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If there is any bootcamps who is looking for someone please let me know. shireplus@gmail.com Willing to pay to try out one of these bootcamps.
This is a great illustration of regulatory capture: immense regulatory complexity that obstructs even the most innocuous giveaway program, thereby protecting the incumbent companies who have already invested the time and money to cope with it.

And yes, I know that these regulations exist to protect consumer safety from bad actors, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Well-intended regulations and regulatory capture are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Yes, a version for clients. Then again there's http://relogo.org/.
I have seen the calculation as written in this article many times. Is it wrong: http://nls.io/post/optimize-nginx-and-php-fpm-max_children

pm.max_children = (total RAM - RAM used by other process) / (average amount of RAM used by a PHP process)
The dirty secret here is CO2 emissions. Everything Sweden does to cut down waste to begin with is awesome. But of course you're going to run out of trash if you BURN EVERYTHING LEFT.

What marks this as a puff piece is the lack of honesty around CO2. The only place they mention it is in comparing it to.. generating the same amount of power from burning oil. It is spun as a way to reduce CO2, because look at all the oil we aren't burning. But this is a disingenuous comparison.

A proper comparison would pit burning trash against renewable energy sources that don't produce greenhouse gases. Nowhere do they even let on that incinerating trash is anything but a total positive for the environment.

There are other signals that this is a PR piece. They note that they've reduced "emissions" by 90-99 percent. Sounds like a miracle. But if you look closely and read all the details.. they don't count CO2 as an "emission".

Source (that the article is based on): http://www.avfallsverige.se/fileadmin/uploads/forbranning_en...
Why Paul Graham's opinion on this book matters that much? Is he any good at programming? I do not think so.
"enjoy" or "remind you of those gaping wounds that never really healed and you may have forgotten about them but NO!"?
What were some of the stuff people 10, 20, 30, and 40 years older said? It would be really interesting to see what the elder wisdom are.
Out yourself. Show your boss this thread, ask for their help. Something is likely to change one way or another. You will either end up being monitored more closely, or fired. Either way you will have removed the giant cushion that being fast and having no direct supervision provides.
Don't worry about changing the world. If through your best efforts + chance, you happen to change the world, that is great. But if you go through life believing you are without value unless you do something grand, you've got a 99.99999% chance of disappointment.

You're 21. Want to play more sports? Play them. You haven't even reached your physical peak. What, did you want to be a quarterback in the Super Bowl and it's not worth playing sports unless you are? Welcome back to 99.99999% disappointment.

You think that your procrastination and intelligence are unrelated. You think you're horrible on the inside, but you "get away with it" because you're smart. This is nonsense. You are bored. Maybe you didn't do the shit that was assigned to you in high school, but the SATs are not a genetics test. You learned it somewhere.

Don't feel guilty about the money you make. Don't think that you're a hamster on a wheel and you're worth nothing unless you're going at 100% speed. If your job doesn't give you enough work to interest you, be proactive and find some inefficiencies that need fixing. Fix them. Don't wait for someone to tell you to do it. After you fix it, tell everyone. If there isn't anything to fix, get a new job. And... to go against the grain of HN, consider a large company, one that has endless problems and technical debt. If you aren't happy in your own skin, working on a startup to change the world is probably not the best thing.

Also, seriously consider going to a therapist to discuss your issues. I hear that you can afford it. You're basically asking the internet to be your therapist. And the internet is not qualified (on average).
MS OS/2 2.0??? 2.0 was long after the split with MS, I think you mean IBM os/2. Also 32 bit programming had been around for a long time before Microsoft got around to it. Os/2 had protected mode 32 bit in 1992, and PC hardware had been running 386 based 32 but unix variants since the mid 80's. even before that the 68000 had been running unix in 32 bit. Just because the win32 programming crowd didn't get to play with 32bit (and the joys of thunking) until '95 doesn't mean it was popular for a long time before.
It's right up there in the middle of the post, mildly obfuscated.
status.net and diaspora are still here and working just fine... ?
Objective-C's tendency to long names (variables, selectors, classes) makes it more "self-documenting" than any language I've worked with. Besides, it's not that bad with autocomplete.
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It has been demonstrated that cannabis causes brain damage. That's not harmful enough for you?
I've personally found a variation of Marc Andreessen's index card concept very useful. (couldn't find it on his blog any longer, so here's an archive.org link)

http://web.archive.org/web/20091019051014/http://pmarca-arch...

I typically write down one simple goal each day for whatever project I'm working on. Something that is easy to knock out, but meaningful. Day after day of tearing up index cards of simple goals, and sooner than later you've accomplished a lot while not worrying so much about drowning in the grand scheme of things (I typically get overwhelmed / overloaded by having too many things that need to get done).
Thanks for the response.

I just now read the WSJ article and while I am probably wrong to feel this way, I am a bit happier they need to get me to load malware on my phone, rather than the spooky action at a distance, reach out and touch someone approach suggested in 2005.

Priest's article is vague enough that last cell tower pinged may be what she was getting at, but the context, IIRC, was that the Army could determine down to a few feet where people were. Well, yes, maybe that's just cell tower triangulation and having a quick response.

Oh well, perhaps we'll know before the black helicopters arrive over the city. :(
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“Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.” -Dan Dennett
> I sent letters to my elected representatives.

Were they stuffed with cash? Nothing talks like campaign donations.

All the vote promises in the world don't mean squat if they can't print enough flyers so that Joe Blow will recognize their name when they step into the booth.

Of course, no politician is going to care about donations on the level that your average middle-class American can afford to give. Maybe crowd-fund a large sum for donation whose receipt is contingent upon an agreement to vote a certain way on certain issues, with highly public and embarrassing repercussions if they do not?
Tales of Mere Existence - Procrastination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk
It's also a sign that your language lacks namespaces.
Stop going to hacker news until after 5pm
Now if only that autocomplete would passively infer the current project prefix + (super)class name, so you wouldn't have to type it when it's "local"...
Although, I wonder if I really fucked my brain/habits up so much that I'll never reach my full capacity.

There's no such thing as your "full capacity". What you're doing right now, that is your full capacity. Either accept that you're at your limit or actually do something to prove you're not.
Right, but if it made enough money to fund Armadillo it might be worth his time.
> I'd rather it just say "Donate" and have my payments processor accept any local currency.

They have dealt with the ecentricities of their local money their entire life. Bitcoin is new. In the end, from an objective standpoint, scanning a QR code and confirming the transaction is easier than dealing with debit / credit cards -> bank accounts -> checkbooks, etc. I still have a POS time with routing numbers and bank account numbers and those are effectively fiat bitcoin addresses.

Bitcoin is so much easier to use because all you need to use it is a bitcoin address.
Perl (and I assume Ruby from the comment) requires the running context of the interpreter to make decisions about how to interpret some code constructs. Because you need the running state, it is not parseable.
Unleash your CPU cores with node?
This is definitely my thought. This must be for a Series A fund - given that is where the glut is, per PG.

But not sure that $39M will be sufficient.

Although, the more I think about it...."Initialize Capital" is an clever name for a seed stage tech fund.
Can you really say a social network is working if nobody uses it?
This is a very poetic post. I like it for its literary value.
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Dont under-estimate the importance of your social environment. As much as possible try to get yourself in a place surrounded by peers who do get stuff done.
It's an annoying thing to have to deal with on a regular basis. I'm in the same boat, in that my father and I both have the same first and last names, so I've always gone by my middle name.

Except now when I go to networking events or interviews, I tell people my middle name L* and then they point that out that my name tag or application says my first name is M* and I have to go through the whole song and dance of explaining the situation.

I'm frustrated enough to be looking into getting it legally changed. You might want to consider that as well if only to not have to deal with those phone calls any more.
Surely the thing to advocate is less gratuitous regulation and more efficiency. Because no regulation at all is disastrous — without it we would still be living with lead paint, arsenic in our food, rat-filled restaurant kitchens and so on. Libertarianism espouses minimal state intervention, but it's clear that we actually do need a lot of intervention. At the same time it needs to be the good, useful type of intervention that protects citizens against the abuses of the marketplace.
Future of smartphones: Specs are out and Identity is in.
The official release announcement (at the bottom of the post):

http://blogs.windows.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/archive/2013/07...
> I refuse to adhere to the Bushism "yer either with us, or yer against us..."

Funny, if anyone expresses skepticism about that anti-government narrative then they are labeled as NSA shills - exactly as in "you are either with us or against us".
This isn't about political dissent against Obama. People are not being literally blacklisted for having the wrong politics. Are you paying any attention at all?
I would imagine that in order for the price of bitcoin to stabilize normal everyday people will have to already have adopted it. I guess its a bit of a chicken and egg problem. But so is a lot of new tech I guess.
in your case "fap" means doing bullshit like playing games or reading news. If you want to stop doing bullshit you should train your willpower. "No fap" is not only about fapping but about our weaknesses.
Right, if only it used C#! Then it could use nice short names like ListViewVirtualItemsSelectionRangeChangedEventHandler or DataGridViewColumnDividerDoubleClickEventArgs.
Check out https://github.com/mozilla/SocialShare and Persona :)
Create a menu of tasks.
Dedicate yourself to making progress on at least one of them at any given time. If you like doing any of them choose then one you feel least adverse to. It doesn't matter how many tasks are in your menu, or which one you choose, just "no empty time".
You didn't mention whether you find the work you're doing to be interesting or boring. When I'm working on something boring or unpleasant I also tend to procrastinate, but when I'm working on an interesting problem (sometimes even tracking down an obscure bug qualifies as interesting), I get absorbed in what I'm doing and don't get easily distracted.

If you find your work boring, have you considered looking for a job that's more in line with your interests?
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I just wish someone would make a code-review 'Fabien Sanglard' style, for us who have marveled this demo for years, but are not this tech-savvy.
It also helps me to look at this image: http://i.imgur.com/39U4k.png. Each box is one month of your life. There really aren't that many of them.
If you Google "checkout conversion remove field," you should see a number of articles on this, including some with A/B tests. The trend seems to be that the fewer fields shown or required, the better conversion is.
Not lying won't keep the other side from lying.
haha, you win this round :) though using a Microsoft (or Java) codebase might be considered cheating.
What a great post. Given that Facebook's official motto is to "move fast and break things", I've always considered developing on their platform akin to contracting for the Marquis de Sade.
You need to work with people waaay better than you, the embarrassment of seeing them do so much more than you will either force you to keep up or you'll realize you're not as smart as you thought you were. win-win.
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I'm not sure that "start a company" would be good advice until he can figure out what the causes of his lack of motivation are. Working entirely on his own without the structure and goals of an organized workplace around him could lead to even more procrastination.
That's an analytics tracker.
No, they "lose" phones in bars though (twice) and do other very sneaky things. Apple is super sneaky. They also do things like making gimped software and drivers for other platforms part of their business plan. I consider this worse than astroturfing.
When the middle name avoids confusion with another person and the situation is medical files its about as important as it gets. There is also a legal obligation for it to be accurate with some if our government contract work. That said, they don't seem to monitor accuracy. I spent a lot of time monitoring it though (checking, correcting, hounding data entry inaccuracy serial offenders), and it still causes me cold sweats every now and again.
Yes, I can. The networks work fine. If people need more than "this works fine, it's free, and you can use it instead of the other way around" as a reason, the people are broken.

20 years ago we hardly had cell phones and that was just fine, if you actually loved your Grandmother you'd always find a way to send her some baby photos... and now we start to cry because Diaspora is kinda basic? Even though that would change real quick if only 5% of the FB users would switch to it. I think that's silly, so I for one am reachable by phone and email, and my friends are always welcome to join me "on the actual web". Until then, I'm not supporting them in their self-harm: for whatever reasons people use Facebook, I try to avoid being one of them (edit: one of the reasons, that is).
The em space fell out of favor when HTML got popular, because HTML renderers (ie. your browser) will strip extra spaces. So when looking at a web page, there actually is no difference between one and one hundred spaces (or two).
You don't have it wrong. In an object-oriented context, whether you're working in C, C++, or Obj-C, it is entirely reasonable to attach the asterisk to the type name, and treat `MyObject* ` as a type.

For every weird little edge case where `MyObject* ` doesn't make sense, there are hundreds of examples where it makes complete sense.

I've been doing it that way since I started in the 90s, and I've always felt the people who do it the old way (attaching the asterisk to the variable name) are either holding on to an obsolete bit of antique C style, or they don't know what they're doing. It has no place in modern object-oriented code.

So what about `int* a, b, c;`? Never declare multiple variables on one line like this.
This proves it's popular, not insecure.
It sounds very like being a serious contributor to open source actually. Its not for everybody, but its not ridiculous to think that there might be causes/groups that you wish to succeed, you think you can help them, and you have to convince them that you can. You don't let just anyone waltz in and patch the Linux kernel.
Want to start a project with me? It's not a huge project, but something to accomplish.
This list of BINs/IINs is not very accurate beyond the first two digits identifying card network.
It is consistent across different editors.

Deterministic layout view. Tabs are non deterministic as it depends on user settings.
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No. They're busy worshiping 5th generation Gandy monkey.
VolunteerMatch.com is a great site to use for seeking Opportunities. Orgs with tech needs often post there seeking help.
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Well now I'm depressed AND procrastinating.
I think that those laws are there not to protect the busines of destillers but the huge business that drinkable alcohol sales means to the government. They want to milk every aspect of the process. I don't know if it is "difficult" to obtain such licenses, I suspect it is just expensive.
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Microsoft SQL Server has a couple of methods for querying CSV/XLS(X) files (I remember at least OPENROWSET and BULK INSERT), but sometimes it's a bit tricky to use/configure (have the right OLEDB driver, use INI files for configuration etc..) or the behaviour is not very consistent/well-documented

Edit: of course with BULK INSERT you don't directly query the file, you must load it to a (temp) table
how is this even being asked in 2013? this is why god invented adderall. stop fucking around.
Does requiring people to sort their trash actually work? What sort of feedback and enforcement is in place?

Where I live in California, we are given a large recyclables bin and a small trash bin, with the option to pay more for a larger trash bin. This sounds like an incentive to recycle, but it's a perverse one. If I were to just put all my trash in the recycle bin, there would be no consequences at all for me, because the recyclables truck just dumps it all into a big communal heap, with no possibility to trace it back to me. Is this cardboard too wet to recycle? Who knows? In it goes!
he's obvi ADD.
What a load of rubbish. Scott Hanselman has been blogging on these sorts of things for years before he ever joined Microsoft, and always tries to maintain his independence in his blogging and podcasting regardless of employer.
While working with the Facebook iOS SDK was a horrible experience, I don't get where this is coming from:

"Apple pushes new iOS releases...breaking software written relatively recently"

Can this really be considered true? I can't remember anything deprecated that didn't still function in iOS, with the exception of the UDID and mac address APIs which were deprecated for privacy reasons (and developers have had ages to move away from UDID). iOS 3 era code I download from Github still runs fine. At worst, this summer Apple required apps to support the iPhone 5 format, but that's a pretty easy upgrade to support, and a major user facing one.
Well, you're following in your dad's footsteps. Procrastination is a kind of passive aggression, and it sounds like you're mad at your dad for being a bad role model. It also sounds like you feel guilty about not using your talents fully. Psychotherapy can be very good for these kinds of things if you find someone you like and trust. It will help you to separate psychologically from your parents, which is never a bad thing. You don't have to wait for a severe crisis before you go and talk to someone, and at your income level you can easily afford it.
I fondly remember fingering John about once a week back when I was in university just to see if he had posted anything new.
Strange how the article tries to paint the decrease of internet cafe usage as a result of political agenda. The most obvious factors being that home broadband becoming widespread/more affordable and increased wealth of the middle class in China (being able to afford computer+internet access at home) aren't considered at all.

Internet cafes dying off have happened everywhere else in the world. For it to happen 7yrs later in China is no shocker.
It's hard, I've read most comments in this discussion thread and most of them aren't coming from procrastinators. But if I may say the only trick that worked for me... get started. That's the hardest part. But once you get started, even thought 99% of it suck, you'll find a part of the task that you want to continue and push yourself to it. And every time you feel like quitting the task, push yourself to do 1 more minute.. just one. And you'll find yourself addicted to a small part of that task that you find interesting.

Whatever it is, dishes, work, making calls, paying credit cards.. just get started for 30 secs. The rest will fall into place.
> I would not have heard about any of the recent revelations if not for The Guardian.

Once again, this is not news. Joint operations between NSA/CIA and MI5/6 have been thoroughly reported for decades. The Menwith Hill facility in particular has been doing its spy thing for half a century.

Nor is it news that both countries use regulatory arbitrage to evade each other's intel laws.
I'm picturing this as a character saying 'silly blond english man' or along those lines.
This little bit of snark gave me a laugh: "The red stripe highlights the weekend. For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is anyway considered a part of weekend), alternative frames can be produced."

Can I just say?

Sunday and Saturday are the weekend because they are on each end of the week. If you stack them both up at the back, only Sunday would get to be the weekend. Saturday would just be the day before the end.

A line has got two ends.
Don't submit to his dominance.

There is dominance and nothing else.
how is that regulatory capture? I can see over regulation, maybe, but what did any of that have to do with the regulating agency doing the bidding of those its regulating instead of acting for the public good?
You could load your data and have it processed while other assets are still loading. Later the same worker would liberate the UI-thread from model-jobs and keep the UI responsive.

See "Example 4" at http://www.masswerk.at/plexer for an example.
Why was I downvoted? I believe I made an informed and appropriate point.
you said it barnaby. obviously these lame dipshits on this entire thread are neglecting that every b-school overachiever NOT asking this question is smashed full of amphetamines by their esteemed physician / parent knowing that their kid won't be stuck in life asking these sorta of questions.