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I get it, you should be free to enjoy your hobby without money clouding your thinking. Totally agree with that.

On the other hand, I think a hobby that could be something more is totally legit. For instance, I am learning Haskell as a hobby. I'm not really sold on it as a great language for business (yet), but I realize that if I get good enough at it I may be able to shift my career in that direction.

To answer the original question you were asked: If that happens I'll get a new hobby.
i wouldn't doubt it. If i had my options, i would move to South America to avoid the fall out. Hmm, why did bush buy thousands of acres of land in Paraguay 10 years ago? that is interesting isn't it.

I don't trust anybody or anyone, here or anywhere. I don't trust anyone of you here. That means
ignorant fools, pompous preachers, or corrupted demoralized counter intelligence scabs.

I'll follow my own intuition, under my own volition.
And I think it is time that others do the same.
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A good programmer should wake up at 6 am in the morning get a solid 2.5hrs of coding done by 8:30 am, at 8:30 leave for work, work till 6 (it goes without saying that the lunchbreak must be spent trying to learn the Haskell or if you are feeling lazy answering questions on stackoverflow). Commute from 6 to 6:30 (it's a bonus if you listen to a technical podcast during this time and no stuff like TWIT does not count, perhaps audio lectures from the Advanced Algorithms course on MIT OCW). 6:30 to 7:00 time for supper and excellent time to catchup on r/programming and hackernews. 7-8:30pm is the time for relaxation by doing some recreational mathematics, doing problems from project Euler and that proof from The Art of Computer Programming excercises which you have been itching to get a go at! 8:30pm to 1 am code contribute to that open-source project, write patches for the Linux kernal and continue working on your startup.

Anyone who does less programming that what is mentioned above cannot call himself a "good programmer", I would have serious reservations in calling that person even a mediocre programmer.
It doesn't mean you are a bad developer, it means you are a satisfied developer. Some people however have so many things rattling around their heads that not exploring those ideas makes them unsatisfied.
> ~120kph

(a typo?) ~120mph, about 200kph. Cruise is supposedly 110 knots, although I've yet to fly one that was happy at that; more often about 105 knots IME.
Like the documentation clearly states, there is nothing stopping you from:

git clone git://github.com/nodejitsu/http-server.git
cd http-server
node bin/http-server

The curl installation is for npm, the node package manager, which is actually optional to use http-server
Those, like activex controls, require the user to agree to install something that can do whatever to their system. WebGL would be available to any web site.
This is a reason, but is it a good enough reason to divert resources from other areas for?

Considering that Facebook's most important end goal is to make users stay on their website, an optimized and pleasant-to-use app for the iPad and other tablets is a very good reason to divert resources.
Looking at the US Census data from 1850 onward (they didn't ask where you were born before the 1850 census), the percentage of the US population was a steady 13-14% from 1860 to 1920. In 1950 (they didn't ask in 1930 or 1940), it's down to 9% presumably from the changes in immigration law in the 1920s. Then it's around 5% for 1960-1980 and from 1990 starts to rise up to 12.48% today. That's roughly where the percentage of immigrants was for the 6 decades before 1920. That doesn't to me look like "an unprecedented experiment with extraordinarily high immigration"
On average how quick do you see a return from your investment (loan) on this site? How common are losses and what assurances does lendingclub give?

I'm just wondering if it'd be a good thing to sign up for and play around with, I've currently got a spare $30k sitting around not doing anything (except losing value I suppose).
Nope. But coding in spare time make you better developer. And.. If you do not like coding - it's wrong career.. But who knows, code monkeys useful sometimes too..
I am a research mathematician. I work hard, but I also spend a lot of time pursuing other interests such as yoga, swing dancing, and improv comedy. This takes away from the time I do math.

Does this make me less of a mathematician? Of course it does. This is a tautology. I am a mathematician to the extent which I devote my time and energy to learning and doing math.

Sometimes I feel guilty about this, but on reflection, this is a sacrifice I am willing to make. We only get one shot at life, and we have to balance all of the activities we find valuable.
What's your Epitaph should read?
> I expect my phone, on the other hand, to be able to run the latest and greatest apps and games, so when another platform keeps getting all the shiny apps, it impacts my user experience.

The funny thing is, nobody had that expectation until the iPhone came along. Score one for Apple.
As mentioned, lawyers and doctors are required to stay up to date in their fields in order to continue practicing. In California, lawyers need 25 MCLE credits every 3 years (http://mcle.calbar.ca.gov/) and doctors need 50 CME hours every 2 years (http://www.medbd.ca.gov/licensee/continuing_education.html).
yeah according to who.

And what level is small. Can you be more specific exactly to what a small level of radiation is.

And thirdly who the hell do you think you are pontificating your so called confident guesses on topics in which you have absolutely no knowledge of. Seriously, what is your IQ
because someone who would write vague generalisations as acute concise facts are clearly delusional in many realms of the human psyche. You are clearly one of them.
For me it is the other way round. When I program in my spare time, I do it because I need a certain piece of software and no one else (I know of) is building it. I even switched jobs to become better at a specific platform because I was frustrated how slow I am programming for it only in my spare time.
But by spreading risk, peer-to-peer loans tend to have lower interest rates than comparable bank loans, consumer-credit experts say.

That doesn't make sense. Banks make tons of loans, which by definition spreads out the risk of any individual loan going bad. In addition, sometimes they have insurance or other derivatives on their books.

I would say banks have their risk spread out a lot better than any individual investor, unless that individual is Paul Graham status of $$$.
Linus cooking up Git - that's not a side project; that's what he does for earning a living. They needed Git as a replacement for BitKeeper. I do admire Linus, when he sets his mind on something, he gets things done.

But, about people working for big companies, since you are talking about iOS / WebOS, etc... these people do many times have side projects, but they are internal and in the context of the company they work for, not public. And the cool thing about a big company (versus a startup) is that deadlines are more relaxed (you do have more free time) and you can switch projects when bored to death.
That was my guess too, but which one?
Do you guys know Soviets' answer to the Rust incident?

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/05/world/pilotless-soviet-jet...

They never did mention it explicitly, but the official Soviet news back then were full of thinly veiled innuendos that it was "for Rust".
Payments are made in equal amounts each month over a 3 or 5 year period.

Losses depend on the kinds of loans someone invests in, so this varies.

These are unsecured loans, so defaults are normal. My strategy is to try to limit myself to the minimum per-loan investment, which is $25 per loan. This way a given default won't significantly harm me (I'd only be out $25 per defaulted loan).

Of course, none of this is investment advice, read the prospectus, etc...
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I was pretty sure iAds only ran in native apps and hence could use OpenGL directly

And that would be the flawed assumption that has led to your confusion.

iAds are built with HTML/CSS/JS only, not native code.
I just tell people I have a great job because I'm basically being paid for doing my hobby (web development). Been doing that for ~15 years now and I've still haven't felt any diminished desire for my "hobby", despite it now being my "job".

There are days of frustration, sure - but those pertain more to the business aspects of "monetizing" this hobby (such as dealing with clients when doing contract work), than to the art & craft of the hobby itself.

I don't think a hobby necessarily has to be less enjoyable just because you've made it your job.
http://twitter.com/#!/maraksquires/status/81591561602863104
I've always written my sensitive delete queries like this:

select *
-- delete x
from Table x
where x.whatever = 1

That way by default it's just a select, and then AFTER you verify the result set you can highlight from the delete on and then run the query (as long as you're in a shell that will run only the highlighted part. I was working in SMS.) This was a common idiom where I worked.
For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More
Where did you find my schedule?
Interesting post! I posted one not long ago saying the opposite. The reactions were staggering and felt the need to update my post to clarify my point.

Regarding your post though, i think that no one is assuming extremes - you can easily manage a few hours a month to do some mad science experiments. You might even surprise yourself with the outcome or renew your passion that made you take up development in the first place.

You also don't always get the full perspective in your day job - even if you work at an amazing place.

Development isn't a music skill. It isn't about repeating a piece over and over to train your mind, motor skills, and dexterity until you can reproduce it perfectly.

Every day people are pouring tons of new and interesting ideas into this discipline and more often than not, they have excellent ideas which can be shared and studied to your benefit. Take advantage of it.
What about the auxiliary scripts that need to be written for some tasks to automate some task that is ancillary to your product? If you are writing a ruby script for those tasks that are useful but could be done by brute force methods I don't see a problem with that.

Automation of deployment or some menial task, sanitizing test data, gleaning statistics from a csv dump of the database, cron jobs, etc... I'm sure you could come up with more.
How Facebook Proves "Scoring" The Web Is Not Needed
"Not programming in your spare time does not make you a bad developer, however, programming in your spare time can make you a better developer."

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Just about sums it all up
"Start with the end goal in mind."

Ok, so my end goal is I want you to buy my app .. so how do I work back from that to great copy ?

The only thing I came up with is: "YOU GUY, BUY MY APP!"
.. maybe I missed the point?
If you work as a developer and your hobby is developing then there's a good chance that you'll burn out.

People are allowed to have more than one hobby. And I'd think that if your paid job is writing and maintaining boring internal enterprise apps, hacking on fun projects could prevent you from getting burned out.
I think the real point of "what are you going to do for a hobby" isn't the fact that you can get a new hobby. The point is, you like your hobby (you find it relaxing and stimulating at the same time). When you make it a job, it ruins that experience. So back on point, if you're programming as a hobby -- great! But if you're constantly looking at the screen just to get ahead... that can't be healthy.
Ahh gotchya. For some reason I thought there was a rule against posting jobs as submissions on HN.
Thanks for the advice everyone
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Git is Linus's real job? Slacker. He needs to do an HTML5 app some weekend, and put it on GitHub, to show he has actual dev chops.

these people do many times have side projects, but they are internal and in the context of the company they work for, not public

I don't think most ppl would consider them side projects, at least not in the discussions ppl typically have. For example, I've seen people say that it literally has to be on GitHub.
>"Because they make deeply integrated skins"
Not always true, and usually said skins are awful, slow, buggy crap.

I would argue that if skin development is introducing even the slightest delay into the release cycle, they should cut it out ASAP.
Launched http://phaxio.com into beta a couple of weeks ago...shoot me an email if you'd like an invite (email in profile)
Problem with bitcoin: it's an eternal beta. Can't be solved either.
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Totally agree. And I believe those other interests may make you more valuable in some other context (such as a business owner, people manager, parent or spouse, etc).

I once heard the terms "T Person" and "I Person" as ways to represent a person's skills (though I don't find any info on it with any Google searches; maybe I'll write about it someday).

An I Person is someone whose skills are very narrow (vertical). This person is a specialist and probably spends the majority of his/her time perfecting that skill.

A T Person is someone who also has a predominant skill, but it's perhaps not as deep as an I Person. However, a T Person has a horizontal bar that stretches across a range of skills.

I don't recall hearing about a "- (Dash) Person", but if I were to continue this analogy, that would be a jack of all trades, master of none.

Society needs all types of people, but I suspect T People are especially desirable in a startup. You want a person who can do a little of everything, but excels in one particular area.

EDIT: Found a reference to this concept - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
I'm sure that 98% of programmers who are of indian origin dont code in their spare time. They do it because its a good living and nothing else.

And a lot of them are good at what they do.
Ask HN: Dodgy sites linking to mine. Any ideas why?
Decided to look at the analytics for an old blog (only about 6 posts in all) and discovered almost all traffic is coming as referrals from sites I wouldn't expect. It looks like something dodgy is going on, but I'm unsure what.

Blog is on blogger and seems ok (no spam comments etc)

Example referring sites are
www.acessa.me
www.tinyurl.com/UnlimitedHostingService
www.is.gd/UnlimitedWebHosting
www.tinyurl.com/ForexTradingSystems
www.tinyurl.com/MakeMoneyWithYourWebsite

Any ideas?
Not to mention things like Orcs & Elves, and Wolf3D for the iPhone. Carmack is a really bad example here!
"contract" in law doesn't mean something written and signed, it is an agreement or implied agreement between two parties. This is a common misconception. The written requirement is only for certain types of binding agreements (land sales, etc.) and varies between jurisdictions. But in most business/service scenarios, oral agreements are just as binding as written agreements.

I was recently involved in a legal dispute where there was no written contract, but the trail of emails and communication was good enough to see judgement in our favor.
This number doesn't pass the smell test. I might believe that Muslims are committing more rapes that Nordics, but no rapes at all in Oslo by Nordic men?

The only non-blog article I could find on this was from NRK in Norwegian: http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.6944861. Translating through Google, it says the police only starting keeping statistics on rape in 2006 (?!?) and that there were 21 in 2008 and 11 in 2009.

According to Wikipedia, the Oslo metro area has 1.4 million people and Norway has a per capita rape rate of 20 per 100,000. So on average you'd expect something like 280 rapes per year in Oslo. Something here doesn't make sense.
cool. will try it out. thanks
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"I don't think a hobby necessarily has to be less enjoyable just because you've made it your job."

This may be true in some rare exceptions. However, hobbies have no deadlines, no schedules, no management, no commute (ok, maybe not if your hobby is somewhere else), no feeling of "I have to do this", etc. All these reasons take away from the pleasure of doing your hobby, add to your stress -- which is the whole point of having a hobby in the first place, to take your mind off of stress of daily life.
"Great divergence" is not necessarily a problem for democracy. Any specific manifestation of democracy is a tool for governing despite them.

Civil war is not more likely in a democracy than a non democracy. Civil wars (I'm perhaps controversially excluding revolutionary wars such as the current Libyan or Syrian wars because they are usually wars between a regime and the The People) are rarely over political disagreement.

Most civil wars are a result of either: (1) two or more competing elites competing for power (eg James vs William; Augustus vs Anthony). (2) Ethnic/confessional divides that supersede everything else politically. For example, Lebanese Maronites are politically Maronites. They will not vote for a Druze Social-Democrat even if this is their political belief because that identification is much weaker than the Maronite one. Lebanese politics is about dividing political pies between sects.

China is probably in greater danger of 1 today than it would be if democratic and it probably wouldn't be under greater danger of 2, Chinese minorities don't want to be Chinese but they are too small even if they do identify politically entirely along ethnic lines.
Link to the real article http://mashable.com/2011/06/15/tumblr-surpasses-wordpress/

Also the comparison only includes hosted wordpress blogs at wordpress.com
Sure there are programmers that don't program in their spare time that are great programmers, but I think the general theme is that doing side projects in your spare time is generally a strong signal you're adventurous, self-reliant, eager to learn, interested in broadening your skills and have a strong desire to get better -- all very important things in anyone hoping to get better at your craft.

When I'm interviewing people, side projects (especially successful ones) are _strong_ signals of a candidates value as a good programmer. This doesn't mean I won't want to hire someone without side projects, but candidates having them 90% of the time are very strong.
This was the Biafran civil war. The Swedish guy smuggled the planes in by buying them for some (IIRC) Moroccan flight school. They were mostly used for bombing runs.
Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives
Yep, F# works well, and Miguel de Icaza et al. are playing with it.

To get F# running with Mono, you'll want (at least on Linux) Mono 2.8+, and either MonoDevelop 2.4 (for which Thomas Petricek's language plugin works) or your own editor. I've mostly been using the stand-alone REPL and tweaking some Vim syntax highlighting.
Thanks for the tip in the copy text. I'll review that. Of course I'm trying to be cool but seems I fail at the copy.

Is not a service fos artists. Is more like Amazon Cloud Player or Google Music Service. I was working on this for a couple months. Don't want to waste what I think is a pretty good Ux for such a service.
Show HN: Things I have learnt by building a personal site
It hasn't happened yet and reviewers don't have a time machine. What should they write? "Well, the app ecosystem sucks but might well improve in the future, maybe"?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lcp0uZsY7k
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The Android tablet problem - Marco Arment
The reactor did surivive the earthquake. It failed because of an Engineering 101 level mistake:

"But sir - the question only said to shut down the power plant. It didn't mention doing without electricity!"

I'm surprised by both those things.
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> USA, UK, Europe and the Western world will just be a distant memory when China and India start becoming major players.

As individual entities, perhaps. As a bloc? NATO member countries total population is about 800 million, if I'm not mistaken. The Western world is hardly going to disappear.
My very first thought was do NOT go to the police station without a lawyer. Nothing good can come out of talking to the police (or anyone else) without legal counsel when you are the accused.

This video lecture by officer George Bruch really opened my eyes:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6014022229458915912#
Fair and Unbalanced: It's The (Political) Economy, Stupid
How did you get those testimonials from some rather interesting people? Did you know them before you had this service?
I've been using Flipboard to get my Facebook fix on my ipad and I've now come to prefer the Flipboard view of FB more than the native view. Much better presentation of external content and I still get the status updates, but without all the other junk that often floods my newsfeed.
Perhaps my mindset is a rarity; I'll accept that.

I have hobbies outside of my "job" too, and perhaps sadistically, I give myself schedules & deadlines there too. I feel that if I do this, I can keep myself on track and even record my progress to a certain degree. I tend to get great satisfaction in a completed project, hobby or job. And I find the pressure of a deadline gives me this strange "high" - kind of like a runner's high - right before I hit my deadline and/or complete the project.

I totally hear you though. I can certainly understand how such pressure can totally take the joy out of a hobby for most people. And I never try to force anyone on my teams to think or behave this way, unless they naturally do already.
That's lame. Take your downvotes and learn from them. Are you really that shallow?
I'm not sure you can count those as side projects (the games, not the aerospace company, which is a side project -- but it is an actual company!). Those are products shipped by some of the biggest publishers in the world.

That would be like someone at MS saying that their side project was a new feature in Word.
I think the last thing JS needs is classes...., it's too dynamic and non-classical in nature for that. I fear JS will turn into the new C++.
Marco's post makes it clear why traditional review sites don't work for the normal consumer. On a different level, this post also raises a big question - how can someone compete with a well established app platform like Apple's ? Android managed to do it on phones because it was the lone competitor to Apple in the touch phone segment, but I feel the same success will be tough to repeat with tablets.
> My guess is that I've been coding for longer than Zed, and I don't remember _ever_ thinking it was boring

I didn't say programming was boring, I said the profession was boring.

It's a good thing I didn't write the book for you, since you seem to be unable to read.
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http://www.limitgrid.com

LimitGrid is my new weekend project.

How many times have you thought of quitting your job?
How many times have you thought of dumping your gf/bf?
How many times have you thought of getting the new gadget?

Record your every step before you reach the limit.