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And yet, different contexts lead to vastly different results. One is prescribed under a doctor's guidance at therapeutic doses and administered orally; the other is smoked, at [i]significantly[/i] higher dosages, to speed up absorption with much higher concentration levels accumulating directly in the brain.

In other words, your argument is inherently simplistic and purposely misleading. Despite similarities in structure, the pharmacodynamics differences between therapeutic usage of Adderall and illicit meth are significant. When you gloss over the differences, you're radically undermining your position. My point with Desoxyn, which you completely ignored, rebuts your position even more clearly.

Most medications have the potential for hazardous effects higher up the dose-response curve. That potential, however, doesn't magically negate clinical effects lower on the curve. A little is good, a lot (or with acetaminophen for instance, a little more) can be deadly. That's nothing new. Just as with potential for side effects, you and your doctor work to manage it during treatment.

On another note, when you raise the specter of crystal meth usage, you aren't just isolating it to matters of pharmacology. Especially when you're talking about usage externalities and societal benefits: the external costs associated with manufacture and distribution all come along as mental baggage with the words "crystal meth." Your hysterics purposely ignore this in order to make the comparison seem more damning on a purely emotional level.
Just wanted to add my thanks for such a great tool. I've been using cap since the rails 1.x days and it's always worked for me like a charm - I'm so grateful you stepped up to the plate to create & maintain it.

Maybe you can find a way to delegate the bits you don't like about maintaining Capistrano so you don't need to directly manage it yourself? This is probably niave and maybe you are doing this already with v3 but it occurs to me if rails is the main cause of the headaches perhaps you can split that part into a cap-rails gem that is separately managed then you could hand over the reigns to someone else?

Anyways, as mentioned, thank you for a great tool - I very much hope you find a solution that helps you feel good about the situation.
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Agreed - hell, if they are inept, you can learn how you went from "Successful Industry Leader" to "Cumbersome, Lumbering Dinosaur" - and avoid that same path with your startup.
While we're not able to automate them, the labor costs for them will rise - and that's a very good thing.

I've looked at business process automation analysis in a few industries, and I've seen a TON of mind-numbing things that we actually would able to automate, but it's not worth to try since a bunch of low-wage people is cheaper. In some cases it's not even a question of "how to automate" - simply purchasing well-known machines would do that, but people were cheaper. It would be oh so great if that would change - there are a lot of jobs that IMHO are below humans as such, which are so stupid and soul-crushing shouldn't ever be done by a sentient being, but we as society force them to do so because they want to eat. People can handle shit-jobs - they "turn off", or socialize with coworkers and power through it in order to get their paycheck and come back to their "real life" afterwards - but in the long run, people shouldn't be forced to do that, not anyone, not ever.
I agree that college is/can be expensive, but I think that your 4-year figure for tuition actually includes everything. Granted, tuition and fees are pretty fixed, but the other expenses - room/board, books/supplies, transportation, personal expenses - are usually quite variable.

And, if you go a community college, which is considerably cheaper, you can then move on to a 4-year college. In some states, doing well at the community college, almost guarantees you admission to one of the good public 4-year colleges.
I don't think you are contradicting the original point.

Nobody is saying that the android team sat around in a smoke filled room plotting about how it could be all about ads. Once Android was at Google, obviously most people would be focused on making a successful platform first and foremost.

Nevertheless, the reason for Google as a whole to own such a platform is to protect its revenues streams.

Google's revenue streams rely on access to data about user behavior.

Android's strategic purpose was to ensure that Google controlled the platform so that the separate goal of capturing user information would not be threatened by other corporations.
About 6yrs ago my friend made a script, which was essentially a pyramid scheme for adding friends. Basically it helps you find other people who want to add you, to inflate each other's egos. It blew up & I was called in to fix the performance, part of that entailed moving it to my server - about a week later Facebook sent me a cease & desist & demanded the domain name be transferred to them. Pretty lame move on their part, because we were having fun hacking the code to handle the load, etc..
No doubt it depends on the company - did you ask to be trained in management?

I know at my employer some people don't aspire to cease being developers and start being managers (which is fine) so they don't get trained to be managers (which is also fine).
I'm not trying to assert that my experience was the standard. But the post to which I replied was asserting that the minimum cost was ten years of debt, which is also not standard.

From a financial standpoint, there's little difference (at least to my knowledge) between attending an out-of-state public school and an out-of-state private school. A more apt comparison would be looking at UW's estimate for Washington Residents who live away from home, which is $12K tuition and $27K estimated total expense ($10K of which comes from room and board. As someone whose alma mater quoted something like $13K for room and board, I can speak anecdotally that those estimates come from on-campus dorms & meal plans, which are awful; you're basically paying $15/meal.)
I used a reddit thread (google barbiedreamhorse seattle neighborhood) for the housing. It is also getting expensive out here, but if you're willing to not live on capitol hill it shouldn't be as bad.

No idea on the tech scene out here - I've been consulting & bootstrapping from home.
“I'm a crotchety old guy. I worry about all these new companies. I'm glad that they're easier to start, but the problem is, they're just as hard to finish as they have always been”

This is a great observation from Mike Olson. I think a lot of people who are dropping off to start on the entrepreneurial path vastly underestimate the difficulty of building a company to a point where they can sell or IPO or get just get a good return. Lot of the startup-lore is built around expectation of success that has vastly diminished in the last few years and we will soon find a lot of people who are thirty-five, have worked through three-four failed startups and nothing to offer to the broader world.

If you look at number of seed accelerators in the US[1], we have about 175. Every year about 3000 companies are formed and a vast number of them fail. Take the top accelerator in the country (perhaps the world). YCombinator. It has funded about 550 companies, pg is rightfully proud of the value created. However, if you took out the top 10 of them I suspect 99% of the value goes away. I remember just AirBnB and Dropbox making 75% of the value. Think about it, even if you came out of YC, you have a 2% chance of success. That means if you even if you join a startup accelerator in Middletown, USA your chance is probably 0.5% and if you don’t even get to join a accelerator it is probably even less (0.1%?)

I suspect a lot of people still think there is a 5% chance you will succeed in a startup. That was the case 15 years back. With a 5% success rate, you could possible iterate to a better than even odd of success if you went through 3-4 startups. If you were told you have a 0.1% chance of success, it is more of a random crapshoot. What is it that you will learn and show after 3-4 attempts?

The other option of going to college, working for a big company and the associated payoff hasn’t changed much. If the startup option is now 50 times riskier, you need to think hard about your choices. Maybe you are an optimist, that’s OK but don’t default to choices.

[1] http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators
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I wonder if one solution wouldn't be to have an actual build enviroment that is neither development or production, but between the two. We have that where I work and asset compiling fit very naturally into where we compile the RPM (which is how we deploy, by necessity).
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Why wouldn't they? It's not like MIT/whatever uses special books that no other uni can use. It's not like prestigious universities follow some special program that makes it so their students gain a much better insight into the subject than people who go to other universities.

The perks of attending a prestigious university typically has nothing to do with your education. It has to do with rubbing shoulders with blue bloods, creating a powerful social network, and being able to woo people with the pedigree associated with the words "MIT graduate" on your resume.
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This looks promising. I would love to see a basic HTTP component which can recieve broadcasts and in its simplest form perform HTTP GET to a specified URL. Also with the possibility to broadcast the response from this HTTP GET request to another component.

I am playing around with a Raspberry PI / Arduino solution and the PI has a webserver which relays commands to the Arduino. Now, it would be very neat to have a mobile app to trigger these commands. For example, pushing a button to turn a light on or off. As I do have minimal time creating GUIs, this tool, with the flexibility of a HTTP module, would be perfect to use for prototyping such solutions.

This could be used to trigger commands as described above, but also possibly for embedding content from other sites etc.

Probably not where you wanna go with this tool, but it would be neat for situations where you want a quick GUI to control stuff.
It might also be that browsers have started displaying it as a space - my Firefox does, for example (until you select it - copy-pasting it preserves the %20).
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What do you call a quiet Arch user? A Slackware user. (I've used both at various points; no enmity intended.)
Also good for keeping track of Ted:

http://tedchiang.blogspot.ca

which mentions that "Story of your Life" was optioned for a film directed by Nic Matthieu (also working on Robotech) and adapted by Eric Heisserer.
Most of the resident students live on or around campus, as opposed to with their parents. For them, total cost comes down to around $110,000. That's still a six-digit number.
Exactly, I mean I would be on cloud nine if I could run gnome 3.10 apps on Debian wheezy
The Schengen agreement does not include customs. That's in the European Union Customs Union, which Switzerland is not part of. You still have to self declare goods when entering Switzerland. Border patrol checks on suspicion.
There'll be probably plenty of other relevant links on the subject. I found the solution in the comments.

tl;dr:
1. open iTunes but switch the iPhone off
2. hold down the home button, plug the cable (the iPhone starts, but keep holding the home button down)
3. follow instructions in iTunes

Hope this helps, I was unaware of the subtle details in step 2 ;)
Thank you for all of your hard work on Capistrano. We use cap extensively at Simply Measured... as well as a "TurboGC" version of Ruby on an LTS version of Linux (hah!). Perhaps in the future something like containers will provide a better way forward, but for now cap is irreplaceable.
Not true. Rarely do you (a cog) see the hiring process (a different cog) used by your massive company (the machine). Especially when you're just out of college.
> I would personally be happy to sacrifice that feature and add an explicit "global" keyword but not everybody agrees, and it would break a lot of code.

For sure. That ship has probably sailed. And, like you said, linters alleviate a lot of that pain. But that's a separate question from, "is this a good language feature?"
Firefox OS will get WhatsApp before end of year
You realize any non-law entity can't forcibly compel you to do things, right? They can talk a big game, but it's up to them to file legal proceedings if they really want to shut you down.
Well, there's also the fact that Indians associate a slightly different (slightly class-ist) experiential value with chain-outlet foods, for a variety of reasons.

While most fast food outlets in America are seen as quick and (relatively) inexpensive food sources, they have been identified as upper- to upper-middle class brands since they first arrived in India. (IIRC, that was mid- to late-90s.)

IMHO, when they arrived the prices quoted on their rate-cards seemed to be directly converted from their parent locations, e.g. the daily-special dollar-sub was priced at INR 50 (roughly equivalent to a dollar) and standard subs were about INR 110 - or about $2. The standard chicken burger was priced at INR 60-ish and a happy meal combo was approx. INR 150 (roughly USD 3-ish back then).

(There isn't an Indian equivalent for the Pizza, so I can't make an adequate comparison here. :( )

Compare this with the ubiquitous "Wada-Pav" - the Indian street-food that is considered to be the equivalent of the burger - which was priced at about INR 5 back then. The Indian equivalent of the sub, i.e. the street-sandwich, would cost about INR 10.

As a kid who grew up in a very middle-class family when I was attending graduate (that's undergrad for you Americans, BTW) college, my weekly allowance/lunch-money was INR 100. With that kind of money, visiting a McDonald's or a Subway was not something we could do on a lark, you see.

Thus, by association and by virtue of their exaggerated price-points, these fast-food chains automatically became elevated to 'elite' levels, i.e. if you could afford to spend ten times the money for something a normal man considered regular fast-food, you had better be earning ten times as much as the normal guy. (I remember feeling quite nervous and kinda intimidated when I walked into a McDonald's outlet for the first time! :D)

Things have changed since then, however.

Some time in the last decade, McDonalds' and KFC realized that with the kind of prices they started out with, they were missing out the largest chunk of their target Indian market - the college-kids. Ever since, they have initiated reduced price menus (smaller burgers for INR 20, daily specials, etc.) for them.

Just for reference, the "Wada-Pav" I spoke about earlier, costs about INR 10 these days while the smaller-burger costs about INR 25. The street-sandwiches are at least INR 25, while a daily-special dollar-sub is about INR 50-ish. Not to forget, the allowances kids get these days have increased significantly, too!

Of course, my perspective in this matter is quite restricted. Do take it with a pinch of salt, please. :)
Do you deploy with Vagrant? I think container might be the way forward, but I am not convinced, and I don't deploy Vagrant to production(containers might be the future for deployment but Vagrant in it's current state isn't). I don't use vagrant in production because I use a Ubuntu box for development and rvm/bundler, virtualenv/pip...cover my needs for maintaining different and isolated dev environments.
The Twentieth Century Tech. Museum in Wharton http://20thcenturytech.com/ has tons of computers (well, maybe just a ton). More than they have the room to display or store. But feel free to contact them, or any one of the others.
Would have been handy to know this was going to start playing sound with no mute button or warning.
Am wondering if it is okay to cold email potential clients? Isnt that considered as spam?
He won't fly? Or he won't travel?

Big, big difference. Because flying is one of the MOST efficient ways to travel. FAR more efficient than even taking a bus.

> If more would cut down on just one long-distance flight per year, he maintains, that would also have a major impact.

That's terrible advice because people will drive instead. And adding "long-distance" makes the advice worse since long-distance flights are more efficient than short ones (most of the work is getting in the air, not staying there).

The ONLY was to cut down CO2 emissions is nuclear power plants. Nothing else is practical. If you care about CO2, and you have the opportunity, lobby to have a nuclear plant installed near you[r city].
I agree that working for another company doesn't always make you a good entrepreneur. But I do think that, depending on the size of the company, the dynamics and your role within the company you can learn, for free, a lot about what not to do, particularly regarding the basics of management. And regarding hiring, you can learn, what you actually want/value during the interview and in an employee vs. what you think you want.
I released something huge a while back:

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne

I got some good feedback, but more than my fair share of "this is the stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard of" and such. Luckily I know to ignore pretty much all that shit.

I'm gonna tell it like it is:

There are a lot of people in tech who don't have great social skills. They're awkward, feel withdrawn, and have trouble dealing with other people generally.

One quick and easy solution some of them hit upon is to just be an asshole. If you're an asshole, people sort of sometimes defer to you or steer clear of you. It creates the illusion of power and influence while shielding a person from having to do any real work to improve themselves in that area.

If you think it's bad online and with OSS projects, try delving into the meat-space startup scene itself.
Hey Lee, just wanted to say thanks for making Capistrano. It's awesome and it's made the world a better place.
He says he recycles.

What does he recycle? Because only metal is worth recycling, everything else is not worth the extra pollution and water.
> Verizon (and most of US) uses a competing "standard" called CDMA, where your identity is coupled to your phone.

And that's a pretty good reason not to go for Verizon. It's not that you don't have a choice.

I am with t-mobile ever since I remember, just because I refuse to give my money to AT&T or Verizon (and also to Sprint as they are CDMA).

It's your money, and it's your decision.
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> ... most "addicts" are quite fine where they are.

I think he just might have had older clients. People at some age that are stuck in the routine all have dreams how to change their lives to make them more fulfilling. But they can't get out of their current semi-comfortable lives (which in those cases pot was part of).
Any time you slap a open source license on some code and make it public you're doing open source. So yes.
I've been pretty happy with Pinboard's archiving option, $25/year. It does a better job of saving pages so they render correctly later on than other services I've tried, no complaints yet :) Plus it does in-page searching, which is incomparably superior to just archiving.
Hi, I'm the founder and lead dev. We don't have a good document up about how it works because the under-the-hood because it has been changing quite a bit from release to release. However, it is finally starting to stabilize - I plan to have a whitepaper up (and maybe a video presentation) explaining how it works around January with the next release.

A quick explanation: Bedrock utilizes a number of virtual-filesystem manipulation techniques (chroot(), bind-mounts, a number of our own home-grown virtual filesystems such as a specialized union filesystem) to redirect filesystem calls that could potentially conflict. If two packages need different versions of a given library and they both go to read the library with the same path, they'll be transparently redirected to different files. However, Bedrock doesn't "contain" things as one would typically expect with something like chroot(); the packages can all interact like they typically would. Things which need to be the same for different packages to interact are the same. You can, for example, have an RSS feed reader from one distro launch a web browser from another distro to download a PDF which is opened in a PDF reader from yet a third distro, if you'd like. You can have the majority of the system's packages be from a very stable distro like Debian or RHEL but still get cutting-edge packages from something like Arch or Debian Sid, and have portage compile packages from Gentoo, and still get library compatibility with binary blobs aimed at Ubuntu.

This all works - I'm running it now as my main system and have been long before it ever went public - but it still has a lot of rough edges.

Hope that clears things up.
You know there are enough options in the market for what you are looking for. Why are you not exercising your options?

This is at the of the US market conundrum. There are enough options for people not to go for the big two. They cost more money, they give less freedom and still people flock to them. I just don't get it.
The problem is that some people think that being incorrect or having a different opinion = trolling. If I honestly think that PHP is a great backend language ( I honestly think it's a FINE one), and I say it on HN, I know at least one person will go: "WRONG. PHP is [some bad thing]. You should use [some new language]." They may even think I'm trolling for having that opinion.

The truth is that you don't know the other person, but you should respect yourself enough to be a civil human and speak online as if you were speaking in a public place. Even if you're not speaking to your next employer, he may be right behind you and hear you talking like an ass.
According to what I assume is a 100% scientific pie chart the leading cause of global warming is fire. So I don't know why this guy is concerning himself with air travel.

http://i.imgur.com/AvIHovx.jpg
> who thought he would look like a "suave gangster"

I think it was intended as adorable, humorous self-derogation on authors part.
> That is entirely false.

In mainland Europe this is entirely true.

Even more, this has implications not only when searching for jobs or gigs, but also on the social/personal level: the stigmata and marginalization that comes with it it's incredible here.

I now lie about my previous failed startups.
A few initial notes on this are here:

http://www.nowherenearithaca.com/2013/10/visualization-of-wo...
Have you told your employees that you're managing them based on techniques you learned from a dog training book? How did they react?
it made my day. I'm ready to dive. :)