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Why don't you have any users? One thing you must always do in startup land is focus on the users of your company.

IF you truly have none, well. No great loss if you bail.

But if you could have more, just haven't actually focused on the user sufficiently well to have a fair few of them, then I suggest you: Focus On The User.

Startup-dilemna can be overwhelming, especially when its as catastrophic as your situation sounds, but that is why it is good indeed to have a few faithful rules to guide yourself by. If you're a tech guy, you love what you're doing, really, then you must have happy users somewhere.

Or?
Seriously, try Go for a while, it wont take long before you feel that you have three hands, and more importantly, an extra third eye.
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The law also gives the guy a monopoly on selling taxi services, so it's hard to have much sympathy.

I'm all in favor of letting cabbies pick and choose their fares. But if we do that, we also need to allow competition in the taxi market.
Isn't shooting in the air potentially dangerous, since the bullet (assuming straight up in an empty space) will return to the ground with the same velocity it was fired at?
My bad. I was talking about this alternate implementation:

https://gist.github.com/2688055
> Perhaps we will now see increasing differentiation between those who code and those who use?

I personally hope for the opposite.
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Yes. But it doesn't relate to actual hours of sleep, but to what you're used to.

Whenever you sleep significantly less or significantly more than the average time you sleep every day, you will feel sluggish.

Unless you sleep something like an hour, then sleep deprivation euphoria kicks in and you feel hyper all day, but can't actually think at all.
Germany is so densely populated that it might also just be a lot harder for criminals to find a good hiding place without being noticed.
Jscape?
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But they do seem to consider having a regular riot with the police as almost a tradition.
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I'm always eager to hear whatever Armin has to say, but I feel so-so this time, probably because I didn't fully understand or his point was not clearly communicated.

The premise is that you can serialize request and response objects only after you made sure they are fully independent of the underlying protocol.

However, when the protocol is in fact underlying, you cannot fully get rid of its nature, and, for example, resources are still going to be requested by their URLs. The middleware he develops already takes care of the details like the protocol headers and encoding. I believe that even with the best efforts and intentions, HTTP will remain implied.

It is also not clear to me what something like Flask would gain from buffered and serializable objects. At first sight it is a performance penalty rather than a practical improvement, isn't it? I'd like to hear more.

Edit: I'd like to add that maybe Fireteam should have not chosen HTTP as a transfer protocol for games, where state is everywhere and HTTP is stateless. Although I don't feel qualified to suggest alternatives.
Well there certainly is a lot of scope to make a faster interpreter, as eg according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187901 the Luajit interpreter is faster than compiled v8...
YW; git push --force EvilTerran/dev/brain
> There is no need to replace your whole distro because you don't like the default window manager.

It's... a Google thing.

I haven't gotten around to planning around Unity yet, but I'm not surprised by this. It's classic Google culture to just throw the baby out with the bathwater and build the damn thing over, (presumedly) better. Funny to see it happen on an individual level!
Developers, even Linus, should stop being cranky and start showing some respect
being a bit more friendly would really not hurt.
Well, personally I switched from AwesomeWM to XMonad and the main reasons were that I liked the way that XMonad handled multiple screens better, compile time checking of the configuration file, and better community documentation (though awesome's is decent).

The default widgets in awesome are nice, but if I'm going to be using a tiling WM as a drop in replacement in a desktop environment I just have to remove them in the config file.
As it seems that here is a/the dash developer: how much will it be in the future? It's free now, but (AFAIUI) it will be a paid software once it leaves beta!? Can someone explain?
You're making psychopath mean what you want it to mean. I've rarely heard anybody say that psychopaths don't understand emotions in other people. That would be autism.

Also, anarchists aren't the people against profit - many libertarians are anarchists.
> The law also gives the guy a monopoly on selling taxi services, so it's hard to have much sympathy.

Sort of - the law gives the guy a monopoly on picking up street passengers. But again, these laws are broken often - livery drivers will still pick you up sometimes, depending on where you are. Definitely not in front of Grand Central, though.
I believe it would not hurt if everyone would be a bit more friendly. Especially when trying to attract new developers for a project.
Science in the small is an oxymoron, I guess. Any scientific issue start with a good question that has no straightforward answer.
Sounds like he's basically a professional douchebag-for-hire.
The 'knife crime capital of Europe' thing is largely an invention of the tabloids. There have been a lot of posession offences reported, but in large part this is because of more police stop&search. What's more interesting is the violent crime statistics, and the way the press gets its knife/murder capital of europe headlines by abusing them.

One way they do this is by picking numbers from different reports, and combining them in ways that don't make sense. For example: one of the Daily Record's 'murder capital' articles was based on taking the number of murders in the greater Glasgow area, and dividing it by the population of the central Glasgow area (590,000 instead of 1.2m!) and then feigning surprise when the murder rate seems to be double the European average.

They've also used changes in the very small numbers involved to generate headlines; a difference of 5 murders from one year to another doesn't sound much, but it can when the change is 25%! (straight to the front page)

While there is violence - particularly around the Old Firm football matches and when the nightclubs spill onto the streets - its not as different as the local rags would have you believe; their job is selling papers, and fearmongering does it.
Methodological stuff mostly, as far as I know. For example, they generally do not include firearms use by the federal police (which includes the Federal Border Guard and the anti-terror unit GSG-9).

Because the police is primarily a state-level power (as in the USA), with the federal government having only a limited role (in fact, the BKA as the German counterpart of the FBI probably has less power than the FBI), this should not affect totals too much.
I gathered from what jmillikin said that it is certainly a bug, but it was probably not reported during the testing period for the same reason jmillikin didn't report it: it appears to be hard to reproduce.

Is there a tool (akin to xev) that would display which process currently has control of the mouse? I would think that tracking down the process that has grabbed the mouse would be the necessary first step toward stopping it from doing so.
A strange way of looking at it. But it makes a lot of sense.
They play a role as trace elements. A lot of these elements are blocking in nature: other parts of the organism's metabolism are a function of the availability of trace elements. As an example, Molybdenum was found to put a ceiling on CO2 uptake in certain Orchidaceae. So if you run an orchid nursery and want to reduce your IV-to-flower time by providing more CO2 you need to also provide adequate amounts of trace elements. You could compare it to adding Iodium to table salt in order to keep the population's fertility high.
That is precisely the point of the BSD license: Give freely to everyone.
The UK, with a population (~60m) close to Germany, has very few incidents a year where police discharge firearms.

Stats from 2000-2007 show between 5 and 11 incidents where firearms were discharged per year: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.homeo...

Unfortunately, when they do use them they do so to kill innocent foreigners, execution style (which then gets largely swept under a rug): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Meneze...
That's because they're not running under WinRT on x86. Apparently there's a special exemption in the x86 version of Windows 8 which allows the default web browser to provide a Metro interface even though it's still a Win32 application.
Time/money. Getting patents early on is a large waste of resources, and then really causes your path to be fixed (re: "keep trying to implement that technology in products although it doesn't really solve anything").
Yes. The story is that Kerry Packer, who used to actually watch the shows his network put to air, started watching it and after about 5 minutes and a number of segments of animals fornicating called the night shift operator and said "Get this shit off the air!". After which the Channel 9 logo graphics appeared, then it went to an ad break, after which they aired a rerun of Cheers.

The host was Doug Mulray, who was fired the very next day and who said on his radio show that "I am the first man in Australian history to be pulled off by Kerry Packer". I doubt that Graham Kennedy would ever have put his name to the show.

Sadly, after his death, someone decided that it would be a good idea to actually air the show. It wasn't as bad as Packer said. It was worse.
I am not the first and probably won't be the last to say: you should probably leave. Find another job, and leave this one.

What does "well connected" mean? If they were really well-connected, you'd probably have funding... and VCs with an active interest in getting users for the product. Well-connected means that VCs who don't fund you will mentor you until you are fundable. It means that you can get TechCrunch coverage with a phone call. That's what "well connected" means.

Too many people sell themselves as being "well connected" when they aren't. 99.9 percent of us (and 99.99 percent of the smart ones) are peasant people who don't have that kind of access that would merit having a non-technical founder.

There is an alternate strategy to the "leave now" advice that you are getting. I'm going to explore it just for the sake of doing so, although the default advice of "quit now" stands. If these founders are well-connected, they can prove it. Ask to go to investor meetings and the various other high-society shindigs they attend to keep up their connections. They might as well, because it sounds like they're not paying you. If they do so, then you can evaluate for yourself whether they're well-connected enough to merit staying in this long-shot startup (and you can make connections yourself). Sitting in on the investor meetings will also give you a voice in technical decisions because you'll have your own perspective on the business needs.

Chances are, they'll say no. It's very unlikely that these "well connected" "idea guys" will let a lowly JAP (JAP = Just A Programmer) in his early 20s sit in on investor meetings. This refusal will make it clear to you how little this personal affinity/loyalty you feel toward them actually means... not much, on their end. If this happens, then you should leave without reservation or any feeling of guilt.
Good tips. Will be interesting to see how much longer this cycle runs.
Java's arrays[] and primitives are part of the underlying implementation poking through with special syntax and behavior, as compared to arrays/lists/numbers in python/c#/scala which are full fledged objects.

That's basically the crux of it. In python/c#/scala, a for loop looks the same whether you use ints, longs, bigInts or complex numbers as the iterator. In java, you have special, relatively compact syntax for the close-to-the-metal types like ints or longs, but using anything higher level suddenly becomes ridiculously verbose. Writing BigIntegers as for-loop iterators is no fun!
I've been using Dash for quite some time. I remember first seeing it pop up in the App Store, and picked it up. Honestly, I didn't expect much. I mean, it's a document reader. However, it's fast, and it works. And the large assortment of easily accessible documentation makes it incredibly easy to use. Now, it's a quite shortcut key away and a fast search. The only thing I wish it had was DDG's bang syntax. !<language> <search> would be easy on the muscle memory.
Common problem in the tech world. I have this conversation with every tech recruiter I talk to.
No, terminal velocity will limit the fall speed to be much less

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1199/can-a-bullet-f...
> it is quite difficult not to offend somebody no matter what you do.

Avoiding having a guy that is blatantly sexist and misogynistic is not exactly hard nowadays.
> In social democracies there are always rules to doing business

It's all true but you're missing the point. Parents to my post seem to have been implying that no one's rights are being restricted because ISPs should not have any rights.

But that's not the whole picture. You're restricting rights of real, physical, natural born people to freely dispose of their property. It's not just property, it's real human autonomy.

It's no different from digging a trench through your backyard. We may agree (or not, libertarians often don't) that your neighbour's right to have running water trumps your right to undisturbed backyard but it's your rights that are being restricted, not your backyard's rights (it probably doesn't have any).
But then you can't ssh to your desktop if you need it.
In Poland too. A few years ago police man had to shout "Stop or I'll shoot.", then shoot 3 times in the air, then policeman could shoot in the legs, and only then shoot to kill.

People made fun of this, because when criminal has a gun, he won't be shooting in the air 3 times, nor targeting policeman legs, so law was changed to be less strict about cops shooting.

But we still have strict regulations about "allowed defence". For example courts judged a few times, that man that shot burglar with legal gun he had in his house was guilty of "overstepping allowed defence", because burglar only had knife. It's ridiculus IMHO.

Still - I've never heard or seen a real gun or knife fight in my life, and neither had anybody I know (or at least they had not told me about that). I think it's general tendency, that gun crimes and homicides in general are much less frequent in Europe.
The german police patrols in 2 person teams. You'll never see a single policeman in a car. This changes the dynamic of every confrontation.
I work as a teacher. I can plan lessons as much as I like (and today I'm planning for an observed lesson next week or week after) but I can tell you, something unexpected always happens in the actual lesson. The plan lasts 20 minutes if that. The rest is 'reflection in action' to quote Schon.
"44,845 transfers" were 'successfully stopped', according to this article, at a cost of anywhere between $12-50k.

Assuming $50k, that would put it at a cost of approx $1.10 per 'stopped' transfer. With the caveat that they've no idea if the 'stopped' transfers just resumed later on. That seems like wasted money.

Now, it'd be interesting to see what they could do to get nearly fifty thousand extra sales at a similar or proportionate expense.
Yes, I like the idea that a teenager can get hold of a second hand laptop, put GNU/Linux on it and have the same tools that people at Google and Facebook and all use every day.

However, I suspect Canonical need to move the interface into a coherent, fairly tightly integrated stack appropriate to consumer devices so they can make some money and continue to provide a convenient base install and repository system (and pay wages).
Yes I've checked boomgraph but I think they have not open sourced the cycle plot. And I don't know how get and manage these data. Maybe I should wait they launch the rocket!
well, how do you know which of those 'facts' are real and not just false tracks?
the guy really had to be dumb to not put some false hints.
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Just be honest with them. You don't have a shot at solving any of these problems unless you tell them what's wrong. This stuck out:

'During meetings, I always feel like a killjoy by attempting to be realistic and focused and reserved about the brand new idea they come up with every other week and that I need to get started on right when the meeting ends.'

I have a non-technical co-founder who does the same thing. If they don't even bother to become the slightest bit technical (which would help them understand how writing software works, and how long it actually takes) then they aren't co-founding material. You need to be firm with them. "No, we need to remain focused on building up the feature set we already have, and making it perfect. All the bugs in the existing code need to be fixed before we start adding features."
I started moving away from YUI between v2 and v3, mostly because the project started feeling very disorganized. There wasn't a clear timeline as to when components from v2 would be upgraded to v3. Namespacing helped, but I didn't want to invest time developing code around v2 components if v3 versions were right around the corner, but there was little to no insight as to if/when components would be migrated.

That seems to mirror the rest of Yahoo from what I've seen - some really good/cool/useful tech, poor management/communication about it. Perhaps at that size, it's just endemic in a culture?
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Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not sure what you mean :). It's not like I'm making this stuff up, social anthropologists have known about "temperance cultures" for a long time. Ever notice how Mediterranean countries don't have a history of mass temperance movements, which have been very strong in Britain, the US and Scandinavia? Do you think it's a freak coincidence?
Only in a vacuum, otherwise it's the terminal velocity IIRC it's much less than the firing speed for bullets.
What cab driver doesn't want to go from GCT to chelsea at 11:30 at night? And how has that happened enough to you that you don't want to tell the cabbie until you get in the cab? Thats very contrary to my experience with cabs. Now, if you told them you were going to Brooklyn... then I've seen the behavior you expected.
I use Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) as a Spotlight replacement. One of its features is that it lets you set up search keywords (like in Chrome) to search on specific websites. I set up html, css and js keywords that link to http://dochub.io/. It's quite handy. If it's speed you're looking for, dochub is an open source project written in node.js, so it can easily be run local :)
Then you have (again, you are trained) the option to shoot him in the head, heart, stomach all of which are usually quite lethal OR you can hit the leg, knee, shoulder, arm. Why use LETHAL force?

Because a gun, by definition, is lethal force.

Because shooting to wound is a fancy way of saying 'shoot to miss'.

Look: you train to shoot at center mass because that's what it takes to kill a person. If you don't intend to kill that person, then you have no business drawing a weapon.
I'm from Israel where the threshold for a parliamentary political party is 2/120. It does come with a cost.

Especially if you include parties with just a chance of passing the threshold, you theoretically more likely to find a party that represents your position. In practice though it encourages parties that represent certain ethnic/interest groups. It creates instability. It also means governments are alway coalitions where small parties are constantly threatening to bring down the government, especially the ethnic/interest parties with a narrower set priorities.
I might be crazy, but I like doing cold calls -- and I'm a "technical" guy.

In my case I believe strongly in what I'm selling and I know there are gaps between the stuff I work on and people's ability to use it -- so I know (i) I've got to understand what those gaps are, (ii) it will take calendar time to make sales.
For anything that requires a permanent magnet, on the scale of gadgets->cars I'd say unlikely. On industrial/generation scales possibly. See e.g. http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/wind/superconductors-for....

For other uses IDK, IANAP etc
Excel encourages visual data layout, and I almost always see people putting way too much information in one row that would better be split off in to a related table. The only viable thing to do there is 'sheets' in Excel, but then people generally can't see the data at the same time, without even more funky queries

Being able to automatically recognize patterns in data which would be suitable for normalization techniques, then managing those techniques behind the scenes, would allow for people using a GUI for data entry, but would open up the possibility for more flexible/powerful/efficient SQL when needed.
Not yet. I only asked the question in context of this article being posted to Hacker News. I thought maybe the author was describing an approach to more than just qualifying requests for money from beggars.
$1,000 per individual 240-watt panel. If you want a full kilowatt you're up to $5,000 already.
It's a nice theory, but falls to pieces in say traditionally Catholic Ireland (history of powerful temperance movements also) and a cultural approach to alcohol which is if anything even more damaging than Britain's.
Be honest. Tell them about your thoughts and conclusion (that this is not sustainable), there is a fair chance this will resolve your predicament _and_ strengthen your relationship.
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This may sound counter intuitive, but you have far more to lose by staying than by moving on. In fact you face a couple significant risks that increase the longer you're there.

First, the founders may sense your lack of "enthusiasm" and realize that your chances of leaving are high. To protect the company's reputation from the public vote of no confidence implicit in your quitting, they may decide to take the initiative and fire you. Yes, this type of behavior is underhanded but it's more common than you may think. Imagine trying to explain to a hiring manager that you were fired because you planned to quit. Unfortunately, no one will believe you.

Second, you're part of a sinking ship and as the tech lead there's no way to separate your reputation from it. The longer you stay, the longer you expose your personal brand to the failure at large.

My last advice is the most important because it should guide all of your career decisions. Do not let fear suppress your better judgement. Step back from the reasons you listed for staying at the company and you'll realize that fear is the commonality. Fear isn't your friend. It will mislead you.
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