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It's happened before: Ada Secure Operating System, LISP machines, Pascal machines, BiiN, System/38, Oberon System, and so on. It's why I love online comments speculating about whether it's possible to use a type-safe or memory-safe language to write a full OS. Lol. I try to remind them of what's been done before enough so hopefully they'll try to do it again.

I agree a modern take supporting mainstream deployment tech would be a great advance. The language itself might need to be modern. They'll reject Ada, LISP, etc. I liked JX just because there were many Java developers plus various verification tech on Java subsets. Figured Java-2-native was only shot before Rust, Go, and SWIFT showed up. Things are indeed starting to happen. :)
okay, so if we need a fixed volume X, and we have a reservoir of (1/2) X, then we only have to wait on the slow trickle of the remaining 1/2 instead of the full amount.

Plus, what do you think the H2 is for? Generally, we think about using it in a fuel cell. Which generates electricity. And the idea of using electricity to split out H2 in order to generate electricity, all in one place....

You're adding complexity, but I'm not sure you're actually improving on simpler approaches.
IMO it makes the map a lot better - previously it was too hard to get out of Underpass and it was too far away from the rest of the map to be useful.
I get it. And we actually did try to use Jabber for a long while.

But the moment we tried Telegram, we just didn't want to move back.
I think Josu was actually correct and you two are talking about two different things. Josu is saying that if the purchasers cannot find another (greater?) fool to flip the company to then they will have to manage 12 billion dollars in transactions with 0 costs if they are only charging 5% in order to break even. That's just simple math, 5% of 12 billion = the 600 million dollar buy-out price. That's if nothing changes in terms of what percentage they keep and if they have 0 costs. If the purchasers are going to buy and hold they will need to handle 12 billion dollars in transactions at 0 expenses to get their buying power back to buy another company, unless they can flip the company or borrow against it.

You are saying that the purchasers have broken even on the deal so long as they have not lost money on paper in the valuation since they can probably either borrow against it or sell it off.

It comes down to are you paying for current value, or potential growth in value. Frankly, in my opinion, markets that rely upon a greater fool to bail you out to make your money rather than just getting it back the old fashioned way by providing a good or service are way too frothy.

Counter-argument is that you are betting on growth, not a greater fool bail out. In this instance the only way to get that growth while still handling less than 12 billion in transactions is by increasing their take from 5% to something higher or adding on ancillary sales. I'd bet on ancillaries, but this isn't my space.

By the way for those reading who may not know, I was referencing Greater Fool Theory, not making a pejorative statement (heh, beyond what the theory itself may make). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
As a long-term resident of one of the most diverse boroughs in London, I can vouch for my own lack of desperation to deport immigrants, though I'm sure you can find the same xenophobic vocal minority that can find in most countries if you look hard enough. Though I do conceed that I am finding the task of replacing myself with a baby somewhat difficult, which may or may not be due to lack of large, sparsely populated land mass.
And it exists in the CS:GO version of de_dust as well, though it's on the 'off' side of underpass. You then have to cross the ledge above Underpass into the hallway.
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Oh ok. My phone is still annoying me with it, it still wants to use TextSecure for SMS for some reason, which is really confusing.
You seem to forget that, for example, many of those immigrants supported slavery and brought in many immigrants from Africa.

Or that Texas was once part of Mexico and a bunch of illegal immigrants from the U.S. there declared its independence (and later joined the U.S.).

Or the loads of Chinese that worked on the west expansion (and multiple waves later) whose "assimilation" was nothing close to easy.
This answers a reason for why you have them.

However, the point remains. They all do user tracking.
Yes it is possible, but why would you ever want that?

Why want Dublin faster grown and thus soulless?
Why want Irish spirit to be abolished and replaced with hive mentality?

I could totally understand you if Ireland would be declining, but it's thriving, attracting people, growing naturally when most nations struggle at that. You're in a perfect position and you want to replace it with something random?
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You can say it's over, but since there always seems to be a never-ending supply of young workers that think they are going to win the startup lottery.

Companies won't start offering it until workers stop accepting it.

A similar parallel is the gaming industry.
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looks like a combination of weasel words, original research, and no true scotsman to me.
I mean you have to consider both cases.

If you are getting founders shares as a founding member of the team, that is one particular calculus that I alluded to but do not address.

If you are a "founding engineer" but not really getting founding shares, but the typical fraction to a couple of percent that is one thing.

If you are a non-founding C-Level title that is another scenario to discuss.

If you are an early engineer, that is basically the same as "founding engineer" above.

If you are getting non-founding equity as an early employee, you have to be aware of of dilution after each round. In nearly every case, an early employee post Series-A likely will be getting pay more and more equity than an early non-founding employee.
It would need a larger city to make that happen though - Dublin is an order of magnitude smaller than London. Now a x10 scaling of Dublin would be interesting though.
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Thanks. And yes, your example points to changing patterns of precipitation. The western US overall seems to be in drought. That is likely somewhat anthropogenic.
That idea, was that I am a wax tadpole. Was that also your idea?
Because tests are concrete things, writing them before turning to the design and implementation of the code forces developers to think in detail about what the requirements are, and makes it harder (though still possible) to gloss over any difficult or obscure issues. It does not, however, show you how those tests (requirements) can be satisfied - that requires thinking about algorithms. This may not be much of an issue when you are making incremental changes to an existing system, but it becomes more significant as the size, scope and novelty of the work increases, and especially when it is technically challenging, as in the case of concurrency or security, and when high performance and/or reliability matter.
I think it's interesting work with performance tradeoff and such. I've even used this same approach at the library level where some are optimized for speed and some safety depending on app they're integrated with. Yet, there's two things going against it for system protection: (a) OS's have so many potential vulnerabilities and covert channels that it's best to isolate them entirely into a protection domain with careful interfaces to other partitions; (b) the protection schemes on code, hardware or software, have gotten much better than the limited guarantees this scheme offers with performance hit that we can live with. Regarding (b), they even referenced one (SVA-OS) I considered building a medium-assurance design on. Softbound for full, C memory safety is also interesting and Control Pointer Integrity if you have segments.

Many interesting tech for turning exploits into mere exceptions or things that don't compile in the first place. Also many tech's for isolating all that mess in a box with low overhead and easier-to-check interface protection. I'd rather take a combination of those than a split kernel.
Shoulda written it in Go.
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There are a lot of intermediate parts of the water cycle in between human's using it and it ending up back in the locations that humans use as sources of fresh water, and the water we use will end up living there. For example, some of it will end up in the oceans, as outflow from water treatment facilities flows into rivers and then into oceans. Some of it will end up in ground water, as the river water seeps into the ground along the way. Some of it will evaporate due to the inefficiencies of irrigation. Etc.
Lake Michigan (and thus Huron) is up since then.

Which I don't intend as a comprehensive explanation, maybe just a wedge towards pointing out that estimating the amount of human managed/available surface water is not something that is easy to do by intuition.

edited to fix lake spelling.
"Use the pronouns they/them/their."

No. We have gender differences and writing so gives a different perspective on the subject at hand. Why are we trying to be the same when we obviously aren't?
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Last year I wanted to help out with the TextSecure browser (chrome extension) project and had a similar experience as the OP.

I was a bit at loss about where to begin, as I couldn't find documentation about getting the extension setup for dev/testing. Specifically I couldn't get past the QR-code auth screen as I seemed to be missing some special configuration to connect with the servers.

I just assumed it wasn't really ready for outside devs yet.

But I just checked back in on the repo and it looks like a new CONTRIBUTING doc has been added, which is great:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/blob/ma... This is the type of stuff I was looking for.

I'm happy to see WhisperSystems making contributing more accessible. I probably could have learned this stuff by asking the devs, but I didn't want to bother them, I much prefer reading docs and playing with it myself first.
I wish he would see your response, because you are 100% correct (at least in California.) I've been called for jury duty in two different counties and every time we get into a courtroom the people who have flimsy "sob" stories are usually told to buck up and aren't excused.
I'm not sure Microsoft wants to gamble $1 billion that "You have to use Microsoft's updater" is different than "you have to include Windows Media Player".
The biggest problem I have with Java is that it is handhold-y in ineffective ways.

It doesn't have automatic getters and setters, because they obscure the code that runs. Except that in practice everything ends up with getters and setters precisely because it means it can obscure the code that runs - namely, so you can add behavior without having to change the public interface. Which means in practice it's just more boilerplate and more opportunity for typos.

Ditto with operator overloading, interfaces, default arguments, multiple inheritance, dynamic types...
Or you tune for the best average execution time. Sample your queries and run them all through each query plan. One has to be optimal, unless all changes are negligible.
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> Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity

I suppose this depends on the definition of luck. Unfair, no. Lebron James was born with talents ~nobody else has been born with. Was he lucky? Yes, in that he didn't have a say in the matter. Did he work hard? Yes.

You're asking a very complicated question, which as it turns out, is a very fun thought experiment.
Equity, unlike salary, can be crammed (dilution not correlated to valuation or investment) away to an arbitrary degree at each funding event. Surprising not to see this mentioned.

Every time you see a small company change CEOs you are probably seeing all the employees who have been there since the beginning crammed away into nothingness so the new CEO can get his 6%. The old CEO and execs won't walk away with nothing so it comes out of the share of the rest of the employees.

I can tell when a company I have worked at is going to get a new CEO because I get a notice in the mail telling me that my ownership has been further crammed away into nothingness. This happens months before the actual handoff.

Options at a small company are definitely not in your favor. Options at a pre-IPO company might be a different story, but pre-IPO you can get a real salary and the options just bump your income up a bit.

Interesting things happen after you exercise. From now on I will always exercise one share once I reach the first cliff.
I know it's difficult, but you should start using more descriptive words instead of 'retarded'. I personally don't care, but a lot of people end up holding it against us retarded-sayers.
The entire technology is antiquated. It doesn't matter how much shiny you wrap around it.
But is the bytecode generated by Java more efficient than the one generated by Scala (in comparable situations ofc) ?

And which reasons would make you choose Java over Scala?
This!!

There is another facet to your second point, I think. Even if the upside from the "sure thing" two years before they IPO is not great from a financial perspective, the career growth is much faster than joining a mature mega-corp. For example, many people who joined Google/FB/Twitter a year or two before the IPO are very senior at those companies now. Granted, not everyone who joined Google in 2004 is a VP, but the probability of rapidly growing your career as the company grows is much higher than for someone joining Microsoft in 2004.

That fast career growth leads to either 1) High compensation ten years later as a director/VP or 2) Exec roles at sure-thing unicorns with meaningful equity, should they choose to leave Google/FB/Twitter.

I think there are two justifications to go early stage if you care about the financial aspects:

1) Be the founder, as you said

OR

2) You have concrete reasons to believe that the company has a meaningful competitive advantage in a large market.

These examples are far and few. For example, Google in 1998 had a meaningful competitive advantage, but Facebook in 2004 certainly did not. WhatsApp in 2010 did not, but I'd argue with Carmack, Oculus might have had (although unsure in this case). As you said, it's really hard to say at such an early stage.

Of course, if financial upside is not a major concern, then impact, agility, working on interesting stuff, avoiding mega-corp red tape, are all valid reasons to go early stage.
Thank you for your thorough explanation, but I was just trying to use simple maths. Because if things don't add up with a very basic model, they won't either when you add complexity to it.

I actually found the numbers and Gofundme brought in $470M in 2014, which is actually a bit more than Kickstarter. So, $23.5M in revenue.

I don't know what the costs of operating a crowdfunding site are but I don't think that the valuation could have been less than 30X EBITDA.

But yeah, with $23.5M in revenue and with such a fast growing market, a $600M valuation doesn't seem as crazy as I thought. I personally don't think that the company will ever make $600M in profit, but hey, as log_n puts it, for now they can still look for a greater fool.
At this point in our society, does this even matter? If you go against the status quo, you will be silenced by special interest groups and other users online for only expressing your opinion.

They did it to themselves. When you create a system where anyone and everyone can be silenced for their opinions, this is the result.

Bravo!
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "Better a hundred guilty men go free, than one innocent man is prosecuted without due process of law." Oh, wait....
If the why was ever recorded anywhere, it would have been in the comments of the code when it was committed, because it wasn't explained in the documentation or anywhere else other than: "it does this".
Either that or a email/USENET discussion from that time period; but those aren't so easily retrieved unless you were originally involved in that ancient discussion.

It's worth the effort to document going to the source to see if any insights code be unearthed, even if it doesn't reveal much, just so that others know what has already been explored and to look/ask elsewhere if this is not a sufficient background.

I think the logic to the why has been lost to time.

We might talk about why it would or wouldn't be a good idea for a modern version of ls; it's something to give a few moments' thought, but no more.
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Yes, it's just ambiguous. Also, the post fails to understand the honorific form: honorific it is used only when you're talking to a person directly:

"are they going to leave the house?" is correct only when you're asking it to the subject itself. Otherwise you would just use he/she or a title name (queen, king, lord etc)

If you're looking to replace he/she you should not use an honorific form. You should either use "it", or invent a fourth third person (es, ish, woot, you name it).

Still the problem stays: political correctness traded for ambiguity.
I generally agree, but at the same time I'm not going to create a false equivalency. A significant portion of climate change denial is, in fact, a propaganda campaign. The points are not fact or information, but propaganda. Still, I could have and should have phrased it in a less inflamatory manner. Thanks for the reminder.
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breaking an oath is no big deal.

Agreed. It sounds like a lot of prosecutors do so, and the FBI labs people certainly did.
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Off the top of my head:

* A half-decent type system

* No half-baked primitive / object distinction

* The `as` operator

* Various operators related to null

* Ability to distinguish if something is nullable or not, and to have nullable and non-null references

* The `checked` keyword

* Operator overloading

* Properties

* Syntactic sugar w.r.t. getters and setters

* out & ref parameters

* struct support

* unsigned values

All of these things are major pain points in Java. Some of them can be overcome by running external tools, some of the time. Hopefully.
Atom uses react. It has a virtual dom that changes (instead of the actual dom) which itself can set off its own events and start more changes).

When the changes to the virtual dom are complete it will compare the dom as it is to the virtual dom, find the differences and
apply only the differences to the actual dom.

It's super fast since the virtual dom only has to support what it needs, as opposed to the actual dom with around 2 decades of outdated functions and properties.
One is much more profitable, because it requires much faster response times.
You're certainly not paying for 24 people's salaries for 3 years with a $3m investment unless the company hits profitability very quickly (within the first year).
Thanks, you put it much better than I did. And yes, that was exactly my point.
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Are you going to tell me that every person who has ever written a paper on computer science needs to have a degree in it? While I won't question this guys qualification might be questionable - making a blanket statement that someone must be specifically educated in a subject to write a good paper on it is specious.
You should care about the portfolio, because that's the model VCs have used to decide to invest in your company.
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1) That's neither a distinct nor a unique advantage. Being an engineer doesn't immediately qualify you as being better placed to advise someone on how to improve their career opportunities.

2) Recruiters won't rip apart a resume. They'll advise you on how to improve what you already have because they'll respect the time and effort you put into creating it in the first place.

3) Is this is short-hand for 'we'll tell you what meet-ups/events to go to'?

4) Again, neither a distinct nor a unique advantage. Recruiters constantly spec candidates out to companies they don't have contractual agreements with. It's how they win new business.

I respect the fact that you're attempting to create a better experience for candidates but ultimately, what you have created is simply a traditional recruitment company that acts and behaves the way a recruitment company is meant to behave.
But it's extremely counterintuitive to the general public, which favors energy efficiency mandates (even more than energy taxes or cap-and-trade) as a means to reduce energy usage, without realizing that such measures may actually increase energy consumed, while leaving you with worse products.
You should a couple of years more.

There is a LOT of efforts being made these days (like http://www.pgcon.org/2015/schedule/events/809.en.html for profiling) and eventually we'll see stuff not worse than commercial DBMSs have. I hope it will be soon.
I was more impressed with the tracing through and commentary of individual commits from the present day through the various BSD incarnations and all the way back to 1979: Not the answer as such, but the explanation of.
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Reading though that the difference between good and great is a lot of iterations and play testing.
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Wat.

Would you explain in more detail? What does this software really allow to do? What are the limitations?
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Ambiguity is a problem in communication and is solved by using a singular pronoun. "They" being a plural pronoun provides ambiguity that is not always easily discerned by context, as the author claims.

>Where they could refer to a single person or many people. The listener would resolve based on context.

The listener would have trouble with my example and be unable to resolve based on context.
99.9 of the world population doesn't have to select the right candidate for a software development position either.

Those that do should have an idea about the job they're doing.
Really impressive:

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The amount (and degree) of variables is so large that the exercise is essentially worthless. How can you estimate the share price or probability of exit?
Curious, are you talking salary $250K, or total comp, including (public) equity $250K?