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This article starts out on an absurd premise.

Namely: they dislike bitcoin because they don't understand it.

The assumption that people who prefer gold over bitcoin, just don't understand bitcoin, is arrogant to put it mildly. I understand bitcoin, I like bitcoin, I prefer gold because it is radically safer as a store of value.

One thing not mentioned in his list, is that bitcoin can be replaced (or legally usurped) by another protocol or approach in the relatively near future, one that is perhaps vastly superior. Bitcoin can also easily be made illegal by the US Government, and that is a real threat. Your typical gold is not tracked, the government has no idea who owns it, and many states have passed laws shielding owners against Federal confiscation. It's easy for the NSA to track all bitcoin related IP traffic however, and then to continuously press on it forever to check for bitcoin based transactions (all run by machines, not people that have to search every house and yard in the nation for gold).

This is particularly an issue given the speed at which technology is advancing: the things you don't know about tech just 10 or 15 years in the future, is the problem.

It's guaranteed bitcoin will run up against lots of direct competing digital monetary systems in the future (they're in the works now, thanks to the splashy bitcoin headlines). Bitcoin is merely the first to gain a small amount of traction; it's very early yet. There's no insurance that bitcoin will retain its position for even the next few years, much less further out. A few things will happen in just the next 24 to 36 months, first there will be numerous new competitors to bitcoin, and second laws / regulations will begin to proliferate to control digital monetary systems (and those will dictate winners and losers).

The odds we're going to replace gold in the next 20 or 30 years with another physical store of value? We can hardly fly to the moon at this point (in fact, nobody is flying to the moon right now, and we've never even attempted space based mining yet) - well there's no logical place that would derive from any time soon.

The US was able to lean hard against the Swiss and directly force them to change their banking laws. Bitcoin would be trivial to destroy by comparison, simply by leveraging the UN / IMF / global banking system.

The reality today is that bitcoin is tiny and still irrelevant, IE it can be made to disappear tomorrow morning at a mere list price of $1 or $2 billion, a paltry sum in the finance game.

Maybe that won't be the case 'tomorrow' - and maybe bitcoin will get far easier to use for the lay person, leading to wider adoption. Bitcoin is a speculation that may turn out great, gold is proven.
>I doubt many people are stupid enough to trust Bitcoin with their savings.

You should have more faith in human stupidity. It has a proven track-record.
Sssh, you don't want the grad students to hear! Without grad students who's gonna do all the prof's grunt work?
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I don't need this at the moment, but I think it is a very nice idea!
At some point in the near future, I will probably find a use and buy it ;)

+1 for adding a screenshot on the website.
I kid because the title seems designed to be provocative. It's not always failure to sell out. Quite the opposite in my case, but I hear you. You "sold out" and lost something in the process. They have been good stewards of Vimeo. It's one of the quality sites on the web, so I wouldn't fret too much. You created something wonderful. That's more than most people.
It's the internet, a little bit of scepticism is my first gut instinct.

I have a question if you wouldn't mind answering. What did you do to find new (well paying) clients and why?

P.S.
I had to look up wikipedia for the definition of prole.
> Having your net worth halved is crippling.

"Having your net worth halved" happens in the inflation scenario. Deflation increases your net worth.

If you have $10,000 and there's inflation, then eventually it will only buy half as much stuff. If you have $10,000 and there's deflation, then eventually it will buy twice as much.
Indeed, which is why I like to think of engineering as a game of hyper-dimensional whack-a-mole [1].

There are a certain series of things you have to hit in a fairly hyper-dimensional world, dodging constraints, hurdling uncertainty and taking risk in your stride as you struggle to make products that work, delight consumers and make bank.

It's like a complex and exquisite ballet really, with suppliers, manufacturers, producers and designers all coming together to make extraordinary products that astonish the world.

Ah, I love engineering.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238984

> designing a rocket engine is a massive game of high dimensional parameter whack-a-mole, it's very difficult to get a passable configuration without a lot of iteration and forwards-backwards passes
Why do so many people seem to miss IDE features when they use something that is so obviously not an IDE?
If you want to get really tinfoil hat about things, arable land and guns would be better than either gold or bitcoins (quick, to the Compound in Montana!). And if you don't want to get tinfoil hat about things, there are far, far better investments than either one - including, once again, land.
I was simply sharing with HN what I thought might be an interesting anecdote about SPJ within the context of this post. Feel free to split whichever hairs are of interest to you.
For me Java is a no no because of all the update and security problems with it. Beside it isn't a lightweight and fast platform. I know many people that waisted a lot of time with Java software upgrading problems because of broken backward compatibility.

The other problem is the pricing model. If I host everything and use my own bandwidth, what do I pay for ? Software development and upgrade ? This is very expensive for a user with a non profit activity who just want to stay in control with its own data.
I find QT Creator underwhelming, especially compared to intellij. You have to stick to a single window, the interface to gdb causes me to pull my hair out most of the time under OSX, the refactoring support is almost absent, the keyboard shortcuts are a pain to manage (to make it emacsy, at least a bit).

I currently use eclipse for my embedded C++ project, and QT creator for QT apps (QT is wonderful!), but intellij for pretty much everything else. Looking forward to this.
I live in France and I'm a customer of Orange. I was really surprised to see on my mobile, on Facebook (m.facebook.com - I've noticed it only there, but perhaps there are more pages like that) they're injecting a HTML with "Return to Orange World" link in the footer directing to orange.fr. Not sure if anything more though - I have a plain old mobile with Opera Mini.

I'm curious if they have some deal with FB to do it.
> First of all, money is information.

No, first of all, money is trust that someone will honour it. Information is on the second place.
True, subsidized means a portion of the cost is absorbed by other party. SpaceX provides a service the customer needs at a competitive market rate. It is not much different from how Lockheed-Martin operates.
I don't think I've seen anyone claim that gold is easier to hide or bury than bitcoin. Maybe some people do but that's not the issue most people are talking about when they compare bitcoin to gold. The main distinction that they're pointing out is that gold has historically held value beyond its use as money (electronics, jewelry, etc.)
PhD by Publication isn't uncommon. I know a number of people who have worked as researchers in NGOs. After a decade of that it can take just a few months to tidy up the work you have already done, submit it to a university, and be awarded the qualification.
whilst there some similarities between qa and privacy, in terms of technical debt/slowdowns, I don't think they are the same. Privacy is much more elusive, difficult to see any immediate value of, and subject to interpretation. QA can prove its value by finding real bugs that are usually harder to argue against.
I too am in the same situation and wondering how to move more into "charging by value", when I am also experiencing that most work doesn't have boundaries.
Might be worth noting that the things denser than gold are probably all going to be more expensive as well, so there isn't really any way to hollow out your gold and fill it with weights to correct the density. Even DU falls short of being dense enough todo that.
Do you think "phoning-home" would be considered bad behaviour?

Are there other applications which already do this?
Not quite the same, but a few years ago I met an HCI professor who had started his career as a male nurse and had worked his way up through the academic system.
Really depends on what part of the world you live in, as to whether that's quite so tinfoil hat or not.
now you made me feel bad.
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Fairly close to Palo Alto, CA. According to a sample bill the rate was around 12c [1]. Premium gas is currently $4.25-$4.50 it has been higher in the past.

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All credentials including PhDs are designed for getting into a job (I.E. research position, postdoc, etc.), and they are a very effective tool at it.

In scientific articles (At least from IEEE) notice there are no titles associated with authors. It's a common misconception that you need a PhD to publish an article, there are many papers with authors in high-school.
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How I wish Lakos's team was based somewhere in Europe...
I think Meredith also works in that team.
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Yes

After all, how dare someone tell the grad students they can be someone without a PhD.

They are almost forgetting how's life outside the academic circles!

Now, you're late for CS 201 room 704 on that building across the campus, go and don't forget your TA notes.
In 30-200 years, they'll probably be a great investment. How many original iPhones will be left? It'll be a priceless piece of history.
Bitcoins are fungible. In fact, there's no such thing as "a" bitcoin, they're just amounts recorded on the blockchain ledger, so they're actually perfectly fungible, even more than gold.
I'm actually more of a paperclip person myself. I haven't stapled anything in years, and I've survived just fine.
Yeaaaa well when bitcoin crypto gets broken, gold will still hold the same value. gold has actual physical value, not because its shiny but because its useful.

In fact, we need gold to generate bitcoins :)
There's also KDevelop, cross-platform C/C++ IDE. I've only used it for C, and only on Linux but it was a great experience. It's supposed to support other languages as well, and I've tried python, but had no luck with it.
The entire context of this discussion is a concrete example of how the language spoken by Shakespeare does in fact differ from the standard English spoken today. But instead of recognizing this fact, you are trying to turn this argument into one over the meaning of the term "modern english", which is completely pointless.
I don't think a Masters has ever been a requirement in the UK - I started a PhD without one and that was fairly common (at least in the 80s/90s).
> Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)

I've worked with many people who had this. Some of them were decent. Many were terrible. Companies who employ software "engineers" based on this little gem of a certificate alone... beware!

Also it should be Oracle (not Sun) - which probably gives some understanding into the technical insight behind this article. If the Survey was conducted in late 2012 and people were still saying Sun... then I'm a little bit worried about the respondents too!
> I certainly wouldn't advocate that becoming a nationally recognized language.

The US has no official language, so it's a moot point. The article talks about how _teachers_ should recognize the language. Not teach the language, recognize it as a language, and not assume you're dumb just because you grew up speaking a different language (assumption like that have a definite negative effect on student performance).
livefyre.com: on Ubuntu Chrome, the css (site_media/css/style_v5.css) fail to load, together with many .js files; as a result, the site looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/mHmp2KX.png

(This doesn't happen on Ubuntu/Firefox, nor on Windows/Chrome.) It's strange; in the Network pane of Dev tools, the request show up as "failed"; but if I do

curl "http://www.livefyre.com/site_media/css/style_v5.css -H "Accept: text/css,/;q=0.1" -H "Cache-Control: max-age=0" -H "Referer: http://www.livefyre.com/ -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31"

then it works!

Here's a copy of the network pane:

http://i.imgur.com/2Srj8xj.png
Gold is soft, so you can probably push a needle inside to check for a tungsten core (most common way to fake gold bars)

Not as fancy as X-ray techniques, but much cheaper and readily available

Maybe you can analyse the propagation of mechanical waves within, not sure (so a pure gold bar will 'sound' differently when struck with a soft mallet)
As far as I understand there's no need to pay if you don't use the teams feature or don't have external collaborators.

Java seems to be a nice way to provide consistent experience across different platforms, I don't even want to think of installing OwnCloud on Windows. And with OwnCloud I'm even more concerned about security as it's written on PHP, but I may be biased here.
I really want to use AeroFS, but I have a few criticisms.

a) One of its goals is privacy, but it asks for my first and last name. Why is this needed? I could always lie, but I'd much prefer a single field (e.g. display name) that doesn't explicitly ask for this.

b) It tries to download a .deb file if I'm using Linux. I'd much rather click this myself, and I suspect it does this regardless of whether my system is Debian-based.

c) When signing up, I got no notifications at all. This may be due to NoScript, but I had no indication that my signup was completed. I thought perhaps my password wasn't valid or something along those lines, but I eventually tried to sign in-- it worked.

d) "Non-Ubuntu users can also download the tgz archive." .deb files are specific to all Debian-based systems, not just Ubuntu. Is it fine to install the .deb (which you've tried to download for me) on other Debian-based systems or just Ubuntu? It's unclear.

AeroFS is potentially great, but this isn't the first time I've reported concerns over a, b, and d.

Edit: added d, modified last sentence for clarity
Wasted resources. The difference in size between the two (using the numbers from the above comment) is 85.1 KB. Now think of all the customers Comcast has and you will see quickly the difference it makes with a few KB.
Years ago, when something around the house would break prematurely, I would say to my wife "Let me guess, you got a really good deal on this didn't you?"
I think we're definitely in a wave of education bubble. Soon enough, paper degrees wouldn't matter. Udemy, Udacity, etc may look like 'for fun' type of schools, but I'm sure they'll democratize institution heavy traditional schools.
OpenDNS does the same thing these people are complaining about -- they wrap the missing domain in something like a search page that has their logo and custom ads on it.
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> no one has any incentive to spend money

> This means that no one buys anything

Think about technology. Every day, the cost of a new computer drops by $0.27 on average, let us say, or about $100 per year. Last year's models have a $100 discount, three-year-old machines have a $300 discount, five-year-old or older machines are bargain basement or even negative value (you have to pay someone to haul them away for recycling).

Every day, your money increases relative to the value of computers. Every day, when you wake up, you face an economic choice: You could buy that new machine today, and have it today, or you could buy it tomorrow, and have the new machine and $0.27 left in your pocket.

By your logic, everyone would always choose to postpone buying a computer.

Yet people buy new computers all the time, and have for several decades. How can you explain that? It's a real deflationary market that doesn't have this problem.
Another reason to use SSL everywhere.
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The most valuable thing you could get in those places is probably a ticket out. And dollars are probably easier to use to bribe/pay your way out - everyone recognizes a 100 dollar bill, but $100 of gold is pretty small.
I'm not killing myself for the contract income, but the effort to get the product stuff rolling might do me in.
Most people are going to click through any security warning because they just want to get to the site they wanted to go to. If Comcast does this, it would make EVERY SSL site display the warning, making it utterly meaningless.

Alternatively, it's not that outrageous to think that Comcast et al could get certs into the major browsers if they wanted to do so. It's not even implausible to think that at some point, browsers will be legally required to distribute ISP certs to allow for the "safety" of users.

If Comcast makes you install a custom application to keep your certs up, it won't matter if Fx and Chrome block each cert within hours, because Comcast can keep generating and pushing new ones out. And, as above, if the ISP is going to fiddle like this, the actual power held by browsers is greatly diminished -- users aren't going to use a browser that doesn't let them browse without nag screens on every page, even if it is "for their own good".
And DU would be ...?

EDIT: I think you meant Tungsten, also known as Wolfram (symbol W): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten

Gold: 19.30 g/cm3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold)

Wolfram: 19.25 g/cm3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten)

EDIT2 (I can not reply to your reply): So you meant Depleted Uranium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium)

Depleted Uranium: 19.1 g/cm3

So Wolfram is a better substitute for Gold, in terms of density. I do not know about prices or other physical properties.
This is an interesting view to a modern B2B sw licensing business, which is not SaaS. Their Sales & Marketing expenses are about 50% of their revenues, R&D is 25% and administration is 13%. Combined sales and admin costs are 63%. In the previous years, Sales has been a tad above 65% of their revenues and combined sales and admin costs have been above 80%. Quite a drop! What did they do?

I assume that BI tools are quite hard to sell, as they require non-trivial amount of integration to existing systems, but it is interesting to compare to this other B2B companies. For example SalesForce's combined sales and administrative costs are 78% of their revenue. Tableau's competitor QlikView has combined sales and admin costs at 75% of their revenue.
I think Bitcoin's greatest strengths (anonymity and decentralization) are also it's greatest weaknesses.

Anonymity helps certain people but hurts others. For example, you don't want to be the victim of identity theft or other fraud within a totally anonymous and decentralized financial system, because then there is little hope for restitution. There are many stories of Windows malware and viruses stealing the wallet.dat file from a PC which literally wipes out all of that person's BTC wealth.

I hear some Bitminers saying "it's just like cash" - yes, but most people do not hold their entire life savings in physical cash. They trust banks and credit card companies whose systems allow everyone to transact with a high level of confidence. If we went back to the days where people physically held and/or had ultimate responsibility for their entire net worth, I think the world economy would look very different than it does today.

I think the best comparison for Bitcoins is to people who hold physical gold in their homes. However, even between these two stores of value there is a pretty fundamental difference. In order to keep a BTC wallet secure - REALLY secure (e.g. what the BTC community calls "cold storage") - you have to be technically adept and constantly security conscious. I would say that even with some training, less than 10-15% of the population has the intelligence and skills necessary to safety receive, store, and spend Bitcoins.

Unencrypted wallet.dat file? Oops, a trojan just stole all your Bitcoins. Keylogger? Oops, all gone. Downloaded a compromised BTC Windows client? Sorry, better luck next time!

Whereas it's pretty simple for someone to understand how to stash away a few gold coins or bars.

I think this will be what ultimately keeps BTC in the realm of a hobbyist currency, full of speculation and very useful for certain online transactions but not comparable to a real fiat currency.
Except the useful value of gold is probably around 1% of its market value, and when we start mining asteroids (http://baselinescenario.com/2011/09/23/the-price-of-gold-in-... ) that market value will plummet.
How do you run it on a network disconnected from Internet? That's a very interesting scenario for the company I work at. I assumed that you need to login with AeroFS credentials when setting up clients and servers, is there an alternative?
I thinks person marking on verbs and use of articles is waste, who needs? Also, "have seen" is redundant because of "have", "have see" is better. Also, "is" redundant, many language does without. Without better.

Language is full of redundancy. Because it's a constantly evolving, very complex system of rules, it never reaches a state in which every grammatical sentence has an optimal balance between economy and expressiveness.
You're missing the point. You're too focused on the code writing part. It's the extra unnecessary resources loaded from jQuery.

The difference in size is 85.1 KB (according to an above post). 85.1 KB * 100,000,000 (Just an example of the number of times it is loaded) = 7.92555511 terabytes of wastes resources.
Light bulb just went off in my head...

"Don't ask for a raise..."

From a psychology point this is dead on. NEVER ASK FOR A RAISE.

Instead (know your worth) and show your superior(s) that you are under compensated.

When you ask for a raise you're put in a place to justify it and the burden immediately falls on you. If you show that you're under compensated, your superior(s) will have the burden to show you why you're wrong, thus they will have to justify your salary. Granted they may pull the typical "there's no money in the budget" bull crap. But then at least you've gotten past step one... letting them know you expect more. If you choose to stick it out, only follow the dangling carrot of promises for a year tops. If you are important (or rather if they value you), they'll find the compensation.

Note: show you're under compensated, not under paid. People tend to get hung up on the money. In fact your superior(s) will probably assume you are talking $$$. If they get defensive you can redirect them pointing out more vacation or other perks would do. You have a better shot of getting them.