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Here's my perspective as the friend of someone who became addicted to WoW:

I lost a potential programming buddy/co-founder. we used to collaborate on projects, but eventually WoW took up all his spare time. We both graduated with CS degrees, but he is now unemployable. He played WoW instead of working (he worked from home), and has never spent any time outside of work maintaining his skills. I say worked because he no longer works. Hasn't for the past 3 years. Right now he's into starcraft. It's frustrating to me that he and others I built relationships with in college have chosen this path.
Taken out of context, the advice to "do it the way it's meant to be done" is not very good advice, as you point out.

But in the context of talking about how to navigate within vim, it's really worthwile to use hjlk instead of the arrow keys; it's provably way more efficient.
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A 1000 caracter limit is pretty common for a long form text field in PeopleSoft applications and for what ever reason PeopleSoft is really popular for building horrendous HR, business process and other records keeping business software.
I did a little more research and it looks like the second-level .ng domains are being sold through an auction slot process. The starting bids are around $50,000.
Without deadlines, I don't think, I would get anything done.
Reclaimed land is primarily used for farming. The Netherlands is among the largest exporters of farming products, particularly flours and vegetables. Immigration from Morocco and Turkey was invited to fill low-end job as education levels rose and the economy went up the service chain. While family reunions caused immigration to be larger than anticipated, it is likely that additional immigration would otherwise have been necessary. The Dutch economy gets a lot of leverage from the Germany economy and one of its typical problems is overheating, causing a big shortage of workers. High-end job can be filled by the highly educated native population (including third+ generation immigrants), low-end jobs can be filled by new generations of immigrants. Societal problems have arisen from this throughout history. However, today's problem's are relatively minor compared to some of the problems with Moluccans in the '70s.

If you think the Netherlands has become hateful of immigration, guess again. The EU now gives the Netherlands access to a large supply of immigrants whenever the economy needs it. The Dutch are loving their cheap Polish construction workers. The Polish will start causing friction and change in Dutch culture at some point, like many generations of immigrants before them. The Dutch won't mind that much though. While it is in their nature to complain, they are among the wealthiest and happiest people.

What you're seeing is the result of 400 years of tradesmanship, not stupidity.
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Do you know if there's a way to do something similar when displaying images? for a game I need to display a tiled background, and at this time I do it by looping on the x and y axis. That's slow.

Of course I then translate the resulting canvas instead of redrawing everything when I want to scroll but there's still a lot of invalidations involved.
are you joking? how is building and releasing this many products ever a bad thing?
> I instantly felt sick ... It just made me want to throw up.

Interestingly I have the same torwards tobacco. There seems to be something, maybe in your sub-consciousness that wants to prevent you from going back there and it is so strong that it evokes reactions on a physical level.
I suspect you are trolling? You made a characterization of the Netherlands that seems to be constructed from randomly chosen and misrepresented facts, misunderstandings, and hand-waving...
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This illustrates very clearly not only a problem of micro-finance, but other problems as well.

USA and Europe is printing money like there is no tomorrow, money created by big banks at negative interest rates(when real inflation is more than the 0% they pay) and this money is flowing to developing countries because they pay huge interest.

What these countries see is that there is so much people eager to lend them(before Grameen nobody did).This is a big change, because it has produced a flood of money that produces enormous distortion.

Too much money, if the real assets(house, food,energy) remain the same, creates inflation. Economy 101.

This happened in Spain,Grece,Portugal, we were getting loans at 15-18%. There were rules that put limits to in debt years. Entering European Union meant 3% interest rates and debt limits removed,no collateral needed (German and French banks flood as with money). Now everybody could buy a house, any house(signing a 40years loan), and houses got 4x more expensive, salaries growing very little(15-20%).

Got we richer?, no. We got poorer, because the capital that entered the country was external it made things really expensive for people inside the country, more difficult to life with the same money.
10 flash videos on one page and just a tiny "credits" link to the author? Only thanks to Flashblock my computer is not dying.

I also don't see the point of embedding all the videos. For example in this one: http://ontwik.com/ruby/david-hansson-why-ruby/ why doesn't the credits link to the source of the video? You know, the people who recorded, edited and released it at http://confreaks.net/videos/431-rubyconf2010-keynote-why-rub...
I'd say that you can start companies at any stage of life. You can start a company age 50, and probably have far more chance at success based on your extra knowledge.

However, you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.
Agreed, May be he is different
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These are not true microloans in the original spirit of microloans.

The article uses the word "perverted" and I agree it's definitely something entirely different and horrible. Reminds me a bit of payday loans in the USA, except people here aren't killing themselves over it. At least not until one of our political powers finds a way to recreate debtor prisons.
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For completeness' sake, there is a third reason for incarceration - The prisoner can't commit new crimes while detained. Not that it matters in this case.

I otherwise fully agree with your sentiments.
Active tournament player here, FIDE 2100. They key point to remember here is that computers are able to avoid the tactical pitfalls that humans cannot. In other words, they can see all the possible outcomes within a given number of moves. The fewer the pieces, the farther ahead they calculate and play perfectly. Indeed there are databases of up to 7 pieces that are used for perfect play.

Humans cannot see as far as a computer, but they don't need to do so. Grandmasters recognize over 10,000 common positions (after the opening phase) and their strategies based on experience and study. This allows them "know" the probable outcome of a given move far beyond that of a computer. The problem arises when the complexity of a position grows to a point that tactics > position. Human players avoid these positions when playing computers. Strong human players aim for these positions when playing a weaker opponent. And computers can be programmed for "anti-human" strategies that create these complications.

Kasparov was aware of all these variables, but underestimated the tactical ability of the machine. And, ultimately failed, because he fell for a well-known trap in the opening during the last game. The computer was programmed with a database that included the trap. Kasparov was too - with his memory - but unlike silicon, simply forgot for a moment and made the fatal move that sealed the match.

What does the mean for business? A superior long-term strategy that anticipates short-term problems trumps a short-term strategy that knows all the immediate outcomes but neglects to consider the end game.
Sitting on your ass and playing games consoles would be a particularly bad track record from someone of Bao's age, yet many of his peers do it. He is one motivated kid, so don't knock him for it.
> you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.

I guess you're not older than, let's say, 25?
I think you're mainly viewing WoW from the PvE (player-vs-environment) perspective. In PvP (player-vs-player), there is a system much like the one present in Starcraft II (except that there are no leagues, only ratings).

In a game like Quake you are only as good as your Rail-gun aim it's pure skills.

If you spend years playing Quake/Starcraft, you will be good at it.

The advantages from these kind of games in combatting addiction is that they are hard to become good at

I don't see how that combats addiction. I played competitive Counter-Strike Source for some time, and the main thing that kept me going was just that feeling of competition, and wanting to become better.

WoW's addiction factor is different. It's more like "if I don't do X on day Y, I get behind other people" where in games like Quake/Starcraft, that just doesn't exist.
However, you can't really go to night
clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc
age 50.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt about the dirt bikes, but I know several people in their 40s who do those other things.
I'm fairly sure you would 50 year olds that could do all of those.
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Oh cool, I'm on here :D

18 now, and I've stopped calling them startups... a lot of them are just webapps :) (also no longer in high school, was going to update it two days ago until threewords.me came along, now at 1.8 million pageviews...) the new startup is http://supportbreeze.com !

Would like to note that my bhag (big hairy audacious goal) is to donate almost all my money into positive philanthropy (see below) and startup investments http://iam.markbao.com
Interested to know the detailed plans for the life goals (http://markbao.com/lifegoals), particularly this one:

$5+ billion net worth
The issue with crack & heroin as I understand it is the magnitude/intensity of the instant gratification. Tobacco and alcohol are definitely addictive, but the gratification is weaker.
I haven't ever played WoW - and I doubt I ever will, but I would have imagined that the skills gained as a 'guild leader' would be commutable to a lot of management level jobs?

Is this a fair assumption?
Exactly. Reddit is especially nice if you want to see things broken down by topic: For example, if I want semantic web news, I go to /r/semanticweb, if I want a dose of machine learning stuff, it's /r/machinelearning, etc.
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Actually now $10 billion (not that it matters :p), but the big plan is to put 90% of that into medical/cancer research grants, life extension, political action, humanitarian action, space exploration, and other positive action, and 5% into startup investments

more here: http://iam.markbao.com/

edit: oh! detailed plan is to eventually put complete focus towards the main project, Avecora... what we're basically trying to do is build a new, integrated, but open communication platform for data (between applications, appliances, and users.)
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I've been a lurker on WakeMate, thinking I'd like one, but not yet taking the action to buy one.

However, because of their honesty and quick action on this issue, I will buy one now as soon as the charger issue is resolved.

@WakeMate: You will recover fine from this issue ... in fact I think you will end up in a better position because of how you are handling it. Good job!
The way the US economic/legal system works is that banks can just not pay their debts and the banks' owners don't get hurt.

If debts owed by banks aren't legally enforceable, debts owed to banks shouldn't be either. To put it another way, limited liability, if it exists, should go both ways.
Thanks for the feedback :) Yeah, I came to my senses eventually. Check it out... TickrTalk: [x] incorporated [ ] paying customers [ ] employees [ ] payroll [ ] revenue. Nope.

Just so much old literature on the internet that I haven't bothered to update. Too busy hacking ruby and python to care.
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Tagging of stories on HN would be nice.
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darn those pesky environmental laws.

edit: oh wait! We'll just dump it in Asia instead! Yay!
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What annoys me about this is not the sentence, it's the way that corporations can get away with doing the same thing.

If malicious software is a bad thing -- and it is -- then let's punish everyone who does it. Starting with Sony when they put a rootkit in CDs. But of course, Sony are a big corporation, so that makes it OK.
Hey, thanks! I wrote that bio when I was 16 and just added on when I started something new, so it's basically like an exquisite corpse except by only one person (but just as much as a hodgepodge.) So it's a mess. But thank you for the suggestion. My new page is a lot better (though still very much in progress: http://cl.ly/2o0g3f3e2d1f022S3d2X)
If you give up too quickly, and don't focus and create too many applciations?
Yeah, that made me cringe too.

There are competent CS students that are also college athletes. ;)
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Thanks for mibbit :)

Somehow I still manage to fit in time for everything. [x] going to nightclubs [x] chasing girls (though at this stage a big waste of time, seriously) [x] dirt bikes [x] video games ...
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Define "best". If I'm looking for technology/startup/IT content, HN wins. If I'm looking for world news/cute pictures of cats/humour, Reddit wins.
The closest to "cool, shiny and new" I got was Scala. And I never found time to dig as deeply into it as I wanted, so I still haven't done any meaningful coding in it yet. But I did sit down last week and spent a couple of days working through the Programming Scala book, and one of my major goals in 2011 is to learn Scala well.

Other than that, the stuff I did this year that was merely "new to me" was mostly about Groovy and Grails. I spent a ton of time working with Grails, and I'm really liking it.
Sorry, that was a fat-fingered downvote that turned into an upvote.
Richard Branson agrees completely, going to clubs, chasing girls, and dirt biking is too immature at 50. Girls chase him to go to his private island and do this:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/20/article-1171739-04...
In my experience, the content that shows up on both is comparable. The quality of HN content can be said to be marginally better as you don't see some silly screenshot getting upvoted to front page.

The main reason I prefer HN because of the quality of comments. Smart oneliners on Reddit were fun at first but they don't really provide any insight or value.
Well, you live and learn - looking those up I think I've always called them 'those beans, you know, the black and white ones we used to have to rehydrate and which would sit in the cupboard for years before anyone bothered to eat them'.

There are also yellow split peas which I really should have thought of.
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It's important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The enterprise of psychology and its application is a worthwhile and fruitful one despite errant ideas and applications in the past or in some of its member practitioners.

To even dispute the efficacy of some aspect of psychology requires the practice of psychology.

I grant that there are dangerous abuses and manipulations of the approvals process and public opinion, but it is also important to note that many psychotropics have a place in the treatment of dysfunction.

I applaud that you are trying to spread the word about those abuses, but I encourage you to measure what you say so as not to group the nostrums and charlatans with the valid medications and practitioners of which many do exist.
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An article full of non-sequiturs.
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I tried using Hyde, the python port, but I wasn't sure how to get half of it to work, there was so little documentation.
Working all these years to be a paramedic, going to school, going to work, for what? To drive some people to the hospital? They're all just going to die anyway. Life is meaningless!

Life isn't meaningless. Life is its own goal; doing well in life allows you to achieve happiness.
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I would narrow it down to "nobody wants to design this stuff" - in most enterprise software shops (mine, for e.g..), the 'sexy' jobs are either purely on the technical side ("let's code!"), or purely on the business side (account/relationship management).

Nobody wants to to the bridge stuff - the actual hard work of translating the business requirements into a half-way decent technical spec that the "let's code!" group can get cracking on. And this is true from both the buyer and seller's sides.

I suppose that this is because in such places, people's contributions are 'objectively' evaluated by either revenue generated or LOC, and the poor business analyst has no such conveniently measurable metric attached to her.
And JavaScript's proportional use has fallen in the last year?
HTTPS-Everywhere is a Firefox addon created by the EFF which does the same thing. But it's not limited to Facebook, there are currently rulesets for hundreds of different websites.
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Exactly the point that I was going to make. Not all games are bad.

I played Quake 3 competitively for 7 years and I have seen a lot of players in the scene having success in different fields outside of computer games.

Games based on competitiveness and skills give you a good deal of insight on how to achieve things in real life.

As for most addicted WoW players, these people are just looking for instant gratification for just a little bit more than minimal effort. They want to achieve something and feel good about themselves and WoW pretty much offers the perfect combination of grind/reward, random surprise (items that drop) and a feeling of belonging.

I doubt that any of these people could stick to long term goals as soon as they stop playing WoW. They would just look for their next fix of quick gratification
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I'm trying to think of enough things I would print so I can justify getting one. No luck yet :-(
The author seems to be ignorant of the fact that minimalism predates geeks discovering it. Minimalism has been prominent in art, music, linguistics, literature, philosophy, etc. for much of the last 50-100 years and no doubt has reared its head many times over the preceding centuries.
Short version:

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other."

Long version:

Compared to other kinds of entertainment (books, TV, sports, friends) -- World of Warcraft makes you think about it even when you don't play it. The longer you play the game, the more addicted you are, the more you think about all the things you're gonna do. That's how the game's designed.

You think about the game when you're not playing it. It's hard to really focus on something else if you're thinking about the game.

Does that sound familiar to you? If you're a hacker, if you are excited about computers, then it must. It's same with hacking and programming. It's the same principle. For example I tried a little Node.js magic the other night and the first thing I did in the morning was getting live comments to work. Then I found out there could be another cool feature, and so on. Excitement. That's what drives hackers. Call it addiction, whatever. Unlike, WoW, you're doing work, you're making money.

So please, don't be ever excited about WoW. You don't wanna waste your precious excitement thanks to which you make wonders with programming on WoW.

You can do both, but you can't be addicted to both. Which one will you choose?
This is partially true but irrelevant. People don't join a club so they can experience body language. I assume they go so they can form a community and interact with people who share the same interest.

If visual contact was essential for forming significant relationships then the blind would be unable to make friends.
I know my comments have a few upvotes attached to them already, and I don't really see any point in cribbing about karma points anyway.

However, it would be useful to me if the person who downvoted both my comments in this thread were to drop a line explaining why/how I was detracting from the conversation in any way...
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This sums up my feelings as well.
I'm not sure how Twilio would help me any further with turning my phone to silent when I don't want to take calls.. ;-)
World of Warcraft isn't meaningless. WoW is its own goal; doing well in WoW allows you to achieve happiness.

I think you have to make a more convincing case for why life has meaning and wow hasn't, you can't just spout platitudes and call it a day.