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I've worked in the valley for 16 years for half a dozen companies, (Starting at Netscape in 1996) - I've also worked in Ben's organization (at Loudcloud/Opsware). Ben is the epitome of no bullshit management. He clearly establishes what he expects of his employees, and, if they fail to live up to his expectations because they decide his expectations are not a priority, he terminates them.

Working for Ben then becomes a pretty straight forward process - if Ben's priorities aren't yours, then it's time for another job. In the case of edw519 - if he is unhappy with being terminated because he's unwilling to make Ben's priorities his priorities, then he'll be soon working for a new company. The action/response equations couldn't be more simple.

Ben is also viewed by the vast majority of his employees, particularly the engineers, as one of the best CEOs they've ever worked for.
The point is, Apple is usually 1-2 years ahead on thinking the market. Their edge is in being the first movers on everything they release, so they get virtually no competition and exclusive agreements with suppliers/partners.
He is completely failing because he did not meet one on one within 6 month? I must have worked with completely failing managers for my whole career over the last 16 years.
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You forgot talent.me
My mistake here. Russian oil exports is 2x Iranian.
I agree that kernel-space drivers are a relic of the 20th century.

You can write fast network card drivers in userspace too. You map the physical DMA memory into userspace and cut out the kernel entirely. Interrupts don't even come into the picture when you're polling several packets per microsecond. Lots of those cards nowadays come with high-end packet I/O libraries that are implemented in userspace. Myricom Sniffer10G, Intel Data Plane Development Kit, ntop.org DNA, etc.
I fully agree with this article.

At my startup, Semantics3, we use Capistrano [1] for multi-machine deployments of our git repos. This has greatly helped our productivity as it just takes a couple of minutes to go from dev to production!

Through a single command (cap -f api deploy:start) our entire cluster get the latest git repo and all the services are (re)started - we use Upstart for daemonizing our processses and Monit for process monitoring. All of them seamlessly work together.

[1] https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano
There is also nice gui frontend to it. You can do deployments through the web, with built in logging and user management! Its called Webistrano - https://github.com/peritor/webistrano/
>Double recharges to full capacity in about 2 hours with the provided AC to DC wall adapter.

So someone at the physical location has to plug the robot back in to charge? Doesn't it make more sense to have a docking station so that you can simply drive the robot into a position where it can charge itself?
I've talked with a lot of startups who got in YC in the past several years, and none of them got a call or an interview without having connection inside or using some kind of a hack.

Then your sample must be strangely biased, because most startups we fund don't.
My theory is different. Our brains work like film cameras, the faster the camera is rolling the slower time in the film seems to be going during playback. Because less time has passed since the last frame was captured. The slower the camera is rolling the faster the film seems to get when you play it back. Our perception of time is based on comparing what we last remember while we were conscious with where we are in time currently. This is why daydreaming while driving makes your trip seem a lot shorter.

I call this "Brain Idling". When we're young our brains have a lot of grey matter and we're addicted to information accumulation, talking, chatting, and being mentally stimulated. As we age we stop learning (no school, no collage, nothing new going on in life), have less grey matter and start going on auto-pilot. When we drive to the store, when we shop for groceries, at work, at home. We've memorized our lives so well we no longer think about what we do, we just naturally do it on auto-pilot and our minds start to "idle" a lot more that usual. The film in our camera-like brains is snapping images at a much slower pace. A lot of time is passing between mental snap-shots. So when we look back (playback) the events of the day (all the things we remembered) it feels like time has flown by at light speed.

I freaked out over how fast time has flown by after I hit 21 and tried out an experiment. I installed "talking clock" for windows on my pc and made it announce the time every 5 minutes. Yes. For the whole day. Every day. After the 2nd day of using this technique time slowed down by massive amounts. A day felt like a week. A week felt like a month. It was insane. I felt like I was young again and the world was moving at a glacial pace. There are downsides of course, it's unsustainable. You have to take breaks every other day or so otherwise you get used to hearing the time and ignore it. It can also get exhausting when your brain can't take a break and daydream or idle and think about nothing. But it does work. I wanted to write a nice big article on it but I'm so swamped by work on projects and new clients needing UI/UX consulting that I just keep putting it off. On the plus side I've discovered a way to slow down time (at least for me).
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"It it's a sale, it's taxable". Where does the money go? Wait... I already pay 1000 different taxes every day.

We should just blindly accept whatever politicians tell us to do.
Why are (some of?) the open source SQL-compatible RDBMS so different that you can't wake up any Monday and decide to use another one, so then proceed to unload all your data from your old one, load it into your new one, and proceed on your merry way? In other words, why should I have to care which flavor the engine is, as long as it supports all my App's SQL requests correctly?
Just saw this tweet :

>No charging dock yet, and the iPad talks over bluetooth, so it will need separate charging. Stuff is in the works, stay tuned!
Maybe I am ignorant to the meaning of 1-1 meetings. Doesn't that mean that only two people meet in a room with no one else to listen in? Usually as a performance review? This does not cover regular team meetings with more that one member?
While it is true that Soviets did a major part of the actual combat work, they probably could not have done it without economic help from the US. If US were unable or unwilling to provide such help, it is not at all given that Soviet economy alone would have survived the onslaught. While the heroism of the Red Army people is unquestionable, one needs a lot of material resources to wage war, and without them even most heroic people can not win. Even Joseph Stalin - a man not known for being overly modest - acknowledged that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
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I've got to admit this was my first thought too, but I think the scope of the business is to provide the plumbing for apps, rather the just a Twitter replacement.
Hmm, I doubt you had to threaten to fire them... Asking would have probably gotten the job done. If it kept happening, then I suppose you could promise disciplinary action and firing as a last resort.

Now your managers are looking for another job (they will quit) because they don't want a jerk for a boss (who wins here).
Can't you all think for a bit? All of These solutions are
O (n) in both time and space... there is solution that will take O (1) time and space - and I think that you learned it in math class at (latest) high school (hint: arithmetic progression)
"For example, founders who don’t think of their team’s welfare first in a soft landing probably won’t get funding from their prior investors."

So in this context, a founder's "team" is the investors, yes? Not the employees?
This is strangely adorable. I'm looking forward to seeing how it reacts when its new robotic friend tickles it with an intense laser pulse in order to observe the emission spectra of the elements inside it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-induced_breakdown_spectro...
In what world is selling something not going to incur a tax liability?
Streaming is not unimportant for the examples I gave. Both are 1 step away from being replacements for flash apps. They are basically a webpage with all assets bundled together making them easy to distribute. Except, because a non-streamable format was chosen they can't make the leap to full flash replacements.

Even as an extensions or widget, the fact that I can't stream them means I have to wait for them to download entirely before they can be used. I can certainly imagine a Chrome app (game) > 500meg that would be awesome if I could start interacting with as soon as 1-20 meg had been downloaded. That use case though was made harder because a non streamable format was chosen. Instead the app has to download some small boot loader and the manually stream the rest of its assets. With a little more foresight that could have been solved directly by the format chosen.

As for tar/gz not being random access. There's nothing preventing implementations from caching locations as the file is downloaded or inserting a file as part of the tar that lists the locations.
Nice idea...
Though you may want to add support to signup through ways other than just FB!

For those interested, the code is on: https://github.com/tech-no-crat/posterizer
again, tokbox+robot=AWESOME.

I built something like this 2010 at iOSDevCamp out of legos after the ipad came out. :-) http://zbowling.github.com/NXTRover/
It's also from The Daily Mail, which is one of the most untrustworthy sources of information.
* Smallest federated wiki: http://wardcunningham.github.com
Actually, XMPP the underlying technology we finally decided upon, just before the team fell apart. But the concept was to make a product that is based on it, but with a different feature set from the usual IM/chat clients we see.
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I remember when the swine flu was a big deal, and there was a huge line for public vaccinations in my town. I was waiting in that line for at least an hour, but it didn't feel that way, because I wasn't waiting in a line. I was reading a paperback book that I had brought with me, in a line. It was only a peculiarity of circumstance that there were long lines of people on either side of me during this whole process, and that my reading session concluded with a needle in my arm.

Surprisingly pleasant! I just wish that books tended to be more trivially portable, so I could carry them with me all the time. Cell phones with books on them are nice, but the tiny, backlit screen is less than ideal.
I've always held the opinion that time is the number of events, realizations, ideas, and new experiences.

When you're kid, everything is new from what happens on the sandbox to school to friends to foods to afternoons alone to crossing over your old boundaries in general, in both physical and emotional sense. So much happens in a month that it equals five years for an adult.

When you're an adult, much of everything is something you know. The fraction of new things in your life depends on your own activity. Even if you wanted to be on the bleeding edge of life, you generally still have a job and a lot of routines in life—routines that might not be set by you but will still affect you. And routines and repetition doesn't count.

The key to adult time is to realize that the mundane things aren't the same, ever, even though they seem like it. You never know what will happen: there is newness every day, in everything you do, if only you can unlearn to dismiss it.

The other path—the path that isn't sustainable—is to start reaching for experiences intentionally: after you've climbed all the mountains and dived to the deepest caverns of the waters, done the craziest roller coasters and raced the fastest races, you're still not much more ahead of where you started. Those things can be done for fun but what I'm referring to is the trend of experience-hunting which is a reaction to the pace of finding new things in life that has slowed down since childhood.
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Seriously? The discussion is about language features, not optimal algorithms.

One could imagine the question was actually "sum BusyBeaver(n) for n divisible by 3 and 5 between 1 and 100", i.e. no closed form. In Python:

sum(BusyBeaver(x) for x in xrange(1,101) if x % 3 == 0 and x % 5 == 0)

(And yes, if one was being really pedantic, one could replace the condition with x % 15 == 0.)
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I think a lot of the problem is whenever you don't easily "see" all the information. In a document you can scan it beginning to end, and get an idea of what needs work. In a wiki you need to click through to other pages to see whether subsidiary pages need work.

Perhaps a wiki that allows pulling in "snippets" from linked pages could help.
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that's all possible, but does not imply all statementes are false
The hackathon refers to the airport code for Saint Louis.
I'm also partial to the "perceived time == amount of new experiences" theory. Some years seem much longer than the years that came before them because i had lots of new experiences those years.
everything2 is most definitely not SEO garbage. I'm pretty sure it predates the concept of SEO. It has a very genuine community, and its content is pretty close to 100% voluntarily user-generated.

It's kind of like a proto-wikipedia, without the requirement for maintaining a neutral point of view, supplemented by freeform creative content. Maybe more like the collective journal of a certain type of young geek from the first half of the last decade. Lots of essays and painfully earnest poetry. It was initially associated with Slashdot.

As for the content being spammed all over the internet, I would guess that E2 is a reliable and extensive source of high-quality, human-generated text, with a dense network of contextually valid links included. Why not just scrape wikipedia? I'm not sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything2

http://www.everything2.com/title/Everything2%20is%20not%20Wi...
Speaking of which, how getting six-pack of beer proves that the service works? I can ask my friend to drop a six-pack of beer at your door, does it prove I own a working grocery delivery service? Of course they already know a lot about the guy from his application, but IMHO sending beer doesn't actually prove anything. It does make the applicant stand out I guess and shows high motivation and thinking out of the box, which I guess are important.
Personally, to the contrary. With a smart device you'll end up going and doing something all the time, and you get used to that keeping you going and going through the day. And this means you never stop doing and start being.

I don't have a smartphone and I probably won't get one until I need some of its functions desperately enough. I like waiting and doing nothing: it's the time to be, it's time for myself. I never run for the bus or tram or train, instead I walk as if it was waiting for me forever. If it leaves before I hop in, I just consider it some time for not-doing.

Actually, this removes the meaning of "waiting" and "pause". If the "pause" doesn't actually break anything in your day then you're not "waiting" either. It's just your day, sometimes going forward, something stalling, sometimes going backwards, like a little toy boat whirling along in a stream. There's nothing to pause from and nothing to wait because everything just is.
I see no reason to think so. The article uses both 'team' and 'investors'. No reason to think the writer is disorganized.

It also says in a soft landing 'investors basically get no money back.' So the only concern seems to be how the team is treated.
Coal is also extracted through mountain-top removal which is extremely damaging to communities. Start with a mountain and a valley, end up with a toxic wasteland.

That said, the consequences of fracking could be far, far worse. It's understood what coal does. What natural gas extraction of that variety does is still a new thing waiting to be discovered. It could literally poison the well for hundreds of miles around, and with fresh water being such an important resource these days, squandering it on natural gas extraction and further contaminating the ground-water with chemicals may turn out to be a very bad idea.
The thing is that people start using those libraries w/o thinking before - and theirs' solutions end up doing much more work than is needed
it needs a better radar(a 3d radar to be precise). Very interesting though.
Because you heart rate decreases. Other internal clocks also seems to be reflected with the age.
Energy is prosperity, but the problem with using non-renewable energy is your prosperity will run out.
To relate this to tech, there was an earlier study done that showed progress bars that updated in smaller increments (~1% steps) felt faster to end users than larger increments (20% steps) even though the time for the smaller increment progress bar to finish the task was the same or longer.

In other words it's reinforcing the primary argument of the article, the perception of waiting is more important than actual wait time.
Took less time than I thought. version 0.2 comes with python 3 support
I agree completely. scrum pretty much throws the people over process overboard...I've never been in so many meetings (dailies with different teams in different timezones all over the day, sprint planning meetings, planning poker sessions, retrospectives, weekly team meetings), the amount of administration and email going around is insane. I feel like I'm in school again, having to account for every single piss I take.

To put it bluntly: get lost with that shit.
Never had an issue in the South Island, but living in Wellington, and when I visited Auckland, I had surprising confrontations on numerous occasions.
900,000,000 users / 180,000 servers = 5,000 users/server.
Almost all of the radiation effects appear to be single event upsets (SEUs). So in principle, it should be possible to design robust software to detect and recover from faults (SEUs do no permanent damage to hardware).

There have been efforts within NASA to design robust OS extensions -- redundancy, watchdogs, heartbeats, checkpoints, etc. -- so that fast/cheap COTS hardware could be used, at least for some functions like image processing. This has never reached critical mass and been carried to completion, however.

So yes, as you guessed, there is significant pain and heartburn that computational capabilities are so far behind. Engineers have to spend a lot of time and cleverness squeezing, say, stereo vision processing, or image compression, into the hardware available.
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Air-quotes on global warming, huh? You think it's some kind of fairy tale, a conspiracy of researchers?

The only controversy left is not that it is happening, but how bad it's going to get even if we shut down every factory on the planet right now.

Even the emissions in the 1990s were well past the red-line. Don't forget that China is also way past the United States, moving to levels the US has never even touched.

Even if the US pulled the plug, China and the rest of the developing world are a much huger problem.
What, really? That's awesome!

How've you been liking it? It looks like there were 20 people last meetup.
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> I don't have a smartphone and I probably won't get one until I need some of its functions desperately enough.

My smartphone has only one essential function. Provide access to the internet. I consider that a necessity. Apparently you do too or I wouldn't be reading your comment.

> I like waiting and doing nothing: it's the time to be, it's time for myself.

I can understand not wanting to be connected all the time. However, for myself, I only want to disconnect when I'm with other people ... when I'm by myself, I want to spend that time on my interests, which are conveniently found on the net.
I was so shocked that St Louis had anything close to resembling a "hacker scene" that I swore it had to be some SF event being overly clever with its name.

I live about 30 minutes from STL (or as the cool kids say: StL) so maybe I'll check out their monthly Code Til Dawn http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/#past
The video was made by our friends over at Mission Control Media: http://missioncm.com. Talk to Greg and Ken, they're awesome!
"If you go off track, you pledge money to stay on the road the next time. If you go off track again, we charge you."

I don't like this idea. Doesn't it encourage them to get you off-track? It becomes an incentive for the company to move against the very goal that it was created for.
It may be true that smartphones and books can get you through a long queue, it does not solve the problem though, only makes it worse.

Queues can be indicative of a more serious issue - indifference. Government offices have earned their way up to the top of this list.
Government queues could very easily be improved by either getting larger offices, hiring more officers, optimizing queue lines, estimating times and allowing you to return after 3 hours instead of making you wait and a hundred other ways any of you could come up with in less than 5 minutes.

The problem is not the queue but the organization.
The worst thing about New Zealand is that our national sport makes no sense. I've had to explain rugby to a few foreigners and it's a challenge. Still, it's nice to be the best in the world at something.
I consider this to be an antipattern, in part for some of the reasons listed in the article. The syntactic convenience being attempted here is more appropriately encapsulated as a utility method.
Love that so many startups are looking at hardware innovation - like this, Square, Ouya, Pebble etc. Even if this isn't a mass-market product in it's own right - only good things can come from building it.
I second this "changeable" synonym instead of "many". At that point, you could also add a quick reference to mathematics, because that's where 99% of all people already got some experience with variables.

Very cool tutorial by the way, keep up the great work!
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I live here in New Zealand and unfortunately I'm too depressed to enjoy it. The terrible weather doesn't help. On that note, I'd love to meet any HN folks in Auckland. I'll use this thread as an opportunity to reach out.
I think this comment is a slight bit too critical for an OP that's obviously in the genre of playing with ideas. (Most of everything2 seems in this genre.)

> a large factor of it would actually be that our brains don't store repetitive events very well

Depends on what you mean by "very well". Aggressive data compression is usually considered a good way of storing things.
Funny you should ask! We just blogged about that tonight: http://blog.beeminder.com/perverse
Thanks; I forgot about it somehow. Previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199260
The "false touch" problem is solvable:

"Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tYpXVTjxA

Basically the idea is to make devices aware of the physical context of user interactions.
If you're wondering if there's a typo in the article, we say "tomahto", not "tomayto", much like the Brits.
This is interesting, I hope you write the article some day, I hope you can find the time.