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Companies at this stage--startups hitting stride--don't need "experimental R&D dev arms." The need laser focus on their main product, no distractions.

I think it's completely plausible that he doesn't get enough time programming and he's leaving because of it. Simple is growing. At this stage, he's a manager, not a programmer. Sounds like he isn't too interested in managing.
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When Vista came out, and everyone hated it, a few people noted that MS OS's alternated hit/miss over the years, stretching way back. Almost as if they were trying out ideas in an experimental release, and then consolidated it into a stable release.
Since then, we've had Windows 7, which seemed pretty solid, and now Windows 8, which is a "catastrophe" - continuing the hit/miss pattern.
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I've only been following Alex since he left Twitter, but [Bank]Simple always struck me as exactly the kind of dream company I'd want to be at (never really considered myself good enough to pursue it though).

Given his previous posts regarding how much he likes Portland compared to San Francisco, I'm a little bit surprised to see him moving back to the Bay Area. Regardless, I'm excited to see what he does next and I wish him the best of luck.
Vandalism is a bummer, but it's certainly not a reason to loose faith in wikipedia. "Staggering" loss of content is an enormous exaggeration, especially since the articles are versioned and the versions are easily comparable.
I hate to be that guy but why is this Hacker News-worthy? (genuinely curious)
Good riddance.

I realize this isn't actually the end of them, but it's indicative of where they're going.

I think in the end, the narrative for zynga will be roughly this: they found a way to capitalize on markets that really weren't being served at all (last I heard, the average zynga customer was roughly a 43 year old woman -- not your average target market for games). And then they killed their own golden goose.

They offered an experience that was safe, accessible, and novel to people that had never gotten to experience games on those terms, and the market exploded.

The problem is, what they offered wasn't sustainable. Instead of parlaying their initial shallow success into advancing the art form, they tried to optimize it in a way that wasn't really ethical. Their games were designed to be exploitive in the same sense that gambling is exploitive (using the same cognitive mechanisms.) They expected that people would just keep coming back for the same reasons people become compulsive gamblers -- because they can't help it. But buying more trinkets in a game that makes you check up on it every four hours isn't the same experience as being a VIP at a casino and even for the most compulsive people I think the nature of a zynga game becomes pretty gross after a while.

So I guess I'd say they made bad games for ethically dubious reasons, and nobody in their right mind should miss them when they're inevitably gone.
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Give it another ten years and the concept of knowing you were on page 5 will be the same as knowing you were listening to the b-side of a vinyl record. It'll be nice for nostalgia, but will cease to be a reference point.
This very badly needs proof that it is, in fact, ACID compliant. Incredible claims require incredible evidence.
From the article:

"Investors are only charged the small accounting, state entity, and filing fees FundersClub has to pay and nothing more. Otherwise it’s free."

Apparently, though, they charge 12% of your investment (at least, it was 12% for my test values of 2.5k, 5k, and 10k):

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Presumably they sacrifice availability? If your network is only partitioned 1/1000 of the time and you only need 99.9% uptime, that would be a viable approach.
Co-founder stepping down soon after a public launch is bad news.
Alex was an early Twitter employee, Twitter API lead at a time that many HN readers were writing Twitter apps, and wrote Programming Scala. There're a number of folks here that follow his writings with interest.
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Yeah, from the site it looks like they are running "true native applications", so probably using native UI widgets.
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Yes, exactly!

When there is no competition then companies can afford to be lazy or ignore customer complaints. AdSense has no real competition, so Google just doesn't care if they have one less customer.

In the local access area, fiber from Google would increase competition, so would be a good thing.
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Does this give me one VPS that I can resize up to 2GB without paying for?

Can I launch multiple VPSs that are up to 2GB?

If you are trying to say its not a VPS, I don't believe you. I bet it is at least built on some kind of virtualization. What is it exactly?
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> You can use this toolkit to target iOS from Java, but that doesn't mean that you get that language's infrastructure with it.

I failed to understand you here. Assuming the Java language runtime is also available in native code, this is no different than using any other compiled language runtime like, say Objective-C.
They're going to be explaining the business model tomorrow on their blog: https://twitter.com/appfog/status/228380656407826432
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They have a lot to ship, still. It seems that being a CTO and moving down the chain to program more is a precarious road to traverse.

Most people seem to leave their respective companies and hang on as advisors. Maybe it's just too awkward?
That's fair enough.

But complaining that fiber is getting rolled out too quickly.. that's a problem I'd love to be able to complain about it my area.

Realistically, it's a 3-5+ year project before it is seeing significant penetration.
It can work in terminal vim, too.

I believe the special + register for the system clipboard is enabled by a compile option, but that may not be entirely accurate. I have Vim 7.3 installed via Macports and it works for me.
We are all skeptical too, but really it could be any number of things and he stated that he wanted to do more programming and less CTOing.
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I've also been in nReduce since it started and I think it's a great community.

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He probably wants new challenges that don't mesh with what Simple is doing. It makes sense.
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I think it would be tough to go from CTO to a lower role in the same company. Strange dynamics would follow. He is staying on as an advisor though :)
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I'm assuming this is so that if you speak the name of one of your contacts, it understands the word. Names can be weird, especially last names, so they're bound not to be in the standard list of words that can be used. This way you can name your contacts when dictating without the system freaking out.
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None of my software-engineer friends are doing things they don't want to do.

That would be remarkable. That would mean that the solution to an optimization problem without constraints ("Of all the things I could be doing, which will make me the happiest?") is the same as to a corresponding problem with an extra constraint ("Of all the things I could be doing that also bring enough money to pay the mortgage, which will make me the happiest?")

It doesn't often happen in life that adding an extra constraint, especially one that limits the space of possible solutions so drastically, doesn't change the solution. No doubt there exist people like that, but it seems unlikely that it would be true for all of your friends. They probably just put on an act which is expected in this kind of environment, and you naively take it at face value.
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Just curious - How is this different than buying a server from Amazon, and sticking Ruby (or whatever it is that I need) on it and using it? Does the incremental value provided by Appfog lies in the fact it abstracts this get-meself-a-server-from-amazon part? Genuinely curious and hence asking.
It always amazes me how people keep recommending CLRS as an interview preparation material. If you haven't studied Algorithms before it will take months to go through material in this book, leave alone making exercises. It is a serious textbook with strong mathematical rigor. If you have studied algos, granted, you would know what book to pick as a refresher and chances are - CLRS would be on your table.
I think Sedgewick's book would be a more practical choice as a first book to learn some data structures/algorithms.
I worked under two of these guys two summers ago. They're really sharp guys and I have faith they can back up their claims.
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What? DnD was the dominant force in 90's computer rpgs (BG/BG2/IWD/IWD2/Planescape Torment), and continued into the aughts with NWN/KOTOR/KOTOR2. There are several candidates for greatest rpg of all time on that list.

Star Wars has had its share of filler games, but also produced many truly great games. X-Wing/Tie Fighter were huge, and Dark Forces/Jedi Knight were pretty important in the early fps days. I've already mentioned KOTOR.
I always find this kind of speculation through determinism a little silly (under the covers all it's really saying is "x is the new y").

Yes, many companies fall into similar patterns as they get older, but many don't. Most of the giant corporations we talk about on HN are fairly unique, don't have exact analogues, and, complex systems being what they are... Meanwhile, people also leave jobs because they took them when they were 25 and now they want to try their hand at Khan Academy (or Yahoo for some reason).

Basically I'm suspicious of any pat narrative :)
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Maybe out of context, but I really hate justified text.
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nReduce has been invaluable for us at PolarMeter. We especially benefited from the weekly kick-in-the-butt to show what you've accomplished, the honest no-bs feedback from other founders and the chance to meet and build relationships with other teams during nReduce Tuesdays.

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I just got the email to join them today but when I went to sign up they won't let you unless you have an iOS device. If you select Android it states that you have to wait until they release an Android version. Disappointing.
It's probably worth the way. It takes time to work out the intricate details of transactions and UX. I, for one, am excited about this. and I look forward to finally ditching my bank of 10 years!
Sometimes you need to spend a bit of time with your head not quite so high above the parapet, just learning, not being the Great White Hope for lots of dependants.

I left a well paying job where I was expected to be the exciting bright young thing who will change everything, for a job I greatly prefer, earning half as much, where I can learn from two or three really bright people, where I am the bottom peg, and have the time to mess around with things, sometimes highly speculatively, and get a few wins under my belt.

I would analogise this as being a bit like the difference between becoming a pop singer via a TV talent show and becoming a pop singer via years of gigs from pub to pub in a van with your band.

Also, '....' is not the dramatic rhetorical flourish that you seem to think it is. It just looks silly....
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It might be sane for Microsoft, but it would be an abysmal turn of events for Valve.
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When I read "pasting text into vim", I thought of still another thing: ":set paste".
> To get out of command history mode, it's the opposite.

You can leave command history just by typing <enter>, not :q<enter>.
> I have a set too, and they are cool. I let my six-year-old play with them, because I trust her.

kids are random. much more so than adults. I strongly recommend you never let her access those things again. there's only downside, and the upside (fun, diversion, learning about magnets) can be had from alternate things, or at some future date when her judgment is better. plus give something to a kid, and it could easily end up in the hands/mouth of other kids. kids are random. they/we start life in fact with our heads full of all sorts of irrational/mythical beliefs, and a blurry line between imagination and reality. For example, the classic kid thought meme: if something looks like candy, it probably tastes like candy, it probably is candy.
Yes, you've got it exactly.

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You can imagine how much fun this type of code would be to write without any debugging tools or an Internet filled with code-samples.
We are precisely in that process, where one of our apps (Ruby 1.8.7+Rails 2.1, originally Ruby<1.8+Rails 1.x) has been forked at some point. Due to various mishaps, the main, generic branch got so rotten that we're simply dropping it and built a brand new version, but the customer-specific, simpler fork is deemed "recoverable" (although there's a good pile of code worthy of TDWTF it's miles better than in the main branch). We're currently cleaning up all the WTFs, "delet[ing] as much code upfront as [we] can", and the next step is dropping 1.8.7 in favor of 1.9.3, and subsequently bump to Rails 3. That's still a long winded road ahead.
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Some sobering numbers, but I really dislike it when articles like these group "science and engineering" as an afterthought, especially in reference to prosperity.

I'm an engineer, but have known a number of scientists, and the employment scenario is no cakewalk. Engineers have it much better all in all.

Someone is always quick to point this out when someone in a position of leadership grouses about the 'shortage' of scientists, but one need only look at the number of positions and the pay associated with them to realize the actual shortage is in our preconceptions of how much demand we ought to have.
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As someone who's put together a few iPhone apps (hell, used an iPhone app) in his day, that looks fucking terrible.

The iPhone really sensitized people to fluid and seamless design.
No, the point is the Release Preview has been out for a month (months?) and has fixed a lot of the issues that are being mentioned here.
I really appreciate this post. As a job seeker, I like reading this kind of tips. What is more, it has told me that all the things that I'm doing just for fun and for the passion that learning new things give, is being useful also for this purpose. Indeed, I think that the opposite direction is the weird one, since I can't see the point of learning C, algorithms,... just for the job seeking intention. You really need to enjoy that stuff.
If I ramble on about nothing, can I also get my 15 seconds of fame on HN?
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Sorry I am a massive vim junkie, but why is this getting so much love ?
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That's not the case. Like, it's not like they're removing desktop apps and reinstating them as Metro apps. If you decide to exclusively use Metro apps, then I guess that's your problem. Otherwise, I don't really understand what point you're trying to make.

I seriously, seriously question in half of the people attempting to spread shit about Windows 8 here have ever seriously used it for more than 3 minutes in a VM.
The original SICP text seems to licensed with CC-BY-SA, and this PDF version has GPL license slapped on it. Is that legal? GPL is more restrictive than the original license after all.
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