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It depends what your goals are and what kind of shape you're in to begin with, but rest is important. If you've been working out for a while, the generally accepted wisdom is that you should have 1-2 rest days each week, though in my experience you can maintain pretty well and even see gains with just a couple of workouts a week.
Why is it that a well written site can't scale quite large on heroku? (or similar - I use heroku so I'm biased) Perhaps I'm naive, but I feel one can go from heroku to stage 5 if you truly have a blowout.

According to their website (http://success.heroku.com/) some pretty large websites run there, including Urban Dictionary and Rapportive.

Sure, it may cost more, but not more than a full time sysadmin and you are buying efficiency and flexibility. You can buy a lot at heroku for $10,000/month (the minimal cost of a full time deployment / sysadmin / dbadmin,) including I'd imagine some rather hands-on support.

This article seems to downplay the great advances that have been made in "cloud" deployment. IMO, a cloud service like heroku beats the pants off of self-operated virtual servers and debatably some of the higher "stages."
I'm glad to hear that. However as you probably know, suicidal ideation (aka thinking about or imagining suicide) is a serious symptom.

Again, I'm glad to hear you're getting help.

Anyone else with these symptoms should seek help, you're not alone.
Nooooooooooooo! We've switched largely to Scala! (But we're sill stuck with Java for GWT. :( )
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Heh, sbisker, don't you remember? We launched Tinfoil Security as a Show HN before we'd actually built anything and got great feedback. I'm not posting this as a measure of 'success' as much as a measure of a product that still exists, has raised venture funding, and is still trying to become a huge business. :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291944

https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
True. I'm a blu ray fan, even on my 30 inch LCD. Resolution aside, I do find the picture to be clearer and the colors more vivid on a blu ray vs a dvd. It may be just due to cleaner compression / encoding, but there is a noticable difference.
How many times per day?
You should see this website:

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No, people did not get used to the new News Feed. We just got tired of whining about it on a regular basis because Facebook will never change it back. Every one of my friends (across all demographics) still hate it very much.
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I think it would be very beneficial to have a chance for the posters to clarify some points which are often left very vague in the job listing.<p>I understand that it could lead to some unforseen community problems -- but I would like the option.
> Achieving read/write cells for under $1000 on the desktop would open up biology to an entire new set of people.

Including every random nutter with a grudge against society who wnats to make their own viruses and bacteria. I do not think this is a good idea.
Send that to NotAlwaysRight, now.
Yes, they are at a disadvantage, but they would still be at a local and global advantage. Local because they are first to put the innovation out, and they will naturally gain attention. Global because this system lifts everybody up overall. There is this midway hump that people can't seem to see over, but if what I say is true, the barrier will be broken and stay broken one day.

Plenty of good innovators (and artists) innovate for the joy of innovating, and this "protection" gets in their way. DRM and obfuscation hurts everyone involved.
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I am SO glad to see others pushing the compulsory licensing thing.

Everytime I suggest it on HN I get a lot of upvotes, but no discussion.

I think it is time for the idea to be circulated more widely.
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...ok, I think I just got told. I actually had forgotten we did that. :P
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That is a broken argument. Are you trying to suggest ADHD doesn't exist?

Not being able to sit still is only one of multiple symptoms (from only one of the two categories - inattentive and hyperactive) used to diagnose people with one of several different sub-types of ADHD. (ADHD-HI, ADHD-PI, ADHD-C)

You need a certain minimum of symptoms for diagnosis.

Right now I have a strong pain in my left shoulder, I'm sure I am not alone in this right now of all the people in the world. I bet some of your successful entrepreneurs have had shoulder pain before. When it turns out I am not having a heart attack, and that all those entrepreneurs were not having a heart attack, would you think it correct to suggest that heart attacks aren't real? That is pretty much what you said above.

And beyond that, you need more then just a certain number of symptoms for a diagnosis of a disorder like this. There must be negative effects to your disorder in multiple spheres of your life. (home, education, romantic)

Suggested reading for anyone who doubts the existence of ADHD: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9991388/2200_7-barktran.pdf
You must live in some crazy world where people are employed for their abilities.
Seems to me that programmers cause memory management failures, not languages. But I suppose that this is similar to arguments about guns killing people etc.
S3 concerns me quite a bit ..
Ask HN: What is my next step in Front End Web Development?
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I want to know what the next best step is to advance my career. I was either thinking of picking up ruby or start mobile application development.

Any advice towards any direction will be phenomenal.

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An option was left out which is to have your own T1 running into your own facility (that is not a data center). We did this for years ('96 to 2004) and had much better up time than with colocation with diverse paths and biometric security. We didn't need a generator either. Just an array of industrial batteries hooked up to a power inverter with a line conditioner could keep the equipment running for 24 hours if utility power went down. (This is much cheaper than anything you would buy commercially from APC or Triplite).
You might end up ruining your quality of life and he won't be. So you can't quantify your quality of life with time spent at work.

I'm not quantifying it, I'm merely pointing out that being a workaholic harms many people. Personally, I work hard doing stuff I love. But I do raise the bar for people who don't enjoy it, and who are forced to do so in order to compete.

If you take a pill and you get dementia 40 years later then you're trading in current gains for future pains.

And if you work your ass off and get high blood pressure/etc 40 years later, you are doing the same thing.

At most, it seems like a matter of degree and uncertainty. The costs/benefits of hard work are reasonably well known, whereas brain pills are not (yet).
I figured they were already doing this. Once I heard that Library of Congress was archiving tweets I assumed they either were or would be monitoring that information. I always heard that they have computers listening for keywords on phone conversations also. I never knew if it was true or a urban legend.
[citation needed] I don't think midterms exist because of this reason.

And even if they were the separation is too much to actually be valid as a Spaced Repetition tool.
Why is it that a well written site can't scale quite large on heroku?

Is anyone claiming that? The linked blog post doesn't make that claim.
You mean they don't already? That's a bit of a surprise. It's public information.

If they had been given access to private posts, that would be a cause for concern.
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Why then would you single out Java and not mention any of the other languages that are also not functional? Why not bash Smalltalk, or Objective-C?

There's nothing specious in an argument that isn't as general as it might be. If I soundly argue that red space ships are faster than blue cars, it's still a sound argument, even if I might have also successfully argued that all space ships are faster than all cars.

In any case, Java is often singled out because it is egregiously bad in quite a few ways, but arguments that claim that Lisp excels in certain ways compared to other languages, would typically apply against Smalltalk and Objective-C. (Though Smalltalk is dynamically typed, so that might be a putative virtue that Java doesn't have.)
Recycling the shavings isn't a bonus, as there are no shavings to recycle in additive manufacturing!

I'd like to see a rebuttal to your argument though, why is 3-d printing better than a "5-axis CNC mill"?
I did get a good idea from this list, from #13 "disrupt ad platforms, virally". Have a facebook app or something where users list their favorite brands/products/etc. Then go to the companies and say "I have 13,000 uses that really like your brand, Nike - give me a coupon to give to them". Not everyone will jump, but some brands will try it out. That will get more users and users putting more brands on their list to get more freebies. Then sell all the brand data to advertisers. Everybody is happy.
Where are they supposed to buy ethically manufactured hardware? Unfortunately, aside from only buying used electronics, you have close to no choices.
To have no rules is the simplest and most fair way for a creative professional to convert their effort into scarce attention, which leads to scarce resources.

If you do not do anything new and worthy of my attention tomorrow, I do not want you to have my bread.
Apart from tons of other features, Web developer toolbar[1] has this functionality built-in. It allows us to save our own dimensions too.

Of course, if one wants just the 're-sizing' capability, then this bookmarklet will sure help.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer...
I can't imagine the amount of channel noise generated by certain keywords. And for every one you'd have to do a time consuming search through the user's social graph(s).

There should be a function in the scraper that gives each user a unique ID, and retains an instance count of keyword 'hits'. Over time, the user would build up a 'heat rating' and IDs could be sorted by this. That way, people generating keyword noise over and over again could be separated from the general population for a closer look.
You do iOS dev? You need to radically raise prices. If you do not, people will assume lack of competency, because your project rate would be undercharging as a day rate right now.
Uh, yeah, you needed flash. You can't read local files in javascript without the HTML5 file api. Reading the value of <input type='file'> tags is forbidden in javascript. Try it.
I'm almost certain we're decades away before paper books start declining that badly.
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There's a really easy mental shortcut engineers or engineers who are aspiring entrepreneurs can make.

It starts with a thought like: "Oh, I can do that by gluing together X, Y, and Z and configuring the foobaz widget to sync via the 802.11q network."

Your second thought should be: "No normal person could do that, and even those who could probably wouldn't want to."
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Heck, I don't even like using services with a Facebook button.
But it could work the other way around.

And if the factory bosses were doing something illegal, the cops tried to stop them, and someone died in the scuffle, I would not immediately jump to the conclusion that the cops murdered him at the behest of the union.

It wouldn't take a lot to convince me - I'm generally very critical of cops, particularly in India. But some evidence is needed.
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Not that low-end, right? I think the cheapest "good" one was probably over $100, when I read about "Bitcoin mining" perhaps month or so ago.
Any founders here on HN use FoundersCard? For $495, it's a bit pricey for scrappy startups. Does the value outweighs the costs? Curious to learn more.
Do you ever wonder why law is so complicated? Maybe it's because the people who make them have a vested interest in complicating matters such that lawyers become necessary. The same logic that you are advocating is what is necessitating the existence of IP law and IP lawyers.

If we simply say that with regards to information, no laws except the laws of nature are necessary, then some lawyers will lose their jobs, but there will be less friction and eddy currents in the system. Overall our endeavors will be more productive and quality of life will generally improve.
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WebDAV was invented as a HTTP based way for accessing remote files. In general, support on the clientside is very good (built-in clients are in every major OS).

What hinders wide deployment is the server side: the most widely known implementation is mod_dav for apache and apache was never really made for a common use-case of FTP which is people using it with their unix account credentials for transmitting files.

If you have access to an OSX server, have a look at all the hoops they had to jump through to allow WebDAV with mod_dav and still do that in the context of the corresponding system user.

The other reason for FTP still being popular is legacy systems: over the years, I interfaced so many ERP systems for our product and usually, the only thing that customers can provide is good old FTP (or direct database access).

As this scenario doesn't involve unix accounts, I would love to use WebDAV for all the reasons outlined in te article, but body supports it on their end, despite it being around for 20 yars or so.
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Crediting. As far as I know PayPal Mass Payments requires the recipient to have a PayPal account (in fact, we do use Mass Payments for customers who choose to be paid by PayPal). Crediting via ACH, on the other hand, merely requires routing and bank account numbers - which is something everyone has! The whole point, which neither PayPal nor Dwolla solve, is to use the existing financial network, not create a new means of money exchange.
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Love his answer to #7 on what advice he'd give to a new developer:

"7. What advice would you give to a beginner server-side developer and what to an open-source author / contributor?

Meh, advice-shmadvice. Who am I to give advice? What’s experience good for in our field? I used to know how to write a keyboard driver and floppy disc formatters with non-standard densities. I’d be all but obsolete today if I hadn’t learned continuously.

Oh, so maybe this would be one piece of advice: learn how to learn, and stick with principles; mastering individual technologies will follow.

Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. The best people in our métier are those who know how to quickly become experts in some particular field."

Reminds me of Paul B's video from startup school:

http://youtu.be/EZxP0i9ah8E
Only going to mention things that other have not mentioned.

http://Elance.com - Remote contractors. Hourly or job based

http://oDesk.com - Virtual Admins

http://Freshbooks.com - Automation of invoicing. My average days to pay are about 9. A bill I am very happy to pay each month. I use chronomate as the time tracking portion.

http://adroll.com - advertising retargetting

http://join.me - free screen sharing better than go-to-meeting

http://highrisehq.com - CRM
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I might be missing something, but that's not at all what I was arguing!

MDY drives me nuts too.
As someone who's done a lot of work in e-learning, the biggest problem is making something for subjects that anyone would bother using. It's a lot of energy to go learn physics so who wants to try it in some half-finished, inconsistent, unverified e-course. Programming is easy to teach because it's all conceptual, and the concepts are clearly defined and structured. So you could maybe teach linguistics in this way, but not something like Spanish. Or if you tried to have a collaborative Spanish curriculum it would be a huge effort to collate everything into a logical progression ("they don't know that grammar rule/word yet") so you might as well pay someone to write a consistent one from scratch. Same for physics/math/any open-ended science or humanities class.

Your second big problem is getting anyone to actually contribute a lesson plan in a way that is consistent with the format you're trying to structure things. People aren't going to make one from scratch for you, for free. So you either pay people or accept all manner of half-baked, duplicate lesson plans.
What do you mean by mind boosting? Do you mean that the effects of the drug when used by people with ADHD are no different then when used by an NT person, and that everyone is just being "boosted"? (if so, this is not correct, responses to these medications and the dosages required for certain effects differ between the two groups)

When you suggest that people need to "develop the abilities" themselves, do you mean to include ADHD people in this? It is believed that people with ADHD literally cannot develop such abilities. (actually, there appears to be about a 30% lag in their development of them .718yrs = 12.6yrs, .721yrs = 14.7yrs, .7*30yrs = 21yrs etc)
Curious about incero.com. Seems like a 1 man company essentially renting rackspace from Netriplex. How comfortable are you with that as a point of failure?

I'm also uneasy with people that put up a page like this which basically makes it seem (unless you read the first sentence carefully) that you are in the secure hands of a much larger organization.

http://www.incero.com/datacenter-network

http://www.linkedin.com/company/incero-llc

Thoughts? (Note all blog posts are by "Gordon") I have less issues of course if the idea is redundancy.
"What browser are you using?" is probably one of the most commonly used methods, and also the most pointless question that one could ask of a non-tech-savvy client. You're bound to get replies like "I'm using Google" or "What's a browser?"

A "cat mode" that gets widely noticed could help many of us deal with clueless clients. Make the cat follow laser pointers and mutter lolcode while it collects every possible piece of information about the client's system. Really, anything to make it more viral would contribute to the Greater Good (tm) and more than compensate for immaturity.

Even something as simple as a browser-specific tuturial for clearing the cache would be immensely helpful. For example, Dropbox customizes its download & installation tutorial for each user's browser. It's really helpful.
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Does the fact they specifically include MySpace in Section H, subsection a, in the original Request for Information indicate just how disconnected the people who are writing these are from consumer internet trends?
While passive FTP solved the issue for the client, it totally breaks if the server is behind a NAT, so you are back to the firewall needing knowledge of the inner workings of the protocol.

having the two separate connections really is an anachronism which proves to be a big hassle or all parties.

And not even IPv6 will slve this one as a firewall still needs to know what port to let data through. And because the PORT command lists IP addresses, you can't even transparently run FTP over v6. It's one of te protocols where users need to have special protocol awareness beyond the length of the IP address.
Is this your site?

I like the concept, but one suggestion. The rounded rectangles with the computers specs look like buttons. The onhover effect doesnt help either. I tried clicking for 5-10 secs before realizing they werent buttons.
"main threat to US factory workers' jobs."

There is no such thing as threat - a factory worker who cannot compete MUST be selected out, and replaced by something that is cheaper. This is for the betterment of all, at the expense of the said factory worker. This is called reality and those who choose to prevent efficiency is only retarding progress.

Now, of course, the said factory worker isn't obsolete - they should "skill up" and do something that currently isn't achievable via low paid labour, or machines. This is where value is derived, and should be encouraged (ala, re-education).
It doesn't need to be, but it certainly helps expand the conversation.
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Of course real life is difficult. My point was regarding open-book exams.
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> I frequently use MD5 to generate unique ids for a ton of stuff.

Why not just use a random 64 or 128 bit number (or UUID)? This would be faster and would not require that the input (that you are hashing) already be unique.

The only legitimate use of MD5 I can think of is to verify legacy MD5 checksums.
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I agree that fab-on-demand technologies will become important in the future, but I don't buy the vision of a 3D printer (at least, not a good one) in every home.

Think about the 2D printing analogy -- while almost everyone has a 2D printer in their home, early every morning, while we're still asleep, a car drives by our house and hurls a poorly printed bundle of paper at our front stoop containing the day's news. There's no reason that we COULDN'T each print a personalized copy of the day's newspaper at home, but the fact is that we don't. Likewise, I'll bet that most of HN have given up on printing their own photos at home, and just do the sensible thing and upload them to Shutterfly, or Target, or WalMart, or any of the other sites that can deliver high-quality photo prints to your door for pennies.

I just don't believe that the average user will take on the technical knowledge, space, upkeep and supply costs to run a 3D printer in their house. But, I can see the day when every Kinko's, or the equivalent, is equipped with one of these babies.
Don't be such an engineer. :) :: wink ::

The previous reply is a good interpretation of what I was talking about. Western nations lead the world in technology and advancement because those who do not adapt and grow are marginalized. To be fair to your point though, I should not have used "the Koreans". I used to live there and they are as advanced technologically as any Western nation in the world. Ne, they are "in the club". (I wish the same could be said for their city planning and traffic grids. Ugg.)
Thanks for sharing, I think it's very interesting. Don't give up on explaining it though. I'm sure with time and effort you will find a way and/or the words to explain it. If we all spoke more about how we perceive the world, we all would have better words for it, and a better understanding of everything.
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