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The most important thing, of course, is knowing yourself.

I mean, I have that same twinge about a lot of things, and I had identified it as something I need to evaluate instead of acting on immediately. This lead to me sticking in a position way too long (I actually only recently resigned), and becoming utterly miserable.

The line is fuzzy, but there was definitely a point at my last position where I would have been premature in leaving. I would say, however, that the appropriate point to leave would have been right around the time when relief would have been my primary reaction to being let go.

If you haven't been in that situation, it's a bit hard to relate the feeling, but it's definitely it's own class of "positive", not like the "excitement of reacting to the immediate and having to think on ones feet" feeling at all.

I personally think that the biggest problem with this approach is that you have to remember to do it. The "fundamentally unhappy" situations tend to sneak up on you as you get into that weird cycle of going to work and doing the dance being prioritized higher up on the list than your long-term mental health. It's hard to stay in the moment.
Does it count as work, if you love it?

Does it count as a job, if it's freelancing?

Does it count as a job, if it's in a company you own 30%+ of?

These are important questions. I agree in principle, but I wonder where people draw the line between work and play.
Things like these are only strange if you expect the legal system to be fair. Clearly its not. I think its a parody. :)

The young guys behind Pirate Bay are the kind of heroes that hardly exists today because they dont give in to the threats from a broken industry.

And the corporations chasing them around consists of greedy, cowardly, corrupted, morally bankrupt old men. Not really the kind of guys we should even listen to. In fact, I think my mother told me to stay away from that kind of, errm, gentlemen...
That's a remarkably concise and honest address.

Having spent some time "making a living" as a field technician I can completely agree with what the speaker said about killing yourself day by day, all the while pretending you are saving up for some magical future. It's living death, and the fact that the majority of people around you are engaged in that same decay doesn't make it any better.

I've been happier, healthier, and more productive figuring out a way to support myself from my pastimes than slogging through "work" hoping to spare an hour of energy at the end of the day for what I truly care about.
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A very important nugget of wisdom is at 27:18. In short: it's very useful to be creative w/ other people, but you have to be supportive even if you disagree. Don't tell people "no" or that they are wrong. Provide constructive redirection.

I watched this last week, and this was my big takeaway. Programmers too often want to argue about what is right.
Yes that's the danger for Google all it takes for one case to go very high profile and they will be living with the court/government sanctioned remedy - that is why banks and other organizations have independent ombudsman - they want to avoid the government stepping in.
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The zooming issue I obviously understand and will try to fix. For bold/not bold however, I'm not really seeing it?
This is just more hype

As somebody who makes a chunk of their money from "designer" stuff (not visual design, but user research, interaction design & user testing) I don't think it is entirely hype.

Just like you get a lot more people now who get the difference between a technical co-founder and "just hiring some developer", I'm encountering more people who understand the value that design can bring to an organisation. The change is by no means widespread, but there do seem to be more people who "get it" than their used to be.
Strange, my little 2.4 Core Duo was fine with it (~30fps) and typically does very badly with these games. For contrast Minecraft can cause this laptop to overheat and shut down if not using an additional cooling stand. Perhaps I don't need to upgrade after all!
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"Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself."

By this logic, a full third of the workforce ought to be professional gamers...
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Anonymity is just the degenerate case of pseudonymity where you never re-use a pseudonym, anyway.
I worked with this as well and supporting IE7 can be very tricky. While it works really well for successful file uploads, if you're anticipating to return any type of error response (ex: 400, "invalid file type") then you'll need to add some workarounds to your server code and the iframe-transport file that comes with this. Primarily you'll need the following two adjustments:

* Your response must be at least 512 characters (we added white space padding to our JSON response). This is because IE overrides any 400-500 response with its friendly error messages unless you provide at least 512 characters of data. If you don't do this you'll get a cross site scripting error (because you'd be trying to read in the friendly error page, which is not on your domain)

* You'll need to add the response code in your response text because there's no way (please correct me if I'm wrong) to read the http status of a loaded page's headers in an iframe. You'll then need to modify the iframe-transport to read in the status code from your response text and make the appropriate ajax calls in jQuery.

This is obviously quite a bit hacky (and took me forever to figure out). Let me know if anyone else has any insight into this. I'll probably write this up in more detail in a blog post to come.
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That's not the best thing to do, that's the most unimaginative thing to do.

I would do it this way:

1) Make sure that only the legitimate owner has access to the account by using previously entered contact data to ask him/her change the password.

2) Check if the suspicious behavior stops, which it will in most cases.

3) If it doesn't stop, put the account in read-only mode. If the kind of behavior may be an honest mistake, explain to the user what happened. Just take that risk, it's going to be worth it.

4) If it's a statistically active user with lots of regular looking data, let a human sort things out.

5) If the issue remains unclear, tell the user to download any data he wants to keep and notify him/her that the account will be closed.
Have been using TextWrangler and later BBEdit since I transitioned from Win -> Mac, but always curious as to the TextMate appeal. I have tried TM, but always go back to BBEdit (and Vim more and more).

Other than the extensive list of available bundles, what do TextMate users really like about this editor, especially in comparison to BBEdit?
Same here. It would open up doors that were once shut. It makes the possibilities seem limitless.

It's also a challenge to prove something.
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This is awesome..I have been using this since 1 year..and my users love this.
Tomatoes? EE one of 5 CS department? All the good courses (and one bad one)I had were taught by CISE faculty.
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What about nonces? Have the Meteor server create a unique nonce per user per instance of DB action, then verify it serverside.
Exactly, hook them in, so they question whether or not to deal with the problems when it falls on its face.
This is wonderful. I love the feel of interface.
Fine, but even a child can start drawing a five wheeled car. It isn't AI if it couldn't at least handle the question.
better knock it off before you say the same in another 7 years.
"I had a great year or two learning about natural language before figuring out that it wasn’t a problem likely to be solved within my lifetime."

That' s a bit disheartening.
Don't miss the BBS Documentary's Artscene episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ReS4Bp4IPY seems to be a copy of it.
Which is exactly why the Internet is free. As long as nobody controls it, freedom will survive here.
>>Inequality has only been ended through communist revolution, war or deflationary economic collapse.

Is the closing line.
If the economy collapses or we are run by a politburo there will still be inequality.
I have to disagree with your blanket generalization. In most cases, consultants cause more problems than solutions. However in this case, the consultants from Accenture made some clever observations and delivered solutions that were economically effective for the cash-strapped TSA. I would have to argue that these consultants are actually "hacking" the system to make it easier for passengers, based on some sound cognitive science and psychology principles.
For commodity uploading, FTP has firewall problems for too many people. Uploads need to be on port 80.
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Heh, usually the table gets filled with munchies when we play face-to-face. :)

That said, I'm convinced this is worth trying out, and will definitely keep an eye on it. If I can find the money in our budget, I'll contribute on Kickstarter too. (That's a big if at the moment, alas.)
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Yes - we will always have inequality - but the inequality today are at the same levels as 1789.
Yes, it did. Did you forget that there were two different 56k standards and those did sound different when negotiating. 56k Flex versus v.90. Negotiation sounded really different depending from standard.
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When people talk about "doing something" they typically mean "create something". The author didn't say "Find something you enjoy consuming. Consume it. Over and over again.". Gaming, reading, watching the news, that's all consumption. Good only in moderation.

There are plenty of people who create stuff of value around popular games, and make a living out of it.
I see no problem with expecting people to say "nope." to credible-seeming trolls. It takes mere seconds and provides strong evidence to discredit the troll in the future. And you calling it a marketing stunt is a very different situation because you have a clear motivation of rhetorical device to fake an email and you're not staking your reputation on it.

Finally, I don't think anyone here is suggesting taking action against kickstarter without hearing what they say. It's a big "wow, this is a bad way to behave kickstarter". And they could reply "yes, good thing we didn't do that".
same here but mid 90`s oh the nostalgia. Kinda surprising, demogroups were kinda like small startups at least on the production side. biz side/product development/customer development/etc etc ... non existent, guess that`s why it was so fun.

Still great learning experience for a kid.
Producing art is far more fulfilling than consuming art.
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I like the Shark Tank, but they mostly prey on desperate people. They want a business that is already proven (no risk), from a desperate person (can't go to the bank, pretty much have no options left), at a ridiculous valuation.

The guy that made and patented the clothes with wires is a perfect example. He was making $10-12 million/year already and I think they low-balled him with an offer that was much less than the current value and included a percentage of the patents.

But, some people don't have any other options.
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I hope you don't mind, made a quick jQuery only version. http://gillesmaes.github.com/Multibox/
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This is false and should not be here.
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One of the best articles I've read in a long time.

I'm 21 and about to graduate. I totally relate to this and am already trying to adopt this way living into my life.

My friends often tell me I'm being unrealistic and I'll soon realise that I need to grow up.

My plan is to work part-time when I leave university leaving myself all the time I want to work on my own projects and to socialise. That's what makes me happy, so that's how I want to spend the majority of my time.
It's the little things that always get these guys (and hubris).
If you take a look you'll see it's php from the URL's.
Hardware and firmware will vary across different laptops. This allows a stable platform for tinkering and experimentation.
If they're successful then it sounds like both of you have identified a real problem. Competition is good so their launch may have confirmed your business model.
Their beta front page has been like that since forever and I'm not sure why it hasn't been fixed. Regardless of such blunder, I've been using FastMail reliably for almost two years and the only problem I've ever had was when DynDNS decided to no longer response to +recurse query (which they fixed it pretty quickly, within 12 hours, faster than it takes DynDNS Support to even response).

[Off topic: I think FastMail support system is pretty lame; despite being an email service, the only way to contact their support is via... web interface. They have few weird quirk like this but it's not something I couldn't live with.]
Very inspiring story.
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My Girlfriend has this app for out cats already! It is very entertaining watching them score points.
Yes, that would be better for the user, but this is a free service, and Google has not much too gain from making the process more complicated (imaginative) and thus more error-prone. As a user you have the responsibility of keeping your password absolutely safe, if you do that (and better yet use 2-factor auth), nothing should go wrong.

Your option 1) boils down to adding more "passwords" by which the user can authenticate itself, so it's not a fundamentally better protection as they can be guessed by an attacker as well. Requiring a text message confirmation for password changes might be a better idea.
It's nice to see some numbers behind this problem, but there is a significant flaw in the logic behind their numbers: it assumes fungibility of electricity sources by ownership, rather than by location.

For instance, Las Vegas' power utility may rely heavily on its coal and natural gas holdings, but the hydro plant at Hoover Dam, within its service area, isn't counted toward its greenhouse gas footprint; that credit goes to southern California.

Pristine-looking Utah, on the other hand, gets 74% of its capacity from 8 coal-fired locations, but since these aren't owned by the local utility, they get counted against customer utilities in places like Nevada and Arizona.

Maybe it's fair this way. If my utility puts clean energy into the grid in faraway lands, but the bulk of the electromotive force charging my EV is coming from the smoke-belching plant next door that's owned by some out-of-state conglomerate, how guilty or smug should I feel?

Moving the pollution out of the city and into the boonies also has its benefits, even if it's an even amount of pollution for the trade.

A final point that EV apologists (I'm one) almost never put out there: oil refineries use prodigious amounts of electricity too. So while you can argue that an EV is only moving the tailpipe, you need to also observe that a gas-powered vehicle similarly moves some of its tailpipe to the same place (the power plant smokestack).
Shame it never seems like that in the short term though.
You'd be surprised at the work that it takes to make a well-running platformer. 2D games can use tons of texture memory, and often end up with long loading times. Making a game 2D with really diverse visuals and good animated sprites without being laggy or having long loading times does require some attention to optimization and architecture.
> I also can't use the old version of the DB, so my old backups just became more troublesome to recover.

Tangential to the topic, but this is important: every schema update MUST be considered part of the app / database / backend / system source code, and as such it should be properly and formally applied, versioned and backed up. In the simplest case, you can store a version number in the database itself, every update applies to a certain version # X and advances to another version # Y, and every update is stored in its own source file (updateX.sql for example).

Would be nice if DBMSs offered primitives specifically for schema version management, but I guess there could be many different use cases, and it's very easy to roll your own.
Definitely not. It's not even in the wire protocol.
You said their service not 100% identical. Is there some way you can amplify the difference to provide a better service?
We've been in the same boat: competition is GOOD. They help build the marketing buzz, and many people look for alternatives to see who is offering the best deal or solution for their problem. They can help explain the problem you are solving. If you can solve a niche problem, go for the niche that has money to spend - not the million-users-who-spend-$2 group. You'll get funding to keep going and from there see if you need to pivot to capture a larger section of the market.
I believe the intention is that if you break it, you can just turn it off and on and it's back to normal.

This was true of computers from the golden age of 80s UK home computers (where the R-Pi founders are coming from). It's not so much true of ebay laptops.
They are already drowning in job applications from people who actively try to shape their CV to be a good applicant to them. They have the luxury to hire the 0,0001%.

They are drowning so hard that Michael Abrash just wrote an article begging people to apply at Valve.

You're just making excuses to yourself, really. Time for a good hard think on what you want to do with your future!
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"An investment banker isn't twice as excited about a $20 million bonus as she is about a $10 million one."

Isn't it a little sexist to assume the banker is a "she"?

I agree with the debt part. At a certain point, you are in a situation where you feel like you will never be able to pay it back (1 million feels the same as 5 million).

But $1 million feels different to me than $5 million.
> "thanks, now here's the next thing I need you to do."

Hits home. When I still had time to practice guitar, everyone knew me as "that really talented guitar player", but now that I'm a programmer in a corporation, most of my friends don't even know what programming is, and in my job nobody knows If I'm a good or a bad programmer, not even my boss.
Separate to the idea itself, this KS made me realise there's an art to choosing the right rewards and levels. Some KS are just irrestible to donate to partly because they get the rewards just right. Others, like this one IMHO, don't make the most of it.
It depends on the zoom level, but in the screenshot look at the the two 'i's in organizing. The one on the left is bolder than the other. My roommate sees it on the iPad, too. It looks fine in Chrome on my laptop, though.
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This was what I was settling on. Although we are not a me-too currently this seems balanced when considering our overall differences.
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Kickstarter removed her because of the spamming, which seems to be an indication that the stalker exists. Of course she might have just been talking to herself, but having never heard about her before, I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
This is fantastic. I was in Tanzania last year and met a very cool kid without a lot of options. Orphan, no money, etc, but had a fantastic grasp of English and could definitely hustle. Tried to convince him to pick up programming as it seemed like the most accessible monetizable skillset available to him. Now I'll have something to give him to show it's actually possible. Thanks for sharing!
I love the world we live in. In 5 years, I've seen telecommuting development jobs go from non-existent to abundant.
Braid's purpose has nothing to do with the twist at the end, that's just a cool conclusion. The story, visuals, and music is not what makes Braid a good work of art. It's that it takes full advantage of the medium games - that is, interactivity - and uses in a way that imparts a genuine learning and growing experience for the player, and in a way that's thematically consistent wit the game. Think about that - the theme of the game's mechanics (time manipulation) works consistently with it's aesthetic theme (memories, regret). That's an excellent first step to helping transform the medium of games into a bit more of an artistic one.
Wow, I'd never thought of it like that. However, gaming does require some skill (akin to, say, pool), have a look at professional COD players, for example.
The story was one of the weaker parts. The puzzles and gameplay were great. I don't see how you could get bored of them unless you genuinely got stuck and weren't able to solve them. They were varied and creative, and forced you to think in different ways.
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Voted down for this FFS am I the only person on HN with any knowledge of HR and IR issues.
> Sending messages to a PHP server script so you can have the server tell you how many bytes were sent?

Psst.. XMLHttpRequestUpload

† It's the downloading with Ajax that is the problem. There's no way to tell how big the file is.
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Very clever. I'm also hoping Notch's 0x10c game will also be a good programming teaching tool for kids.
Alan, just curious...how do you store your files once uploaded?
It is not entirely unplausible that the way forward for the courts will be to change tactics and make it illegal to visit the website instead of blocking it. At least it won't take long before they figure out that IP blocking is more efficient than DNS blocking. In any case it will only keep getting worse unless we make this a political struggle.
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Is there any reason the compiler should be written in Javascript? I know it's pretty cool to have a language's compiler written in itself, but what if Javascript isn't the best environment to write a compiler?
That sucks. Reading your tragedy I am about to set up a new main identity with local mail storage:

- getting a dedicated domain

- getting either google apps or another web mailer

- setting up new email address for 50+ services

- finding some local client, doing backups and what ever

mail account migration is a lot of work ...
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parts of the Twin Cities (Plymouth) are like this for any car related theft. They give you a case number over the phone and that is the end of it. Had my car broken into twice in a parking garage with cameras. No investigation even though about 20 cars were hit each time.
I'm 22 and I told a couple coworkers at lunch that I wish I could do my job part time, and that I'd give up half my salary to just have all that free time back. They thought I was crazy.