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> Another thing, I appreciate the author's honesty but will admitting that he quit on the company/investors hurt his chances of getting any sort of consideration in the future and a founder of another startup?

It won't hurt his chances at all. Startups fail, VCs know this.

As an example, I was in YC W10 with Thomas' batch, and failed/quit my startup over 3 years ago. I found no problem raising money again: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/circleci-raises-1-5m-from-e.... I suspect it will be easier for Thomas since he has more personal relationships with investors than I did when I started to raise 18 months ago.
Yeah, ok, then you are jumping to the same conclusion, and my comment was completely orthogonal to the discussion.

Anyway, still offtopic, I'm quite eager for the reasons why you both discard democracy (no rulers, but government exist) without even a comment (am I missing something that obvious?).
>>I don't understand the motivation will be for someone to use a such service instead of building it by himself ...

Personally, I have no interest in learning how to build computers. I'm not into hardware[1] and have no problem paying a premium for someone else to just put stuff together, make sure it works then send it to me.

BTW, wasn't this Alienware's business model?

1. There is one exception though; the videogame console hacking scene.
Fallacies are irrelevant because there's no reasoning going on here -- the person you're responding to is making a subjective opinion statement, not a formal (or even informal) argument about aesthetics. Their statement doesn't even have a warrant or grounds, so to attack it with a fallacy is nonsensical.
> Stallman isn't exactly known for letting practicality and feasibility compromise his ideals.

When it comes to license choice, he's always been about a specific kind of pragmatism: what will in practice produce more free software? The GPL, LGPL, Affero GPL, etc. are means to that end employed in different situations. He could be empirically wrong with some of his choices (and probably is), but I don't see him as being particularly tied to the mechanism, vs. the outcome.

I actually think there's a decent argument that the existence of the Affero GPL encourages more free software in specific niches. Some companies are willing to release their SaaS apps under the Affero GPL who wouldn't have been willing to release them under the BSD, LGPL, or GPL, because they fear those licenses enable proprietary competitors. For example, Launchpad is AGPL. If the AGPL didn't exist, my guess is that they'd just have stayed proprietary, like GitHub has.
Always love this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/695/
Why exactly do Resource's methods take variadic argument?
In what scenario can there be more than one?

Also, small remarks about code:
You define type HandleFunc in your package which is identical to http.HandlerFunc. Looks like it can be removed.
Some error logging (rw.Write, json.Marshal) would be useful as well.
It feels a little early to make this call. Dune has influenced a certain vision of the future, but it's influence has been limited to a specific genre of literature and art.

It also remains to be seen whether Dune is influential beyond the current cultural zeitgeist, since it hasn't even been around for a century yet. It's entirely possible another book or movie will come around that changes the entire aesthetic of speculative fiction, leaving Dune as a book that was popular for a particular culture as a particular time.
Apple is clearly anti-GPL3, which is not the same thing as being "staunchly anti copy left". They ship a number of GPL2 components, some of which were essentially forked when the upstream project moved to GPL3.

Your last comment has been made a gazillion times over the last 20+ years but it's just not that simple. There was no time in which the default business model for software was free. What there was, was a time in which there was no mass-market business model for software, period. There was no such thing as a store you could walk into and buy software prior to the mid-'70s, and a much larger proportion of software developers were scientists, engineers, and hobbyists, who passed around a lot of common code, as they still do today. It's not like there was some golden utopia back in 1973 where the world's #1 spreadsheet application was free software, because such things didn't exist back then.
Note that this is an ex-MS Office developer, contributing to LO to fix a personal annoyance.
Heh, anyone that worked at Apple or SGI in the 90's could probably cover their entire request :-) Friends there used to joke that first thing a project did was design the t-shirt and print them, if it was a "cool" t-shirt, only then could the engineering begin :-)
My comments were completely regarding SoundCloud, which is Very slow.

Haven't yet tried soundrad, I will if get to use SoundCloud enough.
You're missing my point.

Even if I trust saltstack, I can't trust whatever comes down over an http link. If they'd signed it (with gpg or ssl) -- then I could choose to trust the code. I'm more than ready (perhaps foolishly) to trust the code from some random group of people -- but I need to be able to trust that code -- not whatever comes down off a possibly spoofed http link.

Without signatures of some kind, there can't be any trust. It doesn't matter if I trust Debian to release a good distribution if I have no way to know if the software I'm installing is from Debian.
Have you ever heard the term "natural monopoly"? It can form because of network effects, big upfront costs, market entry barriers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I second that. GetFocusd is excellent at reminding you why you installed it in the first place. I blocked most of the sites where I waste my time: Facebook, Reddit, News sites and general nonsensical, but entertaining sites. I turn off WiFi and mobile internet on my phone or even set it to airplane mode in extreme cases.
I'm glad to read that. May I ask what technology did you guys use?
SockJS' Python implementation works well (well, I haven't deployed yet...), but the Go port isn't that mature IIRC.
Woz is on stage starting at 1:04 in the video.
Silic: A shirt that cleans itself
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6866938
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I suspect that those numbers don't tell enough of the story. The range of salaries in SV is huge. Netflix routinely pays more than 200k. Tiny startups pay < 100k. I don't imagine you see such a variance in DC. 50th percentile might only be 10k apart but I suspect the gap widens as you get deeper into the "above average space".

I do think that a developer getting paid 300k (not unheard of for top talent at top companies) in a place like Austin would be ridiculous.
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If you're talking about increasing revenue from a CRO perspective, then becoming a CRO consultant could be a solution. patio11 publicly claimed to be making $30k a week before he quit.

How much do you make now?
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For #2, check out http://trunkclub.com

They set you up with a stylist, all the service aspects are free, then they send you a trunk of clothes to try. Pay for whatever you keep, send the rest back with free shipping.
The police are already militarized. Yes, that happened primarily due to the war on drugs, but that doesn't mean that ending the war on drugs will fix it.

The bleeding doesn't stop just because you pull the knife out of the wound.
What does 2000 days of retention look like?
WasteNoTime safari extension.
How do you think would the AGPL be illegal?

As for reducing the duration of copyright: I am not sure, binaries without source that you are allowed to disassemble still aren't anywhere near source code, don't you think?
This is a great comment. I love that you aren't regarding the internet like a junky with remorse, that you are solution focused and have found a pleasing balance in your own life. I'm not sure I could give up internet at home but it does inspire me to experiment with alternate configurations or disciplines.
> I don't think there's a law against criminal stupidity and keeping lax discipline.

There may not be a law against criminal stupidity, but there is certainly (by definition) a law against criminal negligence (if there weren't a law against it, it wouldn't be criminal). If, for example, the officers' supervisors established a work culture that condoned framing people that could easily rise to the legal standard of criminal negligence.
I love it, this is awesome. I wish there would be a fast "play next" feature. Great job, kudos!
Your comment refers to only a few of the factors. Yes you have to tear down old city buildings to make new ones, but your alternative is to tear up virgin land. In addition you only look at capex (the capital cost of building new housing). Don't forget the opex -- transportation, heating, etc. Finally there are the externalities: the loss of open space, the environmental impact of sprawl, the roads needed to reach these distributed communities.

So the cool thing is we have a field called "economics" which is not always right but does have a framework for discussing these issues. And economics, along with city planning, architecture, environmental science and plenty of other fields have been brought to bear on this problem. I would give you some links, but there is so much literature on this field that it's not even worth it. If you'd like to make a fact-based, rather than emotion-based, decision, do a bit of research on your own.
I don't suggest governments should exist. I think you had mistaken law and order for government. Think of it this way: law and order are services. Government is just one way of providing those services.
Nice interface, but it's a bit strange to me that it uses shell exec for every kind of measure.

e.g.
# uptime.php
<?php echo (int) (shell_exec('cat /proc/uptime')/(60*60));
I think Microsoft are partially to blame for the existence of these app stores. By ignoring package management they created an environment where software was hard to manage and frustrating to install for users.

I don't think I've ever met anyone over the age of 40, from a non-technical background, that has ever checked for service updates to a piece of non-Microsoft software, downloaded it, and then installed it. To this day most people don't bother beyond Windows Updates (and only install those because Windows screams at them about it).

I've met plenty of Windows 8 users who haven't noticed 8.1 is out.
No, it doesn't make sense. Your comment is naive and/or jerkish. You should feel bad about yourself for posting it.
My objection is his use of the term "commie leftist", using a tactic that undermines the credibility of these people's concerns analogous to the sentiments Red Scare. Of course he isn't persecuting them, but he's using the term "commie leftist" as a derogatory scare tactic.

If he wants to be taken seriously he should avoid using those terms in that manner.
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Great points. They don't need to be variadic. I misunderstood the type of url.Values. And I didn't see http.HandlerFunc!

I eschewed error logging in the interest of simplicity.

Thanks for the corrections! Updating the article now.
Your Best result is from Hacker News for $40 you spent on Facebook Ads and Admob Ads I Assume?

$20 on each platform is by no means real test.
Just get that production going. If only they had the capability of Nissan( Leaf ).
> (presuming that they're good shows)

That's the crux of it. There will inevitably be good and bad shows, or even good but unpopular shows. The viewers are fickle and Netflix will need to somehow manage keeping their attention. Netflix's problem is that they don't own the content. But as soon as they enter the content-creation business, they will be the same as Disney (and will face the same challenges).
How does the political unrest in Ukraine affect software development?
I'm curious if anyone has experience working with developers or teams of developers in Ukraine. Is there any impact on your business? Do you do anything to help? What contingencies do you plan for? Knowing what you know now, would you make any changes? Does this constitute force majeur? Thanks.
As of now it is a very simple application. I am going to now start planning the roadmap for this as a product. Things like an API, integration with web services, etc. I'd say a few months down the road, your requests will be very viable.
Isn't it curious, then, that one of the most staunch arguments against police cameras are the police unions?
Recognizing the premium for any mass on the mission, I've wondered why some sort of panel-duster (perhaps a spinning flail such as you'd find in a carwash) wasn't designed in.

Still, the longevity and data have been truly amazing.
You are right. I'll have to make that adjustment.
Mao and Marx altered the course of nations. Freud and Weiner created fields which have had a major impact on medicine, education, social theory, and technology, and may of those impacts have trickled down into everyday life.

You can make an argument against The Trial and 1984, but I'm skeptical many people will agree that they were less influential than any of the books you listed.
Since when did an alternative to something stop needing to do at least as much as that something?
> In my entire life, I have only heard "bro" come from the mouths of bullying douche-bag frat-boy sleazes, usually while telling me the assault they just committed against me was "just a joke".

My bad. I shouldn't have assumed to know the type of assault you experienced. I apologise for that.

Unfortunately though, your life isn't the topic of conversation here, and frankly it's none of my business.

Like overgard said in a comment replying to your original post, you appear to be offended because someone used the word bro.

If that is the case, my belief is that ethically, your personal experience in this matter does not invalidate the use of a word across an entire culture. Like I implied in my previous comment, where does the buck stop with this type of censorship?

If you care to respond to that, I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
It's only a compromise if you prefer kids to other activities. I have plenty of friends who have spouse and kids, or spouse and no kids, or are single (or other combinations for that matter). There doesn't seem to be a gross correlation between family state and happiness among them, although the research says that the childless are happier than those with 'em.

I'm changing the world by doing stuff other people aren't. Most people are spawning, so it seems unlikely that I will change the world by doing so.

Note: FWIW I do have spouse and offspring, and enjoy my family life, but I am not pretentious enough to think that those things are part of my "contribution to humanity" any more than driving my car is.

And what's with the sexist "wife and kids" bit anyway?
...and if there was even the slightest, remotest equivalence between human slavery and proprietary software, this argument might hold water.

Anyway, fundamentalists are bad because fundamentalists are bad, period. Even if they're fighting for the right thing, they're still doing it for the wrong reasons, and people need to at least acknowledge that before lionizing them too much. I'd much rather get behind someone doing the right thing for the right reasons, or at least maintain a modicum of skepticism about everyone if no such leader exists.
>I don't see people suggesting we all vote for one specific kind of car we are all going to drive for the next 4 years.

There are huge regulatory hurdles to releasing an automobile, for good reason.

Insisting on absolutely no government sounds dogmatic. Surely we can have enough government to negotiate a truce between warring police tribes.
This wasn't exactly the point I was making.

The "tricked" comment was not that Google tricked him (and really this isn't particularly about Mike), but that it is easy to trick yourself into seeing it as a better outcome for your users than it likely will be, because it is such a good outcome for yourself.

The path of prioritizing growth is great for the founders: you get to see how big you can get your business (how many more users you can serve), and you get a big payout up front.

The path of prioritizing care of your current customers looks very different: growth will be slower, stakeholders don't get their payout, but you will not be gambling for a huge business with the contributions of your current users as stakes (he said the business was sustainable, so the startup risks are likely disappearing and life-span of the company is growing quickly).

Personally, I'm going to go with the prioritizing growth option, as the founder did, but I'm not going be dishonest (I don't see it as intentional or bad character, I think it's part of the reality distortion field of the startup scene) and say I did it thinking of my current users.

I don't think it's a founders vs. users struggle, the founders certainly do think about their current users, they just aren't prioritized. The founders certainly aren't trying to dump their current users, so they aren't against their users.
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I always hear this form of the request with a bit of bemusement. The simplest way to add $100K to your income is to rob a bank. You didn't constrain the problem to "legally" :-)

But setting that aside for a moment, why $100K? What does $100K get you? And why is money your goal? Do the thought experiment where "Poof!" the magic genie drops $100K on your bed. Sit there and look at it, now what?

You need money to pay the bills and survive, okay. But having it is rather fleeting, and when you die you cannot take it with you. Get past "money" and into "accomplishing something." When you have something you want to accomplish come back and we can opine on that :-)
My smartphone just died and I had to revert back to my trusty old dumb phone that I loved and apparently still do. The first feeling I had was relief: mobile internet is "nice" but the joy of not being able to access anything is great. I'm only available via simple phone calls and text messages, and if I get any of those it's usually important.

Consequently, I need to find my laptop to access internet and I sometimes do that but I don't feel like sitting in front of it like I used to. The magic has moved to mobile internet and because I don't have that anymore I have no desire to glue myself to the laptop for the sake of keeping myself entertained by the endless articles on internet. I mostly just open the laptop when I need to do real work or real chores.
Here's how I fucked up: I dicked around throughout college and years after (and high school, really), paying little attention to career, finance, direction, and organization in general. I got more serious just as my two daughters were born, which means that the years of their young childhoods have seen me distracted by goals and demands that I should have addressed years ago.

If you like your children (not everyone does), their youngest years can be absolutely fucking magical. Nothing else in my life compares, and here's the real bummer: it's short. I love the people my kids become as they grow through the stages of their young lives, but they turn into different people, and jesus christ I miss my babies.

So yes, absolutely, get your shit together while you're a young woman or a young man. Make it your goal to be able to relax in the presence of your children. You only get one shot.
Yea, that's my #1 concern now that I know its worth pursuing as a more well developed product. I'm hope to step away from PHP totally for the next iteration. This was more-so a proof-of-concept for the sake of feedback.
The Go runtime is still being optimized. For instance we found that the upgrade to Go 1.2 made a big difference for some of our performance tests. So it's nice to get surprises like that but also shows that the ecosystem is still young.
I have the no computer at home rule. It's been working pretty well. I can only use one at work or coffee shops etc. Problem is I'm in bed writing this from an iphone. :( It's a huge loophole to the rule.
Exactly my intention: get feedback and then iterate towards a more viable product. I have quite a few more ideas for the interface and options. Definitely going to pursue it.
And to that I should respond with an article called "The Myth of Natural Monopoly" http://mises.org/daily/5266
IMO, that's not such a big deal - understanding what significant whitespace is, if you're prepared to have him deal with significant newlines, as you said. But it's your choice, of course ...
Is it too much to ask that a journalist be able to convert 10 years to days correctly? I mean, it's true that it lasted 3560 days more, but I'm guessing they were shooting for 3,650 days. (or 3653 days)
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Which is pretty much directly a function of 1) income tax based on a percentage of income (with capital gains taxed at a significantly lower rate) and 2) the VAST amounts of income accruing to the 1% (and above).
These guys want to give you Morninghead (not what you think, Kickstarter funded)
Why did you buy desktop ads to try to get mobile installs? Of course you're going to get a ton of impressions and hardly any actual installs: no one browses Facebook's desktop site via their android phone, and people on desktop aren't looking to install an app.

Also, your Google ad is significantly better looking than your Facebook ad, and is also much more likely to be seen while people are on their mobile phones.
A demo or some screenshots might be nice.
Because side projects never ever ever become successful?
Indeed. I don't even remotely fancy raising a child (or multiple). However, I understand that others find it desirable. To each his/her own.
Why would it make any sense that you are allowed to set a salary based on anything except 1.? And, if I understood your top level post correctly, why would it make sense for you to be able to classify caring for your children as working for the business?

Allowing people to choose arrangements that minimize their taxes, is the opposite of how tax law is supposed to work. Taxes should be based on economic reality, not what you choose to write down on paper.

It seems you are conflating what is beneficial for you, with what should be legal.
Thanks for the correction. Yes, this version was built for Debian distros. Working on more comprehensive support for the next iteration, which will have an API.
While an interesting observation, and good to be backed up with fact/analysis, it's not particularly surprising - as companies grow and mature, their character changes and attract a different sort of employee. Gone, perhaps, are the younger, more risk-taking employees and in come the older, more risk-averse employees.

I doubt that "start-up culture" is what is required - I'm sure that the variety of work that comes with a smaller number of employees is a huge factor. Maybe they employ too many workers, or perhaps there isn't the ability to cross teams/functions.

What would be more interesting would be if those "tech giants" dropped in average talent as a result (though good luck in measuring that!) or even in total employee terms.
LiteCoin and Iraqi Dinar are two notable examples.
Won't they be required to do this as a joint venture?
Well, we have millions and millions of people using Windows, and in my experience when viruses and malware affect them, they usually blame themselves more than Microsoft. So, no, I don't think they'd put the blame in Apple.

And if that would have been the case, remember the Antennagate? First they told their customers to hold the phone differently, then they said it was a software problem, and finally they said the problem was the antenna, but that all smartphones had a similar problem (which was a lie). So, in that case I would have expected Steve Jobs' reality distortion field in full power blaming everyone except Apple.