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I'd argue that I'm doing my bit to change the world by ensuring I raise an emotionally stable, empathetic, happy human being.

During the day I do my bit by helping others find a job that actually makes them happy.

I may not be sending folk to space or building faster ways for people to get to work but I feel like I make some difference.

Again, different strokes for different folks.
politicians love big money moving around so they can grab a bit for themselves.
Many big projects in Italy shows this seems to be the main, if not unique, drive for events like the Olympics.
Just because not every subject has gender parity does not imply that there is an issue.
Just because you might be less productive after 8 hours does not mean that you cease producing measurable results.

You WILL build more if you are building every waking hour. If you are obsessed enough to do so.

You could work 14 hours a day and do the work that someone else could do in 4 hours. But that is not what this discussion is really about. This discussion is about the fact that if you are crazy, hungry, obsessed, and single minded enough to work 100 hours a week, intelligently, you WILL accomplish far, far more than what anyone else could ever do in a 40 hour work week.
And Fusion which probably is their largest codebase.
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I also learned to program with my HP48GX and my HP49G. When we couldn't imagine we would have smartphones, we already had programmable computers in our pockets :-)
A lot of people immediately start to talk about burnout. But it's important to understand that a burnout is not about working hours.

The fire burns out when no fuel is added. Fuel can come in many forms and shapes, like: working out, love what you do, gain energy from your work, eating healthy, sleeping well, and so on.

So the quote only applies to people who love what they are doing because they get there fuel from the job (which isn't a job for them but a way of living).

Question is ofcourse: why don't you do what you really love?
"If the goal of social development was to enable us to work maximally, we should go crazy.

The goal is to free people to create maximally. Dance, paint, sing. Whatever you want."

-Ernst Wigforss
Swedish finance minister 1925-1926, 1936-1949.
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It's a choice between pleasure and accomplishment I guess.
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I understand you don't want to be Elon Musk. But, surely, you are not suggesting Elon Musk is a dumb worker, are you?
This is toxic advice and I'm glad to see most of HN agrees. Being ambitious is one thing but there's only so much a human mind and body can take. Banging your head against the wall 24 hours a day isn't going to produce better results than a healthy balanced life, in the long run it will be worse results.
This phrase is so overused, it has become an excuse to be lazy in many cases.

Look how Cory Doctorow works:

"
The “write it now and fix it later” approach sounds perfectly reasonable to me, but then Doctorow pushes it to an extreme. “For instance, I wrote Homeland [2013] while I was touring Germany to publicise Little Brother [2008]. I had a translator, we’d visit lots of schools, and so I’d be speaking English half the time and he’d be speaking German half the time, and I’d write the book while he was speaking German.”
"

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9a344ea2-e8af-11e2-aead-00144feabd...

He is 27 women making 4 babies a week. And he manages to make breakfast for them all every morning too ;-)
Well then why does the foundation attempt to extend to hobbyist programmers?

You can't have it both ways - having hobbyist/web programmers and highly educated in the ways hardware works.
Even if the quote is by Elon Musk, I assume it is not him personally that works like this, but maybe some of his co-workers, certainly not for prolonged periods of time.
Its not about judging family life. I am ok with people wanting to spend more time their family instead of working 16 hours a day. I am also ok with people spending 16 hours a day working their ass off.

But this kind of work habit will affect your personal life, and Elon has already gone through 2 divorces. This is perfectly relevant to the discussion.
Back when I dropped out and went on my little "farming adventure" I was put in a position where I was working around 90 hours a week. So yeah, pretty close.

I didn't get more done than the other guys. One guy I met managed a 400 acre pecan orchard. He had an army of undocumented labor and expensive harvesting tech. Another guy, well, onetime he bought a $20,000 high-tech cucumber seed-sowing machine that you pulled behind a tractor. I remember him telling me that this thing was intelligent enough to plant seeds at the perfect depth and discard any bad seeds before it plants them, all using some sort of engineering wizardy that I've since forgotten the details of.

Me? There were these two kids who helped harvest stuff for me so I could focus on everything else I had to do. Farmer I was working for also had two Farmall tractors from the 40s or 50s. Pretty neat actually...when the good one worked, and the other was just there for parts, because the logic is if you buy two broken tractors then hopefully you can get one decent one by combining the two. Didn't always work out that way.

I worked like hell alright, but I sure didn't feel like I was getting anything done faster. I was working hard, but I sure wasn't working smart, not compared to the other guys
That's just dumb.

The real problem is managing resources, which includes your health and energy. If you somehow can make yourself fit enough to work 100h, fine. But it is not just a matter of willpower. Not in the long run anyway.
>In a group of male programmers
As I said, male-female ratio is not that bad. Maybe 25% of total class? I am not sure about the numbers though.

I am not trying to ridicule people, It is just some facts I encountered before.

"confirmation bias"

It is not like I can be biased now, because there is no longer a data set for me. There is like 2-3 women (out of ~50) in the department I am working and they are not directly related to my area, weird huh?
I am also months away from submission, so I wasn't entirely sure on what level I was sympathising with the authors arguments!

Almost there...
This is silly.

We can download the RTM but they locked out the upgrade functionality - fresh installs only! Wtf?
You should not take burn out so lightly. A burn out can have severe consequences like depression and coronary heart diseases. You make it sound like a cold. It's not. It can take month or years to recover.

If I had children I would like to spend time with them. I also love to spend time with my loving partner. That is why I have a loving partner: to spend time with her.

Work is an integral part of my life still I don't live to work.
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Speaking as a CDN responsible for caching artifacts from petabytes of storage on relatively limited pools of "edge servers", I feel most any discussion of content-based addressing needs a review of consistent hashing as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing

Also, we've been hashing content into content keys for a decade and haven't had a collision even using hashes one shouldn't use according to this discussion. In practice, “fast” has been more important to us than “secure”, as we are dealing with multi gigabyte files. Consider your trade offs carefully and keep an eye on published work.
Soooo, does anybody else immediately think about Diaspora here?

How does Layer compare to, say, e-mail on the one hand, and Diaspora on the other?
This shit has got to stop. Seriously.

As MEN in our industry we need to take a stand against this sort of behaviour which is truly endemic and all pervasive in our industry.

This is not a women in tech issue, it's a problem with MEN.
You have to find your own pace, the pace which makes you most productive (in whatever terms you like to measure productivity). If that is 100 hours a week for Elon Musk, good for him.
I love Elon Musk, but Dustin doesn't work like that and neither do I.

Plus it is much easier to "Work like hell" if you are a boss of a couple massive engineering companies and people really need you all the time. It is harder to be creative AND self-motivating AND productive without missing details. The most I've worked was 87.5 hours in a week (I had to run 3 massive construction jobs because two guys got sick while one guy was on vacation) and then I got into a motor cycle accident due to sleep depravation.

I still work hard, but 100 hours is not sustainable.
I used Spreeder to read "War and Peace." It's about Russia.
its a shame - the 'standard' size 10 s is ugly, and rendering on smaller sizes is less than ideal - anti-aliasing is not taken advantage of especially well.

back to lucida console for me, which is perfectly legible at size 6 or 7... :/
There is some merit in the rant but it suffers from myopia, probably owing to the author's inexperience and subsequent lack of understanding how science really works.

Here's the secret: it is quite possible to get a permanent position with a reasonable teaching load at a reasonable university without lots of funding and without having to produce large numbers of publications in high-profile conferences/journals. Indeed the majority of the world's scientists do just this -- almost by definition, for otherwise selective journals/conferences/funding systems could not be selective: to be selective means to deny entry to the masses. The trick is to think long-term and build develop one's niche of science, until so much material of interest has been accumulated that something novel and substantial has become of it. In my experience, that takes a decade or two of an individual's labour. It's psychologically difficult to toil solitary for that long without positive community feedback (which in science really comes in form of grants and high-profile publications). But it is certainly possible. By the time you have created that niche, you can also create your own conferences/journals/prizes etc, and all of a sudden you are the eminent scientist in your field. That in turn makes it easy to get PhD students, grants etc.

Caveat: the above programme may not work so easily for pre-tenure academics at the top-prestige universities, or in fields that have very high start-up costs in terms of material and/or labour (e.g. high-energy physics). Fortunately, most of computer science is comparatively cheap though (needs only a laptop and an internet connection).

Given that this is a possible career path, and clearly many scientists who got famous only late in life, or posthumously, have had long periods of frustrating 'drought', one wonders if negative rants like that in the linked article, may not in part be a reflection of the authors lack of belief in his/her abilities.
If he was talking about the company, it would be an even stranger thing to say. As we are not talking about a technology the only way it could be interpreted is that Oracle (the company) does not 'tolerate' HTML5 as if they have something against it. If he was talking about another of their technologies he should have said so.
Are you sure about the source of this quote? I've seen it attributed to Napoelon before.
Is this offer open to anyone or just the person you are replying to?
You're implying that the password is the same as the SSID?
These kinds of isolated surrogate pairs are pretty easy to create if you're doing the right kind of processing on the right kind of data.

Suppose you receive a long piece of text wrapped in JSON, unpack it into a JS String, then start processing it in fixed size chunks. If your source text contains any significant percentage of surrogate pair-represented characters, you'll eventually break one.
Genesis3D? I contributed a little to that back in '98! There were big plans at the time, though they didn't come to anything of course. I remember working on the collision code late at night.

Those were the days :-)
whats wrong with 'coder' - he is someone who writes code.

the one i find confusing is 'developer' its vague and pretentious vs. 'programmer' my preferred term - its precisely descriptive, a quality which i would expect programmers to cherish
I've seen software developers putting in 80-90 hour weeks. The general pattern was arrive 30 minute because they over-slept. Spend an extra hour not being productive because they are half asleep. 4 coffees later they start fixing the bugs they introduced last night because they were exhausted.

They don't/can't listen in meetings and as for any ability to architecture software at a high level, forget it.

One of the most stupid quotes I've heard for a long time. And working 10/4 as much gains you 12/4 productive hours, you actually become more productive? I simply don't believe any intelligent person really said this.
"If your goal is to "achieve greatness", that is. That's not what a lot of people want to do."

When I was a child I was a tennis player, and went to tournaments around Spain. I met hundreds of amazing players at the time that "gave it all" to tennis and never did it(Go to special tennis schools, leave studies, train extra hard at the "pain is weakness mantra"[and get injuries]).

I met Rafael Nadal too. A normal kid, going to a normal school, with normal friends, and normal girlfriend and with his uncle controlling he did not abused training. He also played football with his friends at the beach(he is really good playing football too).
How about using a bitcoin-like distributed blockchain to store proof events/transactions and use wallet balance as reputation?
Dina

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If I worked 100 hours weeks I'd go nuts in very short order. I'd hate it. I've known at least one person who has probably worked 100+ hour weeks for most of his life. This person has a wife and a son, and he hates them. Well, perhaps not hate, but he certainly avoids them most of the time. If you tear him away from work for something, he'll insist on talking about work. If you go to a conference with him you can see him slowly going mad being separated from work for such an extended period of time, even if it's to talk to other people about work! He loves what he does and is ridiculously happy doing it, but that's all there is to his life. Retirement will kill him. He is very accomplished, but there are people who work 20 hours a week out there who are more accomplished.

Don't listen to people who tell you that you'll burn out if you work X hours or be a failure if you only work Y hours. Human beings are variable. Find your optimum.
wow that's interesting - didnt know that its different in germany.

The rental policies there must then suppress house prices because its much more cost effective to rent than to buy, especially if you can put the extra money you didn't spend (on purchase of a house) into another form of investment.

I wonder if that system is better long term than the ups and downs of the market like the US/UK's.
There's people on Bitcointalk that will do you a USB Block for 0.10BTC and 0.05BTC shipping. Grab one or two and hash away. It's amazing just that such a small community can generate their own custom-made hardware.
This could be usefull for High-Availability / Fault-Tolerant applications.

I think 10 years ago, Ericsson had a highly available server machine for Telecom application, named Jambala.
It had 2 SPARC and 2 x86 CPUs. Having two different ISAs in the same system can protect you from subtle software/hardware errors.
So you compile you code to both targets, if for some reason one of x86 CPUs fail, the second x86 takeover, if both x86 fail, then SPARC CPU takeover, etc.

Off-course this system run Erlang/OTP ;)
wait, is under water here to mean literally under water - as in sinking into the ocean?! Or is that jargon for something?
I think that if I were going to teach programming to high school kids I'd show them the console in Chrome / Safari, because it's something they all have easy access to (I assume we're talking about a first world country, right).

VB seems to me to be a poor choice because it doesn't intersect with the kids' lives. They likely won't go home and build VB apps (on their Macs...) The console is like lifting the curtain and revealing the motor underneath something we all use every day.
You're making some assumptions that are shown to be incorrect.

1) You're assuming that you can start every workday at maximum productivity regardless of your previous workload. This has been shown to be false. Previous overwork will make you start your day already at depressed productivity.

2) You're asuming that there is no way that somebody who works 2.5x as many hours can acomplish less than in 1x as many hours. This can also shown to be wrong in general because your productivity due to overwork can drop below 40% of what you can achieve when rested. It can also shown to be especially wrong for work where the quality of the work has a future compounding effect (such as programming). If you make bad decisions one day, because you are overworked, even if you achieve more that day than a rested person would, the bad decisions can cost you all the gains and more the next day, weeks or months. I.e. not only will you have achieved less, you factually worked backwards.
IIRC this article was triggered by concern about use in Git and filesystems; the author is mainly a kernel developer, not a cryptographer, so it's not surprising that she hasn't extended it to cover more general applications.
Did not expect this is a country like Germany, all my trips Germany and interactions with Germans have been exceptionally pleasant. I've always had the idea that German government has it's shit together quite well. (Maybe that's just because the public highway rest stops are so nice in comparison to most of europe :P )
I will remember to photograph all my equipment thoroughly (including the latest newspaper in the picture) before I agree to someone taking it... Thanks for sharing!
I liked the article but do not agree with the conclusion. I think most people know that the "fire" will fade with time intuitively.

I am not sure educating people about this would lower divorce rate, being told it and living it are two different things.
This looks like a great font. I love Inconsolata—I've used it for more than a few months now, and it's extremely good. I've tried Monaco, Monaco Lives, Menlo (I think?) etc. and keep going back to Inconsolata. :-)
Meetups like these generally have an overlapping crowd from other tech community meetups like RoR, PHP, WordPress.
Does this work otuside the terminal in interefaces like browser windows? I could imagine a case where it makes sense for security purposes to not allow pasting.
Is the situation/problem in our industry special? If yes, does is mean the MEN in our industry are special or the industry is special?
Not necessairly. I might think that the bulk of Musks activity is sitting in endless meetings and nodding his head, and that he might think that's work, the same kind of work that the actually working people do, and it might lead him to generalize his view on his working hours into other kinds of activity (where the actual work gets done).
She provides almost zero details of the harassment and lot's of details on irrelevant things. How will that help the teacher to stop this from happening again if he is not told what went wrong?
I read "Oracle" and "VM" in the title and immediately thought that VirtualBox was going to be OpenOffice/MySQL-ized. I don't know how VirtualBox fits into Oracle's strategy, but I'm glad that they're not messing with it.
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Visually, it's changed - sure. There's a nice big stadium there that can be used every so often. It doesn't look as bad as it once did. It's changed very little of the outside area as far as I can tell though.

Stratford was recently named as the countries worst crime hotspot[0].

According to the FT, "the bounce" has failed to materialise [1].

I would not recommend a walk around the outskirts of the Olympic stadium for all but the very brave, it's still an area in much poverty with many social issues completely unresolved, notably violent crime (3.5 for every 1,000 people) [2].

[0] - http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/westfield-stratfords-po...

[1] - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/543cabaa-8a41-11e2-9da4-00144feabd...

[2] - http://crimeinlondon.com/newham/stratford-and-new-town/viole...
Just crass. 15 minutes of fame and they got it. But are they capable of designing and commercialising a real idea? We can all take short cuts to get publicity (I'm thinking of an app called 'check my package' which photographs and then invites comments on mens' anatomy). Poor form from the organisers - in the world of grown up tech we expect better. Plenty of room for fun but not schoolboy stuff.
"You are right about the pscychology. I thought we did a bloody good job of hosting the Olympics."

I've been told by a relative, who works for the government to "sell" UK businesses internationally, that the London olympics are widely regarded as a model of how to "do it right". I don't know (and he didn't say) whether this makes it more possible to achieve long-term economic benefits that offset the cost of the event. I'm probably sceptical about that.
That makes much more sense, thank for the clarification.
Yes.

http://www.hakim.ws/st585/KevinDevine/

The same applies to many brands, not just the one in this example.
I read Oracle in the title, and immediately closed the tab.
London 2052 will be awesome!
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False dichotomy.

Spending time with ones family IS an accomplishment. Climbing a hill IS an accomplishment. Both pleasurable activities, to my mind.

The choice is between which accomplishments give you pleasure, not between accomplishments and pleasure.
Working 40 hours per week is not being lazy: is balancing work & real life, keeping them separate and have both of them.

We work to live, we don't live to work.

What Elon Musk does is not "work": for him is an hobby and you can put how many hours you want in an hobby, but I don't believe for one second that his employees enjoy putting 100 hours WORKING hours and live an healthy and happy life
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Some people are better at systematizing, some are better at empathising, and some are reasonably good at both.

Male technologists, which make up the majority of the SW development community, tend to be particularly good at the first and bad at the second:

http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/note1271-hudson.pdf

This research looked at the relationship between empathy and technical work among IT workers. For both women and men, less technical work (i.e. public oriented) tended to have those people with more capacity for empathy. For women, there was a small decline in empathy as the researchers moved towards purely technical work. However, this drop in empathy was far, far sharper for men.

Take your own conclusions about this, including its relation to the presence (or lack thereof) of women in IT.
Hm, it sounds like they just got lucky, so i'm not sure what the lesson is here. A sample size of 1 is useless for learning what works and what not. I would be far more impressed if they would get similar results repeatably after each promoting action.
As long as you do it for yourself and not some boss.
Worst idea ever. It would simply ensure that the people who give a damn will breed themselves out of existence, thereby ensuring that the world is inherited by the clueless and irresponsible.
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Hi fellower HNers. I'm looking for a thread that was posted here that I am having trouble finding. The thread was a link to a blog post about maximizing internships both for the intern and the employer. My memory is a bit foggy but I think it talked something along the lines of the intern should understand their role, and have expectations...
It is good to read some sense about 'love' and 'marriage'. I hope this guy succeeds.

(Edit: "read see")
Lazy wisdom.