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Not at all, developers usually don't really have the scope to put out great products before then < 10 years in. Some do but it is because of support networks and coding since a really early age. As an example Zuckerberg had funding and support his entire life so he was decades ahead at 20.

It takes a good 10 years of coding before you can make products from design to development to maintenance and live mode, and some good working time to understand problems that need solving.

You are actually in the prime age for entrepreneurship. Go get it.

Paul Graham and Robert Morris started Viaweb when they were 31/30 years old and sold it after a couple of years.

VCs do want younger because it is better terms/leverage (http://business.time.com/2013/03/14/ask-the-expert-the-best-...) but if you have a good company/product that is investable you will get investment, or if you make a product people want, people will want it if you get it in front of them. I think the bias toward funding only young is also probably harming products differentiation.

However you can understand why VCs go younger, mainly because success of those kids is like an emerging underground band that might sell out stadiums one day. They want in earlier than other VCs or before anything of value has been created so it is under their umbrella. VCs are hipsters in that they are trying to find value before others see it.

VCs main goal is to pan for Zuckerbergs like gold upstream from the blue ocean well before the red ocean, because in 5-10 years time they might be their 1 in 10 successes needed. It is a risk they are willing to take to get potential big companies very early.

But you can build a company that makes you a success where you can create your own freedom at any age, you might do it so well you don't need investment, or it may make your company more robust and market tested because you have to bootstrap instead of seeking investment.

Great people with great products find a way.

Some links on ages of entrepreneurs:

http://www.quora.com/What-successful-Internet-entrepreneurs-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/krisztinaholly/2014/01/15/why-gr...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/

https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-foun...

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/31/why-middle-aged-entreprene...

https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/older-entrepreneurs-...
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No. I founded a software company when I was 46, and it's still going strong twenty years later. The most fun I've ever had.
You get what you pay for. We have great outsourcers but they are well compensated and work for boutique firms.
The run of the mill outsources are terrible as you've stated.
There's no way this compares to a Cintiq.

Cintiq has far higher accuracy compared to the Astropad and Cintiq also has 2048+ levels of pressure sensitivity.

Also, input lag with actual tablets/Cintiqs will be far less than the Astropad.

For casual sketching/scribbling, the Astropad may be OK but for professional level work, nothing comes close to Wacom-powered tablets (and, unfortunately, won't anytime soon due to Wacom's patents).
I had a sandwich shop, and the city put up a wall blocking access to the driveway from the main road. They put a pamphlet in my mailbox that said, "Pure Shit," which instructed me to stop doing things like grinding up cats, posting obnoxious fliers on everyone's car windows, and stealing tomatoes out of people's yards.

There was a little box I could write in and mail back to request they restore access from the road. I made sure the shop wasn't doing any of those things, I cleaned it up a bit, and spoke with the Mayor. He said he didn't know why people would want to eat sandwiches, and my shop sucked. My form was mailed back with a "Denied" stamp and the same generic paper about how my shop is "Pure Shit."

"You're idiots." is a reasonable response of someone forced into a situation where their words have no effect, and nobody appears to be reading them. Why waste effort reasoning to those who refuse to listen or acknowledge what you say? Nobody said, "Your tomatoes are tainted because your supplier is a known fraudster." It just said, "Pure Shit."
I travel back and forth to Canada all the time, and ATT makes a total mess of it. I've had all the Canada packages available for some years now, and they still regularly mess up billing -- I've had the Canada package disappear off my bill, and on other occasions been charged the wrong amount for the package or texts.

It doesn't help that most of the CSRs are clearly untrained about the different packages -- I've spent hours on the phone undoing mistakes made on previous calls.

Long story short, I'm finally switching to T-Mobile. After a couple near $1K bills it's clear roaming is pure profit for ATT -- T-Mobile's texts are free and basic data roaming is too. ATT still charges ~50c/msg. I'm going from ATT's 2 lines, 4GB total with Canada for ~$190 (typically more like $250-$300+) to T-Mobile's 2 lines, unlimited data and global roaming for $100 flat, no overage. It's a no-brainer.
This is why the union movement took hold at the dawn of the 20th century. I hope these millennials figure out a robust, globalized replacement.
This is why I stick to my grandfathered unlimited data plan (even though it means I have no tethering feature) and switch off data roaming.

It hurts me to do this -- I'd gladly change if the marginal costs weren't so horrific. But the idiotic carriers their noses to spite their faces: if they spent less work on generating billable events they'd probably get more revenue and spend less on overhead to get it. Bob Frankston estimates that 30% of network traffic is just managing the tollbooths!
Which country is it? Maybe one of us can help with daily problems (language, communication etc.) I'm in Turkey.
Mind if I send you an email?
For small users with less experience/resources, Windows can be attractive to manage and feel friendly. Just like there's people that like using the Network Manager GUI on Linux distros. Windows offers a lot of stuff with a few clicks, without having to read or understand too much. Like SQL Server, setting up even advanced fail over cluster systems is pretty simple. A day's work, even if you've never done it before. That's attractive.

Plus there's all the corp management stuff like AD, which Linux doesn't have for real. At least not as slick and smoothly integrated.

But yeah, even as a long time MS user, I'm less impressed with it as time goes on. No containers. IIS's reverse proxy support is a sick joke. No equivalent of DRBD; no real tweaking in general.

And IIS didn't have SPDY. It'll be showing to see how they handle HTTP/2. Will they stick to the lame line of "http.sys is the HTTP stack, so only Windows 10 can do HTTP/2"? (IIRC, that's how WebSockets story went.) Or will they just do the right thing and make it work?

Anyways, your question is one MS is very aware of, and in the center of a lot of Azure. For a quad core VM, Windows costs an extra $1000+ a year on the cloud platforms. MS knows this is often not a good ROI.
You don't get to substitute your own definitions for the shared ones. Civilization has a common meaning and your definition isn't it.
This is strange to me. Granted I haven't worked in the minimum-wage service sector for awhile (high school), but this still seems strange to me.

We used to have this problem too:

> any fast-food restaurants and other service businesses have high employee turnover, and as a result they are often left with only a few trusted workers who have the authority and experience to close at night and open in the morning

but we just had "openers" and "closers". During the summer I used to open most mornings because I liked to have the afternoon and evening free to hang out with friends. Another employee liked closing for the exact same reason (because then they could be out late and not have to wake up until 2-3 PM).

Even during the school year, there were still regular "openers" and "closers", even if they were people who didn't necessarily enjoy opening or closing.

Is the turnover just that much worse now, that the few long-standing employees now have to open and close? Or what happened?
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Apple has $180Billion in cash. The total it spends on employees is $18Billion per year. So, in essence Apple could pay its employees just to sit around and not sell a single product for 10 years before running out of cash.

Ponder that. Apple is nothing like Blackberry. Your example is totally ridiculous.
The biggest challenge I find with ex-corporate mid 30s folks is their inability to reduce their personal burn and lifestyle in order to survive the startup process to succeed. The question you're asking is the wrong one. It's not how old you are. The question is, can you do without your pay, sustain your family (if you have one) and the mental stress around that, for 18-24 months before your startup becomes profitable (or you raise money).

Usually from mid 30s people, the answer is hell, no.
$30 for 15MB of generic mobile phone data is insane.

I think you're right on the money on the second point. How easy/reliable is it for someone to turn off data roaming? I wouldn't be surprised if even mobile operators were confused over what exactly constitutes data roaming in some areas.

The telecommunications industry's monetization plan has often been about creating esoteric plan restrictions, charging customers up the wazoo when they violate these restrictions, while not giving customers effective tools for monitoring or managing their usage.
Yes, ARC is better.

Objective-C is a superset of C. If you think about what it means to have a garbage-collected version of C for just a few minutes it should become immediately clear why abandoning GC for Objective-C is necessary and appropriate. The GC can't always reliably detect a reference (pointer) so it has to be conservative. It also can't compact the heap, which means you don't get the nice "allocation is just advancing a pointer" behavior that makes allocations nearly instantaneous in managed languages.

ARC is essentially just the old rules for manual reference counting (MRC), but the compiler analyzes your code and inserts the retain/release/autorelease calls automatically. This gives you similar deterministic behavior as MRC but while writing the code it feels like a garbage collected language because you mostly ignore management of memory and everything "just works".

The downside to ARC is the inability to detect retain cycles and a slight performance hit compared to MRC in some scenarios. The performance is actually pretty good... What ARC loses compared to hand-coding it gains by using special runtime functions (not slower ObjC message sends) that elide unnecessary retain/release calls in many situations.

objc_retainAutoreleaseReturnValue is inserted in a caller and callee (typically a property getter). It examines the return address on the stack to detect if the caller is going to invoke objc_retainAutoreleaseReturnValue on the returned value; if so it just does a retain and sets a flag the caller uses to skip doing retain+autorelease, leaving the caller's release only. Instead of the object staying alive until the next run loop iteration and getting autoreleased it can safely be released immediately, plus at least one extra pair of function calls can be eliminated.
Obligatory, sort of related post from 2006. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
Sorry to hear that man, I hope things will pickup for you mate.
American jobs = jobs in America. Jobs that can be offered to anyone approved by the American government to live and work in the country.

Theoretically you could hire anyone. You just couldn't expect them to show up to the office unless the government lets them into the country. If the company doesn't like this, they can let the person work in their own country instead of coming to America, but then that's not an American job anymore.

Does that clear things up?
The government is different from the Mafia in many ways, and similar in other ways. Analogies are helpful as a source of moral intuition.

What matters in this example is that two wrongs don't make a right.

If it's morally wrong to prevent immigrants from finding jobs in the US, then the fact that the parent has paid taxes is irrelevant. Using it to justify preventing immigrants from getting jobs in the country is begging the question.
Of course you're not too old! I highly recommend taking a vacation or simply stepping outside of your bubble first - this'll be a big part of determining product/market fit if you're trying to make something viable for the masses. At your age, it's important to have the wisdom & experience to separate fact from fiction in start-up success stories.
Such great advice. Don't wait for permission just get started.
That photo was unremarkable when the album was released, and was in shop windows everywhere. It's hardly erotic -- c'mon, it's an 11 year old!

[edit: I re-read the part of the article, and I don't remember record shops freaking out, which I surely would have heard about at the time. Even the company that sent out albums unasked-for to household sent it out]
No there is nothing to be artistic in Software there is only LOGIC
There are truly systems that are so elegant that they feel natural, just right. Functional programming patterns are one of these.

Additionally to the papers you mentioned, there is the paper Amazon published on Dynamo, which also spawned Cassandra and Riak, marvels of modern engineering. Here is a link: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...

I'd advise you to read Hacker's Delight (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321842685). It's a tough read, but there's so much to learn in there!
Actually, the answer is most commonly yes, and more so than someone in their 20's that is burdened with student debt and no experience or industry contacts. Mid-30's people have savings, assets, credit history and other funds. Plus, they potentially have a spouse to cover expenses while the startup grows. That is the best kind of investment in terms of supporting a new business.

The stats don't lie - the average founder is late 30's to early 40's. The 20-something wunderkind is a Silicon Valley thing, not reality for the rest of the country's businesses.
Hey, no, thank you very much. I was looking at Angular earlier this morning. I played around with Node when it was new, dropped it because anything within reach at the time in my job market were for things like pulling cable, fixing people's computers for a small MSP, and that was about it. At least I have something to work on in the meantime. I started playing with JS and Python when I considered being a programmer. I stopped because everyone said Python (which is awesome) and I just had a rougher time learning it than JS.
Huh?

I have a (physical) device called a FreedomPop. It is a local wifi hotspot that routes traffic over a mobile data network. And it's awesome for giving the middle-finger to overpriced hotel wifi services and the like.

www.freedompop.com (I have no connection other than a very satisfied user). I'm so satisfied that I won't even post my affiliate code, lest someone think I'm shilling for my own benefit.
And I bet there's a decent mall near you with some sort of lounge-type area. I used to manage a retail wireless internet kiosk in a busy mall. We were near the food court, so prime location; we had 1,000 people walking by on any given day. Lots of people plopped down on the couches that were near us; something similar would certainly allow you enough time - they'd often sit there for 20+ minutes.
One could argue that Perl 6 isn't what most people think of as "Perl", and probably should have been called something else.

Similarly, VB vs VB.NET.
Honestly, even "third quarter 2016" would get the message across.
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"In 2013, over 40 million foreign-born representing 13% of the population resided in the United States." - http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2013/09/w... . See also https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/cspan_fb_slides.pdf .

Using that as a baseline (though it has changed over time) means the probability of having at least one foreign-born parent is 25%.

Of the remaining 75%, the probability that at least one of the grandparents is foreign born is 42%.

0.25 + 0.75 * 0.42 = 56% chance that someone in the US is a 1st or 2nd generation immigrant.

Sure enough, "60% of top 25 tech companies founded by 1st and 2nd generation immigrant" is almost exactly what's expected if a company is founded by a single person.

BTW, the table contains at least one error. It says that William Hewlett is not a first or second generation immigrant.

William Redington Hewlett's father was Albion Walter Hewlett. (http://www.hewlett.org/about-us/hewlett-family-history/willi... says that William was born in 1913 and the family moved to California in 1916 so his father could work at Stanford. http://medicine.stanford.edu/faculty/hewlett.html says "Doctor Albion Walter Hewlett, professor and executive head of the Department of Medicine from 1916 -1925".)

The 1910 census record says Albion and his wife were born in California. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLTH-RKY . It also says Albion Hewlett's father was born in England.

Therefore, Hewlett is a second generation immigrant.
I don't even get the question. Why would a 20 year old be inherently better at running a business than a 40 year old?
I think the original guy meant they exist because humans voted to protect them for our enjoyment. I don't think we're protecting these sites (national parks) simply to exist. The land would be too useful for other functions to just "exist". They're protected and to some degree (imo) they should be made accessible so they can stay protected/respected :>
It would be cool to see some sort of MIDI controller on the Altair so it could talk directly to synths instead of using a macbook as a synth.
>(based on the article, you seem guilty)

what utter nonsense, is being charged with a crime the same as guilt now? The article makes a point of repeatedly using the word alleged and citing that all the claims are from the prosecutor. It is extremely pernicious of you to use such language.
Bare ground results in erosion whereas a forest slows the movement of water, shades it and allows it to sink into the ground.
> They could use the RIPA powers to compel decryption, but they haven't, possibly because of the extradition context.

We don't actually know that with certainty. The Act contains a provision whereby someone can be forbidden from revealing that he's received an order to disclose an encryption key.
Objective-C uses pools, so deallocation doesn't happen automatically when the reference count hits zero. Apple's reference counting implementation is fairly smart.

Over on the Reddit discussion there was a comment from Ridiculous Fish who at least was an Apple developer (and probably still is) and worked on adding GC to the Cocoa frameworks,

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2wo18p/mac_apps...

Basically, because of interop with C, there's only so much you can do. Plus, the tracing GC wasn't on iOS so if you want unified frameworks (for those that make sense cross-platform), supporting the tracing GC along with ARC is added work.
Just over three years, about 27 employees.
Or perhaps he was just establishing context so we could better answer his question? There's no reason to assume a personality defect because he was communicating honestly about the situation he finds himself in.
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Well the software is $50. You'd also have to add a stylus which costs another $30-50 (the one they recommend by Wacom is $50) which brings total cost to ~$100.

At that price you might as well get a Wacom tablet which comes with a stylus in the box.
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Modern law is effectively a cartel. There is no reason that an educated, intelligent man shouldn't be able to represent himself in most cases with fair preparation - so the bulk of modern law consists of creating obscure procedures and technicalities to make the former especially difficult, thus allowing the elite and privileged class to have an all-together different experience and preferable outcomes within the law which is only theoretically supposed to be applied in equal measure to all.
I have started a small DBA in my area to provide services to small businesses here. I have been working on developing it but I am having a hard time selling it without scaring the crap out of the prospective clients.

I guess what I am saying is that I have been doing the job for years. Just not getting paid for it and was trying to dig out two things in the OP:

1)What the disconnect between working on your own and getting paid for doing the work was.

2)there was a different area I could/should focus on given my disadvantages(financial, disabled, etc.)

Big data and analytics are fascinating to me for example, but only because of the implications and uses of those kinds of skills I can see in a Security related capacity.

I wanted to find out if someone would yell, "You need to learn 'X' because it's useful both in some Security roles and you can work doing that as your day job at the same time." Hope that makes sense.
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Note that the GP mistyped and it's actually 120MB for $30 (it's in one of the pictures of his text messages). Still not exactly reasonable, but at least not quite so outrageous.
It doesn't have to be better than a Cintiq, it just has to be closer than an equivalent dedicated graphics tablet at the same price point. I think it's a valid comparison.
Absolutely. I don't mean that it's true on a case-by-case basis, only on average. If you force a large number of Indians who want to move to the US to stay in India, then you will keep a large-but-not-quite-as-large number of people in (relative) poverty.
This is very interesting but it really is San Francisco data. Silicon Valley is a lot cheaper and faster on several dimensions than SF (only a small amount cheaper on salary, though that salary goes a lot farther). And while SF is a nicer place to live than most of the valley, who has time for that nicer life while you're busy building a business?