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I think most people still prefer tabs to their "clever" image

Tabs is web browsers are evidence of some fundamental brokenness with the web. I think Microsoft's designers probably instinctively hated the idea, just like Apple's probably did (Safari didn't (doesn't?) have tabs turned on by default).

It's far from clear to me that most people are comfortable with the concept of dynamically managed tabs. Clearly computer nerds do like them though.
Why should relational db writes not be idempotent? MySQL example:

INSERT INTO table (id, a, b) VALUES (1,2,3)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=2, b=3;
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Dr. Martin Seligman's book "Learned Optimism."

Very useful, a suggestion well worth following up on.
As an owner of a Windows Mobile 6 phone, I am hoping that 7 is also a magic number for their mobile OS as well. I can certainly agree that the move from XP to 7 and Vista to 7 was excellent.
I donated mine copy of Stroustrop to one of my classmate with whom I was not having good terms.
Wasn't there an attempt to do this in the 1960s? They tried to give students a better mathematical foundation for more advanced maths that ended up backfiring politically? Namely they were teaching rudimentary set and number theory to K-5 kids. This came at the expense of kids ability to multiply and divide, and when the press caught wind of this, the program was quickly shut down.

It seems like any attempt to restructure the math curriculum will be met with massive resistance from parents who were eminently satisfied with their own (likely poor quality) math education, and want their children to have the same.
K&R is not only about C. It is about programming practices in general and is content-packed. So much power in so thin book, just like C itself, a language with only 32 keywords.
I have received professional help myself. I would not necessarily recommend it--I've been in a similar situation and it did next to nothing for me. I wouldn't necessarily recommend against it, either--I'm just not "advocating" it, in your words.
Vista is so bad, I will never use a Microsoft OS again, if I can help it. XP was fine, don't see the need for change.
>> Some people say this is what entering adulthood's like, but everyone around me seems to be perfectly fine.

Your foray into adulthood does not have to be like everyone else's and around the same time. Some of your friends may mature and go through this later in life. Some will face a stronger mid-life crisis, having never gone through something like this.

Here's the transition all males have to make, at one point or another in their life. Boy => Guy => Man.

What you feel now will certainly pass, and you will be all the more stronger, and a man with purpose because of these (20s) formative experiences.
I highly recommend The Art of Happiness by Cutler.
MAO inhibitors can have LETHAL side effects with other medicines and even with common foods from some cuisines

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Digg, back in its prime, use to be a thriving tech community. However, since its expansion, it has attracted all types of internet users who seek infographics, videos of cats and political commentary rather than tech articles.
See I actually much prefer having big intellectual conversations with people when I'm drinking, including things like politics.
Much better than the "dude I'm so wasted" type conversations.
Are you me? I was actually going to post this question myself sometime this week! For the moment, let's say that you've just contributed something valuable to the community that I really wanted to see. I'm still reading through the responses, but I want to take this opportunity to thank you for this right now.

It takes guts to take the first step and seek help. I'm still trying to muster up the courage myself.
It's hard to be happy if you haven't defined happiness for yourself. I once took the time to explicitly write out my values and their relative priorities, and now every time I think about major decisions in my life I have a meaningful frame of reference.
We started a transition from XP to windows 7,for staff. and after the dramatic drop in support calls, the gained speed, and the general approval of users many of which are natives of Apple, our only problem is that we are not doing the transition fast enough.

7 is a very solid experience, Without fanfare it seems under the radar Microsoft is gaining ground, i have a suspicion they are actually using the lack of limelight to their advantage.
It's hard to come up with examples where idempotency is impossible (I'm sure there are some)... but there are definitely cases where it is difficult. Counters are one of the most obvious examples; to make them idempotent you need to jump through a lot of hoops. Usually you assign a transaction-id to each increment/decrement operation and you keep a log of which have been applied. Suffice to say this explodes the cost of storing a counter (which would otherwise only require 32/64 bits).

Other things are hard to make idempotent but it's stil practical. Examples of this include operations like "delete all rows matching query Q". This either means "delete all rows for now and forevermore" or "delete all rows that exist at time T". In either case new rows matching Q might arrive in the future (but be antedated to the past) and you have to store the operation around in some way to apply the delete operation in the future. This can be easy if your query is easy to represent, and there is a limited class of such queries.

Sorry, it's hard to be precise about this in comments. The bottom line is Gizzard is not perfect for everything but idempotency is worth jumping through hoops a lot of the time (Gizzard or no!)
bpython is awesome, far better than ipython and is the best tool to learn new libraries. bob did a great job there. Also weave is fantastic. Do check tarek's work on python-weave client. Rest are time-tested and well-proven tools.
I agree that this is a most beneficial/therapeutic exercise. I started doing it 5 years ago, and it has helped immensely. I am much more agile now.

Something else that I have done is keep a "junk journal" where I have taken a picture of all of the stuff that I have sold/donated/given away. After a few years you can look back and go "Wow...I really had a ton of crap"

It's funny how we think we own stuff, but it can really own us.
Things I couldn't live without (or at least would push back on if pressured to use something different):

git (GitX for viewing), TextMate (AckMate bundle for searching w/in a project), Basecamp, Chrome (any WebKit or Gecko browser will do though), two Fluid SSBs for personal and business Gmail, Homebrew for Mac package management, Hex Fiend for looking at/searching through raw files (priceless for diagnosing character set issues).

I'm using Sequel Pro, but I've found it a bit unstable and would love to see something better.

I just discovered Path Finder, a finder replacement that looks like it fixes my common gripes. I'll probably end up buying it when the demo expires.

Lastly, one I haven't used in awhile and is a little project specific is Prince for HTML->PDF conversion using CSS3 Print Profiles (and this was back when it looked like CSS3 would never happen). Here's a rundown: http://tomayko.com/writings/princexml
"He said that until startups are funded, they are basically just fantasies."

Until startups are profitable, they are basically just fantasies (or nightmares). (Which pretty much sums up the article.)
pbcopy and pbpaste are fantastic. I use this regularly, it is a part of my ~/.bash_profile : alias cpwd='pwd|xargs echo -n|pbcopy'
You are referring to "new math," which is the kind of math instruction I had when I was a child.

I am reading just now a very interesting book The Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers Need to Know

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/FIE-book.pdf

(posted on

http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/13083

which warns that it may be a slow download)

which describes improved university courses for students who plan to become elementary teachers. That is a big emphasis in the United States now--international comparisons have shown that mathematics education of elementary pupils in the United States is lousy largely because the mathematical education of elementary teachers (at all levels) is lousy,

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

so United States mathematicians are trying to do something about that that is more effective than the 1960s attempt at "new math."

Yes, Stillwell's book, mostly aimed at mathematics students who will go on to be mathematicians rather than schoolteachers, is also an outcome of thinking about curriculum reform. He describes his motivation for writing his excellent book as attempting to understanding concepts of mathematics he still didn't understand after he earned his Ph.D. at MIT.
Go see your doctor. You can confide in him/her and never underestimate the wonders of pharmaceuticals.

I became severely depressed as a result of a combination of things. Studying 2 degrees at once was fine, however in the last 2 years of my university work my father died from heart attack and my brother committed suicide shortly after.

I'm pretty sure I had a breakdown at one point, there is about 8 months of my life I don't remember living.

Anyway, I spoke to my doctor, he put me on Prozac which I've been on ever since. Magic stuff.

That combined with taking care of myself both physically and emotionally has kept me going.

Also, I found that it is true, talking to friends about your troubles does help. You might be too proud to do so, but trust me, the alternative is far worse.
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People come to realize things in their own time. Personally I think (a lot of) people who seem to figure things out too quickly don't fully realize the magnitude of their decision at the time (not to say that's her case). Figuring it out for yourself is the only way. I was in pain and I came to (a nearer certainty) by writing down my thoughts every single day for months (as others here have also suggested). Everyone has their own style though - writing, talking it out with a psychiatrist or friend(s), praying/meditating...
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Jurassic Park anybody?
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The author is Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs.
Wow, I thought that I was getting pretty good at coding in Scala until I just spent 30 minutes reading Gizzard's code base. Ugh, now I feel like I have only been using about 20% of the language.

Good on Twitter for releasing this - looks like good infrastructure code. I want to look at the Rowz sample application when I get some free time.
Read the War of Art by Stephen Pressman. He puts a name to this beast and calls it resistance. Most of us have gone through it. He openly discusses it and talks about the battles against it.
Yes; I'd never seen an essay arranged visually like that. In parts it was not better, just different (but not worse), but there were several points where the format considerably added to the essay. Now I have to go check out the rest of that site.
Hm, another passing mention of their distributed graph database, FlockDB.
Wrong way of thinking about it. A company like AOL does need to invest in modernizing their business model somehow to stay relevant. The Bebo buy was rather poor, but the general idea of rebuilding AOL into something else is a good plan. If they don't remake AOL into something else, the layoffs will keep coming as the company dies a slow death.
I'm 28, own successful businesses and have plowed this ground. These aren't going to be standard answers, but its what has helped me. YMMV.

1. Get in a situation where you can balls out fight. I prefer jiu-jitsu but did TKD for a while too. We live in a controlled, over analyzed society. You talked about going to a shrink. That's valid but consider the alternative - you are so controlled and repressed that what you need is to get on the mat with someone else and just struggle/wrestle/fight. You'll know inside 1 minute if this is what was lacking. If its wrong, you are bruised but only out a free class.

2. Plant roots, literally. I live in suburbia. A little "grow your own veggie by the window" kit was more depressing than fulfilling. I'm not sure what it was, but something inside me snapped. One too many fake plastic meals out perhaps. I bought $1000 worth of dirt and had it dropped on my driveway. I went to home depot and with the help of my lovely wife, measured out and bought wood and stakes. I worked all weekend outside, in the sun, in the rain, hauling dirt, figuring out how to plant stuff without killing it (mixed initial results). It was a lot of time to think. It was also hard and frankly, it was very nice to sit back down to work on redmine tickets. Best of all, a whole garden sprouted up and we had food for weeks that WE grew. Since then, my backyard has become a huge orchard as well as a home owners association show down in the making. It makes me feel connected to life and growth. It makes me feel like I stake my rugged individualist claim. Likely its more me playing in the dirt in the back yard, but it settles me down and centers me.

3. Catholic mass. I was raised Baptist and am now agnostic. As a kid, I attended three churches destroyed by infighting and backstabbing. I'm not really thrilled with Christianity, or at least Jesus's current merry band of salesmen. None the less, go sit in a Catholic mass once a month on a random week night. Its great. So peaceful. It gets you out of your shell. Best part, no baptist style "welcome the guests" stuff at most masses. Just a bunch of people running through the ancient traditions and singing nicely. I would advise you pass on the free bread and wine though, in case it turns out its all true.

4. Your Relationships. Are they solid? Are they long term oriented? I'm not sure if its a skill or a choice or what, but everyone I know that's happy is a long term relationship builder.

My sincere best wishes to you. Push on!
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"Apple, Google and Amazon are all reportedly in discussions with big labels to provide a cloud music service.
...
The labels, say our source, are demanding that a user can only stream music that is watermarked to their username. Change the username, or try to stream music that you’ve ripped from a CD, and those songs won’t play."

It's a stupid idea to propose that you wouldn't be able to access music you put into the cloud that didn't have your personal watermark in it.

Let's assume Johnny has an all-legal music collection dating back 10 years - consisting of iTunes (watermarked) MP3s, Amazon (non watermarked) MP3s and a ton of self-ripped MP3s from his old CD collection (non watermarked).

There is no way Apple, Amazon or anyone else would find success and adoption in a system that would only let him play the watermarked files purchased from iTunes but deny him playing the rest of his legal collection.

Anyone building such a system, regardless of the music industries demands, needs to find a new product manager.
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A docking station + a 19" monitor works great for me both at work and at home.
I have tried the freezer trick before with varying success.

On one occasion, my friend's laptop hard drive kicked the bucket and failed when I tried to use Spinrite.

However, a few weeks ago, a Aeagate hard drive from my brother's Macbook failed. Throwing it in the freezer for a few hours did the trick and we were able to make a full copy of the data.
Travel. Leave the country for a good long while. Go to India. Go to Russia. Go to Africa. Go to the middle east. Go to asia. Save $5K and live on $3 a day for a while. There's a long list of cheap countries where you can just hang out. Pick the one that interests you, and start there.

Nothing gives you perspective and connects you with real life than... real life, as most of humanity lives it. Get out there and spend six months or a year just floating. I think you'll find that eventually you see the point of things back home, that you'll remember what is important to you.

And when you come back, everything will be new, and you'll be you.

That, or get yourself some Paxil.
I am primarily a designer/interface developer (I moonlight as a Django coder). I use:

Inkscape for design.

Gedit for coding (+ a couple of plugins... I like my IDE to be as simple as possible).

Verb for project management (http://verbapp.com/, of course :).

Ubuntu for my OS.

Subversion (I know, I'm oldschool) + RabbitVCS.

That covers my usual workflow, but there's a healthy dose of things like SSH, GIMP, a horde of different browsers, Firebug, IETester, FileZilla and whatever else when I need it.
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Here you go: http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/3/3509/Papers/Ariely.pdf

Btw, note that initial anchors grossly affect the decision; subsequent anchors are less effective. So, if the interviewer already has a figure in mind (or worse, has written it down), then you really have a lower chance of swaying the number. "making a fairly strong suggestion" may not move the anchor much.

However, if neither knows a reasonable number, then any anchoring is significant (including numbers not pre-pended with a dollar sign- Kahnenann's 1974 paper).
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I think this is definitely an area worthy of taking on, but like another comment said, be prepared for it to take years to mature.

I've thought about this problem a bit as well mainly from the position of "you don't know what you don't know". This has always bothered me in terms of self-motivated learning. Google has changed the world by enabling people to learn almost anything online. There still exists a problem though in not knowing what search terms to enter into google? If I don't know anything about sql and database normalization how am I supposed to use google to find what it is I don't know?

My thinking led to a service somewhat like yours. A kind of collaboratively curated "basecamp" for certain topics. I would suggest concentrating on one specific area of knowledge like "computer science". So for example there would be vague things like "Overview of the internet" which would branch off into what a web app is, html, css, browsers, protocols, what a database is, what is mysql , and eventually "database normalization" etc. I think its useful to create properly formed structures of information. That way when you navigate the information you can navigate back up the tree if you need more prerequisite knowledge and then go further down into specifics once you understand your node. I also like the idea of a an overview "glossary". Don't you think that every discipline has its own language? It's own lexicon of slang and sayings. Even here in hacker news: PG, ASK HN, ror, a/b, seo, CS, machine learning, GAE. I have to be honest here and say that when I first came to HN I didn't think much of it at all because the front page looked like a foreign language to me. "I don't get it" I would think. That's because I was unfamiliar with the language and terms. So I think something as simple as a glossary would make things a lot easier for some people.
Database: mysql, normalization, key value store, index, foreign key, tables, rows, locking, read, write, etc.
If nothing else it would act as a starting point to start a google search party.

Yes a lofty goal indeed but I think it would be very impactful.

edit:

A lot of people would point to Wikipedia to solve this problem but as I'm sure you've figured out, wiki functions as a database of nuggets of information that possibly link to one another. I'd argue that hierarchal structured information (or what you might call a guided lesson plan) would be a lot better in terms of actually learning the material. Also I imagine a world in which these lesson plans were curated by people who have "been there before". I can't tell you how many times I have studied something in a book, looked it up online, tested it out for myself, spent 2 more weeks thinking about it and perfecting it, AND THEN sometime down the line later, some guy somewhere mentions the same lesson i learned in a 5 minute conversation. He literally tells me everything i know in 5 minutes, because he's been there before. And I could probably do the same for other people regarding my own domain knowledge. Need to know how to print t shirts? I guarantee you I can give you a crash course in an hour that will save you months of trial and error.
It doesn't hurt that the total number of constructs in K&R C is really quite small. I'm not sure there are any current languages with comparably few constructs; maybe Arc. Even Scheme is bigger, at least for a recent version (say, R6RS).
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One book that I have gotten help from recently is "The Happiness Trap" by Dr. Russ Harris. (www.thehappinesstrap.com). It is a basic introduction to a recent form of cognitive behavioral therapy based on mindfulness called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The main difference between this and regular cognitive behavioral therapy is the idea that instead of trying to change your thoughts, you change the way that you engage with them and by doing that you can get away from the constant struggle with them.
Similar effects have been seen for non-dollar figures: people anchor to numbers on Wheel of Fortune, for instance (Kahneman's 1974 paper).

However, this anchoring is definitely weaker, so your point is taken.
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By bicycle. ;)
Several do, though, and no one seems to mind.
maybe some crosstabs

http://github.com/languages

Somebody from gith told me how the above was compiled, I've forgotten. #10-20 include: clojure, haskell, scala, C#, CL
I'm surprised companies don't offer more perks, like massages and a stocked fridge. I worked for a company that provided lunch, and it turned out when the company paid and had food delivered, lunch only lasted 30 minutes. Leaving the office took at least an hour and a half. 1 more hour of productivity for $15 is a bargain when you're paying devs at least $50/hour when you add up all the benefits and taxes.
This looks like it's on topic and might make some interesting points, but it's just plain tl;dr, and the formatting doesn't help. I read the first paragraph or two, clicked over to the description of the attack being referenced, and then couldn't make it through the rest of the wall of text. If it's really as concise as it can get, I would recommend substantially reducing the column width.

(This is intended as constructive criticism, not Internet rage, but I'm open to constructive criticism of my methods for same.)
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I'm kind of pleased with the apparent answer, because "religious" has taken on such a negative connotation that it's immediately taken as an attack.

I'm a big boy, I can take it. :)
Windows XP isn't long in the tooth. With a good set of registry edits, an SSD drive, Firefox and Google Chrome, I don't even notice it's there.
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