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No you are not alone. But that might be part of the problem. Get a dog. I know I know. You don't have the time to care for a dog. But you do. Cause you'll make time. And hire a dog walker. I do. She comes in every day and walks my 95lbs lab/dane mix. Most dog walkers will feed your dog too, if needed.

Coming home to an empty house gets old fast.
Netflix had to raise prices eventually, I wonder if they will have to do it again in the future to stay in business. Their licencing fees went from ~200 million in 2010 to ~2 BILLION in 2012. They must raise prices somewhere along the line. $10 a month is a hell of a deal for all you can watch movies. This is the price of 2 trips to McDonalds.

They have to charge more somewhere due to their skyrocketing license renegotiation costs the studios are charging. And they can charge this, because there is a demand for their content.
array dereferencing - $object->method()[$index] is now valid syntax

finally ....
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That makes sense. I wonder why this thread got downvoted
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shortened array syntax - $array = [1, 2, [1, 2, 3], 4];
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can't express how long i waited for these
I think a task queue should be a default part of the web stack in exactly the same way that memcached is - once you have one set up a huge range of problems become things that you can quickly solve using a queue, which is good news for performance, scalability and maintaining a clean architecture. The initial setup costs pays off very quickly.
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The only complaint I have so far (more like a WTF thing) is that Mail doesn't do POP3. Otherwise loving it.
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I'm in the same boat, and honestly it is comforting to see things like this. I feel like seeing that others are in the same place and struggle with the same things makes me feel like I can get over it too.

I do almost the exact same things as well - massive weight gain, HUGE sleep problems (to the point where I end up going to sleep as the sunrise, sleeping all day), lack of exercise, avoiding friends/gatherings, etc. I haven't left my apartment in 4 days now.

All of this while running a semi-successful (to the point where it pays my bills) consumer facing service company. It is difficult. It's difficult when I can't bring myself to answer the phone, call someone back, or give them an update on an order.

I have history of severe mental illness in my family, and it is actually a bit of a motivator to think of them. The family member in particular literally has spent 10-12 years trying to have a normal life while sleeping 12-18 hours a day, heavily medicated, in and out of hospitals (easily half the year in the hospital, for the past 15+ years), and 100+ ECT treatments. I don't want to be that. I don't want to get that far, and it pushes me to pick up that damn phone or send that email. I know that is a bit twisted, but it works for me. I don't want to hit that low. Oddly enough, any time I've ever seriously contemplated suicide, I've stopped precisely because I know what it would do to this person - I can't imagine bringing that much pain to my family and making them go through that. I don't know if they could handle it. I've had the unfortunate experience of walking in on a suicide attempt and driving their blood covered body to the hospital, and I know the way I felt there is nothing I would ever put someone through, no matter how much I wanted to.

I also have literally zero interest in talking about it - which is tough, but I know the first reaction from my family would be medication, and I absolutely refuse.

I'm rambling now, but that's probably good. Interesting what you'll say on a throwaway that you'd never dare with your name attached.
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I don't complain either, but I don't see why its not the super key, as that brings up the dash in Ubunto 11.0[410].
I hope they take Linode to court, because it'd be funny to watch them lose actual money as they tried to sue over something where Linode has no responsibility at all.

They were incredibly stupid to leave their money sitting on Linode, and they got what they deserved.

Sorry, idiotic bitcoin speculators, you got pwnt. And there's nothing that anybody is ever going to do to help you.
Interesting - the person in my comment below does use this with the S.A.D lights. I also remember seeing hats/visors that do this as well, if that may be a bit easier for your work/movement.

They also moved to Florida for months at a time, which seems to help as well. Not exactly practical for many of course.
Basically, one of the requirements to operate a Chicago cab* on any given day is to be able to accept credit cards. Because of this, if the driver flat out refuses to take your credit card they're not eligible for the fare. If you're really having problems with a driver I suggest calling 311 (or threatening to at least). I've never had to do this, but when I called to formally complain about a taxi the first question they asked is "are you in the cab?" so they must have some sort of action plan for that.

*I believe this only applies to fleet cabs (not independents), but that's virtually all of them anyway.

Note: 2am so I'm not going to look up the specifics right now, but if you want to know more, feel free to email me (in my profile).
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>especially from "girls".

Huh?
As someone who has been in the same place, I agree completely. My reaction to SSRIs was first a minor euphoria (just bubbly but a bit numb) and ever since then I have been, well, normal.

Zak, what you're saying is true, up to a certain point. Life has lows, because sometimes, it just fucking sucks. However, you don't and can't see the difference between a low and depression. They are worlds apart. Please, please, give medicine another chance.
What if they steal the key?
Hosting company that still uses PHP4? Name names so we can avoid and chastise them!
> I am curious what the internal hang up is which prevents:

PHP's parser is... not exactly a great work of software engineering.
First off I find the NoSQL term in itself very strange. How can you say anything intelligent about "everything that is not using SQL as a query language"? Its like talking about NoJava, instead of talking about Ruby.

Props for a well written article with lots of nice graphs but I dont agree with much of its content.

A few examples:

"software applications are not so often interested in in-database aggregation"

In my experience this is what 99% of business support apps are doing. Doing this aggregation in procedural application code will only give you more code to maintain and more bugs.

"joins are often handled at design time as opposed to relational model where joins are handled at query execution time"

Im glad you know beforehand about your changing requirements over the next 10 years and can "design" your joins for every eventuality right now.
It feels like the exact oppisite of agile.

I also agree with the very insightful comment by Voice in the wind (comment #4 below the article)
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Yes, and having to use tape seems really unhandy :P
It's not really that simple when you account for the "triple play" style packages. People are getting their internet, phone, and TV all together for around $100/month. People don't really understand what portion of their bill goes to each of those services, but they view all three of them as critical (with phone service rapidly becoming provided by cell phones). There is pretty well understood psychological effects of bundle pricing.

When you break out just movies, $10/mo might be what people actually want to pay. I suspect the actual right price point for the mass populous is somewhere > $10 and < $50... but Netflix has to live in a world where people already have TV, thanks to aggressive bundle pushing strategies from cable companies. At $10/mo, Netflix is priced the same as Stars & friends: like "channel packs".
I pay $160/mo on satellite, plus sports packages.

And half the time, we just watch the $10/mo Netflix instead.
I don't want to be pedantic, but this is not depression. Depression is 6 months without a single high point. Depression is not a roller coaster- there are no ups. Just down. For a long fucking time. I've been depressed off and on for the past 10 years- about 5 depressive periods, each 6-18 months.

I don't want to minimize the OP's struggles- he most certainly has some kind of mood disorder (possibly rapid-cycling bipolar disorder or RBD). There may be depressive episodes involved, but I don't think the word "depression" should be used unless it's referring to Major Depressive Disorder or one of its close siblings.

Again, I'm trying hard to not be pedantic. It just frustrates me when people think that depression is something you can get over, or that will get better in a day or a week. That's just not the case.
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Someone got off scot-free with a quarter million USD in anonymous currency. I'm not sure how that's setting sights too low...
I think he means he uses a local virtualbox virtual machine for all his development stuff so he doesnt need to care about which OS (win, linux, osx) is running on his physical machine.
I'm not trying to troll here at all, but if "$215,000" worth of bitcoins are stolen, do the authorities investigate as they would $215,000 worth of cash?

Is there taskforces that recognizes this? or is it just the wild west?
Just out of curiosity: how old are you? I feel like I'm in the same situation, I make more money than I can comfortably spend and so I save it. But I do like seeing my savings rise, and thinking/dreaming about buying a house with no mortgage in the future. At what point did you stop caring about how much money you had saved?
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Good advice. It's amazing how we manage to convince ourselves that we arent human, and forget that we need to move around, smell, feel and see new things, talk to other people, eat relaxed meals, walk around, etc. We are animals, and I mean that in a good way. Only a small part of our brain is "rational"... Make sure you keep the rest of it happy too!
If you have a depression you need help. Talk to your doctor, and don't dismiss the assistance of drugs. Also exercising is known to help against depression.
for me, it's really just the whole terminology of the CRM. think it just over complicates what it really is. i guess my question comes down to, does Twitter/FB also fit in to the realm of CRMs? i see a lot of startups now use Twitter/FB as the main communication line w/ their userbase.
NoSQL is about the interface, not the implementation. NoSQL databases provide a better impedance match out of the box for some applications.

What is often lost in the conversation is that you can do the same thing using a competent SQL database engine if you can deal with the complexity. But you have to use SQL, which for some applications is a poor interface, and you have to configure the engine for your application and workload. This adds complexity to the process. If you have great database architects and DBAs, NoSQL does nothing that you can't do on a really good SQL engine. Most startups have neither the people nor money for that.

The vast majority of databases, whether labeled SQL or NoSQL, implement the same relational operator algorithms under the hood. They are not intrinsically different in that regard. Even graph databases, which in theory cannot be expressed in a simple relational algebra, can be and are expressed in practice as recursive relational algebras. As long as databases are using the same algorithms and representations they will have the same limitations.
> The best part of short array syntax is that now you don't need named parameters to be supported by the language

Unless you've ever used languages with actual first-class keyword arguments (Python) and languages using hashes as pseudo-kwargs (Ruby, JavaScript). Then you know it's no substitute.

Also, you could already do just that in PHP before, it simply took 5 more characters.
Would you be willing to say a bit more about which country and how you got there? (My E-Mail is in my profile.)

I'm currently in Switzerland, but I plan to live in Mediterranean countries other than Italy and Spain for some time in the future. I only ever lived in rich European countries, so I would be interested in your experiences.
I've used traits a few times and in each case replaced it later by either inheritance or moving the functionality into separate classes. I'm not getting the design considerations that call for traits over alternatives. How would one use, and why is it the better option?
I believe Silk Road is operated by actual agorist, or market anarchists to be more general. If that is true, even they would care about where the money comes from, especially if it is stolen money.
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I ll also boycott linode, calling this an incident and repeating "Ensuring the security of our platform is our top priority" and "Security is our number one priority and has been for over eight years." is clearly not enough.
Got that, too! :D Here.... let me just make a list of what's in the cabinet: http://pastie.org/3502486 There's not anything there that we don't like, but I'd say family favorites would be Qwirkle, Ticket to Ride, Robo Rally, Carcassonne, and Pandemic. Caverns was a lot of fun and may make the favorites list, too, but that could just be the newness... too soon to tell. :)

Our daughter's almost 10, and with the exception of Twilight Imperium (this game is massive, especially when you add both expansions) plays them all with us. In addition to spending more time together as a family, I'd say it's helped a with her math, reading, and critical thinking.
"I see what you're doing, you're being purposefully condescending."

I'm pointing out the obvious. X bitcoins could be "worth" 5 cents or 500,000 in a matter of hours. Bitcoins were stolen not dollars therefore an accurate headline would say how many bitcoins were stolen and possibly the USD (or whatever) value parenthetically.

"You aren't dumb enough"

Stay classy.

"to actually believe that something people trade for real dollars has absolutely no value."

I never said it had no value. Baseball cards have value, no one pretends they are a currency and if anyone did people would rightly point out the many disadvantages like your baseball cards don't get the advantages of a real bank.
I'm grateful this exists, so that I can link to it.

When you try to point out a trend and give five or six examples, and people nitpick one but ignore the general point... I don't know, it seems almost perverse.

The magic of Hacker News (or Reddit, a very long time ago) was that it didn't have much of that. It's changing. Still the best public discussion on the internet, but pedanticism is on the rise.

HN used to feel like having a coffee and snacks in the living room of a very gracious host who created an eclectic mix of people -- just to get a good discussion going. I liked contributing, and though I'd at times make poorly thought arguments (I hadn't studied enough history to see the politics I advocated weren't quite right), I always felt like I had a shot to engage someone in discussion.

Now, the place feels like you've got to be aware of rhetoric in front of a potentially hostile crowd, fighting for the payoff of... the crowd's fleeting ephemeral approval. Which is one reason why I don't comment much here any more.
China doesn't acknowledge virtual theft, which caused some problems here:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4072704.stm)

But a later case said that virtual property should be protected by law:

(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/24/content_1142726...)

Dutch authorities arrested someone for virtual theft:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7094764.stm)

Here's another Dutch case, involving real world violence, which went to their supreme court:

(http://madisonian.net/2012/02/01/dutch-supreme-court-decides...)

That last one mentions US case about domain names.

I'd be really interested to hear from previous US court cases, or from lawyers, about this.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655582 is a great post featured today. It's mainly focusing on depression but I think this is useful to any period of "tough luck" (technical issues included).

The best parts are the solution(s) and interpretation of the slow-periods: it's probably a sign you need to take a step back, see the whole picture and adjust accordingly to your goals. Reinvent and build!

Also, you might want to couple with a friend that has complementary skills, i.e. the ones you are not strong at (the whole point against the single-founder). If not, at least keep a constant connection to other founders.

Good luck!
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At the risk of alienating vegetarians:

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Dixit is well worth a try if haven't already,
Benchmark the performance of this on its own doesn't provide much insight. In any case, early benchmarks of the web server I am working on are available:

https://gist.github.com/1582864

Note it is still experimental, take everything in there with a grain of salt.
> Linode will send you a confirmation email if you access the admin panel from a "new" IP.

IF you have the IP whitelisting feature enabled on your account. It is not by default.
Not if you know what you're doing, no. Investigations of previous thefts have shown that you can't really hide bitcoins by shuffling them around. However there is a number of bitcoin addresses from services like exchanges that you can transfer bitcoins into and then out of to effectively launder money. An investigator would need the cooperation of the exchanges to track this money. The attacker will almost certainly move this money through a half dozen or more exchanges in equally many legal jurisdictions. Good luck following that trail.
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That's a good discussion. I could not find any concrete specification of what homoiconicity means. But there are other languages (like Erlang, Julia and others) which provides the same kind of "first-class AST" and are called homoiconic.

In any case, I believe we can agree what it is called doesn't matter much. What we can do with it, does. :)
I wonder about that. It seems to me that the bitcoin wallet shouldn't have been accessible after reboot, at least until someone came by to give the agent managing it the passphrase that would allow it to decrypt it's state. From the sound of things the wallet was just laying around unencrypted?
there's no reason why you can't.
oof, I guess that's how terrible precedents are formed. The argument of the plantiff is all wrong - it's not that the bank failed to secure some nebulous "online account", it's that the bank performed an unauthorized transfer by whatever means. Online banking credentials aren't proof of identity, and banks have continually rejected capability security (which in this case would have taken the form of dynamically-generated secrets that enable one transfer up to $X). If they can't afford to eat ~$100k every time their mostly-reversible system gets taken advantage of, they shouldn't default to offering the ability to transfer $100k to the Internet in the first place.

(and clearly bitcoin is the polar opposite, based on capabilities and being irreversible, for now)
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Perhaps you should see Bipolar / Manic Depressive disorder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder

There are many forms of depression as well as Major Depressive Disorder.
Exactly. Buggy and slow software is a much larger, worse issue than piracy, which directly affects your paying customers.

IMO good software has the same properties as good hardware: the internals accessible to diagnose and solve problems.

Sure, people may "steal" your code, but then again, if your business model relies on keeping code secret instead of being helpful to customers, you have already lost. You're not some kind of priest protecting your superior, holy code from lesser minds.

Edit: Also, code obfuscation says "I don't trust you, customer!" if nothing else.
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David,

I've read your rent and I must say that I can recognize myself some years ago in your story. Studying without the ability to concentrate is hard, and even though while you are intelligent enough it seems like you keep on failing on your goals.

Yet, you are who you are and you're going to have to live with it. It is really easy to see your ADHD as a glass ceiling and blame your current failure as a student on it. Still it wont solve your issue.

Try to focus on the aspects of yourself that you can influence rather than the ADHD where you just will have to learn to live with.

A book that I would like you to recommend reading is called "the 7 habbits of highly effective people" by Stephen Covey. It was a real eye opener for me to focus on the right things and totally changed my negative attitude.

I hope this can be of any help.

Best regards

Dmitry
Not really, I've used Skype since it launched and I love it. But like Word my guess is that most people probably only use 20% of its functionality, voice/video calling and chat. If this does that easily and for free, it will very quickly eat into Skypes market. I for one would switch.
If you have any kind of trouble with depression the first thing you should always check is that you exercise and eat right. It really makes a huge difference. You may also need to experiment with different drugs to find one that works for you but you're wasting your time if you don't exercise. EXERCISE!
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