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I have a soapbox here:

AD(H)D is severely underdiagnosed. According to my own psychiatrist, studies have been done to find the base-rate of ADD/ADHD in the population--meaning not the people being treated for it, but the people who perfectly fit all the criteria and would respond excellently to treatment if it were provided--and it seems that only about 7% of the people who are "model candidates" for the disease, know they have it. And these are studies of adults, not children--people who have been living with strong, debilitating ADD/ADHD for years or possibly decades without any awareness or coping strategy.

Honestly, if I get Bill Gates-level rich, I'm going to dump my charity-dollars into ADD/ADHD-awareness. Disregarding how much better my own life has been since I started being treated for it, if all the people who are currently out of the work-force, can't hold a job, or underachieving at their job--who think they're just "naturally lazy"--and who could start achieving the things they want to achieve if they knew they had a treatable condition--got help--well, perhaps it's a bit optimistic, but I like to imagine percentage-point gains in GDP and drops in that mysterious "base unemployment" figure that just never seems to dip below 5%.

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Also, just as regards "If you are happy all the time then you probably have a different personality disorder": ADD/ADHD is orthogonal to (clinical) depression--though you can certainly be depressed from all the ways your life sucks, and your life is more likely to suck if you can't stay focused and motivated long enough to achieve anything.

However, how I would describe my own state, previous to treatment, was, "perfectly content to be laying in bed all day doing nothing much at all." I had studied Zen long enough to just not be all that worried about doing nothing. There was nothing wrong with doing nothing. And yet, really, I was just avoiding setting goals I knew I couldn't meet, which is to say, any goals at all. Blowing away the fog of demotivation I was wrapped in for most of my life has not suddenly made me upset with the idea of laying around doing nothing--it can't do anything so powerful as changing your mind. But it has made me feel that much more is possible. And that has made me upset with the idea of wasting what is I can suddenly see as my potential.
I learned programming in C. I really think it is important to learn all the data structures internal functioning (coding your own linked lists or hash-tables), learning how memory in a program really works, what is the difference between a 4 byte-type variable versus a 1 byte one, etc
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Your imagination seems a little lacking if you think that the only outcome of such an attack on Facebook was the disclosure of personal information.
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Google used to have this implemented for PDFs when you used their "quick view" functionality. It seems to have been disabled, though.
> I can repro it. The lag is only of a few milliseconds, but enough to capture a screenshot, so it is jarring for sure.

I would say this is at least a few hundred milliseconds; if nothing else, I dare you to succeed in taking a screenshot of something that only lasts for milliseconds ;P. (I say this only because someone else might get the wrong impression about how intrusive it ends up being.)

> Also, it looks like you are tracking scroll position by chopping up the page into numbered sections which are tracked in the url. Going back and forth resets the scroll position to the top of the tracked section. This works mostly fine, but is off sometimes by a line or two.

This is the actually specific issue I was complaining about with the scroll position (and which I think was what was trying to be reproduced); its awesome that you found another one, though ;P. The longer the posts (and even just a post with a YouTube video in it is half my screen height) the more off the scroll position becomes. I often see posts on the forums I use that are a couple screens long: clicking a link from them and then hitting back with Discourse resets you to the top of the post, as the "numbered sections" are the index of the post you are looking at (with that irritating caveat that I've found a bunch of contexts where there are multiple post-like thing that somehow "don't count" for the URL).
Cleve Moler, one of the founders of MathWorks, has written two free books. The first, Experiments with MATLAB, might be a good starting point: http://www.mathworks.com/moler/exm/index.html. It teaches some maths as well as Matlab.

The official Getting Started Guide is good, and focuses on Matlab itself: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started-with-ma...

MathWorks also has a relatively new set of online problems that she can work through: http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/cody/problems. In particular, the Cody Challenge problems start out very easy, but cover a range of language features. After doing some problems, she can see other people's solutions, and hence pick up on more idiomatic ways to do things in Matlab.
Clamato has been superseded by Amber: http://amber-lang.net/

In particular, check out the tutorial page (Smalltalk in a browser!): http://amber-lang.net/learn.html
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Back in 2008, I found twitter to be really great for this. There was some successful people on twitter like James Schramko and Robin Sharma, amongst many others that I used to follow and they were great at answering my questions. I used to 'nag' them quite a bit and was surprised by how much they were willing to respond and communicate. I did this with almost everyone I followed. At one point I even got through to a producer for the BBC and he and I even chatted on the phone. It was that phone conversation that really made me understand what community engagement is really about and how it can help your product or business.

Unfortunately, I got dragged away from twitter due to work (no excuses really) and when I became active again just recently, i've found there seems to be so much more noise and people's willingness to have a conversation with a stranger is nothing like it used to be.

Still - I'm glad Mr.Sivers answers his emails. He's always been a great help in helping me to improve my mindset.
Next time Facebook should test their engineers response to an alien attack via a meteor.
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Broken may not be the best description. People are managing to make it work just fine for the most part.

Unnecessary may be a better way to put it. What benefit do we really gain from doing all kinds of crazy DOM manipulations to return to what effectively amounts to a framebuffer and a few built-in drawing functions, emulating what we've been able to do on the raw hardware for decades?

"It exists" seems to be the best justification at this point. And that is a pretty strong justification, don't get me wrong. There is simply nothing better for on-demand distribution of network applications.

However, if we were to rebuild the model from scratch, I see no reason why we would want to include HTML as the basic building block. HTML rendering would more appropriately be an application built on top.
Counting triangles smarter (or how to beat Big Data vendors at their own game)
> they are lenient with apps that load HTML5

The built in webkit js engine is exempt from the rules, or you couldn't use web content in apps at all.
This is the first time I've ever seen it suggested that the A4 was actually designed by Samsung.
what tool would they use to steady the camera frame like that? having little experience with video editing the only way I know of doing it would be getting opencv to track the horizontal line on the back(of the jumper) of the guy who was leading and rotate the frame accordingly, surely there are video apps that do this simply.
It's not about a parenthesis. It's about the compiler not understanding all valid possibilities.

x+ +3 works.

x++3 doesn't.
Having a vibrant social life costs money, if you have none spare it's hard to keep up with people even just in terms of transport to get to see them.

Also my car is at the top of both lists :)
Personally, I suggest the solution from the Four Hour Work Week. Paraphrased:

1. Start a company that passively earns money. It doesn't have to earn much, it just has to earn it with no marginal effort on your part. Though, earning more is better: ideally, your audience should be wealthy people in the Western world. Consumers who spend frivolously are good. Businesses are better. Big businesses who don't even remember you're on their balance-sheet are best.

2. Then, go live somewhere not in the US, somewhere with an extremely low cost of living, somewhere where that passive income goes a long way. (The book terms this "travelling", but you don't actually have to keep moving; you can pick one cheap place and stay.)

3. Do your life's work from there.
A Relevant story about the author of the book Liars Poker :

Michael Lewis was an art history student at Princeton University, who nonetheless wanted to break into Wall Street to make money. He describes his almost pathetic attempts to find a finance job, only to be roundly rejected by every firm to which he applied. He then enrolled in the London School of Economics to gain a Master's degree in economics.

While in England, Lewis was invited to a banquet hosted by the Queen Mother, where he was purposely seated by his cousin, Baroness Linda Monroe von Stauffenberg, one of the organizers of the banquet, next to the wife of the London managing partner of Salomon Brothers, in the hope that his intelligence might impress her enough for her to suggest to her husband that Lewis be given a job with Salomon Brothers, which had previously turned him down. As it turned out, the strategy worked, and Lewis was granted an interview and landed the job.

Lewis then moved to New York City for Salomon's training program. Here, he was appalled at the sophomoric, obtuse and obnoxious behavior of some of his fellow trainees, and indoctrinated into the money culture of Salomon Brothers and Wall Street in general.

From New York, Lewis was shipped to the London office of Salomon Brothers as a bond salesman. Despite his lack of knowledge, he was soon handling millions of dollars in investment accounts. In 1987, he witnessed a near-hostile takeover of Salomon Brothers but survived with his job.

However, growing disillusioned with his work, Lewis quit the firm at the beginning of 1988 to write this book and become a financial journalist. The first edition was published October 17, 1989.

Interview of Michael Lewis :

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june12/mich...
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Anything I post to facebook is of such little consequence that I honestly don't care if it's traced back to me or if the whole world knows. Sure I'd prefer to keep what I say on there to the friends I say it to, but I don't care that much and it's such mindless, esoteric fluff that it's really not an issue.
If you're imprisonned for life, I guess you could read-up an Amway... nothing better to do.

http://www.amway.com/

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The greatest thing I've gotten out of Discourse so far is the fully functional, real-world Ember app that I can use to learn Ember. So many frameworks seem to think that a to-do application is enough of an example, but it isn't.

I decided to start transferring an app over to Ember.js this morning, and I've made more progress by looking at the Discourse code than I have via the official docs.
Eric Bidelman explains why emberjs is heading in the wrong direction when it comes to templating while AngularJS is doing it right by implementing the html5 web component spec, you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
I kind of wonder: what happens to people who start work at a game company, but just clock 9-5 and stubbornly refuse to work more? Are they fired, shunned, badmouthed in the industry? I never hear about them--kind of like I never hear about lazy medical interns, I guess.
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> I would caveat that it is the alignment you can use for high speeds ...

Yes, and welded tracks, apparently a universal way to support high speed operations.
Your blog navigation is superfluous
More than (almost) any other language/environment, Smalltalk is capable of this kind of 'liveness'. That it hasn't been implemented in the way you refer is due more to a lack of development effort than anything else.

For the last four decades, Smalltalk has been providing a glimpse of the future. That future is still waiting to happen.
So when I accidentally enter the wrong rate into the spread sheet everyone calls me an idiot and tells me I should leave the programming to people who know what they are doing.

But when a programmer I accidentally promotes test code to production, it's just an accident.

That is exactly the point the OP that I replied to was trying to make.

When someone else fucks they are stupid and they don’t know what they are doing, but when the coders fuck up it's always someone else that is at fault. Please give me a break!
you can use those even if you don't check your fb stream every f# day
I would have liked to have heard a story like this one at FOSDEM. You had a room full of interested IT people/devs/... and missed selling the 'spirit' of fOS. Too bad...
Start meditating a lot earlier. Started mid 20's.
You could also provide all the source to your program to your customers, so they could see and modify it. With this, every customer who has the time and inclination to report and help with the resolution of a problem is like a new pair of eyes looking for bugs. It could be said that with enough pairs of eyes, all bugs seem eye-poppingly obvious.

I think we should call this model open-soars, because it lets your software soar in the open sky above the competition.
Strange that a trademark should only last 3 years of non-active use when copyright is lifetime + 70 years. I guess there's IP and there's IP.
there was a video (can't find it) a few years ago when a guy sneaks to every club, restaurant, and even very fancy exclusive parties and some not clubbing related events, by having a pair of headphones on him and saying "I'm the dj". nobody checked on him.
I'm coming really late to this thread, but I'm going to comment anyway.

What I'd like to propose is the idea of the "success loop". It seems to me that you are stuck in this place where you get no positive feedback from your work.

The other way to work is to throw out a lot of small things, and then build on the things which work, and people find valuable. All of my large hacks have turned out to be the result of small hacks, positive feedback and collaboration.

Consider not focusing on the whole vision, but choosing a kernel, just one novel contribution.

The best ideas will attract other people. Once you have a bunch of minds working on things, it becomes like a relay where your analysis paralysis gets "routed around" by someone else.

If you can create this environment for yourself and roll with it, I promise you will have the time of your life.
But that shouldn't dissuade you, or anyone else, from trying. People have a visceral negative reaction to "ADD/ADHD treatment", as far as I can tell, because they think of it in the context of adolescent diagnosis, parents forcing kids onto drugs they don't need that turn them into robots because they aren't doing well in school, etc.

But if you're an adult--if you get to decide what does and does not go into your body--and you find out you might just have so-and-so condition and you could be much better off just taking this-or-that pill every day--and that the worst that can happen is that the pill just doesn't help--then you should forcibly shut down the ugh field[1] associated with the treatment, and just try it. If it helps, keep going. If it doesn't help, stop. If you don't like the way it makes you, stop. Just find out, one way or the other.

1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/21b/ugh_fields/
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Good comparison pricing table design presumes to take into account a great deal of moments that can be roughly divided into 2 two basic categories.
Thank you for sharing. My condolences on the loss of your friend.
Why does music sound 'right'?
Maybe :)

I guess I was just puzzled as to why the author felt that avoiding conditionals was a useful exercise in the first place. I realise that I'm probably wedded to a conditional-heavy way of thinking, I guess what threw me was that the author seemed to assume that eliminating conditionals stands as an aim on its own, regardless of minimising use of language features. At the same time he has a test in his array de-reference that seems to me to be effectively a conditional without using the explicit if(){} else{} construction.

TBH I would have thought verifying the implicit conditional and function-pointer jump was no easier than the explicit...
> (Guess the precipitating event: "Memo to all developers: One should never, ever, ever, ever, ever mention a developer who is no longer with the firm in a commit message.")

Is the purpose here to limit the amount of material that might show up in discovery, and therefore potentially be made public?
Blog navigation helps in SEO as well ?
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Not black though, that's not really done - certainly not in London.
Have you seen gcov/lcov?

They're coverage tools rather than debuggers, but they can give you an html-browseable version of your source code coloured like that to show you which lines have been hit and how many times.
It tends to suck you up. You might go there with the intention to do 9-5, but as a project starts to take shape and the deadline looms you can't help but try to do as good as you can and then a little more. I think if you can't stand high pressure environments then you will self-select for something a little bit more leisurely paced.

Surely there are such people in the game industry, it's even possible that whole companies can operate on a 9-5 schedule, just my bad luck that I haven't seen any :)
I have a friend. He has to be listening to music, watching television, reading some article online, chatting with people, and playing some video-game--all simultaneously, all the time--or he feels like his mind is collapsing in on him from the weight of all his thoughts and ideas and ambitions. He often gets drunk just so he can concentrate on only doing one thing--composing a song, say. Even when intensely interested in something--watching a movie with friends, say--he can't actually focus long enough to follow the plot. He ends up having to ask for a summary because he has no idea what happened.

And this is in his optimal environment, completely under his control.

He is not "thriving." He is cache-thrashing.
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You mean, like what started in 2012 ?

Social networks are know widely known, meaning they became boring and non-innovations.
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Perhaps I'm the exception, but I regularly use the related posts and even occasionally the 'temporal navigation' features of blogs I find via HN and other such sources. I know they wrote at least one good article, so I'm happy to spend a bit of time looking for more.

So personally, I hope no one writing decent content takes this advice.
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> I would rather take a web based on open APIs and rich clients (running native code) than the kludges we have today.

I won't. Installing native apps for everything I do? When I can just go to a app website and use it? I have no intention to go back into the 80s.
I ran it on my laptop without thinking just to see how bad it could be. I say "without thinking" because my laptop is a Mac and its VM is incredibly bad under any memory load. The whole machine started lagging. It took a couple of minutes to finally kill the process and get things sufficiently responsive to post this comment.

The same trick on my Linux box gives a NoMemoryError and doesn't eat the whole machine -- probably hit a ulimit or something. I didn't dig into exactly what happened. Of course, the Linux box would probably OOM-kill it right away if it had tried, so that's just fine, too.
Your title is one example of how not to launched a successful product.
Bacon. Explosion. Space.
not just this story, but every successful person grabbed the little window of opportunity and one thing leads to another. The key is being prepared and taking the initiative.
It's a page full of JS UI widgets including the codemirror editor, google maps, a calendar, select2 and more all in one page. It's a demo page for devs to checkout on their desktop really, I don't think Angular is to blame here, with so many widgets on a single page it would be slow on mobile even with vanilla JS.
There is something called firefile that will save your css changes made in firebug but when I used a year or so ago it was a little buggy and stripped comments out of css (breaking WP Sites).

I'm working on a WordPress editor called WPide, live css/less editing is something I have planned. When your code editor is part of your website/app I think there is a lot more scope for improving the editing process.

With the current code on github I'm in the middle of implementing git functionality, just struggling with the push/pull side of things, ssh keys specifically.

I did have a concept in place for live editing of css without constant round trips to the server by passing data over cookies. This was some time back, I've since realised HTML 5 has much better ways to achieve that communication. That was when I planned to have the css editor in a different browser window but it might be easier to move the css editor panel onto the front end as a small panel like firebug/inspector. I've got code completion for PHP and WordPress so don't see why css can't be auto completed as well.

I kind of thought creating an editor built with PHP, HTML, javascript and css would make it easier for people to get involved and create a really good editor that was moldable by any develope but as yet no one really seems to get excited about a Web based editor and probably think I'm wasting my time but I'll plod on..
While such things do play a part, I think you greatly underestimate the number of graduates from places like Berklee who don't end up where they want to be.