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I used to think EXACTLY like you. I'm not kidding, exactly.

A friend got me into the gym, and it turns out it's a hell of a lot different than I thought. Lifting 10-lb dumbbells forever will make your brain go numb, but if you boost the weight up to the point you can only do 3x5 or 5x5 (3 or 5 sets of 5), the weight becomes the purpose. I don't know how to put it better than that- once you're halfway through a rep, you have to devote all your ability to getting the damn thing back in the air.

The first 1-2 trips will not be very exciting because you'll be learning technique and starting with low weights so as not to overshoot your abilities, but give it a shot and stick it out for 2-3 weeks, and see how it goes.

(It will get to the point where you don't want to go or you don't want to do the next set because it's hard- but that is easier to get past than the frustration with pointless menial labor)

http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5-beginner-strength-tra...

p.s. as noted in the article, the gym is not quite the same as exercise, but this was in response to your specific point.
You are making the assumption that the GPL is appropriate for everyone that will use MySQL, which is incorrect. ISVs and other businesses that want to distribute MySQL as part of an application can buy it from Oracle with a non-GPL license so they don't have to GPL license what they're selling too.
Ah ok, paying to get it under a non-GPL license makes sense.
GPL doesn’t mean you can’t sell it; it means you have to provide source and allow derivative products within the constraints of the license.
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Zing!

(sorry, couldn't help myself karma be damned)
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It's usually pretty easy to get a leave of absence, maybe even moreso at competitive schools. Harvard, for example, lets you take a leave of absence for up to five years. And even after 5 years you can go back if your petition is approved. MIT has a similar policy. I went to a lesser school but I was allowed to finish up after an 8 year leave of absence.
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Drizzle probably is the future of "mysql in the cloud", but it's not quite there yet.
An elephant mask on an robot/alien? Whatever happened to humans..
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The proposed new "entrepreneur visa" would allow people with great business ideas and the backing of serious investors to set up shop more easily in Britain.

The most important part. How much of funding to make it a serious investor?
Their "friendship" comes more out of "common hatred" than "mutual trust".
I wish, things here in the US are going very slow about visa. When humans have something important, and they lived with it since long time, they forget how bad is to live without it. You understand the importance of things only when you lose them. Silicon Valley might not be the Silicon Valley 50 years from now; the government has to do something clear and practical to avoid this kind of future. Now.
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Not that I disagree, but I'd be willing to bet serious ching that half of professional writers aren't against gay marriage.
I think the reason you are being downvoted is that you are comparing PostgreSQL with the commercial version of MySQL. A better comparison would be between EnterpriseDB and the commercial version of MySQL.
Ah yes, my mistake.
Did you sell many copies of Galactic Conquest?
I agree regarding cleanliness. Soma is filthy. Mission is somewhat dirty. South beach, north beach, the hills, marina, etc - all very clean.

> Anyone who thinks SF has great weather has never spent much time west of Twin Peaks. It is foggy and cold most of the time.

I think sf has great weather BECAUSE I confine myself to east of twin peaks. I don't understand how people complain about sunny and 65-75 9/10 days a year.
The best idea that I've heard so far was to just abandon the TLDs altogether. "http://google, "http://news.ycombinator.

For a smooth transition all .com owners could be handed their current name in TLD-form (except for those who own com.com and such, naturally).

Obviously that's never gonna happen. Not for technical reasons but because ICANN will not let anyone revoke their license to print money.
Well, I fly into the US from outside. That entails rechecking all baggage and going through a second security line. There are less airports you can fly into now from the outside and all of those I've been to so far have huge lines at the security. We now schedule in 4 hours between that initial connection and we've still almost missed the connecting flight a few times.
I've been in and out of north beach for 10 years. It's hardly ever 50 and foggy. It's sunny for a large part of every day and rarely below 65 midday.
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I usually start and finish my day exercising. However, motivation comes from recording each workout to measure my progress and adjust training accordingly. It's hacking your body and any kind of hacking is fun :-)
There still is the question of how much time you're willing to spend to hunt down bugs in the interpreter/standard library/framework or to work around certain idiosyncracies that once upon a time might have looked like a cool idea. Will a "good coder" tolerate more or less such wtf moments?
Oldie, but goodie.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43842 <- 5 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99568

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552821 <- 23 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635094

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637968

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1654310

http://searchyc.com/submissions/how+software+die?sort=by_dat...
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Here's the problem: while I would tend to agree with you if your claim was that global warming is not as clear cut an issue as the mainstream makes it out to be, that's not how your post comes across.

The real problem with the way you're arguing is that most of the meta-critiques that you've offered about the way mainstream climate change scientists act read almost exactly the same as the anti-evolution arguments that biologists have been assaulted with for decades. "Consensus is not how science is done?" Check. "The evidence goes against prevailing opinion?" Check. "Proponents won't argue the science and just parrot talking points?" Check. "They just shout people down as 'anti-science' when they disagree?" Check.

And all these claims may be true, hell, they probably are. The problem is, that's how scientists act when they're right, just as much as when they're wrong.

This doesn't bear on your claim at all, of course, and I have no intention of getting into a specific global warming dispute (I don't have the expertise or the interest, and frankly, I doubt there are many people here that do); but those arguments mean absolutely nothing, because they are always offered whenever people disagree with the prevailing consensus in a field, whether it's correct or not.

I've only met a couple climate scientists, but my impression was most definitely not that they were ideologically driven morons that simply want to push their preconceived notions on the world. I've always gotten the sense that they really felt that the data supported their claims. Now, that doesn't make them right, but be careful about assuming that they're just perpetrating a fraud for some reason. One of the most common mistakes people make when arguing issues like this is to assume that the other side actually knows (or secretly suspects) that it's wrong, and it's playing dirty to trick everyone else. This is rarely the case, if someone is wrong it's typically more likely that the evidence they've seen strongly suggests their hypothesis, which ends up blinding them to later evidence that might weaken it.
This video reminds me of an essay from Eliezer Yudkowsky¹. Feynman was basically forced to give a mysterious answer to a mysterious question. He did so, but not before talking about semantic stop-signs², how "magnetic force" could be one, and why it shouldn't be. Brilliant.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_...
[2]: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Semantic_stopsign
That you refer to people who disagree with you as 'deniers' shows that you are not open to debate on the matter, nor being proved wrong.

A lot of people used to think the world was flat and that the Sun went around the Earth. The atom used to be described as a pudding. The idea that illnesses were caused by creatures that you cannot see was considered ludicrous.

I would be happy to accept any of the above ideas if supported by fact. However I don't feel a need to refer to people who believe such things in a negative manner. The climate deniers you refer to are people too, probably a fair amount of them are intelligent and rational people, just with a different view to you. Name calling doesn't solve anything.
Use what makes you happy, building a startup will be have many more pressing questions than the choice of language. Trying to make sure you use a 'cool' technology is probably not going to worth the time.

Good luck.
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"Every single thing you see is future trash. Everything."
While Apple attempted to offer updates to the core system for much older devices, some other smartphone manufacturers often don't release updates even the base system from the software company have updated that already. See Android phone's 2.2 froyo availability as an example.

What Apple is wrong is to force 3G users to upgrade, given that quite a lot of new features are only available to 3GS and beyond.

Also it is actually possible to downgrade from iOS 4 for 3G models, but it seems to be impossible to restore data to iOS 3.X from the backups of iOS 4.X.
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I agree. The first step should be a dataset that fits into a large CSV file or a regular DB, and play around with Gnuplot 'til your eyes pop out.
Does the introduction of MySQL without InnoDB mean they can also remove this from the community edition (and bug fixes) without getting into trouble with the EU? They still provide a dual licensing strategy with the same code base then.
My sport of choice is beach volleyball (2v2). My problem is that I'm wildly obsessive - so instead of just going out there and playing volleyball for a couple hours, then heading home to work, I stay at the beach for 5-6 hours, and after that I'm completely spent. And then the next day, if it's mildly nice, I'll just head back to the beach because I'm completely obsessed with improving my game.

I'm finding that late fall is doing wonders for my productivity, since the beach is colder now (but damn nice for Wisconsin November), I'll only spend 2-3 hours down there once or twice a week, rather than 6-7 hours 4-5 times a week (summer schedule).

But I do recommend picking up a sport. Good exercise and doesn't feel like a waste of time, the way lifting does (though I do try to do lifting to improve my game, even if it's boring as watching grass grow).
I hate php, and don't really like mysql.

Yes. It is quite practical.
>Even if both sides of the argument are incorrect, if the second opinion was formed through rigorous scientific investigation and represents and the best understanding that we currently have, why should we treat it equally with the opinion that was not developed through any sort of discourse and research?

No, but I don't think that's what the parent was saying. I think you might be making the same mistake he was calling out: assuming the other side hasn't put any thought into their argument. Sometimes they haven't but sometimes, despite how radical the position may sound, they have put work into it.
Mmmh..Was gonna do a few side projects. :-)
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Isn't that what I said? It's GPL, so why are people so worried that they are also selling it?

Edit: I guess I can see how you can read it in reverse from what I meant.
Well done Zed.

I would buy both the ChucK and C books you describe. The ChucK one sounds coolest :)
None of the languages you mention is easy enough to be grasped in a week from someone who never did programming in their life.
Believe me: most of the people who suddenly has to do data analysis for their phd or postdoc projects hardly know how to use excel, so easy of use is essential.

Also, you want a non compiled language. Most of the time you do interactive programming and change parameters on the fly, according of the result of the analysis.

Finally, matplotlib, one of python's most complete graphic library, is a breeze to use. Making graphs in an interactive way with java or .net is simply impossible.

I am a neuroscientist and most people in the field use Matlab. I use python (in fact I use ONLY open source software, by choice). It's amazing how many advantages python gave me on my daily life.
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Here are some interesting statistics on craft breweries per capita: http://www.brewersassociation.org/pages/business-tools/craft...

It's too bad they don't break it down by city.
This is four months old:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479761
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you should add "UK" in the title.
...and don't buy expensive running shoes. The more padding a shoe has the more it leads to bad technique that actually increases the impact on joints. Humans are made to run, go thin-sole or 5fingers to teach yourself proper technique.
This talk raises some questions for me.

Email doesn't seem to have the kinds of grouping problems discussed in the presentation. So what is it really that isn't in email that can then be solved by something Facebook-like that doesn't do "social networking" like Facebook does it? Is it just that the interface is simpler?

email = status update,
social group = mailing list,
contacts db = friends network

what else?
It seems like this article is premature. I would like to have read about their experiences a few more months down the line when there's been a bit more real world use.
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It doesn't matter how much effort you put into it. It only matters how rational and factual it ends up being.
photo sharing. video sharing. email is suboptimal for this. if you don't want to see all photos in full resolution, you still pay the response cost.
The point is that he wasn't in danger from challenging the dogma, as you asserted above. That is dogma itself. If he was in danger, it was from embarrassing the pope. He advanced helicentrism long before his heresy trial. The Pope met with him and said that he could write about Copernican theory.

He was under house arrest for those years at the house of the Archbishop of Siena. It was a fairly nice life in those times. Galileo and the church got along very well, but they had to do something to save face for the Pope. I don't think it's ridiculous.
Someone figured out a use a long time ago: the Doctor Who (British SciFi) opening sequence. And apparently before that for Amahl and the Night Visitors, a drama broadcast in 1951: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A907544

Example feedback patterns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Xm3EA3_XE
"This unfortunate situation actually made good design a commodity --"

Ah, I love sarcasm.
This is a great book. Anyone from the UK will know Ben Goldacre from the Guardian where he writes a regular column exposing... well bad science.

His Bad Science blog[1] will give you a flavour of his humour and style.

[1] - http://www.badscience.net/
That would simply be an indication that he was not suited for applying to the Navy. I find that many people who suck and fail at something may truly suck at whatever it is, but they're actually quite awesome at something else. The sad thing is that most people don't know how to find their path and even fewer people know how to set people on the right path where they can achieve their potential.
Works great -- as long as you're omniscient.

Not at all - to set people straight on common talking points doesn't require omniscience, it merely requires that those specific talking points have been satisfactorily refuted before, clearly enough so that almost anyone would agree that they're squashed.

If someone on Twitter said "evolution is just a theory", I'd be perfectly happy to see someone respond-spam them with the Merriam-Webster definition of "theory" as it relates to science - that's an unambiguous refutation of the argument, verifiable by pretty much any onlooker as valid (in my experience, when confronted with that response, creationists usually don't acknowledge that they're wrong, but they quickly leave the topic, realizing that they won't score any points there). Similarly, if someone said "Darwin recanted on his deathbed", a simple link to http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/03/31/darwins-... (the first Google result for that phrase) would be fully justifiable, regardless of the qualifications of the responder.

As a rule, I think if someone utters/posts/writes something that can be 100% debunked, beyond any reasonable doubt, by typing the phrase into Google and reading the first three results, it's fair to call them out on it, even in an automated way. Omniscience not required.

Then again, I'm more used to arguing evolution than global warming, and evolution is a much more solid theory. I don't know how soundly most of the anti-global warming claims have been refuted, it may very well be the case that this guy is just parroting back talking points rather than properly shooting wrong ideas down. In which case that's Bad(tm).

But as an abstract idea? Go ahead, shoot down the idiot masses, as long as you're damn sure that you're right about what you're putting them down over. A lot of stuff that people say really does deserve a rude smackdown, it's so offensively wrong - this is Twitter we're talking about, after all!
Don't worry - he ends up doing the right thing in the end. Read the book, though, it's full of good stuff like that.
Passive observation. I'm vaguely interested in what my acquaintances are up to, but they would never impose so much as to email me.
agriculture: 1.2%
industry: 23.8%
services: 75% (2009 est.)

Isn't services sector saturated?
>You will also understand just how strong the evidence for GW is.

Here by GW I presume you mean Man made GW. In that case, many of the proponents are also ignorant of how strong (or not) the evidence is. They simply assume that the people paid to know, do. That's not a valid assumption.
I'm guessing he's referring to the conservative/libertarian donors who've established Ayn-Rand-studies endowed chairs at a few universities. It's a pretty small number, though (I think three), not really a tidal wave.
For a small company, getting money out of the government in London is like getting blood out of a stone.

It's a lot easier to get local government funding and grants outside of London, although the CSR will probably change all that.
Replacing yourself with a chat bot is just like arguing in person, except that it doesn't try your patience or waste your time, only the other guy's, and it doesn't give you any opportunity to learn or be exposed to novel ideas.

I don't see any problem with this, as long as you're actually right when you do it. It's never a waste of time to truthfully tell someone that they're wrong, as long as you give them the information that's necessary for them to realize why.

And in my experience, most of the "novel ideas" that the anti-evolution folks have to offer while discussing evolution are very much worth skipping.
Obsessive behaviour can be remedied. If you want.
> YOU MUST BE REJECTED BY ANOTHER PERSON AT LEAST ONCE, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Being married counts?
If pot is already legal in practice, this sounds an awful lot like the let's make marijuana more expensive initiative. The only interesting part of it passing would have been forcing the federal/state conflict to be debated.

When you look at what's going on in Mexico right now, it's more pressing than ever that we put an end to the War on Drugs.
The article says "a tech cluster that they hope will stretch from Shoreditch and Old Street to the Olympic Park."

I suspect it will just cover Old Street and the Olympic Park though.
To be a touch prosaic, is it simplest to cover a round hole with a round cover? No, Round holes are drilled. Covers for them can be simply cut squarely from stock. Why have a geometric match? Either way provision has usually to be made for covers to he bolted and locked down even if they are resting on a flange.
Build your webapp in a way where migrating parts of it to better suited technologies isn't impossible, and if/when you feel the need to migrate from PHP/MySQL, you'll be able to do so.
With the new API console you can authorize/deauthorize your key on a per-website basis.

API keys are pretty standard for APIs - I hardly see that as a problem. The old version had one too: http://code.google.com/apis/loader/signup.html
Lately these questions and discussions are everywhere and most times I think people are missing the point: it's all about code you want to write.

We created all those high level languages to make code easy to read, to make them people understand. I mean you could probably write your website in Assembla but the language won't help you to write down what you really want.

As a developer you are trying to develop something you do not want to mess around with a language. The language you use should help you focus on what you want to develop not distracting you with "ugly" code.

If you understand what the code is doing (even if you coded it on your own you sometimes have to think about what is going on there) it lets you help to focus on your goals.

If you brain works better with PHP code you should probably use PHP as your coding language but if not you should try something else like Python, Ruby or maybe Haskel until you find a language which is boosting you while developing.
Don't get me wrong I don't say a programming language should do everything for you while you are drinking coffee. No, it should help you to think better what to implement next and how to implement it.
It should support you while reading and understanding.

Again, we only created all those high level languages to make it easier to understand.

And now my standpoint to PHP:
I don't like PHP cause it is a noisy language IMO.
PHP is not OOP. You can use OOP in PHP 5 but the PHP core is not OOP so this seems weird. Even in PHP 5 you can't get a string length like: $str->length
No you have to use strlen($str) and this is ugly.

Also I don't like those "symbols" PHP is using (maybe symbols are not the correct word here but I can't find a better fitting word at the moment).
In PHP you have variable names with a $ symbol.
Why? I don't know but this doesn't work for human beings cause human brains are assuming the dollar symbol has something to do with money or numbers but in PHP it's not. So you have to getting used to it.

It's really the same with the "dot" symbol in PHP. You wouldn't expect that it's concatenating strings.

Ruby as language is for me like reading a book.
For example you can write code like this:
if user.has_comments?
...
end

That's why I love Ruby and I would prefer working with RoR for my project cause it helps you on rapid development.

One last thing: Ruby lets your focus on what you want to build without noise that's why (IMO) there are so much gems and a really huge community!

(Sorry for my bad english, it's not my primary language. I'm working on it :)

EDIT: corrected some typos.