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Firstly, I apologise for downvoting you. Unnecessary, and somewhat spiteful.

I'm guessing in advance that we're going to have to agree to disagree, or more likely, this conversation will peter out unfinished, but I'll have a go at explaining my position.

The Earth is a finite enclosed ecosystem to all intents and purposes. Humans have existed for a small fraction of time compared to the entire life of the planet. In a few short centuries, we've unified all ecosystems under the one ubiquitous umbrella.

For scientific reasons, isolated species such as these should be preserved. To study, inform and provide living examples of the diversity of life that existed before the ubiquity of modern human civilisation eradicated so much.

The religious right in the US would like us to believe in Noah's Ark rather than evolution. Creatures such as these... adapted in an isolated island to grow fat and large, without competition from mammalian predators on connected land-masses, shine a light on Darwinian evolution.

And from a purely 'awwww' perspective (and if you don't think that counts for anything, you're a robot), these critters kept many to hundreds to hundreds-of-thousands of years of generations going and survived in a single outcrop of rock against all odds. Fucking evolutionary heroes if you ask me.

Sentimentality aside...

We're now the dominant life-form on earth. We're looking for microbial life under two miles of ice in the Antarctic in Lake Vladivostok. We're sending rovers to Mars looking for microbial life.

We've GOT A FUCKING ALIEN-LIKE SPECIES LIVING ON AN OCEAN OUTCROP HERE ON EARTH.

A complex, beautiful, rare insect (did you watch the hatching vid?)... and you wonder why it's worth keeping it around?
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My response to the title: You have obviously never worked with Classic ASP. Time to read the article...
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The scam you mention would be difficult to pull off as there would have to be evidence that the account was compromised on Linode's end for the customer to make a claim.
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OP - I'm sad that you had such a bad experience with meds, and I'm sad that experience makes you not trust doctors. You should be in control of any medication you take, and if it has bad side-effects your doctor should be willing to change meds.

Please may I make some suggestions? I have no medical training, and it's a good idea to talk to doctors.

1) Make a "rainy day action plan" and give it to someone you trust. This would have a list of signs that things are not going well (either too high or too low) and that you might need some help. It would include a list of things to do, and people to contact, when you do need help. It would also include any "Advance Directives" (written instructions for clinicians about your future treatment) I don't know if they exist in your country, but they're a strong and useful tool in the UK.

2) Consider regular vigorous exercise. There's plenty of evidence that good exercise helps lift moods. Be careful when you're feeling up that you do not over-exercise.

3) Consider being very careful with the amount of alcohol you drink. Alcohol depresses mood. Sometimes people feel the effect for a day or so after drinking even a small amount. This is especially important if you're drinking alone. (The UK has the concept of "units" for public health about drinking. If you're drinking more than 21 units a week, without 48 hour breaks after a heavy drink session, you may be risky for physical harm)

4) Consider being careful with caffeine. Some people feel the affect more strongly than others.

5) Consider "sleep hygiene". Sleep is often disturbed with mood disorders. Sleep hygiene is the first line treatment. Then you could try CBT for sleep disorders if you can find it. Otherwise a short course of a z drug may help kick you back into a sleep rhythm.
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Looks like you could create a Pipeline for each project, and then add the boxes to the project pipeline.

It would be nice if you could save a pipeline setup so you don't have to recreate the same stages every time you need a new project.
OH please tell us how it turns out. It's one thing for me to take a stroll through myself and another thing for someone with a running business to actually try it out with real data and clients and use cases. This looks simple, and I LOVE simple. I'd rather work with something simple and a few features than something complex with a lot of features. Features are useless if I'm afraid of them or have to educate myself to learn them.
You can't dump $200 mil on a 15 minute silent short and expect to recoup your expense; unless you actually resurrected Charlie Chaplin.

Well, if you could make a $200 15 minute B&W silent short XXX movie with Angelina Jolie, Scarlet Johansson, Jessica Alba, Megan Fox, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Will Smith, and Jude Law, I think you wouldn't need mr. Chaplin.
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He could never prove that he had the cash in his pocket. But you can prove that the bitcoins existed and had not been spent.
I've met notch in person 3 times, and my experience was the same both before and after he made it big with Minecraft.

He comes across as a really nice guy who doesn't really care that much about money or status.
> I guess the best short-term suggestion is just to talk to someone about it.

Research shows that "just talking about it" is not effective for depression and most other mental health problems. There are effective talking therapies.
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No they're not. I vehemently oppose any arrogant and childish position that those who found or rise to leadership are special intellectually.

Brains aren't needed to found a company, only balls and drive. I've met plenty of stupid CEOs and managers of successful companies, IQ wise.

I'm sorry, but you need to grow up. People not choosing to found their own company does not make them stupid. Intelligence does not signal competence, more often as you go upwards it's social intelligence that's needed to become competent, not raw smarts.
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As far as I know they are always hiring & never have a lack of applicants.
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This whole essay feels like a strawman. "All [databases] do is push and pull bytes from the disk, right?" Has any working programmer ever thought that?

I'm a blub programmer, but I've used a number of languages over the years - and not sequentially, either, so I don't think my observations are due to a changing overall experience level - and in my experience, it's unambiguously a lot easier to be productive in some languages than in others.

Missing from the author's initial analogy - "Give an experienced cook a dull knife. The blade slips and he cuts himself" - is the fact that an experienced cook will know the blade is dull and respond accordingly.
I think DA did so well because there's a huge hesitation in people to play a "sci-fi" game. I have no clue why though. My wife even said "that [ME} is too sci-fi, but that [DA} looks interesting".

I don't get what the difference is between a Krogan and an Orc.

Being a writer, I know I could write a story where I could literally switch terminology and it be either a sci-fi or fantasy.

What really gets me is I can never get my wife to sit down and watch more than an episode of BSG, Stargate or something else, but over 3/4 of the movies she picks to see are sci-fi. So I spend a lot of time pulling my hair out on TV choices but for a film I don't even have to ask what it is (although I should keep track of when the damn twilight movies come out as I get sidelined every time).
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The exception is software which is so widely regarded as being good and necessary that it's trivial to expense it. For example: Visual Studio, SQL Server, Oracle, AutoCAD. Software that has acquired a strong reputation can short-circuit the typical management heavy buying decision process. Instead of consulting with the software maker the decision process becomes focused on the question of need, alternatives, and budget.

To date it hasn't been very common for software to live in that niche, but it certainly can.
dude.. buy a gun if the drugs don't help anymore.
I know it's not technically mathematical, but someone in this community should point to Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It is a fascinating book that partially explores the complexities within Escher's work.
You can write Fortran in any language. :-P
cabbies received 10% tips. With credit cards, the average was 22%. Hard to complain about that

Credit cards leave a trace and are taxable. Cash, not so much.
How many times does something like this have to happen before people learn to encrypt? Any serious business or financial data should be encrypted, period. Almost all of the major hacks we read about could have been minimized if not entirely avoided if the data was encrypted.

I just read the release from Bitcoinica where they explained that the server accessed contained _only_ Bitcoinica's "hot wallet", and that no code, services, customer data, or other wallets were stored on the server.

If this was the case, why couldn't every access to that wallet, which, assuming the above is true, necessarily occurs on other servers, run a decryption on the file first? Even if you keep the passphrase and/or secret key in plaintext on the machines that run the code, the separation should prevent this kind of rogue access as long as the intrusion is isolated as these people claim.

There is really no excuse just to have a plaintext wallet sitting around anywhere anymore (the official bitcoin client now supports symmetrical encryption). Like credit card numbers, when a wallet is accessed it should be decrypted in ethereal storage like RAM and promptly discarded; it should never hit disk as plaintext. At least the same practices used for PCI compliance and credit card data should be used for btc wallets; preferably better since there is no recourse if your btc wallet is compromised.
+1 to confirm the bureaucracy around governmental/European funding: I lost 6 months on preparations for them and finally quit.

If I would have continued (and be accepted) I would have lost another 3-12 months until signing the contract.
After that I'd be caught in at least 2 waves of unexpected monitoring and re-verification (which ultimately means not receiving the money in time from the state, all while I'd still have to pay my taxes, employees and suppliers according to the contract)
My impression (foreigner in Denmark) is that visibility and what "counts" is some of the problem as well. For example, university masters programs track employment statistics of their graduates, but the statistics, in many cases, count people who start their own businesses as basically in the "not employed" bucket, so there's no incentive for universities to promote entrepreneurship, and to the extent they do, they get no credit for it anyway. The statistics are basically looking for, "graduated, got a job at Maersk".

I don't think the salaries are the issue, though, because Danish engineering salaries, while nice, are slightly lower than Silicon Valley, so they can't be the main difference.

Another complaint I've heard is that there are some issues around entrepreneurship and the social-welfare system, because if you start a company and it fails, you aren't eligible for the same benefits as an employee who joins a business and then gets fired. That's also true in the U.S. (no unemployment insurance for entrepreneurs), but the U.S. social-welfare system is weaker so it's not as big a differentiator; losing the a-kasse is a bigger deal. On the other hand, the fact that Danish startups get free healthcare for themselves and employees is a plus.
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But once the dividend tax is paid to make the money Notch's, and not Mojang's, the money no longer comes from the employer, does it? </not-an-accountant>
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Quite a big update with a lot of changes was released yesterday so that probably bumped the sales a bit.
I boot Win7 every day and OSX a few times a week. I was on a colleagues PC (winXP) yesterday and couldn't work out why when I moved my mouse to the left-hand-side of the screen there was no dock.

Seriously -- If you have a normal laptop / modern screen -- it's time to switch. It will take some time to adjust -- but it's worth it for the vertical space you reclaim.
This looks really useful, but some parts of a pipeline I might need external people (who are probably not using gmail) to action/move items along a pipeline.

It might be cool if you could generate a URL for a pipeline for someone so they can collaborate (change statuses/comment) without needing to use gmail. Although I haven't really thought of all the consequences of this.
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An absolute gem. If there is something I could possibly add to this wonderful summary, it'd be to further stress the importance of peace in our lives.

I am yet to really experience a startup first-hand but have had a strong bipolar commotion only recently. I really can connect with what Zak feels and no amount of persuasion can repel that feeling of emptiness.

When you go through the lows it's hard not to get hit by the enormity of it all. You begin to see just how puny an existence you truly are. And at the same time how lucky to have all those people who are there for you no matter what. Deep gratitude overwhelms you.

I don't think I can add much about fighting startup depression though I wish to share this one thing I came to learn. And that is that peace cannot be bought. You have to earn it. And that success does not cut it. You have to let go of things that hold you back.

Happiness is essentially a habit. Fall in love again. Do crazy things. Life is hard and startups harder. But kudos to friends that make the gloomy bits easier to handle. :)
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Thank you. I wish parents taught their kids to 'know when to quit' more often. I've read stories from founders who missed the birth of their children, left their dying parents, sacrificed everything important for some dumb startup that sells shoelaces or soap or diapers. It's one thing to be persistent and another to be delusional. And the best way to find out which one you are, is when you take a step back, clear your mind for a week or two and have a good look at yourself when you're not stimulated on coffee and twitter.
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With company of less than a few dozens employees everyone is a key employee and what he does affects the company. Thus I think shares really boost working morale and interest in company's success. Money does too. But I think that higher stable income more than a one-time big fat bonus.
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My last job hosted an XMPP server, and we also had a locally hosted pastebin. On the XMPP server we hosted chatrooms, so the IT people would hang out in one, and the software devs in another.

What I use right now is Microsoft Lync (aka Communicator), since we're on the MS stack for infrastructure. The nice thing about that is you can click the "Share Desktop" button if you needed to show something you have. I don't know if it supports predefined chatrooms, but you can get multi-user chats by dragging people into IM conversations.
"Doesn't make them immoral, either"

Indeed. I was just expressing my point of view.

"Next you'll be saying "property is theft"."

No, this wild extrapolation doesn't reflect my views.
Good grief, are you serious? This is the worst, most short-sighted, destructive and downright mean piece of advice I've ever seen.

Here you've got a very young man describing decisions he has made in his life that are killing him, and your big solution is to pivot his business focus? Look, people get burnt out, it happens. When you spend 365 days a year spinning your brain at 100k RPM, every so often you need to let it cool down and recharge.

This isn't "quitting" it's called "pacing yourself." Christ. You act like the grandparent comment was saying never ever program or build a business again. He said take a year-long break.
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> PHP is... not exactly a great work of software engineering.

FTFY. :)
Why the Facebook link? http://www.picozu.com/ works just fine.
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Any business that would be running on linode could be worth potentially far more than that. What your saying here is that no one should put anything of value into a VPS, which I imagine is not something linode itself would say.
After reading a bit more on Grace Hopper, particularly about the first ever (?) compiler "A-0" she made, I found this in-depth article describing it (and a bit more):

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/norberg.html
Ripping off the design is not cool. But otherwise, well it is like being the guy who opens the second restaurant, the first one might get annoyed but in a few years there will be thousands. Sounds like great execution too.
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There's a big algorithm involved in commanding and controlling the Space Station

Well, that's more of a procedure (with the military sense) than an algorithm with the modern math/programming meaning.

(We do use procedures in the above sense, e.g the steps to a cooking recipy, as an analogy to algorithms in introductory books, though)
I think this is good advice, but summed up better would be know when to take breaks (maybe 4 a year). Use the depressive episodes as an indicator that your mind and body need a holiday.
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Battling with the "Ingenieurs-Mentalität" is my biggest issue right now and I know some people who have the same problem.
It's a weird problem to have but it really seems cultural.

I got some half-baked ideas that would be not far from an minimum viable product, but I can't help it and overthink all possiblities and eventually stop working on that idea because I'm bored with it and seemingly can't get it off the ground.
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Downloading the Xubuntu release now, hopefully it fixes the few little problems I've had since I switched desktop managers.

Also, I've completely clogged my pipes this morning with OS beta downloads, first Win 8, now this.
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people" E Roosevelt

"and the truly brilliant keep their mouths shut"
From what I see, the Samwer brothers don't have great execution.

They copy a site, claim a userbase in Germany/Europe, then sell the site back to the people they imitated. It reeks of "go away" money.
Thank you. This is why I came back here after visiting the official download page.

All I was able to find there was an exe-file, which is of little use when I'm running Ubuntu as my main OS..
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Use the gerund and not the infinitive:

After words which regularly take a preposition:

Go on (continue) + -ing.

Don’t say: The music went on to play all day.

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On the other hand, those that understand UNIX all too well, are doomed to recreate and use it ad infinitum, in lieu of creating something better.

At least the ACTUAL developers of UNIX created Plan 9, they didn't put their hands up and said "this is how you do things, no improvements can be made".

For example, when I see the lame "it's how it was always done", arguments against a sane FS hierarchy like the one gobolinux attempts at, I want to tear my hair off.
Interesting point you make about ripping off the design. I'm not a designer, just a humble developer .. why is it OK to rip of a product idea but not the design of a product?
"Today you can buy virtually any media electronically." if and only if you live in the U.S. and Europe (& other first world countries), have an international credit card and a lot of other stuff you seem to take for granted.

I know some people that had a Megaupload account, and they were paying a third party that had a valid internet payment method that set up the account for them. They didn't have any way to legally pay for all those services you're mentioned (and probably didn't have the means either).

A reasonable functioning market would mean that people in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay would pay less than people in the U.S and Europe, but we're still at a stage where it isn't so (I've heard that China and some other Asian countries do have differentiated pricing, I guess they're a more attractive market).

It's not so black-and-white.

I still believe that Kim Dotcom was commiting copyright infringement and he did make millions doing that. I disagree with the means and the punishment.

I also spend hundreds of dollars in media and entertainment (though I will admit to having unpaid copyrighted media), but I'm not representative of the kind of people I see using Megaupload.
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The state of HN: a lot of unqualified people giving idiotic advise to someone who needs professional help.
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As a french, I get very strange feeling reading comments here. Germany is presented as an example by French gov for it's better industry (presidential elections are in May ).

Does that means that Germany is not better, or that France is even worse ?
So how about Zalando being the biggest player in his field in Europe?
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