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Ha. I don't expect fully baked products but the prototypes feel a little avant-garde. Cool to look at but not actually useful or practical. Given the amount of attention it's gotten I walked away disappointed.
I thought this was going to go somewhere else. I was totally excited until the sixth paragraph - the first mention of the technical co-founder. The author got it all wrong. The main downfall is that, as a non-technical person with an idea, you aren't just going to go and find a technical co-founder out of the blue. It's highly unlikely that you'll find a techie who will drop everything to work with you on your idea in hopes that you will both someday strike it rich. And if you do find a guy like this, they're probably a bit delusional.

The technical co-founder has to be built in to the core, a part of the equation from the very beginning. Co-founders (technical or not) have to be compatible. You can't just go and find a technical co-founder on the street. That doesn't work.

Now, instead of getting emails inquiring how to learn to program, I'm going to get emails that say "Hey, I have this great idea but I need a technical co-founder. I read your blog and I know you can code. We'll be rich. What do you think?"
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Fun factoid: when Linus was coding the early kernel, he wasted a lot of time playing Prince of Persia on a dos box (according to his co-workers in his early biography Just for Fun). Maybe now we'll get a native port of PoP to Linux so he can run it without DosBOX.

(IIRC the game was written in Assembly so it's not going to be easy, though).
Your first point is fair enough, but the second one is just ignorant.
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The same happened to me, on a bunch of old diskettes I found a computer game I wrote more than two decades ago.

http://www.michielovertoom.com/software/risky-software-archa...

It's revealing to look at source code you wrote 20 years ago. For example, back then I was already using the 'banner' indenting style for C and C-like languages. I picked this up from the book Software Tools, by Kernighan and Plauger, a book which has been formative for my programming education.
Interesting. I had always assumed smartphones would use NTP servers.
Must be memories. Prince of Persia was the first program I ran on my computer.

One day me and my father drove 30 kms to buy the box. We talked with the guys about what we wanted ('16Hz, no, its to fast, 12 will do') and they sad it would be ready in three days. Then, we were very surprised and disappointed. They were surprised that we were surprised and finally said 'no biggie, we will set it up right now for you'. So we were back home with the box this evening.

At home we plugged it in only to discover that it was totally useless thingy blinking at us. This evening I learned why software was so, sooo important.

Only the next day I would get some floppies from friends and feed the beast.

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I think there is a semantic difference. Each actor has one mail box. So when sending a message to it, the message is sent to the pid (address) of the actor. So the actor become the central abstraction without the need for channels.

To emulate that with channels it is like saying you have one default channel created for each task. Instead of sending a message to the task, it is sent to a channel and instead of just a simple receive, the task has to has a reference to the same channel.

Another way of thinking about it, it is like having a graph of components and one model emphasizes the nodes (actors) and the other emphasizes the edge (channels) as the central abstraction.
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At risk of sounding like a sore loser, IQ tests, whether or not they are bias, are not a good indicator of success

I wondered if this was actually true, so I did some digging. I'm not saying you're wrong, but here's a fairly recent (in academic time) overview of the research:

Murphy, K. R. (2002). Can Conflicting Perspectives on the Role of g in Personnel Selection Be Resolved?. Human Performance, 15(1/2), 173-186

In case you don't want to buy the article, and can't access it via a library:

There's a lot of evidence that "measures of general cognitive ability represent perhaps the
best predictors of performance".

But the problem is that "racial differences in cognitive ability test scores are known to be considerably larger than racial differences in measures of job performance."

Murphy concludes that "reliance on cognitive ability measures in selection is likely to lead to more efficiency (i.e., higher average performance) and less equity (e.g., disparities in selection rates across racial and ethnic groups)."

--

As such, I think giving someone an IQ test at a job interview is a fairly bad idea.

The research I've found suggests otherwise, provided those IQ tests aren't the sole means of making decisions.
After a couple of years of writing erlang full-time, tying mailboxes to processes is one of the things that really bugs me. It conflates mutable state, addresses and queues into one construct. Using channels allows multiple writers/readers per queue, passing the channel as a first class value and allows transparent task restarting without needing global address registration per task.
It's actually really consistant with the rest of their decisions. Ports channels are much more primitive then mailboxes/messages, and yet, still safe. Mailboxes can then simply be a library built on top. This makes less assumptions.
Yes, they do. Unfortunately, the time my (GSM) operator sends is off by 2 minutes when I compare it to GPS data or the NTP synced clock on any desktop. So this feature is not very useful and I will be very happy if I see NTP sync in a future Android version.
Sorry but the IP legislation is way different in Europe (where I live for now) from what it is in the US. In Europe, you can't patent software for example. And regarding business models, I didn't know it was already possible and I assumed it wasn't judging by what's happening to AirBnB with its European clones. But I guess when you patent a business model in the US, it's only valid there, which makes it less useful against geographical copycats.
There are a lot of stories lately of women not taken for intelligent or made fun of, but I don't see that happen here at all.

Recalling from a previous news item, a women said that men always told her to "lighten up" (assuming that means something along the lines "don't whine, I didn't mean it that seriously", it doesn't translate). Well either I'm one of the bastards, or the culture is different here. It appears here we, men and women, have a lot of... liberties I guess you could say.

Looking at the list of countries allowing gay marriage lately, I was surprised to see the Netherlands listed as one of just a few. I once read a quote, "Mom, why do those two women hold hands? - Because they love each other.". I didn't get why it was upvoted at all (site similar to bash.org, don't remember which though). It seems rather obvious to me, like a girl asks her mother why a man and a woman hold hands. Now that I've learned that gay marriage is not actually that common, I get the point.

Is this true for (black) women in America too? I don't get the impression the USA is 'behind', but reading these stories you'd almost think it is. Of course, this particular one is a story from many years ago and either way a good read. But still, it is one of many last days which make it to the front page, covering pretty much the same subject.

I'm not saying people should stop posting or upvoting them, nor do I intend to offend anyone or any country. I'm just wondering aloud what the motivation is behind posting and upvoting these stories.
It was several years ago (15), but I actually took the time to read "the Bell Curve" and even to find some of the actual twin studies that tend to be cited in the discussions. Those I found rather underwhelming - for example the sample sizes tend to be low and not very comparable, and sometimes they are clearly exaggerated. For example one mentioned twins who gave their kids the same names and wore the same clothes even though they didn't know each other.

Over the years I have read a lot of articles on the subject - as did many others, I guess, it is a popular subject after all.

I'd say it took me more than a few seconds to come up with my example.
Making a strong association between tasks and message boxes like erlang does makes too many assumptions. That'd be an apt choice for many languages. But for Rust, as a systems languages, that seems like a poor choice.
hmm - it is usually a wise thing to mention the source of such a statistic that reeks of overt generalisation. considering that this thread is about "cultural" aspects of human interaction - i believe, it's also correct to always mention sources, instead of the usual - i read somewhere, some report suggested, etc.
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I'm not sure why I'm getting down voted. It's the truth. Most women are made to feel like they don't belong in computing. I convinced my girlfriend to major in Computer Science in school and she's constantly telling me how she faked her way through school. She feels like the only reason she got through it is because I helped her.

The reason she got through it is because she was smart. I didn't help her with her exams and I didn't help her land her job at Amazon. That was all her.

Cheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook gave a talk at the Grace Hopper conference about how she felt like a fraud. She wasn't as technical as the engineers so she didn't feel like she deserved her position. Turns out she's really good at her job.

Lots of women feel this way.
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The problem is many languages are designed on US keyboards. And even engineers who are otherwise mindful of unicode and other internationalization problems, may trivially forget what keys may not be on other keyboards.

I suppose your best bet may be to muck a bit with the key bindings of your particular text editor. IMO, I already swap some keys around to make () and {} more usable.
I've been using DDG at home and at work for at least a year and boy as there been improvements! First of all, I'm swedish and queries in swedish have improved immensly! I can't remember DDG ever being notably slow, so I don't know for the speed-up (I don't care much for speed). But answers in english have improved in quality by magnitude of 10s. When I started using DDG I'd have to check back with google about 1/3 of my queries, but now it's around 1/50, and I can't say the way I do my searches has had any radical changes either.

Thanks for this
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If done right, I would agree with you that doing the up-front work you describe would lead to the most equitable outcome, especially if it involves booking sales or partnerships pre-MVP. Talking to customers in advance of MVP building, while a critically important part of product development, is often not given the rigor that it should though.

I would strongly advise all involved to agree on measurable benchmarks, and perhaps even gate the product development progression on achieving these benchmarks.
> Go is a new Erlang;

It very much is not. Erlang's primary goal has always been reliability. Not concurrency. Concurrency arose from a subset of the mechanisms Erlang "needed" to implement reliability, but was not a primary focus of the language (just look how long Erlang lived without an SMP-able runtime).

Yet this concurrency is pretty much the only Erlang feature that was ported to Go, in a much less reliable manner.
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I imagine the cost of developing and maintaining an online review system is relatively trivial in the overall scope of running an online business. Your example is just online vs B&M competing on their own merits. OTOH, it costs real money to hire knowledgable salespeople and real estate for attractive displays.

I don't know if this is a causal relationship but I noticed companies drastically cutting back on the quality of salespeople around the time online shopping became big. This would make sense economically as stores could no longer capture the full economic value of good service. OTOH, for vertically integrated stores like Apple, the incentives are aligned and the quality of staff is noticeably higher.
Great sum up and a lot of good advices based on the Lean Startup.
They say Facebook is now crowded and it's almost impossible for an indie to just have viral success anymore so how did they obtain viral success outside of facebook/social network in the end?

I love the advices about analytics being key but I still don't understand what these projects use to perform their analytics. Are they all building their own solution or using something like Mixpanel right from the start?
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In previous threads (can't remember if it was here or on reddit), Rust developers noted that Rust currently needs a GC for many things, but part of the Region works is aimed at removing that need (aka unless the efforts fail, you should be able to use Rust 1.0 sans GC)
This may not be a great place to make this request, but can someone write up a detailed blog post on how the new SR&ED changes are going to affect us? I would love some more perspective on this issue.
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Go remove it then? I did it for mine just to see if they would and it was gone within 48 hours.
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> But for Rust, as a systems languages, that seems like a poor choice.

Yeah I can see that I guess. It is a lower level language so it would be the same as asking for closures or garbage collection in assembler?

> Making a strong association between tasks and message boxes like erlang does makes too many assumptions.

It does, and often having good assumptions is nice. One can argue that at some point unless the system is not C then someone can say it is making "assumptions".

In their documentation they do mention how they are trying to emulate Erlang (they even have supervision trees for tasks) so my point was that they left a critical semantic feature out.
Any idea why Google doesn't do that? I'm guessing it's against the terms and conditions? In which case I have to wonder why DDG can do it.
I didn't mean to sound entitled, it's not a big deal to me (and others if I was to hazard a guess).

Normally when I hit SO I'm stuck and often it's not on my dollar. I always intend to go back and add something, but when I do have free time, I like to get away from the computer and thus I never end up contributing.
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Good to see another contender in the C++/D space. Shame they will build another utterly broken browser on top of it.
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College was an uphill battle to remain paperless, as classes bombard one with paper schoolwork, documentation, handouts, notes, etc. Since you aren't looking to completely remove paper from your life, it should be a much easier transition.
What? If you remove coins and round to the nearest payable amount, it evens out over time. Sometimes you'll pay less than the actual total, sometimes you'll pay more. Prices aren't magically going to increase, so how is this a luxury?
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I think his argument was that a judicial determination in 1979 isn't really good evidence that it was true in 1979 either, because the courts aren't the most reliable judges of scientific facts.

[I haven't read enough of the voluminous literature on the IQ-test controversy to have an opinion myself, so I don't necessarily endorse that viewpoint.]
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I disagree. I think tying both together produces a new abstraction -- the actor. Not having it that way, offers little more than a thread and a bunch of queues.

Presumably you could still use a queue to provide the semantics you want, even now? Or have another actor that acts as the queue. But I think that use case doesn't warrant decomposing actors into channels and tasks.
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A technological solution to a social / economic problem? I don't think so.

It's like the people talking about how micronations like Sealand will solve social problems. Nup, you can go to a country with fewer laws now (Somalia?) if you want to live in an anarchy. Guess what - there's still people, and all the problems people tend to make for themselves.

You can buy foreign currency from many banks. You can even create your own pseudo-currency (though it may be illegal). Good luck using it.

Micro-payment proponents haven't yet found a cure for stinginess.

Crime is a factor. A lot of criminals will just find other payment methods, like the online payment rings that already exist (how else do spammers get paid?). It will cut the theft of cash, and probably cause more theft of mobiles / identity theft. If your mobile phone is your wallet, that won't stop a pickpocket from taking it.

As for all the "fiat capital" arguments .. no-one is seriously going to think it changes everything. All major currencies these days are fiat, and online ones will be no different. They can be effectively backed by gold and / or oil (just like current ones are / are not depending on whose cool-aid you're drinking), but I wouldn't bet on them being any different.

It will be nice to be able to order a coffee using a mobile phone at somewhere other than Starbucks. It won't be a revolution.
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There is a world outside of the US. Most participants of IETF conferences are not from the US or from North America at all.
In fact, the IETF came close to deciding not to hold conferences in the US anymore due to increasing visa US from many foreign visitors[0].

[0]:http://isoc.org/wp/ietfjournal/?p=190
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Anything is exploitable, unless it's not running, the respective computer powered off, closed in a safebox, encased in carbonite and dropped into the Mariana Trench. Even then, I wouldn't be so sure - what with Cameron mucking about in there ;o)
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Yeah, I found "crust" to be rather counter-intuitive. I think one of the reasons that bugs me is that "ret" and "mut" don't have any intrinsic meaning in English, but my brain insists on reading "crust" as if it were a word.

I'd personally have gone with "rustc".
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Hi HN,

I got really annoyed by my Android phone's ambient light sensor adjusting the brightness too often and too much. But turning off the automatic brightness lead to getting blinded at night, which was not a good solution.

So I decided to do something about it over a weekend some time ago. The result is a simple app that adjusts the brightness to follow the outside daylight. When the sun goes down it starts ramping down the brightness and when it goes up again it ramps it up again. The times of sunrise and sunset are calculated from the current location.

I've found it actually works quite well, so if the standard automatic brightness annoys you as much as it annoyed me, please try it out.

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Why didn't they do GC per process like Erlang instead of GC per thread?

I thought processes and sub processes are cheaper to spawn then threads? That's the reason why Chrome tabs are in per sub processes right? Instead of threads?
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If I remember right the doctor who came up with this was trying to prevent the immediate problem of unplanned pregnancies in rural India - they're among the primary causes of our population explosion.

Most of the men and women in his (initial) target audience are illiterate and do not understand / care for methods of contraception that require any kind of anticipatory action - like taking regular pills, putting drunken desire on hold to find a condom, or even paying for either of these. (On $2 a day, all existing contraceptives are luxuries).

That said, I think is a perfect fit for his target demographic. Looks like the characteristics of that demographic are a lot more universal than he thought :D