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No. it's not fun to run any code in a browser <textarea>. especially when you have a full linux distro with ssh and modern text editors, with decent undo, column editing, auto-completion, regexp, etc.

never really understood the appeal of the arduino interface or cloud9. Well, for the arduino i can at least try to explain that, same with android, there are so many bad tutorials based on copy/past and boasting those IDE, that lots and lots of people start already thinking that is their only option.
Or use Discourse which offers many of the same benefits without the "rush to see who can post the most upvoted image and win" dynamic, and potential for more substantive discussions!

Bonus, you don't have to write any extra code either. Well unless you want to contribute ...

http://github.com/discourse/discourse
What I seek are better resources for engineers and scientists who are self-taught developers. I, along with many of my peers, have technical schooling and deep understandings of mathematics and optimization, but ventured little outside of Matlab in undergraduate courses. Finding learning materials that are between targeting non-technical levels (e.g. "Programming Collective Intelligence") and targeting academic computer scientists (e.g. classic algorithm textbooks) has been difficult.
All that info is on Bloomberg.
OK, will you dev me an MVP for an auto-aiming paint gun? I keep losing in paintball matches and I think there's a market. $3000, two weeks.
Got mine couple of days back and here are a few tips:

- The default OS version had some issues that I was not able to ssh into the board. Once I downloaded and loaded the latest version available on the site, I was able to ssh as root.

- I was not able to connect serially (from my mac). Turns out that the FTDI driver they provide is 32 bit but (my) Mac needs a 64 bit. So you have to install the 32 bit, save the Info.plist, then install the 64 bit and copy it back and chmod permissions correctly.

- While trying to do a "opkg upgrade", be careful. Mine got into some issues installing a downloaded version half way through the process. But this also somehow broke the network connection. So no more updates. I almost thought I bricked my board. But I was able to again use my SD (from the previous downloaded latest version) to the rescue and bring it back to life again.
It's an illustration that prosecutors have discretion that could be applied differently in this case.
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...Or releasing their iron grip on the repo.
I think that is a reasonable statement as long as by hire they mean exchange money for work. I'm a freelance developer and would find it very interesting to build a prototype of an idea that I think has some potential. It's less interesting though if the entrepreneur is only offering equity.
I really don't understand why people are saying it's 20 bytes, the wikileaks cables are about 2mb, with a 100+ line python program. The latest issue is a long (at least 1000 lines) FAQ containing urls.

I think part of the problem is that people don't want to directly point to the data due to it's nature. But you can easily run strings over the blockchain and see what's there. I did myself and then deleted it and zero'd by free space, it's unfortunately not something I would want on my HD. I moved to a blockchainless client.
well, TBH, apps like iExplorer exist. If I can find out how that can access the device's filesystem I can probably do the same and support device & sim. I'll make a github issue.
After porn was found in the Abbottabad compound and everyone had a good laugh at the hypocrisy of Osama Bin Laden, wasn't there talk that the porn there might have hidden messages enclosed? Could be the same case here, it's just a decoy.
A really good read, however one of the points of waiting for an editor to load doesn't really make sense to me given the fact I use Sublime Text Editor and it loads instantly, I've never had to wait for it to load even when there are 30 tabs for it re-open. The liveReload plugin for Sublime eliminates the need of hitting F5 to refresh a page because as you make changes and save using this plugin the page refreshes: https://github.com/dz0ny/LiveReload-sublimetext2

Unless you're an old school Vim user, I see it as somewhat pointless to learn it in 2013 as a new user, considering Sublime can be just as powerful (support for shortcuts, mapping to compilers and script generators) we've got a better array of fast and feature-packed editors that offer Vim like power without requiring a read of a user manual just to edit some files and compile them to save a few mouse clicks. I can see why people who know Vim would never leave, it's a powerful and besides the self-satisfaction of mastering a highly complicated editor, those I know of who use it can code like the wind. It's amazing seeing them racing about the keyboard doing things I do in mouse clicks with sometimes long keyboard shortcuts they just know off of the top of their heads.

The bane of my existence used to be documentation, but through a few simple self-disciplined changes I ensure that I document every variable, class and function so I can automatically generate documentation (well most of it) without wasting hours documenting hundreds of lines of code and files.

The article raises some very good points though. The smaller things like waiting for a project to compile, waiting for your browser to open, compiling your LESS stylesheets, refreshing your browser and heck even leaving your desk to make tea and coffee all add up when you tally the time up times a 5 day work week and are things we really don't focus on.
My bet: the OS and all the code running on it is written correctly. and you can see it gave you a warning about tainted kernel when you loaded that piece of crap nvidia/ati proprietary driver.
Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now.

Do investors need any power over founders?

Yuri Milner's philosophy seems to suggest they don't.
Concerning the CopyOnArrayList:

Unless the number of reads heavily outnumbers the numbers of writes, it is better to use something like Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<String>()) instead of CopyOnArrayList. The synchronized list does lock while reading or writing, but writing still becomes much faster.
> Everyone knows that these (whether they be called "works bombs" or "Drano bombs") are illegal and you'll get in trouble if caught.

I have addressed this already.

> And even though you say they're harmless, many other sources disagree - people can get injured.

Even if we accept that what she did was horrifically dangerous, that does not mean a felony charge is in order.

> those things happened in the dorms all the time. Kids passing basketballs around and hit a sprinkler, or kids goofing around and crunching up some drywall

You don't think that an apparent intentional act of vandalism is going to attract more attention than standard accidental damage?

> the questioning centered on causing damage with the "explosives".

I think you are either full of shit or simply mistaken, but even if you are neither that does nothing to say that the treatment of this girl is reasonable.
And yours is very polite and contribute a lot to the discussion ;-)

but being the devils advocate here, both parents of your comment are not that far off.

Ubuntu is more prone to crash because it invites the user to install much more closed source and proprietary code, by design. so they are not that idiotic and flamebaitic.
Except they have a binary client, not a builtin debugger.
Because far too often, 'hire a freelance developer' means, "I'll give you 20% of the company if you make the MVP."

At my university, several times a week you get people saying, "I have my MBA and I just need 3 developers who are really solid to build the idea. I don't have cash, but I'm determined and will give you equity for your time."

Developers are far too often under appreciated, and most entrepreneurs don't want to shell out a few thousand on an MVP. Sometimes, they don't pay when they're not happy with the result, despite you following every suggestion and even giving plenty of free hours to make the product better.

Lastly, those who are willing to shell out a little cash will often find the cheapest talent they can, which is great, until they start to grow and they realize they've hit a wall because it's nearly impossible to add features and improbable to redo the whole product.

But when the startup has some money, and they know what they want, and they listen to your tech advice, there's no better feeling than crafting a new company or product from a qwerty keyboard and a text editor.
The idea of this comic is that it's not worth spending dozens of hours (say, over a year) customizing your work environment in order to save just a few hours during that same time period.

There are other factors at play besides the wall clock time. It should be easier to maintain focus and stay in the zone. I like having a shortcut for everything I do on a daily basis so that it can become muscle memory.

Also, consider that sometimes your behavior will change in response to the optimization, for example you may run your tests a lot more often if they complete quickly.

Finally, not all of your time has equal worth. I find that I do most of my work flow tweaking during my downtime.
Isn't the finickiness related to power consumption? USB is only rated up to 500mA, so drawing too much power from the Raspberry Pi's own USB port will cause all sorts of havoc especially when the RPi itself is powered off another computer's USB port.

In fact technically RPi model B's official spec is that it requires 700mA. You can often get away with less, but you'll definitely start to hit 500mA+ under stress and with peripherals, which is above what USB can officially supply.

Your best bet is to get a nice solid cellphone wall-wart type charger, preferably rated 2A and up. With enough juice powering the Pi, all the issues relating to USB disconnects, freezing, and ethernet dropping stop happening.

Gonna guess that the stability you're seeing with the beaglebone is just from its much lower power requirement.
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I've been using the BeagleBone A6 (pre-Black) at my University this semester for an embedded systems lab (Computer Engineering undergrad). TI provided them to see what we could do.

Cloud9 was fun to play with, and allowed quick access to all the functions you might want on the headers. Pretty easy to develop on, and requires very minimal setup or work to actually start programming in js.

Next, I put Ubuntu (Angstrom is very similar) on it and played around and was able to get familiar with where all of the pin input and output files lived, and how the muxing was put together in the OS. Once you explore a bit it's pretty quick. At that point, just pick a language and start writing whatever you want. I've written shell, C, and python for it for various projects this semester. It's super easy to run a web server on it to control the board from afar which makes for a killer demo at a hackathon or something. Also would be super easy to have it control things around your home from your smartphone.

Some notes / reminders:
- X11 (Xming for PC) if you don't want to / can't use HDMI and you want a GUI (lxde).
- Don't put a 5V data line into the UART pins (or most pins), classmates busted at least 5 A6's this way (new model may have improved).

I haven't used a Pi yet, and have a Model B coming my way now, but I'm absolutely grabbing a Black or two to see if it's any better. Would definitely recommend it!
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A proper analogy which i have shared with my smart friends for reading articles of a wordy nature, including said article, is best understood by reflecting on the late 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who besides being a prototype of current wordy article authors also articulated an interesting theory of good and evil, and who said that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
do you have some "motivational" examples of using this kind of board?
No I am not. It's my job to extract from the customer's vision what's possible to develop in two weeks. I never mention: "I materialize any idea in two weeks".
The "investment" happened right after they privately settled a patent dispute that Microsoft started, so its not clear that Microsoft was in the driving seat there.

I was hoping the announcement covered the e-ink nooks too, as I just bought one in the massive sale theyve been having. I'll just have to root it as planned.
Good, smart founders do. Technology and open source have reduced the power of investors. Though I know more good founders that don't take investor money, than those who do.
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The penalty is at most ~1 cycle of latency -- in practice I find it gets completely absorbed by the OOE engine. I've never measured any significant penalty in any code for mixing float and int SSE operations on any x86 microarchitecture.

Floating point bitwise operations exist too: xorps, andps, and so on.
Although it's not exactly math heavy, I think Steven Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual manages to bridge the gap between the "Programming Collective Intelligence" and something like Knuth's books.
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Great post. I'm interested to know which you end up ultimately choosing. I just worry that ramnode and digital ocean won't be able to keep their current price model and still maintain quality service in the years to come.
Some clarifications
Yes, mice often have dpi-switching mapped to hardware buttons. However, as with my mouse, this hardware switching offers very limited granularity and many dpi "modes" can only be selected in software by a proprietary driver.

I'm mostly talking about RTS games (think StarCraft) as well as some rhythm games (think Osu!) where persistent mouse behavior is essential to playability.

Competitive fps players actually often play at very low dpi on essentially barebones hardware (think Intellimouse Optical @ 400dpi) compared to what's out there. Because these older mice don't actually have any dpi switching functionality, they usually don't require any special mouse drivers.

This is also not about whatever special fancy macro buttons on the mice not being supported.
Even if you assume that this is generally true, it doesn't mean that increased founder "power" has really come at the expense of investors.

The coordinated money printing by central banks around the world has injected trillions of dollars into the global economy, and the greatest beneficiaries of that have been a) firms in the financial sector and b) individuals who have significant exposure to financial markets.

This, of course, has a direct and indirect impact on Silicon Valley:

1. It's easier to raise a venture fund when LPs are doing well. Fed action has incentivized investment in riskier asset classes. Appetite for risk is broad-based and not concentrated in venture capital, but venture capital has certainly benefited.
2. Thanks to QE Infinity, the fortunes of many publicly-traded Silicon Valley companies have risen with the stock market and the IPO window is open. A handful of tech companies even sport 1999-like PE ratios. This has created enormous wealth in the Valley, much of it liquid, which has produced an angel (and super angel) boom.

Founders, particularly those with a track record and/or traction, may be able to negotiate better terms today than they could have even a few years ago, but that's largely because the dollars being invested in their companies are so cheap.

Who would you rather be: an entrepreneur who thinks he's getting a good deal because he got a higher valuation and retained more control, or the investor who gets to invest with Monopoly money?
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Before Discourse Sam was at Stack Exchange, which is all .NET/Visual Studio. I assume that's where he's coming from on editor load time.
The best algorithms book for the self taught developer is the latest version of Sedgewick.

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Had Aaron successfully seeded it a few times (if indeed that was even his intention in the first place), not really much would have changed for him. However I am certain that we would have the entirety of what he seeded.
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You think so? I think it is probably cases by Go's single threaded stop the world garbage collector.
...now they'll assume all the top secret data is stenoed in his porn collection, so they'll keep him in jail for a long long time until they prove it isn't ...or was that brit law?
> Quantom computer languages literally do this

Quantum computers also make the sun rise every morning.

I can claim anything about what they do, because they don't exist.
Presumably because they would like to support people closer to home

But does making most of the stuff locally really do that? By making e.g. cellphones here, you need to either pay Americans the same as Chinese workers make, or make Americans pay much higher prices for their cellphones. How does that help people closer to home? Seems like an handicap to me.
Or all three e.g.) my last startup. Boy was that stressful...
The good news is, Bangladesh or Vietnam will now start to get rich enough for basic health and education.

The other good news is, that shouldn't result in a lot of US jobs being lost, as the consumer market is now bigger (with Chinese consumers starting to add to demand) and the supply of cheap labor won't increase by 300 million in 10 years (like it did when China opened up).
Hi there - Walker from Teespring here. Both rdl and earbitscom are right. We took money to give ourselves the cushion we need to scale and aim big, and we raised it from people we believe can make a difference to our business.

I'm writing a follow up to my first blog post (wiwillia.com) where I'll get a little more into the details of why we chose to raise.
Thanks, I'll continue the formalization of this style over here: https://github.com/restlet/web-api-style
I think you can hazard a guess that it's for building an MVP for a web product. An agency is unlikely to be able to build an MVP of a stealth fighter jet though they might still send you an estimate.
They're writing articles knowing they're virtually guaranteed x pageviews from HN because someone is bound to post it and others push it up.
"I'll give you 20% of the company if you make the MVP."

Which is not what this article is saying at all. That's why there is a dollar figure attached to hiring a freelance developer, not an equity split.
This manual makes me even more glad that I applied.
I follow, however, I really want to run all the tests when I kick off the test suite or recover a failed test. It is critical I have the ability to interrupt these huge runs at will (and resume the big testing when my urgent testing is done)
That page crashes my graphics driver when visiting it with Firefox. Nice.

A simple blog with 12 iframes.
That was my impression when Valve started porting Steam, but then Dota 2 came along and proved us wrong.
No, but it allows the costs of hosting to be shared amongst the people who want a mirror.
I probably would have given telescope a chance but this might have a different feature set. http://telesc.pe/
1) saalweachter is dead on.

2) Even an innocent man would likely have a very difficult time actually doing that. In many cases it could be straight up impossible; websites go out of business, torrents go unseeded, image boards 404 in a matter of hours, reddit has a search system that makes me look back on old card catalogs fondly...
They need to have the power to compel founders to believe that they need outside investment, and they need to trade significant amounts of equity for that.

Today, with everything available it's become easy for small companies to bootstrap their way through all stages of growth without any conventional investment. Begin with personal savings and maxing out credit cards to allow a tiny handful of founders to build an MVP that gains credibility and perhaps even generates some revenue. Then use things like crowd funding to scale up to bigger projects, mitigating the risk of burning through savings during development and of failing to get market traction at the same time. Then hit the ground running with a product that's already built and already known to be valued by the market and simply rake in revenue. Or go back and hit another cycle of crowd funding.

You don't even need a merchant account to charge people money for things. Compared to the way things were even 10 years ago the scales have shifted a great deal in favor of founder autonomy.
OSX still doesn't support OpenGL 3.3 or 4.0, both of which are >3 years old.

Perhaps with a driver update from the vendor... oh wait, no.
Great, thanks. I'll read it this weekend.

The one book I found amazing for learning was Cracking the Coding Interview. The brief summaries of data structures followed by lots of examples and solutions helped me to develop an intuitive sense for run-times that made more academic texts approachable.
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Its a fair point, sublime is an awesome editor, in fact I use it sometimes when I need to search through the project cause I very much like its search feature.

I can't put my finger on exactly what, but when I was using sublime even in vintage mode it just did not "feel" like vim, that and the missing plugins, rails.vim is a masterpiece as are most of Tim Pope's plugins.
Yep. Awful food. Not, "awful Indian food". Awful by any standard.

I don't think the founders had any experience with food before doing Tava.