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The fact that this useful and educational tool exists simply highlights the fact that the Venture Capitalism model of today has become so ultra-saturated, that it almost comically suggests anyone on the street can/should get in on it.

VC's and cryptocurrency feel as if they have now finished their convergence to be nothing more than the latest sophisticated and legal forms of ponzi schemes where those at the bottom of the pyramid are holding the bag. While not knocking the usefulness of this article and accompanying tool, it just shows how far we've strayed from putting the highlight and focus on builders and visionaries that these funds must have to latch on to.

This is likely an unpopular opinion, but Venture Capital needs to disappear and be replaced with a far better model.

While VC served its purpose well back in the heydays of FAANG and modern groundbreaking companies, in today's area it has become nothing more than a legal ponzi scheme designed to have series D and IPO stock purchasers holding the bag after artificially growing companies to unsustainable rates. Companies that grow slower and have a chance to become more sustainable will benefit even the most capitalist of societies, instead of hundreds of billions dumped into ongoing pump and dump cycles, which (as the article) inevitably leads to a crash.

You meant Felix Dennis, but to your original point, "How to get Rich" (and its follow up "The Narrow Road") drive home the same point. Maintain full control at all times. That includes term sheets with clauses that they will bring on an "independent" board member to settle performance-related issues (but really, they represent the investors). Fight nail and tooth for every equity point you're giving out. For a good case study, see Mark Zuckerberg, who would have been voted long ago if he did aggressively maintain control.

There is no doubting the legacy of Objective-C (especially given the high likelihood you are reading this post on a mobile device, using app written in Objective-C), but to truly appreciate Brad's legacy, am curious about the appeal of using Objective-C.

Having developed only one small iOS app with Objective-C code, I was mostly turned off by its overall verbosity in the context of NS prefixes. Hence, I ask the question on behalf myself and others who did not appreciate the language and did not give it a proper chance... what did I miss and what are its top appeals?

Nevertheless, Rest In Peace to a pioneer.

Shameless plug: I didn't invent peanut butter, but did invent the first half-calorie peanut butter.

www.ownyourhunger.com

AMA.

Successful crowdfunding campaigns require substantial marketing efforts outside the crowdfunding platform, such as email lists, a community or customer base familiar with the brand/product/team, social media ads, etc. Exceptions exist, such as getting funded solely by being featured on the homepage or having an extraordinary product featured by the media, but those are relatively rare. Thus a campaign's success is mostly decoupled from the platform itself.

This is a great idea to avoid substantial platform usage fees in exchange for the ever reducing value proposition that Kickstarter or other centralized crowdfunding platforms provide.

The Chips Helmet Audio has lasted me over 8 seasons and going strong. I don't maintain the batteries (I believe they should be stored with a 75% charge during off season) and still get enoigh charge for 2 full days of riding.

For a paid app, the lack of basic core features (i.e. to simply view comments) indicates a lot of work needs to be done. The existing free readers out there are a bit more capable.

I ended up buying it since I'm still looking for a good HN reader out there that does all of: indenting comment threads, gives you the choice of browsing directly to the story without going through comments, and displaying key story information beside the story, such as the number of votes.

May just be a load balancing issue; as @beecr001 mentioned, if you reload the page continuously you can access the site and all chapters.

Thanks and you're correct, I was thinking how deflationary bitcoin was while writing. Fixed.

I have one new appreciation for fiat currencies - they're designed to circulate with a steady rate of inflation. It seems there's a hesitation of spending bitcoins knowing if you just wait a day it will go up, so it's being treated like a precious metal rather than a new way of paying for things.

Edit: Thanks for the correction, meant to say fiat currencies tend to 'inflate', not deflate.

I'm a person who stammers (probably 7/10 on the severity scale) and make as much or more than my top peers. I'm also a contractor, go through and pass more interviews per year than the average full time developer, despite completely blowing some interviews in moments of silence.

1. Your compensation is directly correlated to the company you're dealing with, knowledge of market rates, and negotiation skills.

2. If your employers do in fact don't give you a raise due to your stammer and keep you 'locked up', they are unimaginably terrible mentors and leaders and you need to discard this toxin from your life as soon as you can.

3. Enroll in stammer-specific therapy. The Camperdown speech shaping program is one of the more recent ones for long lasting effects.

4. Read literature about organizational behaviour and power; your quality of code and unit test coverage has very little to do with winning any battles.

Allow me to clarify; there were no commits to source control on the very project we were working on. That was proof to us that no work was being done, unless there's one massive pending check-in waiting to happen, which would violate our team's internal standards.

Case study: At my last employer, we had a two remote workers and a project manager. Our entire team knew they were doing very little work, especially knowing one of the remote employees was maintaining a household with 4 children, and getting paid quite a bit more. One had the gall to ask us how to access source control very late in a project. Morale was clearly affected by those who had to come in every day and work their set 7.5 hours and had to make a case to stay home for the cable guy.

To make things fair, we really wish this blanket policy at Yahoo was put in effect, axed all remote arrangements, and reevaluate their remote arrangements on a case-by-case basis and bring fairness back without individually discriminating.

The reports of 'Yahoo is all against telecommuting' do not tell the entire story and are taking advantage of sensationalist headlining. Telecommuting works when everyone has a certain level of discipline, as it's far too easy to take advantage of and end up being complacent. Places do exist that essentially issue paychecks just because you're an employee in the system. I wouldn't be surprised to know far too many Miltons from Office Space are out there.

In other words, redirect each credit card transaction to your bitcoin wallet?

* Windows desktop will still thrive on Enterprise and BigCo's, as politics and bureaucracy will ensure data will not live in the cloud

* Return of the dumb terminal: The home desktop will die out in favor of tablets connected to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and your ISP will double as your Desktop/Amazon AWS provider.

* If above scenario happens, NVIDIA/ATI will no longer produce consumer level hardware

* Death of the thick client gaming console as cloud computing and faster networks will be able to stream Crysis 3 at 72FPSin 1080p. The Steambox-like devices would only be periodically upgraded with a faster ethernet connection.

* Conventional phone lines will go 'dark' as everything will be TCP/IP based, with redundant Wi-Max like networks

* SPAM will be finally completely eradicated

* Car2Go will transform into a legally approved self-driving car rental service

* You will still need a several years of experience to be a decent developer, regardless of how much languages evolve

* The Roomba will dust as well as vacuum

* New York Times will go bankrupt and Tesla will become a huge force to reckon with, as electric cars become commonplace, their technology patented and licensed out to major car manufacturers

At $3000/day 'revenue', can anyone chime in for the cost of electricity to run that rig assuming $0.10/kWh, not factoring in the initial investment of the hardware?

Adobe's official PR stance on this is somewhat confusing; are they releasing license keys to allow for an easier 'try before you buy', with the understanding on the honour system that you'll purchase a license (almost a humble bundle with a fixed fee)? Or is it a completely free license with the hopes to wet your appetite for CS6 and up?

UPDATE: You still need a paid license to use it legally. This is a service Adobe is providing to make life easier for existing licensed users of CS2 to enable continued usage. "While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers" ( http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-a...)

It may be time we start introducing reverse traffic cameras. Ones that issue fines for not following a minimum speed in peak commute hours for the vehicle that is unquestionably the first in a pack responsible for the jam.

Proximity calculations, leading vehicle frequency, trailing vehicle average speed, etc., using existing technology already in place that can be leveraged and innovated on to accurately determine culprits.

You don't even have to use LINQ at all with C#, it's an extension library and not one that needs to be referenced or is even included as a default namespace. LINQ is very convenient to use on in memory objects where there's no noticable performance hits. Even LINQ->SQL produces somewhat optimized SQL. How else would you bend data into shape without an ORM layer? Writing custom stored procedures, adding a whole bunch of new service methods, or manipulating data tables directly?

This 'cancer' is simply a data layer; if you use proper design patterns and seperate your layers correctly, you can surgically remove this tumour and replace it with another ORM.

I practice (though uncomfortably) I am able to extend at least two fingers, enough to enter a 4 digit code and turn the knob. Unlocking vie the phone with two grocery bags is not so easy.

It's powered by 4x AA batteries, claimed to be good for a year. If that's true it's unbelievably efficient considering the hardware store models also run on 4x AA batteries but don't have a Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radio running all the time.

https://lockitron.com/pdf/lockitron_manual_knob.pdf page 5

Playing devil's advocate here, but what is the hype surrounding this lock?

I bought two 'aesthetic enough' keypad code locks from Home Depot and it' been serving me well since. It doesn't require my phone or launching an app from my phone (think bags of groceries in both hands and you forgot to preunlock), doesn't require Wi-Fi, and I can program temporary codes for Airbnb, etc. within seconds. The only draw back is lacking the option to increase 30 second autolock interval.

Add a keypad, make it as rugged as existing locks, place it in the Home Depot lock aisle beside the other 'uncool' locks and you have a disruptive winner.

Photos required a very long exposure back then and a smile is hard to keep for what amounted to minutes. Keeping a neutral expression minimized movement and consequently blur resulting in an expensive re-shoot.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1118/Louis...

There are the obvious benefits to taking the role, but here some reasons I have turned down a similar role in the past:

* By the time you're good enough to be a tech lead, you may want to venture into consulting/contracting and earn more

* You may be in a position of trading development time for managerial duties, which you may or may not enjoy

* Depending on the politics, lead dev may be just below the proverbial corporate ladder glass ceiling

* A lead dev may ultimately spend more hours working to solve a particularly challenging technical problem, which may rest on your shoulders

* You may want to work somewhere else as an 'architect'. This is a very subjective job description, but could propel you faster if your aim is to climb the HR corporate ladder

* If the development environment is lacking now for you as a senior dev, it will lack just as equally as a lead dev

The lack of PHP/Rails developers in Alberta is unfortunate, but the cause is that enterprise development dominates the industry, with .net and Java projects taking up nearly all the market share and the rest existing in very niche markets. Software development exists here primarily to facilitate stuff being pulled from the ground.

Have you considered using .net for your startup? There is the obvious drawback of having to license the Microsoft stack, but ASP MVC is now mature enough to being a solid backend platform for a startup, and your odds at finding a talented .net developer in Alberta are magnitudes greater than the platforms hyped in Silicon Valley. The BizSpark program also gives you a 3 year free run at MS licensing.

As an experienced contractor in the Calgary area, I'd go as far as saying the Oil & Gas has created a large surplus of .net developers especially in the last 3 years, which explains the booming IT headhunting sector here, and hiring capable developers seems to take only a handful of days from start to finish.

In Canada, the minimum wage + large dividend payment system is allowed and encouraged. Encouraged because it's a transparent way of declaring your income and earnings without using any complex loopholes to bypass the system. Encouraged because:

1) Having your own company is more risky as opposed to a Permanent employee role in the government's eyes, hence more opportunities to pay less taxes

2) Companies are far more likely to work towards creating employment than individuals working for companies, benefiting the economy

3) Dividend income is taxed at a reduced bracket to stimulate investment, regardless whether you're investing in your own company or getting dividends from a large public corporation by being a shareholder

10 years of filing corporate taxes, having every accountant follow this practice, and an official audit with no complaints shows the Canadian Revenue Agency has no issues with this system.

It refers to the controversy started a few months ago by NYC mayor Bloomberg saying people should learn to code, and then Jeff Atwood insisting the opposite (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-t...), and the countless follow up blog posts debating the issue

Just some friendly advice, the excessive self promotion is doing you more harm than good

Prediction: Premium GitHub readme templates for $1 coming soon. Possible new category on ThemeForest.