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Christ, it's a job, you're writing computer code. If it's that bad do something else. Nobody will die (or even care) if you leave the project, I know it feels like the world is on your shoulders, but it really isn't.
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Odds are your last sentence was a figure of speech, but I will go ahead and post this as a reference: "Intimate connections" by David Burns is a well regarded book on the somewhat related subject of building relationships.

http://www.amazon.com/Intimate-Connections-David-D-Burns/dp/...
My thoughts were more of the Internet version of Radio Free Europe.
I'll start by saying that I fly for a living, and have logged hours in so many different types of aircraft that I've lost count (I suppose I could check my logbook...), everything from bug-smashers to helicopters to supersonic jets (barely more than zero in the helos, though).

EDIT: I should also mention that I have an MS in aeronautical engineering, and specialized in stability in control and avionics (the things that went wrong in this mishap)./EDIT

I agree 100% with the assessment that the new information does not deepen the mystery, it pretty much explains everything.

The quote from gp about lack of flight training is excessive, but it is in the right direction: those guys screwed up big time, and a big contributing factor was almost certainly inadequate training in dealing with emergencies of this nature.

They screwed up because their SA bubbles just completely collapsed because they were getting conflicting information from their instruments: simultaneous stall and overspeed warnings. Situations like that are exactly why we still need real, human pilots in these aircraft, because a properly trained crew, who truly understand the systems will be able to put together the clues to figure out what's really going on. A disproportionate amount of my training as an aviator has been dedicated to understanding all of the ways that the systems in the aircraft I fly can break. It's critical to understand not just the common failure modes, but also the interactions between them (what we call "compound emergencies"), especially when following the procedures for one emergency can exacerbate a concurrent emergency.

The thin is, in this situation they didn't even have a compound emergency: the only failure was in the pitot-static system. This is an aircraft which requires a sophisticated automated flight control system to remain stable in many flight regimes, and that automated flight control system is utterly dependent on reliably accurate data from the pitot-static system. In that context, these guys should have been drilled heavily on all the ways that the pitot-static system could fail, the manifestations of those failure modes, and how to respond to them. For example: "If you get simultaneous overspeed and stall warnings and your VSI is deeply negative, you are in a stall and need to ignore the overspeed warning and execute stall recovery procedures." Actually, when I word it that way, they shouldn't even have needed special training to figure that out: the VSI should have made it obvious.
But you posted a link about a single study showing a specific cholesterol drug being ineffective. How does that show his advice to be wrong?
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I don't see how Object.create goes against the grain of the lang. On the contrary, `new' was bolt on to make js look like classical oo languages. I have found, in toy and exploratory projects at least, that using variations on Object.create [1] is a nice, strong pattern, that really gets the best out of js. It certainly feels more natural than class based oo. Though, take it with a grain of salt, since I'm unable for now to provide an example backing my thesis :)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Differential_inheritance_in...
The government puts information behind paywalls all the time. It's called Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.
I think this is one of the most dangerous lines of thinking, because it is used to (and if not, has the effect of) stifling legitimate criticism of drugs. This is ESPECIALLY true when the person, like Alex, was approaching the issue in an academic way. If there's a risk that antidepressants worsen the course of depression and have dangerous side effects (suicide being the most prominent), a well-reasoned approach that reviews academic studies is certainly called for.

The other problem with this position is that it presumes the correctness of your view. Let's presume the opposite--that for the majority of people the drugs worsen the course of the illness, as per my post before. If this is the case, then your comment is the one that's doing all the harm.
Thanks, it sounds good. I just requested it by ILL.

My last book recommendation from HN didn't go that well, though. I saw Seligman's "Learned Optimism" recommended, so read it soon after. While it had some great insights, I fear my take home message was: yes, I'm horribly depressed, and this is likely the result of a lifetime of training and the influence of my depressed mother, and thus there is little I can do about it. Rather the opposite of the intent of the book, I fear. We'll see how this one fares!
As a counterpoint to "that guy", what I like about GAs is the localization aspect : While modern mathematical methods can do sampling (and so optimization) more efficiently, they seem to be in the "Intelligent Design" camp. GAs can work using extremely local information - and let the force of numbers pull the process through.

<grin> Besides, evolution is the optimization method that God chose. </grin>
It's true in games.

But it wasn't true in music---the industry was vertically integrated.

For instance Virgin Megastore sold records in London, and world wide.

Virgin Music produced those records.

Virgin Music Group (known in the US as EMI) handled distribution of the records to out-of-chain companies.

Virgin even broadcast under the label Virgin Radio, and sponsored festivals such as the V-Festival.

That's just one example, but the whole industry was integrated to various degrees.
The 3rd paragraph is behind the paywall.
Population size of 16 is way too low : it's not surprising that he's getting premature convergence. Also, his mutation is huge : so his overall process is more like a directed random walk.

More reasonable parameters would be 100-1000 for the initial population, and +/- 2% on a parameter for mutations.
here is your invite to come down the rabbit hole...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/05/all_watched_ov...
Also behind the paywall.
Memcachedb is persistent though.
Mary Bono: "Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. ... As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president] Jack Valenti's proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress."
I wonder if you could accurately measure airspeed acoustically, instead of using pitot tubes and pressure? For instance, suppose you placed microphones near the trailing edge of the front wings, and near the leading edge of the rear wings.

Compare the sound of the engines as picked up by the front microphones and the rear microphones, and figure out how far behind the latter is shifted in time compared to the former. The faster the plane is going relative to the air, the shorter that time should be.

If the engine sound is too uniform to provide any way to match up the sound as recorded from the two locations, some kind of sound source could be added.
Assuming there is any causation in this correlation (which is highly unlikely), shouldn't there be an inverse correlation instead?
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Side note: those pie charts are a rather poor choice for visualizing the data.
>He mentioned that the brain interprets social isolation as a sign of low status.

That might be the case, except most of my social interactions are failed social interactions, which make me even more depressed.
Wish I could vote for this to be in 1.9.3 as easily as I can vote for it on HN.
There will always be copycats. We haven't found any yet, but I will assume that an identical copycat will have to start from scratch. As mentioned above, there is a small chance that Groupon or another clone will change its entire business model. Taking publicity when we're in 3 regions will not only help us gain momentum when we entire new markets, but also gain new traction in current markets.
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If that's your concern, than you should provide fragments (as they are intended to use) within the list of 30 posts i.e:

http://example.com/pages/1-3#2011-05-12-screw_hashbangs_buil...

Otherwise your argument doesn't make much sense, linking to a list of 10 blog posts instead of 30 still doesn't show the user which specific post you wanted to link to out of a list of posts. Infinite scroll neither makes this problem worse nor better.
But, when I go to the correlate site and search for MSFT it returns:

# 0.8571msftr
# 0.8282qqqq
# 0.8167quote msft
# 0.7909proquin
# 0.7706wmt
# 0.7612sbux
# 0.7525slb
# 0.7345fas 109
# 0.7340thestreet
# 0.7334glw

What am I missing?
JWZ suggests:

"How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software). "Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
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Yeah the ceiling sort of irks me. I kind of wish they'd have another point at which 70% picked up again that isn't something fiction publishing would risk going for (at least very often) but would make sense for valuable non-fiction books such as those covering programming topics, maybe $35 or $40 bucks.
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This actually wound up being a helpful comment. After switching to HD in order to see his text examples more clearly, I found out that the session starts over from the beginning and you can't fast forward the video at all.

This meant that I had to either stop watching halfway through so that I didn't have to sit through the same half-hour again, or rip the video so that I can watch it like a human.
I somehow missed the new pricing model. It looks like my bill will skyrocket 2-3 times to over $2000/month. They explicitly tell, that old customers will be forced to move to a new pricing scheme. I wonder why there weren't a rage on HN front page about that?

I regret, that didn't choose AWS EC2 in the beginning.
In case you're looking for a talking point for your next cocktail party, you might also be interested in knowing that degeneracy pressure (of electrons, rather than neutrons) are also what hold up white dwarves.

I can quite definitely state that I've never been to a party where that kind of observation would gain anyone's attention. In fact I'm picturing the audience backing away slowly, looking around for someone---anyone---else to talk to. Not sure if that's good or bad.
Also note that a video walkthrough of how to use the DomainHole tools will be posted at DomainSherpa.com this week - look for that.
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Based on the rest of the post, I wouldn't want to be anywhere on the ship - in fact I'd like to be quite some distance away. Trillion megaton nuclear device equivalent? Riiight (requisitions shuttle)
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Laser interferometry is not beyond the scope of an amateur. You just need a laser :-) A true one not a handheld pointer. Then you'd need some optics and a darkroom.
My base problem might be that happiness is not a primary end goal for me. I want it in so far as it's absence makes effectiveness difficult, but I'm scared by being distracted by pleasure.

Have you ever been on a modern anti-depressant? I was on Zoloft for about six months during a bout of really bad depression. I wasn't giddy, I wasn't exuberant, and I was still myself. It didn't make me happy. It wasn't pleasure, it's not an opiate. What it did was reduce the internal, negative dialog, and it made it much, much easier for me to focus on my work. It also made me much more willing to express myself to others, which led to better relationships.

You still have to do the work to improve things which are broken in life. If you work environment is awful, for example, it will just make it more tolerable. Your neighbor will still be an asshole, it just won't bother you quite as much.

What I want is a purpose I can believe in!

I think that's what everyone thinks they want, and what few of us achieve. Also, I think that many times, out dissatisfaction with our situation is less due to the situation, and more due to our own mental state.

I bet there's a lot in your life (e.g. long term relationship) to be fulfilled by, but you probably find yourself focusing on negative feelings around your work.

By the way, I'm very much on the same page as you regarding, "whether settling for greater satisfaction with this one is a good thing," so don't take anything I've written as condescending or negative.
That is eye opening, thanks. I can't believe how much faster new is.

There's a glimmer of hope though. In Firefox 4.0.1 Object.create is almost as fast as new Constructor. If other implementations caught up in this respect what are your feelings on new vs. Object.create?
Typical success story:

We wrote program in language X and then rewrote it in language Y, so Y is better language than X, because our program is much better after rewrite.
Modes allow you to subdivide the problem space: only certain actions/transitions can occur in a given mode.

Removing that restriction allows anything to happen at any time. This is believed to be more complex to model.

Think of modes as a mechanism to prune a decision tree.
Named... ISD.
It's using pushState which is part of the HTML 5 spec ...
It is so rare because it is pretty useless, inefficiently and there is no need for it in the proposed regions. People there desiccate their food or use spices like chili to make sure it stays esculent for a longer time, They don't have much water, so in my opinion it is pretty stupid to waste it for food if they have much better ways to conserve.
have a hard time accepting the Yes to drugs.

have friends that take antidepressants and are ok. while others became totally disconnected with other peoples feelings, like they are small kids again. zero emotional intelligence, even tough they themselves seem happier.
> sounds like a Culture handgun

Which springs from memory matter disguised as a false tooth!
Note that the slowness of Object.create in V8 (it forces objects into hashtable mode) is the reason that Chrome did so poorly on the JSLint benchmark. Given the popularity of that benchmark, I suspect that Chrome will get around to optimizing Object.create sooner rather than later.
Unless you get paid once a month like me.
Programming and the internet can also lead to short attention spans. Reading - for long periods of time especially - is so healing because teaches a more patient, longer attention span to your brain. Meditation can help, too. It takes practice and gradual build up to develop this.
That's a strong claim. It's possible that bilingual people behave differently when using different languages as the article claims (I have my doubts), but even so they might not be aware of it on any level. At least I don't think my world view is affected in any way regardless of which language I'm using of the 4 I know.
think that occasional recreational drug does much better to fight depression than daily legal drugs.

btw, recreational drugs are better understood by medicine.
They used to be very common out here in Arizona - so much so that the daily forecast would often include the temperature your house would be with the evap running.
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Short hairstyles can look really great on round faced women. The key factor is to understand that the overall face is shaped more like a circle with the chin and jaw line gradually evening out with the forehead region..
Brought up in China and having been in the US for the last 11 years, I find it very true how languages shape thoughts and behaviors. When I speak English a different set of thoughts would come to me than when I speak Chinese. In fact even when I think in different languages I tend to see things in different ways.
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Other than that, FOIA request cost a token amount.
I guess everyone is used to language standards written in a very academic style so they ignore them, but if you really want to know how Javascript works, the ECMAScript specification is clearly written in semi-layman terms and includes a very good explanation of that picture they include at the bottom of the article.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
I think it has to be. The startup performance of 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 as is now is unacceptable.
.htaccess is read and parsed on every request. Putting the same directives in the server's virtual host config is a ton more efficient.

Me, I use php-fastcgi daemons with APC and nginx, with no Apaches. The speed bump and the drop in memory requirements were staggering. The main 'cost' is figuring out how to convert rewrite rules from one type to another, but if you're using a widely-known app, someone's already done it for you.
After a month of plodding around with C, one night I sat bolt upright in bed and just suddenly understood pointers. I had written my fair share of BASIC and Pascal before, but I think something in my mind turned over that night. I can't explain it any other way.
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That sounds perfect for camping in the southwest US during warmer months.
Do such clauses actually hold up in court? I've been told that generally in a civil claim each side is responsible for their own legal costs, regardless of who ends up "winning."
Yes, it hurts Urban Outfitters' case in court if the artist sues them for copyright infringement, and I really hope she does.
You're right about deep depression being serious business, and I agree with you completely on the importance of grabbing hold of some social support. If I might, though... here's a little bit more on cardiovascular exercise as it relates to garden variety depression and motivation.

At some point a couple of years back, I read some research on insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance that led me to believe that they are related to some problems with depression and attention deficit. The natural conclusion from the research was that 1) regular aerobic exercise would help out a lot by improving glucose tolerance, and 2) improvements or impairments in insulin resistance/glucose tolerance would accumulate over time.

That implies that intensive cardio may be beneficial, but it's not a magic bullet. It's not as important as making regular aerobic exercise a lifelong habit. So it has to be something you do even if you don't have a particular goal in mind on any one day.

To that end: whatever you do for exercise, enjoy it. Don't feel like you have to run yourself into the ground. Plant the habit and help it grow.

Oh, and also - for similar reasons, easing up on simple sugars and white bread is a good idea, too.
Regarding number 7, I disagree with the alcohol statement. At least for me I tend to over-think and never commit to anything, but after a beer or two I can sit down and just start coding and I will be more focused and have less distractions, I will get more accomplished after those two beers than when I am completely sober and awake.

With those beers I finally just let go and put what I have been thinking down on paper, I can finally concentrate. Now I haven't been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD but I have a hard time concentrating mainly because my thought processes are already 100 steps ahead of where I currently am and are thinking about things that are completely irrelevant for now.

If anyone else has experienced this, or knows what I can look for in myself/and start improving please let me know. I really would love to be like my co-workers who can just instantly dive into a task and have their mind focused. I always feel like I am not able to produce the amount of work they produce because I am so easily distracted.

That is not to say that what I ultimately produce is not good, no it is fantastic, it is well thought out, takes care of the little details like memory management, but it takes me a long time to get it done.
I would love to know how you intend to isolate variables during your measurement so that your tests are accurate.
I find exactly the same when I switch from German to English. I find that German is so extremely structured that it really forces you to think about what you're going to say. One thing I love about German too is the fact that complicated words are really just simple words stuck together. This reveals some amazing extra meanings sometimes.
A great example of this is the word for "vocabulary", "Wortschatz", which is made up of Wort = word, Schatz = treasure.
A treasure trove of words indeed!
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"Use alcohol sparingly: one drink is fine, but it takes a week to recover from a night of serious drinking."

[citation needed]
Last party I went to there were literally no non-techies present. That kind of fact would definitely have gotten you some points.

Good or bad? I'm not sure. At least you know some non-techies. In my social circle, being a windows user marks you as a target for victimisation. Using IE makes you an enemy. Not even knowing about OSs and their politics - let alone physics - makes you a second class subhuman non-participant.

Again, good or bad? I'm not sure. Time will tell I guess
What? Unix is not bleeding edge dude. Iran can fork one of the free OSes. Anyway writing an OS is not like doing nuclear science.

"Kills free speech dead." Something like the West that kills people dead.
Facebook made exactly the same mistake and I believe it is hurting their platform a lot even though they've opened new doors to support new ideas for their evolved API.

I launched an app back in May 2007 right after their platform launch. After the four years the app is quite broken now and every now and then a user sends me a message about it. Today I decided to spend a day to translate all those "old" API calls into "new & improvides" API calls but due to lack of documentation, unavailability of search results due to all that legacy documentation better SEO'ed and the hectic task of re-testing all the workflows I've previously tested thoroughly, I gave up!

Why should I put in so much effort in re-writing my code just because you don't like a function name or you think same functionality could be achieved by another one so this should be dropped?
I use it every day at work, and have been a PHP programmer for years -- however, I don't suffer from the Stockholm syndrome that requires you perform the mental gymnastics involved in rationalizing away sheer volume of fail.

We both work daily with a horrible language, but at least one of us realizes it.
"How does that show his advice to be wrong?"

It doesn't. But people should be questioning whether the longterm use of HDL-raising drugs is a good idea, because it's highly uncertain whether this is actually the case.

The reason why I quoted it is that this common mistake is symptomatic of the same kind of sloppy thinking throughout the rest of the piece.