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Ask HN: What will you do when you're 40 and still unsuccessful?
It was my second visit to the doctor this year due to stress-related illness (skin allergy before now ulcer)

I turned 31 this year and I have been thinking what will I do when I turn 40 and my business is still nowhere? What would I do when my body is not capable of the intense working hours of a startup?

I'll just probably go on trying but not at this rate anymore. I have been working 12hrs/day for the past 4 years. When I'm 40 i'll just probably work for 5hrs/day.
What would be yours?
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> I've actually never met a developer that navigates a file using line numbers. Maybe it is the norm but I haven't seen it having worked with a few dozen developers over the years.

> I use "Go-to-line" almost exclusively to jump to the line where a stack trace is telling me there's an error.

yes that's pretty much it: use external tool to find some row (diff tells you this is where a chunk was changed, grep or ack tells you what you're looking for is there, ...), jump straight to row.

Although usually I'll open the file directly at the right line in emacs (`e +line file`[0]), goto-line is only for the IDE.

[0] where `e` is an alias for `emacsclient -n`
I've been noticing a lot of talk about BBEdit lately and am having a hard time finding what features might set it apart from apps like Textmate or VIM. Are there any features that aren't in other editors that I'm just missing? Two of my coworkers use it and I haven't been able to witness anything in particular, but with a line in the article like "I'm a big BBEdit fan" there has to be something I am missing, right?
I believe the average is calculated over a moving time window, so possibly you made some highly rated comments a while ago which have just fallen outside of the window causing a drop in avg karma
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One proposal, which I'm somewhat sympathetic to, that a general cognitive skill of being able to think procedurally or computationally is important in the 21st century, even if the craft of being able to program is more specialized.

Some papers on that:

http://www.bogost.com/writing/procedural_literacy.shtml

http://dm.lcc.gatech.edu/~mateas/publications/MateasOTH2005....

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing0...
Is that question important or interesting?

It is what it is. A one terabyte hard drive that contains illegally downloaded data valued at 5 million dollars. By presenting the drive in a certain way (on a pedestal, with a title, …) certain properties are specifically pointed out.

Is that art? I don’t know. Is it important to answer that question? I don’t think so.

It’s a nice piece all about the value, nature and availability of digital goods, bringing all these aspects together in a nice and compact way. Well done, creator.
Reminds me of garbage and academia: "Garbage is garbage, but the history of garbage is scholarship"
That makes sense. I'll look into adding that.
Yeah, but maybe one should use a proper RDFa attribute, like dbpedia-owl:Person/height and dbpedia-owl:Person/weight. HTML5 elements simply aren't detailed enough.
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Sure, the intent is good. However, would a hypothetical <weight unit=grams>5</weight> be any better than "5gm"? When I see a number followed by the letters 'gm' I know it's a weight in the units of grams. Google knows that too. Making it rely on the markup alone would actually make google dumber and making it understand both would make it more complex. It's better as 5gm.

The main advantage is to make it easier to extract using an xml-like api. But at what cost? "5gm" is way easier for people to type so it will always dominate in real text.

In my mind, markup is useful for adding context that is hard to extract from the text alone: things like groupings, context, delimitating chapters or articles, etc… I wouldn't use it to declare something to be a weight. You use it to add things that are unspoken otherwise. In the <meter> example, it actually lets you convey previously unknown things such as the min/max range.

Maybe if the whole world cared a lot about the differences between different kinds of weights and it was very hard to get from the context of the text, like <catweight> vs. <dogweight> or something, it would be worth marking up. Markup is a form of metadata.
I actually think Latin's popularity is, at least in part, due to its easiness, and at least in my former high school. I'm inferring to other schools since the AP test doesn't require speaking it. I mentioned in a cousin-comment that I took Latin for three years, I also took French for five. French was a lot harder. Merely speaking it and understanding when it's spoken back with different accents and different speeds is a lot harder than just reading or writing it, which is all I had to do for Latin. (We learned the simple pronunciation rules and read some things aloud but that's it.) Yet for the universities around the area requiring two foreign language credits from high school, Latin was good enough.

Latin was funner for me in some ways though since it has a pattern-matching or puzzle-solving feel to it at times with all the word endings and no reliance on word order. I don't think it's as neat as Arabic but it's a somewhat similar feeling. I agree that overselling things as fun is a great way to kill any fun that might have existed.
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You also have to assume that you can maintain focus and efficiency for more than eight hours a day. I've worked fourteen hour days for weeks on end. I was young, driven, and ignorant at the time. All I could smell was success. I felt like a hero waking up after a few hours of sleep each night and I'd quietly get to work. If anyone bothered to ask me how I did it, I'd just shrug and say, "someone's got to get this done."

What a stupid asshole I was.

The truth was I just felt like I was getting more done. Maybe on the first night or two of this I would. But after hour ten and eleven go by it started taking me longer to form sentences and get my ideas out. And it seemed that despite my best efforts writing unit tests and all that, my code would somehow still come out buggy. After a few weeks of this I wasn't being effective; I was just feeding the fire and making more work for myself.

Now I find ways to get more done in a day before I just shrug and throw in more over time. This has lead me to become very disciplined in how I approach my day. Sometimes it feels a little routine, but I have more energy for my work and am ready to relax when I'm done. I show to the office 30-40 minutes early and get some code kata time in to warm up. Then I get a coffee, review team updates, and get down to hacking. When my editor is open I'm just coding. If it's not open, I'm at my whiteboard jotting down notes and making plans on how to solve the problem so that when my editor is open I'm just coding. Social interaction happens at specific points in the day and I keep it short and sweet. The afternoon is when I get the most work done. When five o'clock comes around I've usually gotten everything done that I wanted to do that day so I leave.

Now that I'm a little older I see the young guys in the office doing what I used to. They throw themselves at the work. They work late for weeks at a time. They come to the stand ups all grizzled looking and swaying like an exhausted frond of seaweed. And sometimes they still manage to slip their stories for the sprint.

You know what changed my mind? Death. We're all just getting older. There are no do-overs in life. Once your youth is gone it's gone for good. I don't have any kids myself yet so the center of my life is my career but that doesn't stop me from doing the things I want to do. I like to go camping, rock climbing, spending time with my wife and our friends. I like to spend lazy afternoons reading and occasionally stay up late writing. The worst thing I can imagine is wishing you had enjoyed your time on this earth more when you had the chance.
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I'm really sorry, but I am not aware of RDFa attributes?
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If a portable DVD player (which presumably doesn't contain any transmitting radios) causes a 30-degree navigation error, the problem is with the aircraft, PERIOD. FULL STOP.
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The one-liner impression I got from the article is "I don't ever want to work for Zynga". The points you mention look to me like trying to present a balanced point of view.
This is exactly the opposite of the pricing psychology ISVs benefit from. Good anchors for pricing are not cheap, disposable items but rather expensive, valuable economic inputs like "your fully loaded cost for $TIME."

I know a dev or two with "buy me a beer" buttons. Anecdotally, one of those buttons plus $5 will buy you a beer.
You missed the point and should have kept reading.

The author is arguing that even though there's prior art for most of those things, and some of those are just too archetipal today, the SII would be radically different without the iPhone, given that the chances of this likeness being by pure chance are astronomically small. Whether you believe this is true or not is up to you.
A good friend of mine pilots commercial airlines and I asked her we're forced to turn off devices, she says it's cause cell phones can interfere in the same way as they do with music equipment. If one rings close to a loud speaker you get that tell-tale electronic ticking sound and she says that can make pilots not understand what air traffic control is saying … Not sure if this is true or if she'd actually experienced it before.
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Yes, praising students for their effort is a good way to encourage them to keep trying. But is this necessarily a good thing?

I see far too many students entering postsecondary education who shouldn't be there. No matter how hard they try, they just can't grasp the basic concepts. And when they inevitably fail, they fall back on what they were praised for as children -- "but I worked so hard!" -- as if they deserve to receive a degree on the basis of effort alone.

Sure, it's useful to remind smart kids that they need both brains and effort. But don't make the dumb kids think that effort alone is enough to get them where they want to go.
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Awesome. So I'll turn on my laptop, mobile phone AND my iPad. That's three watts.
A turing tarpit is a whole different beast. Brainfuck and whitespace are examples of a turing tarpit.

This is just codegolfing.
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Apple only pays for things that they expect good ROI for. I doubt very highly if they would recoup the money spent to get their phones FAA-certified, let alone the opportunity costs compared to spending that money on something else.
I feel the need to point out that it's still deterministic and fully observable; it's just that there's around 50 orders of magnitude more complexity to Go than to Chess; and to humans and the AIs we've created so far that's a qualitative rather than quantitative distinction.
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I can distinctly remember at age 10 reasoning out that God didn't exist

Your logic was faulty. A God which does not interact with the universe is indistinguishable from a lack of God. (cf. Higgs Boson)
Well, FP is more elegant. But sometimes you just need a chainsword.
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it depends on the what is meant by a computer. i'd refer to it as a mini-cluster that can fit into a basement for heating in the context of this article (and soon enough , moore's law, that will be a desktop size). On that scale, all these tasks are embarassingly parallel. Exceptions to this are multiuser systems where users interactions matter, such as facebook, in which case a huge cluster is required. My argument is that more computing will devoted to the former (basically machine learning, and scientific/engineering optimization) than the latter (multi-user databases) over time, simply because humans can only enter so much info (all 7 billion of us) compared to what machines can gather and compute.
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To be honest, going the startup route is about the worst possible way to get what you want (assuming you mean: working for other people's startups. Your own could be ok depending on how you do it).

A startup will likely have stupid ideas about work ethic and they'll probably want to push your compensation into equity. For any startup you join, be realistic, it will not be the next google/facebook. You'll be doing well if it doesn't end up failing. If it does survive, the equity you got will probably be devaluated somehow.

There may be some lottery-level chance of becoming financially independent, but you'll save yourself effort by just working a TPS-land job and buying actual lottery tickets.

A much more consistent approach would be to contract (or consult if you have the chance) and live frugally. With this, you should be able to save up enough money to take a year off every few years.
I've heard between 10-35% can experience it depending on the study (it's extraordinarily high in the population who go on to become musicians). I've personally only ever met 1 or 2 other people who claimed it.
How about you try doing just the most important 11 hours and letting the last one slide? Repeat until your life is livable.

Take it from a Japanese salaryman: overwork is a disease, akin to alcoholism in its destructive potential, and people extolling it do not have your best interests at heart.
Thank you, this was one of my first tries at some real design and I tried really hard :)
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Oh wow, to get first-hand guidance from the pioneers of this technology. I wish I could visit Germany just for this.
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Except most people who follow your advice are never going to be CEO. They're going to throw their whole life away chasing this, never to reach it. Other's may get a lot of money exploiting such people though.
So app stores should make a big, big thing of showing other users who are currently buying, last bought n hours ago etc.?

I see more hospitality industry sites are doing this in the last years, e.g. booking.com.
Interesting slides and very much appreciated. Thanks!
i've added my email to my profile. however, i'm an antisocial recluse and never skype/im. there's lambda-the-ultimate if you're into programming languages, far more knowledgeable people than me hang out there.
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Ask PG: Want to settle on one account but everything from it gets killed
Hi PG and HN community,

I am new to this community. I started visiting this community after someone posted one of my blog posts here which received a lot of hits from this community about 6 months ago. Back then, I was an infrequent visitor to HN and I ended up creating a couple of new accounts every time I tried to login.

Gradually, I've come to like this forum because of the good quality posts that appear on the home page and I want to contribute regularly in discussions. As a result, I want to abandon this account I am posting with and settle with only one: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spal My reason for settling on this account is that I use this nickname in most other online forums and IRC networks. This nick provides me the right mix of anonymity and identity.

Unfortunately, whatever I post with that other account gets killed automatically. As a result, I am forced to continue using this account. I am not sure why anything from that account gets killed. I've posted only a couple of links to my own blog as well as other articles on the web from both these accounts. I'm not sure if that amounts to spamming considering I've only posted 3 or 4 links only from each account.

Is there a way to resolve this issue? Any help or suggestion on this matter would be very appreciated.

Also, if this isn't the right place to ask this question, could you please give me the contact details where I can ask this question?
Algebra is simple. It conforms to a small set of rules that are easily understood, often intuitive, and have few special cases. Problems are small, self-contained, and have clearly-defined parameters. They don't suddenly change on you halfway through the test, they don't have to account for unexpected input, and they don't have to interact with other problems.

Real-world computer programs exist in a large set of arbitrary, often unintuitive rules that are both absolute and malleable, and change between languages and platforms. They have complicated requirements that seek to solve real-world problems that are often ill-defined. They have to cope with unexpected input, hostile input. They are large, comprising hundreds, thousands, even millions of lines of code. They have a multitude of paths that a given piece of input might take, they display emergence.

Coding is not just a simple math problem. It requires clear, detailed reasoning about complex systems operating within arbitrary sets of rules and an unpredictable world.

Related questions might be "Why do people have trouble doing their taxes by hand?" and "Why do people have such a poor understanding of the legal system?". Also, chess.
Interesting story. Physical labor is totally different than mental labor, but if your business is about doing lots of physical labor doing long hours could make sense.
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I know the consequences. It's just that I don't want to get old without knowing the limits of my potential.
I think there is a lot more to this, and I think you're onto something.

Buying coffee is not only a social activity, it's something that's seen as a sociable thing to do.

Buying apps is indeed a solitary activity, and - despite the burgenoing marketplace - is still something slightly outside of the mainstream.

I suspect there is trust issues here - the average app isn't well trusted as opposed to the average cup of coffee - as well as exchanging money for a virtual thing as opposed to a physical.

edit : thinking further about this - the top n listings are just like the coffee queue. It's self reinforcing because you see other people are buying the app, which overcomes some of the trust issues. We all think - well, all these other people bought it, must be something OK about it.

The problem this brings about is the self-reinforcing top of the market which becomes harder for others to break into.
Does everyone really need to know about recursion?

Does everyone really need to know the basics of calculus? Or how about genetics? Does everyone really need to know French? I had classes for the above in my high-school. In fact I can't think of any class I took in high-school that isn't useless to a large portion of high-school graduates.

And I can't think of many examples that are more useful than grasping the concept of recursion.
You initial stab at college sounds strikingly like mine. After my ridiculously bad run through High School, I made the mistake of going straight on to college and bombed out within the first year.

It took me 3-4 years, working out in the world at crap jobs, to motivate me to go back. It's never too late to head back in. I worked full-time all through university and after 10 years earned up to my M.S. but I did it debt free, and getting promotions/better jobs as I slowly, agonizingly, climbed up the education ladder was a powerful motivator (I also met my wife in school, and made many great friends).
Chas Emerick here; I set up the fundraiser for Anthony in 2010. That rule was mine, and it had nothing to do with "typical America" (whatever that means).

If something were to go wrong at any point, I wanted to make sure that someone would be around that had Anthony's best interests at heart (could have been any relative as far as I was concerned — I think Anthony's brother was also an option at one point). Similarly, I made sure I talked to Anthony's mother by phone before I started the fundraiser to make sure she was aware of what was going on and had no objections.

Yeah, there may have been liability involved — for me, for Relevance, for others, who knows — had something gone badly wrong. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know; but, having a parent or other adult relative along seemed like a relatively simple way to address that unknown.

Fundamentally, this had nothing to do with laws or regulations or even liability — it just seemed like the right thing to do.
Oh, cut the drama. I use text 2 speech.
That's indeed something worth researching in. First, people are not familiar with credit card micropayments. I wonder what if you had a "snack-machine" for apps that worked with coins, would people buy more apps?

Secondly, a bad app is not the equivalent of just bad tasting coffee, it's coffee that tastes like lemon and makes you puke. It's hard to make coffee that doesnt taste like coffee, while it's easy to make an app that promises one thing and delivers a completely different one.

Third, an app can be malicious, will stay in your system for ever, and the endorphic rewards from it are usually long-term and come in bits. Caffeine reaches your brain within minutes.