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Agreed. I think it's pretty hard to not know what it's like to feel stupid at least some of the time. Even most geniuses are 'stupid' in at least one area. Most of us have felt the sting of seeing a colleague, friend, or stranger pick up a challenging topic with enviable ease.

The more interesting question is, what it's like to feel that way all the time. I suppose we all choose to associate mostly with those of approximately equal intelligence to ourselves, so we're probably mostly oblivious to our relative intelligence.
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great. unless it's Wikileaks documents...
Yes, they were. Back then it was a more apt name.
I've had a similar experience. I got out of computer programming because I became ill with West Nile Virus and couldn't think well enough to continue. Even after I recovered from most of the physical aspects of the disease (approximately equal to having mono for a year) I was still unable to continue working on the relatively complex recommendations algorithms that I had been doing before. The math just made no sense to me.

I consider myself generally intelligent and capable, and while ill I was definitely neither. I once failed twice in a row at following the directions to make instant mashed potatoes. It wasn't really a joke that a good day was keeping the toilet seat clean and remembering to flush. It's been about 5 years, and my health is mostly back to normal other than no longer being in decent physical shape. I'm currently doing non-computer work (http://screamsorbet.com) but I'm eager to someday get back to the programming problems I abandoned.

Unlike the author of the article, I didn't find it made me happier. Perhaps it's a general personality issue, but it made me even more depressed. Books and movies were mostly beyond me, and there wasn't much I found to take any joy in. I presumed I would eventually recover (and think I have almost completely) but the overall feeling was one of intense mortality --- a dread of the eventual senility that will probably come with aging, and a realization that when it happens again it will likely be once and forever.
Because so few people actually redeem their FFMs. They hoard them up. And then quite often, completely in the terms of the program, they don't earn enough and their balance gets wiped.

And yes, reward flights usually require you to pay tax, and for popular routes there may be only one FFM redeemable ticket per class per flight. Meaning you have to book ages in advance, choose less popular routes/times or be damn damn lucky.
Weren't you connected to the internet?

What would stop you from connecting to Gmail (HTTPS) and emailing something to yourself?
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No. It's much more cost effective to run your own infrastructure.

It's always struck me as irresponsible for reedit to spend the sums they do for example. You could easily spend half that and get four times the hardware (in addition to an admin to manage it).

Some businesses just don't want to deal with it period. I get that. But at some point it's almost irresponsible. Like sending an employee to starbucks for everyone in the office a few times a day because you don't want the hassle of setting up with a coffee service. ;-)
It is much a matter of opinion. I happen to like much of classical music.
Sure. Which part of a review written from the perspective of someone who was trying out a brand new computer as if they were a consumer who had just been handed it and told to try with no instructions did you find poorly researched?
Although I wouldn't argue there is an immediate need for 5TB objects, raising the previous 5GB limit is undoubtedly useful.
I agree. I think few people would be upset if they couldn't open up two separate browser windows. That's hardly a product killer, in and of itself.
Sounds like since you know Java, Android might be easier for you to start. You can also look onto Titanium or Phone Gap but it depends on what kind of app you're trying to make.
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What would you estimate Reddit's costs are now? What would their costs be if they had a full-time (decent) admin and their own hardware in a data centre?
Google provides diffs of their privacy policies, so I imagine it would be possible to tell whether any given practice was in violation of their stated policy at the time of the infraction by looking at the policy's history.

Also, I don't think it matters whether someone has read the privacy policy when they try to take you to court. Oh, you didn't read that I plan to share your information? Guess whose problem that is.
That's it exactly! After I finished the review, I talked with Google and said so what's up -- the screenshot feature doesn't seem to work. Yes, it does. You just have no idea that one was made. There's no showing you of what you shot. A file is just made, placed in your screenshot directory, which you can't even get to until you use a program that allows you to select from the hard drive.
He was taking portraits. Not really possible to do without the subject cooperating.
This assumes that every piece of information being passed back and forth is used to further a conspiracy. Much of it is mundane, albeit necessary.

Sure, it's what he wanted, but that's part of the problem here. The government, like they always do, overreacts to fix the problem, and now even basic security measures could be hampered.
Stop smoking weed, if that's what got you onto the idea
This is what's amazing me too. AWS is so much more expensive, even if factoring TCO in. It's good for very fast scaling and experimentation tough.

I've did some very rough calculations in a blog post some time ago

http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-virtualized-servers-cloud...

and AWS seems to be a least 2x more expensive.
Well, so Google says. That seems a convenient way to get people off their backs for having both. Google TV runs on Android, not Chrome. Google TV isn't a touchscreen. The reality is, Google has two different product teams and had no intention of telling either one to give up on their goals. And with Apple pushing both MacOS and iOS, it has no immediate need to do so, either.
You write code together. Typing is a minor part of creating software.
On blog talk radio, I heard James Fallows talk about how the State Department is furious at the military for their shoddy security here. According to his sources, State Department systems have much more of the basic protections in place.
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I'm a doctor. I'm not aware of any classic pathology that involves cerebral vasculature and vitamin B. There are some cerebral vasculitides that might initially be diagnosed as vitamin B deficiency, and vice versa.

Quora user Lazlo B Tamas would be a good person to ask, though coincidentally he has already gave his answer to the question itself and didn't address this answer.
Thank you, this is very helpful.
I would say that you characterisation of Anon as a cult is pretty accurate. A trollish, publicity-seeking cult, but a cult nonetheless.
Nobody can give you a 100% answer on whether or not it is a risky behavior. I can however enlighten you as to my opinion on the matter.

If you smoke in moderation, you will not observe any harmful effects.

When I smoked every day all day, I was definitely slower and less enthusiastic in general. I was a classic stoner. I didn't have any serious health problems, but my lung capacity was greatly decreased. This may have also been affected by my job at the time which prevented any consistant exercise.

I still smoke fairly frequently, but usually not more than a hit or two a day max. I take regular breaks of a week or more to control my tolerance and to prevent "stoner creep". I stay mentally sharp and I exercise regularly now and haven't detected any issues with my habit. It does feel good though to take a few months off once a year or so just to make sure I'm not too reliant on the green.

The only physical dangers that I see is that you tend to take on a less active lifestyle and can do a lot of damage to your body due to lack of exercise and proper eating habits. If lung damage is a concern, it can be prevented by edibles or a vaporizer.

Weed is an issue with many employers and most likely will be for the near future. Drug tests are no more than a IQ test though. If you can't fake a (corporate) drug test, you probably have a learning disability.
I also like classical music, but that surely can't be a good foundation on which to judge various forms of art.
I understand you are right in the context of today. A few years from now, however, I would imagine that gains in the efficiency of the business model as well as competitive pressures will drive prices down below the costs of running your own infrastructure.
By the same token, is there any reason to assume that someone who uses marijuana doesn't drink irresponsibly too? While I was in college, the two seemed pretty inseparable on average.
Most of the traits of "stupidity" raised in that piece (reduced arrogance, less anal retentiveness, enjoying obvious movies, patience, going off of sci-fi, being slower and more laid back) are all things I've recently noticed I've gained gradually over the last 10 years.. Early senile dementia? ;-)
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Hard drives definitely don't work. Google confirmed that with me when I talked with them after the review. The promise this will come.

Extensions will work if they don't use some API thingee (that's the technical term) that Google doesn't find secure enough. Don't have my notes, but NP/API? Anyway, most of the stuff in the market they tell me should be fine -- but even there, not all of it will be, guaranteed, I was told. In short, Chrome in Chrome OS is not exactly the same as the Chrome browser.

On iTunes, we'll all be using music from the cloud. Seriously -- my second day interview with them will get into this. Maybe so. But if you're into Apple devices, you're still going to need iTunes.

On 3G, I have a 5GB plan that I've used for years. Never gone over my limit. But, I only use it for when I'm traveling, about 5 days or so per month. If this was your main plan, expensive. But Google positions it as something you can use if you're out and away from WiFi.
The effort comes just months after Firefox's creator, Mozilla Corp., killed a powerful new tool to limit tracking under pressure from an ad-industry executive, The Wall Street Journal has learned.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870458480457564...
Thanks for bringing the discussion over to HN, Jeff.

While I don't have a use for the new object size limits (the data we store at S3 is on average of only a few Kb per object - even though we store millions of them), I can't wait to see what people (mainly the scientific community) do with this. Bumping the object limit to 5TB means huge datasets can now be stored, processed straight from and added back to S3 - removing size limits is the final piece of the puzzle to "trivialize" big data processing.

PS: It's been fun, and exciting, and unexpected to follow Amazon AWS' growth in the past few years. I remember back when AWS was first announced thinking of how odd it was for a company like Amazon to open its infrastructure like you guys were doing. A little while later, we were fortunate enough to be among the very first companies to use EC2 (Goplan was the first 3rd party product to run on EC2 back in the day - it got us on Wired Magazine). These days, AWS has become an integral part of most startups I see and products I work with. That is a huge deal.
That seems like normal paranoia to me. :)
Very true about the last point. Technical people tend to be less creative than other portions of society. I fall into the less creative group. Weed is my solution to that. Most of my best (and worst) ideas came when I was high. I just always make sure to write them down so I can remember them and go over them when I'm sober.
Don't be afraid, it's not going to replace your mouse and keyboard. It's going to augment them.

That means you can just work normally on your computer, until that moment comes where you want to sit back comfortably and... browse snapshots and rotate them.

I predict there will also be much more interesting input assistance beyond photo browsing. I'm using a Magic Trackpad in addition to mouse/keyboard for a bunch of gestures (window management). However, the number of distinct gestures that can be performed on a flat surface is fairly limited.

I'll gladly take the additional gestures that a kinect-style device will give me. It could very well revolutionize the way we interact with window managers without forcing us to grow gorilla arms.
Indeed. While I would love to migrate to AWS, it is still vastly more expensive than our current power/bandwidth/cage space costs.
ctrl - j Should open up the file browser with a screenshot folder as well.
I believe fredoliveira was calling scientology a cult, not Anonymous.
Besides the EC2, at least, my own calculation shows that Amazon S3 is much more cost-effective than hosting on your own machine.
Does anyone know anything about the availability of this implementation? (Before anyone gets excited: For poking at, not production use, being able to use the thing would help me understand their paper better...)
Yea, the whole "hierarchy of intelligence" thing that most people buy into is just rubbish. To say that one person is smarter or more intelligent than another really has no meaning at all, without further qualification or context.

I've also always been one of the "smart kids", but I think it's a load of horseshit.
I see what you did there, and wish I could down-vote you. To be clear and explicit (because my original post can indeed be interpreted wrong), when I said cult, I was referring to Scientology.

(I do find it quite ironic that you chose to troll while calling Anon "trollish" too.)
His freshly-created account in certainly not a coincidence.
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I cannot answer your question because I have only used pot two or three times in my life, but I can give you some advice: don't take the word of a drug user about whether drugs are good or bad for you. Drug users, like most people tend to suffer from self delusion, and you really do not want to be a victim of that.

There are very few people in the world that can be brutally honest about themselves and their lives. Very few people are willing to admit that a voluntary choice they took has caused a serious permanent damage in their lives.
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I'll go out on a limb and say it depends on how you use it.

Ingested cleanly the drug itself is not risky in any way, sugar does more damage.

I've known senior, lifetime heavy users with no ill effects of daily smoking.
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Care to share? Would be interested as my calculations seem to show at least twice the costs for AWS
There is no evidence to back up your bogus, overreaching claim. You make no distinction between use and abuse.
I currently work on a startup together with my friend. We don't do this because we are passionate about starting a company or the problem we solve is exciting. We do it for the money. Why work for some company if you can make much more money selling you services directly? That's what got us started. Not passion.

Now I don't think it's wrong to be passionate but it's definitely a key factor whether your business is successful or not. It all comes down to hard work, execution and a little bit of luck.
Yeah, I use vim too. I was thinking they'd just pair off vim and Emacs people with their own kind.
They linked to some information at the bottom of the article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/mozilla-posts-2009-revenue-sur...

"Approximately 86% and 91% of royalties revenue for 2009 and 2008, respectively, was derived from this contract [with Google]."
glad you like the site :)
I personally find that the limit means that you're not occasionally reading far away from the main body of code, which makes it easier for my eyes to track. An added bonus is the ability to put multiple files side-by-side, something not easily possible when lines can be of arbitrary length.
This article fails to draw enough attention to a key item -- these are enhanced restrictions only for the classified systems. The headline reads like a ham-handed overreaction that's going to make it impossible for people to type up their quarterly reviews and leave requests.

I didn't deal with anything classified, but my understanding five years ago was that:

1. Any device that's gets plugged in to a secure system needs to have the red "this contains classified info" sticker on it.
2. Once a device becomes classified, it can never be plugged in to an unclassified system.

It sounds like the actual story is "military reviews, reiterates security policy in the wake of wikileaks scandal."
"It wasn't really a joke that a good day was keeping the toilet seat clean and remembering to flush."

It sounds as though your west nile had a stronger effect than the author's problems. Perhaps a person becomes happy insofar as their level of intelligence is closer to the population average. This makes sense if people are happy to the extent that they can relate to others.
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Dang. I'm into computational photography so I was a little sad this wasn't about actual algorithmic lenses.

(Also, did this site have an awful video player or what?)
Sometimes both programmers just keep using their favorite editors.

At my last job, we had a more typical pairing setup with one machine (27" imac) in the middle of two programmers. When I paired with a non-Emacs user, we'd put Emacs on my half of the screen and their editor (usually Vim, occasionally Textmate) on their half.

The only caveat is that you have to make sure your editor will refresh files when they change on disk. That way, when your pair saves a file, your editor reflects the changes.

Textmate does this automatically; in Emacs, you may have to put

(global-auto-revert-mode 1)

in your init.el, and there's some Vim setting you can tweak to get the same behavior.

The main downside is that you can only fit half as much code on the screen, but this can be mitigated by using a sufficiently large screen. In my experience, a 27" display is sufficiently large and a 24" is pretty good, but anything smaller starts to feel cramped.
Good point. I misread that.

RAGE works on all the iPhones that support iOS 4, which excludes the original iPhone and iPod touch. However, the hardware on those are reasonably identical to the second generation of devices, so that restriction is an arbitrary one by Apple.
Search demo: Tried panning the map and zooming to New York and searching for "Starbucks" and "coffee", no luck... Am I missing something?

Context demo: Clicking on map, nothing happens. Maybe the service is down?
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I get what you're saying, but this is what I characterized as boilerplate. It's not a totally fair characterization, since Drupal gives you a lot of freedom. It's not particularly limiting in the design sense, modules are highly configurable, and the provided hooks let you do pretty impressive things with existing code. Drupal is an amazing piece of software for what it is.

However the out of the box functionality comes with a lot of baggage. You never use all the functionality, yet you are forced to deal with the implications of that functionality. The design decisions are meant to support arbitrary content, but for most sites you have very specific content.

If what you are doing is boilerplate functionality, then a CMS saves you a lot of time. However as things diverge from the standard case, the weight of the infrastructure can become crippling very quickly.

An example was that I needed to reverse the order of two of the checkout screens in the Drupal ecommerce module. For the project in question this was a dramatic improvement to the user experience. There were no hooks to accomplish this, instead it had to be hacked into the ecommerce module. But the ecommerce module is incredibly complex. It attempts to do anything you could possibly imagine, 95% of which was not needed for this project, yet in order to hack in the solution, it was necessary to understand those issues holistically. The time to figure that out, hack the module and test it was longer than just grabbing ActiveMerchant and coding up a checkout flow in Rails from scratch.

If you just let Drupal modules do what they are designed to do, then yeah it's amazing, but a great user experience is highly tailored to the application at hand. My experience is that even when you are doing something that a CMS is well-suited to, you still end up making little concessions to the architecture you are dealing with. Those concessions might be worth the cost savings, but it's undeniably a tradeoff. For me personally after a while I felt crippled by it—I couldn't stand my UX to be influenced by software designed for mass solutions. I believe the sweet spot is in frameworks and libraries with fine-grained tools so you can use only what you need without accepting any baggage you don't.
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Where the hell does one who has no connections get some? I don't live in America, however, there must be some basic strategies that work everywhere, right?
I think it's just precious that he does not even understand the question.
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It's also the office where Bart started Tapulous btw.
Oh, damnit, I just watched "Wall-E" and now this.

Excuse me, I got some dust in my eyes.
It depends in a lot of ways on where you live. In California for example, it's very easy to get a card for about $100 and then you can just go to dispensaries.
What would you think about a revolution in the world of "Privacy Policy", spreading the usable approach of Creative Commons?
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I've never tried pair programming, and I'm not convinced it would be a good idea for most programmers out there. I like to be able to think alone, and sit and reflect upon things, then go back into discussion with my colleagues either via "real life conversation" or via GTalk or e-mail.

I'd be willing to check it out for the sake of not rejecting it without cause. However, finding a co-programmer that is a correct match seems to be the biggest challenge.

PS It's good to see that your workers also have decent chairs, and not just gymballs. :-)
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That's some very bad reporting from the Wall Street Journal:

"Mr. Simeonov reached out to the chief executive of Mozilla, who put him in touch with Jay Sullivan, vice president of products at Mozilla. The two spoke on June 9... The software was removed from the Firefox prototype on June 10."

But in fact the software was removed on June 8, before the conversation between Sullivan and Simeonov. Here is the Mercurial changeset:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/76e9dd2d9322

Unfortunately, the WSJ reporter looked at the date of a Bugzilla comment, rather than the date of the change it was discussing. This was pointed out by Mozilla security engineer Jesse Ruderman, who provides more details in the comments here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2010/12/did_we_...
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Even though it offends my egalitarian idealism, the existence of a "g factor" is pretty well documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
What a horrible book review.