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Or where you work from. Most of our dev/design team is remote, and that's been hugely beneficial to us. I wish we could figure out how to shoot really high quality video remotely too.
> “As far as I’m concerned, working 32 hours a week is a part-time job,” Arrington, said in an interview. “I look for founders who are really passionate. Who want to work all the time. That shows they care about what they’re doing, and they’re going to be successful.”

Efficiency is key, not some arbitrary limit of working hours.

Chances are yes, as a founder you aren't going to work just 32 hours a week. But it also depends on the state of the company.

And quite frankly, sometimes you can't solve problems by sitting at your computer or even talking to others in the office. Sometimes it involves taking a break and chilling out or exercising.
I realy do like the Black PVD watch strap I must see if I can get one for my Chistopher Ward C8
I would guess that companies that have these sort of policies are already profitable and might often be considered "lifestyle businesses". I don't mean that in a bad way, they just aren't necessarily trying to be the next billion dollar business by next year.
I thought unicorns were people who can do anything. I'd never heard the thunder lizard thing either, though.
"up on toes"? Corporate slang is just getting to be too much for me.
Jhonny's parents 'believe' vax are unnecessary so he skips the needle. A few years later he goes to a school with mostly vax kids. Naturally, on such healthy environment there is nothing for Jhonny to catch so he grows strong and healthy. His parents conclude that their belief was correct completely ignoring the fact that un-vax Jhonny never encounter a threat to actually 'prove' that vax are not needed.

Jhonny's mom finds a better job so they move, this time they relocate to a community with a higher concentration of anti-vax parents. Summer's over, back to school, a few weeks in: boom a measles outbreak! Jhonny gets sick :(

What went wrong?
Sounds like lonely work. Sacrificing one for the tribe!

We did this in the military and would rotate who had Watch/CQ/duty[1]...

[1]http://terminallance.com/2013/08/15/terminal-lance-286-duty-...
Yeah, I've learned to not expect anything good of any study which is about gap-busting. The topic draws terrible studies like flies.

(Seriously, it's kind of boggling going back and looking. The entire study rests on the exact comparability of the two sets of tests allowing claims of teacher bias by gender to then give later causal effects... and not only can they not establish the comparability in any remotely rigorous way, they don't even tell you what one set really is!)
Security is what matters here, the DRM can be circumvented anyway.
How large have you gotten with no managers?
I think there have been pros and cons of us being outside of SV. I'm personally really glad that we're not there. I love Portland and think it's been a really good place for my family. I know we have folks who wish we were more present there too.
I think the correct response when the PA system is used at excessive volume is to scream loudly asking that it be turned down. When this becomes a socially acceptable (or simply common) response, airlines will have to stop.
>I'm not saying we should make an effort to go all Israel and build an army worthy of Mordor

Take back your insult to Israelis! Mordor lost.

>there's no shame in simply admitting we are weak and depend on our diplomacy to survive.

Not true. You're an American protectorate.
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"And it also works nicely with a moto 360".

Cool idea. I use my micra at least a couple of times a month from my keychain. I live in the uk so carrying my surge about isn't an option, not that I'd want to with the weight of it! But it does get some action around the house.

I saw the tread the other day and thought meh. I've been waiting for the 360 v2 so who knows, I might be in for one of these now.
Doom was not indie. It had a publisher, for one thing. (GT Interactive)
I use this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... (Google Earth images on new tab)
seems to be the spec recruiters that the big SV players use.

I have only had 2 bad experiences with recruiters one was just a dick about salary disclosure (whom I fired and put his agency on my personal black list) and one totally misrepresented me to the client.

Having your recruiters behave badly doesn't really help the company brand.
I've been waiting for an article like this. There really is an ethos of working yourself to death, and on surface it can make sense. If you put in 80 hours per week and your competition puts in 60, you'll win because you'll learn more quickly than your competition. But I don't think that accounts for efficiency. If you work 80 hours per week, is every hour equally productive? And if so, are you working on the most valuable things? (Eg can you delegate, outsource, etc?). People like to think so but it's far from a universally held belief.
On the flip side, if you work 32 hrs per week, you're pretty much forced to be focused and productive. You'll still have same goals, how do you achieve them in half the time each week? You cut out things.
I just graduated from one of the many bootcamps, and about half of students "worked" about 45 hrs per week, vs other half who worked 60+ hrs. And there's been zero difference thus far on who has gotten jobs more quickly.
Ok I'm done with my soapbox but I wish more people in valley would consider worldview espoused in this article.
Also with the Michael Arrington comment, I don't think most investors give two shits how long you work as long as you are delivering that up and to the right growth.
Oh, on the work from home part, most of our developers and designers do. Because we have a video training service, though, we still shoot in the office, and some of us go into the office just because we like that environment (I'm one of the office dwellers). Being in the office is optional for anyone that it makes sense for, though.
Ana Tudor knows her stuff:

http://codepen.io/thebabydino/

http://about.me/thebabydino

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1397351/ana
Don't know what you mean by "strong", but the US has the highest per-capita military spending: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
I have just started a Go project for a core aspect of my business, so this information was well timed, for me at least, and gave me a quick overview of concurrency/parallelism in Go.

I will be developing both concurrent and parallel threads in my app, so this was very enlightening.

Thanks to the author for his clear writing style and efforts to educate.
Just out of interest: Why do you think this submission is off-topic? What exactly about it makes it off-topic?

Maybe have another look at the guidelines for submissions.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

This story is mildly interesting, especially if you look past the "McDonald's never rot" meme and at the "Here's how one hotel advertises itself".

Also remember that HN is much less busy on weekends and so different things bubble up.

But, if you still think it shouldn't be here it's probably best to just flag it.
> We're working on computers, doing work which does not benefit from typing for N hours straight; there is no meaningful correlation between quality/quantity and hours worked.

Has it genuinely been studied in a meaningful way, and this was in fact the conclusion?
http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-...

Parallel, at least in English, means to have nothing in common with others. On most OSes it is a process affined to a dedicated CPU which is configured to access a dedicated physical I/O device only. Everything else is concurrent.
A GC is necessary to ensure memory safety in the face of arbitrary heap graphs. Rust isn't a counter-example. You can't express arbitrary structures with owning and borrowed pointers. For those cases, Rust has GC (well, reference counting, a sort of GC), as well as "unsafe" and raw pointers. For example, to code a self-managing double linked list in Rust you need either RC or use a raw pointer and a few "unsafe" blocks.

This is not a criticism of Rust. I think it's a really interesting point in the design space. But there's no free lunch in memory management!
interesting. usually the top comment is a little more substantial than an unsupported adversarial statement of opinion.
I think that the default of single threaded is going to bite them hard in the long run. I've already discovered libraries that were never tested with MAXGOPROCS > 1 that are not thread safe. They should default it to at least 2 to make sure these bugs are shaken out.
> More to the point, how do you figure that GPG is on the
> "critical path" of 50% of Google's business?

Anywhere they're using a debian-based linux distribution, they're using gpg in the package management.
Its good that places like this exist. My experience thus far has shown me that different developers might go through different phases of their careers in terms of how much they like to work. I think the article touches on this a bit, noting that most of these people are married and have families. I'm married, but I still totally feel the urge and drive to work on software all the time. And its not that I love work, its that I love writing software. I could see that drive tailing off with kids and those kinds of deep commitments, though.
Just to be clear, a lot of our company logs their hours from home in cities where we have no office. We've about 30 people in Portland, 20 in Orlando, and 30 remote. In all cases folks can work from home unless they absolutely need to be in the office for some reason (like being part of a video shoot).
To the extent that HTTPS is the protocol of the web, its primary implementation (the CA system) is, in every meaningful way, centralized along exactly the same lines as much of the rest of society: in governments and corporations.
It seems that users do most of the moderation. So, if you think this submission doesn't belong you can flag it.
One thing that has gone unmentioned: when you run flash sales that promote other retailers' products, you're strengthening your competitors' business as much as your own.

For example, it was very common to see discounted jewelry or apparel on Fab from brands with a much deeper collection on their own site. It's 2011-2014, of course I'm going to Google the designer or brand, find their own site, and make an informed decision about what to buy.

Designers know this, and are savvy enough to use other channels to promote their own, where they charge the sort of prices they can build a business on. I'm willing to bet that Fab made quite a few designers more money via these sort of implicit referrals than via discounted flash sales.

Hindsight being 20/20, if Fab wanted to build a billion dollar business, they should have bought an e-commerce startup, not other retail operations. That's the only way they could have captured more of the value they were creating. Say they managed to buy Shopify. A, they'd be swimming in revenue. B, Shopify would have the marketplace they failed to make work on their own.
I feel like some people have built this fantasy that working at startups is like vacations.

These people probably work their ass off during their 40, 60, or maybe 80 hrs on the job. So they dont understand when they ear that startups' work schedule is more relax because they cannot relate to it. However, when they leave their desk, it's over, they're up to something else and they probably even force themselves not to think about work anymore.

Startups take a relaxing approach to work hours because the (right) person who works there lives and breathes startup 24/7.

It's easy to say when you're a founder (disclaimer: I am one). But it is something I have witnessed in (good) startup employees as well. They think about it all the time.

@falcolas is right, who the hell cares how many hours in the week you spent executing your tasks? Shouldn't the time "thinking" about work be valued as much as "executing" the work? Don't we all "think" better outside of execution time?
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The best way I've found to explain this is to emphasize that to a recruiter, I am the product. The recruiter is trying to get me a job, just like a car salesman is trying to get a car a driver. Of course, there are good recruiters (and good car salesmen) that are truly interested in finding the best match for both parties, but at the core of the relationship the employer is the one paying the finder's fee.

That being said, the best recruiters take the long view, and realize that their career depends on maintaining relationships and growing their reputation. If they become known as someone who simply puts butts in chairs, they won't get very far. However, if they develop a reputation as someone who really is looking out for everyone's interests, their words will carry more weight with their customers, and they'll have the best product to sell.
But here is what goes through the mind of a manager who never been a programmer:

If John is working only 4 hours coding everyday and gets stuff done. He can do double in 8 hours. So I should ask John to not goof around and focus on getting more things done.
Actually the most interesting part of the article is not about using GOMAXPROCS, but exactly how using GOMAXPROCS doesn't automagically turn your program into a parallel one: only a real analysis (helped with the helful profiler) tells you whether you've achieved true parallelism. The author's program wasn't truly parallel until he saw the bottleneck with the global mutex lock.

Said differently: concurrency is easy ("just" go func() all the things), parallelism is hard (GOMAXPROCS is not enough, you'll have to go deeper)
"If he gets to work 4 days then why can't I?"
The relationship that launched the Tetris phenomenon
Silicon Valley's startup culture is eerily reminiscent of 19th century Europe... "We're more successful than everyone else, so our culture must be superior to everyone else's culture." This completely discounts all the other factors that led to localized success.

Silicon Valley is a successful environment for startups because it has many unique advantages that have nothing to do with working harder - see pg's numerous essays on the subject. "Hard work" (defined as long hours and obsessive focus) is not the key ingredient, because people work hard everywhere. I watch people do startup-like hours in the sluggish old enterprises that baffle startup folks. Concentration of money and experience? That matters.

Think about the utility function of hours worked. What's the relative productivity of the 50th hour of work this week, compared to the 10th? At what point does exhaustion and overfocus actually hurt rather than help productivity? It may be earlier than you think. If I'm only 20% as productive on the least pleasant working hours, why am I even doing that to myself and the people who love me?

Work is a marathon, not a sprint. If you sprint in the middle of a marathon, you'll get a slower time overall, because you're draining too much energy. Likewise, an all-nighter or two of coding will hurt you for days afterward.

Work smarter, not harder. People who brag about how smart they are should understand this.
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I have 3 cats and aside from changing their food, water, and litter boxes a few times a week they require no maintenance.
One significant advantage of consensus is that once you're able to get past disagreement you have everyone pulling in the same direction. That's not to say that there're no disadvantages, but it's often overlooked.
Ebay works like this (and to a much lesser extent Amazon). Yet we still go to ebay to discover products and many people buy them on site.
That one doesn't work for me on OSX 10.10.2. The one provided by OP works perfectly.
No wonder the REQREP, INPROC, etc terminology looked so familiar!
Yep. Turning your brain off is impossible, and your brain's the most critical piece of you in a lot of these roles. If we counted thought time I'm not sure how many hours I'd log each week, but it'd be well above 32.
"The only threat a lot of us incumbents face is in the primaries, where someone even more extreme than we are can turn out the vote among an even smaller, more self-selected group of partisans."

From this the rest follows. Lobbying is a sweet gig because Congress is stabilized to a predictability sufficient to justify organizational investment. Congress is 'parliamentarized' because the national parties are organized around their constituent interest groups. Etc.

This certainly wasn't what the Founders hoped for. And party organization and factionalism have been the most malign factors in American history. If you think it's bad now, just thank God you aren't in the middle of a Civil War. Factionalism poisoned the Constitution even before it got started, by forcing into the document an unprincipled carve-out for slavery and a logically absurd and emotionally nauseating 3/5 "representation" for slaves.

And what's to be done about it?

The Founders were insanely smart political people, and it's a good rule of thumb that if they didn't have a constitutional answer for a political problem, there is no such answer. This guess is fortified by the failure of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest de-bugger in human history, to solve the problem. I'm not saying it's impossible to solve factionalism by some constitutional / legal hack, but I'm not holding my breath.

I think our only hope is _culture_. Our ability, as citizens, to recognize our own individual partisanships and check them. And to recognize them in our fellow citizens and resist them. We have to recognize that in our current political system, real power doesn't lie in Congress, or the Presidency, but in whatever people and forces are shaping the ideologies around which these parties are organized. We have got to identify those forces and examine their motives and prepare to break with them when they aren't serving their stated goals. For all power in all places is corruptible. We have got to start paying attention to the use of language, not to understand problems, but as a tool for political organization. We have to start recognizing the political and organizational dangers of those ideas and dreams we hold dearest, and find ways to guard against those dangers.

tldr;
It is ultimately our government. Its flaws ultimately proceed from us.
Don't feel bad. I've begun taking a perverse pleasure in learning which of my posts/comments will get downvoted.

(Generally, anything criticizing HN darlings, e.g., Uber, will get downvoted. The echo chamber is strong.)

I suspect you got downvoted because of a petulant realization of the inherent contradiction that many of us realize: This article really does not fit the HN guidelines at all yet we find it so intriguing.

I believe the reasons we find it so intriguing are pretty obvious: We all of us, we hackers, love the exceptional, the one-of-its-kind, the historically significant if sufficiently curious, etc. We hack because the status quo isn't good enough.

Getting that into a guideline is a bit tougher.

I suspect I'll get downvoted because I just labelled the echo chamber as petulant. But that's a comfortable shoe, so so be it.
One of the things I found interesting about Iceland is that, at least when I was doing fieldwork there (~12 years ago), beef was outrageously expensive, but lamb and salmon were relatively cheap. We "had" to eat a lot of lamb and salmon to keep costs down.

For that reason, a lot of restaurants with burgers on the menu served ground lamb instead of ground beef. Lambburgers are tasty!

At the time, I worked at a McDonald's back home. I had no intention of eating at one abroad, but I was curious to see what an Icelandic McDonald's would look like. I went to one somewhere in/near Keflavik shortly after we arrived, and while the menu looked more or less the same, a regular cheesburger was the equivalent of ~$10. (Not the meal, or a quarter pounder, just a cheesburger.) At the time, I was completely flabbergasted.

I'd wager a significant portion of the reason that all McDonald's closed in Iceland is simply cost. Beef is more-or-less entirely imported, and is therefore very expensive. Lamb is cheaper and tastier. McDonald's uses all beef (and bad beef, at that), and just can't compete with local short-order restaurants.

Keep in mind that this was in 2002-2003, well before the recent economic troubles in Iceland. It was also the first time I'd ever been outside the US. Everything seemed outrageously expensive to me, partly just because I was living in one of the cheapest cities in the US (my share of the rent was $80/month) and was getting by on ~$300/month.

Also, Iceland has _incredible_ hot dogs, weirdly enough... Natural casing, better meat (lamb, maybe?), and they're nicely seasoned. They're just plain good. We used to cook them in an aluminum foil packet with onions over the fire, and then sear them a touch over the flames after the onions were cooked. I'll never look at hot dogs the same way again!
We're a little above 80 people on the team.
I think "full-stack" means, when translated out of marketspeak, "you won't get any support or help from anyone else, so you'd better be self-sufficient at all things."

But I am a cynic.
I recently quit instagram, I was getting a TON of spam --- people I didn't know making comments on my photos, mentioning me as if they knew me, inviting me to events, to visit webpages, recommending products, etc etc. It was v. creepy
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Yes! They know it's bad (the documentation says something like "we'll do something smarter later"), but even just a default of 2 would be much better IMO.
He works on Mondays with the team to help with that aspect, but yes, it'll be great when we've got two weekend support folks.
I'm in Silicon Valley right now for conferences (SaaStr and Startup Grind), enjoying soaking up the culture, but I've had at least a half-dozen people advise me to move here. No, no, no! As much as I love it here, and as useful as it is for business, I'd rather live in Minnesota.
Morons? Probably not. Ignorant? Definitely.

A complimentary read on this topic: http://www.badscience.net/
Its a decent intro, but I think instead of just jumping into parallel code, its better to read the docs before hand. There are plenty of references to GOMAXPROCS and the thread safety of math/rand (and most of the stdlib).