate server resources.

Also, it is not clear how to keep anyone from doing SEO by running nodes that make it a priority to spider promoted web sites.
>>Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers.<<

This is just gold.
That's because mathematical notation is context-bound and telegraphic. Gerry Sussman has gone so far as to call it "Impressionistic". Beyond basic arithmetic and elementary algebra, it is much more concise than it is precise -- it is often inconsistent (the "power" in cos^2 x doesn't mean the same thing as it does in cos^-1 x, for instance), and there's a lot of hand-waviness (and sometimes some outright lies) in order to make the notation concise. It's a useful jargon for the initiated, but it is hardly self-explanatory even if you know what the individual symbols are supposed to mean.

A code-like representation may have the disadvantage of being more verbose, but it has the advantage of being unambiguous. It gives up conciseness in favour of precision. And no, it is not impossible to represent mathematical concepts in a code-like manner -- it just forces you to actually say all of what you mean rather than using an ambiguous and incomplete shorthand.
One thing that I think the Django core team needs to work on is documenting best practices. And I know that there are a bunch of different huge companies who build things in Django and all have different standards for how to develop and deploy, but just running

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Don't discount the chemistry. Sugar is more energy dense than a Lithium Ion battery and it can obviously be made to release its energy in a very safe and controlled manner. Alkaline batteries are almost as energy dense (although not rechargeable) and they are substantially more stable. You can physically abuse a normal battery without it discharging it's energy right?

It's the runaway reaction that makes Lithium ion batteries less safe. They require pressure vents and special circuitry to make them safe as they short out if fully discharged after which attempting to charge them is unsafe.
Makes total sense, enjoy your work and don't buy into you have to kill yourself to make it big in a startup. And the payout might not be worth it in the end unless your in a lucky percentage.
He probably means that the website is reminiscent of the old Yahoo geocities websites - neon colors over a dark (usually black) background, haha.

That aside, it's still pretty readable. Besides, the content is worth the eye strain in this case.
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So I'm looking for a simple and possibly lightweight Linux distro to run on my old laptop. (32-bit, 1Gb RAM, crummy processor) It runs like a dog these days, and I'm in the market for something that isn't Ubuntu. (for no real reason other than I've used Gnome, Unity, and now KDE on my desktop, and I like trying new things. And I'd prefer something that doesn't tax my struggle factory of a computer too much)

I also kicked around the idea of making it a server, and just letting it run, but I don't really have the need for that now, and the fan on this thing is like a helicopter taking off kind of annoying.
Timing is really important when you're submitting to HN. Submit at the right time, a mediocre post will shoot to the top. Submit even a pretty good post at the wrong time and two people see your submission before it plunges to the murky depths of page 3.
Why is it bad? I'm interesting in hearing you defend a specific freedom, after seeing you completely disregard the importance of privacy.
I still thing that Python 2.7.2 is the only way to go for development unless you already know Python and its ecosystem well enough to know that 3.x will work for you.

That said, I try to use any backported 3.0 features such as .format for string formatting. And for beginners, I heartily recommend using the 'six' module. That way when you need to move to 3.0, porting your code or your skills, will be easy-peasy.
I'm glad he finished with a note for the people who actually get something out of hard work on their personal project because I doubt I'm alone in getting a lot of personal satisfaction in performing like that. It's not all the time that I pull an all-nighter or a couple of weeks of hard slog, but I often feel better for them.

And I'd rather be doing that for myself on a side project or in the start-up lottery or within my own business than for someone else. If that isn't possible, then even for someone up the chain. If someone else (VC, client of mine, landlord, etc) also profits from this endeavour, so be it.

Sometimes you have to know the lows to fully appreciate the highs.

Further to that, I tend to enjoy weeks of fulfilling hard work with those glimpses of recreation more than I do the ones where I'm procrastinating, spinning my wheels or at a loss for something I can be bothered doing that day. Hard work, or hard holiday - that half-arsed stuff in the middle rarely satisfies.
Crass, but oh-so-on-the-money...

(I might have to A/B test this against my usual "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product" version...)
I hope this signals the end of folks walking on egg shells around Arrington. He's no longer a "newsman". He's no longer going to make or break every startup that ends up on AOLCrunch. He's just an investor hoping for deal flow. An investor who's proven he's probably not the guy you'd want to work with, probably not the guy you'd want to partner with, probably not the guy who will ever be on anyone's side but his own. Kudos to Zawinski for calling him out.
I find that I really connect with about 1 in 4 of jwz's rants.

It is a general rule that anytime there is someone above you in the hierarchy, they are going to make $2 for every $1.50 you make. Of COURSE the VC's will make more money than you. And the people who put the actual money into the funds should make even more than THEM.

The startup world, and economy in general has changed dramatically from the last time jwz was heavily involved, IMO. It's good that he made what qualifies as his own fuck you money and can now look in on things from the outside and comment thoughtfully. For a lot of people though, working 80 hour weeks grinding out a startup or 3 is still the most probable way of banking a decent retirement fund AND still having some life left to enjoy. I don't think that I'd advise many people to do a 30 year career of crazy startups, but it's kind of a geek lottery and worth the gamble for lots of people.

I don't really see where this is using his name to sell a con. If that were the case, I would think Arrington would pick someone who hadn't dropped out of the game a decade ago to sell his 'con'.
Indeed -- I remember multiple firms trying to do the exact same thing on mothballed cruise ships during the height of the dotcom bubble (v1).
This is an largely vapid and meaningless prediction by someone who doesn't demonstrate anything but the most superficial knowledge of the microprocessor industry. Perhaps he knows something we don't, but as far as I can tell he's only extrapolating current market trends.

Obviously Intel (once led by Andy Grove, author of "Only the Paranoid Survive") is aware of the threat posed by ARM. If someone could explain how Intel will fail to meet the challenges of getting x86's performance-per-watt to match ARM's, and how this compares to the challenges ARM vendors face in order to get raw performance up to Intel's level, I would love to read it. However, this post offers little such insight.
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I think you make some very good points, but I have to disagree rather strongly with this one:

> My general experience with DBAs, sysadmins, techs and the like is that they generally resent you for asking them to do things, making the entire experience unpleasant. I'm not sure if such people are attracted to such positions or such positions end up making such people but whatever the case, "surly" is a commonly appropriate adjective to use.

I've spent 15 years working in a variety of positions in IT, from tech support, to developer, to sysadmin, to supervisor, to architect/design engineer. My experience with DBAs and sysadmins is that they rarely resent you for asking them to do things. However, they may very well resent the way you ask them to do things.

Much of modern society is very me-focused, impatient, and with short attention spans. This goes double for the corporate business world. When many people run into a technical problem, they tend to want an immediate response and an immediate resolution to their problem, expecting everyone else to drop everything and attend to them. Their problem affects them, therefore it is the most important problem around right now.

What they fail to appreciate and understand, is that many DBAs and SysAdmins are supporting systems and infrastructure that has importance much greater than you. Yes, you have a problem, and yes, they want to help you. But they have visibility into things with potentially much greater impact than you, and those things may have a higher priority and importance than your problem.

An example I saw just a few weeks ago. I had a problem that needed attention from a sysadmin. I went to the guy who could fix it, and there was someone already at his desk. I waited outside his cube, and listened to the guy already there bitch at him. Apparently the guy had an application that was having issues, and he couldn't work on his report until the application was fixed. He wanted the sysadmin to drop everything to fix it, and he wasn't happy at being told that the sysadmin was busy with something else, and couldn't help him until it was fixed.

After yelling guy finally left, I ducked my head in and asked him if something was blowing up. He nodded distractedly and said that the server a PostgreSQL database ran on was misbehaving, and that the DB was utilized by an application used by 3 different business units and dozens of people. I offered my sympathy, told him I needed his help, but it could obviously wait until he fixed this problem, and said I'd e-mail him the details.

He thanked me for being understanding (twice), and called me as soon as he'd fixed the server issue to help me out.

> The cliche of the bearded UNIX purist exists for a reason.

I'm afraid you're going to have to explain the reason for this one. The bitchiest guy I know at work is clean shaven, and the nicest guy I know has a full beard. Exactly what reason is there behind your negative beard perception? ;-)
Ah. I didn't even consider that. Probably because I'm someone who tried to get an old serial terminal for the authentic green-on-black experience.
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My girlfriend got on to the ebook train early, before the Kindle was available in our region, paying ~$500 for a Cybook that reads Mobipocket format files.

A few years later, after amassing a couple of grand worth of DRMed books, the reader failed - and this presented two problems.

The first was that a replacement e-ink ebook reader that would read DRMd Mobipocket files was now impossible to come across, EPUB having mostly won out in the non-Kindle market. The second was that all those DRMd books she "owned" were locked to a broken device ID.

The only solution was the same as in the parent comment - spend a decent chunk of time breaking the DRM and changing their format.
Wow. I didn't expect this one bit from Arrington. I'm surprised he is choosing to mine Internet archives for blog fodder over putting that much more time into guiding his portfolio to fewer mistakes and possibly 1% more potential.

Startups, hard? Yes. We ALL know this. Are his opinions skewed towards his agenda? Also yes. There is no hiding the fact that he's in the money. The problem is that the "thought-leader" portion of his rant was lacking. And it's a bit of unfair baseball to bring up a random blog post from some guy nearly 20 years ago. My bets are that he didn't even bother doing follow up on this guy after the fact.
X86 is not going away, I agree, but Intel can hardly exercise the kind of dominance they've enjoyed for the last several years when they're facing serious threats at both the low and high end. At the low end, ARM simply beats x86 for anything with a battery. Intel has already lost the phone and tablet markets, and laptops are highly likely to follow.

At the high end, look at the http://top500.org/. #1 is based on SPARC VIIIfx. #10 is based on the PowerXCell 8i. #2 and #4 both derive much of their power from GPUs. Even that understates the situation, because many of the most powerful computers next year - Blue Waters, Mira, Sequoia - will also be based on non-x86 architectures. Then look at what Tilera or Adapteva are doing with many-core, what Convey is doing with FPGAs, what everyone is doing with GPUs. Intel is going to be a minority in the top ten soon, and what happens in HPC tends to filter down to servers.

So Intel has already lost mobile and HPC. Even if Intel keeps all of the desktop market, what percentage of the laptop and server markets could they afford to lose before they follow AMD? Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't, but anybody who can see beyond the "Windows and its imitators" segment of the market would recognize that as a realistic possibility.
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That's common: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...

Maybe give this game a shot, that a game designer created after herself having suicidal thoughts – it's a playful way to get you to do things that help when you're depressed (talking to people, focusing on short term plans, finding things that make you happy, etc): https://www.superbetter.com
The problem is that you exist to help him succeed.

The second problem is he might not be able to convince people at distance, e.g. B2C scenario.

Third problem is he is not going to be useful for enterprise sales either, since these depend on long lead times.

However, there is one area where he may be useful. If you are doing channel development, he sounds like a great go to person.
I run a VC backed startup and we pay six-figure salary PLUS more than 1% equity to our first employees.
Hmm... It doesn't seem to work. I left off a closing li tag and it didn't complain. C'est dommage.
I don't understand all the backlash and sniping either.

It's very weird - it's like walking into a room where you thought you knew everyone, but all of a sudden they're talking in a different language.

The wealth essay is very good, and I recommend it and forward it to all sorts of people.

It's all about mindset rather than actual work practices.
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It just seems like, of all possible things to concern yourself with, what OS someone is using is like way down the list.
Ah yes, one can compute P(x) a polynomial such that P(A) = 0. If you wish to compute A^n for n much bigger than the degree of P you can compute S(x) = x^n mod P(x) and then just compute S(A).

However, algorithms that do actually improve the complexity of powering when this technique isn't applicable do exist. Here is a paper on a recent one:

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Being from the Bay Area and planning to move back at some point, I can say that you don't have to go all the way to Modesto to get a lower cost, if you're going to build a community you could do it somewhere down south of San Jose, such as around Gilroy, maybe not as cheap as Modesto but closer and better natural surroundings IMO. You have to go over a hilly 'pass' to get to Modesto thats so windy they use the ara for windmill farms so its not the most pleasant drive. Also, I think the communities in the mountains (such as on the way to Santa Cruz) are cheaper than the valley and it'd be a lot cooler to live there than in Modesto
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Saw this interesting link on the Entrepreneur blog. Might help you with your inspiration!

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I wrote my blog post because I believe, for the apps I use, there are good enough, or better, alternatives. That may not be the case for everybody, but it's sufficient for me.
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If all you care about is using Microsoft's contact system (Outlook), then perhaps you should get a Windows phone. Surely those would sync.
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I have a similar laptop: 32-bit, 1Gb RAM, 1.6Ghz atom, purchased years ago on the cheap. I run the latest Ubuntu desktop edition and am able to run everything that I need (mostly Rails + remote services over SSH tunnels). I can even stream Hulu, though the video does sometimes lag.

I don't have personal experience with any other distros, but a friend of mine has an equally antiquated laptop running the latest Fedora which he claims is better than an abacus. YMMV.
You have to make a lot to 'EASILY' afford Bay Area housing... I currently live in Arizona and to live in an equivalent house like I live in here (nothing too special, just a 3 bed 1 story newer home) would be at least 2.5 to 3 times the cost (if living right in the hotspot areas of Silicon Valley. I'm honestly not even sure as it may be more, I pretty much gave up looking and resigned myself to living a bit further out because my salary wouldn't triple if I move there, as I'm sure it won't for most people.