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TLDR: (Using Phil Libin's own logic against him) Startups are likely to fail, so it's just as absurd to say you're doing it to change the world as it is to believe you're doing it for the money. You're still better off joining an organization that has momentum and resources.

This invites inevitable argument though, since:
1. It's endlessly debatable which companies are actually changing the world.
2. The ones most people think of first are based on charity, which is again arguable and limited to very short term gain.
All of these things are doable, but require a combination of people and their skills that are very difficult to find. You need the following:

1) Product people that have shipped code themselves in the past and can provide enough detail for an engineer to run with.

2) Fullstack Engineers that are empowered to fill in the gaps in business analysis, process flow, and UX on the fly using their gut. They also need to have a good eye for design and shouldn't have to ask a designer to help for everything.

3) Solid instrumentation to rollout, measure, and rollback features on a live system in way which limits user impact.

4) Bulletproof trust on the team and a culture that supports being able to make mistakes and learn from them.
OT: I find very funny that 80K Hours singles out "banker" as a positively socially impacting career. I guess all those people that were evicted after the housing bubble collapsed don't count :)
Yes, my family has ADD in spades. Actually a help in programming jobs - the focus part is great. The intuitive jumping around can be just the thing when chasing a bug.

6 ADD kids from a farming community. One Entrepreneur :), an environmental researcher, a Nursing research specialist, two software directors (Case pumps, Intel) and one IT head.
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Except that's not his general point. It is not about economics or balance of probabilities. Economics is just another barrier to overcome for a startup.
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How is it? It seems like it agreed with the taste of his customers.
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In the past you got distribution by making deals with partners. Now you get distribution via APIs (think Facebook and Apple).
>> When someone buys an iPad they are escaping the hangover of using Microsoft Windows for two decades. ... form factor is irrelevant

Form factor is incredibly relevant.

For me it's not about escaping from vendor X, or operating system Y, it's about what the form-factor allows me to do.

It about having the freedom to chose where I want to sit and _the_posture_ I want to adopt when reading stuff on the internet.

Laptops/netbooks got us half-way there (no longer force to sit in a certain location). Their short-coming was you're forced to adopt a certain posture, or put something hard under it so it doesn't overheat (or burn you).

However, the ability of a well designed tablet to open another 'ergonomic dimension' does not guarantee that the tablet can maintain all the other ergonomics of other form-factors.

Some users realize this and think the fix is to make the new device 'morph' into that other form factor. I suspect that some team of people will realize that it can be achieved some other way that is simpler and sexier and make a mint from their idea.
It will involve a revolution in input device hardware (and acceptance of that hardware) to get there though.
Scoff if you like, but I hired that guy. He's a fellow at Adobe now. They bought his startup.

We interviewed a Busuness school Finance senior to help on our COMSTOCK satellite feed parsing project.'Do you know C++?" we asked. "Yes" he lied, then "Can I come in over the weekend to get started?" How enthusiastic! Sure!

Turns out he spent the weekend studying code, learned to program C++. I didn't see him for a few weeks, then consulting on his code over something I mentioned "This would be better allocated". "Yeah, I wondered what the pointer stuff was about". I was astonished he'd come so far on guts and smarts. I explained malloc, pointers, he was off again.
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You may be thinking of fields per second rather than frames per second.

Classic NTSC (used in North America and some other countries) runs at 30 frames per second. Each frame is made up of two fields, consisting of the odd and even-numbered scan lines respectively (this is called "interlace"), thus there are 60 fields per second.

The PAL and SECAM systems (used in Europe and some other countries) run at 25 frames per second and 50 fields per second.

In both cases, this was done because the power line frequency provided an easy-to-use reference signal for frame timing (the North American power grid runs at 60 Hz, most (all?) European countries use 50 Hz).
The same if you have a company outside Germany and based in Europe
To be blunt, I really find the layout of your CV distracting.
The big headings and bolded text tell me to awkwardly start reading in the middle of the page, but as soon as I try to do that my brain wants to read the stuff on the left (since that where the most important stuff should be), but the stuff there is extremely small and uninviting to read compared to the prose in the middle so I leave knowing not much more than that you're some kind of Engineer. Don't take this the wrong way, I think it's good you're putting this much thought and effort into your CV but your phone number is hardly the most important thing on that page and certainly not the first thing you'd want a potential employer to see.
That is a tragically large number, and the solution seems easy enough to implement. Activism is the likely missing ingredient. Something needs to be done.
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More to the point, even if decentralization is not widespread now, it's a great insurance that will come handy when GitHub stops being such a compelling choice.
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There are tons of minifier tools out there, but since I am a Java developer by heart, I usually use the YUI CSS Compressor. It's a great and efficient minifier, but I have found one flaw..
Being broke focuses your mind, yes. And I can certainly say that if you hire a 20 person team to do what a 4 person team can do you may find your ability to get work done increases by 10% but your ability to create bugs goes up 10 times.

On the other hand I can say that I hear from some startup every week that wants my services and I have to qualify these "opportunities" very quickly because most of these people can't pay a market rate for my services, and often can't pay at all.

People in a situation like that generally aren't going to get good talent -- and in my speciality, I commonly succeed at projects where 75% or so of people who (i) get paid and (ii) have some specialized training fail.
iOS bluetooth keyboard API support is purely crap. No ESC/CTRL/Function Keys. Otherwise this could be a good idea.

Another thing is the file system is locked up so completely, that is not in any way could be used for professional purpose, for example, writing code. It is still a casual device.

All these limitations are imposed by Apple themselves. Too bad, they really had the potential to rule the world.
WOrks for some set of development projects. Especially if you develop using libraries that have the 'hard stuff'.

But consider who wrote those libraries. They took longer than a week. They are not just a basket of features, they may be a large architectural puzzle.

The point is, the author's advice may work for a web page, and there are a lot of startups that just make a web page these days, so sure.
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The big benefit about DSCM is by definitions that they are in fact very portable so I don't think this is an issue. I can't really see how github could ever lock in their customers, if their product becomes inferior to others the switch will always be very painless.
But surely you'll have a hell of a lot less CPU power than, say, 128 of Linode's 512mb virtual servers, meaning they would have much worse performance if fully used?
And nearly the same or better in every other area.
Very nationalistic thinking.
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I agree, but it's still more explicit in terms of what process is used to evaluate the content of myvar and what it should match, especially in a context where you're expecting a numeric value rather than a boolean.
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A Mediawiki (or other similar wiki software) will probably help you and is pretty simple to install on a local machine.
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Exactly. If it ever becomes necessary to move away from github, it can be done in seconds by adding a new remote and pushing.

I have always seen this as a testament to github's quality - if the switching cost to your users is a couple of shell commands, you better make sure you offer a good product!

I also keep my projects in a local gitosis repository, mainly so I'm not relying on github as part of my deploy flow.
It's a bit odd that we hear a lot more about the ~300k birds killed annually by windmills than 7 million killed by communication towers (I didn't even know about this one). I would guess because windmills are a hotter political issue.
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I stopped following Django more than a year ago but lack of contributors was never an issue; quite the contrary. A bigger problem was the unresponsiveness of the (tiny) core team to the occasional contributors providing patches and raising bugs, often left open for months and years. Hopefully things move faster now with more devs being entrusted with the commit bit.
That's a good point - didn't CORBA also start fairly straightforward (I can't believe I said that) but then grew extra layers of mind numbing complexity for transactions, security etc. - pretty much like the various weird WS-* specifications that most people seem to ignore?
The assumption that the artist needs to change his taste to meet the demands of his audience breaks down when he likes the same things as his audience. It's still 'authentic' he did not 'sell out' etc etc.
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When I first saw the photo I thought, oooh, a new MacBook Air!

Then I proceeded to laugh my socks off.
Actually that is silly -- McKensey should now that there is and will never be a talent shortage. There will only be shortage of talent at a particular wage rate.

If the companies paid newly graduated 'data-scientists' (what other kind of scientists are there? The tea-leaf reading kind?) 200k/year then they would have a lot more. It is pretty simple economics.
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It is birds. Not humans. More humans properly perish from lack of communication.

Screw the birds. Humans are better.
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Presumably for LAN efficiency? If you have two people on LAN using Skype it goes via LAN IP?
> Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it.

The problem with that is she'll complain about the application being at fault. And maybe it is. After all, sending a recipe to a friend should be easy. And exporting the recipe to some standard format should be available. And printing is something that can happen. None of those complaints can be levied against iOS.

Of course, the flip side is also true: the nature of iOS and the App Store means the app developers really are limited by what Apple will allow them to do. I hate reading app reviews that complain about things that aren't the fault of the app, but rather Apple or another 3rd party.

In essence, I see a damned if you do, damned if you don't approach.
It's true that cost/GB has fallen, but cost/IOPS hasn't followed suit. If your I/O maxes out when the disk is 10% full, you can't really do much with the other 90%.
GitHub makes very easy to collaborate to projects. I think that what makes them different than others such as BitBucket.
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> many python projects avoided github initially because github was powered by ruby

This doesn't make any sense. Don't tell me that there are C# developers who don't use Google because they use Java.
I'm not sure that the kinds of employees that this article describes will ever be a large number. There could be more of them in the future, but someone who is top-notch at all of statistics, programming, and data-presentation has long been less common than someone who's good at one or two of those. Companies might consider looking at better ways to build teams that combine talent that exists, instead of pining for more superstars.

I'm reminded indirectly of an acquaintance of mine who works on repairing industrial machinery, where companies complain of a big skills shortage. They either fail to realize or are in denial about what that means in the 21st century, though. It might've been a one-person job in the 1950s, a skilled-labor type of repairman job. But today they want to find one person who can do the physical work (welding, etc.), EE type work, embedded-systems programming (and possibly reverse engineering), application-level programming to hook things up to their network, etc. Some of these people exist, but it's more common to find boutique consulting firms with 3-person teams of EE/CE/machinist or some such permutation. But companies balk at paying consulting fees equivalent to three professional salaries for something they think "should" be doable by one person with a magical combination of skills, who will work for maybe $80k. So they complain that there is a shortage of people who can repair truck scales (for example).
Why does that trouble you? Do you refuse to read books because the script isn't invented in the US? Do not US universities teach their CS students about Turing machines, because they were invented by a British guy?

Get of your nationalistic horse and be happy that not only americans, but the entire world can do science. Someday the most advanced research center in the world may be in Africa, someday it may be in Russia, some day in China.

Besides the Swiss are pretty close to neutral -- I can't even remember if they are members of the UN -- which means that the location is safe, politically.
> in summation pick the right tool for your team

Precisely and I was not saying otherwise. The Python team chose hg partly (but not only) because it is written with Python, just as the Django team could have decided to choose Bitbucket partly because it is written with Django[0]. And they could have chosen hg partly because it is written with python, or chosen git (which they did), as both were supported by Bitbucket.

Whatever, I'm not saying they should have, just that they could, and that dogfooding is a valid point if it is not blindly overrated (i.e bigotry) but carefully considered.

[0] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoSuccessStoryBitbuc...
> I can't really see how github could ever lock in their customers

Really? It's easy: Add an additional service that doesn't store its data in git repositories and doesn't allow for that data to be exported easily. Then make it enticing by integrating it really well with the stuff you're already using. Now you're going to think twice about migrating away, because suddenly it's hard.

Not like it's rocket science, and it happens all the time when companies find themselves in a corner (obviously we're talking a hypothetic scenario here). Heck, it even happens with initial good intentions on all sides, because a well-integrated add-on may be a lovely thing by itself.

I really don't want to be panicmongering, but if you "can't really see a way" you're not cynical enough. Don't stop thinking at "it's a DSCM, we'll be safe". You're not using git, you're using GitHub. That's why you're there, right?
I agree with this. I am a college student and I recently left my part time job at a start up. It went from trying to change how people interact across the globe to trying to put anything out there that would help the company survive. Got tired of seeing failed prototypes and never would be too soon for hearing the word "pivot" again
BMesh sounds pretty cool. It is a feature which Wings3d (my go-to modelling package) embraced from the get go, and it sounds like Blender has added many of the same tools which were fantastic in Wings. Unfortunately Wings has fallen a little by the way-side so it is great to see Blender pick up this idea! Perhaps it is about time I had another shot at learning Blender because it is looking more and more powerful.
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You're absolutely right. That said, I don't buy that big-data is as revolutionary as the Internet. While in theory, every single business can collect data and optimize based on what they see, this is way too complex for most businesses to deal with. While big data has certainly been critical for the business model of ad-based startups, I don't see it being used in other industries. People keep alluding to data-driven medicine and genetic analyses. These are some of the most complex information analyses domains, and yet, I don't see benefit commensurate with the big data hype. I'd love to hear counter examples though!
That would probably work, but it means that the problem + workaround is spread out across two systems rather than being contained in just one. Also, working around it on the consumer side means that any new consumers (or any new string fields!) will need to use the workaround too, further spreading out the problem. Better to keep it encapsulated in one system if possible.
You're arguing about wording. The premise is that the artist cannot create what he wants; rather, he must create what his audience wants. If what he wants happens to be what his audience wants, it's a happy coincidence. In truth, one could argue that the artists tastes were changed before, molded and adapted to where it is today. The artists with a larger audience merely adopted earlier.
Or one many little startups everywhere could use to compete locally with Amazon in the SMB space.
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Fortunately we don't have to choose! We can make the red lights more blinky, apparently.
I didn't see a solution mentioned?
More to the point - who cares. All these languages are hopelessly slow. If performance matters do it in a performant language like C++, C or FORTRAN. If it does not matter - then it does not matter and so stop going on about it.
Personally when applying for a start-up I would never go through recruiters. I don't want to go through that process. I rather meet with the company in person over coffee and show them the work I've done and discuss things like that. If it is an early stage start-up then I want to work there because I like what the company is doing and want to be part of it.
If it can't happen on a personal level without going through millions of hoops then its already a very bad sign.
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