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As if IE7 or IE8 are worth any amount of praise. I'm sure any web developer would agree with that commentary. IE6,7,8 span an immense amount of time and represent a still large base of users that have to be specifically catered to.
If I'm a non-technical person with minimal coding skills (C++, editing HTML/CSS, rudimentary knowledge of Ruby), should I invest time and effort to learn Bootstrap/Foundation? My goal is to develop a functional MVP that I can take to potential customers; I've validated the need for my product through individual sales but feel like I need to test a semi-functioning site to see if my idea can scale.

Would appreciate suggestions, alternatives.
I'm a fan of taking the simplest, reasonable route to wealth, then investing in something of greater importance, something that critics would agree improves humanity.

I agree with this, and have been talking to people about it under the moniker of "deferred altruism". My hypothesis is that someone who continually gives his time and/or money to worthy causes over his entire life may end up being cumulatively less world changing than someone who spends half her life making money, then switches to philanthropy or world changing ideas later.

The canonical examples are Elon Musk and Bill Gates, but of course there must be thousands of examples where the risk doesn't pay off, and the deferred altruist ends up unable to contribute much at all.

Perhaps I'm just finding a way of justifying being miserly now, but I certainly intend to pay it back in cash if I'm successful, or in time if I'm not.
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Is software testing a viable career to train people with Aspergers?
I am providing technical feedback to a woman who wants to start a non-profit company in the North Bay to train people with Aspergers to be software testers. Aspiritech in Chicago seems to be doing well doing this. But a quick check of Google trends indicates half the traffic in software testing as in 2004. Is software testing a viable career path for people?
Well, then, take heart. You also live in a world where a $78,000,000 investment can, in a short time, be turned into $250,000!

Feel any better?
The fact that they gave up $1B proves Facebook (specifically Zuckerberg) thought they'll get something more valuable to them than that $1B.

Even if the purchase was 'defensive' – preventing s competitor from using Instagram to chisel away at Facebook's monopoly – they expect the result of the deal, versus the alternative, to be worth even more to them than the $1B they gave up. (This is essentially tautological, unless you think Zuckerberg is irrational.)
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Whatever maybe the motivation behind this post, but I think people should refrain from bashing out there previous employer, leaving in bad suit is very bad.
"hopefully profitable, like an astrology site"

Instagram founders can probably afford to fund some medical research or establish a chair or even a medical center like many wealthy business people end up doing. There are many ways to help the world if you find a good way to make money.
You are making the assumption inventors are primarily motivated by money. I doubt this to be the case. Furthermore, the sharing of photos and memories is known to have therapeutic qualities for humanity:

http://www.photovoice.org/html/methodology3tp/therapeuticpho...
That would logically make much more sense.
If you can't make ends meet on 150k a year, you shouldn't be a startup CEO. It's that simple. If you need more security or up front money, there are plenty of other industries and established businesses you can work in. No one has to be a startup CEO.

A big part of being a startup CEO is the upside potential of the equity you get. You're sitting on potentially life changing amount of equity and your job is to make it actually worth something. If you need more than 150k a year, you've over extended yourself as a startup CEO and should probably do something else. Life is a series of tradeoffs. If you can't (or don't want to) do what it takes to be a startup CEO (and a big part of that is gambling on the future value of your equity), just go do something else.

The 150k figure is for funded startup CEO's. If you build your own profitable company and want to pay yourself more, go for it. There's plenty of routes to the end. If you can't cut it on 150k a year for whatever reason (your wife's medical school debt, kids, required lifestyle, etc), just do something else.
Presumably they'd then be in the same position as any co-founders regarding a pivot: They'd have to reach agreement on whether and how to alter their plan.
What exactly is this?
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http://www.tomsachs.org/
No, they're real - or appear to be, from a quick google search:

http://tomsachs.com/

http://visionpointmarketing.com/blog/entry/on-process/

Although it does seem to be some sort of parody for an artist's studio to be claiming that "creativity is the enemy" and everything should be clean and arranged at right angles. Certainly the stuff in his store doesn't appear to be world changing: http://tomsachs.com/store

Also, anyone that uses Full Metal Jacket as some sort of team-building employee rah-rah should definitely put $2000 in a jar somewhere. Did they actually watch the movie?
Me too, such as, is it black hole time yet?!
Mz, you don't know me but I've often read your comments here with interest and respect. I also know several people in the San Diego ecosystem (I was in LA for many years). I admire what you're doing with healthgazelle and if I can help let me know (email is in my profile).
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Ha ha! Yes I do feel strangely better. I wonder why? Perhaps I'm just annoyed I haven't managed to make a decent financial investment...ever.
Maren Kate Donovan (maren here on HN) has a startup addressing exactly this, but for individuals not just businesses. http://zirtual.com/
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I have cystic fibrosis, as does my 24 year old son. We have figured out how to get ourselves well. It has left me deeply in debt and homeless. And damn few people have any interest in what I have done. I get called a liar and snake oil salesman. At the moment, I don't feel like getting rich so I can make the world a better place. I feel like getting rich and then telling the world to go fuck itself should the world suddenly reverse position and find my story of recovery fascinating just because I have found fame and fortune.

Add "bitter" to my list of descriptors.
I'm not sure if you are referring to the state budget or university budget here, but the university closed the nuclear engineering department a year or two ago due to budget reasons, the remnants of that program are in Materials Science now.
"Object oriented" programming tends to conflate a lot of simultaneous ideas. You can use objects to represent a kind of declaratory style that meshes extremely well with FP, or to represent different implementations of a common interface (ditto), or you can have the kind of uber-stateful, side-effect-ridden file.open, file.read, file.close patterns that really clash with it.
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Great post. Information asymmetry leading to market inefficiency (and poor outcomes for the info-poor side) is how I think of it too.
Previously posted on HN 50 days ago, there are some interesting critiques in the comments, especially regarding the GPL license, the consensus being it is ridiculous for a library like this and probably a good reason it's not as popular as it could be:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661038
Lazy marketing, linking to HN.
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This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”
Its quite nice.. :)
"The fact that so much of it can flow in such a small amount of time toward such a small group of people bothers me. Especially when you consider the impact that investment could have made in other places."

Well if it makes you feel any better that new wealth will end up in the hands of car dealers, real estate, all sorts of tradesman, and other places in the economy as well as I'm sure, more startups.

It was a long shot hit but don't short change how something like that will help the entire startup economy. The world of news and investors want to hear about blockbusters.

So there will be significant impact from the entire Instagram win.
"If you really can't make ends meet on 150k you've overextended yourself."

and

"...someone's total financial situation and what their other obligations are."

Are not wholly unrelated ideas.
The simplest version (and by my yard-stick is the de-facto measure of "readability") I've seen was at Pycon 2012 (http://azd325.github.com/Python/2012/03/23/pycon-2012-stop-w... around 17:30). The main take away that is demonstrated is that classes aren't necessary to write this program but it's the first thing most programmers reach for when implementing it.

Another thing I find a lot these days are an abundance of comments that explain what the code already explains. Some of the comments are good in this example, but many of them explain what I would know if I just read the code.

However, I do like the use of color! A great demonstration. Good work. :)
I suppose you have a good point. I've never had DVR and don't know many people who have, so this was never an option for me. With that said, I feel obligated to point out that these people wouldn't need to skip the commercials if they didn't exist in the first place.
I've heard good things about "The Rails 3 Way". I've not used it yet. I'm still in the "beginner" levels and I've found railstutorial.org to be invaluable.

For Beginners:
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

(potentially) For Those More Experienced:
http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Edition-Addison-Wesley-Professio...
if people find that interesting, they might enjoy this book - http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/

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I think he meant more than simply "your walls are controlled by software". Think of Utility Fog: your walls could be made of hundreds of little robots linked together, and can be reconfigured to a different shape in seconds under the control of software. The robots are sort of like three-dimensional pixels; the shape they assume at any given moment is just the shape that the currently running software gives them.

Or perhaps dozens of little robots built the wall in the first place (by lashing together sticks and filling the space between with gravel, say) under software control, and can disassemble it and reassemble it in a different form under software control in an hour or two. In this case the sticks and stones are the pixels.
That's part of it, but also the 'core' of most political movements tend to be whack jobs. The type of people that say "Keep the government out of my medicare!!!" are often willingness support the cause both financially and by donating their time, even if they don't actually understand what's going on. After all it's not really rational to spend but so much effort when it's unlikely that you will make any type of noticeable difference.
Well, I guess it basically goes to show how hard it is to determine the actual kolmogorov complexity (even once specifying a particular encoding of a Turing Machine) of a string, but the following is a new upper bound on the complexity (in Python) of the second string.

print '00011101001000101101001000101111010100000100111101'

print bin(128141569638717)[2:]

In general, any string of 1s and 0s will be compressible using this method in python once the binary number is greater than 212 (you break even at 211). However, again, I only claim this to be an upperbound ;). (also assuming that invoking built-ins isn't cheating).
Maybe society would be better if more seed investments made modest returns and Instagram didn't make huge ones?
Every manager should also watch Office Space :)
Here's an unjustly killed comment from guard-of-terra:

Nope, it did. Most of boost didn't exist back then; compilers were much less powerful, therefore we didn't see that much template masturbation. Not to mention tooling. I don't know C++ so I can't elaborate.

You are wrong. You need to understand reflection, dependency injection, logging, xml apis and other means of serialization, jdbc and the modern way of dealing with it, servlet api, http apis and a lot more. Or else you are very smart but unable to do any real work without spending half a year, one day at a time, learning all that stuff.

"here's a totally unfamiliar API" challenge is nice but irrelevant. There are a LOT of concepts you should understand before you can claim you know Java.
Yeah, reading my comments does paint a picture, but it was unintended.

The main point I want to make is that keeping a CEO from making $150k, or $120k because they should be suffering for some unknown reason is being Penny wise, and Pound foolish.

I'm not advocating $200k or $300k in salary or more, I'm just saying that he should make enough where his personal income isn't the thing on his/her mind. Ideally the whole team should be making good enough money where they are not worried about these things. I also wouldn't advocate a system where the CEO was making twice what a CFO or CTO makes or some other crazy hierarchical system.

The world assumes there is a strong correlation with people's hunger and their success. In my experience I routinely see the opposite and I believe giving people more helps them perform better. Ultimately if someone is making an investment in a company they want that company to succeed and they should want that CEO to be focused on growing the business.

--This entire view point for me has changed over the past 5 years and maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see a good argument for paying a CEO $50,000 a year other than that someone thinks that is a lot of money for some reason.--
Of course, this would have the handy side effect of exerting downward pressure on engineer salaries as well. Huh.
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Understood. In most cases that is more than enough, I could imagine scenarios where it wouldn't be.
While the sentiment is appreciated, I cannot imagine what to ask for. I need either a huge cash gift to wipe out my debts or to declare bankruptcy, which I am currently trying to work on through legal aid. I also need an online income. I suck at self promotion and most people have either given me well meaning advice which failed to make any real difference or pooh-poohed the idea that any of my current sites could be commercialized and monetized. While it bothers me to take the site down, my webhosting expires in May and not only can I not afford the $120-ish dollars to renew for another year but if someone gave me the money, as has happened the previous three years, I would spend it on food, not hosting service. I see little reason to continue taking verbal abuse for a project which makes no money and is of interest to very few people.

I also do not know how to get off the street in part because I have been healthier sleeping in a tent these past few months. I do not wish to remain homeless but I also do not want to rent a typical American apartment ever again. I do not know how to go from homeless to homeowner, which is probably the only hope I have for arranging a housing situation which does not contribute to my health issues.

You are more than welcome to email me. I just have no idea how it would help.

Thanks

Edit: Though I do have a non-internet business idea I am toying with. And concerned that it will go nowhere because a) I can't get a business loan in my current circumstance b) I won't qualify for a business loan if I successfully declare bankruptcy and c) I don't know if I can successfully run an IRL business given my health issues.
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Seems similar to but more complete than Genghis, a single php file admin for MongoDB: http://genghisapp.com/
>...new wealth will end up in the hands of car dealers, real estate, all sorts of tradesman...

It sounds like you're referring to supply side economics, or 'trickle down' which has never had a a proven effect on wider wages.
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It's not nearly as complex as Bootstrap which is great when you want create some pages quickly and use your own styles.
>Now before you downvote me,

Uhm.

>Ok now you can downvote me.

Okay. I'm addressing the community at large when I say this.

Stop doing this now. It's not constructive. Say your piece or don't say it. Don't couch it in these empty defensive posturings.
Missing from this article are all the scientists who took funding from BP in exchange for silence. Those scientists betrayed science as well.

Sample:
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/17/contract-gag-sil...
Can somebody explain exactly how one would owe taxes on Kickstarter? Let's say you get a bunch of money from Kickstarter by preselling a game. What you have is money but you will also have a liability (i.e., the obligation to provide the game). If your funding matches your budget, by the time you fulfill your liability, (i.e., you finish the game and send it off), you will have spent most of the money on development. You would not have significant profits.

So I do not see how you would owe a lot of taxes other than payroll taxes, or various incorporation taxes.
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> An asset isn't worth one billion dollars just because someone you know has a billion dollars to spend.

Actually that's nearly the definition of what something is worth: how much someone is willing to pay for it.
Not AT&T, unfortunately. They're just starting to unlock at end of contract, but as far as I can tell won't unlock for overseas travel. And AT&T has sold most international-cable phones in the US, by far.
I'm not super familiar with the various theories of probability, but if you're interested in thinking of these kinds of things, you might enjoy reading about the Universal Distribution, which is as far as I know defined in terms of Kolmogorov complexity. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Algorithmic_probability#...

I know the book Gems of Theoretical Computer Science has a good introduction to this topic as well.
I have a similar message that gets echoed ever time I open my shell. It's the journey, not the destination.
Actually, there was a Google site in 1997, at google.stanford.edu.
I'm employed by a western company that doesn't play fapiao games, and I get a lot more than that (how much is confidential, but I make just a bit less than I would in the states for a comparable position). Many of my friends get fairly low salaries (2/3K may be outdated, its probably more like 4/5K now), but get a lot of "benefits" that I don't; especially if they work for SOEs (state owned companies); i.e., many have nice cars (provided) but not enough money to really park them (not provided).
In the context of Turing machines, the output is really a _binary_ string, not a string of arbitrary characters. So in a sense, those two programs are the same thing. But of course, the Kolmogorov complexity of any number n is bounded by log(n) + c.
I am really thrilled to read something like this from the venture capital community :)
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Your approach to starting a software business (i.e. by treating coders as replaceable work-for-hire) is pretty close to the sort lampooned on Whartonite-Seeks-Code-Monkey. It's not the model that I'd like to see become dominant.

It comes down to a difference in philosophy. I believe that, for a technical business, the founders ought to be directly responsible for the product creation (as in build-by-git and not build-by-Skype). I'd rather see technical/design skills win out over marketing and business hustle in the end (in terms of capital ownership). And I say this as a business major (who's exercising his coding and design muscles now).
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The function of this amplifier isn't to achieve the best amplification at the lowest cost -- it's to be a curiosity piece that actually does something. It seems to perform this function admirably.
Idea #1) Safemap
Pull crime blotter data, and deliver the least dangerous route between two locations. Offer a "danger score" for locations.

Idea #2) Health Tracker with Correlations
There are a lot of self-tracking apps out there; few to none of them do what the actual point of a self-tracking app is, which is to identify correlations between what you're tracking. (e.g. are you unhappier when you get less sleep?)

Idea #3) International Video Pen Pals
Practice learning the language of your choice by being paired with a native speaker for video chat.
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One thing that I've found extremely demotivating is when a manager tells me what NOT to work on. I'd have a side project that I'd start on my own time, and I'd tell my manager "I've got this prototype of X working, and I'd like to spend more time on it / test it out." He'd say "I don't want you to spend any time on that". Instant loss of motivation. And this wasn't my first month on the job, it was after maybe 3-4 years on the job, already having proved myself, etc.
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Nice points.

I do see problem with trust, not many would do that unless you are already proven before you join a work place. Moreover if you are a talented programmer, some see you as a threat.
It must be midnight somewhere; the embargos are expiring. Personally, the BBC is the last place I'd look for coverage of processors; you'd probably be better off waiting a few hours for AnandTech or something.

(Also, they're called FinFETs.)
One of the goals of mathematical rigor is to create formal structure that are somewhat consistent with our intuitions. The usual notions of randomness do not capture the common intuition that 1000000000000 is less random than 101010100101. Kolmogorov complexity is a formalization of this intuition, and it can be shown to have many relationships to regular randomness (for example: a string drawn from the uniform distribution over strings is very likely to have a Kolmogorov complexity close to the string's length).
You basically just restated the last paragraph of my comment as though it were something I haven't thought of.

I'm not trying to tell everyone to use Erlang. Getting things done is more important than the tool you use to do it, so whatever does that for you is good. But I'd be really amazed if somebody had used both Erlang and a C++ actor library and come out thinking that C++ was about as good as Erlang at its own game.