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Perceiving ourselves as accomplishing more than in reality may not have a good impact on productivity in my opinion.

12+ hour grinds exist primarily because of distorted perception, and I'd argue both direction of this distortion contribute to momentarily increased job satisfaction, but similarly both are dangerous in the long term (though with different consequences.)

There's no need to sacrifice either health or business, but let's just not keep a distance from a harmful trend only to fall into another.
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I'm going to repaste this for the sake of convenience:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the...

If any study can address all of the concerns quoted here, I'll shut my mouth.

In the face of some of gaping inconsistencies, I would think that many studies did not try to question their hypotheses thoroughly enough.
Here's a link to the original 2008 blog post by DanC http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres...
Most companies will have (and should have) a clause saying that unless its totally unrelated to the company's business, then they own it.

If you quit a job and start a company that is unrelated to your ex-employers business then you are in the clear provided you can demonstrate that you didn't start generating ideas until you after you left.

If you quit a job and start something that competes, then you need to take at least 6 months off and go travel the world. Otherwise they can sue you, and probably win. Getting sued at this stage is probably enough to destroy your business. Getting sued by someone who is probably going to win is guaranteed to destroy your business. Unless you can demonstrate the 6 months off, very compellingly, you will get sued when you launch at the latest. Your source code and the equipment its on will be sought as evidence. IANAL, but this was the advice I was given by someone who would know.

One thing you can do is have an attachment to the contract that lists all IP that you already own, and further, get it agreed that this IP is unrelated to the company's business so you can keep working on it.
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Your current work situation has nothing to do with them. If I was the founder and you told me that my startup wasn't as stable a job as your current gig, that would tell me you don't have the stomach for startup life.

Also, if you want more equity, just ask them if the equity side is negotiable. They will get the hint.
In science, a majority means very little. There have been many cases throughout history where one person was right and everyone else was wrong.

That is a plain old crap argument. Yes, there have been such cases, but they are far and away the exception rather than the rule. For every Einstein that was right when all of his peers were wrong, there are a thousand morons with websites that claim that Einstein was wrong, and they make plenty of noise and harass the hell out of scientists all over the place. The fact that Einstein's theories are now accepted is no reason to lend any more credibility to the "Einstein is wrong" theories, in fact, the ultimate acceptance of Einstein's theories is evidence that truth eventually wins out over fancy in science.

For the most part, if you want to know what's true in a scientific field, you do accept the consensus opinion. There are brief periods where the consensus is wrong, but if there's actually enough evidence to prove it, these periods end rather quickly and the truth wins out. Scientists are not random people in China, they have actually spent their lives studying their fields, and truly care about finding truth. The bulk of a scientist's training is about methods of separating truth from fiction, and I would not be so quick to assume that people brought up with that ideal are willing to disregard it because - what? - it doesn't match their politics?
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Ah, a blast from the past. I was reading Once Upon a Time in Computerland by Steven Levy. Not a bad book, but I wondered what happened to Millard. Now I know!
My perspective on this is that, at least for people like myself, believing or disbelieving in human caused climate change is completely an act of faith.

We can look at the situation, try to wade through the journal magazines, blogs etc to find a reality behind it. But what we get, unless we have massive time to invest, is basically all we get. We pick a perspective on it that we feel defines us somehow, or fits with our worldview, and then dig in, surrounding ourselves with media that fits the image.

I believe in global warming because it seems that the interests backing the antiglobalwarming campaign have massive financial motivations for doing so. Also, as an avid urban cyclists anything that gets more cars off the street or at least regulates emissions, and pushes people towards smaller cars.

I trust the government and universities more than I trust big corporations and I know corporations are absolutely willing to pay people to find/make science that fits their preconceptions.

So in short I don't know. I took a guess, and I did so after weighing what I assume to be the motivations of the actors, and the outcomes if either side is wrong. If we prepare for global warming it will turn the world into a better place whether or not there is such a thing as global warming.
Well, there are some of us who don't want to be guinea pigs for UI testing every 6 months so we're switching to something more stable.

For me, Mint has been a good option - I retain the repositories without the silly GUI change and half-broken software stuff.
I don't see any mentioning of ice ages in that quote.

If you want to argue that no meaningful science can be done with data from 1500, then of course the answer of the effect of human CO2 output has to wait for a couple of million years. The whole research is then impossible in your opinion. I don't know about that...

As for Patterson's claims, I am no climatologist, so I can't comment. I don't think CO2 is generally thought to be the only thing affecting temperatures. Ok, off the top of my head: it is known that ice ages affect temperatures. That must probably be independent of CO2 (ice ages are not driven by CO2 changes), otherwise Patterson's remark would make no sense. So there is clearly at least one other known factor (the one that brings about ice ages), which Patterson conveniently forgets to mention. What do you say?
But we do have a symbol for pi and we can write a program which, for any required N, can print the first N digits.

But there are only countably many numbers for which that is true. Uncountably many numbers cannot have symbols and cannot have programs to represent them. If we can never name them, not even in principle, does it make sense even to say that they exist?

(Note: Don't think you can extrapolate my own personal view from the above, I am merely pointing out that there are non-trivial questions here, questions that most people don't seem to notice or understand.)
If there's one thing that is guaranteed to keep me awake its a good book. Screw checking email... just one more chapter.
There's a bit of UX failure here though. The first ting I did was click the left hand top navigation element which displayed the submenu.

I then moved my mouse to select a sub-menu item, crossing another top-level menu item which made the menu disapear.

Granny's not giong to like that, and I personally dislike having to be careful to move my mouse vertically down before crossing to a submenu item.
It is very strange how that works in our minds. You associate sites and immediately discriminate against the content because they look or 'feel' like other sites with less substantial content. For eg. the padding in Google+ gives me a feeling of amateur content (which it is). Same with sans-serif fonts - I got huge push-back at Techcrunch when I wanted to change the default reading font to a serif font, the feedback internally was that the site feels 'too serious'

The business of sites like NYTimes and WSJ make them feel 'authentic' for some reason. I have known this for a long time but couldn't really put my finger on what it was. I remember one of the first client websites I did back in 97 - we laid out absolutely everything that we needed on the page, but there was a lot of space, the client said that the site doesn't feel 'authentic' and I spent a lot of time simply thinking of things to throw onto the page to make it look busier.

I think this is something that a lot of developers and web designers know about, but for some reason I can't recall ever reading anything about it. If anybody knows if this phenomenon has a name or has any more information about it, please share. I have been reading a lot of design books this year and none have made mention of the link between a site being 'busy' and feeling professional
"International support will come over time."

Hehehehe. That's what everyone says when they're getting into the payment game.
Author needs to do some more research into what's already possible with Android. I use "Llama" on my Android phone:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kebab.Llama&fe...

I've configured it to detect when I'm at home and put the phone into silent mode if it's between 11pm and 8am.
You need to stop posting this stuff on HN every time anything payment related comes up.
Ask HN: How do you decide whether to charge for your product from day one?
We are building a product that we know is very useful for our customers. We have a few competitors but they are not charging for their service yet. They also have users who are actively using the service.
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3 slides? too sharp... however, author expresses nice opinion - we tend to work way too much for technical stuff and waaaay too less for the actual content and message of the presentation
You don't ever need bullet points. Also, I don't really like lots of code on slides (maybe one or two lines are ok), better code live in those situations (yes, this is possible, I have done it a couple of times). You should always have a story, even if you tell facts.
I can tell you (from looking at real world stats) that only 1% of people use eCheck when paying through PayPal.

So it's kind of irrelevant.
In the late 1980s there was a nice study that was produced with the advent of the then nwe-fangled laser printers. It showed that journalists were less likely to read a press release if produced in a neat, attractive sans-serif font, and more likely to read it for news content if produced in slightly distressed Courier.
foot-guns are guns used to shoot yourself in the foot. Binding is a complex thing to get right, and it sounds like putting the "this" reference into Javascript correctly so it doesn't cause problems (and cause you to metaphorically shoot yourself in the foot) is requiring effort.
It's probably wrong to call climate scientists "scientists", just like it's wrong to call rocket scientists "scientists". They are probably more like engineers, but "engineer" is almost a protected title (except in software).

No, they don't have a crystal ball. But just as nuclear weapons required a little forethought and co-ordination between nations, so does the ability to inflict colateral damage on the biosphere in a way that has never been done before.

Unlike the last 5000 or so years of human history, we are making new and significant discoveries every year, and are able to roll them out across the whole world. The cost is we need to be a little cautious about them.

Civilizations have collapsed before. New technology might be a factor - the ability to suddenly exploit a new resource can cause that a massive expansion, then a crash as the new resource becomes depleted. And more complex civilizations can be less able to survive a crash, as specialists are forced to become generalists in order to survive - doctors driving taxis or trapping gophers are much less productive.

Sometimes scientists get worried for no good reason (Y2K?), and sometimes they have a good cause (radium), but there's no way to be sure. Not everyone should listen to all the doom and gloom (from reputable sources), but world leaders certainly should. And sadly, they only seem to listen when wide-eyed protestors shout slogans outside their offices. It's kind of depressing.
There was an official investigation into the $2.3 trillion that Pentagon could not account for 10 years ago. They found nothing, conveniently. There are billions of dollars riding on green energy, government grants, and reputations on the line. I don't think it would be hard to do a "similar" investigation to the one done on the Pentagon.
Uh, I don't really buy it. Banks can not just fix arbitrary prices for food. They speculate on high food prices because they have reasons to believe that prices will rise. Those reasons are the real culprits.

And sorry, how bad is the infographic, if the chart just says "rising food prices driven by speculation" - that is not proof, that is just a claim. Unfortunately many people will just fall for it :-(
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Ask yourself this: what sets you aside from your competitors, i.e. What's the reason why people would choose your paid service over the free one of your competitors? It's about the added value of your service or product. Define that and you're closer to your answer.
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Thanks! I hadn't come across the foot-gun meme before (http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/footshoot.html).
Just a reality check on your landing page: your #1 asset is a vimeo embed, which causes several problems:

1) I'm on roaming 3G, I'm not paying that much to know what you're about
2) Flash is blocked by default so all I see is a black square
3) You're royally pissing on blind/disabled people.

Besides, the color scheme / general theming is generally sub-par and difficult to read.

The "Learn More" link is more informative, but still, I think you really badly need a designer.
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Kind of off topic but I did some thing years ago that worked great for sleep.

I had a tropical fish tank, kinda large few metres long. I can sleep quite soundly to the sound of running water, intact I find it relaxing. I have bad tinitus from being in rocks bands and concerts when I was younger, so they water masks the ringing.

Anyway I decided to black out my room similar to the article, took everything out, replaced my curtains so no light got in my room at all. I then created an artificial sunrise.

At 6:30am every morning the sun would rise in my room, over the course of 30 minutes it would get brighter and brighter. The sun of cause was the UV lights on the fish tank, but instead of just switching on I set them to slowly increase in brightness over 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes a room lamp came on, and then music started playing on my radio, 15 minutes later the dreaded alarm went off.

Before I set this up I couldn't wake unto even to my alarm, I would literally sleep through it. After I set up the artificial sun rise I started waking before the radio started playing.
Of course ideas matter, just not all of them.
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Legal issues aside, I feel like payment is more likely to be received if similar yet less hostile message is provided as they still have the option of getting the site build by someone else for a similar price out of spite. (Note the 'Cotton Hill' link on the page is a competitor's site -- that's a pretty nasty thing to link to)
Yes it is. It has driven me away. It's so damn inconsistent and chock full of bugs, even in the LTS releases. Not only that, Launchpad is about as likely to get a fix released as Microsoft Connect is. Fedora rawhide is more stable!

Bar one stubborn piece of equipment hanging on 10.04LTS, I've entirely switched to Debian which can actually be trusted, has a decent release QA and doesn't change every two seconds.
Thanks, your link is way better than mine.
If you are still building your product, you don't yet have "customers." If you haven't charged them money, if they haven't paid, then you don't yet have "customers."

When someone pays you, they are a customer.

Perhaps you have potential customers. How do you know that what you're building will be very useful for them? What will you have that will make them pay you, and not simply use the free service your competitors are offering?

I would say yes, you should charge, from day one. Then you need to find your first true customer. Make them ecstatic about the service they get. Then find another 4.

Then you have a product, customers, and the thin end of the wedge. If you can't do that, how will you ever make money?
Well I think the emails are public in their entirety, which is a distinction to the oval office accounting books? So everybody can do an investigation. Where are the results from skeptics (other than out of context quotes)? I am sure they invested in analyzing those emails?

In any case, you chose who you trust. Of course the impression that you can not trust anybody in the climate discussion is also beneficial to some parties (it is called FUD).

What do you think an average climate scientists earns, btw? I mean, what would be their incentive for faking it all?
I agree with you - it is often the exception rather than the rule, but that does not mean we can discount skeptics because they are a minority. In this case, there are enough skeptics, and enough sound logic behind them, that there is reason to be skeptical (again, go through all the quotes in the wikipedia entry I linked and see if you can dismiss all of them).

I would never propose that we should or should not believe in AGW. What I propose is that we should be skeptical to both sides until we have the hard, undeniable data. Again, I would emphasize there is a huge difference between a fact and a hypothesis. Many studies have already been proven wrong, temperatures have not risen as dramatically as expected.

In the long run though it makes little difference either way as I have stated. Regardless of AGW, we should pursue green technology because we are running out of non-renewable energy, and advancing energy research is perhaps the most important scientific field at this point in time.
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One key difference between Einstein's theories and the matter of climate change. Einstein's work has stood the test of several decades of analysis, time that allowed the skeptics to be turned. The same can't be said of the argument around climate change yet. People shouldn't draw conclusions so easily.
They haven't driven me away but they have nullified the advantage they had of being the Linux install I could count on to put on a new desktop/laptop machine and have it basically Just Work.

Now I have to undo the damage of the silly UI after the install. I still tend to pick Ubuntu out of habit, but one more iffy release and that will probably change.
I don't agree. Personally I really like the new UI (Unity), and the improvements that they bring with every version. They really seek to innovate in UI space, and like taking a fresh look at it, something that is seems rare in both open and closed-source OSes.

However, Kubuntu might be an option if you prefer a more traditional UI with a launchbar at the bottom etc.
I've had nothing but annoyance from Ubuntu. One week printing works, update.... now it doesn't. One week the wacom tablet works, update now it doesn't. The list goes on an on, small failings week after week.

Nothing fails completely. The printing just stalled on large images, the wacom pressure sensitivity stopped working. It all smells of lack of in depth testing before release.

Luckily it's not my workhorse machine.
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This juvenile behavior just degrades the profession. If a client isn't paying you, take it to court. Or, if there was no contract, as in this case (OP states so in the comments), then learn from your mistake and move on.
I'm sorry, but I wouldn't pay for being a beta user. Being a hacker myself, I commit a lot of time when I sign up for a beta. I report bugs, and give my opinion on what I like and what I don't like. In my opinion, a beta should never be the paid version. In this case, I'd say 'limited beta' is just marketing speak for an early bird deal. Which is OK, as long as you call it that.
Wow, amazon really does kick ass.

I think saving money on designers can be justified, after all ;-)
So true. And I can say without a shred of doubt that I wouldn't trade what I have with my kids for ten facebooks.
This is a really good question: "Is Unity the best place to invest man-hours with extended development right now?"

It's very hard to balance the needs of the commercial department and the development department.
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Strangely, the article doesn't actually explain the mechanism by which banks cause hunger. They point out (correctly) that short term price spikes are caused by speculation, without explaining the long term price increases.
If money is how we keep score, why do we keep referencing figures that don't include Google or Microsoft's profits from the smartphone market? What about all the money Microsoft makes from Android, or that Google makes from iOS? Where do they fit in?

And is money really the best metric? After all, with the best CEO in the world, and the best COO, and the best product designer, and the best phone, and the best tablet, and all the other amazing qualities that people ascribe to Apple, and it has only just recently, for a short period made more money than Microsoft, which is run by a shaved baboon and done nothing more interesting than buying their way into the console market at a cost of tens of billions.
Why do successful platforms overhaul established successful user interfaces? Gnome2 could have used some polish but the building blocks were right. Windows 2000 was fine. These changes are value destruction. The world would be a better place had the developers had gone on holiday instead of making overhauls. Were the gnome changes driven by focus groups?