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He is a masters student, so he is likely looking at a relatively entry level job assuming he hasn't had any other experience. Also it is most likely he is passionate about the project and wants to work on it and this way he can work on his passion and still pay rent and eat.

Beyond that this makes him more valuable, and will likely land him a well paying job working on CoffeeScript.

He has been sensible about it as well, on his KS profile page:

I am a research assistant at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, soon to receive my MS in computer science. In my free time (of which there hasn't been too much lately as I finish up my degree), I like to work on CoffeeScript and other open source projects, particularly those related to JavaScript. If you'd like to offer me a job either after the culmination of this project, or if this project does not get funded, feel free to contact me.
Whatever.

Look, nothing he talked about created the financial situation we are in now. In fact, the lack of regulations on wall street is what did us in.

He credits technological progress in the 1930s for getting us out of the Great Depression and not government spending. I think Mr Thiel needs to go back school (the ones he has been crapping on for the past few years.)
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Because that, in no way, will prevent researchers from trashing studies until they get the results they want, or fishing for any significant correlation after the fact as if that's what they were looking for all along.

Some sort of validation mark that a study announced itself before being started would at least show me which ones I should ignore - because IMO this type of thing is ruining medicine, esp. pharma.

At this point, there's very little evidence that some major drugs, classes of drugs, and treatments work at all, and that's both scary and a systemic financial drain.
Thanks, here are some screenshots I took.

The bold/not bold problem is worst when zoomed out, like on the words 'organizing' and 'interface'.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8010387/Photo%20Apr%2014%2C%209%2016...

And this is what happens when I zoom in:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8010387/Photo%20Apr%2014%2C%209%2057...
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I would second both the above posts. Don't do anything now but launch. There may be room for two companies and you'll do just fine. Go after the larger market first, you can always pivot later. Just getting your company launched takes a lot of energy; don't waste energy changing things now.
Impressive story. Is it "the internet cafe around your corner" or "THE (one) internet cafe in Zimbabwe"? :-)
That second paragraph should be engraved.
The problem seems to be regulations.

Wow I'm shocked that that is Peter Thiel's solution.

Another example is the Golden Gate Bridge. It took 3.5 years to build the bridge in the 1930s. They are currently building an access highway on one of the tunnels that feeds into the bridge, and it will take at least 6 years to complete.

We also had a much murkier concept of human rights and workplace safety back then. You can't have it both ways. I would like to see someone push Peter Thiel to admit that building at that speed again would require rolling back many of the work rules we've put in place over the last century.

Debate about the merits of things like workplace safety, don't just throw your hands up and say "we don't build things as fast any more!" because that's somewhat of a disingenuous argument.
Its supposed to be a summary of what may be needed - but its the basic idea that we can't really progress because of regulations
You're completely missing the point. He's not proposing to write a compiler as a way to make money; he's trying to get his living expenses covered so he can write this compiler that he wants to write, and which he believes will be useful to others.
I know there are a lot of you, just like me, will graduate in a month. May we never have to work.
Here's one that came up in another thread: rewrite the core engine of MongoDB, yet keep all the existing API's and libraries.

You could call it BongoDB. B for better. You can capture all their market share based mostly on technical prowess.

Some of the problems are documented here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837772
No need to get hostile. My girlfriend's mother died from a very aggressive cancer just last year - I'm well aware of the painful reality of both cancer and treatment.

Regarding my comment about confirmation, there are always points in any experiment where you basically know the outcome, but just need a few more datapoints to pass that magical p < 0.05 number. At that point, they are technically just killing people and wasting time.

Of course that is a terribly cynical viewpoint. You could easily reword it to sound much more positive. But I think my original point still stands.

There are always going to cases like the woman's above - it is inevitable. You can't immediately clear everyone for every drug. Some drugs are only effective when the cancer has progressed to a certain point. But barring technical problems, there just simply isnt enough money to pay for everyone to have every experimental treatment.

Triage and thresholding is an unfortunate necessity.
I don't understand this comment at all.

Do you not know that import statements are at the top of every class file, or did you mean that you hate wildcard imports? Do you also eschew local variables, because they might clobber fields and method parameters if you ignore the compiler warnings?
I'm a big fan of Plupload - http://www.plupload.com/
It depends - with less regulations we might have had more progress and less borrowed money. I think he said in the lecture that Wall Street needed more regulations.
It's possible to be gentlemanly regarding their skill without resorting to absurd hyperbole.
I really meant to say technically just a platformer. Braid is much more than that as a game but in terms of technical complexity it isn't all that complex. Even the creator says they had the actual gameplay/mechanics sorted out very quickly.
Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
This was started by some German Ruby devs - I've just ordered a couple!
Ha, almost. I just checked Homebrew this morning and it has 445 outstanding issues.
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Have the light table folks used a modern IDE? This looks so much like Emacs.
Of course compiling to JS as CoffeeScript does is itself the answer to the IE issue. If and when there is a new JS one could conceivably compile the new JS to old JS for IE users. It adds an extra burden on dev teams but IE special cases aren't anything new to web devs and it allows the standard to move more quickly.
What IDE will hide the qualifying class names of method calls? I was searching for that yesterday, but the best I could so is syntax highlighting to make classes display in a very faint color, but Eclipse can't distinguish type declarations from method qualifiers from class declarations, nor will it fold away the class names I want to hide, so it's not ideal.

Coding is 10% reading and 90% reading, so an IDE that only helps with writing code is approximately worthless.
Yes - but I think this "solution" is different compared to raising taxes or lowering taxes - and it also involves some good points on energy
> This is such a basic scenario I simply don't understand why it hasn't been solved. And don't even get me started on the Upload Straight to Amazon S3 via Flash/Silverlight doodads. Nobody can seem to get those working reliably either.

We have > 4GB uploads to S3 working reliably (original video files for encoding are quite large so long uploads are not an edge case for us). You can multi-select files, and the user sees upload progress percentages on all of them. We're using Silverlight (with less reliable Flash and HTML5 fallbacks).
> but I have a strict no drama allowed rule

You might want to stop feeding this ridiculous thread.

IHBT.
I don't get it either. The top of site should surely have.. "Typeli is a... "
Personally I disagree with him on those points. He may view games as an art form, and some certainly are. The problem is I don't have time to invest into deep and philosophical games anymore. I use to spend hundreds of hours playing/investigating/researching games. Now I just want to boot up a game and blow some shit up and get back to work.

Seeing as the average age of gamers is over 30 (someone correct me if I am wrong please), I bet there are lots more in my position.
The worry isn't so much the PR. It's an all-round "were going to get our arses kicked", due to their combination of talent, funding, execution etc, unless we find a unique angle over them. Their execution is ... impressive. Also might be a blunt point for raising further funding unless we are different enough.
The next version of javascript will only work on a minority of browsers, even years after it is adopted (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/internet-explor...) while coffeescript works on all browsers now.
Exactly! In the best place you have to handle it. A nice API can make sense about the operation on the data and help it evolve.

These discussions always creates in my mind a picture of someone saying that we should be refilling all the forms that you have in a cabinet full of hand filled forms because someone decided that a new version of the form requires a new field like an e-mail address.
I'd love to use fastmail, but at least when I last tried it (two years ago) at least 1/10 messages I sent just vanished. Never went to my sent folder, never got delivered.

And today, you tell me to go to beta.fastmail.fm ... a site that looks like this: http://o7.no/IPvfHo

Note broken images, missing Latest News, and they can't even spell Fastmail correctly (see below "Login to your account"). This does not inspire confidence.
CoffeeScript doesn't have a built in minifier does it? You can still run Closure against the js output.
Unless you are in a winner-take-all segment (which is rare) then it is good to have some competition.
>isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?

No, not anyone. Hackers maybe, but not schools. First of all, you won't find 100,000+ cheap-but-quality laptops on ebay, not to mention you'll have to install Debian yourself. Not that it's difficult to install for "us," but these are targeted for school children. The whole point of this project is simplicity.
But that just adds to the complexity that the "BaaS" is aiming to remove?
Any HD TV should work as a monitor, no? Presumably many people already own one. And USB mouse and keyboard are available dirt cheap.
It is intended to be connected to a television set via Composite or HDMI. I'd assume most families in the UK already have a television set so really the only additional cost is the keyboard+mouse.
I agree with this. I chipped in 1k. I know it's not the goal of the project but I hope it lays the groundwork for an optional production mode compile run for coffee script that yields optimized and / or google closure compatible code.
194.71.107.15

I don't know if they're blocking it at the DNS level, or if there is some way of blocking the actual site. But that's the IP address. Why couldn't someone use any generic proxy to visit Pirate Bay?

I just don't see how governments can actually block websites, without confiscating their servers and/or forcing ISPs to monitor and block any attempt to get back online. As long as they've got a server and internet access, it seems to me like the government has failed.
They haven't figured out a thing. This is just more hype, as was the frontend engineer push of 2010/2011.. hopefully some designers/engineers can make out well with all this attention, however. Preferably talented ones.
Somewhere around the time he made $140,000,000 selling an indie game to gobs of people who love to create, then announced he was writing another game which included a CPU.
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Yeah but it would be nice if it was just a matter of setting a flag.
Will you be able to show off the results? I'd be really pretty interested to see what some 2nd year comp-sci students come up with.

The pipe dream part of me wants you to have them stick their results on github and work with each other, or start getting taught stuff by ... well, everyone.

My high-school comp-sci teacher is a large part of the reason why I can reason clearly about code, and he would push us in directions like this -- not as extreme, but similar in the "ok, here's an end goal that you can achieve by thinking about it and making combinations of what you know" sense.

I know a lot of programmers who don't grok compilers, even at a high level, and it's a shame -- a lot of things are a lot easier, and you open the doors to doing a lot more if you do.
You have a choice.

If the "autopublish" package is added to your project, which it is by default, then the entire dataset is sent to the client. That's good for learning and prototyping, but isn't any good for production use. The Leaderboard example uses autopublish.

Once you app works and you're ready to lock it down and scale it up -- and only then -- you remove the autopublish package. Now, it's up to you to define what's sent to the client. Use Meteor.publish() on the server to set up different datasets that clients are allowed to subscribe to, and use Meteor.subscribe() on the client to turn on/off a particular dataset. The Todos example demonstrates this -- it retrieves just the items for the todo list you're looking at, plus the list of lists. It's just a couple of lines of code, like 5 or 10, and not tricky ones either.
There might be more vacancies but the salaries are still abysmal compared to the US. I'd be skint if I weren't self employed :-)

London is more expensive than the Bay Area yet the number of full time, salaried developers picking up anything like $100k is small.
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This is most important thinks in our life & livelihood. Do you know about this?
"Fired" means you have been sacked for a small number or serious offenses and could never be considered "awesome" - I think you mean made redundant.
There's been a similar discution on /r/startups few hours ago, with the big million dollars question : where to find good marketers co-founders for developers that have a prototype?

I tried founder2be, but it seems inadequate (lots of idea guys who believe to know marketing).
Thank you very much for this quick tip. I've unfortunately only used MySQL at scale, and it most definitely grinds away for hours when ALTERing, default value or not.

It looks like MySQL might be giving everyone in the RDBS world a bad rap.
I don't think it's right to lump Meteor and Firebase together as you've done here. They are similar and the sets of problems they aim to solve may overlap. But Firebase is a "scalable backend for your web app" and Meteor "is a set of technologies for building web apps". Firebase is more like a platform and Meteor is more like a framework, or SDK if you like.

If you want to get a web app up and running quickly without having to build a backend, Firebase would be an option.

With Meteor, one advantage is that you can write your client code as if you were building a desktop app, i.e. with minimal context switching. You can imagine the database is local and that any methods you call on the server are like calls to a local library with a well-defined API. Meteor would provide the glue between client and server that allows you to do this.

Regarding your question: "Can Meteor/Firebase be secure without adding back in a lot of the server-side effort that they were built to avoid?" I think the Firebase founder commented somewhere on this post on how they might do this. But for Meteor, (1) I don't think the goal is merely to reduce server-side effort (2), I expect Meteor would provide much of this out of the box and you wouldn't have to do more on the server than you would with say Express or Rails.
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Compressed property naming would be huge improvement, but then how would you really export to outer namespaces?

I recall Closure Compiler has custom syntax in multiline comments for that, but you can't (or shouldn't) expect Coffee to support it natively with custom sugar.

I found closures (as opposed to classes with properties/methods) to be much more compression-friendly and it made "Advanced Mode" not worth pursuing for me.
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This article is so poorly written it's hard for me to figure out what it's talking about.

"The problem today with the world economy, according to Peter Thiel, is that we are not moving forward[.]"

"The problem seems to be regulations. "

"The biggest problem for the US and Europe is how to restart growth."

"The problem is that the current US government doesn't have a five-year plan as the socialist governments had - it has no plan whatsoever!"

"The biggest problem against restarting growth is the high energy prices."

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Then launch NOW and iterate, iterate, iterate fast. You think that you can't match them ? And that there can't be competition ? Competition is good, it will keep you focused.
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Either she is a victim or she made up the entire story along with emails. It's a waste of time to discus the latter; if it's made up kickstarter will say so. But I doubt her making up a story so easily disproved.

Your other posts about italic text honestly come across to me as a strawman.
Even so I haven't seen one link backing up the "quote" from reddit. If it was true someone would have provided some sort of verification by now.
In C++ you can write the cleanup code once in the destructor,
"similar constructions in other languages" must be written every time you use it. You can and should do "non-trivial cleanup in destructors", e.g. DB rollback, but you should do only cleanup in destructors.
If you build it, 2 people might come.

Why do you need a marketing person? In the beginning, you can do all of that yourself (start a blog, approach websites that are in the same field as your app, adwords or some other advertising network).

You need to build up a list of interested and potential customers and then send out emails. I've used this method many times and it works (although, you don't always see results right away).

There are many free or inexpensive ways to get your name out there. Most developers just don't want to do the work or are just not interested in marketing.

I'm a developer that has branched out into business and marketing. It gives you more power over your own company.

It's also much more difficult for a marketing or business person to become a developer.

Once you have money coming in and you want to spend your time running the business, then you can hire a marketing person.
No, I mean my point is that any arbitrary human would have difficulty handling a random, untrained for technical task at the level of designing a vehicle in a drafting program like AutoCAD.

Maybe what you want to say is, "I would like you to spend 4 to 10 years learning how to build a 5 wheeled vehicle." Then maybe the AI comes back to you and says, "Is MIT an acceptable institution to learn these skills at?"
Bookmarked. I love seeing perl on the front page of hn. Many think perl is dead but it does the job for me.
At the risk of being downvoted myself, please downvote this submission. It's irrelevant and obviously a troll.
That's a good point. I added that (I will need to make it look better) but yes, I agree it adds a lot.
It actually says, "Woah there, don't take advice from a web-comic too literally!"
Its supposed to be a summary - but I might change that (iterating forward...)
This is a largely FUD story. Scaremongering people over if their electricity is green, so they should buy a gas guzzling turd burner or not is insane.

Electric cars come first, then green electricity to go with it. And guess what? We're in orbit around a gravity fed fusion reactor, it produces more power per second than the entire human race has used in our entire existence.

To quote Neil Tyson: the tax dollar? NASA's budget doesn't even get into the ink. And what Neil doesn't mention? Green energy research and deployment doesn't get into the ink either.
Really love the idea of making the parents into Robots and letting them define their own functions like 'hug'
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I feel like I have wasted the last 7 years of my life..working. FML
Sounds to me like you should get to work on that hand-tied identity provider idea of yours.
Having something this size for home automation would be a dream. I suppose you can't to video processing and wifi with Arduino's, but with a full sized PC... would be great.
Any idea if you can call a dropDatabase() from the client? That's my big fear.
Not sure why you've been downvoted, because I somewhat agree with you. $12k is not bad for a few months if you happen to live in my country (Hungary, Middle Europe), but the expertise required by a full compiler rewrite is supposed to... cost more.

With that said, I don't mind Rails.app targeting $25k. Let the masses decide if that kind of budget is realistic.
This morning our pirate censorship battles were the first thing that popped into my mind when I woke up.

I thought how much more effective public outcry would be if we phrased things in terms of the creation of censorship infrastructure.

I object most to that. Here we see the criminalization of a note on where to find information. For now, it is only applied to illegal information like the Pirate Bay, but it's establishing a precedent that can be used against anything.
but does it really make sense loving someone when you are not loved back? that is hard work. and it hurts. but i just might got it all wrong.
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This is a spammer.
You never said "how" you lost your account...

On a side note, it's sh*t like this that make law makers create crazy laws that would stop poor support like this.

I for one would almost want government intervention to make sure when cloud services cut you off, they don't take hostage of your data and history too. I recognize it's a terrible/horrible solution, but if the companies themselves can't do the right thing, government mandate would have to be next. Cause in this case, it's not like we can vote with our wallets to make it go away when the stuff is free.

Also, imagine the number of jobs Google could create if they hired and trained a support staff for all their products? There's a lot of stuff that would still benefit from a human touch.
Yes and what Google does not seem to realise that there is a lot of legal precedent and custom and practice that expects that if someone is penalized there is some sort of appeal process.
Huh... I don't seem to be able to do that. "firefox -P" just brings up a new window if I've already got a FF window open.
I didn't pick up "don't get a job". I heard, "don't do something that feels like work". I 100% agree, life is far too short to spend most of your time being miserable.
I Said the same thing to my friend. His response, "Yeah.. and Yahoo, trying to be all hip, would have an iCE logo..."