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My response on his blog:

A child was on a journey with his father. One day, they happened upon a vast ocean that stood in their way. "Son," the father said, "we will need to change directions, the great water is blocking our path." "Father," the son said, "it's not a problem. I brought a bucket. I'll just scoop the water up and move it behind us."

You can be forgiven for believing that programmers intentionally obfuscate the craft with the intent of protecting their economic turf. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Yours is the belief of an absolute beginner naively lacking any historical context for the craft he is learning.

In truth, the analysis of language is one of the great problems of science. It is one with which the smartest minds, those that have studied math well beyond calculus 2, have struggled and continue to struggle to solve. The ease with which all humans attain the language ability hides the complexities inherent within. However, attempt to teach language to a person beyond the age of eight or so who has never learned to speak, and you will discover that it is literally impossible.

Your call for a simpler programming language is one that has been made by anyone who has ever called themself a programmer. As a matter of fact, the history of programming languages can almost be described as the history of trying to make programming accessible to the masses. (Fortran was programming for non-programmers. C was a non-assembly-language language. Object-oriented programming, as in Objective-C, is an attempt at simplification. Python and other scripting languages, is another step up.)

In this context, you can take your blog post as your first step into "true" programming. (As much respect as I have for those who work with CSS and HTML to make websites work, they are to programming what pamphlets and road signage are to novels and research papers.) It is a perfectly reasonable request, yet one that has proven to be impossible so far.

Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computer science, described what is known as "the Turing Test," which is essentially: the ability of a program/computer/robot to convince a human being (via concersation) that it is also human. Fully passing this is one of the holy grails of computer science.

Please don't be mad at the rest of us for not solving it yet. Kurzweil has a long bet that humanity will finally achieve this by 2029. At least until then, all humans, including yourself, will have to work to be understood by computers.
Ask HN: New git feature? Comments on edit
I constantly find myself doing git add -p before a commit. While comments themselves are great, sometimes I feel like having the ability to annotate these edits so that I could refer to when I looked up old commits would be helpful.

IE: A comment that represents my aim / goal or theory on why im making this change. Would be a nice additional level to comments I think.
Okay... so if 70% of the take is 2.5 billion, that means the total amount taken in is 3.57 billion and change.

So Apple gains 1.07 billion with their 30% cut and spends 1.30 billion?

In other words, Apple digs into their own pocket for 230 million dollars in order to run it? And people still complain about Apple's 30% cut. Wow.
"I think it's quite telling that DHH frequently tweets his opposition to aspects of what is happening with Rails, and that Yehuda quit the core team."

That's a bit disingenuous, isn't it? Yehuda was offered an opportunity that makes sense for him. It's not as if he's abandoned the Rails community in a flurry of drama.

DHH is the kind of guy that is going to speak his mind, and if you're wise you'll at least listen to what he has to say. If you find yourself agreeing 100% of the time, it's time to find different company.
Ask HN: Possible to recover from being a frustrated mediocrity for 30+ years?
I've been reading HN for awhile. I'm using a throwaway account to ask for advice.

Basically, I am a failure. I do about three hours of work in a month, seriously. And I'm an entrepreneur with a dream schedule! I'm floating along on some contracts but It's only a matter of time before I'm found out. More importantly I detest myself for this.

I've read god knows how many posts about finding your vision and achieving goals. I know what my perfect day looks like but I can't ever follow through. It's awful. I have a sick feeling in my stomach every night as another day is wasted. There's no end.

The worst is being a member of HN where so many accomplished people work. Seriously, if I could break this mental block or disease or whatever I could be like that! At least I think I could. I'm so bored with FP vs OP, language debates, stack overflow book recs and all that because I've studied them all before. I should be teaching the guys who ask those questions with my experience by now, yet I have no experience...

I'm over 30 years old. Can I change? Is it too late? Has anybody like me ever changed? If so I would love to hear from you.

All suggestions welcome. However, I do need to keep earning a living so taking a year off in Tibet is not going to work for me very well.
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Yeesh. A future in which you can't get a job without sharing your browsing history is a scary one.
I found this odd as well. I have always heard that it runs faster. For example:
https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-H...
30% on apps caused an uproar because it was so much cheaper than the other alternatives.

Not to come across as an Apple apologist, but seriously, it wasn't even that frickin' long ago... even in internet time.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it, repeatedly, in online forums, but in a badly twisted and inaccurate version.
That's great as long as you're interested in your internet access being provided by US intelligence.
From what I understand reading about this a few years ago: EEG with this kind of external equipment can't read more than one strong impulse signal at a time(that would be a simple detection, binary on or off), and certainly can't locate signal origin.

So all the peripheral sensors detecting facial muscle movement do the real work. Seems pretty dishonest to claim brain interface.

Am I misinformed? We're all waiting for this technology to develop, that creates a big opportunity for misdirection.
I admittedly haven't spent much time with Rails 3.1, but isn't that what rake assets:precompile is for?

Automatic compilation of coffee scripts is nice in development, but not overhead you want to add for production anyway.
And this is why I'm glad I never use RescueTime. This can't possibly help a job seeker - at best, you confirm that you're looking at the right things. At worst, it's an easy reason for a recruiter to pass you over.
I think it's missing the point to even talk about the operational cost of running the iTunes store. It's a strategic play equivalent to the setting up of tollgates on rivers in medieval times. The one most consistent theme across all of Apple's decisions is to not let go of a vice like control of access by third parties to their platform. My personal belief is that they know the future value of owning the tollgate that everyone must pass through to get digital products and information to consumers is far greater than even their hardware business is today. It may not manifest in raw numbers directly (yet) but in terms of the position of power it puts them in its value is incalculable.
>>>Simply put, I will work as hard as anyone to pursue something I believe in.

Perhaps you should work hard on learning to program then you won't need a life partner and can do it yourself.
It's funny to see the US government pretend to care about Internet censorship.
Thanks! I also did some basic rhythm detection: https://github.com/agermanidis/emokit/blob/master/python/uti..., and added a simulation option so folks that want to contribute to the library but don't actually have it (I suspect that there are exactly zero of them, but anyway) can still test it on sample data.
Sad I didn't see this earlier. Would love to see a couple issues addressed in spreadsheets. Namely conditional formatting based on a formula and merging of cells vertically.
Wow, personally I couldn't live without the smart playlists.

EDIT: Would whoever downvoted me care to explain why? Not syncing = not using iTunes smart playlists (perhaps better described as rule-based auto playlists). This is a major feature to me. Clearly without syncing a lot of people don't even try this feature out. Seems a shame. I know not everyone would be of the same mind, but that's not the point.
{tl;dr} Niche the hell out of it. Over and over again. {/tl;dr}

Well, first impression of the site leaves me feeling a little in the past. (Circa IE5?) I'm a visual person and the way you present yourself means a lot to me personally, so take that with a grain of salt.

The product actually looks pretty interesting and could work in a lot of different scenarios. I actually have been following Patrick McKenzie over at http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ for some time and he has a product which is not very unlike yours.

Vidinotes (like Bingo Card Creator) are products with a very specific window of opportunity. Generally, these sales will only convert if the user is absolutely certain that this product will satisfy their need at THAT MOMENT. If there's even a shadow of a doubt, there only needs to be a more promising alternative and you've lost the sale.

So in the vein of what Patrick did for Bingo Card Creator, I'd consider setting up single-purpose sites targeted to specific use cases. These sites are likely to convert much better than the general site you have now and probably wouldn't take much time if you develop a good system for it.

Patrick recently got together with Andrew Warner (Mixergy) and Noah Kagan (AppSumo) and made a video that discusses exactly what I'm describing to you. If this resonates with you, I suggest checking it out. (It sounds like promoting, but I've been a customer of Noah's and reader of Andrew's for a while, shared drinks with and genuinely find their insight and content useful!) http://www.appsumo.com/hacking-content-creation/

Hope this helps.
With Node you have to manage the 4 cores if you're doing something where they need to communicate.
This is a really great point. Starting teaching myself Java about a month ago after I got frustrated with finding the right engineer, and plan to continue to learn as much as I can from the ground floor.

However - and I think many would agree - there are engineers who have been doing this their whole lives who are far beyond my capabilities and will be even if I work incredibly hard for many years. I think it's naive (and somewhat offensive) for me to think I should be able to fully catch up.

I do want to learn as much as I can, but I find it important to embrace the skills I have. Ultimately, a real team is a requirement if any start-up is going to succeed.
Seems too fine a point for me too. The number of CPUs doesn't matter, that's up to the scheduler. What limits the the scheduler are coordinating shared resources. That includes CPU, locks, memory, disk, network, IO, etc. The multi-node issue doesn't seem that much of a problem in that you can start a node.js process per core. There's very good performance doing this for MySQL, for example.
Stores put men's clothes on the upper floors and women's clothes near the door. This is because men go shopping to "buy clothes", not to "browse", but women can be lured into a store by an attractive display and nice racks of clothes on the first level.

My guess is people buying books know what they want but there are a lot of customers who could be tempted into buying Amazon's cloud services.
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Time and Experience should not go hand and hand, so dont let that stress you out. I have worked with some devs in their 40+ that are horrible.

It seems like you know what you want, you are just afraid to try and lack the motivation.

My advice, step away from the computer for a couple hours a day. Take a walk or do some exercise, you would be amazed at how much that changes your mindset for the better.

Unfortunately there is no magic words of advice or book you can read to solve your problems. Sometimes you just need to man up, put the cards on the table and do what needs to get done.

Best of luck, hang in there.
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My biggest issue with rails was more getting my development environment setup. Constant gem compilation issues, I spent hours resolving them. Aside from that I haven't had much trouble stepping into the language or the new environment.
This seems to be a complaint that Rails is a moving target, and that the target is being moved in absence of a genuine need.

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I think this is more my problem with the whole thing. The coffeescript thing just bugs me for some reason, it seems a bit like the javascript helper, rjs days and look how those panned out.

There's a Joel Spolsky article making fun of the way .NET releases come thick and fast just to keep Microsoft developers constantly worrying about catching up ... I just have this weird feeling that we're becoming the punchline in that joke.
The CPU was running at 100% (the java process). Perhaps there is a good reason for it, but I've not been able to find it yet.

I really like Jira, just unable to get it working without killing the server.
Source code of the website, presumably.
Assumption: I bet you'd step up the plate if somebody actually depended on you.

EDIT: i don't mean have kids :)
Right now they're running a "contest". http://twitter.com/#!/lulzsec Call in and say the magic word, win $1,000! I wouldn't bet on it being legit, but it looks like fun :-)
>>>Ultimately, a real team is a requirement if any start-up is going to succeed.

Not true. Keep working on learning how to program and do it yourself. Try harder.

>>>Simply put, I will work as hard as anyone to pursue something I believe in.

This assertion only has meaning if you actually work as hard as anyone. If you worked as hard as anyone on learning to program then you would evenutally get there.
Please don't reproduce.
I very strongly believe that it has happened. Actually, I know that it has.

There are people out there using the technology to make very good films on very low budgets.

The problem isn't getting the films made, and it's not distributing them. It's in connecting the viewers to the films. "Marketing" in the past has been the way that's been done. But we need something else now, a new method of film discovery.

Good stuff is going completely unseen, and that's a real shame.
Reposted from Jonathan Stray's blog here: http://jonathanstray.com/investigating-thousands-or-millions...
Not really. Often, food is 30%, staff is 30%, rent is 30% and 10% goes to the owners (who are paying for a 300k fitout). Coffee markups can be even crazier. Obviously, it depends on the restaurant. A good value steak-house might sell a steak, chips, and veggies where the food costs 70% of the meal; but they have large volumes and hope to sell lots of drinks.

Anyway ... the staff and building sit idle for a lot of the time. On a Friday night, there's lots of people. But on a Tuesday at 4pm, there won't be a lot of customers.

I guess you could look for chefs that only wants to work from 11-2 and 5-8, Friday and Saturday, but most chefs want to work 5 days a week.
Bali is a great place to be for a 1000$ dollars a month or less. Though that is in Indonesia and not the two countries you mention. I haven't been to either of those countries, but I guess they would have the same set of advantages too.

I have also lived in Colombia, and well my expenses were a little higher because I was living a little lavishly, I stayed in Cali / Bogota and Medellin for two months each, and Colombia is great too for what you want. I semi-rented/bought a motorbike, and it was a great convenience to have, if you want to look into that.

I would recommend SE Asia the first time around just from personal experience.
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Motivation has two dimensions: goal attractiveness, goal expectancy.

Goal attractiveness is basically how much do you want it and goal expectancy is how much you believe you can attain the goal.

As you can see they are two perpendicular forces which directly affect the direction your motivation/dedication towards attaining goals are pointing.

I don't know you, but a common problem many people face is that they look at the world around them and focus on other people's achievements and wish for the same. The only problem is on the motivation dimensions their scales get way tipped over..

As an example, you may look at what is happening on HN and wish for what Andrew Mason is doing with Groupon or Zuckerberg has achieved with FB. The issue is that while that goal is extremely attractive the expectancy of you achieving it is very negative and so the motivation vector ends up pointing in the negative direction.

Developing this argument as I go along, I would therefore say that the correct approach is to take stock of what your current strengths are, what your challenges are and strategize a plan. Namely one that sets you up with small bite sized goals which are positively geared for your current situation and continually update the goal statuses. Maybe have daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and half yearly goals and work on them.

THEREFORE, you can definitely change, you just need to have realistic goals and discipline to tough it out.
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Happy birthday, and thank you for all the wonderful things you've written over the years! I hope you find time to write many more.
>XHTML1 had its chance - full support from W3C and implementations in all-but-one browsers for a decade now

FTFY.
How fast does the market move? If someone buys my coffee based on the posted USD/BTC conversion rate as of 12:00:00, and I convert those back into dollars at 12:00:01, how much variance am I likely to see between the original USD price and the USD amount that I finally collect?
Yeah, did Yehuda quit so much as fade into the background? He's clearly a guy who likes ambitious projects. His contributions to the Ruby community have been notable because of their challenging nature. Merging Merb and Rails was a gargantuan project, getting a large established framework to accept that level of outside input was impressive. The level of refactoring that went into it went against prudence, but I can't argue with the results. Rails 3 is awesome.

Similarly Yehuda and Carl spearheaded Bundler development. They bit off a massive problem that touches anyone doing large scale ruby development and through sheer force of will hammered out a powerful solution that solves the majority of common issues in a relatively straightforward manner. There's lots to argue with, for sure, maybe it's over-engineered, maybe they didn't work closely enough with RubyGems core, etc; but at the end of the day they solved a problem that was too hairy for the average dev to have much hope of solving.

Yehuda's been there, done that. He doesn't need to stick around and be Rails core forever, there's plenty of new blood to pick up the torch, and bigger problems to solve elsewhere.
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I think Spotify just announced a partnership with one of the major labels in the US and Apple iTunes Match isn't a bad service given that they wouldn't normally just give you free music just because you bought it elsewhere. And for a flat rate given how big some people's music library are and the free upgrade to higher quality version, it's not necessarily a bad deal.

That said, most music businesses do fail or struggle severely including the above as well as Pandora and Napster among others. It's an extremely difficult space for various reasons.

Personally I don't know if I'd support that statement as I think people should do what they love and try (Pandora took this route and they're still surviving somewhat), but ultimately everyone needs to pick what's right for them. I can only say that it's a space I don't have personal interest in and it is extremely tough to crack.
I do about three hours of work in a month, seriously...I'm floating along on some contracts but It's only a matter of time before I'm found out.

I've had a few extended periods like this now (I'm only mid 30's myself). I guess I have/had a different perspective. I called these times "success".

I do admit, it is a drink best consumed in moderation. I worked my ass off to get those contracts that allowed me to float, but before long, I forgot that initial effort and started to unconsciously believe that I'd lucked into the whole thing, was an impostor and would soon be exposed.

A few things that helped:

Every once in a while I'd go up to the corporate headquarters of my biggest contract and have a look around. It only took a few minutes to realize that my few hours per month were giving them more value than the paper-tied tps-report generating slackers they paid $75k gave them working full time. Even if I was the goof I felt myself in my darkest imaginations, they were still getting their money's worth.

I volunteered. I found some places that needed help desperately, and I was the smartest guy in the room, and I helped out.

I networked. I found some places where I was the dumbest guy in the room and I learned everything I could.

There are two universal truths(1) no matter where you are in your journey. There are people much smarter and more motivated than you and there are people much dumber and less motivated than you. I found that putting myself in situations where I could feel the gradient and my place on it was tremendously motivating.

(1) If you happen to be Donald Knuth or Chuck Norris, you should probably just ignore this whole section.
"I skipped the Rails 3 upgrade just simply because I couldn't justify the time sink."

This is where you lost me. I spent about 2 hours, aggregate, spent solving upgrade-related problems across a bunch of different apps.

Where is the time sink?
Strictly speaking, every interface is a brain interface. The real test is whether it's possible to do things that can't be done with mouse/keyboard/touch/etc. Though the consensus currently seems to be "no", maybe future applications will surprise us.
This is throughout college, so add annoyance about normal college stupidity and a dash of escapism. Though I'm not sure what your age is, so it could be you're in that situation.

I don't find it particularly addicting either, but to each their own. I'd be willing to bet there are at least as many FB addicts as WOW addicts, though.
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Was the borderline rejected application in your 1st or 2nd years indistinguishable form this year's, in terms of quality?
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That's not entirely true -- there are some applications of the Epoc that can actually perform detections which cannot solely be attributed to facial muscle movement. [1] Of course, the signal-to-noise ratio is much lower than that of research-grade devices, so a lot of preprocessing is required.

[1] NeuroPhone is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc82Z_yfEwc. Here's a peer-reviewed article describing the preprocessing involved: http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/pubs/neurophone.pdf
I'm glad I was around to read the .plan files back in the quake days.