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"There isn’t a shortage of developers and designers. There’s a surplus of founders." Whether you see the glass as half full or half empty, it's still half a glass.

I think there is a shortage of good/great devs, who could be contributing to making great innovations while making a decent amount of money at the same time.

We'll see in retrospect, either more start ups will fail, or more devs will come about.
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People trying to hire developers through Dice/Monster are demonstrably clueless. Get introductions direct to the decisionmaker. You won't be in a pile of 200 resumes from people who list "Computers: Expert, especially with MsWord" and apply to developer positions. You'll also be dealt with in more reasonable timeframes.

Job sites are job hunting for people who enjoy unemployment.
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Well there are also people like Jonathan Coulton (the guy who sings "code monkey") who started with nothing and built a fan base. Also he did the ending song for both Portal games.
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Second language learning seriously needs an update.
> Not to put you down, but I seriously doubt you are as acquainted with relationship drama as I am.

Ouch..
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those who care and think that they need an abstraction on top of JS / feel like it's a good approach / can't understand or find it hard to use plain JS, are free to use it.

I think people can have positive or negative opinion about things. deploying application frontend of which was written in CoffeeScript was the biggest mistake in my entire career, but I don't blame coffeescript, it was me stupid choosing a technology that doesn't suit the task.

people use many libraries that are generally bad, and asking "how do people still use it" and claiming that it's super-popular is very lame and doesn't really explain anything, and never is a counter-argument.

i don't like it, that's my opinion, it didn't work well for our projects and we have rewritten most of things, and will rewrite the rest of CS back to JS.

it's ok that people use it. some of them will face same issues we did and come to same conclusion. others will be happy, since it solves (THEIR) problem. the rest will never be smart enough to grasp why (and wether) it's good or bad. it's trendy and looks cool, so they'll stick to it.

you've done a great job when created it, but our problems are still better easier and more stably solved by plain js.

thanks.
If they have to do it, it's already a failure.

That's not true, no logo is recognizable when it's first designed. The whole point is you build an association to your company by putting it on your products, and ads (which will probably be crucial in this transition). If you start seeing this logo and hearing the letters "HP" along with it you'll start to recognize it really quick.

They'd have to spend a ton of money to maintain its recognizability.

Like I said, the way you maintain a logo's recognizability is by simply using it. What I meant to say is if they use a specific design aesthetic/context, through repetition the logo will become recognizable. HP is a big company and their usage of it will be heavy enough to make that happen. It just might be more challenging since they're pushing the limits of abstraction in logo design, which is what I find interesting.
I wouldn't call it "philosophy" in the typical sense of the word. It's esoteric gobbledygook.
I couldn't stop reading it as bp. Maybe it's a hint of another merge?
We used Jira in an agile environment and it worked fine? You're not obliged to use every dropdown they give you :)
If someone marketing to me is providing me with a cheap, DRM-free content that I WANT to purchase.. then I'm a happy person.
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So anthroposophic lifestyles are less stressful than "normal lifestyles"? That seems to be an interesting result in itself.
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> deploying application frontend of which was written in
> CoffeeScript was the biggest mistake in my entire career

... can you elaborate on this?
Look for a better deal, definitely. Have you tried posting your company, product and fundraising on http://angel.co? There are lots of investors there and 30K would be a tiny deal for many of them.

Edit: clarified sentence.
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Agreed. Guess I need to expand my network outside my geographical locale.
This is the other meaning of "philosophy":

a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour
I had a similar experience. I just left ClearChannel last month to go work at a startup, and though I went through a recruiter to find my new job, I also applied to a handful of job postings at YC-funded startups (through the jobs link at the top of HN). I believe there were 5 total, and 2 of them had puzzles that I completed correctly. I have an impressive resume, and I was willing to relocate (I live in Los Angeles, so SF isn't too big a change). Not one response, even to say we got your email, thanks for doing the puzzle. Through the recruiter, I was interviewed and hired within a week, at a 37.5% salary increase. Go figure
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I investigated several of the games and decided to go ahead and purchase it. I agree that the quality has varied over the past few bundles. The novelty of the Humble Bundle has definitely worn off for me (plus I preferred the original set of charities).
"Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux"

The experience of the mono-compiled Atom Zombie Smasher (from Bundle 1 or 2 IIRC) was pretty poor on Linux.

Never got to play it myself - I saw it mentioned that it was easier to get it running using wine + the windows installer (including all the faffing about with dotnet under wine) than natively. Might try that this weekend.

All other bundle titles I have played run well, apart from the occasional dual head quirk (though I am more likely to blame nvidia's poor randr support for that)
As a design student I can guarantee the 13° stuff is presentation BS. It's an attempt to make the HP board-members feel as if they really got their money's worth, like it's been meticulously designed and perfected to the degree.

I wish they had just referred to it as an italic, because that's what it is. But that wouldn't fly.
Personally, I'd prefer to live in a society that dissuades the irresponsible from taking risks with other people's lives every time they get behind the wheel.
The comments are full of people proclaiming that the cost was too high, but then every time someone asks for an estimate on working as a freelance everyone says to charge as much as possible.
Pythonista and Haskell hacker here. Everything he hates about Coffeescript is what I love about it, minus debugging. My debugging workflow looks entirely different (and more efficient) than his, however.

While I can't say for sure, it reminds me of the days where Java programmers would try Python and complain that it was harder to write Java code in Python than it was in Java (esp. with getters and setters).
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Be careful there, they have done a study where they have concluded that lower stress levels are related to fewer allergies. And in a different study they have shown that kids following an antroposophic lifestyle also have fewer allergies than regular kids.
Both results are correlation, which don't mean causation. And there is also no specific reason (yet) to say that low stress and antroposophy are correlated.
I think the blog post was a good one - it pointed out the problems.

Instead of defending it - go make it better. Address the items put forth right ?

1. work to get native debugging
2. clean up the looping mechanism

etc...

Instead of taking this guys post and saying 'negative criticism', see it as 'positive criticism' - he is reviewing it, showing what can be better, showing the obstacles.

I think part of developing a truly good library, is the ability to improve it, take criticism, expand and grow - not to cling to the original concept and defend all day long.

Personally I'd concentrate on the debugging, secondly, I'd work to improve the overall syntax, maybe providing alternative, more structured for some - others that don't like that can continue to use the same.

But again, rather than everyone just spamming here on how it 'rocks' or how it 'sucks' - would be better to take these observations and go and say 'how can we improve' - this is golden feedback here!
I quit Facebook recently. Besides the fact that I don't trust Facebook to know everything about me, my main motivation is that I don't think it's about real friendship.

The Facebook mentality is "many friends". But one has limited attention. I'd rather spend my attention developing a few deep friendships than many shallow ones.

The Facebook mentality is "never lose touch". I think losing touch with people is healthy. I'd rather make new in-person friendships than maintain every acquaintance I've ever made.

The Facebook mentality is public communication: my comments to you are public to everyone. I think real communication needs privacy. A one-to-one phone conversation feels completely different than a public wall post.

I love friendships. But I don't think Facebook is about friendship. It's about the monetizable illusion thereof. As someone else has written, it's a hangout spot created by marketers, rigged with microphones and cameras and advertisements.

Friending < befriending.
Devil's advocate (another in a long list of threads here): I really like this model, and that the people actually creating contents receive good benefits cutting out the middle man..

however

There's this (I think correct) assumption that big labels are getting richer and richer by sucking a good portion of the money off the content creators, and providing almost no value in return. But they also create lots of jobs for other people, which in this model is reduced to a minimum. Could there be some way to fix the current model without losing all of those jobs for lots of people?
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So far, no one has been murdered or gone to jail over it. So far, so good.

I hope you enjoy the blog and I hope it helps you get through this.

Logging off now as my shift is starting. I don't typically post from work.
Girl Talk's been using an even more beneficent form of this model since day one, which means far before getting popular. Gregg Gillis has achieved enough success to be touring and making money. There's still a couple caveats though:

1) Girl Talk is remixing bits of other songs that people already know, thus there's familiarity.
2) Trying to go through any label and traditional distribution model very likely would not have succeeded anyway, so trying something different wasn't really a choice.
Recruiters were definitely more responsive with me, but hey thats their job right ;)
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Thanks. A more realistic example would, I suppose, look like this:

longRunning (->
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I think it's very rare that revolutions are not violent. This is why the officials shouldn't get increasingly more greedy and oppressive until they make the citizens respond like that. Because in the end it will be worse off for them - like they could end up executed by whoever gets in charge after the revolution.

It seems the US Government keeps ignoring its citizens, too, heavily voting in favor of bills like SOPA or the NDAA. The OWS protesters have been mainly peaceful, but if they keep this up, the US Government might find itself with a real violent revolution, too. It's up to them to start respecting the Constitution again or keep violating it at every pace until the camel's back will break.

To be honest, I really think everyone who sponsored the NDAA bill should be immediately trialed for treason against the USA. It's such a blatant violation of the Constitution they've sworn to uphold. Bills that effectively remove or disable Amendments from the Constitution at the Congress' whim without consulting the people in a referendum should be illegal.
For what it's worth, I'm not sure how to pronounce "squiry". I would have guessed "skwer-e", but that sounds unlike most English words I know. Reading this page, maybe "squire-e"? "s-queer-e" (as in s-query)?

It's not even that I couldn't choose between two ways to read it, but that I couldn't come up with one good way to read it.

To me that seems like bad sign.
I don't think meetups are a great place to ask about entry level positions. I tried this while looking for a technical internship, and I was most successful when I could talk about/show a project that particular founder was interested in. When they weren't interested in talking about my work, one of two things would happen:

1.) If they were a well established company they'd just refer me to their jobs site and probably barely remember afterwards so it was almost starting from scratch.

2.) If they were a small company still getting started they would remember me because I said "intern" and they thought that might mean "free".

I feel like you're going to get a lot of these kinda reactions if you're just mentioning her, because there's not much to say about her if she doesn't have some solid experience you can mention. If she's really into start ups and is a good conversationist, I'd just bring her to mixers if you can. Don't mingle with her though, you two should split up and she should strike up conversation on her own, if she's with you all night she may get treated as arm candy.

Other than that she can comb the Who's Hiring thread for smaller companies that are just getting started and that she'd be interested in, research them, and email them saying she found them on Hacker News, and why she thought she as neat. Her lack of experience will be hard to get around, but showing genuine interest in start ups outside of employment is always helpful.
If backup files are giving you an issue, you can change the behavior of emacs so that it saves backup files in a separate directory, instead of the alongside the file that is being edited.

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If you want to help with the debugging aspect, the current bug in CoffeeScript is here:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558

There are relevant bugs open in WebKit-land, and Mozilla-land as well, and should be pointers to those in the comments of the referenced bug.
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> Only, I don't use Wikipedia "by typing it's URL". I just visit it that way. I use it by entering a query in the search box.
But with things like the App Store, or even apt-get and the like, native binaries can very much match that friction-less "installation".

Explain how? I just tested it, and Hacker News loads in a browser (not cached) in about a second. Please explain to me how a native app can be installed and launched that quickly (including the time to find the app in the app store, etc).
> legacy installs of old PHP versions around to run business-critical processes

Why? Your code should work in the latest version. Can you give an example?
It's actually less stupid than the state-level bans that allow hands-free devices. Holding the phone isn't the problem; it's the mental distraction caused by talking to someone who doesn't share your environment.

That said, I still oppose this proposal. It's impossible to enforce without invasive hardware and software requirements, and it would inevitably be abused by cops needing to meet their quotas, e.g. ticketing people who are texting or checking maps at red lights.
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What are you talking about? PHP back end, HTML pages, CSS style sheets, Javascript to make it all run, and all this on a per browser type and version basis.
Eating while driving and driving while tired are just as dangerous as driving drunk. The fact that everybody does the former is why they are still legal. We simply have to face the fact that as long as people still drive themselves, roads are inherently dangerous. If people want to make roads safer, they should push for open-source software that drives cars rather than people.
I also wonder what may have been different if this was not placed in the context of a very public experiment. How many of the purchases were political statements?

I think the same model needs to be employed, without any commentary, to get a true measure of the mechanism.
there were many problems with Barista during deployment. Some things that worked perfectly in development somehow stopped working later on, because of required recompilation. We were deploying in a high-security area, where there's no internet connection, and having to install Node or JS runtime was not good. But again - that was my stupidity, did not foresee that.

moreover, barista did not recompile assets until we touched / saved / modified the file.

We do not have direct access to production system, so all the bug reports are sent in JS, and we need to figure out how things happened and sometimes it was quite difficult to locate a precise place where it occurred.

now, we have to compile everything and package js files when preparing an updating version of software (again, no SSH connection, no internet connection, only tarball / zip update packages).

and, in general: even though everyone says that CS handles everything that JS does plus more, we found that it's easier to handle factories, mixins, scopes, inheritance and more with plain JS. it was always easier to read and understand, and no overhead for development or production, felt more natural. classes are not something we missed in JS, and comprehensions stuff seemed more like a syntax sugar, not something we really missed.

So - it added a complexity and made people to use CS features instead of things that fit more naturally to JS ecosystem. We've had several issues with syntax (e.q. hash assigned to a variable with a function inside or smth like that), but we worked around them on early stage.
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Less then 5 meters seems a little short.
The current model does not work for less popular artists, so I have trouble seeing the downside.
>web apps go viral faster than anything else

Yea, free ones. I don't care as much about how many people are using the thing as I do how profitable it is.
That is pretty sweet, thanks for sharing!
There is a palpable anxiety and dishonesty in all these attacks, it's stunning really.
Unique internet IDs are far from a conspiracy theory. They're being actively developed in China and South Korea to name a few. While the South Korean one has faced setbacks it's only a matter of time before they become common place in other countries in my opinion.
I don't understand what the big deal is. If you don't want to use coffeescript then don't use coffeescript.
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I suspect that just means you don't want to help someone start a business where it is hard to measure how effort in generates money out. If a buddy shows you a picture of pirates burying treasure in your backyard and then hands you a shovel, it isn't a big stretch to imagine you digging a hole for a few hours for no pay :). On the other hand, an idea scribbled onto a napkin by a non-expert isn't so compelling without cash to go with it.
Heh, you're framing the question in a way that is more likely to elicit positive CoffeeScript comments, but I'm happy to oblige.

In order to adopt any new language, you obviously need to eventually believe its benefits are greater than its hurdles.

CS had a few hurdles for me early in the process. I had to install it, and that was simple. Then I had to learn it, which was fairly easy. It helped me that I had a fairly strong foundation in Python, Ruby, and JS, and the subset of CS that I initially learned is largely a blend of those languages. The language is small and well-documented. (Hopefully we keep it small--there's a bit of creeping featuritis in the community.)

Debugging is the only ongoing hurdle. It's never been a big issue for me. Obviously, I try to write the code correctly in the first place, and CS's nice syntax helps me focus on writing correct logic by removing the need to deal with JS boilerplate code. When I still manage to write incorrect code, I use all the debugging tools that I would use to debug JS. Someday my ability to write large JS programs may atrophy, but I'll never forget how to read it or make simple modifications in the debugger.

Even if the hurdles of CS were relatively minor, it would be pointless to use CS if it gave me no benefits. For me the benefits of CS are its writability and readability. It's that simple.

I'm already sold on CS, but I could still suggest ways to minimize the hurdles. First, keep the language small and simple. Second, no matter how good the current docs are (and they are pretty good), continue to refine them. Finally, do everything possible on the CS side to facilitate debugging, which mostly comes down to line number support.
No doubt there are examples of people who built a fanbase online from nothing.

But I'm sure it helps a lot if you happen to write songs that appeal to nerds and then get featured on slashdot as a sort of novelty act. I don't see that working as well if you write earnest alt-folk love songs instead of songs about Mountain Dew.

Incidentally, there was a story about Coulton on NPR not long ago [1].

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...
We don't need to ban electronics for drivers. We need to ban drivers from cars. Banning electronics to prevent tragic accidents is like banning cigarette lighters to prevent lung cancer. Our roads are littered with death:

http://map.itoworld.com/road-casualties-usa#

The solution? Self driving cars. I'm convinced that every dime we spend on any transportation-related activity besides the self-driving car is a waste of time. Every year, about 30,000 people die from fatal crashes:

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

That's twice the number of people who die of AIDS in any given year:

http://www.avert.org/usa-statistics.htm

Electronics aren't the enemy. Drivers are.
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