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I think that what you have experienced is fairly normal at these small and new accelerators. My belief is that you have to make your own success, and take what benefits you can from the accelerator or another helping organizations and try to insulate yourself from any negative aspects -- which there likely always are.

Remember that these organizations are trying to make themselves look good to get more money to help more startups. So it is always a bit of a dog and pony show -- you are the people they are showing off. Maybe figure out a way to manage this so it doesn't cut into your time?

It is normal for those running an accelerator to be missing experience in your industry. It is your job to figure out what advice you should take and what you should ignore.

It is likely their grading system is not oriented towards your future success but rather fairly arbitrary. It is unfortunate and I don't know what to do about that. Maybe suggest changes and focus on that?

I'd try to not burn bridges with them. Burning bridges may seem like it is worthwhile in the moment, but it is best to just walk away or smile and nod. The world is small here in Canada (I keep running into people I dealt with 10 years ago in a different part of the country), I suspect the world is even smaller in a place like Palestine given its size.

I'd recommend finding a way to find a solution, making war with an accelerator is both draining and a distraction and hurts everyone involved. It is good to be passionate about your business, but you need to not burn bridges in this fashion, and really it is just a few month program.

The money delay is crappy, but investments are often delayed and cancelled in the real world (I've had clients promise they will paid the $10,000 they owe me repeatedly and then they stop responding, it turns out they went out of business and "forgot" to tell me) so you have to live with it, even if it does have real impacts on your business. Sometimes I think running a business is like being Muhammad Ali on the ropes where he dodges and weaves the punches people throw at you whether they are meaning to throw those punches or not.
> [...] shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this [...]

If this is the case I'd worry about the internal flash drive of the iPad. There must be a lot writes.
The interesting thing about this analogy is that for all of Ryanair's policies on baggage and boarding and frills, they're still required to hold insurance and airworthiness certificates.

Similarly with taxis, I don't have a problem if someone wants to offer a taxi dependent on computer routing or have drivers that don't load the passengers' luggage or whatever, but stuff like insurance and safety certificate should be non-negotiable. I mean, I don't even particularly mind if the insurance comes from Uber stating in writing "we're good for it" to all drivers rather than through a traditional insurer, I just don't think depending on one-off company goodwill to cover problems as seen for Uber and Airbnb incidents is particularly good policy.
Off the top of my head:

* C++ has more robust compile-time meta-programming facilities, at least for the time being.

* C++ can generally include C (well, C89) code as-is with no translation layer. Rust's FFI is pretty inoffensive, but it's more work than a #include

* It's easier to do the really dangerous stuff if you have a good reason to. You can actually call push_back on a std::vector without invalidating your iterators if you're careful. I've never seen it used properly in production code, but it's possible. At any rate, it might be more awkward to write equivalent code in Rust. Then again, maybe a deque is better than a vector for this use case, in which case I suspect that Rust is capable of a more optimal solution than push_back or std::back_inserter.
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Agreed. And this in turn implies that the best way to advance space exploration is not by doing space exploration, but by investing in AI development. When AIs become smart and autonomous enough, then money spent on actual space travel will again be well spent.
Rust is likely not an option for most people using C++ yet. C++ has one huge advantage over almost every other language: its tools and eco system. MSVC++, Intel's ICC, GCC and LDC are all solid compilers where you will not paint yourself into a corner because of your tools.

D is more mature but still can't compete on tools since only a few languages can make that claim.

Your case is another big point. C++ can manage memory without raw pointers AND without garbage collection. It should be able to compile without a big runtime, but for some reason its modern dependencies are just as big as scripting languages.
Dunno, I find that Photos aren't that hard to manage for me as I don't take too many and delete bad ones quickly (though only through a Windows File Explorer; hard to mount into other programs) but I ALWAYS appear to have a 3GB "Other" space in my phone (according to iTunes) that I can't seem to shrink. It's the only reason I want to jailbreak my phone, to get in there and see just what's in there.

I'm sure I'd fill up that space with apps and photos, and be right back where I started... but at least I could try to manage it, vs. just staring and wondering...
The government owes $118 trillion total (adding unfunded liabilities). When it can balance its budget than maybe we can have this discussion.

Otherwise, anyone can steal $18 trillion from the masses under the pretense of using it for the public good - when really all (yes, 100%) it does is pay debt interest according to the government's own report on how tax money is spent - and "create" several jobs for you as well.

So no, those shouldn't count unless you want to keep on living on fantasy land, believe government's inflation numbers (and close your eyes when you go grocery shopping), and ignore the fact those government "jobs" do not make us more competitive to other countries. You don't win in the global economy by giving everyone jobs, but by allowing people to create real jobs that compete with other countries so that we as a population become wealthier.
De Gaulle had to strike a deal with the communists. They may not have been at the very top of the power, but they certainly were in governments.
You can statically link glibc, so I'm pretty sure that's not right...
I was in the same boat. Instead of buying an iPhone 6, I saved $250 (500 vs 750) and got a Z3 Compact instead.

It's not perfect (the camera is garbage in low light), but it has a MicroSD slot, fits in my hand, and costs a lot less. And I can pick what app I want to use for web browsing, mailto: links, maps, etc.

I'm betting Apple finally concedes default apps in iOS 9, but I don't see them ever adding expandable storage.
does it have an option not to make the photos public?
>>this section pretty much sums up why I've always hated working with Other Peoples' Perl.

I think that statement was really more of 'The remainder is left for the users as an assignment' kind of statement.

>>To accurately follow someone else's perl requires either an encyclopedic knowledge of the language and it's edge cases or very heavy documentation and a set standard of coding practices.

To accurately follow anything non-trivial written by anybody in any programming language will require you a good grip over the language and its corner cases. There is no magic here, if a language doesn't offer facilities to heavy lift a certain thing you will end up writing those yourself.
>only if we pretend there's infinite money available.

If we cut out bank bailouts (wasted money) and 95% of the defence/wars budget (wasted money) we could increase the NASA budget probably at least 100x.

The money's there, it's just being squandered.
Turning off Photo Stream helps bigtime. I'm surprised the article didn't mention that.

If there was some way to adjust the stream buffer down from 1,000 photos that would probably help a lot of people. But you (still) can't change the number.
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You shouldn't have been downvoted - your comment is pertinent.
I see this as a technical advantage, not a political one. I want the language to be legitimately great, which means that we need to encourage an atmosphere where people feel welcome to express informed and constructive criticism. Breathless praise is surely kind, but it doesn't really advance the conversation. In other words: I already know that the language is good; I want you to tell me how it could be better.
Of course they are normal people, that's what makes it terrifying. Communism killed hundred of millions of people. And yes, the French communist party supported Stalinism for a long time.
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My wife burns through 2 gigs a month with photos.

The actual profits for making people pay so much for 64 gigs is crazy.
If the shoe fits... I'm simply being curious.
The default is to not make your photos public.
I don't mean to sound standoffish, but as far as I know this isn't true.

I have yet to see real proof that airline companies get you to pay a higher fare by tracking your searches/browsing. While I'm sure you saw a $50 difference, it was likely a slightly different search, which is almost always what happens when people claim they've noticed this.

About a year ago, someone on reddit went out and offered a year of reddit gold for anyone that could, there was nobody: https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1ekv6e/lpt_bou...

As recently as last week, someone claimed they had reproduced, but they used slightly different search params and ended up with something totally different: http://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/2okml5/for_anyone_pl...

This myth is rife with anecdotal proof, but I've yet to see anything concrete.
I don't think that it's dynamic pricing that makes people hate the airlines. It's the rash of bad-faith activity around the dynamic pricing.

For example, decreasing legroom and forcing disabled people into business class tickets they wouldn't have needed, were it 20 years ago when coach seats had enough room, is bad-faith activity. Likewise, this "boarding group" nonsense where "Group 5" means you'll have no overhead space and have to wait at a fucking baggage claim, despite carrying your bags to the terminal, is bad-faith activity. So is (in Asia) denying airport lounge access to coach passengers instead of pricing it a la carte as is done in the US, and so is the non-transferability of tickets (which is disingenuously argued to be because of 9/11, but really is just there to steal from people).

There's a ton that airlines do that is dishonest, in bad faith, and generally engineered to make for an unpleasant experience in coach, just to make up for the continuing decline in demand for first-class travel due to (a) teleconferencing in business, and (b) better medications for sleep and relaxation (e.g. modern benzodiazepines).

If you want to charge some narcissistic business executive 10x for 50% more room, go ahead. But that's not what we're talking about.
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I could care less about the state of the GPU driver source and the typical complaints of RPi developers. Open, closed, whatever.

I'm more skeptical of a SoC architecture that has the CPU dependent on the GPU for its startup sequence. Or is this a matter of the GPU controlling the ARM's clock tree?
From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_%28slang%29

>> In the United Kingdom, nonce is a slang word for a sex offender or child sexual abuser.
That ship done sailed. Like, in the 1960s. No worries, though, because if any concept deserves impairing and besmirching, surely war does?
Tasers have devolved from a less-lethal gun alternative to an electro shock based compliance tool, nothing more than a cattle prod used on humans.
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$30 for a day pass to a first class lounge? I can't believe that at all. Can you show me which airports and lounges offer that because I'm going to take them up on it.
cheapair.com could keep the various fares for a flight and show you their progression
Maybe this might help:

http://python-eve.org/

It is written on top of Flask and includes some batteries.

Could get a simple API up in 2 hours.
Just a few months ago I realized that you can hack CoffeeScript's syntax to embed DSLs directly. I wrote up a quick little proof-of-concept for SQL [0], HTML [1], and CSS [2]. Obviously the HTML one is inspired by the React syntax.

I've always hated how easy it is to push SQL bugs into production, since it's so often just a string literal stuck in your code. AFAIC you don't really need the typing help, you just need to know that you didn't forget a damn comma somewhere.

[0]: https://github.com/couchand/just-sql

[1]: https://github.com/couchand/just-html

[2]: https://github.com/couchand/just-css
They're serving two different kind of users in my opinion. Pocket is for those who want to save long form articles. Pinboard is for people looking to save any kind of website for future use whether it be reading, research, referencing, archiving, etc.
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In the US, you can. In less enlightened countries, that's not the case. Of course, for a 2-hour domestic flight, the lounge is just a perk rather than a necessity.
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We did start a conversation about building a package manager, but have not had anyone champion this as a project. I admit to being a little lazy about this due to including so much code in the main repository.

https://gist.github.com/jckarter/3440892
Thanks, I will have to try it again.
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I have been regularly checking iPhone6 and iPhone6 plus stock availability before I went to that particular shop, it really save much of my time on traveling to different shop.

and... I got my iPhone6 finally!!!
Having recently taken a battery of psychological tests that measure several different cognitive functions, I am one living example that that is not the case.
The main thing which makes ITERATE more idiomatic in Lisp from a syntactic point of view is this: ITERATE groups clauses as sublists.

Other than that the ITERATE approach is very similar to LOOP.

(iterate (for el in num-list)
(when (> el 3)
(collect el)))

vs.

(loop for el in num-list
when (> el 3)
collect el)

As you can see from the above example, ITERATE has more parentheses... which from a Lisp point of view makes sense. But for this typical iteration example it looks almost the same, otherwise.

ITERATE has also quite some more capabilities than LOOP, for example it supports accumulation of results from nested loops.
I've heard so much laid at C++ feet over the years, but I don't find it all that horrible to work with. It seems about on the same level as Python to get most things done, just without all the magic of the python standard library.

Are there some good stories of the bad of C++ that anyone can share?
In colloquial UK usage it means 'paedophile', and is generally considered offensive.
Um... All airports with United or American lounges? It's $50 a day, though. With American, they actively try to sell you a day pass on their in-airport check-in terminals.

Edit: please don't correct actual life experience with a quote from Wikipedia.

United Club is the name of their "first class" lounge, as people incorrectly refer to them. Those United Club Lounges have complimentary booze [1]. And no airline is going to allow a passenger to board who had obviously consumed the amount of alcohol you're referring to. I know: I practically lived at the T3 United Club lounge at O'Hare for many years, I was traveling so much. Not as much any more, but when I've been delayed significantly and I'm super-stressed because I'm speaking at a conference or something, I still occasionally get a day pass.

The United lounges you're referring to are considerably more elite, and most travelers don't even know they exist. Again, taken from actual experience and not a quick perusal of a Wikipedia article.

American's "Admiral's Club" [2] no longer offers complimentary liquor.

[1] http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/airport/loung...

[2] https://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInformation/airportAmenities/A...
I think it's a huge hit to their brand image with consumers if this is true, because they haven't sold woefully underprovisioned current-model-year iPhones before, at least that I can recall.

I have heard the argument that they offer the smaller storage devices for institutional bulk purchase (think high school iPads with a narrower range of use cases and a managed and/or limited base of installed software), but if that's the case they should stop offering those models to consumers in general.
The danger Intel faces is at what point are ARM chips "good enough" to encroach on the PC and server space. At some point the billions Apple and Samsung are spending to improve manufacturing and R&D will likely make ARM chips fast enough to handle all kinds of general usage in laptops and servers.

If Apple took their PC business away from Intel, they might not care, but if Samsung decided to start selling $10 desktop ARM chips while the equivalent PC chip was $100, that would potentially put a huge dent in Intel's core business.

I don't know if this will happen soon, but the economics of it are not in Intel's favor. If I were Intel, I'd be more worried about ARM encroaching on desktop and server than getting a foothold in mobile. That is the risk Intel faces.
I've been thinking about something similar to this for secure passwords. And your haikus neatly demonstrate both the challenge and viability. I was thinking of encoding as a phrase, but keeping the two first letters of each word in a 256-word set unique, so that a phrase could be used for memorization, but you'd "only" have to type the two first letters of every word. But 16 characters for 64 bits of entropy is still pretty long (for password entry) -- and ideally you'd want 96 or even 128 bits. Especially for passwords/pass phrases that are used to derive/protect encryption keys (the goal being to avoid having the entropy of the password as the weakest link. There are still other challenges with passwords, of course. Eg: key loggers).

I'd also thought about having a generic library, that could be used for things like representing hashes/fingerprints etc (think: an alternative to the ssh key ascii art).

While I'd considered poetry (especially using rhyming dictionaries) -- my main idea so far is to just construct grammatically well-formed sentences. With a limited vocabulary, it should be easy enough...

And as touched upon in this post, it might make a nice alternative for verbally communicating 64-128 bits of random data -- say reading out a password while someone across the server room types it into a console.

[edit: eg, using a random haiku:

Hoarse dunes and slim germs
gulp pure ripe foul dead bland sole.
Firm trees bleed short heads.

This would become: "hoduslgegupurifodeblsofitrblshhe" (ignoring the and). If anyone wonders why you'd not just type in the whole thing: it's hard, even for a skilled typist, to get something so long, exactly right, when typing blind. And obviously even the short form here strains typing ability. But then again, how many can say with confidence that their passwords hold 128 bits worth of entropy? With a one-to-one mapping between word-lists (or equivalently sets of two leading characters, and a random N bit integer, assuming the integer is as random as your other secret/session keys -- it's trivial to demonstrate a lower bound for the entropy of such a password]

[edit2: I should add that I considered adding a standard transform to the final password: capitalize the first letter, and terminate with a punctuation mark. It would add nothing to the entropy of the password, but might allow an "insecure" lowercase-only password to pass inane "strength" requirements, by mixing three character classes.]
"Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J. Edgar Hoover's "war on crime" in the 1930s".

We've been using it as a metaphor since 1930's. It hasn't impaired the "real" usage of the word "War" so far. I doubt it will in the future.
I feel like it's a bit grasping if you need such a complex example to debunk a straw man.

Implicit garbage collection is about the ease of writing code, not reliability. You make the compiler work for you by not making what you want explicit. Yes, for bad programmers, this leads to better code, but that doesn't mean you don't benefit from implicit garbage collection if you are a good programmer.
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> What I tend to think people mean when they say that, is that you have some cycles to "waste" on a simpler language.

Isn't C simpler than C++ and doesn't waste cycles?

The only "no other option" scenario I could imagine is, legacy code in C++ or using a framework that needs C++.
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As someone who has been using a Kindle for almost all my book reading in the last few years, the major publishers don't care. Doesn't matter what I read it tends to have quite a few OCR errors and other mistakes that clearly exist for the print edition (extra hyphens) or 'correcting' things that used to be hyphenated (by removing the hyphen that needs to be there).

My new Kindle has the ability to let me report typos and other content errors.

I've been using that feature A LOT. I've reported 13 content errors in the last month, and I'm not reading all that much, just a few hundred pages in that time.
This is of dear interest of me. So much that I actually keep a list of questions in Evernote.

from the book "change your questions, change your life":

- What do I want?
- What are my choices?
- What assumptions am I making?
- What am I responsible for?
- how else can I think about this?
- What is the other person thinking, feeling, and wanting?
- What am I missing or avoiding?
- What can I learn?
- ... from this person or situation?
- ... from this mistake or failure?
- ... from this success?
- What action steps make the most sense?
- What questions should I ask (myself or others)?
- How can I turn this into a win-win?
- What's possible?

Questions from "no more mr nice guy":

- what do I want?
- what feels right for me?
- what would make me happy?

from forgotten source:

- if there were no limits on your life...
- ... where would you live?
- ... what would you be doing in your leisure time?
- ... what kind of work would you be engaged in?
- ... what would your home and surrounding look like?
- what do you really want in life? (write down 3 things) what prevents you from making it happen?

from sebastian marshall:

- what am I doing?
- why am I doing it?
- what are the results?
- what are the highest value activities I’m not doing?
- what can I cut?
- What hard questions am I avoiding?
George Carlin more than 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilipDBclxRc
Thanks for the feedback, really interesting points.

I'd be specifically talking about online local news.

With that being said, could a Youtube channel producing short-documentaries similar to Vice's highly successful format engage the 18-29 demographic on local issues? As this news would be more in-depth and as you said this appeals to a younger demographic.

What about online websites for local news too? Do you think they can be improved? Currently the local websites near my city (Manchester, UK) only publish restaurant deals, reviews and unimaginative news.
Yea man I have been in a few different accelerators, a couple of small ones and now I am in AngelPad and I can tell you the difference is mind blowing.

I don't believe I got any value (except some money) out of the smaller ones I went into, where as AngelPad the value is HUGE. Stick to the big accelerators, there are a log of cowboy shops springing up and their value is limited at best.