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There are many good answers in this Quora thread: https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-overcome-your-envy-of-peop...

As many comments on this page suggest, try to stop worrying about what's outside of your control. You can't control if someone else is a better programmer or started coding at a younger age. But you can control what you study, how hard you study, how hard you practice outside of school, etc. If you work hard, 5 years from now there will be a bunch of 27-year-olds that you work with who feel inadequate working next to you.

If something's outside of your control, you _literally_ can't do anything about it. So why make life harder for yourself by worrying? That's like worrying about an asteroid hitting Earth -- you'll upset yourself, but it won't do you any good.
The multiplicity of casual friendships online has led to an interesting new phenomenon: Because people preferentially broadcast their successes, we tend to get the feeling that everybody else is more successful than ourselves. I don't think you can avoid comparing yourself to others; what you can do is try to keep in mind that life is a mix of good and bad, and even if all you manage to do is avoid the worst of the bad, you're doing pretty well.

Take me for example. I started university when I was 13, won the Putnam competition when I was 18, went on to a doctorate in computing from Oxford University, and single-handedly bootstrapped a successful startup. I think most people here could tell you that much about me; but I doubt many could tell you that I'm 34, that I'm socially awkward and stutter when I'm nervous, that I'm diabetic and wrestle with this life-threatening condition every day, that I'm 20 lbs overweight and due to my sedentary lifestyle have the cardiopulmonary fitness of a typical 50 year old, or that I've been dumped by every woman I've ever dated.

When you inevitably compare yourself to others, remember that there's probably a lot you're not hearing about them.
I am never basing architecture on small Google projects again.
We use app engine which has horrible support and billing. We used to use GWT which is no longer maintained. I just don't trust Googles commitment to anything it releases. They throw stuff against the wall to see if it sticks and I ended up with sludge on the floor one time too many.
I'd say you're underestimating. Our son is with a childminder two days a week, and I could easily get a one bedroom place for that money. In the UK the last stats I heard suggested you need an income of £40,000 a year or more to break even on full time childcare.
I like this! "If you're the best jazz player in the band, find a new band"
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That's not what I mean. What is the analog of the hardest puzzle in the constructive setting.
My life began at 40, amusingly.

6 billion people in the world.
Not sure how you are doing your maths there.
Where does the 10% factor in?
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Not comparing yourself is one thing, but you should also question your values and goals. If you think interning at top companies is a good thing, you could try to also intern at a top company. Just one example.
> So do other things, like art and culture; there's more to life than work. Seems you've been brainwashed into thinking only work fulfills people.

So far in human history the only people that were able not to work, but instead have an effortless lives devoted to "art and culture" were members of aristocracy. This happened few times, since the ancient civilizations till 19th century and always resulted in that "noble" class degenerating into bunch of perverts. Basic income would result in pretty much the same, just on larger scale.
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Disappointing - This article mainly seems to serve to advertise his site - most of which is behind a paywall.
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Hmm. Everything we have in our basement is slower than my desktop i7 if you run exactly one core.

Running all cores at full tilt is another story.

On the other hand,IBM have just tried to book three 3-hour long pitching sessions with me so it does not sell itself...
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I find that hard to believe. I think someone who doesn't understand the architecture wrote that or that Google opened a semi truck sized security hole.

Jit requires self modifying code. That's a huge security risk on devices which is why 3rd parties aren't allowed to ship jits. If Google makes a special case for Dart that would be a huge hole.

I'm guessing they just use AOT like the rest of us which is required on ios as well.
In London specifically, a significant percentage of foreign investors are absolutely leaving the houses empty. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-gh...
I think the idea that two people taking the opposite sides of a stock trade are directly contradicting each other is incorrect because it ignores risk, volatility and time horizon.
> from a historical perspective

That is the only perspective I'm addressing. The comment is in the context of the observation tht we have a generation fo people who don't know there was a "Crypto War" in the 90s. This observation was prescient, with the FBI et al renewing the crypto wars. The historical view is incredibly important in interpreting our current situation.

> call to read specific works

If you think my reference to Shannon is a call to read any specific work, you're missing the point. The point of the original article and the talk I linked to is the importance of actually taking the time to learn from the people that faced these problems in the past nd learning from them.

> Coming up with brilliant theories and insights is a different skill

Absolutely, which is why it's important to not waste that skill re-inventing stuff where that time and effort has already been spent by other skilled people. I suggesting that it's a bad idea to spend six months in the laboratory to save you from having to spend six days in the library. A lot of problem have already been solved.
Comparing to others is not the problem.

Focusing on differences is.

The solution is to focus on similarities instead of differences.

By focusing on differences, you will always find something to let you feel inferior, let you stop tackling new things, maybe even saying things to others you do not really mean because you feel down at that moment. By focusing on similarities, you will boost yourself. You will see that others are not that different from you.

When you changed your regular comparison strategy for some time, you might even notice that focusing on differences, in the context of a retrospective is not that bad. It gives you the chance to grow.
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This really is looking like a job for a static code analyzer. I'm all for the compiler emitting warnings as much as it can, but I also want it to compile my code very fast...

I think the right approach here is to run slow code analysis tools frequently, but less frequently than compiles.
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> the more high tech companys, the more work is done by the tech > unemployment rises > labour costs undercut robots > less high tech companys.

Its a plant, it will fix itself by promoting self-obsoletian.
Increasing the costs artificially from $5 to $15 to make automation for $10 worthwhile is not a good thing on its own. Before you spent $5 in labor and resources to make that product, now you are spending $10 to do it in an automated way which just means you halved the efficiency to produce that product. If there is no externalized gain worth $5 this is a bad thing.
I was just a normal attendee so I have to ask what kind of deceptive marketing you're referring to.

That said, Web Summit was a fantastic experience. I agree some of the speakers were somewhat lacklustre or at least not as spectacular as I expected them to be. Others were great though (Ed Catmull for instance or the one about what Facebook is going to do the next ten years) Most of the talks on the smaller stages generally were more intriguing anyway.

As for the Night Summit: Yes, it was crowded but it was far from being just at one place. You could meet all sorts of interesting Web Summit visitors at pretty much all of the places.

This certainly requires some effort. In order to get anything out of an event like this you have to actively make it happen. Plan who you'd like to meet, walk around, look around, talk with people. It can be overwhelming and 3 days (and nights) of this indeed can be a bit exhausting but also very rewarding.

Besides, there's worse ways to work than over a pint of Guinness or Smithwick's in the evening.
You could frame, drywall, paint, roof, shingle, wire, install plumbing, dig and pour the foundation of a home with just 2 people but it would be much faster to have different people specialize and work on the individual parts.
>Also the grandparents play an important role in childminding. //

Child-"minding" gives the wrong impression I feel, child-rearing [raising to adulthood] perhaps gives a better view.

Childminding to me suggests the very basic task of ensuring the child doesn't come to harm as opposed to the more complex task of aiding them to develop in to well rounded adults.
You are taking as given that he released things that he didn't read. I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. According to Greenwald the documents were meticulously organized and chosen to either expose wrongdoing or provide the necessary background information for a journalist to understand the wrongdoing.

By every account of the people who know, Snowden read and understood every single document he leaked.
Yes, this echoes something Worf once said, "Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy."
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Phenomenal, and highfive to you, my friend. This is I think some of the best advice in here. I also draw a lot from Marcus Aurelius. The main body of literature of his (Meditations) was actually his personal journal. It is highly likely that he never intended on having those works published. There is really something profound in the stoic way of life that transcends time and stabs at the heart of humanity. What great advice!
Consider using this Adblock/uBlock filter:

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I've been using it for a week or two now. It blocks links to all comments (besides Ask HN, Show HN, etc - which is why I'm here). I've drastically cut down my HN time but still keep up to date on tech news. I also read the articles in full a lot more than I used to.

(It also tidies up the homepage and makes it look a lot cleaner, IMO: http://i.imgur.com/RzHKD2d.png)
Because not everyone has to file taxes. Because maybe you want to change banks some time between tax returns. Primarily because some people are talking about a system that could plausibly be implemented given the state of the US today and not how a system might work given an otherwise perfect world where, for instance, everyone in the US has been given access to a bank account.
But the Toyota vs Mercedes-Benz is a poor comparison

> The most reliable engines came from Honda, with a failure rate of just 1 in 344, with Toyota in second (1 in 171) and, maintaining some honour for the German brands, Mercedes in third (1 in 119).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9815860/German-cars...
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Just declare a C union of an int, float, string, etc. All functions take these unions as function parameters.

Have one field be an enum of its actual type. Or something along these lines.

I don't see why this is any more difficult than a normal jit that also doesnt have type information.
You can do that for ios too with Codename One. Apparently we know more about ios development than the flutter team...
My guess would be that abolishing copyright would lead to every commercial program being run as SaaS with most of the code on a remote server, so changes in trade secret laws wouldn't help.
What's that quote again, 'while in his 30s Julius Caesar once cried because he felt he hadn't done a tenth of what Alexander the Great had done at the same age'? Don't worry about people being faster than you. Build simple sites/apps (read Pat Flynn's blog rather than HN), see which one sticks, and improve it over time. Don't hope for a massive success, build something simple but useful to a limited audience. That's what I did when I was 22 and that site is about to turn into a business + the skills I learnt got me a freelancing gig which eventually got me hired. It's not an easy path, but it's meaningful. Easy paths such as marrying your high school sweetheart and getting hired at a top company in your 20s do look great, but they aren't making these people any more acquainted with the lengthy process of building great things.
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This is the correct answer that people don't want to hear. People in Manhattan complain the rent is too damn high. Of course, they can't even imagine moving across the river to NJ though. That'd be beneath them.

A good leader can't just tell people what they want to hear. Gentrification is OK. We don't have a right to live in an area we are priced out of and that is OK. However, I have a little gnawing voice in my head that a basic income might not be able to keep up with housing cost increases... We will still be throwing some vulnerable people under the bus. I can't see how ubi can fully eliminate need for social workers or programs with administrative oversight (high costs).

I personally think a universal basic income should not be universal. It should only apply to people who have the right and opportunity to spend their money as they see fit. Exclude the children, the prisoners, and the infirm, for example. If the goal is automation, we don't need as many people. If the economy can survive a contraction in labor supply, we could nudge people to not have children. That would be awesome.
I appreciate your openness Colin, thanks.
> When you inevitably compare yourself to others, remember that there's probably a lot you're not hearing about them.

This is exactly why it's useless to compare yourself to others --> incomplete data (or even worse, pre-selected data).

There have been a lot of posts which seem to advise against comparisons.

I'd argue that a comparison isn't bad for you per se, it's the data you are comparing your life/achievements to that can lead to problems because of a lack of transparency.

Why not keep comparing, but compare your current self to yourself at timepoint t-1, t-2...

Also, try to set schedules for when you compare and which facets of your life you are comparing (eg. health, education, 'job success' etc on a bimonthly basis).

Last word of warning --> most people tend to make comparisons when they are feeling 'down'. Don't let this kind of expectation bias screw with you - try to leave comparisons until you are in a moderate or positive mood.
IMHO Square has more of a real business than Facebooks and Twitters of this world do and actually have solved real world problems.
Hmmm... represent the parameters as nodes in a directed graph. For each of m recursive call sites, process each of n parameters and add edges from formal parameter name to passed argument (i.e., if we have signature foo(a,b,c) and recursive call foo(c,b,c), add edge a->c; self-edges are unimportant). This step is O(mn). Then, assuming we already know what parameters are used outside of function calls, flood-fill the graph from those nodes; this is O(n). O(mn+n)=O(m*n).
> A stick built house built in 1970 is 45 years old at this point!

When I was living in London a couple of years ago my house there was a former council house built in the 70s - so it was built to be as cheap as possible. Other than being tiny and having thin drywall everything else was fine.
Perhaps you should look at the data...

Correct.

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
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The article is saying you can use dithering to represent sounds quieter than your 16-bit "0000000000000001". That's what I'm objecting to.
>Why should I pay somebody else to stay home with _their_ kids? //

A very short and simplistic argument:

Does having rich people benefit all of society? If it doesn't then we should tax the rich to create more wealth-equality. If having wealth inequality does benefit society then we - democratic societies - should enable parents to raise their children to become rich [not necessarily financially but in skills at least] so that they can benefit the rest of society.

Another very simplistic argument is that we require the younger generations to work when we get old, children are a necessary part of the continuation of the state. If the state is valuable, or at least more valuable than other modes of government that would otherwise take hold or encroach on the population, then its continued existence should be encouraged. If a state government is damaging to child rearing then ultimately it will fail as the population of the state falls below sustainable levels. [Barring models that are selective from a surrounding population, in which case the state would have to encourage the surrounding population to generate more population with the characteristics they select for.]
Ex-famo.us (pre-pivot short-term contractor'ish) here. It's sad to see famousJS go to the grave, but I'm excited to see dmvaldman's samsaraJS (http://samsaraJS.org) evolve into something great (cakaaaaaaw!). The pre-pivot famo.us was inspiring to work with and I was humbled to see all the projects being created by both the in-house and external teams.

It was an exciting place to work, for all it's ups and downs. Besides the product itself, the office, albeit ungodly expensive given it's location and size, was the perfect place to be productive and push yourself well into the night. There were spots you could work collaboratively next to others as well as little nooks you could "hide" and get some comfy undisturbed privacy. The ambiance of the place worked beautifully to be both creative and technical, together or individually. In the grand scheme of things, I think it's an expense that easily justified the potential reward.

On the other hand, the social culture that Steve crafted, often reinforced by his example, didn't sit right with me personally, nor did it sit well with many others. "Toxic" was an unfortunate word thrown around quite a bit while I was there. I do hope he takes time off to honestly...subjectively... reflect back on how he chose to treat people he calculated could be useful to him in the moment as opposed to those who were not.

On the flip side, when child-like dreamer Steve came through, speaking about his passions and what inspires him to do what he does, he was, in those moments, a really enjoyable guy and motivational figure to work for. I'll be casting an unpopular opinion here, but I do think the guy has it in him to lead another company to success, as long as he takes a cold, hard, unbiased, and honest look at himself to fully understand why famo.us, not just the product, but more the culture he crafted, failed with him at the helm.

The most important takeaway from my stint there was working with the incredible team and crafting the friendships I did. The level of talent that many of the original engineers had and the amazing personalities behind said talent gives me no worries that those who were let go will move on to something far greater and hopefully, personally rewarding. I already know that quite a few have! :)

http://www.thefamousgroup.com - Dat logo, though.
This man has been on Facebook and has seen right through it.
Well the point was:

- At some point, you'll eventually offload most of the JS effort to pre-exising modules that will more or less have bugs like this. And these kinds of bugs aren't apparent during development, or on a controlled environment. They happen on a production setting, which is at times hard to replicate.

- JS is a terrible language in terms of debugging. There's no "compile time errors" to kill half of the bugs early. The best that tools at the moment could do is infer types based on static analysis, but that's it. If code is written in a very dynamic fashion, then you keep these tools guessing.
Speaking as someone in a solidly midwestern state (though the definition is murky[0]) I don't think it's fair to say the midwest is historically liberal. There are a few liberal cities but there are also states like Missouri and Kansas. It's a mix of both.

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-states-are-in-the-m...
HN used to be much more technical and practical. Now you have much more posts about history, biology, astronomy, many thing that are very very far from being (practical) CS. I can only assume that HN readers want to feel even more sophisticated with far fetched intellectual topics. I think HN will make most persons feel miserable just like social networks do, on facebook others have more friends on HN others are smarter than you.

You should stop reading HN. I've been contemplating this for myself for some time. I have to look around more, but so far I see reddits programming subreddit is more condensed and superior if you just want to keep track on programming news.

For your current situation I can tell you that everything is fine. I've got into programming as an autodidact later than you with zero experience and my school career was average at best. Just take your time and go really deep into a single programming language, exercise with meaningless projects, use stack overflow or friendly forums to discuss problems. Just don't compare to others, there are always smarter people than you. But if you train the practical parts really hard it becomes meaningless because the results are the same.

Also if you want to learn something about humbleness, read Herman Hesse's Siddartha, just don't dive into esoterics afterwards.

Good Luck.

[edit] Nice article about depression and social media:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/04/08/new-stud...