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Yes, it's for younger girls for sure. Arduino is really going to open her eyes, especially if you can gather data and show how statistics can be used for training and informing computers to help us. If she's interested in programming I think Ruby has the nicest introduction (I'm partial to Python as you get access to a lot of sciency libraries) but I've run through this with 9-12 year olds successfully: http://tryruby.org
> Personally, I do have the ability to be extremely focused for long hours. But I don't think that having that ability counts for a lot in real world.

As a person who recently discovered that he doesn't have this ability and can't focus for more than 10 minutes unless it's a hobby project or one is in a really good mood, I can tell you that this ability does count a lot.
Thanks for responding. Fortunately women don't have a single Leader so while Valerie may be doing good work through certain initiatives she should find that other women who disagree with censorship will not support these actions.
I agree. Get help! It's not something to be ashamed of. Failure isn't something to be ashamed of. College isn't a race; maybe consider taking a year off and doing some exploring. Here's a quick Google for advice for taking a year off from college: http://ask.metafilter.com/25004/Taking-a-year-off-from-colle...

Otherwise, I can recommend to you a book that opened my eyes to the process of learning. The Art of Learning -- Josh Waitzkin.
It's a bit more limited than that: during election campaigns (which last a few weeks in the UK) it's illegal for anyone to lie about other candidates' personal character with the intention of affecting the vote.

e.g. s106 Representation of the People Act 1983 ("False statements as to candidates.") http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/106

Everything else is fair game and "personal character" is narrowly construed — it's about "the man beneath the politician" as one court put it.

There's also no legal bar to lying about your intentions in your manifesto, despite a few attempts to persuade the courts to create one.

This from the High Court of England and Wales —
"Can a promise of this kind give rise to an enforceable legitimate expectation?
Even if we had accepted that the relevant ministerial statements had the effect of a promise to hold a referendum in respect of the Lisbon Treaty, such a promise would not in our view give rise to a legitimate expectation enforceable in public law, such that the courts could intervene to prevent the expectation being defeated by a change of mind concerning the holding of a referendum. The subject-matter, nature and context of a promise of this kind place it in the realm of politics, not of the courts, and the question whether the government should be held to such a promise is a political rather than a legal matter."
(Wheeler v PM, a case about whether the PM was legally obliged by a manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on an EU treaty http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/...)

(IANAL).
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The crassness is, I presume, in the fact that he even mentioned it. He might have used different verbs: met, spent time with, dated. I'm not sure _why_ that's impolite to speak of, but it certainly seems to be that way in most peoples' books.
I was using WinAmp in its 1.x and 2.x days. When WinAmp started to bloat, I switched to Billy [0], an ultra-fast and minimal player. Nowadays, I stick to VLC as I no longer have Windows on my personal laptop.

[0] http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy&subpage=billy_co...
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Very cool indeed - though the Boston Viridis might be an easier way to get lots of ARM nodes in a rack.

As the platform is in Cambridge, I should remind everyone of the Cambridge MakeSpace which has just officially opened, and would be a great place to help build that kind of chassis.
We're constantly told not all mac users are zealots. If you're a developer who has decided OSX is the best option but isn't religious about it you would probably be willing to work in .net if the rest of that company was good enough.
She's pretty fast to dismiss Shen:

> Shen is a splendid compromise, but I found myself wishing it came with Haskell's uncompromising purity and Standard ML's straightforward type system.

I guess Haskell/ML minded people have a reason to think this way, but I'd be more interested to know whether someone is doing anything interesting with Shen. Have you got any "production" code written in it and running to show off?

EDIT: sorry! ...fixed the gender bug.
I currently have a native OSX version og glTail in review by Apple, which is quite a bit faster and easier to install than the Ruby version. I also have an updated IOS version in the queue which doesn't crash quite as often.
Have you considered joining Mint, using plastic for your purchases, and considering cash as "already spent" expenses? (Stay out of debt, mind you -- use the cards as a way to ensure that it's accounted automatically.)
I get what you're saying and why it has to be said, but I want to add that I think it's reasonable to work for reasons other than buying leisure.

In particular, I believe that it's important for me to be useful to society, and I also consider my work to be personal, like an art. As a result, my happiness is tied to how well I think I'm working. I don't think that's crazy.
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Amarok 1 was better, but it's harder to get hold of than winamp :(
It is addressed somewhat in the article, but the problem are not small font sizes. The problem are absolute font sizes.

> An even better idea is not to set that at all, as most browsers default to 16px these days.

And this is the correct way to do it – use relative sizes, use vector graphics and let the browser render it according to how the user wants it to be rendered. Some people like 16px, for me, I find 10px plenty[0] and if I someday get a decent screen, I’d probably like something at the order of 25px. You shouldn’t have to change your website for that.

Of course, the author of that article thought that everybody should always be happy with 18px, which is just as bad as 12px or 8px.

[0] 1440x900 on 14" on a laptop, so, yeah :|
The author seems to be missing how disruptive interruptions can be to some developers.

The "on call" idea might have some merit because it allows the developer to adjust their coding schedule around the X hours they will lose every day for a given period of time with customer assistance.

The "all hands" idea sounds terrible. Asking a developer is asked to answer 5 customer emails daily, each one needing a variable length of time to respond to, threatens to poison the well and become a burden. My understanding is that a developer would either try to answer the emails at the very beginning or at the very end of the day to keep distractions at a minimum.

My biggest question is - what is the reason for the author to have this many questions after being with Buffer for over 8 months? This seems like sufficient time to learn all the ins and outs of most products. Moreover, I hope that Buffer dev new-hires are told that they'll be asked to wear many hats, including the responsibility for customer support, as part of the regular duties.
His advice is solid, but you have to consider how much of his personal success was due to being born at the right time: graduating with an engineering degree in the low-unemployment mid-90s (prior to globalization putting heavy pressure on wages), then buying a house (actually, several) before the debt-fueled housing bubble made shelter a massive % expense for everyone under 30 living with fewer than 3 roommates. And also being lucky enough to enter adulthood in a period of low taxes, oil & commodity prices, when companies were still willing to hire & train non-senior engineers. etc.

Given the current state of the world - it seems quite unlikely that the average 21 year old US SW engineer graduating today will be able to replicate his results (~$500k within 7 years).
Yes, word on the street is it does offer RPN (similar to the HP50g which I imagine this is geared to replace).
That seems beautiful! :)
While you give good advice, I'm going to call you out on the humblebrag here. I imagine that OP might feel kind of bad to hear about the troubles of a deans list student who had trouble becoming a published technical author.
I think the Boston Viridis falls into the "commercial blade server" category and as suggested in the conclusion is how it should be done if you were not using existing dev boards.

Is that an invite to show me round Cambridge MakeSpace? ;-) I was thinking about the open evening on tuesday but it is very inconvenient.
Pandoc's version of markdown has both of those (along with lots of other extensions).

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/pandocs-markd...
On a related note, bitlbee is a really nice xmpp client implemented as a "fake irc server". I use it all the time with irssi.
You're missing the point. You're conflating 2 ideas:

1) science is so much better and verifiable ! (this is for atheist versus religious people discussions ONLY)

2) when I actually verify $scientific_theory it doesn't stand up to scrutiny (this is for discussions against farmaceutical companies denying that they understood the effects of a drug 40 years ago EXCLUSIVELY)

3) Oh my god we're all going to die because some grad student claims it's once again a lot worse ! (this is for climate change discussions)

You see your mistake ? The world is massively invested in climate disaster theory being right. We've got 20 years of treaties, massive infrastructure dependant on it. Lots of important people getting elected, getting cushy jobs, getting ... and you're just saying that looking at the numbers it doesn't work out. Then you're giving people 2 options :

a) global warming is true and yet worse still and man-made and ... ! ($10 billion "well spent" by politicians on their friends)

b) global warming ... is a natural phenomenon that just starts and ends, humans or not, policies or no policies ! $10 billion bribery scandal ! Fire them all !

You're asking loads of people to acknowledge they've been stupid for decades. Many of them (esp. the grad students) have never known any other way of doing things ... good luck with that.

Get on the bandwagon. Find some vaguely reasonable excuse for people to pay you millions (think Solyndra) because "we're all going to die of global warming ! More money !". You'll have much more success, because the whole house of cards depends on having ever more people on the payroll. If you're loud enough, they'll have to include you too.
Hmmm.. pastebin.com is not available from my geo location. I've had this couple of times before also.

Is there an alternative link to the original post?

The rest of the comments have been a good read anyway.

thanks.
Not when you die a heart attack. The increase in health from cycling outweighs the risk of death in the region of 50 to 1 ( see meta-study at http://www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_3_2_2012_6-11.pdf)

Obviously, if you do plenty of exercise already, this may be more of a moot point, but if you are even slightly overweight or unfit, get on your bike.
You are correct, the evidence is that the health benefits outweigh the risk of death about 50 to 1 (see meta-study at http://www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_3_2_2012_6-11.pdf).
From memory, the Unskilled Player report option just tweaked their matchmaking a little.
#haskell is fantastic. I typically just idle there, but every time I tab over to see what people are talking about, it's something on-topic and (more importantly) interesting. And like you say, everyone there is really helpful.
On second thoughts, my comment was over the top. Doing something is better than nothing and github is doing something. So kudos to that.
Do you really contest that private schools have better outcomes on the SAT? Or that poor kids have less test prep? Maybe you should do some basic googling on the subject before you start tossing around strident conclusions.

Having a worthwhile discussion requires a basic standard of reasonableness. Some of the perfectly reasonable claims I made could have also benefited from citations, sure. OTOH you've given me at least 5 data points that say you've just decided to be a pedantic troll about this topic. Good luck with that.
As a counterexample, here is a list of things you should do before you turn 30: http://www.policymic.com/articles/7704/29-amazing-things-you...

While many of the examples are silly, I agree very much with all the advice to travel a lot. That takes money. Actually most of the things on that list go way beyond "live cheaply", and I agree with that.

Anyway, as my economics professor said in college. There are those people who plan out how much they must save for an early retirement, and there are those who live.
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Fwiw, the music library functionality in winamp (IMHO) remains the fastest and best I've seen and used in any media player. And I've used pretty much all of them.
That's precisely what I don't get in this case, especially. The source is out there, there are other people mirroring vlc. So if you're trying to censor it, you're going to fail pretty hard. In the absence of that, what can it be?

Of course! It must be the mplayer folks!!
Last time a recruiter cold-called me at the office I asked them if they really thought it was appropriate to 'phone my client in an effort to recruit me … and then hung up on them.
Or in this case, who you'd literally least suspect: wmplayer. All hail wmv!
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> I have some similar issues

It honestly sounds like you do not have similar issues at all.

Everybody has an experience or story about where they hit a wall with something in their life. This post was specifically about hitting a wall in college.

Writing a book is quite a different task from taking college classes. It's also not something where you can easily compare yourself against others, which was a huge component of this post.
Somehow this has made me realize the big lifestyle gap between me and everyone I know versus the people writing what I read around here.
Me and virtually everyone I know live that way, but instead of retired at 30 we are hustling and struggling at 30. Sure, hipsters on food coupons, you can laugh all you want, but no future all the same. Wish we could be on that path, but it's too late, we made the wrong decisions, we are forced to thrift like everyone else now.
Happily, you can train the ability to hold your attention on whatever you desire, just like you might train your biceps to be stronger.

If you're interested, look into "mindfulness meditation". If you're immediately repelled (as I was) by the idea, know that there are several serious engineers who now swear by this technique. There is a guy at Google who teaches mindfulness meditation in a series of classes to other Googlers, and he can't keep up with demand. Look at siyli.org for some introductory videos (especially the ones showing a physiological effects of having done N hours of meditation).
> Your math lib look nifty! Which license would you share it with?

Thanks! zlib license.

> Also, why in particular std=gnu99?

Because I use some c99 things and using -std=c99 will disable some posix/gnu extension features. I think it was time.h and clock_gettime which I was using for benchmarking.
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So much wisdom in this thread for a guy like me who's just wrapping up his Bachelor's and headed for his Masters! Thanks guys! :')
It is not speculation. They actually did fix prices in this casual manner.

The UK FSA Final Notice documents many transcripts just like this as evidence of the unethical, unprofessional, dysfunctional culture [1].

[1] http://www.fsa.gov.uk/static/pubs/final/rbs.pdf
Html5....

Specifically they are hiding the video, showing dom elements for the interaction, check the result via Javascript/Ajax, and put the video back on.
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Also it sounds like he leads a pretty lonely life IMO, and he sounds like he has some ego issues. If he is truly happy though, fair play, but I don't really believe that is the case...
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but we won't get better. Isolating ourselves and force-focus is not the key. I don't know a lot about the subject OP's referring to but to get good score all you need to do is understand things. Self study may not help at this time, have a friend over who is more or less like you but try and study together.

I'm just like OP. Recently I gave exams and if I hadn't had my friend over for studies then I would have failed. Now I'm getting a decent score.

I have learned something today, "To lose false confidence in me". You have opened my eyes.

I was fiddling with scripts and browsing all day long just before my physics exam. Can you believe it?

All the best ;)
Less efficient? I'm pretty sure you get better performance per watt with Intel right now.
Thanks for your advice and reassuring references. I actually stumbled upon mindfulness meditation several times on HN, and after first being repelled, I ended up up reading "Mindfulness In Plain English" recently, and now I'm about to start practicing it.

Basically, I got fed up with this state and decided to solve it once and for all. I've managed to make some progress on it and I feel better/more productive at work now, so I have high hopes it'll get even better. Mindfulness is what I'm trying now, and the next book to read is "Feeling Good" (similarly, heavily recommended on HN), a basic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy book.
Contrary to this, ABS in Formula 1 is banned. It was so successful in reducing braking distances that it was seen to remove much of the skill of the driver, to the detriment of the sporting aspects of the races. Similarly, traction control and stability controls are banned.
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^ It looks dorky

This coming from Robert Scoble, who already looks dorky. ;)

Actually, this is a big thing for me. I hate glasses and I NEVER wear them (sunglasses in my case because I have perfect vision.)

All I want to know is, can I run my terminal with them? ;)
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I don't believe we will see something like an infoliberalist state in the next 5 or 10 years, but it's interesting that tech is increasingly making those ideas feasible.

I'm the founder of a startup building a modern forum platform with no fixed administrators. Instead, members build a network of trust by agreeing with (liking) each other's posts, and the top most trusted members become moderators. Check out http://www.iroquote.com

Also http://www.reasonwell.com is a tool for efficient online debates on policies.

It would be nice to see other similar projects related to politics. Please share some links if you know more.
His "2 hours" does include "eat out for lunch". He is probably right. Sitting down at a restaurant = 20-40 min minimum.
After reading this, I am getting a bit nostalgic thinking about winamp and napster back in the day. I can't believe 15 years has passed. IMHO winamp was one of the best pieces of software developed over that timespan.

On a sidenote - timely piece as AOL Music just shut its doors - http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/aol-music-shuttered-st...
This happened to me back in California where my 'friends' would stop inviting me out or contacting me because I am frugal and they're not. Even somewhat new (to the country) immigrant friends adopted this behavior.

Then I moved to Brazil where there's plenty of cheap or free things to do and I went from going out almost never to going out up to 4x per week. Now I'm living in Portugal and, strangely, it's the same as Brazil. Plenty of ways to go out and spend $15 or under. On the flip side, of course, there are plenty of ways to spend way more per night out.
A hard boiled egg is 10min in boiling water. None of your times include: time to clean dishes, time to eat and chew solid food, time to go out to a restaurant to eat, etc.

You guys quoting "X minutes to cook food" really don't look at the big picture of all the steps that are saved by just having to drink a pre-made substance.
Where most of these are just a subtype of malnutrition, if I don't miss my guess. If they only counted babies who die because they are fed with the adequate amount of formula instead of breastfeeding, that number would probably be vanishingly small. Unfortunately, the cited paper is not freely available, so I cannot check.
> Markdown is basically another flavor of wiki markup.

One clear advantage of markdown is that its markup is designed to be as unobtrusive as possible to the point that its text/plain rendering is its own source. That's clearly not the case of MediaWiki or even Textile.
While I agree that this ability may help in certain kinds of development/ coding work, I do think they are various cognitive niches that different people can occupy well.

For instance, I think people with functioning ADHD do pretty well as dealmakers, traders and maybe even certain kind of managers. I suffer from a mild form of bipolar, and it allows me to be very creative & productive in my manic phases, but I cannot always be as consistent as an ops person.
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Ah, sorry - I thought you'd been buying devboards to populate the unit.

Yes, I'm sure a visit to MakeSpace could be arranged. My username at gmail.
Don't you see any similarities between your comment's sense of propriety and the traders?

It's not about whether people can have a joke, it's that people of that mindset should not be anywhere near global levers of capitalism.

Like they shouldn't be air traffic controllers, or have national security clearance, or judge legal cases.

However the point in this particular scandal is that the two groups should not have been talking to each other, let alone joking.
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