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> more homogeneous and more united

Uh... errr... how do you figure? Do you know how many languages are spoken in the European Union alone?
To simply put it:Focus on the process, not the result.
how about reachout@example.com
One thing stood out to me in the article "make something free and easy and people will do a lot of it".

What about this as a potential solution - in order to send an email to someone, you have to pay something.

Here's how it could work:

1) You sign up for a service that autoresponds to all incoming email stating that in order to send this receiver an email, they require at least X BTC.

2) The receivers inbox only shows email where the sender attached the minimum X BTC. In fact the inbox is sorted by the amount of BTC attached to each email.

3) The receiver keeps half the attached BTC and the email service keeps the other half. This is the part I'm least sure about.

Thoughts?
Your timeframe is critical to the decision though. Most of us will not live in our home for 20 years, let alone 30. Some of us will move to other towns to take pay raises that (a) we could not have discovered in the town of our current home and (b) might more than compensate for any loss in savings.

Choosing to rent or buy on purely financial grounds must incorporate the length of time you will own the home.
I think such a scheme is customer-unfriendly, especially for a small company where there isn't a compelling organizational need to have separate email addresses. For example, if an existing customer wants to both place a new order and get customer support, should they be expected to send two emails, one to sales and another to support? Also, I've noticed that once a customer gets a company's email address in their address book, that's the only email address they ever use. I've seen this first hand with customers emailing the support address to place new orders.
I'm unsure, I haven't done any app development, just toolchain work.
If you are sending mails correctly (i.e. with a name not just an email address) then that isn't an issue.

From: Company Name <support@domain.com>

vs.

From: support@domain.com
Overstates the case, I think.

The insurers cannot bill their subsidized clients for the correct amount without knowing their subsidies, so that's either working now generally or there will be total hell to pay (as people don't get what they need or sums are grabbed back by the government).

So they can simply bill the government, and reconciliation can happen later. If this or doesn't become Plan B, then, whoa, I don't know what to say. Accenture had better put some of its "project is in trouble" teams on this, coming up to speed on the existing stuff and accomplishing these things by these deadlines sounds very very difficult to me, and impossible with Accenture's usual quality of consultant.
Nice title.

"Email is broken. People are using it a lot."
Wait, why is the British law worthless? I'm assuming I'm mistaken, but your claim seems to be solely on the fact you can commit libel from what seems to be the USA on a website not hosted in the UK. That would seem to imply our entire legal system is broken because we don't censor other countries publications, and it'd obviously be interesting to hear the justification behind that.
I'm impressed you even got word one from Google, but out of curiosity, did they ever say why they wouldn't bring back your app, or did they just leave it at "because f you"?
Interesting to note that the author, LucasVB, uses a custom PHP library using GD to make these animations. He explains why he finds alternatives like Processing, Matplotlib, etc. insufficient here:

http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/faq
I think it's interesting that you love what you do and also work in a high demand field. I don't think those are actually coincidental.

All the chemical engineers I know (I know a few) are pretty happy. Most find their work interesting.

All the humanities academics I know (I know very many, having been one in a former life) are more or less unhappy. Many find their day to day work uninteresting and unexciting.

Chemical engineering is a high-demand field. Not many people's dream job.

Humanities academia is a low-demand field. Many people's dream job.

I think "work in a high demand field" is better advice for any young person than "do what you love," with or without qualification. Especially if they are the sort of young person who wants to be passionate and interested in their work.

Doing the hyperspecialized Hot Field of the Day may be a bad idea, but perennials like [software] engineering, K-12 education, finance, nursing, medicine etc. are generally going to be the best use of an intelligent student's time.

Low-demand fields mean a lot of down time due to lack of funding or lack of employment. That kills passion. High-demand fields mean there's always something to do and a new problem to solve. I think that's more important for actually loving what you do.
I've been using Feed Wrangler paired with Reeder 2 on my iPhone. Why? Feedly automatically expires articles after 30 days. Feed Wrangler doesn't.
The link submitted to HN lands on video 2 of 4 which was created was uploaded Uploaded on Mar 15, 2008 where Sal was renting and the video is pro renting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL10H_EcB-E

Interestingly, it looks like on Dec 31, 2013 new video was added as 1 or 4 where Sal said he bought a house and now is neutral on rent. vs. buy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNL6f1xkie4
That's true for emails the company sends the customer, but not true for emails the customer sends the company (unless they're replying to an email or using their address book). Point is, I've seen only the local part get rendered even when I send from a From: address that properly includes the name.
I find it odd that his solution to the 'invasive' nature of email revolves around social media, a medium whose entire purpose for being is farming your content and selling your data.

No thank you.
Thanks! This is really helpful, I'm seeding all from a 1Gbps pipe in the US. I'll be trying out the new release later today!
What you said doesn't contradict what he was saying. It's certainly possible that the most amazing country in the world also slaughters innocents in the Middle East and Africa.
A few years ago, I thought that I loved entrepreneurship bc it gave me the ability to be creative and to build whatever a I wanted, whenever I wanted.

Then one of my mentors gave me a challenge: 1) In 15 seconds, write down all of the things that you can think about, in the entire world, that is the color white...(I could only muster up about 2 things)...Then, 2) in 15 seconds, write down all of the things that you can think about, in you refrigerator, that are white...(I came up with about 8 things)

This was then led to him describing how I should not think about the entrepreneurship life as an unlimiting venture, he argued that I should put limits on myself and develop a process to get to whatever goal I set out to achieve.

This article echoes that sentiment of focusing on making the process more efficient and use the goals as a way to plan, but don't focus on the goal, focus on the process. I really liked this article. Thank you for sharing!
I made a little interactive web app for visualizing 2-d linear transformations some time ago. My original intention was to see what a 2-d DFT did. Turns out its pretty nifty for seeing the action of eigenvectors, singular matrices, rotations, reflections... anyway, feel free to check it out:

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/chester...
Thank you (and ahugon) for confirming this! I noticed one of our sites was having this issue and wasn't sure what was causing it.
I'm not familiar with House-of-Cards sadly.

But yes, everything in D.C., even for 30 or 40 miles outside of the city, is absolutely consumed by the Federal government.

The downtown of D.C. proper, outside of the tourist areas, is almost entirely composed of foundations and think tanks and non-government organizations who's mission in life is to try and influence executive or legislative policy decisions. There's almost no other real industry by comparison. The tech scene in D.C. is dominated by fed contracting megacorps and small tech businesses that exist only to partner with those companies in order to get the small business set asides. The non-Fed tech sector in D.C. is abysmally small. It exists, and there are hacker meetups and proper commercial companies here, but the ecosystem for those companies is pretty sparse. Most of the non-fed commercial tech companies you find are IT services companies that help build internal infrastructure for non-tech companies.

D.C., the city, also dies after working hours and on weekends. There's minimal night life. It's slowly changing, but nearly everybody who works in the city in the Fed space, lives outside of the city. It means commuting here and traffic is easily as bad as L.A. It's so bad that many of the Agencies are moving or opening very large satellite offices 20 miles or more from D.C. just so they can find qualified workers.

The really powerful people, people sitting on all three legs of the tripod, don't live in D.C. at all. They'll live in Northern Virginia or Southern Maryland. If you want to bang into a Senator or a cabinet secretary while grocery shopping, go shopping in McLean or Great Falls.

It doesn't help that the residential parts of D.C. are rather grim and not very pretty. Even the old historic row houses are rather gritty looking piles of old bricks with broken sidewalks outside and overgrown weeds and grass everywhere.

But I think it's also that the atmosphere in the city is so stifling, the constant ladder climbing and political backstabbery so intense, that people just want to get away from it.

Take a look at the large West Coast tech companies with offices in and near D.C. and you'll see that, down to the position, they all open up their offices to cater to the Fed space. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Google, etc. all have offices near D.C. and if you check out the job listings all require clearances and/or experience doing business with the Federal government.

Practically, nobody cares about how much money you make, or your investment abilities in D.C. It's your positional authority, and what that means, earned through the tripod of power, that people care about.
When I was starting my career, I think I read so much about death marches (including the book called "Death March") and crunch time that I strenuously avoided both. It's been about 10 years and I've still never worked more than one late night sequentially, and in the times that did happen I took off the day following or the day after that. No weekends or 50 hour weeks or any of that shit. It just ain't worth it.
[partially related] Do you reply as, e.g., support@mydomain.com, or from you personal email myname@domain.com? Do you use a real or fake person to address customer support queries?
And your nuts if you think even the SV market will grow forever. The key is to recognize value where others don't, and to otherwise realize that the market is efficient and all bubbles pop one way or the other eventually. My SV landlady talked about how hard the early 90s were, they almost didn't make it.
jnardiello: "... i realize that if you buy a really crappy built house, my arguments might not be valid."

Or if the neighborhood goes into recession for decades after your purchase.

There's a study floating around claiming that homebuyers flock to a region during a period of growth, buy homes at high prices and, when the local economy slows, are stuck forever.

jnardiello: "But where i live, houses are built to last centuries and they are by far the best way to responsibly spend your money."

- Centuries? Then you're not in the U.S. (nothing wrong with that but just want to clarify).

- Stocks do better than real estate historically.

-Building a home that lasts centuries is probably suboptimal. Who knows what the future holds? What will the local economy will be like in 10 years? What better, cheaper (e.g., energy-saving) building techniques will be developed in the next decade? We should all live in solar-powered eco-yurts!8-))

https://www.google.com/search?&q=eco-yurt

"A Home Is a Lousy Investment":
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230425930...

"Why owning a home is bad for you":
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/09/29/the-housing-trap/

"Is Home Ownership Overrated?"
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/05/03/is-home-ownership-ove...
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In the set of options to choose when one hasn't a truly innovative notion to review then the one that tends to top the list is: "If there's a separable technology which hasn't shown significant public change in ten years then you may declare it as _dead_, or otherwise broken or moribund"

Selecting this option has the advantage that the majority of readers might see a point and no further research into this issue need be done by the commentator.

Furthermore, the following technologies are thus "dead": (1) the desktop (2) email (3) Apple (4) linux (5) the-internet (6) the classroom (7) physical books (8) sharks ... you get the idea.
This release has official Raspberry Pi support! Definitely trying this out.
I guess before learning JavaScript, developers need to be sent to a Self learning camp.
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I don't think that the author disagrees with you. The headline is definetly hyperbole, but he does not discredit the values goals can bring. In his own words "None of this is to say that goals are useless. However, I've found that goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress."
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I'm in southern England. I have no idea what to do. House prices are insane.

I have a sizeable deposit (20-25%) but I would still need a large mortgage. I want to buy because I know rent is going to through the roof as this tiny island becomes more and more populated.

However, I don't want to be tied to a job/location. Commuting to London for work is always an option but it comes at a cost of £350-450/mo in travel. Not to mention the time involved. I want the flexibility of renting but I also want a paid-off house when I'm in my 40s/50s.

AFAIK most mortgages (non buy-to-let) do not permit letting out your property, so I'd need to re-mortgage to do that.
> What about highly upvoted/downvoted comments that are then edited to reverse or change the sentiment.

This is why it pays to quote context in Internet discussions.
Sure...

Sphere surface area: 4pi * r^2

Sphere volume: (4/3) * pi * r^3

Both would still have a coefficient if tau replaced pi...
I Love Mediums: yourfriends @ medium.com. Feels just a tiny bit more personal.
The author is the snob, by calling intellectual, creative, ivory-tower sort of work "lovable" and all the rest "unlovable." News flash: Some people prefer taking care of babies to running a giant corporation. In fact, if you happen to love babies and have a real knack for it, hanging out with a baby all day and taking home a paycheck is a pretty good gig if you can get it. Similarly, many Uber drivers I talk to are thrilled with their business, which lets them support their family while being their own boss and setting their own hours, and all they have to do is drive a car around town.

I'm not saying diapers are fun (I have a newborn); obviously not every moment of every job is "lovable," and a little grit and mettle is required. I'm also not saying people who "love" their work would do it for free. Some would, but that's way too high a standard for the present conversation. We're talking about individual career choice, not abolishing money in the world.

Yes, "do what you love" is an ideal, an aspiration, but it's a lot less dehumanizing, more practical, and more empowering than whatever it replaces. (Get a college degree, get a job, follow the rules, and you'll retire rich?) If employers have to at least try to make an argument that they provide an environment conducive to personal growth and that you'll have a positive impact on the world by working there, that's great.

How insulting and invalidating is it for the author to assume "workers" must be miserable, even if the workers themselves don't know it? It's the elitist version of "those poor, miserable atheists." Or: "Those poor, miserable programmers who have jobs rather than starting a start-up. They've actually been brainwashed to think they're happy. They say they like programming!" Or: "Those poor stay-at-home moms, squandering their potential at the whim of the patriarchy. They will never know the true fulfillment that comes from a high-powered career."

Be careful what assumptions you bring to the table. You might be the asshole.
Scott Adams (of "Dilbert") has been rumbling publicly about this subject for the past year or so: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/follow_your_passion/ and http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304626104579121...

Ricardo Semler is the CEO of Semco, a multinational manufacturing conglomerate, who has also wrestled with the concept of "passion", especially as applied to assembly-line workers. For some, the ability to grow in expertise and quality of work is what drives the passion, not the content of the work itself. For others, passion lies in the off-hours activities that their factory job makes possible.

Not hiring a great worker because he lacks passion for the job function is short-sighted. That worker may just be maximizing his pursuit of "doing what you love" outside the 9-to-5.
This ignores that often the high demand is there because it is a tough job for folks to do. Not everyone can physically/mentally do any job. Even if they would love to do so. That you know successful people appears at face value to simply be survivorship bias.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
If a piece of software can connect to the internet, it can implement its own autoupdate. For extensions it would be trivial. People even commonly did it with Greasemonkey scripts.

The reason Chrome includes this functionality is because the hand-rolled solutions people come up with frequently have security problems.

Also, auto update gives good developers a way to fix their own security bugs when they are discovered.
I've noticed as well that Windows Chrome produces a bit of an ugly jagged look to even common fonts.

I use this to fix it:

-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.15px; (some suggest 0.25px)
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Would that make them... Self-aware?

I'll just show myself out...
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If you could transfer your mortgage exactly as it stands if you decide to move around then buying would be in all ways superior. Since that is not the case, if you aren't in a place that you've been for a while and intend to stay in for the foreseeable future then buying is really just a nuisance and prevents you from attaining things like better jobs unless you want to sacrifice your lifespan in the form of a long commute.
So, I think I can give some much shorter and better advice for how to survive a death march, in the form of a flowchart:

1. Do you excel at your job?

- Yes: Ask around and get a job somewhere with management that isn't shit.

- No: Change careers, goto 1.

Although I appreciate, and read with interest, articles such as "how to survive in a POW camp" or "How to survive in prison", I don't really see why you would need that advice if POW camps and prisons were voluntary and you could freely leave.

(The reason I say change careers if you are not good at your job: Good management will be able to tell you aren't good and they won't hire you, or if you do get in the door it won't last. Being bad at something means your entire experience of work is necessarily at the kind of place that hires bad people, which is not how you want to spend your short experience of being alive)
> It's just standard being-an-American stuff. [...] it's really cool that it's a regular, run of the mill occurrence for people to push back against norms and restrictions in American society without any fear of long-term repercussions.

It's standard privileged American stuff. It's great that this guy can push back, but try being a Spanish-speaking factory temp trying to push back and get proper training and safety equipment, or try being a waitress at a bar trying to push back against harassing customers and mistreatment from management. Some people's lives depend on buckling under; they don't get to do the pushing because they will lose their jobs.
Already been tried. It's called hashcash: http://www.hashcash.org/

Coincidentally, hashcash's proof of work is the foundation of bitcoin.

But don't let this discourage you from trying your idea. I think it's still a fantastic idea. Making email cost something to send (either btc or CPU time like hashcash) would kill spam, and slow down the flow of over-communication.
I agree. Maybe I'm getting to be one of those old unix dudes or something, but I was doing something that was essentially exactly the same in 2000 using Lotusscript on Domino 4.6.

You gather params, post it somewhere, check out the response, and display it. It gets fancier with age, but it's essentially the same thing.
... And in the end, for that trivial difference of $125,000 over 30 years ($350 a month) - you get to stop making mortgage payments on the house. And you can sell your investment in the house at any point during or after those 30 years.

You never stop making rental payments.

Worth it.
If what naturally develops is not as effective as something else, I would like to think that people would eventually stop doing it.

As I mentioned (and as the links demonstrate) 80 hour work weeks don't double productivity in the long term. They may double the perception of productivity, and they may satisfy one's sense of urgency by never giving time to think, but I have never seen any evidence that they double productivity in the creation of software.
To your points: Property tax is factored into rent so you are paying it one way or another.

Your return on your 'down payment' has to be well above average to make up for your otherwise 100% loss on rent.

And there is insurance you can buy at about $400/yr that will take care of most of your maintenance and upkeep.
You completely miss what I see as the aim of the article. There are people that want to take care of their kids, as that is what they "love." There are virtually no people that get paid to take care of their kids.

That is, society, especially one that promotes "do what you love" does not value raising your kids. And since we are discussing this in the terms of "do what you love [and you will find success]", the whole bloody point is this odd assertion that people that have not been successful are not "doing what they love" and a deconstruction of it.

To its conclusion, you seem to merely be violently agreeing with the article.
Reminds me a bit of Scott Adams thing http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230462610...
Oh, and one more thing, the $783,370 figure doesn't take the time value of money into account, but your total rent paid figure does. In order to balance this out, we'd need to take a look at the future value of an annuity for your mortgage payments of $2176.03/mo or $26,112.36/yr, which actually works out to $1,293,862.17, bringing the total cost of ownership to $1,635,215.78.
slightly offtopic but I find charging to have the 'right' to have a file in two different file formats to be slightly insulting. $5 for a binary flag?
I agree for email but transactions are very different, I want to know whether my transaction has been successful there and then and get access to what I have paid for. I don't want to be moved to a page saying that my transaction will be processed shortly. Also there would have to be much more than 30 seconds of lag before the connection would timeout.