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“What I realized was that playing the game the right way isn’t good enough – it needs to be played for the right reason: it has to be played to build something, to see something grow. Gordon wasn’t building anything at all, not even a family, and his emptiness showed dramatically.”

Gordon suffered because of split personality: one was enjoying the game he played, another was generated by social pressing – goals like family, relationships and so on.
When you see something grow, you are measuring that. When you measure something, you compare that with similar things. When you compare, you trace your progress balance. When you trace, you predict wanted future. And whole this way leads to “moving goals”.

Author began from right point – it’s all about feeling and enjoying moment. That’s all.
Have an up-vote for being from Cavan!

Languages should be always acquired wherever possible. On my travels I've picked up Irish, French, Chinese and attempting to learn Nepalese to placate the in-laws for my future wedding speech.
This. Off the top of my head, I can think of the following areas where Cisco has fallen off or missed the boat in the last decade: optical transport, MetroE/mobile backhaul, carrier VoIP(BTS and the like, not IP PBX), metro IP routing.

I can't really comment on their enterprise products, but I have heard rumblings that their partner programs have been getting worse and worse, leading VARs and re-sellers to seek better margins from HP and the like.
This is the only list post I've ever written on my blog, since I was in a reflective mood about a long list of specific things and felt this got my point across clearest. You'll find a lot of stories that expand on and discuss particular parts in greater detail if you follow the links ;)

It's been an amazing experience seeing this go viral (see the counts on the left of the post), but I'll be sticking to my non-list posts for the majority of what I write :)

Also, this isn't advice but what I've learned. I didn't want it to come across as preachy, but actually something I would like to have told myself at age 21 and am thinking aloud.

I hope you enjoy other stories shared on the blog! Here's people's favourite one I've written this year: http://www.fluentin3months.com/speed-dating
"You may think it a badge of honour that you can do “$ git rm –cached readme.txt” from memory."

Well unless you are mentally disabled, remembering that command (and a couple of thousand others) is trivial.

The title is complete nonsense. He never actually backs up the statement that he hates computers, he just rants about his love for his wheelchair (GUI).
And still this is yet another hacking that has little to do with choosing a bad password but with the use of the wrong algorithm to store it (md5) and poor implementation of security on the server.
Wa hey! Fellow Cyavan-man? I'll be back for the Fleadh in a month :)
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> On Safari, you can only clear all your his­tory.

This is wrong. On Safari, you can open Show All History and delete individual visits in your history (just select it and press delete). Or you can just go ahead and delete each date groupings, use search to delete only certain sites, etc. This is the same for Firefox, but I believe the ability to do this is not present in Chrome.

I found this to be much more powerful than Chrome's, since many times I want to delete browsing history for certain sites, not for certain period of time. (But Safari's UI allows me to delete both.)
FYI, Bruce does work on cutting edge stuff like writing a book about HTML5 http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321687299 and giving talks in various places evangelising open standards as part of his work for Opera.
IMHO, different world travellers come up with different life lessons. It all depends on the person's own prejudices. Lessons are not in the world, they're within you. World and societies are just tools to discover our own selves.
I predict that these problems will be finally solved when commodity webcams are good enough for secure retina/iris scanning.
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The concept of closed-mindedness is also heavily cultural; it doesn't always translate or map to local values.
The aul fellah is from Cavan, being a mongrel with Kerry blood in me I had the misfortune of living in the Faithful county for many a year.

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Plus many of the monkeys and animals in their park are likely transients that move in and out depending on the season. This would be like claiming ownership of cattle that wanders onto your yard.
24 hours sounds about right.
but what if i ENJOY watching tv? or being on the internet for hours? why is outdoors better by definition?

this fits nicely into the "what white people like" stereotype. go outside! why? maybe i want to read a book and be left alone. maybe i don't like dancing and singing.

how about:
do whatever you like, but please, don't preach.
we are different.

/white, like travel and outdoors, but love to consume art
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This all depends on your target customer.

Put yourself in their shoes, and try to do your best to write what would make them feel comfortable and good about your product for long enough for them to get out their credit card.

Regardless of the size of your company though, it's good to keep in mind that some people are going to be very sensitive to stability when making purchasing decisions, especially if they've been burned in the past by a service that suddenly stopped working. The people who don't care about this, won't care anyway, so for them it doesn't matter what you write.

So I'd be erring on the side of talking about stability, even if you are a one man shop. Especially if your product is still in the early stages and lacking the polish of more mature products.

So perhaps instead of:
"After working for 4 years as a server administrator for some medium to large websites and after having a lot of trouble with existing monitoring solutions I decided to build my own."

Maybe something like:
"TagBeep was developed in response to a gap in the market for a professional yet simple tool to track website uptime.

Our years of experience in server administration for medium to large sized websites provided us with unique insight into designing a powerful application that takes 5 minutes to set up, and helps you keep your sites up and running 24 hours a day."

Also, while you're clearing in active development and doing a lot to improve your product, I'd hesitate before broadcasting this process that to a small business owner who might not be familiar with the development process, and who is in the decision making phase while looking at your About page. I'd be moving the "Whats Next?" stuff to a dev blog hosted on tagbeep.com/blog.
Right, I've also seen this and wonder where it comes from.

I think it's part of them acknowledging that knowing about computers in this age is very important, and feel that they should learn more about them, but are reluctant due to time constraints / feeling then can't understand the maths / etc.. so they find excuses why it is uncool.

Technologists aren't free from this "fallacy" either. For example, when they hate on marketing ("I don't want to learn about marketing as it's all bullshit"), or when people from one technical field hate on another ("back end? man, that's just engineering, it's all about UI these days...").

In the case of hate on computers, it's usually combined with some component of nostalgia; What do we need computers (and computer people) for? Weren't we better off in slower times, without all the flashy stuff?
As I said in the post, closed-mindedness is something that people have to realise lies within themselves. This post wasn't calling Parisians closed minded.
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3 seconds of thinking about this is at least 2 seconds where you could have been doing something which actually matters but were not.

It is the canonical question asked to avoid actually making or selling stuff on the Business of Software forums.
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If after spending many hours watching TV you feel your life has been enhanced in some way, then by all means keep it up. In my opinion people don't feel this way (I certainly never did and grew up glued to my TV) and would have spent their time better in other activities rather than following hours of reality TV shows etc.

Doing "whatever you like" doesn't necessarily enrich your life. It's just immediate pleasure. Sometimes doing whatever is BEST for you (which you should of course decide) is way more important. If people really sat down and thought about it, a lot of them would realise that, as much as they like it, TV is NOT best for them.
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Surely Android is a disruptor of wealth rather than a destroyer of it?

There are things Android does for free (or very cheaply) which ask serious questions of competing products but what about the efficiencies that are created because more people have access to functionality which enhances their lives and businesses and the new markets it creates?

Free turn by turn navigation software may destroy wealth for, say, Tom Tom and Garmin, but what about all the people who now have it but didn't before and who are now wasting less time as a result? Some (not necessarily all, but some) of that time will translate into additional wealth for them and those they deal with. Similar cases can be made for getting better information on the go (via e-mail and the web) and so on.

Not to mention the app developers who can now make money where no market previously existed, the handset manufacturers who are selling more expensive handsets, the networks who are selling data plans, the smartphone accessory manufacturers.

It would be hard to quantify what has been created against what has been destroyed, but I'd wager that it's far more accurate to describe what has happened as a disruption or a move than destruction.
> This is the same for Firefox

You can also delete Last <time period> <unit>s in Firefox.
Then why store all history?
Canadian experience suggests you are incorrect about the energies that people will spend against injustice. Canada has had 3-4 relatively high-profile cases in the last decade where long-term prisoners have been exonerated due to the efforts of people who don't want to see injustice.

There are too many instances of prosecutorial malfeasance or justice denied to continue with the death penalty, even in cases where the guilty parties certainly deserve to die (Bernardo and probably Homolka, in Canada).
Maybe I'm missing something, but how on earth is hashing the domain changing anything in practice?
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I feel my life is infinitely enriched by watching TV and movies. (In UK, we have extremely high quality programming).

You wouldn't say "all books are bad" would you... Sadly people seem to take the worst TV (reality TV) and assume it's all like that.

Watch some good movies, comedies or documentaries. Heck watch "How it's made" for a few days.
I assumed you were calling yourself closed-minded.

But my point was that the whole open-minded versus closed-minded conversation hinges upon cultural values which are by no means universal. There are many cases where the reverse is seen as important (e.g. resisting outside influences) or where the entire topic is not seen as meaningful or important.
Dobry den :-) Praha is a perfect example of what I mean - a city with a long history full of people who are excited about the future. Compare to Paris, a city that only harks back to past glories. I have many friends in Paris and am often there, but it feels claustrophobic for that reason.
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"My moral claim is that the death penalty is morally equivalent to life imprisonment."

There may be some moral equivalence between a person who dies in prison and one who is executed (I would argue otherwise) but there is absolutely no moral equivalence between an innocent person executed and an innocent person who spends some time in prison and is freed.

"Just curious - could you explain why you believe locking a person in a cell until they die is better than killing them?"

Because they might be innocent? Or because killing them is used disproportionately against the disadvantaged?
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Maybe so, but it really is demonstrably true that there's a huge law of diminishing returns there. Once you earn a reasonable amount of money (the figure I saw for the US was around 50k, probably depreciated by now and obviously location-dependent) there is absolutely no correlation between making more money and happiness. The main take-away is that it probably requires a lot less than you think.

For this and many other interesting musings on the nature of happiness I strongly recommend "Stumbling on Happiness" by Daniel Gilbert. It's fascinating.
I don't buy it. Sure, Apple hasn't much cared for market dominance when it comes to MacOS, but it's not clear that they feel the same way about the mobile market at all.
You almost make recruiting sound like a fun job!
There's a big difference between "once you have a home and food" and "once you have 50k/yr", though.
I think there's a difference between watching the tele without regard to content and using it to watch specific content.

The "read more" crowd gets the reverse of this - much of what is in print is not worth the time it takes to consume it.

In general, value your time and use it accordingly. You're not getting it back if you decide it was wasted later.
Choosing (one of) your phone numbers as a password really is all about choosing a bad password.

The back-end could be using bcrypt with a ridiculous work factor, and server security could be state of the art, but choosing your phone number as a password will always be a poor decision.
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A life lesson with context wouldn't be a life lesson. The context is life, if the context is more specific and not fully applicable to life then it is no longer a life lesson.
As I said in another comment, these are just things that I have personally learned in the last 8 years. Disagree with them if you will.
I do agree that TV quality is better in the UK (we get most of it in Ireland) compared to the states, but there is still plenty of rubbish that people waste their time with. If you just watch documentaries or educational programming, then that enriches your life and there would be nothing negative for me to say about it.
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Your comment has some very good advice. I realized now that most of the marketing stuff that I’ve written was made with the assumption that the user is like me. I like reading about the developing process of an app… that’s why I thought it is important to broadcast that.
I will try to read more about marketing and about how to know your clients and market.
Thanks for your time.
What's that stand for, Russian Federation?
Is it really that strange? I think the idea is to show a fixation or continuing interest. I've googled some terms dozens of times because I know it will return the wiki or imbd page.
You can't spend 8 years traveling the world without quite a bit of money. The author should look at his own life before telling others that they don't need money; it sounds like luxury to me.
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That should be fixed else for people who share too much in public ( on google plus ) would flood their timeline when this app kicks in.

But great tool, API-enabled version should be awesome.
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Almost! You know what, I've worked in a variety of industries, Software Development, Creative Advertising, Sales & Recruitment and I can honestly say that none have given me the job satisfaction that this one delivers however it can be equally frustrating.
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Absolutely. A lot of people don't plan to stop at 50k/yr either, though - the OP's main point is that from a happiness optimisation POV after that point (or maybe earlier) their energy would be better spent elsewhere. And your expensive shoes example person is probably making more than 50k.
In case it's not obvious, someone logged into the cypherpunks account, edited the above comment, and changed the password.

cypherpunks is a generic account shared by many people on many websites. The username and password is cypherpunks/cypherpunks where allowed, and cypherpunks/cypherpunks1 where the username and password must be different. E-mail is usually cypherpunks@mailinator.com. It allows you to use websites while maintaining a semblance of anonymity.

This is now broken on HN. redditors rise to new heights in their debating ability.

I'm not going to repost all comments from the discussion, but the original comment was along the lines of:

I read reddit, but I would never buy a gold account. The site has too much hate speech, and it is hard to support that financially. Between the misogyny and the atheist anti-Christian bigotry, it's pretty bad. You don't have to be either a woman or a theist to see that's wrong.

The question of how to address this issue while maintaining free speech is a more complex one. The reddit founders, however, have shown no interest in finding ways to improve site quality from this perspective, and indeed, appear to support the bigotry.
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I just realised you could make this a lot more useful if you allowed users to load any website via bugmuncher.com and provide feedback to the site owners. To be clear: I go to bugmuncher.com, type in a url (say nytimes.com), the page loads, I use your tool to highlight the bug and hit send, you email or tweet it to the appropriate address.

You could also look at it as more than a bug reporting tool. It could just be a playground for people to visually comment on sites, sort of like http://canv.as does for pictures.

This could get you some traction and then you charge site owners for premium features, like tracking on their own site.

PS You should put your email in your HN profile's about section.

PPS You should let users submit feedback without highlighting anything and without previewing.
Yes the password scheme (MD5) is wrong. However choosing a password that can be guessed is terrible because a human can brute for that, using the best algorithm in the world isn't going to save you if your password is your phone number.
Yeah, but buying the domain is cheaper than suing.
However it is amazing what an impact does living at a place away from were one grew up in have in the perception of the world.

I had already traveled a lot ( as a tourist ) before I left Greece to come and live in Japan, when I started to make a life here, I practically had to rediscover myself. It is not so much the big things, it's the small ones : habits that I took for granted, jokes that do not sound funny, if you can ask someone's phone number... Like a very thin safety net of supporting culture I never new was there just disappeared underneath me.

I also had a fresh view of Greece , and my life before

I think traveling gives you a change of perspective difficult to grasp at home
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There is also a NuGet package/library for Visual Studio entitled SassAndCoffee. Which method is preferable?

http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2011/07/12/sassandcoffee...
Thanks.

Sounds much like a matter of taste then, though. I much prefer clicking a button over typing a command (f.ex. tortoisegit over git, explorer over bash mv/cp/etc).
Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem:

To do iris-scanning security, there must be a back-end database with the characteristics ("fingerprint") of each user's iris.

This database will be secured as strongly/effectively as a password database because it contains authentication credentials.

Unfortunately, password databases get broken into, and similarly iris databases will also get broken into.

The attacker then has to simply convert the iris fingerprint back into an image to replay to the authentication process.

This is probably easier than reversing a password hash (because the fingerprinting algorithm is unlikely to be optimised against reversing), and certainly no harder.

(This is assuming untrusted client-side hardware.)
Presumably so you can elect to search history and be prepared to wait for results - unlike omnibar where you want instant typing.
Woah - downvote, just because it's not funny! Bit harsh.
I know what you’re saying but I really needed some help on this part of the project. For example when I was listing my site in web app directories or in the chrome web store I always tried to talk about my service in a very personal way (that made it look like a hobby) but after getting a lot of feedback here I will talk about the service in a professional way and about the company and plans in a personal way.

The feedback from this thread is amazing,
thanks to all!
While the lessons aren't travel-related themselves, he probably has learned most of them while travelling. It would be my guess that if he had been sitting in an office and pushing for a career for those eight years then it's likely his world view just might be a bit more naive.
I'm not referring to prosecutors, I'm referring to folks like Project Innocent, reporters, etc.
I'm impressed by Spotify. 20 hours of the same sort of unlimited free music as what.cd and waffles.fm. 50 million Spotify users in the first year seems like a possibly not that unrealistic prediction for them to make. Perhaps Spotify motivates the record companies to launch and relentlessly promote their own Hulu for music. I don't think the record companies can react that quickly though. Maybe a few Swedish entrepreneurs just took quietly over (or become the prime influencers of) the US record industry.

@Daniel Ek: I'll sign up for the $9.95/month plan when you have 95% of your music available at ~192 kb/s OGG. I just want the slightly more bandwidth that ensures I can't tell it apart from CD and it isn't much more bandwidth.

Actually, what I really want is one of those menus where you got to choose your own encoding like allofmp3.com had.

Edit: Actually, these ads are really annoying. I guess I have to sign up. Damn you, compelling product.