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When it comes to mind boggling longevity, nothing can compare to the B-52. The first prototype flew in 1952 and the last one was built in 1962 and the final plane is still in active service. There is an upgrade program that plans to keep them flying until 2044. The planes will be more than 80 years old by then.
Why is that Google's fault? Amazon could use the Play Store to update the app, the same way that Netflix, Hulu, etc. does. Amazon doesn't want to because they want people to use their own Android platform. Except their Android platform is awful. They have no idea how to run a store (which is a hell of a liability for an ecommerce company, but their infrastructure and fulfillment processes are so top notch and their margins so small that everyone just routes around it when it comes to buying books or whatever else). They make regular Android OEMs look prompt in how long it takes them to incorporate updates.
According to your link, 2 light years.
The purpose of this article seems to be to convince people to buy bitcoins at coinbase.com using the site's referral link.
A bit silly to frame it as an "Alternative to Gun Violence". Stabbing is an alternative to gun violence, as is a deliberate collision with a car. It's funny how they manage to make everything about the guns.

This is an alternative to murder or serious assault.
Premature optimization is. ..
What happened to you, is the collision of your idealism (as expressed mainly through software) with "the real world" (that one project that SUCKED). It happened to me as a musician. It happens to everyone, maybe. The world bitch-slaps you and you survive it and that's one less thing that can bother you. You are now, arguably, a man, or at least you could evolve into one, depending on how you process and work through this.

You are in a grief process. What died, is your idea of the world as a continuously improving place where things are done right and for the right reasons. (You found out it is a huge clusterfuck full of mediocrity.)

What you need to remember though, is that your power is not IN the software, any more than mine was in the music. Software for you is only an "instrument" through which you express your personal power. The power is not in the instrument, it's in you. And you therefore have the option - an infinite array of options - for how to express it.

One idea: Since you may or may not be done with software now, instead of dreaming about early retirement, make a plan and make it happen. See this guy: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com for inspiration. Then you'll have plenty of time to explore other things. Though it may mean a few more years doing this.

And/or, in the shorter term, the obvious thing to do is go explore some things and see if they interest you. Don't be all "I have to be a connoisseur overnight," just keep an open mind. Go see one play. Take an improv (like as in acting) class. Go to an art gallery opening. Learn to play a musical instrument. Go on one trip -- and LEAVE YOUR FUCKING PHONE IN THE SUITCASE UNTIL NIGHTTIME. Excuse me. I'm serious though, time away from technology, either incrementally or permanently, is probably what you need.

Technology is not the solution to the world's ills, it is ultimately fairly empty, and arguably causes more problems than it solves. That doesn't mean it's not worthwhile - the Zen master still sharpens his sword now doesn't he? Not because he needs a sharp sword (or hopefully never does), but because the act of sharpening, sharpens him.
San Francisco's budget is vastly less efficient than other comparable US cities:

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-worst-run-big-city-...

As for people living vs. working in SF, this comment does an excellent job explaining it, with sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875936

tl;dr: The increase in population due to daily workers commuting in from outside is vastly smaller than in NYC.
I wonder if it'll be able to make sense of our macro-abusing XML-in-C: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/src/lau... (Scroll up a couple of pages to see the definitions of the macros)
Just curious, how is nodejs nicer for distribution than a binary file?
"porndude" for once seems to be rather big one. I used it as a starting point for an iptables script that re-routed access to porn websites through VPN ;-)
Physical exercise, enough sleep, good food and sunlight can work wonders.
"Always" meaning "just the last 30 years" presumably?
I can hardly remember seeing anything on this on the news. It basically hasn't been covered since fast track approval passed, except when Clinton came out against it.
One thing that I never understood about the US medical education is the requirement of the bachelor's degree (pre-med) before applying for most med schools. In my home country and many others, you can directly apply to med school. Now that the college costs are quite considerably expensive, four-additional year of college studies simply adds to the cost of becoming a doctor and therefore, the newly minted doctors expect to make a lot of money. This pre-med education requirement adds unnecessary, in my opinion, burden not only to wannabe-doctors, but also to the medical system (create scarcity of doctors to say the least).
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I might suggest a different diagnosis to your lack of interest: it's not that you don't care about software, it's that you don't care about the business you're in.

Software, to me, is a set of tools. Some are super fun to use, and I find I'm getting better at the skill of using them, and can help tutor others on the finer points in their use. I do enjoy that. But the tools themselves are merely the means to an end, when it comes to what makes me passionate about my job.

I work in a business that I'm really excited about (operations management software for warehouses and transportation/delivery at a large e-commerce company). I love it. I love the big picture of what's being done. I love the customers. I really love flying to places to meet the customers, empathizing with them, learning their needs and desires, and then solving their problems and making their lives easier.

That's why I get excited about my job, what gets me out of bed in the morning. The software? That's a toolbox I use to achieve my goals. Fun tools, I admit, and I strive to master them- but they're just the tools.

So my advice to you is very simple: go find a business where you care about the customers. Then practice your skill with your tools by helping those customers. If that doesn't make you love your job, well, there's always money in trade skills like welding.
If this writer doesn't want their free time, can I have it?

Yes I know... probably not the point of the article, but I couldn't get past the clicky-baity headline.
I think part of the point is to control the NLU phrases, not the application.
There is a BIG problem with the current model of the advertising industry. It's based on STEALING attention from people. This is an outstanding lack of respect.

Not only that, but because advertising IS effective, it's like a trojan horse for your brain.

Turn your head and look in the wrong place, see an effective advert, and you are more likely to give your money to one company and less likely to another. And you probably don't even know it consciously - and you certainly haven't made the decision taking into account whether the company's wider actions make it one you want to support or not.

Advertising is an exploit. And like we close exploitable holes in software, like we try to guard against fallacious reasoning or biases in important decision making, we should also guard against exploitable holes in our thought processes when it comes to advertising.

We know advertising works, we know it makes people buy things based on what feels good/safe/trustworthy coming from a company with a good marketing department, rather than what's in a person's own interest. We know it works - that's why it shouldn't be allowed. Because it works.

And why we, individually, should block it aggressively.
I highly recommend the book called Impro from Keith Johnestone. It could help with the uninteresting feeling a lot.
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Relatedly, recall that a key empirical study by the Princeton academics has this to say, " ... Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."
[https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...]
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If your closet or garage increased in volume at the rate of Moore's law, you'd pay less attention to how you put stuff away.
"[...] and no warrants shall issue, but [...] particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

My understanding has it that physical warrants cannot say "I'm going to search this building, and also any other buildings I find mentioned there."
It takes time for the prices to increase because it's not a liquid market. If wages or inflation are increasing faster then it creates a buffer time for these inelastic goods to catch up. There's also other factors, like institutions not maximizing profit, that slow down price increases. Also in the past there were less regulations, so it was easier for new homes to be built, for example.
Another interesting thing about iOS- they enforce code signing on the page level. You cannot create a RW page, write new code (from the network) into it, and then remap it as RX; every instruction needs to be approved by Apple. So changing behavior at runtime in a way that's subtle enough to pass certification is a lot harder than it would be on some hypothetical walled-garden Android (where you can, AFAIK, pull down a JNI extension over HTTP and load it.)
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> We all have ideas but 90 % of them are fantasies or have near zero market potential.

Agreed. Who's going to judge which one is which? A random guy working on a top-whatever company, when even top investors get it wrong 8 out of 10 times? ...
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You should open up some satellite map pictures and just pan around a bit. As a general rule most of the streets of Paris don’t have too much sidewalk. Larger boulevards do of course.
It's more that google's main benefit with their store is not having arbitrary restrictions, so the ones they do have stick out.

Oh you want to make a youtube player that acts like every browser in the world, with the ability to minimize? Banned.
The paper was, and still is, called The Epitaph.

Chris at the time was also one of the publishers/writers of an "underground" school paper called The Road Apple.
A leader of the SF Green Party accused me of being a developer shill and anti-environmentalist because I believe it's better for the planet to house people in San Francisco than just about anywhere else. I tried to engage him in a dialogue about the topic, but he flat out refused, effectively saying, "You're completely wrong but I am far too busy to even begin to explain why":

https://www.reddit.com/r/SFBARF/comments/3n6rc0/sfbarf_needs...
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Well, various materials corrode or perish given time, so it's not inconceivable that time would render a vehicle not worthy of repair.
As a civil engineer I am seeing a lot of ignorance on the part of the hackers towards the physical sciences, especially the author.

Software debugging has 2 parts:

a) find the bug - lucky for you a machine does this step automatically

b) fix the bug - once the bug is found this is self explained

Industrial debugging has 2 parts:

a) find the bug - requires going on the production floor and measuring things

b) fix the bug - once the bug is found this is self explained

How are they different?
Oh sure, you can find explanations of good conductors and semiconductors all over the web.

But what I have never found is an explanation of poor conductors: How does electric current through a (non-super-) conductor convert energy to heat?
I think this is one reason why car makers (except that one that always shows up on the front page here) love having dealers. The maker gets all the love for a great machine, and the dealers get all the hate for dishonest sales practices and ripoff repairs.
Have you tried reading or posting to HN's monthly freelancer thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822020

Note, however, that consultants are generally expected to have a deep knowledge of the area they're hired to work in, and are expected to work without supervision. So many companies may not want to hire college students with no prior work experience for a consultant role.
The case I've always experienced, which is "<framework generator>; heroku create; git push heroku master" is a few seconds.
We did it before Deep Learning existed. If we had to do it again today from scratch, I think we'd use an approach similar to yours. My comment about VGG was based on experience with VGG vs AlexNet in other projects.
You're 25 times more likely to be the next US president than to win at Powerball
The $1B+ Powerball lottery jackpot is being covered all over the US press, with many articles quoting Jeffrey Miecznikowski, associate professor of biostatistics at the University at Buffalo, as saying that "you're 25 times more likely to become the next president of the United States than to win at Powerball".

But in the next four years and ten months, at most one person will be elected president, while quite a few people will win at Powerball, so it's obvious that Jeff's "25 times" claim is completely backwards (good thing for him he has tenure). The question is: how can it be that not a single news outlet is pointing out that all the others are reporting obvious nonsense?
Thanks for pointing that out. It did seem like that could make a difference by this metric alone in some scenario.
Not the press that has the largest readership. Not sure it's ever been mentioned in the Daily Mail.
It's the net change after accounting for deaths that would count here. So the pertinent number is about 200,000/day. Not that this changes your overall point.
I think it makes some sense. They know Apple won't just approve any app (malicious, useless, etc) so they only do the additional checks for the app that are specific to them.
> All-in-all, the skills feature (and the skills store) feels like an after-thought.

Joseph Jaquinta expressed a similar sentiment when he wrote:

"Amazon's traditional areas (everything on AWS) follows a different model. They are more like a utility. Minimal engagement. No direct support. They provide a service. You take it or leave it. While this I think is a workable approach for a wide audience in a mature area, I do not think it is a wise approach for Alexa. But, that's if they give a hoot about 3rd party developers and think they are going to add any significant value to their platform. We don't know if this is so, because they won't say."
Or we can be mindful and do not follow our ancient "animal" behavioral patterns.
> Just different levels of abstraction.

From a scientific perspective, it's much more important than that. Neuroscience has empirical evidence, theories, and is a science. Psychology has anecdotes, no testable, falsifiable theories, and, for lack of empirical evidence, cannot be a science.

> Basically, I think you're painting a false dichotomy.

So is the director of the NIMH:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h

Quote: "America’s psychiatrist-in-chief seemed to be reiterating what many had been saying all along: that psychiatry was a pseudoscience, unworthy of inclusion in the medical kingdom."

> The dream would be to be able to put all these levels of abstractions together, and have good mappings between them.

Yes, absolutely, and I think this will eventually happen within neuroscience. But focusing on the mind, something inaccessible to empirical investigation, is not the road to that goal.
You mean, Swift on Security wasn't an original idea?
A few years ago I was listening to "How to listen to and Understand Great Music"[1] and the speaker made an interesting point about art.

Let's say you take a friend from another country to a baseball game. He's never seen baseball and knows nothing of the game. He can certainly enjoy himself -- there will be lots of colors, activity, and it's quite a spectacle. He may even want to come back.

As he learns more and more about baseball, however, he will have a completely different experience. It's the same game, but now you see a lot more of the complexity and nuance.

As a film fan, I use the meta-ratings almost exclusively. I'll go and watch popular films. Sometimes I'll even enjoy them. But there's a lot going on in cinema. I like understanding the nuance and detail, and I think well-mace movies make for better experiences.

1. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and-...
Some didn't stop caring about it. It's all about how much you care about performance, and whether you think no garbage collection is preferable (or not).

> How low should we go? How useful is it to know about C-style memory management when you're a front-end JavaScript Developer?

There are things in between as well (such as RAII). That's about using it. Usefulness of knowing it is another thing. Someone will have to implement things on the lower level either way. I.e. garbage collector itself is going to manage memory after all.
Even switching from "copy and allocate objects everywhere" to non-copying native IO can improve your memory efficiency and usability.

I am working on an Android app, and rewrote the part that handles the connection via a binary protocol over a socket with a remote server. Rewriting that to take advantage of NIO already improved connection times (build up a connection, initialize, etc) from almost 2 minutes to only 8 or 9 seconds. RAM usage of the backend was reduced by 50% – and it is easier readable.

More often than not it’s not that hard to add it, if one carefully thinks about the requirements and future extensions at every step.
That's absurd. Yes, humans are violent. Men are especially violent. The null hypothesis isn't that it is caused by DNA of all things.
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I hate these articles that compare software engineering to traditional engineering because the typical software engineer has very different requirements wrt failure and budget than does the traditional engineer. There are examples [1] of software being written up to the standards of traditional engineering. It can be done, it's just very expensive and it almost always makes more sense financially to write software that's more likely to have bugs. When that doesn't make sense, more disciplined practices are used.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

First check you minerals and vitamins, psychiatrist, blood tests etc.. I had similar problem and it was magnesium and bad glasses.

Secondly count your money and see what is your runway. You probably have enough to take a break for a year or two in cheap country.

And third check your working conditions. There is usually some sort of allergy, missing reward etc.. For example some people can not work in open-spaces.

> I dread hearing about frameworks, IDEs, debuggers, compilers, Unicode, RFCs, protocols, what have you. Everything seems unnecessarily complex.

Find a niche. I make money on Delphi (my IDE is from 2003) and we dont have such things.

> What depresses me is seeing how uninteresting a person I am

Uninteresting to whom?

> I don't have hobbies. I haven't traveled a lot. I don't appreciate art. I don't even play video games.

There is nothing wrong about that, art etc is boooooring. You can fix traveling or art problem in a few weeks, most people will never be able to even read code. And if its so important why just not fix it?

Anyway my impression is that you miss reward/recognition for what you do, someone told you are nerd etc.. There is good self-improvement subreddit with over 100K subscribers, but I can not post link here.

Good luck.
The UK and the people of the UK and the government of the UK are different things. The government signed on not the people.
Gross vs budget is huge, just look at any Blum House film
I actually prefer the US system in that it potentially provides doctors with a more well-rounded education.
The iOS app store was mired in fart apps in the early days. Many of them were very profitable. I think it's just a natural growing pain of any consumer-facing app store.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/23/iphone-fart-app-pulls-in-n...
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I am still working on a good explanation. Here's what I've come up with so far:

I have noticed every page I scroll causes a comprehension loss of around 90%, so in reading something that is 10 pagefuls long, I might only be able to reproduce a tiny part of the program.

I find not scrolling, and just moving my eyes, I rapidly absorb the program, and I find most bugs just by reading the code. This practice is absolutely impossible for me if I have to scroll very far and made difficult by scrolling at all.

A lot of J/K/Q/KDB programmers do this because it is similar to APL, but I don't have an APL background. I simply do not know how to do this except to write horizontally.

I learned a lot about this method by studying Arthur's code (example[1]). He frequently recommends Iverson's paper[2]. I just try to make every character count because it's still taking up space.

Maybe keeping that in mind will help you read each word carefully -- maybe even out loud, if it helps.

[1]: http://www.nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

[2]: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
Human safety adds massive overhead to any mechanical engineering project. I worked in aerospace. In probably 1-2 days, we could conceivably change a part drawing, send it to the shop, then have it start being manufactured en masse. Why don't we do that? Because the part drawing must be reviewed by the analysis group first. Altering part geometry can change load paths. We might have enlarged something to strengthen it, but now it requires a larger hole elsewhere. It can take days to months to anaylze the part change. We do manual calculations, physical simulations, and physical testing. Each of those is still not at the point where we could pass it to a strong AI, they're all part art and part science that require an engineer's manual, informed decisions. Correcting experimental data, deriving new calculations, even just making diagrams and describing all of this along the way takes time. We must document everything. We might have to design and build a test fixture from scratch (airplane wing test fixtures aren't exactly off the shelf). Experiments get run wrong, they set the wrong loads, a tech installed a sensor 1 inch off, meaning we have to throw out a month's worth of data. Humans make mistakes. We do our best to catch them. Only after all this can we get regulatory approval (FAA in our case) and start pushing it to production. Honestly the attitude that software eng is "light years ahead" is infuriating, mechanical engineering is rife with time consuming checks and triple checks so that people do not die.