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My apologies for this unsolicited opinion, but have you considered getting weights if you haven't got them already? If you get some weights you can do some extra exercise in your room, just learn how to use the weights safely. I believe your parents would be more than happy to get you them. It would be an improvement in itself and may possibly lead to better things. Just my opinion though.
Very apt then!
lulz too cheap. my local shop sells coffee+pastry for 8-10$. solid traffic from 7:00-19:00. two staff.
What do people really think about business school degrees? To me there seems to be a large disconnect between what we think of the person who takes one (ambitious, hard-working) and what he is taught there (basically nothing).

I went to business school as part of my degree at a top UK institution. They have 1 year MBAs so the joint school people got a fair taste of what the MBAs did.

And let me tell you, as half engineers nobody was impressed. Is this really what they do? Read a bunch of stories about Betamax or various Japanese firms, and extract lessons from that? That's not even a rigorous history course.

As to what the overall effect is, it just appears there is a class of firms who are fearful of hiring the wrong people, so they hire a brand name. These people are more likely to get into such firms, but it's not clear at all anything from the course is used there in a way that is more than superficial.

Have they damaged society by being too focused on short term gains? Well, it's not just Harvard and MBAs that went that way in the 1980s. Society as a whole did, too.
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Whenever I hear critiques of MBAs I think of this anecdote from a paper [1] by Yanis Varoufakis:

In the parlance of signaling theory these [MBA] transcripts are known as screening devices. One personnel manager (of a financial services company) explained this to me candidly: “I have no doubt that economics courses, MBAs, etc. teach nothing I need my employees to know. If anything I need to reprogram them on the job. The courses they have taken encourage bad thinking.” “But then,” I asked, “why do you prefer to hire college graduates?” “Because,” he answered matter of factly, “if these kids were willing (and able) to pay large sums of money in fees; if they submitted boring assignment after boring assignment without fail, and did not complain vigorously in the process; then there is a good chance that they are the kind of people who will appeal to my customers and do as they are told.”

[1] https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ag...
I think it's a bit judgemental to say that Japan overworks people, the place functions to some of the highest standards, and excels in many ways like nowhere else in the world.

After a lifetime of "overwork", retired japanese people opt to do part time work to stave off boredom. I think they just think of it differently.
One of the most amazing books I've read about simple ways to correct the muscular imbalances that result from too much sitting is Pete Egoscue's Pain Free at Your PC [1]. His other book, Pain Free [2] is also extremely effective and informative.

The first part of Pain Free explains how muscular imbalances form and, most insightful to me, how every human body has the same design range of motion (with a few exceptions due to birth defects or disease), that is every human body is designed to have the same range of motion but muscular imbalances formed as the result of specific repeated activities (or lack of activity) impede that design range of motion. All of the exercises in the Egoscue Method require no special equipment, only simple things like a chair or a wall (which further convinced me that it's not a fad out to sell something). Highly recommend reading these books if you're interested in this topic.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chro...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Your-PC-Computer/dp/0553380...
I always got the impression that MBAs were about signalling that someone was serious about wanting to be be in the "management" stream (or if I'm feeling cynical "class") rather than a mere practitioner in a particular area.

Edit: Nobody that I know who did an MBA seemed that interested in the area they worked in. I'd rather do a PhD in History or Archaeology than an MBA - perhaps my own desire to signal that I have no interest in "management" for its own sake.
If we wait a bit longer, we can send robots instead.

Also, I don't think we are compatible with a different gravitational constant.
Obligatory Casey Muratory rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xLgr6Ng4qQ
My personal experience with milder form of depression, is that you can significantly help yourself by stop taking your thoughts that seriously. Everything you think about yourself and the world is just thoughts. So it helps if you go meta - i.e start thinking about what you are thinking. In the article, one man had constant voice in his head ordering him to do stuff. If one is able to look at it from another angle, and to instead of trying to do stuff the voice tells, for example start marveling at human intelligence that is able to think in sound! Not just sound, we can think in all the ways we experience the world. Through abstract thought, sounds, visually, through movement ... Help yourself, go meta :)
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Also relevant to you I think: Which are the most useful reddit bots?

Off the top of my head:

- /u/colorizebot

- /u/RemindMeBot

- /u/AutoMod (special because it's been made an official part of reddit)
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Several friends who have done MBAs have all told me the same thing: When you do an MBA, you pay for two things. First, for the network of alumni. Second, for the badge in your resume. In both cases, obviously the more prestigious the school, the better (and more expensive). Since that's what would carry more weight as a brand name (i.e. Harvard) and also richer / more influential people will attend as alumni, thus those personal connections being more valuable. Recently I heard about some MBAs called "Executive MBA" or something like that, which were basically shorter (1 year) and more expensive. They justified this by saying they were targeted at people already on the workforce, usually in management, who wanted to move up, and would really appreciate 1 year titles instead of 2 years. But again, it's for the same reason. More expensive title => "Wealthier" alumni => Looks better on your resume. And to top it off, you just have to spend a year "studying".
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> Are you saying ISIS should also be left alone and America not try to stop them?

As someone who isn't from America (and actually was born in a country which was subsequently bombed by America during peace time) I've never understood this idea that America is somehow justified in the belief that they are the moral arbiters of the world.

Who put you in charge? If the answer involves "we have a big military" it's interesting that a country obsessed with the concept of freedom is so willing fall back on "empire" when it's convenient. I guess Americans are still British at heart.

> Japanese civilians at the time weren't really innocent.

This sentence made my blood boil. How fucking dare you. America bombing civilian residences in order to handle other country's civil wars is not helping anyone. Fuck you.

> The whole country was working for the war effort, mainly to kill other Asian people.

Interesting rhetoric, given that America spends half a fucking TRILLION dollars a year on the military.
Embedded C programmer here. What you say is technically true, however, wiring interfaces and vtables manually in C is a real PITA, to the point that you think twice before introducing a new interface between two components.

OO languages make this a lot more easy.
More details on Midori: http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/ This is the first of several blog posts by one of the authors. I haven't read all of them, but liked what I read so far. Does anyone have other resources with more detail?
Yes, I have an IKEA bar table that I bought second hand and I stand at that for 8-12 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week. It was kind of exhausting for the first 6 months or so but now it actually feels really weird to sit at a table and work. I really like how standing for long periods of time forces me to want to move. I find that I walk away from the computer and go outside for short walks a lot more frequently than when I used to sit. When sitting, I found that several hours could pass before I realized how long I was sitting. Now that I've been standing and working for so long (over 2 years now) sitting feels like an absolute luxury and I've started to associate standing with working and sitting with relaxing.
Keep in mind that you're comparing an oppressive regime with... android. The open source phone operating system. And you think this is a sensible comparison?
Google doesn't use those anymore.

"A. On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
You do realize that is exactly why alt-righters believe there is bias against white people?

"We need to protect minorities and women from the white male oppressors" is basically the slogan of the identity politics wing of the left.
Can you share your experience?

I've tried to rewrite the testsuite example to SQL, but it's quite ugly. Also, I am not sure how to model the inheritance relationship:

CREATE TEMP VIEW boxes AS
SELECT 'box1' AS hostname, 'linux' AS os, 'x86-64' AS arch, 8 AS ram UNION
SELECT 'box2', 'freebsd', 'arm', 16 UNION
SELECT 'box3', 'windows', 'x86-64', 4 UNION
SELECT 'box4', 'illumos', 'sparc', 4;

CREATE TEMP VIEW compilers AS
SELECT 'gcc' AS binary, '4.8.4' AS version, '-o' AS output_option UNION
SELECT 'clang', '3.4.1', '-o' UNION
SELECT 'msvc', '15.00.30729.01', '/Fe';

CREATE TEMP VIEW tests AS
SELECT 'frobnicate' AS name, 'frbonicate.c' AS sources UNION
SELECT 'loadtest', 'loadtest.c helpers.c' UNION
SELECT 'end2end', 'end2end.c helpers.c';

CREATE TEMP view testsuite AS
SELECT *, compilers.binary || ' ' || tests.sources || ' ' ||
compilers.output_option || ' ' || tests.name AS cmdline
FROM boxes, compilers, tests
WHERE NOT(tests.name = 'loadtest' AND boxes.ram < 8);

SELECT * FROM testsuite;
i find it amusing when i am considered millennial because i was born in beginning of 80s, since i abandoned Facebook, never been on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other nonsense, but i remember BBS, Fido, connecting modem sound, turbo buttons, ZX spectrum,C64, etc.

while my cousin who is like bit more than 10 years younger feel already like entirely different generation with all his social crap and online games

though it's also funny how some people think smartphone is new millennial thing, i was using extensively my mobile already in 90s more as smartphone/PDA than many people nowadays and later in 00s i was already emailing, chatting, surfing, listening music, playing games long time before iPhone was introduced, though young people tend to think we were on trees before

recently i read comments to YouTube video (A long way home or something like that about walking through China and growing beard) where were young people suspicious how good was quality of photos in some video in 2009 as if before smartphones we didn't have good handheld cameras, seem to me that newer generation is more shallow and ignorant with shorter and shorter attention span, now we were pretty ignorant and shallow in 90s too, but at least we could keep attention to something without being disturbed by every present social media
I know someone who used to play warcraft this way.
Neither of these things bug me. If people want socialize that's great. If people want to to be alone. That's also great. But I wish everyone would go to a dedicated eating area, such as a lunch room, so we don't create a culture of peer preasaure where everyone has to eat lunch at their desk in 5 minutes.
Since objects are just specialized applications of closures, it's not too surprising that you can reconstruct the basic idea (closure) from its application (object).
The number in parenthesis after the title indicates the year the story takes place. In this case, the prices are from 2005.
+points for the big boobs in the center xD
One word: inversion of control.
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I stand on a small inflatable pillow (originally for sitting on); 3 bucks, works like a balance board.

The desk-treadmill is even more interesting to me, as you can even exercise while working. But at this point a little over my budget, would love to rent one to try for a while :)
The business would love to lock down their employees' devices (especially handheld and embedded) like this.

They should just come with this system to open market, make a company that is worth billions from the start, because every BigCo would love to buy.
An environment where you are being taken care of for every aspects of your life: when to wake up, what to do, what to eat, how to dress, how to talk, when to relax and when to get to sleep again ? Problems would get back as soon as one gets out I am afraid.
Exactly. This was almost certainly made by a Western country under NDA.
Squatty Potty for the win!

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One of my favourite feature of Overleaf (another cloud LaTeX Editor) is that I can use git to work on my cloud project on my local machine. It seems to me the best of both worlds.
I think there is room for something in-between. High-level synthesis is probably never going to meet the needs of most ASIC designers, especially as progress on manufacturing processes has effectively stopped.

The more promising avenue to me is structured synthesis: using straightforward abstraction but keeping the HDL model. Chisel (based in Scala) seems to be the biggest open source one; bluespec is a more established run at the same concept which is based in Haskell, and interestingly they seem to be throwing all of their marketing weight behind RISC-V solutions. So in a way, high-level functional HDL is dominated by RISC-V today.
VHDL's syntax and type system are quite Ada-ish, from what I gather.
If you don't mind sharing, what software did/do you sell ?
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HNers - if you have used freelancers or an outsourced dev shop to do dev work building out an MVP of your product, what lessons did you learn? What sites did you use (except Upwork). Any recommendations?
it would be awesome if you could walk and program. back pain can come from static hand posture. and swinging your arms is good for the back. i imagine parks full of programmers that time to time bump into each others because they are in deep focus.
The feeling that's worse than any sort of misguided guilt about off time is when you did power through some 12-15 hours and reflect back on & summarize what exactly one has managed to produce net --- it often feels like disturbingly little for the time

Definitely. Especially when coming by 12-15 hours is incredibly difficult, for any number of reasons. I often come away with the feeling that for having run this kind of marathon—and that's what it feels like nowadays—I should have managed like a week's worth of work, especially considering, as you say, all the perceived efficiency gains.

But modern high-level tooling and frameworks have their drawbacks, too. One spends an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to do things "the frameworky way". I understand the upsides, of course, but it has still led to a profound frustration with the modern-day practice of programming. Back when I wrote C, I may have had to write 10x as much code, but at least I was churning out lines of code perceptibly. With a small standard library, there wasn't that much to stop and look up. It was an exercise full of "creative flow". Nowadays, I have 27 browser tabs and 5 API references open any time I need to actually do anything, and that in itself can be a major psychological blocker.
You can never morally justify war against civilians, sorry.
Exactly. To quote Alan Perlis:

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
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I disagree, structure is an encoding scheme that embodies some interface ! :)

No layer is truer than another IMO, it's hard to say which matter the most.. the abstraction or the implementation.
Another anecfact: people who buy on the lower end of the market for almost anything are the most difficult customers.
Frankly, some businesses and ideas won't scale, no matter how hard you try, and they won't exit for millions or billions at an IPO, but it doesn't make them failures if they give you the ability to provide for your home and find time to do other things that might down the road.

Oh, I agree with that. My business aspirations aren't much higher. But sometimes even getting to that point is a challenge. As you say, high personal or business expenses can be a major reason for that.
I can't stand the sounds of other people eating when I'm not.

I suspect it's something my mother induced in me. She had the same problem if anyone else at the table, was eating with their mouth open, or otherwise noisily. It doesn't bother me at the dinner table or when I'm eating. But in any other context, any crunching/chewing/sucking noise just grabs my full attention and disgusts me.
Sports is one of the very few things people can totally devote themselves to without being threatened. You can talk about sports at work without worrying about getting fired. You can talk about sports at a party and not lose friends.

At least you used to be able to.

The more sports wanders from just sports into social, political, or even partisan issues, the less it is actually about sports.

Associating these other things with sports destroys the value. It makes it so sport is no longer an escape, but instead becomes yet another politicized venue.

Here's some other interesting theories as to why ESPN is having trouble.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/26/the-real-story-behind-es...
It would be illegal in many countries. E.G: france law consider that an employer can't watch private documents even when opened by an employee, during working hours, using the company equipment.
MindStorm and Scratch are great ideas. When you venture into something more real, give QuickBasic (QBasic) a shot. It was part of the Windows 95/98 Power Pack addon for free if you have one of the old cd's lying around and it's a great way to start.

I say that because that's how I started when I was 12; found some tutorials online; has very basic functions, is text-focussed and lets you get started, fast. After; I'd move to C# since that enables you to use the friendliest IDE out of all (Visual Studio) and it's a great language and relevant to the job market now and in the forseable future.
Reminds me of some meetings I had with a Youtube data analysis team 5-6 years back. They basically said we know we have a bunch of users who are addicted to the site but we want better ways to identify them and the content they are addicted too. Easiest route to more ad views and clicks when the higher ups want results. I walked out of there feeling quite sick.
witheve.com, seems to do cartisian/relational programming Isn't Cartisian Porgamming essentialy what Eve is?
I have forwarded this piece to dozens of people I know who told me they wanted to open a nice little local coffeeshop. Some of them might have thought I was a killjoy at the time, but I know for a fact at least a few of them are glad they never did it.
Yes :), it is queer how some programs/tools that should exist and of which we do have the basic algorithms were never properly written/developed while we have tens or hundreds of tools similar among them missing these functionalities.
Another kind of tool that was never properly developed is interactive jpeg repair, besides the good jpegsnoop:
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-snoop.html
(which has only some of these functionalities) there are a handful of tools that are of little or "very narrow" use, but nothing much effective at rebuilding a damaged jpeg.
Yes, I agree with you 100%.

In my case I am a freelancer, so I have strict deadlines and clients might expect me to work the full 8 hours or more. Hell, I've even been asked to work over the weekends​ and get my hourly rate adjusted accordingly.

I always decline, my flow state does not last more than 5 hours per day with plenty of lazying around on weekends, and working more than that would mean spreading it to a mediocre productivity.

Deadlines are met, and clients are happy (as far as I know).

Unless we are underachievers, I suspect many are in the same boat and would be as productive with 20% fewer hours.
This almost sounds like a finishing school for corporate courtiers.
I used a closure for a callback less than 1% of the time. Closures are .. closed pieces of information to be combined (through apply). See untyped monadic style, or lc-encoding of lists, functional composition (f . g => a new function, not a value).

I closely related closures to partial application. But mostly.. closures are anonymous objects tiles, you can create one on the fly as needed without cruft.
Try having a contest or competition. See who can hold the plank the longest or stand on one foot the longest. That makes it fun.
People also talk about music without worrying about getting fired. And traveling. And normal, everyday things in life.

I rarely talk sports with anyone...
At least measuring productivity makes some sense.

A lot of people seem to measure busyness, or even the appearance of busyness as a proxy, but business without achievement is not productivity.
Whenever I read something like "We will make the code to reproduce these results publicly available", instead of making be happy, it makes me sad that so many people never follow through. That's a huge disappointment if the paper's ideas really would've helped you.

Yes it must be the norm, but if the code isn't available at peer review time, chances are nonzero it's never going to be.
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