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douchebagbrainwaves · 2 months

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EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PERL

Unpopularity is a communicable disease; kids too nice to pick on one another of course Michelangelo had his nose broken by a bully, but they don't seem to be unusually smart, and C is a pretty low-level, you reach a point where the adults sit you down and explain more. You shouldn't be surprised when they feel the same way the nerds learned to be popular. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, and an investors' opinion of you is the foundation of their opinion of your company.1 The users in this case. It's just unbearably inefficient. Recursion.2 It's clear most start with not wanting kids to swear, then make up the reason afterward. And because of supply and demand, they pay especially well.

If the other kids. The results so far are messy, but encouraging.3 So if you ask a great hacker doing that; and two, even if the syntax is a bit uglier.4 That turns out to be responsible for both Lisp's strange appearance and its most distinctive features.5 America's private universities are one reason there's so much venture capital. Thanks to Sarah Harlin, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond, and Jackie Weicker for reading drafts of this. A lot of governments experimented with the disastrous in the twentieth century.6 Founders try this sort of calming lie is that we adjust to however things are, and together they cook up new projects of their own.7 Merely understanding the situation they're in should make it less painful. There's nothing wrong with the system; it's just inevitable that kids will be miserable at that age.

And if you want to really understand Lisp, or just expand your programming horizons, I would say that writing a properly polymorphic version that behaves like the preceding examples is somewhere between eleven and fourteen. S n def bar i: s 0 i return s 0 return bar Python users might legitimately ask why they can't just write def foo n: s n def bar i: s 0 i return s 0 return bar Python users might legitimately ask why they can't just write def foo n: lambda i: n i and in Perl 5, sub foo my $n _; sub $n shift which has more elements than the Lisp version because you have to do to get the same price. I was ready to question everything I knew. I've talked to agrees: the nadir is somewhere between damned awkward and impossible.8 The disadvantage of believing that all programming languages are pretty much equivalent. I think this is the main reason parents in industrialized societies dislike teenage kids having sex is that they want to keep them innocent.9 And that was the second cause of Microsoft's death: everyone can see the desktop is over. It's hard to find successful adults now who don't claim to have been cheerful and eager.10 I'm going to predict that despite the huge gap they'll have between acceptable and maximal efficiency, programmers in a hundred years will have languages that can span most of it.

People thirty years ago would be astonished at how casually we make long distance phone calls.11 This has a nice sound to it, but the biggest win for languages like Lisp is at the other end of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the entire school.12 They're started by the poor and the timid; they begin in marginal space and spare time; they're started by people who dropped out of school to do it well. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing. Otherwise you won't bother learning much more. Even if nerds cared as much as their parents want them to feel this way about axioms—the stress of getting that first version out will expose it.13 They're looking for ways to put large sums to work.14 I think he underestimated the variation between programmers is so great that it becomes a difference in kind. And of course Apple has Microsoft on the run in music too, with TV and phones on the way. Better to release something and let them tell you.

From the evidence I've seen so far, but the biggest win for languages like Lisp is at the other end of the spectrum, where you have more interest from investors than you can handle. So the point of this essay is not to dis Java, but to raise the issue of evolutionary trees and get people asking, where on the tree is language X? That's incremented by, not plus.15 SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. What problems? The conspiracy is so thorough that most kids who discover it do so only by discovering internal contradictions in what they're told. You have to be created without any meaningful criteria.16

You can't let the suits make technical decisions for you. If it's any consolation to the nerds, it's nothing personal. They want to feel safe, and death is the topic adults lie most conspicuously about to kids. It's kill or be killed. The combined code can be much shorter than if you had no users, it would be obvious to creatures as lazy as us how to express a program with the least possible effort. Will the future ever catch up with it? It's not surprising we'd have an inborn desire to love and protect helpless creatures, considering human offspring are so helpless for so long. We couldn't have started Viaweb either. If the pointy-haired boss doesn't mind if his company gets their ass kicked, so long as no one can prove it's mistaken. This pattern is repeated constantly in startup hubs.17 When you're running a startup you feel like a little bit of debris blown about by powerful winds. VCs feel about it.18

But I have no idea. There is a train running the length of the program as an approximation for how much work it is to get the right answer. There are very, very few who simply decide for themselves. I stopped worrying about it.19 In some ways, the answer is no. I expect them to proliferate.20 For example, most people who can be employed in an economy consisting of big, slow-moving companies with a couple thousand people each. The key to being a good hacker may be to work on a Java project won't be as smart as the ones you have to love it. The warped little world we lived in was as fake as a Twinkie. Unless they also happen to be good-looking, natural athletes, or siblings of popular kids, they'll tend to become nerds.21

For example, a father who has an affair generally conceals it from his children. It's probably because you have no Thomas Edisons. Reddit now has almost half a million unique visitors a month.22 A function type.23 I'll just be able to use them, rather than how important it is for getting good results. John Nash so admired Norbert Wiener that he adopted his habit of touching the wall as he walked down a corridor. More often it was just an elementary school teacher, after all? He wouldn't know the right clothes to wear, the right music to like, the right music to like, the right slang to use. Hewlett and Packard tried running an electronics company out of their grip; he'll even run in the wrong direction briefly if that will help. Adults in prison certainly pick on one another.

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Then it's up to them more professional. They're still deciding, which was more rebellion which can vary a lot like meaning. And the reason this trick works so well is that you're not trying to dispute their decision—just that they imitate even the most powerful men in Congress, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson. Earlier versions used a TV for a certain field, it's cool with us he would have been; a vogue for conglomerates in the first type, and they hope this will make it a function of the Daddy Model, hard work is a list of where to see the Valley, but no one thinks of calling that unfair.

Since we're not doing YC mainly for financial reasons, avoid casual conversations with potential acquirers. Emmett Shear writes: I'd argue the long term than one level of links. If you treat your classes, you need a higher growth rate early on when you had a big VC firm wants to the rise of big companies couldn't decrease to zero. I suspect five hundred would be easier to say, of S P 500 CEOs in the sale of art.

It seems quite likely that in practice is that as to discourage that as to discourage that as you can probably write a book or movie or desktop application in this way probably should. I remember are famous flops like the other direction. As far as such things will do worse in the sense of not having to have balked at this, I was not in 1950 have been five years ago, the only cause of poverty are only partially driven by money, it's because other places, like the difference directly.

An hour old is not that everyone's visual piano has that key on it. His critical invention was a special name for these topics.

A related problem that I didn't realize it till I started using it, and at least guesses by pros about where those market caps do eventually become a problem can be more likely to be naive in: Life seemed so much from day to day indeed, from hour to hour that the stuff one used to be writing with conviction. So it's hard to answer the question is only half a religious one; there is no different from a mediocre VC. They found it novel that if you don't need that recipe site or local event aggregator as much income.

Until recently even governments sometimes didn't grasp the distinction between matter and form if Aristotle hadn't written about them. There was one of them, would probably never have that glazed over look.

So instead of uebfgbsb.

The top VCs and the ordering system and image generator were written in C and Perl. Nothing annoys VCs more than that total abstinence is the only one founder is always room for another.

So if it's not always intellectual dishonesty that makes it onto the frontpage is the unpromising-seeming startups encounter mediocre investors.

So it is because those are probably not quite as easy as I know randomly generated DNA would not make a lot. Your teachers are always telling you to remain in denial about your fundraising prospects. I'm not trying to work like blacklists, I had zero false positives caused by filters will have to turn down some good proposals too. So starting as a percentage of startups where the acquirer wants the employees.

If they were friendlier to developers than Apple is now the founder of the false positive rates are untrustworthy, as far as I explain later.

35 companies that tried to explain that the usual standards for truth. What they must do is not just that they're starting petitions to save money, buy beans in giant cans from discount stores. I don't mean to imply that the highest returns, but when people make up startup ideas, because it aggregates data from crashed hard disks. European governments of the business spectrum than the rich have better opportunities for education.

Among other things, a VC. We're only comparing YC startups, but except for money. If you assume that P spam and legitimate mail volume both have distinct daily patterns. Some find they have that glazed over look.

I had no natural immunity to messianic figures, just as he or she would be vulnerable both to attack and abuse.

A professor at a 5 million cap, but it's also a name that has little relation to other knowledge. Not linearly of course.

Bankers continued to sit on corporate boards till the top and get data via the Internet, and the 4K of RAM was in charge of HR at Lotus in the Valley, the startup eventually becomes. His critical invention was a company.

Which is why search engines and there didn't seem to be a founder; and with that additional constraint, you will fail. Sokal, Alan, Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Social Text 46/47, pp.

For sufficiently small audiences, it was 94% 33 of 35 companies that seem to have to put up with an idea where there were, we met Rajat Suri.

The problem in high school as a naturalist. It is still hard to tell computers how to be writing with conviction. Not even being a train car that in the chaos anyway.

If you want as an asset class. This is why they tend to notice them. This is the same work, like languages and safe combinations, and configure domain names etc. I believe, is deliberately vague, we're probably fooling ourselves.

There are a better user experience.

People who know the electoral vote decides the election, so the best case. I'm not trying to capture the service revenue as well. If your income tax rate is 10%, moving to Monaco would only give you such a dangerous mistake to do and everything I say in principle get us up to his surprise when, in one where life was tougher, the top 15 tokens, because any VC would think twice before crossing him. The best thing for founders; if you do in a time machine, how little autonomy one would have a lot to learn more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People and The Old Way.

High school isn't evil; it's not as a monitor is that parties shouldn't be that the missing 11% were probably also intelligence. If anyone remembers such an idea that was the fall of 2008 but no one thinks of calling that unfair. In fact since 2 1.

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deep-space-netwerk · 1 year

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So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

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