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In the Ruby world my ordered policy for picking libraries (gems) is:

1) Jose Valim (+ Plataforma) wrote it

2) Ryan Bates covered it recently

3) It is doing well on the Ruby Toolbox

I've been meaning to quaff Elixir for a while (am frenemies with Erlang). Maybe I'll write a HAML in it :).
Is it as objectionable when considered a higher base price, but letting people opt out of content they don't want and be refunded? I don't understand why tiering is bad. You'd have to avoid an awfully lot of businesses to get away from tiered services.
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I think you nailed it. I try to answer questions on SO when I have spare time. But that's mostly because of the massive value I've gained from the site. Most of the time it's not even asking questions, but looking at great answers to questions that have already been asked.

If I continue to get the same value from SO, I'm happy to keep answering questions where I can and they're free to profit off that in any way they choose as long as everything remains public.
Those two statements do not conflict. Seasons are the result of the Earth orbiting around the sun, just not the way most people think. Most people would say it's because we're getting closer or further from the sun, which is incorrect. What's really happening is that as we orbit around the sun the Earth's inclination (difference between our axis of rotation and our orbital plane) causes either the northern or southern hemisphere to face the sun more and thus get more sunlight. Thus, seasons are the result of both axial tilt and rotation around the sun.

The next time you feel the urge to pour disdain on an article because of a supposedly-incorrect statement, I suggest two things. First, make sure it's actually incorrect. Second, beware of http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skitts_Law especially wrt to typos.
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To describe electromagnetic waves, or to write a solution to the wave equation, you need to use a system of coordinates. The most common by far is the rectangular system (x,y,z), but there are other ones: cylindrical coordinates, elliptical, spherical, and more. This is like choosing a base in a vector space. If you choose rectangular coordinates then your solutions are expressed as a linear combination of plane waves ( Cos(k*x-wt), k is wave vector, x is position, w is frequency and t is time ). If you choose cylindrical coordinates, then your solution will be spanned as a combination of bessel functions( more exactly cylindrical waves) whose parameters are called: OAM, spin, and momentum (in z axis).
As nature doesn't care which coordinate system we choose and neither the wave equation, a solution in one system of coordinates y also a solution in another. In this case, a cylindrical wave can be expressed as an infinite combination of plane waves. So what this people seems to be saying is more or less: "Instead of emitting waves and, in the receiver, just measure the frequency; let's emit more complex patterns and, in the receiver, measure enough features of the wave ( not just the frequency) so that we can tell it apart from other signals.

I hope this helps.
I've been in the same situation for years. Skimmed the article, but I get it.

Here's what I do:

1) I have a social life even if I "should" be working. I have people over for dinner several times a week and have regular friend dates, often with other entrepreneurial folk who don't have day jobs.

2) I rock climb several times a week and do yoga and a short workout daily so I keep fit. I also eat well, drink lots of water and avoid sugar. (Drinking water and avoiding sugar is THE KEY to avoiding depression. So easy to spot the cause and effect when I fall off the wagon.)

3) I consult part time, now primarily with another startup, working out of their office. Gives me the cash to pay someone to help me with my startup so I'm not working alone, reminds me of how useful I am instead of feeling like a failure for making the mistakes I made with my own startup, and keeps me socialized and energized.

4) I take mini-vacations. Mostly local music festivals and short camping trips to get me out and connected to nature. Hell, that reminds me, I'm going to go buy some winter gear and go!
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“There are pioneering entrepreneurs and execution entrepreneurs, and maybe we belong more to the execution entrepreneurs,” says Oliver, who speaks at a rapid clip, frequently punctuating thoughts with a rhetorical “ja?”

“I think the most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It’s a unique gift that you either have or you don’t. Just as we might have a very good gift of execution, others have a unique gift for the purest form of innovation.”

The constant mantra of HN is "ideas are useless, execution is everything". So why the hate against these guys?
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FKNA rock on with the ski fanaticism.

More importantly, there is a lot of room for disruption in the ski industry, and some interesting startups are pushing the edge of ski design. For example DPS Skis has developed the Spoon--"the first ski built with reverse camber forward, back and torsionally." Also, I would be interested in another alpine touring binding to compete Dynafit and its clones.
Dude, the author and you are so far out of the loop on SO it's strange. How long have you been in the SO and HN communities?

I'm on the SO since 2009 IIRC. (Btw, I'm over 16, non American, and my surname is not Lebowski, so I'm not a "dude").

Joel and Jeff setup SO because EE sucked so bad, from the beginning they've said 'we're not going to end up like the site with the hyphen'. And now you're saying they're going to go against their entire raison d'etre?

Yeah, and Google once said "don't be evil". Corporate promises don't mean much, I'll take laws, signed contracts or systemic assurances over them anytime.

When there's profit involved and especially investors, money has a way to become the 'raison d'etre'.

Besides, Jeff has already quit Stack Overflow/Exchange: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exch...

(The downvote means what?

I haven't made a reasoned argument?

There have not been many cases of corporate bait-and-switch?

It's inconceivable that people running SO in the future could attempt one, with investor money involved and Jeff retired?

Or is it simply a case of: "I disagree with you, la la la la la"?)
What trouble? Are you not documenting what you return anyway? What's the cost of just changing the mediatype to some different string?

For a client, is it worth the trouble to learn a new content-type to determine what's a hyperlink in my JSON response, when they can just look at the response and see something like the following?

Personally, I think that mindset will hold us back. People still think of RESTful services as closed silos instead of open, truly uniform interfaces, and that will prevent us from growing, in my opinion.

Your view is of a developer painstakingly coding against each API (s)he wants to use, manually prodding and poking it and writing a custom library that doesn't work with any other service.

My view is of generic, easily adaptable clients, using machine-readable specification of formats¹ and providing graphical UIs where even non-programmers can input the single endpoints of various services and easily combine the data and functionality to create applications that cater to their specific needs.

I see a service like IFTTT[1], but more flexible and where the services are not hardcoded but imported dynamically by the user and then strung together to fit their needs.

Using mediatypes, even if custom, is a step towards that integration and standardization that makes this possible.

¹ RDF seems like the best bet to me - possibly encoded as JSON

[1]: http://ifttt.com/
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This is shaping into a battle cry of the IP rent seekers:

"[We fight against] foreign criminals selling counterfeit pharmaceuticals to Americans?"

second only to "think of the children" and "Save American Jobs Law".
Nope, good for me is also good, as long as it doesn't cause much harm.

Once you start talking opportunity cost, it gets a bit more complicated. But I implement my standard using reasonable heuristics, not some platonic maximization.

Just because I believe in some underlying standard doesn't mean I act on it. I could cook up some underlying standard that's easy to meet (do what's good for number 1, do what "feel'), but that's kind of silly.
They were in the copycat business first, selling alando.de to ebay for millions, ~100 days after launch.

They have a history of making money by, if not illegal, at least morally questionable means, and got in trouble with the unions about treatment of employees...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_inflation , core inflation excludes food and energy. It does not exclude housing.
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Obviously pirates doing the FSM's work. It's well known that FSM hates DiCaprio.
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In lieu of a standard test page, I print the google home page.

Assuming it's not a doodle, the google logo + search box has all the ink colors for most printers, and is very low coverage.
"There is a lot more to life than money."

You're right there is: freedom. The most important thing for me in life is freedom. To get this, you need money.

You may be able to take the $50K and just get by, but I would suggest finding an exciting project that pays $100K instead and save the money you don't need for your future. I did just this 5 years ago and it gave me enough runway to start my own business when I lost my job.

"As long as I could provide for my family I would take the more exciting job."

You never know when you will need money. Doctor bills? you lose your job and can't find another one? kid's college education?

Kids are really expensive.

You also only have one life. Your employer is getting the majority of it (and most likely getting rich in the process). You should get paid what you are worth.

Most developers don't do this (I used to be one of them).
He's obviously new on the job.

We've been doing this since 1998. He'll get sick of it and quit like the rest of them before him.
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Given that there are currently two Germany-related articles on the frontpage, I'm reminded of the recent Stuttgart poll and the interest expressed there in a meetup here in Munich. Would you be up for it?

Anyone who would help in co-organizing it or who has suggestions for contributions, locations, etc. please leave a comment, mail me at meetup@haija.net, or contact me via my G+ or FB profiles.
"(provided the $50,000 covered my living expenses)"

So, even you admit, the money is the first thing that needs to make sense. Once the money motivation is satisfied, other things come into play.
I was just reading about DIDO (aka MU-MIMO) the other day, and this looks like a great addition to the technology...
Wow, whether through legacy support, or they just don't care, when's the last time you heard Microsoft or Apple talking about the print diagnostic page? Perhaps Ubuntu will finally crack the Linux as a truly (your grandmother can use it) alternative desktop OS.
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The rich always kept getting richer over the years and the poor kept getting poorer. There's nothing new here.

Eventually, we all die. Plus business models and companies get disrupted by technology all the time.

taxation of everyone above a certain, very high
net worth are possibilities

In my country the contribution for health-care is 5.5% of my income. This means that I'm paying 10-20 times more than people that sit on their asses all day, doing nothing and complaining about budget cuts.

Giving money to the poor is not the solution. It just encourages sloth.
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Does that well run SmallCo job pay cover your expenses? If it didn't cover your expenses, would you continue to work there?

I imagine that SmallCo pay gives you enough that you did not need to make a real sacrifice.

Basically, it met your minimum requirement for money. If it hadn't, you wouldn't have taken the job.
I don't know enough to understand what makes relational algebra procedural. I read the "Haskell more successful cousin" article and I thought that the relational algebra part was what made SQL and Haskell similar.
TL;DR - police in Denmark made a mistake that resulted in visitors to many sites being told that the site is blocked for possibly having child porn.

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EDIT: Is there a guideline against 'TL;DR' comments? When I've written them in the past, they've been upvoted.
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The way the SO content is licensed and the API creates a powerful disincentive for a malevolent corporate overlord from putting a paywall up.

A paywall would dramatically reduce the amount of new content being generated, and the open license of the existing content lowers the entry barriers for a competitor. Even an MBA can figure out that a paywall is a bad idea.

That's not to say that there isn't some other creative way that a malevolent overlord could do evil with SO, but in any case, you or I can pick up the back catalog of data and do whatever we wish.
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Giving $3M to employees is cool. But maybe next time, let them tweet it.
> Corporate promises don't mean much, I'll take laws, signed contracts or systemic assurances over them anytime.

Then you'll love the copyright license (CC) under which they offer the questions and answers for free copying and redistribution, the contract law that binds them to this license and the other terms of their site, and the systemic assurance this creates that they cannot put up a paywall around the answers we've provided. We can just take them with us to another site; many SO clones including the full content already exist, entirely legally.
"For scientific reasons, isolated species such as these should be preserved. To study, inform and provide living examples of the diversity of life that existed before the ubiquity of modern human civilisation eradicated so much."

These are two contradictory statements in one statement. Either we preserve, in which case there is no
'before' in your sentence (because there is no eradication), or we don't, and we document what once existed. I'll interpret your intent as being 'we should preserve all species so that we can study them and let people know about them'. But then again the question becomes 'why'. Not everything is worthy of study or preservation. With several millions of different species of insects alone, some just being random mutations of others, why should we exhaustively catalog all of them? They are just the result of randomness, we ended up where we are out of stochasticity. What is the underlying reason to preserve a random state of nature? Change is natural, things come and go, so do species - nothing out of the ordinary about it.

"Creatures such as these... adapted in an isolated island to grow fat and large, without competition from mammalian predators on connected land-masses, shine a light on Darwinian evolution."

Please tell what they tell us, or might tell us, that we don't know yet, and what we can learn from them that requires a full reintroduction into existing ecosystems of them.

"And from a purely 'awwww' perspective"

Ignoring the ad hominem fallacious reasoning, they have nothing that makes them so special that only they could survive these circumstance and that we can learn from; just a dumb coming together of circumstances, survivor bias.

"We've GOT A FUCKING ALIEN-LIKE SPECIES LIVING ON AN OCEAN OUTCROP HERE ON EARTH."

Here I'm losing you completely. What is 'alien-like' about them, except from having the same color as the antagonist in the 'alien' movie series? They're just big bugs, so what? I seems like you're trying to say that because they look like something movie producers imagined hostile alien life forms would look like, that that makes them worthy of special treatment? Why would you put such value into something - just because it looks like a CGI effect from a Hollywood movie?

"A complex, beautiful, rare insect (did you watch the hatching vid?)... and you wonder why it's worth keeping it around?"

None of the things you mention in the first part of your sentence indicate in any way why one would expend effort at keeping it, it all falls back on circular reasoning and 'because it's unique'. Not everything that is unique is worth keeping. I have a broken pencil here on my desk that is in its shape statistically very likely to be unique in the whole world. I'll still throw it away.
Cary Sherman, the RIAA CEO, has a degree from Harvard in law. Sherman's compensation package from the RIAA was $3.2 million. In 2010, Sherman helped the RIAA secure a $105 million settlement from LimeWire for copyright infringement. The guy is a self described lobbyist and he has the guts to challenge google and wikipedia of demagogy? (a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears, vanities and expectations of the public).

He's probably smart enough to realize the typical "you're a hipocrite" backlash, I wonder what his goal in this piece is? If we are going to win the internet censorship, internet ownership, and intellectual property legal battles we have to find a way to make it financially unwise to launch campaigns to sustain business models that can't tolerate freedom to transmit any data we want with uncensored internet connections.
There is a huge difference between the state of the economy in general and the state of the startup scene.

That being said if we compare by economic growth I'd expect Germany and France to lead in Europe at the moment. Speaking as a German I have the impression that the people in France are underestimating there economy somewhat.
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Because I think these guys are copying both ideas and execution.

It's one thing to say "I want to make a site where people can rent out their spare rooms, I saw some other site do it", it's quite another to say "look at airbnb.com, copy that". When the exact execution is the same (even down to page layouts) you're not actually contributing anything yourself.
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"lobbyist", "you're", and your MongoDB server is down along with your website. No e-mail/twitter in your profile, so figured I'd tell you here.
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It will be interesting to follow what is going to happen next
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"Again, what evidence is there that tech startups achieve this goal more easily than any alternative?"

Where did I claim that?

I was showing evidence and argument that the proclaimed solution from the government isn't going to solve what they attempt to solve. I.e. just because you have better educated population doesn't mean that you get growth.

I suppose, but wouldn't you prefer it if, in the process, you got a vibrant startup scene out of it, rather than if it happened all through education and clean tech?

Can you please explain why I should prefer that?
I've booted up my home server after ~7 months of down time that has virtualized distros. It was funny to watch Debian 5 aptitude safe-upgrade ending in ~2 mins with less than 15 packages and Gentoo emerge -udNav world being busy nearly all night. That just displays two radically different philosophies and I have nothing against either, though I prefer to be up to date and flexible.
> The whole point here is to make as much money as possible. If the goal were to build up community you wouldn’t need to set them up as a centralized broker of the information, it would be distributed

I don't think that he totally gets StackOverflow.

SO has demonstrated to my satisfaction that:

1) they care about other things besides money. Sure money pays the bills, but if you do it right, being rich and famous is just a by-product to the main accomplishment.

2) SO works far better at getting stuff done in the technical QA space than any "distributed" model so far tried.
Would a non-Megaupload site be any safer? The message I take away from this is to never host anything in the US, and if possible live in a country without diplomatic relations with the US.
The authorities are just going to end up developing a whitelist of high-profile sites not to block. This is unfortunate because even high-profile sites deserve to be subject to the same laws and levels of scrutiny everyone else must tolerate. Once there's a whitelist mechanism law enforcement will just be even more cavalier.
It is astonishing that they took four years to fix their incredibly wasteful custom test page.
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I hope that all 8000 accidentially blocked sites will demand being paid for damages. If each site gets a million in damages, it would be a nice reminder for the governments world wide that censorship is a bad thing.
Like most buzz words, its popularity has overshadowed it's usefulness. I agree that a word to categorize these recently popular non-relational databases would be handy. But nosql is really not accurate. Unless you abandon all attempts to interpret it literally. When I see "nosql" that now tranlates into "that group of recent and fashionable databases which are primarily key/value stores with some traditional database features added in to varying degrees". So at least it means something (to me anyway), and it's abstracting quite a mouth full. Much better than "Web2.0" was. That always just translated simply to "ajax with nice UI" for me, but I saw the term used in so many ways that didn't fit that definition.
I think there is a lot to learn from companies that operate in multiple languages- I used to work for one myself (until they, too, got a little copy-happy). Internationalisation is a huge market, and almost all US startups ignore it entirely. We had our original sites running in French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Hungarian, Russian... you name it. We weren't number one in any country- we were usually number 2 or 3. But none of our competitors operated outside their home country, so we managed to be very successful by occupying a lesser spot in multiple countries. Don't get me wrong, there is a large overhead in doing this- but there's plenty of opportunity, too.
there's some truth to this but I'd word it as: get some affection, and touch. Many times when ppl are depressed, we just are missing love.
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The company is question is Mojang and being a gamer myself, I know they have a very dedicated following and very open compared to other traditional companies. Short of a massive screw up, I'd doubt they'd go 'bust' easily.

If you had shares in the company, wouldn't you care more and push even harder? That's the point I'm getting across.
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