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Very correct,

But as a matter for fact we need to define the term 'Happiness', a lot of people measure happiness by how much minimum they can achieve(Which makes them happy) with how much minimum effort they put. For example, if you put in 5 productive hours of work a day and end up achieving a, what you describe as a happy life, you would consider that success.

But a lot of people tend to measure success in a different way. For example, Even though during atleast two days in a week I might have opportunity to go back early. I purposefully use the free time to check if I can do some extra work which will give an edge to my career. Generally its something like this, I check if I can add some feature that has a direct impact on revenue or some bug that I can fix or something I can read upon which will help me take more informed decisions later.

I was not a very brilliant kid in the school, nor in college nor during my engineering. In fact I was almost on border, but I would always make it. How? By multiplying effort over time. Most of my friends back in school when I meet them today, find it astonishing that I have made it so big in the industry, while even many high scoring folks haven't.

At work my philosophy is very simple, Seize every work opportunity as it comes. Ensure you multiply effort with time. Thereby, completely hedging for my low IQ by sheer work alone. Indeed as they say opportunity multiplies as you seize it. I also see a lot of high scoring people straight out of college who don't do it big in the industry. Because intelligent people expect, brilliance will make up for everything. But the fact is, Intelligence only acts as a catalyst in the path to success. The bulk of everything else is sheer hard work.

Apart from this its important to understand things like management. Especially time management. Its important to plan, review and track your life time, decade, yearly , monthly and weekly goals. Measuring your productivity is important. Reviewing it constantly, and course correction is the key.

The great thing is today you can achieve anything by sheer work. This gives me great hope for the future.
Going to share this with my 8-year-old!
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Hmm. Typically, it’s the opposite, no? There are plenty of companies who have no reason to innovate once their competition is gone.
Android has its pluses and minuses. It isn't impossible for a platform with license fees to compete with that (see Nokia and WP7, for example).

If HP can't find a way to package webOS to compete with Android (either directly or license), that is HP failing in the competition, not Google being anti-competitive.
"Speaking as a math prof: No. No. NO. It is a ripoff of our students, pure and simple."

As a math prof, which texts(old or new) do you think are good? (fwiw I like Spivak)
Indeed. Though two-ish production users after 7 years of development hardly seems like a success.

By way of contrast, (1) in the Ruby world, YARV went from an alternative implementation to the official implementation within two years, and (2) in the JavaScript world, node.js is similarly being used in production in tons of places after only two years. (Though I realize that those examples aren't exact parallels.)

This isn't meant to criticize your response, rather, I find it interesting that the Python world seems to have so many alternative implementations (PyPy, IronPython, Jython, Cython) despite what appears to be really minority mindshare compared to CPython.
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The Bible is written in three different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek) so running any sort of analysis would be difficult, and in any case I'm not sure what it'd tell us.

Running an analysis on the translation into English would rather depend on what translation you were using. For instance the King James Bible is rather heavy on the now-obsolete "thee/thou" forms, whereas a modern translation isn't.
Also compare to Emacs' bindat package: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Byte-Packi...

It seems that the seek & tell example from this blog post could mostly be implemented in bindat through the mere datatype definitions, as they allow for variable length sequences and for skip operations.
This is great -- very intriguing so I got pulled in. Was a non-coder myself 6 months ago (still don't consider myself one) and this is great. Thanks for doing it!
They're developing GNOME 3 at a much lower cost. Not that they seem to have any interest in the consumer market.
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It does show that the world is not just sharp angles. Most UIs with round angles still include sharp angles too.
OK, that is what many different people say about him. Must be true. I wonder if he has changed any after being kicked out?

I guess there is no genius without some form of madness. I respect him mainly because he is a product of the 60's counterculture and was able to infuse "cosmic consciousness" into technology.

I'm glad you don't. So many people take it way too far. It's just a computer man.
esr writes in his latest Smartphone Wars[1] installment:

"WebOS, we hardly knew ye [...] WebOS has looked terminal to us for a long time. [...] WebOS didn’t suck, technically speaking. It was certainly better constructed than the turd-with-frosting that is WP7. [...] The cool thing about WebOS was that its architecture was beautiful. [...] WebOS’s problem was that the coolness stopped there. The source was closed, with all the usual bad effects including higher defect rates and lower developer interest. [...] Some sort of larger shakeout seems to be going on. [...] RIM is next to the wall, probably. WP7 should already have been terminated for extreme failure (Samsung’s own-brand Bada OS is actually outselling it[2]) [...] It might be that Android, Apple, Microsoft, and RIM are now entering scorpions-in-a-bottle time. [...] There can be only one... major incumbent. A whale, with a minnow or two in its shadow. Maybe Android should invert the Twitter fail whale into a success cetacean?"

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3611

[2] http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Samsungs-Bada-outs...
Debian has http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ and SUSE created http://openbuildservice.org/ out of their distributed build service.
"For video cameras, it will be USB 3 for everything other than Sony which has its own special precious non-compatible variation Thunderbolt that only works on VAIOs since Sony loves to play the special precious protocol game with their little princess friend Apple."

I love this so much.
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I think there is a difference between working long hours and being 'married' to your work. People who are passionate about work will end up spending more time on their craft then those who are not, but they aren't always working. For example I read HN, and feel that it makes me better at work, but it's not work. I spend time outside of work doing things that are work like, but not my job because I really like what I do. No matter how much I like what I do, I can work long hours on any of it without getting burnt out, and if I do that for long periods of time I can feel the psychological drain.
That stinks of lying. I'd make sure that guy does not pass it off as YOUR estimate, but his.
Just start spreading a rumour about raising the retirement age, they'll all not turn up for work anyway
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I went to see Star Wars in 1977, I stood in line for hours to see the first showing in Toronto. There were no DVDs, not even VCRs in those days. I can now stream the trilogy to a tablet on my lap in bed.

Yes, this fucking piece of consumer electronics makes my heart sing. That's because I'm living in a future I couldn't even imagine when I was fifteen, and lord how I tried to imagine the future.

YMMV. It's fine with me if this doesn't blow your mind.
I fully expected the article to show a monstercables-like revelation of nothing but plain copper wire inside. Happily disappointed now.
I'm still not 100% sure on the point. So I get an email once a day offering me a random discount on a random product. I have to decide whether I want to buy that product. And then, when it comes time to do my weekly grocery shopping I have to remember all the products which I've already signed up for and collect 'em all.

This seems to have saved me a little bit of money at the cost of a bunch of mental effort.

edit: Mind you I've never been persuaded to use Groupon either, so maybe it's just me.
Ask HN: How should I store passwords?
I've been told to "use bcrypt", but is bcrypt really all that stronger?

All the arguments I have seen in favor of it simply argued that it is good because it's slower than crippled molasses going uphill in January, but with a well-secured NoSQL and a properly rate-limited login system, is that really necessary?

I've been looking at SHA-512 with multiple salts, but what do you use or suggest I do?

EDIT: Just an FYI, we're a startup that will be dealing mostly in accounts of the social network variety. We will deal a bit in financial info, but mostly just user data.
Don't want to turn this into flame, but I disagree with your argument. I thought it is Asia that is more PC-less than US & Europe. And it is impossible to tell if the R&D teams really stay and did a good job, would it really make webOS flourish or would it just prolong its dismise. Can webOS even win 3rd place without a true believing CEO that bet the company behind it? That is why I believe that details about how it got into this "mess" is irrelevant to the article.
We are expanding, it is all voluntary

I'm glad you mentioned it was voluntary. You had me worried there for a moment.
We had a cool thing. We let the user use our site once, but to "activate their account" and set up a password, they had to click the link in their email. Otherwise they would be reminded next time they tried to sign in (without a password)

It gave people an incentive to verify their email!

Check out blurts.com and qbix.com for examples
It's obviously a response to the BART spokesbot who said the hack was (words to the effect of) "childish and silly."
I'm still bummed at being stuck with the dilemma of having to chose between CPython 3.x and PyPy. PyPy with Py3k support would rock.
I don't think it's incredible to make that claim at all. The iPad has been around for quite a bit longer so you would expect to see a lot more of them in the wild despite only outselling android tablets by approximately a 4 to one margin at the moment.

Despite this, I still routinely see android tablets in airports. I saw a galaxy tab 7" tonight (along with 3 people using ipads in first class). I've also seen a few galaxy tab 10.1s and a couple of HTC Flyers.

To be clear, I also wonder if the actual ratio is 4 to one. I just don't think the number is completely outside the realm of possibility.
That so many craftsman, engineers, etc. did so is suggestive.

In many cases it suggests that leaving a sharp corner, such as on a table, would risk injury to some users. But in general, that something took extra work, says nothing about the rationale behind it. Maybe it's a way of showing off skills; I've certainly seen that in code , where the people did something the hard way for reasons other than "this is what is best for this situation."

Moreover, looking at a lot of rounded rectangles will have the same effect that the examples in the linked article did. You'll notice that objects with them are more appealing than their counterparts.

What I notice is that sometimes they are appropriate, sometimes not. They are not universally appealing.

In many cases they give things an inappropriately childish (childlike?) feeling.
That's weird. Where do you live? I'm Vietnamese and last time I was home, Macbook(s) and iPad were quite popular at the airport and cafe. I'm from Da Nang.
I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work.
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Especially when you connect it back to the discussion of gender on the first page:

Most people assume that men use I-words and cognitive words more than women and that women use we-words, emotions, and social words more than men. Bad news. You were right if you guessed that women use social words more. However, women use I-words and cognitive words at far higher rates than men. There are no reliable differences between men and women for use of we-words or emotion words (OK, those were trick questions). And men use articles more than women, when you might guess there’d be no difference.
You mean like Apple iCloud?
I'm afraid that doesn't fly. If a company wants to use any kind of non-GAAP financial measures in their marketing to investors they have to be disclosed and explained in the prospectus by law. That's how the prospectus works: it has to include everything you use in the marketing materials. If you think it's invalid it doesn't matter, but if the metric itself is fine it must go in the prospectus.
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Oh the arrogance....the pride... my head hurts.

"First principles"... Must be that our interpretation of physics is THE first principles.
Will you PLEASE stop spamming this site to this list.
I have a tablet pc. After getting rid of windows, I came to love it.

That said, I would not recommend it to people. The iPad actually can, and does, do the job of a tablet pc far better than any tablet pc I've used.
How would that be any different, security wise?
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I am consistently running around 75%, with subject line "Confirm your email address". I am going to change it to "Please confirm your email address".

I send the confirmation emails through Google's email servers (Google Apps).

update: If I break it down by domain, I see gmail->80%, yahoo->70%, and hotmail->66%.
Mainframes to micros/pcs were big shifts because it changed who owned and what you did with the technology.

A company owned a mainframe, it wasn't yours. The microcomputer was yours, and I think the pc was just a grown-up version of the microcomputer.

What is it that you are doing with your tablet that you can't/don't do with your laptop. They are more portable, but people clearly don't have a problem bringing their laptops to the coffee shop.

I don't deny that there is a place for tablets. It is a great form-factor. Much better for surfing the web while on the couch. But is that enough to make the 'post-pc' era? They serve the same people and for the most part the same function as a pc. Therefore, I see it still as just another form factor of a pc.

The people I know who have iPads (and one Xoom) surf the web with their tablets, maybe write the odd e-mail.

Is the shift to the 'post-pc' era anywhere near as world-changing as the web?

Can you elaborate on the 'how and what we can do with computing' that we couldn't do before?
I've been in a bunch of places in the south but I'm living in Nha Trang now. I see tons of laptops around but I have yet to see a Vietnamese using a Macbook. Maybe the people that can afford to fly can also afford a more expensive laptop?

I do see a fair number of iPhones around though. Maybe because comparable Android phones aren't significantly cheaper.
Changing this right now. Thanks so much!
Thanks for an interesting and thoughtful response. :-)

Unfortunately, my reading list is tooo long to add anything new anywhere near the front of the queue, unless it's something that is absolutely earth-shattering. I see that the book you suggest is rated highly on Amazon. But the first review that comes up for me (maybe it's the first one for you, too) is a June 5 review by a neuroscientist (supposedly) who discounts the book as being highly intellectually sloppy.

I actually think we may agree on the second overall bullet point. Which is a lot closer than I thought we were. However, I think certain empiricist philosophers have been pretty mistaken. I'm not an expert in either analytic or continental philosophy, but wasn't Hume the famous empiricist who posed the "is-ought" dichotomy and rejected the possibility of finding any solution to it? Any Rand posed a solution to this problem, and I agree with her. I can provide further references up on request.

On the third bullet point: I think "free will" is properly understood as a person's ability to choose whether or not to think about something. The more they think, the more refined their conclusions become. It's wrong to just claim that people are a product of their genes and environment, which implicitly ignores this thinking process. So to answer the question, the actor's "will" is the key factor here (if you want to use that word), but of course there is nothing supernatural going on.
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After reading this case, it seems to me that a different section of the copyright code was tested here. I believe space shifting of media other than computer programs has a solid history...

That the subject was a computer program is what seemed to trip up the case in my opinion.
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Interesting idea. Having said that, "Next Step" makes it sounds like a longer process. It doesn't seem like I won't be quite done after this.

I think rewarding the user for singing up would be an interesting incentive. "Click the link to receive your first email".

Having said that, unlike registration confirmations, where I would like to get back out of my inbox to your site. For mailing lists, I don't need to go back to your site, really. I'd much rather stay in my inbox if that's ok. I'd quite like to see an A/B test between the usual method and a request for people reply to the email, rather than click a link. "Reply to this email to start receiving updates": simple order, direct resulting action. It also makes it sound like a similar action will be required to stop receiving updates.
If I could ask him one question I would really like to know how he sees his life's work from the perspective of his inspirations from the 60s. In some respects what he's done seems very much in keeping with those ideals (fostering creativity and an appreciation for beauty) and in others totally antithetical (creating walled gardens, using the legal system as a cudgel). It goes to the heart of my own ambivalence about Apple. I like their products but I'm finding it hard to like the company lately.
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What is the "one page PDF" that was referred to in this article?
That is indeed the plan - look for it to hit the site in the next few weeks!
Much to my surprise, I soon discovered that the ways people used pronouns in their essays predicted whose health would improve the most. Specifically, those people who benefited the most from writing changed in their pronoun use from one essay to another. Pronouns were reflecting people’s abilities to change perspective.

On my home page the tagline says, "Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory." I believe your ability to change perspective is one of the keys to life so this idea that you can use pronouns as a signal for one's ability to change perspective is fascinating to me. As Alan Kay was fond of saying at Xerox PARC, "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
Edison was famous for bragging that he only needed 2-3 hours sleep a night. Then when Tesla came to work with him he once remarked to a reporter "Yes, he only sleeps 2-3 hours a night but he naps for 5-6 hours during the day."
Your post is very entertaining, but let's bookmark and come back in 5 years.

The reason I don't buy your argument is because I think in practice Thunderbolt is going to be well more than twice as fast as either USB 3.0 or eSATA, and the smart cabling is a future-proofing engineering move that will make sense as drives and busses become faster. If that pans out, then Apple will be in good shape with this technology to not have to fuck with it for the next 5-10 years, and the pros will happily pay the premium.

As for the Lion hate, well, my biggest fear is that people eat it up and they are emboldened to move quickly to an App-Store-only model. Until that day though you still have a respectable Unix + The Best Commercial Apps OS that led so many geeks to Apple over the last decade.
working on making sure it's up to speed ASAP, thanks!
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We have a dev team of 12 working with an open floor plan, pair programming. We get a lot done. There is no single right way to operate.
I don't know about others but this article finally convinced me to take a serious look at it. It appears to finally be up to date and much faster.

As in everything a little bit better yet behind the curve isn't good enough to get people to switch.
The German Von Kaiser (WePad) seems to have been knocked out before even getting in the ring. Look forward to the next round with Piston Honda (Sony?). Of course in this new 2011 version it's not "Little Mac", it's "Absolutely Domineering Mac".
No long hours are not necessary. The study written about in this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2900301 - is about how the best violin players only practice for 4 hours per day but the good players actually practice more.
You should drop the bit about the expiration. It requires someone to do a timezone calculation to even figure out what it means, and you probably want them to click the link even if it has expired, then you can give a proper support message with what they need to do.
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>I thought it is Asia that is more PC-less than US & Europe

Huh what? Have you looked at Mac penetration in Asia?

Look at Safari usage in North America vs. Asia

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-as-monthly-201007-201107

Sales of PCs in China grew 11% last quarter year over year.
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