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First things first. If you feel like crap and are depressed you need to eat better and get more exercise. Even just going for a walk or jog once a day.

The trick to most successful people is they don't wait until they feel like it, they just go and do it because they know its what they need to do.

By exercising you will stimulate some feel good hormones which will help you for the next step. Your perception.

Depression (aside from biochemical issues) is largely due to having a picture you thought reality would be and it not matching your actual reality.

My guess is you thought your life would be a lot easier than it is. And I'm also guessing that many of your decisions have been based on trying to please others, especially your family.

In India, family, technology and spirituality are generally the highest values.

What I want you to do is write a list of at least 100 benefits you have gained from the path you have taken. And then 100 things that are bad about achieving the picture in your mind of how you thought things could have been.

This might be hard to start with but will definitely help you if you give it a go. Most of the time we romanticise a non existent reality by perceiving it to be much better than it is and we ignore the negative sides to it.

You're not alone, we all feel like this at times.
For a time I shook my head at the irony that the smaller the client and the smaller the job, the higher the maintenance and the harder it was to get paid. The nickel-and-diming, the offers of creative means of payment ("I'll take you out to a nice dinner!", "My wife makes fantastic cookies!"), the weekend calls to the cell phone. Of course, I later came to understand that this wasn't ironic at all.

The best predictor of how "difficult" a client will be in this dimension is the degree to which the person you deal with is paying with what they perceive as "their own money", literally or figuratively. A client selection strategy based on this observation dovetails nicely with the "charge more, much more!" approaches frequently discussed on these pages.
I have. That is where I order parts for my 3d printer. Interestingly, you are making op's point because I frequently have to order from other places because as long a tail as Mcmaster-Carr can cover, it doesn't come close to being all that I need. It is essentially a comparison of a long, but finite tail vs. a practicaly infinite one (ie, anything I can create in a cad file).
Maybe you are confusing this with what happens when you do

for i in `find -name '*.mp4'`; do # ...

or similar. In that case, the output of `find` is indeed split first, and `for` sees "foo", "bar.mp4", and so on.
But you still have to be aware of the semantics of `this`:

var play = player.play;
play();

"self" will still strangely bind to "window" if not in strict mode.
You know what the right play on Zynga was? Cashing out and putting the money elsewhere. Instead, Zynga is the classic case of thinking that growth is basically infinite and there is unlimited demand. There are a limited number of gamers willing to buy virtual goods on Facebook games, and there is nothing special that Zynga does on mobile that other companies don't do as well or better.

Take the money and run. Now it might be too late.
I think it's wiser to open up slower rather than being fully open, and then be forced to do what Twitter is doing for the stability / integrity of the network. And preventing noise and low quality content just makes sense. The quality of posts I see on Facebook has been slowly diminishing over the years - even with their "improved" algorithms, even when I've unsubscribed from a lot of people who just post uninteresting things - and especially after they have started to try monetizing the feed.
Indeed, I'm trying to wrap my head around it now. It's a shame, this looked like a nice fun way to just drop in to playing around with Clojure, but it turns out that it's being bit of a hassle. Not that I don't think there should be a little effort involved! It's just that my expectations did not match up to reality.
I have seen this method suggested in car dealer AMA threads. None of the sales guy (dealers) said this is a good idea and the effectiveness seemed largely dependent upon location.
Until fairly recently I didn't use it often, and no, I haven't noticed any real changes in myself (other than when on it).

I've smoked weed for a much longer time - though not much lately, and never a full-time stoner, just relaxing with friends now and then - and while I don't think that's really changed me either, it does feel like it has a greater ability to, because getting stoned is about relaxing and thinking, it's a state of mind you can go to when sober, and certainly I know a couple of people who are always smoking it and their normal personality certainly seems to have merged with their stoned personality.

Long-term changes aren't what's making me stop, it's the worry that if I keep going much longer I'll spiral out of control, which definitely isn't good for my bank balance and has a decent chance of not being good from a safety point of view, either.
You got it just about right. Bikes now have annual updates, just like cars do. Any bikes not sold end-of-season will be worth roughly their second hand resale value the next year. Hence the stock clearance sales. This effect is stronger for racing bikes and mountain bikes than it is for evergreens (for obvious reasons). If a bike store is borrowing at 7% (good deal with the bank) to buy their stock then a $500 bike that retails for $649 (30% gross margin) will have cost the store ~20 bucks in interest after half a year. If they sell it during clearance they will probably drop the price to $549 or $499 depending on how much inventory they have to move. At $550 they're still making some money, at $499 they're losing.

And they still have to put the bike together, give it the '0' service (mostly checking if everything is tight, re-inflating tires and setting it up for the customer) and a warranty. And clean it up after every jerk that goes puddle hopping with a new bike during their test-drive, after which they won't buy it.

There is not a whole lot of money in selling discounted bikes.

Then after the first year you have hopefully a loyal customer that can't fix their own punctures and that keeps coming back over a long time for fixes and eventually an upgrade. It isn't rare for a sale to make more on accessories than on the bike itself, compared to the price of a bike a bag set, seats, lights (usually mandated by law to be on every new bike) and clothing are sold at much higher margins.
It helps to (politely) remind clients that they are free to spend more time looking for a less-expensive developer while in the meantime nothing gets done and the client possibly loses money, or loses an opportunity to make money, and may then still end up with a less-skilled developer who will not deliver adequate results.
> None of the sales guy (dealers) said this is a good idea

I think that's their idea of a hint.
I did something similar with my last car purchase, with a little bit more back-end research. I found dealers with the exact car I wanted on their lot. I put copies of the window stickers of these cars onto my iPad, which I brought with me during the negotiations. I also knew the exact MSRP and margins of each of these cars, as well as the price paid for similar cars in the area (truecar.com was very helpful).
I walked into the first dealership and showed them the sticker of the car I wanted and said, "I want this car, this exact car, I'm paying cash, and I want to drive it off the lot today." We talked (argued) for at least 30 minutes about price and they wouldn't come down. At one point there were two other salesmen and a manager at the table with us right in the middle of the showroom - apparently we were the main event. Each of them tried their own pitch (one actually tried to sell me some random used car that wasn't anything close to what I wanted). For each of their arguments I showed them the data on my iPad and said my offer was fair, I wasn't budging. They got angry, they yelled, they called me a liar and a thief and talked about their kids who had to eat. Eventually I just stood up and started walking out without saying a word, at which point they called me back and said they would do my offer. The salesmen tried to give me a pep talk while the GM approved the offer (at which point I caught him in a huge lie and I thought the kid was going to have a breakdown right there). They presented me with a written offer and I picked it up, folded it and put it in my pocket, and said I would be back (they're not supposed to let you out of the dealership with their written offer). I drove straight to the next dealer, presented him with the window sticker of the exact car I wanted on their lot, gave him the offer sheet from the previous dealer and told him I would be paying cash today. 10 minutes later I had the exact car I wanted at the price I wanted to pay. If you're informed and persistent, there are deals to be had. Also, everything you hear about all the tricks car dealers use are completely true, yet not difficult to overcome.
I'll add to my various rantings: This is has been an unexpectedly crummy day for me. I hope that, if given a better mood and better form, I could more clear and less snarky.
This American Life isn't technically NPR either.
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Isn't that what upper management did? At least to the extent legally possible.
> why would the capitalist choose to maintain a management layer?

Humans are pattern recognition machines. Many successful companies have tons of managers: why try out this weird alternate strategy I have no experience with when so many companies work hierarchically? Starting a startup has so much risk involved, and risk needs managed. New management strategies are incredibly risky.

I don't think the cooperative model being possible even enters into most people's minds.
Show HN: Amazd - Social Highlighting
What do you think guys? Simple service that should be both useful and interesting to follow. Took me about a month of full time work to get it going. Still very much beta.

You can checkout my profile page:
amazd.com/ahmad

to see a sample of what the site is about. The site is hosted on a tiny VPS, so sorry if it goes down. Come back later when the traffic is lower.
Some of us prefer bitmapped fonts, even on high-resolution displays, and software with fewer dependencies. There are some nice high-resolution bitmap console fonts in the standard X font collection, and others (Terminus, Proggy) are readily available.
The list is also padded pretty heavily. In reality, something has a killer app or it doesn't. 3D printing's weaknesses in speed and materials don't seem likely to go away any time soon, and in fact they seem intertwined in a way—faster printing would seem to require ever more specialized materials. It's obviously an exciting technology that will carve out a few niches, but I don't see what all the hype is about.
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Based on the other HTML-based weather app submission[1], I decided to submit something more accessible in the same category that I've been using a lot recently. Provided by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. My favorite part is that it includes a "feels like" temperature - especially useful during the winter around here!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987194
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What can we do to create bootable cd   
Usb flash and CD has been widely used in our life. They are easy to be stored and used conveniently. And if your computer has no drives, usb can also substitute them. We can use them to reinstall our system,too. But before that we should create bootable usb or create bootable cd, so as to finish the proccess. If you don't know how to do that, this article will you help you.
Well, can't really know for sure, though from the outside it didn't really look like there was much innovation outside the addictive game model they first implemented. And then they got into defensive mode buying up competitors / talent, however individual developers can always do things cheaper and create breakaway games that will slowly take from the pie.
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Agree, I prefer browser than apps. I always use many tabs - its just faster than goin from app to another single-purpose app.
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They blocked Twicsy today too, for using a pretty reputable ad network. It seems anti-competitive to me. Google knows it is an ad network that is causing the problems, they even pointed me to the supposedly malicious script. If they know that, they can just disable the ad network and send me a notice on Google Webmaster tools. They did neither, instead they block Twicsy for everyone and display a nasty message. It is ridiculous.
It's a business - you don't sell stuff if there is no money in it. It made you more money being out of the store for that price than sitting in the store... whether it was through rebates from the manufacturer, some contract deal, etc is irrelevant - the business made money.
Is Google helpless to stop the scourge of Android malware?
The Achille's Heel of 3D printing: it isn't tomorrow yet.
> That is where I order parts for my 3d printer.

And you make my point :)
Thanks! Let us know how it goes.
I'm sorry to hear that. I can only hope that the new year will make it right for you.

I'd really like to know more about what kind of fundamental failures you're talking about. You hear a lot how failing is OK and one should not be afraid to fail. Though you say don't and there's no do-over. This is alarming.
I have their catalog and order from them frequently. Did you have some point you were trying to bring up? Because the "long tail" type of business I envisioned in the previous post would be for stuff that's more obscure and, more to the point, discontinued.
I had never even heard of that (although I'm by no means an avid chess player). I think I'll have a hard time convincing my friends that's a real rule.
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I don't think it's an axiom, i think it's a consequence of convergence. I used to own a camera, a video camera, a personal organizer, a landline phone, a cell phone, a discman, a gameboy, etc. I now have all these things in one device that's smaller and lighter than any of them used to be.
At Fulfillrite we are dedicated to working with Kickstarter projects to make them successful post Kickstarter & beyond. The challenges projects face are very unique.
Such as:
The usually don't know what to anticipate, some projects have been been successful way beyond what the project directors imagined.
The next challenge is that usually at that beyond besides order fulfillment they need advice/assistance in many other areas.
From signing up to a fulfillment center to the point of shipping in most cases takes weeks/months due to manufacturing delays or otherwise.
At fulfillrite we are fully devoted to helping these projects succeed in all areas we can help even if it takes weeks or months. Our team will help you with anything you need. Most order fulfillment centers will just tell you to call them back when you have the products. We look at it as teamwork - to help you succeed.

We also offer all Kickstarter projects a generous discount on all the projects order fulfillment costs since we know they are working on low margins & already share a chunk of their profits with Kickstarter.

In response dangrossman: Kickstarter doesn't offer any functionality/ features (excluding some basic help pages) to Kickstarter projects other than providing the platform to raise money. Once you're done your it's all up to you to figure out the manufacturing & logistics of running a successful business in the real world. The only option they offer for exporting your orders is a csv file export. It would be great if they would allow third party solutions such as ours to offer direct integrations, etc...
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I'm a big gaming fan, and it seems like they could have explored and expanded the world of casual gaming; but they instead focused on a cash grab.
Then what is it for exactly? Vim has a bad enough reputation as being obtuse and antique. Sites like this just reinforce that perception.
> Perhaps mandating UTF-8 as the string encoding, leaving alternative encodings up to the programmer, would be reasonable these days, I suppose - if a little rude.

It really works quite well, especially "these days" (maybe not so much in the '90s), and has the—huge—advantage that it's very simple and lightweight, and avoids the very tricky issue of re-encoding (Guaranteed To Make Your Life Hell).

The python3/java/microsoft/whatever solution is to add an enormously heavyweight and complex layer that attempts to interpret and re-encode the contents of strings, with often dubious benefits.

My experience suggest that the latter method is in many cases a classic case of over-engineering, where for a wide swathe of applications, the downsides—complexity and cost—exceed the upsides. But because these languages (or systems, in the case of MS) require this at a fundamental level, all applications pay the costs, even those that don't gain any benefit.

[Given the encoding jungle of the '80s/'90s, it's to some degree understandable that MS/Java went the way they did (though UTF-8 was around back then, and would have at least made a much better canonical representation). That python3 dove into that swamp is a bit more mystifying given the rather clear signs that the future will essentially be Unicode encoded with UTF-8...]
searching for code syntax with (mostly) special characters... (special characters are being ignored)
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It's worth mentioning that there is some good news on the horizon here. Bad Pharma has prompted the UK government into action (ok, proposals of action) on unpublished trials:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267966/

And more recently, the proposed UK copyright reform - also expected to become legislation in the next year - included a specific fair dealing right for data mining on journals, like the work of Ionnadis. The publishers had been arguing that this was a separate right from reading (which the researchers have already paid for)
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/june/publishers-and-...
(link is to discussion of the older Hargreaves report; the exception made it into the final proposal)
A kinder - but not, I think, less accurate - phrase might be, "selling pickaxes to gold miners".

To my eyes, this "accusation" is more like stating the plain facts of the matter. There's often more reliable money in selling people advice or tools, that they use to do something, than there is in actually doing that thing. When people are trying to sell you advice, or tools, or what have you, it's worth bearing in mind that their interests are not automatically aligned with yours.

This is general-purpose advice, given apropos of very little.
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I don't understand how the writer supposes Intel can acquire unbundled content and sell it per-channel or even per-show.

Yes, that's the consumer's dream, to be able to subscribe to and pay for only one's preferred channels (or even shows), but that well-known desire has been consistently opposed by the cable and satellite systems. And content producers have, I believe, always cooperated with the cable and satellite providers in this. It's one more item for negotiation: "we'll charge less for our material if you'll bundle us with a popular group of channels", etc. Hulu, iTunes, et al only get to rebroadcast single shows only as reruns, so providing a trickle of secondary income but never threatening the main cash cow.

So it seems highly unlikely that even Intel could acquire the right to broadcast first-run material in competition with other systems. Also the cable and sat providers have plenty of pricing elasticity acquired from years of semi-monopoly, and could easily compete on price if they wanted to.
Chomsky is incoherent and sensationalist. He consistently paints a narrative of class struggle and weaves it into everything, ignoring any kind of contextual reality.

What a sad, paranoid, naive old man.
Were they in any way connected with kingdom of loathing? If not, then their only innovation was integrating kingdom of loathing with nicer graphics and facebook (i.e. not the game mechanics or business model).
Quoting you earlier: "defuse a true statement by making assessment of that truth so complicated that most readers won't bother"

That's how I feel now. I have no idea what you're saying.
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it is an excellent book but I am curious - in what way you think it is dated?
Very good - that's much better than what I wrote.
^^ this is really cool. But what do you do when the specs exceed the available buttons?
My friend, Kenneth Folk, permanently cured his depression through vipassanna meditation. I would not suggest that it could be a widely applicable cure, but in his case, it worked, so it is possible.

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/01/bg-156-ordinary-people-...

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/author/kenneth-folk/
> Without the state, corporations (and capitalism) are not possible.

A state is not necessary for enforcing contracts - that could be done by private parties, as in anarcho-capitalism. Also: Cooperatives can exist within a capitalist system, but the converse is not true. So I guess it comes down to whether or not all property as defined by the status quo should be redistributed or reallocated, presumably by force; if that were not the case, there wouldn't really be any disagreement between left-anarchists and anarcho-capitalists, right?
Of course, taking the method out of the object will produce a different result. But if you are doing something weird like that you should know what you are doing.
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Right over a highway and some guy caught the crash on his dashboard camera. Check out the video
It'll get that about a week after they fix those silly urls.

21 digits should be enough for anyone. At least they won't run out of them in the foreseeable future.
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Or to put it another way — if you're blocked, do something else and maybe it will get you somewhere interesting or unblock you.

Sometimes it's better to work productively on the wrong thing than bang your head against a problem.
Anarcho-capitalism is ahistoric, silly, degenerate, and impossible.

Even Murry Rothbard doesn't think that anarcho-capitalists are anarchists: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard167.html

and http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/rothbard-we-must-therefo...

DROs and private property are effectively a state, don't kid yourself.
Except that by the time they open up no one will be around to actually take advantage of it. Every time I log into Google+ it's a ghost town.
Not necessarily true. Old stock is sold at a loss quite frequently because keeping it will cost even more than getting rid of it. Space is a real problem in bicycle stores (and capital an even worse one) if you can't show next years models in March then you're not going to be selling any bikes at all.
I don't buy it. Snapchat's advantage is that you have friends who use snapchat. Poke isn't catching on simply because nobody uses it; Snapchat is the fourth most downloaded free app on the App Store, whereas Poke is at 145. Any of the things suggested completely break the very concept of Snapchat as transient. It's like Facebook: the lockin isn't your data, it's the people. Poke is basically Google+.