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Even if you feel that deep disconnect with the society?

I'm not sure how to describe that feeling precisely - but to give you an example: most people seem to like/watch soap operas, while I actively avoid them and prefer to watch sci-fi, which is shunned by general population. And the reason is, sci-fi series have a point. There's some reason for things, some grander goal, etc., whereas what I see in soap operas are random people making dramas around love, family and money. This, so called normal life, feels so empty and pointless.

I'm not aiming to insult anyone here - what I'm saying is that I just don't grok "normal life". While I have enough empathy and perceptivity to be able to understand the life priorities of an average Joe (in my circles I'm the go-to guy if there's a conflict to fix or someone to cheer up), I don't feel them. I do feel disconnected from society, and honestly, I'm fine with that.
Aside from all the other (very good) answers regarding technical and corporate culture, the potential for a windfall--either monetary or career--is higher than in a company that either already has or likely never will go public or otherwise exit.

I say career because even if you don't make a lot of money, being an early technical member of a successful startup usually A) gives you a fair amount of visibility and credibility in the tech community and B) leads to a number of other job opportunities with startups with more responsibility and/or equity. Being able to execute under pressure is a valuable quality, and once founders or even VC firms know you can do it they start cherry-picking you.

Edit: should also add, don't go working for a startup just to go make money off equity. The grand majority won't make you much unless you're a very early hire; you'll probably make more over the same amount of time by investing your higher salary, ESPP, etc. at a more established company. Make sure the other factors are the "real" reason, with potential cash being a secondary one.

But I mention it because you ask why other people do it, and that's one reason why.
>Elizabeth Bear's primary complaint seems to be "Andersen is shooting so fast that he doesn't have time for a full draw."

I didn't take that as her primary complaint. I thought it was quite clear what her main complaint was right at the top:

>But he's not actually doing anything we didn't already know about, he's not shooting in a manner that would be at all effective in combat or for the historically more common purpose of feeding his family, and his quiver-handling skills are worthy of the "before" segment of an infomercial.

and

>Here's the thing. He's basically misrepresenting a bunch of well-known techniques in non-Western-European archery as his own invention or "rediscovery" (bonus cultural appropriation!), and into the bargain, he's not actually putting any strength into that bow of his.

To say that his tactics are suited to a shorter recurve supports one of her points, that he isn't showing anything archers didn't know about.
Very good post. Refreshing.

I think that the hype and buzzwords around Big Data and data science cause more than just bad business decisions. I believe they are also damaging the industry and creating a larger sense of disillusionment (I'm mostly thinking of "deep learning"). Not sure what this means for data science in the long term though, just thinking out loud.

I'll also add that I frequently see sledge hammers being used to hang a picture frame. By that I mean using huge clusters to run algos that would actually run in Tableau, Excel etc.
> Part of the reason I don't like watching, say, American football is that I used to play it in highschool. Once you've actually played the game, watching other people play is kinda boring.

I find this to be the complete opposite of my experience. I never played football, but I did compete in many team sports when younger and I find my enjoyment heightened by that experience, and a high degree of understanding and empathy.

I find golf, a game even many sports fans do not watch, to be one of the most enjoyable and dramatic to watch. I think this is mostly because I play it, not in spite of it.
What if I don't like sports?
If they ask, we will change the design. We just made it like this to make it easier for people to find the add-ons.
Currently we have an efficient, large-scale recycling effort to reclaim materials from cars. We are only beginning to recycle carbon-fiber, but it seems likely that it will not be as easy or practical to scale.
Hello fellow Clevelander! Sorry you were let go.

I hope you stay in Cleveland. I collected links of tech companies and job resources in the Cleveland area.

http://faehnri.ch/cleveland-careers/

I don't know any one directly that is looking or could help you, but feel free to contact me if you think I can help you with anything.
Thanks. We think that VoltDB's combination of ACID transactions, raw throughput performance and data pipeline integrations to backends like Hadoop adds up to a really simple, powerful application platform for real time streaming-esque applications.

Hard to believe how far the product and company have advanced since we started :-)
Why would you buy a car that you can't get out of in a car park? I've seen one driving around here in UK - and British car parks are notoriously small - if you park alongside another car I guarantee you won't be able to get out without crawling out of it.
Published study for those who want it.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/536.full.pdf
Golf in particular was hard to watch on TV until I started playing golf. The concentration required to hit near perfect shots over and over across 4 days is insane. The other beauty of golf is that almost anyone can go out and hit that perfect shot once and relate just a bit. Golf is also very easy to handicap between skill levels making it easy for various people to play together (my wife and I can 'compete' with the handicap in place).

Football is the perfect party/passive sport. There is so much downtime you can have entire conversations and still watch the game. I do not know what the stats are now, but the NFL has done a lot to give the offense the advantage and up the scoring. The problem I have with the NFL on TV is not showing the full 22. When you watch that view you see how little margin of error there is during the game. The QB looking left a 1/2 second sooner and a sack could have been a TD and vice versa.
Clients generally don't care about or understand your technology choices. People and process management are at least as important to freelance success as programming or design skill. That much I definitely agree with.

I wouldn't describe my clients as hell, though--not by a long shot. But I've been freelancing full time for seven years, moonlighting five before that, and I've learned to avoid (and am able to do without) bad clients for the most part.

Way back in the beginning, when I didn't much know what I was doing and sold even that work way too cheap, there were some pretty bad times.
> Might I request that you make some of this information more prominent on your site?

Yes, we should do that. (Tricky, though -- there's so much information we want people to know, but most people will only read two lines. :) )

> Which unfortunately references back to my comment about re-writing apps which come in, in an effort to increase performance.

We've found that a lot of SQL-based apps support sqlite already. For those that don't, adding support may be some work but it's not a rewrite.

For Mongo-based apps, we actually have a patched version of Mongo that reduces the resource usage pretty well. (Basically we just reduced all their hard-coded "pre-allocate at least this much space" constants.) At some point we'll try to do the same for some SQL database...
Cultivated: having or showing good education, taste, and manners[1]

Even the title is dripping with disdain and condescension. Seems like he has to spend a bit more time going native. [2]

It's best to avoid judging people's interests, and learning a bit about them can definitely help you interact with people. Faking interest, as many do due to social pressures, is ineffective in the long run as well.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cultivated
[2] Can someone please tell me the politically correct version of this idiom?
I've found a lot of this beyond just SEO and into the realm of almost anything that claims to help you with your business or with marketing. Seems to be a market that like you say is hard to quantify and draws a lot of questionable huckster types.
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Yes.

But Zenos paradox has a simple solution; Time. It takes k(1) * 1/x time to reach k(2) * 1/x location assuming constant velocity. Basically moving an infinitely small distance takes an infinitely small unit of time.
"When you show overt contempt for sports you are showing contempt for most everybody and that is problem with your social skills."

That's nice. What other corporate products must I consume in order to be a validated member of your social caste?

How about this: "when you show overt contempt for fast food, you are showing contempt for most everybody, and that is a problem with your social skills."

If I don't eat at McDonalds because I care about my health, am I unfit for socialization?
> Anyone can be an intellectual if they are intellectual, but at least in my mind, being an academic implies peer-reviewed novel research.

I thought this as well. I had always thought that being an intellectual was just something you were regardless of education, but an academic is a vocation marked largely by publishing peer-reviewed research and (most likely) having advanced graduated degrees and/or a professorship of some sort.
Hey man, I feel your pain. I was just let go today, as well! Along with 40% of this company.

I was laid off last year so this is my second time going through this in a year. I can tell you, I'm not nearly as worried this time around.

A lot of places need good developers, and I already have recruiters calling me. If you end up needing a 9-5 you can get one.

Me, I think I'm going to put everything into my side project. Then follow my dreams and move down to South America for a while and backpack.

Hopefully, I can pick up some part-time remote work along the way.
I think this is getting cause and effect backwards. Many (not all) kids who became intellectuals were the last picked for the team in sports and generally suffered due to it. I went through school dreading gym class. Deciding that sports was not important to me and spending time on things I was better at was in part emotional self-defense.

Of course, dividing up into different tribes is not healthy. We should ideally try to leave such things behind and try to get along with everyone. But the nerds versus jocks thing lingers even in programming with the "brogrammer" meme and also in many programmers' expectation that everyone else should put in the hours to learn programming on their own because that's what they did.

Rather than indulging in moral shaming, I think better to say that the folks who are good at sports and at intellectual activities are in an excellent position to build bridges.
I think you might be onto something. I still find sport boring, though I recall my interest in soccer increasing when I was learning things about game strategies. Maybe simply some of us derive pleasure from the aspects that are non-obvious first time you watch a match on TV.
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In 1934, USA practically banned sale & possession of machine-guns. ... As such, the market incentive to develop modern & sophisticated automatic weapons pretty much ended with the M16

Even the M16 (AR-15) is an outlier after the 1934 NFA. And consider that it was designed in 1957. Contrast this with the USSR's AK47, designed in 1947. Taking the small private developers out of the gave seems to be big reason why the Soviets got there a decade before the USA.

Thus, it appears to me that the limitations on gun ownership in the USA is a liability in terms of national security. We can debate about how much it handicaps, and how important that is, but the effect is certainly there.
That's exactly why we added the administration api to our query language in this release. Previously we had some command line tools that were really a pain. Now you can start development using the webui, and then shift to scripting massive deployments once you get there
Have to agree. Thought it was Heroku's site when I pulled it up on my phone.
Germany deviates from the European norm by having products on offer that are globally competitive. What a crime. Let's make Europe more stable by turning every country into Greece!
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I'm attending indiecade.com next month, hoping that by showing my game to people willing to travel for an indie game conference, I'll get increased word-of-mouth & marketing>

Does anyone have experience doing similar?
For a context: I emigrated from Europe to North America as an adult. I used to watch hockey and football (soccer) growing up and know the rules and mildly enjoy watching an occasional game. And I can totally relate to the issue of missing opportunities for smalltalk because of my lack of interest in typical North American sports: american football and baseball. Not that I cultivated disinterest, it is just I did not grow up with it and right now getting to know the rules and intricacies of theses games seems too much of a hassle.

I am thinking of getting to know American Football, more for socializing than anything. Baseball is probably a lost cause for me.
I also find it hilarious that intellectuals apparently don't go for Heavy Metal, because I'd fall in his "intellectual" category, but spent several years deeply engrossed in Metal and I enjoy the Nordic and Prog subtypes

In recent years there has been a swell in the popularity of metal, but there seems to be a cultural divide between certain styles despite sharing the moniker of "Metal". It's less a matter of the size of the fanbase and has more to do with a difference in sound/style.

Think about rock played on the radio vs indie rock. There is some crossover but not a large amount. Fans of Nickelback don't overlap with fans of The Walkmen. In much the same way someone who listens to Def Leppard is unlikely to also listen to Opeth or Sunn O))).
This sure seems like a problem for servers that are hosted in a Colocation facility where all of the hardware belongs to datacenter customers. You could easily outfit your server with equipment to pick up signals from nearby servers. Makes me wonder if any spy agencies have used this technique.
Exactly. And this Rossi guy has been trying to get people to pay attention to him for like the past 10 years.
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You're including all the zero-effort garbage that floods the app store in your speculative figures. And even those might break even because the budget was probably $12.

Look at the "real" indie games market (for the sake of argument, exclude anything not sold on Steam or GOG), and things look much more favorable.
It may feel like that but we don't know his true motive. I'll take him at his word that he is seeking an avenue by which to build real relationships with people.

For example, if your spouse has an interest, you declined to share it until you realize it could bring you closer together, and then you pursue her interest with her then who am I to say you aren't really into it?

Just like you can develop a taste for IPA beer you can develop a true enjoyment of football. I think your point is better taken as, this is a good idea but be careful not to misuse or misunderstand it's goal.
It's not true in general that public-key encryption and digital signatures are inverse operations. (RSA has that property, but there are plenty of other algorithms that don't work that way.)

If you're writing for a lay audience that doesn't care about things like modular arithmetic, there's no reason to conflate the two operations. Just say encryption is like keys and locks, and signing is like... well... a signature.
Of course SV is ageist, but is the ageism reflective of reality, caricatures, misunderstandings, or just plain old bigotry. In my experience, being 50 and being a First-Wave Coder, I'd say little is based on reality and much on ignorance and misunderstanding of what experienced uber-coding looks like. The young coder who's spend the entire night and a case of Red Bull coding has in all likelihood produced a bunch of crap-code. In our industry, "Maintenance Kills" because lots of code may get the produce to the deadline, but be poorly written, poorly scalable, and in time die due to increasing maintainability. Yet, the young founders see the Geezer-Geek going home at 5:00 and think, "Slow Old Fart can't pull an all nighter ..." without realizing the Geezer Geek has completed rock solid scalable maintainable code and will come back refreshed in the morning to kick out another 6-8 hours of beauty.
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"...up to six meters away..." this is more about indirect access attacks, e.g., leader at a conference using a laptop or close proximity to a device during a facility tour, etc.
Thanks! I've updated my vocabulary appropriately. And after grazing a bit on wikipedia updated my notion of the difference between a sub-machine gun and a machine gun.
From the FAQ: "For multiple document transactions, RethinkDB favors data consistency over high write availability. While RethinkDB is always CID, it is not always A."

What is the relation between write availability and A(tomicity)?
"It has all the maintenance hassles and costs of a traditional ICE plus whatever they are for BMW's electric technology."

Exactly. I was so, so disappointed that the i8 was a hybrid, and not an electric car.
I'm not a gun expert, not clear what you're saying, but is it like saying that a downhill skier isn't going 120mph unless they travel 120 miles in an hour ?
> I am forever amazed that people think an eighty thousand dollar plus car that barely does more than two hundred miles per charge is some kind of breakthrough.

It's a no-compromise, all-electric luxury car which absolutely replaces an ICE car for every day use. It's priced similarly to other large, luxury, performance vehicles. It's mass-market and sold in many countries. You can, today, buy this. I don't understand how you can pass this off as not a breakthrough.
Whenever you say "that made no sense", I think that you are using too much bias and not giving enough credit to what the data is telling you.

If you look at the most "controversial" data science paper from 2013 where a study correlated intelligence to Liking the Facebook pages "Curly Fries" and "Thunderstorms" (here is a summary: http://www.wired.com/2013/03/facebook-like-research/), there were a lot of proponents saying that there was no causation, and the correlation was not founded, etc.

Of course, you would say the study "makes no sense". Intelligence can't be predicted by Facebook Likes. There is no correlation there, etc. But why not? If you read the paper (http://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/5802.full.pdf) their logic is sound. Is the marketing campaigns that the company bought based on the TV Stand<>DVD Player connection any different than other marketing campaigns? Facebook does all of their ad display based on similar data analysis as above, and it seems to be working for them.

Note: There is the not-so-hidden machine learning feedback loop now (explained better here: http://www.john-foreman.com/blog/the-perilous-world-of-machi...), where people Like the 'Curly Fries' and 'Thunderstorms' pages because of the research.
Probably because BMW sells in most countries. Tesla doesn't.

As such you have to take into account that electric infrastructure simply isn't available for most purchasers. And the argument of just use work/home doesn't apply. Many people park in work garages and live in apartments.
How are association rules "big data analytics"?

The article is very refreshing and I bookmarked the site. What I am more frustrated with is that a lot of people use this stupid term "big daata" for things which do not fit the description. If it's structured, it's not big data. If it comes at 2MB/s it's not big data. If it fucking fits in your RAM, it most certainly is not big data.
In theory, equity in a startup. In practice ego and the slim possibility to grow with an organization.

Basically, it’s extremely unlikely for a junior developer to be chosen to manage people, unless they happen to be the most senior person there.
If you're interested in Chicago: GoHealth is hiring Javascript devs. (We're looking for those with Angular Experience)

If thats cool then contact our internal recruiter, Gina, at: gcontella@gohealth.com
If anyone has used one of the elasticsearch add-ons, I'd love to read a review.

Feature request: Allow the reviewer to specify which tiers of service they've used. I want to use elastic on heroku for my side project, but if the $10 plans are as slow as the $10 db plan then I need to decide between dropping heroku and jumping to the $50 db.
2.2M BMW's vulnerable to being hacked [pdf]
And yet if I had to buy one every year it would be worth it to me.
> It implies that there is no valid reason for liking X.

This is completely wrong. You're essentially saying here that "I don't understand the valid reason for X" necessarily means "therefore X has no valid reason". I really hope you're just confused here, as opposed to actually believing this line of thought and applying it to things in general. To use my example again, when I say "I don't understand the appeal at all", I'm literally saying that _I_ don't understand it: I assume there's just something I'm missing about pro sports or some as-yet-unknown difference in my preferences that makes me averse to watching it.
get people to pay attention to him

He has clearly succeeded at that.