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While unrelated to the science, I am a previous user of Adderall XR and then Vyvanse and I want to share some advice on the subject for any hackers out there using these drugs or thinking about them:

It's crazy, it makes you operate on a different level, and I feel bad for anyone in a competitive college or learning situation that isn't using it: it's just unfair. But is cheating at being smart unethical? Oh, nootropics.

However, for hackers, for developers, for designers: it's not what you need. I've written code and spent months in photoshop on and off of those drugs, and that stuff will not put you in the mindset you need to be a great hacker. Highly productive for hours on end? Sure! But it tends to tunnel your vision and cause you to waste time on details.

My work is always better, hands down, off that stuff. That's because the intensity they brought were fantastic for my grueling science degree, but terrible for creating great apps. Nothing beats 8 hours of sleep, healthy diet and exercise for developing good software. Nothing.

If you're going to use it, in my experience, Vyvanse was 100X better than Addy. Addy felt like it crammed energy and focus down your throat and you were a passenger on the productivity express. Vyvanse, I felt, allowed me to be calm when I wanted to be calm, and focused and energetic when I wanted that. I could sleep and eat on it fine. Also, keep your dose small, increasing it is a slippery slope, you will build tolerance, and quitting might take effort. Best not to start.

I hope my anecdotal experience helps someone!
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Similar issues in dealing with the IOS SDK, ended up removing support for single sign on in my app due to it simply not working part of the time.
I don't understand what's that supposed to mean (the part until, "tech savvy", that is).

A person can be a technical wizard and/or programming god and still not know (nor care about) any of the latest web services/fads/etc...
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> US having the highest percentage of population incarcerated of any first world country.

We have the highest incarceration rate, full stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
"If some drugs were legal, MORE people would become addicted"

Here in Canada, the official usage rates for cannabis and tobacco are nearly the same. The latter being a legal substance. The laws aren't stopping anyone who is interested in trying the drug. Those who are not interested in trying it, still won't be interested if the laws change.
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My mother or any other normal non-geeky people in my family doesn't care whether the problem lies in software or hardware. They care about the experience.

The Kindle Fire experience is terrible right now. That terrible experience is what they'll remember and associate the brand with.
Yeah, I can grok that. I think that the needs of big data are a bit different from the needs of troubleshooters. For example, I usually just need to sift through the data to quickly find the few bits that are interesting to me; you probably need to do aggregation and derive patterns and all kinds of other magic.

I would only counterpoint that what I wrote was not at all a defense of badly-formatted logs.

I'm also not at all opposed to people generate separate logs for humans and separate logs for machines. In fact, I think that's a great idea. I just really really do not want to see machine logs taking the place of human-readable logs.
Does the real data from Portugal mean nothing to you? Every drug stat is down after legalizing and treating.

I really don't understand why people are so willing to punish others (and pay dearly to do it), but not to help, even if it is cheaper and more efficacious.
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I'm not going to purchase a device because the software might improve in the future. I'm going to purchase a device that has functional software from day 1. Otherwise every day that I have to use the terrible software until it is improved is another cost that I have to pay.
I transferred a .com from GD to Namecheap and whois is now showing:

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Contact: support@namecheap.com
Visit: http://namecheap.com

Domain name: simplehuckel.com

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Unfortunately, that isn't entirely true. There is a huge amount of value in allowing someone to log into your site with FB credentials. You get their name, age, sex, validated email and a list of their friends all without having to ask a single question and more importantly, not write any code to manage or synchronize that information.

What is incomprehensible is that by offering this authentication system feature on our sites, we are actually helping FB gain more users and thus boost their business. You'd think that it would be treated more as a mutually beneficial ecosystem, but instead is treated like a third party integration that nobody cares about. Especially when there are bugs.

It really is too bad that FB refuses to take advantage of developers and business people out there who are willing to actually help their company grow and are asking nothing in return except for a bit of acknowledgement when things go wrong.
Enough with the he said-she said crap and get on with dumping GoDaddy
There is none. You set your own.rate. Or you can do a set fee for the project. Generally the client sets the preferences, but you can negotiate whatever you want.
He's got plenty of writing style already: http://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm
Agreed. This has misled me on a number of occasions.
while another chunk will enjoy finer careers and greater profits? Is that really the reason why all this noise is being made? Shouldn't we oppose it as a matter of principle rather than because our careers are on the line?
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Regardless of whether man praises something or not, the Bible condemns what is unrighteous and praises what is righteous. However, it also shows that God hates the sin but loves the sinner (see John 3:16).

Yes, the king himself committed adultery and murder. After this, David was rebuked by the prophet Nathan with the word of Jehovah (2 Samuel 12:1-14). You see, God immediately condemned what David did. Then He spoke a judgment on David and on his house (Israel): "Now therefore the sword will not depart from your house forever because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife." (v. 10) The sword, that is, war, has not left the nation of Israel. They are constantly fighting for their survival. David was even personally disciplined by his son dying and his wives being treated as he had treated Uriah's wife (vv. 11-14).

After being rebuked, David mourned. At this time, he wrote Psalm 51. In it he repents and confesses his sins to God, saying, "blot out my transgressions", "wash me thoroughly from my iniquity", "from my sin cleanse me", and "purge my sin". Eventually, David's repentance and confession joined God's forgiveness and the result was Solomon, through whom the temple was built and Christ was produced.
This was a perfect storm where private, online outrage was easily channeled into public action, encouraging others to join in. It didn't hurt that NameCheap and their PR department was out there milking it, either. Hopefully it's a wake-up call to the other SOPA supporters who may suffer the same fate invisibly, when outraged geeks stop recommending Sony gear to friends asking for recommendations or things like that.
I read the first few sentences of this and stopped when he said it was downright terrible. Having just received one for Christmas myself, I really have no idea where all the Fire hate is coming from. Sure, it's not an iPad, but it is absolutely a gap between my phone and my MacBook that I am now happy to have filled. Laying in bed watching Arrested Development, playing Angry Birds on a slightly larger screen, or browsing the web all work just fine. It also was neat that all the apps I got on the Amazon Appstore already sync'd directly to the device.

I'm also really impressed with how Amazon took the physical buttons (menu, back, and home) off the actual device and made them part of the UI by tapping a little arrow at the bottom of the screen.

Yes, the power button is misplaced, but overall I am very satisfied with this $199 tablet that I am finding myself using pretty often so far.
Google never complained about the page getting into Bing. They complained that Bing indexed it with the exact (phony) search term that Google did--Google purposefully didn't include said term on the page itself.
I have a Fire and like it a lot. I use it every day for reading books in low light conditions. I'd buy it again tomorrow.
"Terrible" is hyperbole at best. And while they may not care, my point is, Amazon can (and, I hope, will) improve it.

All of these complaints about a $200 tablet remind me of Louis CK's bit on airplanes and cellphones, "Everything's amazing, and nobody's happy."
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I couldn't agree with this more. My grandma recently bought one and I spend all of Christmas getting it set up for her and teaching her. She's gotten really frustrated and would probably return it if it hadn't been free from her company.

This part especially is what I agree with:

"Yet, the drive to quickly release a product in a hot field is almost irresistible. Amazon believes growing marketshare is more important than the reputation of their tablet. This is wrong. I believe consumer tolerance for poor products is at an all time low, thanks to ten years of amazing Apple products. Unfortunately, the idea that first movers win is widely believed across the tech industry."

Version 1.0 should be magical.

I do need to correct the author on one point though - I did find a native email client on it.
Totally coincidentally, I was just working on a User Script that does this for all Hacker News posts; basically, puts the full, unqualified hostname in the parenthesis after the post. It's surprisingly simple.

https://gist.github.com/1522657

(UserScripts.org is failing me. To install, simply go to that gist and click "Raw" on Chrome, or on Firefox with Greasemonkey installed).

EDIT: I've made some changes since initially posting, including removing the www. when it appears, and not making unnecessary DOM alterations if the domain wouldn't be changing. Also did a little bit of readability clean-up.
Having used it in several apps, the iOS SDK is an absolute mess.

Part of this is the absurd complexity of it: there are sign-on flows for going to the Facebook app if installed, or to Safari, or to an in-app web view.
A domain name registrar is a more directly replaceable good. Switching form one video game to another is switching to a brand new product.
well should is a strong word. and if you are a startup it's very possible that you don't depend on a fair use / DMCA Safe Harbor argument now but will in the unpredictable future so it's unlikely a client will ever get rejected for that potential conflict.

Is it really wise to get in bed with ESPN in the first place? that's all I'm saying. I am not and will not be the first to argue that sharing lawyers with those on opposite sides of important legislation with you is a bad idea.
I read the criticisms of the Fire's OS and think, "why wouldn't the next version run Windows 8?" It is not as if Amazon has much shared interest with Google or a bunch of reasons to love Android and certainly Android doesn't give their tablets a marketing advantage.
I just asked my wife and she said she just tells people I'm a spy. When I pressed her for why she said what I do is too technical therefore I'm keeping it hidden from her and that must mean I'm a spy.
When China raises their prices, will US firms have the PV tech and technicians to meet demand? The ultimate IP coup would be if China patented their PV technology and production processes.
That's one of my pet peeves, which is why I'm very meticulous about my documentation. For example: http://kstenerud.github.com/ObjectAL-for-iPhone/documentatio...
Similarly, I'd like for Google Groups posts to be groups.google.com and not google.com. Hell, posts should just show the whole hostname instead of just the organization.
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Why don't more start-ups/entrepreneurs/devs grow a pair of balls on issues? 
So this recent battle over SOPA and Godaddy as far as I can tell had 4 outstanding people that made a stand in the tech community.

Ycombinator - Paul Graham

Wikipedia - Jimmy Wales

Cheezburger - Ben Huh

Imgur - Alan Schaaf

That is to say they did't just regurgitate an anti-sopa tweet, but actually made an official statement and acted towards something they believed in.<p>What surprises me is that those are the only 4 I know offhand, the rest of the tech community, especially those build and promote open source initiatives, have remained standing in the shadows (some of which register thousands of domains through godaddy).

So what gives, there seems to be a problem here, SOPA certainly is not the only issue at hand and I don't mean to make anyone into a hero, but the balls...., where are they?
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How is the NameCheap/GoDaddy drama going to change SOPA? Does anyone think that GoDaddy has enough weight to actually affect the outcome? And even if they did how does this drama constitute news about SOPA? We all new people are leaving GoDaddy en masse and many are going to NameCheap. Everything else being posted are meaningless details.
What official communication does Google put on google.com? Their blog is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/.

Also, wouldn't it be better to email pg directly with concerns like this? We probably don't need to have much discussion about it; nobody will mind if links start saying plus.google.com instead of google.com. It's just a matter of tweaking the config.
> The premiumness of the phone is irrelevant as long as the salespeople in the stores are still selling android as "the phone that isn't an iPhone"

I actually haven't seen that. Again, perhaps in the past, but these days there's a lot of knowledge about Android. Perhaps your experiences have been different and I will readily acknowledge I may have been lucky, but your assertions don't match what I've seen. <shrug>
I own two Canon Cats, which I bought after reading Jef Raskin's book The Humane Interface.

While technologically they are decades out of date, from a UX perspective, there is a lot to be learned from using one.

Some of the concepts, such as a document-oriented system that never requires the user to launch or quit an application, nor to "save" their work, would still represent a leap forward today.

I'd love to see a modern OS built with the concepts of a humane interface today. Even the iOS and Android systems carry legacies of the WIMP interface instead of Raskin's humane approach.

I've spoken at the BIL Conference about the idea of bringing Jef Raskin's (and others) ideas into the modern age: http://www.bilconference.com/videos/rethinking-modern-gui-ja...

This is a great historical repository, but worth reading for the ways some of the concepts can be used today.

And of course, anyone who's interested in what made the Cat special should read Jef Raskin's book: http://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-...
Thanks. They list average rate of $11.59 (I think, not sure about the .59 part :-))))) for iOS devs.
The question being asked is not the right question. The answer to this one is simply, "Because people don't want it." The right question is why don't they want it - which I think has largely been answered here already; it's an old brand that people have largely realized has been commoditized and don't consider relevant anymore, combined with abysmally poor and misdirected marketing.

IMO.
States can be more restrictive but they cannot be less restrictive. Thus if the nation declares that marijuana is illegal a state cannot declare that it is legal (see the medical marijuana raids in California). And if the nation declares that alcohol is legal then a state can make it illegal within that state.
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What's a "stunt title"? You mean they reference Highrise/37signals too much to get attention?

I found their profile page more interesting: http://grabass.ecquire.com/NerdAlert
They sound crazy, fun, and crazy smart.

Although, I think the market for wasting time online is bigger than the market for people who want to be productive. Look at all the people who pay money to Tencent and Zynga, compared to 37signals. People want to consume media, not produce :( They should compete against those companies.
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Companies need to stop copying Apple, because if they don't, every review will be tainted by why Apple did X better than they did. Apple might not have actually done X better, but they did it first, and people like what they already know. The comment about the unlock gesture is especially relevant; there is no need to stipe something across the screen to unlock a tablet. If people copy that, though, the reviews will inevitably compare it to Apple's implementation, and will like Apple's better. (Be it less lag, better color scheme, better font for "Slide to unlock", etc.) If they do something completely different, like a hardware switch, then everyone will be happy because it's the first time they've ever seen anything like that and the idea will be allowed to stand on its own merits.

The Fire is flawed from the start because it uses out of date software. If you are going to advertise something as Android, then people expect it to be good at Android. Look at Archos' Android tablets; dead because they kept it on 1.6 forever. (I will certainly never buy an Archos product again.) The solution is to not advertise it as having Android, even if you use Android behind the scenes. There are many Linux devices that don't claim to be Linux, and as a result, nobody ever cares that GHC 7.4 doesn't run on it; it's just a box that runs software that does stuff rather than being "a Linux box". (Hell, the original Kindle is a good example of this. Do you want an xterm on your Kindle? Nope! So you don't care that it doesn't have X11.)

Anyway, I guess I'm saying that the key to hardware design is expectation management. Be different so that you aren't compared to Apple. Underpromise so that you aren't compared to something you aren't.
It's been a few years since there's been a good Internet Death Penalty. Create some plugins or firewall rules or what have you, which people can use and which render all GoDaddy-registered properties unavailable.
The linked file would be easier to look at if they were direct links to actual downloads, rather than links to DropBox pages. The would also last much longer, most likely; this page will probably stop working sometime in the next couple years when DropBox reorganizes something, gets bought, buys, or whatever.
The fact that the American govt. ever felt it was entitled to tell grownups they can't make bets, is intrinsically wrong.
This is not a mistake. For me, $200 and low expectations make this a great value. Amazon's not building an iPad competitor, and failing to meet that expectation isn't an excuse not to build the Kindle Fire.
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I submitted this under feature requests a couple of years ago. It's consistently been in the top 5 since then. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374
from the article:

"Until now, the department held that online gambling in all forms was illegal under the Wire Act of 1961, which bars wagers via telecommunications that cross state lines or international borders.

The new interpretation, by the department's Office of Legal Counsel, said the Wire Act applies only to bets on a "sporting event or contest," not to a state's use of the Internet to sell lottery tickets to adults within its borders or abroad."

- basically, they restricted the interpretation of the Wire Act to be specific to sports gambling, and nothing else (such as poker)
Point 1: Georgia Tech uses Python (CM & CS) or Matlab (everything else) as an intro language.

Point 2: You're not allowed to use certain solutions because the homework is to implement what you learned in class. Yes, your linked list will be implemented iteratively, recursively, in Java, in C, etc etc. Yes this leads to homegrown libraries because then you'll turn around and use this same code in your next homework, because it builds off the prior week's. Or if you failed horribly the TA releases theirs but of course they've implemented it differently than you so there's a learning curve if you have to modify the code. Then after that, you can use the built-ins (unless it's been decided you have to implement your data structure with yet another nifty feature). It's teaching fundamentals.

With the homegrown libraries, the closest I ever saw to that was the LC3 assembler we had to code in. But everyone knew it wasn't x86 assembly and it was for learning purposes.

At the other extreme: I actually learned C without any libraries because it was taught using a game boy emulator. We didn't even have printf for debugging. Now go in to your next C class and they assume you know the libraries. I once tried to re-implement "atoi" because I didn't know it was standard.
Yes, and playing video games is more important than our principles.
My problem with this post is the assumption that the Kindle Fire would have blown away the iPad with a few more months' development time.

Lots have companies have tried to beat the iPhone/iPad. Nobody has even come close. This guy's whole worldview centers around the fact that since he worked at Amazon, all their engineers are clearly the best. And if that engineering team releases a bad product it's clearly a reflection on someone other than the engineering team.

What is far more likely is that Amazon's engineers weren't going to approach the iPad no matter how hard they tried or how long they worked. It's nothing to be ashamed of - they have lots of great company in this regard.
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