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Okay, CECD is an interesting suggestion that I hadn't heard of, but how would I have gone from having no trace of it in early March 2010 to having a bad case of it in April? In contrast, the onset of (this kind of) CFS is so frequently observed to coincide with a flu-like illness that it is also called Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome.

But I do agree that's it's highly plausible, indeed very likely, that inflammation plays a role.

I suppose I could get a medical marijuana prescription, but that really doesn't appeal to me. My case is relatively mild anyway, I gather, compared to some of the nightmare stories I have read.
my guess is it will be open to both Adobe Flash and "Google" HTML5.
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I think it's probably a required thing for every employee.
Replying to bmj (not sure why i don't see a reply link ...)

For me, and I think for a lot of other people on HN, retirement means not having to work for the money. Which, for people in some areas of the world, isn't really that much. And in that vein, if you don't have to worry about the money, you can afford to say "no, I would rather go see my daughter's choral concert than work". Obviously I would keep myself busy, but it would be under an arrangement where I could prioritize my family.
This is an inefficiency of the market. You must have some level (perhaps not rigidly set) of inefficiency at which you would conclude that some type of government regulation would make the market more efficient.

Otherwise you'd accept any level of inefficiency as the market working, at which point it's just an ideological label.

Although it's not clear that regulation of bitcoin is even possible, we can still consider losses due to its absence.
I wouldn't have two separate branches for bugfixes and then one for new features - as you noted, it can get hairy. Personally I find the git-flow model very straightforward.

Do normal feature development and bug fixes on the develop branch; save master for production releases. When it's time to make a release, cut a release branch (e.g. r/1.0.1) from the develop branch. Bug fixes that are made on that branch should also be merged into develop. Once the release is made, merge r/1.0.1 back into master and develop and continue on as normal.

Also see: https://github.com/nvie/gitflow
As someone who's been slowly going deaf since infancy, these sorts of stories can be really inspiring.
+1 for WP7 tools to develop. I prefer Android as a platform, but you start to cry if you compare what tools you have for Android compared to WP7.
Thank you for the recommendation, 3 chapters in and this is fascinating (horrifying/thought-provoking)
It never worked. :)
There is a movement among the users to exchange lost bitcoins into bitomat shares so the owner compensate for his errors with parts of his own company.
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Also, make sure sure your first gig is at least six months long and more than 20 hrs per week. The sales side of things is absolutely the worse part of being a consultant. You really have to be out there and not simply meeting other developers but meeting the people who hire developers.

Also, your ability to execute well in a 9x5 setting does not at all mean you can execute well independently, and anyone with experience working with contractors will know this and will want to vet you. So it may be rocky at first.

The worst thing is even with a good portfolio you have to be active active active seeking work, and that is just a completely different mindset than writing good code and one that, frankly, most developers would do better than to develop. I've learned how to market myself, etc., but frequently think that time would have been better spent elsewhere (e.g. learning new technology)

Also, you should know that the type of work you get may be quite different. There can be a lot of in and out, here and there, travel, etc.

I'm a couple years in with a good portfolio and can hit mid to high hundreds (USD) but it is such a pain in the ass I am actually looking for a "real job" again.

Plug: hit me up if you are in the Bay Area and looking for someone with experience with Javascript / Ruby / Java / Salesforce. I'm reasonably proficient in all of the above, won a bunch of awards, and just bored with what I happen to be doing currently.
I think engineers have a different idea of what constitutes "real money". I'm imagining my graduating classmates who are out interviewing for "good jobs" with salaries in the mid-five figures.

It makes me remember how slightly awkward I felt every fall semester— I kept my mouth shut when talking about summer jobs, just because everyone else would talk about their minimum-wage gig at the ice cream shop or the kayak place. It just seemed so utterly unapproachable to even mention what I was pulling down as an "intern", let alone that I was probably getting about a quarter of my market value, let alone that I was doing something I had no formal training in and could pretty much drop out of college at any point for a net financial gain.

I think the statement that should go on every CS curriculum is "Normal people cannot understand what you do no matter how hard they try. Value yourself a little higher."
I've never worked at anything but a company with "closed-source" code, but all engineers within the company had access to all product code via SVN. From reading other comments, it seems the quants are paid relative to their code's performance in the market, and this culture of not sharing code is probably understandable under those circumstances.

In other words, Shaw doesn't seem to be recognizing the competitive nature of the HFT business, even within a given organization, and is more accustomed to a team effort.
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I don't see why you'd be looking for/want co-founders/initial employees that aren't passionate :P.
Passion isn't something your employees can just choose to give you once asked, but it is something you can choose to give them by providing a meaningful purpose, the opportunity to learn new things, and the freedom to do great work.
I know. But is it really true, I fail to understand how a developer can be passionate about some business and yet launch 2-5 products a year. Is that passion for the business/ industry or passion to develop skills?

Most of the good programmers do it, right? Work on 4 products a year in multiple industries.

Should you hire someone who is passionate about the cause or one who is passionate about code(read growth/career)
I agree that it's pretty stupid that we have to go to these lengths to enable TTS. Both iOS and Android already have these capabilities. The technology is there but Apple and Google don't enable any JavaScript API's presumably to solidify their native platforms as the only way to develop.

You should be thanking Mozilla for building an Audio Data API capable of features like this, and not wait for Apple and Google to get their heads out of their asses.
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I downloaded textmate's free trial but can't afford to pay for it. I'm learning to program and don't have a job yet.

Is there any way to hack it so that the free trial never ends? (And, of course, I will pay for it if and when I can afford it.)
Teachers actually make decent money. We clearly don't value soldiers and McDonalds workers. Wait - then how come we're so violent and fat?

Nevermind.
> This particular synth isn't great.

eSpeak has a lot of settings, in the demo I think I use the defaults, but maybe things can be tweaked for better results.

(I don't really know much about speech synthesis or eSpeak, I just compiled it.)
You might try to mitigate your risk by spreading it on a number of developers. Can you divide the work into smaller chunks? You can hire different developers on part time basis, and then eliminate the one's you are not happy with and stick with the ones you like.
This is awesome. Maybe, you can store the current elements coordinates to prevent overlapping on top of each other when you click multiple elements at the same time. Not a biggie. Love it.
You're forgetting one crucial problem. Younger developers may or may not have more energy, but one thing they don't have is experience. Never, ever, underestimate experience.
I really don't think you're going to get an answer on here, what you are suggesting is illegal! Use a free alternative like Textwrangler while you save up enough money to pay for Textmate.
You can't ask for passion from an employee unless you are giving them a meaningful equity stake or paying above market rates. Quite frankly, if you dont give a good stake or a great salary, employees won't naturally feel like going the extra mile.

In my experience, most employees feel that pushing themselves won't actually accrete any value to themselves, and that really kills any sort of passion.
Yeah, I did a bit of a double take when the first transparency was pulled. That moment, more than anything else in the video, made me realize how far things have come...
> The following anecdote illustrates the hazards of being editorial assistant of the Annals in the early thirties. A manuscript was submitted by the brilliant Soviet mathematician, Lev Pontryagin. Since paper was then exceptionally scarce in the Soviet Union, Pontryagin had taken wrapping paper, torn it into appropriate-sized pieces, and gone to work on his typewriter. Unfortunately, Pontryagin was blind. The wrapping paper was torn unevenly, and a good portion of the words and symbols in the margins were missing. No matter. The Annals editorial assistant retyped the paper, supplying all the missing symbols. What a hero!

Edgar R. Lorch, Szeged in 1934, American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 100, #3, pp.220–221
Maybe they don't say EUR much in polish and they used a "for money" kind of phrase and gtranslate was being "helpful."
* If you want low performance, give me low money.

* If you want high performance, give me high money.

* If you want loyalty/passion, give me equity/profit sharing.

You can buy my performance i.e. time with money. You can buy my passion i.e. commitment with reciprocation. If you give me typical market wages without profit sharing, don't expect anything beyond typical performance without commitment.
You don't mention looking into the EBV/HHV-6 possibility. I urge you to investigate it immediately. Here's Dr. Martin Lerner's Web site:

http://www.treatmentcenterforcfs.com/

He recommends a collection of tests which could confirm a diagnosis of EBV or HHV-6. (My doctor and I agreed to skip the tests because my symptoms were not nearly as severe as yours and the tests are not quite as reliable as one would like; it seemed simpler just to start me on valacyclovir and see what happened. But for a more severe case like yours, the tests are probably a good idea, I would think.)
The original post mentioned C and career use as well. I have no problem with using awk and so forth for quick one-offs, but that was not the issue. I suppose the real question is "practical for what?". You exaggerate the complexity. ;)
I am not sure using the system speech libraries is the best solution. You will get different results depending on the OS. Which means you will need to test with all OSes (and all versions of those OSes). And each will have its own list of available voices and languages, etc.

Whereas if you use a JS library in your project, you will know exactly how things will sound, you can include exactly the voices and languages you want, and only have to test once.
For some extra dialog, this was touched on in the latest Planet Money podcast:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/29/138818388/the-frid...
Thanks for the feedback!

Can you direct me to some docs for object URLs? I tried searching for it but can't find anything.
> What the hell are you gonna do with 500k a year, anyway?

Donate it to a charitable cause?
looks good.

one thing though: on my 30" the distance between the phone elements and the bin is extremely far (worse on the rotated 24"). move the bin or let me remove an element by dbl-clicking it.
The bitcoin exchanges typically require 6 confirmations of a transaction in the block chain before crediting your account with bitcoins. This takes about 1 hour.

If you are speculating on bitcoins and you hear about some news that might cause the price to drop, then you don't want to wait 1 hour before you can sell them.
> True, and Javascript files are the smaller assets of a typical website - the bulk of it is usually HTML code and images.

As the number of SPA-type "sites" grows, the ratio tilts towards JS and dynamic communications (XML, JSON, etc...). Though overall I don't think it matters much.

A more interesting (I think) potential effect, should a given CDN reach a significant hold of the overall serving market, is the likelihood of a cache hit for the relevant library.
Right. The motivated can't ever stop.

It sort of runs in my family. My grandpa retired because he had a heart attack, then started his own company and had to stop that because he had a stroke. He sits in his house and watches fox news and I've never seen him unhappier (fox news doesn't help)

The only time my dad has worked less than 50 hours a week was when he was diagnosed as terminal and on medical leave for a cavernous malformation on his brainstem. He had brain surgery and now he's mostly better, and he's been back to 60 hours a week for a few years since then... except now he comes home exhausted, take some pain killers and lies in bed.

I make the same salary as he does, and I'm 25 working a bit more than 40 hours a week.
> At this point I wish to inform and assure you that your cash deposited into your bank account service and not converted into BTC and unpaid cash from the sale of BTC remain safe and intact

The funds are likely held in aggregate in a single bank account under a single name. Without having the data showing which accounts hold which amounts, I wonder how those funds could be returned to the rightful owners.
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Only commenting on the introduction part:

Ken's remarks are actually a bit strange. It seems like "multimedia" was a big buzzword at the time. His introductory message seems to be almost "unless we get movies/trailers on the Internet ASAP, the Internet is going to fail." Today we all know that to be untrue. There are movies and other multimedia content on the Internet of course, but the primary driver behind its growth has been availability of relevant information and interactive retrieval. Think of Craigslist's success a few years back. It was a very non-multimedia site (unless you classify crappy pocket-cam pictures of your sofa as multimedia) but it provided relevant information, and therefore it succeeded. Also, Google text ads showed to everyone that advertising does not have to be multimedia-intensive -- it will succeed as long as it is relevant.
Responding publicly in this fashion was a pretty bad/unwise move on Paul's part. It's a cheap shot to fling blame in the direction of the easiest possible target: a tech blogger who is known for being opinionated and mercurial (I realize I'm putting it mildly). It's a desperate move and I think anyone can see that.

Arrington is nobody's problem here. The problems are: (1) a customer of Airbnb was victimized, (2) Airbnb did not respond in a satisfactory manner (whether that means not swiftly enough or with results that left said customer feeling unhappy/unsafe), and (3) Airbnb allegedly attempted to quell the story in a distasteful way, implying that their company's well-being was more important than the customer's.
Like many 'random Polish web apps' this one was among the top in its class. Poland has world-class software talent, please don't downplay it.
I have been fortunate too in that (a) my case is really quite mild compared to the nightmares some people go through, and (b) I haven't had to deal in person with anyone telling me my disease didn't exist. My doctor has been quite open to it, and readily agreed to start me on valacyclovir when I asked -- he had tested me for everything else he could think of, and it had been some 10 months since I had started having these symptoms.
I'm with you, but what's more important is whether whoever is paying the salaries gets that. If you don't have engineers running the show, you can almost bet on management underestimating experience.
Here's an interesting article on that:

http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/07/26/hear-that-its-the-singul...

"A common misnomer about the Singularity and the idea of greater-than-human AI is that it will involve a conscious, self-reflective, and even morally accountable agent. This has led some people to believe that it will have deep and profound thoughts, quote Satre, and resultantly act in a quasi-human manner. This will not be the case. We are not talking about artificial consciousness or even human-like cognition. Rather, we are talking about super-expert systems that are capable of executing tasks that exceed human capacities. It will stem from a multiplicity of systems that are individually singular in purpose, or at the very least, very limited in terms of functional scope. And in virtually all cases, these systems won’t reflect on the consequences of their actions unless they are programmed to do so."
After reading this, I finally motivated myself to read through the man pages for git pull, fetch, merge, and rebase.

Thanks :-)
I was passionate for a previous employer, but they burned it out of me. Their inability to make decisions and leaps necessary to really be successful ate away at me. Those things affected me personally, and as an employee, that just can't happen. It's not worth it.
> Passion isn't something your employees can just choose to give you once asked

funny many organizations extort that level of commitment from its workers. for a short time "obey me or get fired" may work, but in long term it'll kill the workspace morale, motivation and innovation.
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I'll add one point from my perspective as a partner at a venture capital firm. The viewpoint that is expressed in the post - that a meeting with someone that I'm not going to fund is considered a waste of my time - is incorrect. Do not forget that the provision of capital is a competitive business (I think entrepreneurs sometimes give up some leverage by forgetting that). We (VCs) are always eager to meet the best companies and have a chance to build a relationship with them. Good entrepreneurs tend to know other good entrepreneurs. Spending an hour bouncing around ideas on a venture with a talented entreprenuer is both fun and good marketing.
Maybe is that the skills to be a good coder and the the ones needed to be a good $ negotiator are orthogonal...

I've seen lousy programmers make a lot (200k+) of money just attending stupid meetings .. and top coders struggle to keep customers happy for crappy money.
you sound like an arrogant prick.
oh and wut useful product does facebook ship to society?
I wasn't aware that a single DNS lookup was that expensive. Aren't they frequently cached? And with more people using cdnjs, there's a better chance the DNS entry as well as the assets might already be cached, leading to an even greater performance gain.

When you say "all these misc CDNs" you're talking about just one, CDNjs, right?

I suppose the CDN could host other assets if it made sense. But I can't think of any other assets with the type of commonality that JavaScript libs have.
Eventually pg did repeat AirBnB's line blaming a rogue sales team, which I found utterly credulous (what else did anyone think they were doing? why haven't they been outed and nailed to the wall?)
"And yes, I bootstrapped my own HFT"

I would be interested in hearing your story. Would you like to share some details?
Lots of opinion, no facts in the article. I would be useful if author split-tested personal/impersonal pages and told us about what gets the actual users engaged, rather than tell us what gets one random blogger aggravated.
Define "passion". Do you mean:

1. Someone who will respond to your above-and-beyond commitment to them (in compensation, tools, respect, etc.) with above-and-beyond results?

2. Someone who will give above-and-beyond results even when given lousy tools, a poor work environment, unrealistic expectations, and mediocre compensation?

#1 is fair to ask. #2 is not.
Good people are often passionate to begin with. If they lose their passion that's probably the fault of their employer.

If they're not passionate to begin with maybe they need to be motivated. Money does it for some people but it's not everything. Interest is very important too.
Plus when you fund larger and larger jackpots (by keeping the rollup purely on the single big win) you get more and more people buying more and more tickets.

I think Massachusetts would be likely to earn more money by being able to advertise a much, much larger jackpot and losing these "rollup day" "gamblers" (when your mathematical theoretical return is so far above 100%, I hesitate to call it gambling) but apparently they have some incentive to keep things the way they are (do lottery officials have relatives or buddies who are among those gaming the system?) because they've let this go on so long.