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I wonder, how do you remember all the command line options?

Recently I had this thought: maybe those people who can remember the options actually are autistic (don't know the proper word, that thing many geeks are deemed to be), and I am not. Remembering command line options might be like knowing large prime numbers within seconds.

But I am also interested in memory techniques like the Loki method. Perhaps some good system for memorizing command line arguments could be devised...
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Honestly your best bet is to turn your computer off & unplug it from the Internet. Sandboxes, VMs, BIOSes are all subject to bugs which could lead to security vulnerabilities. Wrapping yourself in pillows may make you think you're safer, but it's not necessarily true & often is too much effort for most normal users. If you do not trust the software you're running then you should not be running it.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216542/Security_firm...

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2009/06/09/virt...
Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
I know the easy answer to my question is "just take a rest and don't think about it," but how would you really know? Do you have a personal acid test to know if you're really tired or just plain undisciplined?
Interestingly enough, they are fixing the problem with an add-on retrorocket/parachute combo instead of fixing the built-in brakes.
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I also have a NeXTStation ("color slab"). Every 2-3 years, I turn it on, and show people what I was using, back in 1992. They never fail to be amazed. It was a great machine, and also a great community.
The Huffington post version of the post includes an update about Amazon and Ubisoft's response: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rachael-simpson/assassins-cr...

Basically, they sent download codes directly to those who complained but no word on whether anything was actually changed.
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It's not a matter of romantic notions.

E-books all look and feel the same, plus they lack texture, smell and make no sound when a page is turned. They're an abstraction of the reading experience.

Everything about handling a book stimulates the senses. Books have weight, texture, colors, smells, and they make noise when pages are turned. Because they vary so wildly in size, typography and paper composition, there's an enormous variety of sensations to be had.

E-readers are great and convenient for grown-ups, because all we want is the content, but young children are at a time of their lives when they need to physically experience the world around them. Physical books are better than e-readers on that count.
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The notion Android has a malware problem is odd to me. I've been using an Android phone for more than a year and never experienced anything suspicious. I am yet to see someone who had a virus/malware problem with it.

But then I ran Windows boxes for decades without a single non-intentional infection. I'm not the average person.
There is a strong correlation between terrible projects and the value that the project will deliver.

The lower the future value and the uncertainty that it will bring the value, the more problems the project will experience.

So, if you as a developer ask "how is this going to deliver value (make money)?" and you don't get a convincing and logical answer the more problems you will experience.

The easy part is, the bad projects are really easy to identify because no one on the project can tell something argumentative.

- "You have to build a video website in 1 week!"

* How is this going to make money?

- We will charge every user for every video they upload

* So, it is like Youtube but paid. Why will people use this instead?

- BSOD...
Do the damn thing from the scratch and do it right,
then replace the old steaming pile of junk with it

This reminds me of the many attempts to rewrite nethack in a higher level language, like ruby or python.

They all fail miserably, leaving nothing but a smoking crater and piles of code that is never to be used.

Turns out all those millions of lines of c code written over a period of 25 years actually do quite a lot.
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I'm worried about Posterous too. I've noticed that search function has been broken on all Posterous websites for at least a week. There's no fix in sight. I didn't expect this from them at all.

Edit: looks like the search was finally fixed.
ebooks have texture, color, they can make sounds, you need to interact with them to move. What you think of are toys, not books.
Anti-virus software is not necessary. It's a side effect of poor system configuration, slow release cycles for patched software and to a lesser extent, poorly designed software.

If a severe vulnerability is discovered, open source communities race to distribute a new version of the software (faster than anti-virus vendors can respond). Package management allows patches for _all_ software to be rolled out quickly and securely. A turnaround time exceeding 2 hours from knowledge of a critical vulnerability to patched software being distributed to 1,000,000's of computers would be considered slow. The concept of executing files downloaded from Internet sites, provided on removable media or sent via email is completely foreign.

Proprietary vendors tend to follow the processes defined in their ISO 9001 compliant Quality Management System. They wait for the next weekly "Urgent" Security Working Group Meeting so that a proposal to develop a Software Change Request can be agreed upon. ... blah blah... 2 months later you _may_ have updated software that users won't know about because they don't check the sites of the 100's of applications on their computers on a daily schedule.

Microsoft _could_ do more, particularly with respect to system-wide package management. However, _proprietary software vendors_ are the primary culprits. Microsoft can't help Windows users if software vendors refuse to respond to security vulnerabilities quickly or fail to design their software with consideration towards security.

I wish I saved the reference, but I read an interview recently where the founder/CEO of a prominent anti-virus vendor stated bluntly that the only reason the business exists is because of a failure to address {a list of well known and ignored problems including some I mentioned above}. Marcus Ranum ("inventor of the firewall")[1], Linus Torvalds[2] and many other well known and greatly respected researchers/practitioners have views on the computer security industry that may appear surprising. These people have significant influence, decades of experience and the respect to back it up. The comments they have towards the industry, including anti-virus vendors, are often quite negative (while remaining constructive). There is a reason founders of anti-virus companies can make discouraging remarks about the need for their company to exist -- they know from vast experience that software vendors won't be listening.

[1] http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950
"the semantics of his library are reasonably clear on inspection"

does .remove() mutate in place or not ? depends on the constructor!

this would be an example of breaking composition - you can no longer use a function built for an immutable list on a mutable list. I am sure I explained this too.

a dialect is a style, in linguistic terms, if I speak a dialect of english, I still speak english.

if I needed a different parser/interpreter I am pretty sure that is the stage of 'new language' where new syntax and semantics are introduced.

the 'dialect' he is introducing is a arc/clojure inspired syntax for what /already/ exists in python.

thanks for the semantic pedantry! the long and the short of it is that if you want to write python, write python that looks like python. not like scheme or clojure.

as someone who gets paid to maintain shitty code, i'd rather people stuck to the existing idioms of the language, rather than blindly copy paste them from another language.
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And yet SpaceX has a 57% success rate (4/7), while the Delta family of rockets has had a 97.5%+ success rate (80/82, from 2000-2011, with the other 2 being only partial failures).

According to my spreadsheet calculations, SpaceX costs about double the Delta, even though a SpaceX launch costs $60 million, while a Delta launch costs $400 million, because SpaceX's odds of success are much lower, and it's not just the rocket exploding, but the billion dollar payload it's carrying.

To be fair, SpaceX has launched seven times, and the last four flights have been successful, so it's success rate is probably higher than 57% by now. Assuming those parameters stay the same, the breakeven point for cost equivalence between Delta and SpaceX is about a 75% success rate for SpaceX. But while the payload may "cost" a billion, losing it obviously incurs some added opportunity cost, eg lost capabilities that you otherwise would have had, had it not exploded. If you increase the payload cost to 1.5 billion, SpaceX needs to achieve a success rate of about 81% to equal the price of a Delta.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thor_and_Delta_launches...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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Using a commercial (but certainly not approved) VPN on a home DSL: It works for a few minutes and then starts to degrade. I wonder if it's related to this new tactic. It's a little hard to distinguish from old behavior, unfortunately.
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A little disappointing, I clicked on this thinking that it would be a take on using a co-op business model in a startup setting. But he doesn't really mean a co-op business model at all :
http://www.co-operative.coop/enterprisehub/what-is-a-co-oper...
By whether what you do in your downtime is neutral+ or negative.
The media has a strong, strong bias towards established narratives. (So do all of us, but they're in the professional business of telling stories, so it's relevant that one can tell in advance what collection of observations makes a "good story.")

"Our benighted ancestors had it all going well but then they did really bad things due to a malign corrupting influence and we're still suffering as a consequence" is a very powerful narrative. It's so powerful that if you're telling a story which has e.g. all the elements but the snake that you'll invent a bloody snake because everyone knows this story needs a snake.
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Even if they had the budget for a 1-ton lunar probe, landing on the Moon bears almost no resemblance to landing on Mars. The Moon's gravity is 0.16g to 0.38g on Mars, and the Moon has no atmosphere at all. This makes direct rocket landings far easier and completely changes the landing profile.
I think if you can't do the things you love then you're probably burnt out.

If all you want to do are the things you like then you're probably being lazy.

Not fool proof - but a starting indicator.
No, they couldn't. They are two completely different beasts, and present totally different engineering challenges. Or, to be more precise, Mars presents difficult engineering challenges, Moon doesn't.
In Britain I think the 'malign corrupting influence' in your example turns out to be ourselves. We seem to love a story where we failed to recognize something as important, or spend money on it, or overlook the genius in our midst.
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Thanks for the notice, will watch that tonight.

Sounds like an example of mediocre journalism picking up on well worn themes: brilliant outcast genius, untimely death and potential riches lost, extrapolated and simplified.

As an aside, and I don't know if this will be covered in the programme, there was an interesting report on Radio 4 some time ago about the treatment Alan Turing went through to "cure" his homosexuality. Whilst I had previously thought this only to be barbaric acts by small minded people, the report suggested some of the medics genuinely thought that this science could actually change him and be a force for good.

Doesn't really change much, but it altered my views...slightly.
Turing's work was almost always purely theoretical and his genius very much lied in his ability to think at a level of abstraction way higher then most of us can handle; the idea that he might have jump-started a new industrial revolution only seems to indicate that whoever came up with it had no understanding whatsoever of what Turing did besides hearing that Turing was "the father of the computer". This is so wrong I am surprised somebody went as far as to write an article about this, someone should just tell the Sunday Times guy to maybe do his homework next time he utters some sentences to thousands of people. Turing had more in common with Newton or Einstein (I think the mental leaps he did for example in his work on the Entscheidungs problem are almost of this order, even though again the abstract nature of his work make its applications and implications narrower and harder to see), then with Henry Ford or Thomas Edison.
This is well covered in the program. The actual docudrama is very well done. Sure there are some TV moments with a few too many shots of Macbook Airs, but here's a very long thoughtful documentary mixed with very well acted drama that covers the life of a man and four very complex ideas: Turing machine, Turing test, morphogenesis and the Enigma break.
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Don't leap so quickly to making it a user choice. Just 'Do The Right Thing'. In this case I think enforcing a max width is 'The Right Thing'.

If you disagree then that'a ace but take the responsibility for your own defaults.
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I want to know more about NeXT. Particularly interested in the details surrounding the fact that the goal was spring 1987, but actual release was fall 1988.

Perhaps the Isaacson biography covers it? Any other literature I could refer to?
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The landing sequence isn't actually that much more complicated than that of the MERs. It just needs to be much more precise because you must make a soft touchdown instead of dropping the rover from a height. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tma2pt0k6UQ
I think the OP means that when you are burned out you can not enjoy you spare time and you can not rest anymore.
Thank you for your advice Patrick, I should have added I'm a Masters of Management of Technology student with 8 years of experience in the field, my cofounder is a manager at a payments processor :) , and I've worked in the local financial sector as well (Equifax and currently at an insurance company).

We're specifically NOT targeting the global rich, 2/3rds of the population here in Uruguay don't have a credit card and are left out of internet payments, and the same or worse happens across Latin America (the so-called "Base of the Pyramid" approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_of_the_pyramid ).

I do worry about legal implications, the virtual currency approach is probably what we'll end up implementing not only because of the payment infrastructure, but because of legal reasons as well.

We've met with the legacy payments structure (to get money into the system) and the response has been largely positive, but we're facing some serious challenges in not having more overhead than that.

By the way, if we found 100.000 paying customers and made 0.01 off each transaction that would be a 50% raise for both of us :) , that's how low we're being paid at the moment. And we hope to make money off the financial market as well (off the time between the money entering the system and the money leaving the system), which is how my current company makes money.

Does it sound reasonable or is it still a pipe dream? We still need 100.000 more customers, but we teamed up with a nonprofit to get the first 2000.
No.

As a matter of interest, what were you basing that on?
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See, everything is a toy to a six year old. Everything they see, hear or handle shapes their development in some way. Devices like smartphones and tablets have great unique uses, like people in other comments are saying, so I'm not suggesting you ban kids from using them or anything.

But I maintain books have far more physical qualities than any tablet or e-reader. Variety, for starters. Tabs and e-readers all come in some shade of black or gray, they all present a very similar glass texture to the touch, and they only have that new gadget smell for two days. On the other hand, very few books are the same. Moving from a magazine to a hardcover to a paperback may be all the same for you and me, but for a 6 year old is an extremely important feast of sensations that informs her developing mind about the myriad materials and textures and smells the world is made of.

Why rob a child of that variety?
Would like to know more about the differences.

Maybe we can start a new meme. Whenever someone talks about their super-duper awesome social ajaxy photo-sharing app, we can snarkily respond "well, it isn't exactly rocket programming..." :)
the treatment Alan Turing went through to "cure" his homosexuality. Whilst I had previously thought this only to be barbaric acts by small minded people, the report suggested some of the medics genuinely thought that this science could actually change him and be a force for good.

Yes there was attempts to turn homosexuals into heterosexuals, and they failed. There is amble scientific evidence, as a result of these abuses, that sexual orientation can't be changed.
FOr me, if I am burnt out I just take a nap or go for a walk. If I am lazy, I keep browsing my fav. websites(HN, reddit) again n again..F5 comes handy here :)
Well, well... In between developing censoring and deep packet inspection infrastructure for Iran and Egypt (in a joint venture with Nokia) and getting their PLC control software rooted by Stuxnet, Siemens makes badly secured SCADA systems for water supplies.
Pfft... are they also planning on making encrypting all of our packets illegal?
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I'd bankrupt nations around the world by dodgy banking, then slowly replace their elected governments with autocrats who used to work for me.

That or invade Poland.
It sounds like either a) he is talking about an opt-in global database to make it convenient to pay and 'consume' digital media, or b) the guy coudn't work a computer keyboard if his life depended on it, and calls support lines when his monitor is unplugged. Please correct me if I am wrong...
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Thanks, it seems my research was incomplete, I hadn't heard of MercadoPago.

What we're looking at is two options:

- SMS payments, but the gameowner or webmaster only gets 30% of the amount sent

- Pre-paid, virtual currency / e-wallet approach, which gets more than 80% to the gameowner / webmaster, but has other difficulties (gaining traction and trust among customers).

I've been looking for a way to buy and transfer Facebook Credits between accounts for example, and I thought the best way might be to become an app where you can buy virtual currency and then trade that virtual currency for Facebook Credits. I'll have to try it out, but does that sound ok or too many hoops for the user to handle? I suspect Argentinean and Uruguayan gamers might be motivated enough to jump through all those hoops (I've seem them desperately looking for surveys to fill and non-payment options to get Credits since most don't have a payment method).

Edit: btw sorry husafan for kind of hijacking the thread but I'm very interested in the subject right now.
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If you wanted to take a scientific approach you'd need to be able to do something like the following: (A) measure your actual work output and (B) some way of measuring your 'maximum expected output capacity'.

if A much less than B you are being lazy.
if A is close to or equal to B then you are burnt out.

[The short answer of course is, if you are reading Hacker News you are being lazy]

As an aside; Pivotal Tracker - the feature / dev tracking software manages to define output using average number of work blocks completed over the past X weeks. How you measure your maximum expected output capacity might be more tricky to define.
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