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I think one of the main things missing from the Grails 3 narrative is that it has really turned into an opinionated SpringBoot framework. You can take all the great things from spring, add groovy and gorm and a few sane defaults and it becomes a pretty powerful framework.
Could you be specific. if you were hiring what's your dream candidate like?
just wanted to let you know that I agree. and I'm also sick of being blamed for a small minority of other men's actions.

cheers, mate
The problem others have is that a successful business man is so fetishized that he is treated as an expert in every field (eg Elon Musk views on A.I.) particularly by those who already fetishize property. Add to that a dose of standard populist social conservatism and, for a certain group, we have a hero who's every word is worth listening to. If Thiel were homeless no-one would be suggesting we debate his "philosophy"

I believe they genuinely can not tell the difference between a domain expert and a random post on the web. They will not have herd of peer review let alone read journals such as Nature.
As someone who hasn't bought a Sony labelled product since the rootkit scandal, not sure how much I agree... they definitely would have gotten far more from me when I've bought a couple large TVs, and two stereo systems since then... I even held out on a Bluray player for a long time (I didn't buy sony labelled at least).

Though it's akin to avoiding Bank America Corp in practice, they have their hands in every pot.
That background color is really not that pleasing to look at. IMO it also fails to explain what exactly this thing is, how do I use it?
>In righteous societies, police were not a separate, elite order. They were everybody.

Also in totalitarian dystopias.

The thing is, before you get to who the police is (and it being everybody can be OK), it's more important to know what to police for and what is considered an offense.
Ok, that's fine! You can always add a first comment to a thread like this to explain the context if you want to.
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"All the negative press and comments about this miss the point."

What, that working at Tesla is more important than being at the birth of your child, to both see them come into the world and support the mother during a physically and emotionally trying event?

Because that is the alleged point. And the criticism is spot-on.
"Apple and Microsoft got started with venture money;"

Microsoft is bootstrapped
My first day at SpaceX I ran into a friend. I asked him how he was doing and he said he just had a kid. "How old is she now?" "Oh no, like, my wife just gave birth an hour ago."

The guy was working through the birth of his first born. The story continued for months afterwards and it's not a good one.

That and many other stories are what led me to quit. I took the summer off and didn't work. I hung out with my dog and got my pilot's license. A few months later my dog unexpectedly passed away one night. I was so, so happy I spent the last months of his life with him instead of at SpaceX.

I get working on big goals, I get working hard. I don't get throwing away everything else. It's not just your life it's the people who need a father and a friend.
Completely agree! Nobody should be shamed because he/she prioritizes things differently. As long as people accomplish the job agreed upon, it should not matter that some people are not OK with never seeing their family.
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Is your timezone or date-time set differently than your current location?
Isn't comment-driven code generation kind of the definition of a "feature request implemented in a half-hearted manner"? People asked for generics and got this. It seems like the kind of suggestion most language designers would throw out as unelegant.

If the language is so conservative as people claim, it should have neither macros/generics nor any of these pseudo-macro-generic-y half-measures.
If this statement is true and in the proper context (who knows), this all but kills my respect for Musk. It basically puts him at the same level as Jobs, Ellison and others who are just egotistical, sociopathic assholes.

Look, Musk /is/ out to change the world. His employees might not be, at least to the degree and level as he is. And, if they are, they'll likely not be remembered along with Musk. There is often only one, maybe two names attached to great achievements. If I'm an employee at a company like that (and I have been, and I have killed myself with long hours making someone else rich when I was young and dumb, before I realized what it was all about), I would do my job very, very well and make sure I have the balance in life /I/ want.

You don't want me to see the birth of my child? Sorry, fuck off. It's my time, my life, my family, my kid. And we aren't talking about a tee-ball game. This is the BIRTH. We aren't talking about kindergarten parent-teacher conferences. This is the birth, where you support your wife and see your child for the first time.

And, sadly, Musk probably doesn't realize because he is so wrapped up in his own world, but having a child IS changing the world for a few folks. But, ya know, sociopaths don't care about other people, just themselves.

I'm continually saddened that we put people on pedestals who so clearly aren't deserving of it. Musk is just another example of someone who /really/ is out for theirs and want to get it any way possible. I think we all thought, or maybe hoped, he was different. I don't know that he is.
> is "changing the world" of the family for worse and not for better

Hypothetical counterexample: What if he were busy curing cancer and thus making sure that the future world of that very family would be a nicer place, one where the children would never have to experience that disease?
A lot of the time it doesn't feel like that to me.

People release things they have worked long and hard on, only to get a bunch of negative comments picking on holes and mistakes.

The weird thing is they are the lucky ones; it's pretty damn hard to make it onto the front-page of HN now, regardless of the quality of the content. (Don't believe me? Take a look at how many times some articles have been reposted and the disparity in number of votes.)

Getting feedback should be great, but not many of us are good at it. Generally, we only comment on things we care about or find interesting (ignoring the stuff that is so bad it deserves harsh criticism like storing passwords in plain-text), but we forget to say that in the comment and only mention the minor flaw we saw.

I don't have a solution to this, other than to tell posters to be prepared for criticism and to take each up-vote as a major token of respect in what you've built.
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why should I jump up and down in her defense? I'm literally competing with her for the same vc dollars. I'm not going to help my competitors, that's insane.
He's like the Uber of startup founders.
Most wind farms are on leased land and the fee is based on the MWh generated. Farmers want to maximize revenue from wind harvesting while minimizing crop harvest revenue loss. Remember roads are built between turbines for big cranes and trailers to deliver and install the turbines and there is parking underneath the turbine for maintenance workers.

Having 500 4kw systems cuts into harvest revenues as do 10 20kw systems as the equivalent square footage lost to generate 1MWh is an order of magnitude larger.

Also, wind turbines blades in colder climates tend to accumulate ice in the winter and thus are permitted to be located away from populated areas. Some big chunks of ice have been flung hundreds of meters. The larger the blade the further the distance you need to put your structure for safety reasons. These masts shouldn't be put on buildings (vibration) or near populations (ice).
Let's just use the block-chain for decision making!

edit: I was probably trolling.
No, they have documentation and a bunch of other information.
One thing I keep on reminding people is that DNS is/was the first scalable, high distributed, key value store.

Not only that it can be partitioned into subdomains. There is also the concept of scope, which means you can adjust default records

So for things like service discovery you do things like this:

metrics-server.datacenter1.example.com
A 10.10.20.1
metrics-server.datacenter2.example.com
A 10.20.20.1

on each client the search scope will be set by the DHCP server. This means that if you lookup metric-server in datacenter1 you'll get 10.10.20.1, and in datacenter2 you'll get 10.20.20.1

however it can be a pain in the arse.
In his experience, independent bookstores only serve a subset of the population. Amazon serves all the population.

If ever there was a good reason to favor Amazon, this seems like one.
Does superfish circumvent copyright media protection? Not really. It's a huge stretch to call https a form of drm.
A more conservative approach to macros would also just be... generics.
I don't care about Musk either way, so I doubt this is too biased in his favor, but I don't think many people would knowingly say something like the phrase in the article to someone who went to his child's birth. I consider it more likely that Musk didn't know that the person was missing because of the birth, or something similar, than that someone would say "yeah this company event is more important than your child being born".
It's rare but you can perform a citizen's arrest
"hack"?

That's supposed to be a way to get around the system. Even "trick" implies some form of short-circuiting.

This, however, says "work a few years and we might look at your application a little more closely" so you can get into the system.

Lols.
Small town makes a big difference. What are the odds that a friend of a friend (or even a cousin) sees the cop do something stupid, compared to a large town?

[edit]
To put this in the context of the article, if a Cop does something publicly stupid in a small town, there will be a social penalty levied against them when they e.g. sit down for a beer next to someone who saw them do something stupid.
It crashes if you try to run an executable from DOS.
I actually laughed when I read this.

If I have worked at a YC company, I get extra startup cred, but no worries, if you don't have that recommendation then we're still cool - right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Announcing there's a way to getting special treatment, then completely backing off your original statement? Brilliant.
>We started by exploring concepts to push the boundaries of our design system, going from mild to wild variation, trying out new patterns and controls, new type treatment and using color in bold fresh ways.

...and we ended in the smallest possible variation from an unimaginative merging of the classic start menu and the Metro style blocks...
Wow is not older than Starcraft. Get your facts straight Business Insider!
To be fair: it could be resized (though in an extremely non-user friendly way) and copy/paste has been possible since a long time (no idea since which version, and again, it wasn't particularly user-friendly at all)
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> Q: Is the Digital.com domain for sale? A: We bought the domain to develop, rather than to speculate, and have declined several substantial offers. However, serious offers will receive suitable consideration.
My heart is a little broken. I held out hope that HP would revive the Digital brand for a no-BS Linux-driven division.
I think the conventional wisdom is to scratch your own itch. Figure out something that is annoying or difficult to do and then figure out a way that automating some of the steps could make your life easier. This could start as an awesome product to show employers or possibly a way to make a couple of bucks on the side.
> THE COMPANY will go to some lawyers, and say, "If you bring this lawsuit against us, we will cooperate fully, cave in quickly, and we'll settle on modest terms

Hmm. I wonder if the law firm bringing the case, specified in the docket as PRITZKER LEVINE LLP, has any history of doing this.
Head, people.
With my Lenovo Thinkpad t450s, neither wired nor wireless networking work when you reinstall Windows 8.1 on your own.
If true that would be hard to not shape my perspective of the man. I can't respect the Daniel Plainviews of the world.
He's probably better motivated and does better work if you give him time away from work to be with his spouse and child.
Where I get twitchy is the practice of coding has changed a lot since Knuth made that quote. Optimizing code in that era typically made it brittle and hard to reason about. Pre-optimizing meant continuously painting yourself in a corner. I used to think about it as like a seamstress sewing a dress, she doesn't start out sewing nice neat tight stitches, that's for later. Once she knows she's not going to have to rip the seams apart again.

Some optimizations don't matter anymore. Back in the hoary old days pointers in C were faster than indexed arrays. Not anymore. But people still assume it's worth it. Twenty years ago, you paid a serious price for unaligned accesses. Not any more. Yet compilers still rigorously align data in memory. Which might actually make things slower.

As the follow on poster said, make the code clean and easy to reason about. People often like to think they are writing code like the big boys, where it'll get used by vast number of people. Much like a lot of hardware designers design stuff as if they are going to make millions of units. 99% of the time that's not true. Thus the NRE costs totally dominate.
The great majority of people we fund have no connection to us whatsoever.

YC partners do dozens of events every year in the US and dozens more in the rest of the world to reach out to people we don't have any connection to.

A great idea, product, market, traction, etc. will always carry more weight than anything else. As much as there is any single secret to YC's success (other than not having a coworking space), being willing to talk to people with no connection to us is it.

That said, we definitely take note of recommendations from YC founders about great people they've worked with, and we should be upfront about that.

Also, we think announcing this will help YC companies recruit, and anything we can do to help YC companies we like to do.
Imagine that for a moment: Self driving car companies could promise to pay all accident expenses provided it was on auto drive at the time of accident.

Not only is that a marketing win, potentially reducing accidents and saving costs for owners... if you jump forward many years of Google (or other) defending owners in court you would reach a point even judges would be biased to believe that the auto-driven car could not have caused an accident, further disadvantaging non-auto cars in the market.
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Hunter-gatherer societies that did fit this model could be considered to be the ultimate totalitarian organizations. Extremely strict rules controlling every aspect of the life of the members, from birth to death, and no deviation ever tolerated, under pain of banishment or even death.
> Fuck your patriarchy crap

Thank you for that incisive and articulate bit of commentary. I guess you sure showed me, eh?
They're likely both good starting points. From a cursory glance of Spring 2015, here's why I like 2013 more:

2013 starts with Functor and builds into Applicative then Monad. I like this a lot, as each builds on each other: fmap has a tight relationship with <$>, and Monad is pretty much Applicative with bind (>>=). Applicative is a Functor and Monad is an Applicative (as of 7.10 I think).

I'm by no means super experienced here, but the 2013 course was the first learning text that really got me into Haskell.
8-queens : 0.19s user 0.09s system 127% cpu 0.222 total

12-queens : 0.21s user 0.11s system 129% cpu 0.244 total

16-queens : 0.29s user 0.10s system 119% cpu 0.325 total

20-queens : 2.79s user 0.10s system 102% cpu 2.826 total

24-queens : 7.50s user 0.10s system 100% cpu 7.533 total

Thanks a lot for sharing the Dancing links algorithm. It looks really interesting. I wanted to try sudoku with backtracking,but now I would like to give dancing link a try!
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Fair enough. What is an example of a test that has false positives that are not independent (and why)? Curious now.
To paraphrase what you just said: "Starting a company is easy for women. All you have to do is to prostitute yourself!"
The thing that really baffles me is that Go/Google have invested so much into tooling for the language, yet didn't bother to implement official tools for the most important feature of any language: package and dependency management.

I've heard this explained as "everyone at Google just points their imports at Git repo HEADs", which is valid for a self-contained organization like that, but seems very closed-minded considering they want this language to be adopted universally.
That's a big part of what the article is about; so long as only the police can levy penalties against people for breaking the law, there will be police corruption.
It's particularly baffling when, in response to:

> But I disagree that putting commands in comments at all is a good idea. Just because other languages do it doesn't make it a good idea. It's clearly a hack to get around some historical problem, and we're better than that.

A member of the Go team says:

> Where you see a hack I see an elegant design.

It's never been an elegant design, at best, it was an acceptable design in the 90s.
I spent 2 years at a major bank converting processes from Excel sheets to a database with a strong distributed processing platform around it. They were doing risk analysis of tens of billions of dollars in CDO swaps (hey, it was 2007, these things were like printing your own money). That's where I learned about how much you can abuse Excel. FTP CSV output to servers? No problem. Copy data out to custom XML and import it back? Sure. Shell out to command line quant programs to run simulations? Fuhgeddaboudit.

So much abuse.
Possibly so, but I was merely trying to dismantle the fairly blunt assertion that it's unconditionally making the world of the family worse.
But it's a good idea if the would be parents talk about what they want to happen and write it down. Just in case.
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Great result, I won't be surprised if this appears in Photoshop soon. I'm continually impressed by William T. Freeman and his students' work.
I actually just did interviews with Cloudflare and found it to be quite compreehensive, from the tech and personal stand point. People seems to know that they are doing and they all seem very chill and nice. Probably one of the best overall interviews I've done to date. The only problem was the delay between the interviews, they are huge! All in all, seems like a really nice company to work at.
Hmm, I'm not sure about that NIH writeup. I personally am not sleep deprived, but I am able to fall asleep within minutes (5 +/- a couple) of my head hitting my pillow.

I wake up at the same time every day, and go to bed at the same time every night. Basically, I start getting tired when I'm getting near my 'bed time' and I use that as a cue to go to bed. Since I'm very regular with my routine, I rarely have any sleep issues, and I get around 8 hours of sleep per night. If I'm sick or something, I might get tired in the afternoon and want a nap, but that's fairly rare.

That said, I totally agree that his post screams of shortsightedness, and in fact, seems like satire in order to call people out for their abysmal work habits. It's too bad, but based on his comments, it seem he feels forced into this. Hopefully once his startup is fully started, he'll be more healthy.
Yes! See suggestion #2 in the article. The block-chain is a great tool for decision making, since it makes it possible to get a transparent, permanent, public log of all the comments and opinions that go into the decision. So far, in-blockchain voting has been used for soft-forks, but it could be used more frequently and less urgently too.
Well, not exactly comments, but Java's annotation system is an ugly kludge that should be part of the language and not an attempt at reintroducing C-style compiler directives.

The abuse they suffer under various frameworks and ORMs is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in a language. In almost every-case they either serve little to no purpose, or would be better-off just being part of the language syntax. But now you have to learn Java, and the Java-annotation meta-system.

At least they aren't written in XML.

note I actually don't mind the Java Community's habit of usingLongNames for things, and the actual language is pretty small and nice.
Here is the benchmarking for 12-queens

12-queens : 0.21s user 0.11s system 129% cpu 0.244 total

But, I see that you are finding all the solution. My program only finds the first solution.
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Thanks for the reply. I suppose this changes things regarding the compiler code, but it is still an external tool parsing and executing comments. There should be a better way of doing this.
That's a great idea. A blog post about the work is in the works, but has a few hoops to jump through before I can release it.

I appreciate the technical feedback as well. We are continually refining the ui/ux component. I'm very excited to show the work, but want to add the correct context so that others easily and meaningfully consume it.
That is a classic false dichotomy. You never, ever need to choose between those two things. You can have some semblance of both in nearly ALL cases.
When there's a business case for paying down the technical debt then it is worth paying down. Prematurely paying it down is no more or less than a premature optimization...only perhaps worse because it comes at an opportunity cost. In the ideal world, the technical debt is forgiven because your company grows at a pace that requires a complete rewrite. In the typical case the technical debt is forgiven because the startup's outcome is typical.

Best practices are a means to an end. StackOverflow was running production and development off of a single box well after it became "a thing." Doing so was good enough because it worked and StackOverflow's successful growth was dependent on product not getting a glossy photo on the cover of Startup Infrastructure Magazine.

Make business decisions in a business like way.

Good luck.
Wow, that is genuinely surprising. Good to know.
I would argue though that the recently controversy is an illustration of "the arguments are so contentious because the stakes are so small". In all of the recent debates there have been smart people arguing that "leaving things as is" is an acceptable course of action.

In the past, when there was an objectively clear problem, the community always quickly rallied around a fix.
Then someone else could take over his position for a few hours while he attended the birth of his child.

With a market cap of 26 billion dollars, Tesla can afford to hire enough employees.
his thoughts and opinions aren't valid simply because he is a man?

who is sexist now?
Now we all know who's going to sponsor the next YC ski trip :)
While this is true, it's also worth nothing that HN places Elon Musk on a pedestal and becomes incredibly defensive when someone criticizes him.

The reality is probably somewhere in the middle: Elon Musk is no doubt an amazing man, but he is not without flaws. I think we do need people pointing out those flaws to balance out all the hype and hero-worship.
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