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"In fact, engineers already see deep similarities between the systems they design and live organisms"

So very true. Just look at the advances in robotics that mimic natural systems. Also neural networks are an attempt to emulate a natural system.
Javascript Lint is a nice Spidermonkey-based syntax checker you can integrate into your IDE. I installed it with macports, but it's here: http://www.javascriptlint.com/index.htm

In vim, I do:
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Well, if the goal in mind is to get rich, the clear answer in my eyes is that business skills would be more 'important'. But business people can't make tools out of scratch like programmers can.

Sorry but I think I was valid.
It pretty much boils down to funds and streetcred. A first time entrepreneur starts out with 5-20K in savings and no connections. A failed entrepreneur is also in the same boat, no money, maybe a few connections.

Meanwhile a repeat successful entrepreneur has a few mil in the bank, street cred to get VC $$$ and free media coverage. And that gets them that starting core of users to help grow the service during hte early days.
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Shit happens. Seriously, the guy was a big success by any measure, except the measure that comes with comparing yourself with Bill Gates. No reason to hit the bottle, if you ask me.
"Bill Gates greatest skill is to give people what they want."
I think it's pretty obvious what the response is expected to be: you're supposed to have some awareness of the next time you're doing any of these things, and perhaps make a change in your behavior.

I don't agree with every item on the list, but the point of the exercise is plain.
it is very counter-intuitive... but then again evolution is.

whales don't get larger because they need to eat more. whales may be perfectly sized for their food supply. A theory.

In any case I am about at my limits of my understanding of biology :P
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37 Signals and DHH have been pushing this brand of "build a business" success for tech startups for a few years now. There's good arguments for both concepts. And both can result in "big success".
Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.

In a limited way, this has already happened. Imagine talking to a human of average intelligence with the best education we could provide now sans all knowledge of and reference to the computers and the internet. S/he will be amazed by your seeming omniscience, even if the only site you had access to was wikipedia.
I don't think one has to be above the others, but it's useful to think of them as three different options. Having all three is possible, but probably harder, so if you don't have a big vision pick the one that works best for you.

Zuckerberg, from accounts I've read, had a big vision, was clear on it early, and made it happen. I don't want that, and to be honest I probably couldn't make it happen even if I did. That's OK.

Re: pg, you're probably right. In this forum it was worth throwing his name out there, but I wouldn't use him as an example in other places where that list would be appropriate. Multiple successes - he's a good example to use, as you point out.
Right, but what incentive do people actually need?
People contribute to Open Source Software. There are many OSS type communities springing up around all kind of interests. People are making the world better every day below the radar of the legal world that patents live in.
I believe that people would make the world better without any need for the artificial incentives that are being discussed.
Curiosity, altruism and personal satisfaction are powerful forces that are being completely ignored in the current debates about patents and copyright.
Probably like that, you mean?
http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=unemployment+us+nethe...
I heard a lot about In and Out and went there when I was in Reno visiting friends. Unfortunately, In and Out's burger fell flat, as I was expecting it to taste better then Five Guys.

It made me wonder what all the In and Out buzz was about? Five Guys for me is the best burger joint!
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1) i took a comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624808 ) by the poster, j_baker, and ran it through http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html which came up on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=608057 and the result came up most likely male (just a point of note).

2) I would surmise that the point of lists like these are to raise awareness of injustices or slights that are done, particularly ones that others may not be aware of, because they are not subjected to them.

3) You're a member of the community, can you really not think of anything you could do to make things different? Why not do something that bucks the geek/nerd stereotype? Why not help someone else do it? Why not encourage/help someone who's not a stereotypical nerd into the field? Why not just object to stereotyping of programmers?

These aren't problems that are going to change immediately. Being reminded that there are still problems isn't a bad thing imo. Just as being reminded that people do care about the issue, and would like to make things different (as you have done).

So the problem has been recognized. There is a will to do something about it. Let's do something. There are organizations like RailsBridge that are forming ( http://railsbridge.org/ ). The ACM-W exists ( http://women.acm.org/ ).

If you want things to be different, pick something to do and do it.
"Prissy" social correctors are at least smart enough to critically analyze the world around them. Boors are completely clueless. I'd take the former over the latter any day of the week.
Well, whales live under the water and most mammals have fur, so perhaps they are protected from the cancer causing sun more than humans. Elephants have thick protective skin.

Plus, humans tend to be closer to carcinogens like pesticides than other animals. Those deer in scandanavia are also herbivores...

It seems like they aren't limiting their variables enough. If they really wanted to determine the correlation between size and cancer, they'd need to use different sizes of the same species. What is the control group?
Gates is rumored to have scored a perfect 800 on the math portion or his SAT. He was studying Math at Harvard and published a paper in 'Discrete Mathematics' despite having dropped out before finishing undergrad:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... (pay wall, but you can see the abstract)

I think there's reason to believe he could have been an outstanding programmer. Has anybody read the source code for a program verifiably written by Gates? Was Donkey.bas really written by him?
I never said anything about the Netherlands' unemployment rate. I said that all else being equal, the country with the higher minimum wage will have higher unemployment, because there is a larger barrier to entry to the job market.

But if you would care to explain how a business that takes in some amount of revenue (say $100,000 a month) can magically afford to hire more employees when the minimum wage goes from $7 an hour to $15 an hour, I'm all ears.
Re: 3, I don't think that the problems are at my age. They're at college freshman/sophomore and younger, when women decide to enter the field. By the time we exit college, there are hardly any women left to treat more equally.
How much can a web developer expect to earn?
Incidentally, programming isn't the only field with horrible gender inequality.

Dietetics/Nutrition and Nursing are dramatic cases with the opposite gender distribution (My wife happens to be in Dietetics). The treatment of guys in dietetics is just as strange as the treatment of girls in programming.

None of this absolves the programming community. Just because it's not a unique problem, doesn't mean that it doesn't need to be addressed.
That is, unless you're like everybody who actually plays the lottery, and you derive utility from the hope it gives you.
The UM change just seemed like revenue raising to me. The whole funding model of universities in aus now means you get funded on the number degrees granted and bums in seats. It seems like a way to game the system by lowering the quality bar. So I remain unconvinced that this is a better approach. Taking 5 years to do the same overall content, 3 year generalist and then 2 year masters just seems too long (may be experience bias though). I always though the generalist was things you should just be doing on your own.

Bond university when it existed, allowed you to do law in 2-ish years I believe; no holidays and extremely small classes (< 15). Expensive though.
What about "None yet/wannabe" (which I would have to vote for)?
I do not know enough about his background to say one way or another whether he was a great programmer, but getting an 800 on the SAT math section isn't exactly a legendary achievement. It is weighted so that the number of people getting an 800 is not insignificant.
Haven't tried doing a startup yet
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How would you presume to measure the impact of patents? How do you know which patents should be granted or not granted? The benefit is for whom?

What about the inventors that got left behind because the other inventors got to monopolized his invention first? He didn't have a chance to try to put it on the market.

The problem is that the patent system cannot possibly account for all the impacts of the patents that affected the economy. The economy is a chaostic complex entity composed of many million of human beings making trillion of decision on the daily basis on what to buy and sell. The free market is astoudingly complex.

You have the audacity to think that you can improve the economy by imposing a monopoly on that one lucky inventor. You have no idea the unseen consequences that would result from your actions. Inventions never created, resource never allocated, and customers unsatisfied. The whole of history that we never knew changed forever by the course of a single patent.

Economic history is awashed with pirates producing books and making the authors rich, fortune ruined by patent ligitation, and untold stories of opportunistic inventors exploiting connections to widen their monopolies.

Interventionism in the free market is never without its cost. You would bet very well that the law of unintended consequences applied to the patent system as much as stupid laws mandating the price of gasolines.
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A agree with the importance of marginal utility but disagree with your 'marginal' maths. The pay off with these mega jackpots needs to be in the 10s of millions to make it positive net value. I'd argue that the marginal value of money starts to taper of considerably at around between $2m and $5M. So the extra say $35M of jackpot money won't really have as much value to you on top of the $5M you might normally win. So in marginal terms you are back to negative expectation.

Of course I think the marginal entertainment value is what gets most people playing.
600K is probably the number of developer accounts, including free and paid. Your metric is not useful because each beta release comes with a new SDK.
Yup, Ward is my boss. He joined AboutUs over 2 years ago.

Portland is a great startup town. There's a few VCs specializing in PDX startups (Voyager Capital from Seattle is one, they funded AboutUs in Dec).

And we hired another news.yc member qhoxie(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qhoxie) from here to move to Portland and join AboutUs.
I agree with your antecedent. It is true that i think a lot of the prejudice and abhorrent behavior takes place younger. There are a lot of people who don't make it through the weeders that should.

However, i just can't fathom how it could be the case that there's nothing we can do about it, regardless of what our ages may be. Why aren't we addressing the pipeline into the industry? That can take the form of direct involvement with the lives of students (which is also something that should be undertaken carefully. My wife took programming classes in high school, and even her instructor for the class was creepy), or indirectly, again through trying to defeat the stereotypes about who is in our industry.

And i think we need to broaden our perspective on where the feeder into the pipeline is. Why aren't we trying to get analytical individuals from other fields who already do train their students to think analytically?
People have been trashing iPhone's dev program since Apple first announced it; however, those who are making money in the store were ones who ignored hype around Android and made apps for a phone that existed, and reaped rewards when iPhone OS 2.0 launched. And so on.

Claiming the app store is not a guaranteed gold mine long after its become obvious to everyone that it's quite saturated is not very useful.

Yes, avoiding hype is important (dropping Android and making iPhone apps.) But it's more important to replace it with another form of "doing", not just dismiss the art of software development. If not developing on the iPhone, then what? An article with an answer would be more enlightening.

As software entrepreneurs, we fail to do this time and time again. We measure the market by its huge successes... After years of playing the web game, I still can’t believe people think like this.

You created 20 apps on the iPhone. That means you kept pumping them out, all to make $20/day from your best selling game? And you say others should realize it's a crap shoot? Sounds like you made it a crap shoot. It also sounds like you're the one who "thinks like that", and not most others (I imagine very few developers have 20 active apps total, let alone on a single platform.) What you are criticizing others for mainly applies to you and rarely to any other developer.
The moral of the original Kildall Story is that you must always agree to be nice to big important companies like IBM. I love that this isn't true anymore.
An unbounded number of networks would be made of an unbounded number of nodes in the minimal case, and I have a hard time describing the number of English words as "unbounded". If you apply the full power of Internet debate (now with extra axioms!) to the twisting and spinning of the term and streeeeetch the meanings as hard as you can, maybe you can get there, but not by any sane method.
I used to a long time ago. It was OK, but now I'd just use the Eclipse CDT. CDT can probably cross-reference your code about as well as LXR if you tell it about your compiler & include paths. "Jump to declaration" (F3) and call hierarchy (Ctrl-Alt-H) are among my favorite shortcuts for tearing into a new code base.

I'm assuming you're talking about C/C++ here... for Java, Eclipse or other IDEs would fit the bill. For dynamic languages, you're totally screwed, you'll probably have to learn the codebase from lots of reasoning, strategic breakpoints and deep conversations with the interpreter.

I prefer my magic F3...
This is easy. When all your competitiors have to pay higher wages it drives consumer prices up and so your revenue goes up as well such that you can also pay higher wages. It only breaks down when some stores do not abide by the rules or when there is a substitute. Substitutes of course can be hunted down and taxed as well, to maintian equilibrium.

As a side not, kindly lay off sarcasm. Thanks.
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Network effect works in reverse as well - if fewer people commit crimes you will be pressed to conform, and in turn will exert similar pressure on other potential hoodlums.
A similar story by Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_...
Comparison charts are usually awful but this one is particularly great:
http://files.terriblefish.com/public/palm-pre-comparison-cha...

Here is Palm's chance to name 8 things that differentiate the Pre from its competitors and what tops the list? Physical Keyboard... good start. Layered Contacts... what? Exclusive NASCAR Content... really, that makes a list of 8 features? And then it just devolves into pretending AT&T charges $150 for what Palm's charging $99.

On a somewhat unrelated note, where does one find out real information about the Pre? Does it have a 3.5mm headphone jack? A notification LED? A mute switch? Will syncing with a Mac be supported?

There are so many things I hate about my iPhone but there aren't really any alternatives, as I don't want to carry around a BlackBerry/G1/etc AND an iPod, so I'm ever hopeful of promising new phones.
Why aren't we trying to get analytical individuals from other fields who already do train their students to think analytically?

Probably because trainability of those folks would cause more "anyone can do it" sentiment, devaluing our skills.

As to the pipeline, now you're calling for outright altruistic activism, not a change in day-to-day behavior at work. Also, if I set out to "encourage women in computer science", it would probably be perceived as "creepy".
You are making one REALLY bizarre assumption, that the $20/day is sustainable (it isn't, and is likely to last only a month or two). And as the comment above points out, you are also assuming that the $20/day is a guarantee. It isn't. The $20/day app is in the top 50 in its category. That's a _successful_ app.
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"Prissy" social correctors are at least smart enough to critically analyze the world around them.

That's not true in my observation. Most adopt a prefab ideology that they try to impose on the world around them. They like to label this "critical analysis" (or that old stalwart, "thinking for yourself"), but it isn't: if it were, their ideas and positions and tone wouldn't be so predictable. Actually, trying to impose a rigid ideology on others is a large part of what makes them prissy. The OP seems to me a nice example.
This is easy. When all your competitiors have to pay higher wages it drives consumer prices up and so your revenue goes up as well such that you can also pay higher wages.

This is an argument for the ability of a business to keep the same number of employees, not to hire more. Keeping the same staff you had the day before doesn't make the unemployment rate go down.

This also assumes that your revenue goes up, which may not be the case since the government has instituted a staff-wide pay raise, but not all of your customers' incomes have gone up as well.

And sarcasm is sometimes a very effective way of getting a point across. Sarcasm in my opinion is fair game; being malicious is something else altogether.

*also, this doesn't answer the most basic question that proponents of higher minimum wage never seem to be able to answer, which is - if $5 an hour is bad, and $15 an hour is great, why not $30 an hour? And $50 an hour would be amazing, lifting people right out of poverty within weeks! So why not? After all, the unemployment rate doesn't go up as the minimum wage increases, right?
Haven't tried one yet. I'm going to be turning 26 soon, and have been toying with the idea of leaving my job and spending some time (say, a year or more) travelling around and doing things I feel like.

It seems like a startup is something you can always do, but free-willing, low-budget travel seems to be the realm of youngish people.
Well, actually his greatest skill is to give people something and make them believe it is what they want.
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It could be that whales do get cancer, but since it's much harder proportionately for cancer to kill them as compared to merely large mammals like us, the cancer often goes undetected, and something else kills the whale. After all, finding 1 inch tumors in a whale would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Cancer cells mutate rather rapidly, to the extent that this often impairs their function. If a cancer doesn't achieve and maintain efficient metastatis, it won't keep spreading. Perhaps whales have enough bulk that they can simply absorb being riddled with tumors in what constitutes a small fraction of their bulk, allowing them to ride the cancer out until it mutates itself past the point of efficient spread and survival.
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The question should have been important for what goal, not how do you define importance. The latter is unclear, since it seems to be asking for the definition of the word itself.
I think the point of the article is that it isn't "obvious to everyone that it's quite saturated" (at least not for me). We are bombarded with iPhone success stories, and he's just pointing out it's not all rainbows and roses on the iPhone side of the field.
"now you're calling for outright altruistic activism, not a change in day-to-day behavior at work"

That makes me want to facepalm a bit. Do you work with open source software?

Also, if I set out to "encourage women in computer science", it would probably be perceived as "creepy".

Then don't. Set out to encourage students who are good at analytical thinking to get into programming, and keep an eye on equal promotion of the utility of programming (note, that programming is not the same as computer science. I've got a linguistics degree, and i am a perfectly competent programmer [okay, so yes, i 've got a minor in computer science too]).
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Just to kick this one off, I have had no health insurance for almost 15 years and go to a doc in a box when absolutely necessary.
"Why that's insane!", you say.
No, the US health care system is insane. This was immediately obvious to me when I emigrated to the US from Canada 20 years ago.
The biggest hindrance to entrepreneurial activity in the US is the health care morass. I was discussing this with a friend 4 days ago. He just graduated college this past spring semester and longer has school mandated coverage.
Hours later he took a mallet to the face playing bike polo and went to the emergency room where they told him that just to look at him would cost 400 dollars. Any services would would be more and they did not know how much more until he agreed to pay the 400 bucks.
Fortunately a mutual friend is a nurse and he was able to text him and get a surgeon to unofficially give him a look over and let him know he did not need stitches.
He was not convinced when first discussed the issue but less than 24 hours later he agreed based on his new experience as a member of the newly uninsured.