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I think this is an excellent idea. Calculators were just being brought into the school curriculum when I was 8 years old (to some controversy at the time!) and we were told always to use the the three E's: estimate, evaluate, evaluate. The idea being that first you guess roughly what the answer should be and then after calculating it, you check it again to make sure you havent made a keying mistake. I've always thought this a lesson well taught that I've applied to many automation tasks since.
Why are all of your health insurance and retirement options tied to your current employer? In every case it's due to an accident of history.

Indeed. If you look outside the US you'll find many countries that aren't set up that way. It's going to be interesting to see how that effects the way jobs evolve in the future. Mine aren't in the UK for example - and I imagine that if they had it would have had quite an impact on the risk/benefit of some of my work decisions over the years.
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There are some slick elements of the Metro UI design, but it does feel hemmed in, restrictive, and more akin to tablets.
Is there a bubble bubble?

With all those people talking about bubbles, what happens if the bubble bubble burts? People get back to work and are actually productive? A horrifying thought indeed.
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This is great! I read some of your blog, and your story sounds like a tough one... I can only assume that it s like that for a lot of other transgender folks.

What is your general plan?
The name is a little derivative...
What is your point? These games are for fucking i(phone|pad), so you can play them in a train while you're traveling to work. This is entirely different kind of games.
You mean: buy my book, put it on your shelf and not read it
In that case, skip IB and build your views in code.
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I can picture myself starting a Raspberry Pithon hacking club. :)

Also: I want to write a port/clone of Elite, in Python, that runs on the Raspberry Pi. A tribute to Braben. On the other hand, I would not be surprised if he's already done something like that himself, as a "test" of the system.
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OT but anyway... consider it a validation of the idea.

>"I want to make a beat that sounds like the one from Belispeak"

The type of beat (and the melodic structure) they're using there is lifted wholesale from a subgenre of southern hiphop called "trap music," which takes its name from its preoccupation with methamphetamine retail.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K5hJIuo3_g

The key is to take the classic 808 and 909 drum machines (ableton has emulations built in or you can get samples from anywhere) and put the right kind of rolls on the percussion sounds, you could try triggering them in some more unusual ways, perhaps with an arpeggiator. The "pop" sound stems from the layers of vocal processing. Tbh there's nothing terribly complicated going on production wise in their tracks, unfortunately that sound comes from having good musical ideas and the ability to execute them without fuss. That's not something you can really get from tutorial videos, but I guess your formal education will help.

BTW you will also enjoy the music of kuedo:

http://www.factmag.com/2011/10/03/fact-mix-288-kuedo/

And perhaps the more juke-oriented style of Sully: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7ODqfXKWI
It's not that it's complicated. Few assembly languages manages to be all that complicated, at least if you avoid some of the more bizarre addressing modes ...

It's that it's horribly ugly and full of warts.

The biggest issue I have with x86 is not even trying to make things orthogonal (until x86_64, which does a tolerable job cleaning up a lot of the mess).

Some of it could probably be improved simply by ditching the syntax, and renaming stuff and pretending a lot of the rest simply doesn't exist, but you'd be left with something that looks very different from a typical x86 assembly listing..

But some stuff you don't avoid unless you go 64 bit: The registers alone gives me gives me hives, starting with the naming convention, where the M68k for example is straight forward: D0 through D7 = data registers. A0- A7 = address registers. For a lot of things they can even be used entirely interchangeably.

No addressing parts of the registers with special names, or mumbo jumbo restrictions on what can be done with different registers (that was excusable when the 6502 was a viable competitor, but even that followed clear and simple rules (Arithmetic on the accumulator (A), indexing with the X and Y registers) and didn't layer complexity on top of complexity. Bank switching / segments? Nope, we don't clutter the CPU with junk like that. Either you use a memory address or IO lines (or, as it happens, on the 6510 in the C64, IO lines mapped to a memory address).

Maybe I'm just still sore the M68k lost the performance race and I "had to" get a PC.
The difference is that if your account gets flagged for anything via any of their services they can lock you out of all their other services. This is the dark side of integration.
> programmers will wake up in the middle of the night if a sql query tipped over and needs an urgent rewrite until faster servers can arrive

I sure as hell don´t wanna work there.
I feel the need to refine this:

It occurs to me that today is an impressively terrible time to run a content company but a great time to run a content business. If you are, genuinely, as talented a producer as those rarefied folks who actually did fairly well under the old model and you have business savvy, there exist a variety of new models who have economics which are radically, radically better than any option presented to you under the old status quo.

e.g. If you possess skills and audience equivalent to a midlist genre fiction author, you'd be pretty much insane to take a standard publishing contract right now. jakonrath.blogspot.com has written literally books about how the math shakes out.

e.g. #2: If you're really really talented at explaining very hard things to some identifiable audience of people who have money to spend, you could get a whole five thousand dollars by spending six weeks writing that up for publication as a dead-tree book. If you end up on the NYT best seller's list, you may even receive royalty checks which approach the imposing salary of a municipal water department HR clerk. However, if that field is commercially viable, there exist numerous other paths whose punch-line is "less work, more savvy, radically more money." (Publish and promote an e-book is one of them. That is easy to explain but probably far from the most lucrative option.)

The combination we haven't seen much of yet is "Take the new model, then scale it like the old model." (Outside e.g. platform companies like Amazon / Apple / etc.)
What's more redundant than having a copy of the file saved across every device you own. It's not like the information is lost if dropbox's servers go down for a short period of time. I've never had a problem with dropbox, so far in my eyes their track record has been good. The problem that Google will have is that Dropbox is extremely simple, that's what it has going for it. The simplicity of folder synchronization is going to be hard to beat in my opinion, unless they copy the model.
For those of you rejected but determined to carry on regardless, would any of you be interested in contributing an interview/blog post?

I think a blog with regular updates from teams, showing their progress & determination.

I think it would be great to build a bit of an YC anti-portfolio and showcase the progress of the folks that just made it happen anyway.

YC admit themselves that they miss out on some great teams.

I'm sure it would be a great community also.
Who's asking for anything free?
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"Why do this? To simply make a website or hack together an MVP (until you find a technical co-founder), you can tailor your learning to a particular project. The reality is that you don’t need to be a computer scientist for that stuff; using the “foreign language” metaphor, it’s like working your way through a country with a phrasebook."

That's a very good advice for non technical founders. Even though I'm a programmer I always do this if I have a task to be done in a language that i am not familiar with. Just learn what needs to be done... do it and move on...
I am moving to Mountain View to run TCombinator out if the HackerDojo.com. My apologies for not being clear.
What about the exposure it gives you app, and (potentially) much more sales (it has hundreds of millions of users with credit card, and buying stuff is just one click)?
ModX is good if you can write your own PHP without difficulty.
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I thought I'd make the idea easy to convey. My first name for it was TIntegrator but the word tint throws one off.
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Seriously - 5Gb in 2012?

For any Windows users, just use SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh - it works wonderfully, is very reliable and has a decent TOS which respects user privacy and your data. You get 25Gb for free, OneNote (which rocks), Word and Excel online. All work transparently with Office on the desktop and office on Windows Phone.

My data is synchronised flawlessly between my three PCs and Windows Phone (and has done for the last 3 years, bar the phone which is a new addition). It never resides entirely in the cloud - it is mirrored everywhere so there is no risk if the account is pulled.

It generally feels like I have one computer.

It's how it should be done and is very under appreciated by the tech community.
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TIncubator? I can't tell if that's better or worse.
> Working at Twitter isn't really a "day job"

Why not? You have a boss and do what he tells you. That's nowhere near having your own startup.
She wanted to be a pop star and she became one of the greatest of all time—decades after the height of the pop star era when labels actually had the capability to manufacture them.

Frank Zappa made a career of playing rock music instead of jazz or classical which many people consider a greater art form. It never was really "pop" music but still there are many that criticize him for it.

I'd be very careful to avoid derision on the basis of popularity. That fact that you have distaste for Lady Gaga's genre doesn't mean she's not a valid artist. There's a difference between relying on autotune because you're a talentless hack and an artistic decision.
you can't work more hours, past the breaking point, and expect to get marginal returns

I find it a little depressing how difficult it can be to convince folk of this though - both employers and employees.

Once team I was brought in to help was working silly hours, and I could very quickly see that it was having a terribly effect on productivity. You could just look at the stories that were being worked on at 9pm on a Friday night and guarantee that you'd be seeing them again the next week with a bug report attached.

I managed to persuade everybody to start working more sensible hours. We collected stone cold facts from the history of the number of bug reports and complaints + stories done that this was more productive on every scale. And yet..... push back from management (who were very invested in the "startup's work 60 hours a week" mindset) and some of the developers (who had become locked into "hero developer" mode).

Even ignoring the ethical argument (not saying that you should) it's just more productive to work that way.
Haha. No, if you come here most ridiculous posts like you have I'm going to call you out on it. That's your tl;dr.

You are making tautological as if they were meaningful and subjective ones as if they were truth [1]. The "infer"ing you did is called "projection". I would have given you similar treatment if you had made a post like you did on a wide range of subjects. But since you have made Perl part of your identity you take anything said about personally. I don't think that's a mentally healthy thing to do, but one would have to ask a professional to know for sure.

[1] Again in this post with "Nothing that you can do will make Perl less enjoyable, less powerful". Enjoyable is subjective and calling Perl "powerful" is a near tautology since the majority of active languages are exactly as powerful if not more so.
The real problem is the impossibility to define the requirements in a way that they can't be misinterpreted.

We (as a industry) tried it with UML and we found out that it is more work than actually writing the code and it was still useless because there isn't a possibility to check for errors.

Because of this, "the developers" and the "managers" need to reach an agreement on a more emotional level where they can trust each other and fill in the gaps with their expertise and experience.

Just keep on trying to document the requirements more detailed, estimating more factually will be a waist of time and it will lead to bureaucracy and mediocre software.
We're going through the same thing right now. Built up a mobile app based on HTML/JS/CSS and bundled it inside PhoneGap and got close to done really quick... but it just doesn't feel right. So PhoneGap will be more of a StopGap until we can put more resources into a native app.
I hope someone builds an RasberryPi with a low-tech display (4-5") with some kind packet manager, just to run DCPU-16 programs. :)
We had 2 tier application - Rich client in Qt3 based framework and PL/SQL for "servre side".

We moved to J2EE using EJB3, Hibernate, Eclipse RCP. Our application was meant to be 3-tier, but actually it's more like 10-tier. We have hibernate mappings, java model, xml files specyfing possible queries and reports, java EJB3 beans wrapping these xml files, java classes for DTO, xml files specyfing possible views and editors in RCP, and xml files specyfing how to map from query to view or editor. And java classes for custom code in views/editors.

When I want to see what database column is shown in view, I need to start with view class, and descend all those layers down to hibernate mapping.

In our previous qt framework we had one xml file per client view, specyfing columns/sorts/filters/etc just for this view. Our consultants understood these files and changed them when they needed to. Now they would need to understand all those layers.

Now I think more than 2 layers in application is antipattern.
I've always wondered: do your ears itch if someone, somewhere in the world says something negative about perl?
The problem I have with this simplification is that if I can brute force your hash (which is a feasible attack vector as computers get faster: people even sit around brute forcing MD5 nowadays, thanks to some mathematical attacks that reduce some of its strength), then I can spoof your "authentication". If you have two 128-bit hash algorithms, and one is fundamentally twice as slow as the other, it is effectively a 129-bit hash in comparison.
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>I'm kind of suspicious whenever I hear the phrase "work/life balance". It strikes me as something that seeks to reinforce the industrial-revolution-era idea that my (week)days should be broken into thirds: working (not fun but pays bills), playing (fun but costs money), and sleeping. Sure, that's definitely better than working 12 hour days, but is that really the goal? It seems that most of the fun-loving and happy people I know, regardless of their financial situation, don't operate in such a world.

Maybe. But isn't it also obvious that not all jobs are the kind of jobs required for the above to be true (people, generally, do not "love" flipping burgers, for example), and that, actually, jobs you "love" are in the minority (and we absolutely need the majority jobs too).

There's nothing wrong in your job NOT being your "passion" --and that is not constrained to burger flipping but also to IT and every kind of environment. If we only insisted on people working on their "passion" we wouldn't have things like technical documentation (unless many people exist that like to devote their life to writing 500 pages of SGML for other people's programs).
Do you believe transgender hackers are specifically discriminated against or disadvantaged in the startup community? Do you think that a startup incubator built around the all the participants being transgendered and drawing attention to their gender identity will help address this?

Or is the idea just to give something back, in general? It's not clear what your purpose is, or why you decided to go about it without any resources.
Summify wasn't a YC company
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I half expected this to be a kickstarter project. I wonder if they've done any studies on this calculator.
It is being produced for research purposes, so I guess you could ask at your local university lab where they sourced it. But caution is in order: the experiment described in the article was intended to find out about the toxicity of BF C60. Given that many of its chemically-similar relatives are indeed highly toxic, it's probably not a good idea to ingest this stuff yet. Six rats don't prove this substance is harmless.
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Well that's a load of shit. They screwed you for $59!!!

1/ I've never bought Windows. I tend to buy new hardware when it comes along every 2-3 years (which is the typical lifespan of any hardware regardless of brand/vendor).

2/ And I didn't pay $1200 for the hardware either like Apple stuff. In fact I paid equiv $800 for a Lenovo with Windows 7.

3/ The non Apple hardware is EXACTLY the same and is cheaper (try a Lenovo T/X machine which are far better put together than Apple kit). Oh and I can change the battery without a screwdriver ;-) Oh and I can get the spare bits off ebay for virtually nothing.

I love how Apple fanboys enjoy telling people how they didn't get ripped off when they did...
I wonder if this is found in any foods?
How about you let musicians sell either through you directly (a la itunes or amazon) on their sites or post itunes links? You could take a cut for the former (less than itunes) and get them to release unencumbered music.
>There exist many people working 1,000 hours a year or less.

Heck, there are people out there that haven't worked a day in their lives...

(drum roll)

...night watchmen.
I spent an inordinate amount of time fighting webkit before switching all of our stuff to native. The four biggest problems, I think, with the state of webkit are:

1) Implicit memory management of large images/surfaces isn't reliable. There's basically nothing you can do (outside of not doing anything) to prevent your page from crashing webkit if you use too many (where too many is undefined) accelerated elements/total texture space. There's no "Running low on memory" callbacks or means to explicitly remove a recently drawn image from memory outside of removing it from the DOM and crossing your fingers.

2) Lack of proper prioritization in javascript. One of the things that IOS focuses on a lot is separating out user interaction on the main thread from everything else on background threads. In JS, if you're not careful and you do an innerHTML in the wrong spot, you can lock up a bunch of user interaction or delay an AJAX request that would otherwise be executing. Maybe the answer here is something like .updateInnerHTMLWithCallback(function foo(){}) to prevent breakage of JS that does expect the DOM to be consistent after an innerHTML update. (Edit: Oh I forgot, we actually did something similar to this by doing all of our innerHTML updates in setTimeout'ed functions with a 1ms delay). There's a lot of weird stuff around loading images and keeping UI responsiveness then as well.

3) No cache beyond pure source code between separate user sessions. One of the biggest issues for us was initial load time (parsing and calculating CSS, parsing and running JS, and blitting down accelerated DOM elements, etc). Once everything was loaded we could imitate a native-level experience, but this often would be 10-15 seconds in. Perhaps an intermediate cached file (kind of like python's pyc) would help alleviate this.

4) Debugging. This was covered, but ugh, what a nightmare. At a certain point I was booting up XCode instruments and tracing through webkit code to figure out what parts of our JS/CSS/etc to optimize.
S3 is really expensive. Dropbox really should get themselves their own infrastructure. There's no reason a huge company like Dropbox should stick with S3, and I'm pretty sure they're already planning/working on moving away from it.
Interesting -- there are plenty of articles on fullerene administration to rats over the past 10 years [1], but no mention of longevity effects.

[1]: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=fullerene+rats
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Good designers sure are. I was more worried about the bad designers ;)
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Let me give you my immediate reactions ...

Your link takes me straight to a signup page, which annoyed me immediately. I don't know what you do, or how you do it. You ask me to download software with no idea of your privacy policies, or why I should trust you.

I have to click on a few links to see what you produce - I still don't really know how much of my effort goes into the successful tracking of my time. It might be completely passive, it may be I need to click things while I work - I have no idea.

When go to your home page there is a huge amount of text, none of which actually tells me what pain is being taken away. You tell me lots of things your software does - realy, lots - and yet there's nothing from my perspective.

I don't want to know what your whizzy software can do, I want to know what pain it takes away.

And that's my reaction.

Good luck.
>I'm sorry but this is BS. You don't deserve food/shelter/healthcare/education etc. You only deserve what you go out of your cave, kill, and bring back home.

Yes. That's what we did when we lived in caves.

When man grew into civilization (neoliberals excluded), we collectively decided that people deserve food/shelter/healthcare/education. Not in every country, mind you. But then again, there are countries so backwards that they still have the death penalty...
I can't see how the online business can afford to allow Do Not Track. Put the other way: you can only have gmail if you agree hand over your personal information to Google.
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