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Why only start ups covered by Techcrunch get all the audience and adoption?
If the latter, how can we (the rest of the world) take advantage of this?

Focus on growth rather than equality.
Cause they all make 100k also - you'll laugh at this until you realize its true.

Well I suppose not everyone like fast food workers but in all seriousness there are a bunch of menial jobs in SF that pay 75 - 100k. Usually union protected gigs.
It's really just a generalization of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

"Work expands so as to fill the time [or other resources] available for its completion."
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The regular doubling of clock speed ended years ago, around the time of the Pentium 4. (The paper you cited appeared in 2002.) In any case, Moore's Law never said anything about clock speed; that just became a popular misinterpretation.
Considering the amount of incredible tech talent at ThemeForest I'm surprised they haven't built a better way to consume all of their content. Same goes across the whole Envato company.

Hopefully they're planning a hack day or similar for this exact purpose.
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Getting away from x86 would be a start :)

Azul is basiclly a modern lisp (well java ahh) maschine but its kind of the same. There is an awesome discussion between Cliff Click from Azul and Dave Moon (one of the guys who worked on the lisp maschine). http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2008-11-18-brief-conve...

Another direction we should go in is security, we should have a trusted computingbase.
Some awesome stuff done by DARPA: http://www.crash-safe.org/papers (one of the lisp maschine guys, is working there too)

This would allow developer to focus more on alorithems and speed. That all said we still have do deal with the multicore problem :)
University of Illinois has a good program, but it is a degree completion program so you have to already be well on your way. I have heard UMUC's program is ok as well.
Quite right, I seriously dislike the scattered approach to configuration files of Debian packages and thus I stay clear of Debian and any derivative like Ubuntu.

However the end result is the same, a properly configured a Debian box works just as well as a properly configured CentOS or Arch box.
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My favourite is actually:

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both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied
with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from
that invention he invents C and Unix.
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I feel for you. I made side scrolling arcade game in 13h mode (in 2000 or sth like that, I was learning Turbo Pascal).

It was quite addictive - had many levels, upgrading ships, different win conditions, physics (you flew a rotatable rocket - asteroid style physic, but with big tiled levels, with teleports, doors and buttons, enemies, and some objectives to do(transport people from bus stops to the barber - don't ask :) ). It even had water tiles, that had different physics (less gravity, more friction), and I've implemented interactions between different objects (like flamethrower bullets changes to harmless smoke in the water, laser goes throught glass tiles, etc). I made my own sprite editor (didn't know hwo to read bmp files :) ).

I've lost it all to hard disk error a few years ago.
So true.

I'd argue it's probably a waste of time on greater than 2 layer boards myself (having had the pleasure of doing this on a Telequipment D83 scope amp module) unless you want to boil them and get the laminated layers out and then don't even ask about vias.

What is even more of a pain about doing this is that on traces that carry high frequencies, intentional parasitic inductances and capacitances are sometimes designed into the board and there is no way on hell you're going to reverse engineer them.

If this is for reverse engineering and repair, it's best just to "replace at the border" i.e. replace the controller assembly with something electrically compatible much as they did when they went from relay logic to PLCs back in the 70s and 80s.
I've always found mailman's web interface a lot easier to read than Google Groups. e.g.: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-January/thr...

AFAIK Google Groups don't even support threads
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I don't know I think the epitome of amateurish design looks something like this: http://www.indotekken.com/forums/forums.php
This is not a useful answer unless you give specific information so as to be comparable. Otherwise, perhaps you simply have a low standard of comfort.

This is how I define comfortable -- a set of criteria which I have derived from visiting and living in both very cheap and very expensive places:

* How long does it take to get to work? Do I have to drive to work? If my car breaks, could I buy/lease a late model new car (one that I expect will not have problems)?

* Do I live close to friends, so that I can see them as often as I desire, or is the distance an impeding factor?

* Can I walk to the supermarket, cafe or restaurant, or do I have to drive everywhere?

* How large is my home, in sq. ft? Do I have a yard?

* Can I vacation in a foreign country or expensive city? Will I have to couch surf or can I afford a hotel?

* Am I able to contribute to a retirement plan? Do I have money to invest with? Can I put aside enough money that I will be able to buy even a modest home in my neighborhood in a few years?

* Do I live in a city that has a vibrant cultural scene? Are there many good restaurants?

* If I lose my job, could my savings cover 12+ months of unemployment? (Or, could I leave my job and work on my own projects for 12 months?)

For me, comfort is being on the right side of all of the above questions, and it would be a stretch to do it on $100k in the SF Bay Area. On the other hand, there are many places in the US where, by the above list, I could not live comfortably no matter how much money I had: I'd rather earn $75K in SF than $180K in Kansas. Or Sacramento even.
I find it really interesting that Rust itself requires all these languages to compile:

g++ 4.4 or clang++ 3.x
python 2.6 or later
perl 5.0 or later

Does anyone know why that is?
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Feel free to come on over. There's a shortage of good engineers in Norway just as there is everywhere else. You could even work for a US company, as I do. http://jobs.yahoo.no/page/work/jobopenings
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With ElasticSearch you wouldn't have that problem. It uses push instead pull replication ... which is also (near) real time aware. Even for peta whatever byte.
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This looks very nice. Thanks for sharing.
> the economies of scale have to take over, right

Assuming there's enough competition, yes.
Thanks, any feedback is welcome.
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In my view that's still just bolted on unit-testing, though very thoroughly and seamlessly bolted on, I'll give you that.

What I want are tools that help manage the complexity of unit testing, built-in where it makes sense. For example, creating mock objects and ensuring they are reflective of what they are mocking is difficult. Imagine if you could take the built-in asserts and the unit-tests for a component and use them (or some tagged subset of them) as a spec. for automatically creating mocks. Imagine if determining unit-test coverage and which tests should be run based on code changes was automatic and trivial. Etc.

Certainly profiling can be performed on any binaries provided you have symbols for them, but is that really the best we can do? I have a hard time believing that adding support for instrumented binaries at the compiler level isn't a good idea.

What I mean by "round-trip between code and parse trees" is the ability to have easy access to parse tree structure either in code or to external tools. So that you can do things like easily build in refactoring support to IDEs, or to more intelligently merge code changes at a higher level than merely lines of text in a file.

Of course, none of these ideas are anywhere near fully baked, they would require research, experimentation, and a lot of hard work. But I'd rather see people pushing the boundaries of programming languages with novel research rather than just throwing yet another mashup of already existing features out into the wilds in hopes it'll survive.
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Interesting point. Also, it really helps to somehow weasel/tap your way into the hiring side. ;) Even if it's just to see the submissions of applicants.

An important principle of negotiation is knowing their interests as well as you can. And presenting a representation of yourself which strongly satisfies those interests.

Basically, all the work is done before the negotiation; the point of negotiation is where it all comes together and you use all that pressure you've built up to (politely) bear.

If you have a take-home project, great, you can hit it out of the ballpark by adding all the professional polish that virtually no other applicant will do — have it build, solve corner cases, or casually note that it was tested on 3 platforms; whatever's vaguely appropriate. Virtually everyone else cuts some corner somewhere. Most will submit a minimal answer, to a question which resembles — but isn't — the take-home question.

To the company struggling to find a good coder, this makes you a drool-worthy thing to purchase, like the newest Mac. They will calculate what they're losing in not having your increment of productivity, and that will pressure their decision.

(That said, I prefer to state the number first as an anchor, because I research relevant salaries, but whatever. ;)
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I had originally included a lengthy argument against disclosing your salary to recruiters specifically. That element was removed due to the fact that the post was aimed at graduates who most likely won't have to deal with recruiters for a number of years. In my follow-up post I am dealing with both topics specifically. Not negotiation but purely the facts as to why I think it's best to withhold your salary from a recruiter and disclose it to an employer.

Fortunately I am not just one out of tens of thousands of recruiters. I've been in this game for three years, prior to which I was on the other side of the fence managing a team of 8 people, regularly interviewing potential employees and entering negotiation battles as an employer with a strict budget.
A good article, but the thing I liked most about it was following the link to discover Dave Kellogg's superb blog post, Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt:

http://kellblog.com/2011/06/27/why-palantir-makes-my-head-hu...

which, among many other points written up in an entertaining manner, gives the better summary of how investors look at the difference between service and product companies:

>That last point [about whether Panatir sends in consultants or research engineers to its clients operations] is important. Why?

> - If field technical staff are engineers, then the associated revenue is presumably license fees and the cost is R&D.

> - If field technical staff are consultants, then the associated revenue is services and the cost is COGS.

>Why does this matter? Because most software company boards and investors see the world in a pretty black-and-white way:

> - License revenue is good. Services revenue is bad. (Largely because gross margins run 98% on the former and 20-30% on the latter).

> - R&D expense is investment and ergo good. Cost of goods sold is bad.

>Almost all Silicon Valley boards will want an emerging enterprise software company to run with a consulting business that’s no more than about 20% of total sales. In practice this means a company can have at most about 1.5 consultants (pre- and post-sales) per salesperson. Any work that can’t be done either as R&D investment or by that small consulting team needs to get handed off to partners.

So, do you want high growth or do you want to help your clients? The two do not always go together quite as well as you might have hoped. To rephrase the point in Dan Shapiro's terms, many of the most worthwhile businesses out there have reasonable, not outrageous margins.
Yes it is a very thought-provoking article, similar his "the free lunch is over" in 2005.

The upcoming jungle sounds like a great adventure. Many interesting challenges ahead. Though it's very, very hard to get rid of the sequential mindset, we'll really have to think in new ways.
Good luck getting citizenship in Norway.
Here is the video where Shay explained the difference http://vimeo.com/26710663 (from 18min on)
Sure it's by choice: the choice to live in San Francisco or the peninsula—the most exciting locus of tech innovation in the history of the world. Personally I was not crazy about it, so I took the opportunity to move to my company's London office where things are even more expensive. It's all choices though. I doubt you could name a city that I'd be willing to live in where you could get a decent apartment for $800/month.
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Do you have a source you can cite for this? I'm keenly interested in how this works.
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I guess both:
To test since i am a tester anyway.
To develop because i want to create something.
Somewhere in the distant my goal is to open my own Start-Up
Except no I couldn't because that's clearly unreasonable. Let's try to avoid any reduction to the absurd, here.
Living better on a quarter of the salary? Jesus, I needed about 50% increase moving from Santa Fe, NM to Mountain View to feel like I was on par. How cheap is it in WA?
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I would argue the same as Gruber and say that they did create their own format. Whether or not it looks like ePub under the surface is irrelevant, since it's a .ibooks file, not a .epub. Since it's Apple's format, they can do whatever they want with it without having to worry about how other readers interpret the format.

(Unless you mean it would have been easier from their point, in which case I also disagree, since this allows them to use their existing ePub code.)
The median household income in the city is around $70k, so most of the population doesn't have a 6-figure income...
Computer speed is a story of layers of bottlenecks. CPU speed is just one of those potential bottlenecks. As it turns out, CPU speed has not been a bottleneck for overall computer speed for some time (over a decade), the modern bottlenecks are GPU performance, memory size and bandwidth, permanent storage latency, and network latency.

All of those roadblocks have been dramatically lowered in the last 10, 5, and even 1 years. DDR3, improvements in memory access architecture (sandy bridge, ivy bridge, etc.), GPU improvements, and SSDs have all bumped up average computing performance, even while the clock speed of CPUs has stagnated.
And the complimentary round is really challenging.

Good work.
Really nice. I've used Yourkit profiler quite a few times to solve java memory leaks, but this automated detection seems awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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The Bay Area has a lot of freelancers doing miscellaneous gigs for low-ish rates, so that could drive down the average. There are people charging $200/hr for web-dev, but others (especially people w/ no experience) charging more like $30-40/hr. If you want someone to hack on your Wordpress theme, or do some minor PHP customization, the going rates aren't very high.
Much like /robots.txt and /humans.txt I think this belongs on root. I understand that we do not want to trash the root URI. Perhaps this can be merged with the humans.txt instead? It can be a separate section in it.

I also dont think this is necessarily an alternative DNS. Much like the hosts file that circulated the internet, this is is just a way to track some major IP addresses, that can be queried when the world ends.
I didn't get that one, actually. Am I just being dumb or is there a backstory?
How can a color be ugly?

I quite enjoy it's simplicity.
It's a good thing us humans like to think ;)
Imagine Firefox, but without segfaults, and using multiple cores.

That's the use case. Rust is intended as a safe language for building a research browser that works in parallel.
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Well yes and no. Imho, a vote for anything other than the two who can actually win is as good as no vote at all.

Sometimes I think they are put there by the main parties to steal votes from their opposition on issues they cannot possibly accommodate.
But as the article mentioned:

"Prosecutors in this case have stressed that they don't actually require the passphrase itself, and today's order appears to permit Fricosu to type it in and unlock the files without anyone looking over her shoulder."

So the state is arguing that they're not demanding the password, only the plaintext.

Still seems fishy, but it's not clear that it's testimonial.

I suppose one could argue that it's more akin to a judge demanding that you produce the corpse the police have so far been unable to locate.

Better still, as someone else said, it's like the police demanding that you translate notes you wrote down in your own made-up-and-known-only-to-you language.
How and how often do Java memory leaks actually happen? It's never stricken me as a problem. I guess some kind of global variables are involved.
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Great use of publically available data. It uses multiple of househould income as an affordability measure (pretty standard, I believe).

Not exactly hacker, but I see lots of comment threads start about housing affordability, and wouldn't mind creating something on this myself at some stage.
While it is possible that most landlords don't have rent-controlled properties, I think the majority of renter-occupied housing is subject to rent control. FYI almost anything built prior to 1979 is rent controlled. Also, what sf calls rent controlled is what nyc calls rent stabilized: when tenants leave the landlord can reset the unit to market rents. The law only caps increases while the same tenant lives in the same apartment.

data:
proportion of renter occupied housing in sf subject to rent control:
http://www.thehdmt.org/indicators/view/192
2nd map
direct link: http://www.thehdmt.org/img/indicators/pdf/RentControlHousing...
Can you post links on where to get each of those?
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I don't know... Norway might do everything perfectly for all I know, but it's way too cold and wet for my tastes!
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It's hardly impossible. You'll need to hold down a job (which provides a work visa) for seven years, don't be convicted of a criminal offence, and attend 300 hours of tuition in the Norwegian language or have documented sufficient skills in Norwegian or Saami. Only 20% of applications are rejected, and most were rejected for failing to meet those conditions.
I think your question is more intended to ask about seed round - $500k-$1mm ish

Rule of thumb for first round of engineer hires is $85k as of late - they get substantial stock in return, about as much as managers hired after the A round.

Series A you're looking at closer to market wages, with obviously less stock
somehow everything is mostly the same

Because it's really hard to let go of the "cosy" single-threaded, sequential model. I expect there will always be a place for it, as it gives important guarantees. Just like mainframes still exist (the article mentions this too - "different parts of even the same application naturally want to run on different kinds of cores"). Also, it may be that the free lunch is extended with graphene or other radically different semiconductor technology (except for quantum computing as it will also need a complete rethinking of software).

Heterogeneous, parallel computing exists in addition to the sequential model and won't replace it. I do expect cases where parallelism matters to grow as AI (voice recognition, human language recognition, driverless cars, etc) becomes more prevalent.