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We have always traded our time for survival. That is why the species is intelligent. If anything, celebrate that you only spend 40 hours a week on surviving. Celebrate that the alert, productive, valuable time you invest is slowly building even better futures.

Besides, work is demonstrably good for our mental health. I'd go insane if I didn't have responsibilities, just like a sheepdog will.
ZipRecruiter is also hiring perl programmers in Los Angeles (email in profile if anyone's interested).
Sure, that is the ideal, but not everyone will get that opportunity, and even those that do often work crappy jobs at some point or another. So, the point is, even if work sucks, you can still live a life worth living.
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How is it different from IdeaScale? http://ideascale.com/
Lifeless animation has always been a thorn in Bethesda's side. It would be nice if in the future Carmack and company decided to cross train with the Elder Scrolls team. Maybe Carmack's crew can show them how to animate and the Elder Scrolls / Fallout guys can teach Id software how to write a decent story.

If both teams mastered the other's strengths, the resulting games would be nearly perfect.
Nothing new here. This is a common technique. Any email newsletter service worth its salt has been doing this for years, and I think many A/B testing tools have as well. A/B testing doesn't mean you'll assign 50% of users to each version.
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Last thought- many people actually spend only a part of that 40 hours a week generating money for survival needs. The remaining discretionary bits should also be celebrated- even a minimum wage worker can save up enough to fly across America in a month or three. I'd say that is an improvement over wagon trains, wouldn't you? The same goes for so many other things you can spend that money on. The time you traded empowers you to do many things you could never do all on your own. Seize that opportunity. Go skiing in the Alps. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef. Be happy.
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Currently we're targeting freelancers and small businesses up to 10 people, so this is the majority of our current user base.

With the inkan situation, we allow our customers to upload both their logo and their inkan. When printed, it looks exactly the same as a 'stamped' inkan. None of our customers have had any problems getting their MakeLeaps invoices processed, which is the important thing. For your interest, we have some printed samples here:

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I spent a couple years working on a .NET runtime that used LLVM as its back-end and found it to be more than adequate as a base for that ecosystem, specifically languages like C# and C++-CLI. Some changes were needed to LLVM in order to support precise garbage collection but they were fairly minimal. Debugging worked very well, though it wasn't as full featured as Visual Studio's .NET debugging environment it was about as functional as debugging C++ code.

I think LLVM is a fantastic code generator for statically typed languages, managed (Java/C#) or unmanaged (C/C++). Although my experience with the LLVM JIT isn't recent, when I did use it I found that it made a great science experiment but wasn't very practical. Specifically for this project the JIT ended up having to basically compile everything at once in order to determine object vtables and the like which made it more of a runtime linker than a just-in-time compiler.

I don't think that it would be very suitable as a back end for a dynamically typed language, as Unladen Swallow's unfortunate project trajectory seems to bear out. Not that it's impossible to use LLVM as part of a dynamic language infrastructure, but I do think there are other environments that are more suited to the task.
See, I think we can find whatever meaning we want in the Facebook IPO. In a way, Facebook reflects what we think of ourselves.

Re: second point: interesting. I just wonder to what extent Facebook has matured since it was founded. Maybe Zuck's true genius is hacking the maturity algorithm... Or maybe not. ?
I don't know why but it's always hard for me to accept that kind of advice from rich people. People for whom money is not an issue and can basically live a life of luxury without working.

I'm not saying the advice isn't sound advice. Just that doing more of what you love Or want to do is far easier for them therefore it's easier for them to say it
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Because LinkedIn can monetize a lot easier than facebook can.
Looks good - I like the simple message and clean look.

Don't forget to use multi-part and include a text portion. HTML only emails are a spam flag. We have some more tips about content and how it affects deliverability here: http://documentation.mailgun.net/faqs.html#does-the-content-...
> Doctors generally want nothing to do with me

Doctors are generally quite receptive to non-drug therapies that actually work.
This is an example of why link shorteners should be defined within the context of an RFC, with encoding and decoding handled entirely by the browser or other client.
>I'm frankly shocked that Apple hasn't done this yet

My guess is that Apple has basically decided the pro market for anything is not worth their while. Apple makes virtually all their money from mass consumer products like the iPod and iPhone. The spectacular growth in those segments has been paired with a steady decline in Apple's interest in servers, desktops, pro video, pro photography, etc. Good for shareholders no doubt, but I think it's sort of a shame.
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Yeah, pretty much. It's a whole lotta "meh".
I've been involved with A/B testing for nearly a decade. I assure you that none of these points are in the slightest bit hypothetical.

1. Every kind of lead gen that I have been involved with and thought to measure has large periodic fluctuations in user behavior. Measure it, people behave differently on Friday night and Monday morning.

2. If you're regularly running multiple tests at once, this should be a potential issue fairly frequently.

3. If you really fire and forget, then crud will accumulate. To get rid of that you have to do the same kind of manual evaluation that was supposed to be the downside of A/B testing.

4. Most people do not track multiple metrics on every A/B test. If so, you'll never see how it matters. I make that a standard practice, and regularly see it. (Most recently, last week. I am not at liberty to discuss details.)

5. I first noticed this with email tests. When you change the subject line, you give an artificial boost to existing users who are curious what this new email is. New users do not see the subject line as a change. This boost can easily last long enough for an A/B test to reach significance. I've seen enough bad changes look good because of this effect that I routinely look at cohort analysis.
> Rather, the argument was that there are serious socioeconomic problems that affect as much as 99% of the population.

Not so fast. Occupy also claims to know something about solutions to those problems.

> Contrast that with the usual conservative bullshit about how hard-working citizens are too busy with their own productive lives to participate in protests, which implies that silence is a virtue.

How about a checkable cite to said "bullshit" from an actual conservative? Citing someone criticizing that stance doesn't count.
IdeaScale doesn't specifically target internal ideas for companies, and there product is too complicated - they have way too many features.
pushState is a way of going to a new page within a site without reloading everything. If you go to twitter/posts/1 to twitter/posts/2, then all the HTML and the twitter assets (images, css, javascript files, etc) will be reloaded. (OK, there's caching, but ... it can still be slow).

pushState lets you rewrite the bits of the page you want to change using javascript, without reloading anything inessential.

Hashtags do the same thing, because technically, hashtagged urls (twitter/posts#1 vs twitter/posts#2) are on the same page. It's a way of changing the URL in the address bar without technically changing the page.
Do you have children? Do you have a good relationship with your parents?

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that my kids will turn out to have traits that I liked in me and my parents. Just because of that, I would rather conceive.
The one that comes to mind immediately is MetaFilter. Not huge, but a pretty decent-sized community and above-average comments. No threading or non-chronological sorting involved.

John Scalzi's blog Whatever also has a pretty large pool of commenters in a standard Wordpress setup.

The thing both of these have in common is active moderators.
Frontpage Server Extensions != Frontpage

That said, I too am horrified. Maybe some of the newer ASP.net deployment stuff appears to be plain vanilla FPSE from the outside.
I took 18 months off work to follow my dreams. I tried to strike it rich, but I got experience instead. It was quite the roller coaster ride. In America, if you are not working a job and receiving a salary, you are seen as a leech, a useless appendage and worthless drain on society. Women don't want to date you, parents always asking when are you getting a job, you have to put up with the revulsion at parties when you have to admit you are not drawing a salary... And you have to take it easy on the expenses. But it was a great decision, and I'll do it again soon when I get another nest egg saved up. You gotta have nerves of steel and be able to tell the others to keep following your dreams of the deferred life plan, and call me in 2060 when that pans out.

If I don't spend the money I earn on myself, then the government will just take it away from me in the next 10 years through 10%-20% annual inflation as it tries to pay down umpteen trillion dollars in socialism. You can't plunder the value behind my bank account dollars if I don't have any to take! When the new currency comes down the pike, I'll work my butt off at age 65 and 75 to earn a 350 thousand dollar/year salary working food service.
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As an active programmer and bass player, I used to suffer cramps and wrist pain after extended hours. After a friend suggested it I bought a metal NSD powerball to train the micro-muscles in my hands. I spend about 20 minutes a day training it and after about 3 months the pain stopped and went away - I still regularly use it in 3 minute on, one minute rest intervals.

I also use regular keyboards.
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Except that there's over 107,000 Perl modules on CPAN, and fewer than 40,000 Ruby gems.
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Why not focus your efforts on developing a great product or service? If it deserves the number one spot for the top keywords in your industry, it'll get there, I guarantee it ;)
Yes, sorry. I meant all night on the weekends.
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To clarify, I was saying that when parents see their kids primarily as a negative effect on their lives, it often turns out poorly for the kid. Specific examples of what I mean by poorly:

Child commits Suicide

Child forcibly removed from parents by the government

Child classified as juvenile delinquent

On the other hand I have seen it work out okay in exactly one case, so there is a clear counterexample. Mentioning the details of that was likely a mistake, as you point out.
> When printed, it looks exactly the same as a 'stamped' inkan

Would it hold in court in case of a dispute?
20 lines out of 130,000?

Don't worry God is just.

Yer a nigger.
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Wow, it is rare that you see a site look so nice when JavaScript is disabled. More often than not when I click a link on HN I have to enable a ton of domains in NoScript and RequestPolicy in order to get a sane rendering.

Hat tip to dan webb.
You would think that this article is obvious to the point of not really being necessary to even write. But, I think hanging out on tech forums like HN you read about billion dollar buyouts, massive IPOs and basically I think it gives the impression that is the only way you can consider yourself successful is if you are a part of one of those deals.

I kinda equate it to wishing you were a rock star. It's a lot of show, but in most cases it doesn't result in any particular happiness. And it doesn't even result in a lot of financial success except in those extreme cases - and only for the early employees. There is a perception of excitement but even the day-to-day working long hours is sometimes not that much fun either.

On the other hand there's a lot of businesses out there that don't get much attention. Unfortunately it's not all that exciting to read about on HN with a headline like "I make a decent salary at a no-name company and have a nice, comfortable life"
What was meant was:
If there is a period of time when you get a lot of visits, lots of clicks, and abnormally high CTR. This could happen due to external factors, for example if make the front page of HN. Over time, this effect will vanish, but you will be stuck with high CTR estimates for the design that was in place when this happened for a long time.
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Well, they've got everyone hooked now on their network so they just need to start charging for each time you do something on it. The bigger the addict, the more they can charge.
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I think that was the point of the basic argument.

Matt was saying that lots of people as a whole have a hard time focusing. Sure, there are people that can focus here and there but so many people are tied to their devices that it can be demonstrated as a trend. While every trend has anomalies, those anomalies don't mean that the trend is nonexistent.
In theory, yes. In practice, no.

See http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/index.html#asli... for part of a presentation that I did where I actually set up some reasonable fake tests, and ran simulations. What I found is that if there is a significant difference, the probability of coming to the wrong conclusion was (as you would expect) higher, but not that high before the underlying difference made mistakes incredibly unlikely. Conversely if there is only a small real difference, the amount of data needed before you have a significant chance of having accidentally come to a erroneous conclusion is very, very long.

So avoid accepting any result where you don't have at least a few hundred successes and set your thresholds reasonably high. You will make fewer mistakes than you probably fear, and the ones that you make will almost always be very minor. (Oops, I had a 3% chance of accepting the 1% worse solution as probably better.)

Of course if you're aiming to publish academic research, your standards need to be higher. But if you're more interested in getting useful results than publishable ones, you can relax your standards. A lot.
I took an investment banking job right out of college and spent the next few years working like crazy. It was good work experience - and a great chance to save money - but it was exhausting work that I wasn't passionate about. My close friends and family lived in different cities, and I saw them only a few times a year. Some of my colleagues planned on working 80-hour weeks for 15 years and retiring at 40, but I wasn't interested in that plan.

So after 2.5 years, I quit to start my own business. I'm pretty tech savvy, but have nowhere near the programming skills as many here on HN. I am, however, a good marketer so I started an eCommerce drop shipping business. Within a year, I was making an income that could support my family - within two years, a good income. And I also had the ability to work wherever - and whenever - I wanted. I'd work like crazy for a few months on a business project I was really interested in, get a ton done and then take a few months off to travel. It was the best of both worlds: I'd be super productive when I was interested and had the energy, and take time off when I needed it. Best of all, I saw the people I cared about much more frequently.

With the dawn of the internet, there's never been a better time in history to start your own business (low risk, high reward, global scope), especially if you're technically minded. We have the unique opportunity to do work we love while being able to maintain a health work/life balance. It's amazing.

If anyone's interested in the full story of how I made the leap from corporate workaholic to a more balanced life, I've written about it below:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/my-corporate-escape-story/
Sorry, I was being lazy. I meant on the comparable devices to a Chromebook - small macbooks.
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This is an SEO suggestion straight out of 2003.
I'm not sure how to think about a business model which relies on this conversation:

A: "You are copying our technology"
B: "We've never heard of your technology"
A: "It's right here in your product, you just didn't know you were copying it"
I know the valley loves the idea of "changing the world" and some companies really are - but I agree that a lot of startups are focusing on the easy bandwagon trends rather than focusing on solving truly difficult problems.
For some web apps, namely ones that don't get linked to often like Twitter or ones that are truly trying to behave like desktop applications, hash-bang urls are really the only option for maintaining state in browsers that don't support HTML5 push states yet. I think the backlash against Twitter's and Gawker's use of them is warranted, but not the hyperbole that hash-bangs, no matter the context, "break the web."
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Others have noted that your reply is a non-sequitur. However, I'd like to address it anyway, specifically the "luck" part.

I have written all of what you describe: large-scale multithreaded high-performance distributed applications using Perl.

When necessary I have written perlXS bindings to C routines, but this is surprisingly infrequent. Most high performance system interfaces are exposed to Perl in an efficient manner. I've had Perl processes with tens of gigs memory resident. I have written non-blocking state machines in Perl which serviced (or served) over 100k connections in parallel. Which have run on over 100k machines at once. I have worked on huge modular, multi-team undertakings in Perl. The single caveat is that separate processes and explicitly shared memory is the parallelism tool of choice with Perl.

Luck wasn't a part of any of this. Perl will scale quite well, and if you think it doesn't you likely have a few things to learn about what the language/platform can do.
I can see "just a suggestion box" from the submitter perspective being really nice if it is really simple. I'm talking "e-mail your suggestions to box@getvetter.com" simple.

Perhaps some sort of analysis/aggregation on the backend for the person(s) who review the submitted suggestions. An interesting idea is using Bayesian spam filtering techniques to filter out "whiny" suggestions...
Interesting, before this article I though that LLVM was hard to understand or use (without a top level compiler like Clang) but now that I see how a snippet of LLVM Intermediate Language looks like it makes me want to experiment with it a little bit. IR looks a like like IL which is not that hard to understand either.

Next step: learn how to compile these examples into an object and link it.
> "Having parents who are burnt out, resentful martyrs does not help a kid."

Completely agree. But that as you say is not putting the kids first.

Putting the kids first means that you will leave them to throw tantrums when you need to, or leave them with someone else so they develop in that way.

Giving kids what they want != putting them first.
This is the best thing since varied width sliced bread.

Also loving the chrome plugin to display new wallpapers as time goes on, with my screen saver suddenly showing interesting images.
Wikipedia also has an article called Introduction to Genetics. There are more and more of these lately, introduction articles which try to break down topics that are naturally technical: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Introduction_...
been using dvorak for > 15 years. switched because of pain from coding 12-14+ days at startups. also used a kinesis advantage for ~10 years. am now on a topre realforce, which i very much prefer over the kinesis, and have been for 6 months without the pain returning. so, half-splitting the problem, i don't think it's the keyboard.

worth mentioning: i can't imagine typing in qwerty now. it just doesn't have that buttery flow that dvorak does. i'm quantitatively 20% faster at typing now as well.

however, i've come to the conclusion that of all the changes i made at the time, buying a good chair and desk made the biggest impact, because in the process of doing so i did enough research to realize i had to correct my body position.

at the time i had an anthro fit console cart and a humanscale freedom chair. these two were the perfect combination.

there's a collection of pretty good information here:
http://www.hermanmiller.com/research/topics/ergonomics.html

i am now using an aeron chair (not because of the herman miller guide above) with an anthro 60" adjusta unit for my computer workstation and a 48" standard unit as a return desk. the main reason i switched to an aeron is that the freedom chair wasn't good for my needs, which changed (i have a fairly high metabolism and stay very warm during the day, so the cooling the aeron offered was very welcome).

i was using the freedom chair with a fit standard cart for a while, and the pain returned. immediately purchased a desk with a height adjustable keyboard tray that would allow me to have my keyboard in such a way that my shoulders were relaxed and my elbows were neutral. pain went away immediately.

Edit: sorry for the edits, i've had a little bit of wine.
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I would consider gaining the weight straight back a sign that it's unsustainable.
This is really cool. It's easy to jump on every day and add a few new wallpapers to my rotation.
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Yeah, I think we need to think about that some more. The duplicate wallpapers are a bug that we don't know how to fix. They have different dimensions, so its hard for us to figure out if its already in our database.
FWIW I think every parent does indeed say "never again". Then in a couple of years they forget they ever felt that.
I gather that that sort of thing mostly has applications where autoimmune issues are concerned.