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I was the co-patent holder of Microwriting with Cy Endfield (film director - Zulu). 25000 people purchased the Microwriter and the follow on machine the AgendA which was a true pocket organiser, diary, alarm etc and was a fore runner to many of the current machines and was manufactured from 1987 to 1991. It only failed because of the economic downturn of the early 1990's when Sir Mark Weinberg withdrew from the project after investing a lot of money in a new machine which over stretched the finances of the company. The CyKey (the name is a tribute to Cy Endfield) is still available as an add on to a PC or Mac and was developed to fill a gap and was developed by us here in Devon. Basic Microwriting can be mastered in about 20 minutes by most people because of very clever mnemonics which Cy created; based on something we all already know-the shape of the letters!
The whole private industry thing is not about who's funding it right now, but the business model. SpaceX is not completely under NASA's wings, they have their own goals and schedule. They sell services to NASA (and others), and a future where most of their revenue doesn't come from government contracts isn't that far.
This is pretty interesting, regardless whether you agree with it. It's always useful to listen to and engage with people outside your direct area of responsibility to see things from other perspectives.
How about the successful startups that existed before those books? What books did they read?
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Living in a multinational household Eurovision is always a fun evening of cheesy euro-pop and European geopolitics. I've always preferred Terry Wogan's humourous coverage of the event, which he's attributed to getting progressively more drunk as the night goes on[1]. I imagine this year that no matter how good the song, Greece will be getting nil point from Germany and vice versa. Of course, Cyprus and Greece get nil point in our household, thanks to the Turkish element. Likewise, the French get nil point from the English side. I imagine for Americans it must all be rather bemusing and strange.

The post misses a substantial point about the Czech song Aven Romale[2], that many eastern european countries that would normally bloc vote would be against voting for a Gypsy song based on cultural reasons. I do like the point about the Azeris and Nagorno Karabakh though.

[1] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/15/eurovision-song-...

[2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3CgUmzl4sk
My point is that he said:

Friday 6:30am UTC, with first burn at 8am
and then second at 8:43am

The burns took place on Thursday 8am and 8:43am UTC.

Many NASA and SpaceX announcements do include UTC times, although not all. I also wish there were consistency, but it's not as bad as you seem to be implying.
Fad you say? Then the list is not terrible, it is awesome.

If you can name-drop the latest fad, then the elite ninja hacker coder you're trying to hire will think you're part of their clique and speak their code - they will consider you an ideological comrade, and they are much more likely to come on board without thinking too much about working conditions or how the company is about to fail! Then you can get them on board and focus on your top priority: making sure you cash out before it does.

Dollar-for-dollar, a 1993 book like "Code Complete" just can't compete with that kind of usefulness. /s
If you're going to do error handling right in an exception-using language, you really need to catch every exception close to its source, otherwise you won't know how to handle it properly.

I think Go's main approach is this: errors are not exceptional. Errors happen all the time, and should be considered part of the normal control flow of the program, not something to be shoved into a hidden compartment and dealt with later.

Thus using the usual control flow statements to check for errors is entirely appropriate, and it's immediately obvious when reviewing the code if someone has failed to do the right error checking.

BTW there is no os.Error type any more. There's a language-defined "error" type, which is an interface containing a single method:

type error {
Error() string
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You only need to be intimately aware of what you're looking at if you want to take some different action based on the kind of error. This is actually quite rare (usually you care only that something failed, not how it failed), but when you need to, generally the calling package defines an error type that represents a particular kind or class of errors (for example http://golang.org/pkg/os/#LinkError)
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Now you're just not making any sense.

What planet is this union shop supposedly on? I've worked as a temp in a unionized printshop in a right to work state. The unions had the owners buy, for everyone, ear protection. They made sure everyone took regular breaks and 30 minute lunches (last thing you want is some idiot making mistakes from low glucose at a press). They also had the audacity to ask the owners to run the airconditioning (this was SE Florida) at comfortable levels.

I call your union story bullshit. Coming into work drunk violates a dozen local, state and federal laws, not to mention your own company contract. No union is going to protect you from that. They will help you find a lawyer.

You other arguments never even back up your previous post. Nothing you've posted has anything to do with how unions are screwing business. They make too much money. Guess what? everyone wants more money. Calpers is going bankrupt, it's available to all government employees. So how is pensions going bankrupt the unions fault? only 37% of the gov't employees are in one.
Same applies to Chrome too, to an extent:

- Extensions
- Apps
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- Themes
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- Is LXC friendly with IDS/IPS and alike?

- If I place a webserver or a database in a container - what would be the implications in terms of set-up?

- Networking? How it would interact with iptables? iptables only on host, or it is possible to set-up separate iptables in each container?

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It would be quite ironic to have vim-customised keyboards, seeing as how vi's interaction models is modelled on an old, now obsolete keyboard.

I agree that modal editing is a great idea, but I'm not convinced vim's is the best (even though I do use it in any editor).
As low as my opinions of GoDaddy have fallen, the more I think about it, the more I think that Candice was probably trying to cut costs and inadvertently tied GoDaddy's arms behind its back.

The GoDaddy "Deluxe 4GH" plan costs $6/month and could easily hold 14 web sites, and one feature they offer at this stage is "Multiple Web Sites: Unlimited".

At first it sounded like GoDaddy had simply rerouted all of her domain names to null addresses, when they could have just rerouted one of them. But no, they were providing the hosting service. If she put fourteen businesses on one account to amortise the cost among them, then she is responsible for linking them together, not GoDaddy. Presumably GoDaddy would have just shut down one hosting account -- the one that held the infringing content -- but the problem is that she only had the one hosting account.

This is why I try to keep abstraction layers. The people I research with don't hang out with my Ultimate (as in frisbee) friends or my web development colleagues; the Ultimate folks are the only ones I'm letting friend me on Facebook, and I make it a point not to preach my religion to any of the above.

Spolsky is correct that all abstraction layers are leaky, and these are too -- my professor has met my father for example, and the folks at work know that I say something quietly before lunch every day -- but there is a great value in compartmentalising. Robert Frost's neighbour confidently asserts, "good fences make good neighbours" -- I guess it's more that good neighbours respect the fences and use them to lower your own mental stress and drama.

Candice could have used a good fence between her charity and her infringing account.
"Visit any Like-enabled site and you see a small piece of content from Facebook that tells Facebook all the sites you visit. It's a tracking cookie like any other and personally I have no problem with that"

I understand that you work for Google and that not holding this opinion would mean that you have to conclude that your employer is also very much in the wrong. But how do you justify it?

It's clearly not information that people have chosen to give to Facebook. Facebook is basically taking advantage of a technical trick in order to obtain information about their users which their users neither gave them permission to collect, nor know they are collecting. It just seems highly unethical to me. But you "have no problem" with it... How is that possible?

The thing that annoys me about it is that the browser vendors could prevent this hidden tracking quite easily. By either disabling third party cookies, or by tying them to the domain in the address bar. Hell, Safari blocks third party cookies by default, and Apple is all about usability, so it can't cause that many problems... On the other hand, why would Google and Microsoft modify their browsers in such a way as to increase our privacy at the expense of their profit.
So it did already happen? Or there are more of them, or what? Because from what I hear it still sounds like they are preparing for it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure

Not sure I really agree. I think it would be courteous to politely inform yahoo! of their mistake. Potentially more rewarding, as well.
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I agree, except about sending humans deeper into space. It seems much cheaper and more useful to send many, many machines deeper into space.
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I generally disagree with what this guy is saying. This is reasonable from the perspective of, "How to pitch yourself to a non-technical founder."

A. Programming languages do matter. Talking to other programmers, a good way to find people who actually love programming is to ask people what languages they use. People who have experimented with haskell or clojure are usually people who love programming more. PG has a good essay on why it makes sense to start a startup based around an esoteric language. I know for a fact that Jane Street uses their heavy reliance on ocaml as a recruiting tool. Your life will be much, much easier if you can hire better programmers. Hence, the startups with the really good engineers will want to know what programming languages you know. So yes, I agree that resumes are not that interesting, but also, programming languages are useful indicators for certain kinds of employers. The recruitee's github should reflect this. [1]

B. Sending links to apps or websites is all well and good, but as another commenter said, for some startups, it is basically useless. If you are trying to be the CTO of a company like 10gen (their CTO is a co-founder, but bear with me) you will want to know about their systems skill, not how pretty they can make a website. Backend talent, or understanding of algorithms is something you absolutely cannot get from this.

So at startups where backend technical skill is not highly valued, and the founder is very non-technical, this might be useful. If you are trying to work at a Palantir or a DropBox, you should probably ignore this advice, although admittedly, both are much further along than this guy is thinking of.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4016867.

In general, note that the people demanding responsible disclosure (i.e. major vendors) also greatly benefit from it. (In general, creating and enforcing an ethical norm is not itself an ethically neutral act.)
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I always cringe when I see lists like these. These books aren't even interesting! Pretty much everything you need to know about becoming an entrepreneur can be found on PG's site, and the rest can easily be found by searching the web. There is no hidden secret to working hard and solving problems.

I'd much rather spend all the time I'd be reading these books by reading something interesting and useful, say, a book on macroeconomics (you can of course pick a different subject if you don't like thise one) or even fiction (at least that's fun).
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You shouldn't write anything serious in shell or python, use serious language for serious jobs, please.

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2. Some libertarian scholars apply who love the idea so much they want to work below market rate.
Most of my FB friends seem to use the mobile app mainly for uploading photos, if my feed is to be believed. From that POV the Instagram acquisition makes sense. How they're going to make money from it I'm not sure, but location-based ads and third-party apps come to mind. Though I still have a hard time imagining the developer appeal for their hypothetical but inevitable mobile app platform.
He leads with an extraordinarily false claim:

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The value of Google's ad network, including the average cost per click, increased for 14 years in a row, roughly speaking. Google certainly isn't suffering from any supposed value decrease per quarter, and if that effect were actually in place, their business would be nearly worthless by now.
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> "Facebook has no search engine. Whatever you say about the size of display ads, search advertising is still far bigger. With search you have intent. People want to find things by their actions. On Facebook ads are an annoyance."

Exactly this.
I don't have any feedback on your post, but I'd like to thank you for writing this. Very insightful.
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At that time he campaigned against Software Patents because he was being paid to do so by Red Hat and MySQL. Now he's funded by Microsoft and Oracle.
This is the trap. This is what FB employees keep telling themselves everyday. This has to work. It just makes sense.

You can keep saying the data is valuable. No one is going to question that it is. We all have imaginations. And advertisers will be curious. They will try advertising on FB.

But there's just a big difference in human behavior in the two examples I gave. They are different. Not because I can make argument based on reason for the difference. But because it's what the facts show. There is a long history to this that predates the web. You might say it's been thoroughly tested.

So, you can make all the arguments you want that people should behave a certain way, and maybe you draw on examples of your own behavior or that of others you know, but when it comes down to making money and growing like Google does, it matters more what people actually do in real life. As opposed to how we think they should behave.

Yellow pages and photo-albums are things that have been around for a very long time, long before the web. If people looking at photos (FB) are at the same time looking for products and services, then why didn't photo-albums before the web have heaps of advertising in them? The answer is because there was a different book where it was more appropriate to advertise.

Read the article on the MIT or Harvard blog again. What you are describing, especially a tactic like image analysis, is exactly the type of approach he is saying is just too invasive. This kind of approach to advertising removes anonymity and violates people's privacy when it's counterintuitive to do so, according to the article.
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I've found the bit claiming she's the President of an organization called 'Attorneys for Special Needs Children' and in her G+ page she says 'I studied in South Texas College of Law' but she isn't claiming she's finished the studies or that she has got any title, certification, or the bar card.
I've never seen him post here. Does he have an account?
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I would argue that most of us don't have personal assistants and lawyers to deal with our petty problems 24/7.
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Don't read too much into the following (I'm not really on either side of this) but I will say that many people who would make a great CTO have had 10 years to "just start your own and have proper equity." Have they done it?

almost invariably, not at all. Even though it is easy to find coders who have a legitimate claim to having 5-10 projects they did by themselves. This would mean they have "100% equity" in all of them. Then again, the 10 projects might have 30 active users between them.

Meanwhile, the non-technical founder in question has already outsourced a MVP, which is a product, gotten enough buzz for you to be reading their blog posts on hn, and you can join something that - unlike your own last ten projects - actually has a chance to make a great deal of sales in a real market. Whereas, in actual reality, if you took the idea and coded it up yourself without any further input than the concept pitch from the non-technical cofounder, it would go nowhere - just like your last ten projects.

Just saying... I would trade 5% of a company that raises a round at.. just about any amount, over 100% of ten 'companies' that never incorporate and have donation buttons which make a grand total of $76 over the same period of time.

It is easy to discount what the non-technical founder - or in this case owner - brings to the table. I wouldn't be quite so quick to do so.
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copy of my comment:

I am python developer. I also ask myself these questions, and on current project I use TDD heavily (but still far from 100%). One thing it totally gives me is ability to let other devs in team without need of tons of collaboration to implement some functionality, and then for me being able to refactor it as much as I want, but not being blamed for errors. Since it's their job to put as much tests as would cover all functionality, and it's my job to only write tests for my new code, and fix (or remove) old tests. I think this blame-less in dynamic languages like python is real diamond :)

Also, one question I ask myself is "unit-testing vs type theory". And can unit-testing in dynamic language be an instrument that would make dynamic type-checking to be a good thing even in serious production. It's also a big question, and there's a lot to think on it.