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The point is that lisp advocates rarely seem to use any of these lisp implementations to do anything noteworthy or useful. They always seem to fall back on C, or some other language that's more "widely available" or "has minimal dependencies" or "has more potential contributors" or "can be more easily compared with other similar programs".

I find this hypocrisy to be quite intriguing.
It's interesting that you brought this up, when we sat down to write this, we didn't feel there was actually good terminology yet to refer to this space. We chose 'ride-sharing' as the least-bad way to refer to the industry after informally surveying what journalists had been using so far, for consistency. At least for Lyft, Sidecar, and UberX, the 'sharing' part makes some sense to me because you're sharing another person's vehicle that they possibly already owned, while for Uber Black and Lyft Plus, these are professional services so the term is less appropriate. I would definitely welcome a new term to describe the rides space.
Fair enough, I probably should have left out Perl and Python then. I was counting everything i'd completed a project in.

But I think two semesters' worth of projects in C++,C#,VB and Java count as at least more than 'recognizance.' At least for the cost of my student loans, I hope so.
12 points in 15 minutes is odd. If you're asking people to upvote your submission, it's against the HN rules and it doesn't work.
Basically what drugs allow you to do is recover faster and better - which allows you to train far harder than your clean competition and build all of these superhuman stats you enumerated.

A famous cycling reporter took drugs for a month to see just want the effect was and apparently it was like being superman. He would go out and ride 100 miles (something that normally leaves you in couch mode the next day) and be ready to do all again the next day like he hadn't even touched the bike the day before.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Doper-Next-Door-Performance-Enhanc...

HGH and EPO are the drugs we have all heard about but I'm sure there are 8 we haven't heard about yet. Also this book gives you insight into the violence we are seeing outside of the gridlines in the NFL. Apparently all of these drugs running around in you makes you crazy in a lot of cases.
I was expecting some kind of payoff at the end, but nope. Just a whole lot of money lost and little to show for it.

Confidence is important but so is doubt. Not all ideas are good, and just believing in an idea isn't enough to make it a success. And the "safe" corporate jobs can be just as fulfilling in their own way.
Nice one, will it send email for every check-in (or) only next GA/beta builds?
I must buy water for my home from one company. There is no choice. That company has a bizarre corporate setup (much more complex than the regular funneling money to Ireland or Luxemborg). It also has high rates.

The combination of monopolistic, tax avoiding, immensely wealthy and expensive is hard to bare.

They've had £37m fines for overcharging and misreporting data to their regulators http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/severn-water...
That was maddening. I'm now testing autoConvert [1], a Chrome extension that promises to convert units automatically.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoconvert-auto-c...
Are we talking VB6 or VB.NET?

VB6 is... old, and feels old. It barely allows object oriented programming and doesn't have first-class functions, so you're pretty limited to a procedural sort of paradigm. The IDE is clunky. For example: error handling is done with explicit GOTOs (ugh) and "On Error Resume Next" lets you simply skip past errors(!!!).

VB.NET is basically a friendlier-looking version of C# and is therefore not nearly as bad as VB6, has a real modern IDE, etc.

Python feels like a playground where you can explore; VB6 feels more like you're on a rail and the moment you fall off everything will break.
OP here. I've added it manually, been using that 'trick' for quite some time to get around their "social" integration.
I'd agree with the need to address these problems, but aren't they already everywhere right now - not for ebooks but by browsing and interacting with websites or when using apps. The (mis)use of user interaction data is everywhere and we just call it "analytics".

As an author I would like to know how far readers read in my books, where they have difficulties with the text or would like additional information. That could help enhancing the reading experience as well as my writing. But here comes the problem: Part of this information IS already available for Adobe (through its DRM mechanisms) and Amazon - intermediates! But these companies don't share that information with authors (self-published or not) and will most likely only sell that information to publishers or advertisers for hard cash. The reader is the product and the author is out of the equation, so that the positive effects can't really happen.
The DCS sims are some of the best around right now. Check out DCS: A-10C Warthog, I think it's one of the latest releases.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/warthog/
GOG.com has most of those games with a modern windows installer. They're still good fun. :)
Hi! OP here.

This actually works out okay for most of our libraries. For the ones that can support it (Ruby, Python, etc), we don't hardcode the properties for any resources and instead generate objects on-the-fly when you make an API request.

In the $1 example, the libraries will just construct a Charge object without the `amount` property, since it wasn't returned in the API response.

You're right that it isn't perfect for other languages, though. We're working on making our versioning story better in our docs, libraries, webhooks, etc. (:
No, it should be part of HTML. A dimension or unit tag. It seems like a perfect continuation of semantic tags and the direction of XHTML 2 before the presentation-focused monstrosity that is HTML 5.
What's the learning curve like for a junior developer joining your company to work on this 800kloc product?
1) Why ask locals when websites like weather.com available?
2) How a user can find locals to the location he/she would go?
Before even worrying about recruiting/attracting users, I would try to spend sometime on identifying why this app is valuable comparing other well known apps. What is the pain you are fixing?
No the option is completely gone, not just hidden. You have to use an extension (which is what Google Personal Blocklist is).
VB was a crappy language because of Basic, but if you could get over that it was a really nice IDE for rapid prototyping I loved the forms paradigm. I wonder what people consider the current leader in this area.
I would be all over this for hobby projects if it was FOSS. Does someone know similar alternatives?
Can we get the name of the person who designed that page so that we can blackball him?
When Netflix used Silverlight, which is for Windows. In Linux, to run Silverlight, you need to use Wine.
He should help his students understand how to acquire basic skills in a field, which is a prerequisite skill to do any research.

It start with a web search these days.

There is simply no excuse, when the knowledge of these basic-skill/bullshittery is openly available.

You know, teach a guy how to fish...
> it is as complex as any machine humans could create up until the 14th Century.

Not really. Romans were quite nifty as well. Byzantine empire had many automatons. There are steam machines used by arabs...
I understand how you handle it on your end but let's assume I decide to build an API for a language you don't support yet. In a few months when you add new versions of the API where some fields become optional or mandatory, then won't I have to know all this as the library developer and handle each case? Because some of my users would expect to still be able to send the charge amount while others would not.

I'm more thinking in the idea of doing some "pre-validation" in my library to avoid an API call from the client when something is already expected to fail (like missing the amount field right now) which would not fail with a new version of the API. So I would have to adapt to each version to know that this user would require the amount field while another one would not.
Thanks! We're hopeful ;)
"Even at a big company it still comes down to a small team." said Mike Markkula's to Steve Jobs when he worried about IBM. Markkula worked at Intel so he knew what it felt like to compete from inside a big company. It's not as empowering as you would naively think.
That and they're collection agnostic. I highly recommend watching Rich Hickey's talk for more background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII
Commanche was great. Strike Commander with a full Thrustmaster setup back in the day was epic.

Games to keep an eye on (if you like combat)
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/9/5791924/e3-2014-marks-the-re...

Been out of games for a while, but looking forward to Oculus and whatever today's Thrustmaster equivalent is :)
Which trend line are you talking about? The only applicable one I see/remember is the figure labeled 'Marathon World Record' at the beginning of the article and that trend won't break 2 hours until around 2025.
By displaying only one message how can you back up that users will be forced to write meaningful messages? Is there any behavioral science you have observed?
Really gotta support chrome. really gotta.
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X-plane and War Thunder. You shouldn't be thanking me.
Sorry, in that case! I made a poor assumption :-/

You're right, it sounds like a reasonable frame of reference.
Great story. Many parallels to the performance marketing and affiliate worlds, where mostly young people stumble into great opportunities, usually exploiting loopholes or underserved markets such as this, and suddenly start printing a thousand dollars a day in profit. The vast majority of them know, deep down, that it can't last, but somehow still end up getting lulled into a feeling of complacency. That's the feeling I got from your post too. You are definitely not alone in your experience, and you already learned the most important lesson, which is you don't need anyone's permission to start a project and see if it works. If you're ever in a similar situation again, take the money day by day and remind yourself that at some point the ATM machine is going to shut down. Of the dozen or so liquid USD millionaire affiliates I knew in my 20s, I'd say half are bankrupt or close to it today.
I don't recall the article asking anyone to feel sorry.
A lot of wikis do that (wikipedia for one). Eg {{m|1500}} is 1500m or whatever the user wants to see it as/the website wants to display it as. I find it extremely useful.
You call it adversity. I call it karma.

Your business was based on ruining games for ordinary players by exploiting bugs (in violation of your contract with the game operator) to duplicate items for sale for real-world currency. This messes up the game economy and it messes up the game balance.
40, CEO of a startup in SV. Since we're small I'm still writing code, mostly Python, JS, and lots of other stuff. We've only got one dev who is in his 20s and the rest of us are 35+.

One thing about doing development at this age is that since you've stuck with it, if you didn't get stuck in a rut in your career, you should have some pretty serious technical chops.
Capital flight has been the main problem facing the African nations. Money leaves the economies faster than trade and aid comes in. Still, at least the British, US & Swiss shadow banking system is doing well /s
The concept of lazy-stream-of-JS-objects and HTML as a display engine underpin pigshell.

I guess it would be possible to adapt the filesystem code to fuse4js. It won't be a drop-in; unix FS ops differ from pigshell's, but it shouldn't be too hard. Personally, I find psty (http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.2/doc/psty.html) a better way to incorporate (a part of) the unix filesystem into the web rather than fuse - which is the other way round.
> The UK has a great nanny state you might want to partake in.

The UK (well, England) is actually dismantling its "nanny state" extremely quickly, selling off public services to private corporations with the medium-term goal of removing all public funding for them, under a Conservative regime that shows no signs of stopping even when it makes absolutely no sense to privatise services. Pick on someone it makes more sense to.
Well I was the last hire in 2004 and we don't have anyone junior in our 3 person team so I can't answer that really other than a ballpark figure.

A good win32 programmer with sector experience could probably jump straight in. Someone with no experience of win32 and the sector would probably be 6 months of work for them and us which isn't a problem.

We interviewed one guy in 2010 who was a "rockstar" win32 and C# programmer (apparently) who wanted a pile of cash and came well recommended. We dumped him on a machine with notepad and the windows SDK and documentation. No visual studio. He didn't even get a message box on the screen. We just paid the guy who was leaving a pile more cash and I suspect that was his ploy anyway.

That's our only problem!
Maybe I love The Beatles and can't help completing that immortal verse.

Only THEN, I will read what it's there to be read by one of my myths: Bruce Lawson.
Exploiting games for profit is not something to be proud of. It seems like you have some of the necessary skills to run a business, but you need to find a product that is not based on theft.
I remember reading a battle story where a guy rigged a water gun and a detector to shoot at squirrels to dissuade them from the feeder. Apparently the squirrels enjoyed the water until it ran out and then they had lunch.
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Why are HN posts so pedantic? Bruce Lee has a great quote for this
I read the whole post, and it's just left me with a strong sense of unease. A gut-feeling that strongly reminds me of self-stories I've heard from certain people in real life, among them a next-cubicle coworker who was eventually institutionalized.

> When he finally responded, I was so excited that I sent him a long story (like this one) explaining my life, and gave him a link to a website with some of my ideas. After receiving no response, I realized how selfish I was to think he had time to read all of that.

> I still had hope though, so I narrated all of it and sent him .mp3 files so he could listen to it while he was jogging or something.

Putting your autobiography on tape for a prospective employer after already sending a text version... well, I think it's a sign.

In all seriousness, I believe the author could see big personal benefits from some kind of professional counseling about this stuff, as opposed to throwing it all out on the internet.
People like to sweat and believe sweating is the key to a good workout. When it is hot, you sweat easily. Most people who love to exercise when it is sunny and hot aren't going out for 20 mile runs.
I thought the scrolling behavior was nice. Seeing a long article can be distracting if you're not interested in the topic and check its length. Having a single paragraph or element load as you scroll looks like an intentional design concept to prevent this.
OP here - if anybody has any questions for how mParticle works (vs. Segment.io for example), happy to have a discussion here!
Thanks for sharing your story Scott; I've lurked on HN far longer and never had the courage to stick my neck out like you have today. I hope this leads to something amazing for you and your family!
I completely agree. I actually deleted a bunch of my comment before posting it, because I started getting carried away pondering about what the right level of abstraction is for dealing with web resources.

At the risk of sounding like one of the semantic-web xml-standards people, it really does make me wonder if all this horrible, incompatible, site-specific frontend crap is just a fad that will give way to tools (like psty) that ignore all that and just deal with the raw semantic content (and HTTP verbs) at a higher level of abstraction.

Woah, man. We're like...surfing the Matrix, man.
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You'd be surprised by how many founders were accepted after multiple applications. From an anecdotal perspective, half the current class had applied at least once before.

I'm starting to suspect that YC biases toward repeat applications, as it illustrates a number of useful things about a startup (strength of the team, proof you can get traction, you didn't do this just for YC, etc).

Don't let prior rejected applications deter you. That is, unless you've made zero progress between now and then. :D
No, the post was more therapeutic for myself. I'd never found a crowd that could completely understand what happened that caused the night and day difference in my life at that point. To everyone in my social bubble (except my father and wife), I was simply a victim of the recession that began in 2008.

A solid message you should take away from that post is: Life will throw you curve balls, and I'm genuinely grateful to have found a place like HN.
Does not work in Internet Explorer 11: Exception: The property "slice" of an undefined or null referance cannot be accessed (Exception: Die Eigenschaft "slice" eines undefinierten oder Nullverweises kann nicht abgerufen werden.)
Thanks, it's based on GitHub releases (Git tags -- ex. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases). So anytime a new release is published it will send you an email with any details that they included with the release.
Not a bad idea - I will definitely consider GPL in the meantime, before I go to more permissive open source.
reminds me of Plan9 sorta.
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Classic internet. Have a nice day :)
Very interesting post there, I use Continuous integration for my project too. Even though it is time consuming, it is still a better and a reliable way to get it done.
I think it is funny that the YC crowd points to "naughty" when it benefits them and says things like "Am I supposed to feel sorry for someone that got caught exploiting online games?" when it doesn't.

When someone will take apart a game for fun, for better or for worse and often both, it is intrinsic. We praise capncrunch and damn this guy?

I'm sorry you lost your parents Scott. Congratulations on your child and marriage. YC is a mixed bag but I feel home here too.

There are a lot of ways to hack the world. I'm not sure if you've picked inconsistent/risky ones because of personality type/thrill or because it is where you landed. If its where you landed, move toward the center.

Sounds like you've got the basic small business skills to sell many things and you don't require permission or motivation to do so.

Consider hacking on your life instead of the games. What do you know that's inefficient where you are and could be interesting?

I hear heavy equipment auctions are big and profitable in rural areas and I know from experience it is a space software hasn't touched.

Pick a product or set of products (wave energy harvesting equipment?) and niche it via PPC. See what the market is like for them on eBay.

Go with the black hat and get picked up by a security consulting firm. I've rarely seen them be degree choosy with people who have the chops.

Don't make the mistake of thinking the only interesting things are on the fringes.

Lastly, ignore the rest of the noise of this thread. Keep your head up. Stay interested. Stay playful.
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Funny how LoL is what got me into programming (Lua).
I do love this idea, but it bothers me from a security standpoint. Is there a way to do something like this without giving the author explicit control of all of my online data?
This is the most complete and interesting account I've seen about the beginnings of VB from the Microsoft side. I don't know how I missed it until now, but I'm glad it was posted here.

Source and disclaimer: I'm the "Ruby development 'wizard'" mentioned in the article. Apparently I helped the VB team learn how to code for Windows! I didn't know that until now, but I'm glad I could help.

To amplify on a few points in the article...

The discussion of Custom Controls is right on. There was a myth that the reason Visual Basic was extensible through the VBX interface and custom controls is because Bill Gates insisted it. That's only partly true.

Bill's role wasn't in getting custom control support added to the product. It was to make sure that it wasn't dropped.

The support was always there. After all, when we coded the original set of controls, we needed some kind of interface for them, and it was obvious and planned all along that this interface would be open for others to build controls of their own.

Actually they weren't called "controls" originally. Alan was going to call them "waldos", named after these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator

I couldn't make sense out of that name, so I ended up calling them "gizmos" instead. And my little "Gizmo API" was what later became the VBX interface.

Scott also mentions the original "lines and arrows" Ruby interface, where you would drag an arrow to connect an event emitted by one object to an event target exposed by another object. He's right that this ended up not being a usable programming model for VB.

But recently I tried out Unreal Engine 4's Blueprints feature. It was very reminiscent of what we were doing back then! But of course the Unreal team put in all the additional work to actually make this a usable feature - we never took it that far.
Hey, it's great that you're trying to find a place for yourself in the world. Unfortunately, you seem to have a malfunctioning moral compass, and you give off a sociopath space-cadet vibe. Making money exploiting in video games and tricking weak-minded people into buying worthless shit is not a path to anything good. Stop trying to bullshit your way through life and if you're lucky you might just be OK.
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Hey Folks,
Does anyone know how much money does a professor/researcher/scientist/techie make on a book he/she authors. Do publishers get most of the dough?
>I think the author needs some kind of mental help or therapy which I am not qualified to provide.

Maybe, but I doubt it. This just seems like inexperience. It took me a very long time to figure out the transition between worlds that are about you (school) to worlds that are not about you (work). The transition is not one of "selfishness" as much as it's about perspective.

PG describes the dichotomy well in "Two Kinds of Judgment:" http://paulgraham.com/judgement.html

Venkatesh Rao explains similar phenomena in his Gervais series: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
What the heck is the JavaScript event loop anyway?
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