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Out of curiosity, since you consider yourself a possible target for security agencies, do that affect your choice of OS?
Do you use commercial operating systems like Windows and Mac or just open source software?
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That sounds vaguely similar to what John Carmack allegedly used to do: http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
Haha yeah I totally agree there. I've got a time allotted every day after work that I really could fill with at least 30 minutes of coding, but somehow it gets diverted to god-knows-what.
Telling a programmer to write code every day is a bit like asking an aspiring carpenter to swing a hammer: it's a necessary component of improving your skills and building things, but it is also a narrow, technical task that has limited value in isolation.

Having said that, programmers should spend at least as much time reading and thinking about code as they do writing it. You can write code for hours each day and do nothing but revert to the technologies and techniques that you find most comfortable.
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IMO it still has the best overall look and feel. Anecdotally, I very seldom see any freezes or crashes. Perhaps having plug-ins completely disabled makes the difference.
Yes! (Both.)

You'll end up spending an amount of BTC that is equivalent to 90% of the cost of your coffee. So, an example: If you choose the $10 option, and $10 is worth 10mBTC (exchange rate made up to simplify the math), then you'd pay 9mBTC and have $10 available to spend at Starbucks. If you then spend $5 of that at Starbucks, you'll end up receiving a refund of 4.5mBTC (the equivalent of the remaining $5).
Yes. And it is easy, but I'm interested in what's currently the best. (Subjective, I know)

In an fantasy world, you could generate a really shiny, really beautiful app from scaffolding. And it would be optionally hooked into all sorts of popular frameworks. Say, Angular and Bootstrap. Then you'd tweak it from there. Some framework right now might be the "closest" to that.
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Appearances matter in way more than court. There's also the "court of public opinion." Sarcasm is a powerful tool to criticize whats wrong with society, and it would be a shame if we banned it completely because a few bullies abused it.

And I never said sarcasm was always appropriate. Obviously, a doctor should never talk to a nurse that way.
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I think a really cool new markdown editor that I discovered a little over a month ago is Stackedit: https://stackedit.io/

Stored locally or on DB/GDrive, latex support, and a very complete product. The interface is a little unintuitive at first, but I highly suggest anyone that writes blog posts in markdown to check it out.
Worked at Firefox... should work at Dropbox, right?
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Thank you. Mrs Rice isn't what would make Dropbox unsafe, it's their lack of encryption and other insecure practises. A quick DuckDuckGo search yielded these articles:

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-and-threats/dropb...
http://www.wired.com/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/
http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/hacking-dropbox-account-vul...

(This is just a semi-random selection.)
Meant to say "false positives" but it's too late to edit. IRTE
Yeah, I'm using gpg.
She has been an outspoken apologist for some pretty heinous policies. It is rational to assume she hasn't changed.
I'm travelling in Boston right now- it's all these people drink! Definitely on the list :)
Side comment: how's does Peets fare for espresso-based drinks?
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I have the opposite problem. I need to code less per day and work on the other important things in my life.
You need to send an email with the barcode and 25 minutes after that sweep the funds back...I've tried to use this twice and not seen my code.

Update: refreshing the page seems to help

Update 2: I just used my code and it worked great! Nice work guys!
I'm afraid I can't see exactly how this is different to high-level acceptance tests running on an internal test suite?

I would assert that the status is 200, the content-type is application/json, there are X number of keys present, the value of ID is an integer, datetime is in a specific format, etc etc.

I'd love it if someone could clear this up! I'm sure there must be a difference.
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I get "This page was deleted" from here.
I'm not sure if it's still around or popular but I used Jungle Disk several years ago. The Windows client allowed you to configure your own encryption keys (files are encrypted locally before being uploaded) and S3 is the backend.

It was similar to Dropbox in that you can just move files to your Jungle Disk folder and everything happens automatically and transparently.
During the Eich and Mozilla debacle, one comment that made sense to me was along the lines of "Eich may enjoy his free speech and donate his personal resource to whomever he likes. I dislike his speech and am free to immediately stop using Firefox, Thunderbird, etc."

In this case, I'm saying that "Rice may enjoy expressing her professional opinions to newspapers, etc. as part of her job function. I dislike her professional opinions and fear that she may actually believe them, thus degrading the privacy that I enjoy as provided by Dropbox. For that reason, I will stop using Dropbox, Mailbox, etc."

The only additional piece that I was trying to get across was that, with Eich, we had little insight into this thought process, motivations, etc. The only bit of information we had was the knowledge that he had donated the money and the amount (as far as I know). With Rice, on the other hand, we're talking about a position she publicly held as part of her job function; we have interviews, press releases, etc. To me, it seems a bit more reasonable to think that she may bring some of these opinions to bear in her role as a Dropbox board member.
Does this line of reasoning always work though? Would you mind using Dropbox if they hired a convicted child rapist, or a white supremacist, as a member of the board and a likely spokesperson for the company?

Or is it just that you personally consider that the past actions of Ms Rice weren't a big deal, and that you don't understand why anyone would feel differently?

But holding people responsible for their questionable political views happens all the time; in 2010 Rick Sánchez was fired for calling Jon Stewart "a bigot". Once. Outside of his regular show. Were you upset then? (Maybe you were, I don't know; but it seems you should have been.)
i'll agree that in order for Github to become the personal CV (and it should!), it needs to account for all use cases (ie. profiles without any popular repositories).

but, as a hiring manager, i don't use Github as a measure for competence. i use Github as a measure for involvement in the open source community (competence usually comes incidentally).

having 30 projects with 0 stars does not really do anything for me that a single code sample through email could not. no matter how you categorize them.
I am a total convert to the "don't break the chain" idea. I started writing a book on game programming[1] about four years ago. At the time, I was working at EA, miserable, and highly motivated to have the book done so it could help pad my resume. I got a book deal (O'Reilly) then, when that fell through, another (Apress). I had a real writing schedule, and a very supportive wife, and I would work on it for hours at a time.

Then I left the game industry, moved across the country, and had another kid. Suddenly, motivation and time were scarce. I backed out of the book deal and basically put it on hiatus for two years. I still really wanted to finish it but it just wasn't happening.

About a year ago, I realized that if I didn't finish it soon, I never would. My familiarity with the domain was fading every day. I didn't want the project to be a failure, so I decided to try writing every day.

I didn't have a set goal each day, but I try to do around 30-45 minutes. That ends up being ~500 words of first draft, ~1,000 words of later revisions.

In the past 309 days, I've finished 12 chapters. That's 59,568 words, plus a few thousand more for intro sections. I've redesigned the site twice, set up a mailing list, gotten a business license, and a bunch of other grunt work.

I'm about halfway through the very last chapter now (!). In less than a month, I should be able to say the book is done. (Though what I mean is that the manuscript is done, I'll be doing ebook and print versions after that.)

I absolutely could not have done this without working on it every day.

[1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
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Yeah, and I've heard that one guy died because he got tangled up in his climbing rope too. Those things are dangerous, nobody should use them.
Is not exactly this the universal(or something so) .NET platform new promise?
I hate these maximalist "unless you do X and Y and Z, you have no right to criticize ANYTHING, because I say so, so shut the fuck up" ideas. It's startlingly close to the USSR's "and you lynch negroes" response to any criticism of its policies by the USA: it brings up an irrelevancy, and it's made in bad faith. The only way to escape it would be to detach entirely from the system.

Would you have criticized MLK for only choosing convenient, media-visible targets for his protests? Hell, he ignored so many places, and even stayed in hotels that were segregated. What a fucking hypocrite.

Cesar Chavez? Loser: he only called for people to boycott some agricultural interests. Sure, anyone can give up grapes, but anyone who does that is worse than contemptible--they should have given up all food that's harvested in exploitative conditions!

Mother Teresa? Lame. She only helped people in India. What about people in Namibia?

Lech Walesa? He seemed so myopically focused on government in Poland. It wasn't even the worst communist country! If he were really freedom focused, he'd have left Eastern Europe to try to overthrow the Khmer Rouge.

Your criticism amounts to an incredibly lazy attempt to sidestep the issue. Condi Rice is a war criminal. Second only to Cheney, she is the person most responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people. She broke numerous laws; authorized illegal torture; and engaged in illegal violations of Americans' rights. In a just world, she'd be brought before a jury, convicted, and put behind bars for life.

You have no right to criticize me for trying to reduce how implicated I am in one of the most evil acts of the 21st century.

And if you disagree, well, I can name a thousand other forums for you to post your comment in before you come here to Hacker News. Otherwise you're just being wildly inconsistent and deeply morally corrupt.
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I think C Rice is an disturbing figure because she appears to be a contradiction. Nobody expects much of figures such as Rumsfeld or Chaney - they come across as ruthless unprincipled technocrats who are prepared to do some extraordinary dangerous things in pursuit of their ideological convictions. But CR is obviously highly intelligent and somehow more relatable. Which makes her actions feel like a betrayal. Hence the highly emotive reaction to her apologetics. One senses she should and indeed must know better.
I was under the Belief that we currently have no way of adding the qbits together.
We can set a qbit and read it but we can't currently get the particles in the quantum state to interact.

The article however paints another picture.
If I were to put out an app that gave you access to research journals, should I not list the journals that I give you access to? I, honestly, don't see this as spammy. But I must confess that I don't really know much about Vibe Vault so maybe there is something I'm missing. Or maybe there is a separate "contents" page in the app store listing where that would be appropriate.

To me, "spammy" would be listing unrelated or marginally related things, to show up in edge-case searches. Perhaps "DJ, party, entertainment" etc. would be spammy. Listing your contents? I respectfully disagree.
I'd agree with you if my primary desire were to improve my ability as a programmer. Unfortunately, at least at this time, it's not. My major concern is getting meaningful work done. I spend far too much time thinking and reading about technologies, techniques, and planning for the future - more time needs to be spent on actually implementing all the amazing stuff that you want to exist.
> myris gives you 1-in-2-trillion security

41 bits.
So a year ago, I tried Munchery﻿ and I was not impressed. The food arrived late, it was not that good, the portions were too small.

But yesterday I'm out of groceries, and I'm sick of the unhealthy restaurants near me. So I decided to give them another try.

This time the food comes on time. So much care went into their packaging. I heat up the food and it comes out - woah. So delicious. Real food with real ingredients. The total, including delivery fee, was $15. Which is cheaper than most nearby restaurants with much crappier food.

It's really cool to see how far this startup has come in the last year. I hope they succeed so I can just replace all my meals with them.

If you want free delivery on your first order feel free to use my invite code: https://munchery.com/invite/6XHDF26E
They called you. That makes a huge difference. Problem if you called them from public phone.
The best way to employ the things you learn and discover when reading and thinking about code, is to write code. All the reading and thinking is no good without the part where you write code.
How is go easier to reason about than competing languages?
Placebos do "work", after a fashion, which is part of why they are used as a control rather than nothing being given to the control group (helping to assure blinding of participants, both subjects and experimenters, is also a factor.)

In fact, different mechanisms of placebo delivery "work" to different degrees (in many cases, injection-based placebos "work" better than ingestion-based.)
why don't you just compile to js?

http://i.imgur.com/0DgQh4e.jpg
JottaCloud[0] is based in Norway. 5 GB free, supports win, osx, ios and android currently. Linux client development starts Q2 2014 (now) according to their user forum [1].

They sorely lack an API though. Hopefully they will adress this soon.

[0]: http://www.jottacloud.com/
[1]: http://forum.jotta.no/jotta/topics/jottacloud_in_linux
It seems great! thanks! By .NET in this context, do you mean you translate from CIL to TypeScript? does it mean it works with any .NET language? also, it's amazing it's written in C#.
Because you're wrong. Starbucks certainly makes 'good' coffee. Can you make better coffee? Absolutely. I'm enough of a coffee snob that I rarely get coffee while I'm out, preferring to make it at home where I can control all the variables.

That being said... claiming that Starbucks isn't 'good' coffee is just hipster silliness... Yes, I realize it's mainstream now, and your fedora fits in better at Philz, but Starbucks coffee is certainly 'good' enough for millions of people every day, and it seems like an obvious first choice for an application like this.
> I have a Dropbox account, and I use Amazon's cloud service to host my sites. I will be canceling my Dropbox account as a protest, but probably will not cancel Amazon's cloud services. Why? Because I still need my paycheck, I still need to put food on my kids' plates at the end of the night -- and I do this in part with Amazon's cloud services. I have to pick and choose, and compromise along the way when I'm making my voice heard.

This is a great comment. I'm going to challenge you to do something I suspect you'll be resistant to.

You admit that some times you have to sacrifice your values for a greater cause (in this case your family's well being).

I challenge you to look back on the things you believe Condoleezza Rice did wrong and think about them as though she was making the same sort of sacrifice. Does that change your opinion of her?
A cached version is still available[1].

I have to agree that the "artists include" section looks ridiculously spammy.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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Please correct me if I'm wrong: within living memory, a large area of land already occupied by many humans was unilaterally declared not to belong to them anymore, and they were largely either forced out or subjugated to make way for a different batch of humans who wanted to live, literally, in their houses.

My nation did something very similar to the Native Americans more than a century ago, and it's now universally regarded as an atrocity.

Of course none of this means that suicide bombers are justified or that Israeli children are war criminals. The world is more complicated than that, as you say; whole generations of innocent Israelis have now grown up on that land, and no more deserve to be forcibly displaced than the original occupants did. But I've never heard a convincing justification as to why the occupation was morally justified in the first place, and it doesn't become more justified with time.
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Well, I'm not a fan of the "use folds over time" concept either. FRP is too complex, but there's some great ideas there.

Would you say Aurora and these other languages are "reactive"? Or do you have a better term for it?

BTW: I'm reading "Toward a better programming" right now :)
Ooh, OpenSSL's FIPS certification. The fellows who've been fighting for years to take it away http://www.itnews.com.au/News/65016,openssl-in-a-fips-flap.a... must be crowing right now. (Regardless of whether their own stuff is any better or no.) Another decertification incoming?
California (and some other states) allow you to cash out gift cards under $10. I've cashed out eCards at Starbucks before, so it may be possible to exchange residual BTC for cash.
I think you might be conflating things a bit. The guilt about a lack of productivity already exists (daily work, or not). Doing daily work helps to mitigate it to a large degree. Naturally if I get sick I'll be comfortable enough to "let it slide". If anything I'll be eager to get back to work right when I can.

I do agree that breaking things into tiny tasks is the best way to go, it's helped me tremendously. More than anything else though it seems that passion is the largest "secret ingredient". If you're not passionate about the work it just won't happen, regardless of what happens in your life.
You could always start your own company.

I loved the upper peninsula when I visited years ago. and it seemed /dirt/ cheap, I paid $20/night for a motel. Plus any place with Cornish pasties at every stop steals my heart.
Oh please. You cannot "launder money" with Starbucks gift cards unless you use a completely ridiculous definition of the term (which occasionally you find over-enthusiastic regulators doing, but that is no excuse).
I've read a few of your chapters and I think you're doing a great job. Keep it up!
To be fair, you have a point. But, IMO, there actually is something almost "poisonous" in a sort of insidious way, about having an influx of political articles. It seems to contribute to a slow - but perceptible - overall drift in the tone/spirit of the site and the community.

It's almost like, people come here, see the front-page at a point in time, and use that to make a snap judgment about the character and tone of the site. So if random new user A comes along and the front-page is all Erlang, Javascript, Groovy, "Foo acquired Bar for $123MM" and "Google IO tickets go on sale today" and "New advance in 3D printing", etc., they will reach a certain conclusion which will - in my theory - influence their behavior and manner from then on. OTOH, if the front-page is about Condelezza Rice, minimum-wage controversy, environmental issues, etc., that same user comes in with a whole different mindset.

Or maybe more to the point, those different front-pages attract a different category of people who stick around and become regulars. In either case, you get "scope drift".

Honestly, what this reminds me of is when Slashdot took a pronounced turn towards a more openly political "flavor" and developed a much stronger leftist bias and became what people were calling "SlashKos".
How is that discount funded though? I mean, who is paying the other 10%?
Dude, you're right now responding to me constantly. What you're doing _right now_ is the kind of political crap I'd rather not be part of.
I think our conclusion - that we are having more hot outlier days now than ever before

I think you mean we are have more outlier days now than in 1964, not ever.
Why wouldn't people take action which has even a small percentage of success when it requires negligible effort and little time? It seems utterly rational to me.

Likewise, moderate physical exertion (read: effort and time) for a low percentage play is a more dubious proposition. There's a fixed amount of time in a day and you simply can't get more of it; you can only optimize.

I'm not saying people don't jump on bandwagons or whatever. I think outrage & anger are in some sense addictive and cyclical on their own. (Whether they are "legitimate" in any given case is orthogonal IMO.) And I'm sort of with you in spirit, as I gather you're basically criticizing slacktivism.

But if you're trying to set a bar for "real" activism, it's best to keep the above in mind, particularly when people feel otherwise disempowered.
> participated in a democratic process and he has an unpopular opinion

It may be unpopular in certain circles, but the majority of California first voted yes on Prop 22 and then again on Prop 8. Hard to get more mainstream than that.

But then again, Bush won a 2nd term as well. I guess we can only conclude that democracy doesn't work because the masses are stupid.
If I use the Starbucks app, I get credit towards a free item (it works out to an 8.3% discount if you always buy the same thing).

A 1.7% savings really isn't enough to interest me...
Layouts can be possible/impossible depending on screen resolution, available fonts, users default text size preference, zooming, etc.

So, reporting (some) impossible layouts can only be done at runtime. Telling the user "you cannot see this because some constraints cannot be made on this system with the current settings" may not be what users want.
I read that as RuneScape.
The "don't break the chain" rule is brittle: if you do break the chain, your motivation can crater. I think [Beeminder](http://beeminder.com/) has a clever solution to this problem; it gives you a way to track and enforce your goals while being robust to the occasional lapse.
See this e-mail from Bob Beck (of the OpenBSD Foundation):

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/35728

There is no security hole, he says.