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See how easily the politicos make it about you against me, when we should be working together. Dude, if you are European, and you make good software, I'll use it.

In fact, I use a ton of software made by people who, by chance, were born in Europe. But the moment you start to rail against 'US companies' (I work in a US company) I begin to think, waitaminuite, that guy is against me - he wants to hurt me, maybe I shouldn't use his stuff either ...
Trying this out with some Ayichesh :)

I'll actually have to check my mailbox now, usually anything important is sent via DHL and they usually come by twice daily ;)
> Four hours per day of work where you are in high focus is about normal. You will see that professionals across many creative fields only work 4 hours per day.

OK I'll bite. What are these fields? I think it is fanciful to call 4 hours per day 'normal'.
It's not that terrible, but it can be annoying. And arguably worst of all, it can make code a lot uglier than it needs to be.
> people start camping only those mobs and ignoring everything else

The mobs should not be concentrated so much in one area, spread them around, mix it up so one area has a ton of different mobs.

Very few games do this though.
FrenchCoqs - Fine 3D printed sextoys & dildos
Heya all,

I've been working on this little service since last year : www.frenchcoqs.com (beta-launched in Dec.)

I was focusing on achieving the best possible quality for your dildos & peen reproductions (in any size!), because high quality at a fine pricing is what they deserve. And now that it's fully ready, I'm dropping the bomb :)

I wasn't paying attention to social presence at all - maybe a mistake, not sure yet. See www.twitter.com/frenchcoqs that I just created ; includes a few pictures.

I'd love to get advice from you guys! Ugly website? Ugly concept? Ugly truth?
Please, give me answers.

Guillaume
Thanks. Although I was looking for something free (I did not mention that). And something a little more graphical right from the result, rather than just a text result, if you will. Nonetheless, still a cool application. I do like how you can find other's bookmarks, that's neat.
This is not a philosophical argument, but about interoperability in a distributed system. Interoperability is all about conventions, by definition. Therefore, doing what is convention and what is reasonably assumed by participants in the system is, indeed, correct, by definition, unless there is an overriding concern, like security.

People have most definitely written mails with the semantically relevant assumption that they will be displayed in a monospace font, and those mails are still around, so the only correct thing to do to maintain compatibility is to display mails that don't indicate support for non-monospace display in a monospace font. It's that simple. Also, obviously, there still are systems around from back then that still produce new emails which also still make that assumption.
The OP was talking about 16h weeks. Not 16h days. I can certainly feel for you if you're the one working 16h days week in and week out.
I was suggesting that this is a fine way for things to be.
There's a difference between female people and femininity. Not all women are into femininity to significant degrees or to any degree, and some see it as a questionable social construction [1]. The women in the article are simply proposing that using extreme degrees of femininity to appeal to potential female programmers is not a sustainable campaign, given that that's not what the actual programming world is like. Role models do a lot more for children [2]

[1] http://feministcurrent.com/8789/femininity-is-no-joke-nomake...
[2] http://reelgirl.com/2013/11/im-not-a-pilot-im-a-pilots-wife-...
I don't think it is about asking to "not use something". It is about asking to pay taxes where you gain money. To have a equal system any vendor should pay in a specific state the part of taxes related to what he sold in that specific state.

It is really incredible that if I sell the 99.99% of my product out of Luxembourg I pay all taxes only in Luxembourg, for example. (edit obviously using the various holes in the EU law system)
>If there are any real customers using the software they are going be rather unforgiving of your desired work ethic.

So? "Real customers" could also want him to work 24/7/365, and to respond immediately to their every demand and whimsy.
>In the state of nature, the smartest play is not to try and be Mark Zuckerberg. It's to beat up Mark Zuckerberg and take all his stuff.

False. The smartest play is to not be relevant either to Mark Zuckerberg, or the criminals who steal his stuff.

You are justifying violence, aggression, and theft. This is not really a position I am surprised to see being upvoted, but I am rather disappointed that you haven't had any worthy challengers, either.

The fact of the matter is that the state of nature is utterly arbitrary, now. If we decide not to kill each other, we do not kill each other. We do not randomly kill anyone without actually deciding to do it; failing to acknowledge the culpability of killers, and those who prepare to do killing above all else, is why we have killers.

In an ideal, natural state, equilibrium will be attained, for that is the nature of the universe at large. It takes an obtuse intrusion of life to impede upon the natural entropy of the universe; decide to kill, and then kill, and you'll be doing something that does not happen anywhere else, provably, yet in the wider known universe. It is a unique and utterly self-perpetuating circumstance, murder. It cannot occur without life making the effort to proceed with the act.

And the fact of the matter is, trillions of dollars worth of decisions have been made, by a tragically small elite, in the name of the whole - to kill. This is the responsibility of everyone who allows those dollars to persist as currency in global communication; the fallacy of irresponsibility nevertheless allows for continued acts of overt destruction on the human species.

Decide not to kill, and you need not kill. For every $billion bomber, there could have been 1,000 solutions to the distrust and hatred between those who do not understand each other, sufficiently well enough, to acknowledge the commonality of life, shared. Put the bomber pilot in the middle of the village, and soon enough he'll be grateful for the company of those humans with whom he must drink tea, or perish.

The only reason that the American people have allowed their nation to be subjugated by murders, criminals, the provably insane, is that they (the American people) simply cannot take responsibility - for themselves, nor for others. The idea that American military power is a projection of the willingness to 'do good for others' is an utterly banal fallacy; American military might can only be projected when those who can stop it are driven into an apathy derived from near-total irresponsibility for the results: for the death, for the murder, for the total lack of justice, for the dire export of utter prejudice, and ultimately - hatred.

The budget was allocated on death. It was not spent on life. There are far more potent ways to deliver continued life by those, the living, here and now, than to predict future conflict 'is necessary and natural'. If you are alive today, you can solve this: learn the language of those you pretend not to hate.
Sounded good untill I read: "I sincerely think it is quite unrealistic to ask a knowledge worker".

What is this with you programmers that you think that you're the best thing that has happend to this world? It's just a job. No more a job then any other one.

Same thing as that bullshit as companies that want every employee to program. Do you see CEO's with a background as a carpenter writing blogposts about how everybody should build at least a chair every month?

Self obsessed rich kids.
>You mean Paul Graham of the incubator that backed 630 companies, each at a $225,000 pre-money? Oh, ok. If you convince 630 companies started by Stanford engineering grads to take a $225,000 pre-money, then you can go telling other people they should be pickers too.

I love this post, and laughed out loud at that line.
It's not. Such a thing would be impossible. Look up "gender socialization" and read about girlhood:

http://www.metafilter.com/121190/teenage-girls-they-havent-b...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/jan...

http://sodisarmingdarling.tumblr.com/post/34106027759/what-i...

http://rebeccahains.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/is-my-son-smart...
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Ask HN: What are your health and fitness goals?
What diet, stress, or fitness goals do you want to reach in the short term (within 3 months)? Have you been doing anything about it, and if so, how consistently?
Manager's calculations tend to have this format:

Person X produced me $A amount in 40 hours. His salary is $B. B being much smaller than A[1], I can increase it without much an impact on the bottom-line. But, again, B being much smaller than A, if he worked less hours, I'd reduce A much more than I reduce B.

[1] It has to be, otherwise, will all the overhead a business has, I'd go broke.
You'd be surprised what stupid managers would do. They could just fire him out of spite, and hire 2 people to do his work clumsily but "keep proper hours".
Sorry got that, was more replying to the guys saying that in your average 8-10 hour day you'll only do 4 hours of intense work anyway (so that a 4 hour "actual work" day is kinda normal).
> It means a large swath of monsters: jellies, giant insects, wolves, bears, spiders, serpents, etc. wouldn't drop anything

Sure they would - a jelly drops a potion made from its body, the other animals have stingers, teeth and claws that are excellent weapons, and skin or plates that make armor.

A petrified dead snake makes a great wand.

A web from a spider can be used as a trap item (throw it at someone and "stun" them for a time). Make it reusable by pulling back the cord attached to it.

A bear arm makes a sword-like slashing weapon.
There aren't any natural language processing library/toolkit that I am aware of. Huge undertake.
From the article:
"It seems so degrading," Wheat said. "If you're a girl interested in building websites, you're a 'web diva.' If you're a boy, you're a web developer."

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I have seen many a job posting looking for web ninjas, rockstars, and the like.

Our industry has a history of being rather informal, and often catering to the narcissistic side of developers. Sometimes this is for the better, sometimes not (e.g. the "bro-grammer" bullshit recently). I personally have no interest in loosing our informal culture to the PC police.
...this seems like a needlessly low attack on the man. Why do you perceive him to be as dumb as a bag of hammers?

A respected actor, comedian and presenter he has also authored a number of novels and several non-fiction works and graduated from one of the most respected educational institutions in the entire world.

Hardly dumb.
1. Get rid of my lower back pain- I’ve had back pain and for as long as I can remember. Poor sitting posture, heavy backpacks, and sleeping curled up probably contributed to it. I tried an ergo chair (no results), a medicine ball (less pressure on my lower back, but I slouch horribly), and a standing desk (much better on my back, but caused knee pain). Stretching helps, but inflames previous injuries. I suspect a lot of stress in my life comes from repeated failed attempts to alleviate these simple pains.

2. Deep Breathing - I’m trying to meditate, but my mind wanders after a minute or two. Trying to fight off the countless notifications, chrome tabs, noises, etc that have shortened my attention span. Goal is to hit 10 minutes of focusing on nothing.
Snark is the universal solvent of cultural conversation. - http://thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-hate-snark.html...
>Just one question, don't you feel guilty going like that? I'd feel guilty, as if life gave me this time to get as much work done as I can, and I just don't.

Life gave you time to live. Not to get "work done". Especially the bullshit kind of non essential busy work most people in the West do.

Now, if you built houses or basic infrastructure, or were a doctor that'd be something different.

The nth BS enterprise CRUD app, or some BS social service? Not so important in the grand scheme of things.
20hour/week, my first job, working at RedHat while still at school. Of course, they paid me by the hour, but I don't think I would have managed to finish my masters thesis on 40h/week job :)

RedHat is a large corporation, so mostly your work conditions depend on managers around you. I.e.: I started as an intern and after a year manager asked me, if I want to become a regular employee, and I had a condition to remain on 20h/week. Friend of mine had just the option of intern or full-time (40h/week).
The best advice I can think of is to build one. There really aren't any general rules. Everyone's needs (and languages/platforms/tools) and experiences are going to be different, which is great to learn from, but isn't going to present you with prescriptive advice.

However, since microservices are, by definition, small, building something basic is not complex or time-consuming. I'd suggest tackling something fundamental, such as user login and restricting service actions based on, say, a user's role.

This is all well-established stuff in web-based apps via sessions, etc., but presents a number of issues when using microservices. For example, you'll probably want some sort of token (for the user) and a way to manage it.

Going through those steps will get your brain ticking over about any number of problems and will provide you with much learning.

Since you are using Rails, I'd suggest creating a User service (one rails app) and a Blah service (another rails app) that requires authorisation to access some actions. Building that, and thinking through the issues, and building solutions, will give you a lot of feel for building microservices.

Rails (specifically v4 in API-mode, which avoids a lot of MVC stuff) is actually quite cool for microservices, where you can leverage its filters and gems to provide cross service functionality -- like the token handling I alluded to above.

(As an aside: if you do do the above, you'll probably find that you need some sort of "system/root" user access to some services. The "obvious" solution is to create such a user with super powers (that only the system can use). However, think through the implications of this -- massive potential security hole -- and other ways in which you can provide the required services. Actually, thinking about it, that might be a prescriptive rule: never create a super/root user -- that's not to say that a user can't have, say, an admin role.)
At the moment I'm a freelance software developer, and I take on multiple projects at once. Right now, I'm working on three projects, and typically end up spending 4-6 hours a day on billable work. I can put in more, but after a point, I can feel my productivity drop off.

Realistically, I end up completing 20-25 hours of billable work a week (and probably another 10-15 doing stuff that isn't directly billable). I could spend more time working on billable stuff, but I find that there are heavily diminishing returns after that point. Sure I can get in more productivity for a brief period (a few weeks max), but there is always debt to repay.

A lot of people tell me that they are looking for someone who is "half time", which to them means 20 hours a week. I've tried to explain to them that I don't schedule 40 hours of work in a week, and that for me "half-time" is 10-15 (productive) hours. A lot of people won't accept that.

I'm finding that it's easier to tell them that I'll work half-time, get more work done in 10-15 hours than most people would in 20, and then bill them for the time that I actually worked. If I'm getting the project done, then they aren't going to complain that I'm billing them for too few hours. That obviously doesn't work if they are expecting me to be on-site 20 hours a week, but in my case (where I work in my own office), it seems to be ok.
The articles you quote, while flamebait, don't try to answer the forementioned question. As for "impossible" - why?
You are missing their point. "Ninjas" and "rockstars" aren't particularly gendered (they actually are and we both know it but who would be honest enough to admit such a thing?) but "diva" certainly is. The writer's problem is not the lack of formality -- is that really what you took away?
My song about stress. feedback?
Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014] [video]
In the future there will be less jobs, and more unemployment, including more broke "business owners".

In other words, business owners would be commoditized and not mean much at all...
I don't know the answer, but I have a few ideas:

1) Puritanical roots of America (Idle hands are the devil's workshop) still linger as the ideal is you spend most of your time working.

2) Hiring more people is hard; furthermore the larger the team, the less efficient (per person) the team is. Therefore you want to get maximum value out of the people you have any way possible. A 25% boost in output of each person on the team is easily worth as much as (if not more than) hiring twice as many people. Similarly a perceived loss of 20% of productivity per person would be like halving the size of your team. I could easily believe that a 16 hour week has 20% lower output than a 40 hour week.

3) Lots of companies do offer lower hours for lower pay. They just typically don't hire people into that situation for some reason (I'm open to suggestions why that is so). However, no good place I've ever worked would fail to do that for an employee they want to keep.
I came here to say the same thing - I've been checking the above site for years before booking any hotel.
I in turn love your page -- so useful how you show all the data structures working together to enable a larger task. Bookmarked.
That women talking about being girls is "flamebait" says more about you than the articles.
Just start it? In the standard config, it has a help line that tells you about all the most common key bindings, I'd think it really isn't difficult to get started and look things up in the manual as needed. If you are not on a fully configured unix system with an MTA and local mail spool, the only thing you'll have to set up to get started should be the mail server config.
Why would a tendency to adorn oneself not be innate? Seems pretty universal to me. Why should nurture be the default assumption? I'm sorry but your answer is terrible, akin to "look up sexual selection and read about genetics."
Have you effectively encrypted all the things yet?

Or are you in the 'I am not interesting' camp? Because, you might be interesting one of these days. Are you going to snare us all in your net?
I can see a manager in some enterprise software company reading this page and starting to make strange decrees.
Darjeeling is more aromatic and (for a fermented black tea) tastes quite close to a green tea. Assam tastes stronger and is more astringent on the mouth when drunk without milk.

I always imagined that the difference in flavours reflected the different geographies - delicate growth in the Darjeeling hills versus robust growth in the warmer Assam plains. It might also be differences in the way the teas are fermented.
I don't see anything constructive in your comment, just a rant and personal attacks. If you meant to actually provide something useful to the discussion, you failed.
What would be necessary to actually write on ? maybe even using Go.
I don't see how this isn't circular. The principle is about the choice of how to model things.
Not really. The article isn't very clear on the point, but the workers always know why they're performing task X--let's say, replacing damaged track X--because the reason is the same as before. That's never changed. What they're apparently confused about is the prioritization of task X over task Y because "the machine" is now involved. It's not a case of being told to bang a wrench against a pipe in a random tunnel and then wondering why.

In a lot of ways, it's not that dissimilar than it was before. Why did their supervisors prioritize one task over the other in the past? It's the same thing, only now, it's a more objective algorithm that's handling the tasking. Assuaging these fears (if that's the right word) is almost a non-issue in this context as even the most basic of explanations can solve the problem. I fail to understand how this could be interpreted as scary. Might you elaborate a bit?
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it could be a big PR boost if they did :P
tl;dr: I don't want to work 16 hours a week and then sit on my hands for the other 30. I want to work 16 hours a week and devote the rest of my time doing things that enrich myself and my community in a tangible way.

I've worked for Google, Salesforce, and an early stage startup. In none of these companies did I feel like I was making a meaningful contribution to humanity. Either the product was of unclear societal value (Enterprise CRM), the work was so far removed from the value that the link to benefit was tenuous at best (second tier technical support for AdWords), or the ultimate results were no value generated (early stage startup where we scrapped everything after 20 months of development).

I've also taken gaps between jobs to focus on my own goals. In my free time I have volunteered with local food related organizations (serving meals in a soup kitchen, tending a community garden, etc), developed an iOS app used by 3,000+ artists, and bolstered my relationships with my wife and family. I've also taught myself several programming languages, enriched my world view through extensive travel and reading, and improved my personal well being through exercise.

In my opinion the contributions I've made through these "non-work" experiences and projects dwarf anything I've done working 50 hours/week for a salary.

It's possible that there's a job out there that would pay a decent salary and give me a similar sense of having made a contribution, but I haven't found it yet. I recently co-founded an ed-tech startup with this goal in mind, but time will tell if I'm able to move any needles.
Actual social justice 'warriors' should be anti-capitalist and committed to enforcement of identity politics with authoritarian zeal. They can only gain victories against their own political allies on the so-called left so focus activism on controlling university staff recruiting, campus funding decisions, campus behavior bylaws, banning books from campus libraries/bookstores, banning music and films by appealing to regulatory authorities or by harassing large companies with public shaming campaigns to have somebody fired even though their own anti-capitalist ideology should be in conflict with working with a corporate HR dept.

The social justice student society on my campus literally marched into the campus library, seized and burned books in the parking lot that they said encouraged colonialism.
Okay, it's not better than eating a healthy breakfast. I presume, though, that the type of person who would drink solely (adulterated) coffee for breakfast isn't the type to eat breakfast in the first place. The question is never "is this the best option," it's "is this better than the option the group of people who would use it are currently using?"

Presumably, these folks are right now just drinking straight coffee. So, is this an improvement on straight coffee?
By the time the site gets big enough to make a dent in the properties' reputations, that will also be around the time property owners start hearing about it.
"a tendency to adorn" is not the same as "a tendency to adorn oneself with jewelry", which is what I've been talking about -- are you talking to me?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Why should the non-existence of God be the default assumption?