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(1) it was openly admitted by him (I've changed it)
(2) See 1.
(3) I removed the word "handicap" - it was done to contrast it with the physical world, but yes, the juxtaposition is effective without it.
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>when depression robs you of all motivation and the very will to live, how can you be expected to recognize the symptoms and go out there and seek help?

I, for one, didn't realise I'd become depressed. It took my partner and my best friend to take me to get diagnosed and treated.

On reflection, it's frightening to think I didn't realise.
Actually according to http://peter.sh/2012/02/scoped-styles-deflated-websockets-an... we now have IndexedDB inspection in the latest Chromium (behind a flag).
Sorry, but did he really quote from the new testament, or was it instead the ramblings of "God"? I have a special academic interest in schizophrenia; btw, Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is a fantastic read.
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I did the same thing with a 200lb safe o_0. But we have a new baby and have also easily spent in the high 4 figures at least over the last year on baby gear and miscellaneous.
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> looking at your submissions, i suspect you were
> banned for posting links to your own blog?

No, that won't be it. People regularly submit links to their own blogs, and if it's not excessive, on-topic, well-reasoned, and generally valuable or "of deep interest" then there's no problem at all.

I suspect it's several of the comments made elsewhere that got down-voted into oblivion, and that triggered an automatic hellban.

> there must be less obnoxious ways for moderators
> to discourage that.

The voting already tries to guide behavior, but when that doesn't work, something else has to be done. In the case of genuine trolls, banning them and telling them so simply makes them create a new account and carry on. Silently banning them is a significantly more effective method of dealing with genuine trolls. The problem is that occasionally there is some collateral damage, with non-trolls getting caught by the mechanism.

Solve the problem of trolls, without getting any false positives, and you'll potentially have a market winner.
>The same can be said of professionals, as many computer professionals look primarily to the task and not to the hourly measure as the mark of their jobs. In my field, lawyers too see the hours worked as entirely secondary to their jobs.

This is true, and there is no problem with occasionally having to do a bit of crunch time to meet a deadline, or even doing the odd extra half-hour reasonably frequently.

OTOH, There is a problem if an employer routinely assigns work that cannot reasonably be achieved within normal working hours; or requires your presence on an 0600 international conference call, but still expects you to work the full 11 hours until your normal going home time; or waits until you've worked a 7.45 hour day before giving you a 4 hour task with a deadline of 0930 tomorrow. All of these are dirty tricks played by managers to get more work done than they are prepared to pay for.

>And, in any case, the U.S. law gives such employees freedom to become "slaves" if they so choose for their own reason.

Do you have the freedom to choose not to become a slave? Of course, you could change career to an hourly-rate one, or try to get a highly sought-after position with a benevolent or wise employer who takes care not burn out their employees; but the former doesn't sound like freedom at all, and the latter still leaves the majority of normal people vulnerable to exploitation.

You might respond by saying that it is no employer's interest to exploit their employees in such a way, after all, a burnt-out employee is useless, and an experienced employee is valuable. However, that is only true if an employer has to live with the consequences of burning out their employees. No one wants to burn out their rockstars, or the stalwart workhorses that will continue bringing good value for decades to come; but who cares about those middle-of-the-road employees in their mid-twenties who are just going to go and work for someone else in a few years anyway? You might as well milk them until they no longer produce, then chuck them out when they become ineffective.
I thought your judgmental tone was totally inappropriate and definitely didn't serve the cause of "acceptance"; in other words, I don't buy it.
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> Kill it off? I don't think so. Avoid using it if it's not the right tool for the job? Certainly. As a simple cross-browser key-value storage mechanism it beats cookies hands down in my experience

Exactly. localStorage is not a database, hence not having "database" in its name as opposed to "Indexed Database" or "Web SQL Database". It's a persistent key/value store, aka a big hashmap/dictionary which survives restarts.

If you need a database, it's not the right tool for the job, and if you want to store tens of megabytes of shit in the browser it's not the right tool for the job either.

If you need to store a bunch of site-wide configuration items or to cache some basic information, it's quite good enough, and at the same time safer, easier to use and providing far more storage space than cookies (which are the actual alternative).

The big issue is that we do not have a stable cross-browser client-side database interface (some browsers implement IndexedDB, others implement WebSQL), so people try to jump the gun and coerce localStorage into a DB role... which unsurprisingly breaks.
IndexedDB doesn't have the setVersion stuff any more. New spec is much simpler just hasn't been fully implemented by any one yet.
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There's an asymmetry here:

I want to see the exchange as money for time, because my work is not valuable to me (I don't get to keep the product!), but my time is. I want an upper bound on how much of the resource that's valuable to me that the company is entitled to in exchange for their money.

The employer wants to see the exchange as money for work, because they couldn't care less how the work gets done. They want a lower bound on the amount of the resource that's valuable to them that they get for their money.
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I can't say whether the synthesis is actually valid, but I did see a few rather exotic reagents were required, making this not even remotely something an amateur would be capable of doing. Butyl Lithium and "MoOPH" especially are rather specialized and rather dangerous materials, for example.
Sometimes the overtime is implicit in the rate. If you joint a sweatshop that pays 100K, you know going in that it's not $50/hour for 2000 hours, it's more like $40/hour for 2500 or $33.33 for 3000. It's not unpaid, it's built into the expectation.

The real question is, "How much do you want to work?" If you are a talented hacker, you can answer that however you want. If you are 21 and looking for someone to teach you a trade while paying a good wage in a tough job market, it is a more difficult choice.
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A complete understanding if you ask me is one which requires no impenetrable "black-box abstractions" to be substituted in the abstraction hierarchy. In the case of a CPU, you would have to have a full gate level understanding of it and an understanding of how the gates operate.

To be honest, the "complete understanding" died way before the original post. It was the moment that they started building computers with integrated circuits inside them (before 1970) and complexity rocketed logarithmically. It died doubly so the moment that electrical engineering and the practical side of computer science diverged into "them" and "us".

If you want to use something which you understand, you will probably need to buy a crate of transistors, resistors and diodes and wirewrap yourself an entire computer from scratch PDP-7 style.

This fact is a warning: We really are building things with too deep abstraction hierarchies causing knowledge to be divided. One day we will never hope to comprehend anything in a lifetime.
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That wouldn't even be too hard. I've seen some help channels that have bots with commands to answer FAQs (mostly in the form of "here is a link, READ IT"). A simple question answering AI would be interesting, though.
I think the onus is to provide an argument why something is unethical.
Yeah, I get this with ReadItLater, which works 95% of the time, and produces very odd results the other 5%.
> and I am sure FF

It's pretty primitive, you have to go into the DOM tab for `window` and scroll down to `localStorage`.

Same for `globalStorage`.
In Europe your health is not tied to your employment in any way.

This statement is just wrong. In Estonia, health insurance is subscription based, paid as a tax from your salary.
> At a quick glance most are pretty much content-free or contain personal attacks

Seriously? I admit that the comments on the thread related to the MCP Pakistani girl that died were controversial at best, but offensive and content-free?

If that's the way this community thinks about what I wrote I think we're both better off without each other.
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Boot _from_ it, not _boot it_, I guess. Using it just as a thumb drive.
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Did the spellcheck .. I do things in vim and dont have spellcheck turned on, sorry about that.

I also removed all references to his name except for the initial one where I cite him as the author of the software. I've also made more of the paragraphs general, trying to remove him as the focus of the article, and instead just as a topic.
I agree. And in case you have some specific bottleneck you can always go into that. As knowledge grows, it happens in every science.
However, it's another feeling when you have a good grasp of the entire system.
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Yes, and people really should quit. If they did, then employers might just get the message.

In some industries, maybe. I've worked in several "old school" design agencies (doing a bit of interactive work), and many designers and production folks are absolutely worked to the bone (frequent all-nighters, weekends, etc). Sure, some of them quit, but there's always somebody else to take their place. And working long hours is all "career development" until you're out of the trenches every day.

Some industries just function this way (gaming, as others have pointed out), and people entering those industries seem happy to accept it.
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With most things that can be seen as contentious, it's worth asking 'what good could come from this?'. In the case of this article, I think that people might be reminded to be more sympathetic when they encounter someone who is experiencing mental illness.

However, the way a person actually relates to their own experiences while classed as mentally ill is a personal thing. Lack of understanding is probably the biggest barrier - and well meaning sympathy isn't always going to have a positive effect on someone's well-being. It might actual just compound the problem.

I think there's an element of the freak-show here, because the guy who's the subject of the article is being used as 'exhibit a' in a discussion of what can manifest from mental illness. On the flip side - mental illness does seem to be an area of life that's rarely discussed openly.

Rather than stand by and look at the wreckage - it's probably more constructive to think about what can be done to help tackle mental health issues more generally. http://www.mind.org.uk/ is a UK-based charity who are doing good things in this area.
I do all my "fun" computing these days on a BBC Micro, in assembly language. I don't have total understanding of the ICs, it's true. But in its 64k of addressable memory (32k RAM), I've a pretty good idea of where everything is and what happens when. Very satisfying.
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After everything that continent has been through they really do deserve a lot. I don't mean to lump 50 or so countries all together, there are African countries that have a lower crime rate than the USA does. And many African countries are just as modern as anywhere else.

But the continent as a whole has been through a lot. The African Holocaust alone has killed 9 million Africans. After all the Colonization, Aids, famine, civil wars, malaria, 2007 land grabs, and slave trade; Africa's puberty is finally coming to an end. America, Europe, and Asia's puberty periods (wars, massive deaths, black plagues, civil conflict, endless conquering and takeovers) ended a while back and our continents achieved stability. Now it's Africa's turn for nationwide stability and growth. And from the looks of it, it's going to be a massive investment opportunity.

The African continent itself has more land than the USA, China, and India combined. Which actually worries me because environmentally their growth is going to come at a high price. I just hope they don't follow in the footsteps of the west and build a dependence on cars, gas, and long distances.

I just wish Africa were united under one currency, one language, and a federal government. Being fragmented like Europe is terrible for growth and business.

Overall, this is great news. The continent where humanity came from and the people whom we're all related to is finally getting the peace and prosperity it deserves.
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Do we really want to start posting personal information in a place that gets thousands of views?
The problem with "mental illness" is that it is usually not really mental, just the symptoms are. The illness itself is caused by purely physiological stuff, like lack/excess of this or that hormone or other substance. In most cases, modern science is unable to help, and you most definitely cannot help yourself!
I wonder if burpees could be qualified as an intense exercise. 1 minute exercise and 1 minute rest that goes on for 10-20 minutes and it gets me sweating like a pig.

I highly recommended it for people with lack of space or exercise equipment
I don't see what the big deal is. He's a completely endearing a lovable guy if a bit eccentric, just like all the best in our field. I loved listening to his demo video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr-xYtBFbY), it had me smiling all the way through.

His joy of experience in knowledge and production and problem solving is what hooked me on computers in the first place.

If you think he's crazy, you should go see Stallman talk.
Any idea where someone (such as me) born too late to have an original Micro might be able to get hold of one?
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People post links to their blogs all the time, so I doubt it's that.

From looking at his history, it seems to be this post which caused the ban: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555622 No idea why - it's inflammatory, but hardly worth a ban.

Possibly that, plus the previous comments you made here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467179 pissed the mods off enough to ban you.
> After he did enter college, one professor told Einstein, “You have one fault; one can’t tell you anything.” The very characteristics of Einstein that upset authorities so much were exactly the ones that allowed him to excel.

I find it an amusing corollary that later in life, no one was able to convince Einstein of the truth--or at least the usefulness--of quantum mechanics. A failing of the anti-authoritarian mindset is that if you have an opposed opinion to an authority on an issue--and that authority happens to be right--you'll never figure this out until you work it out for yourself.
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> is not that the worker is being made to work for free but rather that the worker has not agreed to be paid by any hourly measure but rather for an overall performance to be rendered, no matter how many hours it takes.

While it's nice to think of being paid for the completing tasks rather than hours worked, it is less common for people to work fewer than 40 (or some standard number) hours than more. In fact, if an employee was completing his tasks and working only 25 hours a week, many employers will increase the workload, since they aren't making efficient use of the employee.

The reality is that employers like to frame overtime in terms of paying for services rendered but when things swing the other way, employers like to think of things in terms of maximizing utility.
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I have another alternative to retrieve the historic RSSs beyond the actual one. Using the Google Reader "NoAPI": http://blog.databigbang.com/extraction-of-main-text-content/

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Did I say offensive? No, I didn't. The fact that you used the word first suggests that you think it was offensive in this context.

I gave you a personal response to try to help you understand the way things work. If you use that to decide that you don't want to be here, that's your choice.

My personal assessment for my personal interests is that most of what you've said here is not of interest to me personally. Perhaps others would find it interesting, but I don't. Perhaps others agree, and perhaps that's why you get down-voted, or ignored.

These are speculations. The more concrete observation s that getting several comments heavily down-voted gets you a hellban.

As I said, you can express controversial opinions here, you jsut need to do it the right way. If you're not willing to learn that, then perhaps you don't belong here. I for one think that people with contrary opinions are valuable, but those opinions need to encourage engagement and not confrontation.

It can be done, although it requires effort. Are you willing to try?
> Question: what happens if your gamestate gets over 5Mb?

I hope it won't, because I only save stuff that changes. I can compress biggest data, if it becomes a problem, to get more space, but I don't think I'll have to.

Anyway - it's not a problem of API, but of constraints of browser implementations. There's nothing preventing browsers from implementing configuration option that allows users to assign available space in localStorage to domains.
One that does: http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/
If you're in the UK, there's a liquid market in BBCs, C64s and similar on eBay. There are a few sellers who refurb them (e.g. new power supplies, cleaned up cases etc). You can easily adapt a BBC to use SCART too (the lead will cost about a fiver) and use it on a modern TV, if you don't fancy using a big old CUB monitor.
"If you are on Google+, and you participate, you will notice that it's a big success."

Can you explain that more? I'm on G+ and I participate but I have seen no evidence that "it's a big success."
I never take anyone serious when they say 'kernal'.
Currently building a scraping "IDE" for a client using nodejs, jsdom and ExtJS for the client side - some of the hardest problems have come from sites where there is a reliance on JavaScript.

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Patrick, at the risk of sounding ungrateful to all your help, I'd like to point out that HNM's success is also a good counterpoint to the advice you give again and again - "Don't make stuff for 20-something Cauc(asian) dudes. It has no hope of making money." In this particular instance, it appears to make more than software for schoolmarms.

_By selling the dudes' own words back to them, nonetheless!_

The more advice I read, the more I'm convinced that if you're in the business of making new things that haven't been done before, ignore all advice. Just fucking do it.
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I'm not directly interested in the job position, but it's good to see you guys growing.
That's mainly because DOS couldn't do anything. If you want to reproduce the capabilities of DOS - single tasking, single threading file and screen IO in text or simple non-windowed graphics - you really wouldn't need to learn much more nowadays.
I find it an amusing corollary that later in life, no one was able to convince Einstein of the truth--or at least the usefulness--of quantum mechanics.

Einstein never disputed the usefulness of QM. He merely disputed the idea that theories based on configuration space were fundamentally correct.

He even attempted to disprove them by showing that QM predicts the EPR paradox, which most people agree is pretty weird. He then spent the rest of his life trying to come up with theories that didn't predict nonlocal effects.

It turns out that the EPR paradox and other nonlocal effects are observed in real life (so any such theory he might have concocted would have been wrong), but the experiments were only done after Einstein died.
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1. Make it an iMagazine using iBooks Author

2. Give it for free on the AppStore

3. Monetize using full page ads

Why free? the whole idea is to have eyeballs so you can charge for premium ads.

Or you can charge from 0.99 to 4.99 depending on how selective or captive the content is, like finance, law, etc.

There is a ripe market for disruption nobody has tamed yet, everybody can design and publish their own magazine with little effort and there are millions of possible categories from fashion to tech, nature, biking, sailing, etc.

The newsstand icon in my iPad is always empty but that's about to change.
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