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Agreed. If my youngest makes it to adulthood it will be a miracle - she's very active and even more impulsive. I love her like crazy, but every day she survives is a combination of luck and (I like to think) good parenting.

Last week I was talking to her while I was grilling and when I turned around she was standing on the railing of our deck (15 feet above a concrete patio).
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The Spread of Tea Across the World
Tea as we know it today originated in China. The ancient Chinese discovered the tea plant and its uses, which began as medicinal uses then evolved into recreational use where they began making tea solely for the pleasure of drinking and storing it for consumption.

In China, the custom of drinking tea spread quickly and widely and evolved from the tea-horse trade route. However it wasn’t until the late 15th century when the East began to trade with the West, that the Western world gradually learned about the beauty and wonder of tea, and by the beginning of the 17th century the Chinese began regular exportation of tea to the Western world.

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Oh this is what that is! I accidentally reach this mode now and then and wonder how I got there and what it does. I must be accidentally pressing q: instead of :q ! This is great and useful. Thanks!
Thank you for this. She is watching the google analytics on this blog post with me and is fascinated something she saw me do while she laid in my arms could generate so much traffic. She says thank you as well!
Pardon my ignorance, but why? I haven't read SICP, but I do consider myself to be pretty good at javascript, and was thinking of using it.
It says not for children on the box and if you have a 13 year old who's swallowing magnets, well, then you have a problem.
They've messed up some, but they've also hit grand slams with others. MS-DOS comes to mine. PowerPoint is another. Hotmail. Bungie. FAST Search.

All of those are much more successful than they were before Microsoft acquired them.
I agree. There is a mixture of teams in various stages. It is very good to learn from teams that are ahead of you in terms of learning. I've been attending the physical meetups in san francisco. Eventhough, the turnout has reduced steadily over a period of time, I think that is the best part of nreduce.
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We've received a lot of constructive feedback from other startups over the last couple months in nReduce, and it has generally been a nice experience. For that reason alone, it has been pretty valuable to us.

The new approach to "demo day" that nReduce is going for will hopefully be something that helps entrepreneurs get exposure in a more meaningful way. If it's done right, I could see it as a serious AngelList alternative; they seem to be interested in building tools that let developers show off their skills on a micro/functional way. This is much more appealing than a system that relies more heavily on getting attention through mutual friends and connections.

Having said that, I'm still kind of wary about the 10 startup demo day approach that is based on "investor rating" of the companies, mostly because it's not really clear what that means. Other people questioned the potential for investors to be more inclined to care about specific types/markets of startups, and I think that's a valid concern. However, I think that since they're planning on making it a monthly thing, it could potentially make it a lot easier for niche startups who have a solid product to get some real attention.
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I don't know about GP but I reboot into Windows to play games every other day, usually multiple times that day. Reducing boot time is always welcome.

Also I'm having GPU issues right now, I had to RMA the replacement GPU, and I'm using the buggy Chameleon bootloader to extend the lifespan of my Mac Pro 1,1 past the EFI32 cutoff. So I'm rebooting quite a bit nowadays.
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According to your profile on HN you are a Software Engineer at http://wingspan.org/

I am sure the engineering challenges at a very small, simple CMS site are truly mind boggling.
Actually you dont need an EV certificate in order to show the name of the society inside the certificate, you need the EV cert only if you want to show the name in the browser bar.
Just as an example (no affiliation with thawte):

this is a certificate that only validates the full domain name but has no info about the company:
http://www.thawte.com/ssl/ssl123-ssl-certificates/index.html

this has also the company name inside the cert:
http://www.thawte.com/ssl/web-server-ssl-certificates/index....

and this is the Extended Validation one:
http://www.thawte.com/ssl/extended-validation-ssl-certificat...

Tipically the price of this certificate grows from one type to the other and also the required documents/paperwork changes (if you register a simple fqdn certificate many times the procedure is completely automated, if you register a certificate with the company inside, or an EV cert, you must send relevant documentation about your company)

Having said that, I would expect this kind of businesses to have at least a certificate with company details inside, or better an EV cert..
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Studies have shown that fiber to a house results in a net increase of about $10K in the house's value. Since typical property taxes are about 1% of the value, any local government that does this is looking at about $100/year extra income per house, ad infinitum.

You can use bonds to pay for fiber, because fiber is infrastructure (like water, electricity, roads).

Here's how I would like to see it: the City provides fiber infrastructure, and charges a base fee for it. This gets your traffic to some termination point(s). If you want access to the Internet, you pay a third party to carry your traffic to/from the Internet past those termination points. It'd be an open market, so carriers would try to undercut each other.
I see these articles all the time, can someone tell my why people are always intent on reinventing the wheel rather that using statusnet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatusNet)?
Another issue is that they're about the same size and shape as Sixlets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixlets).

It was actually mentioned in the Reuters story that one 4yo thought the BuckyBalls looked like chocolates. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/25/us-usa-buckyballs-...)
The general feedback from the CS community has been either that GO is a good improvement, or that it is too different to its predecessors (Source and even more so the original CS, 1.6).

Obviously BF and CoD offer single player gaming, but for multiplayer there's a good case to be made (and one that often is made) that CS out-does both of them in terms of game play.
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Permanent discounts can prove to be a bad idea too, like the American Airlines lifetime passes. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...
Hmm. I signed up for this when you launched in June, and so far I haven't received any email since mid-June when you told me about a meetup in SF. I assumed this project was dead, actually, since I haven't heard anything from you since then, and I'm surprised to read you've been doing meetups and even have an online community.

You might want to dig up whatever email list I'm on and let us know that you're still around and have changed your model.

I'm glad to know you aren't just focusing on Bay Area startups, by the way--there are so many startups outside that area that could benefit from what you're doing. Cheers to that!
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Original Mac Pro owner here, it runs better with 10.8 than it ever did with 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 or 10.7. I can do every single thing I was able to do in 10.4, including the ability to run 10.4 if I wanted. I don't though because just like clinging to XP, you do yourself no favours by not taking advantage of all we've learned about computing in that tine.

Honestly, turned your machine into a phone? Give me a break. OS X at it's core is the same as it ever was. Besides those who make extensive use of virtual desktops, most people don't have a good reason to feel otherwise.
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Totally our fault, we had some forms break in the beginning and emails got mixed up. Can you send me an email? I would be happy to walk you through the process.

Best,
-Joe

joe@nreduce.com
Or, you can add this to your vimrc to always yank to system clipboard:

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I don't dispute that. But the other option are the companies I listed, which also have conflicts of interest and have repeatedly abused their control of telecommunications to favor the other branches of their businesses in the past. So I'd rather go with Google, which doesn't have a history of abuse.
The windows app store gives unlimited free updates. It's only xbla for Xbox where they charge for updates.
> The current, publicly acknowledged level of intercourse between Google and the U.S. Federal Government is already worrisome. Perhaps your data has been a part of those exchanges, perhaps it hasn't. You and I don't know.

We've known for a fact that companies like AT&T have been working closely with the NSA for years. So it seems like Google is the better choice here.
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We outsourced some dev work to russian based shop who asked us to pay their invoice but coming from offshore (cyprus) account that is registered under different company. What do we need to do to make sure we don't get burned in this transaction? If we re-sign software dev contract with this Cyprus registered company instead of russian shop who does actual dev work, will that be enough? Thanks!
You can't do that, only the Mac Pro can do that. The only reason the Mac Pro can get away with it is because its original unsupported GPU can be popped out and replaced with one that has drivers in 10.8. There is no GMA950/X3100 64-bit driver. You're SOL for running Mountain Lion on that machine, give up now.
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Hi,

Thanks so much for the feedback. Everything in nReduce is a prototype, so we are going to be monitoring the success of the process we are designing for demo day. If it doesn't work well, we will go back to the drawing board.

Please keep the feedback coming.

-Joe
OK all,
I got your point and I guess I have no other choice but to use it.
Thanks for the comments.
Great response. For the "retired" who stayed on, what sort of impact did their newfound attitudes have on things? Did they play a part in any of the major new products or improvements that came later?
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Why not? I'd say this is an excellent year for bearish investors.
No dishonesty intended, and not done conveniently. They look like toys (or chocolate, from the article), and kids are getting hurt. We disagree.
Hi,

There is definitely a lot of great things about the local meetups and yes you are right, unless there is great content it is hard to get people to invest 3-4 hours a week for a local meeting. That is why we are focusing on the online experience and continually working to make it better / more engaging.

Would love to learn more about what you like about the local events.

Best,
-Joe
Agreed, but BuckyBalls look very harmless to most adults and kids (they're basically beads), so most people don't put much care into hiding them from young kids.

Also the Reuters story mentions one kid thought they were chocolates: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/25/us-usa-buckyballs-...
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That's exactly how I found it, by accident. I think a lot of people do.
Sorry, but no explanation at all what/how you trying to do. Sounds like some sort of random brain dump for me.
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Then what is the point of Ghostery, if it can't keep tracking JavaScript from loading?
Voice, the content of the day. It's a stretch.
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nReduce has been incredibly helpful to our startup and I'm super psyched that Joe and Josh have been able to put dev resources into building what's turned into one of the most useful resources to keep our startup motivated and shipping things every week.

I helped kick off the initial idea a few months ago, and it's morphed into something way different and in my opinion way better than what I initially was aiming for.
No offence (I like most of your post), but BF Skinner was not a psycho. He was an amazing scientist and researcher. You should really read some of his books before you judge him (Beyond Freedom and Dignity is very good, and short). Skinner was totally wrong on language, yes, but he was right on a lot of other things. He essentially invented operant conditioning, which is the basis for slot machines and much of modern gamification. In addition, he's responisble for such signs as "thank you for not smoking" (that was in Beyond Freedom).

To summate, he was an extremely interesting thinker and a fine researcher (and really loved pigeons). His theories were wrong, but all theories tend towards wrong in the limit.
> But as far as I am aware, Google tells you when requests have been made for your email account

I could be mistaken, but I think the PATRIOT act permits the US government to obtain your personal information without you being informed.
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I think you missed my point, and that's ok. Maybe also the OP. Well, and also that I was being a little tongue-in-cheek.
Anyone who wants to accomplish anything has to do things they don't want to. This is not a function of the money in the bank, it's a function of the difficulty of the task. Someone founding their second startup still has to empty the wastepaper baskets; or perhaps they can hire a cleaning crew, but then, someone on their first startup can do that too, and they don't get quite the same respect from their employees as if they did it themselves.

I define "fuck you money" as "Can you stand up in the middle of an important meeting and say 'fuck you, I quit' to your boss?" You don't need to be set for life for that, only to be sure you can get a job with someone who doesn't give a damn that you just said fuck you to your previous boss. And it's as much a function of reputation and chutzpah as money.
That is not an attractive option relative to e.g. being an affiliate of the company and getting 10% of the sales price (or much more) for no up-front investment and no sales work. They're not necessarily competitive options vis-a-vis a single company, but if you offered terms like that, I predict no savvy person taking you up on them.

A more viable approach to generating cash early in the life of a company is to pre-sell a particular product which is either time-bounded or feature-bounded in return for a largish sum of cash paid up-front. For example, Joyent used to be a fairly attractive option for Rails hosting, and they had a shared server offering where you could buy a lifetime membership on a particular tier for a few hundred dollars. Selling ~6 of those memberships buys you the physical machine to host many more than 6 of them, meaning they raised enough capital to buy machines (or demonstrate creditworthiness to Dell) to have available inventory for more traditional hosting plans.

Slicehost similarly had a massive cash flow crunch at one point which was preventing them from buying hardware to service new customers for their VPS offering, back when VPSes were quite new and Slicehost was heads-and-tails the best game around. They had an amusing auction-like mechanic: they sorted their waitlist by the dollar value you were willing to pre-pay, so if (for example) you wanted the $20 a month VPS but were willing to pre-pay for the first 6 months, you got in earlier than someone willing to prepay 3 months or desiring month-to-month. This essentially let Slicehost borrow e.g. Bingo Card Creator's credit cards to buy new servers from Dell, without ever needing to offer any sort of equity or do anything very tricky with accounting. (Book $1,000 of cash as assets and $1,000 of unearned revenue as liabilities, spend $1,000 cash from assets and add $1,000 of servers to assets, gradually debit unearned revenue as I consume services every month.)

Another example is Spreedly, which sold a particular plan for their SaaS service (I think they called them "Kickstarters", actually?) where you'd essentially pre-pay for 2 years of service and in return get service for life. It apparently worked out pretty well, though your accountant will hate you if you do that. A more typical example is a SaaS company offering you 10% off the monthly rate if you sign up for yearly billing and 15% off if you sign up for bi-yearly billing, which in both cases will tend to have the SaaS company get a whole bunch of cash upfront. (And the same accounting thing as Slicehost, above.)
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Except the JOBS Act would only let granny and gramps invest $2000/year in startups. Folks making over $100k/year can invest 10% of that. [1]

I'm still not sure it's a good deal for the classical web startup, but it seems like it has reasonable protections to keep less sophisticated investors from losing their shirts.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2012/06/06/what-you-ne...
> Google has a proven track record of doing things in my favor.

Don't forget all the horror stories of trying to sort out customer support issues. Given the range of issues that supplying internet to houses can have, this would discourage me a lot.
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TCO refers to tail call optimization, which is a useful optimization for languages such as Scheme which encourage heavy use of recursion. TCO allows the interpreter to reuse the current stack frame when a tail-recursive[1] function calls itself instead of creating a new stack frame for each recursive call.

Because javascript lacks this and many other features of Scheme/Lisp, I wouldn't really recommend using it for SICP.

[1] Tail recursive functions are recursive functions which merely return the result of their recursive call to the caller instead of further processing those results before returning. In pseudocode:

// non-tail
expt(b, x):
if x == 0: 1
else: x * expt(b, x-1)

// tail-recursive
tail-expt(b, x, ans):
if x == 0: ans
else: tail-expt(b, x-1, x*ans)

For these definitions:

expt(2, 3) == tail-expt(2, 3, 1)
This is gold. Not so much for the comments on Google, as for the comments on what being fearless does to you. But I've also experienced that you need to couple being fearless with having some superior or even unique skills to maximise satisfaction.

"When you suddenly have enough money in the bank so that you can quit when ever you want, you lose your fear of losing your job and trying to find another. And not having that fear to hold you back, can be tremendously empowering."

My take on this is that (if you are a good engineer) you can just choose to be fearless anyway and trust you'll get a job whenever you want one. Life is too short to skulk around in fear of what some random middle manager thinks about you. This doesn't mean that you should go around rubbing people the wrong way (you shouldn't) or that you shouldn't be trying to make your FU money (you should).

But I've seen many many talented devs twist themselves in knots, trying to please their managers' unreasonable demands, and otherwise live a life of cringing fear or quiet desperation, just out of fear of being fired/demoted/whatever. This is particularly true in India, where hierarchical power structures are more pronounced than in the USA. and losing a job has more of a social cost.

"Nearly every single person I know who has 'retired' it really meant they stopped reporting to someone else and instead invested their time and energy into things they were passionate about and could make a big impact on."

Gold. I am only semi-"retired" (I have money in the bank, I don't really have FU money. Any day now ;)) and I am nowhere as talented as Google's top 20 employees, but this is true ime.

I was always fairly "fearless", so didn't have to work on that bit. But I did have to consciously choose never to work on uninteresting/boring things or with boring/uninteresting people.

(I am aware that most people in the world don't have that choice - all the more reason that people who do have such a choice should probably exercise it)

After being ground down after a decade of working on outsourced enterprise software -and it did take some grinding, some of us are good at deceiving ourselves - I decided I would never ever work on meaningless (to me) things again or with uninteresting people.

It paid off in spades for me. I now work on interesting machine learning projects, and have more interesting work offered to me than I can complete in a lifetime. I work much harder than in my salaried 'coding body' days, but the work is challenging and feeds my soul.

"making things happen is a powerful drug."

A very very addictive one, and you don't really need to be part of a large organization to partake of it. There are many people working quietly in many areas on very ambitious projects, with little fanfare - there is a large world outside the valley (and outside software). Perhaps the drug is too addictive, but that is the subject of a different post.
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Early 30s, largely working on maintenance & refactoring of a 10-years-old codebase, with some iOS devs mixed in.

(Perhaps I shouldn't speak for them, as people might hide all sorts of unhappiness to avoid rocking the boat. But they seem happy, and when I've offered them jobs on my projects - which I think are much more interesting, but I've learned that what's interesting to me is not necessarily what's interesting to everyone - they've declined.)
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