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Plenty of people work full-time and also work on a side business. I'm doing it right now, myself. Yeah, it's tough, but you do what you have to do.
It's not like "Ferengi as Space Jews" is an original point this author has devised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFerengi#The_Jews_of_Spa...

Though he has overlooked / omitted contradictory references in other places. In the grandest traditions of nitpicky Star Trek apologism on the internet:

> In the DS9 episode “Trials and Tribble-ations,” Sisko and his crew travel back in time to TOS to prevent a bombing by the Klingons. To blend in, these travelers change their uniforms to match the color codes of TOS.

> [...]

> When one of his crew calls Sisko “Captain,” Sisko responds, “Lieutenant, actually. I didn’t want to push my luck.” Sisko provides no other explanation for this hierarchy change. Perhaps he strategically diminishes his own authority to prevent infelicitous questions or scrutiny by other Starfleet officers. However, on the heels of Dax’s remark, another possibility comes into view. As a black Starfleet captain—an impossibility in TOS’s “time”—Sisko would trouble the utopian terms of Star Trek’s future past.

Commodore Stone, an officer above the rank of Captain, appeared in the Original Series episode 'Court Martial' and was played by an actor identified as being of Afro-Portugese heritage (though I am not certain if that's how he would have identified as himself; there is no ceiling to the level of semantic wrangling necessary to credibly discuss such topics, and even this is cutting short the dissertation that this disclaimer would need to be in other contexts), whom I'm sure the author of this article would agree fit with his usage of the reductive term "black".

source:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Stone_(Commodore)

There's also several other captain-or-higher officers depicted by "black" actors in the TOS movies, though those were produced, physically and temporally, TNG-adjacent, by Paramount in the mid-80s. Which is still honestly not a great record.

But, as much fun as it is to go Derrida on everything, "Kirk would have serious problems with the idea of a Commander-or-higher-level officer serving on his ship that he had never heard of before." is pretty solid canon to me.
In the long list of terms used to refer to individuals who are in the White House, "chick" is pretty tame.
This is just one of the many things I've learned from watching Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvxoGJAqEc).
Ha! I was waaay off.

The old MS C Compiler for MS-DOS did really, really suck.
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There's your answer right there: mold!

Given that you are willing to accept mold as a plant, that is. Make it easy on yourself. Accept the mold.
The article confirmed that the bones will be going back.
After having both Lightbox7 and whatever Sonys big photo-store/share platform close down and wipe out my high school/college albums I've learned to definitely not rely on any image hosting services.

Back then there wasn't twitter or any other good social media and you found things out by visiting the site or through ICQ.
For those of you unaware, Colin Percival (author of the blog) was for many years the FreeBSD Security Officer and he's highly recognized in the field for his expertise.

He also runs http://www.tarsnap.com/ which is arguably the most secure (and cost effective) back up solution in the market.

(I'm in no way affiliated with Colin and/or Tarsnap. Just a fan of his work and humble attitude.)
No kidding. I would simply hope that the best PERSON for the job was appointed to the position, gender (or race, religion or sexual orientation for that matter) be damned.
Thank you for that link. Very entertaining and informative on a topic which I never realized was as complex as it is.
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memset_ptr is a const (we can't change its value) volatile (its value might change on its own) pointer to a function which taking three arguments (void * , int, size_t) and returning void *; and the memset_ptr symbol does not have external linkage and is initialized to "memset".
1) What if I told you, you could base your entire business on another business' product, get shut down, and still come out ahead? Getting shut down isn't the worst thing to happen, it could even be the "exit strategy." Run the money machine until it's dry.
I believe that Peter Thiel doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. He seems to have confused mathematics and new age philosophy.

"There are no specifics in probability and statistics"? I would call this statement bullshit, but I cannot figure out any precise meaning to ascribe to it.

"Antitheories dominate instead?" Umm..... huh?!

As a math educator, I find the question of whether to teach calculus or statistics in high schools extremely interesting, relevant, and important. If you want to ponder this question, I recommend beginning with a more substantive contribution to the debate.
Deep Space Nine managed to flesh out the cultures of a lot of alien species as well because of its arc-based format (unsurprisingly, it was accused of being a B5 ripoff when it started.) A lot of Trek fans seem not to like it for that reason, though - when you introduce complexity, you also introduce moral ambiguity, and Star Trek's utopian vision of humanity was traditionally unambiguous about portraying humans as morally and ethically unchallenged.

Of course, that the aliens on Star Trek served as thin allegories for the less enlightened traits of humanity was probably the point.
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humble attitude

I'm guessing you haven't seen the "comeback of all time" thread...
This comment reads as entitled to me. Startup founders have an insane number of things on their plate, and that list just keeps growing and growing. Startup employees work hard, but the founders still bear most of the risk and responsibility.

What really needs to happen is for new ways to organize startups to distribute the risks and responsibilities better, so that it's not up to the goodness of the founder's heart to ensure a good outcome for the employees.

Of course, this implies that the pie is being made bigger, the risks and responsibilities being spread out are actually building more value in the company so as to generate a bigger exit. So far though founder-level discipline and risk-taking is rare enough in one individual that this is the situation we have to deal with.
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If you're not worried about writing in a language which is widely supported, just use memset_s and tell people to find a C11 compiler.
cdecl is really handy for stuff like this. Try it out:

http://cdecl.ridiculousfish.com/?q=static+void+*+%28*+const+...
Sorry guys, but there is no excuse not to use https at this day and age.
No SSL no dice.

Other than that I'd be super interested in your site :)
It's declaring a function pointer which is just an alias for memset and additionally qualifying it as volatile so the compiler doesn't optimize the call out.
I haven't.

But I think it's super funny and cool that you (yourself) are pointing it out.

All the best with you.

Edit: just read the "comeback of all time". That was really funny. Nice nod from PG as well. For those of you unaware like me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083 Colin is our resident mathematical genius :)
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I think criminals have a different mindset than we do. Look at world star and live leaks for example. Being filmed probably encourages them to act worse.
I feel this way as well.
I don't think you are giving these founders enough credit. Startup acquisitions, not unlike fundraising, can be very emotional. Acquirers can go from hot to cold very quickly if they hear the wrong thing or get the wrong vibe. The founders went to great lengths to structure the deal in a way that compensated their employees like this. It's likely that they put the entire deal at risk to do so. That, in my mind, strongly shows generosity on the part of the founder.
I'm mixed on this.

I have a full time job and have a growing side business that I am going to be transitioning to my full time job in December.

On the one hand it is critical for myself and my family to have income while we bootstrap. Our business is in the position where we need money to go full time but can't get money till we are able to devote full time effort to it - and even then it's not a guarantee that we will make enough in the first few months to sustain my family and my co-founders families until we have a market breakthrough.

Oh the flip side, not only is your life insane but nobody really wants to touch you because you can't be 100% devoted right then. Investors don't like part-time people, partners don't like part time people and you have a hard time recruiting people to work part time on the side. Not only that but there is a constant nagging feeling in the back of your head that "you're late to the party" and some competitor is going to eat your lunch simply by putting in more hours.

So there are goods and bads and I think the answer is that it depends on your life situation and what you are trying to build.
Mostly. There's something about the cannabis that is indeed relaxing, but you shouldn't rely too much on external sources, no matter the benefits. You will start to think that your creativity only comes from such dependency. Give a try to meditation and mindfullness – there are many kinds and one will surely fit your needs. Meditation is placebo to an extent, but it comes from you (no external sources), it can be done anywhere and it makes you more aware of yourself. Everyone I know that started practicing self-awareness is happier, more creative AND more disciplined.
Yeah I think it will be better. I was looking for a demo too.
And great employees can always go to {google, fb, twitter, microsoft, salesforce, etc} and get paid $250-$300 / year in cash or cash equivalents, instead of $125-$150 plus lottery tickets.

In fact, I remember reading that round A is the worse time for an employee to join a startup: the large grants are gone, but the business isn't derisked, so your lottery tickets still have shit ev.
Rule 30: "It is mainly the incompetent that don't like to show off their work."
Shaun is a really cool guy, very friendly and helpful. :)
> It takes longer to chew fresh produce than canned

That's a 50% improvement in time for unscripted mindful awareness, thanks to the physics of chewing fresh produce.

Parents need a centralized site where "winning arguments" are aggregated, to improve the liquidity of decentralized debate with bureacracy.
My family and I use Seahorse to share our photos and it has been working just great to us. Previously, we used to lose all the pics we shared through whatsapp. Now I also got my iPhone synced with Seahorse and all my camera roll is automatically backed up in a 'scene' and pictures are ready to share whenever I want. Love it.
If you sell land below market value to someone who has no other place to live, they will live there only so long as it will take to arrange to move somewhere cheaper when they sell their land for market value and pocket the difference. They will then have money left over to spend on healthcare, tools, etc.

I'm not sure I agree with your statement that landowners squeeze the poor more than anyone else does.
Why would the compiler be allowed optimize away a call to a perfectly valid function? This seems like it's allowing to compiler to make judgement calls on whether or not your code is worthy of being executed.
Sounds good, but how do you screen them? The application to become a writer asks for an email address and name and education level, none of which determine whether the writer is good or not. Don't you think it makes sense to ask for at least a portfolio, websites, links, etc. to judge whether they are good? Are you contacting everyone who applies as a writer right now?
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This is really sound advice and thank you for posting it. But unfortunately empirical evidence doesn't really wash with clients who use words like "snazzy" and have seen carousels on their competitors' sites...

(No doubt those are the clients you should fire, but we aren't all Don Draper.)
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This is really neat. It's a shame that they didn't take a look at this through an anthropological lens (even in their conclusion), because "Dunbar's number" [0] would have given some perspective on the limits of small groups, where a community of 30-50 seems to be a well-established grouping size (and ~100-250 seems to be the limit for a "small" group).

For that matter, this seems relevant to the anthro theory that communities fall into one of four types of organization (families/bands, tribes/clans, chiefdoms, and states) [1]. In this context, it looks like the authors have identified the emergence of these groupings of organization, especially through their metric of "efficiency" and how bands and tribes differ.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopolitical_typology
> everything companies provide can be provided for nearly no cost by software

Good software is more expensive than you seem to think.

> [megacorps] are radically inefficient when compared to swarms of freelancers coordinated by and through software

That may be true. Or not. It's a big assertion. Lots of projects are more efficient if they have a stable set of maintainers. Could you swap out Linus and his lieutenants in favor of swarms of freelancers and still produce quality Linux kernels? I doubt it.

This whole line of thought (why firms and not markets?) is a branch of economics. If you haven't, read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm.

"According to Ronald Coase, people begin to organise their production in firms when the transaction cost of coordinating production through the market exchange, given imperfect information, is greater than within the firm."

That seems plausible to me. If we're truly interested in deprecating megacorps, we should reduce transaction costs for laypeople, including by making rules, regulations, and laws easier to grok if they are needed at all.
From the article:

> Most new applications now run on the Web, across data centers and geographies, so that data can be close to the users wherever they are. That’s what DataStax is designed to support, Mr. Murphy said.

I think to do that with Oracle is extremely expensive, so that would be a nice sweet spot to steal customers from Oracle if the workload matches what Cassandra can deliver (not all workloads, though, mind you)
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Just another reminder that when you subscribe to something intangible, that doesn't mean you own it.

As a father, I can sympathize with parents who may be a little distraught to find Sesame Street missing from it's usual place... when one was hoping for a few minutes of peace.

But if you don't own the tap, somebody else can turn off the water at a most inconvenient time.
According to the US BLS, almost 5% of the employed workforce has more than one job. Of course, the vast majority of those aren't working a white collar job while pursuing their start-up dream on the side...
Heh, I've done vodka once!

For modern shipboard collections, time is still the enemy ($20K/day to run a ship exhausts a scientific budget quickly, not to mention weather, etc). Surveys have multiple studies going on, so deck operations may be negotiated by scientists down to the minute. Many of the various molecular techniques require careful cleaning of surfaces and tools for each sample, so it's prohibitive to do "general molecular sampling".

For unusual things - in spite of us being scientists, and loving unusual things - the rule is still "Tag it, bag it, look at it later". The "bag it" is usually formalin. If it looks interesting back in the lab, conduct a special study next year to collect some genetics. Of course, we're not expecting to find new phyla very often!

So I'm absolutely sure that 20 years from now, someone could be going through my old bottles, find something truly weird that I missed, and wish that I'd thought to get some $!@#$$(## DNA!
Walking occupies the body and thus releases the mind.
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That's the thing I don't get - if a dialer customer doesn't immediately hangup on answering machines, and gets past the 6-second mark, "magically", everyone stops considering it dialer. Their rates then drop dramatically. That is, the dialer people are literally costing themselves more money by aggressively hanging up.

OTOH, it seems like a lot of people in telecom can't do simple math. For instance, the desire of customers wanting to buy flat rate for a very non-flat area. It's trivial to show that they'll never end up paying less on a flat rate, but they still insist.

If the stats are good, then why would any carrier care about the content? A lot of dialer is legal (like political dialer).
Still, it seems they're putting the effort in, and it would seem to be a better solution to simply email them and ask.
The study of human behavior is based primarily on subjective measurements and double blind studies are generally not feasible. The level of rigor often expected in hard sciences is generally not possible in the study of human behavior.
I just really hope that no-where in the shutdown does twitpic put up a restrictive robots.txt. Archive.org's retroactive robots.txt and all that.
http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html

Learning the right-left rule helps here. You'll still need to know what the keywords mean.
Is the going rate $250-$300k these days?

Honestly, though - beyond just larger equity grants, I'd like to see companies have people get rewarded when the company does well... Through some kind of bonus (in equity or cash).

It seems like most companies either have bonuses that are pretty much an expected part of salary, or they have no bonus in any situation. I've only really been part of the latter, though.
This depends a lot on your job. If you work as a software engineer, it's likely that you have sufficient control and freedom to work on side projects.

It's still brutal though - 60 hour weeks are insane, especially when you do them continuously. It can also take years and likely multiple projects before you succeed.
Does anyone else hate the new quartz layout?
The article says:

> There’s a startup in New York everyone talks about, and the things they say aren't very nice. The startup sold for ~ $80 million and the founders got rich. But, as the rumors go, no other employee made more than $50,000.

Does anyone know which startup they are referring to? carrentals.com? something else?
As the aeronautical engineer friend of mine says when you ask him why he's writing web UI's rather than building rockets, which is what he trained to do: "Because this flies and that doesn't."
There are no class browsers for Lisp because deep class hierarchies are very rare.

One example: In many OO APIs it is idiomatic (if not mandatory) to subclass a base-class in the API in order to customize its behavior. This is extremely rare in lisp. Behavior is more commonly customized by just defining functions and either assigning them to slots, or defining new methods on generic functions for classes that are not typically descendants of classes in the API.

I've been developing in lisp for years, and I can count on one finger the number of times I've subclassed a class written by someone else, and I've never said "This would be so much easier to understand if only I had a class browser"
I wonder what the social safety net is like in Portugal. It looks like they have national health service, so maybe dealing with employee health insurance is one worry their entrepreneurs would lack.
Do employee stock options usually not vest automatically upon acquisition? The SinglePlatform story made it sound like employees get screwed if there's an early exit before their options had fully vested.
You can watch and almost endless stream of narco executions, ISIS killing Iraqis and Syrians, Syrians killing Syrians, people getting burned alive by African lynch mobs, no one cares.

But a couple of white guys and the censorship mob break out the temporary barriers.

I'd rather live in an uncensored world, thanks.
The majority of the Ivy league comes from one particular demographic: the upper middle class. These families might have an HHI of $100-500k; very comfortable, but not so much that the kids don't have to work for a living. There is a strong risk aversion in this demographic, because falling out of this class has really significant quality of life repercussions.

And it's not just the money. For ambitious kids, it's a fear of hitting artificial limits on career progression. Working your way up in a corporation isn't a common career trajectory anymore. Instead, companies hire executives from a particular track, which starts with an Ivy-league school, involves a stint at an investment bank or consulting firm, perhaps an Ivy-league MBA, and from then forward a series of management and executive positions.

The tech industry is somewhat of an exception to this rule, but only somewhat. Elon Musk has a bachelors degree in Economics from Penn's Wharton School (in addition to his degree in Physics); Peter Thiel majored in Philosophy at Stanford, and so went to law school like the other English/Philosophy majors, and then did a stint in investment banking.

And even in entrepreneurship, you'll spend a lot of your time pitching VC's, and guess what's the easiest way to become a VC: Ivy-league, stint at an investment bank or consulting company, then an MBA. If you as an entrepreneur have that same background, that removes one level of insulation between you and the people you need to fund your company.

Considering all of these things, if you're smart enough to get into an Ivy-leaguge school, why wouldn't you major in economics?
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