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Excellent post on the outline of his management style, but far too short on details. How does this management style deal with inevitable conflicts between engineers? How does this style deal with pivots? Who makes hiring decisions for managers in this layout?

I imagine that this could work, but this would seem to scale even worse than the traditional model; four thousand engineers, all of them "bosses", does not a productive company make.
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I have never missed foreign keys on the projects I've worked on that don't use them.

This is because those projects typically sit on databases that are only expected to be accessed via web API and not directly from some other source.

Which is basically the Rails philosophy. Only let the app talk to the DB, and let the only outside interface to the DB be through the ORM that has to do most of the data validations anyway.
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A common philosophy seems to be that such files should be served statically by your front-end web server anyway, but that is not sufficient in all cases. For example, you might need to process the request through your framework to generate the response on demand, implement access controls, or integrate with a custom logging/analytics framework.

Depending on your use case, you can either use X-sendfile header - validate request, then return a X-sendfile response for your front-end server; or use gevent to stream the response.
Great read thanks, love HN, I'm a clot who didn't realise what SP really meant until now.
From what I've seen of applicant CVs recently it is now traditional to include a page made up of nothing but a long list of acronyms - presumably to ensure as many hits as possible from recruiter searches.

The inclusion of items in this list is often "acronyms I can spell" or "software I have been in the same building as".

I don't know if recruiters actually encourage this approach - it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
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At 14:00 GMT the BBC web site and the ESA web site are still announcing a flawless test flight.

Edit: Nothing on the ESA twitter feed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/esa

Edit: Even though it claims the explosion was at about 13:30, ESA was still tweeting about success at 14:00. Seems pretty clear this is a hoax, or blogspam, or similar.
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None. If you're implying if this blog is simply link-bait, it's not. I have no need for links to this personal blog, I wrote this to bring out a few good pointers about the 'hustling' mentality in a Great come up story I really admire. Just a motivational post, nothing major..
I wouldn't see any significant problem with a policy of omitting semi-colons when there's no risk of ambiguity, but turning the omission of semi-colons into a religion? That's enough to make me question what other nutty peculiarities exist in his coding philosophy, and therefore whether I'd dare risk my own projects using his library.
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Oracle - in a number of situations is most certainly 'better'. I can think of 3 things that prove this to be so, " = NULL", RAC and running an OS other than MS Windows on your server.
I've got some stubby little fingers, so much that my guitar coach in high school told me I should quit and become a bassist (a few years later I invited him to a show so he could eat his words). I use a T61 and I love the tiny trackpad. Granted I use a trackball with it, but on my home laptop with a giant touchpad, I have to move my hand to get all the way across. On the T61, I just move my finger. It feels more precise, I think. I feel like a surgeon with a scalpel.

Granted, this is just my opinion, and when I put it down into words I realize how ridiculous it sounds. But I still prefer it.
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How long is this house expected to last? did they remember to coat the wood? termites and woodlouse are going to be a pain in the ass in that location...and then there's the rain... and cold...

There's a reason we use modern materials, like bricks, modern insulation and tiles, to build modern homes. They work and have proven robust (although mass production has also lowered price on some less desirable materials). Nice little project though.
I've also seen this referenced on Twitter. What's going on? The real-time video on ESA site seems hanged up...
The original link (has more detail): http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm
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All of them support the Macbook.

A better question might be which community has the best documentation. I believe Ubuntu probably has the best documentation for the Macbook and is the most noob friendly.
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$7 cereal? $550/month parking? Yes, if you're referring to the most chic organic cereal you can find at Whole Foods and you're parking a Bentley.

Alternatively, you can shop at C-Town or Costco and find any number of parking spots for $250/month. Zipcar is prevalent everywhere as well if you don't want the overhead.

Don't get me wrong, NYC is expensive, but you don't have to make it out to be more than it really is. If you don't make the money to live in a certain neighborhood, think about moving.
Coworking is absolutely on fire these days.

From May 2011 to November 2011 the total number of spaces worldwide grew from 820 to 1100 (according to DeskMag.com). Coworking movement is doubling every year.

I am opening a space next week )
I also hate it. And the colon, for that matter.
I agree.

Administration is part of what management do but it's a little demeaning to suggest that it's all that they do. Done right it should be closer to enabling and informing.

But I'll take it that it's a slightly exaggerated position to make people think about things differently which is fine.
Such things are built in the woods of Southern Oregon, and in my hipper days I had the pleasure of living in some of them, and helped to build or refit a few others.

It's all good until the roof fails catastrophically.
Please provide a link - I've found nothing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/searches?q=vega+explode returns no results.

Edit: Thanks for your link but it just points back to this same page, it's not supporting evidence.

Edit: The alleged "More information" from the same Twitter account is simply a link to what is clearly a computer generated image of a launch. Not credible.

This appears to be a traffic generating scam/hoax.
Woodlice may be a problem, but we don't have much in the way of termite infestations here in the UK.
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Looks like you're in Russia - whereabouts?
"Customer development"

I'm not sure that word means what you think it does. The whole point of customer development as I interpret it is to GTFO of the building, find customers, build relationships with them, and start making money ASAP.

Maybe the OP has had experience with individuals just getting to customer engagement and then sitting on their thumbs? In that case I can understand the frustration but it seems less customer development focused and more "why don't people want to make money" focused.
While the house cute and quaint, cozy and cheap, methinks most of us are more fond of modern straight-line homes than "hobbit" habitats.

For some time now I've been digging for info on building ultra-cheap housing, starting with an interest in log homes and branching into "tiny houses". Goal is to get my kids to earn and move into paid-off real estate by graduation.

To keep it short, here's some interesting links:

Tumbleweed Houses - http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ (plans starting at $20; in one notable case, house built for $10K)

MIT $1K house project - http://web.mit.edu/1khouse/ (seems defunct, but a noble start)

Tiny House Blog - http://tinyhouseblog.com/ (ongoing reviews of small and/or inexpensive options)

Cheap houses - https://www.google.com/search?q=cheap+houses (there is a lot of dirt-cheap real estate out there if you're flexible)

Free land - https://www.google.com/search?q=free+land (some jurisdictions will, in fact, give you land free if you'll build a house & live there a while)
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> That's great, but please don't overlook all that you can learn from people that may not seem so smart.

The really, really important part here is: SEEM not so smart, and accordingly, SEEM oh-so-smart

"Smart" is pretty difficult to quantify, let alone compare... just to play devil's advocate here: a lot of the oh-so-smart people might have "nothing" but a decade of experience more than you and an ability to be extrovert about what they do and they might be one of only a handful of people in that field, so might just be big fish in an actually small pond. And have you ever talked to PhD candidates about what is really going on in scientific publishing?

So, question and look at how these oh-so-smart people do things, see their up- but also, especially, their downsides as good and fair as possible. That way you will learn something about people and about yourself.
Agreed.

The first language I learned was VB6 (ewww), after that C, C++, Java, JavaScript and PHP, only a few years ago I started to hear a lot about Python, Ruby, etc.

I don't see what's the problem with the braces and semicolons, I got used to write them and I don't see it affect my coding speed or code readability, in fact I find it easier to read code with braces and semicolons, I learned a little of python a few months ago and ignoring the fact that I do not know the language syntax very well (or more common libraries) yet, I write it as quickly as I would write Java/C etc, for readability I read python slower but as I said I'm not used to the syntax/libraries/etc yet so that may be the problem.
It's interesting when old lore like this gets posted. Always good to pick up a few historical shibboleths now and then.

Rails-bros and node-ninjas: got quiche? :)
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"The more interdependent the world gets, the harder it will be for any one nation to go rogue."

The world pre-WWI was actually quite globalised[1], more so than most people today would imagine that it was. Yet that wasn't enough to prevent the horrors of WWI trench warfare. I think a similar fallacy exists today - that globalisation will prevent WWIII. Violence and combat has existed for all of human history and there's no reason to think it will ever disappear, sadly. In a few decades anyone that remembers being alive during WWII will be dead and the possibility of WWIII will become stronger, IMO.

Just like the Glass-Steagall act was enacted after the 1929 crash[2], but repealed once the scars of the Great Depression had faded from the public's consciousness, the spectre of the outbreak of WWIII will loom ever larger as those who remember the horror of WWI & WWII pass on, and the lessons learned forgotten.

[1] http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Globalization-Fi...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act
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Takeaways from this post: you can learn a lot by studying success in other industries. Thanks for the link.
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I like what he's done and I'd love to do it if I could somehow work around a few issues such as: I have a job, I can't build a house 8 hours a day for 30 weeks (1500 hours) and I can't get the land deal he did.

I'd be really interested in seeing an easily repeatable solution that doesn't come down to living in squalor.
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They seem to, unfortunately.

I know MS SQL Server a little better (ahem) than the individuals who inspired this post and have years of use and multiple versions of it on my CV. Yet I was still asked to specify that it included stored procedures and UDFs.

At a former job we could reject 80-90% of candidates for a heavy SQL Server + VB6 position on the grounds they couldn't write a SELECT with an INNER JOIN in it. But really, in all honesty, if I interviewed you and found you weren't properly familiar with stored procedures and UDFs, I wouldn't let you near my database. If you don't know them why should I expect you understand (say) nulls, join types, collations, locking, avoiding RBAR, use of tally tables..... Come for a trainee post, sure, but nothing that assumes experience.
I couldn't find anything regarding the free land you've mentioned. Do you have any more leads?
Bah! Real programmers ship code!
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Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a marketplace for Gumroad links. I am really impressed by Sahil's Gumroad project.

But, I feel what it really needs are marketplaces for people's Gumroad links. I wanted to see what people were posting for sale - especially in terms of code projects.

So I got to work on Gumb.io - http://gumb.io. There is much more planned. I think it has some potential. What are your thoughts?
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Having been a Wikipedia editor for a few years, I can assure you that Wikipedia's (and the larger Internet's) content is severely lacking in what you can find in a common library, especially if you consider content older than 20 years.
Thank you for the comments.

I mostly agree with you on the UI, but I wouldn't say endless scroll doesn't make sense in this context. Even though I'm really not a big fan of it, in my mind, I'm going for data that is easily 'discoverable'. I don't see why browsing organized data can't be like fooling around, browsing through pics :) But, I see your point.

The tech is actually butt simple. The client is JQuery (mostly ajax calls) and the server is just PHP and MySQL. I use MySQL in a 'meta' way because it's essentially a database of databases. I think it would be fun to switch to some NoSQL DBMS sometime in the future.

At the moment, I'm just faking the data by hand. I have some ideas for where to pull data from. I just Googled Wikipida lists - thanks I'll definitely check it out :)
Sorry, but no, you're just illustrating the problem I've mentioned. In a virtual memory system with on-demand paging, memory mapped I/O, shared libraries and copy on write pages even measuring and interpreting memory stats is very difficult and subtle.

The "real memory" column is resident set size, a completely useless metric for the problem at hand because of many reasons. One reason is that much of the physical pages can be shared, indeed most of them usually are, on my system a chrome process has a 120MB RSS, but after closer inspection 110MB is shared, and after even closer inspection 90MB is shared with non-chrome processes. Closing the process with top RSS usage might do very little for decreasing memory pressure. Another reason is that physical memory usage is very misleading, if the system is swapping, a process has less resident physical pages than the virtual pages it uses, that's the reason the system is swapping in the first place! A process can thrash memory and have a relatively small RSS.

You also simply assume what the problem is without actually testing for it. You need to look why the system spends time in kernel mode, maybe it's not swapping, most likely is not swapping in this particular case, it's more likely to be the random I/O caused on-demand paging of memory mapped things or something more subtle, like copy-on-write pages being written to. It also could be a million other things.

Even if the problem is caused by memory pressure, memory pressure is a remarkably generic term, the VM system has many components and different components are affected by different workloads. A simple metric like RSS can't tell much.

Yes, Activity Monitor is very blunt tool.
roel_v is saying that a house like this does not scale in terms of production, materials and land required when everyone would be building one.
Your assumptions are understandable, but let's have a closer look:

* What kind of industry does Iceland have that requires 'physicists, programmers and engineers'?

The same kind of industry that requires physicists, programmers, and engineers anywhere else: R&D, software engineering, tech sector in general. (See next answer.)

* With a population in the hundreds of thousands, smaller than even medium sized cities in most countries, how much opportunity is/was there for these people?

The population size doesn't define the size of the economy - the natural resources and infrastructure do. Iceland is a pretty large island that controls a huge swath of ocean around it that has valuable fisheries in it. Plus there's geothermal energy etc. etc., so the country is very rich.

* It's not even big enough to sustain a serious university, let alone a real r&d environment.

That's simply not true. Iceland has pretty significant research output in biology, genetics, computer science, geothermal and hydropower engineering, etc. etc.

* Using Iceland as an example for other countries is usually fallacious, because it's so unique.

:) That's certainly true. In a way. But people are people, nations are nations, good ideas are good ideas, and pitfalls are pitfalls.
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This is the link I saw:

https://twitter.com/#!/carlosdelcasti2/status/16906170159189... (it's in spanish).
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I do use DDG and I like it. Oddly, and unlike most of the comments thus far, it does seem to actually find results which I'm actually more interested in than either Google or Bing (although DDG uses both). I do use them too.
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This is what I do with Fedora. I started using RedHat in 2000 or so and it's been my OS of choice since. People often assume I'm a gnome user - but I jumped to KDE in the first few months, and never switched back. I do install both though, as disk space is cheap and I like having the ability to run some Gnome applications.
Maybe it's just me spending too much time here on "Startup News", but I think the author has a fair point. There are a million startups with no real chance of profitability in the near future (few years) or without really reworking their idea once they gain traction that seem to be gaining huge amounts of investment capital.

If VCs pour tons of money into startups that fail (one form of "exit"), the bubble will burst. VCs don't like losing money, and if they see their money going down the drain, they will pull out. We might not see a complete withdrawl that causes an Internet collapse like in 2000, but at the very least VCs will demand short term profitability realization, and that will put the kibosh on a great number of MVPs and "like X but with Y" ideas.

Speculative, yes, but speculation is what the market is all about.
Oh yes, I know the type you are talking about. It sounds like what Felder describes as a "Global Learner" (for whatever validity there is to the idea of learning styles).

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILS...
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A Ph.D. with a huge backlog of student loans is probably the last person I would expect to see foregoing a regular salary for a large amount of risk and uncertainty.

In my version of that quote, I think it would make more sense for really talented, smart engineers to leave school, with or without a BS, and start a company.
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I've tried installing both Macports and homebrew, and some utils did not work, as whichever got put in the path first, confused the other. I suppose I could have made a seperate symlink directory, for just the binaries I wanted.

Yeah, you could. Also, why install both? Anyway, welcome to software. It ain't perfect. You think it'll be better with Linux? I've had happen to me on Debian a few times, and lotsa times with RPMs. But even if it does not happen, there are several other software you cannot install on Linux, like, all Mac Cocoa Apps, from iWork to Photoshop. If you don't care about having access to those, then you don't need OS X in the first place.

I found 'brew install coreutils' broke some build scripts , which expected proper mac tools, if I put them all in path.

So, you generally wanted a Mac in order to install large quantities of third party unix software in the core system on top of same regular binaries???? Do you go install FreeBSD and then add a Linux userland? Do you install Debian/Ubuntu etc and then go change the system, say, Python? Because people that tried it also found it's a world of pain.

I can't comment on the memory, except that I find my 4GB of RAM seems to go much further when I dual-boot my macbook into Linux. It might happen to be the programs that I run.

You're doing it wrong.
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NULL shouldn't equal NULL. If two customers have a phone number of NULL, that doesn't mean they have the same phone number.
Is there anyone who got Linux to work full on a Macbook or MB Pro? I get most flavors of Linux to boot and get a nice X running, however, things I cannot miss like the touchpad control, screen backlight controls and keyboard backlight are completely not working. Also the battery is falling faster than my Android under Linux.

Is there any Linux working well? I have no problem with tweaking (I hacked on device drivers on previous laptops when they didn't work), but even with tweaking I never managed to get it working well. Otherwise I can have nice Apple hardware with my favorite OS....
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You win. That's exactly what I try to make everyone understand. May I slightly improve your comment though?

"Bah! Real programmers ship good, properly reusable code"
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If that's what people mean by Customer Development - then I'm all for it. Absolutely people should get in front of their customers, build relationships, and drive to revenues.

My experience, which led to this post, is that when asking people about their go-to market strategy, how they will scale, answer is customer development. Which is still fine BTW - except in the one (too common recently) case where this focus stops them from figuring out how to build a business out of that customer base. How to scale financially. That's my issue. That's when trouble sets in.