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I've now read the piece. In it, King starts by saying that it will really take me 20 minutes; but I looked and it's only been ten.

Surprisingly, a lot of this applies quite well to the start-up scene. Here are his main points:

1. You have to be talented. Writing is useless if there's nothing left after you've taken all the extra words out. But rejection is okay: six rejections are okay. So are sixty. Six hundred is pushing it. Six thousand rejections and you can give up on the startup scene. Er, I mean writing. And you'll know when you're getting closer, too. You'll receive notes back. Personal phone calls.

2. Be neat.

3. Be self-critical. If you're not reverting commits you're not committing enough. Er, drafts. if you're not marking up drafts of your writing you're not doing it right.

4. Get to the point and remove every extraneous file. I mean word. Cut the words out.

5. Never look at reference materials while writing, or you'll lose your train of thought! Just put in a dummy function. You can look it up later. That dummy code will still be there. (His example was misspelled words.)

6. Know the markets. You wouldn't publish a link to closed source iOS app on Github, would you? But I've seen people doing that.

7. Write to entertain. Like I'm doing. You can write serious things, but if you want to preach get a blog.

8. Ask yourself: am I having fun? If the answer is anything OTHER than "I don't even remember what fun is" your startup is in good shape. You don't always have to have fun, as long as you sometimes do.

9. How to evaluate criticism. This is a good one: show your work to ten people. Listen carefully. If everyone is telling you your thing sucks, and everyone is giving you a different reason, that's okay. People suck and you can ignore all of them. However, if they start mentioning the same reason, then you know what to change. It doesn't matter if you're attached to it: change it.

10. Observe protocol. Pitch decks and all that. Get introductions.

11. Salespeople? Forget it. They won't care about you or work for you on commission until you're big enough to steal from. Sell your product yourself. ("flog your stories around yourself... send around query letters one by one, and follow up with samples.")

12. If it's bad, kill it.

That's it. And this only took me ten minutes to write. Now let me edit for 5.

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Done. I've now edited this for another 7 minutes. This is what it looked like before my edit if you're curious (right after I finished writing 'let me edit for 5'): http://pastebin.com/uD8YKxBh
they're on the DVD version with the director's cut. I bought that a few years ago. my guess is they're on the Blu-Ray equivalent now also. but I mostly just buy stuff from iTunes now, and I don't think they have the director's cut (aka "special edition") on iTunes. they might.
I found On Writing extremely valuable, but like all King's writing on writing, it's about the way King writes. Which is great, but it's not the way I write. I appreciate his insights and I've learned a lot from reading and thinking about his work, but he's a fundamentally different animal from me.

He's intuitive and exploratory to a degree that I--and many others--are just not. He's willing to let his instincts guide him because he has great instincts, and more power to him.

But most people--including most writers--don't have great instincts, and can benefit from a more analytical approach. As someone tilted pretty far over on the analytical end of the axis, I found King's advice valuable because it pointed me toward alien alternatives, but for young writers in particular I'd advise being very cautious about taking King's or anyone else's advice too seriously (including mine, I guess.)

King et al do their best to teach you and show you how to write like them, and writers need to learn to write like themselves, which can only be discovered, not taught.
Wars aren't rain showers, they are started and proliferated by decisions and actions.

> Soldiers aren't meant to be civilized, soldiers are meant to create the environment where civilization can exist. They're the fire that burns away at the wild things and leaves behind clear space to build on.

Waitwhat.
"Patriot Act"

"Freedom Act"

Oh, my...
I use a personal journal with 'vim'[1]. I write only when I feel like writing to it, usually when I'm under stress. The articles are encrypted with GPG, synced through my dropbox account.

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> The literature review found sufficient evidence that ME/CFS is a disease with a physiologic basis. It is not, as many clinicians believe, a psychological problem that should not be taken seriously

It feels so weird to separate the psychological and physiological so cleanly. It seems obvious psychological stresses can damage someone physiologically over time, and vis versa. Otherwise you are making a claim that 'mind' and 'body' are separate, an outdated viewpoint originating in ancient times when everyone believed in the soul.

It just seems that having a certain type of prolonged psychological outlook (say, being stressed to death because of school, work, social pressures, existential angst, etc.) can cause serious, and 'real' physical issues and imbalances, enough for doctors to label something as a syndrome.
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Having read On Writing I can say that 8 and 9 aren't even real differences.

King is against detailed description of characters -- (paraphrased) "If I describe character too much, it conflicts with your view of them."

He's also against overly detailed description of places -- (paraphrased) "Keep it brief. You want to give a description of the room, it's not a travelogue."
Part of manifest destiny.
Any interview question is pointless if you can't objectively judge its answer, or at least there has been no study able to prove their effectiveness. You can use it to test for social skills, but for that you could talk about anything really.

If you want to get good at interviewing then you should decide beforehand exactly what questions you will ask all candidates and you should rank all answers for the questions. If their answer isn't a part of your ranked ones then it doesn't count, don't give points for effort and don't give hints unless you have decided beforehand to give the same hints at the same times to all candidates. This might seem too rigid, but it is the only way to not get your judgement overwhelmed by your initial impression of the candidate.

Now, try to apply that to this question "Are you a good programmer?", how would we rank the answers? Is a plain "yes" better than a plain "no"? This could get really interesting results! By selecting for people who answer "yes" you could build a confident workforce while selecting for "no" could get you a humble one. Is this useful? Maybe, only you can answer that question.
I believe that a prerequisite for intelligence is the ability to understand human language, including the ability to sort intent from the literal meaning. Thus all arguments of AIs being like genies who do what you say, not what you intend, seems like bs.

Similarly, Nick Bostrom argues an AI would have to make survival something like hidden agenda since survival would help it do all sorts of other things. But lots of humans are quite happy to sacrifice their lives for various sensible and senseless causes, more so than less intelligent beings as far as I can see. So the ability of AIs to willingly die or go into oblivion for us is probably there.

We don't yet know all the qualities of an general AI system and we can't create one either - we don't understand human-level intelligence, which to say we don't understand ourselves. If an AI system could appear at random, it might be a problem but our continuous failure over many years to intentionally build one seems to indicate that a system of this sort will only appear through a rather detailed understanding of its architecture and qualities. At that point, it seems fairly certain the group creating the entity will be able to create it so that it wishes to aid and obey them, to the extent they specify (and probably will create it in such a fashion but you never know).

My argument that the AI will likely just follow the will of its creators, as many high intelligent human servants have followed the wills of their masters and employers and so-forth, sidesteps the "will it be moral?" question. The problem is that humans haven't been particularly moral in their process of creating more and more mechanisms to magnify their intentions. There's no indication that the creation of an AI would change this and so the advent of an AI might be disastrous in many ways. But disastrous through human intent rather than a thing escaping human intent.

Weird this danger gets much less attention. Or not.
Yes, of course we will. The use of neural networks and reinforcement learning just means the field is very young and it hasn't been worked out quite yet how to specify precisely what we want the agent to do.
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While it's interesting that you got sensible answers, I also think it's too subjective to be a good question. Some people exaggerate their skills, while others are too modest. Some people might think you are testing their self-confidence, while others might think you are laying a trap.

I would simply ask technical questions and judge for yourself. Some whiteboard coding can't hurt.
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It only took 6.5 minutes, including the story and double introduction.

My favorite quote, and quite applicable:

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Can experienced developers without relevant background apply as well?
Not my product. :) my product is at risk if they can't find it in the outdated App Store. Http://www.mometic.com. Oh yeah and if my developers can't deliver... Also a distinct likelihood.
> So use a component adapter, like polymer

I am yet to be on a project where the customer uses them on their stack.

>So, you go build it, get it working at LEAST on Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS

Qt, JavaFX, Xamarin Forms, any SDL based GUI
Where I work we have the same problem with MSSQL. Unfortunately the dataset I work with is not very consistent, leading to the main key not being very useful to the query planner. I'm sure Postgres would have similar problems on the dataset. Unfortunately I'll never get to try.

On the other hand, for my personal projects it's amazing. They'll never see the scale I see at work, but they do get millions of rows sometimes :)
Not this time. They plan on having later F9 geo launches do this, however.
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This is an essentially perfect list. I take "have a great team" as implicit as you won't be able to do all those things without one.

Luck is a huge factor in success, and it plays into all those things in very direct ways. I've been involved in three failed startups (and one successful consultancy) and seen all those factors play out.

Timing and making a product enough people want (and are willing to pay for) are the two areas where luck plays the biggest role. Market validation is a huge issue for new technology, and it's surprisingly easy--with the best market intelligence you've got--to build something that not enough people want (yet) to make money.

And not all markets allow fast pivots or particularly small MVPs. Sometimes you don't know it isn't going to get picked up until it's too late to change course. In other cases there is simply no way to know if you should take a fairly good offer today and cash out, or not. It's easy to point to cases where founders turned down good offers and went on to make large multiples of them, and cases where founders turned down good offers and went broke.

It would be a very valuable exercise to gather up cases like that and present them in a business school context. My bet is that no one would be able to consistently make the right decision based on the information available at the time, which would make the role of luck unequivocal.
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Right and what else can you do? Use harsh language? To a New Yorker that's like praying to the Greek gods, it only makes us more powerful. 35 is too high, 30 is too high, 25 is too high. There are so many people cycling now in the past few years alone, it's just crazy having bikes and cars at such different relative speeds. The speed limit probably should be 20mph considering the vast majority are pedestrians and bikers at least in Manhattan (most people take trains but ultimately they are all also pedestrians too).
Most of the things that cross my mind are cliche and I know from experience I would not actually find them all that satisfying.

It's possible that I would keep doing exactly what I am doing now, which I don't know whether to consider a blessing or curse. Am I living my dreams, or do I have no dreams?
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Isn't it the last stride in the UI/UX though ? we've close the circle, from skeumorphism, to flat, to minimal, to material, software and hardware allowed us to explore, that was cool, but now is the time to get back to function. Maybe.
I do not believe Humans are able to invent an AI smarter than us.

Nor that the AI itself would be able to do so either.
Also, statement from Russia's goverenment officials: http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/32631/

Summing that up with all the recent precedents (China and Russia internet general censorship, EU and USA DMCA stuff) brings me rather pessimistic view about future of Internet as unfragmented knowledge and information sharing medium.

Nevertheless, why the operator of Internet's central directories is not free from political will of any government?
That's what the fund's issuers are doing, too.
Humans are more intelligent than apes. Yet clearly there are no reasons for humans to make all of an ape's decisions for it.
I've managed great teams in companies that have failed because they built a product for a market that turned out to mature at about 1% of the level it had been predicted to grow to.

It was a great product, delivered on time. It fulfilled a genuine need and it did it better than anything the competition had to offer. But the market wasn't there to sustain the company, and there was no reasonable way to know that far enough in advance to do anything difference.

This is the essence of luck. People hate that, but it's the truth.
interesting, this satellite company was using Ariane before. I guess the mood in Toulouse must be a bit strange.
I suspect that what you'd see is massive flight from the public system.
So, on your last point, you're sort of missing an important part of absolute war:

Against a fair enemy, the "ability to make war" becomes the problem of destroying capital of the enemy (factories, railroads, etc.). Against an enemy that doesn't have any sort of indigenous weapons production or roads to speak of, the "ability to make war" consists of the problem of destroying the manpower of the enemy.

So, we notice that while we bombed Germany and Japan, less than three decades later they were banging along--and we notice that when we spend a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, we end up just playing whack-a-mole with hapless militia.
Then, I don't understand the criticism about efficiency for regular users, as this is – for text editors – also clearly out of scope for graphical user interfaces. (Of course, the story is different for the graphical domain such as Blender).
bmelton kinda nailed it, but no, of course it's fine/normal to believe your beliefs are right (note the lower case 'right'). It's when one becomes so dogmatic as to believe that the other side is made up of brainwashed morons that a problem arises.
This isn't an ETF.
Humans are already perfectly capable of controlling engineers that are smarter than they are, so I'm going to say yes.
whats missing here is the documentation.

ZFS has wonderful docs, and admin tools, BTRFS has terrible docs ans nasty tools that handle like mdadm.
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What Virtu does to make money (market making and latency arbitrage on a milli- and microsecond timescale) is very, very far away from recognizing chart patterns and trading on them!
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It was the senseless need for a unified product that is the source of their social screw up. If they concentrated on making great products which fit together, people would naturally start to use then together without having to be shoved.
> "on average, a person with a math score of 710 loses 2 points on a second testing", which is pretty reliable

On thinking about this further, I've grossly misused the word "reliable". What that quoted bit says is precisely that while an individual's score may vary from test to retest (and is thus not necessarily reliable), the average score of a group is highly stable.
I am shocked there is a version without these ! Definitely one of the many memorable bits of this film.
I can't speak for other teams, obviously. But almost everything we do would fall under the heading of "Bayesian methods". It's such a broad term that it would be hard to write a trading algorithm that couldn't be described as Bayesian.
Call free(NULL); does not lead to any trouble. However, if you say that regularly use such statmen in your code, I'll be surprised. Analyzer surprised too. PVS suspects that it is not okay, and maybe we're dealing with some kind of typo or something else.
I wrote a book chapter in the upcoming book "WebGL Insights" to be published in August on just the subject. The answer is yes, if you port your OpenGL ES 1.0 code to OpenGL ES 2.0. The WebGL 1.0 spec is basically just a diff of the ES 2.0 spec. Then Emscripten can do most of the rest. I'm assuming your code is C++.
The fine ought to float to make the person reconsider their behavior. If that's $100 for a cabbie and $10000 for a hedge fund manager, then great. The problem is, the income disparity in the city is immense.

When I lived in Boulder, we had a 3-4 month period in the winter where water usage was the "base usage" for the rest of the year and if you went over that, i.e. in the summer, you got nailed a higher rate for water consumption. So it was a got scaled system, whether you were a single person or a family, you were paying an affordable base rate always and including in the summer, but if you watered your lawn, you paid a much higher rate for the overage above base.

So what you'd need to avoid having to invent a new layer of bureaucracy to NYC is something like that. "Zones" based on your NYC income tax for example (yes NYC has city income tax) to base your traffic fines on. So, it'd be a course granularity, not exactly fair within each zone, but overall it'd make everyone "wince" and change their stupid behavior that risks others' lives unfairly. The speeding thing gets my goat, but running red lights is like - you should lose all your registered cars, your license, and get massively fined. You run red lights you should stop driving. Idiots.
Why not? It isn't hard to build machines that are stronger than we are or faster than we are. Even if there is some sort of strange mirror version of Turing's thesis that prevents us from creating AIs more intelligent than we are, inventing an AI that is equally intelligent but faster would accomplish much the same thing.

Also, bootstrapping is highly effective in countless other contexts within computer science, what do you think will prevent it from being applicable to this problem?
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You can actually build a school in Africa for somewhere between $10,000 and $30,000. Examples (both 4-star charities on CharityNavigator.org):

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>But if you look at the effect sizes, you see the five studies found nearly the same answers -- its just two of them didn't quite cross the threshold for significance.

This is why I wish meta-analysis was introduced much earlier than it is in statistics education. There are sensible ways of combining the information from the five studies, weighting them according to their sample size (provided the studies are similar in design and cohorts). =)