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I am almost the complete opposite. I only start companies with friends and while there have been some issues, it has served me very well.

I think it partly depends on the definition of friend. I don't start companies with acquaintances, I start them with people that I love and respect.

When you do that, starting a company becomes a really special endeavor.

This is very relevant for me at the moment because I am starting a new company and the person that I am hounding to be the founding CTO is a "newer friend" (we have only known each other for 4 years or so) but I am convinced that we will be a great team.

My advice is to start companies to work with people you love vs. trying to make a bunch of money. It's such a great way to "work" and greed will have a hard time breaking that.
I actually would be in the market for your product. It's not so much the web design turning me off, it's that a 1 day trial costs me twice as much as it would to sign up for the service.

$2/day = $60/month.

I would suggest a way to get a free trial, for at least a week that's linked to a credit card or paypal account or something to keep people from just signing up for tons of free trials. Kind of like how Netflix or Hulu does it.
I'm curious what point you're trying to make by linking my comment, because I don't think it means what you think it means. I actually really enjoyed working at Google when Eric was CEO, and I can respect Larry's Google as well even though I choose not to work there. My comment was intended to illustrate the difference in culture under the two CEOs, as well as the choices they have to make in response to the outside environment, and not as a value judgment on those choices.
To be honest, dealing with status bar height changes are far more annoying in iOS than having to support a few different resolution sizes.
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And Firefox, too
Once you're authenticated in a client web page, lets say you want to perform data storage on your own server using this authenticated user as validation. How would your server validate the user's login is valid to accept user actions?
"but the collusion with Eric Schmidt cemented my contempt for the man"
> Moreover, I don't think the field of psychology has a very strong record regarding the diagnosis and treatment of prisoners.

Or anyone else, for that matter. Tom Widiger, who served as head of research for DSM-IV, says "There are lots of studies which show that clinicians diagnose most of their patients with one particular disorder and really don't systematically assess for other disorders. They have a bias in reference to the disorder that they are especially interested in treating and believe that most of their patients have."

The reason should be obvious -- unlike medicine, psychological diagnoses rely on assessing symptoms, not the detection and treatment of causes.

Psychiatrists and psychologists who serve on parole boards have a record no better than chance. When they say that a person is no longer a threat and merits release, based on their accuracy and predictive track record, they might as well flip a coin.
> As uncouth as it may be, there are plenty of people who just simply aren't good enough to do a particular job.

Sure. In reality I think both are true, and this makes the problem of building a great company even more challenging.

No organization can make someone who isn't good at something be good at it, but a dysfunctional organization can turn a genius into a B or C player. So as the builder of an organization, you are powerless to improve your people but very capable of demotivating and destroying them.

Tough breaks.
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Android's permission model is inexcusably malicious. For instance, the "phone status" permission, that also gives apps the ability to see who you call, read your device ID, etc. There's zero reason that checking to see if the phone is active requires a permission. But by including those very intrusive permissions along with a benign one, Google encourages people to get used to revealing tons of personal information.

Google now allows apps to silently add even more permissions, if they are in the "same group". They try to downplay and confuse things as much as possible.

It seems highly unlikely this was accidental. This is the main reason I'm disgusted with Google/Android and am doing all I can to stop using their products and services.
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The article makes the point that A/C in conjunction with fans can reduce the amount of energy needed to reach the same comfort levels. You don't need to remove the A/C if you install fans, but you can set the A/C thermostat to a higher temperature (which saves on electricity use and cost) and turn on a fan to get the same comfort level.
I'm willing to bet that Apple doesn't care about watch enthusiasts who will never buy anything but a mechanical watch.
The most important bit for me is not to treat people as 'disposables'. The ease with which people get hired and fired really does not sit well with me. Employers are way too quick to hire people rather than to do a serious vetting up front. Spending real time on a hire is definitely worth it and once you've narrowed it down to a shortlist it's perfectly ok to spend half a day or more with a prospective hire in order to make sure they are who you need and that the fit is right, that you're not hiring a fish for a tree climbing job.

But once you've pulled the trigger on that the responsibilities run both ways. Employers are quick to expect loyalty but are loathe to display loyalty in return. This can be vastly improved upon.

The best way to judge the health of a company is a single number: employee turnover as a fraction of the total company size.
Yeah, colors are hard. Compare the full saturation red they are using for Asian to the baby blue for White. The red stands out more than the blue, even though they are both supposed to represent one person.
That's not quite right. You can certainly inspire folks to do their best. Different from 'improving' them I suppose; but with the same result?
That's U+1F615 CONFUSED FACE - it's not supposed to be sad.

Android and Symbola render it with a straight, slanted mouth - I'm not sure why other fonts make it sad looking.
Forty years ago was 1974, hardly the zenith of heirloom varieties. Maybe what you write was true 80 or 100 years ago.
Gee, maybe it's because there's very little housing in Mountain View compared to the number of people who work there and the city refuses to allow more housing to be built? That makes rent there very expensive. People in their 20s are looking at rents that eat up half their salaries - and we're talking Google salaries here. http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/09/08/mountain-view-city-cand...
I'm with you on your main points. But this kind of talk doesn't help your argument.
> And as we all know, the Retina Macbooks render at a higher internal resolution and then scale it down to the native one.

I don't know that. Unless you're talking about scaled modes, which do resampling, the retina models render at the native resolution. They will scale apps by 2x that are not capable of rendering at the native resolution (not many).
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There's a lot of links in the article. It would be nice if you could include it.
This article reminded me of perhaps the most striking science fiction short story ever written: In Case Of Fire by Randall Garrett. It's a story I try to keep in mind every time I have to shuffle tasks, or when I review my interview notes.

Looks like it's available online too: http://gutenberg.readingroo.ms/2/4/5/2/24521/24521-h/24521-h...
I like the einstein quote about a fish judged by its ability to clime a tree. This happens a lot, though the mismatch can be much more subtle than that.

Almost every "senior" technical job I've seen in the last 10 years ("senior" really just means 5-7 years of experience, if that) contains verbiage about autonomy - choosing technologies, establishing best practices, setting architectural direction. HR speak for "let this developer decide how to do the job." I've also noticed, though, that as a developer, you often really have to fight to get this kind of autonomy, even if it was right there in the very formal job description everyone signed when you were hired.

This is because every project is different and has a history. The CIO went to a conference and made a huge investment in a product that needs to succeed to justify the expense. The director of technology is all about "agile", which means setting strict deadlines and asking people if they've met them in daily standup meetings. A chief architect who contributed many hours to an open source project, reassuring the director of technology that it will payoff tenfold once other people start using it, now believes that this should be the toolbox for your project.

While I'm sure you can read some cynicism in what I've just written, sometimes these are excellent choices - for the person who made them! Here's my analogy.

Someone studied tennis players, and concluded, based on John McEnroe's success, that tennis players should play left handed, slice the backhand, and get to the net as quickly as possible, avoiding rallies of more than 5 strokes.

So they hire Bjorn Borg, who appears to be a good tennis player. They hand him his racket, and tell him that at his next French Open (played on slow clay instead of fast grass), he will serve and volley and play left handed. Borg will no longer appear to be a tennis genius, but he's such a good athlete that he could probably win reasonably challenging local leagues this way. You know, a B player.
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To expand on your LZ4 comment, LZ4 is 3 times faster than LZO at decompression:

https://code.google.com/p/lz4/

However, LZ4's real innovation is on incompressible data. I do not have a reference at the moment, but there have been benchmarks on the userland lz4 tool on incompressible data that show it processing 10GB/sec. This is because LZ4 uses a hash table that enables it to give up when trying to compress data far sooner than other lempel-ziv implementations do.

As for stability, it is hard to for me to tell what you mean by that, but I just wrote a series of blog posts on the topic. If there are any outstanding issues not listed there, please file an issue on github:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/new

I also encourage you to file an issue requesting support for cgroup bsaed IO throttling. You are the first person to mention it.

As for not compiling with new kernels, the 0.6.3 release supports Linux 2.6.26 to Linux 3.16 while HEAD adds support for Linux 3.17 release candidates.

I briefly touched on the rootfs on ZFS issue in my blog post. I plan to add ZFS support to syslinux in the near future as per a discussion that I had with Peter Alvin at LinuxCon North America 2014. I expect this to resolve the issue for those willing to use syslinux as their bootloader.
Call tracking works very well for tracking conversions in offline channels.

Other than that I'd imagine custom landing pages for the different offline channels.
And where are all the flying accidents? Takeoff and landing, and mostly landing. A case of human cussedness overruling logic. The autopilots can land a plane in all conditions and respond to sudden changes with lightning reflexes.
How are you guys categorizing them?

http://emoji.codes/family?c=emoticons
http://emoji.codes/family?c=nature
etc.

I don't see that the SDKs provide ways of pulling the emojis out in a categorized list to choose from, it seems to all be about the conversion. If want a list of just emoticons, how would I do that with your SDK?
Well, we don't have that many black people, but every day on the train I see, and where I live, I'm surrounded by lots of Turkish people, Polish, Russians, a few blacks (I think the family a few houses down is of French origin), Spanish, Italians, lots of south/eastern Europeans whose language I can't identify...

Most seem to be hard-working families, or working/school youth, and generally seem more or less well-integrated. Of course on average they are less educated than the natives, there is more crime among them, but the same is true for natives from a poor/worker's origin compared to academics.

I've seen a few Roma (or whatever they are; looked like my stereotype of Roma) whose "job" it is to ride downtown and beg for money all day. I suppose (and hope) there are also more integrated ones among them.

Overall, sure there are also prejudices or racism, but the same is true in America regarding Mexican immigrants. As to elitism - I'm not sure what you mean by that. Yes, I'm a white, educated, good-looking guy; I'm lucky. Doesn't mean I think less of people from other backgrounds - on the contrary I respect them a lot if they don't just collect welfare.
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Just buy them, then try to find recipes on the web.

That's how my wife and I always do it and over the years we've discovered a lot of very nice dishes we'd otherwise have never heard of. Just stay clear of black salsify -- it's tasty but very difficult to prepare without making a mess.
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The way I see the metaphor used, A players are 10x as productive as B players.

The group you describe seem to be actively trying to get nothing done, which would put them in an different category (C players? F(ailure) players? I(ncompetent) players?).
I think you're looking for something more like :|
I'd imagine these would be added to all fares so as a price comparison tool it'd still be valid.
I had always heard it's in the 300 range. Phil Plait did an analysis back in the day using "display held one foot away" as the metric and determined that "average eyesight" could resolve 286 PPI. "Perfect eyesight" would bump it to 477 PPI.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...
I tend to agree. Except that going through withdrawal is one of the most painful, tortuous experiences modern humans are likely to find themselves in. It's truly dreadful. Just knowing that torture is waiting for you around the corner can make you extremely anxious. Knowing that relief can't be found easily because of arbitrary rules makes it even worse.

Faced with such torture, people might do things they might not otherwise do.
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What is the fundamental difference between nutrition and something like evolutionary biology? With evolution, there are obviously a lot of people who don't believe it, but pretty much everyone (including the doubters) recognizes that the mainstream scientific consensus is that evolution is a correct theory.

So, is the difference that there isn't much consensus among scientists for nutrition, and if so, why not? It seems to me that a hypothesis like "salt consumption affects blood pressure" should be fairly straightforward to test.

Or is the difference that the public simply isn't aware of what the scientific consensus is regarding issues in nutrition?
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Bravo, Daniel, my fellow humanist.
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If you zoom in, it gets lighter. That's unexpected, and seems to be an error in their averaging code. Maybe it's not averaging using HSV but in RGB?
I'm pretty sure lack of talent was the last thing that brought down Enron.
The US gov't does not pay for most drug R&D. It pays for most of the basic science, that often leads to drug candidates, but the industry shoulder nearly 100% of the cost of getting a drug to market.

The combined, private R&D budget for biotech is ~$70B (not including VC funding). Total NIH funding (much of which is not drug focused) is ~$30B.
Maybe they received an offer they couldn't refuse.
No I think he's right. At least around where I live (well, used to live, I'm in Korea at the moment), cyclists are not supposed to ride on roads that disrupt traffic or don't have a sufficient shoulder to pull off onto to let vehicles pass.

By contrast in Korea, they're not supposed to use roads at all and you'll find everything from bikes to scooters sharing sidewalks with people on foot. But bikes aren't real common here anyways with the small apartments and all.

edit actually I was curious and looked it up for Korea. Turns out according to Article 2(17)(a) of the 도로교통법 (road laws), bikes are classified as motor vehicles and have all the same rights and responsibilities as a motor vehicle.

Weird because I almost never see them out in traffic, but usually up on sidewalks or on "bike-only" roads.
You can't actually hire 'B' players, you can however hire fish and then tell them go climb trees.

Employers definitely can improve, I've seen it in person. I've also seen the opposite, companies that started out ok and ended up being a total disaster due to the relationship with their employees.

The critical point is when you go beyond about 20 employees. If you can make that transition culture in-tact and respect maintained then you'll do great. But if you don't you'll never reach 50 employees and your turnover will at some point balance your ability to hire.
Provided the magnetic strip can be read. Usually the card is so beaten up from usage over the year that the magnetic stripe will become unreadable before the an unavailable balance is left to be transferred.
To be fair, you would also want tests to determine the effect of other recently-consumed foods, because combining foods might not lead to strictly additive results.
It might just be the complexity of the language almost lends itself to complex approaches for relatively simple tasks.
I am trying "2020 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, United States" and "1330 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122" and the site works for me.

I'm on Chrome 37.0.2062.94 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 on a desktop.
Google Talk and Google Voice in Gmail were/are a great voice calling service. Hangouts is still missing a ton of features compared to google talk, although this feature brings back one of them. I still have Hangouts disabled in favor of the old Google Talk interface on my main Gmail account so that I can see a buddy list, see logged in status, and make phone calls.
The article poses a false equivalence.

First off, there are absolutely people with greater skills, many of them made at birth, though I'll get back to that. You cannot take a B (or a Z) and make them an A.

But you can make an A into a B (or Z). Give them poor nutrition, childhood diseases, knocks on the head, environmental toxins, poor education. Or a toxic workplace, bad task fit, or other workplace issues. You can really easily take someone with a ton of talent and squelch it.

That's the real lesson here.
> I'm not a fan of common core at all, but I love how it teaches math.

When the debate started heating up I took a course on common core. The amount of misconceptions surrounding it are surprising. My favorite probably being that the federal government is mandating it, when it was voluntarily adopted by 43 states. Another is that the images being passed around on Reddit and showing up in your search are the mandated way to teach math. They aren't. Nor are Khan Academy's lessons. It is more about landings than the individual stairs. By landing X student should be able to do Y. What stairs you took in between is your business. Lesson plans are still derived by the teachers, some are just awful at their jobs or themselves have misconceptions that they have to follow a hideous thing done by another teacher in another state.
Does anyone know what is involved in getting an android app to run on chrome os? Is it a rewrite?
Would you suggest doing a brewery or food truck instead? Food truck seems like much less capital at risk, and a brewery has much, much higher margins.
The technique was used for about 2300 years and is the primary method used by modern memory champions. Essentially, we're just simplifying the process of using it to learn. In other words, we organize all the information logically and make it easy to create mnemonic images, which traditionally, have been the largest barriers to learning this way.
It sounds like you may be interested in https://www.fundinggates.com/ then.

Full disclosure: I worked on this project (as a consultant) when it was just getting off the ground.
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Thanks for that, it is a good read. My first manager at Sun used to say "there are no bad employees, just bad fits." and over the years I've seen the wisdom of that. I have been guilty of labeling someone as being a 'B' player only to see that person excel in a different environment later. The risk for younger engineers and people who don't know this is to make bad decisions about joining or hiring or leaving a situation. As a manager I've used it sometimes as a rationalization, knowing that by letting someone go they were going to have an opportunity to find a better match for their personality, but it doesn't "good" knowing you're giving someone that opportunity. It feels like you failed them.

When I interview folks I try to get a sense of what makes them excited to get up in the morning. Do they like solitude? (not good in a open plan office) Do they like to try lots of things in rapid succession? Are they people that like to bend existing things to their will or people who want to create something beautiful from whole cloth? If you can figure out the thing that energizes them and provide it, you will get great results from them.
If you're in a car and you get hit by a car you have much stronger legal protection than if you're mowed down by a car when not in one.

Pedestrian? Cyclist? $50 fine.

That you face stiffer penalties for pirating a DVD or smoking a joint speaks to how broken the legal framework is.
It seems to me that it's obvious the Euro-way is the better one. Get cyclists off the roads and safe. I agree with the OP, sharing space with unprotected humans wearing nothing but a few grams of styrofoam on their head for protection is not a great place to be when operating any kind of motor vehicle.
I read the book Topgrading a few years back, defined A-player relative to the position: "An ‘A’ player as defined by Topgraders is one who qualifies among the top 10% of talent for the compensation available for a position (any position)."

I think this concept has been understood for many years in industry. However, In startup land, its been ego-cized a bit through logic like "people are the most important assets of startups, therefor there are good people and bad people, only hire the good people". But this logic alone is open for misinterpretation because whether talking about "A-player" or "10xer", good is much for a function of ability of an organization to empower a person in a position.

On the other hand, there is a reality that certain individuals will be an "A-player" more consistently in more positions than other individuals.. so I believe there is some value to understanding how an individual's general behaviors would, or would not, make them an A-player in specific positions. At the same time, its likely very difficult to deduce this kind of statement meaningfully unless the same person has worked with someone in multiple positions.
My Breitling Navitimer only cost $10k and my Pebble, which is about 6 months old now, has been on my wrist for all of 8 hours. I've never worn it again after that one day because it does nothing I find useful. And in comparison to the Breitling the Pebble feels cheap. The only reason I have to not wear the Breitling is when I go more than a meter underwater. And for that I have a Suunto D6i.
I'm leaving in ten months. I have $60k in disposable savings (i.e. this excludes retirement) and a pickup truck. I will travel the world for at least a year, then do who knows what. Maybe I'll become a programmer.