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Is this article arguing that startups should seek VC simply for the sake of seeking VC? I'm exceedingly paranoid about giving up control of my business-- I want my customers and employees treated a certain way, I want my service to be presented and available on my terms (which goes back to how I treat my customers.)

If I can bootstrap, keep customers happy, keep employees paid (and content), keep my company and my money ... then why do I need VC?

Edit: I re-read it with a different ... attitude. Perhaps the author oversells the disadvantages of bootstrapping. Ownership is enough of an advantage for me personally. Dealing with the disadvantages keeps me nimble and, believe it or not, innovative.
James Iry's blog post explains what they are talking about, and also links to a forum where Eclipses -proceedonerror option is mentioned. http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2012/01/type-errors-as-warning...

It is a clever idea that would save me a lot of time cleaning up after an experimental function signature change before I am fully committed to the idea.
The whole raising money for a web app/website never made any sense to me.

To start...
$10 bucks for a domain and $50 bucks at the most for hosting.

Ok, so your app takes off meaning more money for bandwidth and possibly need some extra hands for support. Great figure out a way to make money off of the traffic. If you can't figure out a way to make money off of the traffic you will end up taking from VCs forever and how exactly is that a good thing?
Coca cola was bootstrapped out of a single drug store back in the 1880s. I think the TC author needs to get his facts straight.
A lot of students freelance. You might want to start out advertising on CL for local businesses. It will be slow initially, but you will pick up speed.

How much do you need to make a week? How many sites do you think you can do a week? Halve that and you'll know how much you need to charge.
With all this WebGL fun that is going around, I find it very annoying that I have to be missing out. I'm on Linux, using the Intel Mesa driver and while they say it on the WebGL support page that I should keep my drivers up to date, it's "too up to date" (7.11.2 and WebGL only works for <=7.9)... I mean, come on!
I used screen for 15 years but recently switched because I liked tmux's easy-to-read conf file and scriptability.

Mac OS X users watch out, launchctl commands barf mysteriously inside of tmux.
> There's no such thing as a business venture that makes $2mil in a worst case scenario.

The opposite is true though: there are a lot of companies that will have trouble doing more than $2 million. I think the author is suggesting you don't pick one of those.

In the end, the real cost is time. Do you want to spend your time building something small, or something big? That depends on why you're working, I suppose, but if you really don't care what the business is, might as well build something big.
it's largely an academic discussion

I differ on that subject, one of the reasons that we are where we are is that people don't take the time to properly analyze what we are, if people lack the fundamental understanding that we do not have a capitalist market, to the extent that they complain about said capitalism then it is a huge issue. It shows that they have largely been successful in convincing the people that what we have meets the definition of the title, to the extent that even the blanket terms are accepted for something that it clearly is not.

He's talking about the byproducts of the mania for deregulation in the name of the free market that's been a hallmark of the rhetoric of the right the US for decades.

Yes and that was my point, they are not anti-regulation they are just anti-regulation for the insiders and both sides are just as guilty of it. They may preach the platform, but in practice they do not apply it across the board. Hence they pick the winners and looser by only being anti-regulation when it conveniently creates barriers to entry by anyone other than established players. As such, my post was very relevant to the article and it is not capitalism. What the author dislikes is corporatism which is the definition and title of what we have.

Don't let details distract for the actual topic of discussion here. They matter, but not so much that they warrant ignoring the original complaint.

I think you have misread my original post, the information was very relevant to the topic. I was not ignoring the complainant but rather highlighting that we do not have a capitalist system and his and our redress is to return to true capitalism which will only come about by people understanding that we are indeed not a capitalist economy.
That's still prejudice. Regardless of how they got in, both achieved the necessary grades to graduate. Look at those grades instead.
I'm really not the right person to be answering this. I haven't been at Jane Street that long, and I have no experience programming OCaml without Core. You'll likely get a much better answer on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ocaml-core. (I've also posted a link there to this discussion already, so hopefully someone will come by and give you a better answer.)

Probably the biggest difference between Core and the INRIA (default) standard library is that Core itself is mostly written in OCaml. This has many benefits: code is less verbose, easier to read, it's easier to verify correctness, etc.
So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues.

The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more.

Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.
Just replying to point out that I amended that sentence of the blog post. I understand how it could be misleading.
The mortgage interest deduction is subsiding those who make the choice to reduce their labor mobility; why would we subsidize people who want to reduce their competitiveness in the labor force?

Hopefully the mortgage interest deduction will go the way of ethanol subsidies.
I think that in itself is actually a good learning activity as well.
Sorting should be done with sort -r -n -t :
For what it's worth, it's usually not necessary to recalculate the bogomips value - it's only really used for usleep(), a routine used to sleep for short intervals (on the order of microseconds) to wait for hardware to stabilize. Overestimating slightly is not a problem - but even then, the cpufreq driver actually does scale this up and down as the CPU speed changes.
Apple has a near-monopoly like Microsoft? In what way?

iPhone has only 15% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that share shrank slightly 3Q11 vs. 3Q10.

Meanwhile Android went from 25.3% 3Q10 worldwide smartphone market to 52.5% 3Q11. In one year they doubled their share and tripled their quarterly units-shipped (20.5M to 60.5M).

Source: Gartner, November 2011
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1848514

And Microsoft still has 92% of the desktop OS market, and holding:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...
There are multiple problems with tmux on OS X. pbcopy and pbpaste, for instance, are entirely unusable. Even if tmux has some nice benefits over screen, it probably isn't worth it to the Mac user to switch.
Great point. This same discussion was made by Ben Yoskovitz on http://www.instigatorblog.com/no-shitty-in-mv/2012/01/05/
The machines are not useless- at a minimum they have one purpose- to entertain the viewers. A rather unfortunate use of the word - gives the impression that this is going to be some kind of return-to-pre-industrial article.

This is the kind of Modern Art that I understand and brings a smile to the face.
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Also there are an awful lot of ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-M, etc. cores in microcontrollers and that market is very different from where Intel is competing.
The authority for hackerne.ws is domaincontrol (GoDaddy, apparently) while the authority for news.ycombinator.com is EasyDNS.
Even though I signed up and am going to try my best to do something with this, I do agree. If you're targeting different languages / frameworks / etc, it seems like even something simple like doing a code kata in a brand new language is a decent accomplishment for a week.
Interesting question. Are there certain constraints or parameters to your question? If not, here are some things that comes to my mind:

1. Sudden (unexpected) weather changes
2. Location-relevant deals/coupons (relevant to my interests)
3. Any breaking news (in a similar manner to how things tend to break on Twitter b4 mainstream news broadcasts it)
4. If friends/family are within a local proximity
Just a hunch, but I'd say the song came first!
Nyan Cat is perpetual motion applied

the rainbow is just a consequence

http://9gag.com/gag/532615
I thought we decided against using brainteaser, gimmicks, and parlor tricks in code interviews.
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How were you picking out the most important passages? If you don't already have an automated method, try taking a look at my own side project, http://bookshrink.com. (yes this is a shameless plug).
On chrome you can ignore the video blacklist[1] with '--ignore-gpu-blacklist' flag. My ubuntu only started seeing WebGL after I did this.

[1] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4ed2...
This article pretty much refutes the idea that an ARM vs. Intel battle is brewing: http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/935-tracking-big-semic...
Is your application highly complex? Are your users highly technically skilled and constantly using this application? Highly complex UIs arise from highly complex situations - think plant-processing control rooms - lots of dials, switches and blinking status lights.

If the answer is: the user doesn't regularly use this piece of software, or this application is ancillary to their primary task, then you should fall back to simplicity, remembering that simplicity and directness is difficult because it involves paring back what is less used.

Here are some general guidelines:

Go back to first principles. Understand the key process, identify the critical path and make it simple to perform common tasks.

Make it easy to remember context. Recently accessed searches are more likely to be re-used. Do you store these?

Avoid modal interactions, because the user may have to jump out of their current activities midstream to perform another task, and then return to where they were.

A significant portion of support time for enterprise product is due to administrators misconfiguring the product. Nail those down so that it is difficult to get wrong.
Having been active on /r/minecraft since it started and reddit from when it was pretty small. I have seen this trend play out repetitively:

1. Niche communities form with lots of quality content

2. This valuable content spurs a spike in viewership, the forum becomes anonymous and no longer a community.

3. Then the quality of content drops dramatically, especially with lots of members just adding banal thoughts or outright karma-whoring. Most content is now in the form of counterpoints which aren't counterpoints, juvenile tit-for-tat fights, massive meme infection and 2-month nostalgia posts.

4. Members who were responsible for quality rapidly abandon the subreddit and the entire subreddit begins to resemble the reddit front page. (I really have no idea how the mods stick it out.)

Unfortunately I have begun to see the same sort of thing happen to HN. HN wised up quickly however and removed visible mod-points which I always felt was responsible for the worst behaviour on reddit. (Slashdot was a bit better because the karma was rationed and the stories curated.)
Sure, but that is nowhere close to what your first post said, unless you think git is the only scm.
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what i like about tmux:
- its actually faster than screen to startup
- all the stuff everyone lists/knows/blog post

what i dont like about tmux:
- it schokes on some weirdo programs while screen seems pretty reliable on anything

thus i end up on screen more often than not
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No it doesn't. Source: Living in CA, had several Background checks (CA allows the subject to receive a copy of the background check).
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Hm. I'm not sure why you would assume that AA tries to address or single-handedly solve the problem of primary education. It's aimed specifically at the problem of admissions. Other programs should and do target primary education at large, as well as the problem of minority students' performance in college. Arguing that AA doesn't fix all the problems of race and education is a straw man argument.

the least effective way...to fix problems of race bias in college admissions.

What are the more effective ways?
Whether the Kinect is a game changer or a distraction remains to be seen. A well-coded bot can do quite well already in autonomous mode, even when there's contention for a goal (in this case, the 3 point hoop).
If I want to register my startup here in Brazil, I need to personally go to five different places and wait more than a hundred days.
Could be an intersting year for Win Phones. Nokia has signed up with ST-Ericsson to produce low cost chips, and Appollo (WP8) should be released Q3. I suspect Christmas 2012 will be a much more attractive WP offerings across all price points. Is it too late? I don't think so the oppurtunity for growth in the smartphone market is still huge. Will Nokia try and replace all feature phones with WP8? If Nokia is still capable of pumping out a million phones a day, then things could change fairly quickly. MS & Nokia need to get some momentum rolling this year though.
Just a quick project I made for fun and to learn rails. The idea come from my agency where designers love to drop random developer language sentences. Add yours :) Please note, it should be casual sentences when we talk between developers, not some philosophical quotes :)
No real parameters. Cell phones can be programmed to do tasks based on its sensors (eg. turn on vibrate when face down, go silent when past 10pm) I'm just interested in hearing what kind of tasks or notifications (email, sms etc) would be useful to receive from non-digital devices.
After seeing this, I really don't think there's a difference anymore. Americans are starting to be treated the exact same way, despite the fact that the "freedom of speech" 1st Amendment is the strongest part of their Constitution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c...

Seeing how things are going, I predict there will be a real revolution within 2 years in US, especially if Ron Paul doesn't become president. I see him as the only hope to revert the whole trend back. He even predicted everything that's happening now back in 2002, with specific examples and within a 5-10 year time-frame:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifJG_oFFDK0
He is really quite young.
It looks like its a very expensive project.

iphone, ipad, android, win mobile, windows, embedded, mac even 3D..

not everyone has those toys already, i dont have the iphone and ipad for example (not even an ios developer account)
The std-lib in OCaml's official release by INRIA is very basic and not enough to be used in medium/large projects, and some people would rather call it "base-lib" instead of "std-lib" . Two major libraries can be used as an alternative, i) Jane Street's Core libraries. and ii) the comunity-driven "Batteries included".

Related links:

Core: https://bitbucket.org/yminsky/ocaml-core/wiki/Home
Batteries: https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included
he is 90, still a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in the last 5 years has learned to be an expert an 3D animation and video production

Wow. That's awesome! Is any of his work online?

I still remember my favorite professor telling me that she saw things much more clearly at 80 than she did at 70.
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These days. In the (pre-ACPI) past some machines would change CPU frequency on AC events in system management mode, without any real way for Linux to know that it had happened. If you booted on AC and then went to battery then you'd probably be ok because kernel delays would just get longer, but booting on battery and then going to AC could result in these timeouts being significantly shorter than the hardware required. Once Intel actually documented their Speedstep implementation, and once ACPI gained support for expressing CPU performance states and notifying the OS, this mostly went away. But it was a real issue in the past.

(Nowadays we just have to deal with vendors who've decided that their firmware can do a better job of CPU power management than the OS and change frequency without telling us, but that's Enterprise so it's ok)
Try modifying your TERM environment variable, I've found it can be quite sensitive to that.
Don't forget RAK, the ruby gem (works the same). gem install rak.
There's a similar-sounding problem in the X11 environment on traditional Unix systems: the current default graphical display is in the $DISPLAY environment variable, while authentication information is in ~/.Xauthority. GNU Screen tends to blindly inherit those settings, so you can freely start GUI apps from inside screen and have everything work... until you try to reattach screen from inside a different GUI session, or from a non-GUI session (say, ssh). Then all the processes you run inside screen go looking for a GUI session that no longer exists and everything starts breaking in odd ways.

tmux actually has a way to work around this: whenever you reattach, it looks at a whitelist of environment variables representing external resources, and either updates its own environment with the new values, or removes those settings from its environment if the place you're attaching from doesn't have them available (naturally this doesn't magically fix any processes already running inside tmux, but every new window you create will be set up correctly - unlike screen, where you have to kill every window and end the session). By defaut, this whitelist includes variables used for X11 authentication and the SSH agent. If OS X has a similar environment-variable-based connection system, you might be able to add it to tmux to get things working.
Hey mittermayr,

I like the website and the progress you have made thus far. 1.000 users is a great mark be at and I definitely agree that this is a substantive base to survey for feedback. If they like the direction of things thus far, continue in that direction. Use their feedback (to some extent) to lead your product development.

Since I see that you are focusing on twentypeople.com, what is the status of pareer.com. Is this a site that you are currently working on or is it simply just up and running? What are your goals for pareer.com?
Go to about:config, and set webgl.force-enabled to true There is a similar option for chrome/chromium in about:flags.
How much faster? As you stated, the second version is much cleaner; I'd prefer to use it if it isn't that much of a performance hit.

Edit: hm, in my casual testing, the 'cleaner' version takes about 10% longer.
I just picked up a copy on Amazon. Thanks Pud for mentioning this. I had forgotten about this book and I had wanted to read it.
I had the exact same question popup in my head. I browsed through the IBM Watson page to get an idea. [http://www.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/research-team/]
First off, don't take offense to the Dorsey comment. I was kidding. There was an article about him working 16 hour days at 2 startups that I was reminded of.

You should have mentioned these details originally. If you can automate it and it really doesn't require too much attention from you then I'd say keep it running and pursue other options. Doesn't seem like a problem to me.

When you say you can't make more than 70k euros monthly I worry. 70k each month is a lot of money. Is that in your pocket or what the business is making before expenses? If that's your pay then I hope you're not in it for the money. Doing anything for the money is a sure way to fail in the long run. But all things considered I can't see a reason why you shouldn't go for 2 at a time in this particular situation. Good luck.
I'll continue to think about it. I have been using http://ifttt.com for notifications throughout my social apps. I have become obsessed with it because its ease-of-use and quick setup.
Looks that way:

https://github.com/lokesh/color-thief/blob/master/js/color-t...
3 days later, and it's all the Internet can talk about.

We're a rather strange bunch.
Dan, i have been curious about DME as a provider for a few months. Very interesting to read this, thank you for posting it.
> The current technology is overshooting the needs of the mass market.

I was actually thinking of starting a thread about throwing away computers: does anyone else find it hard to throw away old computers these days? I have a core 2 duo sitting on my desk right now, in the box. I can't convince myself to put it in anything, yet, I can't throw it away. I feel like I'd be throwing a way a supercomputer.
I love the challenge of the early game, but more than one character has died to bit rot once I've got a full ascension kit and something drags me away.

It's just so tiring to slog through the last levels, when there are 80 messages about monsters missing to read every turn and the crazy summoners have you surrounded with 800 weak monsters. Sure, you can wipe the floor with them for the most part, but you die if you get a little too careless with your HP.

That said, I might just roll up another of my favorite neutral human wizards for fun. Mindflayer meat is just so delicious....
Some other cool features:

Monitoring background windows: with monitor-activity, monitor-silence, and monitor-content [term], you get a visual notification when there is activity, a certain period of silence, or an occurrence of [term], respectively, in a specified background window. Sometimes I open several error logs in a background window and monitor-activity so I get a notification if anything is written.

synchronize-content: I've only used this a few times but it's a neat trick! With several panes open in one window you can send keystrokes to all the panes at once. I've used this while connected to more than one server to compare the contents or make changes simultaneously. I won't claim this is the safest way to work but it comes in handy.

Managing windows and panes in tmux is pretty painless, in my experience. Resizing, switching, etc. are all very simple. One final feature I like, tho it's trivial, is the "show the time" command (bound to prefix-t). Invoking it gives you a nice big digital clock in a window or pane. I put this below my ttytter pane so I don't lose track of time. :)

I don't know how much of this you can do in screen as I've never used it, I'm sure there's a lot of overlap, but as a sometimes very critical software user let me say: I love tmux.