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How do you know there is any conflict if they are advancing their own ends within their own group? I'm not religious--I don't believe in general ethical principles either. I'm a particularist. If I were a consistent particularist, I wouldn't advance the general principle not to listen to advice from anyone who has an interest in giving it. I would suggest asking if they were disinterested or not, and to what extent. It's my observation that most of the advice one receives isn't disinterested--but I could be mistaken. For that reason, I have a preference for the advice of the dead, but certainly not all advice they have to give, and mostly for the moral lessons of art and literature--not necessarily explicit guides to conduct.

As a particularist, I would avoid following general principles of conduct in every case, since these do not work in the generality they claim. While I might prefer to use art, literature and religion as a guide to some aspects of conduct in particular cases, I would avoid following to the letter any express or implied general principles of conduct they might contain. With respect to your article, as far as religious texts go, there is Ecclesiastes 9:11.
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The potential is what is feared. Car accidents aren't suddenly going to kill 1-3%[1] of the worlds population and bring international commerce to a stand still.

[1] 20-50 mil 1918 flu pandemic http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Seems reasonable enough. Can't help but wonder though, that a lot or the other errnos were probably also invented for very specific contexts, but find use in a wider sense because they capture a more generic error class.
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I did a PhD in compilers in Dublin, and wanted nothing more than to work on compilers for a living.

In March 2009 I came out to give a Google Tech Talk. My flights and hotel were paid for by my stipend, but a few weeks before I came out I saw a "Hacker house" being advertised on HN, on some obscure site called "AirBnB". I stayed on a airbed for $15 a night and met founders of some aspiring startups, notably Wattvision, Divvyshot, 280 North and Airbnb.

This was during demo day, and the energy was just incredible. If it weren't for my girlfriend (now wife), I'd probably have dropped out of college right then and tried to join Wattvision.

Instead, I finished college, got into YC, failed at my startup, then moved back to Dublin, got that compiler job, and then moved to SF. By then I couldn't stop thinking about startups, so when I had enough cash saved my wife let me do a startup again. A year ago I met Allen, and we started https://circleci.com together!

[edit: here's the ad that started it all for me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494067. Interesting comment on that page: "It seems like http://www.couchsurfing.com/ is a bit more mature than airbnb.com"]
What is so special about the instance handle 0x10000000?
On the other hand, the double tap brings up the four most recently used applications, which, for my usage patterns at least, are more likely to be what I'm looking for than the apps on my home screen.
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This looks pretty cool, with plenty of power, and coming with the case. Adding the Wifi built-in would be better. Now it needs to add the bulky USB based wifi piece.
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>I really don't understand this point of view - why release open source software if you don't care about your users, and only care about your contributors? To me you'd be better off NOT releasing it, and just keeping it all wrapped up and closed, then you wouldn't have to deal with the non-contributing users who want changes.

What is there NOT to understand?

You release it, because (not all at the same time):

1) You want and value the CONTRIBUTING users (that's your actual software's community).

2) You want it to be used by people but as it bloody is.

3) You want to make money off of it, and think the open source + support/extra services model works.

What I really don't understand are the complaints. Isn't one of the core benefits of open source that you can _change_ the source? If you don't like what DHH is doing, fork rails to your liking. But no, they want it there way AND in the upstream repository.
The disturbing thing about this piece is that it seems to imply that a tsunami of credit cards will be a positive thing for India.

How anyone can think this in view of the global debt crisis is puzzling. The smarter fraction of the population in the first world now tends to regard credit cards as akin to crack, opium, or junk food. Things the moderate use of which calls for unusual levels of self-discipline.

I'm sure the prospect of millions of new credit card slaves in India has its Shylocks salivating, but let's hope something has been learned about the consequences of failing to keep them under close scrutiny.
Oh: bitcoin.
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>And that's exactly the reason Linux never took off on the desktop. It's very difficult to gain new users if you're constantly dismissing them and asking them to put up or shut up with code.

And it's also why lots of OSS developers could not give a flying duck is Linux took over the desktop or not. They do it for their own fun and benefit, not for some entity called Linux to gain market share.
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Yes, i did policy debate in high school in Minnesota. It was really influential in how I think about things, especially analytic/critical thinking.
> This post is the missing part that Brennan Dunn and patio11 ignore. How do you bootstrap from zero clients? How do you build a reputation?

A sample size of two isn't authoritative but I know two people who started their freelance career path by doing real good work for a non-profit they had an existing connection to and cared about. Pro-bono work can be a good investment of time. It is not like spec work; more a labor of interest, for an organization you believe in.
I can't work out why this is so difficult. They already have forecasting to work out how much fruit produce to put out for sale in the store. If you order online, then they already have the stock data so if they run out then they just say that they are sold out.

I don't believe inventory management is that crude that they can't do deliveries in short time. Given that supermarkets were doing it in an albeit slightly longer timeframe (weekly), then I don't see why they can't refine the process to be same day. If anything, it gets the stock out of the store more quickly and they make a quicker sale.
Jake talks about politics, not computer security.
Yes. But they were also actively fighting the spread of the disease. 10% mortality rate is nothing to cough at. It's in some ways like Y2K. It came and went, and really nothing much happened. Precisely because the media projections were all about 'what could go wrong (+ a healthy dose of extra sensationalism)' versus reality where there was directed and active mitigation and prevention, precisely to prevent that.
Grew up in a different "valley". The one in Nova Scotia, Canada. Got into computers because there was nothing else to do but tip cows. Moved to Vancover 4 years ago so I could ride downhill mountain bikes instead of tip cows. Love hacker news but I definitely can't contribute to the silicon valley cliche. Yet.
I am Ukrainian and I disagree with you strongly, mainly because of your out-of-blueish 99%. Traditional culture is very different. As for an urban one, while Eastern and Southern regions are similar in very aspects to Russia indeed, they are not what we mean by Ukrainian culture at all.
1. I quite like "%" - it nicely marks tags as what they are (and its at the start of the line, not the end). Then there's '.', '-' and '=', which have different semantics so you always know what you're looking at. Its much worse at the end of the line, and 2 chars is unpleasant :)

3. I guess its a part of coffee I steer clear of (and a part of ruby I avoid). Once you have 2 or 3 names in a row, its awkward to decode the function call ordering, so I just avoid it.

Actually, I think that that's what I don't like about this. In haml, its a declarative syntax, and that's very restrictive (in a good way). In coffeekup, its pure coffeescript, which means you have imperative semantics that can do anything, and so need to be decoded. But maybe its not a problem in real-life, but if that example is indicative, I'm happy where I am.
Just like how Adam D'angelo didn't make anything from Facebook?
Securitized bonds present many such cases.

The idea is that you have income for each loans, which then pay into bonds based on whatever rules may have been set. These rules often have terms like a fixed interest on the outstanding principal for senior bond issues, and then various divisions for the junior, with a weird "IO" piece that gets the leftovers that don't divide neatly. The rules can be anything that they were structured to be. The result surprisingly frequently is something where the allocation of the final penny in billions of dollars can be impacted by floating point ambiguity. (And the prospectus seldom will clarify this - the ultimate control lies in whatever the servicer's computer program does.)
I think their feature set is probably fairly similar to others. Through some testing of dunning settings and email notifications, we were able to significantly increase the percentage of customers who updated failed credit cards.

More than anything, it was fairly easy to integrate and roll out. We are busy building our core software and it would have taken us a long time to get to the point where we would have prioritized building our own.

I'm glad we didn't wait longer than we did because it has been worth the time and money spent on Recurly.
>I'm sorry, but that is just fallacious. There are plenty of people who aren't involved in any given project, but would still be qualified to give decent advice.

It's not about qualifications. It's about the willingness to hear them. I'd rather write my OWN project, MY way, that a better project in some other's terms. That's why people start their own projects after all.

So, the might be qualified, but the open source project creator could not care less about their advice, valid or not.

He might have his own opinions and long term ideas about the project. He didn't start to write software to be a slave to other people's ideas.

If he _wants_ other people's opinions, he'll ask for them.

And if he, like DHH, even posts a lengthy blog post telling them to shove them, then it's clear that he doesn't want them in this particular case.

>That's if the developer intends the software to be widely-used, of course

Developers can also intend for their software to be "widely-used" but only if it's _in their own terms_.

E.g RoR is widely used just fine, for example, despite being "opinionated".

So, "wanting your software to be widely used" does not necessarily imply that you "should consider random opinions".
Agree, one hundred percent.

If the way housing loans work in India is a pointer, you will see a lot of scrutiny in the way the credit cards would be managed. Indian banks are decidedly conservative.
He had almost lost me until the section "people buying things they don't need with money they don't have" and the prime example was "education" - then he really lost me.

Cranky crank is cranking, apparently.
A bar stand is good, but (if you've got the space and budget for it) a full power cage is going to offer you additional benefits and flexibility. Most of my list actually attaches to that or is proximate to it, so it's not like you'd have a huge pile of equipment spread all over the place.

The cage itself is good for squats, rack pulls, shrugs, high-racked overhead press (as opposed to cleaned presses), and bench press, among others. The safety pins can be used for additional protection where the bar might put you at risk, especially in squats and bench press. Most cages will have a high bar suitable for chin-ups, if not one can generally be added. Similarly a dips attachment. An adjustable pulley gives you the added flexibility of a cable station allowing for pulls with resistance at different orientations (high, low, mid). With front racks, you can work outside the cage while still racking the bar onto it, much as you would with your bar stand. Bumper plates and a platform allow for Oly lifts, which are great for developing not just power but strength (you can do Oly lifts without these, but it's safer and easier on your equipment if you do have them).

You can also set up a rack for use with bands, chains, or both, to change and target your training. A rack generally offers anchor points for bands (chains just get draped over the bar): http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...

Something like this offers most of what I'm talking about, many other cages do as well: http://www.texasstrengthsystems.com/powerracks.html

An adjustable DB is just a bar, a set of plates, and a locking ring that you can set up for a wide range of weights, it's cheaper than buying a full set of DBs over the same range, and the manual ones will give more range than the adjustable DBs you can typically buy (usually 5-50# or so, not enough for the serious lifter).

A rope hanging from the ceiling for climbing is pretty minimal equipment. Kettelbells (even just 2-4 of a few weights) offer some increased variety to a workout, though most KB moves can be done with DBs.

A Concept2 erg is something I happen to like, and if I had my own gym it's what I'd want.

Total space budget isn't all that huge
And here is an opposing view, by the brilliant, if slightly insane, techno-pundit George Gilder:

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http://www.discovery.org/a/3631
I grew up around the energy industry and spent my childhood focused on engineering and history. I was converted through my high-school's strong computer science program. Next I picked up Android development. Now I'm a CS & EE undergrad. In my internships so far I've done HCI R&D for the Oil Industry. Not sure if I'll become a full blooded "valley-type techie" or a software/engineer for some other industry.
Oh, I absolutely think it is doable. I've used local grocery store delivery services several times and, when there is an issue with stock, they just call you up and ask if a reasonable substitution is okay. Those delivery services, run by the store itself, would have a 2-3 day waiting period, but that I believe was more of a picking/delivery scheduling thing than an inventory management thing.
I don't live in Silicon Valley, and I don't work for a startup or anything like it. I do computational genomics and machine learning research at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Personally I subscribe to the Occam's razor theory: the one with the fewest assumptions is the best.

The function of a military is a large tool, it feels neither love nor hatred but a sense of duty; however the same cannot be said about the TLAs as they operate with impunity.
I was born in a small town about 30 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, frought with its share of social issues. My parents were not engineering-friendly, and were surprised and relatively unprepared for a daughter interested in the sciences. You'd imagine I'd be older to have this story, but I was born in 86.

Computers would rot out my soul and so I wasn't permitted to code. I started robotics with an after school program, got a scholarship to college, started CS in college at 18, got a job at NASA at 20 and worked my way up while finishing my degree. Upon graduation I couldn't find ethical work in robotics in the recession of '09 and returned to NASA. NASA decided to not return to the moon in the fall of '09. I wound up related to the web by working infrastructure for a large tech company, and eventually in startups via Hacker Dojo.
Even if one extrapolates earning out over the time-to-produce, it's still quite a sum of money.

The actual time vs. value comparison is irrelevant, though. Regardless of the time and effort it took to make, the 26k figure is pretty remarkable. We would not be having this discussion if he had made 1k-2k each day over the course of the past few weeks.

Moreover, the true quality of and time invested in the book doesn't change the fact that those who bought in the first day likely did so out of ignorance and without knowledge of the quality.

Given the amount of work put in, is it a truly huge payday for Nathan? Not really. Is it still a massive one-day sale figure? Yes.
I manually edit and remove elements. There's the RIP (remove it permanently) plug-in for Firefox. Styleish for Chrome can do similar things.
Work in 1/100ths of cents? You will have to convert those strings to numbers at some point (or use a specialised library format).
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Congrats Nathan! Has anyone gone through the material completely and can comment on the quality and utility of the book? I'm considering purchasing (I'm a developer with no design skills) and was wondering how hopefully this will be to me.
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Such vitriol! Can your currency code handle sea shells? It should! :)

I only mention it because the yen thing surprised me once as a newbie programmer. (A tip: "%0.2f" is no substitute for actual i18n.) It never hurts to be aware of the edge cases.
It's pretty much an updated version of the Dreamplug, although I'm going to miss the GigE.
That old Airbnb hacker house link is broken, but holy crap the background of their 404 page is awesome!
I wouldn't put your real number Greg. Some jerk like me is going to call you at 12:30am and have you not pick up.
I was dead set on becoming a neuroseurgeon. Spent all of high school taking science classes. Majored in Neuroscience for my first year and a half of college, decided I hated everything about it, and decided to change my major. Attended a hackathon or two (including one sponsored by Twilio) and haven't looked back. I'm still in school, but I work for Freshplum as well. Hopefully I'll be spending this summer out in the valley.
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Hopefully we won't see billions of dollars being handled in javascript.
Why does Wells Fargo need to track you?
Totally! It also taught me what it feels like to actually work hard. Before that I had only worked at a pretty leisurely pace, but in debate if you want to win the amount of research and practice required are crazy.
Love PG's comment about the light fixture of death. Was this "the warehouse"?
I studied in chennai and worked in bangalore for Unisys before moving to silicon valley.

However, valley-type techie can be anywhere, they need not be programmers or engineers. It is the attitude and mindset that matters.
This is curious, got an update to the Wells Fargo online agreement today, one of the changes is that you agree to let them track you if you use their online service. Sigh, I used to like using their service.
I had the chance to land an Airbus 320 (simulator) several years ago. Yes, with instruction, I found it easier to land the plane than in Microsoft's Flight Simulator (http://boston.conman.org/2007/12/28.2).
I was also very fortunate to grow up in North Bay. My first interest was acting. I acted in plays, commercials, tv shows, etc. When I hit puberty, I stopped getting parts and developed an interest in math and programming. Then a friend helped me get a job at O'Reilly Media during high school and this led to my discovery of the tech industry.
Not everyone here is a silicon valley type. There are plenty of finance people here (not just finance IT).
I was born in La Habana, Cuba. When I was five my family moved to a city in Mexico called Cuernavaca. There I saw and used a computer for the first time. A few years later I had my own and used the internet for the first time. This was like 1998/1999.

Funny enough, during my middle school years I thought programming would be boring. It wasn't until college that I found that I really enjoyed it. By chance I came across PG's essays perhaps 16 months ago. Now I am moving to San Francisco to work for a startup. Funny how things happen.
If the comments load in after the page loads, crawlers are unlikely to see them, so you're not getting much SEO benefit.

Worst case is off-topic comments that take time to remove, significantly worse than nobody using it.
I was a US Marine for a decade, first an infantryman then a combat correspondent. I tried civilian PR for a while but it didn't agree with me to say the least. Lost my job, and instead of looking for another I dove into teaching myself to program. A couple of years later I'm here being paid well to work on a project I enjoy and believe in. Couldn't be better.

edit: Should be said I'm not in the valley anymore, but may be back.
> I was born in a small town about 30 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line

If you don't mind my asking: where? I'm originally from Chambersburg, PA, which is just over the line as well.
Not sure what you mean. It was a 68k emulator that implemented part of the old mac rom. Not sure how this helps with PowerPC or Intel OS X.
> Is Vala type-safe? Ie, can I exploit stack overflows in this?

Vala resembles C# most closely. It preprocesses down to C, and gives you a great API to the GObject C object system, and in particular gives you good access to glib, including its string, list, etc. libraries. It also is intended to give you reasonable access native C libraries (optimized for those that follow the GObject conventions, but not restricted to those) and has a much richer type system than C.

I'm not particularly sure there exists a language where you can say that you can't exploit stack overflows, but it's probably much harder than in your average C application and on par with C#, Objective-C, Java, Python, etc.
This was a house in Poe St in Palo Alto.
Nice thought, but you may not find it easy to access GMail. Yahoo's "tight" relationship with the government means that its site works most of the time, and has usable performance. In China, all web sites are not created equally. Rather than outright blocking, the general strategy appears to be to kill the performance of sites, raising frustration.
I design ambitious systems for a living. Quarter to half million lines of C++. Not possible to have made in C, in anything like the same time frame.

So yes, 1000 monkeys on 1000 typewriters can make something large in C. But one guy (or a small team), properly trained and experienced, can move mountains with a high-leverage language.
This is in reference to Tarantino's recently-released movie "Django Unchained": http://news.moviefone.com/2012/06/06/django-unchained-traile...

Only Django devs are likely to care about this, as air-traffic controllers howling at the inanity of the Top Gun fly-by (or, closer to home, every 3D representation of hacking in movies ever).
Almost every item of 'suckery' listed is something that can be fixed or rather, finished. And it's OS.
A community organizer in Minnesota democratic politics.
Teaching kids Ruby? What happened to dreams? Do we want our kids engineering the next mobile dating platform for the enterprise? We should be teaching them OpenGL, C++, or maybe javascript.
It's a library, not the Tao. And it is a big, complex library which introduces plenty of its own unique jargon and abstractions, which is why people find it confusing.

The fact that Twisted advocates have to keep browbeating others to accept it is just one indication that it's not perfect and it's not for everyone.