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I read somewhere (but can't remember where) that people spending a lot of time behind a monitor, can suffer from delayed sleep cycles. This is due to the light emitted by the monitor. So probably as one said already, it could help not watching at a monitor hours before sleep.

I found a lot of good informations about sleep on that link :
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
Is that for fact true? I would very much like to believe it since I've spent some time i NZ and found it to be very hospitable to companies in some respects.

That would mean that the US kick ass (Im considering relocating to the US btw).
if going to bed at the same time / getting up at the same times works, then you're probably lucky to not have such an extreme disorder. I've tried this and it doesn't work for me, the only solution has been to change my life so it fits more around my condition. This is through a combination of - 1 part time job, 1 teaching job and a number of freelance jobs.
Freelancing is probably your best option as you can work from home at hours that suit you, the best way to get freelance work is via direct contacts, get yourself a linkedin profile & your own website (if you don't already) and get networking. Most of my freelance work comes from word of mouth, so make sure as many people as possible know what you do & that you're available.
Contracting is an option, as you could deal with the sleep deprivation for a couple of months, then take a couple of weeks off - there's loads of agencies about, just make sure you 'sell' yourself to them with a really great CV.
Alternatively, do some research and find a company that promotes more progressive working styles, I worked at one small agency which allowed people to work from home if they chose, or work shifts at the office that suited them.
Don't give up hope, it's not your fault you have this condition, and if workplaces' could be more flexible it would be better for everyone that's currently excluded (i.e. people with disabilities, single parents, etc).
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Slideshare presentation is also high-res, just hit "full screen" button in the lower right corner.
Other than textbooks, what did you have in mind?
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IMO, a fine piece of humour: on the surface it's a simple gag, but there's enough insight to make you think. Matt Maroon will like point three.
I have DSPS as well and regular employment is impossible. I do consulting from home. It's not perfect, clients don't like to have to deal with my schedule, but it works.

So that's what I would tell you: forget about regular employment and find consulting/contracting jobs.

Oh, and I don't know the details obviously, but try to get back with your girlfriend - 8 years - you have a chance I think, she almost certainly misses you too. Show her this thread maybe :)

DSPS is not cureable. It can sometimes be managed with a lot of work, but realistically it rarely succeeds. You have it, so you have to manage your employment to work with it.

You're lucky to be a programmer. In the olden days I guess you would be a craftsman.

If you need a place to start, use one of those online sites where you bid on work - the pay is lousy, but maybe you'll find a decent client, or referrals.

Also small businesses are always looking for contractors - they like it because they don't have to deal with payroll, or even an office. Start local - just walk up main street and poke your nose in each building. Leave a card. (Well I don't know what you do exactly - but I assume you can change if you have to, to match what small businesses are looking for.)
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My bank sends me SMS with a PIN code when I log in. But they are in the process of replacing the system with a card reader that reads your debit card (smartcard with a chip).
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Am looking for co-founder now. Have been filming, editing, etc.,and want to hear from anybody that would be interested in this incredible project.
It's not hacker news. If people want this sort of pulp they can by the truckload over at reddit. Please leave it our of the ycom feeds.
It has a smaller footprint, if that matters to you.
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"Notice how it would be very uncomfortable for two people to live in any of these places."

Two unrelated people, maybe. A married couple wouldn't have any trouble (unless the marriage itself was having trouble, of course).
Um, I (and the whole world) called it for Obama before 10pm that night. It seemed clear to me that the "incumbents" must have been legally required (or something) to wait till the polls closed on the west coast before they could make it official.

And lots of people called the election months before too. I followed http://electoral-vote.com/ just because I followed them the last two elections. The job of prediction they did was comparable. Though FiveThirtyEight.com did seem to have more/better features.
Interesting question.

There is opportunity for some one who can do data banking/insurance correctly for the masses. Since a good startup is solving a pain, and death is one of the biggest, this is a relatedly great problem to solve.

The technology obviously exists, but it's another example where legal systems and business models need to catch up.
I don't think it's that unusual, I remember reading somewhere the average circadian cycle for most people is a 25 hour day, that's what mine seems to be. If I let myself I stay up an hour later each night. I usually work up a sleep deficit during the week and catch up on the weekend.

Try the tricks recommended for insomniacs and see if they help, avoid caffeine and alcohol, particularly at night. Only go to bed to sleep, not watching TV. Try getting natural light in the morning to wake up when the sun is coming up.

Try working somewhere else, I've been a programmer for more than 20 years and can't remember when anyone said I had to get in at 9.00 am or whatever, and most developers I've worked with are the same. Become a DBA or administrator working wierd hours is part of the job. 'luck
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Exactly. Each start-up failure is a monumental learning opportunity. So long as it doesn't kill you, it will make you (a lot) stronger.

And if the chances of success are 50%, then surely that means that within 2-3 start-ups you should be 90% likely of succeeding... so start-up failure is not actually a failure, it's just getting the fails out of the way so you can get to the wins.
I've suffered a mild version of this problem during a couple of periods. I don't think it's the same as yours, that seems to be much stronger. Anyway, I fixed it using some of the same advice that others have already told you and a little more thing: light. A very strong light in my room at the time of awakening helped A LOT. The light must touch the skin. You'll need some kind of device to program it or someone to do it manually.
While I've never been diagnosed, I suspect that I have something very similar, or exactly the same as you do.

The only way I've gotten around it is by making the vast majority of my income through freelance work, and by finding more permanent jobs that are willing to take it into account, or that allow for telecommuting or don't really care about schedules.
Sounds like an early sign of autism...
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I used it, but I used it with Actor 3 (a Smalltalk-ish environment) under Windows.

Having done stuff with Actor and later studying Smalltalk made me resist nearly a decade before learning C++. It simply looked like a step in the wrong direction.
Why the hell does your site insist on resizing my browser full max when it doesn't need do?

Don't do this.
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Hey Arnav, will definetly be along. Interesting that you are setting up different areas in the room, I have a G1 now so I'll be hanging about the mobile dev bit :)

See you there
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I have a better idea... just give him My Pet Goat to read, that'll soothe him.
Seriously, you are an idiot for not having left that company a lot earlier. Ignore that stupid company, really. I suppose there are places to work (or freelancing?) that fit you better.

Anyway, good luck, you can succeed :)
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(I originally tried to keep this short. Epic fail.)

I don't want to sound unsympathetic, as you seem to have an actual medical condition that's substantially impacting your life. At the same time, I want to point out a few things that really struck me reading your post, as I don't think mindless sympathy is the ideal approach to helping others. (Asperger's has its upside, too... :) )

"essentially told by HR that I was obligated to comeback full-time"

BS! Indentured servitude has long ago been outlawed in the US, and while my company generally tries hard to get our good interns to come back full-time, HR doesn't phrase it as an obligation.

"my girlfriend of 8 years (seriously, we had been together since we were 16) had just left me because I was exhausted and working all of the time"

There's an awful lot of relationship "turbulence" in the mid-20s, and it's awfully hard to pin a breakup to a specific root cause, especially when it's fairly vague.

"I'm actually afraid to get another job."

Why? For a good coder, they're everywhere, easy to get, and pretty handy for paying the bills.

There's an substantial chance that your prior employer is just a grind 'em up and spit 'em out crappy employer, though it's hard to say from only hearing your side. But if it really was "your employer's fault", then getting another one has a substantial chance of fixing a large part of what you are complaining about. (And if it was really "your fault" (see below), getting another one gets you that one step closer to figuring that out too, so that you can change that.)

I'd offer a couple pieces of advice:

1. Take responsibility for choosing your own path. Don't let HR tell you you're obligated to come back. Don't work for crappy employers.

2. Don't "double down" on your limitations. Given that you have a legitimate medical condition, don't tie other aspects of your life to that condition. Don't blame a failed relationship on it, etc; otherwise, you're liable to fall into a victim mentality, which regardless of whether or not there is a true linkage, doesn't help you to make thoughtful choices in your life.

3. There are plenty of employers out there for good hackers, and I've worked with people with far more messed up sleep/work schedules than you, and I'd hire (some of) those people with nothing more than a phone call telling me they were available.

If hacking is the one thing you love doing, do that. Going to academia, or anything other than hacking, is a cop-out.

Go get another job hacking, and if that doesn't work out, go get another job hacking, and repeat until you find one that makes you mutually happy. If you get to 4 or 5 and find that you're still "0 for", then think about whether there are other root causes, and whether you bear more responsibility for some of your challenges than you are currently admitting to.

You need more data. You came to HN asking for it. IMO, you really need more data about YOU and how YOU will handle your life responsibilities, and while you can ask HN how people here handle their lives, ultimately, it's going to be a lot more productive to find YOUR answers in YOUR mirror.
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Very true, same in France where the family benefits are amazing.
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My second thought (after the laughter) - but then I think it shows how much we want to ascribe "problems" to kids. It's obvious he turned out okay and it's sad to think that under other parents he may have been diagnosed rather than encouraged.
Excellent point. Will get this removed ASAP!
Hmm, the video looks interesting, but it's quite boringly executed :-(

Is there a summary of the points in this talk somewhere?
Point of view is worth 30-IQ points.

experience is what you get when do not get what you want... [in a startup] you always gain valuable experience from a failed adVenture.

to err is to learn.
Great question. In the sense of online personal training videos - there are many. In the sense that we are developing a platform where fitness professionals meet users (think Threadless meets Current TV meets your local gym), there are none.
>My preferred solution then, would be to get rid of electoral democracy.

To be replaced with...?
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Thats why I'm here. Tired of all the politics on Digg, Reddit, etc. Please only hacker news.
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And it's old, this version is a blog ripoff, and I think the original might have been posted already, anyway.
There doesn't seem to be a good classifieds system for campuses. Facebook isn't too helpful, neither is craigslist.
WTF? Now there are two Dr. Dooms? Things really must be bad.
Thanks for providing an iPhone friendly version.

My biggest gripe with the iPhone is that the optimal zoom for viewing a web page is slightly larger than the width of the phone. To read a page, I have to constantly swipe left and right a bit. I wish they had a text-only zoom mode that would fit pages to the width of the phone at a comfortable text size.
I remember my wife describing the morning of the 4th when she brought up Facebook and her feed was this giant mass of get-out-the-vote status updates from people who donated their status to Obama. I also remember getting far more tweets from Obama than McCain, and the follower counts were very lopsided. Clearly, the campaigns had different approaches in the wired and I think it at least helped enthusiasm amongst my generation.
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so you don't see places like:
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http://www.ttmembers.com/
as being competitors?

What do you offer that they don't?
Agreed, if this guy had called the election in 04, or a more difficult call in '00 I would be impressed. As a democrat who saw 1 election stolen and 1 botched by Kerry, even I was confident in falling asleep early knowing we'd pull this one out.
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It's not the approach that mattered, it's the money. Obama didn't have any hidden advantage or strategy that allowed him to out maneuver McCain, he just had a lot more money to throw at small niche strategies (and staffers) like Twitter and larger ones like TV ads.

There are smart-young people on 'both' sides, one side just had waaay more money to spend.

I also think it's cute how people think Obama himself was actually Tweeting them
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> somebody could go ahead and employ the botnet to do their evil bidding...

why not good bidding?
It's both, and both are worthy of being reported on. The housing bubble was news for almost a year, and then all this credit crap happened. Where has this guy been for the last year?
I sometimes think about my family going through my personal belongings after I die, and learning a lot about who I am that they probably never knew.

I plan on leaving all my information to them (good and bad) so they can not only 'clean up' after I'm gone but also learn more about who I truly was.

/Maybe I should do that 'before' I pass.
Without downplaying anything done for society as a whole, I must say that it's unlikely you'll ever be as influential upon society as a whole as can be upon your own children. Also, children also have a way of exposing your weaknesses that is unique to their relationship with (and reflection of) you.

Granted, these are just vehicles to maturity, not a promise of success. Everyone fails in some measure, some horribly.
Got me thinking, imagine you die and people send grieving emails to your family via your Gmail account. Does Google serve ads for funeral homes and related products?

I'm afraid the answer would probably be yes and it makes me sick to think of Google profiting from your passing (the funeral homes, not so much)
This is something I've thought about a lot.

My mom had a disease that involved a great deal of treatment and it wasn't a very common disease so she had found a wonderful support group online. I helped her start a blog (http://www.jarrett.ws/dale) and after she lost the battle with the disease I was the one who updated her blog to share the bad news. That is still the latest post on the blog, having left it untouched since then. I make sure to renew the domain and take care of it for her.

The fact is that death and the Internet is still quite nebulous. Companies don't really address it, the law hasn't covered it, etc.

We knew mom's passwords so I didn't have wrangle control or anything, I went into her email accounts and collected any emails or mementos I wanted to keep. I unsubscribed her from mailing lists and discussion groups, generally got her digital life in order.

The idea of handling online property is something I'd even considered bringing to YC as a business concept, but I couldn't find a solid base for it. Even aside from emails, blogs, and such, I had considered the idea of virtual wealth in MMOs and such.

I actually expect Facebook to be the first social network to really begin addressing this issue, as they seem more intent on generating a map of relationships rather than building new ones.

As to answer your question, then it needs to be in your will, as a first step. You can avoid the legal wrangling by putting the info in your will as to your wishes and login/pass.

Once companies begin to accept that they're holding information and property of individuals, then they'll reach an understanding and process for handling deaths and the transfer of this information.

I hope.
What everyone else said.

Also, it seems to me that if the only thing keeping you from doing your job was conflict between the requirement to show up at a certain hour and your sleep disorder, then (in the US) the employer was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not accommodating your condition.
I really wish Hacker News had some sort of logic to pick up when someone comments "not hacker news" and just automatically pastes this from their guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

If you don't like it, don't vote it up. Move on please.
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Take this trash off Hacker News please.

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Seriously now. This isn't digg nor reddit.
I think that lots of adolescents honestly do not want to do anything. They prefer having no responsibilities whatsoever.

That's because you can't start with adolescence. You have to start increasing responsibility from roughly age 2. Get them used to it, reward it, show them the connection between increased responsibility and increased choice and freedom. Then they'll want it. The problem with most adolescents is the 12 years prior.
Considering that both candidates were on twitter and both made updates, but Obama just made way more, do you think that was entirely a function of money?

I don't know anyone who thought they were getting actual candidate tweets, but people buy extended warranties too. Especially after they get a crayola oblongata.
I should have rephrased the question but it is too late now. I was looking for startup answers. What would you start if you knew you couldn’t fail?
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"Intuitive" means I did similar things a hundred times in the past.
What about this is aimed at geeks? What about it is personal training in any way? It seems like your idea is to just give people access to standard gym training videos, nothing personal (or incredible) about it.

And what do you want from a co-founder? Fitness/business/online expertise, money?
I remember a lot of people raised this particular point when gmail was first launch and Google responded this is the type of thing they check for to make sure they do not serve any ads. No idea how effective their checks our, but you'd think someone would have made a big stink about if they did.
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I am insomniac so can sympathize with your condition a bit. It is gonna help a lot that medical help has categorized your condition...lot better than not knowing it but not being able to manage it either.

Coming to the work problem, you could do three things:
1. find another job
2. consultant
3. run own business

1. There are a lot of companies out there (especially in software industry) that can provide a better work environment. I know for sure Microsoft does offer, and I guess Google also does it.

Make a list of companies you would like to work at, and go through the interview process. It is your choice to tell them about the situation before the interviews, but do take it up once they make an offer. Don't worry they will surely accommodate.

2. Consulting
You can work from home and in your timings, but the key to be a successful consultancy work is lot of contacts and proven successful deliveries - so the initial days will be very tough. The more projects you deliver, the better it gets.

3. Own business
May be just drop an application in the next YCombinator season :) I know its tough but may be something can be worked out, considering the choice of a good co-founder.

Additional tips:
1. considering the dull market scene, if any of the above does not work, you might want to consider going to grad school. Your experience and previous academics might get you a scholarship.

2. some companies offer job sharing where one job is shared by two people (each paid accordingly). They are mainly for administrative jobs but who knows.

All the best.
I would love to live in a society in which teenagers and young adults spent more time apprenticing and less time in formal schools. But in the current economy, I wonder how practical it is. Even if the apprentice works for free, training the apprentice is a cost borne by the master. Masters have to risk seeing their apprentices go off and work for someone else (or, heck, work in a totally different field) and apprentices have to risk discovering that they were kept so busy with menial work that they didn't actually learn anything.
By the end of [election] night, Mr. Silver had predicted the popular vote within one percentage point, predicted 49 of 50 states’ results correctly, and predicted all of the resolved Senate races correctly.

From his posted predictions back in March? W-o-w.