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If you lack the motivation to work on your project after work and you typically lose steam after a few months, I think leaving a steady job would be the worst thing you could do. The cited obstacles seem more like excuses than things legitimately standing in your way. Get excited about something, then take the plunge.
Why did you leave out the parts that are inconvenient to the narrative you're making up? "Europe should be blue" - is that racist?

I guess the technical achievement means nothing. Where is your certificate of political correctness?

Why is it socially acceptable to bully like this?
I don't see anything on that page that indicates Alex has stated a gender identity, so that's an awfully presumptuous thing to say. Maybe you should stop mansplaining?
I was considering a land-based life-form.

I also suspect that while life could develop within, say, an ice-covered sea on an outside-the-Goldilocks-zone gas giant's moon, that the total available energy flux would likely not be sufficient to support a large or diverse population. Even absent the problems of developing a technological society in an aquatic (or analogous liquid) environment, total biomass, competitive pressures, diversity, and similar stresses which gave rise to humans and intelligence seem unlikely.

Instead I was considering a world with surface conditions similar to Earth, but itself the moon of a larger world.

I've also been reflecting on filters, and one thought that's been occurring to me is that many worlds may simply be subject to sufficiently frequent catastrophes that intelligent life never developed. In the case of humans on Earth, there was a planetwide catastrophe -- the Chicxulub impactor, 66 million years ago. Humans themselves split from their common chimp ancestors 2 million years ago. And complex life emerged about 500 million years ago, after first emergence at least 3.5 billion years ago.

There have been numerous perturbations of terrestrial conditions over that period, but it does suggest that over various intervals, certain degrees of stability are required. Asteroid impacts, nearby supernovae, climate disruption, widespread volcanism, orbital disruptions, variations in solar intensity, and other factors could all reset a nascent emerging life, complex life, intelligence or civilization. There are a lot of opportunities to get it wrong.

At the same time, various stresses also seem to have contributed to humans being, well, human.
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What UN salary schedule? The American rank at which the plurality of academic instructors work is adjunct.

>Adjunct professors now make up half of all college faculties, and 76 percent of instructional positions are filled on a contingent basis, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual report on the “economic status of the profession.” There’s no starker way to consider adjuncts’ economic status than to hear that they’re paid an average of $2,000-$3,000 per class, with few to no benefits.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/one-professors-amer...
Going back with an offer is a huge mistake. They may renegotiate now but now you are a defector and will look to rid themselves of you as soon as possible.
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Probably the most fascinating OS ever.
No.

Unions can collectively bargain.

Individuals cannot.
The real windfall for the US has been the over $200 billion in bank settlements since 2008 in exchange for not jailing any bankers.
I think PG's point conflates a whole bunch of unrelated stuff, including:

1. Experts as people with unusual technical competence in one or more related fields.

2. Experts as 'big picture' prophets of the future.

3. Experts as 'small picture' refiners of future tech.

4. Experts as packagers, innovators, and marketers who create new markets for the work of 2 and 3.

5. Experts as investors who look for all of the above and try to work out if they can make money from them.

Aren't these mostly unrelated job descriptions? There's no reason why a brilliant academic who understands compiler design would have anything useful to say about the future of consumer electronics.

Likewise, I wouldn't have expected Steve Jobs to contribute much to (say) research into room temperature semiconductors. Steve Jobs was brilliant at packaging and selling stuff, not at theoretical physics.

PG's real point seems to be that if you 'hire' smart, creative, hard-working people, they're more likely to do something useful for you than people who aren't smart, creative, or hard-working.

Which is surely true (if they're not difficult) but doesn't have much to do with expert predictions about the future.

It's kind of a retread of Spolsky's 'smart, gets things done', with a more entrepreneurial twist and an implied 'has original insights'. (Spolsky being an excellent example of all four.)
What is this? ATM the link is not valid and if you intended it to point to images.google.com then I don't see how that would show that they are using Google for it?
Please elaborate on this, thanks.
You write about what you do. Write about what you learn, not about what you are an expert.

Honestly, I have a lot of difficult to do it. Most of the time,I suffer of impostor syndrome. I don't want to write because I'm not an expert about the topic. You have to ignore it and go ahead.
There is a big difference between saying "programming simply is not for everyone" and "not everyone can learn to program".

The book is saying that everyone can be good (although like guitar, through practice). That's very different from "everybody will be good" or "everybody will enjoy it" or "programming is for everyone"

Sometimes it's hard to know if its for you or not until you've immersed yourself in it for long enough. Unfortunately for the woman you mentioned, this was likely many years of her time. Other people know immediately. Either way it doesn't mean that they couldn't learn or get nothing out of it.

You don't have to be a chef for knowing how to cook nice things to be a useful skill to have.
Turn on "Show dead" and visit https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS

Even if this particular case wasn't racist it's easy to understand why things Davis says could be interpreted as such.
Six months may feel like a long time right now, but it really is not. I would stay at the current position, get the equity (not matter how small). Use this time to prepare your startup, getting a startup making revenue is a lot more than just coding. You can start to educate yourself about how to best set up a company, talk to potential customers (email or phone). If you think this is not very interesting to do then I suggest not starting a company at all.

If you still feel the same after this time then take the plunge.

Reference: Worked with a lot of startups.
There are not but existing ones can probably do more than you could think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92qSBU_WzA

Bottom line: you can drastically increase refresh rate but you loose contrast.

And yes, way too less resources into R&D, people just don't get it. It's just like nowadays everybody likes glossy vs mate LCDs. It's frustrating because all of the problems can be solved: refresh rate, size, color. I have been waiting for years (at least it feels like it!) to code on an e-ink! (And then take notes on a paper-thin one but I'm gonna stop here... :)

The closest to hacking on an e-ink are people transforming their kindle DX into a screen with GNU Screen or even VNC (Don't try it). The loveliest project involves the Raspberry Pi: http://www.ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4502577

EDIT: elaborating
Since you checked many of them, did you also take a look at Mybb?
If you can do it, take some time off and see if you can take a small project from inception to completion. It's harder than it seems, especially as a solo person, but you'll learn a lot from it. Spend some time trying to get users to learn about marketing and sales. Even if you don't succeed, those skills (full product life-cycle, marketing and sales) become very marketable resume points.

I'm also of the opinion that it's good to spend some time in the trenches at a big tech company to better appreciate the differences between small startups and mega-corps (and if you can something in between). It's one thing to read about it and get an idea, it's another thing to experience it and understand better what the pros/cons of each environment are. If you end up at another growing startup, this experience will better help you understand what's happening to the organization as it grows. Too many founders end up with growing organization and don't understand what a big shop looks like or how it functions and end up dragging the potential of the company down around them.

Both of those experiences can become very valuable to any future career direction you choose: small startup, on your own, big software house. If you're missing one or two of those, it's hard to say you have a complete picture.

Alternately, 6 months is really not a lot of time to learn and observe. Startups always go through lots of rapid changes, but seeing some of those through to completion (or stagnation) can be very informative. You're young enough that another year or so there won't kill you and won't prevent you from pursuing anything you want after that. Only you'll have more perspective and experience to work off of.
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> these dudes (or girls I dunno)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Initiative
$15.3B profit on $426B investment is 3.59% over 6 years.

If they invested that money in S&P500, they would get 130% back.
I think you meant "elusive". Illusive is a tad pessimistic :)
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Duet Display twitter account responded that "[The omission of the attribution was] an oversight of rushing to get in the App Store before lockout" and "All projects we used were cleared for use."

https://twitter.com/duetdisplay/status/546676103645896704
https://twitter.com/duetdisplay/status/546709659457826816
The package maintainer, as you said, handled this very gracefully.

Yeah, the author is likely in the wrong/gray (IANAL). But I can't help but be disappointed that posters below immediately jump to "Well, it should be free anyway!" "Why is he protecting his code?" "Here is an evil oppressor trying to keep something valuable to himself."

Here is a developer who tried to build a living using his own software, something many of us aspire to do. Why are we so quick to throw him under the bus? Is it because we instinctively always want to "defend the underdog"?
Out of curiosity: Can anyone point me where to find how a recent x86-cpu actually boots? Where's the code that gets executed in the first few CPU cycles?

The bulk of the firmware, that's clear, nowadays will be fetched from a serially connected flash, which this initial code will copy to the (then initialized) DRAM, also probably in several stages. But where do the first few instructions hide? Mask-rom in the CPU, or the chipset?

I know how initial bootup works on my day-job-default-CPU (a m68k/coldfire that basically just starts executing from a parallel connected flash), on a few ARMs and some PPC, but I have no idea about a "typical" intel core/i5..7/... CPU.
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It is somewhat a ready-to-boom (or fail?) area and there're already
hundreds of startups, all ready to turn your lights on (but only after
you press a button in their application on your iPhone.) So I wonder
who are the serious players and what is the state of the art of what's
possible today?

Is there anyone supporting a lot of devices (maybe even supporting
many standard busses)? Is there anyone with zero configuration (who
can learn itself about the available sensors/actuators/… in the
vicinity)? Anyone with working non-trivial scenarios (just as an
example — who knows your position and can track your movements)?

Also what do you think is technically possible but noone has bothered
to implement properly?
Blaming Google is, in my opinion, patronizing the author. There's no evidence of them having tried to deceive him, and the BSD is a very well known license.

I sympathize with him, but that doesn't mean there must be someone else to blame.
What's great about using Bitcoin for game-theory experiments, is that it allows for anonymity. Often, it is extremely important for scientific experiments to be anonymous in order to make sure that any decision taken by the participants cannot have any adverse consequences for them outside the experiment (i.e. by damaging their reputation). That's why we believe that Bitcoin is the ideal currency to reward participants in such experiments, at least when conducted online.
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If it's important and your algorithm can handle it, then it's data, not missing data, and there's no need to be concerned with the underlying representation.

If it's not important or your algorithm can't handle it, then you don't lose anything by collapsing it to NA.
The website itself wasn't that complex. The tracking software however was, but that's open source anyway.

http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
I was in a similar position few months ago, getting bored doing the same thing again and again. I could have changed jobs for a better pay and profile but it would not have been a significant improvement in work quality. Also the job was intense so I would end up thinking about the startup all the time with no time left for personal projects. I have decided to take a break of couple of years to learn new stuff I have already made a list of, experiment with some personal projects I always wanted to create and figure out what I would like to do later. Just ensure that you have a fair bit of runway so that if any of your projects get serious you can pursue it to end.
I've worked at a small startup for over a year and am a self taught developer. If I asked for more money and got it, I think I'd still be a little dismayed.

All I wanted was to have someone above me, an engineering manager or CTO, to help me fill the gaps in my education, but have been largely out on my own working on mission critical projects. While I have learned a ton from my mistakes, I have taken the brunt of all of them, many which I feel a superior could have spotted and steered me away from.
>>The article is wonderfully specific about what was used…<<

I'm missing something -- where does it say which version of JDK was used?
I can't find it right now, but I've read that U.S. companies cannot do business with other companies that are within 2 degrees of separation from a state sponsor of terror under some crazy penalties. In other words, if I make a widget, sell it to somebody in Dubai who sells it to the North Koreans, I can be held responsible unless I break off business ties with my Dubai customer. So they'd likely need to be going through 2 or 3 middlemen for a reliable source. It's hard to enforce though, once your good go through Dubai and Beijing or wherever the U.S. ability to track a chain of ownership becomes impossible.
I am unemployed because of this.

I worked for too long with Lua, and noone hires a Lua coder, so I am screwed :(
Pixel Qi had some pretty interesting products being developed including reflective LCD displays. I am not sure how readable they are in low light conditions, but I always thought it would be cool to have one of these for programming.
This is a feature I'd actually really like to have in an actual terminal. The ability to display graphics would be useful for many things.
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ageism how?

I am 27 (or I will be in some hours... right now 26, in some hours 27).

I am jobless for a while, and in my country, industry research showed that the companies are hiring less and less people in their 20s and hiring more people that are 50+

Any position I see with reasonable pay (ie: pay more than my rent + food) requires 20 years of experience+ since I am 27 I cannot have 20 years of experience (I learned to code at 6, but I don't got my first job at 7 :P)
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The Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away (2001) overtook Titanic and is still the highest grossing film in Japan.[1] Another Ghibli film, Howl's Moving Castle, also passed Mononoke on that list.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_...
"an expert in a previous version of the world" is a good metaphor.

Old people in general are such experts, or some "fundamentalists" or "conservatives" - those, who are trying to "preserve" the world they grow up in, everyone who follow and worship a "ritual", a "process", stuck up "creationists" or "froidians", "public static void" guys - the list is surprisingly long.

Some "teachers" said millennias ago "be the change", others said that "we are never the same". Perhaps, they have tried to capture this notion of "an ever changing process" - us (we are processes, not entities, they said) in a "beginningless and endless change" which they call "That" or "Tao", and we call Universe.
When I started reading I expected to be upset by this, and expected it to be some kind of abuse, to hide bad behavior by cops.

I was glad to see it's actually quite reasonable.

That said, I'm not sure how it could ever be completely automated, short of accurate face recognition software trained with everybody in the region.
I've heard that the Belkin devices Phone Home. I don't actually know that so don't take my word for it.

I personally could use a more-effective thermostat. I don't even need it to be networked, I just want one that works better.
Bank failures are endemic, regular, and predictable. 2008 was a slightly warped replay of many earlier events. (Who remembers Savings and Loan in the 80s?)

It would have been possible to restore confidence in other ways. Traditionally, good assets are collected into good banks, and bad assets are dumped into bad banks. The bad banks get thrown under a bus, and the good banks get full government backing until trust is restored. It's a tried and tested formula that has worked in other countries.

What TARP didn't solve was the endemic corruption and criminality that caused 2008. (Remember how some banks launched foreclosure farms that rubber-stamped property seizures - and sometimes stole property that didn't even have an outstanding loan?)

Unfortunately the corruption goes all the way to the Fed and the Congress, so a full restoration of Glass-Steagall, and jail time for the main perps, was never going to happen.

A few billion in 'profit' sounds like a lot, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the incredible destruction and loss of economic potential caused by the persistent fraud, aversion to adult supervision, and deep-seated social irresponsibility endemic at all levels of the financial industries.
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That post is a thinly veiled ad from a recruiter offering terrible advice.
Isn't this generally what Contributor Agreements are for - not giving up copyright, but jointly assigning it? E.g. https://www.clahub.com/

I know to contribute to Clojure/ClojureScript-proper, I had to sign http://clojure.org/contributing
Sometimes I feel like half of my HN comments are about this guy, but Aaron Sorkin (writer/creator of A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Social Network, and recently The Newsroom) wrote this line in a not-very-successful TV show 15 years ago called Sports Night, which is the same phrase but slightly nicer, and has stuck with me.

Dan is a TV host who did a Variety Fair interview in which he was semi-pro drug legalisation.

> Dan: The validity of your read on what most of the country thinks notwithstanding, Stanley.... Actions are immoral. Opinions are not. And I won't apologize for mine. Discussion is good, and for those of us fortunate enough to be the subject of magazine articles, it may be our responsibility from time to time to try and raise the level of debate.
I'm self-employed. I've been working on my "Global Computer Employer Index" while looking for gigs, however I am contemplating a KickStarter for it, so I can work on it full-time:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

So far I've got real content in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Vancouver Washington, Portland Oregon, Seattle, Boston and Remote work. However I have partial information for many, many other cities that I will post as I get complete info.
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As someone that took a degree because the "adults" then forced me to, and spent years of my life just to pay it, totalling 10 years wasted (I am 26 today, and I my assets are the same as they were when I was 16, and soon I will have less than what I had when I was 16 because I am unemployed).

My parents, and the academia, school teachers, all lied to me, they told me that getting a degree was a good thing.

It is not, it basically fucked up my life so far. If I could go back in time only once to give me a single advice, it would be to tell my 18 year old self to get a job and skip college, or get into a trade school.
Not sure if this is your first 6 months in the working world or not. I'm guessing that it is. I'm not trying to discourage you from leaving, but I wanted to offer some perspective.

If your startup is indeed rapidly growing, I think it is invaluable to see the growth first hand. Only a fraction of startups really see true rapid growth. Having that first hand experience will give you some perspective when hopefully, one day, your startup experiences that growth. Additionally, when interviewing at the "big hot startups", I think it's a major plus to have seen that growth somewhere else. But be honest with yourself if it's real, rapid growth, and not just some vanity metrics.

Secondly, I share some concerns that if you're burned out after your workday now, that quitting to do your own thing is going to be better. However, I can certainly empathize and understand that it is possible, but harder, to build a product part time at night. To hedge your risk, you should find that idea that you're really excited about, commit to getting an MVP and some traction to prove to yourself that you have an idea, and then quit.

While doing so, keep your responsibilities and cost of living structure low. Don't sign a new bigger apartment while you're getting a salary. Also, I'm not sure if you've thought about how long you can live without a salary. Do you need to supplement your ramen profitable startup with any extra income (contracting or otherwise?) If that's necessary, you'll need to spend time getting work and doing the work. I personally dislike contract/consulting work. I could never mental hack my way into feeling ownership of it. I've learned I'd rather work at a product company and work on something on the side, than do a startup "full time" while part time consulting to cover bills. Your preferences may be different.

Remember that startups are really hard. I've been through it to an acquihire, and I've had friends that were acquired for tens of million of dollars. And when I talk to them, I'm reminded that even though they're doing well, it's really hard. I absolutely think it's worth it if you're willing to bet on yourself.

Feeling like you've hit a ceiling at work and that you're only learning from yourself, sometimes can be fixed. Talk to your manager. Let them know. Maybe there's more responsibility for you. If you strike out on your own, guess who you'll have to learn from. Just you again. While joining a large community of people working on their own startup is fun, it's also lonely. No one cares about your startup more than you.
So you're counting a 26 year old millennial living with their parents as a homeowner?