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> That's why he did Datomic.

That's definitely one reason. I'm willing to bet the other reason is that he believes that the world needs Datomic. Because it really, really does. His talks make it clear that he deeply understands that.
Correct me if I'm wrong... but this is just a study which finds a correlation. While the article hints at causation, does the study actually find that?
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If it is actually emacs-compatible then why does it matter what VM is underneath?
I'd say the fact that orginizations using the work 'agile' not actually being agile goes hand in hand with old people at "agile" events. People that do it actually do it, people that want to talk about how they should be doing it just talk about it.
It might be interesting to let people rate deals, then you can take that feedback as a signal to create a curated set that you can compare vs. different types of signals.

For instance, say you come up with "items that are rated really well on amazon, and say TV but not Mount" vs "items that say TV and have a +1 from a user"
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We released an iOS camera with live filters and blur at https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController
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FYI, the top-half of the “+NEW…” link is covered by the logo link to the Plunker front page. Kind of disconcerting to suddenly be redirected away from your workspace with unsaved changes. (Firefox 14, Mac OS X.)
As others already answered, lean meat weights less, therefore it's less money per cattle. The majority of the fat on cattle is in-between the muscle fibers.
The key to hosting a successful startup competition (you're doing it wrong).
I hate waiting for the ads and I would not like to waste my limited 3g data on ads. I would lovely pay some money for youtube, but I don't have this option.
I love that under the Honors section he has: "Reached #1 on Hacker News for Status Chart".

Very meta.
I think To each his own is the point of the article. The problem isn't "having sex", the problem is not respecting others' personal decisions about it.
IANAFarmer but I grew up on a farm (not a commercial one... just for family needs) and we routinely fed our pigs what ever we could get from the "Day Old Bakery" when it was too old/damaged even for them. While a good portion of it was usually just old bread, it was not uncommon for half a truck load to be entirely made up of smashed fruit pies and donuts. Our pork always tasted good. I would not be too concerned with eating meat from a cow that was raised on a regulated diet of chocolate and supplements.
Much to my surprise, rsync on osx (with the --link-dest arg, iirc) can create directory hardlinks. I was unable to figure out any other tool to delete them; I ended up having to rsync an empty directory on top.
The core problem isn't "java", it's "enterprise".
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Perhaps the methods used to achieve the results or the context in which they were achieved aren't relevant from one position to another? Maybe the methods would reveal a momentary success that happens to be unsustainable?

I feel like your angle here is frustratingly assumptive in the same way as the other response below.

Having seen it twice now, maybe what I'm saying looks just like the symptoms of some "process not results" types you two have seen before, but it couldn't be further from my intent or work in practice.
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Style is something you'll get with practice, and deliberate attention to the process of writing code. Syntax on the other hand, is very different in Ruby and JS. I'm not sure what exactly you are confusing specifically.

I switch between Python and Ruby for the most part, and I find Rb/Py to be very close in syntax, than Rb/JS. So between Rb/Py I mostly confuse the if/elsif statements more than anything else, and refer to python manual from time to time.

If you point to specifics, may be we can discuss more about what is confusing and how to avoid it.
What would "actually find that" mean to you in this context? Science is not as clean and perfect as many would like to imagine. A strong correlation and a plausible biological mechanism combined are about as strong evidence as is possible.
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"grammar nazi's"?

That's pretty much how you summon them :-)

I liked the response too, it's a lovely bunch here.
Light Table isn't going to pull off the effect of this project, because an editor which isn't compatible with emacs and isn't configured with lisp is a completely different proposition from emacs.

I mean, if the Eclipse project started today, you could say similar things about it. I am sure there exist emacs users who moved to Eclipse. But...
It is effectively impossible to show causation in this field.
Absolutely. I've noticed that after days of really hard, fulfilling work, I find even the dumbest tv still kind of entertaining. Its a one of a number of ways to be idle without being asleep, and you can be around other people too. It can be very relaxing. But if I'm not tired, and haven't done a lot of work, I hate it.
Interesting to see that comments of these articles are full of "no true scotsman" arguments.
> Don't the farmers want their cattle to have high protein/muscle content versus high fat content?

Nope. Fat tastes better. Fattier beef is higher-quality and sells for more per pound (aside from having more pounds overall).
To get your idea off the ground, you might consider partnering with tour operators (aka tour guides) that maintain expertise in their individual adventures. That way, at the beginning, you leave the "guiding" up to the experts while you work to measure demand, create a brand and iterate on the value proposition. By handing off the actual "guiding", you can focus on developing the business. Also, I think this method demands less startup capital and/or licenses. While vayable.com does this for small (relative to your past trips) experiences, perhaps a market exists for the grand adventures?
Your expertise would be useful in identifying exactly what people want/need when pursuing this type of adventure, then finding a way to deliver just that. Best of luck!
I was in fact just being honest. It is not vague hand waving. I showed many peers what Scala had to offer and it was just not a good fit. Everyone of them thought it was complex. I am not alone in that.

Scala is just a large leap from Java. It just is. I thought it was ok but the reality was it would hurt productivity. I would say the same thing about Clojure. I like clojure a lot but it would be hard to recommend to a large established biz.
Feel the same way. It's hard to go back to Java after Scala and, depressingly, at work I have to :( How do I convince my colleagues to embrace the possibility?
Yeah - why would MSFT suggest an open source solution when they have their own tech? When have you ever seen MSFT suggest an open solution?
I should have said "pretty meaningless without a demonstrated mechanism"

because they have not demonstrated a mechanism for the 'link' to autism and schizophrenia.
Do you have an example of code that will throw an unexpected ClassCastException?
This awesome, I like how reports are generated.
http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/goaccess_html_report.html
Right. You don't want big blobs of fat that someone's just going to cut off- but you don't want a totally dry steak, either. You want the meat to be nicely "marbled", fat and oil distributed throughout.
> Don't the farmers want their cattle to have high protein/muscle content versus high fat content?

Not really. Marbling is a coveted feature in beef because folks tend to think fattier food tastes better. Marbling is largely just a euphemism for fatty. For example, beef has to surpass a minimum fat threshold to qualify as USDA Prime or Kobe beef. And getting that stamp lets the farmer get a higher price - so farmers who are selling to the general market do want a higher fat content.
This idea only makes sense if the used-fuel disposal problem is resolved, and it is not at all resolved. It would be like claiming that the coal supply is unlimited, but without addressing the problem of emissions.
On Firefox 14, roll over on the project list is very broken. If I hover over a project in the first column, it shows in the second column instead. Same for the second and third column. And third column shows off the project list all together.

Otherwise looks interesting. I'll wait on what others say before committing the $25.

Also, if we purchase the PDF today, are we guaranteed the mobi/epub when its released in the future?
The laminate flooring is nice though. You have to give them that.
The title feels a bit sensationalist. Yes, some open sourced iOS live filters are totally cool, but this really has nothing to do with Instagram.

Instagram is more than some photo filters.
A big part of the 37signals play book is awareness through blogs and magazines. Their business model can't be "hey, we're going to sit here for 70 hours a week and crank out code" because then there is nothing to write about.

In one sense, they built a business that allows them to do crazy/fun/oddball things. Great.

In another, their model is not the model of a typical HN style start up, and following their advice without tempering it to your own set of realities is likely a bad idea.
Paternal age linked to autism, schizophrenia
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What's stopping someone from using the lessons learned from a failed company over to a new entity - IP ownership? E.g. I'm pretty sure Waterloo Velocity doesn't own a stake in Pebble (the iPhone watch) even though the project began there as Allerta (a Blackberry watch) and was admitted into YC as inPulse. Wondering if these are just company name changes, or product name changes, or separate entities? As the founder would have therefore received funding for R&D from Velocity, YC and Kickstarter without necessarily putting out a product. (Though I'm sure there's some intellectual property claims made). That would mean a +1 in favour of patents, to protect the interests of the accelerator.
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The College of Business at the University of Central Florida (State University) is looking for a programmer and web developer. They are not two positions, no. Just need someone who knows the two.

Interested? Apply at:

http://www.jobswithucf.com/postings/33235

You will be working in Orlando, FL, for a State University (paid vacation, sick time, holidays, pension plan, very secured job, etc), and with a boss that let you do whatever you want, as long as you get the job done.
The concept is totally flawed, because the probability of inbreeding goes up as you go back in the generations, so:

Probability your parents are the same person: 0

Probability one of your grandparents is the same person (i.e. your mom's mom is your dad's dad's wife): very low

But then you get up to the point where you have 10k or 10m ancestors and those numbers start to skyrocket.... especially given how relatively geographically constrained we are.

So if you go back 3000 years, you'll have whatever 200 million (whatever the global population was in 2000 B.C.) ancestors. But that number will be chock full of "repeats". In fact you might only have 20 million "unique" ancestors in that era.

You'd need to model migration to actually figure out when you could reasonably expect that everyone would be somehow descended from you.

But even if you completely buy in to the premise of the article, they still get the analysis wrong.

It's not that someone will be the common ancestor, it's that everyone¹ will be a common ancestor of all humanity.

¹ who breeds and whose children breed, and their children breed...
Someone seems to do a story on this kind of thing every year. Last time I heard about it, it was local farmers feeding their cows past-due fruit loops and other sugary cereal. So it's hardly an uncommon sort of thing in general. If it's digestible and not poisonous, a cow has probably been made to eat it.
I wasn't intentionally trying to mischaracterize your statement, apologies if it seemed that way. My remark was too flippant and should have been backed up with some reasoning.

I understand that in some cases (financial, healthcare, biotech, etc) there are heavy capital requirements, simply because of the area they operate in. There are also other cases where using a large pile of cash can push you ahead of the competition and secure the entire market.

But if I had to guess, I'd wager that many, many startups are not in this kind of situation. They aren't in a capital-heavy field, and burning down a big pile of cash isn't going to make them the industry leader and crush the competition. I think more startups could be served better by simply focusing on solid business fundamentals...and it amazes me that just now are startups realizing that. Hence my comment.

That said, I'm arm-chair quarterbacking here. So my opinion counts for about nothing :)

Edit: For what it's worth, I agreed with the article and was pleased with the "be profitable sooner" mentality that the current YC batch has.
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Note that the article never specifically talks about propagating genes, just about being an ancestor. No matter how many generations you go back, there will be at most 46 ancestors in that generation whose genes a descendant has, and only one ancestor's mitochondrial DNA.
Sorry to hear that, but its been my experience that a friendship that gets tripped up by relatively superficial differences like that is probably not a strong friendship to begin with. I am not old, but the older I get, the less I feel like religion and politics are relevant to a person's personality. At the risk of trivializing them too much, I almost think of them as a team allegiance like rooting for the Packers vs the Steelers... While there are consequences for what people believe, in terms of a friendship, these things really don't matter to me.
If you purchase the PDF you are guaranteed the mobi/epub next week as well as any future updates to the book.
> It's not a standard, it's a marketing term.

It's not being marketed very well. People don't seem to actually know what it is; that reads "marketing fail" to me.
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Is this a serious project meant for general use? If so, what problem is it solving? What's the advantage over regular Emacs?
Sure, they did do a news search, but it also fails at that. How do any of those results fulfill that request? My post did not contain the word "AOL" at all. My only post with that particular sequence of characters before this morning was one from April 21st which talked about the decline of empires, Netscape being eaten, and all of that as seen in Coders at Work.

People are going to do web searches for things which make no sense to technical types. We can either roll our eyes at them (or worse), or we can accept them as a quirk of the human condition and create systems which will provide an acceptable experience even though they don't "get" the web the way we do.

I'm not sure, but I think the latter one might be far more profitable.
I believe that the complaint is that the mechanism is something of a dodge. To put it differently, the Barry Allen can run faster than the speed of light. If you asked my why he can violate special relativity, I'd tell you that he was in a lab accident. That's the mechanism by which he went into a state where he was able to travel at superluminal velocity. However, that explains absolutely nothing about why he's violating special relativity.

In the same way, increased mutations in the paternal DNA does explain why something weird would happen with the offspring. However, it does nothing to explain why that something weird manifests itself as autism.
"I don’t think values have anything to do with productivity or collaboration."

That is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever read. I have never seen a tight, productive team that didn't have certain values in common. It need not be explicit. (Indeed, being explicit about it is often a sign of problems.) But it has to be there.

His counter-example, supply chains, are notoriously difficult to manage. The people who are best at that, like Toyota, often work very hard to encourage shared thinking and shared values across company boundaries. And the notion that in-team relationships should look to the US-Russia relationship as a model is redonkulous.

Updated to add:

That line strikes me as a classic example of "I don't notice X in action, therefore X is {stupid|unimportant|useless}." Which I've certainly done in the past, but as an old fogy I've taken my lumps enough to learn a little caution.
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I still don't think the idea of labeling all of primetime TV as bad is reasonable.

TV is a medium for entertainment, and entertainment is subjective. How, when or why you consume it, as long as it isn't hurting anyone, shouldn't be up for judgement.

Maybe, better advice would be, to stop watching tv when it is no longer providing you the benefit you were seeking. Like, turn off the TV when you aren't enjoying watching it anymore and find something else enjoyable to do.
Depends on whether you're trying to buy something specific or whether you want to buy magic beans. These days, it's mainly buyers of magic beans:

http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
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The same happens in Chrome 21.0.1180.83
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Although, lean ground beef (93/7) generally is at least a buck more per pound than fattier ground beef (80/20). I kind of suspect that is because it is harder to separate more fat out when grinding. I imagine it takes more work to get 93/7 than it does to get 80/20.
this is my first reaction too. I don't see how this makes it easier for the consumer. I don't especially want to type my user name and password into one of those terminals.
I'm sure it's no accident that there are 37 projects. I'd be more interested to hear feedback from people who aren't featured in the ebook.

Looks interesting to say the least.
I wonder how much of the mutations in genetic material relate to simply aging and how much of it might be a reflection of environmental exposures based on when the father was born? Substances like mercury or lead spring to mind as things that someone just 10 years older than myself would have likely had much more exposure to despite living in the same place and having the same socioeconomic status.

The fact that the female-contributed genetic material error rates are static might speak to this effect to some degree. I wonder if they are studying autism diagnosis going back in time or if all the autistic children were around the same age.
>Do you know how much boilerplate crap is required before you can do hello world with express?

This much:

var app = require('express')();
app.get('*', function(req, res) {
res.send('hello world');
});
app.listen(8080);

Hello world probably a bad example.
I really thought this was going to be about Thorium. Surprise - its about extracting Uranium from seawater.
A thousand times? This article says 2 - 3 times: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428914/the-link-between...

Just curious because to me that's the most important piece of data.
Looks interesting. I think the sample would work better as an image from the actual PDF. Currently, there's three snippets that don't make much sense out of context.

Also, Good Dog (the script font) is barely readable in Webkit Mac. -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; helps, but I think it's better if you change it for something more legible.
Personally, I love pair programming and do it for my own projects when I get the chance. So his cynical "charge twice as much" doesn't hold.

However, it is hard to do right. A while back I put together a list of 21 ways to hate pair programming: http://agilefocus.com/2009/01/06/21-ways-to-hate-pair-progra...

One of my colleagues summed it up as "third-draft code in first-draft time."
Biologically, this makes sense. A woman is born with all her eggs already in her ovaries, while men manufacture sperm on demand. Obviously, the consequences of accumulated genetic damage can only manifest in the latter case.
Well, lessons != assets. I would say that if the founders create a new entity, and use assets from the old company in the new one, that it's reasonable for investors to claim a stake in the transferred assets/IP.

A good example of what usually happens with pivots is the case of Firebase (http://firebase.com). They used to be Envolve (https://www.envolve.com), but they saw demand for what they're doing now, and took the real-time technology behind Envolve to power Firebase.

I don't know if they kept the old company or set up a new one, but YC still has their stake in them.
You should try and get this in the iBook store too?
Yes, cows are supposed to eat grass. That is a part of their natural diet. There are farms in America that focus on sustainable agriculture and ethical animal husbandry. This article is talking about a factory farm, which focuses on profit.
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>There are plenty of valid strategies that defer profitability.

You can't point to the exception, the case that just happen to work out, and consider it a valid approach.

The time to make money is always now. Any other approach is just deferring the inevitable confrontation of whether the company/idea/execution is economically viable.
Geek Squad CEO, 7 Things I Hate About Tech Support:

Irate callers are just like those black people who don't tip at restaurants.

Now do you see it?

(Obviously, I made that up. Apologies to Geek Squad and their CEO who I am sure would never say such a vile thing).
The classical mistake of assuming the language should be the same as the locale.
This is actually lower that what it cost me as a one-person company. Fortunately, my C-corp enables me to deduct health care costs (so long as the benefit is given to all employees). It is rather outrageous.
"As for the feed vs the taste, I literally put chicken shit on the ground my tomatoes are growing in and it makes them both larger and tastier. Biological transformation is a magical thing in many ways."

But you don't put chicken shit IN your tomatoes!

I wonder how it makes the cows feel after eating it, e.g do they know the difference or is it like when my dog eats something off the sidewalk when I'm not looking and then mopes around for the rest of the day 'cause she doesn't feel well.
The post is a little bit misleading. You didn't open source Instagram but a component used by the app. Am I right?
> Also, if I had a company and were to do this, I would implement a bonus system so that employees could receive additional compensation for putting forward their best ideas and efforts.

That's not a good idea. Look into extrinsic versus intrinsic rewards. You want people to put forward ideas and efforts because they actually address pain points, not because of a bonus they could get.
I like to pair with people who are as good, but I'm also happy to pair with people who are much better or worse.

When it's somebody much worse (e.g., somebody new to my code base) then I'll spend a lot more time driving. As they see what to do, they jump in. Sometimes I'll force them to jump in regardless, so that they learn by doing.

That's a short-term personal productivity hit, but for me it has always been a long-term team win. There's no faster way to get somebody up to speed. And the sooner they learn The Right Way to do something, the less I'll have to clean up their novice WTF-bombs later.

When it's somebody better, that's pure fun. I learn a ton, I get to see somebody good at work, I pick up tricks, and I end up with a detailed understanding of a colleague's strengths.
Please please change the type. Otherwise, looks interesting.
I have been putting off buying that book because of the price, maybe I should check the library.