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edit: Unfortunately downvoted, as my comment wasn't without meaning.
Calling yourself a rationalist means, basically, that you're a virtue-ethicist who considers rationality to be a virtue: you're willing to allow for the maximization of truth at the expense of (some amount of) utility. In its way, this is a signaling mechanism like any other: there's no "rational sense" in doing something that will earn you locally sub-optimal utility, even if that thing is rationality itself.

However, like the local signal of revenge allows for global cooperation in the iterated prisoner's dilemma, maximizing for local truth is a clear signal to others that they can globally rely on your work to benefit all parties equally (including them), rather than just whoever the rationalist works for. Succinctly, "no one has their ICBMs pointed at the enemy's universities."
Wow. OK, then... You have enough gumption to ask how to get motivation and to argue about it, but not to do anything that will get you closer to your goals.

Forget the "just do it" part, if that so upsets you, about what I said and read the rest. For me the only way to get motivated is to progress on something, that's the "pick one little thing and get it done" part.

If that doesn't work for you, so be it - We all work differently. Use the anger that you directed at me to get motivated.
The efreedom page contains more mentions of your search phrase "remove exif" than the StackOverflow page, with more links to relevant related questions than SO had. It's the more relevant result.

It's also not spam, all the content they've assembled is completely legally used and well presented. You're not brought to a malicious site or tricked into clicking any ads, you get the questions and answers you were looking for.

Google did its job. There's nothing wrong with that search result page or that site.
NYTimes log in wall...not worth it :-/
I see AdSense right above that line; are you sure you don't have ads/scripts blocked?
Oddly enough my PandaBoard (TI OMAP 4) arrived today... but it was ordered back at the start of November. I actually called the manufacturer that supplies Digi-Key to figure out what was going on after two successive 1 month delivery slips from Digi-Key.

For all intents and purposes, the PandaBoard is basically the prototype for the OMAP 4 chip, save for the obvious fact TI did not build it. It seems TI has no interest in providing an "official" development platform, and most likely because others were willing to build them for free (to TI).

Even with this outside help, TI has had problems keeping component delivery dates with the folks building the PandaBoards. Though I haven't heard any "verifiable rumors" (assuming there is such a thing), my guess is TI is having fab process and yield problems on the OMAP lines. The really troubling thing is, those kind of problems are usually solved by more fab investment, rather than less.
Oddly enough I've always thought that one of the big problems with the US university system is that it's too broad.

When I went to university in Australia I studied four subjects in my first year (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computer Science), two subjects (Physics and Chemistry) in my second year, two subjects in my third year, and only physics in my fourth year. On the other hand, I get the impression that the average American university student wastes at least a third of his time doing random-ass subjects with no real relevance to his major, right?

In my opinion, "broad education" is what you should be getting in high school.
Wow, what a neat bifurcation of opinion/position between the first and second pages...
Same here. I hate that every click I make ends up at experts-exchange. I didn't even know you could find your answer by scrolling to the bottom until I read someone mention it on Hacker News.
I love D&D. Many of my best memories of my early teen-age years revolve around D&D. I think D&D could be part of a good therapeutic tool, and if it is used as one, great, seriously.

I just have a hard time with the notion of "hanging out in prison, doing whatever I want." Prison should have a rehabilative aspect to it, for sure. It should also work as a very strong disincentive.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to be doing either very well.
Once I block sites I should be able to export my list of blocked sites which anyone can import. And there can be several personal search profiles. Makes sense to anyone?
Excellent K-9 mail app for Android keeps your messages on a leash
Quotes on Vision
Gap, eBay, Home Depot: all companies that still deliver rather consistent value to customers (if not to investors looking for a quick flip). A startup doesn't have to be new and shiny to turn a profit.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm living in a different universe when it comes to determining what success is.
I particularly like how the search result order now is efreedom, followed by StackOverflow, followed by this very post.
To start things off, if it makes you feel better, there has been studies shown that people who have ADD or what they might call ADHD now are more likely to succeed as an entrepreneur than those who don't. This statement is related to the topic because people who are easily distracted are always procrastinating.

To fight procrastination, discipline is the key word here I believe. I've always been bad at time management, but I've improved a lot lately. Now although I attempt to stay productive as much as possible, I still feel like time is not enough.

My approach is that I would start sticky notes on the windows screen, I would make tasklist of the most important things I would have to do today, and bold 2 of the most important things. I force myself to get those things down.

Honestly you can read ALL the books you want. You can use all the productivity apps you want, but when it comes down to it, your own determination is the only factor that will fight this problem. . If you don't discipline yourself and avoid procrastination, don't worry about it because guess what? 95% of the population is just like you. But if you want to become to top 5% of the population, the crim de la crim, then you better start disciplining yourself. That's the self-talk mentality I use nowadays.
This may come as a complete surprise to you, but the fact that you went to Harvard doesn't mean you know shit about what it takes to build a successful social network, or what made Facebook successful.

The guy who created the photo system on Facebook didn't go to Harvard.

The guy who invented photo tagging didn't go to Harvard (hell, he didn't even work at Facebook...).

The guy who cut the deals to fiendishly import contacts from various large IM/mail networks didn't go to Harvard.

The guy who designed the site and made it usable didn't go to Harvard.

The guy who kept the site from melting down didn't go to Harvard.

I know you think you are somehow directly responsible for the success of Facebook, but you aren't. Very little of the success of Facebook has anything to do with the people who went to Harvard. The difference is, the quiet guys who created most of the innovations that define the way we interact today don't suffer from whatever sort of insecurity they breed in the admissions pool at universities like Harvard that causes people like you to spend all of your time striving for recognition rather than quietly innovating and enjoying the impact of your work. You, Eduardo, the Winkelvoss twins... All of you want to feel important, to be recognized. It's nuts. It makes no sense. But again, you went to Harvard, you know about this better than I do.

This is the first and last thing I will say about all of this, but do understand that I'm simply the only one willing to say what many have been thinking for quite some time -- mainly because I am so far removed from the drama of it all that my opinion is worthless.

(I should note that there are a lot of great people who have gone to Harvard, and a lot of great people who went to Harvard work at Facebook -- there's just an incredible number of people who come out of there who feel compelled to convince everyone else of how great they are.)
Between the erratic capitalization and punctuation, and the multiple grammatical errors ("in active Accounts", "Owners who refuses to Participate", "loose" for "lose", etc.) this is almost certainly a phishing attack. If you fill in the form, you'll be giving it to someone who wants to use it to take control of your gmail account.

(My spam folder is full of requests for passwords to email accounts, online banking accounts, and so forth, most of which don't exist --- they're betting that if they send out a ton of these, a significant fraction will go to people who really do have, say, Wells Fargo online banking, and a fraction of those will be silly enough to disgorge their passwords.)
This quote, IMO, is telling:

"While Mr. Jobs obsesses over every last detail of Apple’s products, Mr. Cook obsesses over the less glamorous minutiae of Apple’s operations."

That is why I agree with Bob Cringley that Cook won't be Apple's next CEO. I think having somebody who doesn't obsess about the products is the wrong thing at Apple. You can have a COO obsess about running the details.
I apologize for the tone - I didn't mean to come across so nasty. I simply wanted to hear more about your ideas, past the "just do it" part. Sure, we all think and work differently, but what works for one may also work for another. That's why I originally posted this question.

I did read past the "just do it" part and I see what you're saying about progressing on the work. However, I'd like to know what you (or anyone else) does to get started. How do we get that initial burst of motivation?

Again, I'm sorry about the way I reacted.
Maybe Gilad Bracha's opinions on monads might not matter.

This post/rant would be more persuasive if one got the impression that the author knows more about what he's talking about. One crucial aspect of monads Bracha ignores is that monads have statically-checked types (at least in languages like Haskell) which label what side effects can or (more importantly) cannot happen when a function (and/or monadic action) executes. This prevents impurity (in e.g. the IO monad sense) from breaking out into pure code; pure code that used impure code would have to change its type or wouldn't compile. This is a huge, huge, huge, huge win. It means that you can't "break" purity; pure functions stay pure. In contrast, a function in Erlang (a dynamically-typed functional language which is actor-based) which sends a message cannot be assumed to be a pure function, even in the event that a particular sent message always evokes the exact same reply. This is not to diss Erlang, which is a terrific language in many other ways (nor is it an attempt to diss Newspeak either).

Note also that Scala (a statically-typed language) has an actors library but also AFAIK has some support for monads (Scala experts can elaborate here). If only one concept was necessary in Scala, why have two?

Another point is that monads are used for a great deal more than modeling imperative features in pure languages (though that is a major part of what monads are used for). What about modeling functions-that-can-fail via the Maybe monad, or nondeterministic computations via the list monad, or computations that can raise error conditions via error-handling monads, or...? the list goes on and on. Monads can make any of these kinds of functions much easier to write and to compose. When one programming concept finds so many disparate uses, it's just possible that it's worth looking at closely.

I realize that Bracha is not a fan of static typing (his views on typing i.e. pluggable types have never seemed especially workable to me, but whatever, it's his itch so he can go scratch it), and conversely he is a fan of introspection in ways that are difficult to put into a statically-typed functional language. So I understand why he isn't a Haskell fan, and I have no problem with him pursuing another research direction. But this post smacks of (a) sour grapes that Haskell gets more attention than Newspeak, and (b) lack of understanding as to what monads are all about. Perhaps if he would read some of the tutorials he refers to a little more closely than he has, he would get it.
Any non web / social networking developers here?
Are there any PC (or Mac) developers here who are doing some startup (apart from me) stuff here?
Surely not everyone is developing things related to social web. PC's have become so much more powerful and the web browser doesn't really hook into the power. Surely not all the PC apps that can be written have been written?
Initially? Probably few, because it was viewed as a 'gay disease' due to its initial prevalence in that population (who prior to HIV/AIDS had less of an incentive to use condoms- as condom use was mainly to prevent pregnancy).

Sex education in the 90's however did try to make it clear that anyone could contact HIV (although there are still disproportionately infection rates high among men who have sex with men), which may have given some people greater incentive to use safer sex methods overall and preventing pregnancies.
I think many people would say it is worth it. Try Bugmenot (http://bugmenot.com/) if you don't want to set up an account. I was in your same place until recently when I decided to give in and set up an account. Took a minute and now I have access to one of (if not the) best journals out there. In my opinion, it's definitely worth it.
Side note: If you're on Chrome there's an extension that will auto-redirect you to SO if you click an efreedom (or similar) link

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gledhololmniapejef...
Ask HN: Quitting my job tomorrow, advice?
Tomorrow I am going to tell my boss that I'm planning to leave in order to start a company in the same industry, but as a complementary product to their main product.

I believe they will be receptive to this idea, what things should I try to negotiate?

I have not signed any non-competes or non-disclosures and haven't discussed the idea with anyone or started writing business specific code yet, to be safe; so I don't need to ask permission.

However, I'd like to try to convert them into a paying client for a product that we'd discussed nearly 2 years ago but haven't implemented (it's been effectively killed).

If anyone had any advice or has successfully done this, I'd love to hear your advice.

-- disclaimer: I understand most people here aren't lawyers, I am not soliciting legal advice. I am just looking for personal advice from a group of peers in order to better form an opinion. I promise I'll treat all of this as advice. Thanks
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#1 assumes that "we" all read TechCrunch regularly

personally if it's not linked from a story I've read here, I don't tend to read TechCrunch. Nothing against the site, but I find that if it's something that would interest me, it'll find it's way to HN.
I get the impression that the average American university student wastes at least a third of his time doing random-ass subjects with no real relevance to his major, right?

Not necessarily, if you are majoring in science or engineering. That sounds like my brother's physics degree at a big state university. As a math major at a liberal arts college, by 3rd and 4th year I was mostly taking math courses. I did have to take a number of liberal arts electives, but I've probably made more use out of Spanish and even History of Minneapolis and St. Paul than I have out of any of my higher math courses...

There's a lot of variety in American higher education. The curricula for the same major could be very different based on where you go to college. A physics major at Oberlin would probably be required to take more electives in "random ass subjects" compared to a physics major at Caltech.
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I like http://decimus.net/DTerm/ since it defaults to the CWD of the frontmist document from which youmactivate it.
What’s it Like Being a VC?
Your definition does not contest my either-or equivalence, my assertion that "rationalist" either means "human being" or "someone whose identity involves caring about other people's dumbness."

Mostly it's just dressing up how people think with terminology. Virtue-ethicist = "believes in bad and good." Maximizing truth = "trying to be right."

Who is not a rationalist by your definition?
I really don't understand why you got downvoted. It's just linkwhoring in some ways. "top 10 ways to..." how .. can ... to ...". opinion passed off as prophecy passed off as distraction.
I've never done this, so take my advice with a huge grain of salt. But some ideas that come to mind:

1. ask them to invest in your startup and take an equity stake.

2. ask them to partner with your startup and do some joint marketing stuff (if your product is truly a complement to their product.)

3. If any engineering effort (on their behalf) is needed to make your product and theirs interoperate, try to negotiate something where they agree to implement that, so you can fully leverage the "complement" position when you market your product. Not sure what you'd have to give up (if anything) to get this, but it might be worth pursuing.
Institutional investors love predictability. But the company needs to be nimble and avoid making unnecessary commitments.
This is a great example of the rule that "there are no rules". Here is the ordered list of Post-IPO ownership for "Officers & Executives", a category which includes founders as well as execs brought on between founding and IPO.

Microsoft 71.2
Ebay 60.9
Oracle 47.9
Netscape 45.4
Apple 43.4
Google 32.0
Numerical 26.9
Genentech 25.6
Yahoo 24.4
Logitech 23.1
Sun 21.2
Rambus 20.7
Riverbed 17.9
Atheros 15.7
Actelion 12.0
MIPS 10.9
Cypress 7.7
Vertex 6.1
Virata 4.1
Arm 3.7

So we founders, IF our company survives, and IF we remain with the company, and IF the company IPOs, are going to keep between 3% and 71% ownership.
Except that this site breaks the ability for visitors to contribute their own answers [1] and displays content that is often old and out of sync. It does nothing to attempt to improve upon the original site, other than obtaining a better Google ranking - and that is a dubious improvement.

This site is abiding by the letter of the license but not the spirit. Once you start defending this garbage, you let your guard down.

Jeff Atwood's intention with Stack Exchange's data dumps is to make certain (and ensure to its users) that his site will never become evil and hold all the community-contributed content hostage behind a paywall [2]. Although Jeff does not come out and argue against simple reposting of content without any added value, I frankly consider it unwanted spam that fragments a beautiful community.

[1] Unless the visitor notices enough to click the tiny and generic stackoverflow.com link, bringing us back to (hey) the original site.

[2] See http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/defending-attribution-...

Edit: for formatting
This is very cool.

I'm working on something similar, which you might be interested in if you like this. jMockups, my startup, is a web app for designing high fidelity mockups. Kind of like a web-based Photoshop for designing mockups, if that makes more sense. I've been working on a new tool for the last two months that lets you import any existing webpage into jMockups, which means that you will be able to instantly redesign and share any webpage in only a few clicks. It's a bit buggy still which is why I haven't launched it, but I'm really excited about it. Combine that with a wireframe toggle that I plan on adding in a few months, and you've got a killer web-design tool (hopefully). :)

If you're interested in trying it, check out jMockups [1] and if you want early access to the import feature when it becomes available in a few weeks, shoot me an email: matt@jmockups.com.

[1] http://www.jmockups.com
Node.js Patterns
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about folks with tattoos?
They actually pay you regardless of the verdict.
A 16 year old's thoughts on the new Facebook Messages.
I am continually surprised by the number of tech/web people I come across who haven't even heard of TechCrunch let alone read it. It always makes me feel better about not having a glowing TechCrunch article about whatever my latest project is. Though it wouldn't hurt.
How Jack LaLanne Built a Successful Business
A Dec. 2009 interview with the fitness guru who died today at age 96.
Just say that you're going to work for yourself, feel free to hint that it might be in the same domain.

The point at which you are leaving isn't probably the best time to look for business. Just try to leave without burning bridges, which usually means saying very little.
I think the real reason monads have a reputation for being difficult to grasp is that they are a big change for someone who is firmly entrenched in imperative / object orientated programming.

That doesn't mean that understanding a particular monad, like the IO monad, is harder than learning imperative / object orientated programming ab initio.

Of course, being too different from the status quo can make a suboptimal solution stick around - the QWERTY vs Dvorak situation is a good example (although as someone who tried and failed to go from QWERTY to Dvorak, and also learned Haskell from a background of OO and imperative programming, I can say the former is much harder than the latter).