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Thank you! I did an hour jog tonight, and most of that time was spent trying to figure out why there was frost on the ground with an air temperature above freezing and a warm breeze.
Interesting. How did you know he was suicidal? If I am convinced he is suicidal, it is easy to have a conversation. But I feel there is so much gray area and the last thing I want is to make someone who is just feeling a bit down in life from thinking about suicide.
No I think he means the terrorists that want to kill you because you are free to pay for everything.
Let distance between ground and top of screen=100.
Bird position after a flap at y=y0, time=t0:

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they've been super-responsive fixing any issues we've found (although we don't use the admin interface)... you should shoot them a message if you have specific concerns.
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When I started working with colleagues in ISL (and, later, CDL), i would concur. But, dammit, the ones i worked with learned FAST. And they were smart. The guys in CDL seemed to work 24x7 - on their schedule and on the north american time schedule. Like..when do they sleep?
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I think technical debt is "double" the risk with "double" the reward. I can incur and leverage technical debt to pay dividends now and may never have to pay it back, I may have to pay it back "at cost", or it may cost more in the future due to interest.
An interesting question might be what percentage of male developers are public speakers? And what percentage of female developers are public speakers?

I am certainly not in a position to make an educated guess, do you want to make any sort of estimate?
This story about your brother's struggle was moving...I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Mental health-related causes are personal to me as well.

I think you touched on one of the biggest issues: the stereotype that people with mental health problems appear different and have a lower social status. As your story illustrates, the conditions affect all sorts of people, including those who are smart, successful and career-oriented.

Many people fail to recognize the severity of psychological problems because they're too busy looking at superficial measures of well being: a person's career, his or her physical appearance, etc. But depression has made some of us feel as if we're in a deep fog or a war zone, even if, on the surface, we live in nice neighborhoods and succeed in the workplace.

The key is to be more vocal about this struggle beneath the surface — and to speak up very soon. In my observation, the earlier in life a person can overcome depression, the greater his or her chances of becoming happy and stable.

Kudos on taking the initiative to speak up about this important issue and responding constructively to such as a great loss.
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What a great and simple idea. Make it an API, please, and don't forget the history function so I can see how text evolves over time.
What we need is a new way to communicate where spam is inherently not possible.
This reminds me, I once took a course on magnetic storage technology because I was curious. I am now regularly amazed that my computer starts up at all.
This won't be a popular thing to say, but both Facebook and Google (and many others) are now at the scale where they can really effectively impact policy. They already do this at the national level (Eg immigration/SOPA) - and focusing on changing housing policy at the local level (to encourage more density & units) would go a long way to alleviate these issues.

This isn't for charity - the housing shortage isn't particularly pleasant for their employees either, as it makes everything scarcer/more expensive (parking, grocery, other cost of living).

Edit: A couple of references on housing: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/How-San-Fran...
As someone who has struggled and is currently struggling from depression, posts like this scare me because I think they are spreading a misunderstanding of what depression is.

The article explains some ideas about why programmers as a whole are under-appreciated.

But having your work be under-appreciated has very very very little to do with being depressed.

I am an engineer, and almost my entire social circle is technical as well. I've found that it's hard for friends to understand just how utterly irrational depression is. Being sad because something bad happened isn't depression. Being tired because you haven't been sleeping well isn't depression. And being un-motivated because you are under-appreciated isn't depression.

Yes, bad things happening, poor sleep, and under-appreciation can trigger or contribute to depression. And I don't doubt that the author is hurting and struggling and needs and deserves our help.

I'm just scared when we oversimplify depression, and try to explain it away. Depression is as nuanced as it is awful.
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Often when I try to open Asana it will take minutes to load. I also find it very hard to organize things inside of the product to the point where I prefer vim. There's not way to specify blocking/dependencies and linking inside the product always carries your search context with you.

For small todo style lists it seems fine, if not overkill and if it eventually loads, but for more complex task tracking I just really haven't gotten it at all.
Well, programming in itself doesn't really have much entertainment value at least not for non-programmers. Heck even I as a programmer have looked into the code of only a minority of the myriad libraries and applications I use or my applications depend on.

But, if you create something that's appealing to a lot of people you have a good change of getting recognition for it, sometimes even more than you've bargained for. Just look at Dong Nguyen.
yeah - perhaps to better word what I said 'return on investment' for a public body should include a broad definition of 'what you get back' as in 'what the public gets back' not just 'what the agency gets back'. the latter is generally easier to quantify and easy to quantify things are easy to consider and contrast.
It's easier to answer if we frame the question a bit differently: What percentage of public speakers are male developers and what percentage of public speakers are female developers? Looking at tech conference schedules, it appears that either female speakers are systematically discriminated against or there just aren't very many of them.
Umm... that's Doctor Hurricane.

He didn't spend all that time in Evil Physicist School to be called Mister, thank you very much.
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Almost all committed code becomes technical debt at some point. The more of a debt that any piece of code has is generally correlated to the age of the committed code.

Or another way of putting it, all code is ugly code eventually.
Comparing an encrypted protocol with an unencrypted one is just lame. Furthermore, QUIC doesn't even have all of its feature set turned on, so these comparisons with unencrypted HTTP are, at best, premature. Also, comparing a single HTTP connection with a SPDY-like connection also misses the point.

We like UDP+PK crypto because it gives us zero latency connection setup times, allows mobile devices to change IPs without disrupting their connections, and for us, our average message size is 256 bytes (think: Twitter), and never over 1400 bytes, so every message we send has zero fragmentation. That leaves message reordering and handling dropped packets, something that's trivial given the rest of our protocol.
Love this! I actually wrote a pluggable Django app for work that is basically doing what this service offers. Been meaning to open source it! This is motivation to do so :)
For what it's worth, a colleague asked a coworker (in Austin) who works regularly with India STG staff. To the coworker in Austin, they aren't aware of any of their Indian STG contacts, nor their teams, being affected. At least not as per the article.
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Occulus VR, of course.
Sometimes one decides not to pay the debt, instead they declare bankruptcy and start over...
Using long-term cookies to keep people logged in all the time can be dangerous in certain circumstances. After all, there's a reason why we used to tell people to log out when they're done, although Google and Facebook are doing their damnedest to make people forget this ancient wisdom.

- There are many more opportunities for an attacker to reuse a stolen cookie.

- There are many more opportunities to exploit a CSRF vulnerability if users are always logged into the target site.

- Users might be under the impression that when they close the browser, they'll be logged out. Breaking this expectation can have privacy implications. For this reason, I think it would be good to have a "Keep me logged in" checkbox, even if it is checked by default.

- Many people, especially the poor, still use computers that are either shared (with family and/or friends) or public (schools, libraries and Internet cafes). Although these people probably only make up a small minority of your userbase, I think it's important to afford them no less security than you do your other users.
This is one of the reasons I tend to like front-end work; you can show people the fruits of your labor, and they can appreciate it.
My friend depression has walked with me for decades. We finally came to an understanding. I take care of myself every day and depression fades into the background allowing me to enjoy using the engineering bits of my brain in balance. Getting enough sleep, eating well, drinking enough water, being grateful for what I have, exercise, and a community of friends have been key. Nature walks, yoga, and Argentine Tango work for me.
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You can take a "backup" without powering down, but not a "snapshot".
Hey thanks for sharing your story. My brother was just starting a blog and hoping to share his ideas with others. He was an avid problem solver and I wish he had found ways to reel himself back in like you did. Will check out your site!
Personally would rather have it be based on number of emails. Make more sense. I'll probably give this a try though!
Make a uservoice post about it if there isn't one.
agreed. even and odd are exhaustive descriptions of the count of something. whereas atheism is the one belief different from the innumerable number of god beliefs.

its not atheism vs christianity. its atheism as a belief among the near infinite number of past, present, and lets not forget future god belief systems.

our descendents will argue about atheism vs some christianity prime as well.

also this is where Plantinga is coming from:

>A.P.: I should make clear first that I don’t think arguments are needed for rational belief in God.

You don't need to be convinced god is real. You just "know" it.

This is why TDD is good. I may feel my program is correct. After all, I spent so much time writing it and it solves this problem I have. But evidence is required to roll it out into production.
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Easily the best book on writing I've read. Closely followed by some research from the 60s on "process oriented writing" (I'm not sure if that's the accepted English term -- the material I read was in Danish). They essentially say the same thing: writing is re-writing -- and in that light, any tool that encourages you to look at what you've written again, and rethink it one more time, should help improve your writing.

[edit: Hemmingway himself has allegedly said "The first draft of anything is shit." -- but at least wikiquote has it as unsourced, so I'm not sure if the attribution is correct -- even if the idea probably is]
Interesting idea - Why not take it further and create a new Wikipedia similar to the "simple english" version but for short articles. Maybe a "summary" version of the encyclopedia that is limits articles to a certain length to suit mobile consumption better.

EDIT: In my foolishness I read and responded to a comment before RTFA. My bad, this is precisely what the article proposes :D.
Maluuba is a nice Siri-like virtual agent app for Android, but Maluuba's API only offers predefined intents (across 23 categories). Developers cannot create intents for their own domain.

Also, to my knowledge they rely on Android's speech recognition and the API accepts only text, not audio streams.
I wonder if anybody would wrap this into a open-source wiki project.

I'm currently looking at open alternatives to Confluence, haven't found anything that's as easy to use on the editing front.
I agree that "fight back" was unfortunate terminology, but I thought so for a different reason: It sounds like juvenile blustering. We weren't actually fighting anything — we were just making a few phone calls. Those who aren't interested in violence will be turned off by the hostile name and those who are interested in violence will be turned off by the fact that it's just phone calls.
"Many people fail to recognize the severity of psychological problems because they're too busy looking at superficial measures of well being: a person's career, his or her physical appearance, etc. But depression has made some of us feel as if we're in a deep fog or a war zone, even if, on the surface, we live in nice neighborhoods and succeed in the workplace."

THIS.

Being vocal about the struggle is so crucial. My family had no clue what to even look for when these issues started cropping up much less how to get him help. By the time we got him the level of help he needed he had already been in the throes of deep depression and anxiety. Thanks for your kind words.
Are the ideas being attacked or the individual in this case?

Many people simply don't know how to respond to something they dislike or feel threatened by and anonymity means they don't even have to consider a valid argument in their aggression. Sometimes race or gender or other feeling of competition are enough to make people feel threatened - not much relating to social contract or "points of view worthy of consideration and respect" then.
It's a good thing nobody said this.
As for the whole discussion about IBM's involvement with "cloud" - I guess it depends a bit on how you define it. AIX first started virtualization on a large scale years ago, didn't they? And since AIX 5, wasn't every AIX instance an LPAR? PowerVM / VMControl had the essential features of the cloud - virtualization, metering, billing, partition mobility, etc. It was just never marketed in the high volume, low margin way that the public cloud providers are marketing. But, I guess, even then, due to internal politics and protecting their teams, PowerVM and VMControl became like beasts. Software that was produced (E.g. SmartCloud), by edict, had to use it, and those additional layers became a nightmare.

So, I think it's wrong to say that IBM didn't pursue things on the cloud front. There was some work on it. But the execs - not the worker bees - certainly screwed that pooch. And it'll be the execs getting the bonuses for courageously reorganizing their departments too.
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I dont see how that matters. You still need a password + one file (on the phone). SSH keys with passphrase are two factors as well in my book. In fact, I would say that not having to transmit the weakest part (the mnemonic password/pin) over the wire is a plus.
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By that logic, all the other languages are wrong, since CL predates them by decades. Getf has been the same in CL since, what, 1952 (much older than Unix).
She wasn't feeling her usual self and I had to ask explicitely(Do you consider suicide?). For someone who is just feeling down and not suicidal the question might be a bit of a shock, but in the end you are showing that you care and that you are present if things go really bad.

And then again, pretty much everyone knows the existence of suicide. If asking the question and trying to help drives someone to action, chances are something else would have.
That's a neat aphorism. It's the software equivalent of Intel's tick/tock process.

It also explains why I see far too many shiny web 'frameworks'. People just must attempt doing something "cleverly" especially if the end goal is boring.

I'm in the opposite case right now, I have way too much complexity to want tricky dev or ops tools.
And a separate network :)

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dreamhoststatus.com has address 96.126.109.82

$ nslookup 96.126.109.82

Non-authoritative answer:

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Allie Brosh in Hyperbole and a Half puts it as well as I've seen http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...

One aspect is the anhedonia (joylessness); another is the pain.

I suppose you might call some of this “disillusionment”, but that makes it sound cognitive, and intellectual, and amenable to argument and reasoning. Whereas it's more an affective and emotional state, not a set of propositions or an intellectual theory about the world.

When I'm not depressed, it's not that I believe intellectually in a god or a purpose to life any more than when I am depressed. It's just that my non-depressed self generally enjoys being alive; or that when he doesn't, he knows that he can wait out a period of blah or even normal-grade sadness or grief to reach a point where he'll again experience moments of joy.

When I am depressed, the subjective experience of being alive is at best deadened and deadening (although my depressed self knows intellectually, from experience, that he'll reach the other side), and at worst so actively painful that it doesn't seem like any period of happiness at the other end could be worth suffering through the bad stretch. As though someone said we're going to torture you on the rack now, but after a month or two you can have a lollipop, so just hang in there.

Anyway, read the Hyperbole and a Half comic. I don't know how many people who have been depressed are depressed in the way that Allie Brosh was, but she nailed it for me.
This is the kind of troll comment that really makes me cringe. :/

GitHub is hosting a FREE event to support a group of hackers that are under-represented and discriminated against at conferences. How is this anything but wonderful?

Stop heckling. Your sarcasm is laced with entitlement and ignorance. It doesn't help anyone.
Yep, you've kinda nailed it. We're moving towards that on Beacon. But right now our primary focus is on helping writers convert their existing readership into paying subscribers.

As the content offering as a whole becomes more robust, you'll start seeing more of the effects you're looking for.

It's really simple and old fashioned:
You think certain information or perspectives are valuable, you pay for them.

We're just updating the underlying tech and user experience to modern times ;)
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What does housing have to do with this? It's not like FB employees live in SF for the cheap housing.
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No need to move on, just declare bankruptcy. The executives and unions do just fine sticking it to the investors in the airline industry.
Yes! I think it could work awesome for academia - particularly in a format where the value transaction is really transparent and well documented.

You could even imagine a time where citing sources actually trickles money back to them to reflect their value to a new study.

If you know grad students, I'd love to chat with them: adrian@beaconreader.com
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Appreciating that you're undoubtedly communicating better in English than I would in your native language, the fact is that if you're a (principally) English-speaking company, with (principally) English-speaking customers, hiring (principally) non-English-speaking support or contract services, there will be communications issues, and those lead directly to business issues.

I've encountered this in dealings with companies, as well as within companies (one, otherwise brilliant, co-worker had the specifically annoying verbal tic of pronouncing the letter 'R' as 'A', which given local acronym naming schemes was very frequently encountered.

I've also, of course, met (and worked with) foreigners of all stripes with flawless (and often charmingly accented) English.
You could be suffering from burn-out. I have been there quite a few times. Not a pleasant time.

Assuming that you don't have a gig and don't really need one...

So why not take some time out? Do anything that doesn't require sitting in front of some electronic gadget. Personally, I take long walks, bike rides, etc. The more physical the better.

Then follow up Karterk's suggestion either find a project you are passionate about and really want to solve or find a customer.
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People are spreading very bad, destructive ideas that will result in more dead brothers. I think that's more important than being "nice".

Also, Szasz and Laing are closer to opposites than counterparts. See for example:

http://www.amazon.com/Antipsychiatry-Quackery-Squared-Thomas...

Quote from the book, by Szasz:

> In the late 1960s, a group of psychiatrists, led by David Cooper (1931-86) and Ronald D. Laing (1927-89), began to criticize conventional psychiatry, especially so-called somatic treatments. But instead of advocating the abolition of Institutional Psychiatry, they sought to replace it with their own brand, which they called "Anti-psychiatry." By means of this dramatic misnomer, they attracted attention to themselves and deflected attention from what they did, which continued to include coercions and excuses based on psychiatric authority and power. Thus, antipsychiatry is a type of psychiatry. The psychiatrist qua health-care professional is a fraud, and so too is the antipsychiatrist. In Psychiatry.The Science of Lies, I showed that psychiatry-an imitation of medicine-is a form of quackery. In this volume, I show that antipsychiatry-a form of alternative psychiatry-is quackery squared.

> For more than a half century, I have consistently asserted two simple but fundamental propositions: mental illnesses do not exist, and coercions justified by them are wrong. Anyone who seeks to help others must eschew the use of force. Not a single antipsychiatrist has ever agreed with these principles or abided by these practices. Subsuming my work under the rubric of antipsychiatry betrays and negates it just as effectively and surely as subsuming it under the rubric of psychiatry. My writings form no part of either psychiatry or antipsychiatry and belong to neither. They belong to conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense. This is why I rejected, and continue to reject, psychiatry and antipsychiatry with equal vigor.
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Thanks Frank! The reason we tier on customers is that we sit on top of an esp like Mailgun, which already bill per transaction.