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CMake is very decent. Yes, they have some sort of language that requires learning, but it's really trivial and the big bonus is that you can write plugins for your own libraries.

It's fairly easy to search and link to third-party libraries. Really, yes, the language is a tad weird, but very simple and frankly it's a small price to pay to have a real cross platform C++ makefile system.

As you said the fact that CMake supports Windows and Visual Studio out of the box is a big plus as well.

CMake also enables you to automatically run unit tests and package your release into a tar.gz or a setup.

Really, we're very, very happy with CMake and the effort we put in it paid off a lot. I really encourage anyone needing cross platform makefiles to check it out.

To sum it up, CMake is a makefile compiler. You write your makefile in "CMake", and it compiles it into a classic Makefile, Visual Studio project, etc.
Web design is finally catching up to print design with the advent of CSS3 Typography. Front end designers will be able to have much more control over various layout and font parameters. I suspect current web-only designers are going to go wild until they eventually figure out what translates well from print to the web. Check out the cutting edge designs from time to time, for example: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/06/50-helpful-typogr...

I imagine you could get in touch with some of those designers who are exploring the area.

If you're sticking with traditional web design, any decent designer should be familiar with that. Check out their portfolios and see if their work could be compatible with your vision of your site.
A few weeks before the most recent WWDC. I believe he left for a stealth mode startup (which I don't know the name of, or anything else for that matter).
As far as awesome bank experiences where you feel like a valued customer, etc, I couldn't be happier with ING Direct. They are amazing and worth a study for entrepreneurs looking to innovate in a very old space.
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I don't agree. I don't think school is punishment. GPAs are just an unfortunate element of the education system.

I learned so many things in college that I didn't want to learn at first. But I'm glad they sat me down and made me learn it because I realize how ignorant I was.

IMO, the biggest problem facing the world right now is ignorance. What do I offer society by only learning about my interests (in my case, software development)? In the future, what will I offer young people and my children, if I only have knowledge of my niche?
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Whenever I see stuff intended for non-human consumption (doc-comments don't count, because they are just a standardization of a format so they can be more easily consumed by humans, and things like vim modelines don't count because they are not intended to change the meaning of the rest of the file) inside comment markers, I'm reminded of this old JWZ rant about the CDDB format http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html
Online dating can work very well (it has worked for me) but be patient. It will take time until you really get it. Practice, practice, practice. Don't give up if you have no luck right away. There are subtle communication aspects that you can learn as you go, and they make all the difference.

And keep away from specialized dating sites. Go with Facebook or any other kind of communication platform that are not invented exclusively for dating. People are just much more natural there. With some practise you can fairly easy figure out if there's a date potential just by looking at a profile.
Sure, but targeting 'privacy freakouts' isn't very monetizable IMHO.
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I think you'll have an easier time meeting women (and people in general) if you become a little more culturally active & outgoing. Your lifestyle is dominated by career/technical interests, which from your self description (and I say this with kindness) seems to make you a monotone personality. I sense that even you yourself are bored and frustrated with this monotony. If that is at all true, you must consider, what excitement and joy would you be bringing to a potential relationship?

You've probably adopted your technical and career focus because of your dream to live up to your potential and be successful. And that's admirable, of course. But there is a lot more to having a fulfilling life than just the virtue of productive work. There is the more human and cultural side of life, of which your desire to date is a part of.

It's time to expand your dream to include more of this other aspect of life.

It's a big world, but you haven't yet allowed yourself to explore much of it, neither intellectually or physically. Forgive me if I overreach, but have you made a negative value judgement on your own curiosity about the world, in the name of becoming a more productive and better programmer?

A worldly curiosity is what will give you breadth and diversity of experience, which in turn will make you a more interesting person, and ultimately make you a more creative problem solver and team member. It will also make you more socially comfortable and skilled.

Pay attention to the impulse that led you to your previous pursuit of classical voice that you mentioned. That's an unusual and intriguing hobby, an art that connects you with a tradition spanning thousands of years. And of course, there are lots of cool, nerdy music girls who do it too (especially if you're near a college with a good arts program). You mentioned it was there that you had some success with women. I submit it wasn't just because some of the other guys were gay, it was because you were doing something unusual and interesting that made you seem more attractive as a person.

You've (admirably) rejected the idea of the seedy seduction manuals. Those aren't what dating is about, anyway. In a healthy point of view dating and relationships aren't about games, tricks, and seduction, and you're mistaken if you think that is what people in relationships are actually doing.

Dating is about discovering the interesting qualities of another person and exploring the world and reaches of human experience. It's also about being discovered as a person, by the other person. But you've got to have something interesting to discover. And for that you've got to be curious about the world first. So rather than just giving up on dating, gritting your teeth and forcing your nose closer to the grindstone with the goal of becoming "more powerful and wealthy" as a solution, I think you need to expand your curiosity, and the range and variety of your pursuits.

PS- This isn't a throwaway account; it's my first post. And to be on topic: It's from someone who has had several very enjoyable long term relationships thanks to online dating sites.
But it's not even that exciting. Your lousy employees think they're pretty good and your great employees think they're a bit better, but not awesome.

I suppose the main lesson you can draw from this is that you need to assess your employees performance independently, but I'm not sure that's a surprising conclusion.
>What can we do?

The equivalent of the flat tax for divorce: some very simple, predictable rules that require little or no arbitration. Suppose the rule was that Elon gives x% of his assets to Justine within y months of the divorce, plus $z/month, end of story. No lawyers or court fees need to be involved.
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It might be that said bloggers are in the throws of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

And possibly trying to suss out which side they are on, by asserting that they understand it through a blog post.
What if you're surfing the web as a social activity that you enjoy anyway, instead of explicitly looking for dates?

I waste easily 5 hours/week surfing YCombinator. I'm tempted to start hanging out on OKCupid. Not necessarily to find a date, but because then I get to spend my online time with girls instead of guys. (No offense to the guys here, it's just that most of my workday time is spent with guys too, and it gets repetitive after a while...) If it leads to something more, great. If not - what have I lost?
"Beware of associates". I cannot stress this enough.

DO NOT EVER WASTE YOUR TIME MEETING WITH ASSOCIATES IF THERE ARE NO PARTNERS PRESENT. They have no freaking clue. By associates I mostly mean MBA's with no startup founding experience.

Infact there are VC partners in India who are more like associates in the US, with absolutely zero founding experience. Stay as far away from them as possible. Do not cold call them and dont take their calls - they are not worth the time and dont know shit.
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Any HN users want to do a meetup in Dubai? My email is in my profile.
Good news. What I thought were lousy sleep habits actually mean that my Fields Medal should be turning up any day now.
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How unfair to post this so late! (3am EST)
There still are several competing UNIX flavors:

- bsd and derivates (including OS/X)

- linux (64 and 32 bit sub-flavors)

- QnX (though very different under the hood)

And lots of others. So 'it's an 80's thing' but it will be very hard to get rid of, 'just a few different linux distributions' does not describe the situation accurately.

It also isn't rare to find older boxes still chugging away quietly at some task in a corner somewhere running any one of those older operating systems and those sometimes need software compiled for them as well.
This seems rather short-sighted, basically, businesses have less incentive to purchase equipment now.

It would be interesting to know how much of equipment was expensed versus depreciated before this change.
counting brackets will get you in trouble if you have to read over strings.

there's no way around a real tokenization.
I think the internet has this culture going of generalizing (making rules) even with little experience.

It really takes a couple of tries, experience and insight to decouple correlation with causation.

Sachin is still too early in the game, I would go with Ben.
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Stand in front of a giant injection moulding machine and wait for the clamp to open up and the finish product would drop into a box.

of course, it never did, because the air blowers were broken, so every 30sec I had to open and manually remove the product (I think it was miniature plastic tree) from the clamp and close it, otherwise it would close with the product in it.
Repeat this all day. Thats when I decided I hate routines.

The boss was my grandfather, and I couldn't say no to the job.
> no one goes leafing through the ".o" that GCC generates on a regular basis,

Try the -S flag to the compiler, that way you don't need to 'leaf though the .o file' (you can't really leaf through it, it's not a text file, but an assembly source file is.
Interestingly, this post, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488225 talked about how morning people rule the worlds.

So the conclusion is - less intelligent people rule the world.

Of course, I always take IQ score with a grain of salt.
Lesbians can certainly bear children by themselves, just as any woman could. By that point, it does not matter (for the biological notion of conception) if that woman is lesbian, heterosexual, asexual, or anything else.

As opposed to that, the mindset of getting a partner for the sole purpose of having a family, while certainly more often found with those with non-womb reproductive organs, can probably be found with both males and females and in either case is sure to be appalling to the partner (or to other people at large).

While I strongly agree with your basic point, I'm not sure I like the way you make that point.

In my understanding, both the OP and yourself implicitly talk about the whole parenting affair and not just getting pregnant with a child, at which point the social faculty of being a good parent becomes more relevant compared to biological disposition.
> Another problem arises when you are rescued as he points out, but the stories I have heard are about the survivors being put in showers to raise their body temperature back up and collapsing and drowning in a puddle of water in the shower.

This problem shouldn't even be a problem, you shouldn't leave them alone when they are recovering! Well, IMHO.
I noticed this yesterday at work (who use Etisalat). I emailed then, trying to explain the usual content of HN.

Back at home though (on Du), it's not blocked.

I suspect it is just an automatic block, but we'll see.
I get a little bit more scared each time I hear this type of story. Is there any hope for clever technology which makes it impossible to intelligently filter traffic? Some sort of mesh networking something? Surely someone on HN must know the state of the art here.
The video Cold Water Boot Camp linked to at the end of the article strikes home the points very nicely.

Volunteers jump into cold water and demonstrate the 1-10-1 rule of cold water exposure.

1 : Initial cold shock will last for about a minute
10 : Physical incapacitation will occur after about 10 minutes
1 : Unconsciousness from hypothermia in about 1 hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xohI3B4Uc
I am not too sure this has a lot of weight:

When I was in college there are far more might owls than early morning risers. Out of a 100 people 80 are probably night owls (some of them might just end up partying the whole time). So there is an inherent bias there, because there are more nightowls than 'early morning risers'. Which leads to the conclusion in a sample of 100 if 10 of them are intelligent: then obviously 8 are night owls. I would personally never judge a person's intelligence on this factor (even though I am a night owl myelf).
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Musk is an icon I cannot admire enough.

His ex-wife is a gold-digger blogger I cannot hate enough.
The least she could do is to leave him alone with his work.
I agree with the overall thrust of this but this...

"Even after they made their case, we were fairly
direct in asking them why they couldn't do a
simple recompile and use SSE instead of x87.."

This is hardly a simple recompile. Sure, with most codebases you can simply "flip the switch" in your IDE or at the command line, rebuild, and everything will work fine. Doing this in production software requires re-testing everything from the ground up as (especially in performant code, and different optimizing scenarios) a change like this can have side effects.
that makes me wonder whether your comment is made to look you smarter or dumber than you are, and what that means in Dunning-Kruger effect's context.
For reference, the original Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492835
What do artists offer to the world by only pursuing their passion? Plenty. I once met a sculptor that did nothing except sculpt stone, granite, and marble statues since the age of 16. His works can be seen throughout middle asia and armenia and he was one of the most interesting people I have ever met. The same can not be said for the thousands of college students that are being spoon fed anti-ignorance.
But the term atheist Jew is just a proxy for atheist Ashkenazi or atheist Sephardi. Which is no different from atheist Irishman or atheist Spaniard.
Psh, the night is just barely getting started out here on the West Coast!
Those studies do seem to indicate so. However, they do not take into account multiple other factors that could make an individual wanting to, consciously or not, become a night owl. The same is true for all a person's preferences, although we don't have enough theoretical nor practical knowledge on the topic. Also, the way they are phrased, particularly the one by Kanazawa and Perina, seem to indicate a causal link between the two states. Correlation does not imply causation. Furthermore, how many studies indicate the opposite point? I'd be interested in a comparison of results.
Hasn't that always been accepted wisdom (though maybe evoked by the Dunning-Kruger effect)?
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What I meant is that autoconf was created in the 1990ies.
I think 95% of 'game' is simply to ask as many women as possible, and to not get discouraged when you get shot down. (personally, I think most of the effectiveness of the 'fast seduction' crap is that it gives you something to focus on besides getting shot down.)

Everyone wants something different, and there really is a strong 'right place at the right time' component. A woman who would have rejected you last night might be receptive tonight, etc..

This works, if you just want to get laid. My experience with on line dating was that you needed to differentiate yourself through better writing (and through writing personalized to the profile) and to lower your standards some. (let's be real here. the 'selection pressure' on line is even stronger than real life. You're competing against a hoard of lonely men, all of whom can lie about their stats. So unless you are lying (which really doesn't work to well once you meet) you aren't going to be able to compete on statistics.

But really, I think when looking for a 'real relationship' most of the 'pick up spots' are disproportionately loaded with people who are unable or unwilling to sustain a long-term relationship. I mean, that's fine if you are just looking to get laid; but I don't think it's a great filter to use when looking for a relationship.
Yes, one is better off when you win.

We are told the Marshall Plan worked wonders. But interestingly, two countries that were both enemies ended up with very successful economies. And both were bombed pretty hard at the end of the war.

Which makes me think that a nation's culture and the freedom its citizens have to take risks and benefit from doing so are more important than handouts. But you could probably guess I was already pretty biased in that direction.
I particularly like the tone in "I know that you think you know all there is to know about hypothermia already (and maybe you do), but read ahead and see if you aren’t surprised by something" given that someone actually downvoted me when I took exception to the line "whatever you just said, it's wrong" in the "Where Does A Tree Get Its Mass?" article[1] when it was posted to HN.

There is no need for all the hyperbole and Zed Shaw-like drama on HN, articles can be interestingly written without all that baggage. That someone such as yourself, who knows a lot about this, and someone like me who doesn't can both enjoy the article is a testament to the style.

[1]http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/11/where_does_a_tree_get...
I interpreted night owl as an actual owl and hilarity ensued. More seriously though I have thought about this issue from an evolutionary perspective and in social animals it makes sense for a certain part of the population to be nocturnally inclined. If everybody wants to sleep at night who's gonna watch the mouth of the cave?
Here's my wild guess: the DK effect is nothing more than people's unfamiliarity with situations involving percentiles.

In school, <60% is failing. So intuitively 50% seems like a modest guess if you really suck at something.

If people were more familiar with situations where they were stack-ranked with their peers and saw numbers like 15%, their intuition would be better calibrated. The curve between estimated performance and actual performance has the right shape, it's just the calibration that's off.

But it became a popular phenomenon because it allowed people to project flattering beliefs about themselves onto scientific data.
Then there is the kind where you are someone who can't be ignored simply because you are technically better than others around

This is very much not leadership; this is superiority. That can be extremely off putting if not handled rightly. Particularly if you dominate proceedings simply because of being the best. (it's difficult; I'm an excellent climber but I have to dial it back or I won't find anyone who wants to climb with me).

Something doesn't add up though (and I apologise for being blunt). You are obviously confident, have an attractive body and are smart - these are traits that will attract a mate very easily! (particularly the smarts).

One of two things may be happening.

Perhaps you are disillusioned with dating or with women and, so, are scuppering relationships via attitude or actions.

The other might be you simply have an off putting attitude without realising it when contacting women online. In fact from your post I suspect this is the problem. shrug

I've been in contact with women online that are off putting with their directness and surety - even if it is them you do have to be a bit cautious when starting out a relationship. The internet is impersonal so if done wrong you can come across very easily as arrogant and superior :)

Give me a few years, see if people I'm working with look up to me, and tell me I don't have the personality of a leader. I think I still won't be good enough for women though. Do I have a chip on my shoulder for this? Yes.

This is, basically, your entire problem. People look up to you for many reasons - I doubt you will ever achieve the respect you want the way you are going. People will roll their eyes and say "yes X, well done" (we have people like that at work; they don't last long...

My Boss commands respect in huge measure; he grafted his whole life, is very smart, very companionable, always willing to help people, always willing to listen to everyone in the firm. I suspect this is the sort of thing you are after - and be warned it takes a long time and serious, bashful effort.

Tried OkCupid? For my age it is a good experience and there seems to be plenty of mid-30's on there too. It's much more relaxed.
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