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Thank you miles, but again I think you are the one missing something, because you are too quick to assume. I appreciated your help, but you were clearly too quick to declare your own success and my lack of motivation or effort. You provided two phone numbers, one of which I had already tried, and both of which were dead ends. That was the only issue you expressed interest in talking to me about, so that is the only thing I mentioned in my reply, so I didn't waste your time or mine.

I am traveling up to Napa very soon, and was considering trying to drop by their office, but politely and without presumption. However, it is not my dream to work with Ev and Biz. I just have the impression they share my goals and values, so would potentially be great people to partner with. I will continue to be on the lookout for opportunities to connect with them, but it's not my only option.

What I AM doing is moving forward on the MVP of my product, with my partner who has committed to a substantial amount of effort to building the business. I am feeling great about our prospects, as he has brought more to the team than I had even hoped for. He is very confident we can handle the big data (as he has already done major projects using Cassandra). And since he is willing to contribute more than I expected, and we work together even better than I hoped, things are looking up.

I have endured far more for far longer in pursuit of this goal than Barnes' blind baggage ride. In the last year alone I have endured several trials that would have broken many men (no exaggeration). I (and my family) have come out the other side stronger than ever, and I am determined to do everything in my power to pursue this goal. This year, next year, 10 years, this is what I will be doing, because I would do it even if I didn't need any money. And in fact I didn't need the money, but as a result of pursuing this instead of playing it safe, that is increasingly in jeopardy.

Well, since you seem to be an advocate of tracking down complete strangers and demanding they give you what you want, I would be remiss if I didn't inquire as to what I may demand of you, where I may find you, and if you could make the trip from LA worth my while? ;)

EDIT: So, Maui it is! I appreciate you living somewhere nice to visit, and even on one of the HI islands I've yet to visit. Now I just need to figure out my demands. That is, in addition to some delicious vegan fare, and some Japanese lessons for my Japanese wife, who knows less Japanese than I do. :)
All very interesting concepts, very nicely implemented. But, I guarantee you Apple has built dozens of designs like this internally, tested them and rejected them because they didn't work as well as what they actually went with.
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I feel that it would be better if men and women got the same amount of leave, 12 weeks. Which in itself is not too long.
I would especially consider that that someone would very likely be a direct competitor.
> I don't know where the 3 year figure comes from

From the link in the earlier article: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, and Finland offer 3 years. Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, Estonia, and Russia offer 1 year.

> More likely is that you'll see the father taking 2-5 months and the mother 7-10 months.

I wasn’t talking about what people choose to do, I was talking about what they are entitled to by law.

> I also believe the money comes from the state, not that the company has to pay during that time.

That is different in each country, but even in the countries where the money comes from the state, the employer will have paid for it in social insurance fees.
To expand on this point:

The Go-documentation has a couple of great examples [1] that could easily happen in the real world (before the first coffee).

[1] http://tip.golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html
I checked for China, they seem to be pretty accurate for here at least. I have no idea about India.
> 11 million illegal aliens

If I were running for president, my #1 campaign promise and the first thing I'd do upon election would be to shroud the Statue of Liberty, which is currently the greatest symbol of hypocrisy in the world. 99.999% of American citizens' ancestors came here from other countries, which is now regulatory hell, i.e., practically illegal.

> Clearly, they must think that freedom is alive and well in the United States my friend.

May be better than where they came from. But anyway, what anybody thinks is not evidence for what's true.
Lets not have babies.
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I see your point, but isn't this part of the gradual change of customs? Should I be offended that your thank you note was written with the _convenience_ of a ballpoint pen instead of quill and ink? What about the fact that your _modern_ envelop was secured with nothing more than a quick lick to the factory-applied adhesive instead of a lovingly-applied wax seal?
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Ah yes, I didn't even consider ⌘ + Tab. That's very much like the iOS multitasking tray.
> btrfs does not even try to solve the problem I want zfs for; snapshots over the network.

This a recent Ubuntu system (ie not using development trees etc)

$ btrfs send --help
usage: btrfs send <command> <args>

btrfs send [-v] [-i <subvol>] [-p <parent>] <subvol>
Send the subvolume to stdout.

$ btrfs receive --help
usage: btrfs receive <command> <args>

btrfs receive [-v] [-i <infile>] <mount>
Receive subvolumes from stdin.
If I am a cashier and occasionally accidentally give out more change than I should, surely that is wholly my own problem (a fault of my own process) and not that of the person who takes the money I gave them.
They appear to block all popups except those caused by a direct click by the user. I think that's why some websites spam popup windows when you make your first click.
"8 new iOS designs that are better than Apple's"

Sorry, but I really have to disagree. Didn't see anything better than the current design.. And if you mean in regards to new design, you don't know hoe that's going to be. A complete rehaul from what I hear, there's nothing innovating in those mockups. Not saying that they look ugly.
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Right. I just had an article cross my stream about completely thought-controlled hand prosthetics that can actually grasp things and give feedback on pressure. Clearly not a tech advancement.

Genetic testing for $99. Clearly just incremental, because hey, last year it was $199. Never mind the fact that it wasn't even imaginable 20 years ago.

Private space shipment at a price/weight that's rapidly decreasing way below what we ever had.

Rapid acceleration of solar technology.

And the list goes on and on. Of course they're all incremental - that's how science and technology work. Einstein's theory of relativity didn't come out of nowhere, but built on predecessors. The transistor built on long research in solid state physics, Shockley didn't just pull it out of his pocket.

And if we go to the trope of "but they were paradigm shifts" - so is "big data". So is probabilistic AI. So is molecular engineering.
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"Make what people want" at its best.
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> One could argue that the ability of anyone to know what and with whom they are dealing with in everyday life is essential

Only in some cases, so that's not a very good argument.

> the role of the government to attribute an action to a source is paramount

It is paramount in, say, the case of a crime. It is not paramount when it's outside the scope of crime or threat of a crime (i.e., outside the scope of initiated violence).

> I highly doubt you would send an anonymous source a large sum of money, for example.

That's true. If I want to send a large sum of money to someone, I know who they are. That's not something I need the government to adjudicate. (I do think the government should prosecute fraud as an initiation of force, though.)
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Yes, exactly. In some countries it's the income tax, in others (Russia) it's a special "social" taxes
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I could have used better fonts.
Do you not have A/C or heat? Microwave? Dryer? Water heater?

My apartment is only about $110 per month but there is also a $50 gas bill. And I like to think that I live pretty minimally...
There is a 3D printer in the office where I work.
The Hacker/Developer says: "It's a very different experience taking a picture of someone with Glass vs a phone or even a plain old camera. Looking directly at a person instead of through a viewfinder has a huge psychological difference.﻿"
Right, but if they don't produce more than the "normal Wichita salary" then you probably shouldn't hire them. If they produce enough value to be worth $150,000 per year let's say, then you pay them that. If they don't, you shouldn't pay them that much whether they live in SF or Detroit.

If they do produce enough to be worth $150,000, why pay them less just because they live in Wichita? Supply and demand, sure, but it just seems odd to me to explicitly say that you're paying less if someone lives outside of a major metropolitan area. I prefer to be (or think that I am) paid based on the value I produce (value pricing) rather than what it costs to keep a roof over my head (cost pricing). Whether or not this is the case also influences my understanding of how a company thinks about me.
> OTOH Bitcoin hypers are trying to push it as a global currency. Well, spoilers: it sucks for that.

We're pushing for it, but we're not saying it's there yet. The person I replied to said "Walking up to people and paying people for goods and services is a good measure of how useful something is as a currency." while clearly that's not the case yet, and we never said it was. In the future, hopefully, it will be though.

Why do you think it sucks as a global currency?
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You should replace "I'll probably never buy one." with "I don't have one and don't plan on acquiring one in the short term".

Never say never. ;)
It depends where you buy and what you buy. The poor in developing countries, ironically, get lots of vegetables and can be pretty fit (compared to ours at least). People don't really get fat because they eat too much meat (they can, just not common); its more the sugary and starchy processed foods that do it...and those sell like crack in the developed world.

Of course, one could always hit the gym...if they have enough money (or just move to California and ride a bike everywhere...if they have enough money).
Wow, just one version beyond the most current one, this sucks so much, especially combined with the rather careless attitude about backwards compatibilty...
Finland also offers 11 weeks of leave for fathers. I guess most Nordic countries are liberal in giving leaves compared to other countries in the world.

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http://www.kela.fi/web/en/paternal-leave
President Obama talks about investment in science but, in practice, such investment gets siphoned off into entitlements or teachers unions, rather than research.

OK, I've saved a few minutes now. No need to consider this guy's opinion after that screamer.
“the results of US policies on entrepreneurism”

In the US, it’s prohibitively expensive to become an entrepeneur.

* Decent health insurance, if you get accepted, will be your biggest expense per month. There’s no government healthcare to speak of.

* To start your business, you have to save up or build your product while being employed elsewhere (or freelancing) – the government sure isn’t going to help you out.

* And then there’s all your student loans which you have to pay off, whereas in other countries you could’ve gotten it subsidized.

There’s no equivalent to Silicon Valley in Europe, and I doubt there will be, but it’s not because of US policies on entrepeneurism.
I remember mentioning that I'm a Canadian student to whomever I spoke on the phone with from SpaceX, and they said no, but I don't know if they knew about this exemption, or if SpaceX is just generally very broad in this regard to make things easier.
My point isn't about specific legal "switch statements" (to use programming terminology). It's about the fact that the _principle_ of free speech is being actively attacked in this country.

I'm quite surprised that, as a brother/sister comment to this one pointed out, a law such as the one you described actually did (does?) exist.
Still in school, but when I visited Yahoo! Headquarters for a recruitment event everyone seemed to be in good morale. Of course it was for recruitment so they would be showing the best, but people there seemed happy and I saw a fairly wide range of offices. I saw changes to the food service in making it free and higher quality (which I can attest was excellent), and they were redesigning the offices while I was there, removing the cubicles and making a more open layout that you see at a lot of newer tech companies.

Everyone I talked to legitimately thought that Marissa is bringing some much needed change to the company as far as I could tell, and I spoke to mostly software engineers, not PR people. Obviously opinions probably vary across the company and it's fairly large though.
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Sure, but I still find it interesting to make the following observation:

The CoL modification to the developer's salary has nothing to do with whether the company makes more or less revenue as a result of their work.

My guess is that as companies find good talent increasingly hard to find this problem will resolve itself as the remote workers outside major metropolitan areas get bidded to higher and higher salaries.
Not sure about yahoo, typically in India, women get 3 months of paid leave, which can be extended by another 3 months of unpaid leave. Men typically don't get much ( probably a few days if the employer is generous enough).
How many people on hackernews can't tell the difference between concepts and real designs?

I guess a lot. Blame the bad title in the blog entry.
Of course, it's a trade-off for society, unless you can have two types of employment. Long parental leave works in bigger organizations, because there tends to be people who can fill in, but for smaller ones less so. Countries without parental leave in effect force every couple to delay having children, quit their jobs or spend very little time with their little ones, all in favor of startups. Might be the only way that works, I don't know, but it kind of sucks.
Supposedly some peoples video cards got overheated and were destroyed.

I would seriously consider participating in a class-action lawsuit if this happened to me.
I think it's an India only thing.
That already seems to be there. I see a "target micronutrients" setting, which lets me set the min / max of carbs / fats / proteins for each day.
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No, fathers do not get 3 years paid leave in Europe. Mothers can, in certain countries, with a very reduced wage (paid for by the state most often). Fully paid paternity leave is around 14 days and you can often take more by reducing your pay to 50/60% (depends on countries and employers). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe (I can confirm this for France and Germany.)
Wow, $71.4 million in funding!

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I'm getting an F1 visa for grad school and the earliest I can enter the US is August. I'll have to get a visitor visa, go to hackerschool, fly back, get my F1 and re-enter the US. That's just too much of a hassle.

I guess I'll just try next time.. and I hope Norvig stays for a few more batches.
It seems to still be popular it the tech early adopter crowd in Japan at least. I think they can make decent money just from Tokyo.

Also, their reputation for having the best "what's good to eat here" feature quality in a really strong weapon to have.
Awesome tool, could turn out very successful.
I'm not sure exactly. Is the pay at 100%? In California you might be paying already into the state disability program, in which case you are automatically entitled to six weeks of leave at ~50% pay... if your employer is awesome they might cover the rest (so Yahoo might be covering ~70% of the total cost rather than 100%). As so why it is economically desirable: making/raising kids is a HUGE investment in time and money, but without children and involved parents you're looking at disaster 15-20 years down the line. It's desirable/viable in the same way that buying gas is desirable/viable to making your car run.
Similar in Germany, although it was introduced only recently. We got 14 months in total, which we split 12 months + 2months. It's also possible to stretch the parental leave into a longer time of subsidized part-time. One of my bosses is doing that right now.

However, the system is designed for salaried employees. If you're self-employed, your parental leave benefits are based on whatever bills your customers chose to pay in the 12 months before birth (but hearsay).
It's funny how something as ancient as 8 weeks of paternity leave is considered revolutionary. Are people that unaware?
Hah, thanks! I'm flattered. You're right that the idea isn't for everyone - it takes a special level of laziness to want to be told what to make for every meal.
Nice! Ping me when you get into town and I'll buy you a drink and we can chat. :)
Ideally you'll get 4-6 month of warning, which should be plenty of time to find some sort of arrangement. How much warning would you get if one of your employees get headhunted by Google, burns out and quits or even gets hit by that proverbial bus, and how would that be any different?

Contingency planning is a big part of running a company, and the question what happens if one of my employees doesn't show up for work tomorrow, really should be a question you can answer
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Same in France (plus three days of leave at childbirth) - http://www.ameli.fr/employeurs/vos-demarches/conges/le-conge...

I believe it's mostly just Anglo-Saxon countries, or even just North American countries, that are reluctant to give leaves.

EDIT- wait wait, it's only 11 DAYS. Not even comparable. But I think there's another type of longer leave with maybe other conditions, or something, congé parental.
It's another side of it, but actually most Norwegians think their system is unique (at least to Nordic countries), and are not aware of the similar system in countries like Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium and so on.

http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/parent-leave...
iirc, mothers can currently take 2 years off (I imagine at a reduced wage) in Japan. I think they are discussing extending this to 3 years to try to combat their low childbirth problem (though I don't think this will be effective).
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> Decent health insurance, if you get accepted, will be your biggest expense per month. There’s no government healthcare to speak of.

I've paid for my own insurance for years now. There was previously really very little in the way of you getting accepted, and now with new policies you have to be accepted. As a healthy male in my 20s and now early 30s, I got good coverage for $100-150 a month.

> To start your business, you have to save up or build your product while being employed elsewhere (or freelancing) – the government sure isn’t going to help you out.

I'm not aware of government programs that pay you to just come up with ideas in other countries, can you enlighten me on what you're referring to?

> And then there’s all your student loans which you have to pay off, whereas in other countries you could’ve gotten it subsidized

That certainly depends on your personal choices. If you went to a private, liberal arts school, then yes you probably have quite large loans. But if you were having to take out loans for college, you could also go to a state school in the state in which you have residence, and then your tuition fees are quite low. You still may have loans to deal with, but they are certainly not insurmountable (a few years of working would help you make quite a dent and give you some valuable experience which you could apply towards your future business ideas)
"At the point of success, you'll have the resources to purchase a better domain."

And it'll cost far more, vs. at this point where it's extremely inexpensive. That price will raise as his service/product gets more successful.
Finland (the only country you mentioned that is similar to the US economically) does not have 3 years paid leave. It does not seem like the other ex soviet states and Slovakia does either, no idea where they got that information from.
If google glass becomes popular, I'll expect to hear this phrase more - "Please take your glasses off before we proceed.."
In a question about this on programmers.se, a slightly different history of the "Single Entry, Single Return" mantra is presented: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/118793/4025 Essentially, it is argued that the practice that is warned about is to return to different places from the same function, not from different places within the function.

On a separate note, my take is that multiple returns are necessary to write readable understandable code quite often. Guard statements (either handling normal simple boundary cases, or throwing exceptions) at the beginning simplify logic and gives a clean reading of the code.
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