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Calling it "selling insurance" is pretty good. People blank if you say "options", but selling insurance captures the immediate small upside with potential massive downside later
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The market would have bought them, at one point or another, exactly because there was value there (either at the time or eventually that realization would have been made, just as it had been so many times throughout US history that didn't require a program like TARP).

That process would have bankrupted nearly every major bank. Buying the toxic assets was an extreme bailout for the banks, that were carrying trillions in liabilities that suddenly went under. Most of the majors were completely insolvent.
The danger, of course, is that presenting a half finished page and someone missing the growl message. They continue using the page, but miss out on critical information that would have otherwise informed their current actions.

In this case, presenting an overlay saying the page did not finish loading, and you can continue reading if you want with the caveat that the last part of the recipe, perhaps the most critical part, is not present.

After all, if you don't give that cornbread a minute or two to settle and cool, you'll burn your tongue.
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France doesn't need to "work against this".

If that's the law in France, it trumps the license text.

Just as the law trumps any clause requiring the sacrifice of the licensee's firstborn on an altar.
Consider than most software in actual use, changing the world and making millions is written in C/C++, those "benefits" must not be that many or that difficult to overcome...

And if the price we pay for this "worse is better" is buffer overflows and the ocassional crash and/or security exploit, that's hardly unsurmountable either. Life would be boring with perfectly perfoming programs anyway...
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I have a lot more that I'll be adding soon - Harvard, MIT, Boston U, I expect many of the multinationals have offices there, like Intel, IBM, Apple and Microsoft. I've mostly been focussing on the smaller, hard-to-find companies.
> (b) it's an illustration that the rules of intellectual property and open source are not always clear, even to those following well-established patterns.

I don't think there is anywhere on the internet that will tell you that you can't copy a BSD licence. How did the original author decide on the BSD?
stay tuned on http://www.eyevel.com ;)
The US wasn't in purely capitalistic makeup to begin with. The US hasn't been a Capitalist country for a century. it hasn't even been a mixed economy for 40 or 50 years. America in 1890 was a Capitalist country.

The US is a hyper regulated, highly taxed welfare state. The US economy carries more regulations per capita than any other country on earth, and it passes more new regulations per year than anyone else.

You can't call a country in which the total government system extracts 40% of the economy - effectively a government system larger than the entire economy of Japan - a Capitalist country. It's not even close.

Nor can you call the world's largest welfare state, with the largest entitlement programs, a Capitalist country.

Where's the Capitalism? Capitalism requires, at a minimum, very low taxation, few economic regulations, strong protections on property rights, low friction for trade, and very little government intervention into the economy. The US has almost the opposite of that and has for a very long time.
Life is suffering, change, taxes and death.

The meta of Buddhist philosophy (sans religion, spirituality, etc.) appears to be one of the most honest of the major, religion-derived belief systems.
The authors of HtDP wrote a paper on the differences: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/jfp2004-fffk.pdf
Macs used to require a physical step in addition to the software setup to modify the boot ROM. I think it was something along the lines of load firmware update which initiates a reboot, after reboot press and hold the power button until there was a loud beep from the computer, then the firmware update could proceed. Not convenient, but more secure.
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>Like every seedy motel that caters to hookers. And yet, no one thinks this is a crime... because renting rooms isn't a crime.

At this point it seems you're being purposely obtuse.

Prostitution is a crime (except in a couple of places) and "catering to hookers" is also a crime when you're renting rooms to prostitutes or their clients specifically to facilitate prostitution, as a business, commonly known as "running a brothel."

But again, you seem to choose to employ metaphors which completely disregard intent.
Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2958108
I think it varies from case to case. I wouldn't generalize it.There have been cases where things which started as a side project at a startup have become their main product.

At the same time there have been cases where startups didn't take off because of focusing on too many things.

So I think it's always better to work on complimentary ideas which might blend well together. Working on totally unrelated ideas at the same time would spoil the show. Again, I might be totally wrong too.
I'm a little disappointed to see the original PR locked due to lphilips54's inconsistent statements.

While I think the OSS community should be polite and inclusive, I also think that we are all poorer if we ignore contributions due to author behavior. I'm confident that many authors have abhorrent political views and actions. While we should not elevate them as role models, there are times it's reasonable to just use the code.
That's resetting the PRAM and was required on old macs for some of the fimrware changes to actually take place (since the firmware was cached).
I remember at 3-years-old that I took endless mischievous joy in figuring out how to change the channel of a Healthkit TV* with an ultrasonic remote control system by furiously jangling keys. *My father and grandfather built it together.
That is because Paul is writing in English and assumes that the reader has a good (ie university level) understanding of English.

Ok its sucks if English is a second language for you but that is what dictionary's and thesauruses are for.
Most examples are classical cache effects, but the last one is such a puzzle.

A++; C++; E++; G++;	448 ms
A++; C++;	518 ms

How can incrementing 2 variables be slower than incrementing 4 variables?
Can you provide the information showing that Citi paid back the $2 trillion? I've found it difficult to locate such.
While I can't give you a link to this study, I can say that it supports and extends work I did as part of a graduate stats class for my MBA - we looked at the data that was publicly available at the time and it was clear that the cameras weren't making a statistically significant difference at most intersections... So, just another piece of anecdotal evidence but if you really want it I can try to dig up our work.

Retrospectively, I guess we should have been better about sharing our findings.
On the other hand, the real-world is swimming in programs that would have benefitted from some of the ideas in this book...
I can tell you that Cisco has no scruples at all. During the course of my seven years employment at Cisco Systems, I came along on sales calls to the Chinese Government where the staff (some in police or military uniforms) were very candid to my American coworkers (a VP and two sales reps) and I about their goals of censorship and identification of troublemakers. During a visit to a SARFT operations center in central Beijing I was asked to explain some details about how Cisco hardware and software products could assist in their mission. The Chinese even mentioned Falun Gong by name and indicated that they were a source of embarrassment that had to be cleansed from the old and new media.

I don't know what came of that visit, but months later the VP nominated me to my manager for an internal award because of my assistance on that trip; I got a framed certificate and a monetary bonus (one of many I got from Cisco.)

As an American I'm rather ashamed to have participated in such.
> all it takes is 1 year of effort to become an expert in that field.

I think we may have a deep disagreement of what constitutes expertise. 1 year of effort in anything is at least an order of magnitude less effort than what I'm talking about. I would consider a smart person with a year of solid effort "functional" but not even capable of sniffing what it takes to become an expert. That level of grokkiness is simply not attainable in that short of a period of time.

But maybe you bring up a good point. Maybe the word has simply been redefined these days to a much weaker definition. Maybe a year of practice, in this sound-byte, short attention-span laden world, is good enough and our collective standards have fallen. After all I see job listings for "senior this or that" job all the time requiring 5-7 years experience in the field.

> The very act of being an expert at becoming an expert makes you impossibly valuable to any corporation that exists. The actual details of the domains is completely irrelevant.

I agree, and I think this meta-expertise really is a new thing. A new kind of paradigm of thinking that really had little analog in the past. Even the idea of a Renaissance Man, being an expert in multiple fields simultaneously, isn't quite the same thing.
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do you know any good examples of complimentary ideas?

in terms of unrelated ideas: Max Levchin started Glow and Affirm almost at the same time, Elon runs two companies.

additionally, at the lower level, programming patterns are almost the same.
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I think it would be interesting to point out a somehow similar exchange between Richard Stallman and Bruno Haible, the original author of CLISP[1]. Bruno wanted to integrate GNU Readline into the then-proprietary CLISP, but RMS informed him that doing so would be a violation of GPL. After a minor flamewar-of-a-kind, Bruno concurred, because he wanted very much to use Readline, and today the world is richer for another free software Common Lisp implementation. I think it very clearly illustrates how often people don't understand the implications of free software licenses, an issue that, even now when there are loads of FAQs and websites dedicated to just that, remains present.

[1]: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...
Not true. It's very difficult to unlock a big budget when you have a small team. And with Coq or Haskell, you team won't be very big...

Also, ADA is _a bit_ popular, but not too much. Most of the code is still done in C because of the conformism. Object oriented programming is still considered like a dangerously modern move. The rules here are pretty hard and it's easier to fuck up the regulation than the code... (cough A330 Neo cough)
In some cases, it's not possible to have a "Tripwire" equivalent for firmware. For example, Intel's Management Engine on modern chipsets runs code from a firmware region that's read-protected against access from user code.
This answer totally sucks, I agree. And I have run into this annoyance myself (I've been using systemd for almost three years).

But just so everyone knows, and so nobody finds themselves in this position, there is an easier way. By default, I believe systemd will skip the fsck if running on battery power (this is the case on Arch, at least). So if you know you are in a hurry but haven't added this to your GRUB config, the easiest thing to do is just boot the laptop and wait about ten seconds before plugging in the power cord (the fsck check happens early enough, so it'll have been skipped by that point). This doesn't help kill it if it's already in progress, but it has saved me many times.

Brian's response is laughably rude and unhelpful, but hopefully this will be a bit easier and more helpful than telling people to edit their GRUB config before-the-fact.
The middle class got one of the world's largest bailouts in the form of record low mortgage rates. They were able to buy homes with cheap rates, and they were able to refinance with cheap rates; and that's still true even now, the homeowner bailout continues. The savings for the middle 50% of Americans is staggering. So yes, average Americans profited in a big way.

Further, all homeowners got bailed out via a multi-trillion dollar asset inflation program that re-inflated housing prices. If you own a house, you saw a massive benefit from that bailout.
I generally prefer to use the phrase "age-related employment difficulties" rather than flat out "age discrimination" when talking about silicon valley. I absolutely do not doubt that there is plenty the latter, but a bigger issue is the general culture that, as the article puts it, "might as well be scientifically designed in order to make adults with kids and a mortgage run away screaming".

I do think these sorts of articles and stories about the experience of being middle aged win silicon valley re important, because young people do need a counterpoint to the almost relentless message that there is a shortage of software developers and that what the US really needs is more young people going into CS.

What they need to hear is that in San Jose, registered nurses earn a bit more than software developers (122k/yr median vs 116k), and dental hygienists in SF earn only a bit less. Lawyers in San Jose, in spite of all the talk of a glut, earn a median of 185K a year.

No, it isn't paradise in these fields, the grass is never totally and perfectly green on the other side. But we need to understand how rational the aversion to software development careers really is when you consider the options available to highly educated, focused, intelligent young people.

Of course, plenty of people still do ok as they cross the 40, 50, 60 year threshold. However, in many fields, there is nothing remarkable about this. Lawyers and dental hygienists don't tell stories on job boards about they guy over 40 they know who managed to stay relevant. Many young people considering a career or college major are increasingly aware of what goes on, this is yet another reason why they avoid this field or abandon it quickly and early in their careers.
Why is the traffic light relevant when you are in the intersection? In Germany it doesn't matter anymore once you enter the intersection, mostly since you just cannot see it. It seems absurd to me that the traffic light would still be applicable at that point. To me the rule then is basically for everyone to pay attention to what everyone else is doing.
Well, for all we know that's exactly what he has done [1]. ;)

1. http://www.google.com/patents/US20090043584
If he really does own a patent (http://www.google.com/patents/US20090043584 referenced above). Then I can kind of see the argument. He's provided a BSD licensed implementation, but you don't have a license to use the patent. Perhaps that means you can share it, compile it, but if you use it you're in violation of the patent?

It seems rather odd but not totally inconsistent.
Which iPad are you using? For me it improved a lot after upgrading from the iPad Mini to the retina iPad Mini... I still hate the behaviour and it still occasionally happens.
The international banking system was the biggest threat to the freedoms of the colonies from before the Revolution until 1913. With the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 the banksters gained full control of the country ...
I'm sorry but you are wrong. The market wasn't buying anything, period. Trying to fall back on the 'as it had been so many times throughout US History' is also wrong, as History, specifically the great depression, has shown us: no. At that time, there were no willing buyers (of toxic assets or banks otherwise), and if things progressed there would be no willing buyers.

Tarp both directly and indirectly included the autos. Directly, because the auto bailout was funded under tarp, and indirectly because the way cars are sold - through loans, was about to be a broken process. if you remember, companies were no longer processing orders of auto parts companies unless they were paying in cash, for fear they might go under. The same situation happened in the banks. if the autos had gone, just that alone would have added another 2 million to unemployment in a month. Ford, the healthiest of the autos would have gone under too - as the companies that made GM and Christler's parts also made theirs. This alone would have destroyed the world economy for decades, let alone the financials all going kaput all at once.

there were aspects of TARP that could have been implemented better, such as stipulations on c suite bonnuses, but overall TARP was needed or else we would be in a really bad place right now.
It's an interesting question whether the license is even valid if it is true what you say that he never understood its consequences as you suggest.
> Remember when BIOS flash ROMs were write-protected with a physical hardware switch/jumper?

this is a physical access attack. when you have physical access, the game is up. (and your bios switch isn't any use).

i appreciate that inserting a thunderbolt device is easier than getting access to a switch, but it's not that much harder.
The common man saw a massive benefit from TARP, and all the other programs. Had the government & Fed not intervened, the common man would have seen his housing value vaporized. Mortgage rates would have - properly - skyrocketed to record highs, making it extraordinarily expensive to refinance a home or buy a new home. Such high mortgage rates would have crushed housing values even further, and it's unlikely there would have been any value recovery to this day. The common man would have lost trillions.
You are assuming the banks that sold had different owners than the banks that bought them.
Let's keep it with software. The bridge metaphor is more applicable to a service offering where you maintain infrastructure and adjust pricing based on the cost of maintaining it.

In software, the license is what you sell. I don't buy MS Windows or Photoshop, I buy a license for it. If you sell me a 3-seat license of software v1.0 allowing me to install it on up to 3 computers, you can't come back 2 years later and change the terms to only 1 computer. Now, in 2 years, you might have v2.0 and require a new license for that. But the license you sold me for v1.0 remains in place.

By releasing the software under the BSD license, he basically sold us a license (price immaterial) granting permission to redistribute and alter the code, provided that new code includes the BSD license.

I understand that wasn't his intention. Another commenter pointed out that the author gave permission to another project which was being released under the BSD license. Now anyone that was "sold" the software with that license has been granted those redistribution rights.
There is one point that was missed in this post: promotion. Are you more likely to land a promotion in your current job, or are you more likely to find a another job that is also a promotion to a position that you have no experience in?
I was talking about early stage entrepreneurs. Working on multiple ideas once you are successful or have enough experience sounds logical but initially that might be a hurdle.

Check this article for examples. Really good one http://ryanhoover.me/post/98567029388/startup-side-projects
And yet the truly successful people have gotten to where they are by sticking to their beliefs:

- Warren Buffet has always believed that companies should be valued based on their profits, not their share price performance. Thus he didn't invest in the tech bubble of the 90s, and was forced to under-perform the market significantly for many years whilst everyone thought he was getting too old for the new way of things. Yet he stuck to his beliefs, and it turned out that he was right - the Nasdaq bubble evaporated and he again out-performed other funds in the long term.

- Steve Jobs always stuck to his belief that computing devices for consumers should be fully integrated and beautifully designed. After getting kicked out of Apple and loosing the OS war to MS, he could have easily told himself his approach was wrong. But whether he is right or wrong became irrelevant - his belief was so powerful that it was contagious.

- Zuck, Brin, and others have succeeded because they stuck to their beliefs instead of selling out early on.

- Darwin stuck to his unorthodox beliefs until his theories became accepted.

All of these people have/had a belief - a model of the universe which they passionately believed in. Having such a model means that predicting the future becomes possible, even though one can't predict exactly when that future will come, the same way Warren Buffet will never tell you what the market will do tomorrow, yet he certainly has a belief in where things are going long term. Jobs was too early with the Newton, yet his continued belief caused him to strike gold later on with the iPhone.

There is an interesting difference between fundamental beliefs and "expert knowledge". The later constantly needs to adapt to take new information into account, but it is our fundamental beliefs that determine how we interpret that expert knowledge.

For what it's worth, my startup investment belief has always been to: invest in companies that are run by great people that have created the best product in a growing market that has profitable competitors. I'll leave it up to the "experts" to speculate on which markets will grow most, or which competitors will win out. If Warren Buffet can't do it, I won't bother either. All that we can really judge to the best of our ability is the quality of the product and the team.
> A pat on the back and a 10% bonus won't do it, because it doesn't come close to offsetting the career costs of doing undesirable work.

This pretty much describes what I've been enduring for the past year, especially since we only get (adjusted for profits + performance) 10% bonuses.
From same director, the comedy My Neighbors the Yamadas has been done in the same style. Didn't read westerners reviews (and won't :) but it would be genuinely more difficult to enjoy because of the Japanese wordplays/culture related humor. I still enjoyed it a lot with limited knowledge of the culture.
I still like shoddy construction/shanty village as an analogy. People know what it is and it is tangible unlike debt or any other financial reference.

You can build a shanty village without a plan that supports a million people, but the first fire, storm, earthquake, etc destroys the whole thing. Also, for some reason when Bob flushes his toilet, the power goes out briefly in the capitol building. Nobody knows why, but routing power through the sewer last sprint to save time probably wasn't a good idea.
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At one of the coffee shops local to me works a woman who was encouraged into programming as a career. She believed she could do it, did a BSc, worked as a dev for a year, hated it, now works at the coffee shop scratching her head about what to do. My last IT director had a similar experience. He became a business analyst after hating dev for two years, having become a dev by having the prescribed requirements. Programming simply is not for everyone, and telling those people to just practice ignores the fact that they couldn't do so and retain their sanity. I think it's fair that we don't expect people to forego their sanity, and therefore that they won't be able to practice, and therefore that they will never be good programmers.
Although I agree with you for the most part, companies such as Capital One or Discover who did not have intervention grew much faster and took much more of the market than other banks. Further, Ford did exceptionally well when the other automakers were having trouble and I was thoroughly impressed.