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Unfortunately from my experience, people thinking that background technology choices can give them a consumer advantage is not that uncommon.
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"At least one employee had complained to Downtown Project management, calling her “a bully,” one source told us. Also working against McCabe was the fact that she did not follow Holacracy, the flat power structure favored by the Downtown Project leadership."
It looks like an Intel Gallieo Board

http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/Windows-Developer-Prog...
Conway's Law: prov.

The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent; commonly stated as “If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler”. The original statement was more general, “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” This first appeared in the April 1968 issue of Datamation. Compare SNAFU principle.

The law was named after Melvin Conway, an early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE. (The name ‘SAVE’ didn't stand for anything; it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them.) There is also Tom Cheatham's amendment of Conway's Law: “If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.”
Dear lord that JavaScript is painful to read. I want to submit a pull request and fix all their semicolons.
I appreciate people that follow the Charles Bukowski mantra of life and "Find what you love and let it kill you." However, the most depressing part of this article was in the last paragraph where Melton says, "And so you have to ask yourself, is that really the way you wanna live your life? ’Cause it’s not like I recommend it, either."
In the SF Bay Area there is a company called Telmate that has been posting job listings on Reddit and Craigslist at least for the past year or two. Telmate is a prison-phone company that charges slave-wage-earning prisoners a week's pay for a 20min call.
Back in the day Byte was a chunky affair packed full of goodness. I didn't mind the ads, they were part of the charm.

I kept all my Byte magazines from when I started reading it in ~1982 until they stopped printing it in 1998. Sadly I was very short sighted and "recycled" them - but when you've moved house frequently, shifting 15 years worth of Byte's got a bit back breaking.

I used to enjoy digging out older issues to read both the articles and review the ads with a sense of nostalgia.
The last person who tried a bitcoin based IPO outside of established legal frameworks and existing stock exchanges ended up having to renounce his citizenship, move to panama and was fined by the SEC

http://www.satoshidice.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Voorhees
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2014/33-9592.pdf
You can't shame people who have no shame.
I'm still on the far low end of the curve, but APL (I prefer APL due to its non-ASCIIness) has quite a beauty in it. For "play" I wrote a sample for a normal distribution (using Box-Müller, since it was simpler than other, faster algorithms.) Here's the code (u is a function returning a sample from a uniform between 0 and 1, so just calling u is a random number in [0,1]). The only non-self evident bits would be →(s≥1)/ (which means if s greater than 1, jump to whatever label is after the slash) and ⍟var which is Pi times var. APL is really neat, and this is not even an example of a nice, array-oriented algorithm.

∇a←norm;uu;vv;s
⍝ Normal distribution around 0 (using the Box-Muller transform in polar form
⍝ Local variables go in the header after semicolons
CHOOSE:
uu←u
vv←u
s←(uu * 2)+vv * 2
→(s≥1)/CHOOSE
→(s=0)/CHOOSE
m←(((¯2×⍟s)÷s) * 0.5)
a←uu×m
∇

Edit: forgot to format
I kinda like it, and I don't get all the negative comments. I've been a user of folding bikes for a couple of years and, while easier to store/get into buildings with/carry around, they are still quite heavy, tricky to fold, and bulky.

Strida nailed that a few years ago, even if they are not as efficient as a proper bike (while some folding bikes are). This halfbike would probably be ok (if cheaper) for shorter rides and for rides that requires walking every now and then or indoor rides.
Imagine not being allowed to own a cellphone.
> In essence it's because there is a very large number of lazy programmers who live by cut and paste.

I've had programmers copy and paste GPL'd code into proprietary projects I'm responsible for. It's not laziness it's ignorance. "What's a GPL?"
Perhaps Tokyo<->Fukuoka is a better example. Shinkansen is ~250USD while fligths are ~150USD, and Fukuoka's airport is only 15min away from downtown by subway.
I think it comes down to imagination and confidence. Some people cannot construct scenarios in their mind and analyze their likeliness. And others just want to be accepted and part of the mainstream.

There are also people who simply aren't interested in learning about topics yet feel free to blast their opinions about them. Kind of like how I might say 'country music sucks' when actually there's a lot of good country music but I haven't tried very hard to find the artists I like.
What else is missing? It should be stated in the README.
As a matter of fact, you do not need to even declare copyright anywhere in the text to claim copyright (at least in the US). Copyright exists from the moment of the work's creation. [1] And placing a copyright notice does not afford you any other benefits without registration anyway. Once you've registered with the US Copyright Office, you may place a copyright notice if you want, but your work is still protected even if you don't. [2]

[1] http://copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register
[2] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401
It just seems to defy reason that we must make humans increment a number

Ah, but why do you assume a human did that? Writing a script to update the year in all files doesn't take more than a few minutes to write. Chances are he simply ran "update_license_year" and committed.

Likewise for having a license on every single file: it may simply be a git hook that preprends it to every file with a certain extension.
Parallel In-Place Merge Sort
I know this ruins any potential value of the intellectual property but…

…why not just put a mention in the top-level license that all empty (0 byte long) __init__.py files are in the public domain?

(Yes, yes, it's less confusing to license the entire thing under one license. But attempting to assert copyright on an empty file is humorous.)
in this instance, you could construe that what pg says is contradictory. on one hand, go to school for things that are interesting to you regardless of how they may apply to a startup. on the other hand, he says an mba is useless for startups.

but if you tease out the strands of advice, you'd see that you shouldn't do an mba if you think that will prepare you for a startup. you could (and i'm extrapolating here) do an mba if the subject matter is genuinely interesting to you (as it was for me). i learned a lot in my mba program that i was genuinely interested in learning.

and if you decide to do an mba, take all the quantitative classes you can. you want to practice and hone skills, not just be versed in theory. also, applied economics might be interesting to you.
3rd that - Exact same ip and domain.
They will still save money without the kickbacks, which should be illegal as payola.
I must have spent my entire time between 2004-2008 working for companies that did that sort of thing (rewrite to .Net). Plenty of cash to burn with no real possibility of success and no business plan.

In two cases, the guys running it knew it was going to fail from day one and their business model was to do this in two year chunks, syphon the cash out of the VCs after talking the product up, live the high life and disappear for a bit.

I felt no shame working for them back then but I do now.
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http://zerohedge.com and http://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/

Those two can tend toward overly cynical and conspiratorial but I find it easier to moderate that in my mind than read the totally sanitized stuff in major papers.
ah interesting. I don't do that route. I do the Tokyo<->Osaka route about once a week and wouldn't even consider flying because of the convenience.

Flights too Fukuoka would probably be faster too (Shinkansen would take 5 hours). I can see flights being more convenient there.
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Your ideas appear (at least to me) overly ambitious. Probably better suited as startup products. So shelve them for when you have finished.

Giving up within sight of the finish line is wasting your investment of time and money to date. And in the future not having your diploma might become an issue.

Just do the least amount of work that will get you to graduate. With your diploma in hand you can work on whatever project appeals to you the most.

Having been an adjunct in the past, I can assure you that your teachers are more likely to be over-worked and they too only want to do as much work as is necessary to get you to graduate. Ambitious projects generally need lots more hand-holding and have an increased chance of failing to show sufficient results in the limited time you have available for it.
Maybe in sales, but there's a whole big world outside of sales. Most of the interactions your team will be having is internal. If you have people who have low emotional intelligence, it's going to make it hard for your team to functional smoothly. This study doesn't measure that in any way.
That or more hardware to overcome bottlenecks caused by bad code. "It's running slow, we need more memory!". After some investigation, really... you've got 8 joins without using keys, and you're getting paid more than us how?
I have to disagree here. Folks with failed startups are as diverse as the startups they built (or just as often, struggled to build).

The simple reason why is because while a startup is the best place to learn how to start a startup, it isn't always the best place to learn how to be an engineer.

At least, not the sort of robust engineering (hopefully) done at established companies, where you have to understand existing best practices like code style, continuous deployment and testing, and non-technical conventions like proper code reviews and pager schedules. That sort of rigor isn't found in all startups, but some amount of it is a necessity when your primary job is shipping code, lots of it, and not just searching for product market fit.

I think it is far more likely that you'll get a strong offer for a large corp coming out of another large corp - where you'll speak the language and have found at least someone talented to mentor you - than as a typical acqui-hire or founder of an also-ran startup. In fact, many acqui-hire employees themselves have to go through interviews at the acquiring company, finding themselves on the bottom of the pecking order at their new companies - if they even have jobs at all.

That's not to say you shouldn't do a startup...just, don't do it expecting your Plan B to be a cushy job at Facebook. :)
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> But the hopeless idealist in me asks if it isn't possible to get an MBA to actually try to theorize about customer behavior, economic structure, supply chains, what have you and build part of ones academic foundation around it?

Yes, an MBA will help you understand many of our societal, economic, and business constructs. I did not find an MBA to be particularly helpful in understanding customer behavior, but it's definitely valuable in understanding government and corporate behavior.

And yes, it'll help you understand supply chains/logistics, various process and people optimizations, etc. Think of it like learning algorithms and patterns for solving problems that are commonly found in large human organizations.

> Or is it truly impossible to walk into today's MBA programs wanting to study business as theoretical and societal constructs, without walking out a professional networker and middle manager?

It's a degree. Nothing more. However, I would not get an MBA with a goal of middle management as the focus of most programs is on getting you ready for upper management decision making. For middle management in a large company skills such as project management, people management, scheduling, delegation and communication are more important than high level strategic thinking.
17 year olds were put on sex offender lists for having sex together, despite every call that "anti-pedophilia laws will never be used against teenagers having sex!". If a law can be used for a malicious purpose, it will be.
but then what would you call the people doing the enterprise? enterprisers?

i'm not necessarily defending "entrepreneur" but one would hope that the alternative would be shorter.
You are confusing "emotional intelligence" with "social skills", two very different things.
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Not for/against the code formatting, just giving you a target (just hope you know who you're going after) :D

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/8e2737dab409c46d688c...
To be fair, you can build a decent social site out of .net; e.g. Stack Overflow does quite well. But its not a main factor.
But unless emotional abilities and cognitive abilities are negatively correlated, it's not as though selecting for cognitive abilities would make you any more or less likely to have a coworker that demands extra emotional work. It just means you won't be extra-lucky in finding coworkers of high emotional ability.

Personally, I think that focusing on work performance is a refreshing wind against so much folk wisdom hiring.

I'm also not at all surprised that someone was unable to unseat intelligence as a predictor of work performance. That predictor has been solidly established as powerful across a general array of work (better than past relevant work experience!), and scientists are ever on the hunt for a better employment sieve.
I'm filled with awe and respect when I look at this guy. He's brilliant and clearly dedicated to human wellbeing and liberation, and I can only aspire to even approach what he's accomplished so far.

But now comes the but.

I can't help feeling like he's focusing on the wrong scale, in a way that seriously impedes the likelihood of success. Let's be clear: the material basis he's living on is pretty shitty. He shits in a bucket? Freezes at night? That's the norm only in rural areas in developing countries, and his current focus isn't even on improving those things: other priorities trump it.

And that's directly because of the scale, which is too small. A group of a couple dozen people, even brilliant and hard-working people, simply cannot generate even the basic amenities of modern life, given contemporary knowledge and technology. But a town or smaller city? Problems that now seem insurmountable with his approach become routine.

I totally get that it seems awesome to re-invent the world from scratch, with a group of buddies and passionate volunteers. But it's ultimately escapist. It seems to me like open sourcing cheap manufacturing methods with a target economic scale of the metropolitan area would do a lot more to build a genuinely liberatory society. Sure, you end up more alienated from the material basis you live on than with his approach. But it's a much smaller transition--dare I say, a more agile one--than from global hyper-economies to hyper-local economies. And advances there would easily lend themselves to the hyper-local economies he desires.

Then again, I'm here bloviating, while he's out there doing stuff. Godspeed.
* Far lower CO2 emissions for long distance travel.

* Greater social interconnectivity between cities, enabling denser, richer industrial networks. The Keiretsu economic structure to which Japan owes so much of its industrial success would not have worked nearly as well without easy long distance intercity travel. Horizontal networks of large numbers of small businesses spread across large distances that combine together to form, e.g. a Nikon digital camera, would not be possible if executives in these businesses did not have easy access to one another and one another's factories.

* Lower trade deficit - it's better for Japan's economy that the money spent by its citizens on long distance travel isn't filtered overseas into the pockets of rich Arab dictators via oil purchases (who then spend it on gambling in Parisian casinos or American fighter jets). Instead, it is spent at home, generating additional economic activity, enriching Japanese rather than Arab princes.

* It serves as a good form of Keynesian stimulus - keeping people employed and levels of economic activity stable during debt-crisis driven economic slumps.

All of these are economic benefits that occur in addition to the cost savings.
As well as the health and safety aspect I imagine that during times of war, your personal long term health outlook pales in comparison to the short-medium term survival possibilities.

Hence, I imagine that many servicemen and women didn't see themselves as having a long life span. Maybe not consciously, but certainly subconsciously.
Barcelona Ruby Conference, talk recordings starting now
Hello to everyone!
I'm an organizer of the Barcelona Ruby Conference. I wanted to inform you that this Monday we started to post the talks' videos of 2014's edition.

To keep you up to date, you can follow our profiles on Twitter (https://twitter.com/baruco), Google+ (https://plus.google.com/+BarucoOrg/posts) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BarcelonaRubyConference).

Here you have the links to the videos published until today:

* Highlights - http://youtu.be/GZDpJRUll5c?list=UUwoOpKfkyCQHW562hXXQAGg

* Yukihiro Matsumoto - mruby: AltRuby - http://youtu.be/5FLrKg-b6o8?list=UUwoOpKfkyCQHW562hXXQAGg

* Pat Shaughnessy - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under ActiveRecord - http://youtu.be/rnLnRPZZ1Q4?list=UUwoOpKfkyCQHW562hXXQAGg

* Brian Shirai - Types As Premature Optimization - http://youtu.be/bF9x6L_77FU?list=UUwoOpKfkyCQHW562hXXQAGg

Cheers!
The point is only that "gender equality" is a belief while "feminism" (usually) means the activist movement. Why is that objectionable? What does it have to do with "selling men on feminism"?
>http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-branson-supersonic-pl....

>Although he wouldn’t give a timeframe to when it could be done — hopefully “within my lifetime,”

In other words "don't hold your breath" and "I wouldn't make any long term economic decisions based upon this guys' pie in the sky notions".

The fact that this technology has regressed (can't cross the atlantic in 3 hours any more!) means that your assumption that future forms of transportation will always be better, faster and cheaper is horribly shortsighted and wrong.

You'd have told us in the 80s that we'd have something better than that by now. We don't. Actually what we have now is slower, and while planes like the A380 are more fuel efficient, isn't efficient enough to mitigate the rising cost of oil.
A counterpoint: https://medium.com/designing-for-results/if-by-growth-hackin...
To be fair you can build a decent anything out of any language / framework / environment; the point is, technology doesn't matter that much if your product is good. Look at Twitter or something for example, they built a product in a language they were comfortable with, and evolved from there.
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And people say IRC is dead... This code is half an exploit, half an IRC bot.
"That story, as it is told, has the fashion of a legend, but the truth of it lies in the occurrence of a shift of the bodies in the heavens which move round the Earth, and a destruction of the things on the Earth by fierce fire, which recurs at long intervals."

"Reeling, he tried to buy a refurbished Russian intercontinental ballistic missile to do the job, but his dealer kept raising the price on him."

Can we paint this Iron Man Bond Villain in more epic terms?! When is 'Elon' hitting theaters?

But in the end he has a good point. It's not about going to Mars in order to get to Mars. It's about creating a forcing function for something much, much bigger.
>Do we have any examples of large Internet communities with unilateral good discussion?

The somethingawful forums? With the exception of the forums expressly for bad discussions, every thread has high quality content.
To quote Guy Kawasaki, "Geography is destiny."

Personally, I think living near the action is the way to go. And yes, moving to where a large tech culture already exists helps.
There are lots of brick presses available on Alibaba, starting at about $900. Some of them look very much like this one. Cheap ones are available from India and Zaire. China mostly uses larger, higher-volume machines. Also, most people put a little cement in earthen bricks, about 5%. They hold together better. It's common to put in holes for rebar, which is pretty much mandatory in earthquake country.

If you want to build from earth, there's rammed earth construction. It's even simpler than compressing earth into bricks. You set up wood forms, as if pouring concrete, put in about 4" of dirt, and pound it into sandstone. This can be done by hand, or with an air hammer.

All this works if the soil composition is reasonably suitable. There are simple tests. (Too much clay is bad.) It's usually possible to find nearby sources for suitable dirt.

This guy seems to be re-inventing the wheel.
I think there is actually a mountain of research in this area, and I believe that the general community of industrial / organizational scientists in this area have accepted that general mental ability is a really hard predictor (of work performance) to beat, and that it's a robust and powerful predictor across a variety of job categories. The author of the post actually listed one or two citations, but if you wanted the general opinion of the field, I think you should look for a review article.

I am not at all surprised that some CEO's offhanded suggestion / bet failed to unseat general mental ability as one of the most reliable and effective predictors of work performance. That doesn't mean that you should have a single-metric employment criterion. You could always select for both emotional and cognitive ability, you just have to judge whether it's worth sieving for that versus something else.