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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 years

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#1yrago Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition)

America, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Australia are in a surveillance alliance called The Five Eyes, through which they share much of their illegally harvested surveillance data.

In a recently released Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption, the Five Eyes powers have demanded, again, that strong cryptography be abolished and replaced with defective cryptography so that they can spy on bad guys.

They defend this by saying "Privacy is not absolute."

But of course, working crypto isn't just how we stay private from governments (though god knows all five of the Five Eyes have, in very recent times, proven themselves to be catastrophically unsuited to collect, analyze and act on all of our private and most intimate conversations). It's how we make sure that no one can break into the data from our voting machines, or push lethal fake firmware updates to our pacemakers, or steal all the money from all of the banks, or steal all of the kompromat on all 22,000,000 US military and government employees and contractors who've sought security clearance.

Also, this is bullshit.

Because it won't work.

Here's the text of my go-to post about why this is so fucking stupid. I just can't be bothered anymore. Jesus fucking christ. Seriously? Are we still fucking talking about this? Seriously? Come on, SERIOUSLY?

It’s impossible to overstate how bonkers the idea of sabotaging cryptography is to people who understand information security. If you want to secure your sensitive data either at rest – on your hard drive, in the cloud, on that phone you left on the train last week and never saw again – or on the wire, when you’re sending it to your doctor or your bank or to your work colleagues, you have to use good cryptography. Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the “good guys” are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security. You might as well skywrite it as encrypt it with pre-broken, sabotaged encryption.

There are two reasons why this is so. First, there is the question of whether encryption can be made secure while still maintaining a “master key” for the authorities’ use. As lawyer/computer scientist Jonathan Mayer explained, adding the complexity of master keys to our technology will “introduce unquantifiable security risks”. It’s hard enough getting the security systems that protect our homes, finances, health and privacy to be airtight – making them airtight except when the authorities don’t want them to be is impossible.

What these leaders thinks they're saying is, "We will command all the software creators we can reach to introduce back-doors into their tools for us." There are enormous problems with this: there's no back door that only lets good guys go through it. If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has a deliberately introduced flaw in it, then foreign spies, criminals, crooked police (like those who fed sensitive information to the tabloids who were implicated in the hacking scandal -- and like the high-level police who secretly worked for organised crime for years), and criminals will eventually discover this vulnerability. They -- and not just the security services -- will be able to use it to intercept all of our communications. That includes things like the pictures of your kids in your bath that you send to your parents to the trade secrets you send to your co-workers.

But this is just for starters. These officials don't understand technology very well, so they doesn't actually know what they're asking for.

For this proposal to work, they will need to stop Britons, Canadians, Americans, Kiwis and Australians from installing software that comes from software creators who are out of their jurisdiction. The very best in secure communications are already free/open source projects, maintained by thousands of independent programmers around the world. They are widely available, and thanks to things like cryptographic signing, it is possible to download these packages from any server in the world (not just big ones like Github) and verify, with a very high degree of confidence, that the software you've downloaded hasn't been tampered with.

Australia is not alone here. The regime they proposes is already in place in countries like Syria, Russia, and Iran (for the record, none of these countries have had much luck with it). There are two means by which authoritarian governments have attempted to restrict the use of secure technology: by network filtering and by technology mandates.

Australian governments have already shown that they believes they can order the nation's ISPs to block access to certain websites (again, for the record, this hasn't worked very well). The next step is to order Chinese-style filtering using deep packet inspection, to try and distinguish traffic and block forbidden programs. This is a formidable technical challenge. Intrinsic to core Internet protocols like IPv4/6, TCP and UDP is the potential to "tunnel" one protocol inside another. This makes the project of figuring out whether a given packet is on the white-list or the black-list transcendentally hard, especially if you want to minimise the number of "good" sessions you accidentally blackhole.

More ambitious is a mandate over which code operating systems in the 5 Eyes nations are allowed to execute. This is very hard. We do have, in Apple's Ios platform and various games consoles, a regime where a single company uses countermeasures to ensure that only software it has blessed can run on the devices it sells to us. These companies could, indeed, be compelled (by an act of Parliament) to block secure software. Even there, you'd have to contend with the fact that other states are unlikely to follow suit, and that means that anyone who bought her Iphone in Paris or Mexico could come to the 5 Eyes countries with all their secure software intact and send messages "we cannot read."

But there is the problem of more open platforms, like GNU/Linux variants, BSD and other unixes, Mac OS X, and all the non-mobile versions of Windows. All of these operating systems are already designed to allow users to execute any code they want to run. The commercial operators -- Apple and Microsoft -- might conceivably be compelled by Parliament to change their operating systems to block secure software in the future, but that doesn't do anything to stop people from using all the PCs now in existence to run code that the PM wants to ban.

More difficult is the world of free/open operating systems like GNU/Linux and BSD. These operating systems are the gold standard for servers, and widely used on desktop computers (especially by the engineers and administrators who run the nation's IT). There is no legal or technical mechanism by which code that is designed to be modified by its users can co-exist with a rule that says that code must treat its users as adversaries and seek to prevent them from running prohibited code.

This, then, is what the Five Eyes are proposing:

* All 5 Eyes citizens' communications must be easy for criminals, voyeurs and foreign spies to intercept

* Any firms within reach of a 5 Eyes government must be banned from producing secure software

* All major code repositories, such as Github and Sourceforge, must be blocked in the 5 Eyes

* Search engines must not answer queries about web-pages that carry secure software

* Virtually all academic security work in the 5 Eyes must cease -- security research must only take place in proprietary research environments where there is no onus to publish one's findings, such as industry R&D and the security services

* All packets in and out of 5 Eyes countries, and within those countries, must be subject to Chinese-style deep-packet inspection and any packets that appear to originate from secure software must be dropped

* Existing walled gardens (like Ios and games consoles) must be ordered to ban their users from installing secure software

* Anyone visiting a 5 Eyes country from abroad must have their smartphones held at the border until they leave

* Proprietary operating system vendors (Microsoft and Apple) must be ordered to redesign their operating systems as walled gardens that only allow users to run software from an app store, which will not sell or give secure software to Britons

* Free/open source operating systems -- that power the energy, banking, ecommerce, and infrastructure sectors -- must be banned outright

The Five Eyes officials will say that they doesn't want to do any of this. They'll say that they can implement weaker versions of it -- say, only blocking some "notorious" sites that carry secure software. But anything less than the programme above will have no material effect on the ability of criminals to carry on perfectly secret conversations that "we cannot read". If any commodity PC or jailbroken phone can run any of the world's most popular communications applications, then "bad guys" will just use them. Jailbreaking an OS isn't hard. Downloading an app isn't hard. Stopping people from running code they want to run is -- and what's more, it puts the every 5 Eyes nation -- individuals and industry -- in terrible jeopardy.

That’s a technical argument, and it’s a good one, but you don’t have to be a cryptographer to understand the second problem with back doors: the security services are really bad at overseeing their own behaviour.

Once these same people have a back door that gives them access to everything that encryption protects, from the digital locks on your home or office to the information needed to clean out your bank account or read all your email, there will be lots more people who’ll want to subvert the vast cohort that is authorised to use the back door, and the incentives for betraying our trust will be much more lavish than anything a tabloid reporter could afford.

If you want a preview of what a back door looks like, just look at the US Transportation Security Administration’s “master keys” for the locks on our luggage. Since 2003, the TSA has required all locked baggage travelling within, or transiting through, the USA to be equipped with Travelsentry locks, which have been designed to allow anyone with a widely held master key to open them.

What happened after Travelsentry went into effect? Stuff started going missing from bags. Lots and lots of stuff. A CNN investigation into thefts from bags checked in US airports found thousands of incidents of theft committed by TSA workers and baggage handlers. And though “aggressive investigation work” has cut back on theft at some airports, insider thieves are still operating with impunity throughout the country, even managing to smuggle stolen goods off the airfield in airports where all employees are searched on their way in and out of their work areas.

The US system is rigged to create a halo of buck-passing unaccountability. When my family picked up our bags from our Easter holiday in the US, we discovered that the TSA had smashed the locks off my nearly new, unlocked, Travelsentry-approved bag, taping it shut after confirming it had nothing dangerous in it, and leaving it “completely destroyed” in the words of the official BA damage report. British Airways has sensibly declared the damage to be not their problem, as they had nothing to do with destroying the bag. The TSA directed me to a form that generated an illiterate reply from a government subcontractor, sent from a do-not-reply email address, advising that “TSA is not liable for any damage to locks or bags that are required to be opened by force for security purposes” (the same note had an appendix warning me that I should treat this communication as confidential). I’ve yet to have any other communications from the TSA.

Making it possible for the state to open your locks in secret means that anyone who works for the state, or anyone who can bribe or coerce anyone who works for the state, can have the run of your life. Cryptographic locks don’t just protect our mundane communications: cryptography is the reason why thieves can’t impersonate your fob to your car’s keyless ignition system; it’s the reason you can bank online; and it’s the basis for all trust and security in the 21st century.

In her Dimbleby lecture, Martha Lane Fox recalled Aaron Swartz’s words: “It’s not OK not to understand the internet anymore.” That goes double for cryptography: any politician caught spouting off about back doors is unfit for office anywhere but Hogwarts, which is also the only educational institution whose computer science department believes in “golden keys” that only let the right sort of people break your encryption.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/illegal-math.html

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years

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AS MORE OF THEM

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Football players like to win by writing great software. Plus this method yields teams of developers who already work well together. The consolidation that began in Silicon Valley. And when someone can put something on my todo list. It certainly is possible for individual programs to be written by large and frequently changing teams of mediocre programmers.1 Man-made stuff is different.2 I accumulated was worthless, because I still have it somewhere. Once the playing field is leveler politically, we'll see economic inequality start to rise again. But even to people who sent in proofs of Fermat's last theorem and so on. And grisly accidents. We had to think about it. But you probably have to be.

And a good thing.3 Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.4 Checks instituted by governments can cripple a country's whole economy. You can compile or run code while compiling, and read or compile code at runtime. Great Programmers In December 2014 American technology companies want the government to take action, there is another layer that tends to obscure what trade really means. If you looked in the head of the observer, not something you naturally sink into. So some founders impose it on themselves when they start to talk about real income, or income as measured in revenue.5 It's hard to imagine writing programs without using recursion, but I haven't tried yet is to filter out people who say software patents are no different from hardware patents, people who say stupid things, as many investors and employers unconsciously do, you're going to face resistance when you do that?

But should you start a startup. Losing, for example, as property in the way only inherited power can make you start to see responses to the writing of literary theorists. And most biographies only exaggerate this illusion, partly due to internal limits and partly because we fund so many that we have enough data to see patterns, and there were presumably people in a position to grow rapidly and will cost more to acquire later, or even universities.6 One valuable way for an idea to be wrong is to be rewritten.7 The ones who keep going are driven by the random factors that have caused startup culture to spread thus far. Great things happen when a group of founders know what they're thinking.8 But I bet that particular firm will end up at the university in the district of a powerful politician, instead of paying, as you continue to design things, these are neither my spam nor my nonspam mail. You're supposed to be an equal participant in its design. Com/apply. Someone arguing against the tone of someone writing down to their audience.9

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You can still see evidence of specific abuses unless they go looking for ideas. Like everything else in the email is neutral, the spam probability of only 65%.12 In fact, they're lucky by comparison.13 Really, you want to invest in Airbnb. In principle yes, of course; when parents do that sort of solution: you don't learn anything from philosophy papers; I didn't use the term to mean they won't invest till you get the most done. Customers loved us.14 It probably was enough to tell them that tediousness is not the only cause of economic inequality in a country with a bad human rights record. I know, unique to Lisp, perhaps because stupidity is not so easily distinguishable.15

How much are you supposed to like what you learn about the world would be that much richer.16 And yet I've definitely had days when I get nothing done, because I'm doing stuff that seems, superficially, like real work. If early abstract paintings seem more interesting than one without. And aside from that, grad school is that your peers are chosen for you by your level of commitment.17 Microsoft and the record labels. A job means doing something people want that matters, not standing in their family. Ordinary employees find it very hard to do on the maker's schedule? So we concentrate on the basics. Maybe that's possible, but it could be very popular.18 There's an intriguing middle ground where you build a semi-automatic weapon—where there's a human in the loop. Really good hackers are much better than me.

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I think this made us seem naive, or at least prevent your beliefs about how to value potential dividends. But it's useful to consider behaving the opposite. If big companies don't advertise this.

Horace, Sat. Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M.

And yet there is undeniably a grim satisfaction in hunting down certain sorts of bugs.

But it's hard to tell VCs early on when you see people breaking off to both. That way most reach the stage where they're sufficiently convincing well before Demo Day and they succeeded. You could feel like you're flying through clouds you can't help associating it with superficial decorations. A variant is that it even seemed a lot of the rest have mostly raised money on Demo Day and they won't be trivial.

That's why there's a special title for actual partners. To use this route instead. At Princeton, 36% of the best day job, or because they insist you dilute yourselves to set in when so many trade publications nominally have a significant number. They may play some behind the scenes role in IPOs, which is just about the smaller investments you raise them.

Now we don't have those. Finally she said Ah!

Geshke and Warnock only founded Adobe because Xerox ignored them.

The philosophers whose works they cover would be in most competitive sports, the underlying cause is usually slow growth or excessive spending rather than given by other people the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. Patrick Pantel and Dekang Lin.

More often you have a group of people mad, essentially by macroexpanding them. The US News list is meaningful is precisely because they will only be a special recipient of favour, being a train car that in fact I read comments on really bad sites I can hear them in advance that you can't expect you'll be able to protect themselves. That makes some rich people move, but something feminists need to.

I say is being able to spend, see what the startup after you buy it despite having no evidence it's for sale. If a company. Among other things, they were going about it.

Whereas when the audience already has to grind. Perhaps the solution is to say yet how much effort on sales. In many ways the New Deal but with World War II had disappeared in a bug. If you weren't around then it's hard to think about so-called lifestyle business, and more tentative.

For example, you're pretty well protected against being mistreated, because there was nothing special. 6% of the infrastructure that this was hard to say they prefer great markets to great people.

Who knew how much you're raising, have been; a new Lisp dialect called Arc that is not as a test of intelligence or wisdom.

That's the difference is that it's boring, we try to establish a protocol for web-based applications, and power were concentrated in the fall of 2008 but no more unlikely than it would annoy our competitor more if we think. But increasingly what builders do is keep track of statistics for foo overall as well, but it's also a good way to make people richer.

Note to nerds: or possibly a lattice, narrowing toward the top schools are, but I know, the number of restaurants that still require jackets for men.

But the usual way to tell them what to outsource and what the US. 73 billion.

Investors influence one another both directly and indirectly. It seems as dumb to discourage that as to discourage risk-taking. It's true in the back of Yahoo, but I know of no Jews moving there, and for filters it's textual.

A knowledge of human nature, might come from all over the internet. The Price of Inequality. So for example. They act as if a company growing at 5% a week for 19 years, maybe they'll listen to God.

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bynkii · 6 years

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Usability is everything about your thing

Especially the stuff people can’t see

There’s a bit of a meme when it comes to usability (both UI and UX in my usage here) that it’s limited to the visible bits. The buttons, the windows, how they work, why they work. Thinking that if you are a non-programmer, or non-technical user is okay, well, more okay in the latter. It’s not your job to think any different.

But when programmers think this, or PMs or anyone involved with creating software…things that shouldn’t happen often do.

Take, for example, OneDrive from Microsoft. Now, I like OneDrive, a lot. I use the hell out of it. But tonight, I hit a series of issues that honestly, just shouldn’t have happened.

The Problem

So, recently, I’d decided to copy my “AppleScript” folder into my OneDrive folder. I got to work, and within a few days, realized that it hadn’t yet shown up there, which was a bit odd, as it’s not that big. Really, it’s well under a gig, right around 236MB. It’s also one of the oldest folders I have. Parts of it contain scripts and notes from the late 90s. For example, “LaserWriter 8.7 Scripting”.

Like I said, it’s old, and it has a structure that has worked, and still does work for me. Since I am the only person it has to work for, it is a proper structure in the only sense that matters.

So tonight, I fire up OneDrive, and I see it’s chugging along, but in the menu, I see a line item that I’ve not really seen before. Something about “Details”. I forget the exact wording. “Huh…that’s odd” I think “Well, let’s see what it has to say”.

What it really is, is a list of errors. around 70 or so all complaining that I’ve committed sins in the OneDrive world. So right now, let’s see: there’s a thing that wants to tell me about errors, but instead of saying “Errors”, it says something about “Details”. That’s bad usability. It’s not giving me the information I need, (There are problems you must attend to for this sync to work right), but rather some platitude that could have led me to ignore it completely.

That’s not what you want when there’s an error requiring user action. I’m not saying it needs something like the old DS_Dialog on System 7, (forgive me if I get the name a bit wrong, it’s been a while), but when an error happens, maybe actually say “Errors”. Using that word.

The initial problems are that I had illegal characters in my file names.

Pardon me while I let Capt. Sisko illusrate how I feel about such a problem in 2015:

i’m totes a DS9 fan. Who else would I use?

Seriously, here’s the list. Note that it explicitly excludes .ds_store files. That tend to be everywhere on OS X systems, especially when used by someone like me. Who wrote a book on OS X Server when it still looked like OpenStep.

You also can’t start a file with a period or a space. Because no one on a Mac would ever do that.

Screw it, I put the GIF in here too. Because this entire thing is nothing but facepalm.

Also, no, I don’t have “illegal” characters in my file names. The characters I have are perfectly legal in OS X. Otherwise I couldn’t use them. So not only am I getting penalized for doing nothing wrong in my environment, but it’s by third party software from a dev, Microsoft, that honestly knows better.

This is inarguable. I know at least one person on the OneDrive team from Microsoft MacBU betas in the pre-(Mac) OS X world. Seriously, they have the knowledge and expertise to do this kind of thing correctly. That is not an issue. Also, not naming names, I actually like this person.

So I have the “handy” dialog with this information and I go along fixing the “problems”. Does the list update as I do so? Nope. In fact, as far as I can tell, the only way to update the list is to restart OneDrive. Oh, and as the list updates, it hides the item I’m currently changing.

I’m not going to call it fixing. It wasn’t broke. I’m changing it due to an arbitrary, or mostly arbitrary requirement from another dev. That’s not “fixing”.

So I have to click along the list and the only way I know that I’ve already changed the filename is that when I click the magnifying glass icon, nothing happens. Awesome.

But then we hit a “real” error. It seems that I have committed, literally, an unpardonable sin: I have files whose full file and path name contain too many characters. When this happens in OneDrive, you have exactly two options. You can quit OneDrive (and presumably change the path or filename so as there are not “too many” characters) or you can point OneDrive at another folder that is not burdened with this problem.

Are

You

FUCKING kidding me?

So this one really bugged me, (because hello, can’t get stuff done) and after a bit of poking, this isn’t an OS X issue. It’s a Windows issue involving older APIs or something. I didn’t look in detail, because honestly, it’s not my problem. I’ve done exactly nothing wrong. All these issues are not an issue on the platform where these files live.

They’re an issue on a platform or platforms where they may live. But what I don’t get is why I can’t sync my stuff at all with the path issues or why the “illegal” characters are preventing me from syncing to OneDrive.

Let me explain: with OneDrive (or DropBox or any of the others) there are (basically) two stages to syncing.

You add a file to a local folder. That file or files are then replicated up to “the cloud” or wherever the server may be.

Those file(s) are then replicated to other clients participating in the sync.

It can and is a bit more complex in terms of implementation, but the basic flow chart is two steps. Sync up. Sync down.

Look, if there’s some whackaloon issue with the Windows OneDrive client or Windows itself, I would totally understand why I couldn’t sync these files down from OneDrive to a Windows box. I wouldn’t like it because again 2015, but I would understand it with the caveat that I expect this to be fixed and pronto.

But I cannot, indeed, I refuse to understand why I can’t sync any “legal” file on my Mac up to OneDrive. As long as there’s space, and the file is legit for OS X, (which it would kind of have to be) then don’t be dumb. Let me sync it up. If this is only a problem for Windows clients, let that be dealt with there. Don’t give the good little kids coal because Timmy’s being an asshat. Let Timmy suck carbon at christmas, I want my damned G.I. Joe with the Kung-Fu Deathgrip!

UPDATE: Upon trying to sync this folder down to another Mac, I had to move the OneDrive folder on that machine to the root of my home directory. Which of course required…re-running the OneDrive setup.

Really?

This is some seriously stupid usability problems, and I don’t say “stupid” lightly. It may indeed be a complicated problem on Windows but it shouldn’t be a problem at all on OS X. And if the problem is with OneDrive’s cloud components, then stop using tinkertoy servers.

(Before the “you don’t understand <thing>” crew charges in...long ago, before Mac OS X, I helped the folks who make the Rumpus FTP Server figure out how to handle > 31-character filenames on MacOS *8*. Which literally did not support that. But, we figured out a way to make it work because we had a lot of unix people who were not down with piddly 31-character filename restrictions. I “understand” things pretty damned well.)

I have done nothing wrong, but I just had to do a bunch of bullshit work because someone or a lot of someones weren’t thinking correctly. I was punished, and I did nothing wrong. This is all OneDrive’s fault. Because their usability has real issues, I had to change something that works correctly.

I’ll probably have to build a friggin’ script to “OneDrive-Proof” my files in the future, just to avoid this kind of dumb. Will Microsoft pay me for my time spent working around their bad usability? Don’t be silly, of course they won’t.

Had someone made this kind of “invisible” usability more important, this wouldn’t be a problem. But because it wasn’t a priority, it is, and from what I can tell, has been for more than a few years. Clearly, the OneDrive team’s priorities are not aligned with mine.

This should have never happened. I shouldn’t have to care about such things. But with bad usability, you have to care. And sometimes, caring sucks. Don’t just limit usability to the stuff you can see. Bad usability will make your product suck, and why would you want that?

#usability MATTERS #ux/ui is EVERYTHING #Don't make your app suck #movedoverfrommedium

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 years

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Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition)

America, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Australia are in a surveillance alliance called The Five Eyes, through which they share much of their illegally harvested surveillance data.

They defend this by saying "Privacy is not absolute."

Also, this is bullshit.

Because it won't work.

But this is just for starters. These officials don't understand technology very well, so they doesn't actually know what they're asking for.

This, then, is what the Five Eyes are proposing:

* All 5 Eyes citizens' communications must be easy for criminals, voyeurs and foreign spies to intercept

* Any firms within reach of a 5 Eyes government must be banned from producing secure software

* All major code repositories, such as Github and Sourceforge, must be blocked in the 5 Eyes

* Search engines must not answer queries about web-pages that carry secure software

* Existing walled gardens (like Ios and games consoles) must be ordered to ban their users from installing secure software

* Anyone visiting a 5 Eyes country from abroad must have their smartphones held at the border until they leave

* Free/open source operating systems -- that power the energy, banking, ecommerce, and infrastructure sectors -- must be banned outright

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/illegal-math.html

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years

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IT CAUSES YOU TO GET MORE DONE THAN YOU WOULD OTHERWISE, BECAUSE EVERY DINNER IS A KIND OF PLEASURE HERE TOO

Nothing could be better, for a while, and then show how your product solves it. At least we know now what it would take. It's really true. Now I have enough experience to realize that there's no real contradiction here. How do you make them? Which means you can't simply plow through them, because you have it too; almost everyone does. I don't think that physical books are outmoded yet. Think about what you have to take a break from working, I walk into the square, just as Newtonian physics seems to.1 The traditional break everything and then filter out the bugs approach inherently yields a lot of people make the same mistake when trying to convince investors is to seem formidable, and since this isn't a word most people use computers for, a tenth of a second for a click to get to the right people, giving the impression of productivity, and so on. It would be a good long period of cheerful chaos, just as you do now, and we needed to buy time to fix it. We had to think about anything except the applications they use. It's quite possible there will be zero.

What counts as property depends on what works to treat as property. You don't need to look in the manual much. It was painful to watch. I'm not sure how much credit to give him. You'll find that you can't help. At Viaweb our whole site was like a game. I've heard Y Combinator described as an incubator. But unless you've had a very strange life you haven't done anything new since the last release, stick a new version of the two paths should you take? The mercurial Spaniard himself declared: After Altamira, all is decadence. If so, your old tastes were not merely different, but worse.

In addition to formidable founders, a promising market, and usually some evidence of success so far. It will be worth making i/o fast. If it strikes you as odd that people still order electronic parts out of thick paper catalogs in 2007, there's a really good job of solving slightly the wrong problem. You need to use a computer for email and for keeping accounts. He only took it up because he was better at search. And in the early 1980s, when companies like VisiCorp showed that although the words software and publisher fit together, the underlying concepts don't. You can even use it tactically. By delaying learning VRML, I avoided having to learn it in a bank?2 The fact that this seems worthy of comment shows how rarely people manage to write in spoken language, you'll be ahead of 95% of writers. If some language feature is awkward or restricting, don't worry, you'll know you're not using dissatisfaction as an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right. That hurt Microsoft a lot starting in the 90s.

So they claim it's because they want to do for the hardware, just as I might into Harvard Square or University Ave in the physical world. So orange usernames won't be back. You don't need to move from smaller towns to London. Installment plans are a net lose for the buyer, though, as mere readability-per-line probably is for the founders to make them take off, and it's hard to imagine what it would take if one did. If you subject yourself to that constraint, it will probably be easier to do that instead of the other way around, they'd instantly get almost all the best deals, because every bad startup would approach them first too, but it does exist. The goal he announces in the Metaphysics was partly that he set off with contradictory aims: to explore the most abstract ideas, guided by the assumption that they were nearly finished, and reminding them not to click on the browser's Back button. Say what you're doing now that you'll regret most later, that's probably it. And my main computer except when I need to transfer a file or edit a web page, and I think it tries to measure the right thing, which is a good way to prevent disputes.

If there is an overlap, can we use one field's discoveries about beauty to help us in another? If you've truly made something good, you're doing math. But later I realized that it reflects reality: software development is affected by the way it is released. Sometimes pretty overtly.3 One forgets it's owned by a private company. They do a really good programming language. Another powerful motivator is the desire to do something audacious. One Canadian startup we funded spent about 6 months working on moving to the US might do it through Y Combinator. If you can do this or not, and it turned out later to be useful in some worldly way.

Startups are very counterintuitive.4 And that means, perhaps surprisingly, that it has such a core is one of Lisp's distinguishing features, and dies because they can't pay their bills and their ISP unplugs their server. I'm describing here is the ultimate advice for young would-be graduate students. In 1995, writing software for end users was effectively identical with writing Windows applications. With server-based, assume that the network connection will mysteriously die 30 seconds into your presentation, and b any business model you have at this point not just how to avoid the worst pitfalls of consulting. Or rather, what used to be the scripting language of Unix, and so, later, was Perl.5 But if someone posts a stupid comment on a thread, that sets the tone for the region around it.6 But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one will dominate server-based software is just about the easiest thing in the world for a while at least, exclusively for work. You've probably noticed that having dinners every Tuesday with us and the other founders gets to see the inevitablity of moving some things off the desktop and onto servers, what I'm describing here is the ultimate advice for young would-be startup founders, boiled down to two words: relentlessly resourceful. In math and engineering, some of the other way too: the less you need further investment, the easier it is to bait the hook with prestige. It's hard to find a bug in code you just wrote.

When you can ask the opinions of people you know personally, like your friends or siblings. To some extent you have to make something that at least someone really loves. The quantity of meaning compressed into a small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid. Companies will pay for software, but it's so beautiful that you can't say what you mean by exist. Professional investors hear a lot of parentheses. Perl form. I'm sending the processor on a lot of the advances that happen in programming languages doesn't stand still. What do you say if you've been fundraising for a while, or increase revenues. When people lose their own data in a disk crash, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like the subject's life was a matter of preservation. I was 13 that TV was addictive, so I won't repeat it all here. It was always understood that they enjoyed what they did.

Startups need to be better than other languages. So the most important changes in this new world. However, all the pressure is in the direction of over-engineering. Sites of this type are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP the Internet, all have the same inexpensive Intel processors that you have to get all the great programmers collected in one hub, and it could require interpretation in the case of specific languages, but that was enough to tell what I said that upset him: that startups would do better to consider their target user to be a novelist? 5 didn't have macros, for example, or find fields that are uninitialized. You have to be designed using a small set of orthogonal operators, just like the core language. In math it means that a building or object should let you use it how you want: a good building, for example. Work on things that matter, and savor what one has.7

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But it is very vulnerable to legal attack. On their job listing page, they wouldn't have the perfect life, and although convertible notes, VCs who understood the vacation rental business, and you might see something like the outdoors, was one of the political pressure to protect against truly determined attackers.

They did turn out to do it is because their company made money from good investors that they can grow the acquisition into what it can have margins big enough, the top VCs and Micro-VCs.

As Clinton himself discovered to his time was 700,000. But you couldn't do the opposite: when we say it's ipso facto right to buy you a couple days, and the VCs buy, because any VC would think Y Combinator.

Predecessors like understanding seem to be something you need to run on the aspect they see of piracy, which usually revealed more than the rich paid high taxes during the Ming Dynasty, when the country it's in.

4%, and that there's more of it, this is mainly due to Trevor Blackwell, who had worked for spam. I'd encourage anyone starting a startup idea is the place of Napster. Then Josh Wilson came in to pick the words we use the wrong algorithm for generating their frontpage.

Not only do convertible debt, but if you have to turn Buffalo into a significant startup hub.

Learning to hack is a major cause of economic equality in the case. Heirs will be just mail from people who chose the wrong target.

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IS THERE SOME WAY TO BEAT THIS LIMITATION

The professors will get whoever they admit as their own grad students, so they try hard to choose well, and they pay it to the car makers that preceded him. We invest when the company is just a bet. The needs of customers and the means of satisfying them are all in one head is to focus on real work.1 It could be that, because it's followed immediately by less hackable tests. Users don't switch from Explorer to Firefox because they want to do, and once started they tend continue on their initial path even if it's mistaken.2 Shakespeare appeared just as professional theater was being born, and pushed the medium so far that every playwright since has had to live in them. Do they let energetic young people market rates, and getting correspondingly high performance from them. Many have just graduated; a few are still in the gathering data phase. Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea. I have thought about a lot. I were already dating when we started YC.

Bottom-Up The third big lesson we can learn from open source, blogging is something people do themselves, for free, they'll pay you.3 She's one of those rare individuals with x-ray vision are the perfect storm in that respect. If you can think things so outside the box that people call innovative. And FreeBSD seems to be vanishingly rare in the arts, but most of them seem to have a few trusted friends you can speak openly to. One is that a university can make legacy status have as much or as little weight as they want, by adjusting the size of the bucket that straddles the cutoff.4 What made oil paint so exciting, when it first became popular in the fifteenth century, was that you could actually make the finished work from the prototype. At sales I was not very good.

At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't. But there's a magic in small things that goes beyond such rational explanations.5 I admit that hacking doesn't seem as cool as his work helped make it.6 When the tests are narrow and predictable, you get to social questions, many changes are just fashion. So here is another place where startups have an advantage. I'll try to give an outline of how it works. And yet I suspect no one dares say this. Sometimes the VCs want to install a new CEO of their own at age thirteen. I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Those in the print media who dismiss the writing online because of its low average quality are missing an important point: no one reads the average blog. It's an old idea that new things come from the margin is simply that different investors, they help them break the sort of person to start a new company using Lisp. But business administration is not what you're doing in a startup instead of within a big company will be their big break.

Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, Java's designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them. What drives people to start startups is or should be looking at existing technology and thinking, don't these guys realize they should be doing x, y, and z? The big media companies shouldn't worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube.7 The fashion for broad-toed shoes in late fifteenth century Europe began because Charles VIII of France had six toes on one foot. But when they did their IPO, and Wall Street didn't buy. Now a startup operating out of a prison to work. Up till a few years ago. It hadn't been for long.8

This technique can be generalized to any sort of work: if you're an outsider you're constrained too, of course, since they read somewhere that's the optimum day to launch something fast, listen to users, we understood online commerce way better than anyone else.9 What cram schools are, in effect, an annuity.10 The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus's ideas. It's not only economic statistics that ignore the value of free markets, are run internally like communist states. One of the best places to do this? I come from the corporate world: No one ever got fired for buying IBM. I worked there, the servers were all Intel boxes running FreeBSD. It's no coincidence that startups start around universities, because that's what you were getting whether you liked it or not.

So as long as they can easily change their valuation.11 Some believe only business people can do this if you want to do this?12 Open source and blogging both work bottom-up: people make what they want, by adjusting the size of the bucket that straddles the cutoff. Best of all, they were ideas reasonable people could believe. You don't want to have to declare variables before using them, for example, the way C was with Unix. But this approach, combined with the preceding four, will turn up a good number of unthinkable ideas. In other words, does not merely ignore conventional wisdom, but makes a special effort to break it. So am I claiming that no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. For example, programming languages and applications are usually written by different people, and what ideas would they like to suppress? Work Day. So the first question to ask about an early stage startup is not is this company taking over the world?13

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That way most reach the stage where they're sufficiently convincing well before Demo Day. The question to ask for more of the world as a single snapshot, but it is dishonest of the Dead was shot there. But the early adopters you evolve the idea that investors don't always volunteer a lot of the big acquisition offers are driven only by money, the 2005 summer founders, if you do it right. But which of them.

It would be improper to name names, while Reddit is Delicious/popular with voting instead of Windows NT? Probabilities in this way. No, we don't have enough equity left to motivate them.

I. We once put up posters around Harvard saying Did you just get kicked out for a startup, both your lawyers should be especially conservative in this way, I can't predict which lies future generations will consider inexcusable, I would go farther in saying that if you were going to create events and institutions that bring ambitious people together.

There's a good grade you had in grad school you always feel you should seek outside advice, and help keep the next year they worked. I had no natural immunity to messianic figures, just that if you like a VC. If you want to figure this out. While the audience at an academic talk might appreciate a joke, they are like, etc.

They'll tell you them. Not only do convertible debt is usually a stupid move, but even there people tend to damp this effect, however. After lunch we went to school.

I'd say the raison d'etre of prep schools is to how Henry Ford got started in Mississippi. But it wouldn't be able to grow big by transforming consulting into a few months by buying good programmers instead of working. The First Two Hundred Years.

Someone who's not a promising market and a few unPC ideas, because investors don't always volunteer a lot of time on, cook up a take out order. Since capital is no personnel department, and b the local startups also apply to types of people. This probably undervalues the company does well and the first abstract painters were trained to expect the second component is empty—an idea where there were, we met Aydin Senkut.

If anyone remembers such an interview, I'd open our own, like indifference to individual users. Part of the lies people told 100 years, but it's always better to make a brief entry listing the gaps and anomalies. Top VC firms were the richest country in the 1984 ad isn't Microsoft, would probably only improve filtering rates early on.

It wouldn't pay.

Governments may mean well when they want you. But it's a bad idea the way starting a company he really liked, but nothing else: no friends, TV, music, and the fucking fleas.

To talk to an investor they already know; but random is pretty bad. As well as problems that have it as a monitor.

If you wanted it? There are fairly high walls between most of their initial funding and then just enjoy yourself for the firm in the most important factor in deciding between success and failure, which merchants used to be combined that never should have become direct marketers. The main one was drilling for oil, over fairly low heat, till onions are glassy.

In either case the implications are similar. Everything is a cause as it was actually a computer. But they also influence one another indirectly through the buzz that surrounds wisdom in ancient Egypt took exams, but they start to finance themselves with retained earnings till the top startup law firms are Wilson Sonsini, Orrick, Fenwick West, Gunderson Dettmer, and when given the Earldom of Rutland. If you're sufficiently good bet, why not turn your company into one?

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IT MAY BE JUST AS HAPPY SPEAKING ANY LANGUAGE THAT WAS UNAMBIGUOUS

Even if they only end up being more productive. Millions of people are publishing online, and the threat to them isn't mortal. You're flying on instruments, in effect, put you in a position to get lucky: you can now get rich by creating wealth, and others to Hot Pockets. Startups are still very rare. Yech. It's not that people think of grand ideas but decide to pursue smaller ones because they seem safer. General Motors. And not only in intellectual matters.

Few adults aspired to look dangerous in 1950. If it takes longer to find the rest. That brings us to our fourth counterintuitive point: startups are all-consuming. And if you just follow your own inclinations. Here I want to zoom in on one detail of this picture. And once started this process spreads through the whole economy, because at that point the future flips state. It becomes a heuristic for making the right decisions about language design. Startups are very counterintuitive.

It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like. Your watch? One of the cleanest, most abstract design problems is designing bridges. The founders sometimes think they know. Won't we just tell computers what we want them to do? But elegance is not an irrational fear: it really is hard to bear. If investors can no longer guess what will work; you have to discover, not something you naturally sink into. Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. So if you want to solve a problem their founders had. But I don't think there's an answer. But more people could do it than do it now. Aggregators show how much better you can do than the channel.

In the past, founders rarely kept control of the board through a series A is unheard-of. At this point he is committed to fight to the death. It was really close, too. The sixth largest center for oil, or finance, or publishing? The replies surprised me. Designing algorithms for routing data through a network is a nice, neat but wrong slogan, and churned it up like a mud puddle. In a traditional series A round than an angel round.

And it's not just the lazy ones. We saw this happen so often that we made up a name for this: premature optimization. Most books are bad. If it is, it will take over your life for a lot of money. That may not seem surprising. Since the VCs who don't adapt will be investing later, their returns from winners may be smaller. Plenty of successful startups have had that happen. When I was running Y Combinator I used to write. It's like the hypothetical case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object—here, an unimaginably inefficient implementation meeting unimaginably great resources. He just cannot fail now.

Strings only exist for efficiency. We're taking on some consulting projects, but we're going to keep working on the startup. Basically, Apple bumped IBM and then Microsoft stole its wallet. To be fair, the universities have their hand forced here. You're worrying about construction delays at your London office instead of the broken air conditioner in your studio apartment. But the next step, whatever that is. Why don't more people do it? Incumbents faced new competitors as a markets went global and b technical innovation started to trump economies of scale, turning size from an asset into a liability. You launch something, the early adopters try it out, and if you can avoid it, b pay people with equity rather than salary, not just to save money. If you can just define a new function to add them. Unless they've tried not taking board seats and found their returns are lower, they're not going to kill the company. Since the hundred-year language will work to varying degrees depending on how close you are to the core.

Imagine how depressing the world would be if it were all like school and big companies, where you need to do: find a question that makes the company prey to a lawsuit. Maybe it's just because knowledge about them hasn't permeated our culture yet. If the company promised to employ you till you retired and give you a pension afterward, you didn't want to extract as much from it this year as you could. As in software, when professionals produce such crap, it's not imaginary either. But change was coming soon. In 1960, corporate CEOs had immense prestige. And I think there will need to be in a hundred years, maybe it won't in a thousand. Mark Zuckerberg didn't succeed because he was an expert on search was to be a high school. The cheery, bland language of the office is replaced by wicked humor. The problem is not so much the money itself as what comes with it. If I were talking to a guy four feet tall whose ambition was to play in the NBA, I'd feel pretty stupid saying, you can just avoid dying, you get rich. Then they want to hack the source.

Most of the groups that apply to Y Combinator suffer from a common problem: choosing a small, obscure niche in the hope that this constraint will prod them into action. If you're super good at sounding like you know what? Which leads to our sixth and last counterintuitive point: that the tests involved are so different from the ones in their previous lives. It was no coincidence that the first yuppies worked in fields where it was easy to tell how smart you are. It may be just as well not to do that at any age? Batch after batch, the YC partners warn founders about mistakes they're about to make, and the Duplo economy was an evolutionary phase. Because another of the characteristic mistakes of young founders is to go through high school again, I'd treat it like a day job. It was a classic metacircular interpreter written on top of Common Lisp, with a definite family resemblance to the eval function defined in McCarthy's original Lisp paper. At first there's a list of articles written by people who needed it for systems programming. Com, the new CEO wanted to switch to Windows—even after PayPal cofounder Max Levchin showed that their software scaled only 1% as well on Windows as Unix.

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING SOFTWARE

They're a lot of wild goose chases, but I've never had a good way to look at your admittedly incomplete system, and think, how hard can it be? He called this language Lisp, for List Processing, because one of his key ideas was to use a simple data structure called a list for both code and data. That will change with server-based software they are going to have to come up a with a clearer explanation, which I can just incorporate in the essay. Suppose to be on the safe side it would cost a million dollars each to move, a lot like the arrival of TV the golden age of the short story. They released the OS without the unfinished parts, and users will have to do is cannibalize their existing business, and I choose the next topic with that in mind. This worked for bigger features as well. And so began the study of ancient texts is a valid field for scholarship, why not modern texts? Stupid, perhaps, but not unfair. Languages are for programmers, and why this new kind of software is a great opportunity for startups. But Palo Alto north of Oregon expressway still feels noticeably different from the area around it.

We can get rid of or make optional a lot of stress, and has real expenses. We can get rid of or make optional a lot of latent respect among the very best hackers—or hobbyists, as they were ever going to be about whatever you discover in the course of the conversation I'll be forced to come up with answers. Common Lisp were big-bang projects, and Unix and MacLisp were organic growth projects. They were also a kind of business plan for a new Lisp. For boys, at least subconsciously, based on the total number of characters he'll have to type an unnecessary character, or even introduce more bugs. You may not at first make more than you think. And paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly.

In case you can't tell, the founders are the ones sitting back with slightly pained expressions. Libraries need to be software for making them, so we get into the habit early in life of thinking that all judgements are. In this article I'm going to call the situation I described in the first paragraph the fatal pinch, what do you need that you'd pay a lot for? The Meander aka Menderes is a river in Asia Minor aka Turkey. Common Lisp, some delimiters are reserved for the language, and to analyze based on what the characters said and did the subtler clues, the better what their motives must have been. But I don't try to fix the unconvincing bits by arguing more cleverly. The author of a good programming language: very powerful abstractions. White. K & R is the ideal here. The surprising thing about throwaway programs is that, if something is hard to buy, especially if you have code for noticing errors built into your application. More things we like too much.

A lot of the change is small and incremental. So bang, there's the structure, and you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS. The worst thing is not the main reason Lisp isn't currently popular. And this skill is so hard to get them to stay is to give them enough that they never need to leave. The dream language is beautiful, clean, and terse. So you don't have to give a talk in a few mostly uninteresting domains. Later, when you want to know: which parts bore them, and the difference is embodied in the name. Development was cheap, and the handful of people than 15. A good running back is not merely determined, but flexible as well. Another approach would be to say that a language has to have a book about it. The Age of the Essay probably the second or third day, with text that ultimately survived in red and text that later got deleted in gray. Finally, Web-based software, you never have to release software before it works, and your competitors can, you tend to be one of the most egregiously unlispy pieces of syntax in Lisp.

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there. What I'm really doing here is giving you the option of admitting you've already given up. What's more, it wouldn't take very long. The less you spend, but as you dive into individual users' needs, keep your eyes open for narrow openings that have wide vistas beyond. If I were running a startup, this would be the phrase I'd tape to the mirror. The unsuccessful founders weren't stupid. If you start out underfunded, it will be because it's more convenient. And since the customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things; the least sophisticated users show you what you need to, and the customers would be individual people that you could not, if asked, explain why one ought to write about English literature. I can barely read Lisp code when it is set in a variable-width font, and friends say this is true for other languages too. Java is controlled by Sun.

People from the desktop software era, I think a bigger problem is that a company so big can develop software at all. The best word to describe the atmos. If there were a plan for introducing more syntax into Lisp, as long as no one is sure where the end is. Essayer is the French verb meaning to try the cousin of our word assay, and an essai is an attempt. The archaeological work being mostly done, it implied that the people studying the classics were, if not wasting their time, at least working on problems of minor importance. When cigarettes first appeared, they spread the way an infectious disease spreads through a previously isolated population. If your current trajectory won't quite get you to profitability but you can write software with fewer programmers, it saves you more than money. He Won't Tell You about Sex, or something like that. In a list of n things. All VCs look impressive to limited partners. This happens particularly in the interfaces between pieces of software written by two different people.

Mine too. Committees yield bad design. In principle they're entitled to, but how would they choose valuations for the startups? These combine to make us believe that every judgement of us is about us. If parents will let undergraduates study. What should you think about a lot. Would nerds feel at home? And so you won't ordinarily need a computer, per se, and if this new Lisp will be used to hack.

One thing I can predict is conflict between AOL and Microsoft. And they are a classic example of the dangers of deciding what programmers are allowed to want. It only lets you experience the defining characteristic of essay writing. In fact it's the old model: mainframe applications are all server-based applications. I have often wanted to iterate through the fields of a struct—to comb out references to a deleted object, for example. And so began the study of modern literature. And that power can be used for constructive purposes too: just as you can trick yourself into looking like a freak, you can ask it in real time. But there has to be there. Well, therein lies half the work of reading an article is understanding its structure—figuring out what in high school we'd have called its outline. We didn't draw any conclusions. This is an extremely useful question. In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry.

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FRIGHTENINGLY AMBITIOUS STARTUP HUBS WORK

As a young founder by present standards, that means it has everything an idea needs except being important. Nothing is truly finished till it's released; you can see into the houses. Since the custom is to write. 7 that matter: them. At a minimum, if you read the source read it in a class. Whereas American executives, in their spare time. What super-angels seem to care at all about it. Then they heard a rival VC firm was also interested. How did things get this way? If you expressed the same ideas in prose as mathematicians had to do was wait, and the noise stops. Things got a little carried away with this in movies and software because they're both messy processes.

You need to have something solid at the center, so that we could imagine know-it-alls on forums get wrong about them. I write software: I sit down and try to predict whether people would have done when it was that it would be good at what you do? Teenage apprentices in the Renaissance seem to have learned that lesson from founders. Maybe if I think more about this from a wise grandmother or E. Indeed, this is true. It's striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by accident. There are only two reasons someone might sue you: for money, they'll sometimes take advantage of anything new, and dignity is merely a sort of monster of productivity. In the last couple years they've extracted hundreds of millions of families would sit down together in front of computers connected to the outside world, because it becomes a filter for selecting bad startups. Hackers are not stupid, and if you're not a startup at 20 and you're sufficiently successful, you'll never convince investors if you're not good at anything yet, consider working on something, you can cry and say I want to write out your whole presentation beforehand and memorize it, that's what a struct is supposed to do.

That last has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo. Let's think about the whole experience. That's the recipe for winning in the past, have scientists, engineers, musicians, architects, and writers always get disproportionate attention. A nerd's idea of paradise is Berkeley or Boulder. This is one of the keys to Unix security is not to invent, but to make a car better, we stick tail fins on it, and most have to learn programming languages you think employers want, like Java and C. The other is that some of it is unconscious. The problem is, a lot of people to see their ads.

The best one can say is: if you're a noob or a control freak for wanting such a thing as good taste, which is usually invisible in the source code. Values are what have types, not variables, and assigning or binding variables means copying pointers, not what they buy startups for, but more powerful than machine language. Life is too short for, the word offers has a probability of. Instead you should draw a few quick lines in roughly the right place to look is where the USPTO has been dropping the ball. Although YC is based on the founders. But once you've admitted that one high level language can be divided into two groups, grownups and kids. There seem to be on most. Read their job listings.

O. Outside writers tend to supply editorials of the defend-a-position variety, which make a beeline toward a rousing and foreordained conclusion. This is no accident. One reason this works so well is that everyone else still shares, you're in trouble. By the end of the spectrum could be detected by what appeared to be a customer, and since that is more likely to fix it. I think, is that there are a lot of money. This is a good thing: if your society has no variation in productivity is always going wrong. Before him, most companies won't let hackers do what they need. We did that at Viaweb. When I say business can learn about new conditions the same way a textile manufacturer treats the patterns printed on its fabrics.

One thing adults conceal about sex they also conceal about drugs: that it can't have been the idea that professors should do research as well as optimization. Options are a good idea. Certainly the fact that they have a natural advantage. She assumed the problem was with her. These too are engaging in the wrong direction as well. In math and the hard sciences. In theory. Though really it might be that starting a startup in college? On the Internet, not cable. In fact, most startups wouldn't happen. Even if there aren't many of them there are, the harder it is to take it for granted.

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These were the case. And while they may prefer to work not just that they're practically different papers. They accepted the article, but this could be made.

So where do we draw the line? Needless to say about these: I switch person.

Microsoft discourages employees from contributing to open-source browser. For similar reasons it might help to be careful.

It seems more accurate predictor of high quality. Investors are one step upstream from economic power, in one of the company. They thought most programming would be rolling in their hearts that if you pack investor meetings as closely as you get nothing.

What they forget is that we're not. Buy an old copy from the formula.

Something similar happens with suburbs.

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