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>The hostile reaction was a bit of a surprise.

Its a bit of a strange state of affairs when a sober person announces that fact to people who drink. There's actually a great cracked article that explores this dynamic (I'll post this and then edit with the link if I can find it). When someone who drinks is told by someone who doesn't that they don't drink, they have a hard time not perceiving it as dig against them for drinking, or a 'holier than thou' kind of statement.

Given the prevalence of drinking in society, its easier to explore the concept in regard to marijuana. I can't even count the number of times I've said something along the lines of "you've never smoked? come smoke a bowl?". When the culture you're a part of has the idea that everyone is going to do it some time, with some sort of frequency (be it very very low or every night) hearing people against it completely is is a bit... odd to deal with. Its like finding out the person you're hanging with has completely opposite political views as you. Even if you're both OK with it and want to move onto a new topic of discussion, its awkward.

edit http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-things-you-dont-realize-about-...
I think you're missing the point of the article. He's not talking about starting a company, he's talking about employee poaching (or lack thereof) by large tech companies, and its effects on engineering salaries.

But as an aside, I definitely agree about selling. There seems to be this disdain for MBA/business types that don't build. As an engineer I can tell you that I have the utmost respect for skilled salespeople and I would definitely want one on my side when starting out.
> The notion that this growth is unsustainable is scare mongering.

The notion is more predicated on the absence of science fiction technology.
I agree with this but it's tough to prove that there's a causation effect between the two (other than the one person who was fired, which by itself probably is enough to make a valid argument). But it seems like when the value add of a programmer is so high, it's a lack of mimicking the finance market to structure your compensation package that seems to be more closely correlated to the (low) average income. I say finance market because it's probably one of the few markets where compensation is directly and proportionally related to performance.
New Hampshire Passes 'Open Source Bill'
I was specifically referring to the massive economic fuckover they've been responsible for over the last 30 years. Not to mention the coming 20 years of kids having to support unsustainable retirement lifestyles with huge debt burdens.
And here's the actual text. http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2012/HB418 It might have some real teeth, not just doing lip service to openness.
I used precisely 5 gigs last month and received no notifications. I guess that means I'm in a higher capacity area?
Yes. And on top of that, another dirty little secret -- when a startup is the fly buzzing around the ear of the big, established company, and it keeps buzzing and buzzing, the big, established company finds it easier to swat than compete with its own buzzing little irritants.

And it's a lot easier to swat a fly after you bought it and locked it down with a vesting agreement. A fly that's running around free might require a chase.

Lots of acquisitions are to destroy or at least undermine a competitor, potential competitor, or other disruption.

Which is why the chest-thumping "change the world!!" "disrupt!!" "free yourself, you caged lion you!!" rhetoric around startups is so sad. The "logical" result is usually the destruction of the startup itself, and the yoking of the founders to an agreement which forces them to stay at a big company -- the company that destroyed or undermined their baby -- in a JOB (cage) for years to get their payoff.

Miserable.

Having met quite a lot of startup founders post-sale (on the conf circuit, in speakers' dinners and green rooms), I can say… I have never met one who was thrilled about the money, and mostly they have struck me as tired, sad, and defeated.
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Well, it's getting statistically less female in the places that are brown and yellow, at least in South & East Asia.

Also, grumpy old white men are staggeringly over-represented in terms of responsibility for the technology "beachgeek" is most likely using. If he can't deal, I'd suggest he write something for Takimag that would explain...unless of course,
"fsck yourself" is the best he can do...
"Answer" is one of my favorites as well. Brown specialised in short shorts. Somewhere I have a collection of his where every other story is one of those. My favorite being, in it's entirety:

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room; there was a knock on the door."
The actual damages of alcohol to society are massive and well-documented: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

Alcohol far and away leads the pack in causing harm to others.
Aerospace technology plateaued decades ago. There was a rapid improvement from 1920 to 1970, and since then we aren't any closer to colonizing the solar system than we are today.

You see this pattern all over the place (exponential growth followed by a plateau). Medical technology, for example, as impressive as it is is really only improving at the margins today. In the 40 years between 1970 and 2010, life expectancy at birth for whites has gone up around 5 years. In the 40 years before that, it went up 10 years. In the 40 years before that, it went up almost 20 years.
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While I like the idea of simplifying a streaming webserver installation for people, I feel like there's a lot of work yet to be done. Firstly, the design on your demo site is not really the greatest if you have a large library. You need a way to filter (check listjs.com) and fix the Series->Overview height problem (add a fixed height + vertical scrollbar in CSS).
Lastly, there should really be a couple quick lines on your homepage explaining what this is to the average joe.
"Vstream is a php framework for managing MP4's." What?
Clear that up, move it to the left, move the latest news to the right, add a video introduction and tutorial, and you're almost there.

Keep it up. LL
I've always believed deeply in this idea. The value of delusion, or rather, calculated delusion, is extremely important to the idea of being entrepreneurial. (Genius here is a bit loosely used, but I'll go with it). The math of any unlikely opportunity (like starting a business) is against you so any logical person would think it's delusional. But to most entrepreneurs, starting a business is all that seems logical. The fastest way to make a billion dollars is take something that everyone believes is true, and bet against it.
http://ashoknayar.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/why-entrepreneurs...
The topic was not about catching terrorists at all. But even if it were you'd be wrong. I'm sure all the terrorists also used cars and probably brushed their teeth. So what? The point of security is to figure out relevant things - that distinguish terrorist from non-terrorist - from irrelevant. Coming from US/Canada border is clearly an irrelevant thing - millions of people come through and even if one of them is a terrorist treating all of them as a terrorists would be highly ineffective. Moreover, it's even worse than ineffective - it's hurtful. Since the officers can't spend hours on every border-crosser, each innocent they wrongly detain raises the chance that they won't have the resources to inspect the real bad guy, because they were busy with harassing the good guy. The fail here is that they denied entrance to the innocent. Imagine spam filter that would put a lot of legitimate email into "spam" folder - would you argue it's an excellent thing to have because once 10 years ago you had one spam in your inbox - or would you argue it needs to be rewritten and fixed so that the false positive rate would go down?
Nobody argues for no border protection at all. But border protection that confuses protecting with harassing the innocent has clearly lost the vision of its purpose and needs to be reminded of it. And if somebody from the personnel can't understand the difference he should be given a job that doesn't involve contact with people - like cesspool cleaning or monitoring early-warning radar stations in the Arctic.
Let's consider it a somewhat free transcription and translation. Aliens who are astounded at the notion of thinking meat aren't going to be communicating in English.
It's disabled by default on most systems, but I wouldn't want to assume that Crazy Chimpanzee Linux doesn't do something stupid, or that no sysadmin flips that option on without understanding the consequences.
Because it's the best email system available for most people. If you value productivity and usability the most, Gmail is the way to go. It's that simple.

Gmail is the only email system that I can tolerate. It actually makes using email borderline fun, whereas even something like Exchange is a nightmare. It works great with various applications, smartphones and has by far the best Web interface around. It handles spam well and allows me to easy filter messages (and have those filters work across devices).

For most of us, email is a tool that helps us get work done and communicate with family and friends. Rolling our own solutions is not worth the extra time, headaches and lost usability.

Google doesn't care about our data individually. They make money in anonymized, aggregate data. That's why I don't care that they are making money off of my data, because it's not my data that they care about. It's our data that they really care about.

And while I'd prefer if my email didn't fall into the hands of the US government, I don't actually have anything that I care that they see in it. It's more principle than anything else. And, as a US citizen, if I rolled my own solution, I don't think it would be any safer in my hands than Google's when it comes to warrants.

I do have real fears. My real fears with email are in using a system that isn't usable, isn't reliable and has data integrity issues. At the end of the day, Google's servers and technical know-how surpasses mine, and I feel that my email is safer and less likely to be lost due to hardware failure in their hands than in mine.

It really depends on what you value. If my email information was really sensitive, I would probably care more. If I were a company that valued sensitivity a lot, I might not use Gmail. Certainly if the work you do or the industry you are in needs the utmost privacy, you should look into the most secure option as possible.

But as an individual, Gmail is as good as it gets for me.
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I'm not sure where you're spending time on maintenance. I set up my current mail server 3.5 years ago (postfix, spamassassin, dovecot, sieve, roundcube) and barely ever touch it -- the only maintenance required is the very rare security update.

I use tarsnap for backups, so no tapes required.

I don't love running my own mail server, but as a hacker, I don't see that any of the alternatives are better.
Deleting your [Facebook] account just makes you look like a weirdo in today’s world.

I disagree. It's really not a big deal to be without a Facebook account.
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Yeah, that rubbed me the wrong way too. Engineers are completely overrated; your best bet is to hire no engineers and outsource to India or odesk, or if you absolutely must hire engineers, hire them for rock-bottom prices and fire them if they ask for more.
No sense of humour here on HN?
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He's being down voted because it's so easy to call something "ignorant" without backing it up. Just like it's easy to call something "one of the dumbest articles" without backing it up. No argument, no proof, no reasoning… down votes.
Well now we have the "Great Recession" (according to Wikipedia, though technically apparently it ended in 2009), before WW2 there was the "Great Depression". Since the baby boomers are born shortly after WW2, I suppose the Great Depression was brought about by their parents or grandparents. I think people were far worse off back then.

Also, will the kids support the unsustainable retirement lifestyles if they can't afford them? It seems unlikely.

And we still don't know how things will play out. Maybe it was a genius move to take up all that credit.
SpamAssasin will auto-update its rules if properly configured. I have touched my SA install in years.
I had a similar experience recently. Hardly anyone seems to do that. I shouldn't be too surprised, I guess. I had never used gpg to communicate with humans up to that point myself. But I had imagined that all the cool kids did.
His own biography (somewhat stilted writing, the constant "I" self-referrals, but, dense and very interesting):

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
http://www.amazon.com/My-Inventions-Autobiography-Nikola-Tes...

He had his own vision of a "singularity" basically interconnectedness of all human kind across earth to "rid ourselves" of war. Free energy, etc. Held full models of his machines and ideas in his head (spatially fascinating) before construction.

Several nervous of mental breakdowns when over-working, strange debilitating flashes of light, etc. Probably some brain chemistry idiosyncrasies.
aha I came here for this.

Damn fear campaigns generating 'non-conforming' conformist.
Edit: Fusion not Fission. There is a lot of Fission energy available but not enough to be the basis of infrastructure for the long term when we start trying to build real deltaV aka anywhere close to .01c and beyond.

PS: Voyager 1 was also launched in 1977 which is the first Interstellar craft ever built. Not that it pushes back the end of the 'golden' time period of space travel that far, but it's still outside of the window your thinking about.
The primary reason I won't outsource this service is trust. I don't trust anyone with that data.

Access to my email allows for resetting all my passwords, seeing all my contacts, and tracking literally everything about my day-to-day business and personal life.
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Well there's 60 seconds I'll never get back.
I doubt. If Bing can't offer the users something more creative, Google will always be everyone's favorite search engine.
Specifically, to save the URL as the least common denominator of the web.

See http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
o2sd: Something caused your account to autokill your messages, so no one can reply to you anymore, and no one will see your posts if they don't have showdead on.

I'm replying here because it's the only place I can contact you. And I don't see any spam in your account.
The whole field of fluidics is fascinating, including entire digital logic families that operate at kHz rates with no moving parts and no electricity, just air. I wrote a kragen-tol post about this in 2002 http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2002-April/0..., when Air Logic still sold actual logic gates that ran on air, but since then Google Books has archived this June 1967 Popular Mechanics article, "How They've Taught a Stream of Air to Think": http://books.google.com.ar/books?id=jSEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11..., and of course fluidics has become practically very important for on-chip microarrays. There's also a Wikipedia article now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics
Not only will BBs be one of the very few generations to leave this place worse off than they found it...

For some strange reason, people have an overly romantic view of the past.

A friend of mine, after watching mad men, was waxing nostalgic about how nice things seemed back then. Life was simpler, world is now so screwed up, etc. I just pointed out to him: "You realize that in 1950, you and your girlfriend wouldn't be allowed to live in the same neighborhood, right?"

(The girlfriend was Turkish, and dark brown. Not a chance of her passing.)

The 50's might have been better in some ways, but the boomers also got a few things right.
Well, one county's previous generations started those wars, the rest of the planet had no choice but to respond. However, these more recent wars, are wars of choice. So, that's several screw ups to start with.

As for the atomic bombs, yes it was terrible, but some one was going to. And for once, "we" saw and learned that particular lesson. (I pick that out because I think not dropping a nuke since is actually one of humanity's greatest achievements)

Good old values of ..... OK. If I shoot it back in your direction, I could accuse you of wanting SOPA and Islamic terror. That's the other extreme, and I assume you would deny both.

Of course some things we have today are way better. But you have to admit, that if we cant get our kids right, if we cant have proper freedom in the West, if we cant have the free flow of uncensored information, if people in general dont care about each other much and only see life form their own position, can I really not say that the previous generations got it wrong? I mean, these are fundamental things, and what we get in return for their loss is iPads.....

IMHO, we now live in a "I see pretty, must have pretty" society. Dunno if you noticed, but it just went bust. And it went bust because "we" borrowed to get "pretty". First ever recession that was caused by pure greed. And no one is about to change that. Its all about how we get back to it, so we can have our pretty stuff again. And this was created by the baby boomer lot. And they wont let go.

I dunno. To me all sense of balance has gone, and people are generally just selfish and horribly judgemental. We live in an extreme. And I don't like it that much.
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> 1. Rich webmail is an absolute must for me. I use too many different computers from too many different places for anything else to be remotely practical at this point.

That's what IMAP is for. If these are computers you don't directly control, then I'd say any downsides of using gmail pale in comparison to the security implications inherent in your usage model.

[edit] Can't say I understand the negative downvotes. Maybe I inadvertently denigrated people's preference for webmail over mutt/mail.app/etc?

Regardless, the fact is that if you're utilizing webmail for remote e-mail access on shared computers, then there are much more significant risk scenarios at play than those of gmail.
> So what advantage does a 60-year-old .NET programmer have over a 27-year-old .NET programmer

The advantage that more time on this Earth brings in terms of communication and understanding. "People skills, dammit."
You're both wrong :) It depends on your age, where you live, and your social circle. For a lot of people, myself included, deleting your Facebook account would be ridiculous to even consider. For example, myself and several of my friends are spending time working and studying abroad. Facebook is the best way to keep in touch.
My late-night reading currently consists of the book "Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

I'd recommend "The Prestige" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

which has a fascinating portrayal of Tesla as a kind of mad techno Wizard (played by David Bowie of all people).
Thanks, that's the best feedback yet. I've been looking for a "search tool" as well, I'll check out listjs
This fungus would still need water, so all they have to do is keep the jet dry, which they do anyway.
It doesn't really matter what framework you use. They will help you develop things faster, provide some structure to your code, and in a lot of cases write the repetitive code for you. Find a framework that makes sense to you - they all use a slightly different approach to development - and run with it.

If you want some other suggestions:

http://www.cakephp.org
http://www.codeigniter.com
http://framework.zend.com
Dad had FAR more buyIng power on his $4-6000 per year salary than we do today.

...people simply went out and ate out far less and just lived on less.

These two statements contradict each other.
I found the post more of a great philosophy of a life approach -- even outside the "sober vs not" theme. Sometimes hostility from others who are not sober can come from the turn of an introspective eye (conscious or subconscious) to themselves. Meaning, seeing someone else sober, can make one question their own lack of sobriety, even if no chronic problem exists (alcoholism, etc.) Some cog. therapy stuffs. Found it in myself (inebriated) and with friends / others (when I am sober). Its interesting to see the reactions or non-reaction when one "thinks" you are intoxicated, when not, and those same people in a different setting knowing you are Not intoxicated.
(some nutritionalists would actually suggest drinking a lot of anything while eating a meal is actually hard on digestion.)

Woah, where did you get that? If by a lot you mean drinking whenever you feel thirsty that's definitely not true. If by "a lot" you mean too much, well... obviously. That's why it's called "too much."

There's a reason you often feel thirsty while eating: liquid helps to turn the food you eat into the nutritious slurry which actually can be digested by your body.

Do a literature review. Also, stop listening to nutritionists: many of them don't even have degrees in medicine.

http://ajpregu.physiology.org/content/258/2/R436.short
http://gut.bmj.com/content/29/3/306.abstract
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The article presents a fair argument, but the title is obviously flame bait.

Granted, I myself thought of setting up my own mail server, but the disadvantages quickly outweighed the benefits. If your argument is sheer privacy, unless you are hosting your mail on a physical machine at your house connected to your home ISP (which is pretty dumb if you want ~100% uptime), you will most likely either use a VPS or managed system under the control of yet another company, which privacy-wise is the equivalent of using Gmail anyway.

I'm sure setting up your own hobby mail server would be pretty fun and provide great deals of experience, but if you are doing so simply for data privacy or better up time, your point is moot, and you will probably be better off just using a provider like Google.
I don't quite understand the constant articles about someone who is thumbing their nose at the "other idiots" who don't care about privacy. Is it not common knowledge that even if you never set foot online your private information has long been dispersed and used for much more than it ever should? We all should be more concerned with the places that we enter information that does not disclose how it is used in a friendly online location (banks, products, doctors office, grocery store etc...).
Direction doesn't matter if magnitude isn't significant, and we have no evidence that it is. This is just a variant of argument from ignorance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance).
Just because one thing was wrong in the 1950s doesn't imply that everything else was.
In terms of numbers Austria consumes far more liters per capita per year than the United States. 13.24 liters vs 9.44 liters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_co...

There are other reasons why "binge drinking" appears to be higher in anglo countries (US, Britain, Canada, etc...). Especially among the upper middle class. Longer work weeks than the rest of the industrialized world, less vacation days, etc... Drinking age may play a role in our propensity towards binge drinking, but I think it also has a lot to do with our "work hard, play hard" mentality.