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This reminds me of a passage from Ben Franklin's "Autobiography" about vegetarianism, but could be reinterpreted as a statement on the benefits of being hungry:

"When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. I made myself acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for buying books. But I had another advantage in it. My brother and the rest going from the printing-house to their meals, I remained there alone, and, despatching presently my light repast, which often was no more than a bisket or a slice of bread, a handful of raisins or a tart from the pastry-cook's, and a glass of water, had the rest of the time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking."

Perhaps Steve Jobs's "stay hungry, stay foolish" quote was literal as well.
Just wanted to say thanks for expanding on Kevin Marks's quote with more sources. This is interesting stuff.
Its funny how different the 11 and 13 are. Our house has one of each, and they are very different machines. The 11 is used more like an iPad. It's usually found balanced somewhere, poked into the bookcase, down the side of a couch cushion etc. The 13 is much more grunty (it's way higher spec) but its form factors is also much bigger and more traditionally laptopish. It doesn't seem right putting it in strange places or lugging it around the house. I'm that guy - I'd like a 12 inch Air.
Not sure WWII neutrality is all that heroic. I guess it probably makes sense, with fascism looming on every border after the Anschluss and fall of the French Third Republic. But still, not what comes to mind when I think "heroism".

This entry is pretty interesting to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wa...
Size isn't the only consideration.

If you sample 10,000 professional athletes, are you getting a sample population which represents 9-5ers and couch potatoes too?
How about the state of Fortran or COBOL after four years?
Even assuming that the human brain somehow "works better" in a state of hunger (which this study does not prove), I would still do better work in a state of satiation.

The number one factor for doing good work is to sit down, get in the zone, and stay concentrated on your work. I find that being hungry is very distracting --hunger constantly nagging you out of your task with the urge of getting up and grabbing a snack. So independently of how well hunger makes the brain work, for me hunger is detrimental to the only thing that matters.
i don't know whether this count as data, or just opinions: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
I think it was more "I want to write my code without how it ends up packaged or deployed having influence on how I write it", and vice versa.

We definitely don't have that at my job. We have to be conscious of the dev, test, build and production environments when coding. Ops has to be more conscious of what they are deploying than they'd like. It's not that either team doesn't care about the other's work or the big picture.
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A cliche is about chanting Om [mani padme hum] without any understanding or sitting on a cushion [in special yoga pants] for $30/h ,)
It's hard to take a "scientific study" seriously when the researchers claim the results to be some worthless platitude like "happiness is love." That is hardly an objective conclusion from the findings.
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Nearly all of the areas you mentioned are massive commodity markets, where individuals get hired on the basis of least pay they are ready to accept. Its not a very comfortable position to be in. You age quickly, fall victim to age related discrimination. While a fresher gets the job because he is ready to work for a little less.

>>Yes Java is not what cool kids advocate but it what makes an good career.

Well Java is what cool kids in the late 90's were advocating. And C++ was where the supposedly 'good career' was.
> for many people is not even debatable. It just works.

Not even debatable, huh?

Wikipedia:
A major criticism has been that clinical studies of CBT efficacy (or any psychotherapy) are not double-blind (i.e., neither subjects nor therapists in psychotherapy studies are blind to the type of treatment). They may be single-blinded, the rater may not know the treatment the patient received, but neither the patients nor the therapists are blinded to the type of therapy given (two out of three of the persons involved in the trial, i.e., all of the persons involved in the treatment, are unblinded). The patient is an active participant in correcting negative distorted thoughts, thus quite aware of the treatment group they are in.

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The element of hope and expectation on the part of the patients to get better in non-blinded trials will bias the results in favor of CBT. The informed consent procedure required to enter a psychotherapy trial biases the subjects who enter to those that are favorably inclined to the psychotherapy. Taken together, trails using psychotherapy do not meet the qualifications of high quality evidence.[96]

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Not double-blind, then there's not much science in it, then.
His or her point is that the "evidence" at hand can be rationalized either way. That is because there is no causal evidence about the relationship between hunger and productivity adduced here.
I meant -- has anyone tried to see if people who complain about headaches after eating at Chinese restaurants are just dehydrated from eating too much salt?
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Not sure if it's what you had in mind, but I found both his advanced and basic tutorials to be really good (different audiences though, there is no "medium" tutorial to bridge it :-) )

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I'm pretty sure that the kind of engineering that designs circuits to do things in hardware that you'd normally do in software can't be that much different than writing software. A title that I find more ridiculous than software engineer is software architect. Architects are partly like engineers, but they also design things to look pretty while serving their function. Making software look pretty on the inside is utterly pointless, because users only see what the software does, not what the design looks like. Designing software is a lot more like engineering than architecture.
I've heard the same thing somewhere, where if you need to go to the toilet that's the best time to make a decision.
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"core physical team"

What is that, in the context of remote work?

I worked remotely for 3 years at my last job. The lead lived half way across the country from HQ, as did I, and as did the lead QA. More importantly, we regularly traveled for different installations and tests, so today to talk to Joe you were calling Texas, but week he'd be in NM, and so on. Meanwhile you were on your own rotation. I perhaps exaggerate the amount of travel, as there were plenty of times where most people were at HQ except for the permanent remote workers, but the larger point is that it had to work with no core team in one place, because many times during the year there was no such beast.

It works.
I started out on the many contract working portals, got a few really crappy jobs to get some ratings in my profile and keep increasing my rate. I kept everything at arms length until I found people I didn't mind working with for longer periods of time, at which point I de-listed from the portals. I continued some of these contract arrangements, and got some great referrals out of them.

I was a little lucky in that one of the initial contracts was for PHP development, but they wanted an iOS dev so badly (and I had proved myself by that point), that they paid for an iPod touch and Apple Developer license in exchange for me working at the same PHP hourly rate. So basically I got paid to learn the new skill while adding a portfolio item.

Don't waste a lot of time on the contract work portals. The pay is horrible, the jobs are crappy, the people are crazy, and it sucks up a lot of time. If you don't have an existing network though, it'll be a way to get started. The people you find here which you can actually stand, you can use to build up your network of referrals. Offer discounts if they give you a chance to get paid to learn a new skill (but obviously be reasonable - don't get in over your head).

Time management and Communication are key for success. Client management, legal terminology, budgeting, etc are also great things to understand.

Good luck!
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I started when I was 18. I had a friend who telecommuted for most of his work, but had to go into the office occasionally and I was interested in a similar set up.

I started on VWorker (Rent-a-coder at the time) and found a cool gig that lasted about a year doing mainly research projects for a web design and marketing company. That job fell through, though, and I was in normal kid-jobs for a while (retail, gas station worker, even a couple of stints doing factory work).

Then, I landed a job building a website remotely for a friend-of-a-friend's business. That worked but it was just a one-off gig, not long-term.

Then I sort of accidentally fell into remote work doing some development on a desktop app, but again it was a short-term gig.

From there it was about 6 years before I found full-time remote work again (I'm 28 now and have been with the same company for about 7 months and it seems to be going strong).

My advice is to never give up, and never give in to the pressure that you will get from family and friends. If you want to live the work-from-wherever lifestyle then you have to commit, and the sad truth is that you will probably have to go hungry sometimes unless you get lucky and land a job on the night shift of a gas station (it's not too bad until a hooker bleeds on you, yeah that happened to me).

Remote working, for me, takes a tremendous amount of discipline and it's really a lot of work. But there are great benefits in that I get more time with my family and to do the things that I like. But it also means that I have to be an excellent communicator and that I sometimes have to work when I normally wouldn't want to (a crisis in Europe doesn't care that it's only 3am in the US).
Been a remote worker for the same company in two different positions for the past 5 years.

Not a developer, just IT support here. I had been contract-to-hire working for a hedge fund for most of 2007. I'd been let go (not hired) based on reasons that I feel were more cultural than based on my performance. Had I been a little wiser and realized that I needed to work harder than everyone else (lack of degree) to prove myself I'd still have that job.

Anyway, I was extremely demoralized and spent the better part of 2008 unemployed. I was burnt out from working long weeks with overtime and didn't even bother to look for a job the first four months. All of my time was spent bettering myself (biking, reading) and relaxing -- I had a big pile of money I was sitting on so it was okay.

I finally started to look for a job in the second half of the year, but I'm extremely picky and didn't see any companies that I was interested in working for. I spent some of this time as a bike messenger but hated being treated like shit by everyone -- still, I think this was a necessary motivator to get serious about my job search.

By November I was going broke. I finally found a couple of things worth applying for. I got the interview call for the job I'm in now when I had $9 left to my name and no prospect of further money coming in -- no joke.

It was a bit serendipitous. Like ssafejava said in their comment "it turned out to be incredibly liberating and probably one the best things that's happened to me, professionally." At the hedge fund I had to constantly look busy even if I didn't really have anything to do. Appearances were incredibly important and being young in my career, it was something I bungled badly. I was also extremely bad at keeping my coworkers from dumping their work on me in the office. That's something much harder to do remotely.

Working remotely, all of my work is judged on its own merits. I can manage my time appropriately with minimal interference from others. I've consistently been one of the highest-performing employees here. My company was even contacted by a major newswire to do a story about remote work and they sent someone to my house to interview me. The story never ran though :(. I don't work any overtime ever. Work-life balance is ideal.

It's been a great ride, but I'd like to go back to working in an office now that I'm a bit wiser -- I would like regular interaction with people again; IRC doesn't always cut it. A mix of office/remote would be best for me I think.

There is a downside to remote work though. I know for a fact that a fair number of my bosses/coworkers are doing drugs on the job. I'm not going to make any judgments about marijuana but we do have some meth users. Management doesn't want to know anything about it, but the performance of some of these people is pretty bad. If I worked for a better company this wouldn't be an issue.
Er, but those people tend to be for "their" language, and suspicious of others, regardless. Avoiding traditional rivalries may give them some breathing room, but Go is not somehow outside of the tribal fanboy ecosystem.

Indeed, the "OMG GO!1!" tone of many HN stories and comments on the language suggest that it's diving in headfirst...
> I find that being hungry is very distracting --hunger constantly nagging you out of your task with the urge of getting up and grabbing a snack

That only applies if you are actually experiencing hunger. I've been doing intermittent fasting for a couple of years and I haven't been hungry one single day - I don't even remember what it feels like. I eat once a day, usually at the end of the day.

It's well known that natural level of catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline) are raised during the fast. As a result, most intermittent fasters report increased focus and alertness during this period. This article about ghrelin is yet another piece of the puzzle of why IF works so well for some people.
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This is great advice, especially about getting out of the house and having a routine. I am on my second remote position and having a daily routine is essential to not falling into productivity hell.

I am renting an office in a coworking space so I can have a place to "go to work" rather than working from home. It adds a routine, it gives me separation between work and home, and it's nice to have human contact over the course of the day.
Actually, the multiple identities thing you talked about is one of the new G+ features on YouTube. You can create a G+ Page, which is treated as a separate profile across YouTube and G+. This Page is internally linked to you (but no one can see the original owner) and you can switch in and out of it by clicking "Switch Accounts".

Edit: forgot to mention, you have to explicitly connect the G+ Page to YouTube.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3479900
Considering the recent public announcement from bloomberg on their policy of appeasement and self-censorship toward mainland China I think it's safe to say similar policies exist elsewhere (either as a matter of policy or merely culture).
I think logic would dictate that institutions claiming to be public should be public, and those claiming to be private should be private.
Interesting idea, but I don't think many metro systems are set up to easily sell 'a kilometer' of transport?
As someone who has shipped production software in both Erlang and Go. They are very different beasts. Regarding error handling, Go is far closer to C than Erlang. If Erlangs slogan is "let it fail" and gives you the power to avoid writing error handling for every single thing, Go's is "don't let it fail" ... and you really need to write error handlers for everything, reducing the "unexpected" footprint.

There is no real way to grab a goroutine from the outside and tell it what to do -- you have to use its channels, which if bad things have happened are probably broken.. there are some systems built that catch exceptions and send messages (this is from inside the goroutine of course) on the channel, but I haven't used them.

That might come across an unduly negative of Go, but Go has major upsides. Great tooling, easy to understand after a tiny amount of time, a culture of explicit (even at times non-DRY) code, amazing deploy model, and generally just very understandable even to newcomers.
The meeting minutes are fascinating reading! The jostle of the decision making process is interesting, but I really relish the buffet of juicy technical details.

Pity that r/rust is still fairly low volume.
How did you manage to deduce that from his statement?

As a statistician, it seems like the obvious issue is that if the US is obviously different from other countries (having a large minority population that disproportionally commits crimes), then its crime rates cannot be compared with other nations without taking this into account.

You have precisely demonstrated the bias that I referred to earlier. You assume that Heston is saying something that he is not (that Blacks are more prone to crime, genetically, rather than the simple fact that they commit more crime), because Heston is not qualified to speak on these issues.

Unless you have some other reason to believe this about Heston, in which case please elaborate.
Correct, on all accounts.
I find that in this situation, my response is always the same: "Just do it.. be right back"
No doubt. Things with optional arguments, keyword arguments, all sorts of contraptions like that. That's why we've studiously avoided such things.

Still, there's an asymmetry, at least to our minds, between calls and returns, so the argument put forth for multiple values ("a function can take multiple arguments, why can't it return multiple answers?" -- made especially compelling in a CPS context, because returns turn into calls) doesn't quite play out in practice.

Ergo, no multiple return values.
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> I read a bunch of books on storytelling and distilled their essence into a few parts

Care to share which books you read on storytelling? I'd love to read them.
Interesting, a day later I got an e-mail that let me claim my full name without suffix.
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Reminds me of the Romanian art thief whose mother apparently burnt the paintings he stole to try and help his case: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/romanian-art-thief-...
So much for the "kids can't learn if they're hungry" argument for subsidized or free school breakfast and lunch programs...
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That's the weakest reason to choose Go. I think the other comment made it pretty solid that here on HN we have a lot of top-rated comments and topic involving building an app or rewriting an app in Go.

If the reason is neither Python nor Ruby can do concurrency right out of the box like Go does, then sure this could be a good reason because people in Python and Ruby world would argue which set of tools to use.

I mean Python coder and Ruby coder can argue that Go is not the way to go; static compilation, like whattttttt? Strict type... like what?

I am not very convinced and think that slide is pretty biased - well basically doesn't justify why Go was picked and the tone of the slide makes me think Go is the solution to all the disputes we have in other languages. We have plenty of Go vs Python vs Ruby threads.
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It's gradually typed. Everything has both a static and dynamic account. We have a prototype type checker and a pre-prototype type inferencer.

If Racket people "hate types", you'd have a hard time explaining the existence of Typed Racket, or that some of the most cited research on types is by one of Racket's creators.

But please, don't let facts get in the way. (-:
Thanks for the tip on blocking youtube.com cookies. Never thought of that.
This is actually one of the reasons I do what is now called "Intermittent Fasting". I found in my teens that I was much, much more focused and alert on an empty stomach. I've always assumed it had to do my insulin response to meals as low-carb diets had a similar effect but not eating during the day was just easier.
Agree that there are other things this study may be beneficial for. I edited my initial comment to acknowledge that this study and its conclusions are probably being hyped by the media, and it's actual value and the limitations of the study may be addressed by the authors in the study.

Unfortunately, the authors' words will be replaced by journalists to get attention.
Any empirical work will involve questions of whether you are truly measuring the effect you want to measure.

However I am claiming, based on my knowledge of the field, that researchers have adequately dealt with this, and come to the conclusion that Black people really do commit more crime, after taking into account all observable economic and social effects.

Another replier has already mentioned that you can measure crimes that are less subject to bias in prosecution (like homicide.

If there was an easy way to explain the apparent excess of criminality in Black people by these means, I'm sure I would have read about it in the academic literature.
To be fair, you compartmentalize intelligence so it does not get abused. If you don't have a <need to know>, it is presumed you are going to abuse it somehow. That's the purpose of 'need to know' restrictions. Yes, it also is a policy which increases OpSec. But note His interview reference seems to be wikileaks and Manning, which was a breech of opsec, in theatre. Snowden leaking on the NSA seems to be much more grounded in a principled position, and is in a civillian context. Its hard to infer a position on the latter based upon coments from the former.
anyone know a list of companies following such model?
I feel very similar to this post. I used to enjoy browsing Facebook. I rarely bother with it other than messaging.

Twitter I have used since 2006 and still use it just as frequently as a few years ago.
How about we first agree about what is true, then figure out what the best course of action is, rather than repressing the truth, or reserving it for a select few.