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If you use gold as your currency, your money supply is determined by the vagaries of the gold-mining industry vis a vis the economy.

When the economy is booming, if not enough gold is being mined to satisfy the need, you will have a tight money supply and all of the ugly consequences one associates with an excessively tight monetary policy. Credit becomes scarce. Growth slows. Prices fall.

If a few rich veins are discovered, and gold pours onto the market, you effectively have an excessively loose monetary "policy." Far too much gold chases too few goods. Prices rise. Bubbles inflate.

This is equally true of, say, Bitcoin. There is a fixed number being mined. A variable number are lost. Economic growth varies every year. If you were to use BTC as a national currency, your nation could be forced into an ugly monetary situation because you have put money supply outside your control. The money supply will grow and shrink for its own reasons, independently of your economy.

In any case, money supply is still a problem for businessmen. You have just surrendered human control of the supply to the natural environment (gold) or to a computer algorithm that doesn't account for your economic status in its inputs (BTC).
Sales is a different beast.

If you need 2 sales guys, hire 3, give them a month and fire the worst one.

That is horrifying to me as a developer, but apparently this is fairly standard for sales.
Companies tried this in the 1990s-- PeopleSoft, etc. It didn't work, but failed ideas seem to re-appear as fresh ones after a few years.
I had always heard an interesting story about that — since the newspaper was printed in Manchester, it was the first press runs that had to be sent to far-off London. Then the later runs (with misspellings often fixed) were sent to the closer cities.

On the other hand, newspapers based in London would send their typo-ridden newspapers to far-off locales first, and the corrected editions would stay in London.

Since the tastemakers were in London this resulted in a situation where the newspaper becomes notorious for being ridden with errors.

No idea if there's any truth to it, the wikip page presents a different story that sounds like problems with collaboration tools (eg. TTY) used between the two cities.
The Windows 8 pricing does seem to support the theory that Microsoft knew it wasn't good. The non-upgrade version was much cheaper than it was for previous iterations of Windows.
Headless IE
Dave Winer: How I think about Bootstrap
You can actually use bottles of Tide to purchase drugs, if you ever get sick of washing clothes. So in a way, Tide might be the best laundry detergent.
Sure I won't see the a SV startup using it.
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Couchbase Server is different from Apache CouchDB, etc (different APIs, different use cases, etc). But our mobile database, Couchbase Lite, is sync compatible with the Apache CouchDB ecosystem, and it has a vibrant developer community: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mobile-couchbase

I'm glad Cloudant are sticking with the standard CouchDB sync protocol. Their mobile clients are based on open source code started at Couchbase, so they will be able to connect to all the existing backends, including Couchbase Sync Gateway.

More info about Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway: http://www.couchbase.com/mobile

This plus PouchDB and the other new entrants, I'd say is one more reason for developers to consider the Couch ecosystem for sync.
So why would a currency formatter generate HTML instead of plain text? That seems very strange to me. How does the helper know if I want to use the number in HTML, an email header or even a shell argument? Or are RoR helpers designed to be only usable directly with HTML?

PHP's number_format() doesn't escape for HTML - is that an XSS bug too?
Upstream Debian is moving very aggressively to package Docker, so I think Ubuntu will automatically benefit from that in future releases. I'm not sure about exact timing though.
A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work
I've never heard this. I stopped spinning up Windows Server 2012 VMs and went back to 2008R2 instead because I absolutely detested Metro on the server (I happily installed Win8 on my laptop and have a Surface too so it's not about hating on Win8), it destroyed the ability to multitask.

From a sysadmin perspective maybe hardcore Powershell jockeys don't mind it as much but if that's the case Windows Server 2012 has a GUI less install option that would suit them even better than Metro.
See: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r3054233-Those-who-call-XP-s...
Everybody else fires, they were nice enough to say "if you like it here, you can stay".

Most of people involved came through acquisitions, not early hiring.
Tiny Hardware Firewall and VPN Client
It's not ever going to look like a modern game looks because it's not using the graphical engine of a modern game. I find that the most jarring thing is the low-polygon mobs - if you're only going for one mod, grab one that reworks the mobs.

The amazing thing is that the environment looks so good despite the graphical limitations of the time. A stellar job was done folding the starship interiors into the boxy limitations of the day's graphical tech.
Fair point, and I agree. You need to measure the whole package.
Was going to answer this but then saw the child comment say this:

"but only because a) he was really hungry at the time b) he really went out of his way to build up a lot of contacts with a lot of top-notch talent."

And that was really the essence of what I was going to say. I think after a while anyone who is busy and being paid in the manner that a recruiter (or real estate salesman) is is going to go for the easy route and the low hanging fruit. Especially as they get busier. Because back and forth is time consuming.

It's kind of like a satisficing model. You need to keep the client happy enough to keep sending you projects and no more than that. [1]

Consequently in theory a new and hungry recruiter is really the one that will give you the best results but that assumes they have a file full of candidates and that kind of contradicts being new.

[1] There is truth to that book that stated that real estate salespeople get more when they sell their own house than your house. 3% of $10,000 is not $10,000 and it pays to move on to the next deal in your book.
> people tend to hire clones of themselves

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

Ask a company that is hiring "is X important?", where X is one of {open-source coding, algorithm design, Ivy league degree, master's degree, MIT degree, Facebook alum, Google alum, presence in Silicon Valley, under 25 years old, over 25 years old, has a github, has a blog}, and you will get a "yes" for each X that the founder has.
Understanding the Firefox OS Web APIs
Yes. And if I recall correctly they offered a very simple to activate "classic" theme which effectively made it identical to Win2k/Win98. Win8 offers no such accommodation.
What's stopping the market from bidding up the compensation of a small subset of programmers who have been coding since 12 the same way a small subset of lawyers have in corporate law and lobbying?

As someone who has been coding since my teenage years; I just don't buy that this trait is absolutely essential to being a successful engineer. If it is why doesn't the market reflect this?
I started a job at a startup a few months before my daughter was born, and it was not easy. One thing to consider is the goodwill you've built up at the current company. They are more likely to understand you being less plugged in for the first month or so after the baby is born.

One thing: When you are at home, don't expect to accomplish ANYTHING for a while. Your job is to make sure your wife has everything she needs, because she will be on the strictest schedule imaginable feeding the baby. It is tough for the first two months, and then you start to get pockets of time back to focus.
Another article wondering why City X hasn't attracted more of a tech community given some spelled-out advantages over Silicon Valley.

Rather than wondering why markets don't act the way one wants them to, we could learn more by trying to understanding why markets do what they do.
Did you actually read it?

He's saying that by splitting windows they can add all sorts of power features to desktop, while not messing with the more casual users since they stay on metro.

Personally a little option box that turns on those power features and defaults to off makes more sense to me <shurg>. Like how Pine (and Alpine) do it.
Right, you really expect someone to pay for an 80 - 150K degree all on their own without student loans? That's usually the catalyst there. Once you graduate college, then you need to start paying off that debt. You need to get a job, pronto, and that often means buying a car to drive there.
France's Snecma targeted by hackers
> then no amount of static typing will save you. At least without dependent types.

Sure. Static typing also doesn't help with misunderstanding requirements, or a faulty test in a recursive function. But strong typing, especially in languages where there is no such thing as a NullPointerException, does eliminate entire class of problems. On the other hand, with dynamic languages, you are often a typo away from a runtime error.
A number of people realized that they could lay down really thin films of CIGS materials and process the cells reel-to-reel. Imagine loading up a 10 ton roll of thin stainless steel in the morning and having 200 acres (or some crazy number) of solar cells by evening. If they had been able to sort the process technology out it would have been INCREDIBLE.

But of course the devil was in the details. This was a hardware based company so it's not terribly surprising that their R&D time went out past their funding. Look at how badly hardware Kickstarts do on average, blowing multiple "deadlines" because often-times hardware is more difficult than software. Not that it's impossible, but it's definitely unforgiving.

When it absolutely has to be exactly right the first time it's going to take a lot longer than you think, even once you account for the fact that its' going to take a lot longer than you think.
IFrame must die!
I remember the XP start button being called childish because it utilized a color scheme straight out of the Playskool toy section. It wasn't the functionality of the start button at all. We had been happily using the start button since.. win95?
Modus operandi seems to be:

1) Incorporate in SF for culture reasons or to allow founders to optimize their commute.

2) Find out it's extremely hard to find people in SF as anybody who lives there pretty much has to stay employed to justify the rent.

3) Find out people from Peninsula / South Bay / East Bay are not as excited about 45-60 minute one way commute as you thought they'd be.

4) Complain about engineer crunch.
Another way to summarize might be to say, "If you discount the many examples of incorrect behaviour that paulp mentions, and you don't care about performance, and you are comfortable enough looking through the extremely deep collections hierarchy code to diagnose the reasons for these problems, then the standard scala collections library is almost as good as collection libraries available in other languages".

The AnyRefMap may be a good solution to many of my issues with the default map implementation once it is widely available. It won't help with the more general lack of cohesion in the library though.
Casual users are like sheep. Sometimes, you gotta force 'em for their own good.

The author is correct, Metro is the heaven for all those grandmas and family relatives who before would call/mail us on "how do I power on the computer"-type problems. Now, you put 'em in front of a Metro PC and boom, your incoming calls reduce by half.
It's news to me. I had no idea Windows 8 was designed for any users.
Having used at my parent's place I find it also quite ok.
And despite the infinite number of Irrational Games studies opening and closing, for some reason they only ever make two games... a strange limitation on 'infinity'.
I agree with the author that asking questions about superheroes is going to weed out qualified people (unless the project involves superheroes). When I interview someone, I do my best not to ask questions irrelevant to the job. I don't know why someone would ask a question biased against people from different cultures, etc.

As for whether Dropbox should change its culture to be more attractive to women, that's their choice. They should be aware that their decor might turn off some otherwise qualified people, whether or not they choose to act on that information.

I've worked for and interviewed for Google for about ten years, and our training includes not asking irrelevant and/or culturally biased questions.
People don't like any kind of change. My daughter has no reference about what is "normal" or how computer interfaces should look. She is quite happy with the win8 interface and took to it like a duck to water.
Boosting MRR: Annual Vs. Monthly Subscriptions in Your SaaS Pricing Strategy
They don't support SSL though.
I am currently writing my Masters thesis four days a week, working approximately five hours a day the days I am working. (I had complications from mononucleosis which temporarily screwed up my health, Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome or somesuch).

I get almost as much work done as the other Masters students in my department. In practice, I only work about 50% of a regular workweek but I'd estimate that I get about 80% of the results by being focused during the hours that I am actually there.
Indeed, I was quibbling, and I do think that the Swiss system is excellent.
Its also a little disingenuous that they touted the funds "performance" 10 days after one of their two success stories had a huge bump in valuation. Had they decided to celebrate their unrealized IRR on Jan 10th (i.e without the huge valuation bump for Teespring) it would have probably been in the mid teens.
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It's probably immature of me, but did you say "I have decided not to move forward at this time"?
True free market proponents should support private-public competition
The first bioshock was not so bad - there was a lot to explore and the mechanics were very potent and true to the world - it really only needed a level editor to allow the community to show what was possible with rapture.

And the dissonance was maybe due to publisher interference the same way the main story line and every single sentece connected to said line in Dishonored are terrible and naive and overly simplistic. And the moment you get to listen, watch and read something that you are not under obligation to do - the quality jumps up next to 0.5 Torments.

Probably there were moment when it was - add more action, too much horror more action, too much talking more auto regen health.
Mini Museum: Billions of Years in the Palm of Your Hand
I do not have any resources related to that; the summary (as I vaguely remember the arguments) came down to evidence being accumulated due to reasonable caps on fees and delays (if giving your money to the remixer occasionally ate 99% of the money and occasionally made it hold onto the money for a year, you are no longer in a position to effectively utilize it) combined with correlations on repeated transactions.

To be clear, though, my argument was simply to move the "data scientist" line from "wallet obfuscation" (for which I then provided more concrete issues) to "remixers", and then to point out that normal people (the kind of person who didn't solve the underlying problem long ago using prepaid credit cards ;P) aren't using remixers and are unlikely to begin using remixers (as they probably aren't even using the more useful forms of wallet obfuscation: they are probably relying on what their wallet software is doing by default).
Is it the navy? I thought it was activists http://www.seashepherd.org.au/
Someone mentioned this in a bitcoin thread but money laundering is harder with cash than bitcoin for the simple fact that at one point somebody needs to take the physical bills.

A seller of an object must expose himself when he tries to collect his cash. With bitcoin, he can simply give a wallet.
This actually makes me hopeful. It was looking a lot like Windows 8 was the first step toward phasing out the desktop entirely. Certainly providing the simplest, most streamlined default experience for casual users makes sense, for the reasons specified. If they're explicitly thinking that that will then allow them to provide more advanced tools for power users as well, since they will no longer be right on the surface to confuse casual users, that's fantastic. Makes me hopeful that Windows 9 will continue the trend shared by Microsoft OSes and Star Trek movies.
Yea but you take that also as them needing to compensate for the loss of sales, so a higher price for less volume. Or you could take it one step further and suggest they did it so that less people would buy it (because of the higher cost), thus making Windows 9 that much more appealing in comparison.
There's a rather good Let's Play by Psychedelic Eyeball, here: http://lparchive.org/System-Shock-2-(by-Psychedelic-Eyeball)...
As I recall, he does a good job of holding back on spoilers, but you might want to finish the game before watching, just in case there is some side comment or hint that slips out.
Someone explain this to be like I'm 5?
It's pretty great on tablets. Maybe that wasn't the right design target, but clearly it was designed for some users.
> but W7's start menu search is far inferior to W8's Metro search

That's interesting because I personally consider Win8's start screen search far inferior to Win7's start menu. Neither come close to being as powerful and as useful as OSX's spotlight, but I honestly felt Win7 did a finer job.
The Case for Blunders
That's possible, but I don't think it's likely. The feel of an accelerator is very different from a brake pedal which normally will not go all the way down. Of course, more details about the story would be nice.

Btw, there have also been Prius recalls due to faulty ABS software, so while you'll probably always have some control, braking action can certainly be affected by software issues.
Nvlope launches in Beta – your mailbox with an API
It does not honor TTL. The only reason I know about it is the pain it caused me in the past moving a site from one server to another. Everything else on my system went to the new server except firefox.
Cluster-Level Container Deployment with fleet
In W7, you can use Win+Number to focus a window. This is much more convenient than Alt+Tab (but doesn't scale beyond ten windows).
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Sorry, I mistook your earlier statement to believe that you thought equity is worthless, when you were just saying there is no cash value for equity.

And yes, you're correct, the equity should be setup in a way that offers early hires significant upside.

Curious, did your founders use a flat %, or did they figure out some weighted amount?
Wasn't it widely considered one of the best games of the year? How did it flop?
"the crypto challenges, which are currently by far our most successful recruiting vehicle (followed by Stripe's CTF #2) are just a series of emails we send; they're essentially a blog post that we weaponized instead of wasting on a blog."

I kind of hoped you are at least looking on our answers or something :)
Riding Rails: Rails 4.1.0: Release candidate 1
It would be awesome to see the 1st and 3rd tools open sourced.
well...that does give them something to spam for instead of start :)
Pathjoy was renamed to Homejoy, so not really two examples.
They want to move from a local newspaper to a global news website.
Interesting; I've just switched to Mac from PC and the thing I love more than anything is the virtual desktops.

Windows is just painful to use nowadays.
how does the company get their deflataDollars? If the supply of your currency is constant, and there's economic growth in some other sector, then the company will (proportionately) collect less, and you'll end up with less deflataDollars in your hands year on year. It's basically the same as inflation.
I definitely heard a number of people complain about how it was organized. I forget exactly what the complaints were though.
I could be lucky, but I have the opposite view. Some of academia is bullshit, but I genuinely like at least half my colleagues, and find the discussions with them interesting. I like some of what Silicon Valley produces, but the lifestyle and colleagues? No thanks. You've got the 60-hour crunch lifestyle on the one hand, the pagerduty.com lifestyle on the other hand, and the "everyone eats dinner at work at 7pm" lifestyle on the third hand. Plus a really bro-tastic atmosphere, and rampant jerks who are always trying to Disrupt The Very Concept Of Transport while quoting Ayn Rand. Sure, a bit of a stereotype, but some mixture of this actually does seem to be the norm. And people really do say "disrupt" a million times a day with a straight face. Maybe industry not in the SF Bay Area (where I lived a few years) could be more tolerable, though.
Sure, people made fun of XP's default theme for its superficial look. The complaints about Metro, however, are almost entirely about functionality.
The Java standard API has a lot of inconsistencies, but it would break too much code to remove old stuff. A simpler first step would be much more aggressive use of @Deprecated. There are entire packages in the standard API that should be deprecated. Most Java IDE strongly discourage using deprecated code. More use of @Deprecated would encourage future Java code to use more modern APIs.
That's an easy fix. Provide an empty inittab and a false mtab (or link it to /proc/mounts). Almost every stock install image for every distro does this.

Sounds like Docker has a design flaw :) You could alternately just write a shell script that sends SIGPWR or uses /dev/initctl and then use `docker wait`. It would be better if Docker included support for running a custom executable to stop your container. Maybe they'll add support for it once enough people run into problems like this.