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I started out my working life as a financial analyst in an investment bank, and that experience led me to the same conclusion. I really believe the only people that should own equity in a company (public or private) are the people that actually know the business of that company (like top 10 customers, top expense line items, name of the major sales people etc.). The mindset of the casual investor is the same as the casual gambler (i'm saying this from personal experience). Financial services is a zero-sum, no value-added operation, it's a wealth redistribution exercise, nothing new gets created; the only way it can grow is by feeding it outside money/assets; there's a real incentive to find suckers.
I am considering my "study time" only that which is done outside of assigned projects. My algorithms class assigns homework and lab projects which I take seriously and approach with the idea that I don't want to have to look at this material again before an exam. So, in this sense, I'm always studying, it's just that almost none of it is actual traditional study time. I don't do office hours(with as many courses as I take, they always conflict). I think maybe it's just that our definition of studying is different, I consider studying to be the period of time above and beyond lectures, homework, and projects. It is this piece of time that I can take almost to zero as long as I approach the lectures, homework, and projects properly.
so Jobs has been gone 6 months and the previous #1 company in the world is still number one and didn't collape? I think we need to wait at least a couple years before any statement can be made about the CEO's leadership abilities... just saying
The software industry allows for something that's pretty unique - two people can have the same title/role, but one of them might be 100x more productive than another. While some of this difference can come down to innate ability, much of it is about experience and the judgment that comes along with it (better design decisions, architectural sense, etc.)

To that end, it's really bizarre to me that the industry doesn't value its seasoned employees more. These guys have as strong an ability to be a 100x programmer as anyone else.
I said "theoretically", did I not?

And there was nothing particularly special about the module aside from the extreme concentration. Every piece of Java I've ever written or even looked at has this same problem on a reduced scale.

My point is to show how utterly broken and worthless the concept is. Either there's a ton of exception-"handling" boilerplate that does nothing useful, or there's "throws Exception" everywhere, itself useless boilerplate that exists only to tell the compiler to buzz off.
"Anyone can make a thin smooth aluminium laptop. "

Wow, that's a false framing of reality. You also fail to acknowledge that apple won the product fight before they had a stranglehold on supplies.
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Sure, the marginal cost of music distribution is now basically zero. But producing every new recording (or film or TV programme) can cost a lot of money.

The make-money-from-touring model is working very well for artists who already made a name for themselves under the old model. However, there are artists who can't or don't want to perform live. Arguably the Beatles' best work was done after they gave up touring and concentrated on recorded work. Must every electronic artist whose medium is `tape' be forced to contrive a live show or take up DJing if they want to eat?
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unemployed entrepreneurs with little or no business experience second guessing the CEO of the worlds most innovative company. priceless.
I have recently been in the position to hire some older coders and, This article needs this grain of salt. There are a lot of older coders who can't code which masks some of the real great programmers out there. The other problem is once someone gets established as a cornerstone of an organisation they aren't normally let go. There is too much intellectual knowledge ties up in the individual. So what you see on the market is older programmers who couldn't cut it at their employer and then eventually got let go . That's why you see so many people passing on them.
"implying that they could have made much more money later, or maybe implying that public perception of the stock will interfere with their ability to operate."

I'm implying both. First, if they'd have shrugged off the early pressure to take on too much VC money, they wouldn't have been propped up with an indefinite runway and would have been forced to get creative, and quickly, with monetization. They'd probably be in much stronger shape today, because they'd have had to scale up profitability in line with operating costs and userbase. (At least to some greater extent than they were).

Second, because they're now public, they're having to crash-develop profitability while still being held to the fire to make quarterly projections.

I'm aware of the apparent contradiction in what I'm saying here, i.e., does it really make a difference when their feet are or were held to the fire to grow revenue? At least in my preferred scenario, they'd have been forced to deal with it early. Before growing to 1 billion users -- all of whom expect the service to be 100% free -- and going public to the equity markets -- who expect those users to be monetized pretty much overnight.
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By giving access to the X server, he effectively gives access to all keyboard and mouse events, so recording the audio of the keystrokes is not necessary (but could be another attack vector, if firefox could not be exploited for code execution).
Did someone put makeup on him in addition to the dee-vee?
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I'm pretty sure nobody in this story lives in San Francisco.
I have a family member who is hearing impaired, as well as having worked closely with someone who is hearing impaired ... I have mixed emotions reading this article, and am glad you were able to see a path before starting another new adventure... remember people aren't mind readers, if you don't show them, they will not understand without having traveled your path before... GL
It's not a good guide (anymore). It doesn't pertain to Lion or any recent version of OS X and is sorely outdated.

Much of the security-related technologies, especially FileVault, have been either seen significant changes or been replaced. As far as I can tell, it was last updated during the 10.4 days.

Aside from the general secure computing tips, it's a historical document.
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I think the question isn't whether someone can code but whether someone is willing to work eighteen hours days.

Even if someone could turn out more good code in eight hours than the rest of the team turns out working eighteen hours, well not being around makes it harder to be part of the team.

But I'd say this is more of a testament to companies and standard practices which are more oriented to working people to burn out and throwing them away. That's not an efficient use of people certainly and it may not be an efficient use of the people's time. But it might just be an efficient use of the investors' money.

In ways, I'd say perhaps the young-guns might see that hiring old-farts could be a way to put a break umpteen-hour-weeks and so prevent the operation from having a burn-out-and-throw-away quality.
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He's not got a monopoly on all pictures like that but he has a monopoly right on that particular image he took, lasting for 70 years beyond the date of his death, or else he wouldn't be able to send out DMCA takedowns for it and otherwise control the manner in which it is duplicated and used.

(I just googled to check the length and found this heartbreaking message on one of those cheesy Q&A sites:
My grandmother has a senior picture of my mom from 1969 and I wanted a copy of it. Is the copyright for that picture up? If not is there a way for me to get a copy of it?)

And that is the book, though note it's a slightly out of date version. The final version is here:

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht...

It's not a great work by any means, but it's a good overview of the craziness of copyrights and patents when viewed from the perpective of economics.
I for one definitely solve problems significantly faster and cleaner than I used to when I was starting out. Nothing sticks like learning patterns the hard way.

I'm not sure that means anything relative to the whole though. Maybe I was just a bad coder when I was young and now I'm finally catching up.
I have cookies disabled by default. I don't want to see this alert every time I visit the BBC website. So I just created a quick greasemonkey script which removes it with a simple:

el = document.getElementById('bbccookies');
if( el ) el.style.display='none';
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If the goal of retirement is beach-sitting I don't want it. Money is energy of your experiments in life and if you spend bare minimum you are missing a lot in life. I would rather work on what I love for the entire life and create more possibilities to get rich. Spending $20,000/year sounds like going on hibernation mode for the rest of your life. Its a plan for people who are chronically lazy.
nick: the people who really strike it rich aren't the ones writing code

this this this. Except for a few companies that come around a handful of times in a generation (Google, fb, et al) coders don't get rich at startups.
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I've been a programmer for more than a decade and 18 hour days are few and far between. This bizarre obsession with long hours seems to be common in a very small segment of the programming industry.
"The most valuable service kickstarter provides is in gauging real-world interest in your product." Kickstarter doesn't exactly provide this - they provide a place to host a site to gauge that interest. The project creator themselves do all the legwork to get that interest dredged up (as they should).
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http://i.imgur.com/8aGO3.png

And "Find out more" links to http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/cookies/bbc/
webOS is a good OS, but HP has abandoned it.
To me, this is the main point. Filesharing is never going away. But legal selling of music is viable even in the presence of filesharing if the experience is easier and more pleasant than the alternative.
Hm... Even assuming that I agreed with you assertion, you're making a lousy argument.

First, you're attacking me/my intellect. Then, you make an assertion without providing even the slightest proof/argument for it (I'm not a native English speaker, but I'd say that the dictionary definition of stealing disagrees with you), and you're ignoring my real argument completely (i.e. that copying is different from depriving someone of a physical item which I just called "stealing").

Lastly, humans didn't just invent a new way for things to exist, humans also invented concepts such as property and intellectual property. The last one is actually quite new! So, stealing is a concept that is completely defined by the society, and I think it's in our best interest to talk about it, discuss how we should define it in the future.
The current model seems unnecessary with the internet though. Seems like artists, if they are good, should be able to become famous selling their music direct to consumer through some distribution service like iTunes without a long term contract.

Once someone has made a name for themselves, it would seem perfectly reasonable for a label or a venue to approach them about doing a concert or a tour and taking a cut of the proceeds.

Perhaps the problem is that bands or artists want to fast-track their road to fame. In signing with a label, it seems like they are giving up a lot to get there faster. The question is, can artists who are willing to work their way up more slowly or organically able to, or are certain doors closed because they aren't signed with a label?
@Falling3 - If you mean to tell me that the majority of people who download copyrighted items, then go forward to buy the music, sure your argument is fair.

@Tomp - Well it's hard to compare digital products to physical products since you don't have to create the item more than once for a digital good. Just because you didn't plan to pay anyway, doesn't make it any less "stealing" You can't use the argument "I was never going to buy it anyway" as a valid reason for stealing something.
They've been acquired by RIM so who knows if the service will stay alive or not...
Not just the BBC - new laws say that this has to happen on every website that's based in or serves the UK :-(

More examples --> https://twitter.com/alexmuller/status/205605081662504960/pho...
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I am currently building a website for my future company and I wonder whether or not it is useful today to integrate a forum (for feedback, questions and discussions between users,...)
Most of the older coders I know tend to focus on niche technologies. Many do embedded systems work, or database design.

The downside is that some of them really fell in love with a certain fad - for example, one of the great database designers only builds Access/MSSQL stuff because he knows it inside and out, backwards and forwards. I know similar people who are stuck in Crystal Reports, Delphi, etc.

I get the feeling that older coders tend to dismiss all the current fads, and are stuck in the fads of 10+ years ago. If I needed help with one of those technologies, I'd be certain to call one of them, but it does cut them out of consideration for new projects...
It regularly takes more than one email when I try that strategy. People don't always reply quickly. I either can't keep all the times that I offered open, or end up offering people very restrictive time ranges that they can't do.
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If an angel exits a deal they call it a success. Is that disingenuous?
in the poker world, there was a turning point around 2002, where all of a sudden out of nowhere, 22-year-old kids were DESTROYING the "old fart" professionals - the kids learned poker on the internet, and condensed a lifetime of learning into two years with better learning materials and faster play.

this may or may not be happening now in the programming world.

i've met a handful of "old fart" programmers who are exceptional. i've also met a handful of twenty-something programmers who are equally exceptional. but as far as the long tail goes, the kids are much less resistant to new ideas, new concepts (for example functional programming). i think it might be a generational difference, and i think it could shake up the software economy in the next decade.

edit for the trolls: new to a particular person, not to the world. functional programming is a new concept to most of the people i've met, including several very strong engineers.
I'll give it a pass. It doesn't seem like it can do anything that Instagram can't do and I don't always want to share all my photos to Facebook. Anyone had a go? How's the UX?
> There are a lot of older coders who can't code

My experience is that there are a lot of "coders" of all ages who can't code.
So that's why they bought Instagram...
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab... In my limited understanding, that should allow you to continue to work on open-source projects on the side. Personally, I generally use it as leverage to get more reasonable language in my contracts at time of signage, but that seems unnecessary.
It comes from a 50%-90% savings rate. The focus of the site is on how to live a nice middle class life on very little money. Here's how he did it: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/09/15/a-brief-history-of... . Or if you want to get extreme: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-yea...
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This reminds me of a certain other mobile camera app that FB acquired quite recently...
"These were books, he would later recall, that he was “supposed to write.”"

It's impressive when someone who's already successful discovers and passes that limit.

I liked his book on meter though, even if it was one of the books he was supposed to write.
I somewhat disagree. Rich is always relative. Having substantially more money than you need to live the lifestyle you want to live is rich by my standards.
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Turn signals are a small subset of the "signal knowledge and intent" lights/outputs that a self-driving car might want to use to communicate with the humans and, some day, other self-driving cars around. The team might be working in the direction of a more general implementation of such things rather than hooking up a temporary system for just two sets of dumb on-or-off lights.
The problem with hiring an older coder is the same as the problem as hiring a younger coder: they might not actually be very good.

The thing you need to do with the older coder is make sure that their instincts and domain-specific knowledge of something you're hiring for won't mask a deficiency in general programming and problem-solving skills - like the ability to extensively think through all the consequences of their code changes and decisions, or operate in an unfamiliar environment - which will show up later when the rubber actually hits the road.

With the younger coder, the general-purpose programming skills are probably all they have to show you. This is something you need to address in your interview process: just make sure you're interviewing for what you're actually going to need.
I realize this was probably in the works for a long time, but is it crazy to think that the Instagram folks helped build this?

Perhaps filters are coming soon. :)
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As he points out, the industry likes young kids that can be paid less and worked harder. People that are old enough to know better are generally viewed as "cancerous" because they tell the younger people they don't have to throw away their youth to make other people rich. The people trying to get rich generally don't like that.
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Distribution and getting listeners/fans is only a part of the problem... Getting a studio and a professional to edit your music is the real cost that new artists have to deal with. I have a friend that makes music on a computer!!! and he's been wanting to produce a professional recording for more than a year (needs $$$ for studio/editing/mixing/I-have-no-idea-what).
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It's a scammers paradise.
also older people should be more aware of what and how much they don't know. Keep in mind that any decent 'old fart' did ship to production and support at least handful of applications with actual users (hint: time before internet )
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The problem lies in how a start up should evaluate an "older person". I am fresh out of school and think it is completely natural to be asked about new technologies, dynamic programming etc. However, I know a guy in his late thirties who has this inhuman ability to learn a fancy new technology in a week's time and then apply it to solve a complex old problem. Unfortunately, he doesn't necessarily have as good an algorithms background as I do. However, the speed at which he gets stuff is amazing. Does that mean that he is not a valuable asset? Also, how do you distinguish between such a person and a person who has spent a decade in industry and can run circles around you on high level stuff but is lacking when you dig deeper? When I am interviewed for a position, I expect (and even appreciate) being given a coding challenge and being asked to present my github account but I am unsure how scalable that model is for a senior person who has family etc.
It was the point drcode was making (which FuzzyDunlop misunderstood):

> The only real danger is for bozos who use the same password for HN as they do for their citibank account

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Excuse my pedantry, but I'd advise against saying "That isn't the point.", for it conflicts with a well known writing technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show,_don%27t_tell

If you insist on doing so, consider a more polite alternative. E.g. "it's seems you've missed the point", "perhaps you've misunderstood", "I feel that so-and-so was saying something else".
This is great advice for anybody who does iOS development. If you are creating a component that is only going to be used internally in your application, it's tempting to just slap it together without really thinking about it. In the long run this really will save you time and headaches.
They already do this. http://allfacebook.com/promote-your-page-button_b89788
There are filters + ability to crop and rotate it seems.
One thing worth pointing out: not all startups are created equally. You will run into the stereotypical startup that will drain you dry so the founders can make millions off of a talent acquisition. But there are plenty of decent startups out there that aren't run this way.
It warms my heart to read this blog post. I have been programming pretty much continuously since 1974 except for a brief two year foray into management. I intend to keep on programming for as long as I can.

I would like to make a brief remark about passion. Leaving aside the fact that the term 'passion' is sometimes overused, I think that a lot of --especially younger-- people confuse passion with a kind of frantic, frenzied intensity. That kind of passion typically does not last very long, I think. It either burns itself out or it mellows into a deeper, more mature, kind of devotion to one's craft.
More ad-free mobile experiences from bubblebook... This ought to generate so much value. /roll
It does seem like a low failure rate - and I don't think that KS has anything to do with it, directly. Indirectly there are certainly things that make a KS project go better than say Rockethub or Indiegogo. I think, because of the 'prestige' that KS has fostered in its image, people put more effort ahead of time into their project. It has nothing to do with Kickstarter, and everything to do with the effort put forth by the Project creator.

Thus - the fact that one does not get the money till it hits their goal number, they spend more time up front getting ready. I actually think currently, that's the greatest service KS provides a project creator. They force a creator to take it more seriously up front.
Looks like filters are already baked-in.

From the link: "It's also easy to edit photos with new tools like the ability to crop, rotate and add filters to any picture in your camera roll."
This works excellently. A few months ago I was on the road 24/7, including some pretty seedy airports and coffee shops all over the world. In Taiwan I got one of those clear plastic cover cases for my 15" MacBook and absolutely plastered the clear case with stickers, and over time I ehem... "applied" a few unvoluntary scratches as well. Bad news is people do tend to stare at your laptop abomination, but the good part is indeed nobody wants it. Also, being a detachable cover, I could take the camouflage off for stuffy business meetings.
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