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If you are talking about being overburdened by too much work, here's my thoughts:

I prioritize. I get as much as I can done in my usual 40 hours, maybe 50. Anything left undone apparently wasn't high enough priority, so gets dropped. I either delegate it or ignore it.

I used to put in long hours and scramble to do lots of extra work. My company pays me for 40 hours a week, so they get the highest value work I can do for those 40 hours.

If you're not using discretion and simply ignoring some things, you're not working effectively, you're being an automaton with no judgement. There's a lot of low-value things people request you to do or be involved in at work. You have to blow some of it off or you're wasting your own potential and time.

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Don't anybody read into this I'm some kind of time-guarding jerk at work. This is my general mindset, but being practical and adaptable is important, as is being sure your manager agrees with your assessment of priorities.
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> But if you are operating at the top of the pyramid of knowledge, like some of the people mentioned in the article, that's a different kind of effort.

Yeah, it's an effort they are probably thinking about 24/7. Defining 'knowledge work' is challenging because so much of the 'work' happens when the person is not sitting at the computer/desk. Creative work is similar.

Instead of saying so and so worked 4 hours/day, we need to change the definition of work.
Emanuel Swedenborg was a mystic. "Mystic" seems to be a dirty word among empiricists, but, like Carl Jung, he was able to use his observation skills with the experience.

His experiences, though with content unique to him, generally follows the pattern and dynamic of spiritual emergencies. These cross cultural boundaries. That he has erotic dreams and developed this idea that it is divine in origin is not unknown. That he dreamed of symbols that show up in other cultures is also not unknown. None of those are surprising for anyone who has gone through or is undergoing through their own spiritual emergency.

One of the biggest driver of the spiritual emergency is a force called "Kundalini" in India. It goes by other names in other cultures (for example, in Taoist alchemy, it is known as "dragon"). This force lies within each human body, and in its quiescent state, helps keep the body alive. It is the very power that drives sexuality in humans, and in some people, will awaken the drive towards spiritual emergence. It seems surprising to people who have beliefs that sexuality and spirituality don't mix, yet, they are integral. Swedenborg, like many other adventurers, rediscovered this.

It is easy to say Swedenborg had repressed homosexual urges based on those dreams. It's more accurate to say that when the spiritual emergence starts unfolding, all the different potentiality of consciousness that were already present starts manifesting. These potentiality exists within every human. If you entered spiritual emergency, all sorts of things you didn't know lurking inside of you will come out, including ones that you share with other people, yet never consider it to be "your's".

Bonnie Greenwall did her Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology on spiritual emergencies, and has written books about this. She wrote a book on awakening and one on the kundalini phenomenon. The books go into detail about the kind of things that might happen, whether you are talking about a shaman or yogi or monk or householder.
That said, if your life goal is NOT about being successful but more about living a balanced life with happiness

You seem to be using an extremely narrow definition of success. Perhaps you should articulate your premises more clearly.
Research paper: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45273
For 4 APR - 10 MAY in Redmond/Bellevue I have the downstairs of a house (3 bedrooms) with 100/100 FiOS for $2k. I'm fine with that as home + wfh, since it means I can delay signing a 12mo+ lease for 3mo (as I'll be in Ukraine in June/July).
> But the most annoying problem with any internet voice chat is not so much the quality but the latency. Landline phones have noticeably lower voice quality but one can still enjoy a conversation perfectly well. High latency, on the other hand, absolutely ruins the experience.

Maybe this is because traditional communications were built by people working exclusively in that field - and they eventually became true experts, with a deep understanding of the real issues.

Nowadays Internet chat services are cobbled together by happy-go-lucky engineers who, prior to this, maybe did an ads firehose on Twitter, and after this project will perhaps move on to work on Facebook games or whatever. Smart people to be sure, but their understanding of the field is necessarily superficial.

The fast rate of change in this industry explains many of the things that are ailing it currently.
We can look at some historical and current analogies. A good current analogy is the transition from coal to natural gas. This transition has been very disruptive. The one direct consequence of that disruptions is having Trump in the oval office.

Historically, when things changed people moved. They had no choice - there was no government welfare system in place. Displaced coal miners can choose to remain in Appalachia where there are no jobs - they know the government won't let them starve.

Trump's saying "coal is back, coal is good" before the election certainly made sense. It was a key factor in him getting elected. But the actions he's taking now to confront this disruption will be what? He's not going to convince congress to give these harmed workers more benefits.

The next wave of disruption will be replacing truck drivers with robots. How things pan out with the coal miners and the government's reaction will be of great interest to the truck drivers (the number one occupation in ~30 states [1]. Interesting thing in that map is that the second most common occupation is "software engineer").

You could say that truck driving is the last bastion of "blue-collar" middle-class occupation is the US. Are these folk going to go quietly? No chance. And like I said, they'll be paying close attention to how the government treats the coal miners. I could see a populist politician promote legislation saying that only people can own truck-driving robots, and that a single person can only own one such robot.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...
Yea great point. A lot of headlines are portraying this as a sudden new practice rather than an attempt to formalize the rules governing existing practices.
I've got jeans from wrangler and levis that are easily well over 3 years old. Most of them I purchased from Goodwill. A couple of pairs from Amazon.

Currently, I am also trying out a couple of pairs of tactical pants made by LA Police Gear - they were fairly cheap ($30.00 a pair), but seem to be pretty good quality. I only wear them for hiking, and so far for the past 6 months they've held up well. They aren't exactly "stylish" though.
The more I look at this the more it feels like an unofficial random project endpoint relying on trademark infringement to look important and get extra publicity than a case of "who the hell at Ghibli thought this was needed and decided to build this?".
Neat example of the kinds of things that Redux helps make possible (or at least more feasible).

If anyone is interested in learning Redux, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.

I also maintain a catalog of Redux-related addons and utilities at https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links , which lists things like middleware, store persistence management, pre-built logic for managing collections of data, logging/linting devtools, and much more.
Couldn't WhatsApp faithfully implement the protocol, but also keylog and phone home occasionally? How would you know?
Why do people find it surprising that companies who exist mainly on the premise of ignoring laws/regulations they find inconvenient, won't eventually ignore laws/regulations that you think worthwhile (ie Uber and sexual harassment and AirBnb and paying for damages).

In addition, I find it interesting that the host is only sending a bill for $8000. It seems as if he is only trying to get paid for his damages and not even considering the damage and disruption to his neighbors (who unlike the host are wholly blameless in this manner). It seems AirBnb attracts the jerks and freeloaders.
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You could always setup your own VPN on a VPS with

https://github.com/jlund/streisand
Dropbox isn't installed by default on any platform.

Apple, Microsoft and Goole all offer 'cloud' storage services (they aren't a product, stop calling it that) and all have a user-facing platform on devices: macOS/iOS, the various Windows, Android/ChromeOS.

Dropbox is effectively a feature. That isn't to say they can't remain in the market and possibly even become profitable, but just making a sync client whose biggest recent news is the skeezy install process on macOS isn't going to cut it.
Please don't post deliberately inflammatory sarcasm, that's jet fuel for flamewars.
"When you owe the bank $1000, you're in trouble. When you owe the bank $1,000,000,000 the bank is in trouble"

Similar mechanics apply to having a large valuation, no?
seem very inaccurate since every couple has very different frequency of sex per year, some couple can have 100 intercourses, other will have 20 and they have same odds according some average couple?
I'm not familiar with Unison, and have no idea how successful it is, nor where it falls down.
I suppose if you are a major shareholder of an ISP you might see the upside.
Loads of pubs, bars, hotels, village halls, restaurants etc rent out space for parties and events.

This thing took place in London, a market which is reasonably well supplied with such things.
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My Ryzen 1800x box is so disgustingly fast that it almost makes up for the consistent stability issues I've encountered while using it
Oh, that's disappointing.
Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?
That assumes the provider will disclose hardware info to you, which is rarely the case.
The emoji out of band authentication is cool, but probably annoying. You have to read those emoji by voice to the other end, so they can check them. That could be a pain if the emoji are chosen randomly from the 2600 available emoji.

The idea comes from the STU-3 secure phone, where there was a 2-digit number display to be read back by voice. It's one of the ways to detect a man-in-the-middle attack. If there's a MITM, the crypto bits sent and received are different, because the MITM is re-encrypting, and this is detectable if you have some out of band channel for comparing them. A MITM would thus have to be able to fake the voice of the other party.

With techniques like this, you can make an MITM work arbitrarily hard to maintain the illusion that it's the other party. I've proposed some ways to do this for web pages.
Yes, but I would rather use the Airbnb interface and Airbnb reputation system to book those spaces.
The question is where the complexity has the biggest cost. In most cases, it should be pretty easy to finagle a multi-write process into your existing data layer, and that without introducing new technologies/stacks/layers. The logic is thus unified and simple, in a single place, in a format that the company already has significant expertise in.

That is much easier to track, trace, understand, and debug than a request that flows through 7 servers, 5 data layers (that have their own configs, nuances, snafus, caveats, etc.), and 2 proxies, each of which introduces a point of potential corruption/breakage, before it finally reaches the place it's trying to go.

Anyway, like I said in the grandparent, I'm sure there are times when this is the best way to accomplish something. It's hard to nitpick an unfortunately-potentially-appropriate specific solution in the general sense, except to say that its potential applicability is unfortunate.

The problem is that people do not see such complexity for the unfortunate byproduct of poor technical and/or organizational architecture that it is, but rather as evidence of their own expertise. That is exactly backwards. We must fix that false impression to restore sanity to the profession.
the Christopher Bishop chapter on graphical models has a good section on junction trees IIRC
A more minimal data api. :)

requests.get('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/master/data.json').json()

Now it can be loaded into Pandas for analysis. Even if I was building an app I'd want to own the data 1) so my users aren't being logged by the API service 2) control over the uptime 3) lower latency 4) flexibility of serving the data, such as generating static pages.
> A quadratic algorithm optimized by v8 will be still quadratic.

That's pretty obvious. An engine's optimization features are there to help execute code faster, not as a substitute for knowledge about algorithms and data structures. The implication here is that being respectful of both solid CS theory and an engine's optimized patterns allows you to benefit from both, not just one or another.
Skype Lite is Android app intended for India only, you can install it through Yalp market or from Apk mirror, it's pretty much same as proper Skype, just 3 times smaller and should be lighter on data, not sure why Microsoft doesn't officially allow it in other markets too since it can deal with your voice calls, skype calls, SMS, chat so you could replace your dialer, your messaging app and your Skype

Signal should be always introduced just as nice SMS/MMS app and add it can also send encrypted chat messages if other party has Signal as well, because what's the point having single purpose SMS app when you can have app providing two options of delivering your messages, I think it's good way to sell Signal, considering most of built in SMS apps are crap.
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I'm just going to drop this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882202

You can listen to the guy who wrote this article. Or you can listen to John Carmack. 0_0.
I also imagine this is only inside a C interpreter. One made in .NET will require other solution?
They can already do what you're suggesting. I actually include the hashtag mid-message sometimes for that reason. You're right, though, and I don't know how to fix it. I see lots of hashtags on Instagram posts and it's not amazing but whatever.

Actually I don't even think the hashtags need to be visible, necessarily (although some people start viral movements with them, like #blacklivesmatter, so I'm not sure). Like when I add "#boardgames #gamedev #magicaloctopus" or something like that, I really don't care that they're visible to people seeing my tweet in their feed, I just want my tweet to appear when people are looking for those topics.
I'm not OP, but this is an interesting moment to ask: would you not consider the "I worked harder than others, therefore I'm more successful" sentiment self evident?

In my experience, people in my group whom I'd categorize as "successful" have often been confident in making peace/having passion for the vocation of their choice, and have paid their dues so to speak, in terms of research papers read, hours spent with their instrument, hours of training for sport etc.
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> The primary issue of inequality is largely the result of the fact that...global economic systems push wealth to a few.

I shortened your statement to draw the conclusion faster. Global economic systems in this case are neoliberal free markets combined with capitalism. This isn't some inevitable "only way it can be done" thing, it's a political choice we have collectively made and allow to continue.
> The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the industry’s lobbying group, claims that PBMs will save health plans $654 billion over the next decade.

That's about $16 per person per month. Not a very compelling argument for keeping your drug monopolies: eliminating them costs little more than a Netflix subscription.
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Oh wait what? I can't find any evidence of such a lawsuit. The closest I can find is a lawsuit over the fact that batteries are not user-replaceable.
I get what you're saying. So maybe not the sleek and stylish ones - but you can build your own smartphone, if you're willing to forego it being stylish.

A Raspi Zero W, plus a 3G (or 4G if you want to spend the money) module, plus a few other sensors and a screen - and a 3D printed case, etc - are virtually all you need.

Again, though - not most people's idea of a smartphone (I've given thought about building such a thing, though).
Well, aside from your issues above, "It's terrible for my neighbors, but I keep doing it, even though it's not much money" certainly isn't going to win any friends.
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> Oh my, those rusters, still downvoting what they have no idea about.

Please don't include these sorts of things in comments. They're worse than unnecessary: they take us further away from the kinds of thoughtful, civil discussions we're after.
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Without being too cynical, that exemplifies part of Human Nature in a nutshell.
> There are many famous athletes who worked long hours. Ask Michael Jordan.

Jordan also gets paid enough that he can hire a support infrastructure so that his long hours don't impinge on his down time. Did he get back after practice and then need to worry if his house is clean, or car needs to go into the mechanic, or do his bills, or even if his pantry and fridge are stocked with food? Likely no. Long hours for the extremely well paid don't have the same effect as the rest of us.
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I'm bothered that so many people on here see the rationing that these people do as such a bad thing. The easiest way to increase the percentage of renewable energy that you personally use is through cutting usage and limiting peak demand. The energy company you pay will always use their renewable generating capacity because the unit cost of that energy is 0 compared to >0 for fossil fuel power. If your electric company all of a sudden needed to generate 50% less power, they would cut fossil fuel plants first.
Bribes are generally illegal. This should be "compensates," not "bribes." "Bribes" is just hyperbole. This is standard practice for a lot of businesses in a similar space.
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It reads like he only submitted claims for repairs to his apartment (for whatever reason, maybe he wasn't billed for repairs/cleanup outside of it). I'd be surprised if AirBnb would cover him loosing his lease.
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> Because most doctors are happy to spend hours watching recordings of drug presentations.

And yet somehow I am supposed to be overjoyed at spending hours watching conference talks, reading blog posts and documentation, and doing other things to evaluate new tech and learn new languages/libraries that are not my direct job just to keep up to date on my rapidly-changing industry?

Welcome to the 21st century doctors. I would unpack and play the worlds tiniest violin for you, but I have a few more confreaks youtube videos to plough through right now.
I love that they do one thing really, really well. Further:

"Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to reach $1 billion in revenue run rate" - given that, I don't care if they are profitable or not. They got to $1B faster than Salesforce, as long as they keep this up they'll be just fine.
If the market treats them like a product, they are a product. Also the number of people outside of techie communities that care about either Apple computers or "skeezy" installs on them is tiny. Mac has a tiny, tiny fraction of the computing market and the vast majority of MacBook users are about as tech savvy as the vast majority of windows laptop users: that is they aren't savvy at all.
Remember, Donald Trump was elected because people want change. Most people are aware at this point that the system is rigged, and are looking to change it. It's unclear currently whether populism or socialism will win in the long run, but don't lose hope yet.
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My observation was that job applicants who tried to get the job by making a notable effort to show genuine interest in a specific opportunity seemed to be the one's who eventually got the job. Being interested doesn't make one qualified, but it does tend to make one stand out.

Getting a good job is hard, and you can't always tell from the outside if a job is one you'd want. It doesn't take much time to show genuine interest in any opportunity that's worth applying to, no matter how prestigious the company may be.
Imho, No.
However it depends on what you mean for unethical... Talking about what is supposed to be our fiels (software engineering) i've been constantly in situations where "unhetical" developer sold the creepy code solutions cheap to customer who are not aware of the real cost in the long run, i tend to offer more professional solutions obviously less cheap and becausw i believe in honesty i explain the drawback of the cheapest solutions to the customer letting them to decide, in the long run i always got succesfull job-relations and mantain my own sense of hetic.
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Get married and start a family. Seriously when you become a husband/father (or wife/mother) your priorities will (should) shift to your new dependents. It's not only about the money anymore, quality time becomes just as important.

In lieu of that, just start an activity that demands your time and is as (if not more) important to you as work such as coaching a kids team, helping out at the YMCA or YWCA, etc...
Great article that I expect will assist many teams that are facing scaling issues.

I thought it appropriate to plug my java based rate limiting library that implements the token bucket algorithm as mentioned in the article

https://github.com/mokies/ratelimitj
I just presented a deck on this topic today. The 30 year evolution of the document goes something like:

Paper > Word Processing > Email Attachment > Collaborative (Google Docs) > Cloud Storage > Meta Information

The last part, Meta Information, is the ‘conversation about the document’ and represents the evolution from a physical piece of paper that I hold in my hand to having a conversation around a document that I might only view as a file name in a folder and never open it up (or just click on the preview).

Box notes is a good first phase of this evolution, however Conversational UIs will lead that next evolutionary phase. Dropbox needs to support the communication pathways that are formed around the documents that people are storing.
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It entirely depends, anycast is great for getting a request to the closest DNS endpoint via routing weight rules.

After that, there are many options. But the GP was specifically mentioning a valid use case where this is applicable and not shady.