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They showed it to us at Primary school too. I'm from south Sheffield though so the accents sounded quite posh to us :-)I do remember being freaked out by any loud noises in town for a few months afterwards.

I watched it again a couple of years ago. It's amazing to think about how close we actually came to nuclear war not so long ago and now we're in a position where people can campaign for self disarmament of nuclear weapons.
>I'm getting pretty tired of this attitude. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for healthy skepticism, but if you can't grasp the basic understanding that the biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process then your in the wrong business mate.

The "biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process". We're talking about the "enter credit card details" stage here. Which is hardly the "biggest hurdle to conversion" -- it's where conversion has mostly already been made.

You first need (a) a decent product, (b) to present it nicely on the web page, (c) good copy, (d) appropritate calls to action, (e) a pricing strategy, (f) to get the customer to decide to buy. Only then the "friction in the purchasing process" (with respect to entering credit card details) comes into play. At the very last stage of conversion.

But that's beside the point.

In my question I didn't specifically doubt that the "biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process".

I merely asked the parent to qualify why he thinks this specific form will "stop people for paying".
> Now imagine that you inherit a legacy codebase that looks like that.

I wager that every codebase beyond a few years of churn looks like that, you just don't look at the CFG to see how much of a mess it is.

There's a key to their approach in that abstraction can be used - the nodes aren't statements as they are in PD, but chunks of code. This means the low-level stuff is hidden from you and you see how higher-level components integrate (if you take the time to tell it what the high level components are, presumably).
Perhaps it could be an evacuated, semi-flexible, underwater toroidal ring along the coast?
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But I'm saying that is not based on academic merit when anyone can attend.
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Your description reminds me of Threads ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads ), which is set is nearby Sheffield. At the time (1984) the centre of much industry.

The film itself is terribly bleak, I'm glad to have not consciously lived through always worrying of nuclear war.
Actually, they do exactly that. The process to become a contributor to the Linux kernel is to send a patch to a public mailing list. The patch is evaluated on its own merits. There's no interview process, no convincing anyone that you can help. You just do it.
I kind of have the same. You ask for help but from experience I can tell that most tips you have to do yourself wont break the habit.

For me, there is/was just one solution. Ina one-on-one I told my boss (who was already very happy with me btw) that this was only about 40-50% of me. I just asked for more responsibility, more work, and make sure I can no longer bullshit around. Added benefit, this received me sone awards, and very positive salary talks :).
Is there a complete list of Musk's statements about Hyperloop, constraining its nature?
I was 10 when I saw "The Day After" [1] and "Testament" [2], back-to-back.

I tell people this, and the younger ones never believe me, but I genuinely believed that I would never live to be an adult.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_(film)
Do it have an in-editor terminal?

An in-editor debugger?

Does it offer a REPL?

Does it work with your build system and your SCM system without some ho-hum third party plugins?
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I don't see that distinction. The are languages designed to map directly to register machines internal operation, like C or C++ or fortran and those are statement based because that's how the machine works. There are also high level languages, designed to express computation, and those are expression based, again, beacause computation is inherently based on expessions. There are other kinds of languages as well, for other purposes (relations, queries, etc).

Do you really belive that only people working on low level register transfer level things "accomplish things"? That's souds like a very old assembler argument.:-)
The OAuth bit in the title of this post reminds me that that change broke one of the author's previous projects on Twitter: http://www.bogost.com/blog/it_soared_a_bird.shtml

Twitter's responsibility does seem somewhat less, anyway, in that they've never been as platformy as Facebook: Facebook actively claimed that this was a place to deploy your games and other apps, but then broke stuff constantly.
Yes, joking aside, it means it's target use demographic is on the go (to the great hackathon in the sky).
Very nice. I had a go at designing some calendars a while back, only they were all pocket-sized:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/sets/7215759450272255...
I don't think the joke would work as well with just any other desirable thing. The joke sets up the scene with two geeks and a sexy woman and there's some amount of expectation that the joke is going to be about their relative sex drives or the mathematician only knowing how to have sex in theory or something similarly boring and familiar. It's then somewhat surprising when it turns into a joke about philosophical paradoxes and is therefore funnier with the surprise.
To be fair, if he's comparing to human-driven cars, every mode of transport is "nearly impossible" to get injured in. That clause doesn't really constrain anything.
you can always fetch a website with pure html, something like <img src="http://news.ycombinator.com"/> + an ad network that's too many requests. but still I'm not 100% sure whether that's possible.
I think that the dependency of the English people on their Matriarch for comfort and compassion is a sign of ill-health, personally, as a society. I find it repugnant that in a time of dire circumstances, the dependency on cult figures is still a resolute component of the human social experience. Until we do away with such crutches, we'll always have the very threat of war upon us ..
Presumably they would only have done that if NATO ground troops were likely to advance through Poland? I'd expect the US to have similar plans to attack the UK if we'd done anything like immediately surrendering if a war had looked likely?

[Militaries have lots of weird plans for strange events that could probably never happen].

NB The UK had plans to attack US bases here to get our hands on nuclear weapons if there was any sign that the US didn't want to get directly involved in a war - no idea why anyone would find it surprising that such plans were considered!
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They won't take special, small-batch items

Don't know about how it works in general, but that definitely isn't true in Sweden. Individual stores must carry a certain 'standard' stock, but beyond that they are free to stock whatever products they want in, and it's not uncommon to see small orders of only a half dozen bottles of something obscure. And even if your local store doesn't stock some particular thing you want, they will always be happy to try to order a couple of bottles for you.
The suggestion that Sweden is homogeneous is too common and simply false. I've lived in Stockholm for 6 months and it's a very diverse city. Far more cultural and economic diversity than, say, many Midwestern cities of comparable size. In fact, wikipedia can point you to the facts "As of 2011, Statistics Sweden reported that around 19.6% or 1.858.000 inhabitants of Sweden had foreign background, defined as born abroad or born in Sweden by two parents born abroad." (from "Demographics of Sweden")

What is more, the notion that homogeneity and IQ have anything to do with the capacity of a nation to recycle is both offensive and absurd.
Both came from game dev backgrounds. Carmack announced he was getting into rockets a couple of years before Musk sold paypay... and then got into rockets :)

I wouldn't be surprised if Carmack heavily inspired Musk. If not just with shareware, and online payments, then with rockets.

Also, the public .plan files he published in the 90s heavily inspired the web log/blog craze :)
most indian developers are self-taught geeks who pick stuff up easily.

I believe that to be just plain wrong. I suspect you're taking a small sample of people and extrapolating that. India contains a great many universities and technical colleges teaching people programming. These places charge money.

I see this blindness a lot here on HN; HN is a small group of motivated technologists. The majority of the world's programmers don't read HN. They don't read programming books. They don't think about other programming languages. They don't learn new things by themselves.

C++ is the mother of all modern languages and I suspect job specification that mention "C++" is an indication of that.

This also is simply incorrect. I see a vast number of job specs without C++ on them. If C++ is being put on job specs just because it's "the mother of all modern languages", whatever that means (and how exactly is C++ the mother of modern C, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, Perl and a whope bunch of other languages?), do the job specs without C++ on them come from some other universe where C++ doesn't exist? No. They come from jobs where C++ isn't required.
It's not a bug in phpass any more than using a user supplied string as a db query is a bug in MySQL.

Wp is/was using the library wrong
How would you run cron without cron?

And it only checks if it needs to run a job at page load, it doesn't actually run it everytime, which isn't that big of a deal to check.

Wordpress has a very high focus on readable code which does seem to affect it's speed. But it is easy to use, setup and hack, which is why it is popular. And as Yahoo and wordpress.com clearly shows, it does scale.
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That is political incentive though, they aren't quite as strict here. I think, no matter how we do it, it will be more expensive to recycle. That is, unless there is a political decision to tax waste burning/landfills, or resources become very scarce.

But it really is a shame, because high density areas like Copenhagen, are ideal for pushing recycling. You get quantities, and you don't have to collect over a large geographical area. So the running cost of collecting is significantly less, and you can build larger and more efficient facilities to process and recycle the waste.
I strongly recommend these books. They have been very helpful. If you were to read just one, read the first.

"Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now" http://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-Why-You-What-About/dp/...

"The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastinati...
Interesting. This would seem a natural fit for stream / event based processing. Digesting server-logs, social signals, etc. Something like Twitter Storm but with components on a more fine-grained level. Wonder how concepts like iterative map/reduce map to this.
It's Jakob Nielsen. While he can be a bit of a smartass sometimes and is not undisputed in the usability community, his books are definitely worth reading.
1. Basically, the plugin should be ran on any textarea that produces mail content or commits, so that they respect the 72 characters convention, even when not produced from a mail client or with git/vim.

2. They thanked me for showing them the project, but didn't mentioned anything about using it or not using it.
A scenario in which more people were killed more quickly could only be better.

The thing I took away from Threads is that as soon as you see the mushroom cloud, it's in your interest to ensure that you die as soon as possible.

I've just remembered the final scene. :(
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First sentence there is superb. Wish I could up vote more than once. Really quite insightful.
I don't think the OP said his kids are starving, in fact he mentioned he's only 21 so most likely doesn't have any. I think you are jumping to too many conclusions here.
He also talks about Lisp and functional programming in general.
Most non-American cards use something like "Expiry" instead of "Good Thru", but apart from that minor string difference, it's pretty awesome.

Maybe you could get rid of the text entirely, MM/YY should be enough of a cue.
About the land access concern, in France we had the aerotrain which was developped as an alternative to high speed train but did not survive the conventional railroad lobbies. There is still 60 km of test track south of Paris. The track is 10 m above the ground and is built using pillars every 20 m. It has been there for more than 40 years for it's considered too expensive to dismantle for actual very limited annoyment, more limited than high voltage power lines for example. However, land is flat there and mostly non urban.
Or we could do what Americans do and venerate a piece of cloth?

I'm not having a pop at Americans, but it may make sense to view the queen as a symbol in the same way that the flag is for Americans. It's just that our symbol happens to be a person.

Also, the Queen ties us back to stuff like Henry V and Agincourt etc.
It could also mean 7/3 which is a better fit to the other ratio.
We had people campaigning for unilateral disarmament then as well. TBH I still don't think it's a valid position when you have rogue states such as Pakistan and North Korea with nuclear weapons.
So my take on it is this:

There will be a guiding rail, and the vehicles will be 2 / 4 person pods that can be accelerated in the same way railguns work.
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> "Things got confusing for a few years (till about 2005)"

They weren't that confusing - remember the original "dotcom boom" (and bust) was in the 90s, not the 2000s - and although it didn't end well, people were building high volume, complex, transactional websites in those days, and it wasn't all Perl scripts.

I was a MSFT platform developer at the time, and I remember being acutely aware of the rise of Java as the web development language in 95/96 - and the subsequent explosion in Java application servers and associated 'platforms' - Silverstream, ATG, Blue Martini etc.
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Yes, to the point that people take pride in it. Colleagues suffer minor, humorous ridicule for putting something in the wrong bin and there are conversations about plastic type 5 vs plastic type 2. One guy is designated "Recycle Man" for leading office efforts. Under most desks in the office are two bins, one for cardboard/paper/etc. I don't know anyone who even thinks about it as a chore now.
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Research article:
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Good point, but poor analogy. Everyone knows that red cars go faster (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedOnesGoFaster).

I think more to the point I can't see anything about visual programming that will make refactoring easier or less necessary.
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I've used the libpam module for Google Authenticator[0] before, the difference being that it isn't dependant on the availability of a third-party service, but you have to be much more careful about losing your device. That said Authy do have pretty great uptime[1]

Nice for production servers, but becomes a an annoyance after the cool factor wears off for servers that don't really need it :) Installable on aptitude using libpam-google-authenticator (guide [2]).

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
[1]: http://status.authy.com/
[2]: https://scottlinux.com/2013/06/02/use-google-authenticator-f...
Just my take it on it as a 29 year old with no money and a bag of procrastination issues and some traits that look like ADD (I've once got diagnosed for general anxiety disorder, no ADD, but never did a test for it):

Technical solutions, like the one you explained never worked for me.

I'd second some other commenters here that accepting oneself is the first step. And learning to look objectivly on yourself and accept that you fuck things up from time to time. Don't say that's why I'm lazy or that is because of X. Just note that you are doing something you know it is bad. And try to accept that. It's easier to deal with it.

Things that helped me (that you could try before going down the military route):

Heavy exercise (running 10km a day, martial arts training 2-3x a week). This is probably related to fear - without that level of exercise I'm feeling unable to even start with other habit forming activities. As others noted it's tough to keep sticking to it.

Meditation/Relaxation: Medition is pretty hard for me. But doing relaxation techniques like progressive muscle relaxation or even yoga and then vipassana makes a difference for me. Never works without the heavy exercise for me through.

As far as I remember when I was able to implement these 2 habits for a longer period of time everything else worked quite well or at least I was able to work on the issues. E.g. facing long worn in fears, structering your day. Learning to plan. Actually long term planning.

If the level of stress or fear rises, everything breaks apart for me through. It's been a pattern for some years now.

Also: Get some real friends, not people that talk only about their great ideas for apps with you but that are honest to themselves and also struggle with life. I'm always feeling that a lot of my issues are superficial when I'm around other people that are working on their problems. It keeps you grounded and gives you motivation. Maybe.

Actually I don't have a solution. But if you want to feel better about yourself exercise and meditation worked for me.
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That's true of most, but not all software. Most software is just moving bits around. The hard part is the writing millions of lines of code. But not all software is like that. Take Google's self driving cars, which are being patented. The hard work there isn't writing the code. Its figuring out, through expensive analysis and testing, how to accomplish the result. Many companies will choose to license Google's patents, but not its software, instead writing their own. The actual software development, once a spec is determined, is the easy part.
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Hi Porker,
Glad EFT works for you.
There is some research being done into the mechanisms of EFT. One big clue is that collagen fibers in skin and bone are piezoelectric. So when you "tap" on a acupuncture point or puncture the skin around it with a needle, an electric charge is created. It is also well established that there is less electrical resistance between acupuncture points on the skin than other. Those acupuncture points form daisy chains that connect with every organ in the body.
First time I saw an acupuncture meridian chart I thought "this is an electrical diagram!".
If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole I recommend, for starters, the book "The Body Electric" by Dr. Robert O' Becker. It's a classic on the subject.
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The Queen is more than just an actor. Think of how you'd hire a lawyer to speak for you if you had to appear in court. It is necessary to hire a trained expert in collating and co-ordinating information from the relevant sources and communicating in that particular forum. It doesn't detract from the meaning or sentiment.
I'll give you a no BS version.

Don't delude yourself into thinking that you're "talented" or "gifted". You're a product of your history: if you spent a significant portion of your life playing DOTA, you're a DOTA-head. In your case, you seem to have spent it trying to get people to view you in favorable light. It's as simple as that.

You're missing the big picture: if you spend 3 hours writing code, and 8 hours playing games, which activity do you enjoy more? Why is that? If you pick up saw and find that you're absolutely terrible at sawing wood and cut yourself multiple times, would you enjoy that activity? OTOH, if you go out and play football (or something you've been practising for years), and manage to score many goals for your team leading to victory, would you enjoy the activity?

Your discontentment arises from a simple mismatch between what you want to do and what you are actually doing. You apparently wanted the $130k job with 3 hours of boring work, and to get by in life (or did some alien drop you into this world while you were unconscious?). What is this sudden crisis about not "changing the world"?

I have nothing to say of any significance, and the only "answers" I have are tautologies. Maybe you can try attending some inspirational talks, reading self-help books? No, I don't mean that with any condescension whatsoever; figure out where you want to invest your time and invest it there.
Worked for IBM as a software engineer on one of their master data projects, it was challenging work but ultimately quite dull and very little room for creativity. The workplace was really nice though, a software lab with 2000+ developers, catering, sports fields, a bar etc. Even with all that, it got boring and tedious quickly, and I never felt appreciated or recognised for my work.

Now I work for a startup with about 15 employees as a front end developer and it's really great, I have almost complete creative control over what I do, the atmosphere is friendly and inclusive and we have a helter skelter in the office ;)
>but I find it extremely hard to believe that anyone honestly finds that more readable on two lines than one.

FWIW, I do. Especially since the new line is a clear point of separation between required and optional arguments.

But I also find HN extremely hard to read because of the ridiculously long lines, and often find myself jumping to the wrong line when I reach end of the screen.
I think he specifically ruled out evacuated tubes? Well, vacuum tunnel.
No amount of willpower, or medical procedures (except maybe for lobotomy) will render tasks "you" find boring harder to postpone.

The key element, in my opinion, is to cognitively transform tasks into achievements. the latter are far more appealing to smart(er) people.

adding to that the premise : No matter how smart you are you wont be able to bullshit your way out of PAYING salaries at the end of the month.

My advice: Start your own company doing what do now, just as a service instead, and i bet the paradigm shift alone is enough to "motivate you".
That said, this will not "cure" you from procrastination. It will just drive you to overcome it as your brain starts to link "tasks" to actual milestones which pave the way to achievements.
I'm sorry but if you're on $130k at the age of 21, I really don't think you should worry about procrastination. If I was on anything near $130K at my age, I'd walk around with a grin on my face 24/7.

Go to the beach and enjoy your life.
The major difference between selling chocolate cigarettes to children and selling me an interesting tasting ale, is that I am not a child. I am more capable than you are of deciding what is best for me.
The negative reviews comfort me. They make it more possible for me to believe that my negative reviews are signs of misunderstood genius. :-)