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This is a really good comment.

The principle, "Exits are harder than entries," comes up in a lot of different places.

Hindsight bias distorts the picture. What could be more obvious than that, say, the Twitter guys were right to keep making Twitter even when nobody else cared. But whenever we think that way, we're retroactively assuming the power to predict the future. Then we find ourselves in some real situation that matters and that superpower doesn't work and we're totally stumped. (Edit: actually almost all our vocabulary around "persistence" assumes hindsight. When something turns out to have worked, you displayed plucky perseverance. When it fails, you were a stubborn fool. In real time, these qualities are not so easy to tell apart! Maybe they're the same thing sometimes.)

So what do you do? It's a hard, deep question. I agree with stevenj. Consult the heart.
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While I agree there will likely be remote disabling procedures for emergency/law enforcement reasons, I don't see where you get the "no cause" piece of your slippery slope. It seems it would be much easier to unjustly pull someone over with current human-operated cars; with automated cars, reasons such as "they were weaving" or other gray area justifications will no longer be available to LEOs.
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This is not a "faster" FFT. It's not a FFT at all.

"Because the SFT algorithm isn't intended to work with all possible streams of data, it can take certain shortcuts not otherwise available. In theory, an algorithm that can handle only sparse signals is much more limited than the FFT."

It may well be a very useful algorithm that does FFT-like operations, but the title is marketing hype and it's impossible to judge the true range of applicability of this algorithm from the article alone.
That looks like an excellent next feature for us to build. :)
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I believe the focus is more on the first part of that statement. A "standard" queue would only drop packets when it is in actuality full. RED drops packets when the queue is non-full based on some calculated probability. The likelihood of drop simply goes up until the queue is full (and 100% of new packets drop).

Apparently.
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I have a friend who is in charge of product definition and programming in a start up. It has 4 founders, 2 programmers and 2 business people. They just got seed money so they are looking to expand their programming team by 2 programmers initially. I like their idea and the other guys are pretty friendly and smart.

They gave me an offer of $80K plus 0.3% of their company with 4 year vesting. I am well-versed at the Microsoft stack so I should be able to hit the ground running. I am also making $110K. Another friend gave me the equation of ($110-$80) * 4 / 0.003, which makes $40M as the breakeven point. The valuation seems really high. Is that a good measure of how to value my offer? What should I consider when deciding on my counter-offer?

Thank you very much for your advice.
> I have trouble disputing that verbose, plain-English, logical variable names help enhance code quality and reduce barriers to contribution

This was the entirety of my point, but said more articulately.
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For anyone who has read Blank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany you will appreciate that money doesn't always equal success.

For those looking for an introduction, the first four chapters are available online:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...

In the early chapters where Blank argues the importance of the customer development approach to business (ie knowing your customer first before building your product) versus the traditional product development model (ie building your product first, only to find out later you have no customers).

He cites furniture.com of the dot com days that raised heaps of money but failed badly.

Color is probably another great example. They raised money but didn't consider the market.

Is Instagram the same thing? They obviously are a popular product. However is the freemium model adequate? Do the userbase warrant that valuation? How do they generate revenue? Are they a sustainable business?

This blog touches on the importance of conversation rate:
http://blog.asmartbear.com/price-vs-quantity.html

Will Facebook generate sufficient advertising revenue from Instragram functionality?

Don't know. But rather their money than ours!
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There are freelance product managers (check out oDesk and Elance), but it will take a lot of effort in getting the quality guy as there is a low signal-to-noise ration. Also, it must be understood that product managers need to be a core part of the team and freelancer might not fit into that.

If the skills demanded are fairly common (Wordpress development or basic level php knowledge) then it is not hard to get quality guys at low prices. I have myself done a few product management tasks in these sites for about $25-30/hr - mostly running marketing campaigns, taking care of product launches and building websites.

In summary, I would say you can get a decent product manager freelancer for $30-40/hr if you are not building a complex product and not require a lot of learning curve to understand the product.
How many people chose an insurance company, over have one provided for them via work?

And the only time you know your insurance is lousy is when you're trying to make a claim - at that point you may have years of time with and payments to that company.
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There could be somewhat of a chicken-and-egg thing happening here with their low IE take-up. On IE 9 the slideshow on the home-page doesn't work, it just says "... loading fancy-pants slideshow ...". If I came across that as an IE user, I wouldn't be signing up.

There is also the demographic for their product, which is the more-likely reason for low IE rates. I wouldn't be surprised if the big Mac-OS screen shot on the home page turns off Windows users as well.
I'd imagine that the winner would be the one with the best strategy. My feeling is that with as many variables as you'd see in a race, that it'd be impossible for a single AI to perfectly take all opportunities. And I can imagine some outperforming others in slingshotting or taking curves. Of course, it all depends on the rules of the race.
I downvoted you because your post seemed unnecessarily pedantic and condescending to me. I think it was pretty clear that GP was casually (or accidentally) using "retina display" as a generic term for "high DPI display".
In fact, they don't want you to sign up if you are an IE user. You can't even.
My personal web projects always start with standard-conforming HTML with forms and links. They're fully interoperable contributions to the world-wide web and should be usable by every browser and robot written in the last sixteen years. I call that a feature, and I'm disappointed that so many devs set their sights lower.
I completely agree with you. But there may be some kind of security issues with IE. Some vulnerability to site's authentication system or something? not impossible, you see.
This is cool. They should even mentioned attendees to this also.
On a startup, the concept of engines of growth[1] can be helpful determining if you are reaching product market fit (ie: you should stick with it) or not (you should change something[2] / change to something completely different).

The parallel to hill climbing algorithms: it serves as an heuristic to determine if you growth rate will be enough to reach product market fit.

[1] http://www.productbookshelf.com/2011/10/engines-of-growth/

[2] http://www.productbookshelf.com/2011/10/pivot-or-persevere/
It isn't that they raised $41 million, that was the issue. It was the fact that they raised that amount without any real metrics to back the team or the product.

Someone gave me this analogy that I thought was quite well put. Michael Jordan kicked ass at basketball, but it would have been a foolish manager who gave him a $41 million contract when he decided to try baseball.

Hindsight-20:20 here - Color might have been an incredible story on paper, and it might even have warranted a stratospheric valuation. But nothing besides cold, hard numbers warrants cash of $41MM for a web/app startup.
Ignoring almost 30% of the internet and calling it a "feature" doesn't make it the right thing to do, or the smartest thing to do.

As you grow and (hopefully) become more successful you may start running into friction from IE users who want to use your service but can't.

Once you've saturated the market of other browser users, how will you continue to grow?

When you get there I think you might regret not investing in IE support today.

What about your application is SO compelling and SO difficult to support in IE that you can afford to ignore that entire market segment?
Hold on a minute

> possibly (my chronology is fuzzy) was approximately as good as the mathematics would have reasonably allowed

Just because Van Jacobsen's papers spew forth great volumes of mathematics, doesn't mean there is any robust mathematics behind TCP. Read to the end of his paper "Congestion Avoidance and Control". Read past all of the impressive plots graphs and equations. Read to the conclusions.

"The 1-packet increase has less justiﬁcation than the 0.5 decrease. In fact, it’s almost certainly too large."

This statement shows how little formal consideration went into the entire algorithm. The 1-packet increase is not simply too big or too small, it just doesn't make any sense. For starters, how big is the packet? Oh, it isn't defined anywhere. Even if we just go with the de facto internet packet size of 1542 bytes (you know, the old limit for 10Mbit Ethernet)...

Could that one packet increase per roundtrip make equal sense for a 10Gbit path to India with a 400ms round trip time, as it does for a 56Kb link between Berkeley and MIT (his test case)? Of course it doesn't make sense. And it gives lie to any notion that there is a formal underpinning for TCP. They tweaked it until it worked, and then put on a nice mathematical show to feel better about it.

Quoth Van Jacobsen: "We have simulated the above algorithm and it appears to perform well". Oh now I feel better.

Second point, which Braham is covering: TCP makes the assumption that router queue lengths are reasonable. TCP says, fill up the router queues until they drop packets. But router queues have been getting longer and longer as memory gets cheaper. These queues can create additional seconds of delay to layer on top of the 10ms-400ms speed of light delays we see on the internet itself.

EDIT: In that 10Gb to India example, it takes TCP literally DAYS to fill up the pipe because of that "1 packet per roundtrip" window increase. Days, by the way, of no incidental packet loss, because it all gets reset on a loss.

EDIT: I spent 5 years of my life working on the fact that latency was never really factored into the design of most network protocols.
I can't help but feel that the author could've saved himself the time and effort and just posted a link to the Wikipedia page for the "Tragedy of the Commons" instead.

Here, I'll help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Nice idea and good execution, this could very well be a default feature of dropbox, i'm a fan!
Well, just as it's a fine line between "git-r-done" and "cowboy coder," it's a fine line between "meticulous" and "architecture astronaut." (See early Java vs. later Java, for example.) I think both camps win when they're tempered by the other.

I follow the boy scout rule: the code isn't done until it's at least a tiny bit cleaner than we left it. I'll generally spend about one hour out of every four on cleanup (and not budget for it separately). I also focus my cleanup efforts on what I'm directly working on, and what's causing me the most grief today. This allows me to keep my code clean and make the parts of the system that I use the most gradually improve.
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Is this some regional drinking game? Like Three-Man?
I am a very happy Unity user.
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"It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
I don't really buy this car-centric view. Don't get me wrong, I also like the idea of self-driving cars very much. But I don't think this will change "everything". Instead, I see a smooth transition towards more and more automated driving.

For example, here in Berlin we have a really good public transportation, which becomes more and more automated every year. In particular, short-distance (as well as long-distance) rails are almost fully automated these days, yet there is still a human sitting in the train's driver's cab for safety reasons.

In other cities like Frankfurt, there are even one or two non-human fully automated short-distance rails. Those are used more in the way we use an elevator, they feel less like trains.

Another example are airplanes, which are driven almost automatically these days, where the pilot is only really required for landing and, again, for safety in unexpected situations.

I think that cars are no different in that regard. There will always be some kind of "driver", although that person will have less and less to do with driving, and more with technical observation, safety, etc.

(As a side note, I think that putting so much emphasis on cars over other types of transportation is some kind of "US thingie". Here in Germany, cars are high valued vehicles, too, but they are generally not a symbol of freedom, independence, etc. Maybe I'm wrong in that regard, but that's my personal explaination of that strange car-centric view on transportation, which leads to so much excitement of self-driving cars, disregarding the amazing progresses in all other areas of transportation.)
Goes to show what a hack-riddled mess Web presentation still is.
How much do you believe in the company? When you talk to the founders, do you get the feeling that they're likely to be successful? Do you like taking risks? Would you be mad if the startup flopped?

Just ask yourself a bunch of questions about how much you'd enjoy the opportunity if you take a pay cut and the options turn out to be worthless. I think that is a better measure than trying to guesstimate the value of the options.
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But at least the sale counts as a Linux sale, which is positive.

I've also seen people that replace Mac OS X with Windows or Linux on their Apple laptops.
I'm surprised no-one talks about the psychological and social implications of (serious or lethal) accidents caused by autonomous cars. However rare, I think these will set back their adoption by years because people will be too scared to sit in a machine that makes decisions on its own. Decisions that, when wrong, can kill them and they can do nothing about it.
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Maybe driving also lowers alcohol consumption?
What's wrong with function scope? Python has function scope and no one is complaining about it there.
Regardless of paydirt's decision, IE's tw0-year release cycle isn't doing any help to stem this sort of perception. IE10 will be awesome, but it has to ship and MSFT has to transition all users of IE6-9 onto IE10 or another browser that will stay current. If users stay abandoned in IE8, the greatness of IE10 doesn't count for much.
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Completely disagree. There are two very major problems with this idea:

1. Your reputation suffers when users encounter issues while using the browser that you don't support.

2. The support cost of "letting users try anyway" is non-zero, and probably significant.
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Pull it and submit your suggestions.
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You seem to be missing the point. That we have come so far in the browser wars that IE can be unsupported as a valid business strategy is a pretty big deal.
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Cadillac is introducing them very soon...2015 to be exact. http://www.inquisitr.com/227496/cadillac-to-release-self-dri... They cannot match Google's PR but I wonder how the tech matches up. Honda and Toyota are regularly featured in the press for their robots; autoparking and collision warning have been added to cars too
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Plus you can take greater risks when drivers' lives aren't at stake. I imagine it would be a pretty exciting sport, not to mention expensive.
Thanks for sharing an honest insight. I think many of us have been or are in a same position, so its good to read younjourney. But, please edit it down and make it shorter.
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>Here's hoping widespread desktop Linux finally becomes a reality.

If it did, it would be doing so on the downswing of the desktop as a platform.

People will still do work with traditional computers, but mobile looks set to replace them for entertainment and browsing.
Instagram definitely did not raise tons of money before figuring out their market. They brought an amazing product to the iPhone first.
what about the fax communications api? or are you guys interfacing with physical copper lines via some kind of fax server?
In fact, one concept with increasing popularity in Germany are Packstations (http://www.dhl.de/en/paket/privatkunden/packstation.html). Basically it's a set of parcel boxes where customers can unlock the one that contains their packet.

Now, instead of hoping that the delivery guy arrives when you are at home, you just give the address of the next Packstation and pick it up at your convenience.
The timing of this is interesting to me. I was having a conversation with a friend who isn't a geek at all who mentioned that he met the most geeky person he'd ever come across. Someone so geeky they had a domain name which was just a black box. I'd never heard of unicode URLs before, but quickly realised what he was on about.

I raced home to find out if ♥.com was taken. I 1st tried checking it by just typing alt+3 .com in chrome's address bar, only to find out that you can't. Chrome just won't accept it. So I tried in IE and noticed that while it "resolved" out to xn--g6h.com but there was no site. Excellent I thought and quickly tried to register it only to find that I'd been beaten by about 9 years. As I checked for other available single unicode domains I found that most of them had been snapped up around 2003.

i♥you.com is for sale.

No real point to this story except that I was once again reminded that as geeky and "internet hip" as I like to think I am, I find I'm continuously 5-10 years behind the real smart people.
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Yes, but that workaround has accessibility problems of its own.
Instagram success involved a lot of luck, especially in choosing their pivot.

*It does not diminish their incredible talent and creativity, but those could have been "wasted" on an unpopular app until the money run out. Instead they chose one that was adopted like wildfire and their talent was showcased. By next year, it may become "meh," we do not know.

Bottom line: $41 million isn't going to help much with the idea and having it widely used by people so they were crazy to give them that much money right away. You either have the idea or you don't, and execution, as shown by Instagram, requires much less than $41 million.
Seems like the discussion and article at the following link would answer your question.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923433
I can't use it either; sadly they are only open to the US. But I checked out the site Steven linked (plug.dj), it's open internationally. They use YouTube and Soundcloud for music/videos so you can play almost every song you want. For now you need Facebook, Twitter or Google+ to sign up but I heard a email sign up function is in the making.

And if you really want to try it out you could consider make an anonymous Twitter account to sign in with.