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my guess: YC batches being almost exclusively sausage fests pg's posse prefers to avoid subjecting itself to potential criticism wrt gender discrimination, thus the topic is best not raised.

personally i found the article quite illuminating that the topic one worthy of HN debate.
Speaking as a long-term Subversion and Perforce user, I'm finding the switch to Git (forced on me by a job change) painful. My old work flow:

1. Commit my code to the central repo.

My new and "improved" Git workflow:

1. Commit my code to my local branch.
2. Push my local branch to the central repo.

As we're using Git as a centralised source control anyway, what is this extra work saving me over using a "traditional" centralised source control? In other words, what's the point in using a decentralised source control system in a centralised manner, and how many teams are truly using Git in a decentralised manner?
Google provides a set of numerical codes for you to print out and store in case you lose your phone. They're all one-time use, and allow you to get in and change the settings.
P1 is free to move, but is already at the left-most side of it's sandbox. To get P1 further left relative to P0, you'll have to move P0 to the right.
100% spot on (from the outside, at least).

I think they were banking on their "huge market share" in mobile phones (that has since began sinking down) to get buy in. "Oh I have a Blackberry I should buy this thing." That's a good market to shoot for if there's a compelling reason for the customer to do that, but I didn't see a single feature that would really push someone to buy a Playbook over an iPad even as an existing RIM customer.
I am in Switzerland, and I download stuff, but I am not a pirate, I am a ghost. I am not doing anything ilegal.

Here is my philosophy towards (primarily movie) piracy, and what piracy really is. As far I am concerned, to the eyes of the US Movie industry I am an inexistent customer:

- When US movie/tv industry first releases content they only focus on the US. Consequently they discriminate (they have the right to do so) against potential non-US consumers. It takes weeks/months to get that content in Switzerland.

- The imported US content, when in Switzerland is translated (French/German). I am not interested in translated content as much of the context/msg is lost in translation. I do the same with books, magazines, etc.

- Given that it is practically impossible to pay for the content released in the US from Europe, and the quality (translation) of it has decreased, I am no longer a potential customer; better said, I have become a ghost. I am not being targeted/catered by this industry.

The problem is not with consumers downloading content. The problem is that studios/producers, etc. have not got a business that serves these people.

I do not download music, I don't need to. I have Spotify, Grooveshark and iTunes that cater my needs. I am willing to consume that content. On the other hand no company is serving my movie/TV needs, hence I am not a customer nor a pirate. I am a ghost.
In short my life hasn't changed at all.

Though mine was a relatively small exit in comparison to some of these 9 and ten figure behemoths you hear about.

I thought I would not work for 3 or 4 years, that did not even last three or four months. But I still made time for fun in there too.

I was barely old enough to drink so I spent some time (and money) doing some stupid things (bought a bar once while I was hammered). Then I spent some time helping my dad's company get off the ground and primed for acquisition and now I am on to my 3rd startup.

Life only changed for me in the sense that I have less to worry about. As a whole I am still the same person and I still live basically the same.

I don't live a lavish lifestyle and I budget and save money like everyone else. I own a modest home and I drive a car which in not special (3 series).

I hope that I'll keep working until I am no longer physically capable but the most important thing to me at this point is being happy with what I am doing and spending time with my family and friends.
Closure, being basically LISP, has the benefits of S-expressions. S-expressions are a super powerful language feature when it comes to natural language processing. Given how much is being done around NLP these days, it's natural for there to be a lot going on work-wise with Clojure.

I also agree with Madhouse's explanation of the steeper learning curve. The biggest problem with the steep learning curve is that there are far fewer examples in the wild of solving business problems with Haskell. The library support that Madhouse mentioned also compounds this problem.
Scalasphere, why aren't we talking more about Software Transactional Memory?
Absolutely. I started waking up at 6 am and working until 8:30 a month ago, and it's been a great boost in my productivity.
The question that bugs me most about this advice is the same as I've posted in the comments over there

What about those of us who hate [almost] everything that comes with running a company, but can't imagine being happy in any other context?

I've almost decided that having a company is simply a necessary evil for what I want out of my life.
With the number of domains that are being discussed here as recently stolen (seemingly all from GoDaddy), I think we need some answers. How did this happen? GoDaddy account hacked? GoDaddy account social engineered? GoDaddy internal systems compromised? GoDaddy - person on the inside? New flaw/hack in the ICANN registration methods?
The team has developed an algorithm that in their words is “limited only by the battery life of the quadcopters and the number of parts available.”

Wow, what an understatement. This is in fact the main problem.

Motors consume a lot of energy - in fact electric motors consume more than 2/3 of produced electricity - this is manufacturing, transportation, even most of the electricity consumed by computers goes to power cooling ventilators.

Electric Quadrocopters usually have flight times measured in minutes - and they carry a heavy accumulator, maybe a third or half their weight. And the picture of that quadrocopter lifting that block of concrete is actually funny if you have ever thought seriously about flying robots - where can I find those motors and propellers?
It's saving you because you can freely commit without ever running into a conflict suprisingly.

Deal with the merges and conflicts when you want to. Also, it's lot faster to commit. You shouldn't be pushing out every commit -- just commit a lot and when you want others to see it, push it.
Did anyone who owns an IPhone or Android smart phone decide to buy a Playbook? I still can't believe RIM insists on stick to their own OS rather than building their features onto android, joining that ecosystem, and putting out quality hardware.
It will also tolerate Vim users:

# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
Thanks for this post. I don't have privacy protection, but I have been very lax about keeping the contact info on my domains up to date. This post made me see the error of my ways, and I'm off to fix that right now.
I don't see how calling yourself an 'Engineer' is dishonest, adding 'Professional Engineer' or 'PE' to your title would be dishonest as those terms have regulatory meaning.

'Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of people.'

Regardless of the formal designation of 'PE' or other designation many people do fit the term 'Engineer'.

The real issue is that some limited jurisdictions have decided that 'Engineer' must equal 'PE'. That doesn't make the use of the term 'Engineer' improper outside those jurisdictions nor does it make the choice to equate the two concepts universally correct.
We are talking about fresh startups, that are just getting launched. Twingly has been in business for 6 years.

And even then, "hundreds" of bills is crap...unless of course you count every purchase on your credit card statement as a "bill"
You can use an alternate number to have a text message sent to you and there are printable one-time pads. The one-time pads have come in handy for me, because I always let the battery on my phone die.
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They are the ones that aren't reading or paying attention, or shut you down at the very thought of talking about politics
Cool. I've been having good luck with on and off. The hard part is getting back into an early sleep routine when I have the odd late night. Anything you do to help reset the routine?
The moral of any story involving SVN is: "Switch from SVN".
Swiss Government: Piracy Pays for Itself
Agreed - personally I use https://github.com/visionmedia/commander.js for this reason.
That was an android thing, IIRC.
What is the most southern thing?
Twitter often works better. The semi-realtime nature of the system means responses often come faster, worthless autoresponse systems haven't found their way onto Twitter yet, and the public-ish nature of Twitter means the other side is somewhat under a spotlight and this often improves their behavior.

Obviously, it depends on the situation and the company, but Twitter can be a great way to approach some places. For example, if I was having problems with Comcast's phone support, I'd rather tweet @ComcastCares than figure out how to e-mail them.
> but I didn't see a single feature that would really push someone to buy a Playbook over an iPad even as an existing RIM customer.

It's even worse than that. The useless thing couldn't do email. You know, the one thing that made RIM a success in the first place? Yeah.
We don't do this of course but as a registrar we have literally the sole authority to cancel your domain if you have inaccurate whois data. Seriously.

See section 3.7.7.2

http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/ra-agreement-21may09-en.h...
100% agree. totally have the same issue with movies. if we are not catered for, why should we pay for a product that does not fit our needs. we are not the customers.
I could commit pretty freely using Subversion or Perforce to. As for the faster Git commits, is that just because you are only commiting locally? You still have the overhead of pushing to your central repo. Reading the original article, it seems his reason for switching to Git can be summed up in one word: Github.
There aren't many things more dangerous than surrounding oneself with yes-men. It's amazing people fall for it so frequently.
I'm not really an aficionado, but I've done some basic feasibility research as part of school work in university (I'm studying Automation and Control Engineering, and we are tasked at presenting a possible quadrotor/quatrocopter solution for scrutiny).

So you will need to know a lot of stuff, but it depends on what you want to do. What you need to know:
- Electric drives. (Or internal combustion engines, but I think they are way more complex, while undeniably more powerful, also more control problems)
- Control Theory, mostly state-space.
- basic electronics
- Microcontroller programming.
- you will probably need to know at least some digital signal processing.
- AI
- Radio communications (you have to communicate with the robot, even if its autonomous)
See http://caniuse.com for specific features. IE9 isn't awful and IE10 will be better, but IE10, which will be released next year, is anticipated to have less support across the board than other browsers have today. That imposes a drag on use of new features, because of the need to backfill with js-based emulation or to provide alternate implementation of features that don't depend on tech IE can't handle.
> I always advice people to call their projects a start-up from the beginning

Could you expand on why you advice this, meaning, what is the advantage of it?
According to your post simple message above it could be the other way around (always call your startup a project).
In order:
internet.com (went IPO in 1999, acquired in 2008 (or thereabout, I was no longer involved when it was acquired)
Earthweb (went IPO in 1997, acquired by internet.com in 2000)
Net Quotient (acquired by Applicom in 1999)
Boo.com (crashed and burned in 2000)
Moveablemedia (acquired by HSBC in 2001)

I then did the Wall Street thing for a while, building cool payment stuff for banks and big tech companies.

Last year, I started working on the outline of Keepskor (not fully revealing what it's about except for broad stuff like the fact that it will be in the general space of social, mobile, and include things like localization :) ). Earlier this year, I left the cushy Wall St. job (I felt I was getting overly fat and happy) to focus on this full-time. The core ideas sketched out for Keepskor are still there but the way in which we're interpreting them have radically changed. We've done some market research to validate the core concepts, built a prototype, crashed and burned it, rearchitected and reengineered and are now getting closer to what I consider a solid alpha.
Great news for NYC. Personally I'm not that keen to immediately up sticks and go work for Facebook (or Google, or Twitter, etc.) because it's so big, but their presence in the city helps to establish it as a real tech hub of substance. I hope to see a greater Facebook presence at hackathon events and suchlike.
Re: that angry birds thing, it sounds to me like Google was marketing the levels as "Chrome exclusive", but not that it specifically took advantage of functionality that was only available on Chrome. I'm thinking something like user-agent detection...? I'm info-poor, here, I admit.
> most techies in this area aren't that entrepreneurial.

I'm not sure where you get that idea? I've had the exact opposite experience in NYC. I think the tech scene is very entrepreneurial... IMO, it's why you see lots of people gravitating towards places like GA.
I'm so happy VWO came to be :).
How Zencoder became the largest transcoding service on the market
For web, Play Framework and Japid template are very good.

For distributed clustering, Hazelcast is amazingly good.

For massively scalable network services, Netty does a fantastic job.
Geez, you all inspire me so much. I'm trying to do the same and have switched to smaller and smaller side projects so I could get SOMETHING out there. Currently I've been distracted by time with friends/family/SO/and the current barrage of amazing fall video games all which pushed my project to the point of is it even possible?

Apparently I'm the only thing in the way. Thanks for the inspiration everyone! You guys are all amazing.
I've been using a very little know (and poorly named) template engine called Cambridge Template Engine (http://code.google.com/p/cambridge/) for my latest company.

The documentation is a bit thin, but the code is rock solid and very fast.

Combined with JEXL for an expression language, this is one of the best server side engines I've ever used.
University of Central Florida. I took a class under him. Stanley is an awesome professor and NEAT is my favorite style neural network model
Is this based on Martin von Löwis' previous 3.x porting work?
You hit the nail on the head for me. Those are exactly the three packages I need before I can migrate.
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Another vote for NameCheap. And to make this comment more useful...

I especially love how easy it is to transfer domain names between NameCheap users. I had purchased a domain name once with my personal account. Then I created a company and wanted the domain to be officially owned by that entity and not me. So I created another NameCheap account for that company, then transferred it over very easily.

Of course, it's possible other registrars offer such a frictionless transfer process between account holders too. I've only used NameCheap for this and can say I was pleased with the results.
numpy and scipy are already Py3K-compliant. matplotlib is the odd one in the scientific community.
Oh man. You and I should compare notes (2 IPO, 2 acquisitions here) but I fully agree with you that luck is a big critical factor. People are generally impressed with my background but now on startup 5 or 6 (depending on whether I count my turnaround attempt for boo.com as part of the deal), I still feel that I'm just lucky and need to prove to myself that I can roll out another one.
You just said the exact same thing Chris Dixon said: if you can't think of any way to live your life but to run your own company, start a company.
Annotations are a huge and important part of Java.
Chris nailed it. My own sleep cycle is spinning wildly out of control. I have an Atlas complex when it comes to my startup.

Years ago I read similar advice for musicians in bands that want to "take it to the next level". The short version was "Don't!" and the longer version was "The only people that should be in a touring rock band are the people who can't not be in a touring rock band."

I spent several years trying to act like I needed to be in a touring rock band. Luckily I was and still am young enough to be wrong and not have any serious regrets.
I'd buy one for US$ 50, tops. ;-)
I found Jackson is better than GSON at deserializing nested standard object graph automatically. GSON needs me to define all the nested structures.
You don't participate except to post these offtopic farts?
For most purposes, being the best isn't necessary, only being good.
Wow, that's horrible. I wasn't aware of that. I use them for hosting but I use Google Apps for email. I'm sorry for making a bad recommendation.
People should know what they're getting in to, is the reason someone like Chris Dixon takes the time to write a post like this. He's not demanding that people not dip their toes; he's just saying, "I've been in the water, and it's fucking frigid".

He's right, from what I can tell. I've done my whole career in startups, and ~6 years into this one it's still costing me significant sleep and cortisol.
Since major corporations started having turnaround times of minutes when contacted in the public manner that is Twitter rather than days, weeks, or never.
In Ruby, you don't write code, code writes you! ;-)
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I don't quite understand this from the documentation I'm reading. Doesn't high fault tolerance require automatic failover of some sort that goes beyond broadcasting the messages to all Hooks? For instance, if you want to send an SMS robustly are you supposed to have multiple SMS listeners? And if so, how do you avoid sending multiple messages without some sort of ACK or message queue?
Yeah, my registrar sends me yearly e-mails to tell me to make sure my info is up to date, which I then ignore. This post was what finally got me off my butt.
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This if from the SEOMoz blog and would love to hear how the community feels about this.
Once it's transferred away, GoDaddy has no power over it. Even the best support team can't do anything more than "give it back, please, new registrar".
Sorry, but LOL.
Shit, that sounds hard. There's no gentler way in then? I was hoping for ready-made kits running Linux :)
On a very serious note, what else do companies expect when they make “fitting in with our culture” a key part of the hiring and evaluation process?
I thought that the WSGI spec for Python 3 wasn't entirely settled yet. Was it finished and approved while I wasn't looking?
How did you know it was time to raise? Was it because you could not afford the hosting bill anymore, or that you were getting lots of traffic and not enough time to build out the product, or...?
Don't live in a black and white world.
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Unless of course he meant in the same way that you "passar" a hockey puck, in which case it is only an unusual choice of words.
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Very true. The result of this for people making strategic decisions regarding their lives is that if the field puts high value on positional factors, you should only engage in practice in that field if you have natural talent. For example, being in the 93rd percentile of basketball players (or startup founders) isn't going to make you millions of dollars (The value is in being better with respect to others, not with being good in absolute terms. Only one person gets to be the best.).

But being in the 93rd percent of public equity investors will make you mightily rich.
I probably should amend that. The financial freedom is great but it wasn't something I had aspired to when I did startup 1.

I have seen many people strive for the money and make it but then blow through the money quickly and be basically in the same position as the one they started in.

Don't do a startup for the money because if that's your main motivator, it likely won't work out. To anyone who doesn't have the kind of mental illness required to put themselves through life in a startup (anyone who wishes for long hours, continuous stress, a feeling that how much you do is not enough even when you win is probably some form of mental illness but I figured it's easier not to worry about it as I can't change it) probably shouldn't.

That said, if you have an idea that keeps you at night, or a problem that annoys you so much that fixing it is easier than letting it continue annoying you, then go ahead. I am the kind of person that sees something not working and think "I can fix that" which, for some problems, eventually moves to "I HAVE to fix that"... and all my startup entrepreneur friends have the same kind of feeling.

... but yeah, the financial freedom makes things easier. Wealth, however, didn't at first. A lot of money at a young age was really tough to manage. IF you happen to get the lucky gold ticket, don't touch the money for about a year. Just see what MODEST improvements you want to make to your life instead of going out and blowing the money. That way, the money will last longer and ensure that you can live worry free and build the next great startup.
Yup, it was. PEP 3333 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/) was accepted and finalized this summer.
I'd never heard of Japid before. Thanks for pointing it out.

That said, using a backtick character like that seems like a really error prone approach. Definitely not my cup of tea.
I wish there were a tool that would verify that they're all still registered under my account at GoDaddy.

whois?
Mail Merge in Gmail with This Google Docs Template
OT, but Salon. Man. Putting "/singleton" on the end of the URL for a 1-page is truly the most widely-distributed codesmell I have ever seen.
If gin and red wine count - that's my bag -, but only to wind down.
Care to elaborate? Why is running a company the only avenue for you to get what you want out of your life?