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It sets a lower bound on the P/E ratio at which money is being invested, no?

The article makes a similar point; there are plenty of viruses, like Hep A, that propagate in a non-"viral" manner.

"Iteration-itis" suggests inflammation of the iteration. "Iterationorrhea" would be more appropriate to what is described.

If I told a YC-caliber startup that I'd give them $18k for 6% but wouldn't be able to make any introductions, then they'd probably tell me to take a flying leap. So, effectively, some part of a YC-like incubator's equity take is compensation for introductions.

I understand the distaste for negativity in general, but if you have a quota on the amount of negativity taken "from one person", then you're judging the person rather than the message. Why not evaluate the argument on its own merits?

I'd like to see less discussion of "David" and "Zed"'s peccadillo on this site. A cult around someone's personality flaws is just as vapid as a cult around someone's personality. The well-worn proverb goes, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

You don't need to be uneducated, insane, or an idiot to withdraw all of your money when you suspect that your bank is going to fail. It can be an individually rational move even if you merely suspect that other customers suspect that your bank is going to fail.

Yes.

Why is a native Facebook application essential on a device that has a serviceable web browser and a netbook-sized screen?

In Haskell, you can represent a state machine and its current state using an iteratee:

http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2010/09/enumerators-tutorial-pa...

An iteratee is essentially just a function that takes an input symbol and returns either a final state value or another iteratee.

That may be better milk, but I doubt it's as affordable as this could be.

Babies drink human milk, which is typically harder to come by than cow milk.

Some other good "indie" examples: TextMate, Charles, GitHub, Opacity, and Acorn.

These "freelancer" heuristics are dubious. Despite that fact that 100% of my income last year is printed on one 1099 or another, I satisfy less than half of them. A year ago, I satisfied zero of them.

I use an @gmail.com address because I don't want to worry about getting spam-foldered when I email a new client. I don't have a business license because sole proprietorships don't need them in CA or anywhere else I've worked. I've never furnished my own consulting agreement because every company I work with already has one they're comfortable with. I only gathered the other paraphernalia of freelancerhood after a long period of being too busy with freelance work to do so.

Notwithstanding false negatives like myself, these heuristics might help you identify who among your consultants cannot be persuaded to become an employee. But they're a poor proxy for judging diligence, reliability, or any of the other qualities you should be measuring by portfolio work and references.

"...the split between the recipe-makers (who use a style called imperative programming) and the equation-crafters (who use functional programming)..."

I'm not sure how you're getting "object-oriented programming" from this article, except that it was mentioned in passing as an example of a paradigm that belatedly entered mainstream software engineering. OOP is orthogonal to the comparison the article is making, which is between imperative and functional programming.

I found the (imperative : recipe :: functional : equation) analogy to be apt, especially for the lay audience. I agree that it may not be up to the task of contextualizing certain language features (like referential transparency; "the cook will always make the exact same cake if you give it the same stuff"), but like OOP, many of those features are not inherent to either of imperative or functional programming, and not important in understanding the difference.

That's true regarding infringement, but trademark dilution can apply to uses that aren't in competition with or relevant to the trademark holder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trademark_Dilution_Act

There's an ongoing Twitter thread between danah and David Karp:

http://bettween.com/davidkarp/zephoria

Makes sense to me. Do the Lua scripts get lower-level access to the data structures, too? E.g., could I write a variable-argument-list LINSERT that inserts M items in O(M+N) time rather than O(M*N)?

By saving bandwidth, do you mean saving network bandwidth between a Redis server and a client on another machine? In that case, another solution would be for the user to write her own daemon (in a language of her choosing) that sits on the same machine as Redis, listens for "custom" commands from the remote client, and carries them out by communicating with the Redis server over a local socket.

I will be interested to see how scripting Redis with Lua measures up to that solution. The separate daemon would have the overhead of protocol handling for each communication with Redis, but it could also be written in a compiled language, a language with better concurrency support, etc. It would also be trivially sandboxed from the Redis server.

What data are you referring to, specifically? Anyone can lurk HN threads or crawl user profiles for karma data.

You should also make your sites amenable to password managers that autofill and submit login forms.

Bank of America, for example, foils 1Password by spreading login across two forms and using a custom, non-machine-discoverable "submit" button in one of them.

With a few exceptions, pointers returned by methods in Objective-C are assumed to be autoreleased. That means their reference count will be decremented at the end of the event loop.

But if OP is expecting a lifetime of learning, he might want to push a new autorelease pool for each iteration.

I'd venture to claim that it is far more feasible to bring 100% of the world population internet access than to bring them health care at even US Medicaid standards.

GCC would give a warning if you tried to compile this, and Xcode 4 would highlight the offending line with a yellow bubble. appCode's behavior doesn't seem too inappropriate in this case.

And if competitors do adopt FB's infrastructure, they'll essentially be training their engineers to work at Facebook. They'd better have counteroffer packages ready.

He's a friend of mine, and he was making things happen at fbFund and Venrock's incubator even before 500 Startups was a thing. I'm excited to see what kind of inaugural class he lines up.

Are the battery life savings really worth the hassle and potential for lost work?

…and doesn't have a fan, if you're "pretty sensitive to ambient noise".

For what it's worth, I think "Offer me a place at your startup" is better English, being more clear and less wordy that hajrice's alternative. Rare is the English speaker outside the US or UK who will award you points for speaking in a roundabout manner, and I believe "fit" and "team" are Americanisms.

That's not to say that Silicon Valleyspeak is not the practical choice for this particular situation. But I'd rather not see that become the standard for how native speakers speak.

Smoking Everywhere doesn't seem to have contested the authenticity of the IMs.