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>A few years ago I wanted to know everything. I spent the day at work thinking about what I would do when I got home and then spend the evening studying various things as hard as I could. I would stress over how there werent enought hours in the day to do what I wanted to do. There was rarely an hour in the day where I wasnt productive in some way.

Oou, this resonates with me. For the past year I've been trying to optimize my life as best I could. This meant cutting out time for food + commuting which were my biggest factors in sucking away time, as well as distractions. I moved about 10 meters from my place of work, and I cook all 7 days worth of food on Sunday nights. Now I can work 7am - 4pm at my day job, then 4:10pm - 11pm I can work on my own side projects. Been doing this for a year now and it's working out great, the revenue I make from my side company is almost level with my salary, then I can quit and truly be free, working entirely under my own vision.

I don't feel like I will ever burn out. I have a list of topics I want to know before I die, and they're sorted by priority. Any time I am distracted, I read a bit from the top item of my list. Now when I'm working and become distracted, my "distraction" is reading material based around the project I'm working on. If I don't want to get back to that material, I choose something else and drag it to the top of my list, I prioritize pretty much my entire life with the "Clear" app.

It's been going great, I'm thinking of writing a very in depth blog post about the way I've optimized my life and how it has helped me out. I've read more than 30 books this year, I have 6 developers working for me full-time, I have learned SO MUCH. I hope to keep going like this for the rest of my natural life.

I rather sacrifice my 20's to live it up in my 30's. I cannot stand wasting any minutes on anything, I don't know when the switch flipped, but at some point, it did. I used to love spending hours on video games or jerking around, now, there is absolutely nothing in this world that I wouldn't give just to buy me some more time. This mentality has engrained itself in my brain now.

I find myself ecstatic if I can make a new hour or free up some time somewhere just so I can read or learn more.

People often compliment me on how motivated and ambitious I am, but honestly, it's just how I am, I don't wake up every morning saying "okay you're going to be motivated today". It just is.
You can easily find all of them over here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html
There's an email button on their profile pages.
If this happened in North America would NORAD have been able to keep track of the plane?
the last ACARS message was received before the ATC goodbye.

the next ACARS message was scheduled to be sent after the goodbye, but it was never received.

the time when the ACARS was disabled would be within this window.
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An overbed/hospital bedside table works wonderfully for that. I use a straight one: http://www.amazon.com/Invacare-Over-Bed-Table/dp/B000QA0EHI
but there's also tilted ones: http://www.amazon.com/Hospital-Overbed-Over-Table-Computer/d...

For $50/$60, you get an adjustable, rolling table. It's not the sturdiest ever (e.g., I wouldn't put a monitor on it without gluing it somehow), but if you're using a laptop, this thing is perfect.
Sure, but then you have the false positive problem that plagues the no-fly list or any other string based name matching system. It'd work for Judah Sher since that's a fairly uncommon name (his Kickstarter is in the top ten results). It wouldn't work for plenty of other people.
> These arguments miss the forest for the trees: there does exist a culture of male privilege that is overwhelmingly less welcoming to women.

Where there are problems that affect both genders, they should be tackled as that - treating a 'loud people' versus 'quiet people' problem as a male privilege problem is unbelievably problematic since it plays into the 'women just can't cope with men being honest' bullshit, and ignores the fact that men can be quiet and women can be loud. This devalues women's contributions and effectively silences discourse about how to deal with quiet men and loud women (and in this tale the latter was a big part of the problem), and basically is a net negative for everybody except the loud men, thereby reinforcing gender role designations and privilege structures.

> What you're describing as being a "blunt bastard" could very well come off as male-privileged locker room talk.

And in that case, once again, I've failed at "remember who you're talking to". The manner in which I LART somebody if it's necessary is tailored to the person, because people are all different.

> The point is, in the lean management organization you don't really have someone to take you aside and tell you to stop being a dick.

Given that Shadowcat has next to no hierarchy and yet we do have somebody - me - I'm not entirely sure how to respond to that except perhaps to say 'oh, bother' and disappear in a puff of logic.
My DIY standing desk is an 18" wooden coffee table with a plastic storage container, the box my speakers came in, and the box my external monitor came in. The storage container and one of the boxes act as a pedestal for my laptop (which I removed the broken screen from a few months ago) and my speakers and the other box hold up the external monitor. A spare t-shirt is placed under the front or back of the base of the monitor depending on whether I want it tilted up or down, and to what degree.

It's hardly stylish but functionally I couldn't ask for more.

Standing is nice precisely because it's slightly uncomfortable to do for longer periods of time. It forces you to stretch, move around, and take periodic breaks from staring into the screen.
You need to take credit for everything you do and you need to tell people about it. Stayed very late to work on something urgent (and therefore important)? Send out an email when you leave that you need to leave now but you have achieved this and this. CC in as many people as you think you can get away with, ideally the manager of your manager as well.
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I seriously doubt the plane ever reached land. Sadly, we will most likely find the plane at the bottom of the ocean.
I thought they were claiming that EROI makes alternative energy sources intractable. That isn't true. The oil/coal preference is all about cost and convenience.

(The 'hydro wins' was just the sort of fun/obnoxious way to link to the chart showing that lots of systems have a net EROI, which is almost all you need)
One fun implementation of this is directory.io: A site listing every single possible Bitcoin private key and it's corresponding address. The theory is that eventually, millions of years from now, Google will have indexed all 10^74 pages and you can just google for a bitcoin address to steal its balance.

http://directory.io
You can get away with providing your own classes and extension methods. I did that, my colleagues did that (floowing my attempt). We needed a LINQ access to a non-SQL (hypergraph) database, so basic LINQ wouldn't do it.

You need to know how to parse function bodies and I strongly suggest algebraic types approach, e.g., using SpecificType v = genericTypedVar as SpecificType and checking if v != null. You have to write your own parametrized type supporting Where, Select, etc.

And you're good to go.

It took me three days to write first LINQ-like thing.
Half days aren't worth it. An entire day off is worth at least 3 half days. You still have work hanging over you for the rest of the day, and it usually ends up being far less time 'off' than you planned on.
Google is a website commonly visited by people of all ages. Every doodle I have seen has been whimsical and also safe for children, but putting a doodle searching for wreckage like this would be asking children all over the world when they look at their computer one day, "Do you see 300 dead people in this photo, Yes or No?" I can't see Google finding this an acceptable use of their brand, even though their homepage does command a lot of eyeballs.

Perhaps Google CAN use their influence to help the search, but I don't think it will be with a doodle. Is there any more appropriate Google-owned venue where this would be more acceptable?
I thought Google was pretty good at detecting that sort of thing.
apparently the co-pilot was fresh off his 777 training which occurred on Langkawi.
I reckon there's probably a correlation between the people who are obsessed by cryptocurrency (in its current incarnation as BTC) that are also conspiracy theorists though...
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OMG. Were you found in the woods and raised by a fraternity at a state college? Your knowledge of sexuality in humans (particularly in women), gender roles and gender pressures is so lacking that I fear some gross negligence on the part of your parents. You, buddy, deserve a good spanking by your mother, and then you'd be well served by reading a book or two on human sexuality and sociology. Keeping some better female company might do you a world of good, too, judging by the fact that the women you know love men in form-fitting clothes.

Your answers to the questions are actually quite wrong. Women flaunting sexual characteristics in a professional environment is neither common today, nor has it been common in the West throughout the ages. You clearly confuse sexual desire with when and how people pursue it, you are completely blind to social pressure, and unaware of the nuances of sex (most importantly you're confusing sex with sexuality). I fear that if you don't get that long due spanking soon you have some serious lawsuits awaiting you in the future, and possibly some jail time, especially if you keep taking sexual cues from insects.

Perhaps it may seem baffling to your juvenile mind, but I adopted my screen name over twenty years ago, well before the internet, and back when it was just my acronym and had no other uses whatsoever.
This is probably the most intelligent explanation I have heard. Everyone wants to make this into some Hollywood action movie with terrorists, kidnappings and sneaking through airspace.
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At the day and age of google, wikipedia, it should be obvious where to look for those, which are public and very widely known events.

I can think of three with no effort:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
It's an ergonomic disaster to use a laptop keyboard and laptop monitor like that. Use a proper keyboard and a proper monitor at eye level.
> We want the OS to grab the mouse from their hand for their own good.

Solutions which protect the user from cat_videos.exe can also "protect" them from subversive_essay.pdf (or competitor.com). It's maybe not that practical a vector, at least where there's democracy and competition, but still something to consider.
Looking forward to that blog post
WRT 787, the cracks were a consequence of two things. The new(ish) production methods involved in the aircraft, and the absurdly aggressive outsourcing of the production. The 787 is (was?) in many ways at the bleeding edge of carbon fiber manufacture. Combine that with the stupid notion their management had of sending out 99% of manufacturing outside of final assembly to dozens of different companies (as a consequence of contractors sub-contracting work) meant that they didn't find the design flaws until late in the game. This particular 787 issue doesn't provide any evidence of potential issues with other aircraft.
In your video, it looked like when you raised it, the monitor's rotation was a little off - was that just an illusion?
Who downvotes someone over mangosteens??
Did you actually try that? No, it doesn't work

Python 3 comes with pyvenv that's the one that should be used
Some companies have this horrible "PTO" pogrom (typo intentional) in which sick days and vacation days are pooled. It wouldn't be so bad if there were a sizable pool (say, 30 days) but usually, it's an excuse to present the company as having ample vacation (15-20 days) while actually deducting sick days from it. It means that a week-long illness will cut into your vacation.

Then you have this arrangement where people "work from home" (WFH) while actually ill, just to avoid losing a PTO day. Then you need a manager who understands the difference between sick WFH (don't hit him up, he might read emails and type out a few replies and that's it) and real WFH (you can actually expect that person to be working)-- and who, in addition, cares about that distinction.
Glad to see customizable memory allocators made it in. Now if we could only take it up a notch and allow the run time to assign custom allocators on individual objects I could implement something like CCL's WATCH [0] for Python objects which would make debugging multi-threaded code much easier.

Congrats to the python-core team and thanks to everyone for another great release!

[0] http://ccl.clozure.com/ccl-documentation.html#watched-object...
I did this a couple of years ago. I would not suggest jumping 100% into using a standing desk, but have a stool handy and it can be a great experience. I've since moved out of the coworking space I was in and have everything home, so I'm back to sitting, but I'd prefer to have a standing desk again. Just been too lazy to build one.

I was pretty skeptical of standing desks when they first became all the rage on LifeHacker, et. al. But these hipsters kept harping on dubious health benefits and were missing the best part of the standing desk: it multiplies your storage space on your desk! For a coworking space, this is a major win. I ended up kicking off a "build vertical" craze in the space.

http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/58110389840/last-year-i-ha...

It took me just as long to draw everything as to build the standing desk. In terms of a carpentry project, it's about as simple as they come; bird houses are harder. Also, you kind of have to "figure it out as you go", because the desk needs to be custom built to your measurements. As you can see in my drawings, everything was designed around my eye-level height and my arm length. This is a must, or you're just trading one posture problem for another.

I eventually (not pictured) also built a "draft table" feature into the lower desk top: removing the laptop, the desktop could be rotated into a slanted position to have an ergonomic writing surface.

One thing to realize is that most people's shoes (even running sneakers) have a significant heel-rise that will really screw up your standing posture and is not conducive to standing all day. I had very significant lower back pain until I started standing barefoot, wearing slippers, or standing on a slanted platform I built to counter the heel-rise of my sneakers. I liked barefoot the best, but the room I was in had a lot of sharps on the floor.

You won't be able to work all day. I could only get about 6 hours a day in until I was just too exhausted to be able to think. However, I also found that during that 6 hours I was incredibly energized and laser focused on work. I never goofed off when I used my desk. I don't know why. But 6 hours was enough to get work done.

After the first month of non-stop standing, it wasn't getting any easier. I switched between standing and sitting on a stool (which I also built, which my fellow coworkers have declared the most dangerous thing ever built in the space, but has survived longer than many store-bought chairs) all day. I still mostly stood, and only sat in the stool near the end of the day. It was also useful for getting over that 6 hour hump so I could play LAN games with the other people in the space at night.

I'm considering doing it again. Perhaps I'll get pre-fab foot stools or a step ladder. Our condo is pretty small and I've spilt out over everywhere. Having a standing desk would go a long way to keeping the peace with my wife in regards to clutter :)
I do not practice what I preach as effectively as I would want to but the best thing to do is to run them in sprints. In other words, a week worth of coding is complimented by a week of marketing regardless whether you employ people to do work for you or not. The same applies for life in general. You need to mix and match but also not to do too many things at the same time.

Some days you will finish your tasks sooner than you expect. Do not bother starting anything else cuz you will drift into something and then realise that you have almost burned out. Don't do it! Instead let boredom grow on you for a little bit. Getting bored is good for you.
Why?

I don't know, maybe to make aviation safer so it doesn't happen again, whatever "it" may be.

Why should Twitter bother debugging outages? Why should Facebook bother issuing post-mortems when bad things take their systems out? Just chalk it up to solar flares or blame some rogue developer and shrug your shoulders.
Not only is that hacking, it is also witchcraft, which is punishable by being burnt on a stake. Not to mention the heresy calling for immediate excommunication, the hacker at hand here should be ashamed of him/herself for the ever terrible deed that (s)he had committed.
I've worked on embedded C++ network stacks that restrict use of *alloc and new for various sized buffers and classes that have to be preallocated. That's one approach.

Just wondering why tcmalloc or boheme GC weren't discussed. Rewriting from scratch often equivocates to reinventing wheels, and avoidable typing, testing and maintenance. --effort && ++quality == awesome;
Few C# developers actually use asynchronous rudiments, and instead the overwhelming bulk of code is of the classic stop and wait variety (I've developed in .NET, among other platform, from its beginnings).

thirsteh's cynicism is misplaced. node.js is effectively predicated on asynchronous implementations, and you have to work hard to do otherwise. The end result tends to be very efficient implementations that can serve large numbers with ease. .NET bolted on asynchronous sugar as it matured, and while that is very good, and you can make efficient implementations, most don't. So it's not really reasonable to dismiss the talk about one because it's possible in another.

EDIT: thirsteh is continually editing their posts so assume their commentary is very different from what it originally was.
> I might not be as good today as I would have been if I had kept grinding away.

That is my overriding problem. If I stop, it means possible stagnation. There is no greater fear than becoming irrelevant.
That's true... but there's also the flip side to the coin.

Finishing things is good; but if you have a project you want to finish, you'll never finish it if you halfheartedly look at it once a week for an hour.

If you spend more than certain amount of time not looking at something or not working on it, you forget how it works and it takes all of that available time you have to get into 'the zone' where you're actually making progress on the task.

So, I guess if you have an amazing forfulling job that is exactly what you're interested in, and you spend your days working on your interesting projects... sure.

I'll be over here with my cup of 10pm coffee and a pile of rust code; blissfully hacking (and reading hacker news while head compiles :).
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I have had good success following this:
http://blog.stackpop.com/post/47149734131/our-50-adjustable-...

Here's my desk: https://twitter.com/udaykverma/status/386164901929959424
Most people will admit they like c# and F#. However they won't like the microsoft tax, and the fact its tied to windows.
That's why I find it difficult to believe that anyone would steal that plane with the goal of attacking the US (or any country with a well developed air defense system).

Until that plane is found I suspect people will be keeping a very close eye on wide body jets approaching and within their airspaces.
Were you using a good anti-fatigue mat?
In essence, they vaguely measure communication skills (the title summarizes this as "intelligence"):

"Our first measure of intelligence is a 10-word vocabulary test in which the respondent is asked to identify which of five phrases supplies the correct definition of a given word (...)
Our second measure of intelligence is an assessment by the interviewer of how well the respondent understood the survey questions (...)"

And they measure trust based on the anwer to:

“Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people?”

I can't say I'm amazed with the results they get. People who can't communicate well probably misinterpret or misunderstand situations more often, and this affects their trust standards.
> the myth of interchangeability, the idea that gender equality necessarily reduces to the idea that the sexes are interchangeable.

This always drove me insane - people seem to confuse value equality/congruence and strict identicality. The latter seems to either try to create a female default and punish men for not living up to it, or create some weird fuzzy default that nobody really fits comfortably.

What we want is to say that women are as valuable as men, and then let individuals figure out who they want to be.

The answer isn't to change the (currently relatively male-normative) norm, it's to defenstrate the idea that having a norm in the first place is a remotely good idea.
That makes sense. I'm pretty sure having/claiming social media expertise is irrelevant to most, if not all, programer candidates.
It is not just money - it is respect, recognition etc too. And most engineers aren't good in socializing, being "known" etc whereas it is the exact opposite with sales and marketing (of course, there are exceptions - well known engineers with blogs, books, speaking engagements etc). I once worked for a megacorp - my manager was a terrific guy (this megacorp bought a smaller company and he came to megacorp via the acquisition), putting in 10-12 hours regularly, and if it weren't for him, the product wouldn't exist. But there were a couple of marketing guys who were getting paid a lot more than him, doing a lot less.

In every company wide meeting when they would do "recognition" the IT team would come at the end, if at all they remember. And this was a software company :(
In the UK we have https://www.writetothem.com/ which allows you to easily contact your own MPS/MEPS. I guess it is a shame it isn't more widely available.
Mine was mainly about nutrition, and how I formed a super rigid and efficient routine. I have recordings of all my daily commutes, how many calories I ate every day, when, how much, every macronutrient, every coffee, beer, everything. Every movie, every "distwraction", every second I'm actually working. All of these things I've been working to decrease to as small as possible.

I'll write it up ASAP.
MISSING MH370: 'Plane flew low to avoid radar'
> What is she doing there to begin with anyway?

Commonly wives help their husbands with the
career or company of the husband with a lot
of help for the husband and nothing wrong.

Of course, in this case the wife blew it,
but maybe she was a pest mostly just for
the woman of the OP so that others in the
company didn't much care.
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Come on;. The Air France cause for climbing up was due to the copilot panicking and completely misunderstanding the situation at hand once the autopilot was disconnected. I would have a hard time to believe that a veteran pilot as the one in MH370 would make such an amateurish mistake.
As was the Rotschild family!
And the Titanic was built to be unsinkable.
If hacking away makes you happy, go for it :) I can only relate my own experiences. I do tend to code for hours on end on whatever catches my interest. The point was trying to make is to relax once in a while :) (Never expected this to reach nr.1 on hacker new, even if it is only for a couple of minutes)
I'm interested in what ways it is better than a console? Do you add any specific features that help productivity?