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In my experience, there is no better way than to build it. You learn quickly from your failures and become aware of subtle issues that no text-book or article will ever touch since they are so domain specific.

The best way to learn by doing, IMO, is by joining an organization that works on a large and complex code base. It won't be as exciting as writing new code, but adding to an existing complex system will force you to take into consideration things that you otherwise would not.

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We are bootstrapped with 7-figure per annum recurring revenue and will be 20 people by this summer. Recognized as one of NY's 15 enterprise tech companies to watch.

To your comment about working at a big company not being a mistake (I agree), I think the art of learning through 'apprenticeship' is getting lost in the whole 'hacker' hullabaloo.

My first job out of college was at a large company and I worked with some old timers who had been in the industry for years and on code that, at least parts of it, had been written almost 20 years ago. Learning from my colleague's experiences and through the code was incredible and I am certainly better for it. These sort of experiences can rarely be had working at a startup.

I have no exposure to Lua. How is the library support for scientific computing?

The big question for me is whether Julia will be able to maintain its "purity" as it gains adoption.

R probably started out "beautiful" and "thought out" but has lost that edge with years of community driven development. It's also what make it so damn useful -- you can pretty much find anything on CRAN, often multiple implementations of it.

Hey guys - Farhan from CB Insights here. We're collecting and analyzing a ton of mobile data (50GB a day, 650M+ rows so far!) and are trying to surface interesting publishers and trends.

If you have any questions about the analysis or have any topics you'd like us to look at, let me know. We're always looking for ways to slice and dice this data set. I'm at fahmed at cbinsights.com.

A well-deserved win. Can't wait to see what else Magnus goes on to accomplish.

Couldn't agree more.

Redis code base is like a best-practice document.

Wow, don't know if they are delusional or just wrong.

Serious question - is Mathematica popular outside of academic circles? I remember being blown away in college but haven't used it since.

Any sufficiently fast language that allow the user to focus on the problem rather than the syntax or semantics will do better than its peers. I for one am looking forward to Julia maturing.

What does Harvard have to do with any of this?

Any pros/cons you're willing to share?

If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend the 60 minutes segment on it. Just Google it.

I've got to say, never saw that coming. Good for the WinAmp team - better than having to just shut down the business.

First rule of taking VC funding - be aware that you're on someone else's schedule once you do.

I'm looking for a configuration management system since our VPSs are getting a bit crazy to manage manually.

Been looking at Chef and Ansible primarily. Anyone have a good comparison between the two?

It reminds me of the following quote - don't attribute to malice that you can attribute to incompetence.

Here you go: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.foreignpoli...

Wow, this is timely. I was just looking at these two yesterday for a distributed computing framework I am building.

After some research I decided to go with RabbitMQ as well, but mainly because of the out-of-the-box support for authentication.

We exist. I graduated from Booth recently and was a developer in the PnP subsystem team at Microsoft for over 6 years prior to b-school. In my class I had a hardware engineer (VLSI) and a telecom systems architect among others with strong technical backgrounds.

I've moved into a PM role now but still code everyday and join the dev team in deep technical discussions whenever I get a chance.

Seems pretty darn disingenuous on CrunchBase's part. Don't they tout their "public" nature at every opportunity they can get? Seem the link below [1] for example:

  Data on CrunchBase is public, and members of the venture program are welcome to share their CrunchBase spreadsheets as they see fit.

No guys, your data is not public if you pull shenanigans like this.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/crunchbase-venture-program-...

I'm convinced that one of these days we're going to see a new "DB" which will be a simple hashmap with collision handling sacrificed for "speed and performance"

Damn. Looking forward to reading CloudFlare's post-mortem blog post on this. Seems to be widespread.

Great effort!

Unfortunately, you're likely to get a bunch of requests for changes since there are a bunch of places where geo-political boundaries are murky at best.

For example, your map for India (https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/blob/master/asia/in/1024....) shows the boundary as the line of control with Pakistan and China, instead of the boundary which India claims (based on pre-war demarcations, http://www.mapsofindia.com/images2/india-map.jpg)

Does he though? Sure, for USV investments it would make sense. But I'd be surprised if other VCs shared data on their failed investments with him or his firm though.

I have a feeling that if you're a startup that took VC money, you very much care about an exit. Whether you like it or not.

I recently moved to NYC to join a startup and I must say the community is thriving here. You can find a lot of like-minded people at local Meetups.

This was on the front page a couple of days ago - should give you a good idea of ecosystem here: http://www.cbinsights.com/new-york-venture-capital

It would be bigger news if they confirmed that they weren't filing for an IPO!

Seriously, all this hush-hush and efforts to keep it low-key are actually producing opposite results.

Because hiring is hard (and a time suck) and a degree from a good college happens to be a pretty good filter for whatever attribute makes a decent employee?