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And you're going to tell us that there is no need to store materials that are going to be reprocessed because they will always exit initial processing in exactly the amount needed for the next reprocessing step "recipe." There will also never be a break down of equipment leading to a back-up of one or more of these waste products before they go in. France also has what US right wingers are calling "socialist" environmental regulators. Inspectors that actually inspect the systems they are supposed to regulate, and "communist" ideas like fines for corporation that try to circumvent safety rules.

There's no such thing as Mr Ekiru suggests in real world USA. Hanford is precisely the model that's appropriate for the US nuclear industry. That's what happens when the same corporations who built the Big Dig also build nuclear reactors the same way the Big Dig was built. Like crud.
I don't care about FreeBSD in general, but I find such release announcements interesting and useful (for example, recent announcement of a new version of Postgres made me finally look at it and use it for a project.)
Are people really going to buy two different $400 devices due to a difference in screen size?
You mention that the reason for lower performance of Lisp vs. C has to do with a lack of motivation. This couldn't be further from the truth. Have a look at the source repos for SBCL, Clozure or any other dozen Lisp implementations or dialects.

In the next paragraph you state that because Lisp does not match C in performance this somehow proves that language-design directly effects the ability for a Lisp compiler to generate optimized code comparable to generated code from a C compiler.

This is a bizarre conclusion. What is your reasoning for this ?
I like Erlang fine, I just don't think it has anything to do with gender. And if I'd seen Erlang articles in recent days instead of articles about gender, I would find this poll rather odd myself. As it stands, I think the question is apropos.
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If someone with a functional programming background says "imperative", it usually includes all the Algol descendants and their cousins like Simula, Java, C++, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby etc. because they don't add much to the game, they are all structured around mutable state.
They just put fancier labels on the same dirty stuff.
And now, the rest of the story.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8hlls/i_want_to...
I moved here when I was 18 (in 2006) with $1500 in the bank (and no parents to fall back on.) It's tough but doable. I ended up taking a job with an existing startup, but at the time my first priority was being able to eat :)

If I were you, I would not move here to do the solo founder thing without having plenty of connections; you need a good support network (which will hook you up with contract gigs too.) Bring a co-founder or hook up with some people who are already here and can introduce you.

That said, just being young and having the balls to move out here and give it a shot will open doors for you. Network aggressively, who knows?

As far as tips go:
You can get a room for $500-$700 a month with varying levels of sketchiness; there are enough hacker houses around that you might find something helpful if you trawl CL long enough. Food is a matter of how gnarly you're willing to get :)

Don't bring your car and don't bring a bunch of gear; parking will cost you upwards of $150/mo and it's never included, and gearwise there's a non-trivial possibility you'll need to move fast if you're doing a cheap sublet or hosteling it.
A nation of programmers?
But you can't shop elsewhere. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the app store the only way to get applications for the iphone short of jailbreaking? Don't you think if there was a competing app store that was completely open people would flock to it?
This isn't an over time thing. This is an all at once thing.

You obviously don't know people going through this so let me paint you a vivid picture.

My grandfather died in March 2008. His home wasn't an investment, it was the house had had lived in for 40 years. He paid $340,000 for it. We have been trying to sell the house for over a year, we finally sold it this month for $150,000.

That is the housing market right now in a nutshell. It doesn't really matter to us because the estate is a gift to us, not our own money really.

But now flip the coin to the people who "normal" home buyers. Say I moved into that house 10 years ago and now my job is gone. I want to sell that house and move somewhere else. What am I going to do if I bought the home for 340k and have to sell it for 150k. I owe the bank almost 200k. I'm not an "investor", I have a wife and two kids and all we want to do is get out of our house. We didn't buy it as an investment and we played by the rules, but now we are completely and utterly screwed.

It has nothing to with investing. It has to do with putting a roof over your kids, and the expectation that if society won't burn to the ground around you. For people underwater in their homes - society has basically crashed and burned around them. They are basically trapped in their current situation whether they want to be there or not with only one way out - default.

People love to blame sub-prime borrowers who shouldn't be in homes, or speculators who shouldn't have bought homes. Sure those guys lifted the prices that everyone had to pay, but the VAST MAJORITY of homes bought during the bubble were still primary residences for people, and all of those regular families are now the victim in this situation.

Ignoring those problems is to be either incredibly out of touch, incredibly stupid, or incredibly callous.
You can argue that, but to digital circuit designers, switches and clocks are inputs to the system you are designing, and light bulbs and LEDs are outputs of the system. This is going against convention.
I can only speak to my personal gold card (which is pretty new) but I've also had issues with my card being frozen unexpectedly for charges they thought were illegitimate.

I think the big rub here is that American Express will freeze your card without informing you first. This leads to the uncomfortable situation where you try and swipe the card and it is immediately declined

Hopefully things will settle down in the next few months.

What I can say is that so far AMEX customer service has been top notch - my issues have always been handled promptly and professionally . Their travel services division also came through in a pinch a few months ago.
I am curious to hear startup stories from the people who voted for "Bootstrap + very profitable". Anybody here who would want to tell us who you are and what is your startup? Thanks.
There is a difference between "best" and "well".

They make their products solid enough that there isn't a mass exodus. If Vista destroyed people's data at an unacceptable rate you better believe Apple would be even better today. But they made Windows well enough that the problems are only an inconvenience not a crisis.
Wooo that would feel like writing a C program starting with assembly...
I havnt launched yet but i know for a fact i will go bootstrapped. So after a few months i know whether i will be breakeven, ramen or in the red.

Like all im aiming for bootsrap + very profitable but dont know if that will happen within 6months - 1 year of launching, only time will tell :)
this type of problem is very common when surveying people. A 6 or 4 star system would be much better. People then have to decide it it was above or below "average" because there is no middle star.
The Adirondack High Peaks are a nice range for newbies and casual climbers (which probably all I'll ever be). Wright and/or Algonquin Peak via Avalanche Pass is a stunningly beautiful hike. Wright Peak, the easier of the two, is a little tougher than I'd recommend if you've never been up a mountain before, but with a bare minimum of experience (I'm talking a couple weeks at most), most healthy adults ought to be able to manage it as a day hike.

One particularly neat thing about Wright Peak is that in 1962, a B-47 bomber crashed into it near the summit, and you can still find bits of wreckage scattered about.
One of the problems with this argument - competence. I'm sure all the people reading HN who are not far behind their manager. But that is not the case at a lot of places. Sometimes the wisdom of a well experience manager solves a problem better than those working for him could have. As a young engineer surrounded by those I consider well experienced, I often turn to those above when I have a decision to make. The questions they ask me often lead me to things I hadn't thought about yet.
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Indeed, the concepts of Instant Messaging and Aggregation are revolutionary and have no known widely-used implementations.
They just upped their Google Checkout credit card processing rates as well. They used to be 2% + $0.20 which was phenomenal, but they've increased them to a tiered pricing that isn't as competitive for smaller merchants.

I wonder if Google is realizing they can't offer such great deals anymore. Are they losing too much money with those platforms?
Well, considering most of the people here write software, and this has to do with a (currently) popular software platform, I think it's worth pointing out.
Quit my job, bootstrapping, starting today :-)
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I watched this from the students--felt great to sit through the commencement and be declared a graduate.

As for the speech itself, I thought the delivery was poor, and the speech itself a little long for what he talked about. I also thought it was a little weird--he basically boiled down his parents meeting to his dad looking up his mother's skirt.
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Odd-length loops of inverters still end up making one of the inverters enter an inconsistent state.

(Edit: never mind, a shift-reload does wonders. Bravo!)
a/s/l?

it's threads like these that will forever keep me from accumulating any karma on here.
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I wish you well, and I don't think your plan is totally crazy, but I think $3K is not enough runway for SF. $5K is better. But at $3K, everything has to go right. A single disaster would ruin everything, like:

- Your freelance gigs not paying you in time
- Finding that your new roommates are impossible to live with
- Getting tossed out of your new place when your housemate wants his girlfriend to move in
- Some unexpected expense (car accident, hospital visit)

Also, you will not believe what some people are offering for those $700/month apartments. On Craigslist at that price, you might find generally terrible places with sketchy roommates and your "room" may literally be a former closet. Believe me, I have seen them. I am very frugal about rent so I have investigated those sorts of listings. There are $700/month rooms that are halfway decent but those don't tend to pop up on Craigslist. Working your friend network in SF might be the best option.

And, your estimates of expenses are too low.

Still, if you are looking to just break even, it might be worth a try. Just be prepared to go home or try to get a parental loan (if that's possible) if it doesn't work out.

Ditto on the false economy of living in the peninsula. Unless you are trying to get a job at one of the Palo Alto or Mountain View area startups.

There are a lot of cool things going on in Oakland so I would consider that as a possibility, but it's also more complex for a newcomer to figure out a decent place to live, and transit is considerably more expensive.
That would be awesome! The juxtaposition of the modern and the archaic is artistically interesting. It would be a glimpse at how things used to be, accompanied by a reminder of how much things have changed, and it might let people feel the passage of time on an emotional level. I would love to see this hypothetical old 'here there be darkies' map on Google Earth.
This is the sort of idea that tends to end badly. Given that this is an educational tool, just make the user's graduation year a mandatory part of their username. jsmith is probably not unique, but jsmith2012 is more likely to be.
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This $800 minimum franchise tax is only in California. Other states have other tax requirements.

FYI: You can defer that $800 payment if its your first operating year.
Can anyone chime in on the app store review procedure? Is each app assigned an individual review monkey, or is it passed through multiple hands? Methinks Apple needs better screening and performance evaluation of their app store employees. All it takes is a few jackasses in the mix for this to happen. Their rejection policy clearly leaves certain things open for interpretation.
XUL + X11 is so lame.
I had typed a reasonably long criticism, but Safari crashed and I lost it (and I thought it had become safe to actually start writing in browsers.)

Anyway:
The graph is useless (don't use a log scale, please choose a better range)

The code is somewhat frightening (C implementation totally naïve, and I'm not much of a Lisper, but the nesting level there scares me)

It's 'bizarre' syntax, it's alleged ability to ... facing it's almost vertical cliff face of ... (I hope English isn't your native language; you should be using its, the possessive form)

Lisp being an implementation of Lambda Calculus (what?)

and a functional language (no?)

To sum it all up : The small factor in difference between C and Lisp really does not matter. As the Lisp compilers improve in the code that they generate over the coming years the gap will close without much work on the Lisp hacker's part.

Conclusion: [some banality]

Now, pretend I had written the above more eloquently and inefficiently, and I'll pretend Safari didn't die. Oh well :(
That if you're looking to raise funding, being an LLC will be a continued point of annoyance that will become worse as the level of funding rises. You'll be forced to convert to an S corp as soon as any experienced angels or VCs become involved beause they simply won't do deals with you otherwise - which can be a big headache, legal expense, and drain on time.
It claims to be a completely open-source system. Wasn't there a case where a tethering app was pulled out by Google from Market due to telco pressure?

Of course being Android, with a few more steps, you can add an alternative "market place". But that's besides the point, it is not completely open even though it claims to be.

At the moment, no, experience-wise for the consumer, it is almost always worse than the iPhone.

And yes, I have both phones.
I think he's a better storyteller than thinker.
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I'm getting a Kindle 2 in a few days. Why? I love reading but don't have the time to go to the bookstore or library. I've finished a couple of books on my iPhone Kindle app and want the real Kindle since (1) it's getting hard to read on the iPhone screen (2) you can't "buy" the books from the iPhone Kindle app (you have to visit the website, or use the amazon.com iphone app) and (3) there are a ton of free books that I like and because I read a lot, I might actually save money with the Kindle.
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"1) I've been using Vim for years to produce SWFs. I hate their tool too - that's why I don't use it. You can use any text editor you want."

This makes no sense at all to me. Are you coding Flex? How do you design the interfaces for your apps? Pardon my ignorance.
Relax and don't be afraid (your language is safe) and always will be.

The C version is not fully optimized (yes it's naive) and this was intentional and stated in the article (perhaps not clearly enough).

A fully optimized C version would run in under 5 seconds for the 1000x1000 board on the same hardware using all the 'idiomatic' tricks using bit masks etc.
A similarly optimized Lisp version would also run faster using different data structures and/or algorithms.
You've missed the point.

Learn to read logarithmic graphs without prejudice, you may discover much useful information around you that you assumed was 'useless'.

Yes Lisp is an implementation of Lambda Calculus : horrific isn't it ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

I don't know how many times I have to say this :
Lisp is a functional language but also allows for imperative programming.

You're only valid point was the misuse of "it's" instead of "its". Good job.
There needs to be an option for Bootstrapped + shot down by lawyer-types
I'm pretty sure people wouldn't "flock" to it, for the same reason iTunes is still doing well selling music despite a better selection on Amazon MP3. Don't underestimate the importance of convenience to most people.
Add an egg and cayenne.
Or just become more profitable, I guess?
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Yes, but it's proprietary.
I call bull. I, and any other Kindle 2 user, would be mighty pissed for them to release these two back-to-back, but not at the same time.
...would have a totally different use and market than the regular kindle

Still, it wouldn't make sense for them to release it soon after - if anything, they would have released them at the same time, because otherwise, at least some of the user market for the "Kindle 3" has now bought Kindle 2's and are going to be unhappy with Amazon.
So, I read this article early today. Then later, I was just googling interesting things, and thus surfing ensued...

I landed here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090119104804AA...), and noticing the nature of the comments/avatars. Do you think it would be possible to find "reliable"-confirmation that "even on the internet", 'female personalities', in situations where one would expect 'care ethics' to be emergent on the social graph (perhaps health care industry), could one find numerical-"confirmation" of the one-to-one vs one-to-many interactions hypothesized in the article?

...or is that just a cyclical thought... a bias?
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>> "Attentiveness to fashion is a cultural difference, not a gender difference."

In my experience, and on average, to boys, what they wear doesn't matter one bit. It's irrelevant. Girls like nice colors etc from the earliest ages - before any culture can play any part.

There are more gay men in the fashion industry than straight men. Do you think that's also a 'cultural difference' rather than something biological? Is being gay a 'cultural difference'?
Same. I'm profitable enough to pay my bills and maintain my lifestyle. I make more money doing this than I did as a programmer employee, and also more than when I was a consultant. "Very profitable" would be nice, but not quite there yet.

Put in my vote for..."Comfortably profitable?"
This is a really useful article.

Though I've found it's easier to open folds by moving the cursor, e.g. right-arrow while on a fold line, than futzing with "zo".
I think everyone's vaporware senses are tingling a bit. But let's think for a second, why can't this work. Really the only issue I can see is keeping the video interface smooth enough to allow for gameplay. The problem is that they need to do compression on the fly, they don't know what happens in the future of the video, and they've got to have already sent the past. So they can only compress a small number of frames together. Which seems a bit difficult but not necessarily impossible to me. Who here knows about video compression and can tell us more?
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Good article.

Regarding #10 in the article, also make sure that you have savings for a 24-months runway, to cover all expenses, even if the business doesn't generate any income. In the first year, all sorts of mistakes will happen and the runway cushion will help you think clearly, without getting stressed, towards being ramen-profitable at the earliest.

24-months is in the Indian context, YMMV.

Edit: corrected typos.
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Please-Please someone help!- can links like these be taken down? I still don't have the downvote rights.

Firstly few ignorant "bloggers" post their own links and tell their friends to uplink it and lo-behold - we have a tutorial on HN!. Please my HN-challenged friends, post it elsewhere. Not that your copy-pasted posts are not good, just that they don't belong here.

Here are some, so you don't post here again:

dzone (they will welcome you)

reddit (post it to the right section- don't choose programming by default)

furl

stumbleupon

and everyone's favorite - digg

Secondly, HN is not about tutorials. I don't come here to see tutorials. I can search for a tutorial if i need one. I can ask for one here (if something specific)

My friend, you are riding the wrong train to make your blog popular.
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I'm sure Apple will miss you terribly. An app was denied. Big deal. No great loss.

If you really want to run the app, jailbreak your phone and run it.
I'm curious. Is this something that we should generally watch out for? It's okay if you can't talk about it.
My back button stops working on this article, I hate websites that do that.

EDIT: I sent an email asking pg to ban sinu9i.
As far as I am aware from reading around the subject after reading the millionth "the app store sux" article. The best indication we have is from this article: http://www.marco.org/98546611

"In all cases, the reviewers don’t touch the app until the
day before approval or rejection. And they don’t seem to
interact with the app for more than a few minutes.

The app just sits there for 6-8 days, untouched, then goes
through an approval or rejection process that, as far as I
can tell, takes less than 20 minutes for a complex app (and
probably much less time for a simple one)."
> Finally, who wants to play video games at their desk when they can play on their couch instead?

Apparently not Americans. But in Europe PC gaming is more dominant. And IIRC in Japan & Korea mobile gaming is more popular than both.

Not all markets behave the same way as the one you're in.
> Wasn't there a case where a tethering app was pulled out by Google from Market due to telco pressure?

I own neither an iPhone or a G1, so can someone clarify this for me: On the iPhone, you can't get an app on there, except through the App store or jail-breaking? On Andriod, you can do both? So even if your app isn't in the market, you can distribute it separately, which you can't for the iPhone?
You should never ever touch an arrow key when using Vim. If you are using hjkl for movement, hit 'l' to open a fold.