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If you call being sick of meetings and having to come in at specific times "burnout", you have a very mild case of it.

Burnout started for me when I noticed that my interests weren't aligned with my company's interests.. or with any company's interests.. or even with my profession's interests.

Coding became boring. So I switched to doing sysadmin. Then sysadmin stuff became boring. Then technology in general became boring. I just didn't care to learn another stupid language or configuration syntax for products I didn't care about and companies whose success or failure I couldn't give two shits about. I didn't care about the clients. Or the users. Or my coworkers.

Not caring. That's a big part of it. So's lacking interest. At times I'd stop caring about anything. Other times I'd care about things, but they weren't things having anything to do with work.

Everything to do with work became a severe chore at best, and a complete nightmare at worst. It all seemed so fake and full of bullshit -- from the company's stupid pep talks or fake parties and dinners where everyone pretended to like each other and kissed up to their bosses.

When I finally quit it felt like such a relief. Quitting days were some of the happiest days of my life. I did that a lot.

That's burnout.
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If it were possible to take Bing’s search results, throw a handful of people at them and match the quality of Google’s results, Google would not be where it is today.

That is the main problem I see with Duck Duck Go. The quality of its search results depends on Bing. Duck Duck Go can do things to offer something better than Bing, but not that much better that matches Google’s quality.
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Excessive information consumption has become an awful lot like watching TV. Both disengage that part of the brain that actually has to work a little bit to come up with new thoughts. Creativity is HARD. I find that it's especially true when I'm skimming the mainstream tech/startup sites and reading over five different posts titled "10 ways to..." or "10 things you need to know about ..." and then not remembering 2 minutes later what the heck I had read.

I used to fall asleep by watching cartoons to disengage my brain and I found that it hurt my memory and awareness the next day. I found myself beginning to do that with information consumption as well and had to do a gut check... I was getting the cartoon effect by reading tons of meaningless posts until I passed out. So are you reading because you're actually seeking particular information or are you hibernating your brain while you let your eyes/mind just wander?
There are now 3 core concepts that we may call "Singularity".

1) Event horizon: past the point where there are entities smarter than us, we virtually can't predict anything.

2) Accelerating change: things will get bigger/better/smarter at an exponential rate. The "Singularity" is a point somewhere on that exponential curve. (Or something)

3) Intelligence explosion: if it's smarter than us, it will be made by us (whether it is an AI, or brain computer interface, or whatever). Therefore it can recursively improve itsef to super-intelligence very quickly.

Taken loosely, those 3 visions are mostly compatible. But taken to their extremes, they are contradictory. It is important to distinguish the 3 to avoid confusion.
This is interesting. Reminds me of http://creditkarma.com. I login to that site about once a month not only to get my current credit score, but also to store and see history.

If I managed a big AWS account, I'd be interested in seeing this periodically, but I'd subsequently be interested in knowing what I can do to increase my score, or more importantly, decrease my AWS costs.
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I also learned (years ago now) by using the MIT Guide, so +1 for that.

If you don't want to spend any money on picks and a tension wrench, street sweeper bristles make great stock for creating your own tools.

A grinding wheel will save you hours with a file, if you opt for this approach. Those bristles are tough!
Nice. But the the title "moar better graphics" is not more friendly or personal, it's just dumb.
That's awesome! Just goes to show that search is still an area for growth.
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I agree. My point is simply that this is strong evidence that Google's 'one size fits all' approach leaves room for other entrants.
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Not me. I've seen far too much of a tendency in people to wish to pull down the "powerful" or "good" when they become too noticeable. The media seems to embrace this tendency by fishing for the dirt on people to make news.

This guy is doing a good thing for these kids. Even this article mentions that he has a checkered past. If he gets too much attention, I would bet money that some reporter is going to write up a sensational post about what a slimeball he is and that would tarnish and diminish the good work he is doing.

I don't want to hear about what a bad guy he is or was "in real life". That might mark me as a person happy with self delusion, but he isn't hurting people when he is doing this, he isn't likely to be in a position to easily hurt people. Unless he starts trying to monetize or otherwise make this something other than a simple act of charity, I'd rather keep him out of the harsh spotlight.
I remember specifically thinking of DDG when PG mentioned search engines in that keynote. I've used DDG since 2010 and I would never switch back.
I know it's dual boot, but I also know a lot of people who just bought a cheep Touchpad to install Android, and never booted into webOS. Many never even gave it a chance, and hence are missing out on arguable a better tablet experience than ICS (it certainly has more tablet-optimized apps).

As for the webOS ecosystem dying, I'm willing to wait and see what happens with Open webOS later this year before I agree with you there. It's certainly in a lull with no new hardware on the way, but once Open webOS hits that issue is no longer relevant as I can install it on any existing hardware that supports Android.
What do you think the transparent covering over the actual screen is?
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A simple, clean site that conveys the business's value succinctly is a good way to get people to choose you.

Differentiate yourself by giving me the information and ability to easily look good to my boss.
845 million users is a lot, but it's not the entire internet. I still manage to have friends despite not having digitized them with a Facebook account, and I could still use help keeping track of their birthdays and what to get them--if that's what this site lets you do.
I think you're overreacting. Don't contribute to the project if you aren't interested.

Personally, I don't think this is needed, but I can see why people are interested in it.
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The EU (or at least the Schengen countries) are getting there, but there are plenty of other countries that are problematic as well as the US. I'm British, so the EU is easy (still need a physical passport though), the US isn't too bad for tourism, but was painful to get a work visa for. I live in the Middle East, and love travelling to India which means a mountain of paperwork and a 3-month freeze-out each time I go. I could visit east Africa for a weekend on a whim, but I never do because of the visa lead-times. It strikes me that the best thing some countries could do for development is streamline their visa processes.
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"If we use websockets unwisely we could end up painting ourselves into a corner."

They're sockets. If you can't build a scalable service on sockets, give up now, because they're already the only choice you have. The web is built on slightly simpler sockets (TCP). All IM services are built on slightly simpler sockets. All email runs over slightly simpler sockets.

Sockets themselves do not fail to scale. Your code may fail to scale, but it's not the socket's fault.

The only issue that sockets have is that there's this web server in the way which may or may not have actually been built to deal with the sockets, but that will resolve itself soon enough. I'm sure over time every language will grow the thinnest possible HTTP socket server shim possible for binding sockets as similarly to TCP as possible, and there will be plenty of socket proxies built on every platform known.
Genuine interest and patience. You'll need that to be good at anything. Trite, but so rarely exhibited by the folks in the fast lane.
Why, at the time I typed this, is every comment on that article comments from this thread? Most seem to have the same usernames but some are different. But every one of the comments seem a copy and paste from here.
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For everyone finding DDG to slow, my last recommendation on this one.. startpage.com :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3662475

(just to make people aware of alternatives, before returning to google/bing/etc)
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I blame the internet.
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It is not an efficient use of time compared to buying, but still fun.
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More on the consumer side, not the data center.
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> Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology.

I wasn't sure who Curtis was, so I looked him up. From his own sites, it wasn't apparent at all. I guess he is a superhero or villain, depending on which site of his you look at.

So why is his brand so strong?
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You've convinced me. I'm trying DDG right now!
Especially as at least one of them isn't even a startup but a privately owned company.

You know what else is of now value? That blog post...
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Saw this in r/startups a couple months ago - you made a lot of improvements, this looks absolutely wonderful. Where are you based?
Other e-ink displays are made of glass, this is the first one that is at all flexible.
as a happy DDG user I have to say congrats and I absolutely love the zero click box, a feature that often provides superior search quality than Google.
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A new analysis showing how the radical policies advocated by western economists helped to bankrupt Russia"

Funny thing is, it is instantly obvious to anyone living in the country.

Those "policies" looked like they're aimed at destroying any research or production capacity short of mining of natural resources.

Of course, incompetence played leading role in the process, not just malice.
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As someone with a software background, and with limited experience with hardware, I would like to know: How hard is it to actually design custom hardware like this and assemble it? How expensive is it?

From the video, the logic boards he made look really high quality. How do you get to something like that? You send your design to a company that builds it for you? Is there a minimum volume (like thousands)? Can you "print" the circuits at home with some tool that's not terribly expensive? Or is it unaccessible for a hobbist? I've only used protoboards before.

I'm really impressed with his work.
a) $25k is not a lot of money for very well-known programmers.

What if Linus said, "I have this great idea for a version control system, but I need the community to raise $100k to make it happen"? Of course he would never do that. The reason for making git was to give the kernel project what it needed for a version control system. Linus' time is at least an order of magnitude more valuable than Yahuda Katz' time. Just as git arguably makes the kernel project more successful, rails.app ought to make Rails more popular. Wide deployment of Linux in turn makes Linux developers' skills more valuable, just as wider deployment of Rails enriches Ruby developers.

c) ... Rails was designed to, and succeeds at, making companies great piles of money

d) OSS developers making money by it

That can be said for just about any popular open source project used in the business world.
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Dismantling the state run businesses should have been done more slowly, to allow the Soviet people time to adapt.

I'm not saying the communist oligopoly should have been left in place. But, dismantling it so quickly simply allowed a different oligopoly to be put in place, with little net improvement for most people.

Some would argue that not letting the people adapt to the change was exactly the intended result, though.
Arguably lisp doesn't NEED generics since unless you go around setting lots of type pragmas, the typing system generally doesn't intrude.

So, in other words, Lisp doesn't have generics in the same way Python doesn't have generics.
I've been using blekko.com and found that I prefer it to ddg. Like others have, I too go back to Google for programming related searches at times.
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> (or was it WaterSquirrel then?)

Phoenix -> FireBird -> FireFox :)
Mathematicians are able to quickly pick up new technical concepts and systems. Also, studying mathematics trains you to recognise and focus on important edge cases. That's good for designing software to be robust, finding problems in specifications, and testing.
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Whoa. I never knew this "couponing" was how the post-Soviet economies went about privatization. It seems like perhaps the exact worst way to go about de-centralizing an economy, especially when little-to-no financial and corporate management expertise existed in the population steeped in generations of collectivism. I don't think this is an anti-capitalism lesson -- it's a lesson on the dangers of the widespread implementation of good-sounding academic ideas with little basis in reality.

A good-sounding idea of my own: I wonder what would have been the result if all privatized operations had been sold to the highest foreign bidders, with the cash disbursed to the citizens who had been the putative "owners" of these enterprises. Instead of the post-Soviet kleptocracies, perhaps a real industrial base would have developed, with intimate global ties.
I liked it for the fun single player level design mostly. The game engine also paid a lot of attention to details othe fps did not. Different reactions based on where the bullet hits an enemy. Security cameras. Alarms. Stealth sections.
That's consistent with our Google Analytics. Visits from DDG are up to 58 last week, up from 15 the first week in January with a steady climb. There was a dip last week over week for some reason.

Compared to Google's 38K visits for last week, they have a long way to go to make a dent. We perform better in DDG results, as well.
This is so important. Buying gifts for people is such a pain. Just give me some simple suggestions and reminders and I'm hooked. I'll pay.
For iPhone and iPod development, stackoverflow is a very good place to go for asking questions, you can also buy a couple of books about iPhone and iPod development, but then again these resources will teach you the steps but you will need to really focus and keep on building and correcting your apps if you want to get further. A very quick way to get you up and running with iPhone and iPod development (Objective C) is http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/.
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Do they publish revenue? I wonder what the infrastructure costs are and how they scale in comparison to the number of request.
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I agree on your first point, however I find your second comment an issue, with Facebook your friends personal details are already entered. With Paypal, you send money to people who already have an account, Well that is my understanding of this. But again the data is already inputted. Since this is such a new website building up a user base from sign up would require you to invite all your friends to register so they have the details neeed in the system to send such a gift. Correct me if I am wrong.
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"Department of Defense" is a glaring omission. Would not surprise me if it would rank #1 provided they could track all of its domains down.
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Google is definitely pulling users from Yahoo. By mimicking Alta Vista, Yahoo has lost its mojo. Stepped right into the "portal" honeypot. No news. The more interesting thing is the fantastic feeling more and more people have: that Alta Vista and Yahoo will take eachother down the spiral.

As for the Yahoo part, right now it's probably just an alarmist prediction, but it's going to be fun to watch un/fold. Especially if Google and other engines continue to get better while practicing their principles instead of a crude mixture of addictive search quality, addictedness to bucks and PR along the lines of "Yahhooooo!".
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That game always seemed like a choppy, blurry GoldenEye to me.
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Although I don't use DDG, I too thought of them specifically when PG mentioned it.

Let's see if PG turns out to be right on this one.
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I think the article had a good point when it mentioned that the issues that are trying to be resolved stem from projects that were led by the guy trying to raise the funds.
Interesting.

I've also been demo'ing DDG the last week. As an ahem experienced developer, I've found that most of the time, the results I get from DDG are pretty close to what I'd get with Google, minus Google's interface.

I've built up enough confidence to feel that DDG is going to give me what I need.

I do wish it were a little faster though. Speed is a feature, and I'm sure it's hard to compete with google.
Forbes 400 only lists Americans and those lists generally don't include people wealthy by the sole virtue of their government functions or closeness to the reigning family. But even when they do, industrialists still dominate.

I'm sure there's a lot of corruption going on at this level but it's just as much "owning the country" as it is "being extorted by the officials". Even in the first world (at least according to professor Lessig):

> “Our current tax system with all its complexities is in part designed to make it easier for candidates, in particular congressmen, to raise money to get back to congress,” Lessig said. “All sorts of special exceptions which expire after a limited period of time are just a reason to pick up the phone and call somebody and say ‘Your exception is about to expire, here’s a good reason for you to help us fight to get it to extend.’ And that gives them the opportunity to practice what is really a type of extortion – shaking the trees of money in the private sector into their campaign coffers so that they can run for congress again.”

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/01/02/lawrence-lessig-on-money-...
I have a quad core i7 SNB laptop with Nvidia 550M. That test gives me 140 presents per minute, while in IE9 it gives me 234 per minute.

These 2 tests also show Chrome 18 to be twice as slow as IE9:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBro...

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/WrigglyWords/D...

So what's going on here? Is Chrome really that far behind in graphics performance, or is it because Google chooses to focus on other type of 2D graphics than Microsoft? I'm willing to give Google the benefit of the doubt, because these sort of benchmarks tend to be biased when a competitor makes them (and that goes for Google's own V8 tests, too, where IE9 performs poorly), but IE9 came out a year ago, and even though graphics performance might not be the most useful thing to have in a browser right now, I still can't help but feel a bit disappointed.
Ad confidence; my default search engine is Google's "Feeling Lucky". Many repetitive searches (wiki, imdb, documentation) are so accurate I can skip the step of clicking on results. But most of the time I use keyword searches anyway. With google, images, wolframalpha, tineye (because google image search is still blocked using user agent sniffing), torrentz, public transit, and a few more (including stuff like open a subreddit, so not really a search).
It's about more than just feeling appreciated and feeling like you've done a good job.

I had both, and yet I still burnt out.

What was lacking was fulfillment -- the sense that the work you do is meaningful for you.

Ideally, your job should be interesting, fun, stimulating, and you should feel that what you do is important. If it's stressful, it should be at a level of stress you can deal with, and the stress should be of a positive sort, not a negative sort.

At some of my jobs I was greatly appreciated, and I knew I was doing a great job. But the work was boring, I didn't feel it was important, and it was extremely stressful. So I burnt out.
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What are those aspects?

Honestly, I'm not seeing it. I see this as a profound example of the cult of personality.
Naomi Klein's 2009 film "The Shock Doctrine" (imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355640/), available on netflix, looks at similar subject matter.

In short, the 'chicago school' economics lead by Milton Friedman posit that as-free-as-possible markets, de-regulation and privatisation are economically beneficial. In practice (see: Argentina, Chile, etc) they only seem to further the gap between rich and poor, and the 'shock doctrine' way of destabilising the existing economy and government to achieve this is pretty disgusting.
Since this it's a campus in the UK, it should really read, "Google Open London Campus".
Income is not wealth, income inequality is not wealth concentration (though perhaps could lead there).
DDG used to be pushed heavily on reddit. Not in a bad way.
What if the highest foreign bid would be below reasonable price? (Not uncommon if we're talking hundreds of risky operations arriving on finance market at once)
What if the foreign owner then proceeds with dismantling and closing the purchased operation to decrease competition?

Siemens did just that as far as I know. They bought a new phone plant in Riga (Latvia) and they shut it down. Have their own phone manufacturing business, why risk it?
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