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> I say this to the hn comminity: never be afraid of failure

It's an important lesson. So important that a prestigious fee-paying girls school in England is having lessons in failing, and avoiding the fear of failure.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16879336)

EDIT: This post is in no way an insult to the parent comment. This post is meant to show that fear of failure is a problem, and it is being tackled at a very good school. Normally I ignore the downvotes, but this post is toggling up and down a fair bit. Reading my original post I guess I understand that it could be seen as being an insult. I apologise for that.
There's obviously a market in need of that money, though. It's called the labor market.

What's going on is that there are profits in the economy without an outlet for making more profits.
That looks like a winner. Saw a bunch of HPs and Acers that have a weird offset. Nice to see some company actually has people who type working there.
I actually saw one ExtremeTech article that was submitted by the author. I really would have liked to have a conversation with the author and figure out if it's the editorial staff or the writers who decide what to post and how much they're going to support it with facts.

Unfortunately (fortunately?) the article that was submitted was actually of a decent quality level and I couldn't find anything to disagree with. I didn't want to call out the author to make them speak ill of his/her coworkers, so I've been waiting to see another article submitted by the author of said article, who then also comments on it.
I fully agree with you. I feel like I'd be as productive at 20 hours as I am at 40 hours. ~30 hours is probably the apex of of the weekly productivity curve.
> I keep my significant other in the loop so that she understands what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, and why I'm putting in long hours.

I've been terrible at that in the past. Any tips?
IMO, a lot of what is important are the little nuggets of truth that straddle the line between values/philosophies and hard skills.

In response to your list:

+ numerical literacy - risk, budgeting, and investment all stem from this. The value of approaching a problem numerically (as a ballpark estimate or exact answer), and general guidelines for doing so.

+ Negotiation, and corresponding traits of empathy. Even if you don't agree or sympathize with another person's view, being able to navigate an agreement is hugely important, and , I believe, largely lacking in today's society.

+ The value of lawyers, contracts, and "getting it in writing".

+ The value of lawyers, and not talking to the police without one. (this particularly applies to U.S.)

+ Common scams to avoid. In the same vein, how to recognize and avoid medical quackery and bad investment advice (or scams). Some would lump this under 'critical/rational' thinking. Arguably, it's a subset of that, but the differences are having a specific framework, awareness of the problem, and the intention to actually apply the critical thought.

one quibble:

- fundamentals of robotics. I'm a big fan of robotics, and I agree that fundamentals of programming is an important concept.
(specifically, I'd say 'procedural literacy', the understanding of a process or computation, critique it, and create processes in code)

That said, while robotics does have huge potential in industry and everyday life, I don't think it's so fundamental that everyone has to be familiar with the fundamentals. It could be argued, in the U.S., that everyone should be capable of driving a manual transmission automobile or riding a bike, but I wouldn't expect the average person to know how to build a car. (car repair is a middle area, arguably a good life skill to have, even if not a fundamental)
It's depressing reading articles about yourself or things you know personally, seeing how wrong they are, and then realizing that's par for the course -- most journalism is just inaccurate, since the consumers don't actually need actionable intelligence, just entertainment.
"Controversy" meaning: guy starts blog network, writes custom, private software for it, words the promo copy for the blog network somewhat arrogantly, and so someone clones his design almost verbatim and launches a hello-world Rails blog backend with a parodic name.

Of course, now look at:

http://svbtle.com/

Is there any doubt what the value is here? That is an awesome front page. If you can clone that, you have better things to do with your time than pick fights with other developers.
It is much much much cheaper to get to low-earth orbit than it is to get to (and from) the moon.

See: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Orbitalal...
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Dalton is awesome. Don't know him personally, but he spoke at Hacker School two years ago(?), maybe more. He speaks the truth, here and otherwise. I ran out of the auditorium afterwards like it was on fire ... or inspired.

Interesting side note about the article is VC funds tracking 'developers' early, for me at least.
I've long believed that procedural content is not the end people were thinking of it as, but a means. Rather than treating it as "the way content is created", it should be built into the tools used to create content.

Imagine this: You create a new area in your game tool. You're presented with a blank map. You generate a random terrain based on some parameters, then you go in and start painting. You paint some forests, some cities, etc. Then once you have the high-level map, you can zoom in and start painting trails in the forest, specific buildings in the city. Where there are forests, you'll see a random mix of trees, rocks, etc. Your trails cut through this and meander a bit randomly, send off some forks automatically. But you have the power to override this anywhere you want to, e.g. to put in specific things related to quests or story.

By mixing high-quality procedural generation with designer input and direction, I believe you can achieve great things. In fact, I think it's the only way we can reduce development costs while keeping standards of quality up; with the budgets involved in AAA titles, it's the only way I see forward.
So sorry. I've tried uploading the full version but Youtube rejects it as too long. I'm going to have to give up as it's taking a lot of my resource and I've got to get to bed - flight in a few hours.

I will get on top of Youtube for next week. Anyone's welcome to upload this week's if they have an account that can post longer than 10mins.
No, the smart man's move in a bubble is to look and see which investments have real, genuine value. Then, when the bubble pops, buy those.

Anyone who bought Amazon at the bottom of the last tech-bubble pop, for example, has made 10x their investment.
This is not an optical illusion. It is akin to movies' special effects as best. I wonder what human sight frequency is and is there a way to alter it?
I once heard an anecdote that the 3rd version of a system is when it starts to become really efficient.

The 1st version is rife with hacks and inefficiencies, but it works.

The 2nd version builds upon all the learnings of the first version, but is bloated because every little lesson learned is applied.

The 3rd version is where the experience and data gained from the first two iterations really starts paying off. The code is more efficient and the team knows what is truly important and what isn't.

P.S. Has anyone else heard this anecdote before as well? I've tried tracking down its origin to no avail.
"is it possible to fake experience by getting advice?"

Typically, you have to live out the words of the advice before honestly coming to understand them. Advice -- especially great advice -- is often received as theoretical, removed from specific context, and thus filed away in the deepest recesses of the mind. It doesn't come back to top of mind until a specific situation is encountered, and the advice is suddenly recalled. Then it clicks.

Theoretical advice is generally incomplete unless/until activated by personal context. Advice isn't a substitute for experience, but rather, a framework through which to process experience.
Can you please post on the Zune Market place as well?
This is awesome. I literally laughed out loud at my desk, turning heads. I really really hope you get a awesome designer/front end engineer, who also has a good sense of humor :)
>every few months I'm forced to upgrade [Firefox] and shit has moved around and I need to re-learn how to do a task that I was happily doing before

There is a fix for that, which I have been happily using for the last month: Switch to the "Extended Support Release" version of Firefox.

Since Mozilla makes it slightly difficult to get this version, I will provide instructions: go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ and download and install the latest version with "esr" in the name. If you make a mistake in identifying the latest version, it will upgrade itself to the latest version when you run it.
self-determination (maybe this falls under your excluded values, character traits, or philosophies), but its a rather important skill in my opinion.

a second language - doesn't matter which one really, but it has clear cognitive and practical benefits. Bonus points for spending time in another culture for a different perspective.

edited to add: Really many of these skills can be learned as needed, but the desire and skills to learn new things are an important skill to have. If you're successful in teaching them the fundamental ones, like critical thinking, then they have the tools to learn what's needed.
Though I'm surprised that this is a real rule, because I know Perl has no ISO standard and that it's being used by the Japanese government (and probably everyone else with a Linux box).
Apple is welcome to give any name they want to their product. But when they confuse users to the extent that otherwise-smart web developers start producing "retina.js" to manage resolution independent images (hardly an Apple-specific problem!) then the practice has gone too far.
>anyone that swears to buy apple after researching for the best is just a sad victim of marketing. Sadder as they will never accept it.

The quality is not about the cpu/ram/hd specs (which are mighty fine in the MBA). Are those other computers as thin? As light? Some are? Cool. Are those also made of a solid chunk of aluminum? No? Bad. Do they have the highest quality touchpad? No? Bad. Do they feature a very usable "chicklet" keyboard? No? Bad? Do they have the same resolution and display quality? No?

But it's telling you say that "air is a copy of" eeepc1000. It's nothing like eeepc1000. Actually all the "media pundits" were waiting and asking Apple to produce a netbook like it, and they never did, they made the MBA.
Yes! This is what we needed this whole time! thanks!
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Is it just me, or do the ghosts seem to all be moving fairly randomly, rather than following 4 different, but consistent, behaviours (like in the original Pacman)?
That sounds like the "Second System Effect", described by Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Plus, no unicode support. This needs lots of code to support properly. Does mruby include it?
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If I give you the sequence 3.14159265, you will glance at it and say "Pi" and predict 35 as the next digits.

If I give you 7, 5, 8, 5, 9, 13, 6, 10, 9, you may not see the pattern at all, when it's "digit of pi + 4", and therefore is as predictable.

Your definition seems to depend on the intelligence of the observer. Is that measuring "how much random something is" or "how clever the viewer is"? (And, is there a difference?)
It's helpful to know as an entrepreneur that, whatever "A16Z" (heh) thinks about this particular instance, venture capitalists are, allegedly, as a species, way more motivated by fear of stories like this than they are of the fear that their investment in you will come to nothing. When they need to raise money for their next fund, nobody is going to hear about the investments that came to nothing, but the obvious missed opportunities are going to sting.

This helps explain why they'll plow money into shoot-the-moon me-too startups that have no discernable chance of success, but might turn you down even if you have steadily growing revenue.
I love rule 64

Don't get too good at what you don't like doing. Work will gravitate to the most competent people

As an enterprise dev, I'm always weary of being pigeonholed. I've witnessed it on many occasions yet I don't think I've ever seen the idea expressed so succinctly.
Interestingly, the older you get, the more obvious this all seems. Probably because you become more experienced.
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"First you make it work, then you make it right, and finally you make it fast"
Here's Bill Stone (maverick cave explorer) and his vision of mining on the moon: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_s...
Why do I suddenly feel like buying pepsi..
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So instead of going home at a reasonable hour to eat dinner with my actual family, I'm supposed to stay at work and listen to a Happiness Manager talk about sustainable meat? No thanks.
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"The QR code returns a string of dates:

1955 1958 1960 1961 1967 1969 1971 1977 2003 2005

Which might mean something, or it might just be the birth dates of the development team, I’m really not sure yet."

57 year olds working alongside 7 year olds. Nice to know they don't discriminate based on age.
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Not having a backup: your company goes out of business.

Having a backup: $1000 a year for a dedicated server you physically own.
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Or... nobody would ever try anything to gain experience, always someone better. I think it is a great system, ego actually makes us dumb enough to go get that experience. Truly there is always someone better, but our ego tells us we are or can be the best. It is a dichotomy.
I would guess that the >2000 ones are propably birth dates of some of the developer's children

Edit : someone asked this question on stackexchange : http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/63374/what-does-th...
The game itself also has some crazy puzzles: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/why-it-took-almos...
It appears that hating something must mean that you produce arguments against it, however irrational. I'm with you, ajross.
Just curious, can you think of better ways to do it with available data?
Yes.

I like the way that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup does it - they have a bunch of carefully crafted dungeons with procedurally generated stuff too.

(http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/)
Heard of it? The first Iron Man movie was based on it.
Spend time with your family in the morning? Come in at noon, have lunch, eat dinner at 6:30, head home at 8.

Or, bring your family to work for dinner.
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Experience is non-linear though. X years of parking your butt in a chair staring at code doesn't make you an expert automatically, it doesn't even necessarily make you better than someone who has only spent 2 weeks learning the language or platform. I'd rather have a JWZ, Brendan Eich, or Linus Torvalds in their 20s working on my project even if they didn't know the language than some paycheck coding drone from the enterprise trenches who has a million years of experience in doing mutate-compile-repeat development in the exact same development stack.
did not mean to imply that paul graham, of all people, would not respect privacy. i was just trying to be satirical, and i guess my attempt failed.
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> But at Ridejoy, we’re not just a team, we’re a family, and families eat together.

LOL no. I have a family. I don't need a second one. I also have friends. I don't need a second set of friends either. Pay your employees fairly and treat them to a weekly team lunch at a good restaurant.

Also fancy dinners when something really awesome gets accomplished.

This is what 99% of people want - people with their own lives and tastes and preferences and schedules and social obligations.

Also, the implication of a Happiness Manager is that you're working to satisfy their happiness requirements. This is so misguided it's not even funny.
I am attacking (if you want to call it that) the tone of the article and the angle she choose to take. She could have just as easily said "while some might say that they missed $200 million, others are impressed with the way they made what they believed to be an honorable decision".

Of course in the end it's about selling newspapers or page views so she was just doing her job.
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Not all businesses would go out of business if some data was not backed up. If Chartbeat lost its data, it would be a minor inconvenience that the feature of their real-time dashboard where you can rewind and look back at an earlier point of the day wouldn't work until it repopulated the next day. They probably wouldn't even lose a customer over it. When they were a young company without much funding, it might've made business sense to only back up their accounts and not the historical data for the sites being tracked.

Not all data can be backed up for only $1000 a year either; it's not just a matter of storage costs and a server. A write-heavy service like Foursquare can't just turn off and do a dump at night; to have backups they need enough server capacity to replicate data as it comes in. For those servers to keep up, they have to be as beefy as the ones they're replicating -- a year or so ago, that was 64GB RAM per database for their Mongo instances. That's definitely more than $1000 a year's worth.
On a similar note, I started learning Swedish mostly through months of self-study (reading/writing) in the US, and a private tutor every other week. She was the only Swedish tutor I could find in a 1 hour driving radius, and British. She is a professional translator and also teaches Spanish and German; I was her first Swedish pupil.

Which meant I, like you, had the strange ability when visiting Swedish, of speaking much better Swedish than I could understand.
Needless comparison. There's no limit on the number of podcasts there can be. It's the first one. Give it a chance to find its legs.
"What do you want to tell people that no one has ever bothered to ask you?"

"Oh, nothing really..." proceeds to give the best answer in the interview
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Nice! Culture posts will always attract complaints from those that see this sort of thing as impinging on their personal time. But if you're in that boat, you have the choice to find a more fitting environment...
That only allows him to prove his abilities now; it doesn't prove how long it took him to get to this point.
How about having that, and then doing your own projects on the side, or some free lance projects?
> And who would control the .www domain? US?

The same as today.

In www.disney.com, disney controls that www.
In com.disney.wwww, disney controls that www.

However, in the latter, disney could do com.disney.store . And, with browser defaulting the tld, disney.store would work.

Disney isn't going to use store.disney. However, they might well use disney.store if they controlled it. With the current order, they don't. They would with the reverse order.
All that's needed to fix this is to place a "there is no guarantee the items of the list comprehension will be calculated sequentially one at a time" warning in the documentation. We don't need to change CPython to clear the way for other implementations.
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Not getting at you, but there's something profoundly disgusting about talking about "China" doing planetary exploration. Surely the word should be "Earth".

(Kinda curious what y'all find objectionable about this idea.)
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AU CONTRAIRE, javascript being unsafe would be the first of my worries. what's the point of all that anonymizing software when a tiny bit of js hackery undoes it all?
What is Morris's Law? The closest I could find was Morris's corollary to Greenspun's Law.
Try not to be the smartest person in the room.
Not that I want to apply, but the preference seems to have been clearly stated. Are you saying there is no preference to GitHub users? How can someone determine that since the page seems heavily in favor of it?
> He says the sense you get from college recruiters is that you get to write new code. Most great hackers love to do this. But that's not what you get from a software engineering position at the tech giants. You get to maintain old code. The job should really be called software technician.

I've never thought about it this way. I've never worked at a startup (or even given it much consideration) but this makes me want to change that.
The number of things that are truly impossible is actually quite small (particularly in the domain of startups). Many things are just conventionally thought of as "impossible" because current circumstances make them seem that way.