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Depends on why you don't finish things. Often times, it's probably a mental attitude that's a road block.

If you quit when things get hard, maybe you need to realize that hard things are hard. Anything worth finishing will require you to bleed.

If you quit because you have to "feel like it" to work, you should work even when you don't feel like it. Hard things are hard, and nothing would ever get done if people did it only when they felt like it.

There are many reasons why people aren't finishers. You need to find out why, and then figure out similar people that have overcome it and the specific tactics they used to overcome it.
I probably would too, or at least a sizable proportion to people like him and targeted, proven philanthropies like Gates.

But a question Ive been pondering is, why didn't he give Elon a few chips while he was alive back in 2008 and both SpaceX and Tesla were only the ropes and almost dustbin material? Why didn't anyone back him then? And Page was/is a personal friend of his.
ISV had no problem during the same period throwing 40 million at Color and other shit like it, but were indifferent to Musk's struggles.

Glad to see he prevailed to make people think bigger, in any event.
Basically women didn't exist back then, was the gist I got from it.

Yeah yeah "that's the way it was back then"..
We started doing this around 3 years ago. It's likely we'll change our default coding style from Node.js style to ES6 and our front-end components to Web Components - browser support pending.

However, Web Components won't remove the need for a service layer which is also provided by the default BRJS runtime or the encapsulation of tests, i18n, config and other resources within a Blade.

Demonstrating how to use BRJS with Web Components (Polymer) is most definitely on our TODO list.
Say you live on an island without much technology. Everybody on the island farms manually, but everyone is still hungry because they can't grow enough. Then one day somebody invents a tractor. Now all of a sudden there is enough food for everyone to eat as much as they want. The island just got wealthier because technology increased their efficiency. This process is basically how the world gets wealthier, through increases in worker efficiency.
Since this board is full of logical people (programmers), I'm curious to know why any of them think that a system based on tyranny of the majority would increase freedom for people?

Also, I'm really curious what sort of things you all think you can "hack" that will really make people more free. After this, will the NSA be gone? How about the entire military industrial complex and all it's mouthpieces on tv and in Congress? What about the drug war and the power of big pharma? Diebold? Dynasty families like the Bush's and Clintons? Etc Etc Etc.

If any of you were serious about freedom you would be figuring out how to hire lawyers, not coders. A better voting app is just an easier way for my representatives to give me false choices.
Pretty interesting, especially if you're a drone hobbyist. Which I'm wondering...How much does it cost to become a drone hobbyist? What does a decent setup cost? Not uber high end but either high-middle end or low-high end?
Sparkfun isn't a site for professional engineers, it's a site for hobbiests. Professional engineers typically don't buy shoddy gear which can end up blowing their arm off.
As the founder? Create a positive and attractive vision for the business and you will attract more and better candidates.
An aspect not mentioned yet is that for a long time php and major projects had well known security problems. It also has a poor tooling culture, in part because writing CLI scripts feels awkward.
My example, "OCaml", is not a "language of the month." Its roots are >30 years old and wasn't developed by someone in their basement over the weekend. As stated, Facebook even uses OCaml, among other languages, for good reason.
I think you are interpretating the text a little too literally. I think the author is very much aware that the “brilliant” men he describes, are in fact only so in their own minds. The text is a cautionary tale that warns about being too impressed with someone just because they act self confidently.
Reminds me of this scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b27Mf6wTZ3w

"It’s about power. It’s like those weird countries man where the army guys overthrow the president. The first thing that they take over is the way people communicate; radio, tv, newspapers. Information is power."

Turkish army has nothing to do with this case of course.
Can you add an issue here (https://github.com/guardian/scribe/issues) and we can talk solutions? I have a few in mind!

Generally speaking, it should patch behaviour to the point where it doesn’t get in the way of the user and produces clean and semantic markup. We have found that patching some of the smaller behaviour obscurities would not be trivial. If it matters to the community though, we (the open source community) can definitely get them patched!
I haven't used Eclipse in quite some time, but I do use IntelliJ occasionally. I like NetBeans' gradle integration (plugin), and I think the UI is a lot more simple and intuitive than IntelliJ (it's a lot easier to figure out how to do something). Also, I think it's quite pretty and elegant.

But it boils down to personal preference. Both IntelliJ and NetBeans are terrific IDEs.
I'm not suggesting there is a "silver bullet" for aligning incentives that exists (commissions can be abused by focusing on short term gains at the detriment of the companies long term goals etc etc), but commissions for goal completion is a step in the right direction compared to just writing someone a blank check because their resume looks pretty.

Additionally, employees optimizing for pay/effort instead of max pay is still a win for the company so long as the employee brings in marginally more than they cost.
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Spelling correction: I said "layering FP" but I meant "layering PHP". The edit window has since come and gone.
SSH tunneling.
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Compared to a PC with similar specs and/or a reasonable price point? The $10,000 PC has always been able to outperform the $400 Xbox, but nobody cares about that.
Most of these analytics providers also allow you send data from your server that you can then correlate with your visit data. While I think solutions like this works initially, in my experience you will spend a lot more time building the capabilities that an analytics package could provide out of the box with little work. For eg., being able to visualize tracking live as it happens is something I have really gotten used to.
I was there on business in 2010 and I said "man, this is a country on the move! We need to set up an office here." English is taught from early grades, there is good infrastructure in the western part of the country, a young, educated population with a relatively small domestic economy - great place to outsource and a bridge between europe and asia. Things have fallen apart so quickly since then - wouldn't touch it now. Hope things get back on track, as there is so much potential.
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Eventually, they will, if you resist effectively enough. They don't need to use large amounts of force most of the time.
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There are ways around that though. They can offer to license the trademark. Apple for example licensed the "ios" trademark from Cisco.

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco_and_apple_agreement_on_ios...
What do you mean by applying heavy handed control to courtrooms? You seem to be making a wholly circular argument here.
When I created the question I added the phrase "in any way" to distinguish my mening the first two.
Clear writing is a proxy for clear thinking.
I stopped reading when I saw the photo.

You don't think anyone but white guys can be salespeople? I'm just curious why you'd choose such an image, especially given the fire Y Combinator is under for systematically excluding and under funding women and minorities.
This is great, but will only be of use when much more liquidity is bought to bitcoin. Right now, the Mt Gox and Newsweek debacles are the only things artificially pushing btc prices below their upwards paths. Why - is something that remains to be determined. Perhaps someone BIG needs to buy into bitcoin before the next rally ?
Ironically if the Government was not spending that much money, fiat money would be worthless.
"doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week."

The people who say stuff like this are always far, far away from the experience of not having anything to eat. It could be true that Musk's projects in the long run could have do more good for humanity in the long run, but also in a different sense. How is colonizing Mars, or having electric cars does more good for a whole continent that hasn't solved dozens of problems well below any technological/energetic one? What I'm saying is, it might do more good for the developed world, but not for Africa. Bill Gates was right when he criticized Google's balloon internet project. What the african population really needs is different. To say otherwise is to be too removed from the real, basic, almost elementary problems that are still present in the continent.

(edit: I meant no offense to the parent with my first sentence. But I've been to Africa, and I live in a 3rd world country with some very, very poor regions. Space programs have very little effect on life there.)
Damn. I started down this path but had to give up -- it was too hard to scrape the data. Add to that building relations and the site itself (by myself).

Best of luck!
As Fluke said, they want customers to know that if a product appears to be a Fluke, then they can safely use it in a high-voltage environment. The implication is that no, they are not going to permit them to enter the US.

It's very classy of them to make Sparkfun whole.
I'd love to list on your site. I'm starting up a program to teach kids to code in Mill Valley (in Marin)

My summer program isn't quite ready but I'd love to put something there for people to contact me when it is.

Contact info for me is in my profile. Would love to connect.
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Microsoft didn't search their employee's email. They searched the blogger's email, the one who wrote about and published screen shots of Windows 8. This is how they found that their employee had leaked the info; they saw his email with the blogger.
SemiAccurate is always accurate. One of my favorite sources.
If you don't explain a business model (selling add-ons, advertising, freemium)... People will assume the most nefarious business model possible. I know how Facebook and Gmail and Dropbox make money. I'd need to know how you make money before I start using your product.
Where is your data that programmers are second class citizens in the VC funded startup world? That may have been true a decade ago, but one would be hard pressed to argue that now, especially in light of the NVCA's own data.

The irony of posting that baseless assertion on Hacker News is also not lost on me.
Maybe. The carte is as blanche as there are ways to interpret "protection of Microsoft's rights or property."

Microsoft has, for example, the right to petition government without fear of reprisal. It could protect this right if Microsoft were to review any email accounts of lawmakers or regulators to ensure that they never express any animus against Microsoft based on past filings or appeals.

Microsoft may wish to protect its property by scanning every hotmail account for discussions of havens for illicit software, like torrents or newsgroups, trying to determine exactly what each user has downloaded and when.

Extreme examples are just for illustration. I don't think Microsoft will jump on those as next steps. But if the question is, "Could these user agreements justify things that would make us a little uncomfortable?" I think the answer is probably yes. Are we there just yet? Maybe, maybe not.
Opening is entirely different from scanning the front and back of every item of mail. The linked article is about scanning the front and back of every mail item, which is done domestically.
Yeah a normal businessman doesn't threaten to throw me in jail if I don't give him money for his pet project. Please DO NOT conflate taxation with charity, they are NOT the same in any way, shape or form.
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"what an amazing and generous response from Fluke"

Agree. And curious what the PR value will be vs. the cost of goods for Fluke (which is their cost, not the wholesale and/or selling price).

Personally I think it's unfortunate that they needed, in this day and age of social media, to have to bogu on this situation and get out in front of this issue by doing this. Of course by what I say in the first paragaph it may very well not be a bogu at all but end up being a rather smart move to gain business in the maker community.

I've been observing business for a longer time than most people on HN have been around. I have to say I've never ever seen anything like this happen.
Thanks! You can compile C, but it's pretty inefficient to do that. Even my algorithm here (to draw the tilemap animations) isn't the fastest, and it's assembly.
Yes, but I've heard some people say that the Gates foundation is not very good at approaching malaria. If you asked me to choose between them and Musk to approach malaria, my instinct is to go with Musk.
I've seen plenty of stupidly expensive shoes that are only expensive to trick people out of their money, not because they last for a long time. You need a way to judge other than "try it out for x years until it fails".
I very occasionally write Python code if my job calls for it, but I am not a fan.
Assuming that everywhere you work, you have a fast reliable Internet connection. That's certainly not true for me, or most people who live in Melbourne (no Wi-Fi on trains here, for starters).
According to wikipedia, SemiAccurate is a news/opinion site similar to The Inquirer. Is there enough information about the DX12 API yet to confirm this?
I don't know where you reside, but I always find it interesting when people in the US refer to taxation as thievery. In a representative democracy, the "government" is the people[^1]. Don't like taxes? Rally support behind yourself, and run for office.

[^1]: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_trans... see: preamble.
I like it, but then i generally like the products as a whole.

- I've been using Voice for ages, with little to no improvement. This will bring lots of improvement, instead of me worrying about Voice like it's the next Reader.
- I've also been using Plus for ages, so i don't have a fear it either.

I understand this Plus requirement is annoying to some, but i honestly don't get the resentment.

To me, Plus is google doing what they should have done with Wave. Made a product, and invested in it. As a company, integrating your products is not a bad thing, it's a good thing, imo. I'm sure many will scream "But not when your users hate your other product!" and.. well.. tough shit heh.

If it ends up being a terrible move then they'll pay for it and die out. But i don't think it's a wrong move for them to try.

As it is, Voice is a wasteland, and it actually getting some love and attention will be awesome. I'm looking forward to it.
Don't despair completely.

Not Internet related, but there are some large students going on in Taiwan right now [0] based on concerns on how a new trade agreement with China was passed. The bill was passed in a legal way, but many of the discussions around it were behind closed doors and the Taiwanese people feel that the government is no longer "representing the people." The response against has been pretty described as "unprecedented", people who are normally not interested in politics are getting involved to see how they can help.

"We do not want to clash with the police...we just have to let the government know that never try to fool the people."[1]

I find their vigilance inspiring. This level of spontaneous organization seems difficult to carry out in the US though. Taiwan is considerably smaller than the US, and I think that makes a large difference unfortunately.

[0]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-19/taiwan-students-occ...

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/taiwan-student-prot...

EDIT (to respond to guard-of-terra): > "Turns out they just sit in their office and pretend nothing happens."

Definitely a valid point. We shall see how long this sustains for.To clarify, when I say "getting involved" I mean many people are taking to the streets, not just armchair activism.
You don't need to add a disclaimer about your workplace. It doesn't contribute at all to your question.

I do not think C is a "crumbling foundation". I would not suggest that C be used for large scale engineering efforts, but it's a relatively well-defined language with semantics dictated by a formal standard. A lot of research has gone into C compilers, which are state-of-the-art.

With that said, one of the biggest complaints I hear about C++ is that it still has the legacy of C embedded in it.
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Let this be a lesson on damage control. If you can do something like this, you should. They have nipped a kerfuffle in the bud.
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I have one of those. Finally keeled over from overheating. Do you have heat issues?
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You can lose trademarks that are not defended or become generic terms but on the other hand I think that they can be licensed to particular companies/usages.

Allowing a company to use your trademark without entering an agreement is a bad idea.
Wrong Wrong Wrong. Could not be more wrong.

Freedom of Contract is one of the most important concepts of free market capitalism. People must have the right to review the terms of contract, decide to sign or not and be held to the terms, and there should be penalties for breach on both sides and conditions for dissolution of the contract.

The "Social Contract" you are talking about is no contract at all. It is imposed by force, you are given no chance to sign, a false choice (red or blue!) and only 1/385millionth of a say in it. There is no remedy for breach and no conditions for dissolution. It is the very opposite of voluntary exchange and mutual agreement.

DO NOT conflate the two, or go back to whatever liberal arts school terribly educated you.
This looks great! I was just thinking I needed something like this a couple days ago, and then this popped up on HN today. I will definitely check it out.

I haven't had a chance to dig too deeply into it yet, but is the info stored in a session cookie and then you can decide if/when to write it to the db? For example, if I didn't want to write every unique visit to the db, but only when a user signs up, or signs in, or takes some action x, do I have the flexibility of when I write to the db?
Exactly. Page seems like someone who knows how to "shut up and multiply".

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Shut_up_and_multiply
Okay, thanks for the clarification. Definitely agree that research institutions have an important role (alongside VCs) in fostering innovation.
At runtime, we check and enforce parameter types at function entry and return types at function exit. The extra type information can also enable the JIT to emit more efficient code in some cases, and work is ongoing to make that even more efficient. But having these types is independent of being in Hack -- you can have fully untyped Hack code, though I wouldn't advise it, as you are leaving one of the most powerful features of the language on the table.
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I was really surprised that this control system is very intuitive, with the keys forming a hexagon, I didn't have to look down at the keyboard or do any sort of translation of what I wanted into the keys to press.
I somehow cannot access this page with IE 8. WTH, Microsoft?
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2011 release mbp 13 with replaced SSD and full 8gb, I run three virtual machines (xp, win7, and win8), android os, used to run VM for Blackberry - but no more, and Snow leopard with Xcode and ios simulators running all over. not a single sec delay and works awesome! light weight, extended screen, work and personal both goes together ;)
This is hilariously wrong. Netflix is paying ISPs because they dumped their CDN providers and started doing it on their own. They did it because it was cheaper for Netflix to cut deals than to use a CDN (who, by the way, also pay ISPs).

> imagine the plight of smaller services today and in the future.

This is flat out a lie, smaller services uses CDNs.
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The internet, heaps of computing technology advances, several trips to the moon, space stations, and a shuttle program all have been done by the government "for the last several decades."

It is undeniably government funded, backed, and run research that has fostered the technological "magic" we see today. I wrote "undeniable" because it is a fact--not a conjecture, opinion, or item subject to debate. Government funded and government run research programs created our space-age technology (literally) and the internet, and fueled a great percentage of the other developments that have advanced our technology so rapidly in the last several decades.

Private companies (whether held privately or publicly traded) are mainly creatures of fear and risk aversion--even the ones that are relatively less so than others. There's nothing especially "bleeding edge" about SpaceX or Tesla, or just about anything else Musk has been involved with. Historically, it has usually taken a great thrust by the government to make big advances, whether through subsidies (i.e. corporate welfare) or direct involvement (NASA/DARPA).
Excuse me, pasting in Turkish, trying to help out. http://i.imgur.com/DBIvTh0.png
Have you clearly defined this definition anywhere, so that it can be consulted to find out what you are on about, or are you winging it?
For those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc
If you have exhaustive experience with video, I am sure a lot of "mainstream" media companies in NY could be interested. Start off as a consultant with small gigs, so you avoid the corporate HR
In this case I'm not so sure.

They just say: we can take things from you, and you can't do anything about that. They'll just say that you had them "elected" - as if someone voting for them gave them rights to take what is not theirs.

They're just trying to teach the young generation helplessness.
You can't do anything, better learn your VPN, feel fear and don't touch politics. You're a minority anyway compared to an army of aged citizens so no point in trying. They're vote for any extortion for a small share of profits.
I haven't been able to determine when the content was last updated, but some of the comments on the site are ~8 months old, so it might be a bit out of date.

That said, the basic concepts should be more-or-less unchanged.
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Are Lenovos still built like tanks? Comments on their product pages are mixed. Plus they are switching towards some wonky (for me at least) keyboards. I have a W500 that I love but fear I won't be able get something as solid in the future as Lenovo becomes Dell.
You haven't heard, Microsoft has dropped support for XP.
A rewrite isn't such a ludicrous idea. Reddit is a prime example of a rewrite from Lisp to Python. I would say that's even a somewhat difficult rewrite.
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You realize that's just a screen grab of The Wolf of Wall Street, right?
I'm hiring right now and really don't think it matters.

Send me an email at dan@lionheartsw.com and I might be able to get you a head start on that portfolio building.