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"Somewhere on the high end of Silicon Valley market rate for the specific thing that I do for a guy who's been doing it this long."

The important part is that the spot on the globe where I decide to plug in my laptop has precisely zero bearing on that bill rate. I'll grant that the offset of having to pay for my own equipment and health care versus having to pay a premium in housing cost and take a huge hit on quality of life so as to be able to commute an hour to sit in a felt cube all day every day does leave me a bit ahead. But then I'd argue that surplus should be captured by me rather than J. Random Software Company.

Never let the poor negotiating position of the others around you affect your ability to negotiate the best deal for yourself. If your counterparty suggests dropping your rate to match the locals in whatever tropical paradise you've had the good sense to set up shop in, it's your job to chuckle softly and say "no. It doesn't work like that."
I have some personal insights from following the SW world for some time:

1. Most of the implementations and formats and everything really boil down to a great way to publish graph data on the web, and query it using a pretty nice graph query language, and for most general cases everything just works.

2. A lot of the web is implementing incomplete select parts of SW technologies even if they don't realize it, and then promptly putting it all behind an API key and shared secret. When SW takes hold, that will all have to be different, IE a common mechanism for authentication / authorization, and some kind of way to quantify what is supported by a service, and all of that exists but again, every service is different it seems right now, and they all fear unfettered access.

3. You can use all of it today if you want, and the library ecosystem is very rich, IMHO. Plop it all into Neo4J / Jena / rdflib (etc etc) and have at it.
> I've read a few times here on HN the saying
> "a well-typed program won't go wrong" or some
> slight variation.

Actually, I don't remember seeing that stated here on HN. Could you provide some references? I don't know anyone who says that. Seriously strict typing can prevent certain types of errors, and can ensure that the code runs. But if I implement quicksort when I intended to implement heapsort, how can typing help?
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The second page of the article (http://daindunston.com/blockbuster-the-customer-owns-your-pu...) paints a fairly convincing picture that Jim Keyes was a disastrous idiot as CEO that basically wrecked the company, and that Carl Icahn was an idiot for ousting the previous CEO and installing Keyes. Is there any evidence to the contrary? It seems so clear cut in the article that I want to question it.
'I wrote this for the FT, but it's behind a paywall. Since I wrote it, I feel like it﻿﻿'s probably ok for me to post it here.﻿'

If the FT paid you to write it, I feel like it's probably not ok to post it where you'd like.
Although that does sound like it's eavesdropping on the transaction, rather than picking up the card in your pocket.
Yes, I think it's a subset, some of the more dynamic things are probably not supported.
By the way, if you like these games - you might also like Interactive Fiction and text adventures, such as Zork for example.

They're old, but I've played them recently and it was extremely fun, you should check them out if you didn't already =)
It's interesting to see how well they've managed to lock this down. You're able to view a list of usernames with access to the machine (or domain?) that your account is on. http://imgur.com/t1IP02T
My biggest concern with Silicon Valley is that it will become so expensive that many potential startups are prevented from coming here. Sam also stated that housing costs were the biggest weakness.

I wonder what YC could do about this problem for it's companies. I think it would be interesting for YC to build a few high-rise live-work spaces for smaller YC companies to foster and grow the tightly-knit community. Maybe like a high-tech college campus?
Agreed. Also I hope they improved recurring tasks and reminder, because the current one is bad.
I agree! I also appreciate the effort over the past few days to dig into this after it was originally reported. It is fascinating to watch the analysis unfold.
1. The post is referring to a new Android app, not the web UI.

2. The situation you're talking about has existed since... well, it's been there for the last 3 years I've been using Google Calendar. I, too, would like a working back button, but the web UI is effectively set in stone.
I thought those were more like faulty engineering blueprints
Get a job at a recruiting firm like CyberCoders, then find a (not at all conspicuous) way of trying to lure people to reply or (ideally) PM you, and then get your recruiting commissions.
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I was interested to note the above line in a Motor Trend article: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/1411_2015_tesla_model_s_p85d_first_test/

Has any manufacturing company ever had and maintained an iterative pace of development for a hardware product on the scale of the Model S?
NaCL isn't creating the expectation that it will run on IE, by saying "it's just JS, it'll run everywhere", you're creating a false expectation that it will. You're appealing to this to justify why it's better than NaCL without considering the fact that it's not relevant to whether or not it's usable wherever JS runs.

Game developers already have enough problems with CPU, RAM, and GPU fragmentation, and do this, you want to add another variable, which is they don't even get to control how their code is compiled before it runs. It's a recipe for a customer support headache.
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The amazing part is that they had a CEO who really understood that and turned Blockbuster around, who was then ousted for stupid political reasons by Icahn and replaced with a fool.
My understanding is that Docker has great documentation.

However, as a corporate sponsored project with multiple full time employees working on the documentation, it most likely fails your criteria in spirit.
Right, that's what I said. The problem is that you can't power an older machine with the newer power supply.
I'm not sure how to feel about that.

I know how I feel about it: I would much rather wars were fought with code and robots than with tanks and bayonets. And I would rather those than CBRN weapons!

Certain countries were going to neutralize that facility. Had to, for survival reasons. The only real question is . . . how? They could have picked a full-scale war. They could have precision-bombed the facility. They could have assassinated the workers. These solutions have all been chosen in the past, in similar scenarios. By comparison with the other options available, Stuxnet achieved the goal in an extremely civilized manner, with no loss of life.

They say the purpose of war is to kill people and break things, but really it isn't -- it's to accomplish objectives, to make people do what you want. The killing and breaking is really just a way to make objectives happen. And the better targeted your weapons are, the better you can make what you want to happen happen with less and less extra mess. Cyberweapons are some of the best targeted things ever dreamed of in the history of warfare. You can disable infrastructure without going within miles of harming a human on either side, military or otherwise. I am a big fan.
Metacritic support would be nice as well. Metacritic converts the scales for each rater to a percentage and averages them
What? No, Google renames all its senior employees according to their function now.
I'm guessing the fellow who answered you is roughly correct, as small, privately owned businesses generate much wealth in America. I don't think this is the interesting question though, because I don't believe in the premises of your original comment.
The interesting question is what is the distribution of total wealth in the world, mapped onto the country. Making heat maps of this, mapped onto various other things (inherited versus self made, yalevard versus everyone else, etc) will tell you how the world works. It's obvious to me that the world is run by a narrow self-serving oligarchy, and that we are in the extractive phase of history, such as was experienced by late Rome and 14th century Venice. It's not so obvious how to show this to other people, or what to do about it.
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Content negotiation is getting more popular with WebP, although mostly on large sites like Google and Facebook.
Nullable is not an adequate replacement for Maybe/Option, one because it is constrained only to value types, which makes it useless generically anyway, and secondly, because you can easily "bypass" it and attempt to call .Value while skipping .HasValue, causing an exception to be thrown. C# lacks the necessary features to have a useful Maybe type - namely exhaustive pattern matching and the Unit type.

A better pattern used in say, F#, would be to return the tuple of <bool, T>, which could handle reference types and value types uniformly unlike Nullable. That won't slide in C# though as there's no syntactic sugar for tuples, and calling .Item1, .Item2 is too "inelegant" for the regular programmer.

For now though, the bool Try_(_, out _ _) is still the preferred method by most.

Func and Action are certainly useful, but sometimes having a named delegate type is still preferable because you can capture the purpose of the delegate in it's name, rather than resorting to doc comments nobody is going to read anyway.
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Time for DJB and the EFF to bring their old case back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

"On October 15, 2003, almost nine years after Bernstein first brought the case, the judge dismissed it and asked Bernstein to come back when the government made a "concrete threat"."

This sure sounds like a concrete threat.
"Assuming a 2000 hour work-year"

That's an incorrect assumption, possibly wildly so. Likely, more than half of Walmart employees are part-time and temporary employees, partly to avoid giving them legally required employee benefits.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraheller/2013/06/14/obamacare...

Also, I appreciate that you've done the math in more detail than I did. I did a quick calculation in my head based on the 2 million employees to come up with $2, but you've been more precise and provided numbers, and I appreciate it. Even though we disagree on what the starting numbers for the calculation should be. Basing the discussion in reality is nice, and what I like about HN.
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I dunno - he explains his reasoning in the same paragraph: "It’s standard practice to ask people you’ve just met for help – and as long as you aren’t annoying about it, they usually don’t mind."
Has the adult film industry developed anything with Oculus? I would have expected them to be early adopters.
Unfortunately, I don't care how much of a pain something is for the designer. Remember, the designer wants me on the page, not the other way around. And I'd rather be able to have a sane website experience rather then a crappy one. Most of the examples you had were absolutely horrible to deal with, even though I'm not on a weird platform. Win7 with latest Chrome, and the mac one won't let me get past the second tick thingy. IMHO, I wish this fascination with "Oh, let's screw with the user experience cause we want to be special" would just disappear.
Not sure where they would build "high-rise" anything - zoning laws would preclude that in most places in the bay area.
Quoting one comment from a previous discussion:

It actually looks more like a redefinition
than a new discovery: "It may be confusing
because Goldberg called them polyhedra, a
perfectly sensible name to a graph theorist,
but to a geometer, polyhedra require planar
faces "

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252187

Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349581

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7267909

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7259409

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7251805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244254
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Agreed that the back button issue was annoying for a long time. Fortunately, the fix went live last week!
Thanks! I didn't even notice the link at the bottom. The second page is about Blockbuster struggling to turn it around, and is actually more interesting than the first.

*Interesting side-note: This is the third article I've read today that mentioned Carl Icahn. That guy has his fingers in everything!
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Once we get to the point of calling basic human anatomy 'baseless', we've definitely gone off the deep end as a society. This is not about infertility due to medical conditions or age and it's not about tradition - it's about the fact that a man and a woman having sex is the way that human beings are produced. Everything else is an attempt to ignore reality to suit our our personal desires.
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Alternatively, replace the entire page with "Don't" in bold big letters.
Well, that's good to hear. My concern is, we need APIs that are predictable, straightforward, and easy to use for devs to create offline web apps. Right now, it's quite difficult, and hence hardly anyone does it. ServiceWorker may help a lot with one part of the equation, but it doesn't fix up the persistent storage story of the Web.

I find the IndexDB API maddening to use personally.
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How fucked up is that? I teared a little as i read your story. I can't imagine a mother not getting help for the sake of a measly 5000$. What kind of a society is the US if it lets its people die because they can't cough up a $ 5k medical fee? I had a very visceral reaction as i read your story.

May your mother rest in peace. tears in my eyes
Good article. It provoked a thought:

In an increasingly digital world, how long will physical proximity be an advantage?

The notion that a region could somehow have its own brand of patriotism centered around startup success merely due to density is somewhat difficult to rationalize. You can't deny SV's success relative to other technology hubs, but I'm wondering how far in the future physical proximity will continue to carry such a steep advantage
Nairobi has pretty good medical facilities though. We fly in from neighboring Uganda.
It's better not to go on feel either way. In most cases, a freelance writer retains copyright and the publication that paid for the work (in this case FT) is given an implicit license to use it.
I have a partial season ticket package with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs use a system called FlashSeats, which is conveniently owned by the Cavs' majority owner, Dan Gilbert. All of my tickets get automatically added to Flash Seats and I can sell or transfer my tickets on the Flash Seats marketplace or buy additional seats on it. When selling my seats, I set a "buy it now"-type price where people can instantly buy them or people can "bid" on seats and I can either accept or reject those bids. If the seats get sold, the transfer is done automatically.

At the gate, I use the Flash Seats app on my phone as my ticket. You can also hook up your account to your driver's licence or credit card and use that as verification at the gate.

The good deal for the Cavs is that they own their secondary ticket market and can profit from the fees charged by Flash Seats. For ticket buyers, it's so-so. I can't sell my tickets on eBay or StubHub, but people generally understand that if you want to buy Cavs tickets, you have to buy them on FlashSeats (the entire season is essentially sold out), so there is plenty of action in the marketplace.

My biggest gripes with FlashSeats arethat that iPhone app is pretty terrible for selling tickets and that the website app is horribly dated and the UI for buying tickets sucks, which probably reduces my ability to sell tickets by some amount. Stubhub has a better UI by leaps and bounds. FlashSeats reminds me of what web apps looked like in 2003 or so and there is no "arena view" or easy way to tell within the app where the seats are actually located. Since the Cavs' arena, Quicken Loans Arena, has an excellent seat viewer on their website, I can't believe the two aren't integrated in to make the buying experience better.

As a total aside and anecdote, I used to buy and sell concert tickets, mostly summer Jimmy Buffett concerts, when I was in college is the early 2000's. I would buy on Ticketmaster and sell on eBay. Back then, I could get really strong average margins on my ticket resales. In my casual observations, it seems like better ticket marketplaces like StubHub have reduced the premium you used to be able to get flipping tickets.
My mind boggles. This is like a relative of mine, who has used desktop computers for decades, and recently revealed an ignorance of ctrl-c, ctrl-v. I think I actually cried a little bit for her.
The justification is we don't help our enemies, even if it doesn't make a difference in the grand scheme.

Edit: looks like one of the countries is our ally... so that's weird. For the rest of them makes sense from a geopolitical standpoint.
Since he's not an FT employee, it's likely this could fit under the category of work made for hire, but unless his contract explicitly specified this is case, I believe he would retain the copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Sta...
The old processors are commonly underestimated. I remember the times of the first versions of Turbo Pascal on CP/M and 8086. It had a very basic user interface (just key strokes) but the language was very convenient, and compilation was incredibly fast, almost instant.

I also had an Atari ST with 8MHz 68000 (no math copro) with Tempus Editor (ASCII) and Tempus Word (word procesor). Both were written in assembler, also incredibly fast -- faster than MS Word on a PC today. Other people used their Atari ST to write their disseration with Signum, and others published professional newspapers with it.

What does a PC really need? A convenient assembler, a few compilers, a screen editor (vi), a simple database, a word processor (TeX), simple TCP/IP and other very basic things. Just the things which Alan focuses on. Unix on a Z80 or on enhanced FPGA cores sounds really interesting.

I am a happy Linux user for decades but I am seriously concerned about the future of Linux. On one hand Linux will probably soon be kept out from hard locked UEFI/Secure Boot systems, on the other hand modern PCs cannot be trusted anymore in case of security anyway. Also many Linux distros follow the questionable systemd way which makes me wonder if Linux will soon be bloated up like Windows. The Linux kernel runs wonderful so far but it already has several million lines of code, and systemd will add a significant level of complexity.

These things are reasons why I consider Alan's approach of "back to the roots" the right way and very promising. Not only the software is open source but also the requirements for the hardware are so low that many people could build their own System V Unix Z80 systems at home. Cheap microcontrollers like the Parallax Propeller could be added to provide VGA output and parallel I/O.
I've been halfway considering doing something similar myself. Where do you live? What are the standards of living there?
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That doesn't sound like something the EU would be glad to hear...
> The rest of the world looked at the US policy on encryption with wide-eyed disbelief due to the horrifying ignorance that just had to lie behind it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
You are comparing "Go to the store and buy a box of 10 floppy disks to bring home and install" to "click a button on a website"
At my previous employer, I had to use VB.NET and you honestly forget about it after a couple of weeks, especially since both languages are mostly on par today ...
Ok.
A couple of points - you can do this kind of persistence with an immutable data structure without forking.

Secondly, huge pages help to reduce memory latency for large data sets quite significantly.
sony has contributed patches. They are also involved in some of the BSD conferences.
How about birth control? Marriage? These are ignoring the very human impulse to procreate constantly and with many people. Are they wrong too?

That procreation argument is silly. Human beings order themselves into societies, and not as some sort of procreation machine. But instead to encourage kindness, cooperation, happiness. We have laws to keep from harming one another, and roofs over our heads to keep us warmer and dryer than we 'naturally' would have been. This is what it means to be human, too.
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What do you work on specifically?
In C#:

IList<T>: implemented by List<T> and T[] (arrays)

ISet<T>: implemented by HashSet<T> and SortedSet<T>

IDictionary<T,U>: implemented by Dictionary<T,U>

all implement ICollection<T> and IEnumerable<T>. In the case of dictionary, it implements ICollection<KeyValuePair<T,U>>, IEnumerable<T> (.Keys) and IEnumerable<U> (.Values), etc

It's all basically the same thing. Organized and unified.

IList<T> is actually implemented by a lot of things, and the more general you go, the more things implement it. IEnumerable just allows you to get an iterator that will go through the elements. ICollection adds the ability to add and remove elements. IList further adds indexed access and order. The generic collections and operations on them are one of the best aspects of C# and the standard lib.
Sure but Rome wasn't built in a day.

I'm at work so I couldn't truly read the whole article (although I got through quite a bit of it) but nowhere did I see him utter "This will fix all of medicine and healthcare!".
I often see this problem manifest when clicking links to sections in the same document, e.g. from a table of contents on a long single-page article or documentation page.
The reality today is that most banks dump deposits into fixed income securities, the vast majority of which in 2014 are Treasury instruments.

VC investments are a completely different universe. None of the $7 trillion in deposit balance is going to a VC.

Right now, smaller businesses are starved of loan capital, and if you don't offer the high growth rates that VCs need to succeed, it is difficult to get loans.
Especially given how he was ousted because Icahn thought he was being given too large of a bonus, and then end up paying him nearly 5x that amount in severance.

For Carl Icahn, who had used the CEO’s compensation as a cause célèbre in his proxy battle, this was a chance to take a stand. He instructed the board not to pay the bonus and informed Antioco that he could take $2 million or nothing. When the dust cleared from the ensuing fur fight, Icahn was holding Antioco’s resignation and a contract requiring him to pay $24 million in severance.
I have lost the ability to read a long piece. I feel frustrated when I go to the news site and I am presented with a 'narrative' that seems to hide the real information. I need a paragraph that tells me straight forward what this weapon is about, not a long, obfuscated narrative. It's my fault, I'm not complaining.