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I was in a similar place about 18 months ago with a digital agency I founded and ended up selling it about a year ago. I don't regret the selling part but I know now that I could have made my own life a load easier if I just stopped and looked at things objectively.

It sounds to me like you need to get some perspective on things so I would suggest:

1) Talk to your co-founder. They probably see you in ways you don't realise and they should understand that for the sake of the startup it is best to give you a bit of support. If they don't then seriously think about whether you want to continue with someone who won't support you (and the startup) when you need them to.

2) Take a break. By this I mean a real break where your cell phone is off for at least a week if not two. Where you do as little as possible and try not to even think about work. It might take a bit of time to get yourself a chance to do this but you have to.

3) Learn to meditate. It will totally change the way you look at things. The feeling of suffering and pain you have comes from your mind being out of control - you know rationally that it isn't as bad as it seems and said as much above. Learning to calm your mind and get rid of the fog will help you look at what really is important and you will feel more in control and positive.

3) Remember that you are only human. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and things getting on top of you. You must learn to not be perfect and be happy that you are as you are. There is no shame in needing help.

5) If the above don't work for you go and see a doctor. Depression is a real and sometimes very severe illness. For some people (but only some) medication is the right answer.

Hope that helps.
Exactly. WebKit is open source. Microsoft could easily drop Trident and package a version of IE running WebKit. Everyone running the same HTML engine? Sounds like a web developer's dream… In this world, who needs standards?
The "tool & library ecosystem" in Java is one of its main reasons why many people avoids it like the plague.

And that using Java is almost impossible without such tools and 'frameworks' doesn't tell you much good about the language itself.

With Go there is little need for such extra stuff, and the tools that exist are very simple and very useful (eg., gofmt, gofix) without being required to make up for deficiencies in the language.
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There's some rampant, blind and heart crumbling cynicism is going on in this thread.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too"

Or we could just build websites, obsess over stuff that will be forgotten in a year and shit all over other peoples grand ideas.
The article it's ok, but this is just a permutation of the roles first outlined in the Mythical Man Month (lawyer, surgeon, organizer, etc).
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Here's the incident (and litmus test from my cofounder) that permanently changed my workaholic thinking:

cofounder: Hey Ed, it's 6:30. Finish up. Let's go next door and get a beer.

edw519: No, I have to finish <Task X>.

cofounder: Do that later. Have a beer with me.

edw519: No, I have to finish this now.

cofounder: Have a beer with me, then do that tomorrow.

edw519: No, this has to be finished tonight.

cofounder: Then have a beer with me, and come back after the beer and finish it tonight.

edw519: No, I have to finish it first.

cofounder: If you have a beer with me and don't finish that, how will our Annual Report be different?

edw519: What?

cofounder: You heard me. If you have a beer with me and don't finish that tonight, how will our Annual Report be different?

edw519: I don't understand.

cofounder: Listen one more time and answer the fucking question! If you have a beer with me and don't finish that tonight, how will our Annual Report be different?

edw519: It won't be.

cofounder: Good. Then let's have that beer now. OK?

edw519: OK.
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Ask HN: Is building something the best way to find a co founder?
What about lwn.net?
I wanted your guys' thoughts on this process of finding a co founder that I documented. Fundamentally, building something small and fast is probably the best metric to test the dynamic of a team. We built http://thestyli.st as a test (far from what we're planning to focus on keep in mind).
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You have to give your brain a break. That doesn't necessarily mean doing nothing but it can be doing something more along the lines of a hobby - such as creating music, doing graphics, gardening etc...

One of the most common overlooked things with developers is the fact that your brain strives for equilibrium. Tipping the scale too long can really have disastrous side-effects if you aren't doing some of the things you love doing. I broke down for nearly 2 months unable to code at all but it was the last time that happened since these adjustments.
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I consider myself a good starter and debugger, I really suck at finishing, i hate all the little polish bits that are left over to do.

I find it easier to be the finisher if i didnt start the project, perhaps i should partner with someone with the same problem and just swap our projects once we get to the finisher stage.
Simple. Let n = k.
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Does you company use Masterbranch / Coderwall / Geekli.st for recruiting?
Did you actually see a page yet? I only got "Currently there is no image available for this record. This is due shortly." so far, or no image to click on.
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As a bonus, the "npn-boot" jar to extend the Java SSL implementation with the necessary next_protocol_negotiation extension support also allows access to the server_name extension. This should mean that you could implement server SNI support in Java, which allows SSL virtual hosting for supported clients.
Start exercising.
I would like to point out meditation. I got started with meditation because someone recommended it as cure for burnout here on HackerNews and I feel like I need to return the favor. Meditation is like taking a week off compressed into 30 minutes. The idea is that you do nothing for some time - not even think. I know it sounds wierd, but if you do it corrrectly you fell more balanced, less agitated and happier in general afterwards. You will get a fresh view on your problems and be able to put them into perspective. Just like taking a week off meditation won't fix your problems for you, but it will get you into the right mindset to do so or for accepting that curtain things can not be fixed.

There are different kinds of meditation, but I am talking about mindfulness meditation in the Buddhist tradition. When people hear the word meditation, they often associate it with some kind of new age non-sense. This kind of meditation has nothing to do with that. It also does not require to convert to Buddhism either. If you are interested I would recommend the book Mindfullness in Plain English. It's also available for free as an e-book on the internet.
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Well, since h.264 is in the good enough and has been built into a lot of hardware, I don't think we have much to worry about.
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Aren't the regexes cached only for the current request anyway?
I realize I'm straying dangerously close to Get Off My Lawn territory, but I worry about the post-PC era. As a programmer, I worry about turning into a sharecropper on a closed platform [1].

[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...

As a consumer, I worry about "buying" a closed, networked device and discovering that I don't really own it, but merely have a licence to use it under draconian terms of service. I don't want to "buy" a book or a movie or a piece of software, only to have it yanked off my device remotely.

Meanwhile, the government of my country (Canada) is rolling out a new copyright law that will make it a criminal offence to circumvent "digital locks", even if it's for legitimate, legal personal use.

However, I still hold out hope that as the technology matures, costs fall and competitors catch up to Apple's tight vertical integration, it becomes more feasible to run a full-featured open source device with a healthy ecosystem built around it.
I know how hard it can be to share an idea you really believe in - even though I know better, it still sometimes happens to me.

Ironically, the ideas I thought had the biggest need for secrecy are also the ones that others did actually do too, completely independently from me. You may think that it was a good thing I kept them secret, or these other people would have been able to work on the same idea even quicker, but I now firmly believe the opposite to be true: if I had shared the idea and talked to people, I could have got advice or even help to make my version better or complete it faster. The other people were going to make their version regardless, so I may as well get as much help and advice as possible, right? Plus if I have my idea out in the public, it could prove valuable as prior art should the other people attempt to patent their version, while having kept the idea secret, I'm now completely at their mercy.

Also, people not already invested in an idea (usually because they didn't come up with it themselves) are very unlikely to steal it. Even if they do, you just need to make sure you can adapt to the market needs. I've heard stories of startup ideas being copied, but the copies not being able to adapt quickly enough to the market because the people who copied them don't have the same drive and vision as the people who had the idea in the first place.
That's not what GP comment said though. It said they care about "more than" the paycheck. The pay is not the only motivator, what's implicit is that an interesting and challenging problem are also important to a top contributor, as well as the quality of the work that they output. That's a big part of what makes them a top contributor.
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Awesome demo. Ta. First time I've seen the code player as well.
Mostly because mod_rewrite rules are fairly complicated, and the ability to put them in the server's conf file means any changes require a server restart. You could put them in .htaccess, but now your having to parse out the route every time. Using a front controller (like index.php) makes everything so much easier. Finally, you have to consider hosting support. This hasn't even touched on numerous other benefits.

Yes, their are tradeoffs, but they don't overcome the benefits, not the least of which is simplicity.
I believe that in order to get really good at any of these roles, you must do the other roles, deeply and often. For example:

The more time you spend Debugging shit, the less likely to you are to Architect something that produces shit.

The more time you spend fixing a million little things caused by poor early decisions, the better Starter you'll become.

The more fun you have conceiving and Starting projects, the more you'll realize how important Finishing is, so that you can get to new stuff.

And the more time you spend doing each of these roles, the better you'll get at doing all of them at the same time, and understanding what conditions are needed to do that. (Hint: Lots of quicker smaller complementary projects that you can wrap your whole head around.)

[This whole discussion reminds me of the time I was a restaurant manager and got tired of the servers and cooks bitching at each other. I had them switch roles for one shift. Once they understood how what they did affected the other, everyone got a little better and the bitching stopped.]
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Be pretty easy to write a simple Chrome or firefox extension to do that.
It's been long time since web developers moved away from URLs representing filesystem structure on web server.
me1: Have a beer with me!

me2: Okay!

every night
Did you say something?
Ask HN : Is it worth it to go live and work in Silicon Valley?
Recently I met an investor urging me to go live in Silicon Valley. He told me I had my place there and that I could surely work it out based on what I have to offer. He goes there 2 weeks per month.

I'm from Québec, Canada. I travelled enough to know it would be alright personnally for me to move to another place. My background is marketing and i've been working on the past three years as a CEO/Founder/Project manager with team composed of designers and developpers for two distinct project.

The one I'm on it right now is Tribu. A gamified real life action-oriented social network which encourages benefic behavior. (Still working on the pitch thought)

For you people over there, I'm wondering, what it is Silicon Valley will bring me and Tribu that is more than I have right now?
This was posted on HN before, I think. No matter, it still brought tears to my eyes.
Yup. I remember back when I was a kid, and I wanted to make the jump from writing console/text based games to using the full graphical power of the Mac. The transition was brutal, going from Basic with no pointers to MPW pascal, which used handles(1), not even pointers, was just impossible. It requires a deep understanding of how computers work which the Basic interpreter available with most 8-bit home computers carefully hid from the budding programmer.

1. Handles for those that don't know, were, to use the C idiom, double pointers eg char, or Window. The entire MacOS API was based around them, because it allowed the memory manager to compact memory without having to tell you - it would change the value of the pointer to the memory, but as you only had a pointer to the first pointer, you wouldn't even notice the change.
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As a married guy with a startup, I am not sure I agree with this.

It took my wife a long time to understand what the life of a founder is like and getting here there was equal parts work for both of us. I spent a lot of time and energy in pervious startups making sure she could see what was going on and why it was important. I also made sure she understood why the whole thing is important to me on a personal/life level.

I don't think it's fair to say "she's selfish". She/he is probably more scared, a little jealous, and feeling un-engaged.

There is no decent scenario for a founder where his/her partner supports them "blindly". If you come to know these people, "the other half", you'll probably see that it is the opposite of blind. They see and know everything that is going on and they work their ass off to make sure their husband/wife is still human through it all.
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You never specified what those alleged shortcomings are. Nor have you established a believable link, since, once again, the article is not about management consulting, but about management. I'm not going to continue this game of cat and mouse with comments. If you can't express yourself clearly and concisely, I have better things to do with my time than try to decipher your criticism.
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>> This wasn't evil Westerners coming in and mercilessly exploiting the natives; this was simply the bog-standard working conditions in every construction site across the country.

I think while your perception of the native working conditions and the improvement that westerners brought to that is probably true, it also misses the point completely.

The criticism is not about the working conditions per se, but rather that the western companies knowingly hand-pick nations with the worst-off working conditions because it cheapens their productive chain. It's not about the company exploiting the local workers more so than usual, but that they choose to manufacture in countries that regularly allow local workers to be exploited and so they can too without "worrying".

What makes it worst is that the western companies do not share the cultural traits and history that makes the country what it is, but rather they come from a place where stricter rules are valued, and are valued for a reason (quality of life, safety, health, rights), that they then choose to ignore in favor of their own bottom line.

That is what the real issue is. It IS inhumane from their part and they SHOULD be questioned on their decisions and practices.

I know that there are plenty others factors that drive companies there, but it's still a decision and they should be accountable, if not legally than morally.

[Edit: is there something wrong with the comment that its being downvoted?]
> I consider it a personality flaw, a flaw in my work ethics, and so on.

I'm curious what percentage of software developers self-identify as finishers and what percentage as starters.

My assumption is that starters are much more common--but maybe that's because I assume everyone is just like me.

Are there really software developers who fit the "finisher" description? And prefer it? :)

If it turns out that software developers really do have a range of roles available to them and each individual suits some more than others then maybe it's best to work to accept it rather than feel guilty about it?
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I love that they are going to add Copy/Paste to the style inspector, but why can't they stick it in the Firefox 12 beta?

I don't want to have to jump right away to FF13 alpha for that.
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I would have used VRML. And get off my lawn!
I apologize if you feel my post was "Go is great!"

You shouldn't apologize for the feelings of others. DHowett started us in the wrong direction here with his snark (nothing else, just snark), and now none of the responses in the subthread demonstrate reading comprehension.

Oh, well. It was an interesting perspective. I'd be interested in hearing from you again, after a few months of using Go as the primary language for your exploratory programming. I've been keeping a running list of things that trip me up as I plod along. So far it's mostly that initially I didn't fully grok how interfaces and types and functions work together, so I ended up working around the type system instead of enjoying it. That's slowly changing. It would be fun to compare notes.
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Totally agree on the life hacks. In fact, consider them essential, not optional.

It can be hard to overcome the inertia if you haven't exercised in a while, but it's ALWAYS worth the time.

Get enough sleep. This should be #1 really - it's more important than exercise, but exercising helps you sleep. Find a way to get 8 hours a day for the foreseeable future and make it a priority. There are lots of ways to deal with insomnia, feel free to email me (see profile).

Eat right - good food, fruit & vegetables, nuts, the usual. Don't overeat, go hungry, or stuff yourself on junk food & stimulants.

Finally, make regular plans to do social/physical activities and commit to having the REST OF THE DAY off, whether it's on a weekend or a weekday evening. Your worries (and gadgets, emails, etc) should be shut off and locked away until you wake up the next morning.
Thank you for the link! "First, there are no lower case letters. You can only get capital letters on the APPLE II. This is all you need for programming."
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we have in Germany the so called "Moneycard" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldkarte ), which is quite anonymous, and misses any kind of authentication.
Interesting would be to be able to transfer the amounts from one moneycard to the some other moneycard, same way I would give someone a 5 Euro bill in hand. This seems to be impossible ( or forbidden).
At this moment the uses are just to buy transportation tickets, cigarettes or parking fees. Since is totally offline, it behaves like money, but electronic. Paying with this takes a 0.3% of amount for the transaction.
So, if someone could monetize this, we would totally forget the banknotes or coins. However, you still need interraction with some terminal to load it, so it similar to going to an ATM and fetch the real money.
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perhaps... Perhaps the minerals and compounds needed to survive as a species are elsewhere in our solar system.

Not only that, but more than we could at this point imagine using in a long long time, and an inexhaustible supply of energy. I find it hard to believe that these resources wouldn't help us just a little with the seemingly intractable social problems. Those very often boil down to arguments over limited resources in the end.

In fact, I can't think of a major world conflict or problem that isn't at its root about the allocation of resources, and it's all there for us, right above our heads.
> That said, really? It doesn't come with gcc anymore? I find this offensive.

Lots of Linux distros don't install one by default, and this has always been the case. For that matter, for a long time, Solaris (unquestionably a UNIX) didn't come with a compiler.
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> The criticism is not about the working conditions per se, but rather that the western companies knowingly hand-pick nations with the worst-off working conditions because it cheapens their productive chain

You could also flip this 'fact' around, and present it as: Western companies knowingly hand-pick nations with the biggest need for the investment they're providing.

But in both cases, you'd be missing the point that the money is just going where it gets the biggest return, and that that trumps most other concerns.
> What it comes down to is that the most basic thing I can do with the default install of any reasonable UNIX system (./configure, make, make install) is not possible on a Mac without a lot of heavy and opaque lifting.

If you call installing a compiler a lot of heavy and opaque lifting...
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Since it requires a pulse from the laser to write does this also mean data will be more durable and less vulnerable to damage from external electromagnetic fields?
I just knew someone would post this. Upvoted :-)
This isn't a forum of public shaming. That poor guy must have been pretty embarrassed.