Most VC's are backed by enormous pension funds and/or other group retirement vehicles. This is how they can afford to bet large sums of money on multiple companies with an expected payoff of only 1 in 10 companies on long time frames.
The pension isn't using that money (right now anyway), so the VC is free to do with it what they want, and in the end the money comes back to the pension in multiples.
At least this is my understanding talking to an actual VC (not in a fund-raising situation, just casually).
I always try to appreciate the context of the times when a story was written. Learning a little more of the external context within which a story was written can, at times, enhance the understanding of the story.
This might be a story that lends itself to that. Maybe. I read this book in high school and thought it was ok then, but I didn't really understand why the people I knew who read it thought it was so great. I didn't do any research about the era this was written in though, so I don't really know if it'd help or not.
It certainly is trippy though and an entertaining read in the least.
I got to "this app wants to see all of your browsing history" and thought to myself, "why the hell would they want that?" So I clicked cancel and didn't install it.
About that... I make no use of the user's browser history. But I need the "tabs" permissions. I also have to be able to access all urls. I could indeed access all your history and data with these permissions but that's a byproduct of the functioning and intent of the extension. I make no such thing... Just highlight code. Here is my manifest.json
I decided it's going to be really useful, so I saved & unzipped .crx to see what code it wants to inject into pages. Looks like fine javascript, so I have it installed.
(Though, of course, it can be updated with some evilness later. Unfortunately, too much suspicion is often counterproductive.)
Each point release typically bumps the version of Google's V8 engine thats included too. So its bugfixes + the occasional performance optimization from Google.
Exactly, there's a big difference between pro bono and paid work. And trust me, the people you do free work for will expect A LOT MORE from you.
I would say the exceptions would be: a) it's a charity or a cause that you like, or b) you really need to improve a particular skill and it's more of an internship you're looking for.
Either way though, I give you mad props for initiative.
I generally agree with your parent that he ought to spend that time doing something that can showcase his skills and increase his chance to get hired. He can gain more exposure working on something in the open (a personal project, an OSS project) than doing some work for a single company.
Would what you're doing right now be possible using canvas on the client side?
On second thought, that might make things much more complicated / slow, you'd have to write something that allowed clients to send back processed results to speed things up for future searches by other users.
I wonder if there's any desire for something like http://maprejuice.com/, but easily applicable to any processing task that needs to happen in realtime * , as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
* But also support cached results.
PS If/when your no.de server crashes, do you have to push again to get it to restart? I was having this problem the other day — it's annoying to have to add a space to a file, commit and push just to restart the server.
I have a facebook account, I had to make it to do development for a former employer. I rarely login, and given a choice I'd much rather use my Twitter or Github login. If facebook is my only option, I just don't login.
My time is much better spent face-to-face in the real world that the time-suck that is facebook.
The pension isn't using that money (right now anyway), so the VC is free to do with it what they want, and in the end the money comes back to the pension in multiples.
At least this is my understanding talking to an actual VC (not in a fund-raising situation, just casually).