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Unfortunately, bullshit like 'ancient wisdom' has become popular of late thus the parents not vaccinating their children, a return to extreme/fundamentalist religiosity, and general dangerous cargo cultness like treating cancer with green tea.

That's a false dichotomy. It is possible to look to ancient practices with an eye towards using those as foundations for research. We didn't do that; instead, we let threw out all of that knowledge, the good and the bad, and we have 100 million sick people in the US and over a billion around the world.

I'm a firm believer that we can find good answers in science, but we are doing a piss-poor job and have been for 50 years. In fact, I'd go so far to see we've done very little nutritional science over the last 50 years; instead, we've done nutritional marketing in white coats. If people are rejecting what nutritional researchers are saying, they have only themselves to blame.

Things have gotten a little better in the last decade, but large organizations like the AHA, ADA, AND, and, of course, the US government, still seem to be stuck following the marketing literature of companies like Conagra and Monsanto rather than the science.
Who is working on a "BittorrentCoin?
The embedded debate about "hexagonal" architecture is unfortunate.

I think one of the very common sticking points about refactoring and testability is that when trying to demonstrate techniques, you have to pick simple examples to isolate the techniques.

When in reality, those simple examples don't need those levels of abstraction or indirection. DHH's gist is a perfect example of demonstrating something that - by itself - doesn't need to be refactored in that manner.

But it completely misses the point. Those refactoring techniques are essential for when your codebase is 100 or 1000 times more complex. (Jim W. mentions this explicitly in his youtube video.) But the problem is you'd never show that complex a codebase in a demonstration, because the mental load in understanding the prerequisites (before getting to the actual refactoring) is too large.

I think another common sticking point is that people talk about refactoring to make a codebase more testable. And that is a worthy aim and all, but making it more testable isn't the end goal. Making it more testable forces you to separate your concerns/layers, and that's the goal. The reason that is the goal is because as your code grows, you still want the product to be easily changeable so it can be quickly responsive to customer's needs. And if you need to switch out your data repository implementation on short notice due to your site being suddenly popular, that'll be easier/faster if that implementation is separated out.
Really interested to see the end result. I submitted and received the "Success" notice about two hours ago - how long should I be expecting before having access to a build?
You should see his writeups on ATM skimmers, fascinating stuff.
Employees are free to negotiate employment contracts with a startup so that their compensation is structured as primarily equity. If and when an acquisition/IPO happens, those employees will make a considerable sum. But most employees aren't willing to take on that risk and don't have the savings necessary to live off that kind of arrangement.

Money is a very limited commodity in a startup and every dollar you're getting paid is equivalent to a dollar you're not investing in the company. Acquisitions reward investors, whether the investment is time or money.
Using the degree of controversy of an idea as a metric for "just how off the idea is" is exactly using the popularity of the proposition which is negation of the idea in question as a metric for the truth of that same proposition, and so is exactly the ad populum fallacy.
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The parent poster didn't mean that you should just arbitrarily execute pitch.clj, but that it was a particularly elegant piece of code in terms of capturing pitch semantics with beautiful Clojure.
My only question is if they have serious revenue then why do they need to a valuation? Is it the expenses or the expansion that is driving the value? I'm definitely interested to see how it proves out because I agree with you that there is several different economies of scale and growth to Uber.
You haven't argued that $17B is a reasonable valuation just that the value is not zero.
The different land-use on the two sides of the fence lead to differences in weather.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/earth/14fenc.html
So is Uber 50x cheaper than taxis, or is it cheaper than your own car/pubic transport?

Note: I pay a flat monthly fee for transport (public) around £1200 a year. Trans, trams, buses.
A dingos getting through a 20 km fence in 2002 destroyed 10% of the entire World's population of Northern Hairy Nose Wombats.

http://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/wildlife/threatened-species/endang...

http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=9
> If and when an acquisition/IPO happens, those employees will make a considerable sum.

Or not, depending on the terms of the acquisition or the market price at the point they sell after the IPO.
What random formatting do you mean, other than what go fmt would produce? What unidiomatic naming conventions? I thought I removed all the dead code... which ones do you still see? What suggestions can you make about organization?
Cool project. Definitely useful as a starting point into more advanced customization. Thanks!
Yep and those aren't hard to find. Alot of VPS/Dedi providers would give you this allocation for free.
If your IT director forgets to pay Artifactory, you'll have to turn on verbose logging in maven to see that they're returning a 402 when you try to build your code.

Speaking from experience... -_-;
Congratulations to Perfect Audience. It's a great outcome!
One question I didn't see covered in the article: Are the restaurant tickets transferrable? Can I sell my ticket to someone else if I can't make the date or something comes up?

I imagine this would be a nice feature, but might open up a lot of complications
Great idea, my friend and I are always choosing a bar based on outside seating and if there is sun or not.
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Would you like to continue also mentioning the instances popular "wisdom" was also wrong?
Thank you so much Selectodude
I'm saying that people who are really hateful online have issues that are deeper than simply having pent-up aggression/restlessness that can be channelled through some physical activity or sport.
Every entry in the food guidelines is backed up by reams of scientific references. If the guidelines are well referenced yet can still say whatever Coke and McDonalds want, how can we call that science?
I'm appalled that some of the first languages you intend to teach are Javascript (But really JQuery) and Python. That's just my personal opinion, but when I think "Teaching kids to code" I don't think "pick languages unlike any other language, and that will teach bad expectations of future languages." I would even be happy if you were to teach them something like VB over Javascript and Python.
I upvoted because I thought it was a discussion of how to obtain porn via APIs.

It's not. It's about how to block it. So I take my upvote back.
In response to poster below: I've actually had a great deal of success by emailing people. Most people assume that everyone has developed a shield that will bounce any email bordering on a sales pitch. The reality is that whether this happens is entirely dependent upon how you frame the conversation.

Being small is an immense advantage here. You can speak to the person in a way that a larger company can't. "Hi, I live nearby and am interested in what you guys do." That tenor of conversation has landed me two extremely lucrative contracts.[1] The conversations did not begin with "I need to sell you this thing." but rather "Tell me about your business and what you guys do day-to-day." To do this you don't even need to know anything about the industry at the outset (although it certainly helps if you do). After enough gigs you get really good at quickly dreaming up ideas that can help people that they have absolutely zero idea are possible or where to begin to develop them.

When you or I think of getting cold-emailed sales pitches we cringe because the typical sales pitch we receive is insulting.

"You should pay me for x even though I know nothing about you or your needs. Because of this, it is obvious I am not just selling you, but thousands of other people too."

However when you think of a sales pitch as a genuine attempt to start a conversation that you really believe would benefit the person you are attempting to sell to, you are actually helping them, not spamming them. People are receptive to those who express a genuine ability to help them.

[1] One contract, ultimately worth mid five-figures came about after being in contact with a particular business owner for two years. The sales process isn't necessarily a sudden spike but rather a gradual climb.
Their choice to stay consistent with their initial terrible ui design is the type of foolish consistency this quote is probably referring to.
Your point here seems to be that cash is preferable to stock as an acquisition payment, which is trivially true but not a very interesting point. Yes, an all cash deal would have been preferable to what we're getting. So would a 5x higher deal price.

I'm sure lots of startup employees make a hash of things when they're first presented with an uncertain windfall in the form of restricted stock. It's a risk we're all aware of and need to manage for ourselves, but that doesn't mean we've somehow been dealt a raw deal.
Bar None: The best authority on the broader subject of consulting in general is Alan Weiss. Only wish I discovered and read his stuff when I started out. Here's recommended book for you> http://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Launch-Kick-start-Succe...
Comcast has been at the forefront of offering IPv6 connectivity to their users.
The average wait time in NYC is between 5 and 9 minutes depending on time of day. But many people would say it feels worse than that at peak times (and it likely is).

People finding cabs on 5th avenue at 6pm know there are no cabs to be had. You can't just raise your hand. It could take 15 to 20 minutes to find a cab.

So suggesting that you can get a cab 90% in NYC is a statement of fact, but it's not actually true.

Facts: http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/taxifb.pdf

That's one of the many reasons Uber is also crushing it in NYC.
If you download too many videos with youtube-dl you can get this response from yt.com. Currently there is an open bug to handle this gracefully:

Handle youtube CAPTCHAs (402 errors) gracefully: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/154
A slanted fence can be much shorter and can be cheaper, but it uses a bit more area.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRRgIbYKgw

[2] http://anr.ext.wvu.edu/r/download/51668 (PDF)
Sounds like a great way to self-diagnose diabetes. If you go into a coma, you probably have diabetes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
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If I want to pirate content, your Carrier Grade NAT looks quite attractive as a legal shield!
As someone who has worked extensively within Gnome's HIG, Apple's HIG, and with frameworks such as QT/GTK+/Cocoa, I fully agree with your and byuu's comments.

I was merely pointing out that the market seems to be pretty content with web apps as a solution to "write once, run anywhere, look nice" (even if here, the "look nice" doesn't include "look native" - but those are 2 different things)
Good to know. I'll spend some time over the weekend working on the copy and trying to articulate the value prop and feature set better. Cheers :)
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I used NC but I stopped when I gave up DOS many years ago and I just never felt the need for it. Don't remember thinking "Wish I had NC here to do this...". Somehow current drag and drop file managers and command line options on Linux just do the trick.

Can go through a set of things you think NC is really great at that are just complicated with these other methods?
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Can you get any language besides JS? I can't seem to get anything else no matter what combo I put in the questions.
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And it's a great movie, at that! :D
Why not just use standard html with a css framework like pure?
I'm in the same situation and I've written a few blog posts on my experiences so far.

How NOT to get your first freelancing client: http://christopherdbui.com/how-not-to-get-your-first-freelan...

That post contains things I've tried that have all been unsuccessful, like buying ads... Don't waste your time and money on that stuff.

What I learned from Brennan Dunn on Freelancing: http://christopherdbui.com/what-i-learned-from-brennan-dunn-...

This post talks about the lessons I've learned from Brennan Dunn via reading his content on freelancing/consulting. Talks about how I went to meetups and got a few leads. Although, the two leads I've gotten from the meetups haven't turned into anything. I should write an update on that.

Hope sharing my experiences helps others save time not making the same mistakes.
> Your C corp technically has to buy that IP from your LLC - which cost something.

It doesn't have to, but until it does it doesn't own it and can't enforce it. The former LLC owner may own the IP as the successor in interest of the LLC, but even if they were the sole stockholder of the C Corp, that wouldn't give the C Corp any rights at all (it might use the IP because the owner had no interest in enforcing rights against the corp he owns, but that's a tenuous prospect and a dangerous one for other investors.)

> Definitely talk with a professional to make sure you are taking appropriate steps in transferring the IP.

Definitely this, in any case.
"Yes, Uber is cheaper - until it isn't"

Case in point:

https://twitter.com/newyorkcityliz/status/470010209403150336

Edit: Fixed my idiom. Thanks dragonwriter.
From Uber website: "Get a ride that matches your style and budget"

In the low budget/style area, they are competing with the public transportation system? Do they have all this financial/momentum muscle?

And in the high budget/style, they are competing with rich people who can own their own BMW/Ferrari with a private driver?

Who "needs a ride" and chooses an expensive "SUV". How could this thing make a difference in anyone's life? "Oh sure, today I want to go to work in a fancy car, wheew!". Perhaps Barney Stinson?

It seems there is a lot of opportunity in NOT solving the real problem (public transportation). Good for Uber.
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> In NYC you can get a taxi 90% of the time by holding your hand up in a street corner.

Maybe you mean s/NYC/Manhattan/?

This is not true in much of the outer boroughs (and also in much of uptown Manhattan). In fact, in an attempt to address the problem, NYC created an entirely new class of cab that can only pick people up outside Manhattan.
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> It also discusses how conventional bombs were doing a fine job of systematically destroying the country (and population), waiting would have likely produced the same effect as japan was blockaded and staving

So now ask yourself:

Is it ethically better to use conventional weaponry to kill more people over a longer time? Conventional weaponry was used to firebomb Tokyo in March 1945; more people died in that one series of day/night raids than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

And they're saying this was better.

They're also claiming that having a Japan "blockaded and starving" while we waited them out is ethically better.

However difficult it is to precisely target an atom bomb, starvation is even more difficult to use as a weapon (as they're proposing): it doesn't obey rules of engagement, you can't direct at military objectives... hell, it would actually preferentially kill civilians, starting with the weakest, since the military would ensure they received higher rations.

And this is always how this argument devolves: People suggesting things which are actually even more cruel since they find it axiomatic that there is no worse thing you can do to someone than to use a single very big bomb to kill them instead of a million tiny little cumulative cuts.

(Edited to correct the subject proposing the bomb-'em-all argument).

As far as MacArthur, he and his staff were certainly not alone in their estimate of the political situation in Japan. FDR's military aide, Adm. Leahy, also thought that the bomb was unnecessary, as did Adm. Nimitz in Honolulu.

On the other hand, Leahy also thought the bomb would never work (he even used his "expertise in explosives" to support that argument).

And both FDR and Truman had been briefed regarding the two proposed upcoming invasions (of Kyushu and then Honshu) that the American and Japanese casualties would be monumental.

MacArthur was always thought he was the politician as much as he was the general; it's the reason he was fired from his service in the Korean War despite his absolutely brilliant orchestration of the Incheon landings to save the war effort for the U.N.

He's not even wrong in this regard though: Using the atom bomb was not absolutely militarily essential. As your article mentions, we could simply haved starved them all to death instead, like the ethical and noble creatures that we are.
I didn't redefine anything–it was always my definition. I only brought it up because Olark's partners page is really just an affiliate program [0]. Affiliate programs are marketing–you build out your affiliate program once, with whatever terms you choose, and others can choose to send customers your way or not. For tools like Olark that need to integrate into CMS and ecommerce platforms, affiliate programs make a lot of sense.

But affiliate programs are not strategic partnerships or biz dev. Sorry.

Also, while I agree that distribution partnerships are bad for SaaS startups, it's not that cut and dry. Not everyone will approach you for a distribution partnership because they want margin or affiliate fees. Like I said, big companies often just want to slap partner logos on a web page or brochure. It is just a nice sounding bullet point for their enterprise sales people ("Look, we have over 40 integration partners here at Hooli").

Again, the comments here seem to back-up my side of the argument.

[0] https://www.olark.com/partners
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> Case and point:

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/case+in+point
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Why do you have to keep selling a secret from employees?
This is really interesting. I just looked over some code I wrote this morning. There were 2 LLE errors. I'm sure I would have caught them in testing after lunch but, woah. For the life of me, I can't reconstruct my mental state when I edited those code bits though, so I don't know what the root of the error is. I think now though, I'll be on the lookout and perhaps gain some insight.

In retrospect, I've had quite a few of these - once pointed out as a pattern, it's fairly easy to see it's a "thing".

I wonder what sort of IDE or other tooling could be put in place to hint those errors out of existence.
To give a perspective from Chicago:

About a month ago my girlfriend told me how she was late for work on morning and wouldn't make it on time if she took her usual public transportation route, so she took Uber.

I was surprised because I never talked to her about Uber and I usually introduce her to things like this. Turns out its fairly popular at her school and other downtown Chicago campuses. Students just like it better then cabs and find it easier to get a good rate and nearly any time in the day.

I still have yet to use it myself, but I feel they are making huge in roads to being a common place name and that alone seems to justify this valuation. This isn't theoretical growth. They are getting huge, and its not just in the tech bubble.
> as you know what port the service-discovery-service runs on

This bootstrapping problem is why CoreOS runs etcd on every node at localhost:4001.
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>Google's go-to-market plan for driverless cars

Robo-Uber as I like to call it is all very exciting and transformative. And I have little doubt that it will happen someday. But we're talking decades according to many people who really know the topic. For example, John Leonard who was on the MIT DARPA Challenge team has said "I don’t expect to have truly driverless taxis in Manhattan in my lifetime." http://digitalcommunity.mit.edu/community/featured_content/b...

Next time you drive in a city, think about all the little decisions that you're making constantly. I'd love to have a service like this but it's not going to happen within a time horizon relevant to any current financial investments.
Except that in the past I've had major issues with Cloudflare's IPv6 service, recently one of the issues was that Centurylink customers (at least in the Denver area) were unable to visit any Cloudflare hosted IPv6 sites.

https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/470243728473325568

Was my Tweet to Stackoverflow regarding the issue.

Here is the paste of the symptoms seen:
http://paste.ofcode.org/XQGqerxCNXwYsHDQMZ3aja

This meant that until I reported the issue to Cloudflare/StackExchange that people using IPv6 were UNABLE to access those resources needed to load the site (the server would hang indefinitely, so happy eyeballs did not work!). In the case of StackExchange on Centurylink that meant that CSS and other resources did not load, for my site (http://defcne.net/) that meant my site didn't load at all!

I absolutely love Cloudflare, but to me it is inexcusable that there is no monitoring to verify that these issues don't exist. It took me filing a report for them to fix the issue.

Ultimately it came down to this:

"We had recently been experiencing IPv6 routing issues with one of our upstream providers for some of our data centers which may have contributed to the issues you had been seeing. We've since disabled transit for that provider to temporarily work around the issue."

Yet this meant that my site/StackOverflow and countless other sites using Cloudflare were offline (if the customer has IPv6 enabled) for almost a week (first report from customer using CenturyLink, me trying to figure out what is going on, to CloudFlare fixing the issue).
I've found that image-to-favicon generators generally don't work very well. They're fine for generating the larger icons but the 16x16 ones generally look like crap. Those really require some tweaking on the pixel-level and require design skills not many people have, so I usually favor simpler favicons that can be manually created with a graphics editor.
>health of our population shows how well that has worked

The average lifespan has gone up considerably in recent decades, and people remain active longer than ever, i.e. people are gaining productive years, not just end-of-life years.

In other words, "it" worked fairly well.
Huh... no, what would make you think that?
For my project I am using Tinc to create a VPN that bridges the different per-host local Docker networks. I have described how to do that in a Gist: https://gist.github.com/noteed/11031504

The approach is taken from a blog post where Open vSwitch was used instead of Tinc: http://goldmann.pl/blog/2014/01/21/connecting-docker-contain...

I really like this approach: I run a SkyDNS per group of containers. That DNS is used in `docker run --dns`. Containers can then look up services naturally (via DNS) and those services can actually be running on different machines. Those containers can be running on my laptop or multiple machines across multiple datacenters and there's no difference to them.
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