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I have been grappling with the same issue. My sleep schedule is all over the place, which I am finding to be very disruptive, particularly with reguard to my daily relationships with other people. Few people think well of the recently laid off/entrepreneur who is still asleep at 11am, even if she was working till 4am the previous night.

A couple of things have helped me reel myself back to a more regular schedule. Melatonin is one, a natural sleep aid. The other was some personal self discovery that led me to the realization that I was using poor sleep habits as an excuse for failure. Not that I want to fail, but if I do, I have my dysfunctional sleep patterns to blame it on. Coming to terms with this has certainly helped me get closer to a more consistent sleep routine, though I'm not there yet. I am still working on creating pre-bed habits that will hopefully give me that Pavlovian response that it is time to sleep. Melatonin is helping with this strategy.

Another piece to my strategy is to write everything down. Every to do list item, every idea or thought I might want to save for later. If it's written down, then there is no use for it to be swimming around in my head at bed time, keeping me awake. Pre-bed journaling can help with this.

Everyone is unique when it comes to his/her relationship with sleep. I hope you find what you need to have a consistently restful sleep, so that you can make the most of the hours you are awake. That is my aim.
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The article explains. Since computers have gotten so much more powerful, the demoscene has fragmented - 4k/64k demos are now called "intros", and "demos" refers to programs with no limits except that they must render in realtime.
This article is (almost) accurate.

I live in Romania ... and of course, we are doing a lot better than Cameroon, the country got accepted in EU, and the average salary is something like $25-$30 / day (and people with college degrees do better than that).

But the corruption has reached unimaginable levels ... and it's not just the government, it's everyone.

For example, we have a public health system, and while I paid something like $15000 last year in taxes (a big amount for us), my wife got pregnant, she's having problems ... and we've had to bribe a doctor to even speak to us, not to mention they demand big bribes for doing a clean caesarean section, and my wife needs it. The poor souls that don't have money for bribes simply get fucked.

And for anything you'd want to do, like buying/selling property or starting a company, getting permits ... the bureaucracy is so awful that the only sane way of doing it is (you guest it) by bribing.

> The roads, they have not been fixed for 19 years

Well ... in Romania roads get fixed every year ... badly, so every year new repairs are needed, with millions of euros going down the drain. And the companies doing the repairs ... get contracted by nepotism. I guess Cameroon got lots to learn from us about misusing funds :-)

Our elections are mostly for real ... but it really doesn't matter. It's the people ... although everyone is blaming the government, instead of looking in the mirror.
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Your statement inadvertently underscores my own point.

Do you seriously think that the US entered WW2 to stop Nazi atrocities? The US entered because its interests were threatened and it focused its stateside propaganda effort on Nazi atrocities.

Similarly, the anti-China propaganda serves to ready Americans for war, etc. The fact is, most Chinese people are living happy, peaceful lives and care far more about their own family, work, and friends then they do about what results pop up in Google.

Obama has already begun a trade war with his tire tariffs... a massive embarrassment to the US and a loss of any meager moral high ground we may have had on issues of economic freedom.

There's nothing wrong with finding fault in some of China's policies. But isn't that the role of the Chinese people? With Americans being raped in prisons every day, should we really focus on Chinese human rights atrocities?
There are also a number of problems where it is possible to narrow down the answer fairly easily, then submit a limited number of guesses until you get the right answer without having really shown that it is right.

To some degree, they need to rely on the users to care enough not to "cheat." There is no way to completely avoid people doing things like this.
Are there any HN-like sites (news aggregators?) for science news? Tried Reddit/r/science but there isn't much traffic there.

[I know finance is more sexy these days. Call me old-fashioned but I still believe in basic science]
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compete.com is a joke.

look at the top search terms sending traffic to each site. they include things like "swine flu" and "cleavage lover", which IMHO are indicative of a statistically insignificant sample size
I've thought about this pretty extensively--either an RV or a boat. Either way, bandwidth is a problem tho :-/
Yeah, the above "they're poor" explanation doesn't really hit the mark.

It's a combination of many things, some of which I will probably miss off the top of my head:

- Propaganda: The Chinese are educated to be very wary of Western influence. Western societies in media are often portrayed as disorganized and chaotic, so naturally there is aversion to Western ideas (though strangely, not Western products).

- Fear: There is a consistent belief (not unique to China) that America unduly uses its influence to exploit other nations for its own benefit. The education system encourages the attitude of "now it's our turn" with regards to their current economic boom. When Western countries do things like, say, discuss limitations on carbon emissions, the Chinese see this as deliberate sabotage of their economy fueled by jealousy of their success. There is a fairly prevalent belief that the US is out to "get" China, and that it's China's rightful turn to be the dominant global player.

- History: The Chinese have long proclaimed to have the richest history and was in fact the most powerful empire on Earth for significant periods of time through its history. Through nepotism and corruption the Qing dynasty fell to European conquest, and China was forced to accept extremely unfavourable surrender terms, and has basically been kicked around globally since then... until now. Think of China as the bullied kid with a grudge - now he's going to fuck you up, and there's not a thing you can do to convince him otherwise. There is definitely a lot of feelings of vengeance involved when it comes to Chinese antagonism of the West.

As a Chinese, I'm really, really terrified of China - not because they have a totalitarian regime, but because they have a totalitarian regime with popular support.

Also, there is a widespread belief that nobody will watch out for Chinese interests except the Chinese... so despite the imperfections of their government, many will defend it vehemently - because everyone else is out to get them.
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The main point is that the US still does commit some horrible human rights violations. I describe these in detail in my replies to two of your comment's sisters.
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Those are good points. I do not disagree with any of them, and thanks for the reminder about the many intelligence agencies.

I think that if it were just about discussion and having an opinion it would be owe thing, but this anti-China meme is really growing in force, and seeming to turn into real moral outrage and disgust, which I think are not constructive emotions for understanding another country...
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@potatolicious, Thank you that helped a lot

"Think of China as the bullied kid with a grudge - now he's going to fuck you up, and there's not a thing you can do to convince him otherwise. There is definitely a lot of feelings of vengeance involved when it comes to Chinese antagonism of the West."

Wow! Sounds like the world is in for interesting times, then!

"As a Chinese, I'm really, really terrified of China - not because they have a totalitarian regime, but because they have a totalitarian regime with popular support."

As an Indian I'm really really terrified of China because they are right next door and the last time we had a war we had our asses handed to us. ;-)

If China were a democracy, I'd probably go live there for a while. Sounds like a fascinating place and there's just enough of a cultural connection with India (wrt Buddhism and so on) so as not to make it a completely alien place.
Ok, well, what should we do about China?

Also, at what point should we insist that China do what we want to the point of sending in ships, etc.?
San Francisco is even colder, darker, and wetter than Mountain View...

Not true. Yeah, that's how winter is here. Winter sucks everywhere. The other eight or nine months of the year are non-stop sunshine and warm-to-cool temperatures, unless you live in one of the undesirable neighborhoods of SF with bad fog.

Anyway, neat idea. I approve.
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We work on something for this, there will be a non public web app service for teams and a public "justshareyourideas" space. LVP launch alpha version in the next three months.

If you like I can send you an alpha invite when we are ready, I would love to have your feedback (real need always makes better feedback)
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We are working on a web app, but still aneesh is 100% right. Nothing can beat a whiteboard.
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you want a business with poor consumer reviews to be able to delist itself? Isn't that like being able to delete your case record with the Better Business Bureau?
For example, we have a public health system, and while I paid something like $15000 last year in taxes (a big amount for us), my wife got pregnant, she's having problems ... and we've had to bribe a doctor to even speak to us, not to mention they demand big bribes for doing a clean caesarean section, and my wife needs it. The poor souls that don't have money for bribes simply get fucked.

How is that not the government? If there weren't a public health system, there would be more doctors and they wouldn't be able to bribe you. You could just go to someone else.
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I guess it means that average income (or whatever they are measuring) of X = 1/8 x Y. But is it a valid way to say this in English? In Finnish they use this sometimes in the newspapers and so, and I am thinking I need to get over it. But I still hate it.

It's kinda like "X is 8 times less expensive than Y", which I assume means X = 1/8 x X, but to me would make more sense as X = Y - 8Y = -7Y...
I'm kinda sad that these things can run in realtime on modern hardware, but my fucking computer can't play a low-res video of the actual animation without stuttering.

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So besides twitter being redirected to google (for example), how will this really affect the browsers of the internet? I assume by safer- the article meant for users.
Funny, I've been sure to add / ensure that there were clauses in my employment contracts that prevent this sort of thing from happening. In fact, I'm about to start a flex-time contract position that will allow me to work on toy/potentially-interesting projects on my own time, that I will own. In NYC.

YMMV...

(I guess my point is: do you have more than anecdotal evidence to back this up? I don't, but you don't seem to either - I'm not aware of anything in NYS law that requires all that you do while employed at a company, even when not done on employer dime/equipment/time/space, to be owned by said employer)
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"Winter sucks everywhere."

Not in Scottsdale, AZ. :)

Summer, tho ...
That still holds. The problem is that it's been taken to its logical conclusion: all dysfunctional countries have been conquered by their competent neighbors, which means that there are large landmasses that contain exclusively competent nations (North America, Europe, Australia/Oceania, and soon Asia) and large landmasses that contain exclusively dysfunctional ones (Africa, Arabia, and South America).

There are natural barriers that prevent competent but distant nations from conquering dysfunctional ones. Colonialism was an attempt to ignore those, until people realized that it cost far more than it was worth to the colonizers.

I should probably mention that much of the reasoning behind the Bush invasion of Iraq was along these lines. It was hoped that Iraq would become a "beacon of democracy" in the Mideast. Then, all of its neighbors would either adopt Western institutions to maintain their relative positions, or they would be conquered by a U.S-supported Iraq.

Somebody forgot to factor in the effect of an 8000-mile supply line, or the reluctance of a people to give up deeply-entrenched customs.
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I put an ammeter on my Nexus One and measured 160 ma in black screen, and about 450 ma in white screen (with a "flashlight" application).

When on but screen powered down (normal "waiting for a call" mode) I measured 2 ma, average, with occasional blips much higher (to 400 ma, measured with a Fluke 87 in MIN/MAX mode).

When powered "off" the phone takes 60 uA - I attribute this to keeping an internal RTC active, possibly keeping some sort of pseudo-static RAM active - but those are just guesses.

The battery voltage measured 4.1

I did these current measurements by wedging in two thin pieces of copper tape with an insulator in between, placed between the + battery terminal and the phone's + input.

The phone indicated "4 bars" and Edge service (not 3G) when I made these measurements.
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Interesting. In Russian and Polish this kind of phrase is quite common. In German it's not common, and I would consider it bad style. How about English?
The author is right that the filesystem is not always the best solution.

There is a reason, after all, that *nix has shipped some dbm variant basically forever. Or that SQLite is pretty popular nowadays.
Extremely simple rule: when you can't sleep, you work on your least favorite important task.

Doing such a task has a way of making your brain sleepy. I start the task with the anticipation of falling asleep, which makes it less unpleasant. And if I actually am super alert doing it, then I make progress.

So it's no lose.
I don't think it holds anymore - people of successful countries have really soured on the whole conquest idea after WW2. Which is why I think these handicapped countries still exist and will continue to exist.
> How is that not the government? If there weren't a public health system, there would be more doctors and they wouldn't be able to bribe you. You could just go to someone else.

It doesn't work like that, the system is more relaxed than in other countries ... you can go to any doctor you want.

Surely, competition seems like the answer, but there's something larger at play here ... I once heard of a woman in labor that lost her child because her doctor was out of town, and the others doctors from the hospital refused to intervene ... you see, they are very territorial. Of course, such tragedies don't happen so often, but they do happen.

And we've also got private health insurances and clinics (it's not like the government prohibits it) ... the problem is that those are only useful for your periodic consults ... but in case of an emergency, you want a good doctor not an incompetent one, and those tend to work in public hospitals.

No really, we have a mostly working democracy and capitalism ... not helping much ;)
I'll second the recommendation of reading about von Neumann. But brace yourself to be intimidated as well as inspired. The man was a giant among giants.
Funky, the city of Chicago has a pretty large help page on what a bed bug is and how to deal with them. http://bit.ly/6ZwDrU (evgov.cityofchicago.org)

Brooklyn really isn't that expensive - you can get a decent enough railroad style apartment for around $1100. That's more than enough space for one person. You can dial it down to $6-700/mo if you're willing to move in with flatmates.

I find that most of the expenses of NYC come with the nightlife. I actually live cheaper up here (rent + $400 or so for food + transport, monthly) than my brother does down in Durham, NC.

Disclaimers: I don't go out much, and when I do it's typically on the cheap. I live in a pre-gentrification area of Brooklyn (Bushwick), but I've only felt unsafe once - and that was due to some stupid mistakes on my part. The hipsters are starting to trickle over from Williamsburg, but it's not annoying-roof-drink-n-drugs-college-party-ville yet. My landlord sucks (but don't they all?). And I've never (Disclaimer^2: I've only been here for 3.5 yrs) had issues with bedbugs.
DNS hijacking can mean things like redirecting Google to your own servers and then catching people's Gmail logins. Some popular website (e.g. Facebook) could have their DNS redirected to a website that exploits a user's browser. So you go to facebook.com and you end up with malware or a virus.
Very true.

Don't be afraid to look outside of the manhattan/williamsburg/dumbo/long island city areas, either.

Most people who think that NYC is incredibly expensive (I've even gotten this from folks who live in La Crescenta, CA) haven't bothered to explore beyond Manhattan.
This is also my primary concern for the future of this project. I don't really know yet how it will work out.

Today I'm parked at Morro Dunes RV Park in Morro Bay. They have free WiFi that is excellent. I'm currently watching Torchwood on Netflix, while also uploading several large photos to flickr. It's not the 20-something Mbits I had in Mountain View via Comcast, but it's perfectly usable, and fast enough for everything I need to do, including repository syncs of our software. It has also been reliable all day, and Netflix streams have been completely smooth and without interruption for the couple of hours total I've been watching and working.

The KOA I stayed at in Monterey had very expensive ($14.95/day) and very slow/spotty Internet, though, so I don't expect Internet to be an easy problem everywhere. But, finding great Internet here in Morro Bay is encouraging, as this is a small town, not renowned for technology.

When I parked on the street when first arriving last night, I used my G1 tethered via PdaNet. But, there's no 3G here, so it was really slow. Pretty much just good enough for checking for urgent email. So, boondocking (just parking wherever and living wholly off-the-grid) will probably be limited to weekends, and possibly 3G-enabled areas. PdaNet also only runs under Windows, so I can't run Linux natively while using it; which means I have to virtualize for development (our software is a Linux/UNIX-only product).
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The way I think of it, a frontend developer specifies REST APIs and writes controllers and routes, while the backend developer is the one required to know their algorithms and data structures cold, and writes/architects the model and business logic. A site like the Google homepage obviously requires both kinds of these developers. CRUD only requires the frontend developers, though, so we call the code-monkeys munging Photoshop mock-ups into CSS "frontend developers" and call the actual frontend developers backend developers.
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Amazon has a bad track record for international deployment of anything relating to billing. Amazon Flexible Payments Service has been around ages and is still US only. Their Honor System didn't make it out of the US either.

PayPal has its issues but they've always been useful for the large international diaspora of US dealing but non-US dwelling wannabe Americans.. :-)
The next version of Zen Coding is going to support Haml: http://twitter.com/zen_coding/status/7665962389

They may look similar, but you quickly realise they're not if you actually give them a decent try out.
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I came here from Austin, Texas three years ago. Winter in Silicon Valley is not an acceptable season for me. Even summer is a pale imitation of the real thing (though I do love the smell of Jasmine which permeates everything during spring and summer here).

For people from cold climates, the bay area is very mild, and lovely, year-round, but I'm a total wimp in the cold. I hate the cold, and I've been miserable the past couple of months in Mountain View. So, I'm heading south.
That's pretty much my recollection as well. Many lisp advocates at the time pointed to Reddit as an example of a commercial success with lisp, and the reaction after they switched to Python got nasty, especially on #lisp.

Someone suggested the lisp community should build a "better one" than Reddit. As PG pointed out at the time of the switch "most of the complexity in the software is social, rather than technical." I don't think the author of Linkit really understood what he was saying.
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I've had really good luck using the Jesus Freak ROM and wifi-tether on my G1. If your Linux distro supports connecting to devices, you might want to try that out.
Get a bunch of them as 'pre-paid' phones and ditch the sim ?

The motorola lajolla is due to be out and should be one of the cheapest android handsets.
Rereading the thread, I think I misunderstood 10ren's point. I think we are all actually in vehement agreement. :) Apologies.
I've been wishing for years that digital-only media had a better representation and recognition at publicly accessible museums, not just relegated to the odd art-opening gallery showing, on par with colored paste applied to fabric with horse hair.
Satellite internet is probably the way to go if you want reliable coverage. Though WiFi/3G might be cheaper, it's also much more unreliable.

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I have been struggling with this since I went full-time with my venture a couple of months ago as well. I have always had a chaotic sleep pattern, and the lack of a full-time job has just increased the irregularity.

Here's a thought, though-- is that so bad? I find that I do my best, most creative thinking late at night. It's always been like this for me. Why fight it? I'm trying to embrace the chaos now instead of trying to control it.