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I agree that the commute situation in the article is negative. However, it's possible to have a discussion on a deeper level that what's being presented here. For example, each way my commute is 50 minutes by bus or 25 minutes by car. I can see people falling on either side of that tradeoff.

+ Car gives me 1 hour of extra time at home and 1 hour in the car, per day. High in cost, high in stress (for me), high in freedom.

+ Bus gives me 2 hours on the bus, per day. Low in cost, medium in stress, low in freedom.

On a personal level I can't utilize the hour each day driving very well. So if I drive I think I get an effective 1.5 hours of work out of it (50% utilization while driving, 1 hour at home). Whereas with the bus I get 2 hours of work pretty reliably. As a recent college graduate, the additional hours of work and savings fit me perfectly. This is a time period where it's smart to rapidly increase your technical competency and savings. As I grow older and have a family, the tradeoff looks different. I think then it would make more sense to spend the money and lose a bit of work time, but have a lot more time at home and a lot more freedom.
It might not even work in Dutch. From the webpage:

"Siri may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area".
I suspect he meant this only for internal Google consumption. These sorts of rants happened all the time but this one is very good and very right on.

He probably proved the accessibility point by the simple fact that he accidentally posted it with his personal and not corporate account.
I'm also suspecting this. Too many people seem to think that they can get away with an unhealthy diet if they take vitamin and mineral supplements.
I don't want to discredit your experiences, because if they work, they work, but have you considered the possibility that you're achieving a placebo effect with your supplements? In some studies, iirc, placebos have been shown to be as effective or more effective than SSRIs.
Great advice, the best part:
I'm an idiot, essentially.
Please don't ever say that. You're not, and I have proof: If you were really an idiot, then you wouldn't have posted this here.
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Here in India, we have a very popular actor, RajniKanth, whose awesomeness occasionally goes down the line drawn by Chuck.
Here are some cool RajniKanth quotes:

Once Death had ‘near Rajnikant experience’

Rajanikanth can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
I just hope it can handle accents or at least learn to handle them over time.
Perhaps it could be done as a SASS extension. You could use different mixins depending on the user agent.
I listened to NPR talk about this study yesterday. They explained that men taking a normal does of Vitamin E are NOT at a higher risk for prostate cancer. Men taking what they described as a "mega dose" are. The conclusion is don't take more than the recommended amount, vitamins can be harmful if you take too much. Don't do that.
Its like listening to Japanese do English songs at a Karoke bar..sure they get the words right..but the understanding of the music and song is not there to allow them to carry that into their performance.
My appologies, I didn't realize I was putting words in your mouth. I believe it was your post that called Android dev. a pain though, and unless I'm mistaken it was also you who referred to the emulator as an obstacle. Finally, I said all these things in relation to MY experience.
As for my assumptions, i simply assumed you were an amatuer Android developer because, despite the fact that Android is known to be used on a wide selection of devices--all of which couldnt possibly be accomodated on one emulator in any effective way--you are still fixating on the fact that the emulator doesnt cater to your expert needs. I suppose I simply assumed that someone like yourself would have moved on from such a basic method of developement, since "to say that [you] develop for iOS at a basic level is laughable at best."

Just watch that your horse desn't fall off that precariously-high ledge and crush us lowly startup operators.
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I like reading on deadtree, but this eliminates economies of scale with printing. This is a failed idea already.
Yeah, I was kind of shocked when I ran that number. It basically costs the company less to buy me lunch than to pay me to buy it for myself.
I'm sure that I'll find myself updating it again. I think if I still had the motivation and focus I did when I was younger, I would be able to stick with it. But when blue skies and mountain calls you, you got to answer.
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option1138, I'm afraid you need to recalibrate your expectations of spam on the web. Blekko made a site called Spam Clock that estimates 1 million spam pages are created every hour: http://www.spamclock.com/ .

There's 200+ million websites out there. 1,000 spam sites would be a spam rate of 5.0 × 10^-6. If you remember the days of Altavista before Google, the actual rate of spam on the web is much higher. Here's one stat: I once heard a search engine rep (not from Google) say that they had to crawl 20 billion pages to find 1 billion non-spam pages.

So yes, we do tackle more than 1,000 websites a year. There's a ton of spam on the web, and Google has to operate on the scale of the web (e.g. in 40 different languages) to tackle all that spam.
> I'm 20

Ok that changes the context of what you said. I thought you were like 30 or God-forbid 40.

You know all that bullshit about "you can't succeed if you don't take risks?" It's true. It's SO true. The world needs people like you, and me - I am your 40 year old rocky-road-to-success-story.
>Siri will flop,

Claim chowder.

> the speed is a non-issue for the majority of iPhone owners

Emm, the speed enables better apps, especially better games. It's always good to have. Smartphones have a long way to go yet.

> and the camera just about brings the phone up to spec with it's competitor cameras. If they went for a an iPhone 5 and iPad3 they would have made an absolute killing this christmas.

All the specs people wanted from an iPhone 5 are present, except a new chassis some pundits idiotically predicted. So what exactly do you miss, an increased NUMBER???

Oh, and they already started making an absolute killing.
I went here to make the same remark.

Using compass you just have to type:

+linear-gradient(color-stops(#c7def4,#d7eef4))
+box-shadow(rgba($ycolor9,.6) 0 0 4px inset)
+border-radius()

And it works really fine.
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Screw the jetpack. Whatever happened to my 30-hour work week?
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It's the carrier that's been paying back the subsidy from your subscription fees under contract. Apple got their money up-front from you two years ago. Any extra revenue they earned from you was from iTunes/App Store sales, which I'm guessing will probably continue after the contract is over.

You also said you're waiting with your cash in-hand for iPhone5, so looking at competing Android phones isn't even on your radar. Tim Cook loves customers like you.
" Pain is weakness leaving the body " - The Marines

" The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

You are stronger than you think.
Isn't this the second highly public data point (that I know of) of him slashing and burning G+ and Google and then backtracking and saying how Google is the best place to work for (the previous one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811818). That one, he claimed, was a misunderstanding, this one is a late night permissions error. I am sorry but for someone of his caliber these sound like made up excuses.

I think he sees the problems, goes off the deep end, then either sobers up or is muzzled by Google's PR machine. Or Google may be thinking any publicity is good publicity.
Well, what did you think of your internship?

Personally I find Amazon a great place to write software.
proponents of the mantra would say that this means you're an "A" player.

there is some research that shows that your own competence directly affects how good a judge you are of your/others relative competence, i.e. people who are low competence will rate themselves routinely as 9-10 / 10 but people who are high competence will rate themselves 5-6 / 10 ...
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I agree with others on this thread that this article reads too much like a "make lemonade from your lemons", which is not a real argument against the harm of a long commute, any more than "After I lost my sight, my sense of hearing has become stronger and I have a greater appreciation for the small noises in life that you sighted people may never have" is a rejoinder to "You should wear safety goggles while pouring beakers of acid"

However, I don't think the author's argument should be taken as just that. He brings up the possibility of gaining something from a long commute, and that those benefits should be added to the equation. Because, to restate the obvious, there are opportunity costs if you choose to reduce the commute. Such as, buying a new house and/or living in a crappier neighborhood. Or, not getting that job at all.

So the equation is no longer: the cost of moving/having a lesser job vs. 10% of my life in a car.

But: the cost of moving/having a lesser job vs. 10% of my life in a car where I have the opportunity to enrich myself.

At my first job out of college, I was assigned to a small regional office in a bland suburb. I chose to live in a college town that was nearly an hour away. So I lost two hours of my life every weekday to driving, but I did do more "reading" than I have at any other point in my post-college life. And I made friends and had the kind of social life that I would've never had had I chose to live in the soulless suburban sprawl in which my cubicle was located.
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Well if the alternative is to get it delievered on paper then this may very well be the most environmentally sound way to go.
Why is it called irctk if it doesn't use Tk??

I recommend you hot-reload code. My IRC bot is a humble 150LOC split over two files. The basic bot logic to connect to a network lives in the script I run. That bot object sets its handler to an object imported from the second script, checking that second script's mtime regularly and if changed, reloads that module and re-sets the handler object.

It lets me change bot behavior on the fly without disconnecting, which is a pretty important thing to do if you don't want to be guilty of JOIN/PART spam.

def set_handler(self, reloaded=False):
self.handler = pigbot_handler.PigBotHandler(self, reloaded)
self.handler_mtime = os.stat(self.handler_file).st_mtime

def start_timer(self):
self.timer = threading.Timer(1, self.check_handler_file)
self.timer.start()

def check_handler_file(self):
if (os.path.exists(self.handler_file)):
mtime = os.stat(self.handler_file).st_mtime
if mtime > self.handler_mtime:
self.log('pigbot_handler changed, reloading ...')
reload(pigbot_handler)
self.handler_mtime = mtime
self.set_handler(reloaded=True)
self.start_timer()
How you go about publishing your web app depends on what platform you created it in. Is it PHP, a Python or Ruby based framework, .NET, Java, node.js, or something else completely?
Then get a job, any job. It doesn't have to be programming. It'll get you out of the house, get you with other people, and put a few bucks in your pocket. If you love programming enough, you'll find time to keep it going on the side.

Totally second the "any job" part. I'd go as far as to say try to do something that isn't programming. Speaking from experience, sometimes the reason freelancing isn't going so well is some degree of burnout, and sometimes it's been the fact that although I thought it was what I wanted to do, really it was the only skill I had that I was qualified to freelance with, so it felt like having a job - but worse.

If you can't find something mindless to do that provides a new perspective and a new social circle, try to switch up what you're doing daily; write a blog, draw, whatever appeals to you.
Of course, its impossible for me to run a proper experiment on myself with the study and control group of the same guy, but you are free to research the mood changing qualities of both tryptophan and vitamin D as well as fish oil on your own. Legitimate studies have found effect.
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When you're hiring Oscar winning directors to make the (series of) adverts based entirely around one feature you're well into "marketing hype" territory.

A few people made the sensible point that Facetime was going to have a hard time displacing Skype due to network effects (and Wifi limitations), or indeed being useful at all for many people without large numbers of iPhone 4 using family and friends who they didn't see face-to-face enough. Many others seemed to have forgot that Skype and other such video chat tech such as iChat even existed in their excitement for this revolutionary technology.

A position I feel they were forced into since this was the big finale "one more thing" in an iPhone announcement, and therefore couldn't be considered a bit of a damp squib if they wanted to maintain face.
It was a diamond in the rough, it just got de-roughed and as such is more diamond-y. Or it was a really cool product that people over looked, by featuring it prominently Apple hopes to get a lot of reward for very little effort.
Based on what I read from your original post it sounds like you made the right decision at your old job. Well I can emphasize with you on this post, the one part that doesn't make any sense is that you're only 20 years old. That's considered very young in this world, and works to your advantage.

Anyway, if you're thinking of suicide, please seek out professional help. Please!!! If there's anything you should do next, that would be it. And don't be ashamed of doing so, it's the cool thing to do.
Set up a page at KickoffLabs.com and start collecting emails of interested people. Then work on preparing/marketing your app for production release. A couple of good places for hosting an app are Heroku.com and dotcloud.com. They both offer enough free hosting to get your app online. If your app gains some momentum, you can upgrade your account and start paying.
The misery index of your commute is inversely related to your average speed.

For a spell I had a 50min commute with an average speed of around 40mph. It was a pleasant drive, mostly rural roads.

If I had to grind my way into a major city in traffic and averaging 20-25mph (with a worst case significantly slower) for those same 50min I would go insane.
This is so ridiculous that looks like a The Onion article. Actually, wait, it almost is:

New Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Thinking Printers'

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-t...
We're just arguing about whether "Taiwan considers themselves a country" implies a separate country now. I don't think we disagree about any factual info.
"The youngest self made billionaire was 23 when it happened for him, and that was with a ton of connections. Relax, you still have 3 more years before you're a failure."

haha
Nonsense. They don't need to. There's no reason for them to add another screen size... it would be a poorer experience.

They would sacrifice battery life, screen real-estate, other stuff would have to go too. It would be a step backwards technologically when Apple have a history of pushing forward the status quo... not fighting to compete.
It's okay to acknowledge he could be a man of contradictions- both in his youth and later years.

Remember that he told the Mac group they were pirates inside Apple and the 1984 television ad. He could be both a conformist and nonconformist at the same time, or if he felt it suited it him.
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In some studies, iirc, placebos have been shown to be as effective or more effective than SSRIs.

You wrote, "if I remember correctly," so I'll mention here some sources I have checked recently for other Hacker News threads. In actual practice, placebos only look effective when the statistical tests in a study are poor, and most especially when the symptoms are self-reported by patients. Placebos are NOT effective in treating actual disease states or improving "hard endpoints" such as reduction of all-cause mortality or major morbidity from specific diseases with verifiable physiological signs. See

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-placebo-ef...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/benedetti-on-p...

Placebo effects are strongest for patient self-reported subjective symptoms (classically, pain, but in more recent studies mood) and weakest for objective clinical signs measured by experienced observers. Hard endpoints to look at in the case of depression include preventing suicide and the patient returning to normal daily life function (such as full-time employment if that is appropriate for the patient's stage of life). Some hard endpoint studies indeed do not support some brands of SSRIs as well as they support cognitive-behavioral talk therapy for depression, but no properly designed study says that placebos are "effective" for any indication for SSRIs. Thanks for bringing up this issue, which is recurrent on HN, here.
>Why not

Why In the first place?

I plain old don't want to use my twitter account for this, or be forced to create a throwaway account on a completely unrelated service just to have a throwaway account for yours. And all because you can't be arsed to do any real auth, or allow users to post without accounts at all, which given the nature what you've built makes a whole, whole lot of sense. If I want to have to to make an account as a prerequisite to posting a one-off blogpost, I'll go get a blogger account.

I don't care if you promise a whole huggy bunch not to do anything with my twitter account. I don't trust you and I sure as hell don't trust your website's security.
Which eyeglasses look better?

The last few times I've bought glasses, I was unhappy with my choice within a few months. I'm really lousy at judging what looks good on my face, and the sales staff aren't much better.

I'm envisioning a mobile app that lets users submit two pictures of them wearing eyeglass pair #1 and eyeglass pair #2. A user would have to vote on X (5?) other users before their submission would be open for voting. It would probably need to be ad supported.
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I disagree that the title is trolling. The program itself is little more than another subscription service designed not only to lock the customer into paying for the information on a recurring basis, but also paying for the supplies, hardware and software by which to consume the information, again on a subscription basis. It's designed to sell more [overpriced] ink when printing less is becoming the norm, if not unnecessary.

Now, I'm not against doing business, but this type of service is aimed squarely at people who routinely find themselves locked into similar services that provide little or no value to the consumer. It's a tried and true business model and it works for those who work hard at it, but it's just scouring the bottom looking for the uninformed consumer. An iPad with subscriptions would be cheaper.
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> Go works on windows.

Go Appengine SDK doesn't.
Good-quality commentary on the recent study announced in the article submitted here by a regular contributor to the Science-Based Medicine group blog:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/vitamins-and-m...

And since it has been a while since this link has been posted in an HN comment, and since commenters here have mentioned that they haven't even read the fine submitted article, much less the underlying study publication, I'll repost here a link to a classic article by Peter Norvig (LISP hacker who is now Google's director of research) on how to interpret scientific studies and analyze study designs.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Suffice it to say that studies of human nutrition are HARD. A faultless study design would have to have dictatorial power to observe patient behavior over the long term, measuring exactly absolutely everything that a patient eats. The study design of the study reported in the submitted article is basically the best kind of study design for a longitudinal study that will pass institutional review for study of human subjects and not bankrupt the researchers with its expense. The researchers have made best current efforts to reduce flaws in the study design to the utmost extent possible, and acknowledge what they don't know (because they can't infer it from the study design) in their publications and comments to the press.
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Wave may have been a great platform, and it's probably why many still want to continue it to this day, but it was a terrible product UI wise, and I think that's the biggest reason it failed.
> Find new friends? That seems silly.

With friends like that, who needs enemies? I mean the guy is down in the dumps, "rock bottom" if you like, and his friends are attempting to kick him while he's down to elevate their own self-esteem a bit. And you think that this is a good set of people to be around?

Also advice like, "grow a thicker skin" to someone that's in the throes of depression, might as well be advice to, "just stop being depressed."
So, when do I get to buy this new bestseller:

"The 4-hour 'giving you prostate cancer before your time' week"
Who downvoted this? We should probably have a real conversation about it.

Personally, I'd like to think that if I posted an essay or especially a rant that I later thought was a mistake, and decided to retract it, other hackers would respect my decision and not reproduce it. Sure, it's still cached somewhere, and assholes on 4chan will repost it just to fuck with me. If you really want to, you can probably find a copy. But I'd like to think that our community is classier than to spread it around deliberately, knowing it's something I'd rather not put my name to.

What's the benefit to the community the other way, aside from voyeurism?
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You may also find that working in an area unrelated to computers you'll find an idea for a project or niche business that will work. There are lots of businesses that need engineers and programmers to help them but can't figure out where to look first.
When did we stop caring about FOUC and client-side performance?
Most people use their phone as...surprise surprise, a phone. Speed is irrelevant to the majority of users I know (non-tech), it's something Steve would not have done, it's an engineers mindset and I suggest it's the future of Apple under Tim. Apple isn't succesful because it has the fastest chips, but that's all it has to offer now?

Further, I'd challenge you to name one non-game app that would be massively improved by a faster chipset over what is currently available on iPhone 4 devices. Just ONE. That should tell you how unneeded a chip upgrade really is.
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