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I don't think it's the MBA degree itself that causes this. Most MBA programs go very heavily into the idea of culture and competitive advantage - and obviously stopping a core part of your culture like the 20% time would be against what most MBAs are taught.

This problem has nothing to do with education and everything to do with short term professional management that is compensated based on short term results. If you want to blame anyone, you need to blame current financial thinking by most board of directors.

Of course, most of those guys are just in it for the short term too. So ultimately you need to blame the guys with money who give it to people who don't know how to invest. I'm sure most of us, including me, are guilty of this as well.
There's a cohort of people who do particularly bad in academic measures (especially the standardized testing sort that is in such fashion now), that are exceptionally good at what they do. I haven't seen a statistical study, but there are many, many anecdotal accounts of scientists, inventors, and businessmen who did poorly in academic settings but were brilliant.
sounds like there might be $200k in gold and silver buried @ 38.800542, -94.687884

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It's also good enough for some of us that do know HN exists.
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I see talk about 'restoring the Constitution' a lot; but the truth is the Constitution is inherently flawed. It was broken (or fixed) the first time within a few years of its ratification, and failed utterly with the Civil War. In the process, the government of the United States actually became much more stable.

Unfortunately, I don't believe it's about the Constitution right now. I think the problem is that civic priorities have shifted.
A lot of these just happen to have a coffee cup in them and aren't necessarily at a coffee shop.
Agile / Scrum is the return of the K-LOC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code

People don't recognize it as such because the LOC -- lines of code -- has an added time dimension now and a different name. In Agile / Scrum it's K-(issue/day) where issues take the place of raw lines and the metric is applied per unit of sprint duration.

But same idea, and same fallacy. It results in gobs of ugly Rube Goldberg machine code that's slow for fundamental O(crap) reasons and bug-ridden.
Most people use their phone as 2-factor. So if a thief has your phone, 2-factor with a phone is pointless.
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Posted (by the author) earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6202522

seems like the lack of http(s) confused the dupe filter.

Also noticed, when searching for it, that HN retains the comment even if you add a URL, though it only displays one on the main page:

"I've just posted part 3 in my demo series introducing the Daala video codec. This one is kind of a long one, mainly because I think it's one of the only really detailed presentations of 'TF' aka Time/Frequency resolution switching.

Not to mention, there's hot glue and saltines."
I agree. But as an organization grows, the points of view grow. People focus on their niche, and don't necessarily get the big picture. Also, the political environment in a company changes as the company grows, and tends to not reward speculative activity well. If you invent GMail, your boss becomes VP or gets more people/prestise/money/etc, If you invent Orkut, your boss gets to talk about how popular it is in Brazil.

One of the bad side effects of innovative, rapidly developed things is that the support org gets left behind. When the organization is small, this isn't a huge problem. When you're a huge company, the Exec VP of Support has an incentive structure to deliver better support. That VP will lobby for more controlled changes and slower product release cycles.

I've worked in places where most of the organization would be angry if some team invented GMail. They didn't welcome disruption.
It's not just the secret laws that are like that. I think it's an exaggeration to say that most people commit "three felonies a day", but someone running any sort of business or organization probably does something that could be interpreted as breaking some federal law or other regularly. Or the feds can just question someone until they contradict themselves on something, then bust them for lying to a federal official.
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Either start putting together blog posts, so you can continue to pump out good content even after you get too busy to write it (technical, domain based, but "proper" article, not just puff pieces) , or adding features.

Although you should arguably wait on adding features until you get feedback.

I'm still at the 'building MVP' stage, but I have an Evernote file called "Awesome things to do to product when done" with links to ideas, products, blogs etc I see as I'm going along but don't have time to do now, or it's not appropriate to do now.

For instance, it was announced yesterday that Stripe is coming to the UK, so that blog post has gone into my list so that when I come to add payment, I don't have to think too hard about options. (Actually, thinking about it, you could certainly be coding the Stripe stuff now, even though you don't have the bank account in place... you know you're going to need it)
Although I would say that the release of this first phone is very awesome, it does need to at least support 4G before it will be purchased and used by most people.
While there is some truth to this article about the change in work culture, there is a fundamental piece which isn't being addressed that makes me think the government will be able to prevent leaks quickly.

Each successive post war generation has become increasingly complacent about government abuses of power.

When the Snowden scandal came out, it felt like only 1 in 5 Gen-X/Gen-Yers even seemed to care. Most of the people I talk to say things like the following:

"Well if you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care that they are monitoring us?"

"Of course they are monitoring everything, they have to do that since 9/11."

"Are you actually surprised they can read your Gmail and Facebook messages?"
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I agree with all of your points, but despite writing that he has no physical health issues, it seems he was beginning to experience a pretty significant mental decline:

>I was sick of having to dig through the trash to find an envelope that was sent to me so I could remember my own address - especially since I lived in the same place for the last nine years!
I did see that, however I wasn't sure which band ATT and TMO use since in europe they don't use the same 3 we do in the US. Many of the MVNOs buy their minutes from sprint or verizon.
I really don't see the need to stereotype, and even less to call names.

Personally, I have worked as a software developer, and I do also have an MBA, and I strongly believe that my broad/diverse education allows me to better interface with people from different backgrounds within a work environment.

Are there ways to obtain broad skills (technical, management, etc.) which are more time effective, cost effective, etc.? Maybe, maybe not. Each person is free to make their own choice.

However, back to the article's point, if Google's 20% is dying down it is ultimately due to Larry Page, who is clearly a technical guy, doesn't have an MBA (1) and most likely is seen as a "doer".

(1) According to wikipedia, he actually received an honorary MBA for his entrepreneurial spirit.
In the USSR they were called apparatchiks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik

It's sort of funny how Soviet business culture actually is.
There is some truth embedded in the dream, also. One study showed a link between creative breakthroughs and feeling happy: "Researchers have found that people are more likely to have a creative breakthrough if they were happy the day before."[1]

If you work in a drab setting and hate it, get out more!

[1] http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/topic/creativity/creati...
Perhaps to you. To others, monogamy in a romantic relationship is a requirement and a reasonable expectation.

Couples should figure out where they stand on that, before they resort to kicking.
Have anyone tried asking this cold? i.e. as an opener?
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In my book equating for inflation is simply representing price in gold. I.e. did you know that the oil price for the past 50 years is the same if you use gold to measure it? Flat line. The same goes for the cost of living, etc. Salaries are down though. Here is your inflation. Gold isn't an investment. Gold is just a currency that can't be created out of thin air. It represents energy and labor needed to get it out of the ground. Currently the mining cost is about $1,200 with gold price about $1,300. That's why looks worse than S&P the price is as low as the production cost at the moment.

If you are interested in the real inflation rate, I'd advise to use formula that was last used by the US Government in 1980s in Reagan years. By that formula the current inflation is at 10%. In 1990s the Government added a lot of absurdities to the formula confusing technological progress with inflation hence the official inflation is non-existent while the average healthcare premium is up from 5 to 20% every year not to even mention about the cost of necessities like gas, food, energy, all the result of doubling monetary base by the FED in 2008-2012 to rescue zombie banks.
I think that when it comes to an idea one truly believes in, even if one is not inclined towards running a company, one is likely to give it a shot anyway. I'm talking about real passion here. The kind of passion that would cause you to break down if Google were to decide that your 20% time is misused and make you do other things instead, or if your side project took off and was taken away from you.
But all the best coders live in Canada!
OMG! Has it been 20 years already? Time flies when you're having fun!
This is the first thing I have ever read from The Metro that I have believed.
If you don't mind my asking, what role were you hired for? Were you part of an acquisition?

I also joined in 2011 (SWE, normal hiring process) and my experience has been nearly the opposite of yours.
I think it lines up with how Jobs ran Apple. He killed a ton of "blue sky" research projects after he took over as CEO, and Apple under his leadership spent a lot less on research than Microsoft or Google.
How does this go up on HN front page when no one understands what the hell this thing does
I like the features it has, but every time someone post a link to fish shell, I wonder why I would switch from bash or zsh. Will this really be THAT MUCH BETTER? Will I just run into weird errors? Is it totally sh compliant? These are important things to know and should be on the homepage.
Especially when you're an asshat in real life. As an example, BBC tracked down a bully and, surprise, the guy was a real piece of work. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFNYuteAjA)
You have no idea what the feds want, and the previous "comply" was probably just turning over the information it had readily available including the raw cipher text which would be useless with out the key

I do not believe for a second the NSA was looking simliar information.
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Lavabit claims they encrypted email on receipt and only decrypted when you logged in and gave them a password they could unlock the encryption key with. If the feds required lavabit to retain the clear text copies of received mail longer than they did for AV/Spam filtering, shutting down the service solves this. Similarly, it prevents anyone from getting the decrypted copies when someone accesses the server.

On the other hand, if Lavabit merely got a warrant of Edward Snowden's email, shutting down the service and claiming they can't talk about it is just a publicity stunt since secret or not, it's pretty clear the government has a legally valid reason for that warrant.
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Rx (for C#), RxJS (for Javascript), Bacon.js.

Definitely not 'widely' but there are a few library implementations out there.

I reckon that the reason for this is that it's most useful when the interactivity is high (i.e. there are a lot of events to react to), but most applications (desktop, web) don't have a high enough number of events to make learning a new paradigm 'worthwhile'.
Marketing is a broad thing - advertising is a small and limited part, especially for a cash-strapped startup. But getting people aware and interested matters. What have you done today to make more people aware of your product, or improve how you explain it to them in order to increase interest and conversion rates?

If you have some spare time, it might be good to do some reading on the business/marketing side of things. Have you read The Lean Startup? Or How to Win Friends and Influence People?
So you don't need to build a new Firefox OS release on your PC and flash it, the phone will just update itself?
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Not that I was leaning towards that because they were Syrian, more like I was leaning away from the other options because they were Syrian. Social engineering and phishing is much easier for people with a good knowledge of the culture and language they're attacking.
Assuming a proper network connection and data plan are available.
> It's sort of funny how Soviet business culture actually is.

Capitalist heirarchies look like state heirarchies in a system widely criticized as being "State Capitalism".

Funny to the people who think that the Soviet Union represents the polar opposite of capitalism, expected by the left-libertarians who noted that the Soviet Union recapitulated the features of capitalism central to the socialist critique of capitalism.
Although vigilantes or a mob whipped into a frenzy are often worse than the problem they're trying to solve, isn't there room for a group of well-intentioned, level headed investigators that can help address issues like this? As in, instead of SWATting the person in question or destroying their life by posting personal details, they'd collect information, try and resolve the situation before things got out of hand, and where that failed, hand off to law enforcement?

Some kind of community watch would go a long way towards clearing out a lot of the trash.
I don't think Google's hiring standards have decreased, they've just shifted their focus away from inaccurate signals such as where you went to University and what your GPA was there. One could argue that Google's hiring standards have actually increased, as they're now hiring people who can demonstrate an ability to perform instead of people who were able to get a pretty piece of paper from Stanford.
I don't know about "a ton" -- there are far better ways to move around a file than mashing hjkl, even with numbered versions (vim-easymotion, vim-seek). Once you can get to the right place in the file I almost never use hjkl with an action, but rather text objects or motions like ci" or dt;
I don't want to say it is but does it strike you as normal?

If you take the whole thing at face value you might say it's rational and logical but without knowing the guy and knowing what he's not said, or what he's distorted (or not), it's impossible to say whether what's true and whether it stacks up. People, even those with mental illness, are often pretty good at creating a logically consistent view of things and building a supporting rationale.

But you can take another view - he's smart, at least personable enough to have attracted two wives, has friends and interests, a reasonable level of success and so on and yet has decided while he's still clearly mentally and physically capable, to end his life.

And his justification is because he can, because it's a bit neat and so he can leave this website as some sort of legacy.

I'm not saying that's a sign of mental illness, but it doesn't sit completely right with me either.

Also without being heartless, curious to know if there's any verification of his death (or existence) anywhere. I'm not saying it's a hoax but if someone told me in a couple of days it was I wouldn't be stunned.
Once he's shut down the business, the ability of the judge to gain compliance by imprisoning him has been sharply narrowed. That is the point of many contempt proceedings.
Drop an email to the address in my profile. I can probably write up a laundry list of things for you to work on tonight.
This doesn't sound like a TCP problem.

Mistake #1: The sender optimistically sends a first packet before getting a SYN reply. That implies that the sender issued a non-blocking connect, and then wrote without waiting for the connect to complete. Otherwise, the sender (kernel) wouldn't have any data to send right away.

Mistake #2: The sender sends a FIN, but doesn't block because all data has already been acknowledged. This is supposedly a problem because the app never receives the data, but a TCP ack has never meant that data got beyond the receiving kernel to an app.

So yes, it's true that neither side ever got an error and unfortunate that it's possible for the receiving app to get no data in that case, but that doesn't make it a TCP problem. Somebody at a higher level - JVM or the app itself - over-optimized their "connection and first data" code without understanding the actual behavior of the TCP protocol and socket API. Then they "fixed" it by working with their own protocol instead of against the standard one.

Nothing to see here. It was just a false alarm. Move on.
With the NSA at least theoretically we have congressional oversight. The same can't be said for Google and most of the other companies we trust with our data. Their level of access may be comparable with the NSA but there are few if any legal protections or opportunities for oversight. If the same abuses were happening, they might never come to light. With the big companies, we might only ever be able to speculate.
If you were going to open an encrypted email service today -- one that would work like Lavabit -- where in the world would you move to before opening it?

Obviously, the USA is impossible. I'd suspect that the five Anglosphere nation secret police alliance countries are bad places, too ('Five Eyes': gb, oz, ca, us, nz). That leaves a lot of world to consider.

Is Ireland better? It's the only first world English-speaking nation that retains some suspicion and independence toward the Washington Empire, but only because of the ugly history with Britain.

Japan and Korea seem like bad choices because they're so close to and dependent on US military operations. Hong Kong and Singapore are subject to police state rules but usually operate extremely liberally; I wonder how it would go in those cities for a private communication service.

Germany is making noise about resenting Anglosphere spying, and you could use an affordable Hetzner server. Looks more and more like that resentment is feigned and German secret police are probably learning Stasi tactics from the NSA.

What do people think about Iceland or Switzerland. Is there anyplace in the FUSSR to consider? What other country would you nominate?

Edit: How about Chile? There's a first world nation that welcomes net startups and has good reason to cooperate very little with the US secret police. After all, the current government is made up of moderate lefties that survived the CIA coup and political murder spree in the 1970s and 1980s.
you people are disgusting, who would spend more time on the toilet than is needed breathing in their own farts and smelling their own shit. And yet all over the net there are people who are proud of it.

Go to a doctor or change your diet. If your plumbing works taking a dump takes about the same time as picking your phone from your pocket and unlocking your screen - rendering the whole reading to keep yourself busy useless.
Yes . .16 quadrillion seems closer
Not just past, but also future data: "He likened the demands to a requirement to install a tap on his telephone. "
There's a lot of hyperbole about "debt," I see propagated about, especially amongst the far-left and far-right. Debt != Slavery. Conversely, No Debt != Freedom, there are plenty of people I know with no debt who are no more free to do what they please than the people I know with crushing debt.

Debt is leverage. Leverage, applied correctly, is an excellent means for accelerating the furtherance of a goal. Is having debt on a house a bad thing? Certainly not in a rising market, or in a market where rents tend to exceed mortgage payments. Additionally, equity gained in that house can be leveraged when times get rough in the future, or a new opportunity arises. Most people do not have the capital power to buy a home outright, even after many years of saving -- if you're spending on rent, you likely cannot save enough for an entire home in one lump sum. Most notably, you'd have to have a very smart growth strategy on that saving to beat both inflation and the rising prices of homes in the area you want to live over the course of the 15-20 years you'd have to employ that strategy. Therefore, for those with the wherewithal to manage their leverage correctly and effectively, a loan makes a lot of sense - they don't have to pay the rents, and they've gambled, successfully or otherwise TBD, against the future price of that home. They can as well make a decision to take gains early, long before ever having had to lay out the entire capital should their local market rise. In the case of 20% down on a $100k house that increases to $200k in value over 3 years with a total of $24k spent in payments over that time = $100k in returns for $44k invested, or a profit of $56k, with no additional rent charges during that time.

In addition, the same can run true for a vehicle. If a person needs a vehicle for transportation, they can apply leverage, especially if they do so wisely, to purchase a vehicle better suited to their needs than their normal cash flow allows. I, for example, could be fine with a 20-year old vehicle that needs regular maintenance. I can do that maintenance myself. Someone else may rightly say a 5-6% interest rate over three years is less costly to them than monthly visits to their mechanic.

So, this "debt is bad," thing is mostly stated by people who get leveraged beyond their means, or don't understand how to successfully apply the right amount of leverage at the right time. No debt can be as bad for one's fortunes as too much debt.

Very few Americans (or otherwise) could consider the idea of owning a house and a car outright at 45 without ever having taken on debt.
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The thing that's stalled me out from using fish before is that it's different enough from the Bourne shell that it seriously interrupts my day to day usage; but it's TOO similar, with the horrible shell semantics. So it's never really been worth it to me.
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Also, subtracting 2 from each of those numbers produces a similar pattern:

2 - 2 = 0

2 - 2 = 0

4 - 2 = 2

10 - 2 = 8 = 2 * 4

98 - 2 = 96 = 8 * 12

10178 - 2 = 10176 = 96 * 106

105687938 - 2 = 105687936 = 10176 * 10386
> Of course, not everyone is willing to work for $15k/year

That is the main point, in Germany you can earn around 5x that on an average consulting job.
Yes, you are :-)

The compiler rewrites your code to schedule all next lines as a continuation. There is no blocking.