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I don't recall saying you can't make money selling to the usual suspects. Clearly you can -- that is why they're the usual suspects. I just don't think it is a particularly wise move when more attractive markets abound.

I don't think that comparing BCC to HNM provides meaningful signal on that question. (Philosophically, by the way, when somebody mentions that X makes more than me my first thought is "Ooh, congrats!" and I don't usually bother with a second thought.)
Please note that Psychiatry and Psychology are very different fields, despite the common associations between them. In most countries, psychologists may not prescribe drugs, while psychiatrists, as medical doctors are allowed to do so.

Incidentally, I highly recommend reading the DSM (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) and figuring out which disorder you show the most signs of. Myself, I meet all the criteria for ADHD, and if I had been born some years later or in a different place, could easily have been diagnosed with it.
I understand that you think I'm wrong. What I don't understand is why, since it doesn't look like what I write goes against the NH guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), I've been banned.

A flamewar is different from a debate. In a flamewar, you just hear people saying "you're wrong". In a debate, you hear people saying "you're wrong because". I believe my comments fall into the second case. The majority of people, given the upvotes, think the same. Plus, I'm not spamming and I very seldomly post comments and links here. Why the need of banning me? Am I disrupting the flow of discussion?

This sounds like censorship to me, which is shameful for a site that has "hacker" into its name. The incontrovertible evidence of the hellban is not evidence at all - it's a decision made completely arbirarly by a small group of people.

I definitely don't want to be a part of this.

EDIT: I believe you understand the implications about a system where opinions against count much more than opinions for. If you tell me that if here an article that receives the same amount of up and downvotes goes to the trashbin then this is such a system. Again, I'm disgusted that I've come here looking for intellectually challenging discussions in the first place.
It's a political hack, it's making the point that it is easier to synthesise pseudoephedrine by buying crystal meth (the reason pseudoephedrine is so heavily restricted) than it is to go out and buy pseudoephedrine. It's an effort to change the law. That's the 'hack'. Chemistry enthusiasts will have to judge if it has been successful on its claims about the method outlined or, rather, if the hack is in fact exploiting our expectations that journals generally say intelligent and correct stuff, so the claims made in this journal article are correct. If we are either deceived by it being correct and cheap chemistry, or if we believe the claims within the article, the hack works (it's intent being to change absurd legal controls surrounding pseudoephidrine, not necessarily to show how to synthesise pseudoephidrine). It's necessary for the hack to work, to change our beliefs. If it does this with the truth, all the nicer.

This is a classic - even if the claims in the paper are bullshit. :-)
Indeed, the original ARM was designed on a BBC Micro + 6502 Co-Pro. Amazing what "real work" you can get done on one :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History
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I believe "Anti-Authoritarian" is a misnomer. People labeled as "Anti-Authoritarian", myself included, are more likely "Auto-Authoritarian"; they trust their own authority first, rather than blindly believe the asserted authority of others.
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You are 100% right about not wasting one's time with jerks. But I disagree that Linus regularly expresses himself like one. Really: open lkml.org and search for his posts. Most of the time, he's an ordinary project maintainer.

Sometimes, he's quite the opposite of a jerk [1]:

WARNING! I wasn't kidding when I said that I've done this by reading
gtk2 tutorials as I've gone along. If somebody is more comfortable with
gtk, feel free to send me (signed-off) patches.

Just as an example of the extreme hackiness of the code, I don't even
bother connecting a signal for the "somebody edited the dive info"
cases. I just save/restore the dive info every single time you switch
dives. Christ! That's truly lame.

One must remember that his role as maintainer of linux requires him to have ultimate, non-ambiguous opinion about a lot of stuff. He's the judge of what effectively goes into the "official" kernel tree. Moreover, most of the kernel contributors don't deal with him directly — git is the materialization of that modus operandi.

When he does express himself like that, however, it becomes news. He always has a reason, though. In this case:

Please don't talk about portability, it's BS.

Is this how normal people start a conversation? Who's the jerk, here?

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/blob/master/README#L1...
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I may be old school, but I don't regard anyone as an engineer without a degree in engineering.

Other wise, they're a hacker ;-)
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That's correct, and I use GCC for this. For some time I've also used m4 to pre-process namespaces and output C99-standard code. That would be my preferred way when I can get away with it because C++ compilers introduce uncanny little differences that can haunt you in some hedge cases, but it adds an extra step and then I'm doing something that doesn't work in the outside world.

For me, the biggest argument against C++ is that programmers can make much better use of their time than learning the massive list of quirks in C++ compilers. Having more features is not a deal breaker per se, even if it does cater to messy code. In real world situations you can usually choose a compiler for the whole team and a style for the whole team. This works in my company. But you have to be aware that this doesn't have to work in all situations, or even most situations.

With inline functions and dynamic variable declarations already in C99, I really think the complexity/usefulness compromise of adding anything else that is also available in C++ is very, very negative.

For other higher level features there are many other languages I'd take over C++. Ruby, LISP, Python, even Java or C# if you're that fond of C-ish syntax. For low-level stuff and speed, nothing higher level than what I said above. In my team C++ is nobody's favourite language but it's still what we use the most. Sadly, there are many other factors other than personal preference.
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I'm going on a short vacation and would like some interesting reading for the plane rides (and while there) to put on my Kindle. I am working through a couple of technical books, but won't have a computer to work on examples etc.

My most recent non-technical read was Moneyball. I started The Big Short, but for some reason didn't get into it.
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Hence the propensity of authoritarian governments to declare opponents mentally ill.

Beware political positions quick to write off differing views as clinical insanity. When they start committing people, that's a sign the line has been crossed.
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Aren't there clear links between availability the of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, and the availability of meth on the street?

There's some greta charts somewhere showing drops in purity of meth (along with increased prices) against time, compared to measures taken to reduce the supply of pseudo-ephedrine. There's also some correlation with increased numbers of people seeking treatment.

I'm carefully trying to avoid traditional drug arguments, but to make clear: I am generally in favour of legalisation of drugs.
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There is a difference between announcement, demoing, and shipping. The OMAP 5 was "announced" at MWC last year, it demoed this year, and won't ship until late 2012 or even early 2013.

But in this case, it's because Nvidia chose to go with the more marketable "quad core" than with a "faster dual core". Also because Nvidia's phone version of chips ships months after the tablet version, on top of the already several months delay of the Tegra 3, which seems to happen all the time with Nvidia lately.

I agree with your sentiment that technology is evolving fast these days, though, and there's little breathing room for technology companies.
Any 'anti-authoritarian' diagnosis is bunk. This is one aspect of the DSM (of many actually) that seriously bothers me. Since there is no objective scale for delineating behaviors that are acceptable to "authorities", how can one claim this is a valid diagnosis ? THIS is why we can't have nice things.
This.

People -- and I would include both Wikileaks and The Atlantic here -- seem to be conflating or confusing the distinct displines of intelligence collection and intelligence analysis. Stratfor's strong suit is analysis: putting pieces together and making sense of them. Whether or not it does a good job at analysis is up for debate, but to my understanding, analysis has always been its bread and butter. Given that there are very few organizations in the world today doing cogent analysis based on accurate intel, it's not surprising that Stratfor has found a market for its wares. (To wit: even government agencies are having an increasingly hard time finding competent analysts, as the top talent at major universities typically goes to Wall Street instead).

If Stratfor is actually doing any intelligence collection -- or, more probably, puffing up its own reputation as an intelligence collection agency -- it's primarily doing so to lend credibility to its analysis. Stratfor's brand benefits from all the "private CIA" blather, if up to a point.
My US colleagues are constantly doing overtime and working weekends but this seems like a cultural thing (which they'd like to impose on us) rather a specific fear for their jobs (though that definitely exists). And the jobs keep flowing to us in Ireland regardless (i.e., US vacancies are generally filled in Ireland). In my experience, those extra hours haven't amounted to any great advantages for them but, then again, they are paid about 3x as much as we are.
My comparison was crude. I know there are finer nuances, such as BCC income probably being much more passive than HNM.

I just don't think it is a particularly wise move when more attractive markets abound.

The irony of that coming from the maker of bingo software is not lost on me :-P

In any case, I'm sorry if I misunderstood and misrepresented your advice.

EDIT: It occurred to me that my snide remark regarding the irony could also do with a disclaimer. I'm implying that you yourself chose BCC over other attractive markets. However, I know you did that at a time it made sense to you given your circumstances. You have since moved towards more attractive markets (AR). This example clearly highlights the problem with advice. Unless it is seen in the context of the adviser's whole spectrum of experience, it can be really misleading and confusing.
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What's not true? Exec used some OO techniques in non-OO languages. So does Linux. I can't see which post this was intended as a response to
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"C++ gives you the power" exactly because there's full C underneath -- once you avoid "standard" containers, "OOP," "STL," "boost" and "best C++ practices" you can still malloc and place structs where you want. Sometimes you really need that level of control, and you get it from C. AFAIK, Google's Go simply just says "we don't give you that level of control." That's why C won't be fully replaced with Go. And that's also what "omg I need C++" people don't understand. I don't blame them for not knowing, they didn't have to work on such problems.

But I blame them when they insist that what they do is enough for everybody. It isn't.
In theory shouldn't there be health insurers who are willing to ensure you just as long as you pay your rates?

There are, in actual fact, insurance companies in the US that will do this. Some make it a business to cater to self-employed folks who don't have company insurance.

It's been a while since I thought about this, but (IIRC) the 'private companies pay for insurance' deal got started in World War II, as a perk. Companies could not compete for scarce labor (salary freeze) so they offered basic health insurance to attract workers. From there it just grew.

So why do so many of us accept it, when there are free-market alternatives? I think it's the convenience.

Take my dental plan at work. For about $10 a month I'm covered for all routine stuff at the dentist. Extraordinary work will cost me a bit off the top, but not _that_ much, for the care I'm getting.

Which is pretty much the plan I'd get if I eschewed the work plan and bought one on my own.

The convenience is that work has a team of guys who deal with the insurance companies, getting deals, selecting plans, negotiating rates, basically dealing with a lot of hassle so I don't have to.

Now, I could get a better rate on my own, and I probably _should_ if I were really worried about being laid-off but .. it's just easier this way. A trade-off.

For a lot of us, this is okay: the plans our employers offer are pretty good. For some people, who have sucky employers and rotten plans ... it's sub-optimal.
Downvoting someone who provides publicly available information, made public by the person in question himself.

Downvoters, it doesn't get much lower than this. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Just to throw a spanner in the works, Australia has VERY similar socio-cultural values as the USA, lots of natural resources, racist foreign policy, US based financial infrastructure (free trade, anyone) and really, we're quite different from the USA in many ways.

Not sure how this fits with the geographic based theories on climate vs. behavior.
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So, the reality is, you aren't working long hours. Neither am I. You are, in effect, working 8 hours a day, with an hour for lunch and a half hour for dinner. That you might choose to work while having lunch and dinner is up to you, but I also doubt you are working 100% of the time, either. This isn't to say you don't work hard, but just to say you aren't really working long hours.
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I disagree with your point that "private property is an invention of the State". There is no need for any state to claim property on something. As you said, as long as you can defend what you have, it "belongs" to you. I'm pretty sure prehistoric men had a concept of property. Even animals have a sense of property. A dog will defend the bone it likes to chew on. A bird will fight to defend its nest. Property is rather natural.

I however agree when you say that intellectual property is an invention of the State, because that is precisely where it originates: the granting of monopoly to an individual by the hand of the King. There is no natural root in intellectual property.

> workers who lived in "company towns", in a life one step away from indentured servitude

Again, please put this rhetoric in perspective, not in the eyes of a 21st century person from a developped society, but in the eyes of a person of that time, who had the choice between staying in an enpoverished countryside, potentially victim of starvation and malnourishment, and the perspective of having a stable, paid job in a factory. People were NOT stupid. They made the choice of "more gains", not less. They ended up richer and in better position than where they started. They progressed on the social ladder. The very same story is happening with all these workers in China, queuing outside of Foxconn to get a good and sustainable job, compared to the Nothing they had in the countryside.

> The common thread between democracy and capitalism is to lessen the corrupting influence of power by distributing it: one person = one vote

Totally agree with the decentralization of power, but democracy is a poor tool to reach that goal. You elect high ranking officials who are above the laws. Who are all RICH, without exception. Who have immense powers over other individuals. And who can use violence to force their laws on you, or make you go to war and lose your life if they decide to do so. Government is, by itself, a huge body of asymmetrical power against individuals. You do not "choose" it, when you are born you are already, automatically, subject to it.

When you buy some goods, however, every dollar you spend is a vote for a product, a company. Should that company screw up, you will not buy it again. Its reputation will worsen. It will lose customers. It may go bankrupt. It is, actually, at the mercy of the decentralized power of customers who AGREE to buy it everyday or on a regular basis.

Governments (almost) never go bankrupt. Instead, they will tax you to death, they will take your property and declare it theirs (like when they forbid possession of Gold). And they will use violence to punish you and put you away in prison if you do not comply. And you will have no way out, but to leave the country (if you can).

Governments CAN be useful, but I think in most developed countries they have gone way further than what their initial role was supposed to be. That's a vast subject, anyway.
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Here is a list of some other cool MSR projects.
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Good for you!

I (the parent of your post) actually have a BBC Master (and the advanced reference manuals) lying around still for precisely that reason. It's quite a handy and very powerful little machine to be honest.

It even runs LISP (AcornSoft LISP).
Generally IMHO not paying overtime usually masks inefficiencies in your business. If someone is having to work 70-80 hour weeks to get the job done then something is messed up somewhere in your process.

Paying overtime is an easy way to spot these area as its immediately visible to any half brained manager.
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I was the proud owner of an ARM copro [1] many years ago (I still have the Master it was plugged into) and the first Acorn RISC machine (an A310 with 512k RAM if I remember correctly).

They were and still are extremely powerful and productive machines.

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I don't like the way LoseThos is being cut off from the community he seems to want to be apart of. He is mostly harmless. I'd say his operating system is a work of art. It is a unique and interesting exploration of computing coupled with almost raw chaos. I am inspired by it.

Occasionally, people fall apart. I don't think they should be ostracized when they need help and friends the most. We should be more tolerant of ideas and people you may not like but who are still deserving of respect and recognition.
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Not until the printers can make their own CPUs and complex parts such as threaded rods. That is a long time off.

3d printers are supposedly promoted as printing themselves i.e. as self-replicating. They are not. They print a small fraction of their own non-complex parts.
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Would they keep their job if they refused to work more than 40 hours? Is there a 40 hour a week job out there that pays and furthers their career comperably? If not, I don't know what to call it other than career development.
The more likely response is that a qualified employee will simply quit an abusive job and sell their skills to a more reasonable employer. This is certainly the case in US software development.