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Fortunately, we haven't gotten any "Yes man" type discussions on our blog yet. Many of our most vocal commenters (who often state contrary opinions to ours) took to the Facebook Comment system well, though we've lost a few too. So far, none of the abusive trolls have come over yet.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen the lively discussions we used to get when using LiveFyre. So there's definitely a trade-off. We're definitely not sold on Facebook Comments yet; it's just our most recent experiment.
I blame the early Windows team by mistaking what Simonyi meant with Hungarian notation by misunderstanding what 'type' means. Which is why Office uses his notation in a much cleaner fashion.
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No.

Women (and men) are attracted to assertive behavior, not aggressive behavior. Huge difference.
Clearly, the time is almost right for my 'next wave' collaborative consumption startups:

UnterCab: the Uber for pedicabs and piggyback-rides

SmallBearings: the RelayRides for rollerskates & skateboards

Hoparound: that seldom-used pogostick doesn't have to be gathering dust anymore
$25/$50 international shipping for a large 50 pound box is hard to beat.
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Women are attracted to aggressive men. Women like men who take charge.

Broad, broad strokes.

I won't say that you're wrong, because I have absolutely no evidence to back it up, but I know that it isn't true 100% of the time. So, if you behave that way, you run the very real risk of offending x% of women that are not attracted to aggressive men. It is most definitely not a universal rule, and I've had success with women by talking to them like a normal person, and attempting (probably failing, perhaps endearingly so) to be charming and funny. It just seems like a better option.

There's also the other issue of hitting on people at professional conferences, which seems like it's a terrible idea.
I am not an expert in this field, but I agree with you from the consumer perspective. E.g., the new macbook airs don't seem radically faster than my macbook from a few years before, it is just thinner. It seems like Moore's law is dead/dying and instead being replaced by Koomey's law, as others have noted

http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2011/09/is-koomeys-law...
Isn't Diaspora part of YC S12 also?
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> Colon’s legitimate expectation of privacy ended when he disseminated posts to his “friends” because those “friends” were free to use the information however they wanted-including sharing it with the Government.

Sounds reasonable to me. Where is the issue there?
But is a web designer a visual/graphic designer as well?
It's not 20 years ago.

Nowadays pretty much everyone has access to a Windows or Linux PC, or an OS X Mac, and so has ready access to good compilers. The way you'd handle that Sun nowadays is to build a cross compiler for Sun on your Windows or Linux PC or your Mac, and then use that to build the compiler for your Sun.
Nerds (and I say this as one) have problems dismissing their anti-social members, because nerds have been dismissed from other social circles, and hated it. They don't want to be the bully. And so real asshole behavior is allowed to continue far longer than it ought to.

The computer security industry has its own special problems. There is a very significant segment of the population that has "do whatever you can get away with" as their mantra and have built up significant antibodies against any criticism thanks to a large crowd of enablers.

Who was the last person who was shunned from the community for his behavior and/or actions?
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added the macbook pro logo to top it off. hope you dont mind :D
I've just been re-reading the first one. Action-packed, full of fantastical gizmos, and with just the right amount of snottiness. And yes, as is mentioned elsewhere, a very hackerish attitude towards life, especially on the social engineering front.
I wrote some simple jsmn examples, since it doesn't ship with any: https://github.com/alisdair/jsmn-example/

And then I wrote about writing the examples: http://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/2012/08/14/jsmn-example.html
The site is really slammed right now.
I love bikes. I love the idea. I've loved living in Paris where a similar system was in place (Vélib').

However I think this is a textbook example of the shortcomings of capitalism: while it is great for everyone to live in a city where you can use such a bike, there is no way in hell this will pay for itself.

JCDecaux operates the Vélib' system and was estimated to get the equivalent of 2000 euros per bike per year in advertising concessions from Paris' municipality [1] and still not to make a profit.

As pointed out by others there are very high running costs and I believe the only viable way to pay for this is through taxes. I also believe taxes are the only just way to pay for it, because everyone benefits from living in a city with more bikes and less cars not only the users.

Again, I'd love to be proven wrong and see SF become a greener city through this, but I'm a bit skeptical.

[1] in French http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vélib%27#Viabilit.C3.A9
Why does someone who'se never used my site have an opinion on it?
Jet Fucking Blue

I recently landed at SFO, near midnight, and found that their handlers had completely sheered a wheel of my suitcase. The pull handle was also busted. And this was a bag tough enough to survive 15 years of use without trouble.

Exhausted, I went home, thinking I could deal with it in the morning. JetBlue told me that they weren't taking responsibility for anything reported more than four hours after the fact "to reduce fraud", they said.

Here's the thing. They know how many bags they ruin. They also know that the likelihood of a person buying an airline ticket in order to get a "free" suitcase is vanishingly small. So they can tell that while it's possible I'm hustling them, it's also very unlikely. Chances are good that they simply destroyed my bag. But instead of paying for it, they added insult to injury by stating "we have no idea whether or not you're a criminal" before telling me the four hour rule was written in stone.

That's got nothing to do with avoiding fraud, and everything to do with avoiding responsibility. I suspect I'd have gotten the same treatment (or worse) elsewhere, but still, Jet Fucking Blue.
I have to say your comment hits home for me. It's my personal opinion/observation that

> the fact is that men who behave aggressively are the ones who succeed in sexual pursuits most often.

I have myself seen the so called "bad boy" attitude succeed in a number of situations in real life. This just gives wrong signal to other men. The so called double standard has no easy solution. Or an easy way to recognize it either. It's one of those things that exist and no one either knows about it or doesn't talk about it.

I hate sexual harassment as much as the next guy/girl. But the line between sexual harassment and being aggressive is vary blurry. It's not black and white, it's rather subjective. What may be harassment for one person may not necessarily be so for others. I believe it is not intentional all of the time. What people need to know is to know the boundaries. Understand what is not apparent/obvious.
Our cofounder Dave got married a week before Demo Day.

It's been an asset to our startup: a married member of the team keeps us grounded and gives the company perspective.
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The code is certainly very short, but what about \u escape sequences in strings, parsing different representations of numbers, etc.? Since those things are part of the JSON standard, you're not a JSON parser if you just leave them to the application to handle.

Since this skimps out on half of the work, it won't even be able to tell you with certainty what's valid JSON and what isn't.

(disclaimer: I also wrote a popular ANSI C JSON parser)
It seems like we are moving towards increasingly mobile, technologically seamless, lighter, cheaper, more powerful, less obtrusive technology. Apple did this a few times, Apple II, iPod, iPhone, iPad.

I think many people would rather buy a "Glass Project" like product from a product company than an advertising company.

VR has been around for quite some time and this has to be something apple is looking at. Google is looking at it in a more academic light,

It would be the ultimate Apple product, i, no pod, no touch, no pad, just "i".
Definitely seems the problem is more accessibility than legality. If a helmet was included, it'd be beneficial to all parties - Reducing risk for the company and the customer. That's really the point I'm trying to make.
They are already succeeding in other markets, such as Atlanta. Met these guys at StartupRiot last year and they (a) had great growth and fundamentals, (b) were wicked smart, and (c) had a great product that users love. Wouldn't bet against this team.
How are they so expensive? That doesn't sound right, unless it's looking at the entire cost of the program per bike, rather than just the marginal cost of a new bike.
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What makes you think they haven't tried and failed to make it work (well) on mobile?

Maybe in the cost benefit analysis it would be better to devote time and resources on HTML toolsets.
If Uber were using flat rates, this problem wouldn't exist. But Uber is actually selling miles-in-a-cab, and the government is rightfully pointing out that due to a very extensive history of businesses manipulating weights and measures to increase profits, the measuring device used to measure miles-in-a-cab ought to be one that has been inspected by the government.
idiots. Most of the fucks who pull this shit are no-value skiddies.
Scientists reverse engineer animal brains to create bionic prosthetic eyes
they should just migrate to openrc, i heard debian might actually do that.
would be there 2nd nice choice this month after switching to xfce as default de
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Defcon is a party. You should definitely go.
It would be interesting if we ever ended up in a situation where compression is so expensive that only studios/distributors are able to throw the kind of CPU power at the problem that's needed to do it in a reasonable amount of time. I'm sure they wouldn't mind consumers being faced with having to spend 2x as much storage/bandwidth for unauthorized versions (or get less quality in the same file size). Though I'd bet such a state would only serve to spur distributed encoding schemes to ramp up…
Joey about the reusability of code: http://markmail.org/thread/nurcqm4yotgkmhbr
There was a time when I would've been the one writing that comment, so I know what you mean. It is frustrating for meek guys (I count myself as one too) to feel like we're being called out along with harassers. But ultimately I don't think what you're saying is accurate.

It took me a long time to realize this because I didn't have very good data to work from--I didn't have a large set of observations of interactions between men and women, and out of those I did have there were very few instances of harassment. It seemed to me that based on the complaints of harassment vs. the small number of cases I'd witnessed, the problem must be that women were choosing to call normal behavior harassment when it was unwelcome. Which I think is your argument. But I've realized that that's not the case. The kinds of harassment being complained of are not borderline cases. In most of the recent cases I've read about (Readercon, etc) the harasser was explicitly told to stop at least once. That is not ambiguous, and it's not based on the perception of the person being harassed.

I guess what I want to say really is, 'stop feeling threatened by this.' If you are a person with even a barely-functioning social instinct, and recognize and respect when someone feels uncomfortable in a situation, there is only a microscopic chance that anything you do will be misinterpreted as harassment. And if you do say something that someone interprets as sexist, the first response will simply be to call you out on it. That's a conversation it's ok to have if you're confused, 'I'm sorry; I didn't mean to offend you. Could you tell me what about what I said bothered you?' Again, if you're a person with a basic social instinct, you will prefer to modify your behavior in small ways to make the people around you comfortable. If you truly feel someone is being unreasonable, just avoid them.
There's nothing gender-specific about the cards. http://singlevoice.net/redyellow-card-project/
http://neufit.com We are launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF next month. NeuFit is a social fitness entertainment platform. We are looking to solve the issues of chronic diseases caused by obesity and a sedentary lifestyle by delivering a platform that lets users encourage and motivate each other to get and stay active. We've partnered with device manufacturers and mobile app companies to integrate their products as well. For instance if you are a RunKeeper user or have a Fitbit we automatically pull in your actvity data. We translate your real-world activity into fun game mechanics that allow you complete quests, challenge and motivate others and earn real world rewards.
I like how the article don't mention the final destination for all the unclaimed bags. I got a great pair of sunglasses from this place once. Then I lost them.
Well, if this actually turns up like Kim says it is, then it WILL be a story (right?).
Oh, I 100% agree with you, having been in a similar situation. It only happens once, then you learn to carry an extra set of clothes in your carry-on (when travelling internationally).

My point is just that 1% is a pretty reasonable margin of error. If I worked on a team with 1% or less of errors over a life of a project, I'd be ecstatic. But, reality prevails. Email/Gmail, websites, cell networks, car accidents with hours of waiting, etc. all happen. Usually, only a small number are affected (or for a small duration).
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>Is defcon a conference or a party?

Its a party with technical talks to listen to while you pre-game.

Once the talks are over there are defcon sponsored concerts, a handful of events at the conference venue, and events aimed at defcon attendees all over town.
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Given the mental and work effort necessary to hoist out a function versus writing a simple comment, I think your position involves untenable trade-offs.

I'd much rather see code commenting the major steps of the function than a file riddled with tiny functions, all of which require breaking my train of thought, switching to a different section of the file to read, and then going back to the original function.

That's ludicrous compared to a one-liner "Send our token to the server" comment on a small block of code.
How are they going to deal with the fact that demand is not geographically distributed/balanced?

E.g. everyone wants to ride towards downtown in the morning, so there are no bikes left elsewhere, and there isn't enough space downtown to hold all the bikes. And only 2/3 of the morning people want to ride back in the evening, because they're doing other things in the evening.

IIRC, some European cities have whole trucks that carry bikes between neighborhoods throughout the day to solve this problem. But that only works if you have big concentrated bike-parking stations. You can't do this if bikes are parked all over the place on the street.

It would be really interesting if this service would pay you to ride bikes in the opposite direction of demand. But I can't imagine that would be economical. There just aren't enough people to bike from downtown to the suburbs in the morning, plus you're going to have to pay for them all to get back downtown afterwards!
Somehow car rentals do work - people don't blow up/sell/break rental cars. I can't imagine why bike rentals won't work. It will work only in the area with a lot of tourists/other visitors, because locals will buy bikes if they want to ride them.
the interesting thing about megaupload as i understand it is, that even though they are protected by the digital millenium copyright act, there was something different in their service. they try to prove that they were knowing that copyright infringement did take place?

so as i understand megaupload, there were many many links pointing to the same failes, as they wanted to minimze same uploads, meaning that they got takedown notices for links rather than content. in a nutshell: they removed links instead of content afaik, and there they differ from rapidshare and others... can somebody help me out if this is the case? (i never used megaupload but as i understand it that was there working model)
I've read the article about 4 times now, and I still have no idea what the point of the title was.

You didn't learn to program in 23 years or 10 weeks. I'm an employed CS grad, and I still don't "know" how to program. Don't mistake this as an "I'm a graduate that can't code" statement, but instead "You (should)never stop learning, and therefore can never concretely know how to program".

Likewise, if you know you like to code, then why didn't you start already? Is this just supposed to be a "look at me, I'm in dev bootcamp for ruby!" attention call? I'm confused.
Yo, ViaCycle team: stop what you're doing right now and get an email signup form deployed to your homepage ASAP.

I saw the headline, read the article, got excited, landed on the homepage, looked for San Francisco on the list of programs... then left the site, disappointed. You won't get a lot of opportunities to capture customers like the one you just got (and lost) with me.

Use mailchimp or something similar and you can fill this deficiency in a few minutes.
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Haha, finally I got competitor for mine https://hosted-ci.com

Probably I need to get it out of private beta faster :)
It was a hotel bar in Vegas. It happened to be the same hotel the hacker conference was at.
Shortness is a real virtue here - the kind of code I'm writing where I do this is typically short, one off things, usually no more than 100 lines.

Personally, I strongly dislike camel-casing, and never use it in my own code.
Note that other compilers (such as Oracle Solaris Studio) support computed gotos as well:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19205-01/820-7598/bjabt/index.html

And LLVM:

http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/address-of-label-and-indirect-branches.html
Unit tests validate invariants, but they don't express them in a concise form, and they're not a suitable form of documentation.
Why wouldn't this help with embedded? Are you saying it's never a good idea to use JSON for data transport within any embedded system? That would be a bold claim.
It's almost as if when the girl is attracted to the guy, it's flirting, but when she isn't, it's creepy/sexual harassment.

Yep, and that makes it incredibly hard to be a guy. You're almost "damned if you do, damned if you don't" when it comes to flirting and initiating things. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to know - in advance - how someone is going to react.

That said, there is a line somewhere, of behavior that is never appropriate towards someone that you don't already have an established relationship with. Asking a random female (or male, for that matter) to "come up to my room for a pillowfight" is just stupid in almost every conceivable context.
It's an interesting article and I love how they're approaching app sales. There are some successes out there that are doing well with this sales model (the most recent download I've had like this is Outwitters: http://onemanleft.com/). It is hard to see where the app sales ecosystem is going though (and if consumers will really dictate this path).
If you're willing to do laundry in your travels (lots of hotels offer drycleaning as a paid service also) then I see no reason you shouldn't be able to.

I often travel for weeks at a time with no more than a Skyway 'carry-on' model bag and my laptop bag, both of which are carryable onto all US airlines at least. If I were somehow restricted to one bag, I could stow my laptop in my carryon if necessary, but I'd worry more about it getting banged up.
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Agreed. If I see a third party commenting system, I typically just close the tab instead of leaving a comment. It's not worth the hassle to me to deal with whatever your commenting system requires.

Name/email/url. These three simple fields make it easy. Don't make me try to figure out how to talk back to you.
Do you also think it's weird that if my boss called me the "worst programmer ever" in a formal review I'd be unhappy but that I'm perfectly OK with hearing it from a colleague in the pub?

The vast, vast majority of the time people react differently to the same actions depending on the source of the actions. You do it, I do it, everyone you know does it. Why is it only a "double standard" when women do it?
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> So ask yourself whether you want to build something meaningful to you, based on your core values or do you just want to build the next hot game/app/whatever, and get rich. There's nothing wrong with the latter, but be honest with yourself.

I didn't read anything in that piece to justify such cynicism and condescension. The author's motivations seem to be anything but financial. It sounds to me like he's after inspiration on a more personal level.

Don't you think you're being a bit too meta-critical? That looks like a pretty straight forward list to me. The author wants to build things that are:

* Beautiful

* Meaningful (to him at least)

* Desired

I'll grant you that desirable does not always make something meaningful, and vice versa, but what does that have to do with anything? How is it -- in any way -- disingenuous to want to build meaningful things that are also desirable?

Hell, even if he's dead wrong about what's really "meaningful" to a significant population of people, it doesn't strike me as some fallacious goal. It seems like genuine good will.
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I tend to agree.

That statement is a conflation of a YC/PG mantra, "make things people want" (http://paulgraham.com/good.html), and that of Dev Bootcamp "build beautiful, meaningful things." They may be opposing things, but I tend to think that meaningful things are those that have impact on others. You're right, even if it has meaning, people may not want it.

Although, I think the end of a great start up/company/person may be an achievement of both.
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No excuses here, but who would have thought that male hormones and alcohol would lead to such behavior.
And now we've got a Macbook Air!

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/kqALB
There are entire books written about those sort style details. Personally I find it comforting in a strange sort of way to know that there are rules out there that I can follow if I wish.
Many women are attracted to aggressive behavior, but that's hardly a universal. It's probably true that the most aggressive guy might get laid fastest, but if that comes at the cost of the respect of your peers why are you at a professional conference instead of a singles bar?