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It would also depend on the economics of said quantum computing. But yes, I'd expect the value to decline because one could not guarantee their currency anymore. Similarly if someone invented a teleporter that targeted US currency, it'd become worthless because a thief could just teleport it out of your pocket.
It seems like home ownership is a huge factor here. Several studies have shown that home ownership correlates with higher unemployment. Owning a home greatly decreases mobility and can cause you to stick to a region far longer than is necessary. I can't help but wonder how things might have been different for the OP's father, if after the first layoff, he had chosen to sell his home and move to another market experiencing growth and extremely low rates of unemployment [0].

My father also struggled for several years after moving back to Brazil, where ageism is alive and well. He had tons of experience, even founding his own company, being its CEO and growing it to 300 people back in the 90s when that was a much harder thing to accomplish. He then ran another company as a CEO. Right now he is just beginning to do reasonably well again as a consultant, but he had to work hard to diversify where he gets work from. In his case it is his aging mother that keeps him in Brazil instead of returning to the US to a market that is more likely to employ him. He doesn't have the luxury of an option that will afford him mobility like people with a home to sell do. For those with that luxury, selling your home makes sense. Wishful thinking that long bouts of unemployment can't happen to you is a naïve and dangerous.

[0] http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm
Rather than worrying about setting up CI all at one go, what I would suggest you do is structure your personal development workflow around some form of automated testing - either test-driven development or by just frequently running an integration and/or unit test suite. Keep the test code in a separate git repo and start out simply: setup a git hook script to execute the test suite locally after every time you run 'git pull'. From there, just build up the cleverness of your testing apparatus as you have time. If you start finding defects in other team members' changes incidentally as part of your work practices, that will prove the method in a way little else could.
I think when you allow for altruistic players, the core insights you get from game theory tend to vanish.

I think the author had that part mostly right, actually.
I'd stick with Feedly, and I have. They experienced a DDOS. It happens.
I use Inferno to develop software, as a virtual OS over top of Linux or Windows. Its community doesn't see any value in writing software just to make it easy to use for newbies. It is still actively maintained, with new changes from Plan 9 development. There are even some new software tools developed in it (eg, I wrote a build tool). Maybe this qualifies?
"It's true that farmers don't secure their chicken coops as well as they should, maybe we can team up for a secure your chickens day?" asked the fox, without the slightest hint of irony.
You have to consider price, particularly in the American West, as desalination can make as much fresh water as you can afford.

The only thing stopping California from building massive solar-powered desalination plants is that bullying the surrounding states is (currently) cheaper and easier (politically).
The "railway oriented programming" is pretty much the default way of coding in Node.js using the flow control module async. The major feature that async has but that I don't see in this blog post would be that you can split up the "railway" into multiple parallel paths when needed or when it is more efficient to do so, and then join the paths back together again later in a step which depends on the results from each of those parallel paths.

Once I started using the async.auto() it completely changed my way of thinking about how code worked, and I've started coding in a much more functional style. Node.js makes this very easy.
Many idealist developers brush off well designed and feature rich artifacts as shiny because they simply just don't get it and never will. So having users use a "less shiny" but more "ideal" artifact isn't going to magically make it better; the developer is still oblivious.
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How's this for "correctly?" http://www.defensivepatentlicense.com/

Kind of like copyleft- but for patents.
Wow! Nice to meet you, Twitter teacher! Crazy that it's still the same three years on; I know what you mean that it's easier to talk about building a better flow than actually doing it, but I do think that it's fundamentally focusing on the wrong thing (from the outside in particular).

Perhaps this flow performs better than we think, but what I find most interesting about it is that instead of focusing on what you're interested in learning about/following, it instead just helps the bigger Tweeters get bigger/more famous, which is kind of sad, especially with many numbers suggesting that the average user has less than 100 followers.

I totally agree in terms of improving the product - it'll be interesting to see what Twitter delivers over the next year. I do hope that the focus shifts away from what it is now and more onto the intrinsic value of conversation/engaging with new people that in my experience seems to keep Twitter users active/proves the value to them.
Really, Google Docs?
IIRC, there is some evidence of a very large flood in...western Asia, I think?...caused by a highland sea breaking through a natural dam and emptying into a lowland area, right around the time that humans were starting to keep histories. It was big enough to affect multiple distinct cultures at the time. There's a theory that that's the origin of the ubiquitous Great Flood stories.
I'm curious about this too - I don't have a team in mind; can I still apply? (never been to one of these before)
Is it just coincidence that all the continents aren't completely submerged?
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As it stands, version control isn't even well-implemented in mainstream word processors.

Maybe we should be teaching version control first when we introduce students to word processing. If they know they can always go back to an earlier version and compare changes, they might be more willing to explore and learn faster.
As someone who works with a legacy codebase from c. 1990 as well as a more modern codebase [that is still 10 years old], both of which lack unit tests...

I work for a healthy business that has annual revenues of about ~4 million in gross per developer. So if we can make code that old work, you can make your stuff work. It just sucks.

Tbh, if I was you and you honestly believe growth is too slow for the startup to survive, I'd seriously consider jumping ship and finding a new job.

I also second the find better programmers than you and learning from them. Tbh, I tried to avoid that to get greater job security and I think that was a mistake.
The android compatibility (plus some nice native apps/games) and BlackBerry Bridge where why I held onto my Curve and Playbook for so long...
Ferrets, as I recall, are also a good model airway for neonatal intubations. Pretty sure the animals are sacrificed afterward.
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A nice hypothesis, do you have any examples that show this to be true?

The realist in me bets that innovation has only a weak relationship to IP laws, and rather a strong relationship to a certain world-view that fosters innovation since childhood (go USA!)
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There are known problems of markets in the form of externalized costs. Global warming might be the greatest example of capitalism and markets being the worst thing humanity has every done in distributing resources....
You're not satisfied with your Android clients.
> Part of the reason I asked on HN is because I don't know if feeling awesome is the norm in a startup: the work is expected to be stressful, isn't it?

Yes and no. Waking up to a call at 3am because something you wrote broke and 50 guys in a warehouse are waiting on you should be stressful. A bug that costs the company $10-20k in double shipped orders is stressful.

If the stress is from just dealing with your coworkers, and not 'oh shit something went wrong', then I'd say its a cultural problem.

> I'm from nowhereville college, and the pay is lower than the low end you gave.

If you are not making 60k in the Bay Area, well, that is too low.

If you live in Nowhereville still, its probably fine.
"My intuition would be that functional startups are visibly functional; they feel awesome."

It is a lot more complicated than that. The term "sausage factory" usually applies - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sausage%20fac.... Even very successful startups can feel very dysfunctional in the heat of the moment. First, when you grow fast and do things that have never been done before, lots of things break. Second, very often management may be absolutely brilliant about some matters, but have giant gaping holes in other areas. A CTO may have figured out a breakthrough in machine learning, but have no idea how to run an engineering organization. A CEO may be able to sell sand to a Sheik, but have no idea how to do proper accounting. As a company matures, it figures out a way to augment the leadership and compensate for weaknesses of the CEO or founder. But there are always growing pains early on, as a startup has not yet identified and fixed said holes.

You really should be evaluating a startup by the high notes that it is hitting, not by the amount of dysfunction. So it should feel awesome at least some of the time. But the startup may very well feel dysfunctional most of the time. That is ok, the dysfunction can be fixed later, but if there is no market or technical breakthrough, then the startup is probably not going to do well.

OP, the questions to consider are: do you have a product that people love (ie, they use all the time and recommend it to others)? If yes, is this a sample of people that is representative a bigger market opportunity? Does your CTO seem reasonable enough that if you demonstrate the value of tests and a build process, he'll allow you to allot time to fix things?
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It's great to see some real app development happening in the pharma space. I was worried it was going to stay too novel and disconnected a tool to get any business traction.

The real problem, in my opinion, is that Google hasn't made a clear, public way for advertisers to get involved in the platform. That's one of the most innovative technical adopters and the one of the most free to spend speculative money. Especially with Google's core business, I'd have expected something more obvious.
Everything that happens on a geological scale leaves geological evidence. There is no such evidence for a global flood. It's not just the mechanism for causing the flood that's missing, but any sign of it whatsoever. I grew up learning about and believing in a global flood, and confronting the hard truth that there is no evidence for a flood was an important part of my intellectual development.

However, since there are reasons other than reason and evidence for people to believe in a flood, no amount of reasoning or evidence will change those beliefs, so I propose we focus on the tantalizing science fiction implications instead.
You tell us: what do you want from a Docker CI product?
Interesting enough, but can someone explain the title. I assume it is some reference to tree hugging but I don't get it.
This is quite a fancy explanation of monads. But in the end, is it worth it?

Maybe Go's somewhat verbose way of handling errors isn't so bad after all. It seems easier than teaching your coworkers a bunch of combinators, no matter how you try to sugar-coat it.
1: I did not explain myself clearly. What I meant is: when more and more bitcoins are being used for regular economic transactions, the proportion of bitcoins used by speculators is, by comparison, decreasing. And the smaller this proportion is, the less volatile the currency is.

2: "encouraging hoarding": no, this is not what was observed in practice with Bitcoin. I can't remember if it was Bitpay or Coinbase, but they have explained in a blog post seeing the exact opposite effect: during a Bitcoin bubble, people tend to spend or sell more bitcoins (to cash in on their newfound fortunes).
It would indeed be plain absurd to argue that we needed patents to achieve flight.
What are Apple and Tesla trying for, if not profits? Both are certainly great at leveraging marketing and PR announcements like this to appear as some kind of shining pillar of goodness, but at the end of the day they're both businesses.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowHM6nqu60
Much of the cash is being funneled into administrator salaries and lucrative construction/service contracts.
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There's an argument that strongly protectionist policies are in fact very useful for developing an economy. Protect your own markets, but appropriate other's IP.

See Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9781596915985-7
"Of course, this applies way beyond Tesla. I believe the current skepticism around Silicon Valley's "Make The World a Better Place" mentality is deeply rooted in historical anxiety about institutional capitalism."

silicon valley really needs to get over itself. the only thing different about silicon valley and other companies is that silicon valley is to naive to realize they are just like every other company, no matter how much they doth protest.

companies dont set out to make the world a worse place for the most part, even hated companies like BP have good intentions. but if you want to be a publically traded company, and if you want to make money, you have to make profit.

i mentioned on HN before that its funny how Amazon is loved and Walmart is loathed. all the reasons why walmart is loathed Amazon has in spades.

i also feel your view on how capitalism works in the western world. in fact, it has always been a prisoners dilemma / golden rule do onto others as you would have them do onto you economy. thats actually a reason why capitalism has worked so well for the west, and one of the reasons why it took longer in places like China.
Why not put this sort of information on the site more prominently? I didn't even see the footer links until I went back to the page to double check.

I don't use Facebook so couldn't make use of your site beyond that.
You're definitely that good. I hear you, and I know exactly how this feels.

I've worked for two companies in the past year and a half, both with teams of ~5-10 developers, and nobody at either company was/is using any sort of automated tests. It's definitely frustrating -- not to mention lonely -- especially when you're immersed in a culture (hello HN) that's pimping a new test runner every two weeks.

I like testing for one and a half reasons: to capture the software requirements, and to change the software easily when those requirements change. If you've got one test, that's better than zero.

You don't have to set up your own Jenkins server -- Travis CI should do the trick nicely, and it's super easy to set up (although I know you're not supposed to say that kind of thing).

Here's a thought: Could you persuade the CTO to let you add the tests as a submodule to the project repo?
don't hold your breath lol
If you're open to a paid solution, IRCCloud is probably the most modern IRC client available today. It's $5/month, but nothing else I've used has come close in terms of general interface quality across all devices, from Android to my iPad to my desktop.

As interesting off-topic trivia, it was written in Erlang.
But if you really are a selfish player, and you have somehow persuaded the other player to trust you and play "deny" then you should definitely play "confess" to maximize your payoff. With selfish players there is no way to move to ("deny","deny") in a one-shot Prisoners' Dilemma. Cultural change cannot help unless it amounts to a change in payoffs.

[The story would have been different in a coordination game with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria where a change in beliefs can move you from a bad equilibrium to a good equilibrium.]
The American government does this, but it mostly does it on behalf of the same folks trumpeting, to the masses, the virtues of capitalism as an ideology and end in itself. Anarcho-capitalism, really, or nearly so, although the ruling class itself is certainly not anarcho-capitalist of course. The ruling class has a clear interest in subverting free markets to keep the established players in power and any rivals out, and right now in America they are pretty much getting everything they could possibly want.

But contract enforcement, private property, impartial justice systems, and yes even intellectual property, copyright, and wealth redistribution, all contribute to more effective capital markets, and they are all borne of government regulation and laws. That the American government happens to be so thoroughly corrupt that it can't do a single thing right, doesn't change that.
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Core element there being "to settle an anti-trust suit".

It's helpful to keep in mind that AT&T operated under anti-trust watch from 1917 through 1984, with the 1950s action being among the most significant.

It was also responsible for keeping AT&T out of the computing market, which meant that when AT&T created an operating system, it had something it couldn't sell, so it gave it away.

You may have heard of this, it was called "UNIX".
Have you ever seen the beginning of the movie The Core? Just about the only real bit of science in it is that sound travels differently through different materials in the mantle.

To be vetted, an experiment will be peer reviewed by others for obvious mistakes, compared to existing results and mathematical models, and duplicated by others.
Most people would read this article and be left with the impression that man made strains of influenza escaping from a lab are a greater risk than the natural processes that allow influenza to mutate so effectively in the wild. Hard to see that as anything more than taking advantage of people's ignorance. We are very lucky that it's been almost 100 years since we had to deal with a serious influenza pandemic.
By "science has confirmed accounts", do you mean anything more than "has confirmed that some historical locations used for these stories actually existed"?

If so, can you give some examples?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible#Chall...

(by way of illustration: most of Robert Parker's Spencer novels are set in Boston. You could prove via archeological evidence that the buildings and streets mentioned in these stories exist - they weren't invented out of whole cloth - but this wouldn't prove Spencer himself ever existed much less did any of the things claimed about him in the stories.)
The preface from the author is a great read, better than the Wikipedia article:

http://www.mit.edu/~prz/EN/essays/BookPreface.html
Saying that all corporations are equally trying for profits above all else is kind of like saying that the only purpose of living is reproducing. It grossly oversimplifies the situation, despite the fact that some corporations do seem to focus only on profit, and some humans to focus only on reproduction.
None of the cloud CI would work for us: we have an inhouse hosted git server (the CTO does not trust open source, in general). So to do automated testing, I'd have to set up a Jenkins server on my own.
Here's the recording (https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4964-railway-oriented-p...) of the talk that Scott Wlaschin gave at Skills Matter 2014 using what I believe is the the same slide deck. It was probably my favorite one from the day.

Warning though, you do have to make an account to view the video.
> …but also normal flue treatment is vary helpful.

I'm loathe to comment on typos, but in this case do you mean "very" or something about it varying?
I don't care to get into this debate now because reasons.

But you might want to look up why certain rights are generally considered or legislated to be non-waivable.

Guiding hint: it sets up perverse incentives, creates tremendous power imbalances (and exacerbates existing ones), and, net net, is seen as a negative for society.

You haven't made any points, you've asserted them, backing up along an increasingly narrow and slippery, and steep platform as you're cornered with a set of inconvenient facts regarding your case. Among the reasons I find any discussion with you to be, in all likelihood, to be tremendously unproductive.

So I'm out, but you're welcome to research further on your own.
My father is 80 this year and still works 4-5 days a week. He was a commercial banker until he got a golden handshake at around 60. He retired for about 5 years but got bored and since then has been working as a book keeper / accountant for a small company.

He is probably luckly, because his friend owns the business where he works, but I am impressed nonetheless.
Likewise. It amazes me how long it's lasted.

I agree with your sentiment about famous people. It feels really generic. I'm sure there's something better. We tested lots of interest-based versions, but they also underperformed.

Twitter is becoming more of a consuming platform for most users, so getting followers for the average user is much less important than finding great content.
I dunno, I just upgraded to 4.4.3 and it seems good.
When someone tries to use email and fails, they can lose some time.

When someone tries to use bitcoin and fails, they can lose their home. When silk road 2 lost their users' bitcoins to theft, there was a comment on Reddit about a silk road user who became homeless because they had converted their savings into bitcoin and stored the coins in silk road's webwallet. When the coins were lost, so was their home, since they could no longer afford rent.

Bitcoin needs to become pro-consumer with strong protections and convenience. There are dozens of ways to lose your money, so no one wants to convert a sizable portion of their wealth into bitcoin, which means no one has bitcoin on hand to spend at a whim. Eventually merchants are going to start wondering why they're bothering to let people buy their products via bitcoin since very few people buy anything via bitcoin.

If bitcoin becomes safe and convenient, bitcoin adoption will follow.
"I think the Web platform could make Web applications as
good or better than native applications,"

While it would be nice to have more choice, this engineer is kidding themselves if they think the problem is JavaScript. The reason the web can't compete with native is the DOM.

The DOM as it stands today has an interface based on modifying XML, which is a language with just two types: strings and children. This and the lack of a decent scene graph within the `window` is the reason why the web is behind native.

DOM is absolutely the worst abstraction for applications. It's an abstraction for documents. Documents are great and all and have their place, but we need an alternative API similar to QT but for rendering within the window and stylable via CSS.

The basis of our work at famo.us[0] is a universal scene graph for DOM, Canvas and WebGL. If you want to make something like native, you need the same types of layout/rendering APIs as native.

[0] http://famo.us/