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You must not have read the rest of my comments...

That said, reducing risk isn't what hmexx is doing. Since the risk of quitting your job and starting on your own product is failure to create a good enough product and NOT have a job to go back to. He's not made any warranties about you being able to resume your previous job (nor could he, or should he.)

Again, look at my other comments, where I plainly state this is not for everyone, like people who already can market and recognize an MVP. And it's best for younger people who have crummy jobs and little marketing and/or business experience, and little to lose (like a nice good current job.)
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This is great for the Greater Toronto Area in general. I can hardly wait until I return to Toronto from the Bay Area to try and bring back some of this startup culture.

There are a lot of bright people in the GTA that are lacking the motivation or are unaware of what steps they need to take in actually getting a startup moving off the ground.

YC W13 seems like it was difficult to get into. Congratulations to the team!
I am very interested in this. I believe as you do

"An MVP built by a lone, but talented techie is almost as likely to turn into something 'successful' as a startup on angellist that has: 4 founders, 9 advisors, 13 press releases, 600 followers, etc"
It's good to see these programs continuing to pop up, but almost all of them are far too short, in my opinion.

When we (Jumpstart Lab) did Hungry Academy and now gSchool[1], they were six months long for a reason. There's a _lot_ to learn to be a competent Rails developer, and you just can't get that from a few weeks of morning instruction.

1: http://gschool.it
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You know I almost recommended the 10" Global chef's knife because I know a ton of professional chefs use them, but it was a budget exercise and I think most home chefs can just sharpen the Fibrox every couple months.
There are quite a number of interesting LGBT projects happening in the valley. My favourite is my cab service when I'm in town (I prefer this to a usual cab late at night as a solo female traveller): http://www.yelp.com/biz/homobiles-san-francisco. If you'd like to hear some genuine discrimination stories order a cab here sometime, they are unbelievably friendly and happy to discuss why this service exists. There's an unpublished NPR interview out there also, not sure if it's made it to the airwaves.
Or, you know, you could try not reinventing the wheel and use emacs.
I use a cast iron enameled flat-bottom wok on a glass-top electric range (maybe 14k BTU?) I know it gets hot because I IR thermometer it (450-550F!), and because once I left it empty on the range, left the range on, and got distracted. The glass top of the range had actually melted to the wok (um, wow), meaning it was in the 950F+ area. I had to buy a new $200 glass top and replace it (and the $20 wok). Annoying, but not as expensive as appliance repair or replacement would have been, and fortunately no actual fire.

I think this shows electric ranges can get suitably hot with the right wok. I'd still like one of the 50A 3-phase induction woks used at high end restaurants, or an outdoor turkey fryer gas burner (40k BTU), though.
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I have a whisk but I always cream whites with a fork because it works better. Whisks do work better for other things though (e.g. batters, mayonaise). Also, if you're doing any baking then one of those rubbery plastic spatulas are invaluable (and cheap).
The term "virtual machine" has several meanings, only one of which is what you're thinking of (something like the JVM or CLR). In the context Madhadron's using it, "virtual machine" means the abstraction of the hardware that the C compiler presents to the running program. E.g. it presents an illusion of sequential execution even on machines such as Itanium that are explicitly parallel at the hardware level. It presents the illusion of memory being a uniform array of bytes, when on a modern machine it's actually composed of several disjoint pieces.

CPU's and operating systems go to substantial lengths to present programs with a "C machine" on modern hardware. Your multi-core CPU doesn't look like a PDP-11, but it uses reorder buffers to make execution look sequential and cache coherence built on message passing to make memory look uniform.
I sent in my application and am now doing the Ruby prepwork to prepare for the coding challenge (no prior Ruby experience), is there any advice you would give for the interview? App Academy is everything that I am looking for.
Globalization is much of the reason.

When unions were strong (c. 1950-1980), they were essentially a monopoly on certain types of workers that were vital to production in many industries.

This monopoly allowed the workers to extract a larger proportion of the value of this industrial production through higher wages.

With the US focus on free trade (c. 1975-present), the unions no longer had a monopoly on labor, since companies could now find labor in other countries. Labor could no longer enforce their favorable monopoly pricing. (They tried, and had some success in the US, but often the "victory" caused companies or factories that paid good wages to their workers to be uncompetitive with overseas companies or factories that did not, and forced to close.)

The bottom line is that I'm very much afraid that globalization and a rising middle class are mutually exclusive, and will continue to be so for several decades.
After trying to learn iOS, and OS X programming before that, I finally decided to make it my full time job. No more excuses for not having time, and no loss of focus either. Six months and many iterations later, Photopoll got approved yesterday and is finally on the app store. After years of Ruby development, I find Objective-C to be a very refreshing change.
I'd still recognize both meanings for the verb "moot": to propose something for discussion (to moot a proposal), or to render further consideration of something unnecessary (to moot a court case).

My dictionary says that "moot" as an adjective also has both meetings, but I don't recognize the 'suitable for discussion, under consideration' meaning. Wiktionary says that that meaning is current in the U.K. and "dated" in the U.S.; I'd never heard it before.
I get that the name is from a meme, or something, but it's all just a bit too ridiculous. It sounds like a tumblr of spoiled suburban kids' tweets, not what I gather is gittip for twitter - which seems like a shaky premise.

The downvotes are probably because you aren't adding anything to the discussion, just blindly pimping your site. If it comes up in a discussion, or it's relevant to the topic at hand, throw in a plug. But making an account expressly for spamming is a poor choice.
For some reason the Mandelbrot fractal (slides 30 and 31 in the second part) didn't render in Firefox but they worked in Chrome. Everything else seemed to work fine.
It still is a weird unexpected side effect and at least a hash lookup in a map
Two thirds of this article including the first 3 paragraphs are about something else.

Why would you waste your time on a journalist who thinks your startup is the least interesting part of your startup? Even AOL gives better treatment than that.
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To all those pointing to cast iron, have you tried using carbon steel pans? I hear that they have many of the same properties as cast iron pans (they're seasoned the same way) but weigh less and heat up/down more quickly. I have been thinking of picking up a carbon steel skillet or wok as my next kitchen addition.
Addition and multiplication tables might be a good exception to this...
The worst thing is that translated into normal speak that's actually a reasonable sounding proposition:

"We use our experience in this field to provide practical advice to our clients which helps them improve their way of doing business and ROFL-stomp their competition 10x over."
Where are these rules? I was "showing" HN users that may wish to learn to code in C some information. I intend continuing that too... Unless you can show me rules that say I can't. Its not like its some ad campaign, or spam. Stop throwing your toys out of the pram an get over yourself.
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moot; adjective
1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot

I was confused about that too but this clarified it.
Using the term "virtual machine" to refer to the "virtual PDP-11" that C exposes to programs is possibly older than the internet.
More than likely, given the option to buy an ebook for $x or a physical book with the addition of the ebook for 1.5*$x, I would probably spend the extra money for the option.
I can't really disagree with what you're saying. But I take the point of the article to be that what makes development easy or hard is not as related to the feature set of the language as we think.

The common liturgy of language design is that x feature makes development easier, less error prone, safer, etc. Nearly always, the precise way in which x feature does this is as clear as a bell. But somehow, as we multiply the number of features, something truly destructive starts to happen. It's not just diminishing returns . . .

I think about a language like C++. I can see the reasons for every single thing in it. I can understand the arguments for why this or that is a good thing. But it is perilously easy to write very unmaintainable code in this language, and to understand why, I think we have to get beyond the usual debates (static vs. dynamic, functional vs. OO, compiled vs. interpreted, etc). Small vs. large might be one place to start.
Ah I like it, thanks. From a quick glance, it seems like it just restarts the entire child process on change.

The big (but admittedly) dangerous feature of my script is that you can maintain state inside of the embedded shell on module reload.

I like pyquitter looks like a cool generalization, though, of the basic idea.
Agreed. Back in '96 I was a teenager who spent all his free time running a modest gaming fan website [1]. I dropped it when I went to college a year later, but its nice to know all that hard work will forever be memorialized within the wayback machine. It helps me remember why I became a software engineer in the first place. Thanks for that.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorche...
YC has those things now. At the beginning it didn't have any of these things, and a few really successful startups emerged from those early days even with YC not having guaranteed follow on funding, not having a large network of alumni and not having the reputation.
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On blenders, I've never had luck with a < $100 blender and my vitamix would be on my short list of "If you were stuck on an island with 1 kitchen electric ..."

I cook a lot (for a family of 5) and my minimum/essential kitchen items for us are:

- 2 knives (I use Global but I like Victorinox too) + Henckels sharpener

- Cast iron skillet

- Wok

- Small non-stick pan (my wife prefers little/no oils)

- 2 Pots

- 1 steamer basket

- 1 baking sheet

- 1 pizza stone (or some unglazed tiles from Home Depot)

- KitchenAid stand mixer

- Vitamix 5200 blender

- 1 large Rubbermaid tub/lid for rising bread dough

- 1 slow cooker / crock pot (you can get em for as little as $20)

As for books, I've collected a few here and there but the ones I refer to the most are The Professional Chef (referenced in article), The Magnolia Bakery cookbooks, and Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day (amazing bread a pizza dough for busy people).

http://www.amazon.com/Artisan-Bread-Five-Minutes-Revolutioni...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Magnolia-Bakery-Cookbook-Old-Fashi...

http://www.amazon.com/Zwilling-J-A-Henckels-Sharp-Sharpener/...
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The refrigerator was old and the shelf brackets worn to the point where from time to time they would detach themselves from the door. I arrived home late - I was working long hours, and was fetching my dinner.

Opened the door. Jars and cans and bottles spilled out on the floor.

"Shit!"

From the bathtub I hear my two year old son admonish, "Don't use that word."

It's a great memory, but I still wonder why he learned that lesson so thoroughly at daycare.
If it's something like all-clad, aluminum bonded to stainless, then it should hold up forever unless it's been overheated to the point of melting.

I've got some that are going on 10 years, and they're essentially new, except for baked on oils on the (outside) bottom.

Cheaper stuff tends to show wear more, anodized aluminum exteriors wear through, nonstick fades after a few years, thin stainless dents.

I like restaurant supply stuff, I'd go there more often if I was closer to a store. I'd generally have no problem with used stainless stuff from a restaurant.
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I have a site that I would consider selling you for $5000. In fact, I just asked HN what they thought I should do with it - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028846 Sadly, I didn't get any traction so not many people saw it or gave feedback.

It is a complete MVP that I do not have the time or money remaining to market. The code is all there and it is extremely portable. I have an idea or two about how to make a profit with it as well as several features you could add to make it really great.

Take a look and let me know.
We're well aware of the fact that this is rather ridiculous. That is part of what captivates people about the service when we tell them about it. As for the premise of the service, it's somewhat different from what you have in mind. Clicking the "i" at the top right explains what the service really is.

In any case, I didn't want to get into the details before but we were actually unable to post the link to HN using this account as a "new" submission so we had given up on posting to HN. Trust me, I, like you hate when people plug their service on someone else's post. Having said that, when we were reading HN today and saw this headline, we couldn't resist.
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I'm ten percent into an implementation of a 'personal web archive', mostly as a fun side-project. I just wonder, if historical data gets more interesting as the web ages?
> Faster Build-Run-Debug Cycles

Interactive languages blow anything with a Build-Run cycle away. "Faster" doesn't matter.

Having a Build cycle is not one of C's advantages. It is a trade off (and a good one, if you care about speed of execution vs speed of development).
A hit of DMT will show you the world of complex numbers/geometric patterns/higher dimensions that you can't even imagine in this 3D world.
No sane person would take a deal where 50% of the idea is owned by someone who isn't doing anything. Your idea has a very serious flaw - why should someone who put 5000$ get 50% of the idea, and he has nothing to contribute to it.
I don't see this at all. There are plenty of openings in every major city, the distinction is the majority of them are from companies that treat programming as an after-thought, and thus you won't even get in the door if you don't have a degree or some absurd experience requirement because HR is screening applicants instead of a technical person.

I work in DC, which arguably has one of the more vibrant tech scenes in the country outside of SF, NYC and Chicago. With that said, my managers have told me they spent months looking, both themselves and through recruiters, without finding any qualified candidates. I don't have a college degree and I have minimal professional experience in the field(internship). I don't even have much of a portfolio. I've been interested in computers since I was ~12, and programming for a bout that long. They hired me because I ask the right kinds of questions and have proven I can solve my own problems for the most part.

Now, the pay and the benefits aren't -amazing- like what you'll find from some hot companies, but it's pretty decent, more than enough for a comfortable lifestyle and buying myself some shiny toys every now and then. I would gladly take the lesser pay and much more relaxed work environment over the "rockstar programmer" falsehood that would likely be projected on me at a higher paying company.
Very true, especially when you considering how many namespaces C has. In C++, its even harder.
That's because Dutch and English grammar and syntax are remarkably similar.
I'd be a bit more sympathetic to Silicon Valley companies if they didn't send so much of their profits overseas to avoid paying the same taxes meatspace companies have a harder time avoiding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
We purge appliances regularly. Seem to collect microwaves and bread makers from relatives who think we are poor and need them.

We make bread by hand (only takes ten mins) and everything that comes out of a microwave tastes like shit.
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According to yesterday's article in the NYT, this trend of the US's not keeping up with this group of 14 wealthy countries was absent in 1950 and only really started picking up steam after 1980. Since the US population was already significantly more heterogenous in 1950, why didn't that heterogeneity show through in the life-expectancy data for 1950?
I feel that cast iron pans are overrated. Stainless steel is easier to clean, lets you build fond, lets you cook acidic pan sauces, and are lighter so you can be more aggressive about pan flipping. The only advantage cast iron has is heat retention and there are few cases where that's useful (like deep frying for example, or baking bread). Iron is actually a relatively poor conductor of heat also and a good tri-ply pan will heat up faster.

Cast iron dutch ovens are another story because you will frequently use them in ovens where the heat retention properties are useful.
I've been rather content just turning my brightness down when I turn my lights off. That said I keep my room flooded with light so as to not strain my eyes trying to look at a screen or read in the dark. I kind of want to give this a shot though as my eyes are very sensitive to light and changes in light levels.
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I like the idea but giving authorization to " Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc). " doesn't sound good.
Probably way outside any NDA you might have, but I've been kicking around ways to introduce more statistics and data analysis to the governing process itself. Are you guys looking to move beyond the election cycle into the actual lawmaking process?
One mans' MVK = another mans' WTF.

My MVK? A refrigerator, a knife, and a cutting board.

A little background...

90% of what we eat = raw produce. So it's pretty straightforward. We just eat produce at home and an occasional hot meal out. Every meal at home is either fresh fruit or a salad. (I haven't eaten anything other than fruit before noon for 25 years.) We have lots of nuts & seeds, cereals, snacks, and many wonderful things in our fridge.

We eat out at restaurants several times per week and zero in on our favorites. (Living in Miami, we'll probably run out of fantastic options in about 30 years.) Most of the places we go serve food far better than what we could or would want to prepare and most definitely satisfy our "foodie" desires. Miami also offers many foods we would have never even dreamed about.

This was a nice post for beginning foodies (Thank you, Matt), but these days, MV<anythings> asymphtotically approach zero. In most places, you really can eat lots of delicious and healthy food without all that stuff.

(By the way, anyone need a stove, range, or microwave with 0 miles on them?)
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I do spaghetti sauce in a cast iron all the time. Am I doing something wrong?
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Even well established grid systems like Susy suffer from the above, which becomes extremely noticeable when you have many elements in one row (i.e. 12 columns in a 12 column grid) and then resize the browser. Depending on the browser you're using, you'll see the columns "jump around" and be misaligned. My grid system solves that particular problem.
Could someone explain the Ray Kurzweil hate to me? Predicting the future is hard.
I just tried buying an AutoRip-eligible CD and it treated the AutoRip mp3s just like a regular mp3 purchase - I was able to download them using the Amazon MP3 Downloader app.

Wonder if Amazon will soon lower the prices of MP3 albums which are pricer than the CDs to match the CDs, or if they're somehow prevented from doing so.
Thanks for these great suggestions.

What do you think about slow cookers destroying vital nutrients? This is the only thing keeping me from buying one.

I read some more serious research a while back but a quick search on Google got these 2 (not so great) sources:

http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=dailytip&dbid=45
http://www.livestrong.com/article/129000-slow-cookers-nutrit...
My favorite frypan, http://www.vollrathco.com/catalog_product.jsp?id=5099&ci... Picked up from a resturant supply store for $75 dollars. Worth every penny.
If you were to get only one cookbook ever, the best bang for your buck and the one that gets the most use at my house is the Joy of Cooking. It's $22 and has thousands of recipes from salad dressings to pot pies to all that fancy-shmancy stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Cooking-75th-Anniversary-2006/dp/0...
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So PHP just has a "potential" to be a "contender" in a world of web languages, but only if it does what you like it to do, otherwise it's hopeless? In what world do you live in? What color is the sky there? In my world, PHP is already one of the leading tools used for web development, and has been there for years.

>>>> The directive is and always has been along those lines, "real programmers don't use PHP". For some reason the core team has pushed that.

This is false, core team never pushed anything like that.
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Why use f.lux when you can just pop a metatonin pill thirty minutes before sleep? I've been doing that and I sleep like a baby every night regardless of how long I stare at my bright monitor beforehand.
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Part of a permanent tax fix will hopefully be making re-invested capital gains not subject to any tax.
Bold idea. But normally it's the people with money who get to dictate the terms and decide what they should do with their money. :)
IMO, the best thing a shorter program could do is to prepare someone to be a useful apprentice.
I would disagree with "cleave" also. "Cleave from" means the opposite of "cleave to", but I would argue that that's because "from" means the opposite of "to", not because "cleave" means the opposite of "cleave".
Depends how you define upload. Why couldn't a computer just simulate a persons outputs based on recordings of their life. Does virtualization of life really need to have consistent consciousness? Maybe rip would be a better word than upload.