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I write haskell code all day. I spend my day writing it at work (with occasional HN breaks obviously) and then I go home and write personal projects in it. I advocate haskell on a semi-regular basis. I certainly fall on the pro-haskell side of things. But GHC absolutely does not meet all those bullet points.

Compiler speed is not some minor difference, it is absolutely massive. Build times of 30 seconds vs 2 seconds, and that is without counting the 10 seconds of cabal resolving dependencies.

>Go comes with a complete set of documentation available from the command line

GHC does not come with command line docs.

>All Go code is statically compiled so deployment is trivial

GHC links in C libs dynamically, and as far as I can figure there is no way to get static linking working, so I have to have all the same C libs installed on my production servers as my build server. With go you can just upload your binary to a bare bones server and it works.

>but it also has a tool to clean up code: gofmt

GHC has nothing like this.

>And there's also go fix which can automatically convert Go code designed for earlier versions to newer versions

Or this.

Haskell is a great language, but it does not match go's toolchain.
Apple's spending $10B this year in CapEx. Some of that is for datacenters and some of that is for the new headquarters and stores.

That's $2B more, or about %25 more of the total than last year. If you just look at the expenditures on production (Eg: buying the equipment used to make their products) it seems to have grown ~%33 in the past year.)

It could easily be the case that Apple spends %10-%20 of its cash each year on these efforts, as it needs to scale its business at double digit rates.

Having 10X your annual CapEx spending in the bank doesn't seem exactly irresponsible. Quite the opposite.

You seem to be operating without a deep understanding of how the economics of companies and stocks work. Each dollar in cash adds a dollar to the value of the stock, assuming no multiple. So, someone paying an additional dollar for that stock is not overpaying, and thus is not considered a "fool".

Companies are valued by people like Buffett on their return on cash, or return on equity, and other such measures. Do the analysis for Apple and see what those figures are and then compare them to other companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

I think you'll find Apple is being well managed financially, and the value delivered to investors by these current strategies is quite good, as represented by these standard metrics (that require more research than the average journalist or investor will likely do, but that value and growth investors regularly do.)

Thus you invocation of the "greater fool" theory is not supported, and I challenge would be completely undermined if you calculated these metrics.
I read the article top to bottom and couldn't figure out what it is that Hall does.

> This startup is interested in building what comes next after the “social intranet.”

I don't know what the social intranet is or was, I certainly have no idea "what comes next" -- and the article doesn't say.

> At Intuit, Hellman was the only person on his team at the Mountain View office, which led to the original inspiration that later became today’s Hall. “That’s where I learned we needed a better way to communicate,” he says.

What was that better way??!? Better than what? He doesn't say.

These "articles" don't try to inform, they just throw buzz words around; they are instruments for companies to do PR, but the reader is the victim.
Rabbit: A Video Sharing and Chat Service Launching on the Mac
The EEPROM does not contain the actual firmware, but it's configuration (or configuration of hardware itself in case of simple designs). Essentially any Fast Ethernet and newer NIC has some configuration EEPROM that is accessible by ethtool (which is what the tool is for after all). Common use cases for ethtool are persistently changing MAC address and fixing broken hardware (either to work around pre-existing HW bugs or to fix it after this EEPROM got somehow erased).

Generally the EEPROM does not contain anything like executable code, although it probably can contain patches for microcode on many NICs.
It could make business sense for someone like Google or LinkedIn or Facebook to provide a service to employers to score job applicants in terms of loyalty, skill, reliability, security risk or whatever. It could make business sense for Google to provide credit risk scoring to banks or lifestyle/health related scoring to health insurance companies. They would not have sell our personal data to do that. They would just compute scores.

Granted it would not make business sense for Google to do that right now. But the future might look very differently. What about a desperate future Google that has been deprived of ad income by regulation happy governments or threatened by anti-trust legislation? What about a Google disrupted and superseded by some other new and cool company, lead by someone put in place by activist investors to monetize its assets?

Things change, but our ability to react to such changes is very limited when it comes to taking back information that has been put out there.
I worked with Adam at Fishworks, and when bringing engineers into our way of thinking, I used to describe this as engineering from "shower to support call" (I do too much thinking in the shower) -- but I stopped when I realized that this sounded a bit creepy if one views a shower only as hygiene. Adam's nomenclature is much better -- and captures everything I have ever aspired for in myself and sought out in others.
Hmm, I just clicked "close" in the dialog and was able to read all the replies.
I don't mean I will backstab.

I mean I will get backstabbed.

When you are rich, or working toward getting rich, people WILL backstab you.
FAA faulted for outsourcing 787 safety checks to Boeing
Note: The method that I used to locate this (stackoverflow) did not show the worst non-deleted question, but stopped at the second worst.

Using data.stackexchange.com, I located this: http://i.imgur.com/nmrP3Xe.png

Sorry for the misleading title, according to stackoverflow site search, it was the worst (questions => sort by vote => last page, last result)
Well i'm not saying there aren't things like that, but for instance, nice restaurants, quad biking and weekends away with the gf are things i enjoy immensely but dont do very often because if i did i think i wouldnt enjoy them as much, the very fact its a treat and not a normal occurrence is a large reason i enjoy them.

That isnt to say you shouldnt work towards finding longer term things that are less fickle and bring more overall life enjoyment that sticks, but the examples i gave are temporary by nature and my point was that not doing them often makes them special and i personally want to keep that.

I dont know why i would give these things up just because i'd not love them any more if i did them every week. They provide long term happiness because they're rare and i can look forward to them and remember them.
Also, Apple had some horrible times in the 90s. They only survived because they had a nice amount of cash when shit started to broke down. IIRC they went from 30 billion to 4 billion in quite a short time and Apple was literally on the brink of bankruptcy (I believe Steve Jobs said in an interview that Apple had about a month left when the Microsoft deal came through).

I think it's fine for a company to have a nice amount of cash ready in case of some big setbacks. Especially since Apple seems willing to take huge gambles these days to enter new markets (iPod, iPhone, iPad and soon the Apple-designed TV I'm sure). And I think Apple needs these gambles to succeed, because eventually competitors will eat away profits at the lower ends of the "older" markets, slowly taking a bigger piece of the pie.

I don't think most stock holders are that much interested in the company or it's products but would rather make a quick buck. The interests are different. And spending money on stockholders would mean having less money to spend on the company. I don't see what Apple could gain, except perhaps some goodwill from stockholders.

I truly believe the Apple designed-TV will come either this year or next year and I also think this TV will revolutionise the market. I can imagine Siri being used instead of a remote control, for example (Steve Jobs had said he had gripes with the remote control). Once Apple enters this market, I think there's a very good chance Apple's stock prices will rise like crazy again. Stockholders will be able to sell the stock with huge gains.
Do what sivers did - create a trust to pay you a livable income, and lock up the rest. That way, all the vultures and insects can't go for your "wealth" - because it isn't really yours, it's just this legal vehicle that pays you until you die.
Are we to assume that things that you pay for will offer lifetime support or sites that do charge can't shut down ?

Even if you are paying for something and the number of people paying don't cover the costs of the company its likely it won't make it.
Is Snapchat only used for sexting? We asked 5,000 people to find out
Also there are countries that have regulated economy or highly monopolized markets. In that case even if you have the money you can't use it, cause there's no stuff on the store shelves.
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Despite reading the entire post, I still want to be rich. That's pretty telling about how marginal all these problems sound to someone without money.
I don't disagree, but I'm ok with taking this one step at a time, and I feel patents, being monopolies on general ideas, not specific realizations of such, are the more obviously worse of the two.

My main point is that some aspects of your argument, say:

> every idea you have was already had by someone else, or someone is having it right now

Hold much stronger specifically regarding patents. Because patents don't govern over unique instances of the same idea, but only specific realizations, and work on such an idea.
I think the last time I checked it was six months ago, when Adrian left and I was curious to how the site actually looked. To my surprise, the site seemed to have thrived in appearance...the navigation had been cleaned up, more data sources had been added, and users were participating in discussions.

I signed up as a user but didn't stay around...I think the site failed to become a "sticky" place. There was not enough of the psychological reward in returning to the site/refreshing the hoomepage...the site seemed content with just delivering a raw stream of datapoints rather than filtering out key stories and weighting their importance (which is another argument for how successful Facebook has been with their Top Stories feed, even though people think they just want items in chronological order).

EveryBlock seemed very lackluster in its promotion. If I wasn't in the online news business and had been aware of the Knight News challenge, Adrian's early journalism work, or of Django, I don't think I would've ever heard of EveryBlock.

Their Twitter account had fewer than 4,000 followers, which seems incomprehensibly low for an online community news site 5-years-old. Reddit has a thriving community of city-based subreddits...there's no reason why EveryBlock's rich information shouldn't have been a staple on them, but it was hardly ever linked to:

http://www.reddit.com/domain/everyblock.com/

I wish I could offer some link examples of the things I thought EveryBlock did well, but apparently its owners see no value in its long tail archival traffic and have effectively blanked out the site.
As a guy from a different third-world country, I could point out something: travelling to the US is not cheap for us.

A flight ticket to San Francisco alone costs me about 1 month's salary, and that's before considering living expenses and the painful 3x currency conversion rate. Visa applications aren't cheap, and is a major pain in the ass to apply for.

In other words, I can understand why speeder won't simply up and shift to SF. Simply put, I cannot afford to go the US without a solid job offer.
"French Meteor Evangelist" is one of the coolest titles I ever heard. Makes a great business card.
Apple Should, And Will, Make a Smartwatch
Honestly, I want to get rich. To have a stable life. To prove my self worth.
Just to reenforce that.

I knew a family where one member made wise investments and eventually became wealthy (but didn't announce it). These were older people, close to retirement. But once the sibling sought to give some of his wealth to siblings as a nice gesture, the other siblings wanted to gang tackle him for more. Now that he was wealthy, how could he be so cheap as to only give them X? They demanded X+Y, or threatened to make his life miserable (they'd come by drunk, repeat expletives, threaten force, say nasty things, etc.) They only turned 'nice' once he relented and gave them what they thought was appropriate.

Anyhow. A man now sees his brothers and sisters in a different light. He probably wishes he'd never become wealthy, in some ways.
"Generally the "real-world" instances of someone buying into stock, real-estate, etc. early, they take on a large risk of losing his/her investment."

Back when many of these domains were acquired the investment was either $70 or $100 (or $0) depending on the year acquired.

Do you think it was so obvious that that $100 investment (for 2 years reg with NSI) was a sure bet? Guess what, it wasn't. It was a gamble or people would have bet everything they had to acquire as many names as they could.

Explain to me why buying a share of stock at $100 and risking $100 is different than thinking a domain might be valuable and risking $100 on that?

And what do you mean "depriving someone of the productive use of that domain"? What if the domain was owned by some small nobody on Main Street who didn't want to sell? Or Warren Buffet? Who do you think is going to determine what the best use of a domain is exactly?
It's been mentioned on HN a few times too:

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739296)

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334210)

I posted that link too! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562692)
The page states explicitly that he is not really looking for a new job :)
Do this experiment:
1. Go to Google.com
2. Enter "filthy stinking" into the box
3. Notice the first autocomplete suggestion
Flagged for linking to a site that is blatantly stealing content. Link should go to the original on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Wealth/Is-getting-rich-worth-it
As "endorsed" by Rich Hickey himself, no less! https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/299563187936837633
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Proletarians suffer from the four kinds of alienation Marx referred to in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (1) alienation from products (2) alienation from the act of production (3) alienation from ones own life (4) alienation from fellow laborers. The forms of alienations the bourgeoisie have to go through are not nearly as acute as the alienation of the proletariat.

Perhaps the most important aspect of being as rich as a bourgeoisie is that you have a secure existence. You don't have to worry about finding a job, paying for health care, paying child support, paying rent on time so that you don't have to join the masses of homeless people living in the cold, or any of the other things ordinary people have to worry about. Having a secure existence is a major stress reliever and it makes your life better no question.
You already have Desura for that.
Also, the problem with copyrights disappearing regarding software, is that it may not help innovation much. Without copyright we still don't get source, and things that were protected by copyright are just now protected by secrecy. I imagine a lot of proprietary software would just continue the push into software as a service, with large blocks of important code never leaving the walls of the data center.
Neither is fork or pull request something that you can't do easily without Bitbucket and Github, but people still use them mainly because those two sites make it easier for them to fork a project and keep the fork up to date. I guess it's all about convenience, and time will tell if people will use it.
Well, even C has this requirement. Code like

foo * bar;

Could either mean "multiply foo by bar and drop it on the floor", or "declare bar as a pointer to a foo". C++ makes it worse, of course. Either way, you need to be aware of what symbols are in scope at any given point.
Money isn't useful for it's own sake. Money is a proxy for power, which is why people complain about how it changes their lives.
I totally agree. I think loose "startups" for "service", though.

Us as service creators and owners do to a certain degree have a level of responsibility to the users, I get the value exchange of users time/use <> us maintaining the service is enough to make some people think that the responsibility check is "balanced" but we're talking 7 days. These users invested THEIR time, confidence and love into your service, they might have (whether directly or indirectly) paid your salary.

When you can, give them some time.
This reminds me of a topic that had come up earlier last year: Intermitten problems with 32bit programs in go. If I remember correctly programs would crash intermittently if the initial 512MB memory block requested wasn't contiguous. Does anyone know if this still is the case? Is the solution still to always just use 64bit?
...James Gatz?
This quora thread provided a great deal of illumination for me on the question "Is getting rich worth it?"

http://www.quora.com/Wealth/Is-getting-rich-worth-it

Top answer summary: Here's my answer: being rich is better than not being rich, but it's not nearly as good as you imagine it is.
> The owner shouldn't be able to "ransom" the name for an unfair price, either.

Since there is a supply of n=1, please define what an "unfair" price is, if you're not comfortable with defining it as the amount that Michelin is willing to pay.
Why the BIOS loads the MBR into 0x7C00
That seems unlikely to me, given the precision required to make a LEGO brick that's actually fun to play with. I bet it will be quite a while before we get commodity 3D printers that can produce bricks that consistently hold together and come apart.
jakobe said it best above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5181226 ):

> Webdesigners will always find new ways to sacrifice usability.

I even see some of them defending the practice in this discussion... 'f the users -- it looks good/strong branding/etc.'
EU Cybersecurity plan to protect open internet
I've been to the lego stores in Germany and England and the "pick your own bricks" has been in all of them (although the smaller ones have fewer different types).
Aside from gay marriage, I'd say as an individual, economic policies that are very non-libertarian effect me much more than marijuana laws and abortion, which WILL NOT be overturned and is NOT a primary issue for most practical Republican candidates because there are much bigger fish to fry right now. My point is OF COURSE they caucus with the Republicans because economic, property rights are fundamental and effect people much more drastically and completely than do laws against smoking pot, let's be honest. As far as the gay marriage issue, my personal opinion is opposition is waning or at least it's simply not viewed as an important focal point for those that are more concerned with debt, spending, economic growth/freedom, etc.
Related functionality as data, I like it.
And also keep in mind, if you are a GPL supporter, without copyright suddenly the license looses it's teeth. And can now be included in proprietary products.

It may not be ultimately bad. But I feel it's a fair bit less obvious than patents.
The advantage of this approach is that it can be integrated into a public build process as e.g. a GitHub service hook. This gives the results a URL, which is a powerful thing.
Something which cannot be made out of conses in Scheme or CL?)
I would argue that the problem with flat forums is that people have to hold a lot of state in their heads to follow the conversation.
It's about time for MyTime
Where I live (northern NJ) everyone knows about and uses Patch. Even non-techy people. I'm really impressed by how quickly they've become the go-to source for local news.
Exactly. I don't need a ton of material things in life. I mean, sure, it'd be nice to have a nice house, a nice car, and a few toys. But beyond that, I just want to be "rich" enough to have the freedom to do things I enjoy doing, and to not have to worry about money. I'd like to not have to ever worry "what if my car breaks down, will I be able to afford repairs" or whatever.

If I could build Fogbeam Labs to a point where an exit would leave me with, say, 3-4 million USD, I'd be set. That's not egregious wealth, not enough for a yacht and a private jet and all the "stuff" that Larry Ellison or Bill Gates have. But it would be enough to live the rest of my life, without being under the thumb of a "boss", and would give me the flexibility to do some traveling and spend time doing stuff I enjoy doing. That's all I need.

Well, OK, that and a redheaded supermodel and a Maserati[1][2]. ;-)

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4107942

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235317
It looks pretty interesting.
This concept sounds awesome, I'm saddened that I only heard about it once it was closed.
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I have to agree. Two things have happened here to make me see it:

- Taking on a role with more responsibility, leadership requirements and business knowledge

- Starting my own business where I get to make decisions (with my co-founder)

I see how many times as as developer I've either not cared about decisions that directly affect me. Or maybe I've just rolled over and accepted the things I don't like. It's the nature of (most) developers. Don't stir the pot. Don't dissent. Just get in and get my work done.

Here's the reality. Knowing more about your business makes you a better developer. Knowing how to say no and stand up for yourself makes you a better developer. Knowing how to talk and communicate with your users, your bosses, your co-workers (or anyone really), makes you a better developer (and will improve your work life). Being a strong technical person with strong Business, Marketing or Personal Communication skills makes you unstoppable. This applies to more than technical folk. The more you do - The better you are. Take this advice you might find that the skill you thought you were bad at, or hated, or avoided is actually very rewarding - Difficult, but rewarding.

And finally, to Amy: Thank you for all the work you do on showing people the power that they have. I started a business 5 years ago and have had to sit through the whole "YOU NEED TO GET FUNDED" and "YOU NEED TO GET BOUGHT" that seems so prevalent in the startup ecosystem. Me and my partner did everything ourselves. And now we own a business that makes decent money that goes DIRECTLY TO US.

But when you're overexposed to the opposite line of thinking, it's really easy to get caught up in the "am I doing this wrong?" and questioning yourself. You are one of the few people who puts an emphasis on growing and trusting YOURSELF. I'm very on board with most the things I hear you say because they are the very values that I have held in high esteem, yet was still questioning. So thank you for that.

ps. I also think that 'ahoythere' would've been an awesome username.
Capitalism is a system of alienation. For us hackers this is clear as day as the many proprietary software programs out there directly alienate people from the process of software production. Perhaps the best thing about being a capitalist is that you are no longer alienated from production like everyone else so you can make things happen.