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I am not in the exact same situation as you (I work as an independent developer and have several clients), but here's what I did - I made an agreement with a friend / previous business partner (who has similar development skills to me) that each of us would be the 'emergency stand-in' in case of illness / death of the other. Our agreement covers short-term maintenance of applications, and negotiating with the clients to find another 'full-time' person. We have shared passwords / information about SVN repositories / assembla spaces and so on, but it would also have been possible to leave this information with a lawyer and only have it made available to the other person if necessary (in case the clients are nervous about someone else having access to 'stuff' without need).

The chance of both of us being 'out of order' simultaneously not so significant (we currently live in different parts of the planet, so the 'team bus' situation doesn't apply), and this agreement was welcomed by all our clients as it provides a good layer of safety from their point of view.

This arrangement is not perfect, but - based on trust - is 'free' and extremely reliable.

If you don't have a friend you can rely on in the same situation, perhaps you can find someone in the same tech circle (or via HN?) and then go the 'you get all the necessary info to continue on EXCEPT the passwords lawyer way'?
> We plan to produce a Mac OSX version shortly after the PC release, with Xbox 360 and PS3 following as soon as possible afterwards. (And on to even more platforms, as funds and time allow...)

They'll be using Steam for PC/Mac, if the rumors of Steam/Linux come true that'll probably make it more likely for them to port.
Another Carmageddon connection: Patrick Buckland, the Stainless Games founder, also wrote Mac shooter Crystal Quest which was the reason I don't remember most of 1988.
This is such a brilliant post. Well worth a read.
Now this might be a Kickstarter I could get behind! I used to love this game.
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Maybe the airlines don't realise how bad things are because no-one takes the time to tell them?

Write up an email with constructive criticism and send it to their customer support people, web master, etc. It could be that no-one except for the web people from the company has actually looked at it.
I really don't understand why it's that difficult to incorporate something like SCSS, or a portion of it (e.g. no mixins) directly to browsers?
I didn't realize that parents felt like they had to purchase this extra content in order to keep their children 'caught up' or successful in the class. If that's the case, then that's very unhealthy (and unfair).
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Keep in mind it's a potential copy of the game. Nothing is guaranteed, even if the goal is reached.
A friend of mine has been working on anti-scraping for a while. The question is: is there a market for an anti-scraping service? Would you pay so such a service and how much?

Some examples out there:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-scrapeshield-discover...

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There isn't a quick cure for stress. It is cited that stress in the short run is positive (can give you motivation), but in the long run is damaging to your health.

There are multiple ways of managing stress:
Healthy diet (4+ servings of fruit/veg a day)
Supplements (Vitamin B2 works well)
Exercise (1-3 times a week works)
Mind-numbing hobbies (sometimes games can be stressful too)
Do something you are passionate about
Take a vacation (preferably a week or longer)
Mindful meditation

In the long run, the most effective way of beating stress is to lead a balanced life. Sometimes it's neccessary to say 'no' to maintain this balance.

Best of luck!
Wow, Linus does not come across well in that thread at all.
True, but maybe they could release the original game onto steam as a consolation; I'd be happy with that. Wait a minute , why didn't they do that in the first place, surely that would have raised a fair amount of money in itself.
I second this -- even if it doesn't stop you thinking about work, period, it is usually enough to jerk you out of "the flow", which (for me) makes it that much more difficult to get back into whatever I was doing 30 or 45 minutes ago.
I make it a point of only drinking in the weekends, never when I have to work the next day :-)

I do have a completely different non-tech hobby already: Medieval Reenactment and Living History. I really love building medieval stuff with my hands (clothing, armour, furniture, etcetera). And I find fighting a great way to relieve stress. Nothing like being in a battle, wielding a sword or spear with thundering cannons pouring fire and smoke all around you.

But that's not exactly a hobby that you can do at home for an hour or so after work. Events are scheduled every couple of weeks. Even building things takes time, so when I want to make something I usually plan in advance so I can work half a day or a full day on it.
I have a question: What are the best and most expensive things/services you can buy to improve your life that are not noticeable by your friends?
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With CBT, do you mean Cognitive Behavioral Training? My primary language isn't English. I already talked about that with my doctor. It's something that we'll be looking into if I'm still suffering from the same problems 4-6 weeks down the road.
I smell opportunity. Companies that are as archaic and inflexible as this deserve to be outdone.
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Thanks for the tip. Sadly, the commute is too long for my current job. Cycling would take nearly 90 minutes. That's a bit long, considering I work from 7:30 to 17:00.

I used to bike to my previous job though. That was a 20 minute ride.
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> It is, but you can also port existing applications to JS.

You can't just port things to JavaScript the same way. JavaScript is a very different sort of language. "porting" something to JavaScript pretty much always means remaking the whole thing from ground up and hoping that your pixel pushing in canvas runs at an acceptable speed.
How much JS have you actually written?

It is a crap language designed in an afternoon and nowhere near good enough to solve the problems we currently use it for.

Just a few things of my head: 'this', 'var', no integers, semicolons, no block scope.
This is quite a broad subject.

I'd say it's very important to focus on usability (navigation, layout, flow) - without proper implementation people will sometime just quickly scan and close the website almost immediately.

Depending on the website I'm working on, navigation usually includes a 'public' menu (main tabs), 'personal menu' (profile/log out), 'reverse navigation' (breadcrumb), 'section' menu (back-end tabs) and occasionally a 'contextual' menu (in content).

If you think along the lines of domain driven design, it is easy to spot different contexts at work.

A very important aspect of any website (and design) is consistency.

Pages would generally consist of at least a Home (sometimes used as a lead page), Lead page/s (where visitors land when clicking ads - sometimes the home page is used instead), Product pages (depending on the company, products or services can be listed here) and a Contact us tab.

The 'about us' should be evident throughout the entire design. Quite a few times I've seen the 'about us' page act almost entirely as a page where potential clients can find the physical address of a shop or service (sometimes include contact information).

Hope this short list helps you out, but that should at least get you started.
For some reason I pretty much stopped playing computer games when I started programming. I think Quake II and Diablo II are the last games I played seriously. After that I got into indy game development as a hobby and I started making games instead of playing them. The indie gamedev scene moved very fast back then (and probably still does). I found I coulnd't really keep up with it as just a hobby, then I switched to web development.
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From what I've heard, Carmageddon was a fantastic game, however... I had the N64 version, it was one of the buggiest game I have ever played.

It was always fun watching the AI navigate tricky sections of straight road.
One could argue that while assholes may write good code, for all we know they're putting off people that would write as good or even better code and not be assholes.

This especially applies to women - sure there are misogynistic jerks that are great coders, but who's to say the women they are putting off wouldn't be better in the long run?

I hear the argument that if someone is dedicated enough they'll overlook the abuse they get and do what they do anyway, but the entire premise of the overarching debate is that social skills don't really correlate with technical skills, which blows that argument out of the water - people might not have the social skills to deal with shitbags, but that doesn't mean they aren't fantastic amazing programmers.
They obviously need millions of dollars to build a good version of the game (perhaps millions just to build part of the game given the cost of B titles these days). If you could sell 100,000 copies of the original at $5, I'd be shocked. It's extraordinarily dated at this point.

Short of raising $3 to $5 million plus, I'm guessing Kickstarter will be used to get the product to a point where a larger publisher can fund them across the finish line.
No true. NaCl doesn't use proprietary APIs and is, in fact, a standard.

It is just that the other browsers haven't implemented it yet. Blame them, not Google (or blame users who don't use Chrome, without whom this would be a non-issue).
" Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance"

So what's wrong with it?
About as friendly as flash -- if the game or app is big, show a loading bar and use the browser cache aggressively.
There's an amazing sequence in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" describing the destruction of a space elevator in a terrorist attack: the cable digs a trench marking the equator of Mars as it wraps around the planet multiple times.
That's only half of the market.

If company A is willing to pay you $100k/year, and you won't work for less than $120k/year, what's your market value?

Maybe you wait a few weeks and get an offer from company B for $140k, and you negotiate it up to $160k. The manager was willing to pay $180. Meanwhile, company C wants you for $200k, but you never sent them your résumé.

What's your market value?

(You have poor liquidity, so it's hard to figure out what your actual market value is. Market value is the estimated salary you'd actually get after a negotiation, which is usually going to be above your minimum salary and below the maximum offer. Your actual salary is only one more piece of data you can use to figure out what your actual market value is.)
> It says it has spent $65,000 to transfer the servers to a climate-controlled center. It is leasing the new facility for $37,000 per month, after its contracts with a prior facility expired.

I would imagine that means they were powered down for the move.
25 million gigabytes

I had to read that a couple of times to remind myself just how big a petabyte is. It's easy to forget the incredible scale of jumping from giga to tera to peta.
Try it out. It lets you see what your friends read, see their comments on the articles they read through this app.
Thanks for this. I'm trying to do most of the things you've listed, though I bet I could do better :-)

I exercise 2 times a week (volleybal and medieval sword fighting). I eat reasonably healthy (decent home cooked food, fresh veggies etc.) and I have a non-tech passion: medieval reenactment. But that's not really a hobby you can do for an hour after work or so.

I do have a vacation coming up, but that's still two months away. My doctor recommended that I take an extra vacation. I have plenty of vacation days left, but I feel a bit guilty towards my fellow programmers. One of our senior programmers left for another company two weeks ago and the position is still open. So, we're all quite busy.

Also, my girlfriend doesn't have spare vacation days. So either I'd have to go on vacation alone or be stuck at home.
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I really hope this pans out well - I was one of the authors of the software renderer they used - and, if I recall correctly, there was some serendipity in the game's origins:

We had a PC version going well (DOS, Windows, ... FM Towns!), but needed a good PPC mac port and some demos. We met Patrick & Neil through game industry networking, they contracted for this and got coding.

We had specced some ghastly 'design by committee' ideas for demos, details of which are fortunately lost in the mists of time. Thankfully, they kinda ignored the daft ideas and started playing with cars, physics & deformation, and the game was born.

The comments about Patrick's stock car racing are not far off - On one of my support trips to the Isle of Wight, I arrived to find a pile of police cars and Patrick's station wagon (proper US one - timber an all) with a broken wind shield. They had been filming footage for rotoscoping the peds by the simple expedient of Patrick driving at his mechanic (John?) who then rolled over the roof of the car - safety equipment was several layers of jumpers. ISTR the windshield broke when the car was not going fast enough to carry the victim over the roof.

Local offices had complained (I'm sure Patrick jumping out from behind cars with a pretend bazooka whilst being filmed did not help either :-)
The proper term for this effect is "raster bars", from how you traditionally did the effect by waiting for the raster line register to hit a certain vertical position on the screen, and then changing f.e. the background color of that scanline, then wait for the next line, change the color again etc. The name "copper bars" came out of the Amiga scene from how you could easily and without involving the CPU do this effect (and much more) on the Amiga using one of its co-processors, nicknamed the "Copper".
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Fair enough. How about watching some TV/Netflix or something then? Just something to get your mind off work for an hour before you go and work on a hobby or something.
Hopefully (for Buffett), it will turn out better than that famous example where he bought into a business in a declining industry (textiles).

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Indeed - 'that sound effect' emerging from a cubicle warren always made me smile.
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The problem is that not everybody agrees on who is the asshole. Somebody who wishes to force professionalism (ie a suit whether he wears it or nor not) on me is a bigger asshole than one who writes good code but can start a good flame war.
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Is it me or Google is not including charset information in its pages? Either with meta charset or with meta http-equiv.

I haven't been monitoring this, nor do I expect to. Just as a comparison, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter do. What's going on?
I would emphasize it's only in the headline dialect of English. Non-native speakers should probably just avoid using it altogether. It certainly can't be used to replace any "and" you'd like in a normal essay or anything.
Without using it I assumed they would be just using affiliate networks, as in they work with all the merchants on an integrated affiliate network, rather than making their own connections to merchants (which would really just make them another network)
I imagine porting it to keep it working with modern systems would be non-trivial. I know I can barely get most games from that era to run on my laptop.
He is a well known asshole -- but does that mean that we should uninstall Linux?
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For certain values of arbitrary; actually the code is restricted to the NaCl sandbox and the Pepper API.
Unsure of the charset standards history, but article is from 2003 and hosted on an edu domain. So possibility since then site has been moved around?
unfortunately in environments like the one the OP mentions, the squeaky wheel is usually the one that gets the grease. So, while attached to the trailer (company) you're best to squeak loudly while you look for a better vehicle to get onboard with.
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> but at least they are interested in using technology in the classroom

I don't get you. How does being interested in using technology in the classroom align with buying a load of tablets?
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It can get really silly though - I seriously doubt that 20K Euro Louis Vuitton skis are really better skis than much cheaper ones - you are just paying for the brand. Plus there is the common complaint about "all the gear - no idea" - where cost/amount of gear is often perceived as having a negative correlation with ability.
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It's basically art you can ride/wear. An original painting is virtually indistinguishable from a reproduction, yet people derive pleasure from buying originals.
the only way to prevent scraping is to shut down access to your website, with the new modern libraries like phantomjs and selenium any one can write a scrapper that executes javascript and reads website pretty much like any human user.
"Second, this doesn't work in Android 2.3 and below as it doesn't support scrollable DIVs."

Although lack of scrollable div support is out of their control,being able to only support 10% of current android devices (http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...) seems like a major showstopper rather than a "caveat".
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The way I feel happy with my lot (despite wanting to achieve goals too) is to read and listen to history books. A large chunk of humankind has had to put up with heartbreaking misery and torture and learning about it makes me incredibly grateful to be living here and now, even if I'm having a bad week. Building up some empathy for my fellow man isn't a bad side effect either(!)

I'm currently a third of the way into "Gulag: A History" by Anne Applebaum. Good book but very hard to bear. Millions, including innocent Soviet citizens, were tortured, massacred, or worked to death over a whole 30 years. It puts waking up with a headache and having to drive to the office into perspective I find.. :-)
Thank you for great post!

How are you estimate how much you would rise depending on employee performance? Do you have metrics or just by intuition?

Also, it's interesting what questions do you discuss in order to understand that somebody was improved since previous review. How many books have been read or something else?
jeans - whatever, but a $20k bike is very noticeably different to a $2k bike, particularly in weight; you could perhaps say the $8k > $20k jump was more buying it just because you could.
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Great post. I would add the following to the list: films and books. To many these may seem like escapism but I think the insight gained from such varying perspectives gives you better insight into your own life, and I've found it can enhance your "here and now" value system.

Paraphrasing Shawn Achor: you'll never reach happiness if it is always on the other side of some constantly shifting horizon.
In fact, in my current work environment, when we moved offices there was a "central" open area with a view half built cube walls. Originally our telephone support were going to sit there and the Dev team was going to get placed in an enclosed shared Dev "war room". Support squeaked and the timid dev team got stuck out in the open.

Supposedly since Support is on the phone, they would interrupt everyone (everyone else int he vicinity is sales and they each have private offices) since they talk aloud on the phone. Why's this bad? Because breaking deep thought vs. some noise in the background (which still also exists because of the leakage they have on the phone in a single enclosed room) is much much more unproductive. Worse, the Sales team often forgets to shut their doors so sound leaks out into the open area or between sales calls they congregate a few at a time and have loud conversations disrupting the dev team. Worst of all is if they are in their offices, quietly doing paperwork with their doors open then decide to yell to talk to another salesperson in another office.

I often get up and shut Sales office doors, and constantly have to hush people up. My timid dev team doesn't because, well they are timid and don't want to rock the boat and add friction to inter office relationships. (I can hear, I agree. I need to encourage my dev team to speak up more, perhaps I'm sheltering them too much.)
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