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Except what you have here isn't analogous to a stock market strategy. When I think of a strategy I think of fairly specific things such as "use a portfolio optimizer each month and rebalance between stocks and bonds." PG's essays are more along the lines of Warren Buffet's: a framework for thinking about problems. But the value doesn't come from the essays per se, it comes from you taking them and integrating them into your own unique approach that is based upon their principles.
Combine them with a GPS sensor (accurate enough?) and track the area that they've covered on a map.
Well, this is really promotional site for Y Combinator, in the same way as Joel's blog was a promotional blog for his company (Fog Creek). So by this token we (users of the site) serve a double function - consumers and producers of content and marketing audience, i.e. we are paying for use of the site by being marketing targets.
I think you're technically increasing your points of failures by splitting domain and hosting.

You're not adding redundancies by splitting the services. Since these are mission critical services, if either fail, everything fails. Now by splitting up the services, you're increasing your risk of failure.

Take this scenario as an example. Suppose a random host will fail 1 out of every 500 days. Well now you have two hosts that could fail on 2 random days out of 500 days instead of just one host that'll fail once for every 500 days.

The above is not exact but i hope it gets the point across. I'm not saying dont split hosts, I do that myself. I'm just saying don't think you're limiting point of failure by dividing mission critical services apart. You need redundancy for that.
Assuming that a family will have 3 or 4 people, 1050 sq ft to 1400 sq ft isn't bad at all in any big city in Asia. In Bangalore for instance, such an apartment would cost around $200k in a decent location.
I should state that I wasn't complaining about the website, merely about a single persons comment - the fact that it happened to be PG is largely irrelevant to my complaint, it could have been about anyone.

Although, I believe this was covered further down the discussion but don't have time left this morning to find the link, I will try to locate it once I'm off the bus.
That user was created the same day and has only 1 post.

Funny, thats the same background as yourself - now the occurrence of those two similar profiles and comments seems a little more contrived than what was previously suggested.
My impression was that they were pressured into selling off their shares of Alibaba in order to generate cash to buy off some activist shareholders with either a dividend or share buyback. Marissa then reconsidered after taking the helm, and they are now in a holding pattern.
Cool, unverifiable rumor from a single anonymous source. Sounds credible to me.
If that doesn't work, maybe some sort of paint drip system in the legs?
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>From what I was able to gather, the authors gripes tend to be with the lack of meaningful whitespace and "tabs".

Then you weren't able to gather enough. Besides tons of other stuff he mentions in the post, he has a comment below it adding:

- The existence of make() for the "our language is not powerful enough for us to express our language" tops the list for me. A couple more off the top of my head:

- Stack allocation is quietly converted to heap allocation iff a pointer to the stack allocated object escapes.

- Maps, channels, and slices are non-pointer reference "special" types.

- Struct literals require a dangling a comma, but you cannot use dangling commas elsewhere.

- make(), new(), and import() all look like function invocations, but are also syntax(ish) (and have special support in the parser). In the case of the first two, they even return values.

>Both the goto arguments of someone who lacks enough understanding of language fundamentals to point out any actual flaws.

Well, then again, the above looks like the goto response of someone that didn't really got the article (which show a great understanding of Go, even if we forget the added clarifications in the comment section).
You may not have intended it that way, but I do find this comment to be rather racist. The stereotype that the Chinese are "follow the herd" is both untrue and damaging. Us Chinese have a hard enough time being taken seriously in the West, what with stereotypes of a hive mind and mindless obedience to authority, and this doesn't help.
Or have them periodically drop seeds of some kind
Geeks are primarily concerned with what you did, not with what advantages you had in doing it. Every second spent discussing privileged is a second not spent doing something. In the geek view, the time spent complaining would be better spent hacking, and every complaint just reinforces the 'otherness', justified or not, of the people that are doing the complaining.
>I don't really view "make" as inconsistent - the fact that builtin functions have special powers doesn't strike me as particularly unusual. If they didn't I presume they'd just be part of the standard library.

It's not unusual (as it happens elsewhere too), but it IS inconsistent.

A builtin function should just mean: it's always available and not part of the importable library. Not "special behavior".
Why wouldn't he either bail over the border to Mexico, bail to the American embassy, or bail to some other embassy?

Even if he gets arrested in an American embassy, that's got to be preferable to the inevitable "slipped and fell on a bullet" that the policia are liable to issue.

He's living in a country where the sane, rational (relatively speaking) rules of urban America definitely do not apply, fighting a battle he absolutely cannot win.
Problem with 3d printing (and one blemish on this otherwise fantastic essay) is that 3d printing related stuff I think is too sexy to be a good startup idea. Much like video games or developer tools, it's too meta and every nerd on the Earth who has read any sci-fi would jump at the chance to work on these types of problems.

That's not to say that being an employee of a company working on these wouldn't be a lot of fun, if that's your thing. But founding a company around sexy technology is more about self-indulgence than trying to create a wealth generating enterprise.
If this guy had a Kickstarter project I'd back it in an instant.
Funny in my part of the world, the bad ones are the private universities.

The reason being the only people that go to private universities are the ones without good notes to earn a place at the public universities, but whose parents are rich enough to pay for the university.

People with degrees from private universities are told they bought the degree.
As noted in the reddit thread on this:

This isn't to be used alone for clearing minefields - as it's not going to get 100% coverage.
It's still a useful tool for surveying minefields or perhaps doing a cheap first-pass before sending in pricey equipment
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As announced to me this morning by no less than 4 identical emails from their aggressive marketing machine...

On a more serious note, I find windows server 2012 to be pretty unusable remotely thanks to the new UI. The moment you log in via RDP, it goes to hell. The only way out is server core which after login pops up a cmd.exe window.

Not impressed, especially considering as an MS partner, this will pretty much be forced on us soon.
My solution to your initial problem is to have a "note to recruiters" linked prominently at the top of my resume (and linkedin). It covers what kind of places I'd be a good fit for and vice versa. Things like I am not going to update the recruiter's database, tell me company names, small companies/startups etc.

It becomes very apparent very quickly which recruiters have made any effort to read it and if they can't do that, they are unlikely to be paying much attention to their clients either. Since I run my own mail server, I then add the most egregious cases to a block list. (They also tend to be repeat offenders so that problem is solved too.)

When recruiting I look at the initial acronym soup. I especially like people who categorise what they are very good at versus ok. Then I look everything else for substantiation and to get a flavour of experience. For example is networking there, mobile, low level languages (eg C), web stuff, Python/Ruby etc. It is generally a good idea to include the acronym soup for each item in the resume (eg if doing a network server say what language and frameworks were used).

Open source stuff is excellent because it is actually concrete - something I can look at, and far more informative than generic text elsewhere can ever be.

What I am usually ultimately looking for is "smart and gets things done". (Joel has articles with more detail.)

The general bad things people do are what appears to be a bulk send, really long but irrelevant cover letters, and not substantiating things. I was looking at a resume this morning where C++ was listed as the first skill yet could find no mention of it anywhere else. It immediately makes me sceptical of everything else listed.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot. I don't believe I've tried that particular wording yet.
In the UK, we tend to mix the social housing with private housing. Seems to work - everywhere is uniformly shitty :)
"pg's essays are so true and correct that I could practically cry." - like 100 times and agree 100%
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These things look rad. If there was some way to keep track of the landmines detonated per Mine Kafo I could totally see making a game out of this. Donate $10 and get your name on a rolling mine clearer. Live scoreboard keeps track of mines cleared!
This is a great solution, but it seems like it is designed to follow a random path (that is, where the wind blows). How do you prevent this from creating a false sense of security, when in fact there are areas of the desert which have not been tested?

I remember when I was little I built a small platform high up in a tree. My father refused to let me put a rail around it, because the sort of rail I could build would not be enough to stop a fall and would only encourage a sense of complacency.

Of course, I do not mean this as a criticism of the design, but merely as a path for future exploration.
I've been executing long-running scripts that handle map-reduce jobs in production and ruby's garbage collector is by far the worst I've had to deal with. Other python and java processes running similar operations handle this much better. It was equally parts sad and hilarious when I realized that even the GC profiler needed clean up or it would hose our system after a few days.
My point is, it has not changed the world yet. Access to information is great but who cares? Do you see many people hanging in libraries instead of going drinking to the bar? No. Same at home: most people waste their evenings watching TV or on Facebook and do not spend it reading Wikipedia and getting more knowledgeable about everything. The problem has never been so much about access, but wanting to access the information. So it's like having a rocket ship when all you need is a bicycle to go where you need in everyday life. Not useful for many people.

And let me question your claims about knowledge being fundamentally changed. Kids still go to school. Still pass exams the same way as 50 years ago. Education has not changed at all, except for a pocket of people who follow coursera or other online systems. It's all very small and you are probably exaggerating the impact because you are aware of it and living in that particular tech-sphere. Not everyone read Hacker News, not everyone knows how to use computers, and most people who have computers do the same very basic things with them every single day. At least my claims are substantiated. Amazon has clearly changed shopping, and Skype/IM/email has drastically made communication cheap and led to calls being very affordable in almost every location in the world. For other things, change is not so visible and apparent.
I'm 19 and skipped college and university to travel, I freelanced for a couple of years and worked on games and personal hobby projects during this time and currently work at a small web development company.

I only have 6 months of commercial experience but I get approached literally daily by recruitment companies because of a single resume I posted on a website and it is driving me crazy.

They all ring me up and say "Don't trust another company, they will screw you over, trust us instead" and "The job states it wants 5 years of experience, but that doesn't matter, I'll send your resume too."

Honestly, I wouldn't mind as much, but it all feels half assed, they don't want to find me a job, they want to find their company an employee, telephoning me and pretending to give a crap about my life is all well and good, but to be honest, when you go cold for a week after that without a single email it makes the candidate feel worthless.

That and the fact that if a candidate isn't accepted for an interview, the de facto method of rejection is simply not getting back to them unless they contact you.

This space really needs to be disrupted, for the love of a God, why isn't there a humane recruitment company?
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We do this in search and rescue work. It seems like a really good idea.

I wonder if there is a way to make a more cylindrical version of this, which might follow a more predictable and controlled path through a minefield.
I agree it's not the only failure mode, but it certainly is the lamest so far.
pg's essays are so true and correct that I could practically cry.
You don't deserve downvotes since you're trying to make a point here but I would say that you shouldn't discount the notion that the idea you set out upon was doomed to failure. People generally say ideas don't matter execution is everything but there are just some ideas that are death traps: one of them is the pet social network and another is the cross-platform application development framework.

The bottom line is every developer sees the "waste" in developing the same functionality multiple times on different platforms every time there is a shift in the software sector. They're drawn in by the siren call of a potentially huge productivity gain by introducing new abstractions, but it almost always ends up in a death march and failure. You end up with bloat, inferior performance, inferior look and feel, and least-common-denominator of functionality. The history of computing is littered with these things and while there are a few spots of mixed success (like Java for example, which took more than a decade for people to realized sucked on the client but worked well for servers) the charred remains of surely thousands of other attempts sit on forgotten directories of hard drives everywhere.

Other ones: a better Craigslist, a drag-and-drop/novice-oriented/visual programming tool, a replacement for PHP, basically any import/export/sync tool between two major well-established enterprise services that do not have one already, and how could I forget a better to-do list. That's not to say there isn't a potential for making these things happen, but if you're going to throw 3-5 years of your life into something you probably want to avoid things that many heros have tried and failed doing.
> pg may have meant at that particular moment

That's plausible; however, the conscious brain is constantly thinking / wandering / conjecturing about the past and the future, so it's next to impossible to not have a train of thought while you're awake. (If you have years and years of training as a zen master, maybe; if not, not).

Therefore, saying that people don't have a train of thought at a specific point in time is a little like saying they don't have a brain.

The rest of the post from PG would tend to confirm this: "ordinary people can understand" (...) "what they don't grasp".
I agree the prettiness isn't there ... here's some details about their process and goals: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/20/dnp-welcome-to-the-new-an...
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if setuptools is a hack on top of bad design, distribute has exactly the same issues, since it is simply a fork that was started because of the impression that setuptools dev was stalled. None of the (numerous) design issues from setuptools have been fixed in distribute.
I respectfully disagree. He pointed out the issue. Had I received that response I'd now know what to watch out for. He's not a support guy who is committed to helping all-comers to realise their HN-posting potential.

Try that with Google when you fall foul of their mystical ruleset. "you're not in the index and your business doesn't exist anymore. bye." And that's when you pay them - HN you don't pay and it's just one post, not your whole business model.
Sadly, demining is not this simple or easy.

Mine rollers and mine flails like this have been tried and tested since WWI but none have proven completely effective in finding and clearing mines. This is partially because they only work well on totally flat terrain and rapidly lose effectiveness in rougher terrain where a large number of mines are typically buried.

In practice, solutions like this achieve only 50-60% effectiveness at clearing minefields, which makes them useless for civilian demining which demands a 99% clearance rate.

For that reason there's been a ton of research in this area which has resulted in better demining vehicles and interesting new techniques such as using sniffer dogs or rats to detect the explosives inside landmines. This is especially useful for the numerous plastic-shelled landmines that resist standard detection methods.

Using a layered approach with these techniques, civilian demining organisations like Mechem[0] (which pioneered the use of sniffer dogs) are now able to achieve a high enough clearance rate to make areas safe, though the work is expensive and time-consuming. If you support this sort of work, donating money to demining NGOs would be better than funding yet another ineffective mine roller.

[0]http://www.mechemdemining.com/
> If you are looking for consulting contracts that pay really well, focus on providing a service that helps companies make money rather than save money. In other words, help grow revenues rather than reduce expenses – people pay much more for that.

But decreasing costs by $1 is mathematically the same as increasing revenue by $1--it increases profitability by $1. Which means any process or mentality that prefers one to another is biased in a bad, purely self-destructive way.
Oh, yeah, that's kind of like this useless document:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
I definitely didn't mean it that way but if thought it was "racism" you should read up on what racism is. To call out the differences between two cultures is not racism. Having said that, Asian culture has been, and is still very much, strongly influenced by the ideas of honor and shame. That's much less the case here in the US and that is what I was pointing out.

I find it interesting that you didn't take offense to my generalization of the "Americans who would qualify for 'the projects'". Why is that?
IANAL but I presume the corporation is the copyright owner, not the developer. The developer is not authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
Yeah these points are valid (although it should be noted that they align with the author's background - sorry the TripAdvisor mention made me curious)

I think they are more applicable to early career.

In my experience, connections and relationships are way more powerful than any of the stuff mentioned with the baseline that you are competent and relatively easy to work with.
Yes, of course there is danger, but the probability of a really hazardous event, which you may avoid by hearing, is very very low for most modern civilised environments where people spent prolonged periods of time, like sitting in plains/trains, or being in city rooms together with other people.

I would not consider reasonable using earplugs while walking in a jungle, or standing in a road/open space, or when driving a car myself :-) .
Finding a solution is not enough. You must have a strong convincing power and ability to tackle with employees who will create obstacles for the new system.
I guess they were referring to how a third of a yard would be a foot or 12 inches and that most people have an intuitive understanding of such common lengths. Also, because of the factors involved, “simple” fractions (e.g. ½, 1/3, ¼, ...) often end up at integral lengths.

But intuitive understanding of certain lengths is certainly not limited to the Imperial system. I frequently use A4 paper for measuring if I don't have a ruler at hand. I know the span between the tip of my thumb and pinky is pretty much 21 cm and so on. 8.2 inches probably wouldn't be much handier either.
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Very sound advice. Having been to a top school is indeed important (even though not necessary). A while ago, I was offered a very well paid freelance gig just because I went to a French top engineering school. I didn't know anything about the technologies I had to use but they didn't give a damn.

Of course not everyone thinks like that, but it's puzzling that some people actually do.
I feel you. For sure, most recruiters are basically trying to fill a position - they work for commissions, and the hiring company, not you. Expecting a recruiter who contacted you to represent your interests is like expecting the lawyer for a company suing you to give you legal advice.

I think your expectation is a little off, and you may view it differently if you viewed them as someone you are doing business with, not an advisor. When someone is trying to sell you a car, they will butter you up the same way.

There ARE humane recruiters who can be more representative of your needs, but they don't usually cold call with specific positions in mind. They build a network of good candidates and people who would have good referrals, then reach out to them when they have a position that's a good fit.

Of course, you've proved my point above :) It doesn't take much to get smothered by recruiters.

Frankly I think the original article is linkbait. It presupposes a problem that does not exist.
Posting a blog post to HN or any other site is neither a marketing strategy nor growth hacking.

If you discovered that getting a blog post onto the HN front page leads to xxx new users, maybe that is worth it.

Now work out how you can get enough votes to get that result. Lets say you find that asking a new or existing user to upvote a post on their 5th page view leads to 50% of them upvoting.

Now you can easily work out a ROI on creating a piece of content, you have some code in place to help your audience get the result and it generates xxx new users each time.
It depends...

Although focusing on growing revenue is psychologically more comforting, economically saving on expenses is more beneficial.

When you save 1 dollar, your profit increases by 1 dollar.

When you sell 1 more dollar, your profit increases by 0.1-0.9 dollars (depending on your margins).

To put it differently, if a client is a mature company that is growing 3% annually and which gross margin is 10%, probably saving expenses is a better value proposition.

If a client is growing 100% annually and has gross margin of 90%, then, obviously, increasing revenue would be perceived a better value by the client.
ah, indiegogo then!