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Element seems heavily inspired by Ant Design for React [1], which came out of Ant Financial/Alibaba.

It's a project by Ele.me, a Chinese food delivery company. Alibaba and Ant Financial invested $1.25B in it last year [2].

[1]https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce

[2]http://www.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-ant-financial-to-jointly...

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This is an excellent guide and one I wish I had when I first started my business.

One particularly tricky topic that I'd love to see covered is paying foreign employees. Paying members of a distributed team is straightforward when they perform as contractors. As we've grown and they've continued working with us, the relationship has become one of employer-employee in the eyes of U.S. law. This puts them in a nebulous situation where they are de facto employed by a U.S. company, but are non-U.S. persons deriving their income from a non-U.S. source.

It's likely other Atlas users could find themselves in a similar situation.

Cellular data networks in many parts of the world deliver incredibly slow speeds. In those places, the hassle of finding and connecting to a WiFi hotspot is often worth it. I'm currently traveling in the Philippines and malls, restaurants and cafes commonly offer WiFi to attract customers, and it works.

Even when the local network is fast, buying a SIM card may not be an option if your phone is locked and under contract, which is very common for US users.

Fallacious arguments (of which circular arguments are a subset) aren't literally meaningless. "My point is true because my point is true" is perfectly comprehensible, it just fails to establish the fact that "my point is true". You can disagree with it reasonably by pointing out the fallacy, so it has linguistic substance, and it is not meaningless.

It is very different from, say, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" which is literally meaningless.

A talent acquisition signals something more than a job offer. It shows that you're able to conceive and build a product that people are willing to use. It also means that you've had experience negotiating terms. This is very important when/if you decide to take an entrepreneurial step after being at the acquihirer.

All things equal, future investors are more likely to trust someone who has had an acquisition in the past. You're more likely to get press exposure. All these things are meaningless if you're building something no one wants, but they definitely help if you're on the right track.

It's not contradictory to say that the scientific method produces our best understanding of a subject to date and that its statements are falsifiable. In fact, it is because of the standard of falsifiability that scientific knowledge reflects, in all likelihood, the actual facts much more accurately than say, religious dogma.

Wolfram and you both make the mistake of thinking that there is any value in saying that an established natural fact 'feels like a hack' or 'disagrees with your intuition'. One of the most important lessons of modern physics is that intuition is a terrible guide when it comes to understanding the physical world at its most fundamental level.

Quite likely. I think Sequoia's bet goes hand in hand with the trend as of late of 'democratizing' programming and CS education (Stanford online classes, Udacity, Codeacademy and others). More and better programming means more projects and more demand for payment platforms like Stripe.

What's with the philosophy hating here. Let the kid study something for his its sake.

Small usability suggestion: set the anchor portion of the URL after results return or a predefined timeout. It took me way too many clicks of the back button to get back to the front page.

As another undergrad philosopher turned self-taught hacker I wouldn't see why you'd want Philosophy to come down from the ivory tower. It's hard to imagine what would be of Philosophy today if Kant had spent all his life writing about science and hadn't given us the Critique of Pure Reason.

This simply obeys the inner logic of each discipline. Philosophy without regard to its history would be myopic, and hard science would be bogged down by historical details. This is not to say that the history of science is not worth learning, simply that it is not useful for science.

It's quite a shame that your philosophy of mind class didn't cover recent philosophical research where neuroscience and empirical psychology are taken seriously.

There is plenty of philosophical work that attempts to make sense of recent advances in brain science. A lot of it is centered around the 'hard problem of consciousness', or the question of why we have phenomenal experiences at all (and how these correlate to neural events). Although most serious proponents discard dualism, not all of them agree that phenomenal experiences can be reduced to physical phenomena (Dave Chalmers, Thomas Nagel).

To the scientifically biased the idea that physicalism isn't true is abhorrent, but contemporary philosophy, although not univocal, has serious arguments against it. If you find yourself dismissing this idea right off the bat out of scientific intuition I would urge you to read up a little bit on modern philosophy of mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie http://consc.net/papers/ncc2.html

He probably meant 'Silicon Valley' metonymically.

35 mins, but in less than 40 lines of ruby

I didn't know that was within the extent of your powers cperciva

It is fascinating how Plato's conflation of the True, Good and Beautiful still resonates 2500 years later and in fields that are not consciously philosophical.

That is clearly not where I'm coming from. I'm just trying to point out how an analogous article today that would make such emphasis would probably strike most people as inappropriate or chauvinistic. Don't you agree?

> "One obvious problem with the SweetFarts philosophy of education is that it is more suited to producing a generation of barbarians and morons than to raising the sort of men who make good husbands, fathers and professionals. If you keep meeting a boy where he is, he doesn't go very far."

> "Whom would you prefer to have shaped the boyhood imagination of your daughter's husband—Raymond Bean or Robert Louis Stevenson?"

I'm surprised how the article emphasizes being a 'good husband'. What if it said "good wives, mothers and professionals"?

I agree with you that Facebook usage patterns do not follow a power law, but he doesn't imply that all of Facebook's 500M users are directly connected to the superuser group. He doesn't rule out the possibility that many users won't derive value from the them. There could only be 100,000 superusers (although this strikes be as an obscenely low estimate too) but have only a subset of Facebook's engage with their content.

Try removing ghosts with Firebug and play blind pac man!

Change the url's to create new Like items. Use underscores to separate words.

Cooked it up with Sinatra in 23 lines and one template :)

His computer is taking 12 seconds for 100 iterations. The time spent checking the password would be more like 120 ms, totally in the order of a decently fast http request.

Nice

Google group at:

http://groups.google.com/group/kiwi-js

We're still budding :)

In Kiwi models are simply representations of server side resources.

Thanks to everyone for the comments!

Very similar to it indeed! That's what I like about REST... standards organize interfacing tools in similar ways. I'll take a better look at jester :)