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The last time I wore a watch was when I realized I always took it off while using my computer and sort of the point where I had a cell phone with me at all times; of course, simultaneously I started developing RSI symptoms, :p.
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> It is quite ironic that the vast wealth accumulated by the western world, which was built upon the nuclear family as its foundation, has now allowed the next generation such freedom that they can dally as singles for significant portion of their lives.

Freedom? More like not being able to afford the expenses of having a family.

I'm 36 and make above the average income for a person in Los Angeles, but I can't afford a house and can't fathom trying to raise a family on my income. It would basically be a choice between having children or having a retirement. If this is freedom, I hope I don't get any more liberated than I already am.
As a dev who also sings for a cover band, this post so completely describes my life its scary.

But, I have a bit of a different philosophy.

I think that if you really love something, you'll not only do it for free, but pay to be able to do it.

There are some people who love coding so much that you can't get them to stop. I am not one of those people. I love it enough that I can stand being at my job for 40 hours a week, and I enjoy the time I spend there.

What I really love is Rock & Roll. When I was in high school, I footed the bill for all the tickets my band couldn't sell just for the chance to play on the same stage in Hollywood that a bunch of my idols had played on.

Now I play in a band that plays 90's prog metal covers, something that someone from an 80s/90s pop cover band said no one would ever care about and that we could never get paid for.

He was wrong. People actually love us because instead of just settling for doing what paid, we did what we love, and it just so happens that there was a need for what we love. We're doing our first paid gig in a few weeks.
Yep, it's called a half volley, you need to hit when you are too close to the ball. So., you need to swing the racquet forward even while it's bouncing, as opposed to a later swing in case of a regular length ball.
I agree that the JVM is pretty awesome and will only improve (lots of money is bet on it after all) but I think BEAM may fulfil some of the items on your "awesome runtime" list :)
children also counteract the narcissism and lack of perspective that plagues the get-rich-quick any way you can startup world.
gosh, I made some mistakes on peering. but it does not change the big picture. Sorry.

Peering is just opened to anyone, and people prefer peering to buying. So people prefer to have the less possible amount of traffic leaving their AS.

http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=15169

They peer quite a lot even in Europa, it is a good move when you want to become an ISP.

Still they consider it is the ISP to support most of the cost of the dimensioning of the pipes. Without returned value.

Pfiou, good idea to double check.
How will the largest hurdle, cost, be lowered without state rule changes? Seems like a monumental task.

However, this is a very commendable effort which I hope to see change the way adoption is viewed in the eyes of legislative and society.
Taking over where the school leaves off. I like this idea.
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Thank you! This is a great idea.
Well, it's interesting. My example is partly contrived and partly not contrived. I worked on a big application where the web front end was very much the tip of the iceberg. We had the Rails monolith problems that you frequently hear decried. One thing we at least thought we would really like to do was move to an architecture with a bunch of little services talking to each other. We thought about having them talk to each other over tcp or 0mq, and we thought it would have been really nice if it were easy to take our existing application logic and put tcp or 0mq adapters on top of it. I keep saying "we thought", because we never actually did any of that, which may have been the case either because our application logic was so tied up with Rails that it was impractical to pull it apart (as some of us thought), or because it's a silly idea to begin with.

We did have a good deal of success pulling out libraries though, and separating concerns helps with that too. (So maybe I chose the wrong argument to make in my comment before.)
I don't either, but I can definitely see that. I've been using Pushbullet to send notifications to Chrome and I can only see it being even more useful when I'm not using a PC.
Flexible screens? The screen looks perfectly straight to me. But even so, flexible OLEDs are doable, first cell phones with curved screens are out there, I have no doubt the next generation of smart watches will have curved screens etc.
How did this rule come about, that you need to own a house before you can have a child?
Though not what it's designed for, halloc[1] Is similar to what you are talking about; if each function manually allocated its locals with halloc, and used the parent function as the parent allocator, then you would get an unbroken tree, and would free all the children upon returning from the function that had called setjmp().

[1] http://swapped.cc/#!/halloc
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$30mil in VC money and nothing to show for it, but we're not in a bubble...
My example is totally orthogonal to the subject of the position of the Earth in the universe, I don't understand what can benefit from bringing the confusion in the discussion.

Your other argument is what scientists are well aware of for decades, so it's a good example of the science knowing its current limits, which again means we can't be wrong if we know the exact limits. We have unmapped terrains that span only first 1e−32 part of the first second! Can you even imagine how small that time is? There were 1e49 such time intervals since then! What's that when not a small "incompleteness" of our knowledge. That people who work on that call it "a big thing to unify" doesn't change the fact that it's something small to the vastness of the time we already cover with the present equations.
RequireJS is not a service locator,it's a module loader. It doesnt instanciate anything.AngularJS DI IS a service locator, not a dependency injection container.
Thanks, that works!
I'd definitely use one, but two things need to happen:

- make it smaller, it's bloody huge

- better battery
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I'm sure this is all private thoughts, but if you write publicly about it or know some interesting mailing lists / sources to follow I'd be glad to hear about, be it animation, light transport, geometry ...
It would be trivial to imitate Mobile Safari's chrome with "actuallegitdomain.com" in the address bar instead of "actuallegitdomain.com.ooo.ag" or resorting to IDN tricks (since most browsers, and I think Mobile Safari too, show the xn--wh4t3v3r.com version).
How do you think the average quality of upbringing with a single parent compares to average quality of upbringing with two parents?
Html5 appcache will download and cache resources indefinitely, and supports differential updates, but it's somewhat of a pain to work with and there are some browser-specific constraints on how big it can get. Using gz compression the size of the assets shouldn't be that much bigger than downloading a desktop game (which also takes a while).
Agreed on the title, there is an old joke, "Question: What do you call people who are using the rhythm method for birth control? Answer: Parents." As a fertility timer to help people maximize their chance of conception though I think it is probably a useful tool.
Children aren't the issue - partners are.

Yes, you'll be inspired to provide for your family being in start-up mode. It probably will push you harder than if you weren't nested. But, convetionally, your partner will encourage you to engage in much more stable financial endeavours (ie, anything but start-ups).

As they should too. Why? Because, let's face it; most people's ideas are pretty shitty. That's not a secret around here ... so let's put that out there. As we know, even if you do have a super great idea, there is so much luck required to break through.

I don't mean to sound grinchy on a Ycombinator forum, but let's just address the reality here. The times we live in is where The Social Network has become like a founding myth of a 21st century goldrush. People are over educated and bored with job-jobs, so wishful thinking pushes them into developing their genius apps and half-baked Facebook killers.

I don't want to discourage people from being creative and innovative, but I think all of this has to be considered in this discussion of raising a family and doing something extremely financially risky like a startup.
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A false dichotomy. Plenty of people with both families and decent jobs choose to start successful, sustainable, and profitable businesses each year. Some of these people are "true believers" in their ideas, and some have other motivators, like potential profits. Not all startups are an all-or-nothing proposition. Nor should they be.
Describing the traditional Chinese or Roman family structure as "the nuclear family" really seems to be stretching things. From all I have read, they were very little like the 1950s ideal that the phrase evokes. I haven't done a complicated study or anything, but if I were to guess, just from reading about various cultures throughout history, I would figure that clannish extended families were more successful historically than the "two adults form a unit, have N kids and raise them until they leave to find mates and then goto 1" model of the nuclear family. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Sure, there are always edge cases. There are cities with no street addresses (check out Carmel-by-the-sea for some craziness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel-by-the-sea). How do you parse an address when the address is "10th and Lincoln"? Or when you wind up with something like in rural Wisconsin where the address is "N323 W77532 County Road 120, Wherever, WI"? Or when you wind up with two cities that are different but the USPS, the residents, and Google/Bing consider them the same place, like Rockville and Potomac, MD?

Don't even get me started on the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico...

But for the purposes of the interview question, there are "perfectly valid" assumptions that you can make to solve the task before you. I'm not asking you to solve the entire scope of the problem -- I've been working on this for over a year with varying degrees of commitment, and I assure you I have not solved the entire scope of the problem. I don't expect you to figure it out in 15 minutes.

You can assume that there are 50 states (but that leaves out the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico). You can assume that ZIP codes have 5 digits (but maybe someone provided all 9 digits, or maybe they left it off completely). You can assume that all streets end in a reasonable suffix (but that ignores post-directional suffixes or the examples you provided).

However, by making assumptions, you can more quickly solve the problem in an interview context. As long as I understand the assumptions you're making, I can judge the quality of your output. It won't solve everything, but maybe it's better to parse 99% of addresses using one simpler algorithm and then handle the edge cases using a second (or third, or fourth, or fifth) algorithm.
Kids are magical motivators and when you have one you become a much more aware person of others needs. I think this helps in every aspect of life.

Most of the product shippers I know have kids, you also have to put up with less single person life troubles at work (you think hearing about people's kids is annoying...).

When you have a kid the focus is immediately off yourself and on the work to make that kid smile as much as possible and have a happy life. I have also found that married programmers seem to stick around longer and are less flaky because they have to be.

People that think kids are a distraction probably don't have them.
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I think there's a lot of money to be made adopting the Y-Combinator model but betting on startups with those with families.
Actually, whether children are a distraction or a motivation varies from one person to the other. There is no right answer that covers everybody.

Children would be a distraction to me right now. I know myself better than anybody else knows me, and I'm the only one that can rationally judge this for me.

Over the prior 15 years, I couldn't have lived the way I chose to, or made the business/life decisions I did, while being responsible, if I had had children. That included being so strapped I could barely feed myself, much less children. It would have been wildly ignorant to have had a child at that point.
Nuclear family is a rather right-wing, conservative word. Its followers do not usually support gay families, for example. Did you mean to use that term?

I can tell you for certain we are NOT heading back that way. Society will only become more acceptable to alternative families.
I only had one Motorola phone, a v36 (Europe name), it was a very special phone, extremely elegant http://imgur.com/ , not fully featured but everything it did, it did quick and well. I always had a small thing for Motorola hardware since.
> They're essentially offloading all the unpleasantness and liabilities of the hotel business on random schmucks that rent out their flats.

Exactly. The only question is whether they can convince the necessary number of "schmucks" that they're not actually schmucks.
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I've posted this before but it seems relevant here to highlight the prejudice that people with families will sometimes face.

Ripped directly from a rejection letter I received:

"I think instead of making a more detailed offer, I should consider certain facts.

For starters, you have a family and that'll be the driving force behind all your decisions. Secondly, you will not be able to be here in the program with me. Ideally, I want someone who could be here though not necessary. More importantly, it's the family situation I consider. I've worked developers before with family and the company died largely because of that. I don't want to say that'll happen but I worry.

This other candidate is like me. No responsibilities except {COMPANY NAME}. That makes life less complicated. Based on this - nothing to do with skills - it's best that him and I work together. "

The program was one of the startup accelerators (not YC). He was right that my family would have been the driving force behind all my decisions. He was wrong in thinking that's a bad thing. I can't imagine a bigger motivator than my family. When you have kids, failure just isn't an option.
Interesting - I'm the reverse. I was just mandated with a "thou shalt" a System76 (Galaga UltraPro) by a client. I really, really wasn't looking forward to it.

Now, there are a bunch of things I hate like the trackpad size/position, and cheap plastic exterior... but other than that I've been shocked at how well it's performing. I've typed a few rather long reports on it getting great key rates in both LibreOffice and Office (under Wine).

Now that being said, the trackpad is truly awful. My dream would be to replace that sucker with the placement on "Darter Ultrathin". That one looks like it has great placement.
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If you like these microphotographs of silicon dies, here's an oldie but a goodie:

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

Lots of inside jokes and hidden things on many of your favorite old chips.
What would you replace it with? I struggle with how to offer nav menus on narrow screens... I'm not in love with the hamburger icon, but it seems to have become somewhat of a standard (which I think is more important for UI elements than pure aesthetics). I'm always on the lookout for alternate solutions to try!
Given all this over-the-top fawning from Graham, Thiel, etc, one thing comes to mind: "Where's the beef?"

AFAIK, he only has one failed startup to his name, and yet he is hailed as a shrewd thinker and top startup strategist.

For those who know and respect Sam, how would you reconcile his amazing status/respect-from-top-people with his lack of concrete achievements?
Each child you have is one more reason to 'make it'. They are the main motivation of my work. Without them I don't know how motivated I would be to succeed.
This. I'll get properly excited when I see battery life for these things. I suspect there's an ugly surprise lurking there. Already that Moto looks ever so slightly too thick for me to not care. Now watch when it gets 4 hours of battery life.
To question a different part of your argument to other commenters: I am very much under the impression that the nuclear family is a fairly unusual mode of societal organisation, historically speaking, because it doesn't provide enough security to protect one's small family from the unpredictability of life. Instead most cultures have, when unable to provide large scale welfare programmes, adopted a range of other measures for spreading risk throughout kinship and other groups, such as extended families, where success and failure is spread across family members.

edit: I should have also mentioned that I firmly support the greater social freedom, such as the ability to choose the nature of one's family, afforded by our more integrated and (in my view) enlightened states.
You don't. However, having a house, a family, and a retirement fund was a realistic goal in generations past, and it's not really a 'middle class' option anymore.
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Leonardo Da Vinci would disagree. In a letter to his brother he answered him to the news of the birth of his nephew, that he had created himself a great distraction.
It would be better to assist in the creation of a free game engine for the web

Bananabread? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/demos/detail/bananabread
Yet it is the defacto language. It is the language you need to speak if you wish to be successful (in general, of course there are outliers.) regardless, that's not really the point. It is difficult for a team to function properly if they're not speaking the same language. I know I wouldn't like it if my entire team spoke something other than English most of the time. I would feel like an outsider.
Can't speak for the previous poster, but my company has a strict policy - people with children get first consideration for time off. When there is inclement weather, they're the first sent home to take care of their children. When there is extra work to be done, the person with children is the first to be exempt from overtime.

So at my company there is a very strict policy about this, and it gets followed to a T.
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It has nothing to do with whether you call the direction "strategic", "next quarter" or "tactical". If you have the authority to set the direction at all you're the one (or few) in charge.

We prefer these types of direction to be long-term if only to avoid having a business do its own random walk through the markets, but don't confuse scope with authority.
I think the meat of the issue is right here:

>It would basically be a choice between having children or having a retirement.
This can go many ways. I would say on average a startup is unhealthy for someone with kids but if you're a highly organized and motivated person it isn't that difficult.
Scroll all the way down in the comments here, that joke has been told before and downvoted for its unrelatedness. This app is based on the symptothermal method, not the rhythm method.
It isn't a "rule" per se. It is a "nice to have".
Chrome also has a canvas debugger tool. You have to jump through some hoops to get at it: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/canvas/inspection/
Yep! I was away for 2 times 2 1/2 months from my wife and kids in 6 month period. I was constantly evaluating if this was still worth it.
Did you even read the article, or just these comments? Who is "spinning pseudo-economic yarns about some specialized type of value he provided to society"? In the article, someone who worked at Google literally alongside "the Google Chef", Charlie Ayers, is testifying that Charlie Ayers in fact contributed as much to Google as many of the engineers that also got $20M, countering the widespread perception that Charlie Ayers got more than he deserved. Which may or may not be true, but your comment seems to be almost completely unrelated?
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How do you think the average quality of upbringing is for a child who's parents are separated? How do you think the average quality of upbringing is for children who's parents should be separated, but are not?

Relationships turning sour is a fact of life. If a relationship between two adults sours, I assert that it is almost always better for the child in the long run for the parents to realize this and separate. Of course if we could live in a utopia where every child gets two loving parents who get along with each other, that would be great, but that will never happen and it has never happened in the past. Increased separation rates are an improvement over the alternative.

Wishing that there were fewer single parents is like wishing that fewer people had to experience life-saving surgery when the alternative is needing that surgery but not getting it. Yeah, it would be great if nobody received life-saving surgery because nobody fell ill in the first place... but that's not happening anytime soon.

Edit: @ChuckMcM: I am aware of what he was alluding to. I believe that he has drawn the wrong conclusions from those statistics. Two parents being better than one does not imply that it is better for all of those children with one parent to have their parents still together. Many/most of those children are better off with one parent than with two parents in a shitty relationship.

Crudely:

1 parent < 2 parents (in general)

but more specifically I assert:

2 parents (in a bad relationship) < 1 parent < 2 parents (in a good relationship)

The more children we can shift from the first situation into the second, the better. Moving them into the third would be great, but there is little way to enact public policy to encourage or facilitate that.
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You might like the assembly tutorial I am writing: https://plus.google.com/111794994501300143213/posts/9gxSUZMJ...

It's focused on actually doing rather than how stuff works. In order to succinctly be able to present this, I had to choose a target platform, which unfortunately seems not to be the one that you prefer.

My tutorial targets OS X, and there is great similarity between coding assembly on OS X and Linux. The tutorial does not spend much time pointing out these similarities, and you unfortunately don't get sensible error messages if you make mistakes. Never the less, you might want to try :)
I'm curious how it compares to the average quality of upbringing with three parents.
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If you're curious about the developer-facing changes in Java 8, I of course recommend the blog entry we wrote up last year [1]. It's a bit hard to believe it's been a year.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-...
> "If designers really want to control presentation, they should look into another format, like PDF."

As a designer, I can't help but read that and crack up. You have got to be joking, right?
not just support, but for it to be an alternative to actually spending time with your wife and kids, which is finite and valuable.
Interesting suggestion, but I'd use affiliate as the icing on the cake, not as the main business model.
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