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if you give enough details you'll always find a way to work around words.
For example if i ship a copy of webkit with my ui on top with a sandbox I'll pioneer that. Or a shell. Or a text editor. Or whatever you want. A blue wheel of 29.0349in on a bike. etc.

I'm not sure why I'm even replying sometimes.
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Why a company:

https://github.com/Raynos/mercury

All react best practices converge on what mercury has done out of the box since day one. React's advantage is it's community. There are more docs, examples and tutorials.
Because in one case you can opt out.
You might be interested to know that Python too is going towards gradual typing, with PEP 484 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/ it's trying to formalize the syntax from MyPy.

I think it will happen since in September at the Python mailing list the Guido found a slew of bugs when using MyPy and started to advocate gradual typing.
Feels like a very bad fever. Funny how linear projections don't scale above 200, while ~non euclidian~ ones have no troubles.
If everyone agreed with Thiel's approach then it could only be described as obvious. The fact that people disagree with him is a good thing. The rational thing to do is test it. If YC adopts his approach then that will be a significant sample..
I said it isn't fair to say. I sure wish people would read before reflexively downvoting.
>and invariably one or more men step in to tell her how she's wrong about it, no, that's not how it went at all....when these men weren't there, have no skin in the game, and these remarks are just more of some "women aren't to be trusted or listened to" general pattern.

i didn't say that she was wrong. I'm pretty sure that she is telling the truth about how she _felt_ and what was her _interpretation_ of the other man's eye position and movements. I don't doubt her account of her feelings and interpretations.

On the other side - why should we trust her interpretation (which i trust she had) about the state of mind of the other man - "gawping" - if she wasn't in the man's head. One thing to say "he kept his eyes on my boobs for 5 seconds for 3 times" - statement of fact (though precise knowledge of direction of somebody eyes may be questionable) vs. "he was gawping" - interpretation about the man's state of mind.
Finland too. Might be US-only?
We don't have the same problem in europe with net neutrality.

The problem in the states is very very different. In the states you have three corporations providing shit, slow service. Th

Traffic shaping, which stops one person on a contented link (ie ADSL) ruining everyone else's day by torrenting every last drop of bandwidth. Its been a fact of life for many years.

THe problem in the states can be characterised in two ways:

* A lack of competition

There is often only one ISP in town, and they don't have to try hard. This means that service is terrible, and so is innovation.

* A lack of bandwidth

In Europe bandwidth exchanges, or peering exchanges are normally run by a cooperative. This means that its in everyone's interest to talk to everyone else as fast as possible. Its really really cheap to peer in london, (http://www.lonap.net/fees.shtml)

In the states, exchanges are run by either AT&T, verizon or level3. Which means everything costs squillions. As there is no need to provide more bandwidth, because customers can't move between ISPs so no one peers.

For example in the EU, ISPs are more than keen to have CDN leaf nodes in their infrastructure, it lowers costs and improves customer experiences. However they can't charge Netflix et al to install them because there is too much competition.

Its not like they can limit access to netflix for a few months to make a point, because their customers would change ISPs. Something not possible in the States.

So net neutrality is really a side issue to competition.
It is never bullshit to say that something not actually proven is not proven until it is proven.
Additionally, sugarcane-derived ethanol is far more efficient than the corn-based stuff we use in the US. I've seen numbers ranging from 3x to more than 7x more efficient than corn-based ethanol, which would mean that the use of ethanol could actually be a net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, unlike what we get from using corn.

No reason to demonize sustainable, renewable fuel - instead, we should look at the agriculture subsidies that "protect our farmers" and see how they're hurting everyone (including the farmers, affected arguably more than the rest of us by global warming) in the long run.
LTE is all IP, so thats about as internet as you can possibly get.
The payment system is a completely separate discussion, and not one at all relevant to my point. I disagree with your claim that the reactions are similar. It's my impression that the reactions to the dangers of public road systems is not remotely close to the reactions toward the dangers of private transportation systems, especially when normalized for the scale of the dangers.
You should think about the complexity involved in eating a healthy vegetarian diet before you start being dismissive of it.

Lets not blow the difficulty of being a vegetarian out of proportion. Eating a healthy vegan diet is still difficult. Eating a healthy vegetarian diet is not. There are plenty of cook books describing varied and balanced vegetarian meals. There are plenty of restaurants that serve good vegetarian meals and many supermarkets (at least in Western Europe) also provide the necessary ingredients.

(I have been a vegetarian for 16 years now, almost half of my life.)
Have we really run out of new names for things already?
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Maybe there's a copyright issue at play here.
It really isn't the point. Yes she earns multiples more than me, but on the partner track at kleiner she would expect to make millions. Chucking her out because she is a woman (or gay or not white or whatever) is an offence. We punish offences because that is what a fair society does. Even if the victim is not sympathetic or "one of us".

In fact the last reason is the reason we have these laws - to defend people who are not one of us.

Plus it is good to remind everyone once in a while that the law is in charge, not money, not anti-terrorism sentiment, not administrations. The law.

It takes a battering, so it needs the occasional public win.
Uhm, I’m real confused. Why do you talk about “try to join nerd communities” with regard to the dongle thing? Do you know something we don’t?

That seems more like a policy of exclusion from your side – ala obviously a real nerd wouldn’t ever find something inappropriate or be clumsy in how they complain about something.

This whole thing is a way of cordoning yourself off, isolating yourself from criticism, shunning others, excluding others. It’s so, so weird. And hateful.
I have never seen women in the workplace "looking like 16yo half-naked barbies." Never. Not once, in decades working in the US. Nothing about the US is forcing people working in an office to look at big tits all day. This is just completely false and off-base and prejudicial.
I'm surprised there is so little controversy in this thread of HN. After all, most comments here confirm that we're a group and we like us as-is, or with very minimal changes, which is already a reluctance to diversity. On the one hand maybe the title didn't appeal for a pageview by the controversial types of feminigeeks [vocabulary from this article], and the other hand this is the kind of place where our culture gets shaped.

Edit: I can't resist positing this quote. It makes me feel understood. It would make me feel safer if it were acknowledged by the other party during debates: "The voices clamouring for change offer us no money, a social role reversal back to “disempowered outsider,” and a status demotion to “likely sexual predator.”"

Edit 2: If anyone here has data, it seems like a lot of communication about feminism in IT started circa 2013 (e.g. the controversy on Paul Graham [1], which probably provoked the Female Founders Conference in 2015). It would be nice if someone made a blogpost about that and explained what that year changed in the geek culture.

[1] http://www.thewire.com/technology/2013/12/paul-graham-revive...
Yes, luck is there, but i think it's only a part of it
The fact that freedom is a nebulous concept makes his claim nebulous, not comedic.
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I would have picked OpenBSD over Linux for our production environment, if we didn't need the additional performance.

Modern Linux distros are messy and complex. I'm sure it's for good reason, they provider a ton of feature and tools for running very large installations. I just don't need that, we don't have more servers than you could reasonably manage manually.

I miss the consistency and simplicity of OpenBSD every time I log into one of our servers.
Are there decent people in this world at all?
In some ways it's easier to interest investors with a Powerpoint than after you've shipped.

With only a slide deck you have unlimited potential, while business reality is usually very different. :)
You don't have to pass a block to select_append. With Sequel, you can do this:

# db is a Sequel::Database
s = db[:foobars]
s = s.select Sequel.lit("max(id) as best_id")
s = s.select_append Sequel.lit("count(*) / sum(count(*)) * 100 as percentage")
s.sql
# ==> "SELECT max(id) as best_id, count(*) / sum(count(*)) * 100 as percentage FROM `foobars`"

The only real difference here is Sequel.lit, which is needed for security (any secure DB interface needs to somehow be notified that strings are safe to put into a query without escaping). If I'm writing code that leans heavily on Sequel to build queries, I'll make a private method #sql that is an alias for Sequel.lit.

It's entirely feasible to use Sequel this way. I've used it like that in production. I loathe the query building DSL, myself, but it's strictly optional.
The prime directive of a business is to serve the interests of its owners. That usually requires making money at some level, but making money itself may not be the prime directive. It's true that if a company is publicly traded, widely held, or principally owned by investors who choose it based on potential financial returns, the shared interests of its owners are likely to be limited to making money, but that isn't true of all businesses.
I don't claim the free market can solve the problem. I claim that, at least in my (European) country, the free market has avoided it. I live in a city of a few thousand, I have four ISPs offering me fiber service, I'm paying $30/month for 100mbps plus TV and free phone calls, and I have absolutely no evidence that any of ISPs is trying to slow down some traffic.

I'm not ideologically opposed to net neutrality regulations - I think they can be a useful tool after you fuck things up, like the US did.

What I dispute is the idea that suddenly everyone has that problem just because the US does. How about letting each country implement its own net neutrality laws if and when they're needed?
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Why is this more problematic for software than it is for film, tv, or video games? Everyone getting their own pull quotes in media exposure is one thing, but it seems like a huge cop out to pretend like crediting the whole team in an about screen/modal is infeasible.
Some with hidden connections:

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The issue I have with this sort of obsession in optimizing conversion is this: shouldn't you be primarily concerned with building a product that legitimately benefits and gives back to both users and society as a whole as opposed to making something that sells as fast as possible? Both the data and psychology driven philosphies have this sense that your work exists to squeeze more money out of people instead of to create something meaningful. Put that extra time and thought into a better product and everyone wins.
I assume you are referring to the Go GC efforts. I would imagine (someone with zero compiler, VM design, or PL design experience), that is a humongous undertaking.

But if it is interesting to anyone, I used to follow news about the FOSS counter-effort to Azul (which ironically did start open source with OpenJDK, but then what corporate from what I understood from Azul people posting OpenJDK lists), Shenandoah.

https://rkennke.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/shenandoah-a-pausel...

I will start looking into this again because I do not remember hearing much since.
> The psuedocode in question happens to be syntactically valid Ruby.

So is everything else anyone types, code-like or not. He even said "Note how I deliberately shuffled the order and didn't bother with escaping.".

The response was flippant, intelligence-insulting, and obviously the result of failing to read thoroughly.

And speaking of intelligence-insulting, we all know you can run raw SQL through Sequel.

You're not having a useful dialogue, you're being combative, like the person I initially replied to.
The 101 projectiles case is not such a useful what-if in practice. It's a game, so your final tuning comes down to "what will hit my framerate target and memory budget," not what a user requested. If it struggles to keep up with 101 projectiles, you have to either design it down or accept dropped frames in the most demanding situations. So a pool's size limit acts as a guide for the other budgeting considerations anyway - and it plays well with the traditionally constrained memory budgets of console games.

Of course, AAA game engines today will employ custom low-level allocation strategies in order to squeeze out the last few percentage points where they deal with dynamic data - but if your aims are more modest, and you harken back to 80's era gaming, most of those games had a nearly or entirely static memory map. Besides being a poor fit for those tiny microprocessors, dynamic allocation enables out-of-memory and fragmentation errors to exist, leading us back to the "hard limits on instancing" strategy again.

GC still incurs overhead where it has to trace, even if you've pooled everything. Reference counting pulls ahead of tracing collectors in the situation of heavy object persistence, despite being more expensive as a general allocation method. As well, it has predictable latency, which is more important for meeting real-time requirements.

(N.B. as systems parallelize, they become more bound by latency considerations. Seven workers may finish early, but delivery will still get bottlenecked by the eighth slow one.)
The Hemingwrite looks just like the Alphasmart that delish posted above, just for 14x the price. What a bizarre product.
Browsers are too kind to bad developers (who accidentally omit close tags) but I don't see that changing those to parenthesis or whitespace will make those developers any less rubbish.

The simple fact is: if you're still regularly typing your close tags in 2015, you either need a better editor or you need to learn how to use your current one better.
Additional craziness, the subsidy means it's cheaper to buy corn than grow it! Thus making mixed agriculture farms rarer.

So instead of using cow slurry to fertilise crops the US uses oil based fertiliser and has millions of gallons of cow slurry in lagoons.
I can't convince you, and it doesn't matter whether you believe me, when I say that it doesn't matter to me about your race or sex or whatever, I am still going to think your cool hack is a cool hack.
That's just how it is. I know not everyone does work this way. But I think it's counterproductive to try to tear down and erase this entire value system. In the worst case it's an imperfectly met ideal, but that's no reason to abandon it.
Speak for yourself, it was clear to me what he meant and you're putting words in his mouth.
I was equally surprised. The controversy is overwhelming and I loved her point about being against either brogrammers or feminigeeks does not make you the other. I feel like any conversation where everyone doesn't completely agree turns into accusations of privilege or sexism.
That sounds like a lot of fun!
Could you recommend any textbooks for learning more about this kind of stuff?
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I feel there's a lot of 'no true Scotsman' in the article and throughout the comments here.
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Sorry to hear that this has been the case. I've definitely experienced this as well. One of the things I've learned is that the best people in startups are the best at playing the game, not necessarily the smartest or most talented.

If you ever plan on putting together a board game meetup or something along those lines, shoot me an email. Would love to try and make it. Been wanting to try DnD recently as well. My email's zach@hackedu.us.
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I think competition on a "macro" scale isn't what counts, it's more the competition at any given moment in the user's story.

When they hear about it or get the invitation, do they get it via a medium filled with a lot of spam?

When they follow the invitation, and see your service for the first time, will they go through the onboarding process?

After they complete onboarding, will they have a compelling reason to come back? Such as transactional notifications?

If they come back, will they form a habit in their mind of using your service for something? This is the "mindshare" that you are fighting for, that is the level on which competition really matters. How do you position yourself?

What network effects, social proof and social convenience / pressure will cause the person to use your service?

What are your customers currently paying for that you can do better / cheaper?

etc.
Techstars seems to be quietly doing well by doing their own thing, which includes a surprising amount of geographic diversity.

And of course, for some kinds of businesses, one of the real competitors to seed funding is bootstrapping.
I really made a conscious effort to improve my penmanship last year. I started tracing at first [1] to build up the muscle memory, but it didn't take long before the movements became natural.

[1] http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/cursive/index.htm
If you want to meet people "talking hacker-speak" in the Bay Area, then I would suggest that you go to events that would only attract that sort of person. In general this will mean shying away from events about technological pop-culture and instead focusing on the events that cover very specific and "boring" topics.

In your particular case, I would suggest going to events that focus on building things ("project nights", etc), events that cover a specific "unpopular" languages (Haskell, Clojure, Erlang), or events that feature talks from people who aren't "popular" but should be (Fabrice Bellard, Jan Hubicka, etc).
And yet you can find plenty of articles about how procedurally generated game environments create longevity.

Imagine a machine that could make procedurally generated movies, would that interest you?

Stories have already been distilled to the Seven Basic Plots [1]

Novelty needs repetion in order to be novel.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSevenBasicPlot...
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What does "turning into Java" even mean? What exactly are you afraid of?

Having actual integers? Threads? Better tooling?

The `class` keyword? It makes the code less verbose.

Optional types? Would you rather write JSDoc comments?

Optional typing actually works amazingly well. You need very few type annotations to get all the tooling benefits. Typically, it's enough to annotate the headers of your function. Type inference takes care of the rest.
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I will absolutely believe you. I will take your word until your actions show me otherwise.

What value system is being destroyed or abandoned? Surely not one where a person is judged by merit and not by what group they do or don't belong to. At least not by me or anyone I've ever heard about.

Now there are people that are trying to destroy the value system that professes to be based on merit but is in reality based on discrimination, privilege and/or internal groupthink by a narrowly defined group. But if you truly believe in merit above everything else, I would think you would welcome the downfall of these false meritocracies.
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The free market would solve it. ISPs do not operate in a free market.
Where is the source? What is open source? The PCB?
From last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8165745
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Feh. What you're saying is only true if 100% of decisions are data driven. Just because Hollywood has chosen to make 25 sequels doesn't mean that Sundance no longer exists. It, and countless events and organizations like it, are celebrated inside and outside of Hollywood.

The implications of the hypothetical extension of this trend are clear to a lot of people. As long as some percent of people are pushing the boundary, culture will be fine. Let everyone else enjoy their sequels and reality shows.
> Ooh, what song was that?

You have to know the name already, and be listening to it. You can't lookup lyrics by tune (there are tools that do that, but not this).

Main reason to look up lyrics: I have the song, but I have no idea what the singer is actually saying, i.e. no sale involved.
>This is what [the forces of D]iversity [are] (or should be) fighting against, it really is trying to make it merit based which goes against our survival instincts, even those of the "nerds".

How exactly do you expect a group to react when you push against its survival instincts?

Feminism is accused of this most often, so I'll use it as an example: some have accused the feminist movement of sexism because it simultaneously claims the sanctity of women-only "safe spaces" while simultaneously fighting against the existence of male-only institutions. I don't want to pass a verdict on that so much as point out that that is what the article is talking about:a safe space for nerds.
How are you dealing with the fact that even with a sponsor, there's only a 1 in 2-3 (unknown) chance that someone will actually get through the H1-B lottery this year?
It is obviously the roughest, toughest, root'nest, toot'nest, fastest server west of the Pecos!
If we are interested in certain things that are not mainstream, and then other people who aren't really interested in those things come in and screw things up for interested people by acting in a selfish and conceited and exclusionary way, and we call those people jackasses or brogrammers or whatever, that doesn't make us the same as them. It's just an observation. And any culture worth its salt rejects forces actively trying to tear it down.
Dunno why the original is 404'd Google cache still has it.

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Given that game studios are using Erlang, JVM and .NET for their game servers, I doubt that is an issue.