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The praise for Github bootstrapping to over 100 employees always strikes me as odd. I have the impression that using venture capital to accelerate a company marks a more modern approach to business, relative to the last ~30 years. Along these lines, Github's seeming delay in accepting venture capital signals to me that its core business plan strongly builds value without a "warp-tunnel" of venture capital, and that its current valuation comes from patience rather than a VC's gamble. Therefore, I see such public investments of VC more as a mark of impatience caused by a society that thrives so much on near-instant communication.

Is my impression off?
This seems very similar to QR codes. Users basically share a link to a file on Chirp's servers. It would be great to see this in an open format, so it could be used by anyone, without relying on a third party. I can imagine this being useful in emergency situations.
I wrote this post for that exact reason http://blog.picplum.com/startups-dont-host-your-blog-on-tumb...

edit: re link not loading - anyone else having Zerigo DNS issues right now?

edit2: yeah, lots https://twitter.com/#!/search/zerigo
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> A 40 hour week is a good rule. I suspect that a 36 hour week is a better rule.

By saying "36 hour week" instead of "35-hour week is better", you're showing a bias that better working hours means working less days or taking longer weekends (i.e. 9 days every two weeks), rather than less hours per day (i.e. 7 hours a day). Certain types of people (including you I guess) would prefer the extra day as reward, other types prefer the extra hour each day. Don't forget about the latter types of people.
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1. Define Yahoo as a media company.

2. Negotiate executive compensation based on performance of Yahoo against benchmark group of other media companies (many of these media companies are losing profit as if they are hot potatoes.), such as fairfax media. http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FXJ.AX&t=1y

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Ask PG: Make the login form available over HTTPS only?
Hi PG,
I noticed news.ycombinator.com supports both SSL and vanilla HTTP. While savvy users probably have been doing this for years, the login form as well as the comment submission pages are available over vanilla HTTP. This means that if I try to log in on a wireless connection and forget to use the SSL link, anyone can sniff my HN username and password by reading the packets sent between my computer and the wireless router. Passing login credentials over HTTPS is a standard industry best practice (passing auth cookies over HTTPS as well is best, as Firesheep demonstrated).

Could you please make the login page available only over SSL? Then I wouldn't have to remember to use the secure link when logging in. Of course all non-logged in visits could continue to use HTTP.

Best,
Kevin
It's nice to see a company and law firm that not only acknowledges its fans, but doesn't treat them like criminals.
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I feel like this question is pointless gotcha journalism. You could apply it to any major tech company and you would get muddled answers.

- What is Google? They are a search company. So why do they have an email service and a cell phone operating system? Why are they inventing self-driving cars and buying major hardware companies? Why are they pushing a social network so hard?

- What is Apple? They are an electronic device company. But they have by far the most successful retail stores in the world, and they are one of the largest online retailers in the world.

- Speaking of retail, what is Amazon? The world's largest online retailer, right? So why are they running a huge cloud computing project? Why are they making tablets?

- What is Microsoft? The world's largest software company. So why does their gaming division primarily sell hardware? Why did they just come out with their own tablets?
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I am awe-struck with what people with a passion manage to get done "in a couple weeks" just for fun.

I can't imagine that I could have hired someone to do the same analysis, research, programming, scripting, graphics creation, and web site layout for anything less than tens of thousands of dollars. (Or is my intuition wrong about that?)
Uh oh. Is this the case for others too? Actually, I even have trouble myself at times. Maybe I should migrate the blog to WordPress..?
> "The girl should have the power to ruin the lives of these boys."

The danger with granting such power is that you also risk granting it in situations where it isn't deserved.
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Great idea! I have some surplussavings. What I'll do is lend it to myself so I can spend it on stuff now, then demand it back from myself in 10 years time. Genius! Except what actually happens is we demand it back from our children after we've retired. Sucks to be them.
My connection to Tumblr is always being interrupted. I brushed it off as an edge case, since I live in a pretty remote area in Europe. This makes me think the issue more wide spread.
Those of us in the rest of the world (since I, too, speak for the rest of the world) don't really think America is crazy about anything. Perhaps those of us in the rest of the world need to stop trying to lecture other nations about what they should "understand."
This is a good one. Also kudos to @jacobr, for his collection.
Is there a point here beyond "Google should be ashamed of themselves"? Apple plays in the patent war zone, and this is what happens there.
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> Maybe there's some way to shut that off

Not using oh-my-zsh or the like, zsh has lots of hooks and omz uses a lot of this hooks for or around git repos, so CD-ing into a git repo entails loads of work.

Use vanilla zsh and configure as needed, and it'll be as zippy as everywhere else.
"There is such disagreement over whether Facebook is the next big thing on the Internet or whether it’s going to fail miserably.”

Who are the people having this type of conversation? Why would a company like Facebook, with billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds of millions of users be on track towards "failing miserably"....Simply for being tied to a $100 billion valuation? Perhaps the valuation was lofty but I don't see a company like Facebook outright failing due to greedy investors.
Consumers "know" what each of all three of those companies do, more so that with Yahoo (...since we're asking what yahoo is doing).
We've picked this for our mobile presence, the real selling point for me was the pretty much native speed animations out of the box, which is a killer on things like jquery mobile. There might be more work up front for us as there is less reuse possible from our web front-end but that is our issue to solve once, having a clunky, unresponsive UI is a problem every user would suffer every time.
Well, a week is about $2500, so I guess it'd take around $5k.
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GitHub still does not give you the revision at which a pull request was merged (even if you did it from their interface), if you don't specifically reference the request from the commit message (to create a backlink) the relation is lost to gh.

It's annoying when you're trying to see where/when a fix has been landed.
Right you are, and the metaphore is brilliant. You cannot demand from a programmer to be a nice speaking salesman, when you do, you are ending with a half baked software well sold.
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It's my understanding that the definition of "militia" and what anyone thinks the Founding Fathers meant by the Second Amendment is now largely irrelevant. Didn't DC v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago settle this?
I don't remember any discussion of wget vs. curl in the movie and couldn't find anything specific to the movie about that on Google; I'm guessing that the the OP just decided to use wget instead of curl because that was what they were using in the movie. (If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me.)

Here is a comparison of wget and curl that was posted on Hacker News a little over two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479
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Whilst VC can certainly accelerate a company's growth, it can also be risky.

When you take on funding you also take on obligations. One could imagine that VC partners early on may take issue with the idea of Github offering free services for open source projects for example. Before the network effect steps in, it'd just look like a foolish and idealistic idea. Essentially, VC funding may well accelerate your company but it's so early you have no clue if you're accelerating in the right direction.

By bootstrapping to such a successful point and then taking VC funding they're in far more control over how much money they receive and what percentage of equity they give up. The worst position to be bargaining from is a position of weakness -- having a self sufficient company puts them in control.

Bootstrapping lead to what appears to be very competitive terms from well known and respected VC partners[1]. Whilst they could have raised funding earlier, they would have been parting with much more equity.

[1]: http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-07-09-github-takes-1...
I'm curious about the distribution of ink costs (by color) during the same timespan - just how close that correlation is.
I think this is mostly one line in which Mark Zuckerberg says something along the lines of "time for a little wget magic". Certainly not a major plot point.

Here's what I think is the relevant scene on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odOzMz-fOOw
FWIW, I think "Will Chirp become 'next Twitter'?" was the short version of the title, based on the most read links on the BBC site.
Ask HN: What do you look for in an online bookmarking service?
I was just wondering, we've got plenty of online bookmarking services online but non of seem to be sufficient for the majority of users.

So I was wondering: are you satisfied with one of them? Which one and why? If not what do you look for in an online bookmarking service?
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I've been following the author of this article for a few years now. Although he's been mostly consistent in his writings until 2010, when Apple got into the patent wars game he changed his stance from "Apple is wise not to exercise patents offensively, let other industry players ruin each other doing it" to "Of course Apple has a right to defend their intellectual property, and even be aggressive about it".

Do a Google search for "site:roughlydrafted.com not aimed at the iphone" and you'll find this article from 2009

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/11/21/inside-googles-andr...

About two thirds down you'll find the paragraph heading "Not aimed at the iPhone". Read that paragraph. It is a sample of how the author used to think about the mobile landscape ca. 2009. Come 2010 the author abruptly and disingenuously changes stance to the point where the tone of all articles he writes is about agreeing with SJ's "thermonuclear" war against Android.

So yes, Daniel Eran Dilger, if you're reading this, I think you're an arrogant and disingenuous Apple fanboy motivated by a blind hatred of everything that isn't Apple.
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PyPy's focus so far has been on the JIT. The interpreter part is mostly an equivalent of a brain-dead C implementation. Overall it does not matter for long running programs (like web servers), but the warmup times are kind of horrible.

That said, in a language like Python, the interpretation overhead matters much less, because bytecodes are typically very "fat" and involve say multiple dictionary lookups (which are way more costly than bytecode dispatch lookup). If I were to optimize the interpreter, I would start with specialized bytecodes, that avoids fatness of the bytecodes first.
"given that Apple has a habit of changing things."

Apple doesn't have a habit of changing things. If anything, I feel that Apple is too conservative when it comes to making changes.
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One of my best friends recently got hired by Amazon. I won't disclose his full benefits+relocation package because that's private to him, but it included many little things that just make it feel like Amazon deeply cares about its employees: for example, they paid a special recruiter to help his fiance find a job in Seattle, bought a plane ticket for his cat's relocation (the devil is in the details), and so on.
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Have you ever noticed that some developers see the job market as a bleak and desperate place where jobs are scarce and exploitive, while others see this market and can't believe their amazing luck to have stumbled into such a fantastic career?

We all know guys from both those camps, so something must be up.

I think a lot of guys get trapped in this cycle between their own lack of confidence and predatory companies that look for that sort of employee to exploit. I mean, what better employee to have than one who's constantly in fear of losing his job in the next round of layoffs and will happily work long hours for "market average" wages in the quest for job security.

That developer, when he hits the market, will hit it via a layoff. And he'll have four years of his last employee reinforcing his lack of value, so he won't expect much beyond a desperate search for somebody, anybody who will hire him. That's not the sort of dude who will network his way into coffee with your CTO. He'll pray and spray resumes at HR and endure half a year of being rejected by keyword filters. By the time the next exploitive company finds him and offers him another death march at a "market average" salary, he'll be so grateful that he'll never want to leave.

You see that guy here from time to time (though more often at Slashdot and Reddit). I wish there were a way to get through to him to let him know that it's really not like that.

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I was looking out for the Teal/Orange effect and was interested to see that it started in posters way back in the 80s already, 20 years before digital film color grading.
One way to mitigate this is to reduce the cost of maintaining those little-used features.

I've been doing this by (a) having a huge automated test suite that covers just about every feature (you don't get a feature in unless it has a test), and (b) being very aggressive about generating code, and (c) using Coverity to automatically find bugs.

The automated tests (a) let us know if a little-used feature breaks because of an unrelated change. That lets us decide whether to remove or fix the feature without the feature being a constant burden. Generating code (b) lets us make global changes to boilerplate without micro-managing each feature. And using code quality tools (c) is self-evidently better when you have a large codebase.
Kinda ironic, I get "Oops! Google Chrome could not find blog.picplum.com" :)
We (most in this discussion) seem to forget that the advent of $10 or $0.99 app actually expanded the market. As in, more people paid money for software than before, thus paying for more indy/non-indy developers.

So let me say this again. The App store, with its $1-5 apps, is a good thing for the developers as well as the users.
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Kudos to the Enyo team for making this happen (despite it being widely and inaccurately reported that Google hired "the whole team" a few months back).

Clearly there are still some very talented engineers working there, can't wait to see what they do with Open webOS 1.0 later this year.
In the photo, there's an arm growing right out of the guys head. Wondering if this is this a Silicon Valley thing, or if he should see a doctor.
It's not about something not being possible. It's about something not being "commercially profitable". We could abandon all the coal and oil in a decade or two and move completely onto renewable energy sources, it is possibe - it's just nobody gives a damn about it, because it would have a dent in quality of life, especially in western countries.

It's our selfishness and greed holding us back, rather than laws of physics.
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Where are you getting this appellation from? "Intellectual 1%" is something that is very fuzzy and undefined.

To give a vague and silly answer to a vague and silly question: anyone with an IQ over ~120.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IQ_curve.svg
I'm interning at Amazon at the moment, and I can say that as far as office perks go, they don't have many. But when it comes to the connivence of living, they do far more than I would have ever expected.

For example, I got corporate housed pretty far away from work (hour by bus), Amazon not only payed for a shuttle every morning to work and every night from work, they also reduced my housing costs and offered a rental car for the summer. And this wasn't just to me, every intern that didn't get housed right next to campus got some sort of benefit to make getting to work easier.

They take almost the opposite approach to some places. They assume you'll take care of yourself at work, and then they take care of you outside of work.
> Where else in the world

Pretty much anywhere. It comes down to a fitting individual, of which there simply more in the SV. There's nothing magical about SV that suddenly makes an otherwise average person start designing a better thermostat.
....while I can see all tumblr blogs, I can't see yours.

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That's an interesting observation. I wonder if that's a more general kind of lag that can be found with other effects, with things becoming feasible in still design work some years before the analogous thing becomes feasible in film/video.
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The mentioned post did spend a good amount of time on the HN frontpage yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277278
If you can't read this blog post, it suggests hosting your blog because Tumblr's uptime is atrocious.
I think it's safe to say that Amazon is like most companies: The more they want you, the more they'll pay to get you. I've heard of exceptional relocation packages (all the way up to "having trouble selling your house? no problem, we'll buy it from you for its assessed market value") being provided by many different organizations to a select few recruits.

Obviously Amazon is enthusiastic about your friend!
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My bad theory is that Thomas Kuhn's theory of "paradigm shift" itself could be an example of bad theory as presented in the original article. As in, there might not be too tough to find a few obvious counter examples, essentially (proving?) the theory wrong...
VC money is generally for businesses that need to accelerate growth rapidly (ie have a big first mover advantage etc) and have a huge upside at the end of it.
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In that other big fancy article (it was almost a book) about zynga from last year, the guy compared good games developers to weed dealers (faith in the product,) and zynga to crack dealers (never touch the stuff.) I thought that was nice.
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It's hard to take those graphs seriously when they are not logarithmic, but I see your point.

Also, comparing to oil is terrible - they should compare to electricity instead which has hardly changed in price.

And if the price is really falling so well, why are we pushing things? Let the price keep falling and people will naturally switch, with no need to subsidies.

Speaking of - does that price take into account subsidies?