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Work more, cry less, and quite all the whining... is this SV or Full Metal Jacket?

That's not advice. It's ignorance.

If you cannot get your work done in eight hours a day there is probably something that's off. Maybe you're underestimating the work. Maybe you're being optimistic about your deadlines. Maybe you're not being honest with yourself about how efficiently you're using your time in the day.

After eight hours of working on one thing I'm done. If I've used every hour of that day to it's full potential I don't have the will or inclination to keep working. I usually feel pretty good about going home. Tomorrow's another day at the dream factory. I'll decompress, read a book, hack on something fun, hang out with my wife, get my sleep and tomorrow I'll wake up fresh and ready for the new set of challenges.

Whenever a manager or project lead tells me something along the lines of, "just do what you have to do and get it done," I just want to instinctively tackle them and slap them hard across the face. Not because I hate working but because they're standing on the tracks and there's a big freight train coming that they're not seeing. Managers who do that are lazy and are just passing the buck. If they don't want to hear why they're about to get hit by a giant freight train you owe it to the team to do something about it.

You don't do that by keeping your mouth shut and your nose to the grind stone.

Edit: Fixed some spelling issues.
"In which I try to convince myself that my decisions are fine, despite strong evidence to the contrary".
A blogspam post copied from prisonplanet.com about US politics? There are not enough flag buttons in the world for this one. Please don't post things like this here.
The minute I saw an Alex Jones/Prison Planet link I figured this wasn't quite legit:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/~c1120eg...:

"[SEC 1031] (b) Covered Persons- A covered person under this section is any person as follows:

1 A person who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored those responsible for those attacks.

2 A person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces."

So while it continues a disturbing precedent and there's plenty to be concerned about regarding US civil liberties, this one isn't nearly as broad-reaching as the article makes it sound.
Also, the more I think about it, the less appropriate his post is in the light of recent tragic events.
>We go to great lengths to try to find such "innate" above average ability, to label and preselect "the bright kids", instead of putting our efforts into motivating and rewarding _effort_, which just might ultimately harness more human potential in the aggregate than just focusing on "the bright kids", in my opinion.

That's true for the most part, however motivating bright kids doesn't take away from resources so much so that rewarding effort becomes unfeasible. Bright kids require a lot of motivation because either:

1) They tend to doubt their abilities, and because they're bright spend most of their time figuring out whether they're actually bright as stated in the article.

2) They get bored with ordinary mundane work, and so break away from any formal system of learning and seek for an outlet, which may turn out to be very productive, or because they're so young, it may be counterproductive and result in them going back to point 1.
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Isn't NZ one of the countries with the 3-strike law? Or did they repel that?
I needed to refresh after pressing back too (Safari). Maybe something to do with the page caching.
AFAIK the quote on broken windows comes from Malcom Gladwell's The Tipping Point (great read BTW), referring to some city's (NY?) police force fight on small crimes, that ended up lowering rates for all kinds of crime.
I think you can renounce your citizenship. But(!) with IRS's approval only. You have to prove that you are not doing it in order to avoid paying taxes.
"Then you see an app like ’101 sex positions’ or ’301 Fart Noises’ reach the lofty heights of App Store Success. They spent a week on a gimmick and made bank, you spent 6 months building an app of utility and are struggling."

So why not go make your own fart or sex app? There's a reason why these apps make it to the top; it's what people really want. Sadly or not, there's always going to be a bigger potential market for dumb, entertaining apps than your average practical app. I'd even go so far to say there's an art to producing the kind of apps that satisfy this segment of the market.
They should make it tax-deductible. ;)
Except without sleep, we all die. The question before us is this: without TSA, do we all die?
It's quite clear not a lot of the posters in this thread have actually used these illegal substances. Which is understandable, as those who have would be reticent to come out.

I'll come out and say that although I haven't used amphetamines (though I know the story of Erdos as well as the military using it), I have been prescribed valium for anxiety issues. It's helped with random things in life like striking up conversations with completely random women at bars by reducing the anxiety felt in a situation.

Anecdotally I know in the SF startup scene, amphetamines are used quite a bit. Amphetamines (of which adderall is one) are basically a better version of caffeine. It allows you to stay up three or four days perfectly lucid (unlike the stress response from caffeine from increasing cortisol levels in your bloodstream), and you also get a mental speedup (quite literally, the clock speed of your brain is increased)

Anyways, I really hope they legalize this stuff someday hah! I'd be a lot more productive, especially with reading the laundry list of books on my reading list...
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Because doing so would then require extra complexity to provide a syntax for lines that should not get wrapped, such as code, transcripts, tables, ASCII art...

Hard-wrapping paragraphs to a desired length in the original log allows humans to decide which lines should wrap and which ones shouldn't, without a pile of complexity similar to HTML, Markdown, or some other markup language.
NZ has actually been an American guinea pig for trying all all kinds of draconian copyright laws. Other countries are used to test out economic policies. Argentina for example, with its last collapse, was a failed economic experiment.
Oh, do you think our government is truly accountable to everyone? I think just the opposite. The control we have over what happens at all levels of government (most specially federal and state) is so tenuous as to be essentially nil.
What this article neglects is the ability of 'bright kids' to excuse themselves for giving up. Precisely because they're so bright, they can convince themselves very effectively that what is required of them for completing a certain task is too mundane for their 'smartness' or it is not worth the time.

More often than not, this ends up with a lot of lost potential, which is why startups are such good options, because any work involving them, is definitely not boring,and it HAS to be worth the kids' time because they set out to work on it, and it wasn't mandated by any external authority like parents or schools.
For some reason, people seem to think it's a key-value store, or some persistent database, but that's totally not it at all.

From what I understand, it is actually a key-value store and is basically a superset of memcached. Therefore, if my understanding is true you could use it merely as a key-value store as well and use its other features (native sets, lists, etc, pub-sub, and persistance) as needed.
Interesting concept. I see this list has been updated recently, do you know if it gets updated regularly?
I like to read a lot about design tips, but this is the first time I got what is meant with "blending". Thanks for that.
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I was an associate and engagement manager at McKinsey during Rajat Gupta's time.

The article rings true.

1: Rajat Gupta was a very straight guy, and the firm was an incredibly straight place. His actions after he left the firm are completely inconsistent with his actions at McKinsey and the expressed beliefs of the firm. Perhaps he was always a bit self-serving and the firm provided the guidance he required. Who knows, but overall this is pretty devastating.

2: While McKinsey, Bain and BCG are recognized as the top tier, McKinsey stands alone in most people's minds. Nobody from my school with multiple offers selected any other consulting firm over McKinsey. (I had 2 other offers). It's like Harvard for MBA schools - we can say what you like if you went to another school (like I did), but Harvard will always be the benchmark for MBAs. The better the firm, the higher the quality of the people around you (I knew only one "hiring mistake" and the support staff were outrageously amazing), the better the clients (I dealt with companies with hundreds of billions at stake) and the better the engagements (though there are still good and bad ones within that). Even so the culture and clients did depend a lot on the office, and on the economic climate at the time. I saw my office go from great to not so great in less than 3 years.

3: Client Impact was critical at McKinsey - we were constantly asked to prove that we were earning our fees. Partners and Directors had to do it all, but making rain was not as important as the quality of the client impact.

I agree that the work can be awesome. McKinsey hires "insecure overachievers" and ensures that they are operating near the edge of their ability. However while your learning curve is amazingly steep, you also need to be able to step out in time. I'd still recommend McKinsey to anyone, there is no better school to learn business.
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Ah, I was kinda assuming that there's already a separate appserver tier distinct from the webservers.

That's kinda an enterprise-y architecture choice in my experience. There's excellent reasons for it (much like Service Oriented Architecture) but I generally see folks evolve into it over time rather than starting from it, unless they come from an enterprise-y background where its assumed from the beginning. In particular, Rails and some other opinionated frameworks start from the assumption that 99%+ of the business logic is going to get executed in the web tier, and while I'll bet you that some of the more famous Rails deployments eventually move away from that, Rails would fight you every step of the way if you were trying to do it in greenfield development.

Redis makes a great complement (or drop-in replacement depending on use case) for memcached. Relatedly, I love how these (and other OSS tools) let little guys play with big boy solutions without having to have big boy budgets or organizational resources to make use of them. I think Facebook probably has about 10 terabytes more memcached than I do, but it turns out that memcached is really freaking useful way down the scaling/complexity curve, too.
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I use both an iPad (generation 1; eagerly awaiting iPad 3) and kindles.

The kindle is much better in direct sunlight or high ambient light environment, and because it lacks other apps, is better for distraction free reading of large amounts of text.

I've used iPad, Kindle DX, and a computer simultaneously -- someone's paper on the Kindle, coding on the computer, and the iPad for all communications activity (the computer was not on the Internet).

For reading journals/journal submissions on the beach, the DX is the hands-down winner.
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My local, state, and federal governments (e.g. my local school board, my state senator, the federal appeals court) are dramatically more accessible and accountable to me than, say, Google, the Saudi royal family, or Bill Gates.

I have the right to petition when I have grievances, I can organize voters to apply pressure, I can sue in courts when government policies don’t live up to the constitution or higher-level laws, I can run for office.

When politicians are corrupt, it is (at least sometimes) a scandal. When corporate actors are corrupt, there’s only a problem if the shareholders are negatively impacted or when the bad outcomes are so overwhelming that government takes action.

I agree with you that our current politics has many problems, perhaps chief among them the incredible influence of political donations, revolving corporate doors, and so on.
> If everyone has 15 objects out

I can still have 15 objects out. 10 books, eye mask for sleeping, my neck pillow, a sandwich, pen and pad of paper, candy. I can be just as distracted with those as with a kindle. So that logic doesn't hold.
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There are three possible outcomes for startups: (1) failure; (2) marginally successful; and (3) enormously successful. In case of (1) and (2) employees hardly make any money, and early employees may make money in case (3). More than 99% startups' outcome is either (1) or (2).

I feel startup world is highly skewed in favor of investors and founders. I have worked at a startup and now I would think twice before working for another startup, since rewards don't add up to effort and time because of odds.
Very true. For how to "solve" those problems in education I have never had any decent ideas. No doubt many readers here have experienced them first hand.

I just see a lot of attention on "innate" ability, who has it, and why, and less attention placed on effort. I think effort is underrated. That is my biased opinion.

Would anyone disagree that if bright kids were forced to have to expend more effort, they might themselves benefit, as they _might_ be more likely to see some of their true potential? No guarantees of course.
Right "crazy skinny guy with bad hair, can't drive a car, but studied under a Marxist and funded by a rich Libertarian, can solve crimes and fight terrorists". Sounds like a pitch for a bad 80's tv show.
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It's worse than you think. If you're shooting up an Army post with an AK-47, this bill would let the Army hold you as a POW instead of requiring them to call 911 and wait for the police to come and handle it.

This bill would turn the US into a battlefield because the title of the link to some guy's blog says it does. That's something that trained soldiers coming over here and shooting people and bombing stuff in the name of a foreign power could not do.
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Thanks for posting this. I know that Alex Jones can blow things out of proportion... but still, the ACLU writeup seems to be pretty strongly worded and argues essentially the same thing as this article. Is there something we're missing?
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I once was talking to a pilot who swore first-hand that he had the plane doing odd things, asked the attendants to go through the cabin looking for people using devices and to shut them off. They closed down one particular laptop and the plane started behaving again.

Whether this is 'friend of a friend' type tale that pilots like to say (and co-opt as their own story) or not is difficult to say.

The same pilot also told me the main reason they don't want you using cellphones on a flight was because the base stations couldn't triangulate properly and identify who was making the call - which is clearly BS. Same pilot also freely admitted to using his own phone during flights.

I guess my point is that the pilots at the same time kind-of believe the official excuses, yet at the same time flout them and make up ridiculous reasons why they are official.
We can be hard to absorb, that's for sure. I've successfully helped a lot of start-ups, but I (and they) have been careful to ensure that the time I spend there is limited. eBay hired too many MBAs/consultants and stuffed themselves as a result.

But arguing that McKinsey alumni are all-bad is clearly over the top. They can produce results incredibly quickly and are comfortable dealing with very senior levels at corporates. Business development and major deals are a specialty.

Try calling one when it's time to think about major decisions, pricing, figuring out how industries work and just general business advice.
And you think you can personally make a serious difference with one vote and some organizing? Whew.

I agree that Google, Gates and Saudis are completely out of reach.
Holy shit that might actually work for some abilities.
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You'd have to ask them.
I bought one for my wife as a birthday gift. After reading the reviews, she didn't want the Fire. I returned it and got the $109 no-keyboard no-touch kindle instead, and she loves it. E-Ink is just such a better reading experience than a LCD.
If it were trivially possible for you to interfere with cockpit computers, why wouldn't terrorists be going after that? Seems like a massive, massive oversight if that were the case.
You are correct, it was referenced in Tipping Point (as well as Freakonomics and others).

The wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory has a lot more information about the study and its findings.
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hehe, nice analogy :)
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so if you've been thinking it's persistent, get that OUT of your head now!

On persistance from antirez http://antirez.com/post/short-term-redis-plans.html

We want also work both in the communication (most users don't understand that Redis with both AOF and RDB enabled is very durable already, and this is the setup we suggest) and the implementation to make sure that Redis AOF can be a very durable solution, as durable as the best SQL databases out there.
As a serious player with a reasonable amount of experience with both variants I have to say I disagree with you profoundly on this. FischerRandom/Chess960 is just chess with a twist (familiar openings and opening setups aren't available). Bughouse/Transfer is a completely different game that's based on chess rules and conventions. It's major characteristic is a massive injection of chaos that's quite foreign to the game of chess.
> I'd imagine the screaming, flailing, flickering lights, smoke, and vibrations would do a decent job of getting people to look up from their iPhones.

The audiences at many concerts I've been to lately would speak to the opposite of this.
I suppose I expected more from a Nature post. All of these suggestions are things I learned in fourth grade; it's just basic human communication.

Most successful scientists I've met are actually quite good at explaining their research to a non-expert audience. They may not all be as eloquent or accessible as Malcolm Gladwell, but they certainly get the point across well enough.
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Indeed. I spent ~6 hours writing a gun "simulator" app that's made something like $50,000. Some of it was luck, but if you're willing to sell your soul and you can crank out a few of these a week your chances of success are probably higher than spending 6 months perfecting a single app you don't even know anyone wants.
I think smart and dedicated activists can make an enormous difference, yes. There’s no “some” about the organizing part though. Effecting political change takes huge amounts of (smart, carefully focused) effort, because we live in a complex society where lots of different people have different ideas about how things should work, and persuasion on such a scale is damn hard.
Personally, I think it is more harmful that companies keep trying to live when they are becoming obsolete, like the oil industry.
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Sometimes building what people need leads to friction. People need to eat healthy, but they opt for fast food because it satisfies their taste buds and gives them pleasure.
Could it be that the problem is not, the way we provide feedback to children, but that the expectations we place upon children has more to do with our own expectations than the child's innate ability?

Take a class of 30 children, they will have a wide range of intellectual abilities, ranging from borderline intellectually disabled to the highly gifted. Give them all the same task. Some will achieve well, and have no difficulty, one or two may not be able to complete the task without assistance. Take the same class the next day and have them perform the same task. Those who struggled will may perform better, those who completed the task the first time, will achieve the same result. Perform that same task for the next week or so, until the ones who struggled can perform the task. Now you will find that those children who initially had no problems with the task, have not even bothered to start it, and may well indeed be causing disruption in the class.

What I've described is what happens for most classes of children in most schools. The focus on ensuring all children reach some minimum performance in key areas has resulted in those children in the normal to high ability range are being shown that there is no value in being smart, as you are just going to have to do the same as everybody else anyway... so why bother?

The problem with Bright Kids is not that they never learn how to work hard on difficult tasks. It is that because they meet the minimum safety net requirements, they never are never even exposed to the difficult tasks, so is it any wonder that they grow to doubt the value of their abilities?

What I would love to see is every child in primary school be tested every year, for both potential and ability. This would allow Parents, Teachers and the students themselves to get an understanding of how hard the student is actually working. Are they really "smart" and bored out of their brains and therefore not meeting the academic requirements, or are they intellectually challenged, but through a lot of hard work, are achieving a reasonable standard?

Children do not all come from the same mould, why is it that we try to have them fit the same mould when it comes to education?
Thanks for the view into high schools, things sure have changed over the past decade.

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