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Contrarily, doesn't your social life conflict with your sleep schedule? One is going to suffer. It depends on what you value more. I have nearly the exact schedule as rgbrenner. I've learned to make sleep a priority. If I stay out until 1, I'm still going to wake up at 4:30 and be tired that next day. But I don't go out until 1 everyday.

Also, probably most important, is that I'm nearly 40. I'm more focused on projects than people at this point. I wake up early because I have something I want to work on. When I was younger, I was waking up late because I was staying out late chasing girls.
My advice: sleep in a room that faces sunrise and don't use blinds.

I've noticed a world of difference between waking up naturally at 7:00 and waking up via alarm clock at 7:00.]
This is an honest question: if it's mostly a bunch of pages, wouldn't setting up a baseline Ruby on Rails (or similar) site, or using a Ruby on Rails CMS (Locomotive, etc.) be more cost-effective and faster? At worst, you spend a day setting up the basic system that you can then just copy for every new project.

I've long used Drupal, building sites ranging from full-blown content providers to the kinds of sites you speak of, but I still find that setting things up, even when 'copying', and clicking around the interface, and so on, take more time than just copying a base rails app and changing some lines of config and code, or branching an existing project at a point where it has most/all the features I need.

I might still use Drupal, and I've invested considerable amount of time in understanding it, so I'd really like to know the best reasons why I still would.
>xkcd
>relevant

lol no
Like John Carpenter's The Thing!
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Except you can switch to a different provider. You are not forced to do anything. If AT&T wants to have this requirement, that's their choice, just as it's your choice to use T-Mobile, Verizon, or Sprint.
Basically he's saying that everyone should have a history minor.
Last I used it, there was still too much that the Features module didn't 'cover', making it less useful and sometimes even counter-productive for me. Has this improved greatly in the past year?
That depends on the individual work, and how you respond to authors tending to assume you have the same knowledge and interests in the subject matter as a typical expert, a century or five back.

If your reaction to reading The Prince, for example, is to go off and read other historical analysis of the many obscure conflicts he references, and discussions of the extent to which certain comments may have been intended as satire, then it might make a stimulating starting point for study. If you're simply looking to gain insight into the motivations of people in power, then you'd be better off reading an article-length summary of his key points and prioritising on to short-form content about Westphalian states and the limitations of democratic processes. Ultimately, you'll learn more relevant lessons from that than you would from Machiavellian observations on the castle of Milan causing more trouble for the Sforzas than it saves or the susceptibility of the Spaniards to cavalry and the Switzers to close combat.

If you want to learn about markets, capitalism and pricing, then economists of all stripes will agree that the Wealth of Nations is commendably broad and readable but very outdated in its examples; many of the features of modern capitalism and the entire theories behind modern anticapitalism simply hadn't been invented then. If you want to learn that "capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself", it's a strange, rather agrarian-focused introduction that won't give you any insight into modern debates about welfare or Wall Street.
There are thousands of people each day signing up for NEW 2 year contracts. The telcos compete for those new and renewing customers.
"You should read this, but I know you won't bother because you're a Yahoo. Don't worry, because I've told you what to think about it. Carry on."
The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation
You have a choice. Switch to T-Mobile.

Regardless, calling AT&T scum is out of line. You are not mandated to purchase their services.
You realize that the vast majority of that history of conflict, blood and war has been caused by attempts to remove those lines from the map?
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You realize that "lack of bias" comes from the thesaurus, not the definition of the word, right?

If you want to use an unusual definition of a word in order to make it apply to all errors (rather than only some), be my guest. There is no point disputing definitions. By your definition, you are correct, by the common definition, you are incorrect.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/
> Where is the cut-off?

Average sleep-cycle is apparently 90 minutes. I'd consider getting up up to an hour before the wake-up time based on that.

> Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?

You have high expectations of the Blog-o-sphere, it seems.

> I'm really tired of people telling me what to do

Clearly! Although perhaps it'd have been more appropriate to just quote:

> I'm really tired

Anyway, I'm going to experiment with what he said in the blog post. I am probably guilty of thinking that I'm going to be considerably more rested if I spend another 30 minutes in bed beyond when I naturally woke up, and that's probably not true. A disruptive thought, perhaps.
So manifest destiny was also a no-go?

Federal systems are meant to be scalable. The US gov't might have its problems, but the land size it governs is not the source of these. If you needed proof of concept, there you go.
Old discussion regarding the same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352858
Here is my routine:

I get up every morning between 4:00 to 4:15 while my phone is set to 04:20.

This way, I walk into the office around 05:15 and start my day.

I usually leave between 18:00 to 18:30, get home within 30 minutes.

That leaves about 3+ hours to be with the family, kids + wife, before going to sleep around 22:30.

On crazy times, I wake up even earlier (naturally or setting earlier alarm clock).

I prefer getting up earlier than going to sleep later. That is, my actual deadline is the sleep time, not the wake time.
You're thinking like an engineer, not like a lawyer. Does HumbleBundle expect you to use the official distribution channel, which is a torrent? Clearly, yes, so using the official distribution channel (and all subparts of that operation) must be OK with them. (This is called "implicit license." It doesn't have to be explicitly spelled out in the ToS, just like most non-pedantic lawyers won't bother to write "We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to make one (1) copy of our webpage within your computer system for the purpose of 'caching.'")

Rightsholders can arrange for many, many things which are illegal for non-rightsholders to unilaterally decide to do. That puts the "rights" in "rightsholder."
What would your best-guess be on the answer to this question?
I agree with you that this is not HN worthy. However, I think you're taking the wrong approach to stuff like this. Obviously the best thing to do is not read it. However, as others have pointed out these are recipes. You'll need to do your own tweaking, testing, changing, and perhaps even rewrite most of it. This is how you get started, not where you jump off.
Beautiful, simple, entertaining.
Thing is that most clients want PHP because it runs on everything. They can take their entire site, package up the code + database and move it pretty much anywhere.
Virality is not about buttons: How to get users to share/invite others
Thats true and I don't want to defend this in any way.

But its a way to understand why SAP is like it is: the "core" you speak of is already fragmented and by chance, it can even happen that this core knowledge is invalidated by something further down the stack. Documentation of 100 edge cases wouldn't help you much in that regard. As others have stated, the oracle world is not much better in that respect.

Its a way to understand why anyone would even buy such "crap". Because thats the crap that solves the customers problem somehow and there is no competing company that would even come close to offering a similar service. I don't mean to imply that no one could ;).
Drupal 7 is my favourite PHP CMS to build small client websites with. It's fast and the content types are easy to fit to their requirements. Anything bigger than that makes me cry inside.
> and if kids of privilege have never experienced setbacks, they’ve never learned to persevere.

And this is why ordinary schools are harmful to the intellectually gifted: too low expectations don't provide opportunities to learn perseverance, resilience, and will-power from failure.

(Disclosure: personal experience, not scientific truth)
Reading your comment, I thought I would mention this especially nasty bug in 4.7.1: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54075

Short description: a measured 3x performance regression from 4.6.2 to 4.7.1 when using std::unordered_map

Not sure what the status is now, my Ubuntu and Debian boxes all report gcc 4.7.2.
Fair enough, haven't been paying much attention to Drupal 8's development cycle.
He's certainly got the background but I think he pushes his own agenda, which isn't compatible with how the modern military works.

Ultimately what kills F-35, etc. is drones. Over the next 20 years I think we'll see all air to air go to drones (for performance) and air to ground (for expendability, size, etc.). The F-35 would be the last major offensive aircraft, if it does happen.
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Just a note: the Torah is a subset of the Tanakh, which is itself a subset of the Bible. (Christians refer to the Torah as the Pentateuch and the Tanakh as the Old Testament.)
Why managing to get them fired is considered a good result?

Perjury is a serious crime and should be prosecuted as such.
Cops should [be made to] understand that lying in court even in small cases carries a risk of criminal charges (in USA, up to 5 years IIRC) instead of internal disciplinary action.
The link above is to Ruby ORM "nobrainer", may be edit your comment to clarify.

No Python ORM :-(
Generative Programming: Why it makes sense
It's veering a bit off-topic, but there's a fascinating historical debate on the Purges going on since the opening of many Soviet archives post-1990. Some historians (though not all) are moving away from the traditional view of Stalin as mastermind in complete control of the situation, and are putting more emphasis on machinations within the NKVD, which seems to have been the source of a lot more independent activity than we had thought, with Stalin often not appearing to be in the loop. In the strong form of the interpretation that's led some to argue that the purges were primarily a function of the bureaucratic machine, with Stalin mostly riding the wave and trying to stay on top of the chaos. In fact they argue that the traditional view, of Stalin as Machiavellian mastermind, was largely an invention of Stalin himself, who was trying to appear in complete control of the situation. Other interpretations revise the traditional view somewhat less, but most do seem to be putting more emphasis on what was going on in the NKVD.
Well, Drupal is great for one thing - job security! It's so convoluted and complex, that good programmers who know it well are a rarity and can charge a good premium. But hey, the white house site uses it, so it must be good, right? Right?
Wow, just looking over it, that looks great!

How long has it been around for? I've never heard anything about it.
I don't have enough karma...
almost...
Be neat, and the rest will follow
GEMA wants Youtube to pay 0,375 Cent / stream
Ah yes. Then probably paste image raw data in the second fallback image? Though I do agree with you that something which benefits the web should be adopted across the board.
Regarding your "If a person is accused of lying under oath, what's to stop him from lying more during the perjury trial?" - What's to stop an accused murderer from lying more during the murder trial? Does this prevent us from handling murder trials?

In a perjury trial, why do you need to ask anything at all? You have the documented testimony where the accused said X under oath, and you have the facts/evidence proving not X.
In my opinion, nobody owns an idea. It's not property (nevermind that I have doubt even as to private property).

You can't put bars to prevent people stealing your ideas, and you can never prove that an idea was stolen (unless you think the broken patent system works).

Morally, I would have no problem...
> The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.

Yes, I actually got that. Of course, it took reading the whole article to realize that it was telling me that, so I'm left wondering why it was posted to HN.

>> But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.

> I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.

OK, so I'll start my research. Has this blog post taught you anything? Was this worth the time you spent reading it? I'll go ask a few more people, and if I get statistically significant results I might post about it.
Drupal is good if you (or your client) can be satisfied with something that gets you 80% of the way there. If you need that last 20% then it is possible to make it work but isn't going to be time/cost effective.

There's also a kind of sweet spot around multi author publishing where Drupal does better than Wordpress (at this point in time). If anyone tries to sell you Drupal as a solution for web application development, run away as fast as you can.

Source: several years of Drupal dev for enterprise and large brand clients.
Well my sleep schedule doesn't require me to wake up at 4:30, I usually don't need to wake up until 7.

Where I live now, public transportation pretty much shuts down after midnight anyways though, so most times I can get home before 1 AM, which will give me a serviceable amount of sleep, at least until a day off.
The iPad has already sold 100m.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad

I would expect Android tablets to be accelerating through that number in the next year or two. The world is going to change quickly.
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But which are the "outside" organisms -- us or them? ;-)
In my experience the work involved in porting your site to the next version is equivalent to the work involved in just rebuilding from scratch.

And this is something you have to do every 2 years if you want to be able to use any of the latest developments in web technology. It's the big dirty secret of working with a monolithic stack imo.
Configuration management can be a real issue. For Drupal 8 there is the Configuration Management Initiative meant to solve just this problem. It will be there in Drupal 8.

Features has some very rough edges. It's a bolt on after the fact solution. Through it Drupal developers learned about the rough edges, what people want here, and so forth. What comes in Drupal 8 is meant to be a proper solution at the core from experience.
Drupal has it purposes, however I wouldn't use it for anything custom. I have a friend that runs a small web site business (mom & pop shop). He makes most of the sites in drupal, his primary customers are very small businesses. In this case drupal is perfect for him, he can have a site up and running in an afternoon with an amazing amount of features. Of course, when he ever calls me to do any custom modification, I cring.
Yeager | a new content management system in PHP
No its not.
my last website had the following features:

multiple content types, backed by private/public file system hosted on s3, UI to configure fields and directories
(got all that setup within a few minutes)
out of the box SE-Friendly urls with a UI to bulk manage the content
(few minutes to install and configure pathauto)
Rich text editing using ck4, with a great UI to configure and excellent HTML purifier library to filter text.
(few minutes to configure and install wysiwyg, ckeditor, and htmlpurifier)
Excellent account management / user profiles / roles/premissions out of the box
Excellent Categorization system, out of the box, with configurable widgets on the front/backend
revision control out of the box
comments out of the box, add spam protection/flood control in minutes
Custom views with configurable pagers and designs
Cool image management out of the box
Caching with memcache, apc, and boost , takes less than 2 min to enable
unlike wordpress Drupal is very portable, I personally add the db dump to the files and push them to the server then import the db as needed. everything just works perfectly, move your website to a subdir, or change the hostname, it will still work no need to do anything.

I can go on and on describing many of the excellent modules that you can get using just drush dl <module>, but I think I'd better write a full blog post about it instead. Hopefully will do that in a couple of days.
Adam Smith is not the only person to read to understand Capitalism. No need to be pretentious.

> An obtuse comment considering he's a leading scientist.

So what? Since when being recognized in one field makes you competent in another? A widespread fallacy.
The Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes are the shit, though.

But honestly, yeah, the Bible is the poorest written fiction I've ever not finished reading. It's not even worth the paper as a religious reference, surprisingly. Maybe reading something like Norman Cohn's "The Pursuit of the Millenium" would be more useful for someone wanting to understand (more deeper) christianity, though it's quite a heavyweight. And I understand Feuerbach's "Essence of Christianity" is a classic, though I'm yet to read it.
MongoDB: Exporting data into files
If you look harder you'll probably find where they got their idea from.
But it's an RC model real plane.
An enormous screenshot of a browser window with the Network tab open in the bottom is hardly a sensible way of communicating the content of a few bytes of HTTP header.

$ curl -I "http://www.reddit.com/"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:35:50 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Feel free to email me questions or whatever about GT. I graduated not too long ago, still have friends who haven't yet graduated, and I won't necessarily give you the politically correct answers they give in the tour.
>> Perhaps they're not paying Google enough to appear in the search results.

Google owns ITA Matrix.
>It's inevitable that all public information in the world will eventually be stored, indexed and made available.

[citation needed]
You sir, work too much!

I was once victim of it myself; but rest assured that it is possible to work less than fifteen hours a day. I've currently managed to get it down to about ten hours a day, with the occasional burst up to twelve. On a really bad week, I'll work Sunday as well, but that doesn't usually happen much any more.

You already have step one done: Getting up early. Although I'm afraid you may have overdid it a bit. Step two: living close to work seems like it is in order as well. Children == exercise (usually) and I will assume you have nicely prepared meals at home.

This leads me to believe the problem is the work itself. Do you have enough people that you trust to be competent in your absence? Have you taken time to get them up to the level that when they come to you it is usually to address an unforeseen obstacle? Do they report problems and recommendations in the same breath?

Let me tell you of the glory of getting back to a ten hour work day: Glorious! Magical. Liberating. A most worthy goal.
The solar panel idea is interesting, but the problem of storage still remains.

What about a global grid that spans the globe, with large solar arrays in the deserts of Australia, North America and South Africa? This way there's always an array producing power at any time during the day, although each array has to be large enough to sustain the world's power needs. Transmission would be interesting as well - anyone know how to build a TW transmission line?

Global insolation map: http://imgur.com/1p4KIMb
Excerpt from the preface: This book evolved out of a course on iPhone/iPad programming that I teach in the Bay Area. The excitement level in the class peaks when we are building apps. This book draws on the same energy: We are going to build apps. And in the process of making our apps we will learn Objective-C and iPhone/iPad/iOS programming. This book is dedicated to makers everywhere. People who know the thrill of creating. People who create things and release them.
100m before there was TV in every home, and before Kotler had written the bible on marketing, is way different than 100m of Ipad.
> Similarly, before Dropbox we had options like XDrive from AOL, WebDAV servers, FTP, iDrive from Apple, and many others. We were awash with crappy software to store our documents on a server and access them from any computer we were on.

Amen! Don't be too hard on third-party vendors, though. Dropbox could only have been created after file-monitoring APIs became commonplace in OS kernels. If I've got my history straight these APIs were introduced because first Apple (Sherlock, Spotlight), then the GNOME guys (starting with Eazel's Medusa), and later Microsoft (after WinFS failed) wanted to do nearly-near-time full-text indexing. I remember that in Linux land these APIs were quite contentious and it took several iterations before they got them right.

I'm not sure if the ideas underlying Dropbox were _that_ unique at the time, but their execution sure was exceptionally good.

Still, some companies _were_ in a position to invent Dropbox before Dropbox did. The obvious ones being Apple and Eazel, since they had products that were monitoring the entire user file system _and_ they were selling WebDav storage!
You were being obtuse because since his opinion differs from yours he must have had problems 'understanding' capitalism.
That is a ridiculously black and white analysis, people doing evil don't set out with some vague malevolent goal to make the world a worse place for everyone else. Many times they view what they are doing as a good thing.

I am very afraid indeed of people claiming to do things for my benefit.

Evil is banal, it is every day, and more than likely it happens right in front of your eyes.

People need to shed this comic book villain version of evil, where anybody that acts evil is clearly just a bad person, and starts out with a goal of wanting to hurt everybody else.
As a data point for you, for some people (such as myself) that would mean in Summer getting up at 04:00, in Winter, 09:00.
I never click on adverts. I usually don't see them anyway as I always use Adblock Plus.