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After my startup i felt empty and unable to bring up even the slightest amount of energy to deal with anything related to business, legal stuff, marketing or startup things. However i was still in love with software in general and knew I needed to recharge but wanted to stay in the industry in long term.

This are the things i tried and how they worked out for me:

The bad:

- do "nothing"
this could be healing for certain people especially in combination with a 'holiday' setting. But i have never really
enjoyed holidays and after one week of relaxing i felt it could just lead into a real depression and i got as fast out
of this as possible. Important was the distance from what i do, to be able to think the right amount, but not have too much freedom to overthink and start a brooding kind of thinking.

- try to do "agency work":
in theory this was a good idea, i could earn a bit of money, have a working contract to calm down banks and landlords and at the same time learn a fast paced client focused development setup. However I hated all the people and how they saw life and tech compared to my hacker or hustler acquaintances from before. Also the stress was not self made but the agency constantly exerted pressure to fulfill client deadlines so i could not stay distanced enough to really heal and recharge or even think the healthy amount. Also the programming was the bad kind of programming, it does not help to become a better dev to just learn how to pump out work using rails gems.

The good:

- work for an NGO:
I joined an NGO to improve health software systems for africa. This was exactly right in many ways: I could continue writing software and continue becoming a better developer but without the pressure to be "perfect". Working part time i could scale up and down as I needed. I could help people and got all the gratification of knowing to do the right thing. Also I got a new perspective to the world and practicability of ideas being in liberia and working with developers from nigeria. Time to get out was when NGO politics started getting in the way of writing software.

- work for a huge ecommerce platform:
this sounded bad and similar to the agency in theory but in practice was really good. I did not give the slightest about the product so remained pretty distant but was in a constant setting of a huge and successful company and experienced all the problems and solutions to team productivity and project management as well as inhomogenous large scale software systems. Also i earned enough to pay off all debts and have the existential threat of thinking about money removed was the final ingredient to recharging for me.

- making music:
Working on a product I don't care about when I worked for years on a product that I dearly loved and lived opened up a hole that I first filled with reflection and breathing but when that was enough I needed to be active and made a lot of music. This was very therapeutic and fulfilling at the same time. Just the perfect combination for my final recharge and mental digestion.
That depends on the makeup artist, the face one starts with, and the degree of work involved. Source: working in film for a decade. The closer someone is to an average, the easier it is to make them look like someone else. This is one reason (among others) some actors 'disappear' into a role and others always look like themselves.
A few months ago I was shopping at Trader Joe’s, and having only recently learned of the Aldi connection, I asked my checker how it was working for a German grocer.

He had no idea. He’d been working there three years.
In the least, it should be useful in some non-paradigm-shifting, more obvious applications like concert ticket sales (see TIX) and date-stamping of journalism and public records (see PO.ET).

I’m interested if anyone disagrees. If a blockchain is a basic immutable ledger, I guess I wonder why there isn’t more attention on already-useful ledgers which currently depend on less efficient infrastructure to enforce consistency. It seems possible this is what Vitalik is getting at.
You gotta test them solar panels at the solar panel factory right?
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>I don’t think anyone saw coming that...

Any article that says any statement of this form immediately loses a lot of credibility in my book.

Plenty of people saw plenty of things coming.

You (the writer) really have no way of knowing what other people have seen coming. Perhaps if the only people you pay attention to are the famous rock stars of whatever area you're talking about, you could think you know. But even then, you don't know what private thoughts they are having.
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Seems similar to the technologies already adopted by AMD's Ryzen (EPYC):

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/amds-future-in-servers-...
Whistleblowing, when making allegations against an individual, is best done under non-pseudonyms and inviting possible libel/slander charges. If you're making allegations of this severity, it seems it would be better to straighten out the facts of what happened in a court of law rather than let the court of public opinion make its judgement. The "informality" of all of this makes me quite uncomfortable.
It is hard to give advice to people who make it on top of some hill. For me the burnout happened when I was just your typical grunt developer working on string of unsuccessful startups and boring freelance gigs, doing this line of work for about 10 years.

I guess it helped me to have no agenda and no real further ambitions. I just went on extended sabbatical for few years. Making close to minimum wage, wandering around the world, finding and loosing friends and did even acquire small farm (during one memorable drinking session).

I didn't have any plans of ever getting back to technology sector, I didn't have plans at all.

I guess I just needed to hit some point in my life when I stop thinking about my past and early ambitions, before I was able to continue on where I left, just with new energy, drive and outlook. And I still have that farm.
I get that, and maybe that's now it works for everybody. There's certainly a massive difference in feeling; maybe that really does translate to a big difference in an individual's behavior. But does that translate to much of a difference in terms of word-of-mouth growth? There I'm not so sure.

Even if it did, though, it's not clear to me that there's much difference in the utility of the NPS metric. Are companies with a lot of zeroes also companies that are sincerely seeking to improve? Would a more complex scoring system motivate more change? If so, does the benefit gained outweigh the extent to which the added complexity harms NPS adoption elsewhere?

In practice, if some company had an unusually high number of zeros relative to sixes and were very serious about change and the metric didn't shift much when a bunch of people moved from zero to six, you can bet that someone would explain this in a meeting and everybody would still be excited. So although I get that this would be a problem if NPS were the only number used, I'm just not persuaded that some sort of NPS++ metric would be any better in actual use.
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I second that emotion!
That has absolutely nothing to do with Windows syscall ABI.
No it isn't. The right to depart and the right to do so without being recorded are two different hings.
Someone needs to make a movie about this. Obviously starring Jason Statham.
It has a romantic and friendship aspect as well though, as the primary purpose over the legal benefits, which are a distant third to those two. Bad wording on my part, sorry. Editing to be clearer. Anyone that knows us would see us externally as any other couple in terms of relationship style unless we have specifically talked about our relationship more with them.

My point is that people leverage the legal construct of marriage in many ways, and prenups enable that. To say that a prenup is inherently a sign of lack of trust is far from accurate.

In practice, I agree it does often point to that, but there are plenty of counterexamples. I would argue it works as such a good indicator due to how many bad relationships are out there.
you really are ignorant if you think "Hutongs, which are slum like buildings", hutongs are oldest parts of Beijing with traditional architecture, narrow streets, often still missing infrastructure/plumbing, but in no way have anything in common with slum, it's one of the oldest residential areas of Beijing which are being destroyed, while they should be preserved as heritage

i guess just because smething it's cramped and small you would say also to residents of Tokyo and Hongkong they are living in slums

the poorest people in Beijing definitely don't live in hutongs, which is nowadays quite hipster area to live, because it's extremely central, the poorest people live in basemenets/nuclear shelters where they have one room basically without outside wall (once or twice I went to basement of my 25fl modern building as well to find out we have there these "rat" people) or they live far far away in suburbs basically in villages which may look like slums

but calling hutongs slum like buildings shows extreme ignorance, I guess you would then call half of Europan historical capitals with narrow streets also slum like

and you can't really compare India and China, it's two different worlds, I was in richest areas of Mumbai and could still easily children sleeping on sidewalk just on cardboard, can't see such thing almost in any Chinese city, China is economically and pretty much in any field miles ahead India which is decades behind
Downloaded from: https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win64/

Scan results (2 / 59): https://www.virustotal.com/ro/file/6087b1227819ed921f5cd68d6...
Some more details here, very interesting! https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7m99wo/outperforming_...
Thanks for this. I went ahead and created a merge request to remove my passwords too. /s
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Unlike what border control thinks, you are allowed to look different after 10 years, the picture on the passport is only there for reference and should not be used to identify people reliably.
States make up the rules as they go?

Last I checked, there was a legislative process that is overseen by elected officials required to change most laws around marriage. You have to sign a contract with the state to get a license and operate a vehicle legally, I don't see people up in arms and refusing to drive because the state can change driving rules. Same with incorporating a company in any given state. You are subject to that state's laws even if they change after you start your company, but you take that risk because you determined that the protections you get from signing that contract is more valuable than the risk from not doing so.

Also, other than legalizing no-fault divorce and expanding marriage to same-sex couples, what are the changes that states could make which are so scary to you? Sharing wealth 50/50 in the case of divorce is not some new thing.
> car and cdr worked for Lisp because, during the '70s, Lisp as a whole was novel enough to gain a sizable following. It doesn't work today. (And note that, even then, Lisp lost a lot of potential users due to the S-expression based syntax.) I'm firmly in the "first" and "rest" camp

first and rest are bad names for what car and cdr do, in the general case. If you have "Jenny" mapped to "867-5309" in a dictionary, then getting the "Jenny" part of that binding with first and the "867-5309" part with rest doesn't really make any sense. Similarly, if you have a node in a binary search tree, getting the subtree with the lesser elements with first and the subtree with the greater elements with rest also doesn't make any sense.

Lisp, even in the 70s, uses first and rest as synonyms for car and cdr for the case where you are operating on a list. first and rest do not make sense as replacements for car and cdr in the general case, however, and if all you want is to have them as synonyms for when they do make sense, then Lisp has been providing that since the 70s.
Just as a curiousity. Is this negative power often enough to make a business model of battery supply to the power system feasible?

I mean having a company with a massive bank of batteries. When power goes negative they try to take as much as they possibly can from the network and when it goes positive they try to sell it back at the higher rate. Essentially win-win. You only power up on negative days and you sell when you make money, otherwise you just sit on it. And since you were paid to take the energy in the first place losing it over time when you don’t sell isn’t a loss because you didn’t pay for it at all.
Agreed; but until we get there, we must make sure the software we ship from existing codebases is as safe/unexploitable as possible.
I really should find mine. I got it for free off of a local computer store's junk table about 12 years ago. My understanding is that it's fairly uncommon, at least compared to the Imagewriter I/II. Would be cool to take the roms and try to write an emulator for it, though I think emulating the Laserwriter would be more valuable from a historical perspective, since it was so influential in desktop publishing (and one of those odd cases were the peripheral had a faster CPU than the computer it was connected to, much like the Commodore 1541 disk drive).

Edit: And on second glance it's quite possible that 410's Z80 is clocked faster than the 6502 in the Apple II.
> Labelling something "unhackable" is the quickest way to get some random person/group on the internet to hack it.

Perhaps doing such penetration testing is actually what they (secretly) want people to do?
I was hard burnt out, all the symptoms, literally thought I’d never work again. I’ve come back now and i’ll tell you what worked for me. YMMV.

Didn’t quit. Started working 20-30hrs per week max. Let everything that couldn’t fit in that truly slide. Cultivated DGAF attitude, concentrated on self-care out of the office (with extra time I had from working low hours).

Took a long, long time at this reduced pace, maybe 6 - 9 months of thinking “ok, this is sustainable” and eventually got recharged...
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"From the business perspective (which means completely disregard any personal perspectives/issues that arise"

No. Those other perspectives are just as valid, if not more.

"So for the business, agreement is necessary to prevent that risk and some business partners that otherwise might be on board would refuse due to that risk."

Given that millions of businesses are started while one party is married, and don't have this problem, I don't consider it to be a valid concern.

"Coming into or marrying into money, divorcing for 50%, and "finding a better partner" is not something completely unheard of and it is common enough that people seek protection against it"

And what's the wife's protection in that case?

"If the marriage "isn't about money" then pre/post nups only solidify that fact by putting it into writing: it isn't about the money and won't ever be about the money."

Except now, there are no consequences for the husband being unfaithful.
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How do you distinguish between deconstruction that is accurate vs one that is "useful" but inaccurate?

It seems rather easy to use deconstruction to see things that aren't really there.
I don't think he'll be a household name, but he seems likely to be remembered among students and scholars of American history.
"but that’s so obvious that it’s not even worth stating"

Intelligent people I know say this or something similar. What is obvious to a smart person for something they are skilled at, is not obvious to the rest of us!
For me it was learning all about sales. I actually got a job selling industrial equipment specifically for this purpose. I learned that a good sales person is an agent who advances the best interests of the buyer as well as the seller. I also had the epiphany that my ads and website are - essentially - salespeople, selling to exactly one visitor at a time. So if I can't sell without the website, I can't sell with the website. But once I can sell, and then once my website can sell in my stead, it's about getting the website in front of as many people as possible - just like a productive sales rep will make many phone calls per day. Just as a salesperson will tailor her approach based on the market or personality of the buyer, a good website should do so as well. Therefore, I have segmented mailing lists, different landing pages for different buyer types, and so forth.

You may also find this comment I wrote about a year ago useful as well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13283234
Whats up with NodeUSB? It was in Kickstarter some years ago.
Anyone here have one?

It is ESP8266 and can be programmed without grahical IDE, using only GCC toolchain and Lua?
California's hidden homeless: workers living in cars due to property prices
A proper fingerprint scan is labor-intensive. It's more than just putting palms down flat on a scanner, individual fingers need to be rolled. You could use some sort of mechanical assistance if you really wanted to automate it but people would naturally be rather reluctant to put their hands into a machine that was going to apply any sort of force to them.
Citation? Everything I'm reading says that your property, including IP, that was exclusively yours before marriage, is yours when you get divorced. Likewise, I don't see any way for post-divorce ideas and businesses to be considered "community property". Looking at WA laws though.
I don't think quantity, or rather the lack thereof, is the problem with any app store.
I'm not quite sure how to precisely calculate the need, however I'm afraid that you are over-estimating battery capacities. Tesla's Giga Factory planned annual battery production capacity is 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh). Assuming one cycle per day, and a life expectancy of 1000 cycles, dedicating all this plant production to replace peaker plants will give you a storage capacity of about 100 GWh.

While non-trivial, it's still dwarfed by US daily electricity consumption: about 11,350 GWh [1]. Not sure how much would be needed for peaks, but 100 GWh sounds small. And the Giga Factory production is not going towards trying to absorb peaks in the US, but in cars used all around the world in non-optimal patterns.

[1] Based on an annual consumption of 4,144.3 TWh in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Unit...
1. The terms are clearly defined in legislation
2. Do you refuse to drive a car for the same reason?
> If one's adherence to business practices are more important than one's marriage, then one's priorities are broken.

If the wife is not supportive of the business ventures of the husband, I see no future in the marriage.
Repo has no license.
For hobby-amounts of soldering, stick to leaded and save yourself lots of frustration. General stock lead-free solder is much harder to work with, and if you are new to soldering it can be a horrible introduction to the fine art.
I appreciate your making that game, it and Adventure Capitalist have been my mainstays :) I'd love to know your thoughts on monetizing with reward videos. It's how I am thinking of monetizing my own idle game.
If you want precise names to offer as aliases to "first" and "rest", then I think ML-style "head" and "tail" are better names than "car" and "cdr".
I stand corrected. It is really cool that we can use water storage that quickly and efficiently.
Yes, that is an astute observation and the only way you can gauge accuracy is to confirm ground truth some other way.

Try probing the system so that it conforms to your model and revise it when new evidence is apparent.
Take it like a man!

Just kidding... Get some good cycling pants, make sure your bike fit is ok, and apply ample amounts of xyz after the ride in delicate areas (for most xyz is chamois cream, but I'm using coconut oil instead).

After a while you get used to it...
From eero’s site: “From the window to the wall” — using pop culture references is risky when you don’t understand them.
There are definitely some VERY nice areas with Hutongs (near the Forbidden City!), but I've (accidentally inside the second ring) seen some which appeared very run down (leaky roofs, open sewers, kids not in school). I actually see your point that real estate pricing is so high (and the subway is getting so much better) that it's strange for there to be such slums. My best bet is that the government can't tear them down due to historical local pressure, but nobody except rural immigrants (who can't afford to fix them, or send their kids to school) live out a bleak existence in them (still making more than their family does back home). Even college students live in basements that are pretty horrifying. My guess is that the land value appreciation doesn't go to them.

I remember only 20 years ago and all of Beijing seemed to be Hutong... with the ubiquitous locked gates that seemed a fire hazard to me. It's no wonder that from being so common some have become much nicer and some much less so, while most have fallen to the wrecking ball.
Still not sure what he thinks "we" were wrong about. Reading between the lines, since I missed it if he ever said outright what he means, it seems like he means "we" were wrong about a free exchange of ideas on the Internet necessarily leading to only positive developments.

I'm not sure he can speak for Brand and Kelly and others on this. Perhaps they realized, unlike him apparently, that things will be a little messy along the way, a kind of imperfect muddling toward maturity for society. That doesn't make their cheerleading for it something to apologize for.
> there are places in mumbai too w/ astonishing market values and disgusting living conditions

Also in San Francisco
Getting a court involved won't solve the community problem. If multiple active members of the community come forward, that should have more weight then a random judge's ruling. Nothing will compel them to "believe" or act like they believe the judge either.

Two women, including the author of the article, put their own names on their allegations.
except Hong Kong is not in China, but in Hong Kong, might as well compare it with Japan or Taiwan
A sometimes overlooked feature of car and cdr is composibility, e.g. caadr, cddr, etc. Though I don't think it is useful to go ten deep as the spec requires if people are reading the code, deep composition may make some sense for machine written code.

Car and cdr also reflect a sometimes misunderstood aspect of Lisp: lists are an abstraction for sequential memory addresses in the Von Neumann architecture. The sense in which Lisp was designed for functional programming only goes about as far as one can pragmatically throw the lambda calculus. Practically and historically speaking Lisp programming was only slightly less about mutation than any other language. Design for current state of the art (in the 70's, 80's and 90's) is why Common Lisp has destructive versions of everything useful. Heck, Lisp even mutates its source code.

At the end of the work week, the major language design choice is not so much between car/cdr and first/rest it's between the language having a concept of first/rest and not having one: e.g. Python, Javscript, Go[?], C, and so on.

Finally, car/cdr is not that much worse than first/rest for all those programmers who are not fluent in English. Naming things is hard mostly because names are arbitrary. Both car/cdr and first/rest require the harder concept of fixed order data...and next makes more sense than first if one applies the stream abstraction.
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The "self-taught" is just a gentle way to say that they didn't attend college. The outside world would jump to the conclusion of being too broke or not capable.