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For all of the companies who are successful without a management structure, their are exponentially more with a standard or modified structure that do quite well.

Any of those, "Let's get rid of management structure" companies on this list??

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/full_...

You might want to ask yourself why then. . .
I have to laugh at the "genius among geniuses" quote. How come all of the NSA geniuses were so dependent on a contractor to keep everything running? Why did none of those geniuses see the danger in employing a person with an anti-NSA hoodie who was constantly questioning the legality of spying?
Maybe if the Big Three had designed cars people actually wanted to buy, history would have been different.
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I'll join the chorus reminiscing about hacking for game performance.

In my case, it was on a Mac on a PowerPC CPU. It's a far cry from the limited resources of early personal computers, but this was at a time when 3D was hitting big time - the Playstation had just come out - and I was trying to get performance and effects like a GPU could provide. A hobbyist could get decent rasterization effects from a home-grown 3D engine, but I was working as far forward as I could. All that unrolled code, careful memory access, fixed-point math... I spent a lot of time hand-tuning stuff. It wasn't until I dug into a book on PowerPC architecture that I found some instructions that could perform an approximation of the math quickly, and suddenly I was seeing these beautiful, real-time, true-color, texture-mapped, shaded, transparent triangles floating across the screen at 30fps.

It was about that time that the first 3DFX boards started coming out for Macs, though, and that was the end of that era.
I highly doubt deploying soldiers on the battlefield is by any means cheap.
Everyone is making good points about why enterprise is harder. Another one is barrier to entry. You need to have relationships in a given space in order to get in.
ThePoint was like kickstarter. I wasn't trying to slander crowdtilt, just found it interesting.
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I use <space> as my Easymotion leader..

https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion

it's well worth a look, gives you super quick fine grained movement

similarly

inoremap jj <ESC>

to take you from INSERT mode to NORMAL mode is nice
There is a difference between measuring efficiency and having a mechanical monkey on your shoulder that screams at you every 15 seconds.
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Likewise. Their demands are practical and they retain their humanity in dealings... probably even moreso than mass market consumers.
Well considering the cost of the Dept. of Education is 71.9 a year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...), that would work out to 20$ a year for a population of 360 Million. Adjusted for Youth, which is around 73.9 Million (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012...), we're looking at about 972$ per youth per year.

Thats what the governments pays now for the entire system. The teachers, the building costs, the supplies, etc. If we really wanted to have an alternative to public schooling, IMO (I'm an anarchist) it couldn't be done with a voucher system.

The best solution is to question school as an institution. It was primarily for very young children and for reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Education_in_the_Uni...

We need to rethink these institutions and consider the technological advantages. My solution would be to put half of that 70 billion into Libraries, and make the accomodable for children during the day. Make it completely optional.
From Joel Spolksky's "Camels and Rubber Duckies" (which is a great read in its own right):

>The joke of it is, big companies protect themselves so well against the risk of buying something expensive that they actually drive up the cost of the expensive stuff, from $1000 to $75000, which mostly goes towards the cost of jumping all the hurdles that they set up to insure that no purchase can possibly go wrong.

Personally, I'm just not interested in playing that game.

*Edit: Yet. Not interested in playing that game yet.
We've been super quiet about this and are not really ready to ship yet (bunch of bugs) but decided to let you guys give it a try since the Mega Millions is so big.

If you're on iOS you can use the code "money" to try it
> And to get your app into their hands is as simple as making a unique app.

No, it isn't. It's about marketing to them, selling to the decision-maker, working through existing competition, wining and dining, proving your value with an on-site sales team, proving your integration...

and most of all, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that you will not fail or disappear in the next 5 years.

The problem with getting into Enterprise is not product-related. You can imagine all kinds of better products than what exists today. It's easy to build that better product that solves the same problems but prettier and with better UX. And make a great demo for it. Sure. I've done that.

The hard part is proving that your startup will be around in 5, 10, 15 years and won't leave them high and dry, proving that you will have a support team serving their every need, and ensuring you have the ability to implement and customize to the specific company's process and requirements (because every large company is so different and with such ingrained processes that it's not them that will change, but you. Or else.)

It seems easy, but it isn't. This isn't even a problem of the "build it and they will come" fallacy—it's on an entirely different scale. And you'd have to be ready for all of that if you want to enter into enterprise.
The two issues are totally unconnected.

Google is being sued because it broke the law.

The U.K. Government enacted an unpopular policy that was not illegal. The remedy for this is the ballot box, not the courts.
It's a rather popular anti-libertarian piece, and I have read it (although it's been a while).
Maybe I need a refill of coffee, but I couldn't really grasp what the point of the article was. JavaScript is half-usable, object oriented programming is broken (he even goes into a bit about inheritance), Java and .Net are enterprise-ready languages...huh?
Now would you say there would be more or less violence if the US stopped killing people on foreign soil?
> Is your judgement so clouded by patriotism that you somehow think other people have no right to their privacy?

It's not a matter of patriotism, it's a matter of self-preservation. We acknowledge that other people in our own society have rights because we also understand that they have reciprocal obligations. If there is conflict, we can resort to legal process to mediate the conflict and preserve everyone's rights. This is possible because we are all party to the same social contract.

But people outside our society do not have any obligation to us. They are not party to our social contract. We in America cannot legislate how say the Chinese go about their business, even when those activities might have an impact on us (e.g. air pollution in California). That is why we don't acknowledge that they have rights identical with those of people in our own society.
It's about who you know more than how good you are.
anecdotal I know, but a friend does triathlons and was wrecked bad enough that even with safety gear she was badly hurt. Even practices aren't safe and group riding always brings along risk. She was always surprised at riders who would join the group who somehow felt that riding a street bicycle didn't require safety equipment yet would not ride a BMX without the gear. Trees don't jump out at you any more than potholes, but they both can cause accidents and then you add in other riders and its not just you who has to be skilful.
I think the main problem with e-cigs is that you're still taking in the addictive Nicotine. When you "cut down" and delay smoking, that next puff seems even more "pleasurable" because you're now relieving yourself of the physical withdrawal. That sort of "pleasure" messes with your mind because you think it feels good when in fact you're simply getting back to what non-smokers normally feel like (by removing the withdrawal symptoms). And then, only having delayed the inevitable, you're able to go another hour or two, before you withdraw again, and need another fix, re-addicting yourself again and again. I really don't understand the point of trying to quit using a drug while continuing to use said drug.

IMHO the problem of quitting smoking is mostly a psychological one. If you can get your head on straight, the physical withdrawal symptoms are actually quite minimal.
I'd like to suggest that! We wouldn't have done 90% of the evil, pointless, counterproductive bullshit we've done since WWII, if all aspects of that bullshit had been public. And, not a single genuinely good thing we've done would have been prevented.

Details of military battles could be kept secret during the battles and for a couple of years afterward, and sure we should keep demographic data about private people restricted to only those agencies that legitimately need that data, but those are the only exceptions that come to mind.
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I'd immediately adopt a cloud messaging system from whisper systems. Always find your critiques extremely informative. :-)
Is that hosted by RethinkDB or another company?
Used to think the same way about most investing till I figured out better.

I do not know the specifics of this particular deal, nor have I used the product, but I hope the points are of going to be some use.

Let us look at it this way. Assume there are 200 funds out there who can do a series A of this size. That would naturally mean that not every fund is going to be either a leader or someone who spots new trends (there are not enough trends out there). Naturally, a lot of them have to invest in deals in other companies in a hot sector.

A lot of investment is momentum-driven and momentum is often driven by the narrative. You have to remember that as long as a successful exit happens, the fund winds up with a good deal irrespective of whether the public (IPO) or the acquiring company (M&A) eventually profits from it. NoSQL has that momentum at the moment.

A healthy start-up ecosystem can easily support more than a handful of companies in a single domain. Once the narrative for the domain really picks up, even the not-so-great ones (again, I have no clue about RethinkDB) stand a good chance of being acquired as long as there is decent enough traction and the sector is so hot that there is pressure on the GPs to make a play in it.

The later they get into the game, the pricier the ticket becomes, but you get lesser risk too.

And all of this is perfectly OK and fair.
> ...out-smarted the most technically advanced intelligence agency in the history of the world at their own game...

The lifting of sensitive NSA documents smells to me of gross incompetence. It troubles me that this hasn't gotten more discussion.

Snowden was working for Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii. While working for this government contractor, he managed to copy a great many secrets that were probably supposed to be very inaccessible to him.

1) Why does the NSA outsource IT work (and, more critically, the storage of extremely sensitive information) to a third party? (Or do I misunderstand BAH's role in the matter?)

2) One of the NSA's missions is to provide computer security to USGov and the nation as a whole. How good at that job could they possibly be if they can't keep their secrets from insiders who wish to obtain them?

3) Snowden has not been outed as black, white, or grey-hat hacker. It has been claimed that Snowden asked other co-workers with greater access for their credentials and used those to copy sensitive data. Either that claim is true, or BAH seriously fucked up their SELinux permissions and gave sysadmins read access to everything. Either way, the documents were likely not obtained through technical wizardry, but were likely acquired through exploitation of human incompetence. Snowden may be a very skilled individual, but it seems very likely that his skills had nothing to do with the acquisition of that document cache.
If there are a lot of people looking for an assassin, and there are only a few reliable assassins, the cost of an assassin will be high, and good assassins will make a lot of money.

Does this mean that assassins making lots of money is morally justified? Does it mean that assassins are good for society, or that they deserve their pay?

Of course not. It means none of these things. Markets are amoral. Supply and demand have no moral content. Articles like this appeal to a moral logic, not an economic logic, and they are not wrong to do so.

There are other reasons why college presidents are scarce; colleges are scarce. And it's not like a thousand new colleges can spring up tomorrow to address this scarcity, because colleges have value based on social and network effects like reputation and association with elite social classes. Colleges can extract rents due their relative social position; these rents may even be immoral. I believe colleges are aware of this, and try to whitewash it with grants and aid, but is it enough?

I think you're treating the issue way too flippantly, and yes, simplistically.
They're not the bad guys anymore because they're not bombing and invading countries. They're good guys because they're peaceful with us and supply us with goods and services.

The morals of bombings and war didn't change. Their behavior changed. So yes, we could be the "good guys" if we stopped spying and shooting at every foreign nation. We could be the "good guys" if we stopped spying on every citizen, and stopped creating a domestic military force out of municipal police.
Congrats to Rethink! Really glad to see such a fascinating product get the funding it deserves!
Does it matter whether or not the host knows? I don't see how it changes the odds in any way, unless of course he opens the door with the car (very likely with 1 million doors).
I think it comes down largely to what you know, and if you can show it. I don't have a degree and I have a great job. I also get contacted usually multiple times a week about jobs. I maintain some open source projects, I have an active SO profile, Github profile, blog and I keep LinkedIn up-to-date. That seems to be enough. Regardless of whether you have a degree or not those are all valuable things that can show what you know and help your career a lot.

I just don't think you need a degree if you know what you're doing.
Government hires contractors for the same reason private companies do. They can easily ramp up headcount then ramp it back down. It's doubly valuable when your full-time workforce are protected by numerous legal and union regulations. When a project needs 100 technical resources asap, recruiting that many people is very difficult and expensive. Even for a private company without regulations on pay and hours. There are only a handful of IT services companies out there capable of staffing that many people at once, so bidding is less than competitive. If funding is cut for that project, just fire the contractor and you're free and clear.
A contract is not a zero-sum game. The expected outcome of a contract is that both parties take advantage of each other and they both win.
You're really overestimating the hypothetical votes in favor.
Thanks for the responses - looks like it may be possible after all :)

I had dealt with a few recruiters for contract jobs before but they all seemed to offer "perfect" positions which then vanished to be replaced with less enticing ones. I had sort of assumed they were making stuff up to get me on a list, but it might be worth investigating again. This time I'll see what research I can do to make sure they are half decent recruiters!

Appreciate the comments and hopefully I can do something with this advice.
This is true. I wonder how much of it is just CBS pandering to its demographic rather than coordinated propaganda, though. The CBS audience skews old (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-06/from-cbs-adv...), and loves police procedurals, which as a genre unfailingly cheerlead for institutional authorities. (Think how many procedural plotlines turn on the Good Guy Cops lying to or physically threatening someone they've got in an interrogation room, for instance. This is always presented as the Good Guy Cops being smart and savvy, not as an abuse of power.)

So if you've got an audience that wants to be told that the authorities are always right, you could decide strictly for business reasons to just give them more of that.
If the model E is $35,000 like this article mentioned, it would be more than competitive to something like a Civic or a Camary.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%243.50%2Fgal%29%2F%...
http://teslarumors.com/USA-Residental-Energy-Cost-2011-by-St...
https://www.google.com/search?q=toyota+camry+cost

Someone should save $10k over 100k miles of driving with an electric car vs using gas. Adding in the $7500 US government tax credit, if Tesla priced the model E at $35,000, it would be very comparable to something like a Camry.
I don't believe having managers is bad, I believe in having too many is what really causes issues. I have seem some organization charts where managers managed a single person and they themselves might be the only report to another. Its like the title is giving out in lieu of compensation or to not hurt someone's feelings. Worse is assigning people to someone just because their a manager regardless of the assigned person's work.
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I would not use Pixate again. It's a great idea, but the overhead is brutal on any kind of data driven list view. After filing numerous bug reports and using hacky workarounds, we finally switched back to full native... it was the source of 90%~ of our app's sluggishness.
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NSA and there mass media partners are basically running psyops on Americans. The sad thing is that it will probably work on many of the sheeple and provide ample cover for morning talk shows and op-ed articles ad nauseam.
I think I stumbled upon it before, looks rough around the edges and very early preview/beta so I kinda passed on it. Will revisit it soon.
"The human body contains over 10 times more microbial cells than human cells, although the entire microbiome only weighs about 200 grams (7.1 oz), with some weight estimates ranging as high as 3 pounds (approximately 48 ounces or 1,400 grams)." [0]

You would literally not be the same animal you are now had bacteria not helped you along the way.

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B2B is an interesting animal. I find I can only do enterprise sales. I frankly suck at consumer.

I love having a sales pitch being as simple as: my product saves you this much money and time or gets you this much profit.

It's a gigantic numbers game. Aside from that, get an internal project champion to gather all the necessary stakeholders necessary to make a sale. (Yes I just threw out a lot of buzzwords there, sue me) Those are usually how you speak to bigger customers though. If you want, internalize the lingo as something you'd think of it as( a guy on the inside who becomes my sales guy!) .

This may take a while, so budget your cash flow accordingly.

I've found if your product offering is compelling enough you 'll get calls returned.

Many people just try to throw a bunch of buzz words out there to random people working at a place and think that's sales.

Talk to the right people who would want to use your product and build up internal evangelists. The rest will play out in the form of meetings and other random exchanges.

Typical SaaS businesses also seem to think that you can just put up a pricing page and expect that to close a sale.

There will be contracts going back and forth, custom pricing negotiations, SLAs being signed, among other things.

I typically attribute the sales cycle being similar to freelancing. Just replace that with a product.
For this to really work, it must be clarified up front that Monty is going to give you the opportunity to switch every time the game is played.
Yeah, that actually happened though;

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On the contrary, it is the risk I imply/have stated. I don't work in intelligence, but I am an infantry Marine reservist - some of the tactics briefed to us on how foreign governments and terrorists try to compromise opsec might surprise many, including using Facebook to try to determine troop movements. Our enemies are also sophisticated.

It's just not as simple as you have stated so far. I'm not making an absolute claim that the NSA did not violate privacy or such - I was primarily pointing out some of the complexities involved here that privacy advocates tend to forget, especially when considering the history of foreign intelligence gathering, where privacy is not guaranteed by any nation because such a guarantee cannot be backed.
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What does your first sentence mean? Otherwise-collateral civilian targets? Let's say for arguments sake that no civilians were intentionally targeted. Why is it ok to kill civilians at all? And what civilian death rate is acceptable to you?
I actually worked at Amazon's Milton Keyne's fulfilment centre for a while. It was tough, I almost always came home with blisters on my feet. Picking is THE WORST. The targets they set were absolutely ridiculous, I don't think I reached them once during the two months I worked there.
Yes, the argument is logically wrong... but logic is not the only mental resource we have to make sense of the world. By example, if we agreed that the truth can only be called "truth" if it is derived by "logic", there would be no scientific method, and we would still be killing each other with swords because there is no logical way to figure out, let alone unmanned flying devices, but any sort of flying machine heavier than air. Instead, you would be arguing that it is "illogical" for a simple peasant to be able to kill a noble knight that has been training in the art of war for his whole life... so those damned crossbow mercenaries are cheating and ought not to exist.

And for the example you offer, judges' very job description require them to narrow down on a case by case basis, and to make a decision based on the evidence available, beyond reasonable doubt. The ethical principle that requires this to be so is that the asymmetry of power between the individual and the State is so big that it is most fair for the whole process to start with a bias in favor of the individual.

Other situations require a different kind of analysis. And the consequence to apply this level of precision to political analysis is that no analysis (and no criticism to the de-facto policies that are guarantied to emerge anyways in this vacum of knowledge) is ever possible.
I understand your point, but the NSA's mission is confined to cross-border communication. Eavesdropping within foreign governments should not be allowed.
Enterprise customers pay a lot once you get them paying, but selling to them is brutally hard.
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