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>any strategies for waking up?

Light.

These things are personal, but it is something that helps me. I used to use a standard SAD alarm clock by Phillips, but have since put some Hue light bulbs in my room. I have blackout curtains and the bulbs I have programmed to turn on via a little process on my server, I've been experimenting with ripples and which frequencies to use best, but haven't got nearly enough data yet.

I generally try to always wake up at 7am. The hours of sleep depend on exercise and how tired I felt in the morning (never think at 11pm oh I feel fine!).

Diet mixed with that helps, generally I won't eat after 8pm, unless I'm staying up late!
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Successfully raising capital is pretty much always seen as a win

This is the wrong mindset, people often think that raising capital from investors is win, it's not; raising capital does not mean a company will be successful. Raising Capital is one of the steps a company can use to help them win - by using that capital to build a profitable business and/or a successful exit & only then can it be considered a win.
Yes, there are a lot of outstanding problems with simple solutions that aren't hard in any practical way. The problem is that we want (I want?) headline-making accomplishment and intellectual gratification.
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"people have no passion for their job, care only about the salary and picture quality time only "outside" of work"

The thing is that I do have a passion for my job, but I want to keep that passion, not let it burn me out and then resent it for the rest of my life. I pace myself rather than burn out.

Disclaimer: I'm in my thirties with 4 other people and a dog to feed and have a hefty mortgage to pay off as well, yet I work less time than people without that responsibilty
But the design itself has been tested by the manufacturer, it's just your implementation that's untested.
Completely agree. I'm currently getting downvoted to hell on this thread for a little joke I made to mirror the strawman nature of his arguments: "Americanesque slavery system"??? "80 hour weeks"??? "3 hour commutes"???

What's galling (pardon the pun) is the arrogance that's often on display towards any company or country that has the temerity to question the wisdom of these rules:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732354920457831...

PG himself has posted this little graphic that illustrates quite nicely where the European economy is heading, no doubt in part because of these attitudes:

http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/29...
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Great point, but the government seems to be hell-bent on making this impossible through laws like HIPAA, so while it may indeed be possible to make, the government is going to fight against you every single step of the way.
This is intended to be a light sport aircraft so the comparison is not completely valid.

LSA has 2 seats, take off weight 1300lb (600kb), max speed 120knots (138 mph), no specific fuel limit.

An ultralight is good for fun, but not practical for transportation. An LSA can be used as transportation - it's about 3 times faster than a car.
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If there ever was an article written and filled with mis-information and a completely superficial look at the pros and cons of the Danish society and it's merits, it is this article.

The claim that Danes are ambitious is flat out wrong. The younger generation more so, but there is a reason why danes are the "happiest people" in the world and it's not because of their ambitions.

The Danish model is under huge pressure and haven't escaped the reality of globalisation and automatisation.

But because wealth gets distributed the way it does, it doesn't feel the heat too much just yet.

In other words the Danish system is a thing of beauty as long as it works. Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore and somethings gotta give.

Edit: Was asked to be more specific.

Out of 6m people:

Almost 0.8m people on some sort of social welfare

Almost 0.8m people are working in full time positions for the public sector.

In comparison 1,9 in the private sector and it is shrinking rapidly.

It is notoriously easy to start a company in Denmark but notoriously hard to grow it among other things because most Danes don't have those ambitions and are very very risk-averse.

We are long past the point where more people are depending on the state than on the private job market and as those jobs disappear because of the named automation and globalisation and because Denmark is just too expensive, it will be hard for any government to promise the elaborate system we have now.

This is already starting to show as the latest government scramble to lower taxes for corporations and reduce the number of entitled benefits Danes can expect.

Furthermore Denmark took the wrong educational strategy and unfortunately like most of the european countries believed that knowledge worker meant book reader.

The result of this is that we have a large over educated part of the population who will have a very hard time finding a job.
My thoughts exactly. I'm actually amazed it has taken so long for this idea to come to anything close to fruition. Heinlein really grokked the future.
Their proposal also suggests that the capsule will need it's own rocket motor (and hence guidance and telemetry system) to get to orbit.
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I think we have a language difference: when I say "merging" I don't mean, "incorporate changes from trunk" I mean "you branch and trunk become the same".

> getting to integrate on your own schedule

Essentially, this is what I oppose, for the reasons I described originally.

> Any other workflow is limiting and restricting many of the benefits of git.

The point of git is to make your workflow better, the point of your workflow is not to make git better. Yeah "branching is easy", and that's good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you want to start using branches heavily (especially long-lived ones). Bad version control systems were only part of the reason to avoid branches.
Can't find the source code for the engine, so it's pretty worthless to me...this is like someone open sourcing a Unity demo, there isn't anything technical they've released just some graphics and game level maps which typically you can't reuse in your own code anyway.
Technically? I'm not sure that's possible. They own the hypervisor, so you have to trust them. This is why the Ubuntu trademark is so important.
He/they sometimes kill stories that they don't feel belong on the site, or don't add anything to it.
I think it refers to the Hunter S. Thompson quote:

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride."

Basically meaning you may be getting in over your head, but you'll probably have a good story to tell if you don't end up dead. Similar to the idiom, "in for a penny, in for a pound."
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The acronyms don't really matter. What I need to know is that a bug encountered in the emulator would also occur on the devices and vice versa. If that doesn't happen then the emulator becomes yet another platform with a differing set of unique bugs.
Patrick you've put yourself in a relatively unusual position of being both a full-stack software developer / marketer and actually knowing the market.

It's struck me that part of the reason people don't try to solve these types of problems because they just don't know the market at all. They solve problems they have exposure to.

Knowing what you know, do you think there's any scope for a "Meet the Market" mini-conference where people with actual problems (and budget) from, say, medecine come along and give a lecture on what problems they'd pay to have solved? Do you think that purchasers have enough knowledge about their own problems that they could verbalise them such that people could help solve them?
It used to work with analogue lines, but I'm not sure wether it still works with the digital ones that most people now have.
Ok, so first of all, not everyone uses types and I for one think it is ok to use dynamically typed languages.

Second, I think you have a different vision of CI from me (maybe more frequent). I'm not advocating pushing code that is broken, I'm advocating pushing code that is working (but maybe is incomplete).
Cryptographic hash functions must be efficient to compute. Those examples (scrypt, bcrypt, etc) were designed to be difficult to compute. Those are password hash functions, not cryptogrpahic hash functions. Two totally different things with different purposes.
That way, they cannot be forced by their competition to do things they don't want because it offers a comparative advantage. It makes sense.
Agreed. Unfortunately, that's a guarantee that Android's licensing model can't provide. Every manufacturer can do whatever they please, so fragmentation can't be regulated.
And now I've upvoted this post. :)
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In the 80's, 90's and into the 00's, we fleshed out a lot of the tough-but-solvable pieces of the puzzle. Now we're left with either very easy pieces (local events, photo sharing, Angry Birds, ...) or the problems that stumped everyone (Semantic Web).

The hard problems do have a few crazy people attempting them, but they get very little support -- as opposed to support and often funding for an app that lets you share your cat pictures.

And I think that's why we're in a lull. HN itself has become boring. (Have you noticed?) Without the crazy research kamikazes, we aren't going anywhere.
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You say 45-50 hours like it's nothing though. That's still a lot of time. I guess I'm technically midwest (rust belt). I do spend 3 hours on the road a day when I have to commute. I did it for 8 years and can't handle it anymore, so I negotiate to work remotely. There are shitty tech jobs out there and I've worked a few of them. 24 hour on call, 12 hour shifts, rotating between day/afternoon/midnight, 60+ hours per week, being woken up after midnight shift for pointless meetings at 9am for <40k per year. Quitting that job was the best feeling ever. Saying that all jobs in america work less than <50 (when a normal week would be 40) is just as absurd as saying everyone works 80 hours with a 3 hour commute.
> My conclusion is, that most people simply aren't bothered with cancer research until they get it

This is part of the problem, coupled with the "immediate reward versus distant punishment" bias. Another is the obvious tragedy of the commons here. Once the research is successful it also benefits those who chose not to contribute so fund it please while I spend my $5 on a tasty cookie.
i have build http://cygamerentals.com/
Although i have a few customers it is nowhere near a successful as i would want it to be.
I blame my partner as he did absolutely nothing.
I designed, redesigned, advertised (ads,social), told people about, personally delivered games while he did nothing.

This is where a good partner would have helped a lot !
I'd be intrigued to see a breakdown between London and the rest of the UK in the "working very long hours" stakes, especially when you add in commuting.

It's entirely possible to have a successful career working 9 to 5, with a sensible commute, in vast swathes of the UK. I've spent 4 years in Edinburgh and have always lived within a 10 minute walk to work, often within a World Heritage Site.

The childcare costs are however a good point of something that other Northern European countries tend to do better at. Though our recent government spat over the ratio of staff to children shows that the public just aren't rational on the issue so changing it would be hard.
Are you doing anything clever to add and remove upstream hosts from the HAProxy instance?

When I looked into it (very briefly) there was no kind of programmatic access to do that, among other things.
Although it doesn't necessarily do away with the entire message, I'm with you in thinking that the premise is a bit of a stretch.

My initial guess at a reasonable explanation was that we're more inclined to believe we deserve a treat/reward after doing work, and memorising a long number is obviously more 'work' than memorising a short one.
Since we have no evidence of Linus being a criminal, I think I'll have to go with Force of Nature.
As you can see by the op's comment: Wanting time away from work is not acceptable in the land of capitalism. Everyone should want to spend their "quality" time at work. Fuck family, right?
Not mentioned are the command line dev tools for working with the device. adb[1] is really handy on Android. You can easily upload packaged builds, stop and start apps, transfer files, invoke anything via Intents (am), get a list of installed apps, and use the shell to invoke other things (eg `pm clear` to reset an app to first user experience).

Doing the same with iOS development is painful. Apps for the simulator end up in arbitrarily named directories so you can at least inspect their sandbox and can be invoked via extremely long command lines. But forget about apps on the device itself. libimobiledevice has reverse engineered some of it, but for example there is no way to start or stop an app from the command line.

I was doing some FTUE[2] work on both Android and iOS with a third party app, and needed to stop it, clear the data and start it again. For Android I just had to press up arrow and return. For iOS I had to do multiple gestures on the device, then use an app named iFunBox (really) to manually clear out the sandbox, and then launch the app again via touch.

[1] http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html

[2] First Time User Experience
I make no judgement as to whether it is good or bad. That's just how it is.
I still use it to play Terraria because its creator never fixed the multiplayer (which by the way if you play will be updated very soon with lots of new content).
At some point an individual has to come to terms with the fact that 99% (or some equally large percentage) of human economic activity has nothing much to do with improving the human condition, but is rather beer and circuses writ large.

You can cure a disease for the cost of a large video game development these days, and an election year of political donations in the US could be used to cure aging. Medical research in general is a sliver of the economic activity spent kicking leather balls around grassy fields.

This is the world. The only way to make it better is to do what you can to add to the sliver rather than to the circuses.
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I think you are externalising blame. The blame plainly sits with the business management.

35 or 40 hours is really irrelevant, unless you are the employee.

The problem comes down to the fact that most humans are rubbish at what they do or don't care, businesses look at short term cash flow rather than long term investment or the business isn't viable to start with. The typical failure scenarios are:

1. They hire the cheapest people who will do the work then whinge when they have to hire two people to cover that time because the first person is inefficient, incompetent or disinterested in it.

2. They hire humans rather than make a long term investment in automation or subcontracting services out.

3. The business isn't really viable. So costs are cut and the business scrapes along.

Do you understand that the large youth unemployment many countries face is because of such policies you applaud?

The large youth unemployment is due purely due to the fact that the governments support people who don't aim to work in society. They are not employable, apart from by businesses described in case (1) above at which point they self-perpetuate the failure mode.

Businesses need to stop blaming everyone else for their own failings and start looking in the mirror. If a business is failing, then it's mismanaged, isn't hiring the right people or is not viable. Not all businesses can be successful.

For ref, I've built and sold three SME businesses. I now work for another one as a major stakeholder.
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True, but just as often they're wretched parents and citizens who never volunteer or donate.
You're disappointed because it's not magic or strong AI?
I agree. I've been in those dead end corporate jobs. People just grind through the day with hopes that they can take those 2 weeks of vacation to enjoy a little bit of their life.
"The reason we have three is when operating in proximity of ISS, we have to always have two computer strings voting on something on critical actions. We have three so we can tolerate a failure and still have two voting on each other. And that has nothing to do with radiation, that has to do with ensuring that we're safe when we're flying our vehicle in the proximity of the space station.

I went into the lab earlier today, and we have 18 different processing units with computers in them. We have three main computers, but 18 units that have a computer of some kind, and all of them are triple computers – everything is three processors."

This detail so reminded me of Clarke's Rama series.

"And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain:

The Ramans do everything in threes."
I have looked at the website and i cant figure out anything.
This is something that i might be interested, but i have no way to know.
The whole site looks amateur. You might want to fix that up to provide more information on everything
I agree that it isn't a big deal but I was genuinely confused when I first read the article. That's why I made this comment.

Even now, I still think that it is a bit misleading because they cannot reconstruct the scene from any photo(s) but only from a sequence of closely related photos which is better described by the word 'video'.
Linus comments is valid in your case: your colleague's work is relevant to you, thus you have a reason to pull. Otherwise, pulling on a time base will give you little benefit besides the occasional breaking of your stuff.

If you review now Linus comment, it makes sense that pulling should be done on a feature branch: one that has a complete, working solution of something you need.
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If you are concerned your friend is imminently planning suicide, you can call the police (look up the non emergency phone number) and ask them to do a "wellness check". My wife had a coworker who hadn't been heard from for a day so two women from the office had a wellness check done with the police and they found the coworker incapacitated in his home. See: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5823955_police-welfare-check_.html

also, depending on the circumstances and your local state laws, you can have your friend involuntarily committed for observation to a psychiatric facility, but a judge will likely have to be involved. To me, the Facebook post would be enough to seriously consider both of these options. (my wife is a social worker)

these may seem a bit extreme, but they are there for your friends protection. Its better to possibly lose your friendship and him live then having him end his life.

I hope this helps the immediate time being
> (Then again, some might argue that now you have twice the chance of being targeted by a scammer).

Twice the chance for half the money. Significantly less for the whole sum (assuming scams are independent events). I think it's a good tradeoff ;).
Perfect for tracking our sales and downloads on the road!
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Indeed. People don't "get" family until they have one.

The people who don't "get" family are doing those who do "get" family a big disservice.

The problem is that they most likely will have family one day so they're only burying themselves too with this attitude.

And capitalism is as you say, waiting to milk them.
I'm curious as how this disruption could be used in a financial scenario. If you disrupt the GPS for 10 minutes, would the timestamps really go that out of whack?
Just because you don't understand the value something provides, it doesn't mean that it doesn't provide it.

I don't think the argument is that these optimisations don't bring value; it's that they don't bring as much value to society as an effective cancer treatment, or a new technology that cheaply and cleanly purifies water, or [insert other breakthrough here].
This is nothing new. All BBC articles on Denmark are almost entirely inaccurate. It's like the BBC has no researchers in Denmark or on Denmark, and basically swallow some brochure.

Every other week, a Danish newspaper has an article about another BBC article painting another rose picture of Denmark. Is the BBC working for the Danish tourism board?!

Just two weeks ago, a BBC article claimed Danes can usually command 3 languages besides English and Danish, which hardly accurate (unless they count Swedish and Norwegian, but that's cheating!).
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Sometimes that "genius" doesn't translate into other areas.
45 - 50 sounds like a lot..
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Been there, done that. 1st off you have a chemistry problem in your brain. Not your mind your brain. This is a chemical imbalance that can be readjusted. A good 1st move is to printout a copy of your post here and hand it to a doctor. They have the antidepressants that will reset the brain's balance.
You haven't done anything wrong and there are many people that are in your situation. We over-pressure ourselves creating a continuous stress that wears the brain down. When it happened to me the world actually turned grey. Amazing.
You'll come out of this and then one day you'll be making a post that will help someone else.
Oh,one other thing. About quitting that job, good for you. You have courage to speak your mind, that's a rare thing nowadays. You still have your skill-set and something better is just ahead.
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Good thing your post wasn't a bug-report, although you do mention that something doesn't work.

You didn't describe any symptoms or argue why the Danish system no longer works or what precisely doesn't work, so it would be great if you could give some examples, facts and figures.

Are you talking about unemployment? Average wealth? Class mobility? Freedom? Pollution?

Any country that has a model that works better? US, UK, China, France, Singapore? In what way?
Testing at the API level is effectively integration testing for any kind of non-trivial API.

Unit testing has particular value because it avoids m*n problems. But that doesn't necessarily mean that m and n need to be separately addressable entities in your API. But if you unit test at the API level, then you're forced to do that.

For example, consider a web browser widget that's part of a UI framework. A web browser is an enormously complex piece of software with hundreds of individual modules doing various things. But the API at the UI toolkit level is much, much simpler; an URL and a handful of properties and methods relating to history navigation. Trying to unit-test the web browser at the API level would be ridiculous; no less ridiculous than having your testing constraints drive enormous complexity into the developer-facing API.