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I am the guy profiled in that article. I spent 5 years in "business school" before doing my startup. (1 year prep, 2 years of b-school and 2 years at McKinsey)

I have to say, though, that the overall experience is being very useful to me and my startup. I believe this is in big part because Kormox is an enterprise-software startup (pg says they are all about sales, and I kind of agree) - I've learned how to navigate corporate bureaucracies, I've built a huge network in corporate america.

I believe I can execute on this contrarian play - (all the cool hackers are doing consumer-oriented startups nowadays), with an experience/background that is helpful.

So while I believe that if you have a rush for an opportunity you should go for it no matter what, any experience is very helpful to build up unique paths for executing on plays that make the most sense for you.
This is just a promotion to get people to know about and maybe even try Exec. $100 / hour is far, far under the value of the Alexis, Steve, Tikhon and Matt's time -- they are donating it to charity.

The point isn't to be sustainable, although if people like it we might do it again with a different set of people as another promotion.
I noticed the same thing although I was trying to install with RVM. Apparently all the debian packages are old and so you're not supposed to use them. Unfortunately there's no complete up-to-date guide for linux. Hopefully someone in the RoR community will write a bash script or at least create an auto-update for the debian packaging system
IPhone users use WIFI more than Android users
An older article. But I could not find a discussion here on HN about it. I thought an interesting discussion could come from it with all the recent posts about Google and DDG.

I'd be interested in hearing what people would like from their search engine. I am working on one now (small specialized one) and love reading about what people like and dislike about the current options. I am also new here, so if people are interested in doing search completely different. I'd enjoy talking!
ITIL is shoot-yourself painful, but it does have its place. Try managing the IT services for a multi-billion dollar overgrown corporation without at least some reference to ITIL and see where you end up.
fyi: see itu-t e.123 for standardized phone number notation: http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.123-200102-I/e
Yes, the barrier to entry to writing web applications is significantly lowered by Rails; but it's not meant to be a replacement for experience. Rails is supremely helpful, but not explicitly designed for beginners.
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If you're using, say, UCS2 (not UTF16, lest we get too confused), it's awfully nice if the wide character (i.e. a C short) for "A" can be equal to the literal 'A' and not 0x4100. Making that work depends on the endianness of the host architecture, not just the data.
I'm fairly certain it's just not indexed yet. Give it some time.
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Note that precisely such an encoding detection algorithm was specified as part of XML to avoid the absurdity of the BOM.
Great hack, nirmal. I've been wanting to tear apart the Lytro image in depth as their own software for it is pretty... well, you've used it. :)
When your value proposition is "we won't sue you", you've lost your competitive advantage in innovation. Note that this also applies to the RIAA/MPAA.
I'm pretty interested in that project. We had a dev on Lion try to get a Ruby 1.9.3 + Rails 3.2 environment up who ran into all kinds of issues: a far cry from the days of locomotive indeed.
That's pretty much the decision I had to make a year ago, and I ended up in the PhD program.

But if I knew then what I know now (that I'd not be having a good time), I'd be leaning closer to the software job.

The remaining unknown (to me) is what the degree is worth, in the end.

Really, I suppose, I'm just not looking forward to telling everyone (friends and family) that I'm quitting. It's admitting a defeat/failure/mistake, and that's hard, so I'm trying to find a good reason to stay.
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"generating a feed of stories personalized for members of a social network"
"tagging digital media"
"methods for enabling users to fetch items"

hahahaha... I can't help but chuckle when reading these. Why don't they own the patents for "displaying discrete items of information in a linear fashion", "entering personal information into a computer using a hand operated alphabet device" and "methods for communicating one's emotional state electronically to friends and acquaintances"? Hmm... that last one might actually work.

Of course facebook has little choice but to countersue, but I'll be happy when the ongoing three ring patent circus (or is it freakshow?) is put to rest.
What a crock of shit. Can an admin please kill this off?
It won a lot of awards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Awards
I recently read a bunch of old Lovecraft stories (to catch up, as it were.. I never read them when I was younger), and it was quite humorous to constantly read about how objects in the environment were "horrifying" or "terrible." Often he'd literally be talking about a hallway or a pattern on the wall, and just describe it as if it were the most hideous, horrible thing in the universe. I eventually started getting the impression that the main character was just kind of depressed or something, which made me laugh and groan rather than be scared.

Still very much fun to read these old classics, and the intention of the writer comes through despite these 1920's pulp idioms, so it was intensely enjoyable, but I would say that this style of writing definitely shows its age.

(I also recently read John Carter and the Princess of Mars, which was written around the same era, and it's equally silly but for different reasons.)
There are many who have no problem with (sometimes) treating women as sexual objects. Such people often do have a problem with the use of language as a political weapon. See: objectification, sexist, misogyny, patriarchy, glass ceiling, etc.
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Well, that's what they're there to tell you. Usually, the consultation is free or a small fee. A good lawyer can get the facts from you in an hour, can take a look at your agreement, and armed with knowledge of the laws of Arkansas, can tell you some odds or whether you have a good case or not. We here on HN, unless we are AK lawyers, aren't going to know how good your argument is because AK might have laws on the books about this sort of stuff we don't know about.
I think by labeling them "moons" in the headline of the article, NPR is engaging in a little bit of editorializing. A small asteroid orbiting the Earth for a short period of time is, as they say in the text, a mini-moon at best. If we're calling these moons, Saturn has thousands of them. There's a difference between a natural satellite and a moon.
Same thing in the US. It probably hasn't been indexed yet, but you can access the link directly:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram....
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Here is a good "cheat sheet" for how to do X in Y (where X and Y are in PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby): http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

It doesn't cover idioms like Tom's post, but helps me remember the basic syntax changes when jumping between these languages.
This is tactical advice that works for me
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1. When you get annoyed - stop and ask yourself why you are annoyed and how you can fix it. This could be tying laces that get untied every five minutes, etc.
2. When you say or think to yourself - I wish I could ... that's an opportunity. I wish I could pay this other guy with my credit card right now so I can track my spending = Square
3. Repeat 1 and 2 for other people
4. Watch people - sometimes its easier to find problems when you are watching and other people are doing things differently than you are.
5. When you see something - a potato peeler, A real estate sign. Guess how much it costs to make, where it came from, what it's purpose is and how well it achieves that purpose. What could make it better? What else could it be used for?
An MBA won't help you develop software better so I'm not sure how you could increase your salary that way unless you want to work on the business side of a big company.

I would doubt highly that there are organizations interested in paying any more for a software developer for an MBA.

In general, it is important to ask yourself what you want to do 50 hours a week and do that rather than to look at starting salaries for post MBAs.
Yep, it was something of a revelation to me this week, that "hang on, I could actually quit if I wanted to!" feeling.

Powerful, but I'm afraid it's dangerous.
I supposed you're being downvoted for being so terse, but I generally agree with your comment, so it got my upvote. Yes, I am aware of how tacky it is to discuss voting, or making meta-comments in general.

I think that, in my opinion at least, these instructions apply VERY well to journalism, or perhaps certain types of fiction, but not fiction on the whole.

One of my recently favorite authors is Elmore Leonard, who breaks most of these rules with great ferocity, and is a fantastic writer on the whole.

He has his own rules on writing, but the first is:

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

In contrast to CS Lewis' writings, this leads to much more believable dialog, but that doesn't necessarily conform to any of Lewis' rules. Characters are seldom terse when they could instead be interesting. Characters are seldom cautious to take care that the reader can fully understand what they're saying. Characters are seldom as specific as you might like them to be.

I find this to be much more natural, and feels much less "like writing" than most other authors and for that, I appreciate him immensely.
Was it the word rockstars?
Haha my team and I tested the peak in San Antonio on the StartupBus following 3 long days of coding and a long day at Rackspace. Result of Initial Trial: Night ends down one developer (sleeping at the hotel at this point) while the remaining three of us walk to McDonald's which we soon discovered was located in a "less than desirable" area. +1 to the cop who got us safely out of there.
Not that VM breakouts aren't a serious concern, because they obviously happen too. (Sorry for the pedantry).
I see that the majority of the business world has pathetic technical vision, but a lot more money.

Careful. They may have more money in aggregate, but a lot of them don't buy tech solutions, don't want to change, aren't actually business-minded (e.g. always looking for improvements). This goes double for local biz like bars, restaurants, salons, and stores, and triple for education and nonprofit and NGOs.
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Did you read the comments here? Because the HN comment thread was full of people that thought it was a real letter.

There are plenty of good reasons to take shots at reddit. This one is stupid.
The lseek scalability issue was not very noticeable on PostgreSQL 9.1, but first became obvious after work had started on fixing the scalability problems in PostgreSQL itself.

http://rhaas.blogspot.se/2011/08/linux-and-glibc-scalability...
Two issues that I think will matter more to cloud app platforms than VM breakouts (am interested to see how wrong I'll be proven here):

* Web app vulnerabilities in the control plane (management tools, monitoring, API).

* Cryptographic vulnerabilities stemming from crypto code running on the same hardware as malicious attackers, or within nanoseconds-precision measurement range on the same network.
It has a really big effect I think on the tone of what gets selected at the top. The lower bound prefers things that are preferred by a majority and very popular. The prior method prefers things that are completely un-objectionable and liked by just enough people to be sure of that. My hunch is that with the lower bound you get more interesting things bubbling to the top because it puts a stronger emphasis on popularity.

In all of these models, the giant variable that is completely ignored is the actual choice to rate something at all, versus skipping over it and reading the next one. That's a very significant decision that the user makes. The behavior of each of these systems w.r.t that effect will be the dominant thing differentiating them.
>How are lawyers "taking advantage of it"?

I'll search for the link, but I recall reading an article where a group of lawyers contacted companies who they believe had their patents infringed upon and offered their services to them.
70% of mine are pictures of dogs and cats. Yes, it's normal.
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Nah, you're not defeated. Just the opposite. You're empowering yourself by taking command of your life decisions. We all make mistakes along the way, but learning from those mistakes and course correcting are the biggest wins we can ask for. You should be proud and wear your decision like a badge of honor.

As the Aussies say, good on ya!
The keys to success as a startup and as individual coder in the present world is not technical prowess, but culture and cultural fit.

There is a running joke in San Francisco that companies looking for "Code Ninjas" and "Rockstar Programmers" are not worth working for, because they haven't gotten the basic truth that the team matters more than the individual. They're falling prey to the "Talent Myth" (a reference to a Malcolm Gladwell article where he describes among others the reasons for the spectacular failure of Enron.)

What devbootcamp has cultivated in a classroom format is the actual vibe of a startup doing well: Excitement, vibrant, infectious energy. I visited at week 3 and at week 8. In any typical multi-week courses (e.g. college), the enthusiasm wanes pretty quickly after a few weeks. Not so with devbootcamp, it kept growing.

It's not the individual's technical skills that matter so much (there is always some else to ask or Google anyway), than it is to build a culture of resourcefulness and team spirit.

In full disclosure I should say I was a guest instructor, and I felt aweful that we let students run head-first into database joins--a concept we hadn't explained at all, but which was necessary to complete the exercise at hand (which was, coincidentally implementing a ranking for a Hacker News-like site). If you hit this in self-study, 99% of the students would give up and shelve their dreams of becoming a developer. Not so in devbootcamp. To my big surprise, not knowing joins didn't present much of a hurdle. Through pairing, people's resourcefulness quickly led to a variety of usable solutions. Perhaps not the textbook solution, but that's not what matters in real life.

It's this type of can-do, resourcefulness and team spirit which creates solutions and being exposed and immersed into that is what people paid the money for. This cannot be replicated in self-study, in my opinion, and it's well worth it.
Python diary site author says python and django is easy is understandable. Don't downvote me for that.

Rails installation have become a bit complicated in since rails 3 , hope bundled goes the rubygems, rack, rake way and become a standard installation soon with all ruby distributions.

JavaScript runtime dependency for coffeescript should have been for 20% configuration crowd instead of the 80% convention crowd who face install issues.

Will do a blog post/screencast on setting up ruby and rails on various platforms and share it here on HN by this weekend
I agree the article is off base, but the assumption in this citation is that programmer productivity is constant, which it is clearly not. It's not even just a uniform curve because being overworked can have a knock-on effect that decreases productivity even more. Basically, it's entirely ignoring the human aspect of programming, which I think was a lot easier to do in the 70s, because frankly, America had a better work ethic and were inherently more willing to be a good team player because back then nothing interesting happened except with major capital backing and a lot of team work.

All else being equal, sure a single programmer is more efficient than two programmers because of a more comprehensive mental model, and lower communications overhead. But in this day and age, with no job security, and the possibility to strike out on one's own at the drop of a hat (because in the 70s you pretty much had to keep your job just to have access to a computer, let alone develop a product and make a living from it), it's not sufficiently motivating to tell people to work longer, it's also equally ineffective to say be 300% better (I would probably laugh out loud if I heard that). Somehow you need to create a vision that people really buy into that internally motivates them, which will result not only in longer hours worked, but also greater minute-to-minute productivity, and even more productive subsconscious work. This is all the more difficult when you realize that individuals have different motivations. But this is the quality that will most enable a great founder today. This is I believe what set Steve Jobs apart more than anything else.
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I have a very personal story about finding a ride share to Coachella:

http://leftisto.livejournal.com/20703.html

I can only hope that future generations of Coachella-goers come away with vivid memories of their travels.
Just look at that obnoxious period hanging out there slyly at the end of the non-sentence subject. It's full of "just a period here, not an exclamation point, but I'm pretty sure you're gonna be pretty ebullient anyway" faux-understatement. None of their other post titles end in periods.

So annoying, riiight? Guys...?
Having been through this process once and hoping to never have to do it again - my sympathies.

I have one piece of advice for next time. The visa interviewers are usually rushed and trying to move on quickly. Slow them down and address their concerns.

You response to
Officer: You are too young to be CTO. Whatever you just said does not make any sense. How long is your visit?
Answer: 1 month

is not enough. The officer mentioned a concern but didn't phrase it as a question. Nevertheless you need to address it head on and put their doubts to rest. Give them the full story on it.
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A variation, actually, on Mark Twain's "eschew surplusage".

But "prolixity" does not mean using long words.
To me, it's more about "holy shit, several level of abstraction" that I have to learn by heart in order to use rails, rather than learning the commands that does a rails application.

It's a lot easier, in my opinion, to start from nothing but a few libraries and then write a toy web application. However, you're left to write everything yourself.
I thought it didn't need clarification but judging by the comments on HN it certainly did.

We can all bitch about whether or not people should have gotten it, and I don't think very highly of the reading comprehension skills of the people that didn't, but they didn't. The author didn't communicate his point in a way that translated to his audience. That's the entire purpose of his public, rather than private, blog. So it needed clarification.
Doesn't work for programmers though because unlike assembly line workers, there's no way to precisely monitor their productivity, so if you force them to stay late they can just mentally check out.
But the poor are getting exorbitantly richer too. The so-called poor in our society pay $100+ a month for cable, have cell phones with data plans for all their 10+-year-old kids etc. And these are the people that get welfare for food and live in subsidized housing. They are not poor.

The fact that the rich are richer is not a problem when the entire population is getting richer.
Law sucks. And it's hard to research.

Someone fix it.
We're going for more of a party in SF, and get discounts at a bar after the event.

No McDonalds though, sorry.
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There have been many things like this in human history. (See: The English learning how to cure scurvy, and then forgetting it.)
Don't forget about opportunity cost. Even at minimum wage, you would have made $80,000 by working a full time job instead of going to school, assuming a four year program.

If his tuition costs were an additional $40,000, you would need a $120,000 (plus any gains that could be accumulated from that $120K) bonus to recoup the expenses. Not to mention that if you really are good, you probably would have made far more than minimum wage during those four years, so we could probably assume, even conservatively, $150-$200,000 for the real cost of the education.

Can a graduate expect to earn $200K more in the all important early stage of the career† over someone who is equally skilled and connected without a degree?

† Early stage being the most important time to collect due to the rules of compounding interest. An extra $200K made in the last year of your career is far less valuable.
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Oh, man. I want one.

> I have a reply to your McLuhan comment, but I've been too busy/lazy to have typed it out yet.

Haha, that's beautiful. Better get it out of your head before the idea half-life expires. ;)

Allow to me say pre-emptively that the Myers-Brigg abstraction is relevant to the medium/message issue. People inclined towards [P]erception can are more likely to suss out the author's intent regardless of how it is transmitted; people who lean [S]ensory are more likely to influenced by the subjective experience of the idea's packaging.
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>implying PHP is easy/simple to install on a local dev machine

Rails' local dev install process is only just as complex as Django/PHP, and for everything else, there's Heroku.
I've found that rvm makes everything easier. And through OS X development I've also learned that I should avoid port at all costs.
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Keep in mind that the content stays behind the paywall for 1 week before non-subscribers can access it. So unless a paid subscriber is posting links to every single article, I don't think it's that much of an issue for LWN.

So given that it's really only subscribers-only for about 24 hours more(the original article was posted on March 28th, I don't think that LWN cares all that much.
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I was actually just coming back to this post to re-consider that closing paragraph, it was a little dramatic. I should have pointed out that this idea has moved around quite a bit in 3 or 4 months, I'm certainly adept to change - this was related in the application as well. On my twitter page I just said "Shop Joy may have to pivot again".
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