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In a word, maybe. I think algorithms is like the treasure map ... the way to get your insight , idea, solution done.
Everybody, everyday, everywhere have ideas, good and bad ones, brilliant and stupids ... but what makes the difference between what will works, make money and more important, get done, is the way you implement your idea. I have a personal notebook with dozens of insights but i have no idea how to implement most of then ... so what´s the point on having just the brilliant idea ?
But when you have an good idea and then write a good algorithm, you can get your idea very close from reality and that´s the most important thing.
So maybe, yes, the algorithms is kinda kings in a world where "get something useful done" is extremely urgent.
Nitric oxide (NO) ≠ nitrous oxide (N2O). One of these comes in whippets, the other one oxidizes rapidly into toxic nitrogen dioxide (NO2) unless delivered very carefully.
Excellent advice. In a related note, why do all those Enterprise Software Startups appear to have the same website? The one that has different links about how FooSoft can help for each different industry, and you have to go to wikipedia to find out what the product really does?

The only thing I can come up with is someone must like those websites that contain zero information, but who is it, and why?
Thanks for the response. Sorry for the scant description. I've done stuff in Python, Java, Javascript, C#, PHP, Actionscript. I like them all, they all taught me different things about the possibilities of syntax (I think I like python's syntax the most), dynamically typed versus statically typed, the perils of cross-browser coding, OO programming, and so on. But my approach has been very much coding on the run; and very much from a verbal point of view. That is, more about how modelling problems verbally, and viewing code as a way of expressing that.

I am really interested in investigating at a deeper level so I can think in a more mathematical way about programming problems. Efficiency, the basic algorithms you should know, and so on. I will look into those books you suggested. I haven't read any of them! Again, thanks for taking the time to respond. Then, perhaps, a startup, as you say!
Figure out and adapt a fundamentally different legal structure and this issue goes away. The cost of writing a law full of loopholes that allows hedge and PE funds to "look" like VC funds is higher than the added costs to firms like Atlas. (Let's be honest: this ain't gonna drive Atlas out of business, nor will it affect angel investors. It would only kill the crappy $20-50MM funds.)

And if anyone thinks I'm crazy, I want to point out that Mitt Romney has always described himself as a "venture capitalist," as far back as his 1994 Senate run, although everyone knows that Bain Capital is a PE shop.

Disclaimer: I did my time on the dark side at a healthcare VC firm, and now I'm on the entrepreneur side.
This seems a bit fallacious to me, since exceptional people would exist regardless.

Granted, you probably meant that common people doing common jobs makes it possible for those exceptional people to do the exceptional things, but I take issue even with that.

It seems based on the premises,
1. that, absent technology, providing for basic human needs would take up all of an individual's productive time,
2. that art and science are similarly completely consuming (or, perhaps, that the outcome is worthless if not worked on full time), and
3. that a group effort at providing for basic human needs provides no surplus beyond a sum of the effort of the individuals.

I assert that all three premises are patently false.
Very enjoyable read. I twitterfollow a number of local startup cultists, errr, "enthusiasts" that I think would be wise to consider some of this.
Ok, your advice is almost good. If you could just excise the "fresh pussy," bit...

Only 2% of news.yc users in the self-reported survey were women, and this is kind of why.
Try this: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
I love the advice given in this article. In working on putting together a little company of my own, I often find myself looking at what seems to be "accepted" and trying to steer in that direction. This creates a lot of fluff in my language and, honestly, I end up with something that I don't think I'd even be interested in trying.

Keeping it simple and honest always sounded like a good idea, but the fact that people have shown that it can work is a big confidence booster.
Yeah, but it's still much worse if the official climate is that it's "acceptable". It can always be worse, you know.
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...is the leading provider of...

Unless you're McDonalds, Microsoft, or Walmart, this is guaranteed bullshit that just makes you look stupid.

For many cases, OP provides great advice. While some customers feel more comfortable with the stableness of a large institution, just as many feel more comfortable with the attention they'll get from someone small and hungry. For many of us here, we should use that to our advantage.
What if higher education were free?
Thankyou for taking the time to respond. In a way I've done that in reverse order - spent a bit of time ith the web (HTML/CSS/Javascript/Actionscript) and some time with typical web app back end languages (Python, PHP, Java, etc). Your suggestion of reading through the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", and looking into C seem like splendid suggestions. LISP might be fun, too. Then I'll try and write something in both languages! Thanks again.
More or less. Unless someone at Google wants to go to jail, it's hard to get out of obeying a reasonably valid subpoena.
What I mean is this: if a computer is used to process or access very sensitive data, then the user of that computer cannot have as much leeway as other users. It's possible, and sensible, to have flexible policies depending on business usage.
I don't like this point of view. Exceptional people are exceptional, period. What they do doesn't go in a separate realm of "exceptional things", it has effects here for everybody. The coin their work is measured in should be the same as for common folk. They just make more of it, and it's counter-productive to think "Einstein couldn't have done anything if not for the garbageman who collected the trash twice a week".
Touch or touch
"...someone must like those websites that contain zero information..."

My guess is that the less you say about yourself, the less corporate drones have to eliminate you in their RFP process.
The problem with Firefox: Keeping it updated when your users don't run as Administrator.

Sure, Firefox is easy when you're running as administrator on an XP box. But if that's what you're doing, haven't you already disqualified yourself from having any opinion about System Administration?

Internet Explorer is a breeze to keep up-to-date for limited users because it's updated with the rest of Windows. I can use my WSUS server to do it. Microsoft leveraging its OS monopoly? Sure. Luckily, I don't care about politics.

Firefox unhelpfully supplies no msi packages even to ease patch deployment.

As an administrator, I have to ask myself which is more secure, patched IE or unpatched Firefox? Hint: it's generally the first since Microsoft is good about zero-days.

Now, from the resources available to me, which are limited, should I expend some to install Firefox and keep it patched for all of my users? Well, that depends on whether or not I have anything more important to do. Often, I do, surprisingly enough.

On the other hand, for our Linux clients, Firefox is packaged by the distribution, and deploying and patching it is a breeze.
I use import pdb; pdb.set_trace() to get a debugging prompt from within my django dev server. It's the only possible way to debug really complex web apps. You can set multiple track points within views and step/continue your way through some pretty hairy stuff.

As an added bonus once you save the file you're working on the dev server automatically shuts down pdb and restarts w/ the new code.

Haven't tried code.interact() like this but I presume it's similar.
A common similar example is "Yours faithfully" at the end of letters/formal emails.
The fun comes in, of course, when the PDF really is the only available data source (which, thankfully, has been rare for me). Then you just have to hope you're dealing with standardized forms, or else you're in for some grief.
My favourite "pretending to be big" line I see little guys using is: "With more than 20 years experience" based on 4 guys in the firm, each 5 years out of university.
At your request:

http://pastebin.com/m2c5eaf93
hmm, it would be really handy if you could connect code.interact to a socket. Then when an error is raised you could telnet to the process and do a post-mortem on it...
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So you would take a bet on a science/engineering degree? And hope that after 4years of a degree, and another 3-5years to get the professional certification your job won't just be off-shore?

Yes, because the material is useful for something other than working for someone else.

Or better still - skip college, learn to be a plumber.

No argument at all. I've always thought learning a trade to be a far more respectable route than an impractical degree.
I would never limit access to a feature on my site based on badges someone has earned on another site. It's like slapping a big sign up that says, "In order to use this site, you also need to sign up for X, Y, Z, ..."

It's hard enough to get users to sign up for my stuff, let alone make them sign up for something else. Throwing in additional roadblocks is definitely not the way to go.

That's not to say I'd be against showing the badges they've earned elsewhere. That would be nice, I suppose.

Another problem: If things go very well for you, you'll end up with hundreds of partners all pushing badge info. On the other side, you'll have consuming partners that want to use this data, but they'll need to know exactly what badges to extract. Not every user will have the same badges from the same sites, so the consuming sites have to do the legwork of deciding which badges they want to display.

Further, if site X decides to change their badges, all sites that consume from X will need to change as well, or just keep displaying the now stale data.

Seems like too much communication will be necessary between all the different parties.
A bit of meta-commenting but the "Welcome HN" banner which encourages us to upvote the story put me right off. I'll vote it up if I like it, not because you customized your site to "Welcome" me because I read HN.
This is easily the most dangerous post I've ever seen on Hacker News. I really hope no one gets hurt trying this. A total lack of safety advice in the section involving connecting the batteries in series is particularly disturbing.
The Future of Content Management
Sorry about the title. Thanks for the extra context.
I agree wholeheartedly. Writing corpspeak on your website may be 'safe', but it's not only boring -- it's totally unmemorable. Even if people hate your corporate image, if they remember you, you've already made a significant step in the right direction.
I would be more concerned with the charging circuitry in the UPS. They are designed for use with the batteries they install at the factory, not large capacity batteries. You may run into problems with it not being able to detect battery capacity and as an extreme you may unduly stress the charging circuit with the longer charge cycles needed for the big batteries.
TANSTAAFL, even if the price is opportunity cost.
Kingdom Hearts X will be insane:

Form a party of Sora, Donald, Wall-E, and Wolverine and watch as Wolverine guts Ursula while Silver Surfer sings 'Under The Sea' with Ariel.
It's nice to see all of these libraries getting written in Clojure. It's a nice language, and it's a shame to have to constantly get into Java interop every time you want to use a lib. I know it's easy and all, but that doesn't make it fun.
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I am not an expert in this.

But I think if you get a Gmail account with non identifiable information. Then access Gmail through Tor (There's a Tor plugin for Firefox) you've done enough to make it extremely hard to track you down.
not necessarily, there are a lot of niche products where there is a small company that is the leading provider. Leica, for example, the leading provider of rangefinder cameras since the 20's. A perfectly true statement, but you won't find them in the fortune 50. There are many many more examples.
That is, of course, until the present batch of small companies grow big (or die) and all the big companies are putting words like "suck" and "cool" on their corporate blurbs. Then the next batch of small companies will ape them because people never change, and then early adopters will start looking out for companies with "people who care enough to sound professional" (excerpted from the future version of OP).

And when that happens, I'll be ready...
This is generally true for all fixed rate loans and highly variable inflation.

One would expect the market to react by moving toward variable rate from fixed, which has already been reported for student loans.
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This isn't a legal doctrine. Its just part of the swearing in process during a trial.

More important is users "expectation of privacy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy
I think it's pretty obvious if you look at the comments just prior to the [dead]ing. (It looked like ftse started exploring troll country.)
I thought u meant footsie 100. Was going to say that it is bank holiday today in UK, therefore it might not be opened.

As for your actual inquiry, perhaps you need to make the title clearer. I personally do not know.
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I'd like to add one here (and as a 'new' django developer myself take it with a grain of salt), use the save method in your subclasses of 'models.Model' to do things like computed fields and other trickery to keep your database consistent.

Otherwise you'll end up doing this in multiple places throughout your views.

If your database supports it triggers, stored procedures and functions are probably a better way of achieving most of these things.

By putting a save method in your subclass you get access to the record about to be created or updated, you can use this to lift the id field out and do tricks with it just after insertion in to the database, or you can store the value of a field that can not be easily computed during data retrieval.

I use this in an application where each page appears as a leaf in a tree to update the path to the node based on the parent node and its path.
Any idea if you would open source this? I think the ORM part would be extremely helpful for C++ application development. I needed one and could not find any existing open source project.
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His work ethic is legendary (and rubbed off on Lebron at the Olympics last summer). FYI, Kobe is 6'5" which is exactly average for NBA shooting guards.
I think it is a very interesting move and might actually be successful. Personally, I would love to read comments by my favorite characters from tv-series I watch during a show.
i think it's certainly possible to make your company's image look professional without all the corporate speak, buzzwords, and stock images.

my company is mostly just me (unless i sub out parts of a project) and i usually use "we" when talking to customers. many of them know the company is just me but they are already my customers. a potential customer might not even consider calling me in the first place if my website said i'm one guy. if they have a big project planned and they think it needs a whole team, would they even consider asking a one-person shop for an estimate? maybe not.
i could see this becoming useful if you did ALL the work for the users. get their email & facebook connect, and then scrape their browser history for visited links and find them there.
Actually, a Polish mathematician named Marian Rejewski had the best claim of breaking Enigma "single-handedly".
Sounds like they run their servers outside China. This works if most of your users are outside China. It can be highly problematic if most users are inside China.

I do not agree with using "pseudo-legal registration hacks" unless you really have to, that is, your business is doing things the China gov frowns upon or your biz model can't be easily classified. In years past, there was little choice. Now, its not too difficult to run a proper China Internet entity. You do need a local Chinese company to hold your Internet operating license. This is not your license for your business and real/intellectual property, this is a license for operating a server in China. This creates trust and contract issues, but there now exist trustworthy partners. I recommend to anyone wanting to target the China market to have a local Chinese business partner. It doesn't matter how smart an expat you are, the locals will always understand some things better than you.

Hosting within China does cost more. As an example of the low end of server hosting, I ran a 2U server (I owned it) for an annual fee of $1200. For that I receive an unmetered 1Mb connect. That was the contract. In reality, I was connected to the IDC's 100MB switch and nothing was managed. I never had problems. Some IDCs are better managed than others.

As for payments, if your users are paying outside China, you use a HK or other entity for those payments (you'll most likely need an HK entity anyway to comply with China regs). For payments in China, use a China bank and China payment system.

Final note: for bootstrapping and proof of concept stuff, it can make sense to crank things up in the U.S. or HK and ignore all local rules until you know more. But you should plan to clean up your China requirements as soon as possible.
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re: logging vs. print. If you do get stuck debugging something that uses print() for all its logging, remember that in extremis you can still redirect it elsewhere:

import sys

old_stdout = sys.stdout #store the real stdout

logfile = open('/some/file', 'a')

sys.stdout = logfile #redirect output to a file

#code you're debugging here

sys.stdout = old_stdout #restore the real stdout

[Obviously using logging from the start is _far_ preferable]
Very slick - Even on the iPhone (3g) which has been a problem with other frameworks.
$200k for four years of education, for a job that pays $25k/year. So, eight years after she graduates, she will have gross income equalling the cost of four years in school.

Given living costs versus her income, it will take that girl somewhere around twenty years to save up $200k in cash, and that's if she scrimps and saves.

Staggering.

I worked and saved, and went to a 'safety school' to save on costs. Even with a $30k personal disaster (2008 was not a fun year) layered on top of the cost of university, a year of work later and I'm back to the point where I could not work for a year without too much discomfort. My total college education cost less than a semester for your coworker's daughter.

If I ever have kids, I'll put aside enough to put them through college (yay, EIRA), and then tell them that whatever is left over at the end is theirs to keep as a graduation present, and likewise, if they use all of it before they finish, they can get a job to pay for the rest.
I see 10's of pretty good comments, some reasonable submissions and one comment that had only reached -2 when the account was killed.

Surely modding to -7 or so would have sent the same message in a better way ?

If someone would persist in behaviour like that you can always get rid of them but this seems to be a bit too trigger happy for my taste.

Also, in spite of being 'dead' ftse continues to participate and as far as I can see behaviour after being banned was pretty much in character with earlier postings.

Take in to account the context of that comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765153

He merely answered the question, maybe not in the most elegant way but that's what you get with subjects like that.
Can you run code.interact from a django view if you've set your server to run not as a daemon?
i really don't think this is a good way to go about this.

when editors kill accounts here, that person doesn't know that his or her account is dead without going to a lot of trouble to find out. that's done for a reason. making account killing into a big public deal short-circuits the original intent.
Thanks sharpn as those are really good points. When I get nervous I tend to talk more, so I'll remember to keep your advice in mind during the phone interview. Also like your last tip. Much appreciated.
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I have been fighting for hours trying to get the mysql gem installed for Ruby 1.9.1 on snow leopard. If anyone knows some helpful info for getting this to work please help me. I have a thread running at:
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Facts must be weighed. It's one thing to say "this should be safer" and another to say "this is safe".
Most startup code ends up on the floor.

Scary thought. I worked too hard to let this happen.

And it's a very easy trap to fall into. When I'm coding, I don't want to talk to customers. And when I'm talking to customers, I don't want to code. Gotta find a way to interweave them sensibly.
I object to his sad-sack attitude. I agree that 2 years is a ton of savings.

So why the drama?

I'm actually shocked that this guy is in such disarray. If he's so in touch with the reality that "the world has changed," why doesn't he get another job doing something? Even delivering pizzas earns more than nothing - it would also get him out and talking to people.

Why move to new york, instead of a place with a lower cost of living?

Why write a novel? The story certainly didn't give me the impression that novel writing was something he loved to do. Also, writing a novel about your own life seems not only self-absorbed but uninteresting. Escpecially if you believe - as he does - that your situation is so common?
Here's to further not-dying!
You want a simple recipe for eliminating fluff and connecting with your customers? Talk less about we/us/I and talk more about you/your.

When you're talking about "we", you're almost certainly talking to hear yourself talk -- "We have an industry-leading solution with years of YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS."

When you're talking about "you", you're probably addressing the customers needs and ways to get those needs satisfied. ("You can use Widget to flangle a foobar in less than 30 seconds, saving you time and getting you home to your kids faster.")
I like aligning the atomic conditional tests I'm or'ing together, and that's the most space-efficient way to do it. I guess I could indent the first line more and put the or operators on the left, though.
oh, and another one. pycallgraph is a good way of getting your bearings, visually, when confronted with a chunk of disorganized, unfamiliar code:

http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/pycallgraph/
http://www.ohuiginn.net/mt/2009/01/pycallgraph.html
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