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I've been considering adding a treadmill to my standing desk, but am concerned about the whine of the treadmill and the sound of my footsteps on it bothering others in the room or who work below me. How is the noise from your setup? Have you had to address that in any way?
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If I ever get up to Scheme, I'm adding this to my chart of interactive resources for learning programming.
Genius is not a thing, but a process. Genius need the proper environment to cultivate talents like our well endowed genetically engineered corns need fertilizers and pesticides.

It doesn't matters if you have an IQ of 200 when you're born several thousand years too early. You never make use of your genius, except to make lot of babies and become the chief of your tribe, if you're lucky.

Granted, there's lot of people who are innately smarter than you, but chance are they're also stuck in various positions of life where they can't become a genius like a job at wal-mart, or having children too early, or is stuck in a hut in a third world country somewhere.

If you're reading this, chance are you have the money and the time to rearrange your environment and your behaviors to achieve mastery. The hard part is figuring out how to do that and how to sustain that.
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Interesting. I thought resolutions from the body at large had to be vetted by the security council before they became 'ratified' by the UN as a whole. Thanks for the clarification.
Life: Haven't really figured it out yet, I'm only 20.

Programming: I remember thinking "I mean I guess it's neat I can draw snowflakes with computer code, but isn't this a waste of time?" when I was around 11 or 12. I'm glad I stuck with it. There was a simple enjoyment and feeling of achievement even though I was just drawing simple shapes with QBASIC - I didn't really know why. But it felt good, so I kept doing it. I learned a lot, and it's gotten me to some pretty interesting places.
For me lack of a number pad. But I spend much of my day in spreadsheets.
All the other similar fads before them.
Definitely a fun read!
I don't know the author, but my initial take is: loner, work-a-holic, egotist. None of that is meant as an insult. To "socialize" in a local sense doesn't need to mean you meet "with over 400 people, one-on-one, went to every conference and get-together, and said yes to every request". It means making friends: the kind that build decks together (with free beer); go bowling, watch the big game together at the pub instead of at home, go for a hike with the kids, meet up at the coffee shop every Thursday morning, and simply help and grow together. Its not work. Its natural. Fun. Community. The author is missing out.
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I'd be curious to know what broke. Companies in the last batch having a harder time getting funding?
"If someone is a drag on me, I cut them out. If someone lifts me up, I bring them closer. "

That is incredibly selfish. Sometimes the person doing the lifting is the one being "brought down", so you're essentially depending on the fact that people are less selfish than you for this to work. Like anything taken to the extreme, this extreme individualism can only be harmful.
Ageism!? Supposing I take this response seriously, instead of rolling my eyes and thinking STFU (as I am wont to receive such inanity) --

Asking if this is a serious submission, calling a beginner's effort "crummy" and declaring the whole thing nearly unforgivable is not constructive criticism. The one opportunity the OP had to be constructive, he blew: he could have written an improved code sample so that cwoebker could learn something directly.

You can talk to children and beginners however you want. My experience has shown me that encouraging such people by gently correcting mistakes and offering feedback along with praise, is a very likely to encourage people to keep trying. Especially when nothing important is at stake.
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I'm curious how you fix the post-lunch bias without overcompensating? Eat small snacks throughout the day instead of lunch?
Performance improvements are nice and all, but I'm already generally satisfied with the performance of Scala 2.8.x and 2.9.x.

What I'd really like to see is faster compile times. I know it's a tall order given the complexity of implicits, but compared to other languages Scala compilation slowness can be a tough sell.
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I say anectodally because I've heard both good and bad about every phone out there. A friend at work with an iPhone 4s can't get through a full day without also charging his phone at work. Then I hear about the 5 having similar battery life to the 4s. Same for the Galaxy S3, I've heard both praises and horror stories. A lot of it depends on the network you're on too. Anand does good objective tests and the Razr and the iPhone blow everyone away in those but again they do not take real life use into consideration. I also have an old Nokia phone that I could play snake on for days on end but now I have slightly higher demands out of my phone. My comparison was limited to the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 (all other things being equal including the carrier) and saying that the OPs battery claims are false in my opinion. I just came back home at noon with 12% of battery life after having taken my phone off the charger yesterday at 6:30am. But I only had the screen on for an hour and 40 minutes... that doesn't mean I have 1:45 hours of battery life. But thanks for adding your experiences to the mix. What is usage time by the way? Is that like screen time?
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sonic.net has had a couple of trial locations in CA; Sebastopol is the location I recall. I don't know about the relative timing of their offer.

I believe they were also the/a possible partner when Google was considering 1 Gbps in one or another location in the South Bay. Maybe someone else knows/recalls more about this.

I'm not in the position, myself, but in my opinion, if you are in Northern CA and sonic.net is an option, they deserve your business -- or consideration, at least.
The iPad app is pretty functional. It has some rough edges to polish but not many apps I have found that seems to handle range of files as this app.
A ton of lower manhattan is built on fill so that doesn't seem to be a huge problem in building tall buildings. (Battery Park is totally fill, the Financial District is about half the size if you look at how big it was originally, so the rest is fill, etc)
thnx for the pointers! I'll dig into that and make up my mind about which subfield I'm most interested in.
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I don't like the redirect page, it's a large and heavy page with a forced delay and what looks like placeholders for a ton of ads.

It might be better packaged as something blogs and forums can automagically implement for a fee instead of trying to make money off ads.
Those were exactly our thoughts.

For sure – something we really want to emphasise is the people behind the produce, their story and what makes the things they sell so good.
The issues have been resolved as of 11:30am (EST) according to the post. Glad to know they were on top of it
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As a visitor, I despise self-hosted comment sections.

I rarely feel the need to comment, but when I do, I don't want to give you my e-mail address (what the hell are you gonna do with it, anyway?), wait until it's approved by the author or constantly go check your website if someone replied to my comment.
Life: Figured out the loud "noises" in my life that were pinning me down. - Day job and unwanted social relationships. Gave up television, politics and anything that seem to bring a very high bias into thinking. The best outcome has been that it has helped me leave my comfort zone time and again.

Programming: A worry of mine was how much was I thinking about things, that needed a deeper/rigorous computer science understanding. Coursera and some other courses have been a life saver here (in my case). Have been taking courses that I felt I needed to understand better conceptually. This seems like being in a maze that leads all the way to very basic fundamentals that I have forgotten; So adding math skills now (Calculus, linear algebra etc). I hope connect the dots.

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Why was 66 ok and 84 not?

Maybe it had less to do with magnitude than direction.

I look forward to reading about yc start-ups, but increasingly find myself shaking my head, wondering how some of them will ever amount to sustainable businesses. I've always attributed this to the fact that yc must know a whole lot more than me.

But pg's recent disclosure that so many yc start-ups have co-founder issues really got me wondering. I find it unimaginable that any team can work itself into such a good position and then blow it away over seemingly petty issues. Is it possible that some trend other than scale is at work here?
Even laborious non-CS stuff can be improved by basic knowledge from his listed topics. For example, functional programming may have a slightly academic vibe, but it's also great for boring things--you still get all the benefits like simplicity, safety and conciseness, which makes your boring program easier to write and more maintainable.

Another great topic is language development. This one probably sounds even more academic than functional programming! But this is not the case. In virtually every space, even the boring ones, you can make your code simpler and more maintainable by factoring it into a DSL. And this is exactly the skill you gain by looking at language design in general.

More generally, boring stuff is actually a great place to experiment with new techniques. Having a core problem that isn't terribly difficult can actually be an advantage: the problem itself does not distract you from trying new techniques. For example, if all you're doing is writing a bunch of GUI forms, you could consider trying FRP; it can make your code shorter and more maintainable and you almost definitely won't run into any of the current problems with FRP because all you're doing are simple forms.

Of course, if you're working on something boring and yet still interested enough in improving that you're willing to read a bunch of essays and books, you should really consider getting a more interesting job. And right now is the best time for it--the job market is crazy, so you have a decent chance of landing work that is both more interesting and better-paid.

And if you're content as is and not yearning for self-improvement--which is completely reasonable: not everybody can or should prioritize programming very highly--then you're probably not going to follow this blog's advice even with different books.
It would be very interesting to hear more about what the key predictors of failure you looked for were?
If you've really forgiven her then maybe you shouldn't be telling the rest of the world too.
I think this line of reasoning depends on whether there are actual previous examples of 'gimmicks' the size of facebook evaporating in this manner. Without any research on the matter, I'm inclined to say Facebook is simply too large and to entrenched at this point to be a fad. It's qualitatively different from fads in the same arena that came before it.

But it's an honest question. If there are previous examples of facebook-like fads suddenly disappearing, the line of thinking is sound and possible.
Yeah, thanks for that. I'm a little surprised you haven't had more of a response to your perspective on all this actually.

There's so many analogies that one could use that I dare not attempt one. Like if C is like metallurgy, the C++ is like alchemy. I should stop before it appears foolish.

I've moved from C and C++ in big systems feeding financial instruments at hundreds of thousands of items a second through rooms full of computers to PHP and Go and back to C for embedded, where I spend all my time at the moment. So I fit into one of this articles categories. I had a dirty little problem with multiple devices sharing a single bus, with all its chip select and clocking issues, and mutual exclusion with near zero wait states was the problem to be solved. C++ to the rescue. Not because it couldn't be done in C ( or assembler for that matter, an even more magic approach ), but because inheriting the bus made architectural sense.

It isn't hard to read, document or maintain, because the code structure maps well to the underlying fixed hardware. In this case, the language suits. And it all has to happen in less than 32K with all the rest of the code.

There's always a lot of discussion about this language versus that. Generally, I'll use whatever suits, and Javascript and PHP required no learning at all, and I already knew Java to a degree. They are C'ish enough to pick up without effort if one already knows C. Objective-C and Go and Java where the shoe fits, and from what others are saying, Rust is one I need to know.

Independently of Microsofts policy in Windows 8 with IDL and .NET changes, or tossing the idea around as to whether C or C++ should go in the Objective-C mix with XCode and Apple, the thing I can use C++ for is making the best solution possible for fundamental problems with machines, where implementing a concept over a base or virtual machine facility is efficient. In those cases, the argument against efficiency fails.

But it's really a specialisation given the volume of solutions that are needed in the current state of userland software. Horses for courses. There's a lot more volume now, and managed languages are a better fit in that environment. This is the house that Jack built. You don't need a hammer and nails. You want a paint brush.
>I love the Exynos and would very happily spend another $100 in an attempt to find the right thing.

>A $30 1.7Ghz dual core computer that can be plugged into any monitor

These two statements seem to contradict each other, and the $30 price tag excludes the enclosure and power supply, which add up to another $30. It seems you are comparing the Apple TV to some product that you wish existed, but doesn't. I would certainly buy one if you can link to a comparable complete package for $100 or less because the Apple TV 3 still isn't jailbroken, and I have some friends I'd like to set up.
It is popular to 'bash' MBAs, so everybody says that - in defense of the MBA. But I am fairly certain that most MBA programs will cover this stuff.

I did mine at the University of Tampa, but I don't think you need to necessarily go there to have the same experience I did.

Once you go with an open-mind, I would encourage you to take Econ, Accounting & Finance courses. You don't have to go nuts with these courses either, you can take the other management courses....but the ones that provided the most value to me are those.

Learning to think like someone on Wall Street - with respect to seeing the world as it is, not seeing it how I want it to be - is the most valuable thing I learned.

That being said, the connections are good too - but I am yet to have to draw on them.

Given that I am in the tech startup industry, I don't suppose they will help me much right now. But who knows what the future will hold.

Also, for what it's worth, understanding finance and not being intimidated by legal contracts is also very useful in a startup environment. Every dime I earn, I can visualize my financial statements in my head - which I guess is a good thing.

I guess the trick is to just want to learn these stuff, and in most reputable programs, you will.

It's easy to get into the "I just want to get an A" mindset - don't do that.
If you take the programming statement to be "take the time to get an understanding of situations" then that is a pretty good change. It would imply that previously the GP made decisions rashly, based on a programming ideology, or without all of the facts.

If the statement means exactly what it says, then you're correct.
Eating isn't the problem. The problem is making decisions throughout the day. It takes willpower to say no and ask tough questions, and your willpower gets drained through the day.
+1

Pg, can you elaborate on this a bit?
Not quite although have a massive amount of respect for what the art.sy guys are doing. We (inguide.co.uk) are trying to put together a guide book platform which spans multiple art galleries and museums then learns about you and tailors the interpretation and info offered to the users level of expertise.
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It's interesting that Josh Kopelman submitted this.
There's also the DOI system that mostly solves this problem for more permanent material ( research articles).
since colonization (which got going in earnest in 1880) the continent was basically shoehorned into modern industrial society and that now many Africans are dependent on whatever foreign aid they can get and are no longer self-sufficient

The lack of self-sufficiency in Africa, where it exists, is not a product of colonialism; it's a product of post-colonialism. It's not politically correct to say so these days, but you can see from the Wikipedia page that yummyfajitas referenced that Africa's GDP was basically constant until 1820, then grew at an increasing rate up until 1973, and is now tapering again. I.e., it grew fastest under colonialism. What stopped the growth was that when colonialism was stopped, nothing workable was put in its place; instead Africa was handed over to corrupt dictators who had no ability to or interest in governing properly.
That adapter only supports one monitor right?
Performance improvements are really important given the rise of poor JVMs like Dalvik, though. Scala is really painful on Dalvik due to the amount of garbage it generates.
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I wish there were a way you could publish the predictors of failure in a way which wouldn't let people "game" the system unreasonably.

Actually, I think you have always published many of the predictors of failure. http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html seems like a good start, but there are probably more specific indicators during an interview or during 3 months before Demo Day.

The ones which seem most relevant are all variants "not making something people want" -- either not making something effectively at all, or that which you make is a bad idea/market, or making something which is a good idea but crap implementation. Obviously several potential causes of each.
Teaching myself photoshop when I was 9.

A family friend gave me a copy of photoshop 4, and I kind of got addicted to it. From there I grew a love for art and design, which I did as a hobby for quite some time. After I graduated college with a CS degree, I had a ton of design experience and a solid programming background. The two together have really done well for me, for obvious reasons.
I've really enjoyed using live transcoding client apps on iOS, but have always wondered if there are any web-based live transcoding solutions. The only things I found were high end broadcasting solutions that are for live stream transcoding, not for prerecorded libraries. Perhaps a better term is on-demand transcoding or just-in-time transcoding?

Wouldn't it be cool if you could load up a URL and get transcoded audio and video of your media library for whatever browser you happen to be using?
I find this conflicting ... Get away so that you're not surrounded by people the same as you. Then, once there, you don't get to know any of these different people. At least not deeply enough to call friends. Maybe this is good work productivity advice, but I think this is bad life advice.
None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001. Before that hardly anyone cared about planes, when designing nuclear power plant.
I don't believe this is what Sivers is talking about.

He is talking about the Noble price effect: What happens when people that earn a Nobel price that makes impossible for them to continue working in the field that made them to earn the price, they get invited to so many parties and given so many distinctions and honors and everybody wants to be with you, learn from you or be your friend.

You can help a lot of people in an individual basis this way, locally whenever you go. Those Nobel prices could make millions of people to be interested in science.

Most people can't understand how much of a problem this could be.
Does it support live transcoding of mkv video formats like Airvideo?
Life: Taking a few months off work to do something creative, fulfilling, relaxing, exciting...etc.. I work less (but since I'm consulting my yearly take is about the same, if not more). But the biggest difference is down-shifting. I've gone from spending 90% of what I earn, to about 25%. And, if anything, I do far more travelling...

Programming: Quitting my permy job, then starting my own consultancy has given me so much more autonomy. It's scary, but fun. And while I'm still selling my time for money, I am transitioning to doing my own thing. Still blown away that people pay me money to do something I love so much...
He's describing the opposite effect – people are more likely to say yes in the morning and right after lunch, times when they would arguably have the most willpower.
Is this from "Thinking, Fast and Slow"? If so, how do you know it's not actually the break/rest that helps, rather than the food? I don't see any controls in that experiment take a break of equal length but not eating, and others who ate without a break.
Life: Taking too long to build my first company. Working as a H1B for one year in the US.

Programming: Ignored the benefits of testing for way too much time.
The summit can result in more then net neutrality threats, it includes censorship, monitoring, archiving and usage regulations. The ITU comprises of 193 countries and over 700 private-sector entities. It has become more transparent due to public outcry, but who knows what is discussed over dinner ( aka there is a lot of money and control being looked over as though it's a map to the new world).
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As, for example, in England or Europe in the early 1800's. (I believe that by the early 1800's this was already somewhat less common in the USA, but that is largely due to the fact that the population of the early USA was almost entirely self-selected immigrants who came there determined to be self-sufficient, and because the USA was so sparsely settled.)
No, I'm using Linux(Arch) so I guess I am on an intended platform. It is on the user contributed repos but the installation didn't work. I tried installing just stk-scheme too but that didn't work either.
I'm guessing the authors deployed to production with no indexes on their collections. This means the cost of most queries was probably O(n). This could go unnoticed in development where N is small, but is unacceptable once you have any real data. I think they are recommending thinking about and adding indexes while you are developing as opposed to trying to do so post-hoc, once queries are taking tens of seconds.
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I'm not sure that would help. You're just substituting one thinking-stopper (magic) for another (science). "How does electricity work?" "It's science!" "Oh, okay."
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Yes it supports live transcoding of mkv video formats. Also if you have LTE connection you can see the Hi-def videos from anywhere without hitch.

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