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I'm 50 and along with senior coding job I run my own side hosting company, occasional moonlighing consulting gigs and always interested in launching and trying little business ideas here and there.

I also get more and more interested in personal development.
Getting through middle age, heavy swings of depression, emotional health struggles, addiction struggles are issues common to most, not only programmers or technical people.

Having overcome all these I've collected a set of very useful and practical personal improvement methods that I plan to gradually launch as my personal development business to help other people who are suffering from these issues.

I like to solve my own problems and then help others do the same.
I don't know about treatment specifically. But outside of therapy and psychology, there are a lot of schools of thought, methods, authors, etc. that have to do with this kind of thing. You might dismiss this as no good because there is no science behind, perhaps nothing scholarly, or no professional accountability. But even so - is there necessarily anything better? Therapy has failed to convince the public of its utility. Self-help also has a bad reputation, but that might only cost you the price of some books, as opposed to expensive sessions with a licensed professional.

Self help might be a farce. There might be no viable alternative to therapy. But most don't have any grounds to judge these kinds of things. We think that people know too little about physical health, but holy shit we laymen don't know anything about mental health. The only (false) dichotomy we often see is "talk about it" vs "don't and let it fester".

I don't know much myself. But I've preferred - so far - to keep it a private matter, between me and my diary or various other techniques I use for processing things and self-reflection.
Cok tesekkurler :)
I find the YC interview videos a lot better than solo videos because one of the most interesting data points is how the team seems to interoperate, which you can sort of get a sense of in a 1 minute video. It's a lot less of an argument in a solo process.
Guest Post: How Parker Used Systems To Hack His Way To Co-CEO
SSIS vs T-SQL – which one is fastest for ETL tasks?
Extremely small jurisdictions (populations of fewer than 1,000) that are incorporated as cities are highly entertaining...They get all the minimum level of bureaucracy and powers of big cities, but not necessarily the qualified people to fill the elected or hired positions.

At the Sacramento newspaper that I used to work at, we had a river city of about 750 residents that often merited a reporter or two to cover the flurry of governmental activity (and grand jury investigations) that came out of there. One of the ongoing situations was that, as a city, it had its own police chief, which meant that it could dispense conceal-carry-weapon permits -- to basically anyone in the entire county. So the city could fund a substantial amount of its yearly budget by just selling permits to people who couldn't get them from bigger cities who were more reluctant about CCW applications.
Full 3D facial reconstruction from a single image as Mashape API
I'm proud to announce that Vizago's leading edge face-photo to 3d mesh tech is now available on Mashape for dead easy integration.
What idea do you want created with this?
But please, don't make us wait for 1.0 until you have first class Windows support (your 1.0 goals do say 'all major operating systems')...
Score of 5756 by hitting [left, right, up] repeatedly. Is there a pattern that always wins?
but do they understand the culture of the generation below them well enough to successfully capture market share? I'd argue that most older people are clueless to the rapidly changing millennial culture.
Are you speaking from experience? I've found the TN process really confusing for an intern, and if you have any experience with the application process, I'd love to hear about it.
It's somewhat disingenuous to say that the OS doesn't manage power consumption adequately; it defers to apps to let them decide what resources they need and when, which permits for a hell of a lot more flexibility than iOS (remember when Pandora wouldn't play music in the background for approximately forever?), at the cost of a misbehaving app chewing up more battery than it should.
This ~200 meg update requires 1.9 gigs of free space to install itself. It would be so much easier to clear space off of my 16 gig iPhone if it was possible to clear the space that Facebook (189mb), Tweetbot (181mb), Instapaper (361mb), Yelp (161mb) etc uses for their caches. Having to micromanage the disk space on an iPhone when this happens is quite the pain.
Awesome, thanks for creating this. Having a BB10 usually means I'm SOL on apps, but this seems to take care of my HN need. I have to say it took me a few minutes to figure out how to read comments. I do a lot of lurking here and this is really handy to have. Thanks again.
Fastly Welcomes New Executive Team Hires
Kim Jong Un Wins 100% of Votes in North Korea Election
20 points, no comments.

Hacker News has nothing to dispute here?

That means something is very, very wrong.
Fish Shell? ... Glorious VGA Color ... sold!
It's still my guess that the Air Malaysia flight was hijacked - transponder off, flew away from radar range and landed somewhere - it had a lot of fuel when it disappeared.

But yeah, transponder is just a piece of equipment. Jumbo jets can't really hide from radar, though, and if you're flying low enough to do so, somebody is going to notice.
Most of these are clang specific but I tend to do something like

-pipe

-std=c++11

-gfull # generate correct debugging symbols for dead code stripping

-stdlib=libc++

-Ofast # fast, aggressive optimizations (clang-specific)

-fvectorize # enable loop autovectorizer

-fdiagnostics-show-template-tree (clang: print C++ template error as a tree instead of on a single line)

-Weverything # clang specific: enable every single warning

-Werror

-Wfatal-errors # die after the first error encountered

-Wno-c++98-compat

-Wno-c++98-compat-pedantic

-Wno-global-constructors

-Wno-exit-time-destructors

-ffast-math # enable some floating point optimizations that
break IEEE754 compliance but usually work

-funroll-loops # enable loop unrolling

-fstrict-aliasing # make more aggressive assumptions about whether pointers can point to the same objects

-fatal_warnings # treat linker warnings as fatal

-flto # enable link-time optimization

-dead_strip # enable dead code stripping

-Wno-error=deprecated # like being able to put __attribute((deprecated)) in code as a note to self

-Wno-error=#warnings # same thing goes for #warnings
Yes - even worse, having it on close to the runway will trigger TCAS alerts for aircraft on final approach.
Probably, and copyright. Blizzard sued bnetd for reverse-engineering to make a compatible server.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

FD: I no longer play Blizzard games due to this action.
Maybe build a mobile first web app.

If you are really wanting to provide native you could use something like PhoneGap and then you can expose to both markets.

Then if the demand was really what you expect you may have generated enough revenue by then to just get a native app for say Android and iOS built by specialist developers for not much money. If you're app is simple and catchy then it could be low cost to fund that way too.

Just my two cents of course.
Alfred? Ah, kind of like Launchy, cool, thanks!
Not OP, but I'm guessing he means this:

52/13:

52 - 13 = 39

39 - 13 = 26

26 - 13 = 13

13 - 13 = 0

count the subtractions and you get 4.

As long as we're sticking to integer division, this works out fairly well. Here, a calculation with a remainder:

54/13:

54 - 13 = 41

41 - 13 = 28

28 - 13 = 15

15 - 13 = 2 (smaller than 13, so this is our remainder)

54/13 = 4 with 2 reaminder
> - Another item I have noticed was that an applicant's PhD thesis was very well written yet when I read the Masters thesis and any other written documentation produced, the grammar is less than average, even poor! Which makes me think of potential 'help' involved that polished their PhD. So look for inconsistencies.

Generally there are 3+ years between writing your Master's Thesis and your PhD, during which you spend a lot of time writing and editing and would hopefully get significantly better at doing so. I don't think there is any inconsistency in seeing an improvement in ability over that long span. It would be like looking at someone's code from the beginning of their career, comparing it to something they just wrote, and citing the inferior quality of their earlier work as a clear sign that someone else helped them with their most recent stuff.

> - I found out that they registered a domain name Dr <Last Name> back even before they started. Who the heck does that?

Why is this weird? Presumably if you're entering a doctoral program, you plan on finishing it (whether or not that happens). Whats wrong with getting a domain if you think you'll need it in the future?
I must be missing something but where's the actual content?
I haven't been this addicted to a game since Drop7.
I just deleted the music collection and resynced it. Have done 3 iPads (air x2, retina mini) and an iPhone 4s and an iPhone 5c so far fine.since this was posted.

Bit inconvenient but I'd rather it was this way than other vendors' shitty updaters. If it's a major problem doing this, need to buy one with bigger storage next time.
I read it as: hold-to-Siri is just "the way" to use Siri now.

If hold-to-Siri is optional for power-users, advertising it like that doesn't feel Apple-like. Having it seems fine; Apple does that plenty. But advertising a power user option? That's new-to-me.
Daniel Nazer Becomes New 'Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents'
It's awesome ;)
> But if I want something that is able to express data structures customized by myself, usually with hierarchical data that can be verified for validity and syntax (XML Schemas or old-school DTD), what other options are there?

S-expressions work great. Syntax checking is far simpler, and validity checking is hence something you can roll yourself (and writing an S-expression schema checker ain't tough).
I assume you mean "traitor", but the same could probably be said of "terrorist"
It may be easier to let iTunes install it. That's how I deal with it.
>You're relying on make-believe scenario to argue a point.

I live in a reality where technology is constantly changing, where people need to learn new things or get left behind in their usefulness. If they have years of experience in software or systems which no one uses anymore that doesn't guarantee them anything.

>It's an industry wide issue which is actually being addressed.

People solving their own problems instead of complaining about them on message boards? Mission Accomplished! Wait, so companies really were not hiring the best people who give them the most value and now suddenly are thanks to people speaking up? When did all of this happen?
I was in this session and the biggest take away I had was that the ACLU and Snowden believe a technical solution is possible to end mass surveillance, but they aren't concerned with individual targeted surveillance. I think this was a good way of framing the discussion with actionable steps like PFS, end to end encryption (Snowden name checked Whisper Systems), FDE, SSL everywhere, not storing data forever, etc. The ACLU seemed to think that pressure can be brought on big companies to at the bare minimum require SSL immediately makes mass surveillance more difficult.
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Ambition is a current YC batch company and we're ready to make our first sales hire.

Yes, we know HN is a place where the best engineers come to hangout and talk shop, but we also know there are some brilliant sales people hiding in the shadows.

Ambition optimizes sales metric performance.

Very simply: we deliver team based competition, transparency, and recognition to drive sustainable KPI improvements. We integrate with CRMs like SalesForce and phone systems to gather data, and then add an engagement layer on top of KPI data.

Many of our early customers have described Ambition as "fantasy football for work", and the moniker is fairly accurate.

Our goal is to make work more tolerable, impactful, and ultimately fun for employees - while delivering significant ROI for our customers. In limited pilots, Ambition has produced incredible results - in some cases up to 50% increase in metrics.

With the data to back up our product and a growing pipeline of customers, we're ready to double (nay quadruple down) and attack our market.

You may be wondering what we are looking for in measuring the fortitude and gumption of those who will join us on this adventure - here's where we start:

- First of all: the heart of a champion

- Zero shame in making a cold call, and 10+ follow ups

- A Houdini-like knack for opening doors

- Never breaks eye contact first

- The competitive spirit of Kobe Bryant/ Ray Lewis/ & Rocky Balboa (blended together no less!)

- Communication skills of a late 1980's US to USSR ambassador

- Builds relationships like legos

- Most importantly: the ability to get customers to a Yes.

The first test for she/he will be to find a way to get interviewed.

Start by emailing sales@tryambition.com to apply

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It's not disingenuous at all. What you describe is the user managing power consumption rather than the OS.
Perhaps the something wrong is that there is another related link higher up the page.
Lyft Raises $150M at valuation of $700M
The first step there is boot2docker - http://boot2docker.io/ - for OSX and Windows. I don't think Docker 1.0 will have native server support for either operating system but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't possible in a near term subsequent release.
Warren Buffett’s 4-Step Plan to Become a World-Class Company
After waaaaay too many years using software, you regularly don't see 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, and so on? Semantic versioning has never been decimal based.
- Launchy at work

- Sublime/Notepad++

- Fiddler
I experienced the exact same problems with my early 2011 MBP, and the blue screen of death was fixed with a motherboard replacement. The failing graphics card also seem to have done damage to my Apple Thunderbolt Display, but that is incredibly hard to prove so I do not know if Apple will fix that for free.

I must say that this is a bit disappointing for a $3500 piece of hardware. There should be recall procedures for electronics like this as well to protect customers from faulty production.
This doesn't really make sense... the "theory" (or I would say "idea") is OS virtualization. Then you have various kernel features (namespace, cgroups, etc. -- the page mentions them). And then you have user space tools.

There is no "theory" of Linux containers. It's bound to the implementation of Linux. FreeBSD jails are another, earlier, completely separate implementation of the same idea.

Your analogy conflates the separate issues of abstraction vs implementation and kernel vs user space, which just confuses matters.
Love the site, but I would really need to have info on addons (particularly Silverlight) included to have use for it.
The Cuckoo's Calling was identified as being Rowling's work due to the fact her lawyer leaked it, the fact this analyst is claiming credit for it (but is carefully worded to allow for multiple readings) doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their ability.
We (as an industry) need to stop using -fomit-frame-pointer, at least by default. I'd be interested to see if there's any real-world workload (not a benchmark) where it makes even a measurable difference, let alone a significant one. The problem, of course, is that it destroys the ability to examine performance in production with tools like DTrace and the like. A one-time couple-of-percent improvement in some cases (which, again, would be surprising to see anyway) is not worth losing the ability to gain more performance improvements for the rest of the software's lifetime.
Is there some trick to getting HDR to actually work? I set it to "On" but the image is no different than when its "Off".
When they say they can't find the right person, they mean that Frank's cell phone ran out of juice.

So, my brother used to work in a small clock shop. These were really precise clocks (nanosecond) and they did distributed timing. You have an oil field, maybe, and want to know the size of it? Send out a blast pulse and record the echos. But the recorders need to really know where and when they hear the echo over a few hundred square miles. Its not easy stuff to deal with.

But the company had Frank. Frank had been there since the beginning. He had written all the code for the clocks, he built and wired the entire place, he knew the whims of the servers and the phone system, the slight burning smells that meant an imminent failure. Frank was the company, and the rest of them where there to make sure Frank was working and happy. Yeah, he owned a bit of the equity, not a major share, but a bit. No-one else knew all the passwords or the files like Frank. Frank barely had time for his kids, let alone to train anyone else. To keep things going, Frank was the ONLY person.

So, this worried the owners a lot. If Frank got cancer or in an accident, they were screwed. Hell, everyone was screwed. But to train anyone up was near impossible. Because Frank didn't have the time between putting out the little fires in the code and sleeping and making money for the owners. Frank didn't have them in a bind as much as Frank himself was in a bind. He wanted time to see soccer games, but he wanted his kids to go to college more, and that meant the money came first.

So, what was everyone supposed to do? They needed a new Frank. But anyone they brought on was just confused by the spaghetti of wires and the nonsense code that Frank had made 20 years ago to solve some problem half drunk at 2am on a Saturday. There was no record because there was no time to make one. You had to just clone Frank's brain, because nothing else would do in time.

My brother left that company because trying to untangle the Gordian Knot that Frank and the comapny were committed to was a noose.

But there are a few thousand Franks out there. There are a ton of companies that are in this bind. They have 2 or 3 guys that can actually do the job. And trying to replace that team is impossible. When the Zuck merps out that they can't find anyone, he is not lying, but mis-speaking. He means that Frank's phone is out of juice.
Couldn't have said it better. Thanks for sharing your experience!
While doing desktop support, one of my Mac user's hard drive was failing, wouldn't spin up at boot. So you had to help spin it up. One trick was to give the HDD housing a rotation jerk the moment you turn on power. Another was to use a pencil eraser to spin the exposed spindle, also during power on.

Good times.
Kinda cool.

But I'm not sure I understand the reasoning for this though.

Essentially, you've created a way to parse and query objects using an object structure to hold them? so json.

Then I assume you are storing this in localStorage or something similar?

If you are going to go down the back end route though you'd surely just opt to be using mongoDB no?
Lepper here. I have a Windows phone (Lumia 820).

I long for an iPhone. Preferably a 5c or above. I don't have the cash and will only buy SIM free phones these days though. I've had piles of Android handsets and a couple of WinPhone handsets. They all sucked.

Whilst iOS isn't all that pretty, it actually works properly. My wife has precisely no problems with her 5c and the times I've used it, to be fair, I'm envious.

I really couldn't care how the word advanced was applied to the marketing.
Is this just for technical internships?
You can't outsource lawyer from different country.

Maybe not trial lawyers or other positions where you need a warm body in the courtroom, but entry level lawyers are feeling the outsourcing squeeze as well.
If he thinks he has it hard, trying being a mid-aged Perl programmer who ISNT chromatic. ;)
Hashing Algorithm in Ancient Indian Music System
I think it's important to read between the lines here. DC/VA/MD are a hotbed of contract jobs that require a security clearance and a CISSP. If you don't think working for a defense contractor on a succession of relatively short term gigs (6 month - 2 years), and/or you don't have the qualifications (or can't get them for some reason), it's not that hot a place to be.
First Steps with Pallet
whats' that awful echo ? can't understand a bit
Advertisements telling smokers “why” to quit more successful than “how” messages
Ban Bossy. Encourage Girls to Lead.
How do you log in after your profile has been created?
I don't see this taking off:

- Worst case: they get 80% of the work they pay you for, and a chronically depressed employee because the side business isn't working.

- Best case: The side business takes off, they lose an employee, and get a share in a risky startup totally unrelated to their main focus. If they wanted to do that, they probably would have become a VC in the first place! :)
Older developers never die. They just fade away.

I'm in the "start your own gig" boat as far as people who have a useful skill set and don't want to learn an entirely new set of languages/frameworks/etc. I'm nearing my mid 30's have a consultancy, but simply being a consultant with a decent rate is a better option for making more money yourself without having to play as many corporate games (provided you have the discipline and tenacity to work well by yourself and stick with it).

The other side of that is creating products, which has been beaten to death here (look to patio11 for great inspiration and excellent insight), but it's quite relevant to this thread. It's somewhere between a massive amount of work and a crap shoot, but if you can figure it out and do it well, in my opinion it's the best of all realistic worlds for people in our position.
Sure, if one thinks the Facebook's and the Google's (and future ones) only misalignment is with their business model. I think it's more fundamental than that.
I would argue that the number of people needed for older technology is finitely limited not that they are no longer needed. There may be demand for older technology, but the majority of new jobs won't be for older technology.

>is comparatively timeless

Why are companies apparently hiring younger people over older people who are vastly more experienced and given that timeless knowledge would give so much more value to their companies? Are they just plain stupid?
We use video in the YC applications because when a group applies to YC and describes their business on video, we get a lot of information that can't be explained in print. And so, we have the mindset that using video is always a helpful tool for evaluation. However, in the case of interns applying for jobs, we've realized its not adding the same kind of value. We're not sure about its legal status, but even because it could possibly be a grey area, we took it down because we don't ever want to cause any hassles for our portfolio companies.
Just registered my name and I have to say I really like the whole process. It was very smooth, and I like the way it looks and the potential it has.

Is there any way this can be a truly open-source project? Right now the "protocol" is open, but if wanted to host my own front-end for me and friends then I'm out of luck.