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Get a break, something that lasts longer than half a day. Go somewhere where you don't have internet, maybe even no phone connection. Knowing that you actually can't do anything really helps me to wind down and relax. It still needs a day or two, but it's worth ten times as much as a day where I'm supposed to be off but I can constantly check emails and have to actually restrain myself from doing so.
You're right! Getting defensive in job interviews is a cracking idea. Job interviews are a perfect example of two-way rapport-building conversation, and should be therefore treated as a battle-field, thrust and counter thrust, until you finally defeat your interviewer in intellectual combat, emerging victorious, pious, and ... uh ... without a job.
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I think MDN is a noble project but a horrible website.

I find the site an absolute pain to use and every major change Mozilla has made over the past few years has made it worse.

To me, the site is badly structured, badly laid out and as slow as hell. I constantly feel like I'm fighting against it.

Much of the blame lies with the wiki software, which is confusing, cluttered and likely prevents any community from springing up around the site.

If I were Mozilla, I would rename it something like 'Web Doc Wiki' and move it over to stock MediaWiki installation. It might not be flashy but people are familiar with MediaWiki and people more likely to contribute to a site that looks like a wiki.
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I've been there. Why do you feel burned out?

P.S. If you are my co-founder, take a vacation already. You work too much!
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Ask HN: Other Examples of A- to A+ YC Applications?
So we have finished our application and as per suggestion from guidetoyc.com (@jasonshen - Ridejoy)we are going to start getting some feedback before submitting Sunday (any Alum interested? send msg). Just wondering if there are other applications other than Dropbox we can have a look at for reference?
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Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. Manage those correctly for your employees and you'll have a happy organization.
Yes, you can talk to someone. You can talk to me, FWIW. I've been there. Feel free to contact me anytime, email is in my profile.
Redhat, people care about you. Focus on those who take care of you the most. For many of us that is family, but if not family, your friends away from startupland. If not them, we'll help. You never forfeit any option, especially when you keep yourself healthy.
You have to join (and pay) if you want to run your apps on hardware -- the free download only lets you run in the simulator.
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Still I'd stick with bcrypt for ruby. It's in ActiveModel, so it's in Rails. It's in Authlogic. It's the default password storage in Datamapper. I can just point my fellow developer towards the documentation and say "use bcrypt" and be reasonably sure that a basically competent developer will get it right. That's a good thing in my book. Neither scrypt or PBKDF2 have that level of integration so far. When that changes, I'll reevaluate my decision.

Still, it's certainly good to keep in mind that there are alternatives, usage profiles and requirements differ and so do the solutions.
This was published at the The Sixth International conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2012). Maybe it's worth looking looking into other papers from that conference. I am wondering what a keynote of such a conference might sound like.
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You still use XP? It was indeed a lovable operating system from Windows line up, easy and smart. But when it comes to obtaining the motherboard driver, you get a slight hitch in searching it out.
Can you tell us about the License for use? I do not see the license info.
Your microframework also reminds me of Silex a lot. http://silex.sensiolabs.org/

It also uses the same $app content, and but has - at the moment - a bit more evaluating of values.
I found HoloSync a very good introduction to meditation if you need assistance to get 'into it'. The middle way or transcendental meditation might not always be the solution if you already have a massively erratic and consumed headspace.
From the perspective of a commercial real estate broker working with creative companies all over the world including the bay area, 42Floors is going to revolutionize our industry for the better because as a broker who get it, I already see the current, archaic ways of doing things inefficient, and I will adopt 42Floors, encourage my clients to use it as well. It will become the standard as more and more brokers see the value of being a consultant and high level strategist rather than thinking time is better spent completing busy work that consumes too much time. This time can be spent on innovating our industry, adding value to our clients that will gain loyalty forever, maybe even challenging the sheer idea of real estate, and implementing a community aspect to real estate city-wide, nation-wide or even globally. we need workplace innovation and so many things are possible when we are not bogged down by the old system and ways of doing things.
I envision significant changes in the ways of doing business in this industry because of 42Floors. They have their work cut out for them, toppling a monopoly, but their beautifully designed site with accurate and expansive data and innovate plans in the works to help brokers and consumers run a deal from start to finish is the right approach.
I am not scared of being replaced in the least by 42FLoors, but rather I am excited to see what I can accomplish with it implemented and widespread.
I had a burnout once and continued to work for 6 months afterwards to maximize my unvested options.

The options turned out to be worth a lot, by I couldn't enjoy work for 3 years, so I am not sure continuing to work was a good decision.

In my case the reason for a burnout was personal (relations with my boss) and I suspect that the reason is always personal.

I would distill it to 2 advices: ask yourself the 5 whys about the burnout and don't continue working in this state.
true , but it's only recently that there has been so much good development software available for free.

I absolutely disagree. When I was 12 (in 1994) I became interested in Linux because it had so many development tools available. I thought computers and programs were magical, and Linux/bash/Perl/gcc et al. made it possible for me to learn programming. And Slackware Linux could be obtained for 10 guilders or less.

My generation became hackers through GNU and Linux, just as the generation before used MSX, C64, or a ZX machine with a free BASIC interpreter.

IMO, the sickening development is not so much that Mac and iOS developer accounts cost $99 per year. It's that the world (Apple and Microsoft) is slowly moving to a model where there is a gatekeeper who decides what gets in and what does not. As a bonus the gatekeeper gets 30% of every purchase. I can sympathize with the need to provide a 'trusted' source of software, but it should also be possible to install whatever the heck you like.

What would the Internet be if it followed this model?
That's a very good point, but let's also not forget that at the time she didn't know any better and expected working for 2 dollars a day at a sweat shop to be normal (viz the slaves in Mauretania mentioned here on HN yesterday who couldn't conceive of there being anything wrong or unusual about their being enslaved).
that's the point - the analogy does not work. A difference in performance between an average worker and an exceptional one is not very large. The difference between an average programmer and a good one can be between having or not having stuff working.

Precisely because of worker analogy, people leave.
>It is an unfortunate byproduct of GPL like licenses that they poison[1] the market for those specialized tools.

Obviously GPL 'poisons' the market for derivative _proprietary_ tools. The whole idea behind GPL is that the end user should have the right to get the source code. If the only way to charge for your work is through artifical scarcity by hiding the source code then no, you can't do that as a derivative of someone else's GPL licenced code.

If we are talking about your own code, then obviously you can licence it both as GPL and offer it through other agreements aswell. Take x264 for instance, the devs are making good money by offering it through a proprietary licence for those who doesn't want to open their source while making it freely available for open source projects under GPL.

And your copy protection analogy is hypocritical. GPL actually prevents the artificial scarcity employed by copy protection, contrary to the market example you described where someone won't create a GCC plugin because they can't keep it proprietary and thus employ artificial scarcity.

There's no point in arguing against GPL not working with proprietary code given that GPL was created to prevent working with proprietary code. That doesn't mean that you aren't allowed to make money with GPL licenced code, only that you can't do that through A) limiting the number of copies the recipient can make of the software, B) denying the recipient the source code should he/she request it.

Obviously this prevents the most traditional way of making money from software which is through artificial scarcity (except the case of when it's truly _your_ code, then you can offer other agreements apart from GPL as in the case with x264), however other ways of making money off open source has emerged like that of Red Hat.

edit: I do agree though that disallowing plugins is ultimately not the way to go since there's alot of possibilities that they offer (and no, I'm not talking about proprietary plugins of which I couldn't care less) and I'm glad that GCC now has a plugin-architecture.
This discussion is increasingly weird and non-technical, mostly because there is no such thing as "Lisp". There are implementations of Common Lisp, implementations of Scheme, there is Clojure on the JVM, all of those are in the "Lisp" family. So comparing a particular language to "Lisp" makes no sense.

And I don't understand the comment about things being "precompiled". So what? Compilation is a natural step. Note that with most lisps "compilation" is not something you wait for while your server farm keeps crunching .c files, it's a natural step, sometimes happening behind the scenes.
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If she doesn't get it, she's either selfish or you didn't managed to get her to a point where she supports you blindly so you're screwed anyway. So yes, file a divorce for at least one's sake.
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I guess you're getting downvoted because that's exactly the point: Every layperson should be able to double check the vote in case of doubt. That includes the nitty gritty details, including the security of the cryptographic protocol. Paper-Ballots are simple. There's not much to understand: Make your cross, count the votes, add up, done. If in doubt, count again. You don't need to trust any expert on anything for that.
There's more than enough ground to be skeptical. Most of it reads like a job interviewer's contrived response to "What are your 3 biggest weaknesses?"

"The biggest gripe, which surprised us somewhat, is that they don’t get enough overtime. They wanted to work more, to get more money." This, the biggest gripe, at a place that had to deploy suicide nets around the building perimeters. I can't think of a more patronizing way to write this article.

I, personally, don't know what goes on at Foxconn. But the chance at holding accountable those who enable injustice was lost the day the US bank representative stood proudly in front of Congress and announced "We're too big to fail."; knowing that any backlash would be brief and easily defeated. At that moment it became clear to me that propaganda, which many thought the internet would disable, is more powerful than ever.

Disinformation has far greater utility than information.
Oh, but there already is conflict. While information basically got out of scarcity, the copyright overlords are still clinging to their old ways.
It is wise to ask foundational, self-reflective questions in an interview. At the very least it gives insight into the interviewer's level of self-awareness, or at least whether or not they are comfortable introspecting. And, based on the book "Pragmatic Thinking & Learning" by Andy Hunt it seems that introspection is an essential skill to anyone who has "learned how to learn".

Knowing who you are and what drives you is a very difficult question for most people. Most of us don't take the time to seriously ask the question of what drives us. And yet, once we find those drivers, why not be honest about that insight? What do we have to lose? Isn't this the kind of information we should be shouting from the rooftops, to find like-minded people and to express ourselves most fully?

That said, I would choose to ignore the rather obvious attempt to make me reveal details about past employers and answer the question as if it was about purely about my principles and motivations.

For the record, I want to use technology to combat the ever-growing tyranny of complexity, which is the source of an extraordinary volume of what I term petty injustice. I don't believe in the efficacy of central authority, so my work must empower individuals to take action for themselves - to select simpler contracts for example. It is my belief that fighting for a principle I believe in is the most crucial aspect of selecting a team. That said, competent work-mates and managers, a viable technology platform and good compensation are also important, if only from a simple, practical standpoint.
The question is why are American manholes round.

You can walk quite a way in Britain before you see a circular manhole cover. Domestic drain covers are almost always rectangular galvanized steel, and aren't actually that heavy, so dropping one doesn't happen that often.

Digging and constructing a rectangular inspection pit is much easier than a circular one.
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That old 'unpaid labor' thing working out well for you then!
Nice ad hominem, but you're ignoring that the other side has just as much motivation to stretch the truth. As this article points out, sensational "sweatshop" smear stories sell, and if anyone thought that the media was above lying about this in their quest for eyeballs, Daisey proved them wrong.
Assuming that private enterprise isn't getting us into space fast enough, we will need a new cold war to get the world's governments fearful enough to throw money at the problem, and to demand solutions.

Perhaps China will do the honors?
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As one of the developers of jPlayer - it's great to see this discussion. We're a building up the motivation to create a new release and we'd be interested in hearing any ideas the HN community has.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&pli=1#!topic...

(Comment here or in the group).

PS Little known fact - pandora.com uses jPlayer or at least it used to when I last used a VPN to check it :)
I agree. http://dochub.io is a pretty solid implementation of MDN.
I suppose it is also important to find out why are you burning out? Is it the amount of work? Is it something your co-founders do or something that didn't turn out as expected?

I suppose there are several reasons why someone can burn out, and as well as getting some rest to clean the mind it is also important to find out why that's happening. Otherwise it would happen again.

My first and best manager I had, once told me, that jobs are a bit like relationships, the more you try different ones the more you find out what you _don't_ like.
I have found that to be a great piece of advise. So I guess my advise to you would be find out what it is not working for you. Talk to someone outside the whole situation that can have a clear picture of what's happening to you, either a therapist, an old pal or just a family members I guess would be able to help you.

I hope this helps :)
I have been there and I was miserable for family and friends.. but having them close to me was a huge help to get back to my old self once again :)

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Yes, it is wanting to avoid encoding and the associated delay and/or disk space. If I could re-encode and immediately stream with insignificant latency, with a weak CPU, then that might be a reasonable option.
Vaguely interesting but completely unrelated. I expected "the secret" to be that this guy dressed in drag and talked up guys at the bar to spill their secrets. Needless to say, I was very disappointed when the "secret" was using Twitter as a testing ground.
Back in The Day, they had some nice quality dot-matrix printers. They were pretty nice, much more flexible than my parents' letter-quality daisy wheel printer. You could print out cool banners with Print Shop! You could even play music on them. I'd guess they were about the same resolution as the iPad1. I don't remember anybody complaining about being able to see the pixels.

When 300 dpi laser printers arrived, nobody looked back. You could almost imagine that your school reports were typeset. It looked so professional! (If only the writing had been professional...) With 300 dpi iPad's you can almost imagine you're reading a book. People who are visual will care about this. I can see the subpixel coloring on my 20" monitor. If I turn it off, my antialiased text still has blurry vertical lines. It drives me nuts!

Or maybe the best example (again, back in The Day) was when my friend got his 32-bit Nintendo. He demoed a game and I said, "meh, it doesn't really seem all that better." Then he brought out Super Mario 3 on the 8-bit Nintendo and wow, was it painful.
Check out Leo Babauta: http://zenhabits.net/ Lots of great posts about creating habits everyone is suggesting, like sleep, rest, meditation, to find balance and letting go of stress.
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While we're quibbling (and I have no idea why some in this thread have been mentioning TARP), it's not clear to me from any of the cited evidence that ATVM was a bailout. Is someone assuming that all government loans, whether "stimulus" or for some other ostensible reason, are bailouts?
If there's a need for cash, it will exist in some form.

If the governments of the world get rid of cash, meaning all of our transactions are identifiable and traceable by gov'ts and corporations an immediate black-market cash system of some kind will spring up. Of course, they'll make it illegal, and if caught then you'll go to jail just for buying something legal but embarrassing. Then various methods will be invented to help ensure people aren't caught as easily.

Such is the way of things.
Back in 2009 I did some work on augmented reality in the browser[1]. Back then there was no WebRTC, so I had to shim Flash to Canvas to get webcam images, and I implemented image tracking using a simple color tracking algorithm.

If this really is doing image tracking in JS (as tomp noted the explanation isn't clear) then I'm very impressed.

The previous state of the art was some great face-detection code I'd seen, but it is much slower than this.

[1] http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/11/18/augmented-reality-vir...

[2] http://liuliu.me/eyes/javascript-face-detection-explained/, http://apprtc.appspot.com/html/face.html
Ubuntu is a weak unix because its not one at all, its a Linux distro (and a watered down divergent fork of Debian at that).

Also, OSX does contain the basic requirements: install XCode from the app store.
Why do even the not so smart employees leave?
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I never trust anyone who uses the designation "scripting language" let alone those who use it with a capital 'S '. There is absolutely no formal definition of this and it's been repeatedly picked apart such that I don't even have to do it here.

Regarding your other comments they seem to be way off base and just using your personal bubble/ "what I've seen over time". Ruby and Python have crushed Perl in modern web development (Twitter and Reddit come to mind among many others). Python has vast user communities in research and science (including computer science teaching now, MIT, Stanford). Perl might be before Ruby in the pack behind R/Matlab/Mathmatica/Python in some research settings, but that's not saying much. Python additionally is the chosen admin utility language of Red Hat and Ubuntu for their Linux distributions, so it seems there are real alternatives to Perl.

I'm not saying Perl is bad, I am just saying objectively it's been in decline since the 1990s against its rising competitors in all areas: universities, other research, Linux systems administration, application development and web development.
I remember seeing an article or talk or something by one of the main Symfony guys on the fact that PHP was wanting, as a community, to move away from monolithic frameworks in favour of smaller, front controller style implementations. I was actually tring to find it the other day - does anyone have a link?

It's interesting to see the growing trend in this direction for PHP.

I wrote one a little while back[1] that does even less than this :) The only goal being to provide a simple way to execute classes from the web or command line with a default autoloading implementation and a way to inject new ones[2]

Personally a lot of my current direction in PHP comes from watching what's happening the node.js community - I like the way that there are a lot of small-ish packages/modules that are pretty independent.

I've written a couple of packages for RocketSled already which you can see on my github page if you're interested.

[1] https://github.com/iaindooley/RocketSled

[2] There are some obvious improvements that could be made to the current implementation which always parses the package tree ie. caching
Why am I not surprised the Demaines are behind this? They're a hilarious father-son team at MIT.

I worked next to Martin (the father) at CSAIL one summer. He excitedly ushered me and some friends into his office one day to show us all a new video he had finished shooting with Erik. It was a real-life demonstration of some algorithmic problem about rolling a cube over a pattern on the ground. In the video, Martin proceeded to put on a helmet and then climb into a box which Erik then rolled everywhere. And by 'rolled', I mean, tipped the cube up onto its edge to have it come crashing down onto a new face (with Martin inside, sometimes upside down). It was very funny.

Also, looks like Ron Rivest of RSA fame is an author.
Ham looks good. However, Fatfree has lot more than Ham - templating, framework variables.

It will be exciting to see how Ham comes up. Will try to use it in some hobby project.
Almost every paper or artwork by Erik Demaine opens me to something I wouldn't ever imagine. I encourage everyone to look at his website. He is closest to the da Vinci of our times.