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Ask HN: What to do when you are successful, hate it, and can't seem to change?
tl;dr: I love software engineering, my skills are quite good, but all too often I get stuck in the "business side" of management. Have anyone else been stuck in business like this? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get out of the business side and back into the software engineering?

A bit of background. I am a self-taught but successful software engineer. I write, speak and teach on engineering topics constantly. I also have a background, due to family, in business so I understand business topics quite well. My educational background is in law, though I dropped, because I did not like law, and I love software engineering!

Over the last decade or so I have consistently been put in positions at companies where I engineer AND help with business development/product operations. I have always been hired as an engineer but within short order I am snagged for business advising as well. This hasn’t been all bad. I have been involved with the successful sale of 2 startups, soon to be 3, worked with some brilliant people at the top of some Fortune 50 companies, etc. The problem is I don’t enjoy meeting with executives at 8pm over drinks to try to discuss the next big deal. I don’t like to make presentations late into the night to put in front of Venture Capital, Series A/B investors, or Executives. I still write software with a team all day and then I am “invited” (told I must) meet with others well into the evening for the good of the business. I come home late at night and I am upset, irritable, hating what I do. Some say it is depression, but would I want a medication to fix what is obviously a lifestyle problem? Some say I should change jobs, but I do that about every 6 months to 2 years now.

So, HN, has anyone else been in a situation like this and found a way to just get back to engineering? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Well, the first question has to be what's your aim and ambition with this game?
I don't think information about how Vicarious systems work is publicly available. Presumably they're using something similar to HTM.
Well, by that argument the space program was just a refinement of the Montgolfier balloon of 1783; both involve flying, after all.

In reality, quantitative parameters - cost, performance, reliability, usability - matter more than 'the first X'.
Here's where F# shines - you could write your query like:

products
|> Seq.filter(fun a -> a.Type = ProductType.Bean)
|> Seq.sortBy(fun a -> a.Group, a.Name)
|> Seq.map(fun a -> a.Name)

It doesn't save a lot of lines here, but the big difference is this: suddenly you aren't constrained by the syntax of the single Linq query. So you want an additional filter,join,merge happening in between? No problem!
I think this: getbootstrap.com counts as a design :)
My post in no way related to the good people of Korea, nor was it intended to. I responded to the portion I quoted.
To be clear, is this stating the format as outlined on Schema (http://schema.org/) is dead?
You say that so casually. As someone with no experience in NLP, do you just have topic model algo's or a toolkit lying around? Going on your website this isn't your field of expertise, have you worked on this stuff in the past or just a hobby?
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A note to starting freelancers: Stop using these sites as soon as possible. Build your portfolio and figure out how to get your own clients. Giving someone else 20% for finding work is not in your best interests, especially for repeat clients. If billing is too difficult for you to handle yourself, you might want to reconsider freelancing.
I work with a guy that used to be a submariner and he talks about how the best thing about being in a submarine was the food, including lobster. Maybe being in submarine they couldn't spend too long cooking it? As someone who just tried lobster for the first time this weekend I don't think anything can make it taste good.
While not exactly what you are asking, try to use the CDN:
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

If more websites are using it chances are that your user has the css already in their cache.
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Any idea? I'm looking for the first product that was sold like that. I guess the first one that did this had to face a ton of obstacles in terms of users not willing to pay monthly or other periodicity.
It's likely a trademark issue. A trademark is suppose to be an adjective (a Google search. A Lego brick.)

This is because a trademark identifies a specific source or producer of an item. If a trademark is used as a noun (Kleenexes, Trampolines) it is a step toward generic usage and loss of the trademark.

Hence, the Lego group would want you to talk about Lego bricks and Lego pieces, but everyone else is fine talking about Legos. (Except my autocorrect, which wants it to be Lego's)
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It would depend on a rather lot. I hate to be "THAT GUY", where the answer to a hypothetical is always more and more questions, but if it were right now, I'd have a hard time supporting American imperialism more than I already do with my taxes, especially as it currently seems hell bent on restricting, removing and or curtailing my individual rights.

Our foreign policy has been, to put it gently, sloppy of late, and I have a hard time imagining that the kind of response you're describing as necessary isn't going to be seen historically as a "gross overreaction".

So, the best I can answer at this point is "unlikely".
This is a rebuttal by David Young, Vice President, Verizon Regulatory Affairs to Level 3's blog regarding peering and bottlenecks [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048997
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Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one.

EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime is, well, QuickTime. Interesting...
Honest question; If a chemical start-up took the same approach - make an awesome product and ignore all safety and health regulations - what would you think?
Those are standard restrictions for embedded real-time systems, especially if the language itself doesn't offer guarantees on tail-call optimization (like the ML family, Erlang and others do). You have to guarantee the behavior of the program, and recursion (especially unbounded memory usage as in many C implementations) can royally screw things up. You may still have infinite loops because of an error in a for loop's terminating condition, but without dynamic memory and exploding stack usage you'll at least have enough memory left to deal with it when the watchdog timer kicks in.
Agreed, this is not a book I would recommend to someone who is guilty of bad arguments, in the hope that they would learn from it. It's dense and requires the reader to fill in a lot of gaps themselves.
Even just a summary? We've got nothing. The site is down and even the archive.org link above isn't responding.

My guess just based on title is something along the lines of silos are bad so lets make a better silo. But, our silo will be a really nice silo. Forgetting that's what everyone has been doing forever. The wheel of IT rotates forever and this is a very old idea that fits the title.
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They do! They're in EXECUTIVE.agc (search for OCT 1201 and OCT 1202).

Those error codes mean "No VAC Areas" and "No Core Sets", respectively. Core sets were the basic task control blocks, including each task's entry point, priority, flags, some memory for temporary variables, and a few other things. VAC (Vector Accumulator) areas were a bit more interesting. Most of the real guidance code was not actually written in AGC assembly because it was so primitive and limiting. So, they created the "Interpreter" (INTERPRETER.agc) that's essentially a little virtual machine, that had its own assembly language (complete with mathematical and vector operations). Interpreted tasks needed more than the 7 words of temporary variables provided by the core sets, so they also allocated these VAC areas for more storage.

Those error codes showed up on Apollo 11 because of a weird electrical power phasing bug, essentially causing the radar to generate thousands of "interrupts" (actually cycle stealing operations) every second. With all of this additional work, the AGC didn't have enough time to finish its low priority tasks. And since those tasks hadn't exited by the time they were expected to, when the executive attempted to kick off new tasks, it found that no core sets or VAC areas were available, and sounded those program alarms.
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It is tough to give you advice when we don't know your whole situation (do you need a job because of health care, for example).

Maybe you can just consult? That makes is easier to turn down work you don't want. And don't list your business experience on your resume/LinkedIn profile.
Related, tmuxinator, https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator.
Great firm, but I still can't ever imagine wanting to (or being compelled to) eat lunch with the rest of my team every day.
If the regulations are not working in the consumer's favor, why shouldn't we disregard them? In DC we just last year, that's right 2013, got taxis to agree to universally accept credit cards. Why? Because Uber came to town and people finally had another option aside from the generally terrible taxis in this city.
>The app and payment is the true innovation. Skirting local regulations by hiring out contractors isn't innovation.

As far as Uber is concerned, though, the hard part of their business IS skirting local regulations. Their core competence is not running a payment system - it's being able to lobby successfully to enter protected markets where other taxi companies couldn't. Once they've got first mover advantage the network effect takes over.
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i called and asked. they keep 100% of the purchase fee.
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Here, I know it is from wikipedia which is a crap source, but the numbers are referenced:

US active serving personnel - 1,369,532 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces

EU active serving personnel - 1,453,028 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union

edit - one thing to keep in mind is that although US expenditure is 2.5 times larger than the EU, much of that historically was spent on weapons rather than troops as it was directed towards trying to bankrupt the USSR by the meta-game of convincing them to play the game of arsenal oneupmanship, while having deeper pockets.
See, that’s exactly the kind of fucked up thinking that’s so creepy about this.

This acceptance of death is something I just cannot understand. The nonchalance with which the complete destruction of conscious minds is accepted is mind-boggling.
I still miss the old days of Ascii art, demos were around back then, probably what killed the ascii art scene.
Our performance benchmarks suggest that application performance is most certainly better off with: (a) DOM reuse (b) calculating expensive things only once (c) reducing GC pressure == not discarding/recreating things (d) coordinating actions that may trigger reflow. It is independent of what framework you are using.

My limited understanding of React is that it fails in (a), (b) and (c), and only limited measures can be applied to improve them. Re-creating the entire DOM on each update probably does not help. I have no information if (d) is possible with it.

I am using Angular.dart for a while now, and it can be used to get all of them in an optimal way.

Disclaimer: I'm working at Google.
Ukraine is acting in its (perceived) interests, and Russia -- in its own. Where is the problem?

The thing is, there is a handful of superpowers in the world, which dictate the geopolitical motions. A smaller country bordering a superpower can be friends with it, be strictly neutral (see Finland) or be friends with opposing superpowers (see Ukraine). The last scenario means you are asking for all sorts of shit to happen to you. It's not "good", but that's how things are.
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I developed a short-lived minor hit game several years ago which topped out at #3 on the U.S. App Store overall free chart, right behind the Facebook app. At the time that represented about 50-60,000 downloads a day; I assume it would be considerably more now.

That app was languishing in the nether regions of the App Store until we got press on some Gawker properties at which point it absolutely exploded. It was then picked up by other outlets which only helped.

There's a million apps out there and media outlets are not going to talk about all of them, so the way we got that press was by making writing an article about us more valuable to them: we gave them something to give their readers. This was a $0.99 app (these were the days before it was clear that charging money up front for apps is not a viable strategy). We scheduled a weekend giveaway about a week out, emailed media about it, and they got to offer their readers more than just pointing out an app they might like, they got to give them a deal on it.

So, in my limited experience, a good way to get traction is through some combination the media (they have the eyeballs) and a deal (people love deals). And the best way to get the media to talk about you is to make talking about you more valuable to them.
That is only because Uber has decided to. Tomorrow Uber could put a price on the app and then when you get there double it for "unforeseen traffic conditions".

Before regulation taxis were experts at scamming and scheming their way into higher fares. I'm not sure why you think Uber, who outwardly admits profit is their only motive, won't use similar tricks if it benefits their bottom line. Or any number of similar copy cat services that will arrive if the Uber model finally does replace taxis.
@Poster and @Everyone: I just returned on July 1st from traveling through 8 different countries over a month's span, and AirBnB'd the whole trip. A fellow traveler also experienced the same tragic incident in Berlin. He came to the conclusion that he was logged in to the website via safari on an insecure network and was redirected to the fake site. Its a serious bummer but there was nothing he could do. The best and most secure way to use AirBnB is through their mobile app, not by login into their "site" on an insecure WiFi NetWork. Search through hosts and seriously read their reviews. I contacted everyone before hand and would not book unless I received a response.

@everyone: I returned from Barcelona three weeks ago. I rented a very nice apartment in the heart of the Gothic Quarter using AirBnB. As far as AirBnB being illegal, I don't think that is correct. I have many friends who have studied abroad and when they would leave Spain to go travel they would throw their apartment on AirBnB to make a couple bucks. Like with traveling anywhere, just be careful.
Or maybe she hadn't used Airbnb before, and was just following the instructions that got emailed to her.
> The ability of these companies to outcompete traditional companies on price in their spaces is due to their choice to not follow regulations as much as possible.

The only significant regulation affecting price that Uber carefully avoids is the limit on the number of taxi "medallions" issued. If you're in favor of regulating that industry, could you explain how a limit on taxi medallions is in any way good for taxi passengers?
I understand, these are all interesting points. But neither explains the anxiety; if everyone is happy with current service, why would the unions even care? Why aren't they confident that the service will fail on its own?
Wage growth is not going to return because we've started hustling rides. Its demise was political and its resurgence can only be political. The 'sharing' economy is simply symptomatic.
Is it normal for an interviewer not to clarify that "actually, I was wrong" on these sorts of self-confidence tests?

Personally at the end of the interview (as the interviewer) I would refer back to any of those sorts of questions and say.. "actually I was trying to catch you out, you did good there", or some such.

This not only stops them doubting themselves, but also clears the air if I was to come back to them and offer them the job. Who knows, maybe the interviewee ran off to SO and categorically proved me wrong.
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Just tried out the first few levels. Fun little game. The add ons for hints is an easy standard way to monetize a free game. I can't offer much advice graphics, but you might want to look at making the marbles look like marbles. Polish up the visuals just a bit. Feels like it's 95% of the way there.

Other ideas: Look into some way to compete with other people. Some way to share it.

Add the ability to text a link to the App Store to a friend. Only ask for the contacts permission when someone initiates that feature.

Just keep iterating on the game and polishing it. You guys will get more ideas as time goes by.

Expect the popularity to fall off at some point. That's normal.

Apple looks for apps that really show off the platform. Being in the top 30 is great. If the visuals and sounds were a little more polished there's a better chance your game might be featured. This can be really great for boosting you higher, though it's not a permanent bump.

Apps have life cycles. Do the best you can now and learn from it. Invaluable lessons for doing more apps in the future.
Some places set aside work time, half a day per week, for "game playing". They provide a bunch of games. You're paid as part of your work to play them.

This is to get people out of their cubicles and away from their computers and talking to colleagues. It helps people have a break from a particular problem (which is often all they need to solve that problem). It allows people time to chat to each other, about problems they're trying to solve or just general stuff. You know that you're not interrupting someone's work during one of these afternoons.

So, if a company is going to force some social time this is probably a better way to do it.
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You could install Resurrect Pages https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... which gives you links to IA and Google caches with a right-click.
How does re-regulation do anything but protect these companies that have essentially ignored the law?

You mean, like the current laws, which were often written to stop taxi drivers rioting and destroying others' property[1]?

As I said, where does our search for low costs end up battling our sense of personal safety and social responsibility?

What about allowing each person to choose for herself?

[1] http://www.britishpathe.com/video/u-s-taxi-strike
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Do you have any code samples online of this combination? I'd be interested to see how these are used together, because they seem like a great fit.
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Here is an alternative framing based on my experience:

Capable people who go after money usually get it, but the money comes with regrets like time not spent with family and the like.

Those who pursue meaningful and substantial change are also often successful, and with that success comes money.
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Jesus Christ. This whole thing reminds me of when I was a kid and my divorced parents were having a legal battle over child support payments, and each one was telling me their version of how horrible the other parent was, and why they should get more money (like I had any say in the matter). It was transparently manipulative then, and it's transparently manipulative now.

Can't anyone act like adults these days? Or is this just how adults behave?
Not sure if it's what grandparent used, but I recently discovered QuickTime Player has a feature to do screen recording that works pretty well
Presumably you meant to ask "Do VCs make money directly if a company doesn't go public or get acquired?"

Investors make money if they sell their stock (or other instruments) for more than the purchase price. Without and IPO or M&A, how would this happen?

I included directly because sometimes the investment doesn't go well itself but results in a subsequent investment (e.g., the same founders or other employees start another company or the VC makes a connection that leads to a Whatsapp situation).

Sometimes companies will be pushed into deals that don't really make a profit but at least get the VCs a longer ride. Years ago I was at a startup that had taken $7M but never got to real revenues; the VCs instigated a sale of the company to a very large, already public company that essentially returned the $7M to them. Today we'd have probably called that an aqui-hire since the buyer took only the engineering team and laid off the rest. But the VC got their cash to invest again and perhaps more importantly the partner on our board got his time back to invest elsewhere.

Another startup I was at only took angel money, about $2M, but literally never took in a penny, and we simply shut the company down--I had to get rid of the office furniture--although the two main investors sold the intellectual property to another startup for stock.

But short of an IPO or big money acquisition, I don't see how a VC makes money directly.
The public has no voice despite Uber utilizing public resources.

You mean the public is being forced to take Uber rides? That's appalling.
Instead the sharing economy will make those wage stagnated people's lives more expensive and force them into the sharing economy.

It was like refinancing. In a lot of markets many people couldn't afford a house unless they planned to refinance in a couple years based on price appreciation. With Airbnb the price of apartments will rise to the point where one cannot afford an apartment unless one rents part of it out on Airbnb.
I found simplescreenrecorder (for Linux, probably for other OSs) fantastic for this.
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"All cats have four legs. Therefore, anything that isn't a cat doesn't have four legs."

Maybe Greg was just learning about logical fallacies and hadn't gotten all the way through? (Although in that case I don't think his philosophy undergrad was very good, since I think you're supposed to learn that during your bachelor's...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
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If you watch DS9 Ep 04x02 you'll notice a familiar phrase shouted by the hilarious klingon guy 'we do not forgive, or forget' which was played in a raid chatroom back in 2004 and soon afterwards appeared in call to arms threads
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I've got 3 hours into wrestling with Ruby versions (1.7 vs newer) and xcode (command line tools),trying to get tmuxinator to work on my Mountain Lion system.

Just tried tmuxomatic - worked in 15 seconds.
This looks awesome, great work.
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