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1. Play lots of 9x9 games against a stronger opponent:

http://www.smart-games.com/igowin.html

2. Study tsumego (life and death) problems. By study, I mean keep replaying the same positions until you can identify the sequence to live (or to kill) immediately. Study problems slightly more difficult than your own rank (maybe 1 or 2 stones). Do this for 15 minutes every day for 6 months and you will be quite strong.

http://tsumego.tasuki.org/?page=tsumego

http://senseis.xmp.net/?BenjaminTeuber%2FGuideToBecomeStrong

3. Replay master games. Don't merely click through games on the computer. Get a board. Get stones. Feel the stones in your hand and think about where you would place each move. Try to discover, for yourself, why the master played the move.

http://www.kiseido.com/Game.htm

4. Study fuseki theory and master fuseki player games:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?TakagawaKaku
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My fast food tea hack (probably well known): fill cup with half iced tea, half lemonade. A ghetto Arnold Palmer, if you will.
caffeine: mocha or diet soda

ethanol: [vodka|rum] + diet soda

ethanol when there's an open bar: good scotch

I occasionally start drinking a lot of water instead of caffeine, but that only lasts a month or two.
"... It didn't. ..."

I wasn't referring to IronPython. Why did it take Jim so long to leave?
Outside of California it's $2.99 a bottle, but still often called "Two Buck Chuck". It is of comparable quality to wines in the $8-$10 range. Almost any $15 bottle of wine will be better than Charles Shaw, IMHO. Still, for $2-$3, it's a good value.

But to answer the question:

virgin: water

ethyl alcohol: ...I guess whiskey (bourbon or irish). Maybe a nice red wine [Not $2 Chuck]

caffeine: coffee
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We use it to power the Simple Database for QuickFuse: http://quickfuseapps.com

As some have mentioned here, there is a latency cost for every request, maybe around 200ms. So, we try to pack as much into each request as possible.

QuickFuse is a voice app development environment. Since customers are using QuickFuse's Simple Database to store completely arbitrary, semi-table-structured data, SimpleDB was really one of the few choices we had for allowing this data storage to scale on the backend. One of our main requirements was that customers wouldn't need to specify the structure of their tables in advance, so most other databases weren't an option, except maybe Couch.

What's perhaps more interesting, for anybody who's tried out QuickFuse, is that we wrap everything in both a nice GUI so people can upload "tables" of data and work with them, and also an API so data can be uploaded and downloaded programatically. Both the API and GUI make calls through our servers to SimpleDB.
Until the last few months, it would have been Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew, and Mountain Dew. But I've given up the HFCS for now. 1 cup of coffee in the morning, not particular about what kind, but only drink it black. Ridiculous amounts of water.

Alcohol- 7 & 7 is my cocktail when out. I go through phases of wine. Sauvignon Blancs at the moment.
OK, thanks for the correction.
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Well, buckling spring keyboards are not that great either. Time to update your standards from the early 80s to the late 80s...
Personally, my hands start to hurt after about 15 minutes typing on a "real" keyboard.

Which model, specifically?
You still seem to be missing the point that the impact velocity is like <1mph if you do it properly.

If it looks like it's not going to work, you just speed up again...
If you find making eye contact unnerving, look directly at the gap between a person's eyebrows whilst speaking - to them it's indistinguishable from actual eye contact.
Both Clojure and Go have very interesting features to support parallel computing. Both are definately worth learning. Go's implementation is rather immature at this point in time. Some of the libraries and the garbage collector are really slow but things are changing rather quickly in Go land right now.

Go's design makes much more efficient use of a single machine's resources than any JVM based language ever could. In terms of memory it is comparable to C or C++. Goroutines are very lightweight because they use a variable size stack, so Go supports much more fine grained parallelism. Whether you need that or not depends on your application of course. I found goroutines much simpler and intuitively accessible than the large set of Clojure's parallel primitives. But I think reasonable people can have different opinions on that one as STM (software transactional memory) is attractive too and immutable data structures do make some things simpler.

Of course, Clojure is a Lisp dialect, which has other benefits that have nothing to do with parallelism. However, for many of my own tasks, memory usage is critical and Clojure hogs memory even more than regular Java, so that's why I would prefer Go once it matures a little. I think Go can replace C and C++ over time. Clojure will never do that in its current JVM based implementation.

In terms of raw performance, if memory is not the issue, you can expect similar results from Clojure and Go, provided you make use of static type hints in Clojure (which doesn't look pretty) and you give Go's creators some more time to optimize the stuff that's known to be slow.
More mod's found here:

"The core of most of these items are modified circuits from children’s toys. In some cases custom built or found and unmodified circuits from other devices (such as audio amplifiers, timers or regulated power supplies) were added to expand a pieces’ functionality."

http://casperelectronics.com/finished-pieces/
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What I meant was that I already have an app called rmmbr running on appspot - http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - so it would be cool if you used something other than rmmbr.

I don't have any trademark etc, so there's nothing I could do about it, it would just be nice. (My original name was "rmbr", btw, I changed it after a request from someone who had a similar app with that name)
This says more about OS X than it does about SSDs. I have two Debian boxes. One has an SSD. The other has a regular disk. They both boot up almost immediately.

The reality is that reading about 323k into memory is fast from both SSDs and rotational disks:

$ ls -lh `which gdm`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 323K Sep 5 14:20 /usr/sbin/gdm
A lot of water, some oolong/green tea, some coffee(very selective), Single malt whiskies and South American wines.

Oh! And Ice COLD Beer anytime of the day!
I indeed designed this for myself some time back, but dropped due to the obvious UI problems.
Specifically, I asked the IT department at a previous employer about the 50MB (no joke) email quota, and they specifically said it was for legal reasons (not on the record, of course).
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I used to drink 3 cups of coffee a day. I've now brought it down to twice a week, and it's stayed that way for almost a year. I'm very happy about that.

When I do drink coffee, I prefer french press coffee. I live in Seattle and there are plenty of great coffee shops within a couple of blocks of where I live.

I've also started running quite a bit recently, and I drink Nuun when I crave salt/electrolytes. It's refreshing (I pick lemon-lime flavor) and super low-calorie drink.

I've learnt to drink water (instead of carbonated drinks) when I'm thirsty at work.

And finally, I love port wine and have a glass of really good port once or so a month.
The title in itself is complete and tells it all. Experience is the best thing to have.
I don't own an Air, but the idea is tempting. I have 27" iMac and old 13" black MacBook, and while I really enjoy my workstation with the former¹, I've found myself to work on the MacBook more oftenly – as a laptop, it's always with me, and because of its SSD, it is even faster in many daily tasks than the iMac with quad cores and octa gigs of RAM.

I'm fascinated by the minimalistic concept of the Air. I don't need zillion USB/FW ports, optical drive, 500+ gigs of disk, user replaceable components (every machine will be outdated as professional tool in few years anyway). I just need good keyboard (check), wifi (check), good all-around performance without bottlenecks (SSD, check), solid construction (check) and enough screen estate (not sure if 1440x900 is enough – I would love to see 15" Air with 1680x1050 screen).

[1] http://picasaweb.google.com/jaakko.holster/HomeOffice?authke...
Those are implications of what that study claims to have found, not to be taken entirely serious ;-)
> Sounds like they are accepting that Flash is on its way out.

Adobe will leverage Flash for all it's worth, but they cannot escape the reality of the market.

Mobile is exploding, and Flash has virtually no presence on mobile (and that's Adobe's fault, not Apple's). HTML5, via WebKit, has a huge presence on mobile. Adobe sells development tools, so it should be obvious where they need to go.
Oh ye I am definitely into the single malts. Macallan is what I meant :)

Thanks for the other recommendations, will have to check them out.
I would think that anyone reading Mein Kampf is an avid student of history, maybe WWII history in particular. It seems much more likely than them being a Nazi.
It's a fascinating game but coding seems to fatigue the same bits of my brain that coding does, so I spend my recreational time doing things a bit more brainless, like Warcraft.
+1. I got off of Caltrain at Mountain View and thought it was cool that they had light rail. Then I checked a map and ... it didn't go anywhere.

Silicon Valley reflects on Silicon Valley in many ways...
I use Linux, so full-disk encryption was just a checkbox (erm, line that you select?) in the installer.

Like I said, it's free, so why not?
PG (2008) was quite prescient about the future of funding
In his essay, April 2008 - http://paulgraham.com/googles.html - the last paragraph was pretty telling.

But there is a big opportunity here, and one way or the other it's going to get filled. Either VCs will evolve down into this gap or, more likely, new investors will appear to fill it. That will be a good thing when it happens, because these new investors will be compelled by the structure of the investments they make to be ten times bolder than present day VCs. And that will get us a lot more Googles. At least, as long as acquirers remain stupid.

Just sayin'.
What I used to drink: single-malt scotch, good (NOT Grey Goose) vodka on the rocks

What I sometimes drink: local microbrews, imported pale ales, Trappist beers

What I usually drink now: PBR tallboys, Modelo Especial

I feel like the Benjamin Button of alcohol.
Stuck at 2kyu on KGS for two years, I've set the game aside temporarily, until my life situation is such that I can immerse myself in serious study. Love the game - got half a shelf of books including Invincible.

There's a saying, "Go is life". Learning the game will tell you an incredible amount about yourself, about determinism and chance and skill, about depth and limits and building knowledge and passing on knowledge.

For a software person there is a lot to learn about complexity and patterns. There are deep lessons about not fooling yourself, about the idea that a strategy for success emerges in surprising ways from ridiculously simple rules and facts of the underlying material.

There isn't much of a gap between Go's simple rules (alternating play, capture, ko) and software's fundamental elements (sequence, iteration, choice) in terms of simplicity, and likewise these simple rules combine to yield complexities that challenge the best human minds.
> I don't understand why boot-up time is an issue for a laptop.

Word. For me, every Mac has been instant-on for years. I open the lid or hit the power button (iMac), and the machine is up and running (from sleep) in a second or two.
Whenever I'm home, I usually drink milk: Something about milk makes it way better than water when I'm home.

At times when I'm hacking up something during nighttime, a large cup of black tea and milk. Not the usual hacker-coke/coffee, but it has the same effect.

I usually drink water during studies. Whenever it's getting late or I'm getting tired, we have this espresso-machine not far away which gets quite tempting.
Amusingly, my involvement came from showing shmeedog how nice his service would look in Sinatra versus WSGI.
hot south indian coffee every 3 - 4 hours
I recently realized what the phrase, "Own enough stuff, and it starts to own you" means. The more things you buy, the more you're obligated to use them to justify paying for them. Your time isn't your own anymore ("I bought this guitar, so after work I must practice, also must figure out new SLR camera, and plan trip around new skis..."), and you're hemmed in to pursuing uses for your toys. I think there's a certain freedom to being bored.
That's why I don't like driving: because it is other people's mistakes that can destroy my life.
I'm using one right now. It's not "mechanical", it's scissor-switch. It's a bit better than plain rubber dome, but you still have to bottom out.

The layout on the other hand, is really cool. I can now touch type without twisting my fingers in weird ways. It's more comfortable (even more than a Natural keyboard, actually), and a bit faster than ordinary slanted keyboards.

The displacement of some of the keys isn't a big deal. It takes some time to get used to, but makes things a bit better in the long run.
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I drink mostly water... A few days ago I drank my first pepsi from a can.

I'm drinking beer right now..(Budweiser)

If I drink the hard stuff or too much I have been known to effectively walk to the police station and ask to be arrested.. literally in one case.
Sounds nice to work with chess as a programmer.

I remember about 10 years ago when I was too young to pay for an ICC subscription, I would continually use a two-week trial by changing the volume ID on my hard drive.
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I never drink coffee (no tolerance for caffeine), and rarely drink tea. I usually drink water during the day.

As for alcohol: wheat beer, port wine, and single-malt scotch.
I'm a computer science major and I've interned at an animation company as a technical director. We were outsourced for a certain AAA game that is coming out in 2011 (can't say what companies cause it would probably breach the NDA.) I spent a few days at the actual game company, and it sort of put me off game programming completely. Even though people had cool offices with posters and toys everywhere it was a very dull and depressing place to work. People came in at 10 and sometimes stayed till midnight. The highlight of the day was ordering dinner at 6pm. It was basically permanent crunch time. Also people don't realize that most of game creating is assets. Animations, mocap, recording dialog, scripting. There is very little actual programming unless you're working on an assets/tools team which makes engines (in my case they licensed the Unreal engine so most of the work in terms of programming was done.) Making a game nowadays is more like making a 10 hour movie...there are writers and directors that are hired. They film the action in a mocap studio and eventually animators clean up the data and level designers import it into the engine.
There was a rumor around the time Return of the Jedi came out that Lucas intended to create both a prequel trilogy, which he has since actually done, and a sequel.
Now if only I could build a CM-5 clone for my home.
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I wonder why programmers think so much about keyboards. My speed is about 65-70WPM as typeracer shows. I'm pretty comfortable with that and can reach the speed on almost any more or less sane qwerty keyboard.

I don't feel like I will be way more productive even if I reach 100 or more WPM as thinking usually takes more time than typing (this goes for both programming activities and writing documentation, emails etc).

Moreover, as I'm not addicted to some specific keyboard I feel quite comfortable at any desk with any keyboard or laptop and I don't have to carry my keyboard everywhere I go (which seems quite cumbersome).
From my time at essentially an internship, we've invented a new drink. We call it the quad, which is 2 2*espessos from the coffee machine. It has a real kick to it and is good to start off those slow mornings.

Other than that, pretty much tea (Generic black tea). I never drank tea before starting, now I have a couple a day. I like the comfort of sipping a hot drink while coding.
Cold green tea. Just put the 3 tea bags in a liter of cold water. Wait half an hour and your ready to go.
Mostly water, often chai masala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai) or earl grey, more rarely Pespi Twist, espresso macchiato, rooibos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooibos), green tea, gin + tonic.

On hot days: relatively lots of squeezed lemon juice and ice + water.
I can't really read it, is this the original?
Where can you buy a Cherry Brown keyboard?
I like your style. I don't know of anyone else personally who drinks Hendricks, but I'm pretty confident in saying it's the best gin in the world. When we're feeling frisky and just happen to have all of the ingredients, we make G&Ts with a little pomegranate syrup and a slices kumquat. As you might imagine, the stars don't align like that too often. :)

If I'm traveling I'll drink whatever local beverages I can find (teas, coffees, beers, wines, liquors, juices), but at home it's mostly water, one cup of coffee (half-decaf) in the morning, and lots of herbal/green/white teas in the cooler months.
Oh silly me, I kind of assumed you where using OSX because someone made the comment that there's no option for full disk encryption. My bad. If I had an option to encrypt my whole disk that easily in OSX I'd take in a heart beat, not necessarily because I think it's better but because it's a solution and it's simple... because I can so to speak.
Tea, lots of tea.
Hurdling the kyu wall, for me, required a leap of insight into understanding how to use thickness for attacking. The basic idea you probably already understand: when you have a wall (or otherwise fortified position), drive your opponent's weak forces into that area. As you do so you will get another wall. If this wall faces your own position, great! If it faces an enemy position, a wall gives you the opportunity to invade or reduce the op-position.

Go beautifully combines strategy and tactics. In what other board games can you take a strategy like, "Besiege Wei To Rescue Zhao" and implement it, tactically, in various ways?

I had a conversation with a project manager. He said that we should zip the development source files over to the test machine. I suggested that the test machine should be outfitted with the repository client (CVS) because it would be simpler solution, technically. How the goal is accomplished is not nearly as important as the goal itself. Both zipping the source and executing a "cvs update" solve the problem. And both are tactical ways of solving the strategic problem: test the latest development version in an isolated environment that is similar to production.

In "Besiege Wei To Rescue Zhao" the strategic concept is to parry an attack on your forces by attacking a weak (yet slightly more valuable) enemy force. I like to think of it as the Three Kingdoms problem. Kingdom A and B are friends, but not Kingdom C. When Kingdom C attacks Kingdom B, Kingdom A can rescue B in two ways: running to B's defense or by counter-attacking Kingdom C. Counter-attacking is usually best, to avoid the least amount of bloodshed. After you've attacked a weak opponent group, you've managed to create a stronger position that you can leverage to support the group that was being assailed.

Other elements that Go and programming have in common: intuition, aesthetics, and recursion.
1# I don't believe his numbers. I don't think market share is at 1%.
2# I think it is desirable, that Linux is the world's leading operating systems.
3# The future lies in asia, Linux is much stronger there.
Can you provide some stats or something? I mean a link or something?

Thank you for providing some balance!
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I wonder about the companies that a VC rejects that end-up going under. How much is a firm's failure due to lack of funding vs. actual competitive forces or management inability.

Not saying that I'd be a shinning beacon since I would have turned down Twitter and Zynga.
upvoted for the quad.
Strangely enough I've used pretty much every single product you mention. I might rebut:

1. GH/RB vs Bemani: Guitar Freaks only had 3 buttons versus 5 in Guitar Hero. Also the home versions of BM/GF/DM/DDR were always poor copies of the arcade versions - missing songs, badly-made input devices. And having western music is a big feature.

2. Game Gear: Personally I switched to Game Boy because of by crappy battery life, huge un-carryable size, bad build quality (it broke a couple of times). Wiki mentions lack of UK/US developer engagement meaning not many local games.

3. Apple: Stable, UNIX-based computers, which are also good for graphics and office use? iPad? iPods? Multi-touch, touch-sensitive scroll wheels, playlists, iTunes Store (100% legal, cheap, good selection of music, which feeds straight to the iPod)...

In each case users did lose some features. But they gain some as well - I don't think any are really subsets of the alternatives. I switched to some of these specifically for better features.

Personally I think usability is nice but it's a secondary differentiator after providing the best features for the largest market segment your product can target. There are some really ugly products out there which survive by virtue of just being the most useful.

That said, successful products also tend to usually also be highly usable because the consumer market is the biggest segment (contrast - enterprise software). Or in cases where usability is the feature - accessibility software? GUI?
Coffee in the mornings, I've started mixing a pinch of mate to add some extra flavor.

Alcohol of choice is russian river's pliny the elder if I can find it--or stone brewery's russian imperial stout.
I think it probably was the right choice. I see it as a game that I will enjoy in retirement, and look forward to it.

I actually played it instead of doing well in my math degree. I am only about a 4ku in real life (played in the odd competition). I gave up after the degree for similar reasons.

I love the game as compared to chess there is real strategy involved. I am dyslexic and I find calculating locally hard i.e the kind of calculating you do in chess (dyslexics are bad at sequencing). However, in go, you have full board considerations and I am above my grade in those.
In go that means I need to take a lower (than my grade) handicap from stronger players but am bad at fighting.
supervisord is also quite nice for managing processes. You can restart individual processes through the supervisorctl command, e.g. "supervisorctl restart my-gunicorn-process". This can easily be rolled into a fabric command.
Do this for 15 minutes every day for 6 months and you will be quite strong.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?TsumegoLounge

It's not at all clear from this page how you actually get to the puzzles. (Which sound like fun.)
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