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>> So while it is fascinating to study the performance of teenagers in a small selection of topics, the test does not tell whether they will grow up as happy and/or fulfilled adults

According to some studies [1] the 20 happiest nations in the World are:

1. Denmark
2. Switzerland
3. Austria
4. Iceland
5. The Bahamas
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Bhutan
9. Brunei
10. Canada
11. Ireland
12. Luxembourg
13. Costa Rica
14. Malta
15. The Netherlands
16. Antigua and Barbuda
17. Malaysia
18. New Zealand
19. Norway
20. The Seychelles

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.ht...
2/3 ~ 0.666666667
I am sorry, but I think I disagree with your viewpoint. My idol in being frugal (but not cheap) is Mr. Warren Buffett. I don't think he lost an opportunity by being frugal or has any regrets. Obviously it is a very personal choice. Some people do get pleasure by discretionary purchases, and some (like me) by knowing that there is money in the bank.
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I've found it's not that hard to balance frugality with, well, spending money. They can actually work quite well together. So while most of my wardrobe is still acquired from thrift-shops, I also bought my most recent car without taking out a loan. I liked not having car payments, but needed a new car for a road trip we're taking next year, so I tuned my budget and saved cash to buy a car outright.

Just because you're frugal doesn't mean you can't have nice things. My wife just bought me a $600 leather jacket (that I've admittedly been too frugal to pull the trigger on) -- for $450, new, via eBay. My 10 year old set of Sennheisers were showing their age, so I bought HD595s. MRSP $329, Craigslist price? $100, new in the box. My other car's radiator was shot - and if I can develop loan disbursement software and ecommerce stuff, surely I can handle changing the radiator in my car, and did, saving myself hundreds of dollars. And these are just things I buy, not even going into the stuff I do.

On that last one though, there is definitely a balance you have to find between doing stuff yourself and better spending your time. My father would always wash his own car, but I can drive two blocks and spend $20 to have 8 guys and a giant machine wash it more quickly, and I'll pay someone else to change the oil.

In short, I think that your idea that "you'll probably be stuck that way for life" is absurd, and you're mistakenly mixing up the terms frugal and cheap.
Wouldn't a strategy of investing in good long term stable stocks (for the good times) and shorting ETFs during the busts be solid? It takes timing, a bit of luck, and knowing the markets well enough, but there's probably a ton of people doing it successfully.

(this is more a comment on a possible strategy rather than on what the OP did, I realize)
This is simply amazing! Good job.
This really helps. I once spent a couple weeks trying to figure something out. A quick trip to the local coffee shop and a chat with a fellow programmer fixed things. By the time I was done explaining where I was, I already saw where the issue was and knew how to fix it. He didn't have to say anything. Just talking it out can really help.
Why change when you are hauling in billions of dollars per year, and there's nowhere to go but down? The mobile carriers are going to extract as many dollars as possible while they still can.

The fundamental problem is lack of competition. When there are only a small number of providers, none of them have an incentive to slash the price of texts to a more reasonable level.
He probably meant 5/3
So far the results have been fair. But Finland especially is somewhat prone for brain-drain. All that stuff is paid with hefty, progressive taxation which hurts the most skilled and salaried the most. Combining all the mandatory expenses, taxation etc, your wages easily end up to be less than half of what you could be gaining abroad.

Especially since the level of (tuition-free and gvment-sponsored on all levels) education, language-skills and the weather-back-home makes emigration fairly easy and tempting for most Finns. But so far the system does a pretty good job on keeping competitive. You might end up driving a smaller BMW than your neighbor, but the quality of education, health, stability etc. make it very attractive target for long-term settling down, making kids etc.
So like most big successes, I see the Amazon story is basically a combo of huge luck (the yahoo promo) and the ignorance to run with it.

Funny how we'll never know the names of the coders that made it all happen, only the guy steering the ship everyone else empowers gets the credit.
You can even put 2GB on a SD card that you keep at home. As long as you keep the backup in a different location as the original.

Or use an external HD, which are a bit faster and also bigger.

Though SD cards are nearly indestructible, you can drop em or drive your car over them, the one in my camera even survived my house burning down, so yeah.
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It seems pretty silly to me to assume "anyone who made money on stocks during the bust got their heads handed to them during the bust". Im sure that there's plenty of people that that quote does not apply to. Most people lost money in the 2007-2008 crash, but I got in an a triple inverse ETF in late 2007, so I didn't. Was I psychic? No, I was just paying attention, which most "investors" are not doing. Mr Money Mustache seems to be one who pays attention.
I've drastically reduced my carb intake and ramped up fat intake and I've lost weight and never feel tired.
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The article is titled, "Why Can’t We Drink Sea Water?" The technical details that they got wrong are the whole point of the article, and it is completely reasonable to complain when such an article is inaccurate.
The difficulty is in identifying "good" long term stable stocks.
and in retirement he has a part-time job that earns 50k/year.
Seems to work fine on my mid-2010 MBP in Chrome, running Snow Leopard.

Could do with a little more contrast on the globe, though...
Looks like one of the team has offered some apology / explanation: http://www.theindiestone.com/lemmy/index.php/2011/10/16/fina...
Using the same symbol for red and blue (albeit rotated) seems a bit broken. eg a die with different colors on different faces.

The shapes which currently add up to a square instead need to add up to something with a rotational symmetry of 1.
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In the fashion industry, what does it take to be called “fashionable”? Most of us think that being “fashionable” means wearing the latest fashion trends that we see in magazines and runways, but what we don’t know is that to be called “fashionable” means simply wearing a fashion style that lets you be you. Fashion should be an expression of who we are, and we should aim to have a fashion style that’s all our own. Why follow a fashion trend when you can set it?
We think that funding young people and their ideas is an important thing to do. And frankly, $216k is a reasonable amount for what retickr is trying to accomplish (cutting the noise out of social media overload). Will they fail? probably. Is it the job of venture capitalists to fund that failure? We damn sure think so.

Is $216k a year a smarter initial investment than $41m for an experienced team of entrepreneurs? (see Color). Or $30m for a wiki based company that pivots into gossip? (see Wetpaint).

For the money that was invested in Color (and any number of other startups run by "experienced" management teams), we could theoretically start 80 retickrs (assuming 2 years of burn rate for retickr). Or over 1,000 YC companies.....

Retickr is making mistakes, some of which we, their investors, warned them against. But a good investor doesn't dictate to entrepreneurs, we mentor and guide. If we wanted to be the CEO of a startup, we would do that. We’re trying to leverage our experience. And assuming a de facto role as CEO at each of our portfolio companies is the exact antithesis of scaling. At least until we figure out cloning or consciousness replication....#ss11

Btw, thanks to the whole community here, you’re doing an amazing job of creating a healthy environment where crazy people like Travis who are willing to put themselves out there in the open can get honest and productive feedback. Kudos
Well the point is, he said they DID make backups, so they did set it up and made time for it.

It's just that making backups is kind of useless if you don't store them in a separate physical location. For just about every scenario in which you'd conceivably need a backup, except for "oops I accidentally did `rm / -rf`", they might as well have backed it up to `/dev/null` and save themselves some diskspace.

That said, I know how much this sucks (actually not because I've always made proper backups, but let's say I can imagine), I'm saying this more as a warning to everybody else who might be reading this, not to bash them over their heads about their mistake.

They got burgled, FFS, I feel for those poor fellows, that really sucks.
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I am more familiar with Singapore and from all signs it seems they do not have the brain drain problem so they are capturing more value from the output of their great education system than Finland.
The "continuous release" repository provides individual updates from RHEL 6.2 as CentOS finishes repackaging them, rather than requiring you to wait until they've repackaged all of them. It still won't get you a kernel newer than (a heavily-patched) 2.6.32 from 2009.
No it was actually an honest mistake and I wasn't thinking at all.

But let's say that's what I meant.
Instead of lambda expressions, it has slashdot expressions.
"I can develop loan disbursement software and ecommerce stuff, surely I can handle changing the radiator in my car, and did, saving myself hundreds of dollars."

Only if your time is worthless.

I say this not to be snarky, but because I found myself having to re-think these same decisions as I moved on from graduate school (where my time really was almost worthless...on a monetary basis), to having a real job that consumes most of my week. Life is too short to spend part of a weekend day (or more) changing a radiator. Much better to pay someone skilled at radiator replacement to make the problem go away (or in my case, to outsource the problem of owning a vehicle to Zipcar).

More generally, the older I get, the more stuff I try to outsource in an effort to viciously guard my spare time. Sometimes it feels a bit bourgoise (e.g. am I really so important that I'd pay someone to clean my apartment?) but it definitely helps to be able to put a dollar value on each hour of your life, and answer the question "would I pay someone $X an hour to do this?" If the answer is no, it's probably better to outsource.
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You’re using trivial examples from 20+ years back. Things have changed.

Microsoft has practically walked on egg shells when dealing with additional solutions/features since Windows 95 due to fears of anti-trust and also alienating developers.

How long did it take them to get a s/w firewall and anti-virus solution? 10+ years after the fact. It wasn't because they couldn't figure it out.

How about simple features to VS.NET that have current 3rd party add-ons? It just does not happen.
Well, the Golden Ratio is one plus the square root of FIVE divided by two.
Again, this solution seems very practical on paper. It sounds perfect. But...

This involves Siri learning app names. Don't forget, under all the magic is voice recognition. Is Siri going to understand "Instagram"? How will it know the difference between "fourquare", 4x4 (four squared) and "four square"?
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> They got burgled, FFS, I feel for those poor fellows, that really sucks.

Yes. For the avoidance of all doubt (and I thought it went without saying) I feel sorry for them too; being robbed is really rough and losing a bunch of work because of it is also really rough.

And insurance is such a scam that I'd be curious to know if they get any money or if their insurance refuses to pay out.
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Sleeping Beauty Online Megavideo has responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dances Not one to bend the status quo
Being colorblind myself I can't attest to its quality, but: http://www.colblindor.com/color-name-hue/

edit: apparently based on this (which has a worse color picker but probably better results): http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color
The case of typeof has already been discussed for C99 and it has been rejected. In ISO C99 Rationale document (section 6.7.7), it is written: "A proposed typeof operator was rejected on the grounds of insufficient utility." Don't forget most of the work of the C committee is spent in resisting features suggestions.
I beg to differ. Jännite has the same word base as "jännitys", which translates to tension or suspension. And that is a natural concept that is related to voltage and thus helps internalize the concept.
What questions are there related to changes to GPLd code?

I don't think a 3 or 4 year old link is neccessarily newsworthy but you are right there is no rule against old content being relevant. That being said my real complaint is who cares? Linksys, Apple, Brother Printing; all these companies publish their mods to GPLd code. But people did not upvote this because they were interested in GPL mods they upvoted it because they assumed it was something else entirely and never read the link...
Sure! Dietary fat is pretty good for you and absolutely doesn't translate into body fat per se, that is influenced by many factors including carb intake.
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I don't think this follows. In the US, for example, virtually every metro area has four national providers. They race against each other to roll out new devices and new network technologies.

The text charges are more of a historical addiction. Outside the US, voice charges were historically much higher (because they were priced to compete with the higher land line rates). So users flocked to SMS as a way to communicate more cheaply. In the US, voice charges on cell networks were comparatively cheap. Text was an "extra" that could be sold at a huge markup. And that revenue is hard to give up.
i'm from russia and very bad know english...

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Here's another one (smaller, but more messy!): http://www.kilian-leonhardt.de/relaiscomputer/pics/pic4.htm

I also bought a neat little 4-bit relais computer from this person (Kilian Leonhardt). It's got just enough program memory to do a multiplication algorithm in.
Funny to see all of these with similar ratios/circles.
Glad to know ours is original: http://skyz.am/7xa

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I have only limited experience with wireless carriers is Asia from a week visit to Singapore and Malaysia. So I do not know what the actual situation there.
My experience is mainly with Europe and the US, having lived and worked in different places in these two regions.
15$/month sounds excellent but is it for unlimited data? Right now my plan in Bulgaria(Europe) is coupled with my other monthly services. It all comes down to about 25$/month but it is 2GB with max speed and anything after that is capped at 128kb.
In the states wireless carriers realized that giving users unlimited data leaves a lot of money on the table and they decided against it. Only Sprint is holding up right now but I wonder for how long. Sprint's only competitive advantage right now is the unlimited data.
it helps to make it as transparent as possible too.. tell as many friends about it.. do a tell hn: thread.. chances are you wont back out from it there after.
I'm not sure how that makes it not a replacement. Arguably 'externally hosted' is a single feature (or serious drawback) of github, not the defining attribute of their product.

It's also a limitation you can get around by paying them more money, but that doesn't make this position that Gitlab is not competing with github seem any less arbitrary.
The fundamental problem with most commercial infrastructure providers (which is pretty much all wired and wireless ISP) is that competition can never be perfect because of the laws of physics.

There is only so much room to put cables in the ground, or wireless spectrum to use. Thus, the governemnt auctions these roles off (often at far far below their actual worth), and companies use their physical monopoly to extract maximal profit with as minimal infrastructure as possible.

The obvious solution is pro-consumer regulation. Eliminate long term contracts and make unlocking of phones mandatory after contract expiration. Force all carriers to have common carrier status, so the physical infrastructure is a dumb pipe. This list could go on and on...

The problem with this is that anyone in the industry will lobby against this and they already have the political will against any change, as they're making a ton of profit via their monopoly status.
Well that's talking about retiring rich -- i.e. on a $200K lifestyle. And then he goes to excessive lengths to show that you can't life on a "$200K" lifestyle for the rest of your life given only $4 million.

That's fine, but you can retire on a $120K lifestyle given $4 million -- my rule of thumb is that you can live on 3% of your principal and leave the rest to appreciate fast enough to keep up with inflation. Dividend-yielding stocks are an easy way to do this (not sure if it's the most tax-effective way).

So, $4 million gives you an inflation-adjusted $120K lifestyle for the rest of your life without ever eating into the principal. That still counts as retiring rich. Half that will give you $60K for the rest of your life, which is a comfortable not not extravagant retirement lifestyle.

Halve that again and you've got $30K a year to live on, which is roughly what the guy in this article is doing. That doesn't sound like much fun to me -- if I'm going to be retired, I want to spend a fair slab of my time travelling and doing other fun and expensive things. But hey, if he has inexpensive tastes then good luck to him.

I generally think of $3-4 million as being the amount I'll need to retire. I don't plan on retiring early though -- I'd be doing this as a hobby even if they weren't paying me.
You're in the right ball park, but a little late to the party;
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I am a co-founder of a small SaaS company. We recently decided to make the investment of upgrading our infrastructure setup process from "Hey David go do that" to being 100% chef-based.

I managed the process, and consider it a success. However, here are some points I would make:

1. It took a long time. Let's be generous and say it took 2-3 man-months of time to set up 4-5 different projects and roles. This was probably 10-20x what it would've taken to set up the servers directly. Why? Learning curve with chef for both our programmer and sysadmin. Figuring out how to make config changes automatable and idempotent.

2. The scale you get from chef is bigger than managing production infrastructure. We now use chef for not only production deployment, but also dev. Once paired with Vagrant, we are able to get new devs up with a complete stack in about 10m of keyboard time. If we need to upgrade to some new version of something, only one person has to deal with the sysadmin; everyone else can just update their box.

3. I think it will save money in the long-term. A good sysadmin is $100/hr+. Unfortunately you have to pay that rate whether they're doing architecture, security review, or just editing text files. With chef, a non-sysadmin resource can generate recipes with just architectural advice and review from a sysadmin. This is much more efficient, especially for small shops where a sysadmin is an expensive and not immediately available resource.
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If you like this, check out Jon Stanley's similar but smaller Relay Computer Two[1]. The page gives a highly detailed explanation of how it all works including complete circuit and logic diagrams.

[1]: http://www.electronixandmore.com/project/relaycomputertwo/in...
I live, by most comparisons to people within the same bracket, very cheaply. The thing is, I'm not watching every penny, I'm not buying the cheapest thing there is. I just refuse to pay more than what I value something at (and dollars, not intrinsic value of the time). There's some things that are significantly under what I would value them at dollar wise and have no trouble paying for, but there's a large number of things that are priced over what I would value them at and just don't buy them. Additionally, the immediate price isn't the only thing to consider in the cost, there's the lifetime value of the item as well. So, I would disagree that the sole response is being cheap, I'm completely confident the same things are capable of being accomplished by having an understanding of the total cost and total value of things you're spending money on and being smart about purchases and use of money rather than buying expensive things because they're "nice".
I guess my issue with all of this is why competition has to be the only force to drive inovation and business development. But I guess the problem is much more deeper and in every industry, not just wireless.
What is so wrong with still making a profit but actually creating a good service at affordable prices.
I think I understand pretty good all the fundamentals behind their business decisions but still it leaves me wanting better services.
They need to use different shapes for the up and down symbols.

Many things that have issue with color independence rotate freely.
Sure I can. The argument was challenging the merits of the statement based on some quality of the entity that made the statement, not based on the statement itself. It's the very definition of "ad hominem".

You can argue that the sentiment expressed by the fictional character is impractical, as you do in the last part of your comment. I disagree with you, but that's neither here nor there.
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It makes me feel far cleverer to be playing a game called "Pico Fermi Bagels" than a game called "Bagels".

Someone knows how to pander to an audience.
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awesome comments, apinstein

btw, I am copying your method of managing dotfiles with a Rakefile as we speak.

I counter that while it takes a while to learn chef, it also takes many times more effort to maintain a custom set of shell scripts over the long term
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The original comment used "anglo corporatism", which I understand, but why are you hopping to "anglo capitalism"?
How much do Apple's factories cost?
For information on the search mechanism see http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa

See also the Science article: Schmidt M., Lipson H. (2009) "Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data," Science, Vol. 324, no. 5923, pp. 81 - 85.

I must be prejudiced but I am shocked to find that the download is Windows only. Under Linux you need to run it under Wine. Hard to believe that any serious research system would make that choice. Native versions for the MAC and Linux are on their wish list but there is no roadmap. They do have a binary version for use in clusters.

There are bindings for many programming environments including Mathematica and Python.

The Eureqa system does not appear to be open source.