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Working for yourself is awesome.
I have done it twice during my life, once for 5 years and again now for nearly 4.

I was never happier at work.
But, there are significant downsides (of which you are probably aware).

1) At a job personal weaknesses get covered up or smoothed over. Aren't so good at <insert failing>? The company probably has someone else to take care of that. So it might merit a "to improve" on your review. When you work for yourself these failings have real unavoidable economic consequences.... often fatal in the business sense.

2) A law of nature. A life for one is simply a meal for another. Nobody cares if you stay in business unless they think they need you in the future. So you are food for everyone. Your vendors, your customers, your employees. All are (generally) out to take as much as they can from you. This is the game you are largely insulated from when you work for someone else and the reason long term business owners probably seem a bit jaded and suspicious.

3) You are responsible for everything. Everything. From filing taxes to making sure there aren't objects that can be tripped on on the work floor. Everything. There is zero buck passing. I personally believe buck passing is a large part of the workday for most employed people at reasonable sized companies and this skill doesn't transfer well.

4)You are mortal. So you get sick. No more sick days. Now you lose income unless you are properly set up with employees and a business structure which takes time, money and often some trial and error. Just because you made 20 grand on a jackpot 2 weeks of work doesn't mean that event will be duplicated or scaled. Something that is hard to remember sometimes.

Overall though... it is worth it in my opinion if you are tough and can take some blows. The upside is unlimited. The freedom is exhilarating. You truly can do your best work at a level you probably never did employed. But, please be aware it isn't for most people. The sacrifices can be immense.
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México, Remote, Full Time

Stack: Appcelerator Titanium, Objective-C

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reymundolopez

Contact: reymundolopez@gmail.com

Overview: I've been working in a lot of backend, frontend and mobile development, last 2 and half year most of my time was spend doing mobile apps (iOS, Android and mobileweb) and teaching Titanium.

I would like to continue working with mobile, don't mind to do backend development
Your example seems contrived. I didn't have friends as a kid, so I don't really know, but that seems like an unusual arrangement. At the very least, it requires you to do it explicitly.
For the life of me I can't find anywhere that says "extensibility" is a goal of MQTT. The main goals are clearly stated to be "simplicity" and "lightweight". Extensibility is the enemy of both. A lot of Clemens' points are based on the concept that MQTT is supposed to be extensible. When you realize that's not even a goal, most of his concerns become moot. He says "I'm not trying to create another AMQP" but if you think about what he's actually saying, it's quite the opposite.
I would think the first 4 together is probably a bit more than 3%, but the last one alone is probably >40%
I'm a federal employee serving as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (http://whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows) working on open data initiatives at the FDA. We worked with a contractor to build the platform and were happy to find they were incredibly excited about the prospect of open source.
Thanks. To be honest I just used a /* */ comment block because it was simple, but I'll have a look at implementing YAML.
I'm not totally convinced but it could work very well in a large format mobile context.
It's a pity this was downvoted because that's exactly the sort of thing against which new tech should be tested.

So, to really answer the 'what's your point' question I think the point is that bipedal could be more energy efficient than wheels and that feet can go where wheels can not.
Being nice isn't an 'option' anymore, it's a must.
I think they're two different UXen on two different reasoning methodologies: equational versus interactive. Time spent in Haskell where both are predominant has taught me that when used in synchrony they both have their place, but I agree there's a weakness in using equational alone: it creates great concepts but they are so substantially weakened by "operationalization" that there's still a huge risk.
my communication was a challenge to you, to promote my worldview (laissez faire free market) to the 3rd party readers of our exchange. Since my skills, knowledge, are heavily intertwined with this worldview, my value goes up when people sway to this worldview. So in pushing this agenda, I profit.

Let's say our posts were purely entertainment value only. I still profit because I am entertaining myself for cheaper than the alternatives, saving money, and therefor profiting.

Usually we call people who take action that don't benefit themselves crazy or self-destructive.
This "private networking" is private to the every DO droplet in the same datacenter. If you expose a port for private networking in a data center and I get your IP I can access it if I also get a droplet in that data center.
The same way you would on any other OS. No-one said everything has to be a file, even in Plan 9. Only if it makes sense to be a file. Semaphores aren't files, grep isn't a 9p server, neither is malloc, ...
SF, Remote, or Relocation if city is fun :).

Stack: Ruby, Rails, JS, Front End MVCs(Backbone Ember Angular)

Resume: testimonials and wacky blog at www.stepanp.com , and code at www.github.com/stopachka

Contact: stepan.p@gmail.com

For the last 2 years, I've been consulting in China in Rails and front end MVC's. The big goal is to move focus to a single company, to grow technically / as a person.

If you're into trial by fire environments, and are creating disruption, I'd love to be a part of that!
For a simple "fetch one row by pkey" lookup a traditional SQL DB spends something like 2/3 of the execution time parsing the SQL. So using a binary protocol's always going to win on performance.

(You may be right, maybe the main value of redis is as a way to work around stupid corporate/DBA policies? I know in theory I could have a single table key / json value in Postgres, but I've never found a company willing to actually do that. Whereas in Redis it's "no, I can't define a schema for the data, because the tool doesn't have one.")
So what brings you to hackernews?
I think you're getting downvoted because you're being snide about it, not because you stated the fact.
Sofia, Bulgaria,Remote, Full Time

Stack: C#, asp.net mvc/webApi (3,4,5),SignalR, EntityFramework 5&6, Sql Server, CouchBase, Nginx, Git & Svn, Javascript where needed ( jquery, knockout, handlebars,momentjs <noun>.js ) Basically i can setup my own server (windows/linux) (and have been doing so for few years now), install whatever i need, and get something to production

Resume:
I started coding back in 2009 using PHP on a LAMP stack doing mostly WordPress development. After that i started using CodeIgniter to build a CMS for a client.

In the last two years I've been reading books, watching videos on C# and the .Net Framework and working in a company as a C# web developer. Then i moved to a startup to be the single developer that maintains and updates the site with cool new features.

I get really excited when i have to do performance optimization and automating processes. I really love writing code and making tools and utilities that help people save time.I also love prototyping with the latest alpha or beta versions of software and libraries.

I enjoy reading about security, psychology and code ( well that's obvious , isn't it ?). I am very passionate about technology and i'm eager to try all the latest alpha/beta builds of software i use day to day but use only what makes sense a.k.a the right tool for the job.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/nikolasivkov
http://bg.linkedin.com/in/nikolasivkov/

Contact: nikola+hireme@dotfinity.eu

I'm looking for a company with interesting product and fun colleagues that need a full stack .net web developer. Also feel free to contact me if you are looking for a co-founder on a salary, stock is optional.
Just set bower to install into vendor/assets and link to those instead in your stylesheets/scripts. No need to add an additional layer of indirection and increasing the length of you Gemfile. Your bower.json should be where this information is stored, not you Gemfile.
You could just create a static HTML site yes, but getting it generated for you from Markdown files is super handy. To generate it on the fly it needs to be powered by some kind of server (e.g. Node, PHP, Python etc). Nodejs was just a good choice of platform for this kind of thing.
> I think there is a difference between a designer and a UX designer.

Then your vision of the design world is quite simplistic. Having studied both CompSci and Design Engineering at college, I can tell you that design can be very complex, and the term “Designer” is as abstract as “Computer Scientist”, where you have distributed systems researchers, back-end devs, Ops, database administrators, release engineers, QA Engineers, and thousands of specialities.

The design field is HUGE (go and visit IDEO), ranging from mere Graphic Designers (what you've reflected as "PSD Designer"), to UX/UI Designers (those building human-computer interfaces ), to Design Engineers and Industrial Designers that have a solid base of engineering (physics, maths, materials, CAD/CAE, ergonomy, etc) and are able to shape tangible as well as non-tangible products.

Leading Designers [0] usually belong to the latest group... Pininfarina (Ferrari's Designer), Philippe Stark (who worked closely with Steve Jobs crafting his Yatch but also does graphic design and a lot of other design specialities [1]), Jony Ive (leading the iDevices industrial design but also the UI), Dieter Rams, etc.

[0] http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/02/0201_worlds_most_inf...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Starck
Yeah, to be clear: pure implementations of CSP are probably useless but "near" implementations are abound. I don't know Go, so Erlang came to mind... But it's definitely a little way from pure CSP.
One key difference is friction. With wheels there is continuous contact with the substrate, which means continuous friction and thus energy loss. Since this robot has an aerial phase, this should be considered an advancement towards the energy efficiency of most land animals who only* lose energy due to friction when in contact with a substrate.

Edit: *not factoring wind resistance, which is present regardless of mode of locomotion.
Yeah, but Usain Bolt has on-board power.
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> If you don't have anyone over 30, then the good under-30 people you get will quickly leave.

At least the ones who are actually good, as opposed to the ones who think they are $DEITY's gift to engineering.
Well, whether you have a single loadbalancer, a single uplink, a single upstream router or a single datacenter is not really relevant. Unless you go full distributed (across multiple data centers) those things are from a risk perspective almost equivalent. I don't think the loadbalancer ever broke but even if it had it would not have been the end of the world.

What matters is that you stay away from complexity as long as you can't afford to expend your time, energy and funds on it.

And if you have to then go for it.
Are we supposed to ignore the arm the "robot" is attached to? Set that thing out on a road and let it run and I will be impressed.
I have a Casio calculator (fx-100s) that still goes strong on its original battery since I bought it, 18 years ago! I use it a few times every week.
No, I don't need another static blog. I mean (bi-directional) cross reference is very important for memorization and even better than a simple search engine. Maybe you can use Disqus comment box to get related article but that's not good enough.
I wonder where and how they are putting together a team to design and build the hardware and coordinate with launch companies. This will be a huge contract for whichever company wins the launch bid.
I think pedantry can be excused in the face of claims that would disprove the fundamental laws upon which our understanding of the universe rests.
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Cars aren't bipedal so no, a car doesn't "run" faster than a human.
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I am hosting all of my stuff on a single VPS instance in Docker/lcx containers. It is reasonably easy to migrate stuff out if I need a larger hardware, but it's also very cheap.

Regarding scaling: a couple of years ago I ran a database on a single CPU core (because of licensing issues). It stored 50M rows a day and also executed various queries quite quickly. So I seriously doubt that most of us is going to need large clusters.
That's a great leg imitation and obstacle tolerance but does it really count as running when it's permanently attached to a stationary object?
No, I wasn't asking to be patronized. If I want to know what counterpoint is I'll look it up. I'm asking what on earth it has to do with computer science. Sure there's the Hofstadter book but with no explanation this comes off as merely pretentious. Do resist the temptation to patronize and mansplain though; I know it is one if the things we as a profession excel at.
These are really impressive from a mechanical engineering point of view, but in all these demos the powerplant is not on the frame. Instead, power is fed via wire, making it stationary. Its a little disingenuous to claim it goes 28 mph when it doesn't even power itself. I'd love to see what real speeds they can get out of these things with a powerplant installed, especially over mixed terrain.

Right now, this is like running a Tesla with a very long extension cable and claiming absurd 0-60 times. Instead, tell me how well it operates with a battery or an engine and all the extra weight and engineering accouterments that requires.
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Because you can fit 2-4 times as many employees in the same floor space
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> frees enough of the world from economic strife to end the need for warfare.

While this sounds good, I'm not sure this would happen for two reasons:

- we'd have to completely change the system of work / salaries / resource allocation - the way we're going right now we'll end up with smaller number of companies providing services / resources to huge society that is much larger than needed to support those companies

- I don't believe people have a need for warefare... they may actually be more interested in it, assuming their other daily needs are satisfied in an easier way

Why do you think automating much more work would make life better for people in general?
Please drop SumoMe too. It's absolutely horrible.
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I use Ubuntu and would really love to watch WWDC live, but it requires a Mac/Safari. Would there be any way to spoof that or something in order to watch it?
Connecticut, Remote, Full Time

Stack: PHP, JS, CSS, HTML, design for web and print

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e63u4ehdvb9bddc/Sergey_Chernata_Re...

Contact: Listed in resume

As a generalist, I shine in small agile teams. I can design and I've been heavily leaning into coding for a number of years. Currently this makes me a sort of "one man army" to my employers, which is great value.

What I want is to work with a team of people as passionate as I am about building great products for the web. I want to contribute in any way I can while at the same being being challenged and constantly learning.
This discussion is becoming a little uncivil, but I'll try to stay on-track.

"Nobody will [care] about your [...] operating system if it consistently fails to be useful for day-to-day work."

Nobody except those who already find it useful for their day-to-day work, some of whom have already explained the system's utility to them in this thread. Only if you think popularity is the only way to judge the utility of a computer operating system can you so easily dismiss such a large and influential body of work.

I posed a question earlier which you didn't address, and if you think chasing after mass appeal isn't pointless you should have an answer for: What would a word processor or web browser on Plan 9 (which everyone here seems to agree is cool) enable you to do that you can't already do elsewhere?
We are a bit overwhelmed by the load right now, didn't expect to get hit by HackerNews today :)
We are spinning up more servers
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> I think the point is that bipedal could be more energy efficient than wheels and that feet can go where wheels can not.

The second one, absolutely. As for the former, I don't think you can get any more efficient than a wheel on a flat track - certainly biped movement is a lot less efficient since you need to work against gravity.
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err, what would you call it then?

how about notDNS? though notDNS implies they don't serve domain names. How about, openDNS?

Actually, I don't like that one either, that implies they are open source.

How about, gimpDNS. There, I can get behind that one.
Thanks so much for the kind words-- this article was written by Mitchell Anicas, a Technical Writer at DO :)
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I've often been frustrated with calorie-counting apps. Let's say I eat a hamburger from a local restaurant. I go to my calorie-counting app, and I type in "burger". It shows me a list:

* McDonald's Big Mac 485 calories

* McDonald's Quarter Pounder 435 calories

* In 'N Out Burger 400 calories

* Bubba Burger 315 calories

* Beef burger (raw) 239 calories

* Hamburger Beef on a Bun 243.9 calories

And so on. That range there is over 140 calories. That's a wild margin there. And I also got fries:

* French Fry (Sodexo) 260 calories

* Curly Fries 200 calories

* McDonald's Medium Fries 310 calories

* Five Guys Fries 300 calories

And so on and so forth.

But you know, I just want to Local Burger Joint Restaurant. I don't know exactly how many ounces this patty was, or whether they put butter on it. I don't know if they fried these fries in duck fat or peanut oil or veggie oil. Depending on how they prepared it and what the portion sizes are, the calories per serving an vary wildly.

Yet when you go into a food app, they say:

> "How many ounces of fries did you eat?"

> "I dunno, MyFitnessPal. I ate what they gave me. Let's make it a round ballpark figure of 30 french fries."

> "Sorry, Jemaclus. That's not a valid measurement."

How about this. How about instead of making ME guess, why don't YOU guess? Why don't YOU say "Okay, generally when you get a burger, it's between 250 and 500 calories... we have 394 samples of burgers in our database. The median calorie count is 412, the mean is 425, the range is 150,... some other statistical mumbo jumbo, and bam. Okay, Jemaclus, we think the burger was roughly 418 calories, or between 410 and 430 calories."

And then do the same thing for the fries.

Because at the end of the day, I'm just guessing too. When I look at my calorie count at the end of the day, I would be a fool to say "I ate precisely 2318 calories today." What I really think when I see my calorie count is: "This app says I ate 2318 calories today, which is roughly between 2200 and 2400 calories. That's pretty much where I want to be, so I'm okay with that."

I mean, don't make me think about it. Don't make me pick which burger I ate from which chain, because the odds are that the exact food I'm eating isn't in your database. Don't make me pick the serving size, because I don't carry a scale around with me -- or measuring cups.

Just ask me what I ate today. Then you figure out the rest. We're both guessing here. Just handle it for me.

Thanks.
I've already bought in to the notion that open arrangements may have short-comings.

But in the Bay Area circa 2014 what arrangements are being tried out and seeing advantages? Low cubes, high cubes, fully enclosed offices, bull pens, mini bull pens, periodic re-arrangement, unassigned?
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+1 again. Followed simple setup at our startup. Worked for ~6 years. We've been growing and scaling the backend architecture as the user needs have grown. We're now at the blended #6. Very glad we waited to optimize until business needs declared certain choices to be imperative. Also makes budget for servers "just in time" optimized.
How do you lock your bower dependencies then?
Not if it gives you a false sense of security.
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San Diego || Remote. Full time || Contract || Part time if interesting

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I'm interested in discussing your mobile software needs.
I think people are missing the point about the attached boom arm. They're working on the mechanics of the bipedal motion before worrying about making an autonomous robot.
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