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We have similar chess history, but I think you're being emotional here in your "rebuttal of chess". I've had similar thoughts but I've come to the natural conclusion that all that matters in the end is whether I enjoy playing it or not.

Some things you mentioned don't add up. You don't have to be a human database to play chess as a hobby, even at club level. Playing at club level can be fun, and can definitely be a healthy hobby which doesn't take more time than any other sports or any other gaming activity. If it's not fun for you, or if you obsess over how better you could get if you just studied this or that opening, or how you'll never even reach 2200 ELO, then chess is probably not for you or not fit to be a hobby for you, that is true.

In short, thinking you would gain more mentally that would help with your engineering skill-set by playing chess instead of just, well, studying and working as an engineer, is fallacious to begin with. If there aren't any such studies, which I doubt, then why would you assume that? Of course, if all you want to do in life is being a better engineer, then anything but doing that is a "huge waste of time", not just chess.

But I think I still understand you emotionally as we had similar thoughts. Maybe, like me, you too rationalized your time spent in chess by saying to yourself that it helps your focus and concentration at work etc., but that's really not any more logical than rationalizing smoking, in the end you're just fooling yourself spending time doing something you enjoy. I'd think this was obvious, and I knew it even when as I was doing it myself. Maybe you just needed that external heads-up, from that older engineer you mentioned.

On a completely different note, I could still argue chess is not entirely useless in that sense. Compared to legos, you're forgetting that chess is a social activity. You're facing real people, and beating them can build confidence, and losing also has its lessons - socially, not chesswise. I've learned a lot about competition at a young age, and I've experienced what "winning" and "losing" is like. This is different than team sports, because you're out there alone by yourself, with no luck involved. And although we don't share the same success with him, a friend who doesn't spend more than a few hours per week playing chess became rather successful (2000+ ELO), and I see that it made him a lot more confident. Also for what it's worth, a lot of people - you may find the notion stupid - perceive him to be a very smart person, which is pretty valuable socially. I think that is an incredible value gained for that effort, arguably more efficient than a college education considering all this talk nowadays about the bubble.
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Did you implement some of these techniques into your life? If so, what and how? :)
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But both are still valuable, aren't they? Perhaps school and startup experiences are in combination worth more than the sum of the parts.
Not _exactly_ related, but...

As more and more Americans realize that there is a life after the USA, I have a feeling that we're going to see more and more jurisdictional straw-grasping by the US government.

Maybe I'm searching for a pattern where there isn't one, but this comes on the heels of them requiring tax payments of people who've expatriated, as well as seizing .com domains registered by foreign nationals at foreign registrars...
-Citibank has a immigrant credit card with proof of employment, ~$3000 ish in a US bank account for ~3months OR ~$5000 in a non us account for 5 months, and an SSN. It gives a good credit limit.

-Capital One has a 'newcommer' card that gives a $500 limit with any near blank new SSN online, instantly.

-Bank of america has one for canadians, most retail bankers don't know about it. The one by stanford mall did.
I wonder if the "Thiel fellowship" model is a scalable form of education? Would some portion of bright young people benefit from pursuing their most ambitious idea for two years?

It could be kind of like a gap year but applied to pursuing some ambitious idea. If it works, great. If it doesn't, returning to college would still be an option.
A solution that I've found works well for me is simply disabling cookies, and whitelisting any site that I want to use that requires them, or that I am attempting to log in to.

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I agree.

While social networking isn't a fad, facebook may well be.
Impressive. Not one single line of Javascript being used on the suspend page, hahaha. Hacker News ddos strikes again.
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There was a story (I think it was on reddit, not HN) of an entrepreneur who bootstrapped a local cleaning business in something like three months, by hiring his maid as his first employee. The guy does not mop up himself, but runs an incredibly successful business with a web-based reservation system. The rest of his job is people and asset management.

So even with janitorial work, an educated graduate can turn it into a profitable business, without actually doing the cleaning himself.

Edit: his site is http://www.maidsinblack.com/ and he does a great job of documenting his startup experience step by step on reddit. If I find the thread, I'll post it here.
I'm confused. Is 3.x meant for a different class of system, or are distros like Ubuntu intentionally lagging behind in 2.6.x land?
Last I checked, nobody's requiring government-issued ID for generating RSA keys.
Yeah. I think so. People should consider being prepared for massive traffic if you post on HN.
So let me get this straight. Yahoo! is getting rid of the only successful asset it has left?

Until right now, Yahoo! had two things going for it: its asian operations (Alibaba, Yahoo! Japan, etc.), and the Hadoop project. Now, it only has one.
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I was an early fan of your service - really liked where it seemed to be headed. Used it about 4 or 5 times and the only reason I stopped is my brother started a travel agent business. Kind of consistent with your story I just checked out your site again and my general impression without looking too hard is "not as good/polished/compelling as it was before". I guess because you've been trying lots of different stuff out.

Did you get any research to suggest people want to be pinged when good deals come up? My own use case is generally I've decided I want to go somewhere at around about some time and I just want to book it. Also most instances of people travelling that I can think of right now are similar. So I was surprised to see your front page pushing the alert feature so hard.

Thanks for writing this btw, a good read.
Best of luck with tarsnap. I would expect it will continue to grow. Is that the only startup you worked on?

Unrelated question: What do you use for communicating with EC2? Are you satifisfied with using their Java solution and the large installs for the JDK or installing scripting languages, e.g., like Python in order to use boto? Or have you written something smaller with less dependencies?
Ack. I want to move from the south bay to SF for young single person reasons, but now this is making me reconsider.
Yeah, I remember this one:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html

Saving 32bits means a lot to him.
I dont understand if Alibaba is planning on buying Yahoo why not just buy them outright now and not worry about buying the stock back? If Alibaba bought Yahoo would it not also not then own the Alibaba stock yahoo was holding?
> There are several awesome interpreters available for it!

Technically, it's not another interpreter (like IronPython or Jython), just an interface to the classic CPython REPL.
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I've hit the same wall a number of times in my life across a variety of games/past times/hobbies.

Two things which I have always come away with is a wonderful collection of amazing people and a keen understanding of how to improve at something as quickly as possible.

I think that is pretty much what life is all about.

PS: in case anyone is interested, my obsessions in chronological order have been; quake, skydiving, paintball, quake3fortress, online poker, starcraft 2.

PPS: online poker was different to all the others in that I actually made money doing it, which had the upside of granting me "spending money" and the downside of turning it into a second job.
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Latest Ubuntu has kernel version 3.2. What distros are still on 2.6?
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Well, with this deal the Alibaba buyout of Yahoo is obviously off the table.
I was thinking about this recently - piloting used to be a high skill job, but now pilots are largely relegated to takeoff and landing--a technician's job. I expect more of air travel to be automated in the future (like, why do pilots and ATC speak through a radio instead of using something automatic). More automation -> lower skill required -> less pay in the future.
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The jump to 3.x was a more or less arbitrary decision made by Linus because the 2.6 version numbers were getting very large. Switching to 3.x should basically be the same as any other kernel upgrade, possibly with some additional issues with software that assumes things about the form of the kernel version number. There shouldn't be any distros holding back from upgrading; in fact Ubuntu 12.04 uses a 3.2 kernel.
Not sure what you mean with the Windows comment - if you have your terminal in black-on-white, it's generally considered "inverse" colours on any platform. That means you probably have to pick white to get what your terminal shows as black.

And this has nothing to do with, nor provides an alternative to vi/vim.
Long wings doesn't give more controll. The increased radius gives a higher inertia when rolling. It would make it more stable, but also slower. Acrobatic aircraft usually have short wings for this reason.
Yes, Tarsnap is my only startup.

I use the Java EC2 tools when I need to script something (which is quite rare). Most of what I do with EC2 is manual, via the web console. If I needed to launch or reconfigure EC2 instances on a regular basis I might write my own API code, but right now that's not an issue for me.
Ubuntu 12.04 runs kernel 3.2.
in the scripts section he says "Generate Content-Length response headers. It’s easy to do, and it will allow the response of your script to be used in a persistent connection. This allows clients to request multiple representations on one TCP/IP connection, instead of setting up a connection for every request. It makes your site seem much faster."

does he mean, for example, when serving up a dynamic php page, where the content might change for each request, you should still generate a content-length header before outputing the content?
Having just switched from Firefox to Chrome myself, this makes me happy. Chrome is definitely one of the best browsers I have ever used/developed and debugged websites in. Best of all, no memory leaks either.
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Being a self-taught developer myself who has landed some incredibly impressive jobs including a 2 year contract with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC News) as a developer amongst other awesome places, I agree with the statement of college being a waste of money.

I completed high school, contemplated college but then decided to get a job instead. Every place I have ever worked at has mentioned that they prefer hiring self-taught programmers as opposed to educated ones because the passion is already there and just because you can complete college doesn't mean you can handle the pressures of a programming environment in the real world (late hours, tight deadlines, last minute issues before major launches etc).

It's about damn time that non-educated programmers and non-programmers alike who know their stuff start getting more recognition and better pay to suit. I've had to work damn hard to earn the salary I do now and I know more than a lot of the other programmers here who went to college, I teach them stuff and I thought it was meant to be the other way around.
I'm surprised they didn't call it Microsoft+. Wow, just when you thought Microsoft were heading in the right direction and climbing back to the top of the ladder, they go and build a social network nobody will use.
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As a 7 year China resident, I concur. It's protectionism and a gray legal system that create such beasts in China. They tend to be uninnovative, inefficient and slothful. Couple this with a questionable trajectory for the current Chinese domestic economic bubble, and my partner (a Chinese lawyer) and I have decided to leave the country. That said, the west isn't always much better.
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Back up! Seeing what people do with CSS is like watching MacGyver - it might be the wrong tool for the job but it's always impressive. Look, I built a gun with some rubber tubing, a rotten egg, and a duck!
What I wrote was that psychopaths don't experience empathy, I never said anything about not understanding emotions in others.

Also, you clearly don't know what anarchism is, libertarians (in the American sense) are not anarchists, they are capitalists. The two are mutually exclusive.
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And of course, steve jobs speech at stanford. These three are speeches instead of posts, but I found them true inspiring.
It's minor, but competitive gamers generally do at least acquire mechanics that can be used for other games. I'm not sure if chess is like that.
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I'm mostly happy about people switching from IE (particularly its older incarnations) to anywhere, than from Firefox to Chrome ;-)
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Great to see that the future is being ushered in in a coordinated, organized, well-thought-out manner. Ugh.
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Way to exclude mainland Europe through your short-sighted decision to use Imperial units.

There's simply no valid reason (and hacked in a weekend doesn't cut it) to store units in Imperial, let me choose, as as an engineer I abhor laziness in building such sites, in 2012, more than ever I18n and L17n are more important than ever, even within sites only offered in English language.

(plus the maths on converting weights is more sane with metric units, I just don't get it)
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When we have computers that can number crunch enough to beat the best humans in a game, I can't help but think that human competition in that game is no more exciting than humans competiting to do something like multiplying a bunch of large numbers together. Of course, I do believe that all human mental work is just number crunching (i.e. Turing computation), so this idea would seem to apply to all human mental competition given the right algorithms and enough computing power. Not to mention that machines can best humans in a lot of athletic events, but that doesn't seem to ruin those for me. And yet, I still just can't get excited about a discrete perfect information game like chess when computers have all but solved the game.
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They've been at a pretty steady pace since they decided to go all in on the "release early, release often" thing with 2.6. 3.0 is 2.6.40, after all.
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i think it's deeper than that. the progression is from object (every one hand-crafted) to template-based object-maker (hand-crafted per kind of object, but can produce a bunch of objects of that kind), to metatemplate-based template maker.

however, once you hit that second level of abstraction, you have almost invariably added enough flexibility that the range of templates your template-maker can make includes templates for other template makers. that is, it's not just a quirk of linguistics that a meta-meta-template-maker is called a meta-template-maker, they really do tend to be objects on the same level of abstraction and flexibility.
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What about the people who have no idea that somebody else is posting their content to HN?
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Indeed, but you can say this about pretty much any hobby.

What does playing Guitar get you beyond getting better at playing guitar? Snowboarding? Rock Climbing? Traveling the world? Building perfectly accurate models of 19th century warships?

There are a million things that people can take up a a hobby, and even dedicate their entire life to. All of them have your same points in common that, unless you manage to become one of the top 100 people in the world at it, it's not really going to ever benefit you beyond your own personal satisfaction.

And yet, I defy you to find a single person who doesn't have at least one of these time wasting hobbies. It's part of what makes us human.

My advice is to not sweat it so much and go play Chess if it makes you happy.