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Oh, rundmc is Dave McClure? I missed that on the first read. Even though I know he's behind 500Startups, I just didn't even think that he could consider himself a failure. I started to write a comment saying that "the author" was far from being that, but now that I realize who the author actually is, I'm thinking "what?! are you high?".

Anyway, I related a lot to the first few paragraphs (maybe until he was about the same age I am now actually, which makes me hopeful :) ): I was good in school, got accepted in the best French engineering school where I discovered as well that "hard work and regular, consistent effort was also required". I did not really produce that hard work and consistent effort.

The thing is that I hadn't really thought about what I wanted to do at that point: HS students that are good in Math and Physics go to Engineering schools and that's just what I did. Check. But now what?

So I went for Computer Science a bit after eliminating the other options. Then moved to the US still without thinking in terms of career and what I really wanted to do. This has lead to taking jobs in tech but without enough consideration to where it would lead me.

So now, after a few years of jobs as "not a developer but something else" and years doing programming as a hobby after work, I realize that maybe I should just find a job as a developer. Problem is that companies look at my resume and it doesn't quite "match" what they're expecting for someone who is that many years after his master.

Long story short: I, too, feel like a late bloomer that hasn't filled his expectations from earlier successes. However, I don't run a fund, haven't worked for successful startups and am not friend with Sean Parker. Does that make me a failure? No, but I know I can do better. The good news is that I have 15 years to catch up with you, Dave!
Absolutely true.

I find the same effect on HN to be even worse. HN now has over 100k uniques/day[1] .

That means that on any topic you'd ever like to comment on, odds are good there are many HN visitors who are better at that you are.

[1] traffic from last year: http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-9feb11.png)
> UW is not as exclusive as UW CSE, but to suggest UW itself is just a so so University is insulting to me.

I'm sorry you feel that way, I am merely sharing my experiences and impressions of the school, and "so so" is certainly how I would describe it. I had the fortune of attending a fairly elite international school abroad and a highly ranked public high school in Massachusetts. In both places the caliber of student was high, and I was rather disappointed to find university less so. I have my biases, as you yours, but I do believe my argument has some merit.

That said, to call a school "elite" because it is difficult for locals to get in is both disingenuous and inconsistent with your prior statement that it is nearly as competitive as its more widely known and more prestigious competitors. UW continues to care increasingly less about its undergraduate population and view them as a funding source for research as much as valuable contributors to the campus community. Tuition hikes are putting it closer and closer to the cost of attending a private university at the same time class sizes are larger than ever and making it so most fresher could go an entire year without so much as meeting a professor one-on-one.

What most boggles me however, is that Seattleites remain fiercely devoted to the school. In Massachusetts (and New England in general) it's rare to find ten people in a room having gone to the same university, whereas in Seattle it seems the rare occasion for that not to be the case. Is it the lack of viable alternatives for the highly capable wanting to stay close to home?
Mid 20, same shit.
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Sue them for using open source software that Nokia itself released? That sounds amusing.

No, this is fine legally. What's more difficult is that huge chunks of "Nokia MeeGo" (which is frustratingly different from "Intel MeeGo" in a lot of ways) aren't actually open source. They released most of the middleware, but none of the apps.
I've heard that grad students go through something very similar when they go to grad school: feelings of inferiority and fears of being "exposed" as fake when surrounded by so many other intelligent people.

I've never worked for a start-up but imagine the start-up scene works the same given the common stereotypes: success stories of 20-year-olds, hyper intelligent ivy-league drop-outs, etc. I don't know whether they're the rule or the exception to it.
From a shareholder's point of view then sure, the hypothetical trucking company should do that - except there are other considerations - shareholders who wouldn't want to invest in that company, bad press, other companies boycotting them... it's a lot easier for pro-gay companies to boycott a bigoted company than the other way around.

Of course morals come into play as well, personally I'd never run, work for or invest in a company that did that, and I like to think I'd still have that stance if I wasn't gay (actually I don't need to say "like to think", as I already have that stance for various other things that don't directly affect me).
things can sometimes feel so daunting as we toil away night and day for years without end on our hopes and dreams, reading his honesty and admission helps (at least me) put it in perspective that we still have time to keep going relentlessly while we force our dreams to come true (i hope).

as long as we are so lucky to be here another day to keep going.
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> That's changing the argument, those words mean totally different things.

Sure, you're concerned he was using "friends" too loosely. I'm saying you should give him a pass. It's of course up to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
"Does the Python community have tabs holdouts who are github lepers"

This actually happens? People who don't understand tabs sure as hell shouldn't be lecturing other people about using them. Infantile.
The downvoters obviously don't know Dave.
I'm not sure where I appeared to contradict myself in my earlier posts, so I'm unsure how to clarify this for you. Best I can do is this:

Here is a link to a variation of the "image" file which is the subject of this post:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/131649/squirrel.html

I have embedded harmless (-- honest! --) script in the file to demonstrate that your browser will execute the script in the context of the site where the file is hosted.

So, click the link. (Again I promise that no harm will come to your computer.) Now imagine that dl.dropbox.com is, instead, some hypothetical site where users are expected to upload images, but not HTML documents containing arbitrary script, and the security implications should be fairly obvious.
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I'm looking at the post you replied to. So maybe you replied to the wrong post, or ignore context and tried to be witty or smart.

In context, what you say makes no sense.

Regardless, https would be better, but if you are that nervous as you suggest you are, then https doesn't solve your problem either. Neither does some hash thrown up on some site for you to compare against.
Fine, fine, I'll post the screed. My point is that the word "professional" is now all but synonymous with "slick salesman"

Personally, I doubt that "professionals" were any more trustworthy before I was old enough to notice, too... thus me poking fun at the very ideas underpinning it.

(as an aside, I don't know all that much about finance... but as far as I can tell, it's nothing but sales, so there really isn't any room for professionalism in the way you mean the word. They aren't doing anything but selling.)

My experience with people that claim to be 'professional' or who attempt to dress professionally - nearly all of those people I know are salespeople. If you want someone to show up on time and look good? sure, go with one of them. If you want the correct answers to your questions? if you want someone to give you truthful answers even when those truthful answers mean you go with a competitor? find someone who is actually into what you are trying to do.

That's the thing, at least in the part of Engineering where I work? sure, some good Engineers claim to be professionals, but almost none of them put any effort into the appearances of professionalism. Few put any effort into dressing or grooming, and many are habitually late.

The only people I know that put a lot of effort into appearing professional are the sales people.

I mean, sure, you and I can argue back and forth all day... "Words have meaning!" and, of course, a 'professional' is someone that does a job that requires a lot of training, and probably comes from an upper middle class background. But the thing is, that meaning changes over time, as how the word is used. Personally, I associate the word 'professional' along with the western style business suit, with fraud, mostly because the Engineers I know don't put much effort into claiming to be professional, while most sales people do. I think that more and more people have that opinion of the suit; even salespeople I meet rarely wear suits, (though, of course, they still loudly declare they are 'professionals' even though they have little knowledge of the product and are more than happy to make up ridiculous lies about their own product and the competition.)
Some significant percentage of Google's employees are gay. Helping those employees achieve equal rights to everyone else improves those employee's lives not just in the feel good sense but it also makes a lot of practical things like health insurance benefit sharing much more straight-forward.

By lobbying to improve the lives of its employees, Google is improving Google. So as another heterosexual gay marriage hipster I disagree with you.

I also disagree with you that Google shareholders opposed to gay marriage shouldn't be forced to choose. They are just as wrong in their beliefs as those who supported segregation were or those who were against women's suffrage were. Marginalizing these people for their ridiculously antiquated beliefs is fair game, IMO.
Great idea. I like it.
I'm looking at this as a template engine? Or am I missing something?
That's true, but there's also an advantage to that. It's possible to learn a lot simply by osmosis of reading this site. This does lead to some bizarre groupthink though.
I don't think Google should be doing this, because I don't think employers should take positions on lifestyle choices of their employees. Nothing specific to gay marriage, I would also say that employers shouldn't push biking/walking to work over driving, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, eating or not eating a certain way, reserve premium parking spaces for "green" cars, etc. You can't make everyone happy so just focus on your business, please.
I humbly disagree: As a writer, I'd like my design handled for me. I just want to be able to write the best piece within reach & present it to the world in a way that will gain mass distribution.

Besides that, as a reader, it's easy to detect the Svbtle "look" & know that this article will probably be worth my time.
Here is the press page for the conference where this was announced by Google’s Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe. - http://www.globallgbtworkplacesummit.org/press--media.html

Also, may I just say that as a I am a lover of smut, innuendo and really bad puns, I think that Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe is a wonderful name for a man in his position.
First, there is the information asymmetry. Second, there is the incentive structure created by that conflict of interest, even in a situation where the clients had perfect information.
Yep. BTW, forgot to say that LCC-Win32 came with some really cool libraries to do BigInt maths, and later included the CCL, which is a library of containers (linked list, hash tables, etc.) Obviously nothing approximating Boost, but it was good enough if you wanted to avoid having to code your own linked list every time (let's face it: after you've learned how most data structures work it's kind of boring and risky to reimplement every time.)

Edit: actually it seems the CCL is still mostly just a bunch of docs. Meh.
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Hell yeah you have time! You're only 19 and you seem to know what you want to do for the foreseeable future, have co-founded a company, worked at two successful startups… I have yet to do any of these. (well, maybe I do know what I want to do? Maybe…)

You're so ahead of most people, it's almost tempting to downvote you for humblebrag. It's like people who complain because they do only [good measurement of self in a domain] in [said domain]. (I would give a sport example, but I couldn't give you a realistic one)
> I used PHP for five years professionally, I consider myself as well positioned as many to have an informed opinion about PHP weaknesses and strengths.

Yeah, that doesn't mean anything. In fact, to be frank, when I read that, I fill in the underlying context:

"I used PHP for fives years professionally, and the code was horrible. Granted, it was code I wrote because PHP let me write code that way..."

or

"I used PHP for fives years professionally, almost a decade ago..."

> I remember we had even built a code checker that was forbiding the use of many php functions and syntax, and had a set of wrappers around basic functionalities like string functions or date functions.

Yeah, that didn't do much to change my mind.
No idea why you are getting downvoted on this. While I don't regularly have to take naps I've done it from time to time and found it helpful. There is a bit of information that I've seen that supports this as well.

Here is one item:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/02/22/naps_boost_learnin...
Except that apt-get will check GPG signatures and detect that kind of attack. How is a MITM attack going to find a 3rd party's private key?
Perhaps the most significant new pattern is that domain models communicate with a REST interface to the views. Usually you justify procedural coupling when writing controllers that interact with models, and it seems to make sense because controllers and models are often written in similar style and syntax. But still, it caused me a lot of pain in the past.

So now, the models only expose a REST API beyond the "class wall" (so to speak), which feels rather natural when called from views in template syntax. Client-side frameworks do it this way already, but I'm talking server side.

A great side effect of models speaking REST natively is, it becomes trivial to create a public API, just add authentication.

There's a few other things, like automatic request view routing.
Wait for the lawsuits.

The article says $750 trillion of transactions are indexed to LIBOR each year. The short side of those were cheated out of money.

Hence "Banking's 'Tobacco Moment'".
No, it's based on the very real fact that a lawyer can get in serious trouble for violating a raft of nit-picky self-regulatory provisions. Law firms have entire departments dedicated to avoiding conflicts of interest, and lawyers can get in trouble even for failing to disclose unethical activity they know about. Not to mention the constant threat of malpractice suits, in which violation of the ethical rules are strongly probative of malpractice liability.
All employers take positions on lifestyle choices by offering them.

Cigarette, car, pornographic, internet food, and news companies takes a position on lifestyle choices by providing a choice.

The unfortunate thing for LGBT is that there is no way to generate revenue by converting non-LGBT to LGBT.
I for one agree with OP. The lack of capitalization made the article more difficult to read.

For the record, I am not a brogrammer. Just a regular dude who's used to regular ol' English style standards.
Did you ever see anybody lobbying for stuff they consider bad? Of course everybody lobbies for good stuff, just definitions of good stuff differ between people.

Or you meant "As long as companies are gonna be able to lobby, might as well lobby for stuff I agree with"?
I completely agree with you. On western style reactors I think we should be removing a lot of unnecessary safe guards and educate the public on what actually happens in the case of a western designed, pressurized water reactor meltdown. What happens is practically nothing but fear and panic. Chernobyl was a very dangerous design. Fukushima was not.

No one died from radiation exposure from fukushimas meltdown and no one was going to die. Radiation exposure is very hard for the public and even educated people to understand. Releases of radioactive materials from a meltdown like Fukushima are barely above normal radioactive background noise and simply will not cause the devastation people believe it will. The most recent numbers I saw were that in the next 20 years, 4 out of every 100,000 in the area around Fukushima were likely to contract a form of cancer when as it was 40,000 out of every 100,000 were already going to get some form of cancer.

This modeling is also based on the Linear No Threshold (LNT) theorem which is patently wrong. Aside: LNT states that if 100% of people die at a high radiation exposure then, linearly, at 1% of that exposure, 1% of people will die. This is false. It is equivalent to saying that since 100 out of 100 people die from falling from 100ft up then at least 1 out of a 100 people will die from falling from 1ft.

Radiation is just not the monster it's made out to be.

What happens in a meltdown in a pressurized water reactor is the fuel turns to a solid mass with enough decay heat that it's still hot. It ruins the plant, yes. It's a economic loss, yes. But as far as I'm concerned, if it's not dispersed into the atmosphere then it's not an issue and it won't be dispersed into the atmosphere because it won't light on fire. Not in a design like Fukushima or three mile island.
To be honest, I wouldn't worry too much.
Everyone is like "I was programming since I was 10!"
Nobody ever asks what they were programming at 10, most people wrote relatively simple stuff until they grew up and got a professional job.

Now to wait for replies from people who designed OSes when they were 12 :)
Yes, like the gorgeous girls that call themselves fat, it pisses me off. I feel like though I've done this, but I'm still not financially secure, I worry about a paycheck, and people still don't respect what I do and think I should be in college. So it just makes me wonder, ya know?
You say that now, but tomorrow Hummus.py 0.5 will be announced.
The difference is that these people have spent large fractions of their lives preparing for careers that they can't get into. And they are generally very smart people, so it is to nobody's benefit for them to waste their time.

You might also say, that they are very smart people, so they should know what they are getting into. That's valid, but it takes articles like this to spread the word. Many very respected people are not being fully honest about the situation, including Obama and everyone else at the top. Professors have every incentive to lie to prospective students; they need multiple grants to get tenure and every grant agency wants to be funding multiple students. It is certainly a pyramid scheme.

In the short term, it is very efficient, because we get good science done for very little money. But in the long run, it might backfire; I honestly don't know.
Well, that's not what binding is supposed to do. After all, field names aren't something you should be exposing at all.

> I do an exact equality check against a white list.

Pretty much the way you are supposed to do it (except, I'd actually use the value in the white list rather than the matched input value, as the two should not be the same).
A promising option for model binding with Backbone.js
Great, this makes sense now.
This long-term fraud is one of the better cases for which there are likely to be thousands of individuals who should be held criminally and financially responsible. It is clear that many financial institutions will be held responsible.

If the thousands or even perhaps tens of thousands of individuals involved are forced to pay restitution damages in addition to punitive damages, would this further the cause of justice? I am of the mindset that it will. Do the world's prosecutors and politicians have the balls and/or resources to do it?
No, it's not just you. I've had an unhappy experience with the spam filters (with a normal Thunderbird install) for years now. It seems to miss things that are obviously spam (to a human); thankfully I haven't had too many false-positives... that I've caught, at least.
I have always found that it's much more interesting to try and create your own space than to compete with others.

This does not guarantee you success or that you ever find that space. But it does keep you on your toes on your own terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposter_syndrome

Pressure to succeed in ones youth is ubiquitous in certain industries.

I think this song about the music industry pretty much sums it up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9GJ6mMxLw
Renting in Vancouver is generally cheaper than SF. Buying a place may be a different story, but rent is reasonable in Vancouver.
Is being gay a lifestyle choice? I thought the mainstream opinion is that choice has quite little to do with it.
This is exactly right. As soon as I see that blog theme, I recognize it as 'this is gonna be a good article.'

The only nitpick I have about the site is I think the font is 'too wide.' That's just a personal preference of course.
Regarding talent pool, it is particularly noticeable when hiring non-technical roles at a tech company (ie: technical sales & marketing).

There is a feedback loop between not being able to raise sufficient money, and not being able to afford the most talented people...
I'm in favor of gay marriage, pet marriage, sibling marriage, and all sorts of other kinds of marriage that people tend to feel the need to ban.

However, I think it's absurd that the state is involved in marriage. Google's move, while perhaps pragmatic in nature, reveals a very strong sentiment legitimizing the state role in marriage, which is the basis for all the backwardness.

Only when the state becomes involves in things can politicians attempt to control what others do via the power of the state. I'd rather see Google encourage people to just "marry" each other with private vows and no license or other nonsense.
> Equally intriguing, the total world-wide storage capacity is roughly the same as a single adult human’s DNA.

No.

wget ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/technical/reference/human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz
...
==> RETR human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... done.
Length: 892331003 (851M)
^^^^
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