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There's lots to learn from Mr Carmack, and other impressive programmers for that matter.

He had/has an amazing talent for producing truly great work at great speed. Is it just magic that he can do this? Or does he have techniques that help him?

It seems obvious, but great tools help a great craftsman. So can great methods. He combined so many techniques from different disciplines.

What tools can a developer use today that propel them above what others are doing? If you're just using a standard issue macbook at this point, your tools are not better than what others are using.

His techniques for focusing on development tasks are also very useful. It boils down to a bubble sorted todo list, constantly refined and structured for high throughput.

I also like his approach to C, and learned a lot about being pragmatic and keeping things simple. For example, his approach to file io. He would read in a whole file at once, rather than reading chunks at a time. This was at a time, when most file readers were mixing file io in with their parsing code - making them slower and more complicated.

His business techniques have always been amazing to watch too. Like how he used blogging in the 90s to gain a wide audience. As well as doing demo software for shareware. Finally his move into space craft after his successful game development career has been inspirational too.
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No, they were clearly trading while insolvent. Saying you can cover liabilities from notional future profits is illegal. As this is hacker news, recommend you dont run a startup while you do not understand this.
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Its not about having cash in hand. Thats cashflow, although businesses fail on cashflow issues, you are allowed to take that risk. However it is illegal for any company to trade while insolvent, when they have negative assets like here.
Here's the answer to the question "what monitor does he use now?":

http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/11636594701461094...
I think I agree with most of what you just wrote. Now, regarding my "correct" phrasing, I did not reduce the sentence to its essence. If I do, there's not much left: "Any result that has been falsified can be disregarded", which is a near-tautology (sorry about that).

About science being a sub-specie of philosophy, well, it certainly looks like so. I am not well versed in the history of science and philosophy, but I do recall that many scientific fields either spawned from philosophy, or answer what was once philosophical questions. As for philosophical foundations, well, there's Bayes, Occam's Razor, and of course the plain old scientific methodology. We indeed don't have to look very far.

Now about my assumptions:

In a trivial sense, there's only one reality (or world, or universe). Each of us looks at it from a different window, of course, but if it weren't the "same" reality, we wouldn't be interacting at all. Now the trick is to figure out what this reality is.

Relativism is bullshit. More precisely, for any given two contradictory models of reality, at least one of them contains mistakes. Yes/no questions are even easier: the correct answer is bound to be either "yes" or "no". Not neither, not both. For instance, for any definition of "God", there is a God, or there is none.

Bayesianism is most probably the best we'll ever have to understand reality. Note that it rules out the possibility of ever forming absolutely correct answers: for any yes/no question, I am bound to qualify my answer with probabilities, and that will not match reality itself. For instance, if reality says "yes", while I say "yes with probability 90%", I am wrong. Less wrong however than "yes with probability 65%".

Reductionist materialism is very probably correct. That is, there is no such thing as an indivisible mental entity. Minds are composed of parts (like neurons), and so are love potions (if there's such a thing). In principle, anything, whether it thinks or not, can be studied and ultimately understood in non-thinking terms. It may be beyond the grasp of our mere human brains, however.

Determinism is probably correct. Given current knowledge, it means that the universe probably follows some form of the Everett branches (the Copenhagen interpretation is just crazy).
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I'm not sure about Facebookers, but as someone who was about to sign up for a (fairly expensive) Webinar package, it has at least given me pause for thought.
That document show an astounding rate of progress. It's when you read a document like that that you realise just how impossible it is for a team of mediocre developers to compete with a team (or in this case an individual) great developer.
I second that. They pretty much stay away from sensationalism and the reporting and editorials are outstanding.
I'm somewhat surprised at the general lack of response (so far) to this question (on the other hand, it is like the middle of the night basically where I am).

There are people here who do Parkour: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857239

There is an old-ish poll indicating people pursue a variety of sports/fitness activities:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2178056

There are people into rock climbing and surfing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287603

I notice these types of comments constantly on HN. I hadn't noticed that hackers are particularly non-athletic or something. I do personally know an IT professional who is not very fit/athletic. On the other hand, this person had a childhood health issue which undoubtedly places significant limits on them. Off the top of my head, it seems like people in the IT department at the company I work for are generally slimmer and trimmer (and presumably more active/athletic) than is true on average in other departments I am familiar with.

(Edit: Maybe it's partly the title? "who ... like sports" could be interpreted as being a fan who watches sports rather than a participant.)
thehindu is not reputed. It is just a leftist mouthpiece that makes a lot of noise. Timesgroup is more like textual porn.
> The two alternatives here are for Windows to be signed with a Microsoft key and for the public part of that key to be included with all systems, or

Does it have to be directly signed by that key, or does it work like the CA system that web browsers use?

> A system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux. [ from the blog post rather than the article ]

Which tells us that either systems will not ship with only those keys, or there will be a simple way to disable this ("Press F2 for setup"), or somebody will be getting sued on antitrust grounds (which maybe would be ignored again in the US, but not the rest of the world) and forced to provide a workaround.
> Why desperate? This is a valid way of advertising a product.

If my boss were to come to me and tell me "let's draw a big blue arrow over out entire front-page" I would have just laughed in his face. Now I'm afraid it will be harder for me to do that.
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something like technorati? Or am I missing something?

ie:

http://technorati.com/blogs/daringfireball.net
All this "large economy" chest beating is useless if you cant prevent a million deaths because of malnourishment.
Hard to say you are buying chips when you do not receive anything, would be hard to argue that. I dont think regulated operators are allowed to work like this. Aside from the US issues, Fulltilt was actually shut down by the gambling regulator in Alderney, so they were not unregulated.
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What's worse is that since "fixing" the apps accounts I now have different services signed up with both my apps and (empty, useless) gmail account. I have to play a guessing game and hope I'm logged in to the right one to find what I need.
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> As a client, why would I want to hire a team that I know is focused on something else?

Everyone is focused on something else. If not a side project or a startup, an SO or a hobby.

By definition, if you are paying someone money, they are focused on something else.
I'm not anti-Google; they virtually own my entire life (slightly scary). I still think they fucked up over the real name issue.
The voltage in car circuits is usually 12V, not enough to do you real harm.

Yup, the sparks when you short circuit can be spectacular (the car battery can provide quite a current), but the voltage can't kill you. It would suck if it could - high voltage cables all around you would make accidents very dangerous. The worst that could happen to you is burns from the wires getting hot.
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> Android is still the most open major platform out there. It's put Linux on millions of devices.

If you want to do crazy stuff on your iPhone you jailbreak it. If you want to do crazy stuff on your average Android you root it. How does using Linux alone make something 'more open'?

I also think that most metrics for being "open" are missing the big point about the cloud. Yeah, maybe Google's business code is written in FOSS tech and they give people a FOSS browser and one or two FOSS mobile OS to use their services. Where's the practical open-ness for the end user? It's still a cloud ecosystem, the one thing that is worse than a closed-source desktop ecosystem.</rant>
I think for a lot of people, myself included, a queue is simply a list of movies I'd like to see, in roughly the order I'd like to see them. Choosing a delivery method for the movie is a secondary thought, that right now is dead simple to do -- given availability information for the movie for each queue type, simply click the button for the available queue that best suits your needs. You also have the ability to see and play movies that become available to stream while sitting in your DVD queue, and can move a movie from your instant queue to DVD if you'd like. The two services blend well enough together to form a layer of abstraction, letting you use Netflix as a unified movie-finding-and-watching platform instead of just as a "DVD delivery service" or "Movie streaming service".

I believe that DVD will eventually die and streaming will be the primary way to watch movies, but the streaming selection just isn't there right now, and splitting the company like this forces customers to deal so heavily and directly with delivery methods that it dissolves that abstraction layer that made Netflix so valuable in the first place. They now have to sell potential future (and unhappy existing) subscribers on 2 new separate products: a "DVD delivery service" and a "movie streaming service", neither of which really measure up the the way the combined system did, and for the same price!
Um, a car is 12v how did you manage to do anything at all scary? Even if you shorted it all you would do a blow a fuse.
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The left side menu would slide within the frame to the left to hide the links to the individual desingers.

This seemed to happen a couple of times when I clicked and held the link.

Hope that helps
They don't need to.

You search for X, they show adverts related to X.

The extra targeting stuff probably increases their revenue a few %.
> That's strikes me as being a bit naïve. Speaking truth to power has always been dangerous.

Well, there are a few, outstanding exceptions. I'm thinking of French philosophers of the Enlightenment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment), England in most of the 1600s and 1700s (Swift will probably be in jail for at least 30+ years in in this day and age for writing things like "A Modest Proposal") and probably Athens around Pericles' time or the Roman Republic. But, unfortunately, you're of course correct in the great scheme of things.
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Here's the deal, I find myself procrastinating a lot. I think I have a good idea, I know a big community of people that uses spreadsheets to do something.

Why my brain still makes me procrastinate instead of developing something that COULD make me some good money, and actually... It's a cool thing, I can expand it a lot, make it useful.

But why my brain still do that with me?

How to deal with those feelings? I have all the skills that I need, actually... I'm really well versed with the web universe, I easily get hyped by languages, concepts and so on, and learn them easily. But why when it comes to building actually something good, something inside feels wrong?
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The night terrors went away as soon as I understood what was going on, I guess the suffocation maybe related but without the panic aspects.

Yeah, those are still night terrors. I have the suffocation thing once in a great while (usually while napping on a hot day), and occasionally wake up convinced there is a rat walking on the ceiling, or -- when camping -- mosquitoes all over the interior of my tent ceiling. After a couple of seconds, I realize I'm so nearsighted that there is no way I could possibly make out a mosquito on the ceiling of my tent. :-)

Anyway, I've generally tended toward peak activity in the late evening, and tend toward a 2am - 10am sleep schedule (as evidenced by it being 1:52am now). That said, in the periods where I do get myself consistently to sleep by midnight, I feel much better all day, every day.

I've found that I need about an hour of intense exercise per day, no caffeine after around 5pm, and, of course, the actual self-discipline to get started on going to bed by 11pm. 300mcg of melatonin per night helps me stay more deeply asleep, and it doesn't cause the body to build a tolerance.

Oh, and eating dinner at a 'normal' hour (5 - 7pm) makes a huge difference in my ability to fall asleep earlier.
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Have you confirmed that performing the password reset request invalidates the current password? The way I've seen this done is to have two password fields - one for the normal password, one for temporary passwords. Issuing a reset won't lock out the "normal" password until you log in and change it.

If someone gains access to your email, it's game over anyway.
The issue with these examples is that they presume people can actually trade additional work for additional leisure. What has been pointed out is that if I raise your taxes, you have that much less income with which to maintain your lifestyle, the same as any price increase. If people stop working because of taxes, we should see them stop working because of other tax-like behavior, e.g., increases in house prices or energy costs.
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I really respect Carmack, he is one of the few programmers I'd describe as an industry trend setter. I've worked on many games in my career, and seen a lot of engines. When you read through the Q2 and perhaps a better example is the Q3 engine source, you sit there and think, hang on .. where's the rest of the code? He takes a complex problem and reduces it to a set of simple components, and reuses those components. This is incredibly hard to do.

What the article doesn't impress upon people is the effect Carmacks code has on the industry. The shaders in Quake 3 were a huge thing, now seems so obvious. I have no evidence for this, however I wouldn't be surprised if Q3 shaders are the reason we have vertex/pixel shaders in hardware today.
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Thanks Mike for the feedback, truly helps. I will be incorporating the suggestions over the next few days.
Good point. Yes, in theory they could be duplicated. I chose 6 characters firstly to keep the url as short as possible (I thought 5 chars was too short, 7 too long).

I am planning on introducing a background process to clean up shortened URL's that haven't been accessed in a given time frame (still deciding but I think around 7 days). While it still wouldn't solve the problem you mentioned at a certain scale, it would help. But true, I very much doubt it will ever reach that scale.

Thanks for the critique
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> Anybody that wishes to pretend that the legal line has been blurred will find themselves sooner or later in an excellent position to try to prove that to a very unrelenting judge.

The line is blurred, that is tautological considering the complexification of the issue. The argument would be that the blurring is enough to warrant a different interpretation of the law.

> If the legal fiction is that the lower receiver of that gun is the gun, then legally that didn't change so the method of manufacturing it is not relevant.

Likely so.

> if they don't review the orders (hard to do, after all, you can't know each and every prohibited item) then [they] are still on the hook.

In the past making a custom part required a skilled machinist familiar with common machined parts. They would more than likely recognize an unlabelled but common part.

Now a part can be made without a single human involved, or if there were they could be lesser-skilled cleaning technicians only.

In the past they'd notice what you were doing by default, unless it was severely obfuscated. Now they'd have to hire machinists to spy on customer jobs and try to guess your intent to ban 'bad' items. One is trivial, the other invasive and ultimately impossible.

It's a bit moot. They can't effectively pass a law putting the genie back in the bottle without banning 3d printing and rapid-turnaround prototyping - something which would drive the last of our development businesses away.
I'm very impressed with the amount and quality of libraries they have released on Github [1].

Going to use the following in my "webmachine in Haskell" project.

- aeson: Fast json library [2]
- pronk: load test webservers [3]

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Very cool, I did something similar when trying to learn Kinyarwanda. (only works on Chrome, click on the lessons to deactivate them)
http://kinya.nyaruka.com

Surprisingly similar in a lot of ways, though obviously you guys took it a lot farther. (mine was a few hours thrown in after work to help me study)

The TTS is amazingly good. One suggestion would be to easily allow the repetition of a word. At least in Kinyarwanda the pronunciation is so critical that being able to easily repeat the word really helped. Perhaps the TTS isn't quite good enough for that though.

But really nice, great work.
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If you're able to input invalid URL's I guess I didn't test the regex thoroughly enough ;)
I'll look into it.
The prepending "http" is just a lazy hack to handle the case where they enter "google.com" instead of "http://www.google.com, which would fail the regex, but is a valid URL. This would be deprecated by improving the regex validation.
Keep in mind I threw this together in an afternoon.... But thanks for the critique ;)
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Yeah, my dad has spent the last few days incandescent with rage at a system which (presumably via deceptive opt in) seems to have emailed everyone he's ever been involved in email correspondence with, which he thinks includes a number of people on cc chains he doesn't even know.

So basically, instead of welcoming someone who fits smack bang in the middle of their ideal demographic (self-employed professional with specialist expertise and a lot of old contacts but no time or inclination to go to networking events) they've got a phantom account with over 100 connections but no intention of using the service ever again.

I remember another site that grew very big on this invite model. AOL wasted half a billion on Bebo.

Time to start shorting their stock whilst reporting their emails as spam.
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I've used melatonin. When I first tried it, I was on a lot of medication, so my brain chemistry was pretty whacked, and it would leave me feeling half asleep for like 3 days. I agree with the suggestion to try a low dose version. However, it also helps to take co-q-10 the following morning. It is the co-enzyme to melatonin and wakes the brain up. It counteracts the effects of melatonin.

For those saying melatonin left you wide awake: It also has immune function uses. I have had times when I took it (during the day) to treat a health issue rather than a sleep issue and the impact was to wake me up.
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