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Nice, I have a "Funstuff" list which are things I like to do: drawing, karate, acoustic guitar listening...

It's funny how we need to write these down, but we do. Off the top of my head I can "forget" that I like to draw when I'm bored. In a similar way, sometimes we have to "remember" what makes us happy.
> Effectively, it is in an excellent position to leverage its ISP monopoly to create a massive extortion racket to content providers. And the magical free market isn't going to push back against Comcast, because the experience for the end-user has not noticeably suffered.

So in the end, being an internet provider is massively profitable, and maybe another company decides to jump into the space to take a share of the highly profitable market. Maybe two companies, maybe three. Suddenly there are choices, these companies are competing on price, service, bandwidth, etc. for customers and everyone wins, all at the price of Mom's free blog being served 1/10th of a second slower in the interim.

Sounds good to me.
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+1 for Dterm. i never use it as often as i should.
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"Crucially, two of those were patents that IBM explicitly promised never to raise against open source."

What sort of weight does that promise carry? It's hard not to draw parallels to the .NET patent discussion. Maybe these sorts of promises don't mean anything because they still have enough related patents to sink a free software project.
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Here in Ontario, we have the illusion of choice. Bell owns the DSL system, and allows other companies to resell access. Bell still controls the network, however. Back in 2008, Bell implemented bit torrent throttling and forced the change on all resellers. So now we have a choice of throttled DSL, throttled DSL, or throttled DSL.
Ask HN: Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation)
HN, I ask this question here as I'm unsure of where else to go with it. I'm sure a lot of people like myself are members (mid-20s, striving to be self-actualized and think about life goals and happiness, or went through this before) and I'm sure someone dealt with something similar. I have basically lost the motivation to do anything, in my professional and personal lives and am sure it's something akin to a quarter-life crisis.

More importantly, I have lost the ability to tell if and what I want anything from life. I have been a few years out of grad school; the train tracks of school/first job are fading. I have no idea where I want to live, no idea what I want to be doing, no idea where I want to be doing it and no idea what will actually make me happy. Or if I do know exactly where I want to live, I'm always terrified that I'll regret the move later.

This is affecting me emotionally, hurting my relationship with my long-term girlfriend (hopefully soon fiance), and is much more severe than what I've experienced before. I am going to make an apointment with a psychologist, but after a few unsuccessful attempts to appeal to parents and friends, I'm not sure what else who else to turn to or how to proceed.

Some people say this is what entering adulthood's like, but everyone around me seems to be perfectly fine.

Thank you in advance for any advice and I hope it helps someone else who's going through something similar.
If a shard goes down, writes to it are queued on a Gizzard middleware host. What happens if that Gizzard host is then lost?
Emacs and screen. Git is very nice. Charles Proxy is wonderful for inspecting HTTP traffic.

Pixelmator is very good for quick graphics. It's on par with Photoshop 5 (version 5 from like 1998, not CS-Whatever).
Ah, I've recently switched to vim so I can't reap the benefits :).

I have contemplated geeking out and tagging these entries [blog] [exercise] and similar, so I could later analyze what areas give me the most satisfaction. But that's too much -- it's enjoyable just browsing through vs. letting grep do all the work.
Very true, but are we considering cost or usability?
A government commission studying [subject] recommends more governmental control over [subject]? I don't find that impressive.
I would not be surprised if Chipworks wasn't paid for this article. It might have been a PR project. At work we sometime do this to get our company in the news.
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It's silly to boil this down to a black and white issue, because it's not. "Listening to your customers" is not equal to relinquishing creative control of your product's direction. It means that you, as a company, address the day-to-day pain points that your users experience while using your software. That's it.
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This is sort of funny, but despite receiving many more upvotes than its parent, it displays a startling lack of understanding of the capitalist system.

More likely than you borrowing a few "hundred billion," large, midsize, and even small corporations would invest a "few million" in a city or neighborhood somewhere and use the profits to continue investing in other profitable areas. They might even collaborate and start connecting entire cities together (oh look, a backbone). I find this a much more desirable outcome than a government-run or (the current) psuedo-government run scenario.
The queues are local to each host so you'd lose those writes, but since writes are written to a journal on disk, you can apply some redundancy strategy to that as necessary. Depends on the SLA really.
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If God has laws to protect our rights, then He really should be way more vigilant about enforcing them.

Rights aren't granted by men, they're asserted by men. We have the right to free speech because we assert that we have the right to free speech, and the collective will of those who wish to assert the right to free speech is (currently, in this country, for the most part) greater than the will of those who wish to restrict it. This is why it's so important that we all agree on what rights we do have, and that we all spend a lot of time vigourously asserting them.
Not sure I would want one. ".... over two plus three. No move the plus three out of the fraction. The other one. Don't put the fraction plus three in parentheses. Ah... just let me use the keyboard!" Non-trivial math expressions are very hard to dictate.
I'm also mid 20s, and feel about the same. You should discuss with your girlfriend, what kind of life you two wanted to live. Plan carefully, and don't think too much, it will stress you instead.
Well, for starters, it needs to be a computer you're okay with a kid being on. Mine doesn't get near the Macbook Pro, but I've got a desktop set up in such a way that only the monitor, keyboard and mouse are accessible, so I'm okay with that.

Secondly, there's probably all sorts of great educational stuff for them to check out but all I've really done is put him on some simple Flash games. Examples:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Teagames/tg-motocross-2

http://www.kongregate.com/games/light_bringer777/learn-to-fl...

http://www.kongregate.com/games/arawkins/dolphin-olympics
I would sure want the luxury of instantly pushing out a minor update to all users of the app rather than having to wait months if I was internally developing a first party app.
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He never claims that the ISPs have a right to regulate traffic because they have to remain competitive (whatever that means). He makes it very clear that ISPs have a right to regulate traffic because they own the infrastructure.

The alternative is "government control of the privately owned infrastructure that makes the Internet possible."

How many choices you have doesn't determine whether something is or is not a free market. That's like saying that there is no free market in tablet computers because you can only buy iPads or JooJoos. Men are free to create and sell their own tablets, just as men are free to create their own ISPs. That is what makes it a free market.

Of course, the ISP market isn't totally free, but the solution is to remove regulations that violate the property rights of the ISPs. Net neutrality only makes the market less free.
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My two year olds cant get enough of this game:

Open up notepad. Maximize the window. Change the font to 72. Turn on caps lock. Let them have free reign on the keyboard and tell them what letter they are holding down. After about two months of this they are pretty proficient at the keyboard and at their letters.

For mouse skills fullscreen Microsoft Paint. Same results.
I've started using digg again occasionally and the Diggbar doesn't bother me that much from a casual user point of view.

What ended up making me turn it off was actually all the framebusters, because I had gotten in the flow of using it and when it went away, it was annoying.
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I have felt something similar in the last few months, and have been feeling the repercussions since then. Everything around me in my life was wonderful, in fact it was the best it's ever been. Deeply in love, working at a highly paid highly skilled job, enjoying my free time and continuing to improve my living situation. However, I felt a sincere lack of motivation and my results had started to decline.

Recently I have gotten back on track. What assisted me in that process was:
1. Talking about my feelings and listening to the life experience of my partner. This is humbling. You are not alone.
2. Getting back to the gym. This was a huge motivating force, getting your blood pumping makes you feel alive and is the quickest way to get to where you want to be. I also changed my diet (no more coffee, alcohol, junk food). This takes self discipline.
3. Lastly I remembered to have fun. The most stressful times for me was when I forgot to do the things that made me happy. Celebration is another part of being alive.
Children are going to take your mobile phone, put their head near the microwave, suck antennas of your wifi router and do lots and lots of crazy things that will expose them to different kinds of radiation. (while you're not looking / least expecting of course) Can anyone really protect children from EM waves of various nature these days? There are probably more dangerous items in your environment than an iPad.
Note at 2:54 how she naturally crosses her legs...

What's was that link on HN the other day about ipad and seating posture?
First off -- addressing: "Some people say this is what entering adulthood's like, but everyone around me seems to be perfectly fine." Have you spoken to others publicly in this same manner that you have privately, behind your username? Just because people don't talk about it publicly -- like you didn't; doesn't mean people don't feel the same way.

You didn't give any useful information about what you could do; you must have some hobbies or activities that you enjoy doing and one of those must be able to provide you with some money to live off of -- even if it be humbly.

In the end you have to make your decisions on what you know now and if need be you can always educate yourself to make a more informed decision.
>Windows 7 is my favorite desktop OS so far (except for web development, I like a native *nix shell).

I'm exactly the same. I've found that logging into a Linux machine and tunneling X actually works fine for me; it's definitely an easier solution than dual booting.
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Try living in the present and not stressing out about the future or past... I recommend you read (or better yet listen to the audio book version) Ekhart Tolle's "The Power of Now". From the Amazon description: "the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday."
I've known a lot of people like this -- a lot of them young, and some of them much older. Some people seem to just have a lot of drive and always too many ideas about what they want to do, and others don't have much of any at all. I've never been that way, so I can't really relate.

But, I have seen that nobody else can really seem to tell someone how to live, or what to do, or how to be motivated. That part is all up to you; I could say, "go backpacking for a week", because that's what I do to clear my mind and re-focus, but that's something that works for me and probably would have no impact on you.

You're looking to everyone around you for some advice that can only come from within yourself. You're the only person that can decide what you want your life to look like.
"Learning Perl" was the first one I read all the way through. I read most of K&R, it was a similar experience, many years after reading the Perl book.
Wow I'm surprised to see "The Mind Map Book" on that list. I was just about to buy that book from Amazon when I decided to read Hacker News first. Now I'm going to wait until Sunday to see if I need to buy it. Thank you for your generosity, this is a great idea.
Yes. You are absolutely correct.

Every one of those things you've listed have a _horrible_ user interface. My ability to make music, calculate complex equations, play the drums, and create art is seriously hampered by my inability to use those devices.

As a result, I am neither a musician, complex-equation-calculator, drummer, or painter.
I'm just wondering if your having same level of scalability concerns, 900 tweets per second and real-time API?

More, their problems were mostly rails (Mongrel) related, should go away with app server being now Unicorn.
The study was merely commissioned by the FCC, but it was actually conducted by Harvard's Berkman Center for Public Policy. And your curt comment neatly avoids actually evaluating this very well-done study. I've done my own analyses of the data (which is mostly all publicly available from the OECD) and found similar conclusions (for example: about 68% of the variance in price of "fast" connection (12-36Mb/s) in the OECD is attributable to the presence of various government regulations, including LLU, as is about 30% of the variance in price per mbit). If you doubt their methodology or results, I invite you to look at the data and make your own conclusions.
Try this:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-discover-you...
Most adults go through something like this. You start to realize you're not as successful/confident/responsible/etc. as you thought you'd be by now, and you kinda freak out about it.

Losing motivation and feeling lost -- just about everyone I know has been there both personally and professionally at least once in their mid-20s. Seeing a psychologist might be good, but if I could give you a word of advice, I'd just tell you to start expressing bits and pieces of these feelings to others you trust. Chances are, everyone else has dealt with or is dealing with similar issues and will know what to say about your specific situation and personality.

I wish you lots of luck in your "striving to be self-actualized," as you put it, and I truly wish you happiness! Being ambitious is tough; the flip side of that coin is never being satisfied. Sounds to me like you have a little bit of both going on.
im in the same fucking situation dude, and i have no fucking clue what the fuck to do.
Netbeans for code & HTML, Git + GitHub, Filezilla, Basecamp, Freshbooks, GIMP (or Photoshop CS2 on Windows), and occasionally Eclipse for Android dev (not much of that yet, still learning).

On specific client projects, I also use Mercurial, SSH and SSHFS.
Step away if you can - take a trip, do something unrelated to anything you usually do - give yourself some space to clear your head and maybe you'll see what it is you really want.
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I handle a similar rate but different flavour of data, and near-real time. Not really comparable though.

I'm not saying what twitter is doing can't or won't be good, just that you should think very hard before you consider it for anything until they've visibly left their own scaling issues behind.
If it wasn't for the fact that this site has the single most annoying pagination scheme ever, or the fact that this author feels compelled to write long, distracting, inane footnotes, or the fact that even in the main text the author feels compelled to write long, distracting, inane asides, I might have had the patience to read more than two "pages" of this.

EDIT: Apparently he gets all the way from page 81 to 89 to start expressing his main point: SEO is changing writing styles for the worse. I'll refrain from commenting about whether this guy has any standing criticizing other people's writing style.
I can't use Windows without VirtuaWin for virtual desktops (two spaces * three monitors == 6 screens), and Switcher for expose on Windows 7. Both of those are mapped to the thumb buttons on my mouse. One thumb button toggles between spaces, the other toggles expose.

Three monitors on one space are devoted to fullscreen putty terminals. Each one is running in "screen -x" with 8 terminals opened up mapped to my F1-F8 keys. That's plenty of terminals for this or that. If i need to move what's on one fullscreen'd monitor to the next then I just click on the monitor and press the function key for the given terminal session I want. This lets me move them around without dealing with window positioning.

Nearly all code is written with Vim. Plugins include FuzzyFinderTextMate and BufferExplorer plugins mapped to hotkeys. Netbeans is absolutely essential for J2EE apps. Unix and Vim are for everything else.

I can explain any of this in further detail if anyone wants my configs.
Ultracapitalist? You mean an entrepreneur?

Or were you just trying to slur someone for having a different viewpoint?
That techcrunch of initiation boost is way too high, same height as the acquisition point lol
Because time is linear?
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You may joke about the phrase 'quarter life crisis', but that's what it feels like for me as well. I've found some peace of mind from letting things evolve over time instead of putting my all into a project/goal/relationship/whatever and then becoming frustrated when it doesn't succeed when and how I want it to. Eating well, exercising, and meditating also helped me feel more positive.

I hope you get back into the groove soon. Just stick at it, and eventually you'll get there. Hopefully we all will. :)
I have always been in a different boat (I'm 32 now). I always knew precisely what I wanted to do, and knew it would be something nontrivial and...transcendent I suppose is the word. Life always stops me, whether it's work, money or relationships. You may have think of the future, how you want it to be, think of things like solar powered bikes you can ride for free forever, or computers writing their own programs, or imaginative ways of meeting other people whose dreams exceed even your own vast expectations, to find your own path. Maybe those are just things I'm interested in. But I know that the world as it exists right now at this moment is so profoundly underwhelming that it can't be the basis of my own enlightenment. Although HN has sure blown my mind this last year.
How about a similar experiment about 20 years ago? Has anyone watched a young child try to navigate a command prompt? I mean changing directories, and maybe eventually learning a basic understanding of the filesystem and what files are.

I always tell people I learned how to navigate MS-DOS when I was five from watching my cousin do it. I wanted to get on the computer and play games, and I just remembered what he’d typed. I actually have no idea how true this memory is. But I wonder if CLI can feel just as natural to young children.
"If someone tries to sell you non-relativistic gold you are being had!"

This is mostly a concern for theorists who prefer to go as far as possible with non-relativistic theories.

This relativistic shift also has large implications for the bonding of gold nanostructures. The relativistic correction shifts the energy of the core electrons and they hybridize - giving the Au - Au bonds directionality. Small gold clusters can thus take on planar, cage, and tubular structures - completely contrary to what you would expect from surface tension.

see these wonderful papers:

Evidence of hollow golden cages:
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/22/8326.full

These small structures are famous for the fact that they are not chemically inert! Many people are exploring applications as catalysts to complete the oxidation of CO in automobiles.
Same situation as you, also in my mid-20s. Neuroticism seems to go hand-in-hand with high-IQ, introverted people. Just don't let that potential instability build-up into extreme actions that you might regret later...and perpetuate that vicious cycle of self-critique.
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That part gave it a weirdly surreal feel to me. I often read HN, and, separately, I often read the kinds of books and journals that have long footnotes and rambling text. But I rarely get the two together: a long-winded, heavily-footnoted article discussing microniches and SEO.
Broadband is very much a natural monopoly, like electricity or water.

ATT used to say that the phone network was "a natural monopoly". Today we'd laugh at that. Really, this example is so glaring that I'm surprised you'd offer this argument. And in fact you acknowledge that the local loop is separate from the actual network. But the difference in the US is that this is a free market -- I can choose to use Embarq (the traditional copper-wire circuit-switched carrier), or I can (and do) use Vonage, or scads of other IP-based carriers, or I could do like many people do and just use cellular. We the consumers are getting to choose just how this unbundling happens.

If, for some reason, you think that there's something sacred about telephone, while data is different (or vice versa), there are other counterexamples as well.

In New York, while electrical transmission remains a monopoly, generation has many choices. It works just like the phones: where the infrastructure demands a single source, that's what we get, but that doesn't mean that the people that provide the wires can be the only one involved in the business. (I pay more for electricity that's generated in part by windmills)

And most obviously, it seems to me that most people have access to two broadband carriers, albeit their capacity varies widely (but that's what markets are all about, right?). Virtually everyone I know has a choice of a DSL provider or a Cable provider.
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