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So it is possible to abstract any of that away? Maybe it is not a horizontal abstraction as in "hide the network away", but maybe a vertical abstraction, as in the creating socket-like objects that have extra features (like ZeroMQ). Connecting, sending, receiving is still there, but there is extra helping on top at each step.

Its possible to design bits of it away (and that becomes necessary) in order to build larger systems. Protobufs were, in a lot of ways, one response.

The key takeaway for me from that time, and going forward, was that distributed services are effectively messages in flight. The more messages in flight, the more combinations of arrival times, the fewer messages in flight, the less scaling. This became what is known as the CAP theorem. (Wonderfully articulated by Bowers, when I read it I said, "Yeah that!")

For things like RAID arrays, where you can related the state of the data in a RAID array mathematically with the data that you know, you can abstract it away to a pretty straight forward open/read/write interface. For things where the data set mutates along a path (imagine a state machine of 'n' states, where its 'path' is the sequence of states it is in between time 0 and time t) if correctness is a function of the path then you have a lot harder time of it. The canonical example of this is two writers to a file. The sequence Insert A -> Insert B -> Insert C -> Delete Last leaves behind a different file if it sees Insert A -> Insert B -> Delete Last -> Insert C.

Unwinding those sorts of things seems (or at least illuminating them) seems to be what Jepsen is trying to solve.
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The reasons listed are pretty silly and jaded. The reason the Tumblr acquisition is bigger news is simple: it's a big player in a fast growing economic sector. As big as both Warner Chilcott and Actavis are, their industry is mature. The Warner Chilcott acquisition is unlikely to shake things up. Tumblr is one of the "not facebook" players in social that's gotten a lot of mind share. If and how they can turn that mind share into revenue is important to the sector (and the market).
Another good point. Thanks for the link, too!
> If the tea party were a state it would be Texas ...

You appear to have internalized the meme that Tea Party is a synonym for Country Club Republican. This is probably not accurate.
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Nice catch -- fixed and pushed!
Wow, does it literally work by cc-ing square on a regular ole email?
Very true, though I would suggest that if you live in a western economy and you intend to go low end you should make sure you are scaling in such a way that your marginal labour costs are insignificant. For example, rather than construct websites build tools for building/hosting websites.

It will be impossible to compete on price with elancers if you like eating food.
This article forgets that using Microsoft Excel skillfully is all it takes to net a middle-class salary in much of America.
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I don't think they're totally in the wrong reporting on on tumblr. The purchase of Tumblr by Yahoo is far more relevant to the majority of readers than Warner Chilcott. We use and interact with Tumblr, know about it's features, and understand the history of the new owner. This isn't just a story about a big number.
What America, and the world needs, is not jobs, but the ability to be free of the constraint of needing to finding a mean to live. One way to reduce the constraint is to reduce the cost.

Some of the biggest cost for the average American household is housing(34.1%), food(12.4%), and transportation(17.6%). http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/how-the-average-us-con...

Housing is mostly a regulatory or social issue. People do not need lawns or lot of space. There is a tendency for people to buy the biggest house they can afford. It's also because of zoning restrictions that prevent high density construction, and developer's disinterest in cheap housing. High standard building code obviously contributes to the cost of engineering and developing housing, but they are solvable through technological development. There's also the problem of the network effect and the economy of scale of high density constructions leading to more people emigrating to the city, increasing the demand for housing.

Food, on the other hand, are easily leveraged with technological development, especially with GM crops. Growing meat in factories will be much more efficient and ethical than growing complete organisms like cows or chickens. Food wastage is a major problem. In the US, half of the food is wasted. If somebody could solve the problem of food wastage, that mean a corresponding reduction in the food budget of the average American and perhaps the world. http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Supply-Chain/Half-of-US-f...

In the future of transportation, electric will be the primary mean of transportation except rockets as they are much more efficient than ICE and have a lower total cost of ownership. The question is merely about how fast can we diffuse the technology. Governments around the world can help by taxing carbon emitting transportations as opposed to subsidizing the electric startups, which could be seen as political favoritism. We could also drive the cost down by making public transportation better and widespread, accelerating the development of self driving cars, and reduce traffic rush hours by implementing congestion charges.

Overall, the toughest challenge is definitely housing, because housing appears to be least amicable to technological leverage. However, if you can make headway into the biggest cost to the average household, our need to work in order to live will be drastically reduced.
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This was refreshingly honest.
You didn't refute anything in the article. You're saying you think the Tumblr acquisition gets more attention because it has a lot of mindshare (which is circular logic) and because internet content is a faster growing market than pharmaceuticals (which I have no way of knowing whether or not that's true, but its not as if Primack is arguing the opposite.)
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That's what I thought at first, but they're not. Next-gen telco has a lot more hardcore infrastructure; Twilio is building next-gen DEVELOPER infrastructure, which is a huge addressable market but < than all of Telco.

So how big is their market? Certainly >$1B but <$10B in the next 3 years. After 3 years though it could start to eclipse the greater telco ecosystem.

It's tough; I'd say there's some potential for them to build next-gen Telco, but I think they're more concerned with Next-Gen APIs than core infrastructure. My $.02.
Their thoughts don't instantly go to that, which is why there are so many weak friend connections on FB, but from time to time the realization may set in. In other words, being familiar to someone is not a guarantee against being seen as creepy.
What the hell that lady was spending half of her retirement account on one investment. That is horrible financial planning no matter how the stock does.
Same; I don't associate "stack" with cloud services / SaaS / etc. While I did learn about a few services I didn't know about that seem quite useful, it wasn't what I expected.
Why are apps launched, to great fanfare, and then suddenly die off?
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It is funny that you feel this way. I started a restaurant CMS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/menube/) years ago, back then GrubHub was a crappy jsp website and a competitor. I even offered to share my software with them:)

I am impressed with their success as a business, technology has never been their strong suit, apparently despite having grown to hundreds of employees.

Those two guys are real entrepreneurs:)
Yeah that's online, that has been solved, I should have mentioned offline. Connecting like-minded people offline is the problem nobody has achieved to solve yet.
We use and interact with Tumblr, know about it's features, and understand the history of the new owner.

I am confident the totality of online readers of Tumblr articles interact with the pharmaceuticals made by these two companies more than they interact with Tumblr.
Yep, over a year. Let's say it was considered normal, and business was adjusted to deal with it.
Yup. I do that. I've found it works much more effectively than late fees.

People love getting a bargain. Some financial departments are setup so that they will always take the cheapest option.

Make the cheapest option the one that gets you paid up front. Made my life much simpler.

You also get some of the advantages - to channel patio11 for a moment - of "charge more". Your base day rate - the one that anchors your true value - is the "expensive" one that factors in the cost of late payment to you.
there's a reason they call them stealerships.
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They should be using the page visibility api and not play the animation until you're actually looking at the tab http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/pagevisibility/intro/
I don't agree with this article. A canned solution can never compare to a custom built project. I think that building on top of things like Wordpress and Joomla is cool but not for a professional developer. Systems like that make the developer jump through so many conceptual hoops that only exist so that the lamen can use it. A developer is better of building a custom suite of tools that are upgraded through time and iteration.

I do agree that end users are utilizing more services online but I don't think that equates to the death of the developer. I actually think that this makes good developers worth more.
Presumably, due to cheaper cost of manual labor versus robots. However, that will change as manual labors demand higher wages, making robotic manufacturing much more feasible again.
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Yeah I love the gif!
C'mon, I can't be the only one who thought the OP was talking about CSS when reading the title :) . Since the advent of Twitter Bootstrap and the kind of layouts it inspired, shrinking CSS margins would've be surprising to me.
I once read a candid remark by one of the big time players on Wall St.
To paraphrase:

Only a fool plays the stock market without access to insider information
Oh come on. She changed her mind over an hour before the market opened and they couldn't process her cancellation. She didn't ask for her money back after losing it, she asked to stop the trade before it was executed and they failed at that for over an hour. Are you seriously not getting that distinction?

It's not like buying a lottery ticket and deciding you don't want it after the numbers are picked. It's like starting to buy a lottery ticket, then changing your mind, and the clerk punches you in the face and takes your wallet, giving you your lottery ticket anyways.

I understand that it wasn't on purpose but in most industries if you fuck up and cost your customer a lot of money then they're going to have legal recourse against you.
And thanks for telling them -- for better or worse. The grand story of the web is personalized through these kinds of anecdotes. And the advice/opinions are honest. If you sell, you must be prepared to deal with changes in direction you disagree with. When push comes to shove, you will lose if you can't persuade. There's no more tell, after the sell.
The drug merger is uninteresting since as two slowish-growing public companies, the value of each are known and after some straightforward cost-cutting it will be business as usual. Yawn.
Exactly this. I've made a similar transition and I'll say one thing: we web people at least don't have to deal with declining customer incomes. The worst part about being in the audio (live and recorded) biz was not only the bottom up effect, but the fact that the ROI of the average recording was plummeting (at least from where I was sitting, for the artists I was working with).

People/Clients still make money on the internet, even off $50-100k plus builds. $50k on a pro studio album would be damn near impossible to recoup these days, from what I've seen.
I don't see how this will stand up if Tesla chooses to fight it. I don't think the laws were intended to guarantee the extension of the dealership model to entirely new manufacturers. The laws were intended to protect dealers from having the manufacturer come in and undercut them after they were established in the market.

On the other hand, I think the dealership model exists for a reason. There's a racket aspect to it, but would a Ford or GM really want to manage customer sales and showrooms all over the US?
I hope that the email only initiates the transfer and that the approval takes place either in the Square Register app or on their website.
> So we give readers what they want, even if we don't necessarily think it's what they should want. It may mean we're no longer elitist. Or, more likely, it means we're no longer living up to our responsibilities... Sorry.

There's a lot to unpack there, but maybe the most revealing thing is that the paragraph made it through CNN's editorial process.
Bah. How much coverage do we get for, say, some random has-been celebrity's drunken arrest versus wars that cost a lot more than $11B?

What the media chooses to cover (and what consumers choose to read, since we no longer have the limited-sources excuse) has pretty much nothing to do with the actual big-picture importance of the events.
Seeing as it's pretty easy to spoof an email address, I hope that they have a BCC option with some secret email address i.e. 27272-adsa92@squareup.com . Otherwise it could be pretty easy to send money on behalf of people.
Totally agreed with your sentiment.

The reality the tech industry is facing at the moment is this, however -- there are three things people are building these days:

1. Businesses.

2. Products.

3. Features.

You're absolutely right. If your goal is to build a business - you should be focused on making money and keeping the business viable. Long term, businesses can and will be self-sustaining.

Products, however, don't need to be. Lots of people are building products these days and making a boatload of money selling them to businesses. There's nothing wrong with it - it seems, at times, to be a very good way of making money.

What makes you (and me) sick is when people mix up what's what.

So we should amend..."Time spent on early revenue is a distraction"...if your goal is to build a great product.

(Features are what you think they are - just products with too narrow a focus to stand by themselves.)
In any event, I'm curious to find out more about their abuse prevention.
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Hey, no problem. Me and about a dozen friends only have around 3-5 years of experience but are more than happy to do the work for about 1/3 the price you want to charge. If they don't want to pay your rates send 'em our way!
Not at all. <Street Address> <Apt Number> New York NY 10027. It would present me with three "corrected" options that were all the same, and then when I chose one it would send me to an error page.
They want the car buying process to be so excruciatingly painful so people will leave money on the table to "Just take my money and make the pain go away".

Well, this is why I bought my last car used from Carmax. Sure, you probably spend more than you you might spend if you were willing to go to a dealer and haggle, but I found it to be worth the premium.
In the case of Wordpress, the cost of labour for development and bug fixes on those thousands of lines (to the client) is effectively free unless you are extending it.
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Awesome. This looks great and I just purchased a copy. However, many of the chapters are listed as "under development." When can we expect them to be finalized and released?
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The latter, unfortunately. (I wish I had more details - but for one reason or another, it never seems to work, be it a bug in the deployment system or a host which is down.)

Dreams of an identical staging environment were somewhat shattered when the "free tier" plans went away. Plus, sometimes a new version will be deployed to 2 servers, and the 3rd one will be hanging on an update. These kinds of things are difficult to plan for and test, since intentionally messing up a deployment is rather difficult with PaaS.
Do the provisions of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which basically say you can get your car serviced anywhere you want without voiding your manufacturers' warranty, not apply to Teslas?
>Bitcoin miners flocked to AMD because the SHA-256 algorithm utilizes a 32-bit right rotate operation that AMD cards could execute in one clock cycle, while NVidia cards took ~3 cycles to do so.

That would have made the difference even larger, but even at 1:1 instruction timing AMD would have had a large price advantage so long as we're talking about the last 2 generations of cards or so. If the price/performance optimum lies further back than that, it may well have fallen at a point in time when AMD / NVidia were closer to price/performance parity.

To clarify, by "performance" I mean "performance for my needs" which means "double precision float performance."

> Also, what's wrong with NVidia's GPGPU capabilities?

The price per double-precision FLOP was off by a factor of four at the consumer level last time I went shopping and the number of DFLOPS available at the consumer level was capped lower. It seemed like a move to force penny-pinching CUDA-dependent academics to upgrade to teslas.

> The last time I had to write GPU code, I found that CUDA was much more mature - and much more pleasant to write than the equivalent OpenCL.

It still is, but the gap has closed for many use cases (including mine). I'm not saying that CUDA isn't/wasn't a reasonable choice, especially a few years back, just that we are now paying the hidden price that comes from allowing a monopoly to develop.
Or they could just reply with a confirmation link.
Yeah Houston (I'm assuming you are talking about Houston) is a really progressive place. I do love Austin (its a young city and I'm a young person) but its not some shining light in the center of Texas. It's really not that different than any other big city in Texas.
Out of curiosity (not being snarky), how's that working out for you, and how long do you think it will be viable to charge that amount?

Web dev, as I see it, is undergoing a race to the bottom. As you say, "the stupid people" are generating good content for free. Yes, there are 1000s of lines of code behind WP.. but those 1000s of lines of code exist just so that the end user doesn't have to mess with them. Do people really pay 1000 to adjust a word press theme?
The truth is that the VCs have created absolutely none, zero of the wealth in Silicon Valley. All of the wealth was created by the workers who built these companies. If there is anyone other than workers at these companies who create wealth nowadays, it is the users. The users of Facebook are creating the content of Facebook for free. The people working on Facebook are the ones who create the platform allowing them to do this. You can say the same with Google and web content. Google found a way to take the decentralized web, with contentual links thought of by humans, and centralize it in one place. People thinking how to contextually connect millions of web pages do the work, and Google crawls and amalgamates that.

And as is said here, and is true, it costs almost nothing in capital costs to start a startup nowadays, create an app, get a cloud presence etc. Wages are the main cost. The people doing the work create the wealth, either paid (infrastructure) or even unpaid (free content, free contextual links etc.)

jwz is someone who "hit the jackpot" with his options, yet even he saw up close what happens ( http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se... ). I would quote the relevant part of his blog post here, but all nine paragraphs could be quoted, really.

The main point is, the programmers create the wealth making the platform, and perhaps the people working for free uploading content like pictures, or getting their web sites crawled. The money goes to the VCs, and a little bit of it to the CEO and top execs. Even those that hit the jackpot at a Netscape don't really hit the jackpot. And these are the programmers who slept under their desks and made the killer product. What about the guy in the Midwest?

Organized labor allowed an equitable distribution of wealth. VCs are leeching off the US government, the universities of China and India, the high tech workers here etc. How is some heir putting his millions in some fund creating wealth? We create the wealth. The heir is a leech. Like the kids in the "Born Rich" documentary.

New technology can mean less hours for workers, more pay for workers etc. Instead it goes to the aristocracy.

Modes of production change and so does the organization of labor. Workers in Ancient Rome went on strike, and I remember the strike waves in the US in the 1970s. Things change over the millenia, but these notions labor will stop organizing circa now are silly. It hasn't stopped after all these millenia. We are the programmers, system/network/database admins etc. creating this wealth of all the people in the world, and as jwz points out, even when we hit the jackpot we get screwed. Production is changing but there will be a revival of organization, education and then agitation. What happened before in history will happen again. It's to the oligarchs advantage to tell us all these millenia of struggle have finally stopped in the past few years. It hasn't. And we are the ones in the most key positions to do something. I will quote one sentence from that link. "When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers"
Tumblr's 2012 Revenue was only $13 million? How can they afford 175 employees, a building, infrastructure, etc on $13 million and ~$125 million in seed? I may just have an issue with frugality I suppose.
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Dan Primack, the author of this article, has a daily (M-F) business newsletter called the Term Sheet which is highly worth subscribing to. It does a great job -- as this article does -- of getting outside of the traditional SV VC bubble, focusing on all sorts of coverage from B2B to industrial to even fashion.

http://money.cnn.com/investing/ (Right sidebar, under 'Newsletters.')
10. He gave me adjusted for inflation ( and converted from DM to EUR to USD ) it would be 200. Essentially age * 20.
Is this a case, as Apple says, of keeping foreign profits in the markets in which they were generated, or is it a case of avoiding tax they owe in the US?

I know individual American citizens are required to report on all income to the IRS, no matter where it is earned, no matter if they have ever set foot in the United States in their life. Failure to file is a serious offense.

Does US corporate tax law require the same?
That's exactly the point the article is making and trying to correct.
Now that I've heard about it, I feel like I've been lied to.
"Engage": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4216839
The invite-only nature makes me think that Square has been working on this for a while, but since Google beat them to the punch they were forced to roll out Square cash ahead of schedule