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Couple things. You identified one thing to work on, which is not to panic.

The other thing is that if that's all the feedback you got, it's pretty subjective. If you have a good relationship with an engineer or architect you admire, you might run some of your questions by them, along with the steps you took to figure them out on your own. I would ask them whether they thought the questions were reasonable ones, and whether the steps you took to resolve them made sense.

If they say yes and yes, then take heart and keep at it. If they say no, you can ask them their advice for speeding up your understanding or better ways to search for answers. Once you open up your thought process to them, they will be able to better help you, if they care to.

To that point, whatever you do, avoid getting defensive or arguing back. Only further questions you should ask are ones where you need more clarification. It may be tough, especially if you don't agree, so be ready for that. Good luck!
Can Tox do persistent group text chats with offline message delivery to people when they sign in again? It's the one killer feature of Skype that keeps me on it. No open messaging programs ever support this it seems like.
I know, I was referring to the bubble comments. If private money wants to value a company at a stupid high valuation, thats their prerogative.

If it was public money valuing this company, we'd definitely be in a bubble.
Uh oh. The "framework people" found us.

Hopefully they'll be too busy writing AbstractFactoryBuilderServiceDispatcherProxies to actually do any damage to production systems...
I can't tell if you're trolling or serious. Retail is where the money is, but Amazon, a Seattle-based company, is for engineers living in Silicon Valley?

How is the sector at all relevant? (Software is eating the world, and all that.)
Currently no, but there is a groupchat rewrite underway and that is one of the planned improvements.
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Is your question about scoping ultimately for pricing?

A single HTML page could be really easy or take some time, depending on the PSD. I'd guess it could be anywhere from 1 hours to 10 hours. If you're still learning I could see 30 if it's a particularly complex page, although that's a lot of time to spend on a single page.

I advise against pricing per hour and instead quote a fixed price. There's lots of reasons why, just Google "why don't price hourly" and you'll see.

I'd quote them a value and get a feel for how they react. For instance, you could suggest $1000. They might agree. They might say no, and counter-suggest $600. Or if they don't have a counter offer, you can always give them a discount. Again, just quote a price you're OK with, even if it takes you 30 hours, and then once you have it, you're incented to work efficiently (because you're not billing per hour, but per job). Your effective hourly rate on this job might end up at $250/hr, for all you know, if you work efficiently.

Also, PSD to HTML is a pretty commoditized job. You're not really creating value, just being a code monkey. In fact it's not consulting, just contracting. So I don't really suggest you take those jobs on a regular basis, if you want to have pricing power. That kind of job is has plenty of competition from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and other places where the cost of living is really low, and it's a race to the bottom.
and good timing -- chrome took off right as it became apparent how shitty firefox had become (slow, crashy, memory pig -- and before you say anything, that's w/ no plugins but flash and no flash running). I tried chrome, was entranced by a browser that didn't suck, and quickly switched.
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Uh... like Facebook and Instagram?
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No doubt it's a big gamble, but amazon's market cap is is $173B. That justifies a big gamble.
You should read Thompson's article "Xiaomi's Ambition" (http://stratechery.com/2015/xiaomis-ambition/ and linked from this article).

Basically, he argues that Xiaomi is built around serving a market that neither Apple or Google are serving: young people that are technically savvy but don't have the funds to be early adopters. There's a whole generation of them in China that have grown up during China's boom. There aren't many of them in the US, but that's not the same thing as "outside of China." Xiaomi will probably find a lot of fans in South Asia (particularly India), South America (Brazil) and Africa (Nigeria, South Africa).
getting, no doubt, investor shares -- ie their cash is out first
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I don't understand how any software can possibly enforce semantic versioning. Sure, you can ensure that 1.4.2 is immutable, but you can't enforce that breaking changes aren't put in 1.4.3.

As I said, there are tools that let you freeze the exact commit number your code depends on, which effectively gives you frozen minor version numbers if you want it. And of course you can also copy the code into your repo with godep, and not need any external services outside your own VCS.
> there's only so many teaching slots available, and there's a fuckton of Phd graduates desperate to obtain one regardless of the salary or employment terms

This is another problem produced by academic exploitation. Ph.D. students are produced 10-to-1 relative to tenure track jobs. Why would universities eat $50-60,000 in tuition and pay $25–35,000 in stipends per year per graduate student if they know they are over-enrolling? It's not like Ph.D. students bring money into a department, regardless of their level of "desperation" to get a terminal degree. That's a big and unnecessary loss to take every single year.

The answer is that grad students, like adjuncts, free the professors from the most onerous aspect of teaching classes: doing all the grading. In exchange for tuition and stipend, grad students have to serve as TAs once or twice a year (in some departments they can also take positions as Research Assistants or as administrators for undergrad programs). Some grad students will get the opportunity to sole-teach their own seminars. Because professors do not want to teach, and want to focus entirely on their personal research program and publications, having an excess of grad students around to grade, guest lecture, and fill out the course offerings every semester is worth the $25-$35,000 annual stipend (about the same that the adjunct professor writing this article makes).

You're right that universities don't have to offer any more than $35,000 + shitty benefits + no job security, because the adjuncts and grad students will still take the opportunity believing that it might turn into an opportunity to move up into the professoriate if they just work hard enough or if their next publication is just a little more brilliant. Doesn't change the fact that it's still a cynical and hypocritical exploitation of the "intellectual reserve army of labor" (to paraphrase Marx). Universities are some of the most leftist institutions in North America, but the professoriate and deanery are perfectly fine with naked exploitation both on the supply side (grad students) and the demand side (adjuncts).

If departments need graders, they should hire masters students rather than admit Ph.D. students and then cynically consume 5–10 years of their life. If departments need teachers to supplement their researchers, they should create a position distinct from tenure-track professor/reader, perhaps "lecturer," but that is not "part-time"/contract work and is compensated appropriately.
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Thx Bending, yep the backend went through quite a few major changes, and is now about 70k LOC of C++. I had to do a few big rewrites but it's pretty solid now :)
Except that there is a small but significant anti-correlation between running a successful startup in the past and doing so again.

So having a founder with past experience in a successful company gives you a slightly lower chance of success than taking a random first-timer. The existence of wildly successful second-timers does not answer this fact. This slight anti-correlation predicts the existence of wildly successful second-timers. Just fewer of them than you'd get if you selected an equal number of random first-timers.

Secondly, comparison to an existing major player is never a good move for a startup. One of the more frequent arguments I've had in startup environments has been countering the claim that "Microsoft (or Apple, or whoever) does it this way!" as justification for some particular business practice. It is surprisingly difficult to gently disabuse a sincerely committed individual of the notion that their ten-person zero-revenue startup is meaningfully comparable to pick-your-multi-billion-dollar behemoth with tens of thousands of employees, a universally recognized brand, a world-wide distribution network, and a generation of technical expertise.

So there is in fact little more than theory to support the validation. Factual validation necessarily involves paying customers. Lots of them.

'Til then, this looks like a late entry into a market dominated by Amazon, with Amazon Prime already owning the membership space for online sales. Unless their execution is perfect in every detail (which is could be but more likely is not) and/or they offer some compelling advantage over Amazon's delivery model and Amazon Prime's membership model it's hard to see how they are going to put significant dents in Amazon's position. Maybe they don't have to, if they're lean enough and clever enough, but that's a pretty risky bet.
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does your data center really not have access to 48V power?

No, they really don't. I've never heard of 48V outside of telco.
what's the difference betwwen a "cyberlocker" and a "file hosting service" ?
Our of interest, could you share the url to the discussion?
If you use a secure crypto primitive, is it correct to say your program is secure?

I mean, can you be sure something is secure just because of the crypto lib?

I thought there had something to do with the implementation too?

I ask this because of Tox. The main developer claims Tox is secure because of the crypto library.

It sounds weird to me, so I decided to ask... After all, if it was this easy all programs would be secure, right? Just import a secure crypto lib and it's done? Sounds weird.

https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121#issuecommen...
They are type safe, except for the unsafe package but it's hard not to know what you're getting into with that one.

One of the best examples of composability is the Reader and Writer interface. They're designed to operate on slices of bytes, so a package intended to read from a Reader can read from files, stdin, networks, sockets, and a myriad other systems with absolutely no changes to the package's code or its implementation.
It's not worth it reasoning with this guy. I had a very similar situation with this guy. I asked him "are you claiming X", which he said was a strawman, then refused to explain what he was claiming and called me a sockpuppet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940531
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amazon prime is itself taking a series of risky bets -- I bought into it as a fast shipping service. Over the last two years, they've made the shipping shitty with the rise of add-on items, and turned it into a backlist tv / movie service. I don't use, or really want, that -- I just want fast shipping, which has gotten a lot suckier. I'll give jet at $50/mo a try.
He's getting paid hourly and has already put in 55 free hours to teach the course properly. How many more free hours do you expect from him? I think the email he sent the students is spot on. Perhaps if they're distressed enough, they will put pressure on the university to pay their teachers what they're worth.

Yes, he might be "part of the problem" but it's not like he can choose not to be without starving. Nor can other professors. Perhaps with union help, but they don't seem to help. I don't see how blame slinging helps here at all.
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Having a sound library removes a whole host of issues; however, it doesn't remove all of them. First and second among many are key management and concatenating values before hashing or signing.
This has always been my favorite way to generate IDs, though I typically do it with a 64bit integer and a custom epoch.

Being able to store keys as 64bit integers is much easier to work with, and also much more efficient than b64 encoding. In the odd case you're working with a language that can't handle numbers (ahem… javascript), you can always encode it as a string.

Here's a library that implements this method: https://github.com/Fubelly/rubyflake
Haha, I think that might be too nuanced :) I definitely agree though that (b*d)/c gives you a nice framework without being tied to a company's specific situation.
Aren't later equity rounds usually senior to earlier rounds (the "last money in, first money out" principle) anyway?
It's also worth pointing out that >1x liquidation preferences make a similar type of sense: if the VC invests $1MM for a post-money valuation of $5MM, and is handed the $1MM back two days later while the owner pockets $2MM, that's not really respectful of their time. It would probably be okay to limit the liquidation preferences at 1x and rely on professionalism, but higher multiples aren't an outrageous ask most of the time (the investor and the founder(s) should have similar outlooks for the future of the company) and it's a pretty easy thing to put in during negotiation.
sorry, forgot I still had the language rule active, should be fixed now.
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No, you didn't decide to ask, you take a lot of redirections and bullshitting to point out your link. Which is an interesting contribution, but the way you deliver it is really bad style and annoying.
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But I also know half of the school's budget comes from the province (ie government support)

Are you sure it's 50%? Back when i was in university in Canada the gov't paid 80% of the tuition.
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I look forward to this.

I have to echo the parent though, getting history from the period you were disconnected is a killer feature of skype that seems to get little or no attention.

It is one of the major things that keeps some of my group chats on skype.
The 4S, 5C/S, and 6/6Plus are all from separate years. It's not like Apple is refining the 4S and coming out with new versions of those devices. The only phones in their lineup is the 6 and 6 Plus. Using different storage sizes and device colors is barely going to make an impact in terms of spreading out priorities and losing focus.

Google only has one phone because that phone isn't even supposed to make money. It's a phone meant for Android developers both internally and third-party. Google may not lose focus from all the other handset manufacturers creating the thousands of different Android devices, but they certainly have a difficult time with integration.
This article is right up there with 'one simple trick to whiten your teeth, dentists hate it!'
There's a number of techniques.

Mostly they have to do with abusing the debug registers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR

I cant find any specifics for this implementation though.

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Ask HN: It tech attracting the wrong people?
A year or so ago, I saw an article suggesting that the tech industry was becoming the new Wall St, attracting greedy people with little grounding in reality, and having an overwhelmingly negative impact on the people whose lives they touch. Though I understood the sentiment, at it didn't really strike a chord with me. The people I was working with, even the ones I didn't particularly care for, were still usually producing something of value, and that to me seemed like the most important thing.

Today I had an experience that made me reconsider.

Via a friendly intro, I'd crossed paths with a local founder, and we decided to get coffee and chat. Everything was fine until the part where I mentioned that I was impressed by his company's website and asked him who'd done it.

"Get this," he told me. "A 15 year old kid did it. For free."

I asked him how he'd convinced a 15 year-old kid to build him a free website.

"All he asked for in exchange for the website was $1,000 in bit coin," he said. "I told him I'd pay him, but then I just never did."

When I asked him why, he said they'd never signed a contract or anything, so why should he? I imagine he picked up on the weird look I was giving him, because he started justifying it, talking about how it was a valuable life lesson for the kid.

I walked away feeling pretty disgusted.

I know that was just one experience. But man, people ripping off those lower on the totem pole than them with no regard to how it affects them for the sake of their own personal gain, that sure sounds a lot like Wall St.
There are also protocol buffers libraries for and in C code, such as the protobuf-c library: https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c
No one should go into teaching at any level, K-12 and up, until the existing teachers and professors start dying off, quitting and retiring.

This treatment, for this skill, commitment, experience and education, is terrible. But it's enabled by all the people who hire in. Stop doing that, you're more than capable of doing something that society values. And no, society doesn't value teaching, or they'd pay you. What they value is poverty rates.

And if schools and universities "solve" the problem by hiring whatever the educational equivalent of an H1-B is, then they're just restating their position: we don't value quality teaching, not enough to pay a fair rate.

Don't teach.
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Wouldn't using said undocumented features make it easier to emulator devs to reverse engineer and implement those features in the emulator?
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While I mostly agree, by this definition most things called "casts" aren't anything of the sort. In C++, static_cast (when called on value types) and dynamic_cast are both conversions, not casts--- static_cast<int>(5.5) returns exactly what you'd expect. Java and C# use C-style syntax, but their semantics are the same as those C++ casts. And of course the same is true of non-C-derived languages like Swift.

By your definition, most "casts" are actually conversions--- and while that's probably true, it feels pretty unhelpful, in the same way that it feels unhelpful to say "Python only has one type".
That really doesn't sound much different than people not understanding they could have bought an identical panel TV at half price if they just bought a different brand. Information asymmetry makes some people rich.
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For AMA, the answer is because Reddit AMA already exists and has mind share. How would you possibly beat that?
Goldman liked credit default swaps, too.
Wasn't Xiaomi temporarily banned in India because of concerns that it is uploading data to China? This lack of confidence is going to be a roadblock if the end goal is take over the home. My understanding is that Xiaomi sells very little in India (some flash sales in tens of thousands of units). I know it is a smash hit in China. We'll just have to see.
Indeed. My ex-wife is a high school teacher, and it's incredible to me how many hours she has to put in outside of class, at an already low-on-paper rate. And then she cobbles together more teaching at area colleges.

It's shameful. But I'm sure we'll get the educated populace that that rate will deserve.
Private investors (a handful of rich people) bet on this startup. If their bet succeeds, they become richer, else they will still remain rich.

There is no bubble, go home everybody.
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PPP adjusting GDP to compare economies makes zero sense. The rest of the article, fine. But when you're comparing countries internationally, why on earth would you compare their internal broad average purchasing power (heavily weighted by China's outsized GINI)?
Ask HN: It's 2065 – What does history say about the software industry today?
Fast forward 50 years. What does history say?

Did we bring new heights of innovation? What are the results?
Did the software industry bust? When, and how? What has taken its place?
How is the west coast software culture depicted? Did the startup scene last?
Is the US still a leader in the software industry?
Did artificial intelligence make software workers obsolete?
Did the industry's general disregard of security come back to bite us in the ass?
Who are the leading companies? Are any of the big ones from today still around?

Would your answers change if it was now 2115 instead?
And I can't really rewatch the first half hour, but I distinctly remember he mentioned C at least two times at the begging, slightly before and during "Why C++" part. The examples of template usage also imply things not possible in C.
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Why'd they call it by such a negative moniker?
Yes, thank you -- it makes zero sense to compare economies based on PPP adjusted GDP. Ridiculous.
Israel has no capability of taking out the facilities at Natanz with "bunker busters" although just recently the United States upgraded the B2 "stealth" to carry the Massive Earth Penetrator 30,000lb bomb which could destroy those facilities. Besides Iran's facilities are some of the most inspected in the world because they are a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty unlike the few states that haven't signed this treaty such as India, Israel, Pakistan, South Sudan. IMO attacking a country that is trying to develop nuclear weapons while maintaining a massive stockpile of its own is totally fallacious. If Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon it would be only for the purpose of achieving parity at international conventions with nuclear states.
You have an anecdote, not a statistically significant argument. No question about it though, that guy is a jerk.
We should have a pleasant planet in a couple decades if everyone follows this advice. /s

All of human progress up this point can be wiped out in a generation if it's not passed on to the new individuals in the world.

Seriously, how is this good advice? If anything we should be encouraging more people to teach their knowledge and to get people interested in learning. Instead of shutting everything down, how about we figure out how to make things better?
This looks like they expect HTML5 mobile games to become more popular in the future. This means browser games will be able to access the same features as native ones.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
I grew up in parts of East Germany that had 27% for years. Not pretty.
I tend to buy two reams A4 for each ten reams Letter, but each time availability and pricing varies. OfficeMax used to have Boise A4 paper around $8 a ream, but now they are selling a Hammermill paper for $11. Never in the stores of course.
> Why must space without matter/mass be non-distorted to begin with?

It doesn't have to be. De Sitter came up with solutions to the equations of GR that were free of ordinary matter but included a cosmological constant that is the effect of an "inherent" curvature of space-time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Sitter_universe

However, the kind of curvature you get from a cosmological constant is not sufficient to explain everything that is observed, so even though modern cosmologies typically have a "dark energy" term (which is another name for a cosmological constant) they require an extra matter term (dark matter) to describe the universe we see.