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Maybe not rely upon but it is a good one time thing that you can get your name across multiple tech blogs, hard to get that much attention so fast without the blogs writing about you.
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Last time when I used python I could separate statements with a semicolon and put as many as i want in a line. Did that change ? ;-)
> Granted it expands to more than one line

Does it? It's a single semicolon-free Python expression. Looks like one line to me.

Besides, that is a terrible example of a "good" Brainfuck interpreter. The Scheme example is easily 100x easier to understand (/debug/troubleshoot/extend/etc).
Good and bad developers exist anywhere and everywhere. May be because India is a country of a billion people, even small percentages lead to a big number. So your chances of finding not so good developers are higher in India.

But that does not mean that India is all about cheap software development with code that never works. Outsource your projects to the right people and you get things right. There are pretty good companies such as Slideshare, Zoho and most of the big guns like Google, Microsoft, Adobe with offices in India where great products have been developed by Indian developers.

All I say is, give developers in India the kind of money they really deserve (which is still significantly less than what their American counterparts command; it's more to do with the lower cost of living than anything else really) and you would get software that matches international standards.
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> May be because India is a country of a billion people, even small percentages lead to a big number. So your chances of finding not so good developers are higher in India.

Sorry, but you really should try and do that math again.
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Wow! What a quality answer. Thanks so much.

See if you can find somewhere between two and six people whom you get on really well with and quit worrying about what most folks are up to.

I'm blessed in that I have around 4-5 such close friends already. And a few others that could go into that category in the future maybe. Main challenge right now is to find more such people who live in the same place as me.

Reading self-help books and doing therapy had its place for me but looking back I consider it the slow-mode part of my life. It was something I did when I was too weak/fragile for stronger stuff. If you are up to it, find a mentor, do some traveling, hurl yourself into something new. Bite off more than you can chew and all that.

Yes! I totally agree with this. I've been priming myself with endless reading and self-debugging and taking life slow, but now things are speeding up. I'm doing a lot more in practice, but at the same time I have a real hard time doing the kind of meticulous evaluating/notetaking that I used to do before. So I'm definitely in a transition period right now.

Your remarks in this thread read like someone who is very bright and hasn't yet figured out how to adequately meet their intellectual needs.

Wow, thanks. A little about me and my aims: I've been running a magazine for the past 2 years (http://www.interestingtimesmagazine.com) which has taught me a lot of things. I currently work a regular dayjob (writing code) but I can't say I'm really cut out for being a salaryman. Right now my goal is to pick 1 startup idea and go for it (http://ideashower.posterous.com). In the future, I would like to make some music and I also have a few ideas for novels kicking around in my head. So, yeah, I have a lot on my plate that I need to get out and share with the world!

This seems to leave bright people with a chronic gnawing hunger for "something more"

Absolutely! I've always been very existential and unable to see myself enjoying a "standard" life. I'm obsessed with proving to the world that I have what it takes. This is both good (drives me to excel) and bad (makes me come off as an arrogant distanced turd). I spend most of my time vacillating between the kind of philosophical lovecraftian uber-pessimism written about in Thomas Ligotti's "The conspiracy against the human race" and the gung-ho cheesy dopamine-fuelled positive thinking bravado of Anthony Robbins. Learning to just chill and enjoy life is a huge challenge for me.

Anyway, I enjoyed your remarks. It's the main reason I am replying. Best of luck with putting your plan together and finding what you need.

Would you mind if I contacted you? You seem like someone who gets me... :)
Not really; a fractional exponent n yields the quantity one would have to multiply 1/n times to return the original value. Multiplication an integer number of times could be seen as a special case of a broader concept of "fractional" multiplication (much like the gamma function (Γ(n)) extends the discrete factorial to a continuous domain).
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Never been a big tattoo fan, but after reading that, I might consider a big "NO CODE" tat on my chest.
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"A camera where focusing an image is abstracted away so that the consumer doesn't have to think about it would be a huge step forward. (Think post-shot auto-focus with optional tweaking for when the camera doesn't get it right). "

Almost every DSLR you can buy has already abstracted this away by coming up with really killer AF systems. Cheap consumer cameras and cell phone cameras have abstracted this away by always producing images with a super high depth of field. There is an inherent contradiction in what you're saying about the post-shot tweaking and user simplicity. The camera has to always get it right, there is no post-shot process for anyone other than photo hobbyists and professionals, who represent a small (though not insignificant) market.

I do agree that their technology could be slightly useful for that market, but unfortunately the major use case is when the camera has screwed up, and because of the nature of their technology, the images produced with it are of such mediocre quality that it's almost hard to tell the difference. Even in the macro shots on their demo gallery, the lens itself is so soft and the resolution off the sensor is so poor that shifting the focus isn't even all that rewarding most of the time.

The long and the short of it is that Lytro are not making the kind of camera you are talking about. Sony are with their NEX series. Panasonic are with their GF series. Nikon with the 1 series. The iPhone 4S camera totally destroys the Lytro for apparent image quality, low light performance, dynamic range, and then completlely annihilates them when it comes to actually doing something with your photos...

Lytro's camera is a graduate thesis that grew legs, went mad with delusions of grandeur and tried to con the whole world into thinking that its one basically irrelevant feature is actually revolutionary.

Gadget bloggers believed the hype because that's essentially what they're paid to do.
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I spent a lot of time hanging around nursing homes when I was growing up, and decided a long time ago that I'd like to do fast and well before I get to that stage. The NO CODE tatoo is a great idea.
"the video claims radiation exposure is equivalent to a 15 minute airplane ride."

That's also the claim the TSA makes about the body-scanners in the airports, yet these are dramatically more powerful (to be able to see through metal). Google (image search) a bit "scanner van" and you'll see these things can penetrate multiple layers of steel (pickup truck bodies, etc.) with no problem. That takes a wee bit more power than looking through cotton jeans and underwear.

Don't forget about the TSA cancer cluster... or the fact that the TSA lied outwardly about the safety of the devices (stating the NIST, which doesn't perform product testing, tested the body scanners and certified them as safe).
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Just as Codd's discovery of relational algebra as a formal basis for SQL shifted the database industry from a monopolistically competitive market to an oligopoly and thus propelled a billion-dollar industry around SQL and foreign-/primary-key stores, we believe that our categorical data-model formalization model and monadic query language will allow the same economic growth to occur for coSQL key-value stores.

In other words: "this article will move mountains".

Let's wait and see!
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Works fine for me. On my iPhone I automatically get redirected to ihackernews.com otherwise it's very readable on the iPad too. The new Reader in Safari in ios helps a lot with some articles.
Us Chinese also have a strong cultural inclination towards working at a big company instead of striking it out on your own.

That hasn't stopped the likes to Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Fred Chang (Newegg), etc etc. And that's not even mentioning any entrepreneurs in Asia.

India has a billion people, I think it's pretty safe to say that there are a significant number of entrepreneurs worth their salt that will come out of that place - cultural impetus or otherwise.
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I was in Best Buy earlier today and the sales guy who was trying to sell me a TV reminded me a lot of the doctors/residents I was dealing with during a few weeks I spent caring for a family member at Mass General Hospital a couple years ago. I don't think they do it consciously, but doctors try to sell you on their philosophies for healthcare.

But it doesn't matter. You're sitting in a small room with dim lights and someone tells you that you have two choices:

1. You can die a certain death, within months, with very little pain, or

2. You can try some heroic measure like chemotherapy for a minuscule chance of a multi-year moderately happy, but extremely painful survival.

Humans are programmed to have hope, and, regardless of any logic, the vast majority will choose option 2. It's just like playing the lottery. Even now, as I think about those two options in good health, I am compelled by my nature to choose option 2.
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This is exactly what I also thought when I read the headline. And this becomes even more strange given that they are almost certainly building upon using MinGW.
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I prefer super key the Alt+F*, less labor, and faster and easy to notice the input area than KDE Alt+F2 like.

I have used to move mouse on screen up-left corner to see the windows thumbnails view. then the windows became hard to distinquish. On KDE, they have diffrent size or shape, and icons over the thumbnails.GNOME has the same size and shape, and the window's name is too small to read.

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This did not change, but the author also didn't use semicolons. As stated many times above, this is a single Python expression.
It's also had a large positive impact in my life, also after a long search that included writing a couple of ill-conceived note-taking web-site-generation programs.

I now spend most of my time in org-mode, and use it for publishing my web sites and blogs (I wrote org-jekyll for that), staying on top of the tasks of a bunch of people in my team (for which I wrote org-secretary), and keeping up-to-date documentation of the progress of the projects we are working on at HP. And I like being able to export and distribute them in LaTeX -> PDF.

I haven't felt the need of deft-mode: C-c a s does the trick of finding what I need most of the time.
The phrase "Hope after [anything] I will do [anything else]." seems to rarely happen, in my experience. My life tends towards more demands on my time, not less.
Isn't it obvious that he means that they won't accept them as built-in and/or the defaults, not that they don't accept them as extensions.

Shipping sane defaults is not a bad way to go, given that the extensions are easily findable and installable by power users that want them.

I still run GNOME 3.0, so the extension installer doesn't work for me, so I can't confirm. But I think with GNOME 3.2 onwards the extensions gallery stuff should be installable pretty much as easily as extensions for your browser are.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I can assure you, the road to hell is not paved at all:
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(as context, there is a valley called 'Hell' in South Africa)

Oh, and it should be mentioned that nothing stops Linux distributions from shipping the extensions they feel necessary. Look at what the Mint guys did for their GNOME 3 setup: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_lisa_whatsnew.php
The difficult piece is durable state storage (typically a database). When you are just starting out, a big database of everything is probably good enough. Chose a solid, widely used data store (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Oracle, MSSQL, etc) and use it. Do as little in this layer as you can - it's going to be the most expensive and difficult to scale. Put your business logic elsewhere. Protect it from read spikes with a cache. Design your schemas carefully.

I disagree with some of this. In general the worst db scaling I have seen are ones with large numbers of simple queries based on the idea of doing as little in the db as you can. Instead I would suggest two principles regarding making the db a little more scaling-friendly:

1) Everything that needs to be queried together should be queried together. Don't do lots of round trips and simple queries.

2) Don't do stuff in your database that it isn't designed to do. Write good queries, but don't do things like send emails from the db backend.

A corollary here is that you should write your queries with performance in mind but not do too much premature optimization. For example, it's a lot easier to go from a group by to a sparse index scan (using a stored proc or a CTE) than it is to lock yourself into a sparse index scan from the get go.

In general, the four points you mention though are extremely well thought out. Following up on #4, although technology is important sometimes (esp. newly maturing technologies here like Postgres-xc), these are going to be far more useful where an app is well designed than where it is not. After all, if you don't know where the bottlenecks are in your app, you can't put effort into the right places to fix them.
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Hello Villponen, while I agree with you about the post and condemn this practice from TechCrunch, I'm wondering about your own practices of covering "ONLY" Nordic and Baltic countries Startups!? or am I missing something? Fact is, TechCrunch is one of the biggest player and Entrepreneurs don't really have that many choices while trying to get coverage from big tech blogs, and probably when they are not from the Nordic region or very big, they can't expect coverage from your own blog. Again, I condemn this practice, I'm just surprise to not read it from a RWW, TheNextWeb...or other "world Techblog" blogger but from you, while you already set your own Embargo from the start: "Don't talk to us or don't expect coverage from us if you are not a Nordic or Baltic Startup" . But of course, I could be missing something here!
It would be interesting to see who the author thinks makes "knockout biographical pages."
Not all of the injustices of the world can be fixed by being "a good friend".

I would think part of you that rebel against injustice is something you should hold on to.
Just this weekend I met a relative on the street (mid fifties), doing some shopping. A few months ago, he had some chest pain, his wife thought it was a heart attack and drove him to the ER. As he was being admitted, he went into cardiac arrest, he was resuscitated, and now his four teenagers have their father back, for a few more years at least (he is back at work, and seems to be living a full and healthy life). What's interesting about this, in relation to the OP, is that his wife is a doctor, and she was the one who resuscitated him.

Yes, it's just an anecdote, but a useful one to balance against those in the OP. Obviously the situation differs if you have a terminal illness, or other serious health issues, but I think a blanket NO CODE rule is a little extreme.
These are just some examples. What steps are different in other languages?
1/n times may not necessarily be whole either.

How do you explain irrational exponents this way, for example? What about complex exponents?

Indeed you can extend the special case to the continuous domain -- but then the definition is expanded as well.

I still think "multiply N times" is just a special-case, and as such, not usable as a definition -- let alone an explanation of why we can add exponents in the general case.
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White balance and exposure definitely are useful settings for pros, but even for pros I don't see the post-process focus selection being all that useful, certainly not considering the tradeoffs they made.

Personally I shoot with just about everything. A big DSLR, my cellphone, compact digicams, film rangefinders with and without meters, film SLRs, giant medium format and large format cameras, etc. But I am a total freak in that regard. The things that I find enormously useful and fascinating are completely irrelevant to normal people. Unfortunately, normal people won't be fascinated with the Lytro either.
no. i understand what the customer really needs, which is rarely what he wants.

i than build and design product that will a) fit their needs b) be useful for all other customers we have or c) won't disrupt existing customers workflow.
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It is less from Western point of view not from international. I'm sure that in Latin America and Eastern Europe prices are quite similar and time zone differences are more acceptable. India lose in this price range because of cultural differences as well. Usually those are small details like matching Christian and/or international holidays (therefore no conflicting days off) but sum of those details are really significant.

Again your point just confirms fact that Western developers shouldn't worry about competition from India.
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I was also trying to develop such service but ended up working on something else.

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I'll tell you what not to do; dark grey links on a black background. On my laptop screen I literally couldn't see them until I selected all text on the page to see if I was missing something. I was.

edit: Looks like this might be a Firefox only issue. It looks fine in Chrome.

Screenshot (Fx8.0.1, OSX 10.7.2) : http://i.imgur.com/0QNca.png

edit2:

Yup.

body {
background: -moz-radial-gradient(center center 45deg, circle closest-side, black 10%, black 20%) repeat fixed 0 0 transparent;
}

overrides the background-image and is Mozilla-specific.

Test in multiple browsers, people!

edit3:

Oh for pete's sake, I thought "I know, I'll be nice and tweet him so he knows there's a problem". His contact page doesn't list a twitter, I have to scroll down his sidebar to find a tiny little twitter icon, which has a broken link. I feel really happy taking advice from this guy.

edit4:

anyway, as regards what he's actually saying[A], I don't agree. I run a blog at http://puremango.co.uk which got 80,000 views in the last 30 days (~2500 pageviews per day). Of those, 120 were viewing the about page. It's linked from every page in the top navigation. So, unless I'm doing something wrong I don't think the about page is that important. What's important is quality content.

[A] and you see, this is why getting things like multiple browser testing sorted are important; The discussion has been hijacked by this issue when we could have been talking about your post instead.
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And they let leadership skills emerge after acquiring those analytical/ philosophical skills.

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