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There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: “Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?”

“An operating system,” replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief.

“Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system,” he said.

“Not so,” said the programmer, “when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to tax laws.

By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outward appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design.”

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. “That is all good and well,” he said, “but which is easier to debug?”

The programmer made no reply.

— The Tao of Programming, Geoffrey James
Really. You are suggesting that the US government is on the same level of opacity or human rights abuse as any of those that I mentioned? Are you literally fucking stoned?[1]

[1] No judgement, I've had a decent amount of scotch and to each their own, but really?

[edit: legalize it, and then tax it, and give me a tax break :) ]
Correspondingly, way to make himself sound like an utter robot. It goes both ways.
The cost of the Iraq War was over $800 billion. Over a ten year period, I would expect the cost of national healthcare to be on the order of ~1 trillion dollars.

$500 million is 0.05% of $1 trillion.
All those millions still go to the lowest bidder.
>>but there's no way there are that many people programming in C

Do you have any idea how many embedded systems and performance related software is written every year?
You're of course correct about the classifieds business funding the news side of newspapers, as well as certain editorial brands as a revenue source.

The problem is that in the absence of actual news gathering, editorializing becomes either navel-gazing or shilling for whatever bias you have. It's hard to have meaningful editorials about government spying on its citizens or companies shipping shoddy products if you don't actually have the news of such things in the first place due to a lack of revenue to fund investigative reporting.

There is of course the possibility of citizen journalism devoid of any substantial revenue model, but the passion necessary for Joe Smith to take time from his normal life to dig around dumpsters probably reveals an existing bias to begin with, so you're back to the editorial without dependable news on which to base it.

There's a reason it's a hard problem that few news organizations have come remotely close to solving.
Citation needed.

Anecdotal rebuttal:
I know a bunch of female students at Harvey Mudd and that doesn't appear to be the case.
I've been on antidepressants from time to time. For the most part they did very little for me and, on occasion, caused awful physical addiction (Effexor, I'm looking at you) and this made me want to avoid them. But... newer medications are much better than they've ever been and I recently needed to start them up again so down the medical rabbit hole I went. I have to say that the current generation of meds are nothing short of life altering, for me. After a lifetime of varying degrees of depression I am finally finding relief that lasts and seems to have no down side (specifically with a medication called mirtazapine).
It's not that surprising. These are the cheapest option if you want a decent computer.
No one who seriously gives Lisp a chance ends up disliking it because of the parens. It's about as reasonable as disliking C/C++ because of semi-colons. It's a superficial thing to criticize because you obviously haven't actually given the language a shot.
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A bit too meta maybe, but that's a great headline.

Because who the hell is getting that commission? Where are the people making this magical money?
You can be pretentious about your local metro region and still be original. Consider Boston, "The hub of the universe", or "The Hub" for short. It exhibits all the hubris of having your own "The City" without all the confusion.

San Francisco needs their own Oliver Wendall Holmes to come up with something as catchy... or the rest of us can just agree to just start calling it "Frisco", which solves the confusion problem while trolling the city's inhabitants at the same time (a win-win)!
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Judging by Google's tracking record, worse, much much worse.

Google Chrome vs. Microsoft's IE6, Android vs WinMo 6/6.5, Gmail vs. 2004-2009 Hotmail. I'd rather put up with Google's decent-but-free alternatives than Microsoft's we-are-the-leader-so-we-will-stagnate-until-the-EU-demands-it-which-could-be-6-years-maybe-more.
Several top websites use device fingerprinting to secretly track users
$500 million and it still has scheduled maintenance:

https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/global/en_US/registra...
I wonder if what you're describing is that broad, or perhaps a slightly different phenomenon:

A huge amount of the growth of SF's (the city proper) tech scene seems to be driven by companies staffed primarily by very young (straight out of college, <30yrs) people. Similarly, much of the migration to the city seems to be driven by young folks (under 30/without family).

Back in the old days (when I was growing up on the peninsula), one of the big reasons people wanted to live in Palo Alto/Mountain View/Cupertino was that they were family-friendly towns with good schools and communities. Companies sprung up on the peninsula for many reasons, but people at or near child-rearing ages (~30+) had their priorities set.

I'm unconvinced that this rationale has changed in the intervening years. Gentrification and high demand have made living in the 'ideal' parts of the peninsula more difficult, but people still choose Palo Alto to start a family. Similarly, tech companies that tend to have slightly older workforces still prize their peninsula locations.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think studying the demographics of SF growth may tell us more. That said, I don't think that the suburbs[1] are being marginalized at all.

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[1] While cities on the peninsula might be suburban in a way, they are quite different from suburbs in the rest of the country. It's a bit strange calling Mountain View a suburb when it is so different from a city like Needham (suburb of Boston) or the various suburbs of Seattle or Houston for example.
about 200 students, iirc.
If you broke that law (intentionally or not) and their subpoena succeeds, they can't exactly remove your data. That would put them in contempt and would put them more legally liable. Your best bet is to call a lawyer and see what they think you could do to minimize the damage (if any)
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There should be a poll option for Racket.
Have you looked at Azure? The cloud ran by Microsoft?
You weren't, but other commenters did call Mountain View a suburb.

I was just calling attention to your example (25 minutes to get anywhere) as it's a better example of an average suburb than Mountain View.
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Yeah, Canada is only 34 mln population! I was really shocked when I learnt that recently.
What Microsoft is slowly discovering is what their competitors discovered back in the 90s: how hard it is to enter an established market.

Back then Apple was also ahead of the curve for a long time and carved out is own niche market, slowly to see a competitor take the mainstream market share.

No matter how good your solution is, no matter if it is technically superior, like Linux was in most respects compared to 16-bit and pre-nt versions of windows, once an established player appears, the dominant platform already has the key applications and mindshare and because of that gets to keep it.

Thus in Linux-land people made wine to cover their windows compatibility needs. Will Microsoft admit defeat and add an android compatibility layer into windows phone?

I doubt it, but I have no doubt they should.
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I think the real question is, why did city life's millennia-long popularity take a short dip for the 50-year period from 1940-1990?
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I think errorception filters out most exception errors automatically [I'm not affiliated with them in any way, not even a customer].

Another option could be to disable all inline scripts via CSP, which will hit the older generation of Chrome extensions (and I think the newer ones doesn't trigger onerror).
The point is the acceptance rate by itself is too murky a statistic to prove the gp's point.
What's stopping you from submitting a pull request with these suggestions?
I have looked at Azure but they do not provide fully managed although the website way of doing it would be close. One still need to setup backups. I am also a bit unsure about the performance for the web site feature?
(Not the same person)

No, that's rather the point. "They should be catching real criminals" is the argument used to complain about the police arresting people who have committed a crime because there are more serious crimes.

The argument here is that just because the US isn't the worst, doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything.
I was thinking the same thing initially, but I looked around and found many companies have positive reviews, so I think it is fairly balanced.
Yea I don't think the programmers got the cash. Though I'll bet some executives from CGI are probably are taking a pretty nice holiday right about now.
While you're right about office space becoming wildly expensive in Palo Alto and Mountain View, I'm unconvinced the data supports the idea that cheap office space is the driver of growth to the city.

As you mention there is plenty of cheap and large offices as you go south along the peninsula, but startups seem to consistently choose more expensive SOMA offices over these. Only startups that need a warehouse or other specialized facilities start their search in the south bay.

I think the reality is that its a combination of factors driving people to SF, from 'cool factor'/perception to quality of life issues (employee proximity) to 'cheaper-than-palo-alto' benchmarking.

By the way, if you're reading this thread and looking for office space, the south bay is a perfectly good place to look. Yes, it's not as glamorous, but it's both functional, frugal, and actually quite nice. The graveyard doesn't consist of dumpy factories, but pleasantly maintained offices with good facilities. You can even live nearby, as long as calm neighborhood is an acceptable condition for you.
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I've tried airbrake, Errorception, Sentry/RavenJS and Rollbar, all good software that aim to solve roughly the same problem, though eventually we settled for rollbar.com
The docket for the lawsuit Carl is fighting can be found here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2506677

Appropriately, PlainSite uses a lot of materials that Carl helped make possible (including Aaron Swartz's initial PACER data dump, which he still hosts).
Now to be fair... $93.7m at $170 per hour is 551,176 billable hours. Now, it's certainly not a one man job--maybe a team of 20 ought to do it? That leaves 27,558 hours per person. Divide that by 40 and it looks like you're going to be running a team of 20 for 688 weeks at 40 hours per week of billable hours. 688 weeks is 13 years.

So that amount will get you a team of 20 working for 13 years straight. Bump it up to a team of 40 and you get 6.5 years.

Regardless, I'm in the wrong business...
It may have escaped your attention but currently web dev is not considered a medical profession. I suppose one could say that they would rather see the money spent on healthcare bureaucracy, but that's a bit of a weaker statement I guess.
I think it has been peer reviewed? http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3554/full/nco...

What is really needed is access to the raw data.
#5 Be ridiculously bad ass

I'm pretty sure the first time most of us visited facebook or twitter, we didn't think "Oh shit! This is amazing. I have to come back here everyday!"

Those sites are only interesting because our friends are there and because over time, they evolved into great ideas. At one point 'tweeting' or even 'twittering' before it became known as 'tweeting' was said more in jest than in seriousness. Now, in hindsight, it seems painfully obviously that it was a great idea.
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No apology needed! Thanks for the links.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/08/230424...
Staying motivated is simple: don't work on boring shit.

That may sound like a shallow phrase, but I've been there. You've convinced yourself that you're working on the most awesome thing in the world. You keep thinking that you're supposed to be motivated, because what you're doing is great. But deep down, you know that you'd rather do something else.

At that point it usually boils down to rewards. Is the reward worth continuing?

If the answer is yes, go on. Shouldn't be a problem.
If the answer is no, you know why you aren't motivated. Drop it, look for something else.
They tried to do this with BeOS back in the day. They forced hitachi and sony to release their BeOS machines with windows as the primary boot and hid the BeOS from usage.
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The irony is the CTO of the US Todd Park founded two Health IT companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Park
It's extremely difficult to self-manage if you haven't been in a safe situation to experiment with it.

Personally, I find that the only sensible and generally applicable solution is to set short-term goals based on a formally written project plan to yourself.

You don't ever have to give that project plan to anyone else, but you should write it as well as you possibly can. It should be clear on what kinds of things are feasible to do, what is required, what you can do first to prove the concepts, and so on.

I do this for every project I start, after struggling with the problem in graduate school a bit. It takes about a week per proposal to put something together of reasonably high quality, but by the end you actually probably have a very good sense of the strongest argument you can make to do the project as well as the weaknesses, as well as ideally a logical argument for why it might work based on citable evidence. This would also include things like "this experiment I can do" (translated to "this market idea I can test" in business) will generate some result that is clear and helpful in moving towards your medium term goal -- which is probably to either make enough money or be able to raise enough money to pay yourself and enough staff to move to the next medium term goal.

Then take that medium term goal and break it down not into time-based goals but sensible sub-goals. If you want to build a web service, a first goal might be "I think that people have a use for... I can test that by building... and collect data using... if that works, then it's worth doing the second goal..."

Break it down as small as is sensible to do, but limit this kind of strategizing so that you don't go really far down a road before putting it aside to sit and let you get a fresh perspective. Bounce it off others to see if they can poke holes in your strategy that you didn't think of. And so on.

Anyway, it's not so much self-discipline as it is realizing that big goals are always changing and medium term goals are uncertain. You have to always be able to change those goals based on the actual data you collect. But the short term goals should be achievable. And it will take time to isolate what good short term goals should be.

A good short term goal might be, to start, to make a good start on identifying short term goals...
Potentially, but I've found the 'suburbs' of San Francisco/the Bay Area are very different from suburbs in other parts of the country. Suburbs are known for being somewhat isolated, uniform, and idle; the textbook definitions of suburbs describe them as a dissociation of residential life from industrial zones.

This is often not true around SF. Up and down the peninsula, you'll find continuous cities with strong tech and other industries. Would we consider Redwood City a stereotypical suburb, for example? It becomes more murky, and many of the stereotypes fall apart.

That said, your perception is held by many people and is accurate for many parts of the US. As a result, people moving to the Bay Area choose where to live with a similar bias.
I am very tempted to add my personal anecdote to the pile, but let me make a humble request instead...

If you are not a medical professional, please stop spreading unscientific memes and try to keep your opinion on mental diseases to yourself. The question of whether the drugs work is better left to the actual scientists and not be allowed to cloud the basic fact that one should always seek medical attention if they feel they have a problem. Unlike most physical diseases, the mental ones often impair your judgement and all this tinfoil hat bullshit really isn't helping. So please, just don't.

Thanks.
Similarly, my fundamental question is how you would implement master election for applications running within a docker container using etcd. Or is master election only for etcd itself and not a capability it provides?

Also, all the examples just store simple key/value pairs. What are your best practices for actual config files? Do you store e.g. key=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf value=<contents of that file>? Does that imply all machines will have the same config? Or do you have the machine name in the key space? Or is etcd not actually for this kind of configs? If not, for which kind then?
It doesn't need a citation, it is supported by Occam's razor while you are suggesting a complex explanation.

How does Harvey Mudd magically close their gender gap as though they suddenly decided to stop discriminating against females all these years?

If the girls you knew were, say 10% less capable compared to male applicants, would you be able to tell? I doubt it.
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> Drugs in contemporary America are like prostitutes in Victorian Europe

Victorian Britain?
I found MailChimp is good to build a list of leads. And their free tier is 2,000 users and 12,000 emails per month.
Here's one good reason why I don't want any piece of "Microsoft software" to be embedded in Android phones:

Microsoft Thinks DRM Can Solve the Privacy Problem:

> "Under the model imagined by Mundie (a senior advisor to the CEO at Microsoft), applications and services that wanted to make use of sensitive data, such as a person’s genome sequence or current location, would have to register with authorities."

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520226/microsoft-thinks...

Microsoft still has a lot of this "let's be dicks to make more money" culture inside the company, and until that changes, I want nothing to do with them anymore, and the fact that there are starting to be some serious alternatives to Windows now that are becoming increasingly more mature, makes me happy. I'd like it to remain that way, instead of having Microsoft crawl back to its former power.

You may think "Google does some bad stuff, too", but so far I've seen absolutely no evidence that Microsoft is better in any way than Google, and it's usually worse. So if that's the "choice" that's being offered (ironically by forcing themselves into our phones), then I want none of it. It's like saying Romney was a "choice" to Obama. Sure it was - an even worse one.

What I'd like to see more of is more open source operating systems becoming successful in the mobile world, like Ubuntu Touch or Sailfish or even Firefox OS.
I have no idea if there are software packages and the like for this, too, but melting point, liquid density, vapor point, would be really helpful too.
It's more of "referral link" spam. Wikipedia has concise article on that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen already
Well, that’s less surprising than announcing steam-powered AMD machines.
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I was given anti-depressants and ADD medication when I was in college. I went to a cognitive psychologist who gave me a barrage of tests and told me I was off the charts ADD and had really bad anxiety and depression. I was definitely anxious and at times I can get pretty down. I turned in less homework than anyone in my whole high school and generally didn't care about most things people wanted me to (I did pretty well in community college and university though).

The psychologist didn't want to even start treatment til the meds kicked in so I, being naive and trusting, said OK, went to the croaker he recommended I go to and started taking them.

The anxiety went away as did the depression. So did any semblance of self-control I had. I can definitely see how someone could fly off the handle on these things kill a bunch of people if s/he had even the remotest inclination to do so beforehand. I started dressing crazy. I started basically talking at people, trying to blow their minds and confuse them and play with them. I lost any desire to really connect with anybody, any empathy or sympathy. My ability to introspect totally disappeared so I was unable to see what was happening to me. Maybe the idea was that depression or anxiety is related to overthinking/over-introspection or something like. Maybe I had an anomalous experience but I'm pretty sure if I continued with them I'd be in prison or suffering in some other way for the unanalyzed extremes I let myself get to.

I have other friends who have taken them or are still on them and I see/saw the same thing with them, a complete inability to self-judge causing them to make the same mistakes over and over and over and a tendency towards unfulfilling behavior. The pill they take to be happy hijacks the ability to ever create the circumstances to be happy without it.

I was unable to see what had happened to me when I was on them. I had to be told by someone who I hadn't seen in a long time how much I'd changed. It was a person I deeply respected. She told me in no uncertain terms that I wasn't the same person I had been and that I had changed for the worse. I finally tried looking inward and I realized she was right. Then I had to deal with the hallucinations and electric shock sensations of withdrawal but I'm glad I did

I may not be happy all the time, or even most of the time. I may be full of irrational fears but I believe I am becoming less so.

Meditation and Qigong help me.
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Nice example for the recent trend of "overtooling".

Let's make a science out of running something simple as a Wordpress that runs out of the box everywhere where PHP/MySQL is available.