But for his target market, hey, here's a guy offering to pay kids to move to Cambridge for a few months. Maybe their company works out. Great! If not, well, a lot of young singles like Cambridge an awful lot, and there's plenty of more pedestrian tech jobs available.
Maybe it's not such a bad deal for the recent grad with no ties that he's looking for.
But also a lot harder for paul & co: instead of people willing to move to where you can coach them and live on $2k/month or so, you've got someone who is less able to relocate AND has significantly higher fixed expenses.
Business 101: if your costs are higher, your return needs to be higher too, or it's not worth it.
I suspect that paul simply doesn't know how to get 3x the output from 30-somethings that he can get from 20-somethings in return for the higher costs. This is amplified by the relocation issue; _you_ might not think paul's advice is worth relocating for, but _he_ clearly does. And he's doing the investing.:)
JBuilder, like the other commercial Java IDEs, is being increasingly marginalized by capable free IDEs like Eclipse and NetBeants. Nobody uses VI to code java for a living for long.
"The only real way to check it would be for hotmail to keep a track record of everyone you send mail to, add them to your adress book and then let those emails bypass your spam filters. Silly Hotmail for not doing that. OH wait, they do! When you send an email via hotmail you are asked wether you want to add that person to your contact list. Most people don't bother."
OR you would do something REALLY INNOVATIVE and automatically add recipients to a whitelist that is SEPARATE from the contacts list.
Wow, I should patent that. It's clearly non-obvious since neither MS nor Joe Higher-opinion-of-himself-than-he-deserves on Slashdot thought of it!
For various reasons (more mature stdandard & third party libraries; English docs; real threading support -- this is a big one; etc) Python is a much better general-purpose language than Ruby.
(It's also about twice as fast, but honestly if Ruby is too slow for your project a factor of 2 probably isn't going to save you. Still, speed is a nice bonus.)
Sony VAIO N505VE: power connection killed by my son when he started learning to crawl and pull himself up things
Thinkpad A32: power connection killed by my son about 6 months later
Dell 5160: power connection killed by my daughter as she's learning to crawl and pull herself up things.
Thinkpad R52: power connection seems OK so far. Crossing my fingers.
(Those of you who are thinking, "Well, duh, just keep your laptop away from your kids" either don't have kids or don't have a serious computer addiction. And since you're on/. I'm guessing it's the kids thing.)
ActiveState's newest version came out for OSX first and supports ruby and RoR as well as the languages it has historically supported (python, php, tcl,...)
you can't just magically cast a superclass instance to a subclass.... and btw, a lot of the JDK and especially.NET stdlib classes are sealed -- you can't subclass them, at all, anyway.
I strongly suspect that the reason is that what Python loses in having a compiler idiot-check things, it more than gains back in sheer readability. In other words, it's useful when editing someone else's code to have a compiler check that all arguments are present an accounted for; it's more useful to have your time-to-understand what you're editing in the first place halved.
(I'm currently the 3rd maintainer of a large body of Python code, and I used to work as a Java programmer. I've also taken over as lead of open source projects started by others, in both languages. I prefer Python.)
"In our interview, Hsu refused to go public with the names of the magazines and publishers mentioned in his editorial. He did note that the outlets in his examples did not include IGN and Game Informer, "who were often accused by some readers." Hsu defended his silence by saying that naming the outlets would look petty. "While I want to call them out because I want the industry to shape up, I don't want to get into petty fights. I feel like we're above that." Hsu also worried that an investigative piece looking at these accusations would not be a good fit for an entertainment magazine like EGM."
if you read the ML numbers, they're leaving off nontrivial stuff like the controller, power supply, etc. (Because they're just trying to compare core components for the 360 vs the PS3, not estimating total 360 cost.)
I get the impression from all the complaints about xbox 360 not being powerful enough to enable Really Good AI that AI can be very cpu-intensive. So perhaps it wouldn't be the best fit for Python after all.
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For you or me, that might well be the case.
But for his target market, hey, here's a guy offering to pay kids to move to Cambridge for a few months. Maybe their company works out. Great! If not, well, a lot of young singles like Cambridge an awful lot, and there's plenty of more pedestrian tech jobs available.
Maybe it's not such a bad deal for the recent grad with no ties that he's looking for.
None of them. This is SOP for early-stage investors of all sorts. Grandparent is simply ignorant.
But also a lot harder for paul & co: instead of people willing to move to where you can coach them and live on $2k/month or so, you've got someone who is less able to relocate AND has significantly higher fixed expenses.
:)
Business 101: if your costs are higher, your return needs to be higher too, or it's not worth it.
I suspect that paul simply doesn't know how to get 3x the output from 30-somethings that he can get from 20-somethings in return for the higher costs. This is amplified by the relocation issue; _you_ might not think paul's advice is worth relocating for, but _he_ clearly does. And he's doing the investing.
Y Combinator isn't targetting people like you. Or me, for that matter. They're quite up-front about this.
Does that mean that Paul Graham is a bad person or Y Combinator is a bad choice for the people they _are_ targetting? Not at all.
JBuilder, like the other commercial Java IDEs, is being increasingly marginalized by capable free IDEs like Eclipse and NetBeants. Nobody uses VI to code java for a living for long.
"The only real way to check it would be for hotmail to keep a track record of everyone you send mail to, add them to your adress book and then let those emails bypass your spam filters. Silly Hotmail for not doing that. OH wait, they do! When you send an email via hotmail you are asked wether you want to add that person to your contact list. Most people don't bother."
OR you would do something REALLY INNOVATIVE and automatically add recipients to a whitelist that is SEPARATE from the contacts list.
Wow, I should patent that. It's clearly non-obvious since neither MS nor Joe Higher-opinion-of-himself-than-he-deserves on Slashdot thought of it!
For various reasons (more mature stdandard & third party libraries; English docs; real threading support -- this is a big one; etc) Python is a much better general-purpose language than Ruby.
(It's also about twice as fast, but honestly if Ruby is too slow for your project a factor of 2 probably isn't going to save you. Still, speed is a nice bonus.)
Nope, that was 2 revisions ago; the last 15" powerbook was also 1440x900.
Sony VAIO N505VE: power connection killed by my son when he started learning to crawl and pull himself up things
/. I'm guessing it's the kids thing.)
Thinkpad A32: power connection killed by my son about 6 months later
Dell 5160: power connection killed by my daughter as she's learning to crawl and pull herself up things.
Thinkpad R52: power connection seems OK so far. Crossing my fingers.
(Those of you who are thinking, "Well, duh, just keep your laptop away from your kids" either don't have kids or don't have a serious computer addiction. And since you're on
uh, if apple had gone with Alpha, they _still_ wouldn't have a laptop. those things run hotter than a p4.
That's just apple's workaround for "we think virtual desktops are too complicated." No need to impose that on KDE.
ActiveState's newest version came out for OSX first and supports ruby and RoR as well as the languages it has historically supported (python, php, tcl, ...)
newbie.
... and btw, a lot of the JDK and especially .NET stdlib classes are sealed -- you can't subclass them, at all, anyway.
you can't just magically cast a superclass instance to a subclass.
"What makes you think they haven't tried to recruit Larry Wall?"
:)
Google appears to prefer maintainable code.
I strongly suspect that the reason is that what Python loses in having a compiler idiot-check things, it more than gains back in sheer readability. In other words, it's useful when editing someone else's code to have a compiler check that all arguments are present an accounted for; it's more useful to have your time-to-understand what you're editing in the first place halved.
(I'm currently the 3rd maintainer of a large body of Python code, and I used to work as a Java programmer. I've also taken over as lead of open source projects started by others, in both languages. I prefer Python.)
How do you even design a browser for the deaf-blind?
Seriously, I have no idea. Quick google shows nothing.
"In our interview, Hsu refused to go public with the names of the magazines and publishers mentioned in his editorial. He did note that the outlets in his examples did not include IGN and Game Informer, "who were often accused by some readers." Hsu defended his silence by saying that naming the outlets would look petty. "While I want to call them out because I want the industry to shape up, I don't want to get into petty fights. I feel like we're above that." Hsu also worried that an investigative piece looking at these accusations would not be a good fit for an entertainment magazine like EGM."
http://vgmwatch.com/?p=917
wait, you recognise the problem, but you still want to move to "almost as socialist as europe" Canada?
if you read the ML numbers, they're leaving off nontrivial stuff like the controller, power supply, etc. (Because they're just trying to compare core components for the 360 vs the PS3, not estimating total 360 cost.)
hummer gets about 8mpg /corvette driver
corvette gets about 25
right... that must be why everybody hates the debian approach of "only install what you need."
"Yukon," which became Sql Server 2005, was originally targetted for "early 2004"
pick one or both:
- hyperbole
- author plays primarily with 12 yr olds
I get the impression from all the complaints about xbox 360 not being powerful enough to enable Really Good AI that AI can be very cpu-intensive. So perhaps it wouldn't be the best fit for Python after all.
Do you get these features in all table types, or do you have to use the (much slower) InnoDB tables, as with transactions?