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"... A professional will know how to sort out those different feelings and process them. It would be hard to do that on your own. ..."

I'd hesitate to advise someone to be debriefed by a professional. For all their training, empathy, my thoughts & feelings are my own. Not to be dissected, diagnosed and cataloged. A diagnosed "cure" coming from a pill.

When I was a bit younger than most of you blokes, I organised and executed a medical emergency extraction. The young lad later died from severe wounds. With hind sight I'd would have done 2 things

- postpone my studies

- repeat the story to as many people as I can tell

The first point recognises you are likely to be in shock with all the associated symptoms - numbness, forgetfulness, irritability, inability to concentrate. The second point is a pretty good antidote for PSTD and I practice it when I get the occasion. A chat to a group of sympathetic mates down the pub over a pint, is going to more than turning a tragic event into a medical event.

So put the startup plan on hold. Do something different. You will gain perspective over time. Look out for trigger events. It can give you flashbacks. I started to get them years after and had to use different techniques and put to rest ghosts of the past.
Just 3 weeks ago an Uncle that I was close to died. He wasn't even 50, and he left a wife not even 40 and two children (my cousins) not even 10 years old. Just yesterday I got back from the memorial service. Each person is different, but my advice is to do the following:

A: Do things that need to be done right now, with little emotion. You may still be in shock and your best bet is to keep your studies up, and do any necessary work on your startup.

B: Take the time (maybe even up to a week or so) to mourn, and psychologically "let go" or accept his passing. It will be hard to move forward if you don't do this and the shock wears off and the reality catches up with you.

C: Get back to life. Memorial services are referred to as "Celebration of Life" services because it's the time when you've accepted reality, said your goodbyes, and let go, which allows you to appreciate the time you had with this person, and then move forward a stronger person.

For the past 3 weeks, I feel like I've been living life 1 day at a time. My uncle died while I was house sitting for other family that was away on vacation, and 1 week before finals. Basically, it wasn't a "convenient" time (though I'd be hard pressed to explain what a convenient time would be). Now that the memorial service is over and the family has gone back home, I feel that I can move forward now. I just started a job today, and I'm taking 2 classes over the summer. Letting go has made it easier for me at least to appreciate my uncle's life and move forward with my own.

My condolences to you.
37Signals' "37BetterBank", circa 1998, is still better than my bank's interface from 2008
If you're using MyISAM and you don't care about diskspace then you can use an R-tree index to search any two inequalities. For example, an R-tree index can be used for queries of the form A>10 AND A<100 AND B>5. Also note that R-tree indexes can be appended to my previously suggested indexes. So, an index of the form (C,D,E,R) would efficiently locate rows for a query of the form C=3 AND D=4 AND E=5 AND A>10 AND A<100 AND B>5
this dates from loooong before DHH/Basecamp/Rails/etc. came into the picture.
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I suspect this is in Nature Neuroscience at least as much for it the technical challenge behind the research as anything to do with the big idea. I would also hesitate to make any claim as to whether or not the average HN reader can, today, understand the article. If I was going to identify any shortcoming in their ability, I would focus on our educational systems with their obscene focus on hyper-specialization ("I specialize in the left kidney . . . no, no, I don't do right kidneys.")

It has become increasingly my experience, as someone with training in physics, military, medicine, and computers, that one of our major problems as a society is how uninvolved we are with anything, anything, outside our hyperfocused domains, or the spoonfed news we get from the MSM. I like the idea PG expressed about the nature of Boston: you feel like you really should read those <classics | groundbreaking studies | revolutionary opinions>.
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"I'd hesitate to advise someone to be debriefed by a professional. For all their training, empathy, my thoughts & feelings are my own. Not to be dissected, diagnosed and cataloged."

That's an archaic attitude towards psychology.

A trained psychological professional, will, for example, differentiate between their own experiences and those of their client, while the people on here will tell their own stories as if their stories have relevance on how this guy should proceed. (That can be healthy, too, but it's not a substitute for a primary relationship with a person trained at recognizing the places transference operates).

What you shouldn't do is take any advice on here. That would be like getting programming advice from a psychologist. I've done a couple years of work with people on hospice, and have done a little with suicide prevention stuff. So I'm aware that these professionals should be respected and used, and I'm also aware how pathetically easy it is to get duped by transference during these situations involving grief.

Get real help.
The only problems I have with the iPhone is that Apple decides what software is available and that makes it extremely difficult to write free software for it. There's _no_ reason in 2008 that people should be excited about (effectively) a computer that is actively free software unfriendly. The iPhone seems defective by design. The thing that makes me sad is that no one -- _particularly_ the people calling themselves hackers -- seems to care...
oh no, profit! we're all gonna die.
<blockquote>Where's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer"</blockquote>
How to the Think like a Computer Scientist is a pretty good primer for python.
Squeak eToys include a lot of nice goodies. You need to play around with them enough to be able to guide them through to get the most out of them, however. (This probably goes for anything mentioned as a suggestion, of course.)

If you want to make them really uber: From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtXvUoPx4Qs

All the courseware is open source.
Scratch is very cool. I've got young kids now and was introduced to computers as a kids so I think its a great idea to learn through games. I blogged about this on http://kidconfidence.com/blogs/2007/05/28/learning-how-compu... saying HTML/JavaScript is a great way for kids to start learning how to program. Also check out Chipwits.com for learning logic.
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Teach Logo. It teaches geometry, block structure and subroutines. Kids get instant graphical feedback. It also smoothes the beginning of the learning curve because you can get interesting output without understanding loops or variables.
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FUD. What's next... my ISP has my browsing data??? Oh noes!

Look, I'm sure Apple will provide a privacy policy and TOS that dev's won't have many issues with.
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Yes, clearly FUD. But also an interesting reflection on the mindset that the current business environment begets - namely that wherever there is data, there is also money.
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Having worked on the XBox 360, Sony PS3, Sony PSP this is a HUGE improvement.

The walled garden is not as huge an impediment as you believe it to be. Figure out if it is fiscally prudent for your organization to work on the iPhone platform. If not, move on. There are a ton of ideas that need to be worked on on a wide range of platforms.
We also use trac, although it's features are rather basic.
We kind of gotten to it by default - because we got it packaged with svn and a wiki. I guess it's just good enough and there was never a reason compelling enough to switch.
They get a lot less outrageous as time goes on. The 2005 one is pretty sad in comparison to the "Ferrari in the pond."
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Those didn't bother me, because I couldn't be bothered with them.
Is this really an issue of "identity" or an issue of "usernames"? Seeing Robert Scoble whine and moan on Twitter about not getting his username "scobleizer" on Plurk was just short of pathetic.

Here's the dichotomy I see: hoping to get your username first because it's easily recognizable, and it's your favorite moniker versus hoping to get your username first because you fear someone will use it to destroy your personal reputation.

Obviously, the latter is more crucial, and to any self-respecting blogger with connections to various social networks it shouldn't even be a problem. "I couldn't get the username "iamdave" so I'll be using this one." Supposedly that simple, and maybe I'm oversimplifying here.

But like I said, Scoble was, and please pardon my language but this is just how frustrated he made me about it: a little bitch about the matter. And if people act the way he did about it, the social-network world is going to become one very sad, pathetic place to hang out in.
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Why wasn't there any mention of traveling distance in the article or map? While it would make sense that the rural areas earn less, and therefor spend a higher percentage on the relatively constant gas prices, shouldn't it also be considered that those in rural areas must drive farther to reach their destinations, and across unimproved roads at times?

In the more populated areas, we may only drive 10 - 50 minutes to our destination, and most of that might be in traffic (at least here in southern California). Of course we wouldn't need to spend as much in gas. Everything's closer.
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Quote from the WSJ article (italics by me): "In an effort to make Ingres’s computer code more user-friendly and gender-neutral, McGrattan helped institute new coding standards at the company. They require programmers to include a detailed set of comments before each block of code explaining what the piece of code does and why; developers also must supply a detailed history of any changes they have made to the code"

That is more than enough to make a judgment in that case.
They'll make a lot off of the $200 down.
I will prefer open source phones to the iPhone, of that I am sure. Except I don't like Android much (from a developer's point of view), and Linux on the phone seems to be still far away. For the time being it's like whatever, ALL phones suck, the iPhone just sucks a little less (hopefully).
New iphone costs $27.94 more than the old iphone
Okay, we all know that the new iphone price is just a marketing ploy to get people in more expensive contracts. But how much more will it cost you. Assuming a 5% opportunity cost for your cash.

New iphone w/ $69.99 plan:
($1,794.34) =PV(5%/12, 24, 69.99) - 199

Old iphone w/ 59.99 plan:
($1,766.41) =PV(5%/12, 24, 59.99) - 399

The new, $199 iphone costs $27.94 more than the $399 old iphone when you consider the monthly plan and time value of money.
it's also copyright 2001, not 1998.
It's the breaking-up of essays into 4 or more web pages that irritates and turns off the reader...
It would be more useful if the original hyperlink to a PDF file was preserved and a hyperlink to scribd was also presented. This would also eliminate a problem with duplicate hyperlink suppression.
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SourceForge has been reliable for me. I haven't looked at what other sites do, but I like having access to rsync the whole repository as a backup, and repository browsing on the server side.
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I don't really know what's happening in San Antonio, but Austin has a lot of us I think. :) The two cities are nice and close, I've seen regional engineering events before.
Maybe we should wait to hear whether they remaining devs will be approved at a later date. I've seen people approved with absolutely no track record whatsoever, so the requirements can't be too stringent.
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Defense spending is the government taking money from everyone and reallocating it, just like any other government spending (and, of course, in many cases, it's a monopsony). You have to consider that a "wrench in the gears" just as much as health care, education or whatever else they spend money on.

One variety of universal health care that has been lauded by economists, even some towards the libertarian end of things, is that utilized in Singapore:

http://www.american.com/archive/2008/may-june-magazine-conte...

Furthermore, to call the current model in the US 'free market' is probably inaccurate, as it's distorted in all kinds of ways, first and foremost because of the strong link between people's jobs and their health coverage.
I really like Trac. The wiki/versioncontrol/bugtracking features are well-integrated. I think it's quite suitable for small to medium organizations.
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And you are getting 3G and GPS.
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- Some HyperCard clone (very easy to learn concepts)
- JavaScript (runs everywhere, easy to create simple things like games without much work)
> a different type of cage.

Exactly. Many people here may be too young to recall the late 80ies, but Apple were the ones who wanted to control the operating system and the hardware, whereas Microsoft settled for "just" the OS and open hardware. Remember the Apple "look and feel" lawsuit?

They make great products, but as a developer, I'm not sure I trust them a whole lot more than Microsoft.
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I missed Dan Brown's books with that thinking. I avoided those silly Goosebumps books as a kid. It also keeps me firmly away from TV.

I think a big part of it is that I really don't like discussing books/movies with other people. I know that is odd. I just like to have the story in my head and interpret it as I please, without having to hash it over with everyone else in the world.

It's paid off for Harry Potter. I get perverse enjoyment out of rejecting my girlfriend's sister's desire to discuss whether such and such character is in love with such and such other character. Since I haven't read it, she won't ramble at me for more than a couple seconds. I fully plan on reading it someday, once the furor dies down and there is no risk of having a coversation about it. ;)
It's interesting to see how people choose languages for projects, but it's also important to realize that "one" isn't necessarily the best choice. I think of programming languages as targeting tasks, not whole projects.

I've successfully merged multiple languages many times. You can save a lot of time if you know the strengths of each language and have learned how to combine them (e.g. SWIG bindings, wrappers around Objective-C modules, process invocations to run scripts).

In addition to benefits in exploiting languages for what they're "best at", it is great for bringing people into your project. Invariably the code will be partitioned into a more advanced "core" (e.g. C++) with some significant things in higher-level languages like Python. So the probability increases that a newcomer will see something familiar, and be able to understand major parts of the code quickly.
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No, you're jumping to conclusions.

Requiring a "detailed set of comments before each block of code" doesn't imply that the comments have to be there if they're inane.
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I was gonna read the whole thing, but the first rambling paragraph bored me and I got distracted by something on newegg.

(On a serious note: what a linkbait headline!)
I have stated my personal preferences. It is fine if you disagree (I honestly don't care), but it is not OK to call me sexist for it.
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212534
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If you're willing to switch from MySQL Server then I'd recommend that you try R-tree indexes in Postgres.
another reason why i shouldnt use Amazon web services(AWS)?
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I think that Aaron's idea is 1) unworkable, 2) politically unfeasible in the US, and 3) doesn't even reflect what countries like Sweden have in any case.
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> Remember the Apple "look and feel" lawsuit?

A remnant of that issue may be present on your desktop. I believe this works on Windows XP and it should also work on Windows Vista. Select a window. Press Alt and release. Press Space and release. The menu that is revealed is to sidestep Apple's single click window closing patent which was filed circa 1984.
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Wow cool, they have a few "Better" apps/designs: http://www.37signals.com/better.php

In PHP too!
What is the 5%? Why do you not just do $10 * 12 months?
I do find that I no longer read through things (especially opinion pieces) with that sense of "truncated thought" whenever I come to a questionable assertion or statistic.

It used to be that I'd feel an uneasy is that right? feeling at these points and try to remember to check that out later. Now I'm very likely to pop google open next to the piece and check immediately.

Very often things I'm reading "strike out" with a few bogus assertions or statistics and don't get read all the way through.

Reading anything without google except fiction where I wish to suspend disbelief feels weird now.

Google makes us smarter, not stupid, because it allows our brain to be an L1 cache instead of the entire store.
3G iPhone? Yawn. Games Are The Real Story
You've been extorted? Well, pass the extortion right on down. Or, do what I do, bribery.

Earn a bankroll of neopoints at neopets.com, and give them out as payment for programming exercises completed. My daughter (nine) just earned 30,000 neopoints from me yesterday for doing three easy Python programming exercises (where easy, starting out, means something like "cut and paste this and get it to run, with help from Dad allowed" and then goes from there). How to earn lots of neopoints? Neopian stocks, mostly.

Scratch is so good you can even use Scratch time as a reward, if you're mean enough to do that.

For editing of Python, we're trying out Pico, which is like an Emacs lite, with the main useful commands clearly shown at the bottom of the screen.
web programming, it's something they can see the results of right away and prettier sooner. You must keep them interested, imho. on top of html/css show them js and php/mysql perhaps even teaching them ajax (you can sub php/mysq for preferred lang, db).
I am glad TC went down. I have lost a lot of respect for Mike over his constant Twitter bashing every single day. He has his head so far up his arse sometimes its unbelievable.

MacRumors definitely had the news spot on, I had it in its own window on a second screen, I didn't have to do anything, no constant reloading, just glance over every min. But Gizmodo had the best pictues, SO close to the stage, that I checked every few mins or so.
Who called you sexist? I haven't even used the word in this thread.

I've said that you're jumping to conclusions, and implied that your reaction to this one woman is hostile, but I've never accused you of being sexist. Perhaps you need to take a step back and re-read what I've written.
Don't forget that 16GB is $299.
Not having any other choice means they don't have to convince anyone.
With the promises of fiber everywhere in exchange for billions in tax breaks and subsidies that were never delivered on, leaving substantial portions of the country with only dial-up in 2008, I'd say they did as much to prevent these technologies as they did to bring them.

http://www.newnetworks.com/failedfiberstates.htm
How dare you accuse me of using a Windows desktop! :-)
Okay I have never done online banking, so I am not sure I understand what this is?

Is this an application they sell to banks, or is it an application you can use to connect to your bank online regardless of what your bank offer?

... what is this?
You have written

"I think the comments here do a better job of reflecting the problems women are up against as coders [...] if they weren't so sad, the anguished geek cries of "sexism" in this thread would be hilarious. It's hard to be oppressed by discrimination when you're in the clear and obvious majority."

If I somehow misinterpreted that, my apologies - english is just my second language.
It's a design for a banking website. They did not go beyond the mock-up stage.
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From the article:

Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith described Monday's troubles as "intermittent" and said they did not affect Amazon Web Services

I've certainly seen no sign of problems with AWS; nor have I heard people complaining about issues with AWS at the point when amazon.com was having problems, so I think we can take Smith's statement here as accurate.
Bah! who needs a microsoft-backed product when you have _why?:
http://hackety.org/2008/06/09/dismantlingBrowserPlus.html

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He's calculating the NPV of the iPhone.

A bit ott, but hell, why not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value
Apple is fascist. The iPhone specifically.

Microsoft in comparison looks like a beautiful tour de force of openness. Free (arguably) open CIL, languages, document format, IDE, documentation. No one DECIDES who can develop on windows mobile. Or for that matter most other SDKs. As for the cost, absolute worst case for an individual - about $1k a year to get an MSDN subscription.

Meanwhile 4000 devs are going to make ALL the applications that the masses could ever want on an iPhone. Why not just open it up for $100/$300? Heck, why isn't it free to push open source projects? Why isn't it free to push to your own iPhone? Why hasn't anyone asked Apple these questions? This is insane. If Microsoft tried something this crazy everyone would be in an uproar. This will give a huge advantage to large or "in the know" tech companies. I don't see the advantage to the consumer. The iPhone SDK is already relatively locked down so I don't want to hear security.

This being said I have an iPhone and Macbook. They are beautiful elegant machines. They work great. The interface is excellent. FreeBSD is $$$$. They've replaced my linux boxes at home. My iPhone completely pwns my old samsung blackjack. I actually use the internet on my iPhone and I enjoy using it.

I am frustrated that I can't push my iPhone apps from my macbook to my actual iPhone. I'm frustrated that I can't get some of my linux apps to work in OS X. It seems like they have it out for open source / small business / hackers. I could jail break my iPhone, but I shouldn't have to. I could install Xen and Linux, but I shouldn't have to. Sadly, I would be happy if Apple gave us the same choices as Microsoft. That should not be too much to ask.

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I'm not afraid to say that i'm using Windows XP. :-)

But i don't see how this behaviour is related to a single click patent. Btw. it doesn't work with Firefox.
A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. (You can buy something else, invest it, etc.) All things being equal, it's better to defer payments rather than all at once.

People are carping that the new iphone might be $200 cheaper, but then you have to pay $10 * 24months = $240 more in monthly payments. (Difference of $40 dollars more for the new iphone.)

The math is wrong, you have to discount future payments.
I choose 5% as a conservative interest rate.
Ah...I see. I wasn't talking about you (or calling anyone sexist), but the wording was kind of subtle. I was referring to the many other comments that were/are complaining about the "sexism" of the story.