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I think that the language is in a spot where it's got a dedicated enough and competent enough community to move on from the "GVR as benevolent dictator" model of development

From what I've seen, I concur. In fact, I'd say that the community has actually outgrown GVR's level of knowledge about programming language implementation and design years ago.

IMHO, the benefits of the "benevolent dictator" model are threefold:

- avoid design by committee, keep things simple & clean
- clear-cut resolution of group conflicts
- cohesive and positive developer culture

So long as there is a way to keep or enhance these benefits, Python will do well. It won't be easy!
T-Mobile now offers a lower monthly rate without a contract. As far as I know it's the only carrier to do so.
I get more dopamine from HN than from any other substance yet discovered.
Uhh, no it doesn't. At least not without third party software.
For the record, we used to run MogileFS. The Isilon gear is a radical improvement and the price premium isn't anywhere near as bad as the numbers you presented. It was more expensive, but safety of our customer data is our most important job and we're more confident in the Isilon gear than we ever were with MogileFS.
Your code should be taken out back, lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned
It's possible that you're mildly depressed. The first three things to try are:

1) Get enough sleep.
2) Eat right.
3) Get some exercise (don't worry about your weight, worry about your energy and activity levels).

If you don't do these 3 things, you _will_ eventually wind up with mild depression. If doing these 3 things doesn't break you out of your funk, see an expert.

If you're having trouble motivating yourself towards your goals, you might enjoy the following blog post:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/

A synopsis: Commit to doing something small every single day for 30 days. You can do this. It's hard, it will suck, and you'll want to skip a couple of days. Don't. At the end of the 30 days, reassess. Continue if you want. You're building a habit that will allow you to take tiny, constant steps towards your goals across a span of years.

If you have a problem with too much pointless browsing, invest in LeechBlocker or SiteBlocker. Limit your television.
The Dying Art of Reading Properly
Are those "fully functional"? Do they allow gestures? Even just having two-finger horizontal (well, 360-degree) scrolling would be great.
One of the things I really admire about Python is the willingness not only to add new features, but also to tidy up and remove elements that are redundant or in hindsight were a bad idea.

Doing this, I think, requires strong leadership, it needs someone like GvR who has the respect and political pull to make decisions that aren't going to be popular with everyone . If he's going to step down as "dictator," I hope he chooses a replacement.
Go home mixi, the student visa's purpose was for you to upgrade your know-how, then return to your homeland and be of assistance there. Our STEM grads would like jobs in America too. Nobody believes your line of "I'd create a zillion jobs for Americans if they'd let me live here." Liar.
I took my 7-year-old son hiking a couple of weeks ago. He's very much a city kid, and has gotten far too used to constant technology and stimulation. I wanted to get him out in nature.

When we first started walking, he was annoyed and didn't want to be there. He shuffled along, staring at his feet, and kept whining "Can we go back yet?" (we'd gone maybe a quarter mile on flat grass when this started). I suggested he look up at the things around him instead of at his feet, because there's a lot of cool stuff to see. He glanced around, and nearly yelled, "No there ISN'T! There's just... this!"

A few minutes later an eagle flew by above us and I pointed it out, and suddenly he got excited. Then we saw a harmless snake in the path and chased it so he could see how it moved. Then we stopped and skipped rocks in the nearby river. By the time we made it back to the beginning of the trail an hour later, he was full of energy and running around, and yelling "Mom! Mom! Guess what? We saw an eagle, and a hawk, and three snakes, and there was a fish in the river..."

Walking down the street is very similar to that. There are all kinds of things to see around you that go unnoticed so much of the time. You could walk down that same street every day going to and from work, but chances are you're focused on what's at the end of it. Taking a walk with no specific purpose is a completely different animal. You have to find purpose along the way, so you start looking around you for interesting details. Maybe there's a cool bar tucked into the alley that you never saw. Maybe there's a crazy graffiti mural on the next block over that you can take pictures of. Maybe there's a hot girl at the bus stop with whom you can make friends. Maybe there's something as simple as a happy dog wagging his tail and smiling at you that could brighten your day.

You might find a fresh perspective on a small corner of your life... but once it starts it tends to spread quickly.
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PG, would you say your long hikes are something like extended versions of the shower thinking of "The Top Idea in Your Mind", or are they more directed thinking--as in, "I want to think hard about this particular problem, so I'll go on a hike to accomplish that."
But that's $400 of guaranteed cost vs. an early termination fee (usually around $300, I think?) that you very likely won't have to pay.
It can hardly be a "prerequisite" given that most web applications built to date have managed to do without it.

It's a convenience, at least intuitively, but in practice one has to wonder what parts of your code run in both browser and server and do async I/O.
If science has taught us one thing, it's that almost always, what once looked like a solid theory, is found to be way more subtle and complex in a later stage.

In addition to this, it's almost impossible to prove something in physics. You can use deduction to support your theory, but you can't prove it in the same way that you can formulate a mathematical proof. That's why it's called a theory: because it's not a proven fact.

However, to make claims like "the universe will always be here, it has always been here, it cannot go away" because otherwise it would violate the first law of thermodynamics is just as bad. The second law of thermodynamics has been haunted by Maxwell's demon for at least a century, and although it does appear to be safe at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if all of this would be proven to be more complex in the future.

So, while you're correct for doubting the big bang theory for too much scientific faith, you might as well put a lot more doubt in other areas as well. A lot of physics is built around faith.
I've got a $100 Wacom tablet that doubles as a multitouch trackpad. Even though it is far larger than any of Apple's trackpads, it is still much less useful as a trackpad because the lower accuracy makes the multitouch gestures too unreliable to become natural. On my MacBook Pro, I use jitouch to expand the repertoire of gestures to more than a dozen that I use regularly. On the Wacom Bamboo, I seldom bother with anything other than two-finger scrolling, and I doubt that it has the accuracy to support the range of gestures that jitouch has. (Although much of this could be due to the drivers.)
Even Hackers have fun, you know.
Anedoctal, but one of our clients is doing exactly what you're planning on doing. He's happy w/ the app we built so I think it's been working out well.

Imho, as long as you're dealing w/ someone reputable and have a clear scope set, the rest is fairly smooth sailing.
Start with this - http://www.geniebusters.org/Riemann_intro.html
and then http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/982_Gauss_Ceres.h...

It follows Vladimir Arnold's method of re-coupling physics with mathematics as the original way of learning it... since observation of planetary physics was how a lot of mathematics was derived.

It is a very, very interesting read.
When your problem is not getting things done, it is not secondary what day you do things. Doing things "whenever" is the natural enemy of forming a positive habit. The more concrete your plan (including a timeline), the easier it will be for you to follow it.
Handle nutrition first, it'll make everything else that much easier. The #1 thing to do is to stop eating carbs and sugars (including fruit). I understand this is radical but at some point you just have to make a decision that you really want it. I challenge you to give $600 in cash to your roommate and tell him that if he catches you eating crap in the next 30 days, he gets to keep it and also punch you in the face. It does not take much willpower to make that move but it will definitely help keep you in line later when your willpower is faltering.

Don't hit the gym until you are in basic shape. I recommend http://hundredpushups.com/ to get started.

Finally, admit to yourself that every time you slack off instead of doing what you really want to do, you are lying to yourself. Say it aloud: I am lying to myself. That is one way that I stopped drinking alcohol and smoking weed, and as a result I not only almost have a six pack (Not spending $ on alcohol => improved nutrition, no hangovers => daily exercise), but I respect myself more. I still drink from time to time but as long as I admit to myself (and my closest social acquaintances) that I am lying to myself, then the habit eventually self-corrects.
> My point was that it's entertainment.

So? Why is the topic of entertainment a bad thing for HN?

> I know it's a video game, but essentially it's no different from any other entertainment.

The only thing I can see that it shares with other forms of entertainment is that it entertains. And if we are wondering why we post things that entertain us on HN, HN itself would probably not exist.

> I mean we don't have World Cup or Superbowl Stories on HN, why have the release of Starcraft?

If you honestly can't see a difference between the release of SC2 and the Superbowl, you're purposefully being obtuse, and if you are, your comments are hurting HN much more than a post about SC2.

However, I'll assume your just ignorant, and I'll explain the difference.

First, SC2 is a game that the users of HN have a higher chance of playing than they would have of playing in the Superbowl. Indeed, I'll go so far as to suggest that no registered user, yet, has ever played in any Superbowl.

Secondly, rather than simply be passive entertainment like the Superbowl, SC2 is a game we can actually play.

Next, their is a large following, and that following essentially evolved e-sports. People can laugh at e-sports all they want, but it's no different then watching real sports. Continuing on, the launch of SC2 today means the e-sports arena is essentially being revitalized. A sizable number of individuals are looking at how to capitalize on e-sports. Indeed, their are individuals actually making money casting esport games, or startups using esports to easily market via sponsorships of tournaments.

You see, the launch of SC2 isn't just a game. Why? Mostly because of the success of SC:BW in e-sports. So, unlike just another game being release, SC2 is different. It will present more opportunities for people to explore, and see how they can capitalize on the SC2.

In short, no. SC2 isn't just like every other game, and it is different from other entertainment. Indeed, it has more relevance on HN then your comments complaining about it's inclusion.
With that I can mostly agree (but the comment implied otherwise).

But - and this is sometimes a huge but - open source software (OSS) is more and more dependant on other OSS, making it sometimes next to impossible to port it to other platforms. Try building VLC from scratch and you'll see what I mean (you can use Linux). Furthermore, API changes are quite common for OSS even in minor version updates and that creates an additional mess (dependency hell), as was clearly demonstrated in my example above.

It's not all black and white.
If You Build It, They Won’t Come.
Try not to fill guilty, because there is none for what you have received.
Feel free to enjoy despite what you (and others around you) might believe you should/shouldn't.
What would whatever you can accomplish mean if you're not happy?
Are all those things you think you want, what will make you feel better? Maybe if that were true you'd had done them already.
I repeat: Let the guilt go, and the rest will find way.
It flies in the face of logical reasoning. Something cannot come out of nothing.

That's not logical reasoning, that's merely a fact derived inductively from everyday observations.

The point above actually has a physical law. It's called the First Law of Thermodynamics, and the Big Bang Theory is in stark violation of it.

Again, the first law of thermodynamics is a "law" which describes everyday experiences within our own universe at the present epoch. But Big Bangs are not everyday in-universe events.

The Universe will always be here. It has always been here. It cannot go away. It is indestructible and everlasting. The mystics understand this, and so does anyone who understands basics physics

That's just an unjustified assertion, and it doesn't really solve anything. Oh, and I'm sure that "the mystics" disagree on these things, as there's plenty who will tell you the universe was belched out of the belly of a giant porpoise. (If you ask them where the giant porpoise came from, they will get angry.)

How and why the universe started, and why we have this universe rather than any other, are two of the trickiest unsolved questions there are, but the Big Bang is the most sensible theory we have at the moment.
I think this is a mis characterization. Mechanical engineering is a much older, much more mature field than computer science/software engineering. As a field of engineering study matures, many of the solutions to possible problems become commonplace, or at least they become trivial. New problems to solve are less and less frequently actually new, but rather just novel deviations from a commonly solved type of problem. However, capping the well is a completely new type of problem. It is one that has not been solved so many times that accounting for all of the variables is easy. Think about that next time before you criticize other disciplines.
My Experience With Outsourcing Web Design
Bad phrasing on my part, it was a serious question. It seems to me that a few minutes in the sun every couple of days would be very unlikely to have any long term impacts (obviously, I'm not an expert though).
Do Not Vote for My Dad
As the author, I agree. As I explicitly wrote in the README, I didn't find this project interesting and didn't think it'd be very useful for anyone in particular. Kiln ships with both a licensed on-site version, and a SaaS version. The SaaS version uses Redis as the backing for a small, easy-to-use queuing system. It was less work to write a tiny little clone of the parts of Redis the queuing system used than to write an entirely different pile of logic for Windows.

I think MiniRedis does what it needs to do well, but I was surprised to see it reasonably high on the HN page. I think there are probably more deserving projects out there.
Kudos, I was about to submit a longstanding complaint but it looks like it has been fixed. For a long time Google was autocorrecting my searches for gearman as "gearman" -- not just in a "Did you mean?" but actually giving me search results about germans instead of gearman. I'm not sure when it happened, but results are sane and accurate again, even for things like "gearman workers" and "gearman jobs".
And some of us got to play in the original figerworks lab...
NVIDIA Quadro 6000 reviewed, and it is a monster
This is true, of course. But that doesn't mean the public won't buy the free wifi claim, and prefer that airline over the others.
Things come from nothing all of the time in the realm of quantum mechanics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy).
I still hate how they remove LAN play from games now'a'days. My buddies and I have lan parties all the time, and its getting harder and harder to have them when lan play isn't allowed and you can't host a local server.
You may be surprised. Hobby projects have a knack for turning out to be more interesting than not.
Redis 2 is multithreaded. The weird thing for me is that MiniRedis is 1/4th the speed of Redis 2 (using redis-bench, included with Redis 2, to measure), which means that being both single-threaded and written in a relatively slow scripting language didn't hurt performance that much. I haven't taken the time to figure out why; I thought Redis would be much faster.
Personally I have had more success with NEGATIVE 30 day challenges, than positive 30 day challenges, for this very reason. A negative 30 day challenge is when I don't do something every day, for 30 days. One habit might be not drinking any soda for 30 days. Then you might add not eating any fast food or pizza for 30 days.

Once I stopped medicating myself with food and weed, my true emotions surfaced and it became easier to know when I was deceiving myself. For example, when I am goofing off more than I should, I now feel sad and pained (not guilty), and consequently correct my behavior.
I would like to point out that systems that control physical equipment frequently fall into the domain of electrical engineering as much as they do software.
Why? Has there been a shortage problem with Gamestop?

My little brother pre-ordered with Gamestop so he could get it at midnight, and there seemed to be more than enough copies for everyone when we went last night.

I actually pre-ordered my own copy from Amazon (Conveniently, it shipped from the Amazon warehouse in Nashua, NH to my house in Nashua, NH)
The warlogs in mongodb
Is Your Ego Becoming a Liability?
We have a huge number of people in this country who are unemployed. Why don't we just redirect the money we give them and their labor towards rebuilding the railroad infrastructure in this country? Seems like a perfectly acceptable use of tax payer dollars.
Rock/paper/scissors/spock/lizard seems to have the same winning strategy as the original game. Nothing interesting there, if you know how to generate random bits.
Seattle Area Developers: GDGT Event = Your Apps + Our WP7s
I actually think that they released an AA battery charger because of the retail stores. After the Apple staff ring up a person for a keyboard and mouse, they can easily make the suggestion to purchase their rechargeable batteries.

The performance for rechargeables vary quite a bit as well. Apple might be trying to control the all parts of the experience by providing good rechargeables.
For me the big advantage of Apple's trackpads is their size. More surface area equals less finger repositioning and more reasonable tracking/acceleration speeds. I bought a Waccom Bamboo, wired not wireless, for $99 so I don't think Apple's $70 price tag is unreasonable.
It used to be called "startup news" and had startups all the time. (Became a bit boring after a while, but it was focussed.)
Why would you quit eating fruit, or "carbs?"
I started using Vitamin D supplements after I read an article about a Dr. at Atascadero State Hospital. He noticed that some of his patients had low vitamin D. He started giving it to them all and got remarkable improvements. (Sorry I couldnt find the article.

That article of others noted that the normal range for vitamin D tests is too low. Someone who is low normal is probably deficient. Vitamin D is not just for rickets. A deficiency can cause all kinds of other nonspecific problems.
Set bigger goals. You can easily go from being overweight and out of shape to being an Olympic-level athlete in a year. You just have to make that one of your goals and do it.
>> But overall does the participating directly relate to the work you have planned for yourself today

If you consider breaks important (e.g. for organizing thoughts, etc), I'd say yes, this beats water cooler chit-chat about Starcraft 2, for the reasons ed mentioned.

I completely agree on the point about HN being a time/mindshare drain though.
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Please do not stoop to name calling here.
I totally sympathize with you. Does this sound like you "You can't make any decisions because you don't know what you want. And you don't know what you want because you don't know who you are. And you don't know who you are because you're allowed to be anyone you want." What you are experiencing is called a quarter life crisis (this is great read http://www.eyeweekly.com/article/55882).

I had the exact same feeling, at the exact same age, it might have even been at the exact same time of the year. So what did i do about it? I went to Culinary School, i needed to prove to myself that i could actually accomplish something i set my mind too. Cooking is perfect for that, i'm not talking about working from a recipe, i am talking about creating your own recipe, having your own idea for what will taste good together. The parallels between recipes and businesses are amazing. You start off with a concept/idea, you begin to do research (this is usually where people get stuck in business), you actually do something and finally you see if your initial idea was successful. In cooking the definition of success is clear, either your food tastes like shit or it doesn't. In business the definition of success is a little more convoluted but if you look at success from a monetization perspective then its either making you money or not.

So what does culinary school have to do with feeling like shit? Accomplishing something makes you feel great, it builds your confidence especially within a group of peers. Not everyday will be your shining moment but once-in-a-while you will be better then everybody else and you will understand success. From that point onwards you will continue to drive towards that feeling because you know understand what it tastes like.

What can you do?
1. Find something like culinary school. Not a business idea, something else that you think you are good at but haven't really focused on. Something that has a lot of small tangible results. Things that have a lot of tangible results can equal a lot of little victories.
2. Find something where you will compete against others because if you cant measure yourself to someone else, how do you know you have succeeded.
3. Don't worry about commitment, when you start succeeding all the rest of the stuff will go away.

I hope that helps. For me my whole life changed i met my wife, i built an ego, learned how to cook like a chef and finally understood what success really felt like.
I'm in the same boat. Not to mention that the plan that you get with the subsidized N1 on Tmo is not only more expensive but it's (of course) also the gold-plated "unlimited everything" that most people probably don't need.
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I agree with this. For me, math started to make sense when I saw it applied to problems, especially simple physics problems that explain things you can directly observe. The Feynman lectures were an especially rich source of these types of problems.

My favorites: at what angle will a marble rolling down the side of a bowling ball leave the surface?

when you observe water flowing out of your tap, the stream tappers and becomes more thin as it falls, can you derive the formula for that?
You are right, ADHD is not a real disease. It is a real disorder.

It sounds like you need JFDI. If you don't like something, change it. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/19/what-makes-an-...