This is really an Eclipse f-up than anything.

A better title for this story would have been: Eclipse bug exposed when Oracle rebranded Java

We retained Tracy to completely redesign our website (Rapportive - relaunch imminent, what's online is still the old site at time of writing). Her design is beautiful, daring, and effective. She's gone above and beyond in responding to our myriad tweaks and requests, given us great feedback, and been fun to hang out with along the way.

I bet she would make a great cofounder.

I got the impression that this story wanted me to be irritated at Oracle, but was left with the impression that this problem has nothing at all to do with Oracle.

I wish you the best of luck, but considering that you will be up against the bridal industrial complex in attempting to reach inexpert customers who are by nature transients in the field, I would suggest rethinking the price. With the average cost of a wedding in the north-of-$25k region, you might find that the difference between $25 and $100 matters very little to the customer but very much to your ability to afford advertising for it.

Also, talk to Andy Brice from Perfect Table Plan and pump him for information on who the ultimate customers of his software are.

P.S. The fact that a particular woman is marrying a particular man on a particular day is, in itself, worth more than $25. It can also be sold to multiple people. Just throwing that out there -- lead generation often isn't held in particularly high esteem, but it is big money.

This is the best "looking for technical co-founder" post I have seen here. It explains your idea, the value you're bringing to the partnership, what you're looking for, and your past work as evidence of your value. Also, the picture helps me put a face to your name. Good luck!

This is one of the best systems programming articles I've read in a very long time. Short summary:

* Trust the VM system to figure out how to page things (hey, 'antirez, what's your take on that? You wrote an ad hoc pager for Redis.) instead of getting fancy, because if you get fancy you'll end up fighting with the VM system.

* Minimize memory accesses and minimize the likelihood that you'll compete with other cores for access to a cache line; for instance, instead of piecemeal allocations, make a large master allocation for a request and carve it out.

* Schedule threads in most-recently-busy order, so that when a thread goes to pick up a request it's maximally likely to have a pre-heated cache and resident set of variables to work with.

In a global header long time ago, a friend of mine (and big "C" lover) did this to his best buddy once (a C++ and especially boost lover):

#define class struct

#define private public

#define protected public

I'm 35. I'll try not to be too critical. Moral of the story:

Being educated doesn't say anything about you being smart.

Here's the rub. A college degree is a specialization. That's why you "major" in something. It was never designed to be an extension of high school. So, you should get a degree in something that you are both passionate about and also accept the limited career paths that come with that particular passion. If the career paths are limited and/or not to your liking, assume that the degree will not help you find a job. You may as well use the money to travel instead.

The further you deviate from the career paths that are attached to the degree you obtain, the more worthless it becomes. Attempting even greater specialization along this field of study only enhances this effect; it will not correct it.

So, Mr. Masters in English: Why are you not focusing your search on the career paths that are attached to the degree that you have; assuming this is actually a passion of yours, namely teaching and/or writing?

Applying for random positions because you figure your degree actually means something is about as stupid as applying to the space program and for all the same reasons. You do not have a catch all pre-requisite. You have specialized training, and you receive little to no benefit over the random person on the street when you are evaluated for suitability to this position if the training isn't aligned with the job you are trying to get.

Not realizing this after years and years of education isn't very smart at all, really. Sadly I know you aren't alone.

This is a false dichotomy. It's quite possible - and indeed, probably much more likely - that aspects of both are becoming bigger parts of our lives at the same time. These two aspects of human culture - authoritarianism and dissipation have always been with us, this isn't new; 'dictatorship' & 'bread and circuses' would both be familiar concepts to citizens of ancient Rome.