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I feel like this is pretty widely accepted in the tech/hacker world, right?
I've found it's generally the more business-y (creative, PM, etc) types that do the weekend check-in/late night thing.

Also - it seems to be magnified in the highly transient NYC/SF environments. Recently relocated young people without families just may not have that much to do outside of work.
i'm glad you're ok, haj!
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One thing that always bugs me about the video game areas of Reddit is their universal love of Valve, and their belief that Valve's management structure and corporate policies is the CAUSE of their success. I think Valve succeeds DESPITE their structure since they can stay afloat merely from Steam revenues.

I would like to know (and never will) if Valve's game development arm balances out financially, or if it's just a loss leader to get people onto Steam, which will provide them with more distribution revenues down the road.

Also, I didn't think Half-Life 1 or 2 were that good, so sue me. :)
I don't see how hemlis is worse though? It's even better since it's funded.
So, what is a bittorrent tracker?
I really wanted to try this out, but when I went to install the plugin, it asked for all data on all the websites that I visit. As a general rule, I won't allow plugins that much access unless they do something truly amazing.

If I were you, I'd improve the messaging on the page a to let people know they are about to download a plugin, and what kinds of permissions you are going to ask for (and why).
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There is a part 2 and 3. I believe he was Canadian:

- http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christianging...
- http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christianging...
Might as well answer.

There are a lot of games where you're paying a fixed price or at least a comparatively minor contribution that isn't necessarily tied to the level of enjoyment or participation you get from it. In these cases, you're expending the monetary equivalent of activation energy and then the game is basically whatever you make of it.

At the other end of the spectrum are games where you have to make an ongoing investment to get something out of the game that matches this investment with a linear factor or worse. Online Poker would probably be an example, but it lacks the social pressure exerted by some MMOs, games where you actually feel you're going to a kind of workplace and where real money is at stake constantly (which in turn is a large part of the players' motivation to achieve things).

Diablo III made me feel this way, for instance, it's more a free market simulation than an action RPG. Eve would be in that category, too. Many other MMOs either discourage trading for money and/or are making time and effort the primary player currency. Contrast this with games where real money is closely coupled with any kind of high-level content.
By this logic, I certainly shouldn't drive anywhere, instead I would commute by commercial aircraft or heavy rail locomotive.
> I am constantly reminded about the amount of low-hanging fruit there is out there for automation that is currently handled extremely manually, sometimes by some very well-paid people.

On the other hand, they have job security that way.

I've seen the same thing, and encountered huge amounts of pushback from the same people.

If I automate, they no longer have 80 hours of work to do every week. How are they gonna get promoted then? By being competent or something?

That, like, never happens.
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I can give you the #hustle, I don't know anyone who does that specifically haha, it also makes me cringe, but the idea of it is what I'm getting at.

And, as far as "successful" people who talk about the hard work they're doing, I guess that also depends on what you define as successful, I know people who have day jobs and are doing incredible things on the side and they are happy and motivated doing what they love. I personally count that as success.
Why is this better? I see no obvious reason. Just Cons Nothing values.
I'm sure the massive rate of returns and refunds will prove you right.
What does it matter?

What you should do is have the error messages be the same for detecting a length 0 submission and of attempting to parse the empty string as JSON.

You can think of the check for length==0 and length==1 as a sort of optimization (no JSON document can be 1 byte long), rather than a corner case.
Dont you think that what you are describing sounds like a huge overhead. Rather then tweaking the product you have to "trade features" with customer.

It's also something that is very difficult to scale. It's hard to expect that every person who is good on the job is also good in negotiating with customers.
It's worse because:

1.) It's not open source
2.) They want to charge for certain features that are free in surespot.
(on top of the $100k they're already asking for)
3.) They wont let you run your own server
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One big problem with this approach is a lack of push notifications/persistent connections on the iOS side. On the Android side you can have something like Gibberbot running all the time and providing you notifications of new messages, but since iOS still lacks true multitasking, if you don't have your XMPP client open and in the foreground, you go offline and can't receive messages/notifications anymore.
Already happening.

It's generally acceptable to describe Microsoft as a "convicted monopolist" (despite there not having been a criminal case). One wonders if people will also accept the labelling of Apple in such a manner when the dust finally settles.
Yes, the corruption is the ultimate problem for all societies. It is innate, it is adaptable, it faces only limited counter-corruption defense systems, and it usually has the freedom to choose its own time and place (avoiding this way most of the traps). Also, if that wouldn't be enough, like vijayr said in the sibling comment - "Most people just don't care about anything, anyone other than themselves, and may be their loved ones." I would conclude that we have not found so far the most efficient and effective strategy to prevent and counter corruption. Our organizations specialized in fighting corruption are weak and more importantly - are by themselves exposed to be corrupted in a way or another. My solution? Offer incentives at the individual level to fight corruption and create in this way the most extended system against it.
It's not just bad meetings, it's meetings that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Meeting can be useful, but I've worked at companies where meetings are (reasonably) well-run (minutes, chairs, time-capped, etc), but ultimately unnecessary in the first place. People leave with action items but feel as if the whole exercise could have been accomplished in half the time with only half the people in the room.

Or a quick email from one person to another.

In my trailing days at Amazon we had a project that was falling behind due to unforeseen team attrition. The more it fell behind the more meetings were called - one by each stakeholder - to discuss why the project was behind and what can be done to solve it. Ultimately this just meant more engineers in a room explaining things to a lineup of PMs rather than writing some damned code. A few months of this and I decided it was time for me to attrition out.

Before worrying about whether or not your meeting has an agenda, a chair, and set times, figure out if you need the meeting at all.
> When I worked at a large corporation, I nearly automated all of my work and I was called lazy. I'd do about an hour work a day, customize an existing script to process new data, then read for the remaining 6 hours. Co-workers called me a lazy nerd and proceeded to copy paste words into excel for 8 hours.

Oh my god, I'm dealing with this now. I made a Python program that automated a lot of our Excel work. It reduced hours of tedium to seconds. Showing it to my manager, the reception was chilly at best. There was some disbelief that a program could parse dozens of slightly inconsistent worksheets (that made it a bit harder, but recognizing the patterns wasn't complex) but mostly deep annoyance at taking on a project he would have never approved. He seemed to think the program needed more vetting even after I'd fed huge amounts of our past analysis into it and verified it reproduces the correct results. He didn't want to see the proof that it worked, he just insisted that the spreadsheets were too complex and that some of the numbering schemes we use were too subjective to define by logic (they weren't).

This is at a workplace where a coworker likes to type in hundreds of sums from a hand calculator into Excel instead of dragging a row. I might have to wait a decade or two for them to retire if anything is to improve.
The opposite could be said as well. You could tell everyone on the planet about your awesome software, but it won't matter if you never build it.
Is this what you do? Because I mostly ignore my Google+ account. I only check it if I get a notification from inside Gmail.
You’re More Likely to be Killed by a Toddler than a Terrorist. (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/youre-more-likely-to-...)
The New Bronze Age
also promising: http://kontalk.org/
that's just bad code though..
Also, let me point out:

Of all of the people in this country who overwork themselves, the percentage who became billionaire titans-of-industry is, for all intents and purposes, zero.

Millions (or tens-of-millions) of Americans overwork. There's one Bill Gates.
Agreed. A symbolic assembler was just a convenient way of managing names and jump targets. To reverse engineer it wasn't too hard to write down the bytes and translate to symbols because the instruction sets were relatively simple and regular (unlike current x86).
Seems like a case of misaligned ideas of what constitutes an environment like Valve. Of course there will be a hierarchy any time humans are involved. The idea of Valve's workplace, is that the hierarchy will establish itself naturally and hopefully merit based, rather than imposed from above like in "normal" companies.

Lots of projects in such a company will die. But I don't believe for one second that it's due to some elite clique trying to hold everybody else down.

The much more obvious reason is that the concept was mediocre, hence why it couldn't get any backing internally.

It's of course always easier to claim conspiracy and unfairness, than it is to realize that whatever concept you thought up was no good.

There's a lesson in this situation about facing facts early, not being blinded by your own perceived brilliance and not brushing off criticism too easily.
Yes, but that advantage is based on appearance and not results.

That's contract to every hacker ethic I know.
Not sure that raising gas taxes will get you your desired result. Here in California we have the highest gas taxes in the nation at 71.9 cents per gallon plus state and local sales tax added, and we have some of the worst roads I have seen in the US.
Youtube is fine in most aspects, but I would consider comment system one of the most broken things on the web, period. I know it's not easy to make good, given the variety of audience and usage, much less "perfect", but I doubt anyone is even trying.

How much of the quality of youtube comments can be attributed to this? Anyone wanting to make a point or responding to one would rather post the video in a forum and discuss it there. And considering that it's YOUtube, which means the initial idea was that people talk into their camera, and others respond with videos and comments, I wouldn't exactly call the comment system a gimmick either. It would be nice to at least theoretically be able to have actual discussion on important videos, right where the video is. But no ^^
Fetishizing hard work is a purely American phenomenon. Like many other parts of American culture, it has to do with the country's Puritan roots.

Back in England, the Puritans were entirely city people. Even those who lived on the countryside were not farmers. So when they came to America, they had to work extra hard to learn farming and adopt that lifestyle, which was made even more difficult by the fact that the soil in the Massachusetts area was hard, rocky and not very fertile.

What is interesting however was that they refused to pick up the farming habits, tools and techniques developed by the settlers who had arrived earlier. Puritans would often complain about the inexplicable justice of "heathen" Americans who were seemingly lazy and were laying around all day, doing maybe a little bit of work here and a little bit there, while still managing to bring in bountiful harvests. Meanwhile, Puritans were breaking their backs from sunrise to sunset working the land and had little to show for it. This behavior came to be known as the "Puritan work-ethic" but in reality it had nothing to do with ethic and everything to do with necessity combined with pure ignorance (i.e. refusing to use more efficient farming techniques).

The history is actually very interesting and has many parallels to your story. You, too, were using superior techniques (i.e. automation) while your coworkers, out of ignorance, shunned it and instead stubbornly continued to do their work manually.

(Another thing that is fascinating was that Puritans were responsible for the banning of many celebrations and holidays, presumably because they themselves had no time to celebrate or take days off from their inefficient work.)
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Because HN is not a social network. It's a feed you can comment on. But no need to be on HN to read HN. That's the magic of open standards that promote interop like RSS. All the closed social APIs are just here to lock you in the trunk. And when you decide to move on , well to bad , you lose everything ,because you need to be on the plateform to use it...

If i decide to stop going on HN i can still follow it. No need for Ycombinator to "review" the client i'm using or impose "rate limits" or whatever.

And i can then broadcast HN feed with my own feed to people who suscribe it , without them subscribing HN.

But hey , "RSS must die" people are saying ...
Why is it a political statement, and why should this affect how I enjoy his work? As I mentioned above, it doesn't stop people enjoying Roald Dahl's work, either because they don't know of his views or feel that his views are irrelevant to one of the countless millions of replica products they own that is attributed to his work.

I'm not trying to be purposely argumentative. I just cannot see why I should view it as a political statement, rather than a "I just want to see an awesome movie" statement. Also, why should people care that others should not see this movie?
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> The point is that if you worked 50 vs 35 hours at the same job, you'd simply get more done -
> even considering diminishing returns.

Not to the best of my knowledge. It is worth remembering that the 40 hour workweek was introduced by Henry Ford in 1926 not because he was a bleeding heart liberal, but in order to increase productivity. More hours don't necessarily equal more work done. [1]

For modern non-mechanical jobs, the maximum productivity threshold may be even lower. For some types of jobs, productivity can even decrease: after a certain point, programmers will write sloppier code with more defects; the additional LOCs don't help because you're now creating additional work to remove these defects.

That doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions; just like there are people who have a natural talent to identify prime numbers, there are people who can sustain a high level of productivity over a large number of hours worked.

I also note that corporate leaders operate under different constraints: for them, availability may matter more than personal productivity.

Unrelated to productivity is the health issue: Consistently working long hours is bad for your health in a number of ways [2,3].

[1] http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/04/long.work.hours.hea...

[3] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/25/health/working-overtime-do...
Yeah unfortunately for WP7 you needed a Nokia device to get the Nokia apps, all WP8 devices get them though.
I think the safest thing to do is to avoid all cloud services that aren't essential to you. Downloading all of your email and removing them from cloud providers (gmail, yahoo, etc...) is probably a good idea too.

All of the cloud providers provide a convenience at the cost of security and privacy. The cloud providers might be just fine if you don't care about your privacy.
As former Somerville to Boston year round bike commuter (I' now in SF), I just wanted to tell you to rock on and stay safe. :-)

I know a good number of bike commuters in Boston and we've all gone down at some point, some in worse ways than others, but I don't think anyone has been doored too badly, which was always my biggest fear. In my case, I was hit from behind while riding with my lights on in a bike line (Somerville Ave) and thinking I was hyperaware of the cars behind me (the car drove off, but I'm pretty sure it was a drunk driver from the erratic driving). In a friend's case, a police car without its sirens on in JP blasted through a red light and hit him head on. Both of these accidents and most of the serious bike incidents I know of occurred at night. I'm actually more afraid of darkness than doors nowadays.
What terrorists? Did you read the article? "Today, the use of this sort of force is in too many jurisdictions the first option for serving search warrants instead of the last. SWAT teams today are used to break up poker games and massage parlors, for immigration enforcement, even to perform regulatory inspections."
Personally, I find it odd that traffic laws in US actually mandate (!) that bicyclists are to use the roadway and not the sidewalk.

Growing up in former USSR, I, along with other kids, used a bike to get around and for pleasure and have always stayed on the sidewalk (I don't think there were any laws about bikes).

From experience, I feel there's very little chance of injuring anyone, and even if it does happen - it is likely to be much less frequent and much less serious than what we observe with the bikes sharing the road with the cars. On rare occasions (rural locations) where there was no sidewalk - you'd ride towards oncoming traffic, same as what common sense recommends for pedestrians - so that you can see the cars and can avoid them if situation calls for it. That's probably illegal in US, since it appears that bikes here are somehow deemed more like motor vehicles and not pedestrians.

To conclude - I think the status quo is misguided (originally wrote stupid) and dangerous and traffic laws oughtta be changed to put soft squishy humans on two wheels on the sidewalks.
I would think a lot of those online music stores get sales by selling at a lower price than Apple. If Apple had the same kind of MFN clause that they had for books, that wouldn't have been possible. Apple probably thinks it was a bad idea to leave that hole open for the music stores, which is why they closed it for books.
"I have a friend who brags that he busts his * 60 hours a week driving a Coca-Cola delivery truck. Congratulations, I work 35 and make twice as much as he does."

Is success or contribution measured by your salary? This is only fair if we can all stop drinking beverages delivered to our offices.
Work is not war in any material sense, but it is war in almost every cultural sense. The cultural norms used by Anglo cultures to make sense of business, at the moment, are those of combat and war.
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I think the word "Work" above would be better replaced with "Productivity". It's work/life balance, not productivity/life balance. Every hour I can't do what I want at the drop of a pin because I'm in a place, fulfilling an obligation for my company, or something else along those lines - it's work. If the company puts things like meetings in my way of completing my job in the number of hours I allot to my full time employment, that's their problem, not mine.

Sure, there are exceptions. I'm young and single so I have the luxury of putting in a few hours at home in the evenings if I need to when meeting a deadline. But I don't subtract 5 minutes from my "time spent working" when I check Hacker News while my code is compiling. Am I being productive? No. Am I working? Yes.
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Google seems to be working fine here
Straw man indeed. Driving a truck may be about the limit of his per-hour productivity, so putting in hours is how he increases his earnings. Working smarter may net quadruple the per-hour earnings; question then is whether one is content with living on twice the income of the trucker, or whether expending more hours to net even more income is desirable. The trucker is working at his capacity (both in time and productivity per time unit), so perhaps some bragging is in order; given the productivity potential of the author, is not working the 25-hour difference laudable or squandering opportunity for earning more? It's a choice of balancing earning vs non-earning activities, and given the resources & goals of each, both may be laudable.
Of course. You need both. But that's not the typical failing of a developer.
I really liked this article: I think he was very methodical in challenging current dogma that GC/VM operations can be made as fast or faster than slightly lower level approaches.

For the curious, I have a simple benchmark program that focuses on string manipulation (and deliberately creates many temp string objects, like a real app would) in various languages. If anybody wants to download and try it on the latest version of their favorite languages on the host-de-jure, go for it!

https://github.com/roboprog/mp_bench
Why not keep them till the scheduled Friday meeting?

The client is expecting it Friday, probably does not have time to talk to you on Tuesday afternoon.

Its not lying, its not cheating, its saying I will build X and doing it in a professional manner.
FYI Two days ago there was a very extensive discussion on a Salon article which was an excerpt of this book:

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book” (salon.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6001843
Please don't tell me how to work or spend my time doing.
That sounds like a horrible environment!! If you live within 500 km of me, I'll buy the first round...
Riding a bike is dangerous.

This really makes me feel sorry for people who live in countries that do not encourage cycling.

I was born and raised in The Netherlands. Every Dutch friend and family member of mine learnt cycling as a small child. Many of them still cycle daily without a helmet, special clothing, or whatever. I cannot remember anyone having a serious accident. Two persons I know broke their arms, but in both cases there was no car involved (icy roads).

The difference? We have bicycle lanes. Many of them. They are often separated from the main roads. When there are lights, there are often separate bicycle lights. Besides that, laws are highly in favor of pedestrians and cyclers. For instance, a car driver is always responsible for paying 100% of damages of children under 14 and 50% of damages of those over 14. So, if a 40 year old cyclist is hit by a car, and 75% responsible for the accident and the car driver 25% responsible, the car driver still pays 50% of the damages of the cyclist. One of the results is that drivers of motorized vehicles tend to be more careful.

tl;dr: ask your government to make more cycling lanes and pass laws that favor pedestrians and cyclists.
I'm surprised you would consider e-mail an effective tool to have a discussion with multiple people. In the past I've found emails for non-trivial things to be more slow and frustrating than useful.