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> Does being smart comes with bigger responsibility and do you feel stressful of being really smart (as a developer maybe)?

Being smart increases others' expectations of you. They expect you to show miracles from time to time. Of course that cannot happen all the time. It is therefore necessary to develop an attitude such that others' perception does not affect you. It's what I call "I don't care what the world thinks of me". In my experience, in the absence of this attitude, smart guys can come under a lot of stress and make bad decisions at difficult times. (May be someone out here has a better way of dealing with it than mine??)

> I've never understand enough math to play with hardcore computer science (although I've love to and I tried) and I assume people feel very happier when they're good at what they want to do.

I believe two of your assumptions are wrong in the abvoe statement:

1. You really don't need to know too much math to play around with computers. When you come across a something that you don't understand you can always look it up (all thanks to Wikipedia) and learn it.

2. You become good at what you do by practicing repeatedly. Few are born with talented. Most of people become good at that they do by practicing it. There's nothing that can stop anyone becoming good at the skill they are interested in other than themselves.
You don't know it will be used for illegal purposes, unless they explicitly tell you so. Otherwise, if you assume they will be used for illegal activities, for instance based on the appearance and behavior of the owner, you are discriminating and can be sued for that.

If you refuse someone service because he's black, you are wrong. If you refuse someone service because you think he's a criminal, you are wrong again. If you provide someone service despite thinking he may be a criminal, you are also wrong. It's a lose-lose situation. Best not offer services that may be used for criminal activities. /s
That does not make Robotron good.
"Attachment leads to fear. Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to chaos."
This line summarizes how I've felt at times as I have tried to be more focused on my PhD, leaving out side projects I have been working on, and found my productivity plummet into chaos. I don't feel like the solution is to focus less though, but I find it difficult to detach and get out of the chaos. Any suggestions on "focusing more" while avoiding "attachment" ?
By selling a lot of copies AND putting barely anything into it. Super Hexagon is bereft of actual content and actually has very little actual game in it. It is a perfect example of how to make money from not much work.
Hacker News might not be the best place to advertise your site every few days. It was neat to see the Show HN, but I feel that your self promotion should have ended there - unless there was some type of content that only getinspired365 could have offered. For example, this video has been available on Youtube for about a month. I believe that it also reached the front page of Reddit shortly after it was uploaded.

All of that aside, the site does look good. I noticed the Youtube logo popping up on the bottom right. When I attempted to click on it (it appeared to be a graphic link), another button that sent me to register for the site took its place. Other than that, it's a clean and simple site. Great job!
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I appreciate you taking the time to address the statements I was not interpreting correctly. It goes without saying, but communicating over text always leaves some small room for misunderstanding.

This discussion has certainly left me interested in re-exploring the world of Perl. As minor as it sounds, I really enjoyed playing with metacpan, which as mentioned is definitely more fleshed out than its counterparts.

In addition, while perusing various Perl repos I remembered how much I once liked writing Perl, and will probably revisit it in a side project (if not production just yet).
I've begun meditating using http://www.getsomeheadspace.com/ for the last few months and I've noticed a definite uptick in both my ability to focus and concentrate on writing code and also my ability to step back and give myself a bit of space in my thoughts.
But it's not actually DTLS tunneled over ZMQ (which would have been reasonable), but their own protocol. Just how many vulnerabilities did the various versions of SSL have?
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> And that's just dragging down the state of the web to the lowest common denominator.

Or up to the state of most openness?
Indeed, if it weren't for people like us, there wouldn't be most of the games that people love playing today. There'd be no Minecraft, no FTL, no Terraria, no Binding of Isaac.
The bar in this business is still so low that "average" talent is utterly useless and nowhere near "competent".

Step outside the HN bubble and you'll know that this business is still seriously fucked, and not getting any better. The only thing that has improved is that many of us, both employers and developers, have gotten better at isolation ourselves from it.

We maintain our own little bubble of online communities, conferences and meetups (always the same faces right, never the other 90%) so well that we actually think tech is getting better.

Until you start seeing the CV's and talk to candidates from "outside". It's depressing. I wouldn't call that a "Buyer's Market" when it's almost uniformly shit.

And it has been that way for as long as I can remember. For the 25+ years I've been in this business any decent programmer can take their pick of offers withing a few weeks, crisis or no crisis.

It's a Seller's Market if you have something to offer. Always has been, at least since the 80's.
Do you honestly think Nokia, MS or Apple could care less about the tiny royalties that come from H.264 licensing ? And if they did why provide free APIs for developers ?

And the reason H.264 is successful is not because of its superior quality. It's because MPEG-LA has companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Canon, Nikon which means H.264 is supported from capture to editing to publishing to viewing.
It's an interesting case. (Standard IANAL disclaimer here).
http://www.lcwlegal.com/66894

Under California's Fair Employment law, if you complain about harassment, your employer can't fire you for it. It doesn't have to be real harassment, either. She could say, "I find blue shirts to be oppressive." It's the act of complaining that they can't retaliate against.

I think Sendgrid shot themselves in the foot when they explicitly said why they were firing her for complaining on Twitter. If they had just said, "She's being let go" and left it at that, they'd be in a better position, legally.
I does happen. But not necessarily with the same idea, I believe Dropbox was funded on Drew's second attempt.
Check out Jia Jiang's 100 days of Rejection Therapy here: http://entresting.com - he video records his rejections and they're fun to watch.

The official Rejection Therapy website is here: http://rejectiontherapy.com/rules
From Kickstarter's policies:

> Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, or "fund my life" projects.

In the "where's the money going" section of her project page, it's pretty clear that this money was going to go towards tuition for a week-long summer camp, and also a new laptop. I'd put these squarely in the "fund my life" categories. If all she's doing is asking for a hand-out, her success sends the wrong message. (Maybe there's more to it though, and I do think that this kind of campaign is, in general, a very good thing!)

Technically, the project also adheres to this policy:

> Everything on Kickstarter must be a project. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it.

Assuming she sets out to produce an RPG, perhaps she can use some of this money to pay for game assets, writing, editing, etc. Or, alternatively, she could pay for other kids to attend RPG camp (or other STEM camps). I really do hope could be turned into something very positive, but I have my doubts.
Since there are so many companies out there, giving some reason as to why you picked this particular one seems fair.

I would usually go with something compiled together from separate things:
- New challenges
- Location
- Their field of expertise
- Their culture
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Think you need to brush up your history.
But but but, if they did things like everyone else then perhaps they'll be like everyone else and if their goals are similar to yours then there is great value in following their footsteps and taking their advise.

If however your goals are different then it should go without saying that they are perhaps not your best role models.
I believe these kind of systems are implemented in much smaller companies as well. The last company I worked at started implementing mechanics to determine roles and payment when the company grew to 40 people or so.

The system that was introduced annoyed me, since it seemed to favor people in a management roles and also with a Masters. The system was created by consultants on behalf of my employer. To me the system felt like me being a horse with a carrot held in front of me. I guess it's true what's being said about engineers and herding cats. Engineers do want a personal treatment.

This rewarding system was one of the reasons I decided to leave later that year. It seems the turnover inside said company has increased shortly after I left, perhaps other people felt the same.
Low. See all the same questions here on HN and in the texts on YC.
Yeah, well, evaluating people is /hard/ and, I would say, pretty nigh impossible to do well in a few days.

>However, in the interview context, like going on a date, I obviously won't expose those faults.

I dono about interviews... but I do know that in sales, sometimes revealing faults, especially real faults, can build a lot of trust. (I mean, the 'real faults' bit really only applies if you are selling something to a customer who understands the product... but that's really the only kind of selling I do, outside of the "selling myself" interview context.) It's more like dating than you think, though, in that I generally don't want to waste my time with someone who still believes that they will find someone "perfect" - you want a employer or customer or date who has been around the block and knows that everyone has flaws, and you've just gotta pick the flaw you can deal with. Then you want them to know about your flaws pretty soon after they know about your assets so that you can both cut your losses if a flaw is a dealbreaker. anything else is wasting time.

I mean, you've gotta show the counter-party your assets first, but in sales, that's easier than in dating, at least for me, as most of my sales prospects read about and come to me; they already think I'm pretty okay, so I can hit them with the "and here are the problems with my setup" just about right out the gate. Come to think of it... the time I've been really successful dating went similarly.

>So there's definitely a disparity between the first impression a person can give, even over 5 hour pair programming sessions, and working day after day with them...

Yeah. My biggest asset is that I do really well in novel situations. My biggest flaw is that I do really poorly once I'm settled in and the situation is no longer novel. So yeah; good short term contractor, shitty long term employee (compared to someone else with a similar level of knowledge)
Besides maker projects I see that the R-Pi is many times used as a media center with XBMC.
Probably not, but they might be interested in preventing the progress of WebRTC, which could threaten Skype.
If I was going to run such a program (whilst stroking my white cat[1]...), I'd correlate website access to attrition. This could uncover not only active job searching, but general boredom and dissatisfaction surfing patterns...

I'm guessing obvious websites like linkedin would pop up, but I wouldn't be surprised if other patterns would emerge.

[1] Companies, especially of this size, already do this kind of spying on their staff. Not necessarily with cats.
I agree, there needs to be one open DRM specification that everybody can implement. There can then be discussion and debate about what level of DRM is reasonable; balancing rights of content holders and content consumers. Nobody is going to be perfectly happy but such is life. Every time the drm is broken there can be a new revision of the spec, so if you want to play netflix your browser has to be up to date. Ideally there would an open source reference implementation shared by the open source browsers (webkit,firefox) so the impact on development resources are minimized.
It's quite probable that those companies are pushing for MPEG4 because they paid millions to licence it and they don't want to pay for another codec. There's no way to know if the promised patent-free codecs are really patent-free.
> But that's not true, the amount of money is constant -- it just changes hands a lot.

No it's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#United_States

> GNP (red line) tripled since 1970 [...] So why on earth do we have to talk about a lack of money when society's wealth has increased so fast? [... Link to income gap ... ]

It's less of a problem of income distribution than one of wealth distribution. The key issue is that people with lower incomes accumulate assets that cost them money (house, car, TV...) while those with higher income collect stocks, bonds, rentable real estate property, all of which generate more wealth.
Sorry douchebag, you already fail. Your lack of a filter between you brain and mouth has offended me, and your common sense is non existant. Please (don't) play again you pompous ass.
I have to chime in here. Physical labor itself is not necessarily wearing. When I was growing up, our next door neighbor in his 80s was constantly gardening and doing projects around his house. He was in incredible shape for his age. He used to shovel coal for steamships as a young man. He died in his 90s.

Physical labor can become debilitating when there is injury that is not allowed to heal completely or when there are excessive hours compounded by stress. Aside from that, it's probably very good for you.
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Same approach here. No ember-data just creating Ember objects within a type of DAO ember class/object using ajax calls to the server side. Caching is enabled both in client at that Ember controller and on the server side before hitting the data source, however this depends on the data requested.
If offline capability is required on the browser or mobile device, local storage also comes into play.
I agree that all this is really clear and simple.
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It seems we have some very strong forces who will do everything they can do to prevent an open, standards-based and DRM-free video-protocol to become part of the internet.

We should shun them absolutely in every way we can.

Anyone who supports WebDRM: Boycott.

Anyone who patent-trolls: Boycott.
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>> And don't start with "but h264 has so much better quality!" No normal person could tell the difference between a proper vp8 encoded FullHD youtube video and a h264 one, it's not like there are glaring differences!

The glaring difference is in the ubiquitous hardware encoder/decoder support, which in itself is more than enough reason to prefer H264 anywhere. I'd be really happy if everyone should finally stop beating the dead horse that is VP8, because as it stands it never served any other purpose than channeling unfounded bias against H264 because it is not 'free' enough for some people to comprehend, even though neither industry nor consumers have ever made a big problem out of this. A bit like no-one ever bothered to complain about the fact that there are millions of other technologies in widespread use that aren't royalty-free. The fear-mongering and FUD about MPEG-LA as if they are some kind of extortionist codec mafia really has been mind-boggling from day 1.
I think this advice is intended for the people who run the business and not the people who do the actual work. Elon Musk can oversee three companies at the same time but I doubt the spacecraft pilot can afford to be distracted with too many tasks at once.
Nope. I don't consider PyCon a "professional conference." Programming is not accountancy, or medicine. "Professional" is a word that people use to lull people into circumspect behavior leaving their basic humanity aside. Sometimes there is a good reason for it but often there isn't. In any case it's not a way of being at ease.

When I am with my close friends at a conference we speak however we like. It isn't church and it shouldn't be. But I'm sure now that I'll never go to PyCon. It's drowning in the crazy.

My sense is that this is largely generational and geographic. There's a strain of political correctness in the California area that is rampant among people in their 20s. I don't see it elsewhere in the US although I have seen it in Canada. PyCon is definitely a California conference.

I'm sure the educational system has something to do with it. It's a trend that rode the general trend in education in the 90s toward making people believe that feeling good was more important than anything and that their sensitivities were positive demands on other people's behavior. That's subsided since then in elementary education so I think this drama may be a blip.
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Rasmus is also behind the original design of Spotify interaction design, branding and more. He is one of the most talented designers I know about, this is really good news for Dropbox!
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I totally agree with the last statement.And I (not so) often seen people that have nothing to do with a domain yet they excelled in it.I had one marketing guy who helped us with hardware design without having an engineering or any technical degree whatsoever.He just knew how-what-where to do by looking at it.Human mind is amazing.
It almost looks like as soon as expensive R&D is done and someone made a copy or knock-off of some piece of technology, it had suddenly appeared out of thin air, and the original inventors/investors who made it possible are patent trolls because they aren't giving it away free for all. H264 vs VP8 is just like that, it took years and millions to get to the point where we are now, but hey it's not free (in some specific cases where you make money off of it yourself), so it must be evil and we should kill it with fire :-/
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If you have boto installed, this is all you'll need to do

import boto.ec2
conn = boto.ec2.connect_to_region("us-east-1")
conn.request_spot_instances('0.005', 'ami-2400984d',
instance_type='t1.micro', user_data='USERNAME')
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The article says the exact same things - you're just rephrasing it. The point it makes is that it's okay to work on several projects, the important thing is to finish at micro level.
>100 years away or 1000

Most likely something like 10.
You have to know how MVC works before you get to decide not to use it.
I think his issue was he was bruised and battered after 5 hours of relentless questioning that answering a question like that was the last thing on his mind.

A 5 hour interview is a ludicrous amount of time to take out of someone's day.
my thoughts exactly... also the other failure/success mentions, not just airbnb.
Nice app, thanks for sharing. But that works for wireframing. If you're planning to give a different look and feel than the default iOS or Android theme I'm sure you use different tools.
Companies unwilling to do H1B visa sponsorship probably are not refraining due to language barrier issues. There is a cost, both money and time involved that small shops simply can't afford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma

Dogma is the official system of belief or doctrine held by a religion, or a particular group or organization. It serves as part of the primary basis of an ideology or belief system, and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm, or the ideology itself.

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

http://bit.ly/OExNvm

I think some feminist thought has good ideas worth listening to. Gender feminism and feminism projected through the lens of most modern women does not.

Individual women have a lot to tell. Individual women are very much worth listening to.

Here's one interesting comment from the Pinker article:

Forwarded this article and got the answer, paraphrased, from a liberal 'it isn't that liberals disagree, it is the moral hazard of agreeing; there's nothing to stop the lower orders from returning to all of the horrors of the past.' And, there you have it. The Left has no faith in traditional religions to counteract the evil impulses of the past so a proxy religion becomes necessary even if not entirely believed by its adherents. And, then the sacraments of that religion come to control us all and to be used as a cludgel against all competitor religions.
A RESTful API, in its original understanding as defined by Roy Fielding, is based on hypertext (links between resources), content types and traversal: the only "official" URI in the system (the only one which should be documented and immutable) is that of the API's root. For all other API components, the only supported access method is traversing the system until the component is reached.

As a result, there is no requirement either of URI beauty or of URI stability in a RESTful system: clients may cache URIs during traversal to speed-up subsequent operations (think bookmarks) but that's only an optional optimisation and they must know how to re-traverse the system anyway.

Stable and beautiful URIs are "cooler", but they're irrelevant to the system's RESTfulness and a correctly RESTful system (server & client) would allow randomly changing all URIs in the system (but for the root) regularly without functional breakage.
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Fresh is great. It lets you pull fragments of dot files from different repositories and combine then into contiguous files. So you could pull some bits from a team repository, have your own customizations on github (so you can share with others), and then have some private bits in a small private repo. Fresh well grab them all and combine then for you.

Fresh can also populate your $HOME/bin from various repos.

There is a directory[1] of reusable bits, though there are trust/security issues you might want to consider ...

[1]https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/wiki/Directory
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Must be a US thing.

My first job had an interview that lasted around 2 hours.

The second had one interview that lasted 90 minutes, then a follow up interview a few weeks later for 90 minutes.

Taking up 5 hours of someone's day (especially if they are unemployed) is wrong and downright pathological. Job seekers are often desperate to get back into the market and abusing their time is grossly unjust. It's fine for the interviewer, they have a job and are in a position of power to decide the fate of the interviewee.