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Can you imagine what it's like to be on the other side of you?

I don't know you, and I wouldn't presume to know anything about you other than what you've revealed in your comments, but what I can say is that you've been handed enough lego blocks to build anything you want to, and it seems like you've set them aside because they're not the specific blocks that you had in mind to build the thing that you envisioned at some point in the past.

No one automatically receives happiness. But you have an obligation to work on yourself, to do better than you seem to be doing, at building a happy self out of the life that you've made. That obligation is a result of choices you've made to build a family. Like it or not, you owe it to your wife and children to do the extra work of finding the meaning and sense of significance that is absolutely there waiting to be uncovered by you, and put to use by you.

All of the extrinsic life experiences you've mentioned in your comments do not entitle you to wait for something to click, to be more than a 'yawning void of nothing'.

If what you're talking about is something that you face no matter how many good, wise, smart moves that you make, then you may need to face the reality that you need treatment for depression or some other issue.

No amount of travel or physical trials that you've put yourself through can supplant the reality that you can build for yourself by simply looking inward. In fact, it seems as though by constantly abstracting the search into various physical or worldly concerns, you've done the opposite.

Happiness and fulfillment are moving targets. Personally, I suspect that I may never get all the way there. But I've spent some time on the road you're describing, and I know it's a dead end road. It's ego, it's self-indulgence, it's blame, it's a withering loneliness that makes you a small island, one that can be described in just a few seconds with cliches, easily traversed by foot, and forgotten or ignored by others.

Whether or not you're clinically depressed, you should probably work on the quality of your relationships. Are there people that you can authentically connect with? If not, find them. They're out there. Are there people with whom your connection leaves you feeling bad or more isolated? Get rid of them. Are there people that you keep trying to connect with but it doesn't happen? Stop trying, and refocus your energy on authentic connections. Are there superficial connections that satisfy some social or validating urge that you have? Figure out whether your relationships with those people can be evolved into authentic, meaningful connections or not, and work on the good ones and discard the bad ones.

It's an absolute tragedy to waste all of the time and beautiful experiences and memories that you could be accumulating with all of the people in your life, for lack of addressing a few relatively simple and totally fixable issues.
This is interesting from a technical point of view, but looking at the Hello World example [0] really makes me wonder... who wants to write code like this? I have been a touch typer for half my life now, but things like

> %% unreachable{};

> main(args: [][]u8) -> %void

really make my fingers and eyes itch.

[0] https://github.com/jmi2k/zig-playground/blob/master/src/hell...
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Because templating languages are without exception bug-breeding grounds that no human being can actually use without producing errors, which the browser then sometimes proceeds to auto-correct (html being html), which leads to a kind of "approximate" programming style, aka nirvana for security holes and other bugs. Oh, and composition is terrible pain too, encouraging over-complex UI components that do it all. And learning whatever flavor cleverly-insufficient control-flow and looping constructs this templating library uses is a pointless waste of time (and source of bugs) too.

Why in the heavens would you ever choose to use a templating library and blur the lines between content (user input) and UI structure? Why reinvent the control-flow wheel?

Templating represents programmers realizing that this newfangled browser thing can already parse HTML, and hey, can't we do something clever with that - sure, if we unnecessarily serialize to a string first, yes! No thank you.
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Most of which from people that never used anything else and think C was some kind of wonderful invention by two guys at AT&T that just want to have an easy way to implement a compiler, by ignoring what everyone else has done before.

Had UNIX been a commercial OS instead of having the source code available for free, C would just be another footnote on the history of system programming languages.
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> I don't make them memorize anything -- I agree that's a waste of mental capacity -- they just learn it through tremendous repetition.

I don't understand. You are drilling them to memorize through repetition.
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Thanks greenyoda !! By techy I meant the company being restrictive wrt updating itself to newer technologies/frameworks and also a slow adoption rate wrt the same . But like you said , programming in scala kind of contradicts the same .

Thank you for ur response !
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And too tricky - assigning to arbitrary properties on a DOM object can have arbitrary side effects if ever you happen to overload a predefined property (on any browser).
Ah, that one does it every time for me. Gotta love music with a message
> If you’re genuinely satisfied with what you are and what you’re doing, then give those books a wide berth. (Let sleeping dogs lie.)

I find myself doing this. Avoiding books that I think might upset my current reality for no apparent gain. It does make me feel intellectually dishonest, though. As in, I should be able to read anything and handle it rationally.
> Just a French guy who's lived 10 years in the US here

Yeah, you're probably the best person to talk about France then.

Just remember about 10% of citizens have been voting for FN for the past 30 years with little evolution one way or another (it has been getting a little more votes since the leader isn't the openly racist founder anymore, which is actually a good sign isn't it?). Also, judging someone on one of their parents is very bad form, would you also criticise people for voting for a candidate whose mother was a playmate?

The real difference, the reason why they are getting better scores than they used to, is that most moderate people are stopping voting altogether because the moderate parties are disappointing everyone is every way.

10% of citizens is too little IMO to generalise as "the French", especially if you're not even living in France.
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Got a wire account a few days ago. While my experience on linux was alright a friend of mine went through a lot of trouble.

After the activation he couldn't log in using the browser. It said "no connection" even though that wasn't true. He then installed the Windows desktop app which forced him to upload a photo, which he actually didn't wanted to. Apparently there was a button to skip this step but it didn't work.

After some time we were finally chatting for a while. While we both enjoyed the fact that it is secure, open-source and has some great features (like the yt video integration) he found the desktop client "confusing" (don't really know what exactly he meant by that tbh).

At this point we were unsure whether or not we wanted to continue using wire in the future. But then his desktop application crashed and he couldn't start it anymore. He tried the web app again but it still wouldn't work.

Long story short: Chances are we are not going to use wire again in the future. And this is really unfortunate as I'd prefer to use it! The problem is: convincing people to try it is hard enough. If then their first experience isn't super smooth they a.) won't use it and b.) are probably less open to try a different messenger in the future.

And now what?
We can't resort to Signal as I still prefer using a dumb phone. And then there is Telegram but I don't trust their security measures. What's more, I really don't see the necessity to tell a messenger my phone number.
If the company and employees identified by other people in this thread are correct, then yes, it would seem that this company has a Korean CEO who enjoys the loyalty of a Korean clique within the company. Some of the Caucasian employees have close ties to Korea as well. OP was ostracized and eventually kicked out because she didn't go along with the clique despite sharing their ethnicity.

The H1B's are Chinese and probably have no influence over how the Korean clique runs their company. The quote from "Michael" suggests that he has little more than contempt for the "Chinese kids". I can almost hear the Korean version of that remark in my head, and unfortunately this kind of racism is all too common among the assholes who give my country a bad rep.
In my experience, most companies hire from their own time zone.

Some prefer that the people speak the companies native language or are good in English.

Then, many people don't want to work remote, which cuts the ratio between "top 1% of candidates in your city" and "every possible candidate" much more.

Also, smaller companies aren't well known and don't get as much applications as big ones, so if they're simply bad at hiring (which almost every company is, especially the small ones) the competition doesn't even know that there is an opportunity to compete.
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why did you pursue those things listed, and did you enjoy them? Or was it to check a ticklist?

I thought I would, so I started. Never really did, but kept doing it assuming that if I got better at it then it would become enjoyable. Never happened.

I've assumed you've been on a sex binge before? Nothing came out of that?

Three kids!

But seriously...yes 2005-6 was basically that. But no, those kind of serotonin binges are short lived and tend to be tolerance inducing - meaning you need more to get a bigger enjoyment "bump," at least that's what happened in my case and those are generally more destructive and risky than the benefits.
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Can you name some of the advancements that heirs who have never worked a day in their lives have brought in the US over the last 10-20 years? Who live off the labor of those of us who do work, the labor time of which they expropriate with their dividends and profits?

The heirs, the parasites who live off the labor of those of us who do work are the ones who have to explain what good their parasitism is doing in this day and age. We who work and create wealth and who organize ourselves don't have to justify our existence to these parasites and their myrmidons. They need us, we don't need them.
Ask HN: Using Cloud Foundry in production?
My company is planning to start using Cloud Foundry running on Open Stack for our main business to consumer sites (doing most of our sales). The initiative is primary pushed by dev teams that like the ease of deployment.

As supported distributions from Pivotal, IBM & HP are quite expensive they want to use the Open Source ('free') version to run CF on-premise. Given that OPS has limited experience with both CF and Open Stack this seems pretty ambitious to me.

If have tried to find other companies that use a similar setup in production but I could not find one in my network. Hence this post with the question to HN readers to share their experience (ease of setup, stability, etc) with a similar setup.

Another related question I have is if someone has experience with running Docker containers in production on CF Diego. Our architects seem to have the opinion that CF can be used to replace our Docker Swarm environment as well.
Yeah, I know that feeling - it is hard to get past it when it happens and it certainly takes a while for me every time it happens.

This is certainly not a universal cure, but for me the ideas presented in this ted talk have helped: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?...

So, set a goal and work towards that - but, looking at your profile that suggestion seems trite and silly, because you are and have been doing that for some time. Doing difficult things falls into the same category.

My suggestion would be to pick something completely pointless - something that you could easily pay someone to do for you, better than you have time-skill for and then do that.

For example, I'm building a house. Fairly big, not huge, wooden. I have no training in it and it has taken 5 years of evenings and weekends so far. Any reasonable construction team would have finished in 6 months and it would have had better quality of work.

I love it - it makes me happy to look at the small bit that I finished yesterday and somehow it gives me a sense of purpose. Maybe it's just a distraction - something to keep away the existential dread, but so what, because nothing has intrinsic value, this purpose is the best possible purpose for me.
'tis a fair point, thanks.
This was an awesome response, and piece of writing.
Not slow compared to what? Creating elements with the DOM API is faster than innerHTML roughly by a factor of 4 on Chrome Canary last I benchmarked it, DOM mutations with bindings are even faster. There is a reason why React switched from innerHTML to generating DOM.
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What I read (I have no proof this is true):

They can only do this if they have a branch in your country OR you have a working visa for the US.

But they can contract you, so you'd have to "export" your services.
If they continue to be uncooperative, just show them this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTQMzDvTgc

I'd suggest this will improve our (i.e. demand-side) negotiation chances.
hi @wlamartin - thanks for replying. It will be great if you can follow the (rather long) parallel thread on this topic. You should have a fairly good idea of how I personally look at this.

I wouldnt generalize that this is the problem that a small startup would always see ... but I think it is fairly close.

I would say this comment (and its reply) captures the gist very accurately - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12378554
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Ha! I went to their website... Hmm... never heard of them. Went to Wikipedia... Oh, now I know who they are! Yeah. Lot's of bandwidth.
> The world is much less poetic and open minded than many techno utopians would like to think.

The problem isn't the world, it's that you're assuming the rest of the world (including the western one) shares your values and aspirations of what should and should not be down to minute details.
> Also, judging someone on one of their parents is very bad form

Come on, she took over her dad's party very happily, you know very well that this argument doesn't apply here.

As far as popularity goes, we'll see what happens next year.

It seems that in your eagerness to comment, you missed on the fact that my original post never said that all French people supported FN - just that the French population includes a non trivial subset who do.

> Yeah, you're probably the best person to talk about France then.

I'm glad there are people on this forum who are the best person to talk about anything!
Witch hunting.

You don't know the real story, especially just how 'evil' Jessica is.
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It is 'Optimizely for CMS', because it works like Optimizely but in a different space (cms).

Like Optimizely, we enrich your website with new functionality, but instead of adding a/b testing, we add content management.
I believe everybody was expecting this comment, also everybody was expecting the down-votes, so they have already scrolled down and found it.. :)

At-least, this was my thinking.
>What company is running in 70+ datacenters!?

People running edge networks and therefore need servers local to everywhere in the world to keep latencies down. Maybe it's not as much of an issue for MindGeek (the parent company for a lot of video streaming sites). I would guess you guys need a lot of throughput but latency isn't so much of a problem. Or you simply don't need to serve some parts of the world where it might be illegal to distribute some types of content.

FWIW, Cloudflare has 86 data centers: https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map/
there are lots of projects that do this - we had a QT app with embedded cherrypy that we bundled using cx_freeze.

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Higher order integration methods are not always more accurate or more power efficient. They are typically worse in terms of stability if the step is too big, they require more computations per step and they may have higher error constant, so they actually often require smaller steps than low order methods. That's why in circuit simulators only methods of order up to 4 are really useful, and most of the time simple schemes of order 2 are used.
It was addressed elsewhere in the thread. My take is: 1/ it's written in C. 2/ it doesn't suffer from feature creep.

The code is 427 lines of C. GNU parallell is 10k+ lines of perl. Considering mmstick compares the loading times, it's easy to see where the difference comes from.
I think the down-vote happens, because he's argumenting too concrete for the question.

I don't know much about physics, but my take on this is:

First you model reality with waves and particles, then you see that particles can behave like waves and vice versa. The next step is to model reality with something different that can behave like a wave AND a particle and suddendly there is no paradoxon anymore.
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Heroin use is absolutely self medication - it relieves emotional pain as well or better as it does physical pain.
Oh okay then, my mistake. :-) Thanks for your box set suggestion. ;-)

I wonder if we'll allow some African cross-rhythms in this boxset. If we did I'd suggest Foolish Harp/Waerera by The Bhundu Boys:

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Oh, yea those close to me hate it. Everyone else seems fine cause they only see the professional side, so as far as they know, everything is just A OK Great!

Not only family but I have a high stress business to run and people counting on me! Thanks for taking the time to write that out though.

In reality, all you write is correct generally. This wasn't intended to be a mini-therapy session, but for what it's worth the same message you state: "Happiness comes from inside" has been repeated to me literally as far back as I can remember. It's not practical though.

I've had probably a dozen therapists over the years, found mentors I looked up to, tried to find meaningful relationships with peers, studied what fulfillment is etc...A few years ago I came to the conclusion that searching for "happiness" in all of these things was just not working. And beyond that the fact of the search turning up dry is a compounding problem.

I'm not sure what happened, but as Rodney Dangerfield called it "The Heaviness[1]" is getting bigger.

But I've spent some time on the road you're describing, and I know it's a dead end road.

I'm curious what "road" that is?

waste all of the time and beautiful experiences and memories that you could be accumulating

Is there value in accumulating experiences? I mean I've accumulated a shitload of them, the problem is there isn't anything to do with them. It's like saving Polaroids. Is there a reason to other than looking at them again for a serotonin bump?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdjYmhrA-A
I noticed how you left out crypto in "currency market cap" and just threw all currencies, crypto or not, in one basket.

Cryptocurrency is in its infancy. Proof of stake has had a lot of success and a lot of new currencies have and continue to adopt it.

What more evidence could you realistically expect to show the viability of proof of stake?
Python doesn't really "work okay" for ongoing projects. Framework updates become a 6-month migration job.
Is finding goal in life so hard and complicated? Why not settle with "do something that helps survive, expand and evolve human species"? Of course, the deeper question is why we want to do that? But until we figure that out, isn't that a worthy goal to pursue?
Wakie (https://wakie.com/), the app that allowed you to set alarms and have random people call to wake you up, used to have this. You could choose a topic (from a set list) and get randomly connected to someone who chose it too. I haven't used it in a long time though, no idea whether it still has users.
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Dawson had an interesting response. I can't give you an answer. Maybe it will for you, maybe it won't. Beats not trying I suppose.
Not really. She left enough clues that people on HN could figure it all out pretty quickly. Seems like a good middle ground to exposing them but protecting yourself.
Thats a terrible argument from my perspective.

In India we are fighting, and quite possibly going to lose the Net Neutrality battle to Facebook and our Homegrown telecoms.

The number of people who still don't have internet access far dwarfs the number of people who are online right now.

We've constantly being losing space to walled gardens from the day that the appstore showed it was profitable.

Recently it was shown that even Google was tacitly supporting groups on the anti-neutrality side of the debate.

Most of those tutorials are in English, the majority of the people who will come online will not use that as a language.

Someone can and will translate those tutorials, and lock it behind a wall.

The openness of the web is under assault, and Facebook and telecoms are actively working to convert their wealth into political power to ensure that their moats are technological, behavioral and regulatory.

Its beyond 'worrisome' and straight up at frightening.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it!
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Yes of course people are wired (if you mean influenced by genes and environment) to seek out and use substances that fulfill a psychological need.

Not only is this the dominant view in the various recovery communities, it's supported by considerable scientific evidence - for example, addiction is well known to be inheritable, and childhood trauma is very strongly established as being predictive of addiction in later life.

I take it you don't know many addicts, especially former addicts with a mature perspective on their own addiction. There are some really good books written by folks who've been addicted and gotten over it that could clue you in on how addiction works.

> you're not seriously comparing the Desoxyn dosage

Most meth addicts start with a dose that helps them, emotionally or as a performance enhancer for work, school, sex, etc. These doses are roughly the same as those prescribed for ADHD and narcolepsy. Eventually, meth stops helping and takes control - this is the hallmark of addiction.
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