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> I have a friend that says if I can't do my job without medication, I'm in the wrong profession.

I hate that line of reasoning. I couldn't do my job without glasses. Does that mean I'm in the wrong profession?
I'm curious how you enjoy working with virtual machines instead of all native?

This is admittedly my first day of not being just a lurker here, so forgive me if I shouldn't ask this here, but what is your setup and environment like?

I've considered running VMs for each client I work on, but am unsure if it'd just be a hassle or not.
What is bad about that? I think it looks quite good and it is functional.
Not more than they could sell, more than they could probably sell in a financial year because distributors were willing to hold on to stock longer.

That said I don't have any real objection to the SC's ruling.
That's Weta being weird and being wed to their PRMan pipeline using PantaRay as a first-stage radiosity solution which is fed to PRMan as an infinite series of lights. It works, but from what I hear it's limiting their pipeline quite a bit. But then, they're Weta so they're more than capable of writing their own stuff and they're good at what they do :)

ILM used to do something similar, but a lot of the big houses are moving from PRMan over to raytracers (specifically Arnold) with full GI support as it makes the overall pipeline and definitely artist look-dev a lot simpler and faster. PRMan 16 is also a very good raytracer now (it could previously do ray tracing through custom shaders).
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This is a classic arms race. Like states giving tax breaks to invent corporations to move. Just like baseball we are probably all better off with some rules.
My uncle was an engineering manager at a large multi-national. He's in his mid-50s, having worked there for over a decade.

In 2008 his company moved all their engineering to India. He stuck around to complete the transition, train the Indian devs etc, and took the package just as the recession started.

He had a helluva time finding a gig. But last I heard he went back to being a contract programmer (probably a pay cut) and he's working on a project on the side. Happy as can be.
One of my cats tends to sleep on the top of the bed, and picks the side in an apparently random way. This means it would block the sensor on something close to 50% of nights.

Cool product though, and this is a pretty specific issue (e.g. the other cat prefers sleeping in the legs, or under the bedsheets).
Yes, the SleepCycle App does use motion too. In fact, I had that idea before they did, but I didn't want to require the user to put the phone on the bed. That seemed really kludgy to me, so that's why I continued on my original path of embedding the motion sensor in the charging dock. I guess I missed out on like a million dollars from that decision, but you never know, maybe we'll beat that figure with this much more sensible device :).
Ritalin (methylphenidate) and Adderall (Dextroamphetamine / Levoamphetamine) are interesting and powerful nootropics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic). I haven't tried them yet, although I am looking forward to the day I do. However, they do have some serious negative aspects; they are addictive and come with a substantial 'crash'. This is where the racetams come in!

The racetam family consists of nootropics that enhance mainly memory recall, although I certainly feel there's an increase in ability to think of new ideas and convey them lucidly. They're not all that new (first developed in the 60s) and are widely regarded as non-toxic, in both the short and long term (sorry, don't know how to find the study. However, as anecdotal evidence, this guy did 80 GRAMS of piracetam in one sitting, which is 100x the regular dose http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153468).

The stimulation from piracetam, the racetam that is most commonly used, is sort of similar to caffeine stimulation but less pronounced; I have also never experienced a piracetam crash, even after nasal insufflation of a gram and a half. Piracetam also makes me much more productive, much more than caffeine ever did or probably will ever do, and I highly suggest it for anyone who is interested in nootropics!
Another point to notice: we have new printing techniques! Smaller runs can be more cost effective with new digital printing that has less one-off cost.

The author neglects one factor which is especially salient given the above - if a publisher finds a book is selling they will go for a second print run to milk it!
The easiest way to get a freelance gig is to have a friend on a freelance gig. Make friends of fellow freelancers.
It's not so much knowing a long list of mathematical facts, as acquiring the mindset that lets you take those facts and apply them to new situations.

Sure, you can choose a programming career where you don't need to know what a Taylor series is, how large linear systems are solved, or even what sine and cosine are. Maybe that will be a safe choice for the forseeable future, but more and more apps involve 3D, machine learning, computer vision, data analysis, etc.

I personally view it as increased job security to learn as much as I can about the basic tools that let me understand how those things work. To not do so is (in my mind, anyway) very much the same as saying that caching, or complexity theory, or how to build a linked list is "not very relevant to most work": it may seriously limit the jobs you're eligible for in the future, because you'll lack the foundation to understand the work at hand at even the most basic level.

That said, I've always been interested in math, and probably obsess too much over knowing how things work. I can appreciate that it's just not interesting enough for most people to pursue.
What if powerful languages and idioms only work for small teams?
Don, a local developer, put this together for a two part meetup group:

http://blog.machineinteractive.com/2011/05/reflections-on-ru...

Includes full code for the app on github. He also did a quick gps + yahoo weather api which isn't as exciting, but, might fit the time constraints.

Don also uses processing.org for a lot of projects which is a pretty good learning environment - though, not android. Peruse his blog for more stuff.

He also wrote the Myxer.fm Android app.
I'm also starting as a freelance after some years of web experience in startups and agencies but I have trouble finding these hundreds of people. Could you elaborate on this?
Fail fast, don't work on features that nobody will use, try to avoid spending lots of time on fundraising etc etc. Without the context it's really hard to see how those things apply to your situation, even though they sound like good advice.

dlevine puts it really really well in another comment - "Once you make the mistake, you will try to avoid the pain it caused by doing something different the next time."
> What more do you need?

Not a tablet anyway, it seems.

Kidding aside, I believe you've nailed the problem with this tablet's UI: it seems designed by people who don't see the point of a tablet. They understand it as "a laptop without a keyboard".

We've seen that before with Windows CE, designed by people who saw smartphones as underpowered, keyboard-less computers, with a stylus as a poor substitute for a mouse (they even had a right-click button on some styluses IIRC). They "adapted" the Windows UX into a phone as an accessibility issue, although it was to support challenged hardware rather than challenged users. And indeed, Windows CE felt as compelling as Windows with sticky keys, high contrast, big fonts and a Braille reader.

I'm afraid this tablet's UI deserves the same success against iOS devices as Windows CE experienced.
I take a low dose of Vyvanse and I agree. Diagnosed in my 20s.

Always dreaded school. The 8-hour-day stagnant, unchallenging classroom model never compelled me. Maybe it's time to accept that if a kid isn't compelled by our education system we might have a systemic problem that can't be fixed by prescribing kids speed until they can make it through 8 hours without having a wayward thought.

A low dose of amphetamine helped me focus on my ambitions after I'd spent my entire life scavenging for freetime to chase them outside of school. But frankly, I couldn't tell you what came first: my "ADD" or my contempt for the education system.
Really well put! Until you've experienced something yourself you think "Oh, that sounds like good advice. I'll try to do that", but you're not actively on the lookout for when you should be applying it. Once you've learnt it the hard way though, that pain means you won't forget, and you'll definitely be actively trying to avoid it in the future.
If you watch the introduction, notice that when Rich Hickey motions the lisp syntax with his hands, he explains prefix notation in the viewer's perspective!
Exactly. The important part isn't that Clojure has implementations of concurrency primitives, but that it has language semantics for defining when/how state may change.
Someone already posted some below:
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3524864
So you're saying this is nothing like the argument 'stealing a snickers from Walmart is such a small amount, it's not important'?

Will you stop trying to paint me as only talking about one issue? That's where you get my argument utterly wrong.

It's akin to saying "Mao Zedong's China was bad because the dog-catchers weren't licensed properly".

Like it or not, the legal system regularly drops small, less important charges when bigger ones are present. The murderer who exceeding the speed limit trying to escape from police doesn't get a speeding ticket. That doesn't mean that speeding tickets themselves are unimportant or never get pursued.
typingweb.com is a great website. Without using any other resource, I went from hunting and pecking to touch-typing about 70-80 wpm in about three months. All it takes is short bursts of consistent practice.

I don't remember where I read it, but the world record holder supposedly typed out 1000 words of error-free text each and every day. Whenever he made a mistake (this probably didn't happen often) he would simply start over and try again.
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For the same reason you wouldn't leave your home country just because you take issue with a few things.

Any complex system is going to have good parts and bad parts. Walking away because you don't like the bad would require you to abandon the good. An often more efficient alternative is to stay, continue to enjoy the good, and campaign to have the bad changed or removed.
It's an old page — this was used for Summer 2011. It may be inheriting some base styles that are now changed for a more current page. Are people now scouring through unused pages to drum up some shit?
This is anecdotal, and I have not followed rigorously the experimental protocols of any of the papers I have cited, nor have I subjected myself to tests of retention, calculation or reaction time. Nevertheless, I believe the device has enabled me to achieve a higher karma score on Hacker News. I have authored a paper on mathematical logic after a period of previously drafting notes, and have had success with the integration of large-scale multi-disciplinary environmental systems models. Finally I believe the cognitive gains my unlicensed, home-made DIY tDCS device have enabled are sufficient to overcome the bias that otherwise would have left me unemployed (cf. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/us/bay-area-technology-pro...).
Cool. I thought this wouldn't be out til FOSDEM.
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Barnes & Noble have a website?

In my opinion publishers both of old media such as books and modern media such as tv and films need to disappear.

Then we can get a global distribution network going that no longer tells me "this content is not available in your area".

This concept of nationalised distribution rights is of no benefit to me as a consumer.
I wasn't being intentionally vague, it's just that there have been a lot of posts talking about exactly went wrong with startups and there seems to be a lot of overlap. I linked to an excellent article that covers mistakes first time entrepreneurs make, and I made many of them (and it seems many others have too). Rather than covering ground that's already been covered a fair amount I thought I'd share what were the biggest 2 takeaways for me personally.
Indeed - it's a big tradeoff. It's probably 1/2 the cost of either coast, and you can send your kids to public schools without worrying about them getting mugged. But it speaks to the culture when cities brag about being, "Just 4 hours from Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha and St. Louis"

A definite trade-off.
I got started with only 1 project in my "portfolio". It was more like 5000 LOC however. Since then every client of mine has required me to sign NDAs so I currently still only have 1 project in my portfolio.
These sorts of thing tend to parallelize well too. If it were written for CUDA or similar, I wouldn't be surprised to see it finish in a few hours.
The major problem for cloud-based services for studio pipelines is:

1) There are are large amount of assets that need to be sent over to the cloud. In my experience this can go up to several gigabytes per frame if you count CFX, FX, Rigs, etc.

2) Most studios are reluctant to have their data stored on the cloud due to piracy concerns.

I wonder how Greenbutton is handling these two issues?
Btw, are you "even curious" about how your car actually works? Your TV? Your grandfather's artificial valve? X-rays? How milk turns into yoghurt? How epidemiologists study disease? Who was the kind of Sparta at the time of the roman invasion? How the books you read are typeset?

If you answered no to ANY of those, do you consider yourself an idiot?

If no, why should users be "curious" how the HTML page actually works? Because everybody has to have YOUR expertise in the field YOU'VE chosen?
I agree. I don't use them much. But they are a very useful way to share information easily. When I was in between business cards I created a qr code of a vcard of my contact info and saved it as the image for my lock screen.

I had an instant conversation topic with me at all times and people seemed to appreciate the creative use as well.
Ask HN: Are chances of winning the lottery really that small?
Yesterday afternoon I went to play the lottery card that my mother gave me while I was heading for the gym. While returning home I searched for a lottery play point on the street. She seldomly asks for it and I seldomly do this. I played it, paid around $5 (I'm in Turkey, 9 liras) and headed back home.

This morning we found out that she got 5 out of 6 numbers right. She won around $1500. I thought, what are the chances?

In Turkey its simple, there are 6 numbers that you need to get right, numbers 1 to 49 for each 6 slots. So the chance of getting 5 numbers right should be 1/49 * 1/49 ... which is 1/49^5 right? and that makes 1 in 282,475,249. That is one in 282 million 475 thousand 249th.

I find this to be a very low number. Even 1 in 1000 is very low. Now, I know that my Aunt, 10 years ago had hit 5 out of 6 numbers, too.

So what does this make, the chances are 1/282 millionth, yet every now and then someone in my close family hits it? It feels like there is some other forces of nature than pure chances in this. From Mr. Murphy: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" or the way I like to phrase it "If something can happen, it will happen".
If you are 55 and have spent your life acquiring new skills you won't have to send out cv's. You will be the guy that people come to that solves hard problems and can deliver - if nothing else because you have seen a lot more and understand more of the big picture than a 25yo.
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I don't see why they need to be a state any more than Washington D.C. does.
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Are they using the Tangerine Dreamscape, or whatever color Pantone declared the color of the year?
Alarms are useful as a last resort. My alarm sings at 7.30 but I wake at 7.28 to turn it off. ;)
I would personally be much less inclined to support a Kickstarter project that tried to drum up support with spam:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3506802
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501572
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3507260

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Anyone know how he made some of those graphics? That deck looks hot!
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I tried spending an afternoon with my daughter in the children's section of Amazon, but she was bored as hell.
I have my own very simple entry in this space:
https://github.com/asb/sh-todo

It's a bit annoying that so few terminals implement the ANSI escape sequence for strikethrough (gnome-terminal does!) but I've been using it for almost a year now. I have my todo and todone files synced via Dropbox and todone-view allows me to easily see the tasks I knocked off the list recently. I also quite like not immediately moving items from the todo list to the archive after they're done. I think it's nice to be able to cross a bunch of items from your list, and see them cross out next time you type `todo`. Then when they're just a distracting to `todone-archive` and they only appear in your todone file.

sh-todo will run on any POSIX compliant shell.
Sorry, but we don't consider a few posts on a site dedicated to news about projects and requesting feedback to be spam.
There is an app that does a similar thing without any extra hardware (you put your phone on the bed, and it uses the accelerometer).

http://www.sleepcycle.com/
Yeah, I meant what he said in the quote--I don't know if he should have said anything more, but it certainly seems far from a mere "poor choice of words".
Did the banner magically change too when 2012 rolled around?
1. Most VFX places are on a fat bandwidth pipe because it's becoming more and more common to shares assets with other studios. It's definitely an issue, but with geometry formats like Alembic which offer very efficient compression and de-duplication, it's not as bad as it seems.
The envy slide doesn't make his intent particularly clear. He is talking about how Haskell envies the usefulness of the dangerous languages, and then contrasts that with how Haskell contributes more theoretical ideas (e.g. retry/orElse for STM) back to those languages.
That's what I thought too. Fusion-io drives all flush their write buffer to the nand flash on a power cut event, I wasn't aware that some SSD's didn't. People use iodrives as a caching layer in conjunction with tradition spinning hard drives, so wondered if possibly he was referring to that kind of setup.
Please, if you think I'm wrong, point me at stuff you think is worth reading, not just as a way of spending time, but as a way of profiting from that time.

Well, from James stuff what I got was a glimpse of how (at least some) business deals (investing, selling your company) are done in the raw, what the other side might bluff about and in what ways, etc. Things you don't easily find elsewhere as candidly.

As for the stories about his childhood, affairs etc, those are not "to profit from" in the way you want, but are fun in a more "literary(-ish)" way.

At least the study of geometry gives problem-solving and analytical skills in return for the time spent.

Sure, but note that the point of Euclid (in the story above) was that it is beneath someone to want to always profit from what he studies.

He wanted one to study math for the "fun of knowledge" itself, so to speak, not as a means to gain problem-solving and analytical skills.
The ‘high’ goes away after two weeks of continuous use, but the cognitive benefits persist. This is exactly why ADHD medications work long term.

> But in fact, the loss of appetite and sleeplessness in children first prescribed attention-deficit drugs do fade (…). They apparently develop a tolerance to the drug, and thus its efficacy disappears.

Those are side effects in the context of treating ADHD.

Here’s a great summary: http://www.reddit.com/r/ADD/comments/no6hp/would_anyone_be_i...
Yes, and for the people that don't seem to mind that approach, please go ahead and try it out. Personally, I can't imagine setting up the phone on my bed every night or under my pillow. We really think our charging dock with included motion sensor that is non-intrusive and requires no nightly setup is a far superior solution.
Not really. This collision required specific intent, and a great deal of compute power, to find.

md5 is still adequate for accidental/random error detection because the universe doesn't (usually) spend many hundreds of hours on hundreds of GPUs to try to corrupt your data without you noticing :)
That annoyed me too, but why punish the maker for the reviewer's sins?
Obvious, real world example: I've been dreading Timeline because I know the only high-resolution pictures of me on Facebook (that I've either uploaded myself or been tagged in) all include my ex-girlfriend, so I'll need to take a different picture for the header image.

I know how absurd that may sound, but Timeline, especially taken long-scale, could have a major impact on how we perceive our lives and ourselves because of how impossible it will be to escape from the past without painstakingly filtering and removing posts and pictures.

The obvious response, of course: "if you don't want permanence, don't upload in the first place." And this will be something I keep in mind, unless Facebook adds features to easily prune content from Timeline. But it's ridiculous that I should need to be that concerned about every pithy status I decide to post, not because of its contents in the present, but how they could be perceived in the future by myself and others.
I don't think anyone is under the impression they weren't
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Gowers: What’s wrong with electronic journals?
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The reason I like bookstores and library stacks in a different way from internet searches and online purchases is that there is an element of serendipity that seems missing from the internet world, and also a calming appreciation for the idea that things take time. On the internet, most content is broken into tiny chunks; myriad sites vie for attention by dancing and flashing and trying to make me click and buy; most web pages are high noise, low signal; in filter/aggregator type sites, even the best of them, attention is mainly directed to the new and popular. By contrast, browsing a shelf of books about a subject I’m interested in – which is to say, pulling down books, leafing through, skimming the index for relevant keywords, reading chunks, picking a few to check out or buy – is about the highest signal/noise block of attention I can spend.

For me, digital systems have three big advantages over printed books. (1) I can access them anywhere, (2) searching and hopping between hyperlinks is much faster than paper citation tracking, (3) if I already know exactly what I’m looking for, it’s usually possible to find it quickly.

But quite often I don’t know what I’m looking for. Almost every time I walk into a good bookstore, I end up walking out with a book I’d never have thought to buy online. In those cases, searching faster or clicking more hyperlinks wouldn’t help me, and overall the time spent online would have been more usefully spent actually reading.
Heh. I strapped together a LightWave cloud renderer as a side project a couple of years ago. Never really did anything with it, though. Wonder if I should dust off the code and see if there's interest?
Sorry I meant to say wouldn't. I'm sure they could together create a bigger impact then seperate
Good for your father! It isn't just tech, everyone in every industry needs to be nimble.

Even if you are a farmer, you might find you need to switch from growing say wheat to corn because market conditions changed.
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