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Hmm, I assumed this would have to be written in C so that it could use multiple threads in parallel in MRI, but it seems not. Then I remembered concurrent != parallel.
A while back I interviewed with a startup doing transhumany things that was full of on-the-ground transhumanists and they were all quite serious about it. They're out there.
Don'y f*ing use hackernews as your blog's comments platform
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I honestly wish it were that simple (coming from a person who abandoned twitter in favor of identi.ca).

Unfortunately without the commercial interests to drive the product forward, it just generally doesn't work out.

That being said, I really hope Diaspora takes off.
I agree that Chez JJ was highly misrepresented. To compare to college dorms is superficial, it completely lacked the real essence of what makes the boarding at Chez JJ really special, the family-like atmosphere that creates emotional support for everyone in the hacking industry, and a great atmosphere to bounce ideas off each other. I felt that the article was written to laugh at people and their sub-par living conditions and start-up failures. It sorely diminishes the hard work and achievements that are continuously produced through the residence and the genuine care that is put in by the captains. It made Sasha sound like a callus bitch and the boarding sound filthy. Makes you feel that journalism cannot be trusted.
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Stack Overflow has solved a similar problem using WebSockets -- most of their pages will automatically update (e.g, to display the presence of edits, new answers, and added comments) immediately using a socket.
> I'm going to call her a "stuck up bitch" in her wordpress comments and see if wordpress has some magical powers to stop me from judging her in public.

I'd just like to point out regardless of your age, gender, nationality, et cetera, that you're an asshole.
"Hackers — the Mark Zuckerberg variety, not the identity thieves " being tongue and cheek are we :)?
What do you mean? I've worked with some of our DBAs, and they're quite good. In fact, I can't think of a single site issue that was caused by a DBA. I work on fighting spam at FB, and we make use of mysql quite a bit.
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Well, it's only about a day old, but the conversation between him, her, and the rest of us went well from there. We're working on v2 right now :) I don't really think this is going to tear us apart--I was actually the cause of a worse mishap a bit earlier, and that ended much better after clearer, and apologetic communication. The point stands though, it is important that you stay considerate in situations like these, so they don't become something that jeopardize your team dynamic. Jesse immediately responded in an incredibly understanding and apologetic manner, and now we're working together to fix things, as we should!

-Jordan (1 of 5)
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There's certainly a trade-off between having the convenience to talk to someone next to you and having a distraction-free environment. Working from home I enjoy hours of coding in the zone that makes me much more productive than in the office. On the other hand, in the office I enjoy hearing about the latest trends in technology and being able to rack brains with someone else on a tough problem. But working in an open office where others can similarly interrupt you is not ideal, so I advocate having personal offices along with shared spaces.
+$20 BOM cost probably means +$50-100 at retail, though.
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There is one industry that is similar to software, but it has absolutely no intellectual property protection besides trademarks.

It's the fashion industry.

It moves at a breakneck pace. Nobody claims the fashion world is dying or moving too slowly because of lack of legal monopoly protection. The competition is fierce, and consumers are rewarded with many great options.

I'm sure other industries would do fine without patents.
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I disagree with some of the generalities about women being judged and placed into categories - and not men. Is she saying most men can say whatever they want in public with no consequences while most women have to be very careful what they say? Is that true? Or is it just perception?

I have a twitter account and a Facebook profile, and do not hide those things from co-workers. I am fairly true to myself though, so nothing I say in FB or twitter should surprise anyone who knows me. There will be no pictures posted that can get me fired - partly because I don't act in private in a way that will get me fired if my boss knew.

What kind of job requires you to have no online presence? Examples?
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Wasn't it RHEL/Centos based Scientific Linux, and had nothing to do with Debian/Ubuntu/Failbuntu?
So this applies if your manager/team is in another city/timezone? Ironically, I got my first promotion and biggest bonus as the only NY member of a London-based team. However, I certainly wondered whether being the lone wolf in my region was good for my career in the long run.
Feedback:

#1 devalues genuine software innovation. If a software innovation is genuine, why is it worth less protection? I understand that software moves faster than tangible products, but that just means "innovation" means something different in software. As a programmer, I oppose any effort to devalue software relative to other intellectual pursuits.

#2 Devalues genius. If a genius only needs 2 weeks to produce real genuine medical innovation, it should not be measured against some arbitrary measured effort standard quantifying "evidence of research".

#2 Also enforces arbitrary business requirements on software-using firms. Why can't a firm invent a lot of stuff and not implement it all at once? They should have the same rights to use their inventions as firms that work in other pursuits. (Again, this is dependent on the innovations being genuine.)

#3 Devalues software relative to manufacturing by applying a different standard.

These are hard problems that I can't answer at the moment; I'll freely admit that. But I continue to be shocked that the programming community tends to put forth answers that devalue its efforts, so I feel the need to point out that software is as worthy of protection as other fields. (This is a shocking argument to have to make to software people!) If there's a problem with the patent system, fix it across the board: software is not the problem.
Eh, I think your co-founder has the wrong attitude here. I edit the copy all the time my co-founder writes. Sometimes I tell him, sometimes I just deploy if I'm in the middle of pushing something out. Building startups is all about iteration. One person sees something from one point of view, the next sees it from another. As each person adds their improvements you get a much better final product - you wouldn't be changing it if you didn't see something wrong with it.

By the same token, I totally accept when the things I've spent hours pouring over get thrown out the door. We recently had a design review where someone said one of the elements I put hours into looked like a 3 year old had drawn it (they didn't know it was done by me, they thought it was outsourced). It was the kind of style I was going for, but that reaction made me realise it totally wasn't suitable for the site. I was a little hurt of-course, made a joke about it and brushed it off. We now have a completely new version of this page that's way better than my original vision.

Wrong response:
“You fucking trimmed my copy.”
“I don’t want to get mad but I sat there for FIVE HOURS crafting that yesterday, there’s a reason for every word.”

Right response:
“I see you changed my copy. What improvements were you trying to make? I felt point x,y,z were important and you left them out. If you were trying to make it shorter, here's a shorter version that includes the more important points.“
Yeah. I may be thinking of the 1wire connection...

Anyway, not myself not other modder were able to use it effectively with any other device unless gutted.
But that aspect of it is the same as Facebook.

If you make a post and I comment on it, my comment is at the mercy of your privacy settings. Facebook and G+ are both explicit about that.

Maybe I'm missing something? I'm not trying to be obtuse, I promise.
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You can find us at ChezJJ.com. There are links to our AirBnb profiles there. Also there are community houses throughout the bay area. We have a few current guests who are looking for roommates, so maybe you can send me a private message with your e-mail and I can forward it along?
This is true, However you do miss out the on the people. I would guess something like this provides much more support for the participants than a simple 1 bedroom. I feel that being surrounded by like minded people working towards a familiar goal is far more valuable than an apartment.
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There's no accounting for an inconsiderate user base. This has always been a big problem for 4chan. I remember several instances where the site was effectively taken offline for days by a JavaScript virus embedded in PNG images that required the user to follow directions in the image in order to spread.
I've found Paypal to be much better if you:

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2) Let them know what you're selling up front

3) Verify all your info -- connect a bank account to it, connect a credit card to it

4) before a launch, marketing blitz, or push, call and let them know.

Why? They're not a bank, but they're like a bank. They have to manage risk. Keep them in the loop and your account has a much, much better chance of not being locked down.
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Second that. The PayPal incident in there succeeded in taking away my attention from the whole Hacker Hostel model and prompted me to quickly search for alternatives.

Problem is, there are not many if you live outside the US :(
Can anyone recommend any international options?
You could get a room for that amount, but you get it without the community, free breakfast, or instant friend group. Most people who stay at ChezJJ are only here for a short amount of time, like a few days, a few weeks or a few monts. It's incredibly difficult to find a room to rent for less than 6 months, and normally renters want a 12 month lease. It's too much of a hassel.
I actually haven't seen this much as an issue at Facebook (I've been an engineer there for a few years). There are some (usually very smart) people who care a lot about systems working reliably, and almost always seem to be a few who are willing to jump on issues like this.

One of the advantages of the "bootcamp" approach outlined in the OP is that people feel empowered to jump from product to product, so if something you care about breaks for a small set of users and you wish to fix it, you can do that. As a few others have pointed out, it doesn't hurt to mention this at review time, and people are often publicly recognized and thanked for these "thankless" efforts.
I think it's just a difference in the way the two companies do "public".

Because Facebook hates Google, you're far less likely to see public posts turn up in Google results.

Google, on the other hand, created their network for the sole purpose of bolstering their search results. This leads to a much more adversarial relationship with the service, where you have to constantly fight to keep yourself out of the spotlight.
The less was less about the fact that he did change it, it was the fact that, by oversight, he changed it, and deployed it live without once discussing or even mentioning the changes, even after the fact. She was understanding of the change and we're working on a happy medium (just as you said we should), it was just a shock to find something she'd put so much effort into go live completely different than she expected. That kind of communication among founders is vital.

-Jordan (1 of 5)
Use WebSockets. Use Pubsubhubbub. Outside of that and reducing the minimum poll time, there aren't a lot of ways of solving this problem.
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i want write a function called _42 in kinds computing languages which implement this functionality: accept anything(parameters), and return nothing but 42.

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>culture is important

I see this asserted a lot, but what exactly is meant by 'culture', and is it really true?

For example, if by 'culture' you mean having an office full of well-educated, capable, motivated engineers and problem-solvers vs not well-educated, capable, or motivated, then sure, I buy that.

Strong leadership that intimately knows the business? Sure, Intel and Apple being exhibits A & B.

But beyond that, what parts of culture should every business strive to replicate, and what parts are more likely overvalued in the zeitgeist due to survivorship bias and other cognitive mistakes?
You have to love these bootstrap covers where they display $2,499+ MacBooks in the most impoverished settings.
http://www.lesswrong.com is probably what comes closer to what you are describing.
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Thank you!

The fact that this "Look I'm a woman" and "Stuck up bitch" crap has been sitting here not getting downvoted (and even getting upvoted evidently), is a glaring indictment of the HN community overall. This is the kind of malicious shit people value, I guess.
Perhaps it is a doomed attempt to duplicate the iPhone's path, but in home entertainment.

1) Release revolutionary device, locked down with software that limits its use
2) Sell lots
3) Finally succumb to demands that your device be the center of an app ecosystem.

If so, I suspect they will fail in all three.
That wasn't /b/tards being inconsiderate, just mind-numbingly retarded. There's been a few JS worms like that, and it's almost always complete morons spreading them.
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Meh, I'm always super unimpressed when simple text based websites have trouble scaling. Everything that's highly requested should be available in memory, and it should be trivial to spit it out instantly.

I'm not a scaling wizard, but I'd guess 99/100 times the reason CRUD apps have problems scaling is because they are over-engineered, and there is a tendency to solve scaling issues by adding another layer of complexity instead of optimizing the root application.
This article's about a year and a half old. We have pretty good unit test coverage on a good chunk of our code (especially core stuff), though admittedly not everything.

Some groups put particular emphasis on this (e.g. the messages team is great about testing), and it shows in the reliability of their products. Even better, they end up building frameworks that make it easier for the rest of engineering to write tests, and drive the whole ecosystem forward.
It's not such a hard dichotomy. I think working from home occasionally makes good sense, if you treat it like what it is, a productive break.

Just the fact that so many request it, should show the benefit of releasing that pressure occasionally. I hate working with tired, overworked people on mental cruise control. The fact is, a big part of the workday is filled with social interaction, whiteboard sessions, etc. But all that is just as draining (if not more so for some) compared to the actual work tasks.

I'd also like to point out the huge time waste that is commuting.
Not at all. We do get some grad students, but most or school drop-outs starting their own businesses. It is not a dorm, nor is it a hostel. Our guests have become my community; my family. We eat together, discuss politics, challenge each others ideas, and support each others endeavors. All this, with breakfast, fresh produce and California weather. It's personal, not a collegiate scam.
4chan is an image board. None of the content is there long enough to be considered "Highly requested.". And like half the posts have jpeg's and png's attached.

Besides, how does caching solve the "My bandwidth bills are killing my wallet!" issue?
Cool thanks. You guys might consider putting some type of forum or something on your site, people could post looking for people.

Bunk beds sounds like a little much for me personally but it would be cool to rent my own room in a house filled with the kind of people coming through your place.
Have you ever worked somewhere that was perhaps a decent job, but you dreaded coming in to work because of bosses/coworkers/distractions? That's culture, just bad culture. Everyone seems to be able to relate to bad culture. Company culture is a two way street, good culture seems harder to come by than bad. I can't even say I've even been somewhere with 'good' culture but it definitely exists and is really just the inverse of bad culture.

I'd say one of the things that draws people to telecommute most is too much exposure to bad company culture. Arguments in regards to productivity and environment are more responses to 'bad' culture than anything else.
heh, that is from the first day we started, it actually looks more homey now. The photos in the NYT article are more appropriate.
Not to mention that spending a couple months in there might leave you with more opportunities than the day right after your graduation from CS.
I was primarily referring to the drivers architecture (which is incompatible and useless for X.org and Wayland). I mean in practice, Firefox OS targeted devices won't have X.org/Wayland GPU drivers, only Android ones. It's not important for immediate goals of Mozilla, since squeezing regular Linux graphic drivers from vendors is a horror. But it doesn't help other distros (like Mer/PlasmaActive and etc.), if they decide to make ports to these devices. It may be not Mozilla's primary goal to promote conventional mobile Linux, but in practice these devices won't help that cause (at least for now), so I feel like they won't be enough of "open devices" in that sense.

On the other hand, if X.org/Wayland based devices will appear (like upcoming Mer/Vivaldi tablet), Mozilla can enable B2G to run on them as well, since they'll provide sufficient support for OpenGL ES.
I didn't necessarily think that it's dirty (although the article implies that it's untidy). I had no idea food was thrown in apart from the occasional cooked meal. If food is included, am I going to be meeting > 2,000 calories a day (or whatever the recommended is)? From the Airbnb listing it looks like only breakfast is included, not every meal like your comment suggests.

My original point really wasn't about cleanliness or food, but about the true, measurable value that SF/SV brings. I don't know why people are compelled to travel from (for example) Toronto to live in a single dorm room with nine strangers, some or all of whom may snore. I imagine the people who stay will likely have their freedoms greatly restricted, even down to their choice of sleep schedule. I can only imagine the alternative would result in people disturbing each others' sleep.

The whole "gotta be in SV/SF" mentality seems to be a product of massive amounts of hype that's driving these people to live in such relatively poor conditions for a relatively high amount. I just don't understand why people are acting like this.
Image preloading and autogif are fantastic features, so getting rid of them would be a net negative. Instead, why not have them be controlled by some client side js, so that images/gifs are only preloaded for the next 20 or so posts from what the user is currently reading? If the user stops scrolling, stop preloading. Preload the final 5 or so images to cover skip-to-bottom, but the vast majority of the preloaded images will not be viewed, and so should not be loaded.
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My first thought when I hear 'theres a reason for every word.': amateur.

Don't take yourself so seriously. Unless you've literally tested every word, theres not a reason for every word. You are just flinging paint on a wall and calling it art.

(side note: you're young, its not bad being called an amateur. It's a good time for you to get rid of bad habits)
It's not an either / or situation - it can be 'and'. I work from home 2-3 days a week, and I'm in the office the other days (and that includes days I do for 'credibility', i.e. I go in, say hi to everyone, work all day in my office, then say bye again when I leave - might as well be at home those days, but I realise sometimes it's necessary just to turn up for the sake of it).
If there is 'pure' technical work to be done, it's more efficient working from home. For one, you save time on the commute. My manager gets check-in updates (via Assembla), and we can talk via the phone or via email. I can provide updated staging builds for him to download and test too, if necessary.
If you have a reasonable manager, a reasonable employee, good tools, and can balance in / out of office days, then the situation can be a big 'win' for everybody. More work gets done, there's enough 'face time', and it's far less stressful.
The graphs you are using here look very similar to Google's stock price history charts[1]. Are you using a shared library, or similar?

[1] for example: https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:FB
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Like many people, I use google for search many times per day. The majority of my searches throw up no ads and are reasonably private. Google seems fine to recognize that and does very well monetizing the small number of searches of interest to advertisers.

Why can't a social network become very profitable and operate in a similar way?

This blog makes a compelling argument that being forced to use your real name and a tendency for the system to default to 'public' is a big deterrent to adoption. It's not about 'what do you have to hide?' but rather, 'if you don't make me feel comfortable how my information will be used, then I won't give it to you.'

At best, arguing with me that I should be comfortable, misses the point. I get to decide whether I am comfortable or not.

Users like the author of this blog need to feel comfortable with how their information is used if google+ is to succeed.