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Thanks for sharing that.

Burnout is sneaky. Since it seems to be a condition that accumulates over time, it can take a long time to realize it is happening to you.

I dealt with this exact issue recently. I felt as though the harder I tried to get work done, the harder it became to actually do it. Even thinking about work brought on a sense of dread. It wasn't the fault of my company, or even the job I was doing. I had to deal with a lot of illness and death in my family this year, and combined with the pressure of work, it led me to end up in a state where it felt like I just couldn't get anything done.

So, I resigned two months ago. Trying to work while I seemed to have lost the ability to be productive didn't seem fair to myself or my employer. At first, I wasn't sure that I'd ever want to write another line of code again. I'm just at the point now where I'm interested in working on some side projects to build up a decent portfolio that I can use to start looking for work again. On that note, do any HN readers have favourite meetups in Toronto for developers? I've recently returned here after living in Ottawa, and I'd like to get to know some other devs in the city.

In the end, I feel that even if I have to work a retail job for a while before I end up working as a developer again, I made the right choice. It's hard to put a price on health and happiness. Having been though this once, I now know what to watch our for in the future.
Speaking spanish definitely helps. That said there are about 200 start-up chile people in the program at any given time. Everyone wants to make friends, so there never is an issue of who to hang out with.

Chileans also aren't used to meeting foreigners so in areas outside of Santiago - foreigners are kinda treated like celebrities.
> Publishers think that it isn't worth the money/time to build games like this.

And arguably it isn't. There's little doubt there's money in it, but not enough money to make it worth a large publisher's time.
> Still a bit annoyed that it was locked since it wasn't subsidized at all

Wasn't the original iPhone (at release) $600 with contract?
Section 6 of GPLv2 says:

> Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients’ exercise of the rights granted herein.

This is the issue: You HAVE to put Fairplay on the programs (aka, drm, aka, Further Restrictions).

It is not Apple's licensing agreement, but instead the uniform Fairplay system on the device.

This is the same issue on Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox (although some platforms have source provided libraries which likely would have to be GPLed as well, and you can't under NDAs, the uniform DRM makes GPL2 incompatable with those platforms).

GPL3 has changed this area, which I take to be admission of the flaw there. Then again, GPL 3 added a ton of stuff people disliked as well, so it's adoption is less than full.

You can meander back and forth that many licenses are restrictive or not, but the GPL is designed to force certain actions from users of the code. That's fine that they release their code that way, but the fact they're trying to do more then get attribution and not get sued with the license, or even get fixes back for their own parts of the code, means people should be warned about this.
The developer here. Moreso it's a vacation project. I started it after the Netflix redesign and put it down until two weeks ago when I was motivated to finish. I woke up and saw the Netflix Prize article on HN, and thought it was an interesting foil. It contains absolutely no elements of the recommendation system - relying on search speed as the main benefit.

Edit: grammar.
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"Be ready to see people making out in the open, on the streets, in the metro stations and inside the metro standing beside you."

It shouldn't be a culture shock for most people on HN.

Shiv Sena doesn't exist outside India.
Yes, the GPL (specifically GPL2) is powerful enough to empower users on those systems to never have to worry about using a program with any GPLed code in it.

What a benefit for them.
Over the years Stallman has passed to be an iconic figure that contributed a lot to a fanatic out of touch with the current world.

Comments like saying he was glad Steve Jobs was dead, are what in my opinion makes him a fanatic, yes Steve Jobs was a greedy asshole but being glad that he is dead doesn't portrait Stallman any better.
The problem is not with the OLPC, as said in the article it's problems with Peruvian education. And maybe it would have been wiser $225m on better teachers than giving the children a laptop. I really like the OLPC program, but there are skills that are more important to learn than computers.
In my experience people like the Shadowrun game on Sega Genesis (it's one of my personal favorites actually), but not so much the Super Nintendo one. And the recent Shadowrun first-person shooter borrowed the Shadowrun branding without much of its essence, angering people who were expecting a deeper Shadowrun experience.
Do you know why RMS wgets webpages to his email instead of reading them through a browser like 99.999% of the web-using world?

If the answer is no, then you don't know if it's a need or a choice or some variation between the two - and I daresay you're accusing him of something untoward.

If the answer is yes, which is it?
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Are you going generate your own electricity riding your generator bike (powered by veggies from your garden) as you code?

You should meet some of my mates who live in caravans. They have a solar cinema.
Great info, thanks. Glad to hear your positive experience.
Sleep. When I took the bus to college, that was all I had the energy to do. I would also try to read or do homework, but I could never get much done on the bus.

The public transit in my area is awful. The ride to school was an hour and a half plus a twenty minute walk to the bus stop, whereas driving there takes a half hour. The buses used to be one to two hours apart, but they've cut routes since I stopped riding. I'm glad I got a car.
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Sure, I'd happily truthfully label both the GPL and the Apple iOS platform as restrictive.

Many parents love that part of it.
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Opinion, and somewhat OT: I think a lot of people who would/are naturally against these sorts of agreements and laws are also Obama supporters. The Obama administration doesn't just support these laws, it soaks in them. This is among the worst results of voting for one candidate because he's not the other candidate.

We need to start voting our real interests, not our negative interests.
Thanks for the posting.
I notice some of the symptoms regarding my current job.
Been wondering where my drive went for software development....
I didn't see much of anything green in Santiago: quite the opposite. Perhaps you living near a park or the mountains or my standards are higher.
Thanks for the information. Did you stay after the 6 months? It's probably cheaper to live there than North America, so do many companies prefer to continue working in Santiago?
> But Peruvians’ test scores remain dismal.

and..

> Part of the problem is that students learn faster than many of their teachers

Interesting. Seems that it's not that the laptops aren't teaching the children anything, but that they aren't being tested on the things they are learning.

Well, it's no surprise that the laptops didn't turn out to be silver bullets for education, of course they are just another educational material that requires support in how the teachers use them. The government needs to invest in teacher training, clearly, which I guess is what the article is getting at.
Hi guys! I participated in Start-Up Chile, my project was selected in round 1.

The experience is amazing and overall positive, you get to know a lot of cool people, learn a lot, experience other cultures and have the resources to make your startup better.

Answering your questions I can say that the required events are not time consuming and a good opportunity to meet and connect with other people. You can skip a few events if you are busy, but its good to stay in touch with the other teams.

The maximum salary that you can take is enough to do the regular things (buy food, transportation, night life, etc). That salary plus the money to pay rent is enough for a decent stay.

Finding local talent with English skills is not that easy but you can do it. I've seen some teams that were able to get good talent fast, for some others was difficult. I wouldn't say that its going to be easy, but they are there, you can find good ones. The salary of a intermediate web developer may go from 500-1000 dollars a month to 2K or 3K (for some super experienced ones), it all depends on the conditions and the experience of the web developer.

The only "not-so-fun" part about the program is the reimbursement process. You have to fill a spreadsheet and gather all the receipts and bills, somethings some items get rejected because a paper was not the right one, etc. I don't say "bad" part because its a more than fair price to pay (and completely understandable from their point of view, trying to control that you are not going crazy with your money) to be a part of the program and get the money. I rather go to a reimbursement process than to give equity for the 40K.

Here's an article from a round 1 friend that explains some other things: http://bit.ly/IkBzo5
On the other hand, listing those is the bombproof defence against nosy HR departments.
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Also Windows seems to be directly at odds with freedom more often than not.
I think one of the goals of the OLPC project is to make those skills easier to learn by using a computer, rather than having the computer as a goal itself. That's why so much time has been spent on creating an entirely different desktop paradigm than we are used to for example. The whole UI is designed to make it easy for children to interact with, not to teach them computers. That's one of the reasons/benefits for not having Windows pre-installed on the devices.

That being said, I know/have heard a lot more about the OLPC operating system itself than the OLPC's proposed courses. I think this is the big problem. The OLPC project should have focused from the start on not only creating and disseminating these devices, but also on developing a curricula to go with them.
I used to think he was an abrasive fanatic. Oh wait, I still do. I'm tired of being told my decisions are compromises, and wrong ones at that. I'm tired of being told I owe everything to someone by people who completely ignore history.

Imagine if someone told you "If it weren't for Abraham Lincoln, half the population would still be living in slavery today." You'd laugh in their face.
I do live right next to a park. You can also see the Andes from pretty much anywhere in the city.
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I'm in the second batch and am in Chile right now.

The required events are not that time consuming. The reimbursement process will always take longer then you would like but it is not that burdensome. Also other Startup Chileans can help you out with the process if you need it. As for the other requirements they are not that time consuming at all. In particular if you are in a team you can divide up events as not the whole team has to go to everything.

Compared to Canada I find Chile and we can get by easily with the maximum salary. That being said finding housing as each successive round takes up the already limited supply of furnished 2-3 bedroom apartments.

As for local talents, I have not personally had to look for any but from what i've heard finding talent with good english skills is quiet difficult

In terms of social isolation, and cultural issues, I would say one of the advantages of the program is that there is an instant, English speaking, community for each round, so everyone has an instant social network. That being said, I personally find it frustrating that my lack of spanish skills mean my social network is limited to the program, as I would like to connect more with chileans and chilean culture.

The biggest culture shock for me was the lack of trust. Coming from Canada, I didn't know what to expect by the term 'chile is a low trust country'. It means security guards everywhere, it means retail processes are more complicated (buying an electronic product involves 3-4 different stations you have to go to) and it means nothing happens unless there is a contract.

Overall I find Chile a wonderful place with incredibly friendly people (and very patient when you butcher their language).
I'm from India and it made more financial sense for us to go back. But, a lot of friends from my batch are still there post the 6 months (many from the north). It's definitely cheaper than North America and if you can find the right developers, nothing like it. And unlike us (30+ hour travel back to India) it's more convenient for you to visit your country and be back in Chile.
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Teaching is more akin to client-contractor-subcontractor analogy.

Client - parents
Contractor - admin
Sub - teacher

Now imagine that both the client and the sub contractor are influential in the final product (student ability). How do you isolate an incident like divorce from the overall performance measurement of the teacher?
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You're asking a hypothetical that can't be answered, but it's based on the (very faulty, imo) premise that a world without Stallman would not have any free software. Open source was (and would be) alive and well without him.
What is? I'm struggling to see how the cargo cult concept applies here.
> Don't stress about issues out of your control

This has been the number one issue for me. Unfortunately, I haven't figured it out yet. It might be because I'm self employed, and so I have to take responsibility for everything, even the things outside my control.

This led me to consider quitting my company and getting a regular job as an employee. The 9-5 responsibility seemed very attractive for a while.

> Get some exercise, even if it's just 15 mins walk

I find that running helps. I have to focus on my pace and breath so I don't go too fast, or I'll get tired quickly. The constant "right foot, left foot, breath in" etc becomes meditative. There is something about the breathing exercises that actually work.
I have been dealing with the this "process" for a few years now. It is BS. Just FYI - they reject patent and provide bs examples of why and then you have to defend. They when you prove they are wrong they provide another example that has nothing to do with your patent so now we have to ask for a panel review - eg more lawyer fees.

Basically the process is out of control
Yes. I've got a so-called "TSA-friendly" laptop bag that supposedly allows the computer to go through the machine without taking it out. It turned out to be a 50-50 proposition as to whether it went through with no problem or whether I got yelled at for not the computer out, so I started just taking it out. Irritating.
I almost spit out my coffee, very well done. I have the same issue in that I set up my preferences, and told my wife (who uses it alot more but doesn't look at the recommendations much, she generally already knows what she wants to watch) to just not rate anything, so that it wouldn't be confused by my ratings. All it took was one accidental 5* on Desperate Housewives and my recommendations were shot.

It seems to me that the rating algorithm is a bit sensitive. Also, I wonder if Netflix has considered giving people they option of multiple "personalities" for the purpose of suggestions, queues, etc. I bet if they offered this for something like $3/mo more, people would pay for it.
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As someone who bought an olpc to have one donated back in 2008 or 2009, I was underwhelmed to say the least by the product. I expected a more intuitive ui for non-pc savvy users, but it was cludgy and hard to use. If my friends 2 year olds can operate an iphone, then maybe that is a more suitable ui for new computer users to dive into.

I half hoped that the olpc would come with build in curriculum and learning games and videos that the kids could do on their own. i.e. faster than the teacher could teach them. I do believe there is still plenty of potential for these types of programs to work, just need to understand how the end users will use them better, and have properly designed curriculum.
I would love if I could view all of the movies in the IMDB Top 250 that are available on Watch Instant.
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I think of the best meetups in Toronto is JavaScript Hack Night: http://www.meetup.com/torontojshackers/

I start started running the PHP Software Craftsmanship meetup and if PHP is your bag I'd love to see you come out! http://www.meetup.com/PHP-Software-Craftsmanship/
Cool stuff. What I usually do is click the link and then set the privacy level to "only me" so that no one knows what I'm reading.
If one day we get a technology that enables us to be smarter, stronger, more beautiful - is that going to be beneficial for the mankind? What's wrong with it, is that you get used to not figuring out things yourself. You stop practicing certain skills and end up relying on Google too much. What was the cognitive method that Leonardo da Vinchi used? He was figuring out everything by himself. Of course it's quite an absurd in the modern world, where we stand on the shoulders of the giants. But still, a good deal creativity should be required.

That's more of a philosophical issue with the whole human civilization. In our journey to become independent of the nature we made ourselves dependent on the infrastructure. And companies like Google take it one step further.
I actually really enjoyed the Super Nintendo version and I was too young (at that time) to try the Sega Genesis version. Anyhow, I've decided to pledge $60, for the game, the t-shirt and the docwagon.
"Facebook requires apps to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app."

I have apps disabled on my profile and have had them so for about 2 years. So if my friend uses an app as described above, I would image my data is still shared through Facebook, correct? Having apps disabled doesn't help me here?
1) He used to work for Microsoft.

2) He's got the money to pay for it.

3) It would be incredibly stupid of him to flagrantry violate copyright and commit a crime. Rick is many things, but stupid is not one of them.
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I agree that using a Kinect is probably a good early approach. 3D CV certainly isn't easy. If I were developing a product though I'd want to be careful about being dependent on one company's technology. I'm not sure how easy it would be to replicate a Kinect like device (whether for legal or technical reasons) and my impression is that high speed laser scanners are very expensive.

If you'd like to continue this discussion my e-mail address is in my HN profile. I too am very interested in developing a robotics product. One of the things I'm really trying to understand is what exactly makes these arms so expensive and what, if anything can be done about it. You mentioned motors and controllers. I wonder which one drives the cost. With motors the problem might be materials and manufacturing cost, if its the controllers then I think the cost would be more in non-recurrent engineering (because electronics manufacturing usually isn't very expensive) and that can be minimized if you have a large market.
> I have no idea why somebody in the european parliament would want more than 8 GB of RAM.

640kB ought to be enough for everybody?

Seriously, why not? RAM is so ridiculously cheap these days there's no excuse not to get 16GB when you buy a new machine. If nothing else it'll be used as a disk cache.
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When I moved to Canada I felt the opposite culture shock :) Trust was everywhere, I was shocked to see in Vancouver, skytrain fairs were just checked randomly and rarely.

What would you recommend for accommodation? Do you think it's better to arrange before arriving there? Craigslist is probably not popular there, what's the popular local classifieds website?
Am I the only one that doesn't get all the recent hatred of Facebook here on HN?

I think it's fair to assume that any site, anywhere, might wind up giving information that you have input into the site, to advertisers. You don't even have to input information, but just visit different pages on different sites that use the same ad network, and they already know what kinds of pages you visit.

Then, sometimes you get better ads shown, and sometimes they're hilariously misinterpreted. Honestly, who cares? And if you've got something horribly secret, then it's not the kind of thing you should be putting on Facebook anyways, where all your friends can see it.

This isn't McCarthyism, where you're being fired from your job because you visited the Facebook page for communism. All we're talking about is what ads you get shown, and even if someone is peeping over your shoulder, it's not like they know if an ad was targeted specifically to you anyways, or why. Junk mail has been doing this stuff for decades, sending you offers based on your credit cards, magazine subscriptions, catalog subscriptions, etc.

Seriously, can someone please explain to me any conceivable way in which this could negatively impact me? I'm genuinely curious if I'm missing something here.
> Seeing as he works for the Pirate Party, I don't think it's a stretch to assume he got his copies of Windows and Visual studio off The Pirate Bay.

Seeing as he is a public spokesperson, it would be insanely stupid of him to commit a crime that could be used by the copyright industry against him.
I'm all for optimizing the browsing experience, but the logo has horrible compression artifacts:

http://www.programr.com/sites/all/themes/drigg_theme/img/log...

Hoempage scores 58/100 on Google Page Speed, so there's a lot of stuff that can be done before to compensate for a larger image.
I tried going down the road of finding specifics that could be verified. Here's one claim:

"There are several companies that are now revising their HR policies so that providing your FB password on a steady basis is a requirement of your continuing employment. You've already been employed 5-10 years? Provide it now, or be fired tomorrow."

http://politicartoons.livejournal.com/3026559.html?thread=70...

The poster rattled off some company names, but when I pressed for specifics, like how she knew these things, she claimed that I was "in the pay of a corporation as part of a 'hit squad'."
If I see a headline that interests me, I tend to copy-and-paste it to my browser's search box, and find the article that way.

Actually, more often than not, I've forgotten about "social reader", so click on the headline -- then, when they try to get me to give them access to my account, re-think whether I can be bothered searching for the article. About half the time, that stupid popup costs them at least one pair of eyes.

I agree with the giant text on the link: "Worst. Feature. Ever." It's just such a blatant, obnoxious attempt to manipulate your users.
There are actually separate settings for that, or there were, haven't looked for quite a while. Personally I'd have everything disabled too, but the Android Facebook client has been getting steadily worse, enough for me to use a third party app, that needs a Facebook application to do its work.