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Having been a contractor previously, I can tell you that the main reason I moved over to being a full time developer for a company (complete with 1.5 hour commute) was that no private plan would cover both myself and my wife, mostly due to various medical reasons associated with my wife that I won't get into here. Suffice it to say that the only way we could get her covered without a ridiculous deductible and per-month cost was for me to get a full time job. She works as the director of a local teen drop-in center and as an HR secretary as a sheet-metal plant, and of course, since those are part time jobs, neither offers any benefits whatsoever. We were previously paying over $500 a month to cover myself and her on two private plans.

There are a lot of holes in the US healthcare system when you're doing something that's not what the majority is doing. I'd say this creates an argument for single-payer healthcare, but that's a debate for another thread. (Plus, I'm a little biased as a Canadian immigrant.)
I had to log in just to upvote this. Yes, diagnosing mental illness is less clear-cut than the problems we typically enjoy as programmers. Yes, mistakes are made. But for every mistake there are 9, or 99, or 999 successes (EDIT: I have no statistical reference for this assertion, please take with large grain of salt) who, as you say, feel that they owe their life to the professional(s) who helped them. I know, because I am one, and regardless of society's opinion that is no less an admission of weakness than admitting that I had chicken pox one time, and occasionally come down with the flu.
What is this site? It's full of what appears to be anti C++ propaganda. I am left wondering, did Linus really say any of this?
It's less about "intolerance of ideas" and more about "intolerance of disruptive racism" (and that's setting aside the spam spewed all over the place by his random number generators).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617148

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3567016

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3430362

I feel bad for the guy, but that doesn't mean his behavior is acceptable.
I like this idea. Sometimes we start thinking our idea is so wonderful that we start disregarding the obvious problems associated with it.
In this case I think that Inc paginated correctly, there are 5 pages, but each page is a decent size (15-20 paragraphs), so it's a good compromise between maximizing ad revenue and annoying readers.

But yes, the next page buttons should be bigger for touchscreen users.
Hm, let me guess: does it work because the employer pools all of his employees, and the insurance can account for that? Like one employee gets seriously ill, but 10 stay healthy, so the costs average out?
I think private insurance here in Germany just forms arbitrary pools of people, but the don't just insure anybody. If you have some risk indicators, they won't insure you. Maybe the employers in the US simply have a good bargaining chip, they can say "if you insure our one risky employee, you'll also get to insure our other ten non-risky employees".
"Firstly, things have changed massively since one flew over the cuccoos nest was written. [...] A modern psychiatric hospital is utterly unlike the place in that book in every respect."

Why do you say this? From everything I've read I don't think there have been many changes at all.
Could be. As I said, I don't own an Android device myself—but don't know of anyone that listens to music on theirs in any case.
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Didn't seem to matter to them when nVidia beat Qualcomm out the door with a dual-core chip last year. Plus, they only get to claim the bullet point for Europe; presuming AT&T is requiring LTE, their choices are:

a) Wait for a quad-core Krait. Given HTC's close relationship with Qualcomm, they likely know it won't be for a while

b) Wait for a Tegra-compatible LTE chip, which hasn't been proven in the market yet. Still late to market, and with parts of questionable integrity.

c) Fall back on the dual-core chip and ship now. Lose a bullet point in the US market, but actually be on the market.
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I can report firsthand (well, nearly) on the effectiveness of correctly administered electroshock therapy. My mother has been treated successfully with modern electroshock therapy for major depression. It is entirely painless and the only debilitating side-effect is memory loss. For many patients this approach is more valid than the lengthy trial-and-error approach of finding the right mix of andtidepressants. Disclaimer: my father is a biological psychiatrist, so she may have received better-than-average treatment.

What blew me away was the effectiveness: it was like rebooting a system. After the treatment an entirely different person came back.
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Hopefully they are going with pushState with a fall-back to server rendering for all user agents that don't support pushState.

That's a compromise I can get behind. And it's pretty much progressive enhancement...
It isn't just upstart programmers. How often have we all had discussions with a manager or client who wants something like this done quick and doesn't believe it could have many complexities? "There you go, you got the data, now all you need to do is make the program understand it. Easy!"
Pusher, don't mess with Function.prototype
I'm a big fan of Pusher (pusher.com), but I really don't see why the first line of code in the official JS client modifies Function.prototype.

http://js.pusher.com/1.11/pusher.js

We've long since crossed the time when it was considered necessary or even acceptable for a third party library to mess with Object, Array or Function - why is this still happening? The only benefit is a very slight amount of syntactic sugar that doesn't really make much of a difference.

Are there any other important libraries that are still messing with Javascript's foundational objects? If we can put a list down here hopefully the authors will take notice.
"But for every mistake there are 9, or 99, or 999 successes who, as you say, feel that they owe their life to the professional(s) who helped them."

The problem is that isn't true. The amount of people helped is generally lower than the amount of people harmed, at least with longterm use of many of the major psychopharmaceutical drugs. The book the blog is promoting explains this quite well.

Just this morning there were a flurry of articles on a new study showing that the most commonly prescribed sleeping pills raise your all cause mortality 3x - 5x, and that's over only 2.5 years. One can only imagine what the all-cause mortality over 10+ years is.
The full article is close to 100 paragraphs. Putting that all on one page would intimidate and lose a bunch of readers. Even choosing to put 15-20 paragraphs on a single page makes it a "wall of text" that will put off many readers.

Of course, the real problem is the short attention span of the Internet age but it's hard to fault them for trying to avoid scaring off users.
Background:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/03/apple-bans-app-stores-3rd-m...
There's a difference between ease of getting into business, and the ease of making a living doing it. The debt economy ties people to jobs, particularly because of the fact that if you become self-employed, there will be a few years where you will likely not be able to cover your expenses and we have very little support for that. So unless you are already financially independent, you need financial help from someone else.

A lot of the legislation is a bit of a mixed bag. On the whole PPACA makes it easier perhaps to become self-employed because you can forego health insurance during the critical starting time, only to buy it if a real need arises or once one is making more money. On the other hand, the mandate to buy it later, imposes an additional burden on top of things like high self-employment taxes. On the whole I think PPACA does more harm than good because it can be very hard to predict when downturns will be sufficient to cause one to be able to cut health insurance out of one's budget.

Finally most of the ease of doing business factors are primarily about corporate business. It doesn't tell you much about being self-employed.
It's a nice editor. I'm impressed. I wrote a similar HTML5 editor[0], so I can definitely relate to the effort it took.

Undo/redo doesn't seem to work correctly. At most I can only get it to completely undo to an empty image, at worst I can't seem to get it to undo at all. This is with Chrome on Snow Leopard.

[0]http://www.lovetopixel.com
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I'm currently reading through 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking' by Susan Cain. It is pretty interesting/an easy read.
Seems more like a Gimp clone. Not even close to Photoshop.
I dont know why the HN system accepted my submission a minute later than yours (shouldnt it check for duplicates?). Btw I've deleted it.
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Is your library open-source or available for use at all? It's pretty slick looking
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People should realize that search engines are essentially just huge, generic scrapers.

I've written my share of scrapers and they are almost always a major PITA unless you're just doing a drive-by for one or two DOM elements. Scraping often will end up to be extremely time consuming, although there is rarely significant challenge to it. Just a lot of monotonous, mind-numbing, tedious work.

My advice to most freelancers is: avoid scrapers until you get some teammates to share in the agony.
Electing you to intervene? What is this, a committee? Sounds like a problem with your wider social network.
That still needs human intervention. I think stackoverflow has a bot named community. I am not completely aware of how it works, but if it is completely automated, it is good.
I've seen the inside of (admittedly only one of) them, although not as a patient. My father is a psychiatrist.

I admit that they probably bear some similarities in the patterns of procedure and behaviour that take place in them, but they are not the stark, inhumane, prisonlike environments portrayed in that book/film. You're right though, "utterly unlike in every respect" is probably too strong.
Readable keeps all 81 stanzas:

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If you're dead-set on publishing a lengthy article about somebody's private business, it at least behooves you to spend some time on it. You even managed to get his name wrong.

It is simply not true that the article is "mostly in praise of his accomplishments," either. There is a brief description of LoseThos at the start and a vacuous upbeat sentence about workflows and usability near the end. In the middle sits an illustrated description of Mr. Davis's antics and a rather uninformative discussion about how mentally ill people are mentally ill. You cap it off with a quote from the DSM describing behavior similar to his, and reflect that you can "understand and appreciate" someone's illness now that you have blurb, even one which says nothing more than "yeah, schizos do that sometimes."

The article, aside from rubbernecking at a mentally ill man, has almost no actual content. It seems you were more interested in telling a "tortured genius" story. You insinuate that mental illness would be some sort of creative advantage if only society were more accommodating, that his mental illness and his writing an operating system are somehow two sides of the same coin.

He's been unemployed and stuck at home for 7 years. I don't think it so notable that a programmer in that situation might do some programming. LoseThos is neat, but let's be level headed. Writing a basic kernel (and this one doesn't even have virtual memory or preemptive multitasking) and a basic compiler are both common projects for CS undergrads. To produce this over 7 years isn't some unfathomable feat, though I can't imagine being sick and medicated made it any easier. I absolutely don't mean to be critical of him, and the treatment he received on Something Awful was really unappetizing. But it does seem that you're building his accomplishments up a little. And it seems that you're doing it because you want to write a moving story and parade his personal tragedy through the streets like some nerd Oprah.

This post is too long already, but I also want to say your blaming the community's lack of acceptance for the progression of diseases is ridiculous and trivializes mental illness. Smiling and nodding at his PRNG won't make him better. Finally, your stamping the article with a little self-aggrandizing blurb about yourself and a link to your github account leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Our culture would benefit greatly if religious people were immediately locked up and sedated. They ARE crazy and harmful to those around them, and humoring them is bad for society.
The problem is the Capital-Labor divide, not the imbalance. If you are going to look to unionization as a primary solution (rather than a solution of last resort) tackle this problem like they do in Germany: make sure the union has access to the business's financial records, and a seat on the board of directors.
We are in Startup Chile. We got an Investor. How can we avoid to Get Screwed?
We are part of the 2nd generation at startup Chile program and that’s cool. The program is excellent and lots of doors are starting to open for our startup.

Basically we do some kind of consulting for small and medium sized business in Latin-America that has been enough to achieve ramen profitability, rent office, buy equipment and been selected to participate in the program.

We have two months here in Santiago and a month ago we received an email from Startup Chile STAFF saying that some “small investors” where wanting to talk with us.

We did the 3 pitch, I think we did it great because they asked for a second meeting, we talked about details there and at the end of the meeting we scheduled a 3rd one for the next week.

This meeting was just yesterday and the investor said “YES, let’s start working”.
We are a team of two guys, I do the “technical stuff” and my partner does the billing and taxes part... That’s great and is working but the problem is that I don’t know how to code and we want to build an application for our startup.

The investor is the CEO of a web development company in Santiago and he wants to partner with us. The deal is to have3- 5% of our company in exchange of building the application and some cash for us.

That’s a good deal.

I have thinking about this app for a while and by this point I have a lot of sketches about how the app should look and work. I just need someone to develop and the investor’s team can do this without a doubt.

He wants this sketches but I suppose is not a very good idea to show them without any signed contracts. He just gave us a NDA to sign but I don’t know what else we must do to avoid a story like this for us:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/27/a-classic-startup-horror-story-the-ma-bait-and-switch/2/

We have our next meeting on Thursday and I’m really in a hurry for advice about how to avoid “being screwed” by this guys… You know, I don’t want them to see the sketches, build the app and said “thanks for your cooperation guys, see you later”.

Any advice about what steps we should follow to avoid a “Horror story” Situation?.
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What is this meant to be? All I see is a link to a page displaying a QR code. What is wrong with just clicking through to a page with the content on it these days?
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Great read. I feel for the guy. It was a foolish decision, but I sympathize with his continued struggles and wish he and his family all the best.
I am sure that's why so many people are self-employed in most of these countries.

Also despite the issues in Europe, I understand that in many EU countries (including both France and Germany), there is a higher success rate of self-employment than here in the US.
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It seems to me that you completely missed the point of grellas's post.

The second problem is your belief that working long hours = working 'exceedingly hard'.

That's not really what he said, but even if that's true, nothing in your post refutes that. Someone who is working long hours, is working hard. They may not be working smart, but they are working hard.

Now, the rest of your post addresses why working overtime may not be beneficial to your goals. This does not fundamentally contradict grellas's point that the US model is based around the theory that skilled professionals should have the choice and that they have the knowledge and power to exercise that choice. In the US, if you don't want to work 100 hours a week -- or don't think it's productive -- you can quit. There may be some problems with this view but I don't see any convincing arguments against it in your post.

Lastly, I would like to echo tptaceck's comment that grellas is always informative, helpful, and exceedingly polite. Your disrespect was completely uncalled for.
Here is Feynman's paper on that subject: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/pa...

It's unfortunately the best quality I can find for free. The rest are locked behind paywalls (which is a tragedy).
It's a very fine line between genius and insanity.

Some cross the line and come back, some cross to never return. I have a friend who has been busy now for 2 decades+ working on a CAD system in 68000 assembly, which he believes is the next big thing. He's bulding it on an ancient Atari ST.

The world has long moved on in just about every sense of the word and yet he's solidly stuck in a past that is no longer alive except to him. Everybody around him has had plenty of talks to explain what's going on and he steadfastly refuses any and all input on the subject.

The interesting part is that even though he's unemployed he is working on his passion every day for the largest part of the day, he's building something that is absolutely incredible and he's having tons of fun doing it.

Makes you wonder if he's all that crazy.

'Losethos' is doing something similar, he is building something for which there apparently is no need. But that may be just our perception. Maybe the creative act is his way of showing the world what he can do.
> And since there are many competitors lowballing, we've had to focus even more development time on awesome features to stay ahead of the curve.

That is always the way, in any industry (those producing real holdable products as well as those of us producing code and other less tangible output). If you make something good and charge fairly for it, someone else will make a lower quality version & sell it cheaper and people will start expecting you to match that price without dropping any quality. The problem with software is that you often can't see the corners that have been cut until much later than with physical products (where you might have a chance of spotting the shoddy workmanship before you hand over any money), so competing on quality can be difficult (the competition can make the same quality claims as you can, whether they be true or not) meaning you end up having to compete on features.
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It's in a presentation format. Use your left and right arrow keys to navigate it. A flat list would have been better, but I like the style. (I did not create this.)
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I have worked at game development companies for nearly 20 years. Initially I worked a lot of overtime for free,but after a couple of years I started to feel the effects on my life. After that I mostly just did not do OT unless it was paid. One year on a badly run project I doubled my salary through OT pay, and though my life outside work was not good I was able to put a significant amount of money aside. The following year hourly OT pay was gone, but the expectations were not. I made it clear I would only do OT on rare occasions, such as my work falling behind and a colleague being dependent on it at the weekend, when he would be working and I would be having a life. Even this caused resentment and I had to do the walk of shame at 5pm every day, and I was laid off as soon as the game shipped. The sense of personal failure was very hard on me at the time, but 12 years down the line, I've had a successful career in games, while being upfront at the hiring stage about my attitude to OT. I have worked a handful of weekend days and never later than 8pm in the week. I didn't miss my son growing up, and I read him a bedtime story every night. I don't think this is possible for every programmer and every company, but you can make it work.
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Same issue, on the latest firefox nightly on Debian testing.
Did anyone else get the impression that this guy is a major slime ball? I'm sure YouSendIt has issues at the top, and it does sound like Kumaran may be a little glory hungry.

But when you happily engage in vengeful DDOS attacks, shitty app spam, and flip apparently stolen websites, it paints a pretty clear picture of your character. I know I sure wouldn't want a guy like Shaikh working for me. Not in a million years.
All I want to know is: why do I have to work as many (unpaid) hours as necessary to get the job done, but I have to count the hours I take off?
Cool project indeed. I didn't have time to read your graph viz library, but I noticed the link to D3 in your github page. I realized then that all beautiful graph stuff I have seen in JS are made in D3, thank you for adding the ref to it. Just to mention a project which uses D3, https://secure.toolness.com/xpi/collusion.html . More over, the D3 page pointed me to circos, which looks amazing (not graph related, anyway). A bit offtopic, but wanted to share.
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It doesn't get us anything at all other than a fucking huge rabbit hole to stare down every time you do anything. Lets look at a pretty naff case for .Net CLR on x86 for windows workflow:

application -> xaml -> framework -> server -> container -> c# -> cil -> bytecode -> x86 instructions -> microcode.

Now forth on a 68000:

Forth screen -> 68k instructions

To be honest, for what I consider to be life and death stuff, a 10MHz 68000 is good enough (I have one in my TI92 calculator).
> Then blacksmiths in the Middle Ages did not 'understand' the forging of swords. Only modern materials science allowed us to 'understand' why forging creates harder metal.

The interesting way to construe the article's claim is not that it's impossible to know everything, but that's impossible to know everything that people already know about the field you work in.

Were there blacksmiths who knew everything anyone knew about forging swords? Did Newton or Da Vinci know everything anyone knew about the various fields they were expert in? Are there farmers now who know everything anyone knows about how farming works? The article claims that at some point it became a certainty that programmers cannot know everything that anyone knows about how to use the tools they use and what those tools do. The stack is too complex. That's at least a sensible and interesting claim.