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good stuff.

the power of function pointers for stuff like this is quite enormous. making a vm like this is great practice for a real compiler too... :)

i'm curious though, why it isn't a direct copy of x86? other than the obvious 'thats really complicated' it would save a lot of wheel reinventing...
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According to the article, charges come out of your deposit. So that means it's on you to bring it to civil court after they take your money.
What a horrible policy, it won't end well for them.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/union-street-guest-house-hudson?sort... 10 negative Yelp reviews have been posted today (so far), ouch...

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g47931-d490934-Revie...

Their website navigation is a very discrete image map in the middle of the page, http://www.unionstreetguesthouse.com/ obviously this was someone's first website.

It's probably not legal, if it is then it is unenforceable in court, even if it was in their terms contract.

Here is the page with their $500 review fee policy: http://www.unionstreetguesthouse.com/events_weddings.shtml

I don't condone leaving negative reviews if you haven't stayed there, but if you do be sure to note that you have not stayed at the hotel and are just commenting on their policies to warn people, unless that is against the review sites policy, then don't do that.
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Probably not more than 4, but it doesn't matter.
Most of your working day at any non-trivial project would be devoted to understanding (reading, communicating) and documenting (writing, communicating) what you're programming about.

After 6-7 hours of programming, my code quality tends to dip dramatically, without me realizing.

With terrible impacts on the next day's productivity, of course.
Congrats on being the third layer of "blowhard"
Author here. I also wrote a small blog post with some details about the technology behind (Go, AngularJS, ...) for those of you who are interested: http://robinverton.de/blog/2014/08/04/announcing-pentrack-io...
thats cool thanks for sharing this!
You've got to find a more representative photo of London
I think they know it's illegal / unconstitutional. They're banking on self-censorship by people who aren't certain where they stand legally.
Nice job guys. I appreciate the optionality of having a password. I was also able to successfully use your site with only my phone, which some sites have issues with.

One suggestion, although it's helpful to have Wi-Fi passwords listed, I think your team should confirm with the business before posting it. They might want to be picky about who they give it to. I feel like me asking a coffee shop person for the password is an implicit question of whether it's OK for me to hang out with the laptop for a couple hours, and also gives them the chance to tell me if it's down right now.
> Hepatitis C is a slow death sentence

I don't understand that statement. I had Hep C and it was cured with interferon/ribavirin. It was a nasty treatment and I guess there are people who don't complete it, hence (probably) its reputation for uncertain effectiveness.

I absolutely would have preferred this new treatment, but if you had been able to tell me five years ago that I could take interferon & ribavirin now, or wait five years for a better treatment, I still would have completed the interferon/ribavirin treatment.
>> Yes but then you just pass the fine on to somebody else, which isn't fair.

How? If the place has returned the deposit then they have nothing to withhold the fine from ... ?

Am I missing something here?
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I used to do 8+ but recently I find myself doing 4-5 at most. Maybe I'm burnt out after 10 years at the same job (I quit a few months ago but still I am nowhere as productive as I used to be). I also find it very hard to reach the feeling of flow without being distracted.
I estimate 5 hours is my max without quality loss.
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Thanks for pointing that out! I hadn't made the connection and now I've got another reason to figure out how fold works (have yet to wade through all of http://mlton.org/Fold)
5-6 Hrs is good for programming for a day, productivity goes down if we stretch.
About a half hour to two hours really productively, and maybe 6 hours in a somewhat productive way.

It varies a lot with the amount of sleep I got the night before, which again varies a lot, having two small children :-)
Easy to work around, make your review after the deposit comes back.
Back in 2012 (I think), I thought it was insane that they were willing to pay $11B for Pharmasset based on Phase 2 data.

At the very least, it was a ballsy move that has generated about 6 billion in revenue in just the 1st 6 months on market in the U.S.

Note that Bristol Myers Squibb paid about 2.5Billion to acquire a competing company (Inhibitex) and that drug had to be junked for safety issues shortly after the acquisition.
Another way of looking at it is that rigorous policing and removal of corruption from the police and law enforcement is a contributing factor in the current decline in social mobility.

The article is not at all forthcoming with solutions but it is a good example of 2nd order effects where removal of one problem (Mafia) leads to the creation of another (lower social mobility).
cough MIPS cough
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Clearly I should write more blog posts with lots of questions at the end, thanks!
It doesn't have to be about professional day-job work alone; for example, I often bike to a coffee shop on weekends to work on my side projects, because it gets me out of my apartment and away from all the distractions therein.
Not needed. Already there are more 1* reviews than other ones. Mostly about the policy. The internet is a harsh place.
When a Pew survey says that atheists are seen as less trustworthy than rapists in the US, you know the stigma is real.

When a whopping 78.4% (Pew 2014) identify as Christian, you know that Christian complaints that they are stigmatized by mainstream society are greatly overblown.

Name a single non-Christian President. The best you will be able to do is to speculate that one might have been Deist a very long time ago. According to these surveys, an atheist simply could not be elected President today. Christians occupy most political offices, so they cannot plausibly claim to lack political representation.

Rank and file Christians are just ordinary people, but they are manipulated by politicians and political preachers to believe they are being persecuted, that there is a War on Christmas, that Sharia will rule over them in their towns, etc. and that they must claim ever greater control of society in order to protect Christianity. Of course this means they should donate money to certain organizations, vote for certain candidates and silence religious minorities.

It also extends to more militant means. Nobody wants to discuss this in polite company, because it's unsettling and it makes many Christians angry and defensive, but a certain number of followers will respond violently, as in the case of abortion clinic bombers who are encouraged to escape from law enforcement, or men who are widely though quietly praised for shooting up a Unitarian church during Sunday morning service. I could go on. This isn't a majority of Christians, but the violence feeds on that substantial supporting population, and it relates to the way many Christians have been politically manipulated into hate.

Several recent popular movies present near future scenarios where Christians are systematically persecuted by non-Christians. Convincing people of this kind of falsehood is essential to building hate. This is widely seen as a plausible scenario, despite the fact that the majority of the country identifies as Christian and a disproportionate majority of our politicians identify as Christian. When you assume that this is reality, it feels more justified to infringe on others' constitutional rights and even to harm them. Whether you want to admit it or not, this is the same mechanism used to justify violence against Jews in Weimar Germany.

If Christianity is a religion of love and tolerance rather than hate and intolerance, then Christians should at least respect the Constitutional rights of religious minorities, including atheists, even if they disagree with them. A few denominations have good records for this, while others do not. But the former are quiet, and the latter control the drift of Christian politics in the US, which is to attack religious minorities and insist on absolute Christian supremacy as if it were a condition of survival.
a really good day with no outside interruption interruptions 5 hours would be my guess.
Here is a recent poll asking a similar question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7657502

The most popular answer was 2-4 hours.
They're saying that someone else would be fined, if they're looking at time of review only.

So you rent the room and someone posts a negative review from their rental a few months ago; do you get fined or not? You might if they're only going off time.
Does the public library sell coffee?

(There's an Enoch Pratt branch directly across from my favored coffee place in Roland Park, which would be just dandy if it didn't have the weirdest opening hours known to man. Closed on Thursdays and Sundays? Who does that?)
> How would you measure quality of life? This income data is hopefully based on hard facts and not some kind of perception of the world.

Life is all about perception. Everybody commenting here is describing their perception of these numbers.

However, the data really is deceptive. You cannot draw any conclusions whatsoever from this data alone, unfortunately. What conclusions are being drawn that are valid are actually drawing upon extra information about the countries concerned. For example:

> The median income is often closer to what most people actually earn than the mean for example

It's not really important what "most people earn". Take South Africa, 3rd on the list in this chart. This is a country with a 25.2% unemployment rate and significant income inequality [1]. The median income listed is $6,600. If you're interested in technology - good luck programming Casio digital watches, because that's all you're going to be able to afford. Even when do you save up to afford things, you die sooner than the rest of the world so you don't even get to enjoy it for long [2].

What's important is what kind of quality of life you want, and whether or not the income you earn in your chosen profession can provide for that. Over and above that are cross-cutting concerns, for instance, do you really want to live in a country with a higher homicide rate than Colombia and significant corruption? [1]

> I'm pretty sure the data people at Bloomberg had good reasons to chose these figures.

Bloomberg is providing raw data; they provide tons of other data [2] but they expect you to read them all together in a manner that make sense to you. They do not impose an opinion about how to interpret the data. what I'm saying is it would be great if there were a way to factor all the data in together in a way that allows people to specify preferences (e.g. homicide rate < 10) to determine a personalised quality of life score.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-str...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/longest-...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/
I think this is the right approach, you can't compare programming to working on assembly line, i.e. the more time you spent typing in your editor is directly translated in more goods or value to the customer. Even if you should fill something like hours spent programming, I don't think it should be interpreted that literally. Your customer is buying your overall expertise, not only the ability to translate requirements into machine code.
If we're trying to be historically accurate, I think skin darkening would be the more racist option.
>If the place has returned the deposit then they have nothing to withhold the fine from

They have no way of proving the association of the reviewer and the deposit in question to charge from. Therefore it is logical to assume that any negative review would be charged to the currently active account, which may or may not be associate with the review.

This ambiguity prevents a fair result.
that's actually my personal observation as well. i've traveled extensively around the world doing projects (some of my own previous startups), and in places like eastern europe and india, i've rarely seen macs at all. however, when i was in college in the US, i noticed that pretty much anyone who does anything remotely close to programming or graphics design uses a mac. definitely speaks to the marketing prowess of apple.
Actually, these examples are similar to the first example in my post (under the first "pathological case" heading) and don't quite exhibit the worst case behavior since the type can be represented in linear space as a dag.
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Yeah, you are not. Say someone writes a contract saying that they can slap me in the face and each time they do I must pay $100, if I carefully read and then sign that contract, and they then slap me three times — have I been assaulted or do I owe $300, or both?
I think their point is that Yelp reviews are usually anonymous. So how do they know which wedding you're talking about? Do they just assume it's the one that happened yesterday?
This is ridiculous. Someone needs to sue them.
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That would be 6 hours. Over here, on a 7.5 hours shift, we are expected to spend 6 hours actually programming. The other hour is there so you can take breaks, have meeting, etc.
I think this must be made clearer when comparing fonts. I expect a lot of things to look good on retina!
In project planning I would plan for 5 hours per day per developer, even if they were going to be onsite for 8 hours per day.
My experience with freelancing/contracting though is that you're generally expected to be onsite or to be available 7.5 or 8 hours per day, even if you're only productive for 4 or 5 of those hours...
Sure enough, trustleap.ch offers custom crypto, too. Quote: "TrustLeap will protect your data forever [...] we can do so without disclosing how it works."

These guys are, in all likelihood, selling gourmet food snake-oil.
Nice:

If you have booked the Inn for a wedding or other type of event anywhere in the region and given us a deposit of any kind for guests to stay at USGH there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review of USGH placed on any internet site by anyone in your party and/or attending your wedding or event If you stay here to attend a wedding anywhere in the area and leave us a negative review on any internet site you agree to a $500. fine for each negative review. (Please NOTE we will not charge this fee &/or will refund this fee once the review is taken down). Also, please note that we only request this of wedding parties and for the reasons explained above.
When I was little we used to go watch the RC planes enthusiasts flew in a remote field, it was fun to watch and they were on private property, disturbing nobody.

With drones you better realize quickly you do not have the right to be in someone else's private airspace. This should be prosecuted like trespassing. The problem is, just like people who set off fireworks weeks before and after holidays "just because they can and screw everyone else" or point lasers at airplanes, that laws aren't going to matter to them, they are going to do whatever they want to do.
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+1, Ctrl D is interrupt, and bash, node, python, etc. use it to quit.
"Text-only mail client"?
Mine would be 4 to 5. But on average I can get done more than most people in that amount of time.

But for freelancing I do quote 7-8 hours. I just program slower during that time, do easy tasks if any (css/html)
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Spooky23 is being sarcastic.
Most contracts I've been involved with define a day as 7 or 8 hours.

This is almost never going to be solid programming time though, as you will need to communicate with the client, handle documentation and other tasks which legitimately take up part of the 8 hours. Also, you should take at least 1 or 2 breaks during the day which shouldn't be included in the 8 hours.

By the end of the day, you're not going to be programming as effectively as you were at the start. This is just the nature of working 8 hour days; the client won't expect you to be a machine. If you're really concerned about this, try to do all the difficult thinking and planning at the start of the day, leaving more straight-forward tasks for when you're tiring.

In short, say you'll work 8 hours and just do your best.
My Wakatime reports about 4 hours of Xcode per day.
> for the reasons explained above

Being lazy and not reading it myself: do they attempt to adequately explain the policy other than "we'd like to be able to be dickish without getting bad reviews" in "the reasons explained above"?

(edit for those only reading this far: it appears that they do, see the replies to this post for detail)
Could you explain to me like I'm stupid how you can not make enough to get Obamacare? I thought that if you didn't make enough, you got it subsidised.
4 on a good day; very rarely 6, but that's often more repetitive refactorings or a very quiet, distraction-free day. Usually though it's either I get disturbed in one way or another and have to do the whole restarting / getting back in the zone rituals, or I'm mentally beat after a good bout of programming.
Touch of sarcasm above, perhaps...
Your sarcasm detector is broken. Call the repairman.
After reading this article, I'm surprised to see that the guest house still has a high rating on Yelp and Google+. Our immediate response should be to post negative reviews based on the revelation that none of the other reviews are trustworthy.

EDIT: Yelp rating is no longer high, but there's still TripAdvisor and Google+.
It depends a lot on what I'm doing.

If I'm actively engaged with something, like a new algorithm, or the guts of a system, something really compelling and which is 'solvable', i.e., I've got everything nailed down enough that I can fit it into my head and start figuring out what bits are missing, I can achieve flow pretty easily and get maybe a solid 4 hours in that state, with another 4 hours taken up for less productive work getting into and out of that state, and for periodic breaks when I need them.

If it's defining the problem, exploratory coding to try and figure out how to interact with an external system (and that system is documented and sane), probably 3 in flow, with another 3-4 less productive; I'm nearly as productive as when I've got everything I need in my head, but I get drained faster.

If it's drudge work, or just hitting my head against a wall (anything trial and error-y, like interacting with something undocumented, stupid, inconsistent, painful, etc), perhaps 2 somewhat productive hours, over the course of 6 hours (the other 4 aren't productive -at all-), since every single thing will distract me, and after 6 I'm mentally exhausted.
4-5 hours on a good day. I normally quote a day rate for 6 hours / day, but this can vary depending on where I work.

I tend to be more productive if I work at a client's office rather than my usual coworking space. I assume that's because of feeling pressured to look like a good freelancer, but it makes me enjoy work a lot less.
Like I said, please put your political correctness to the side so that we can discuss this like adults.

What is an alternative term that conveys the exact same concept that was discussed earlier, but without being deemed "offensive" by people who are particularly sensitive?

If you have a problem with the perfectly legitimate term that was being used earlier, then the constructive thing to do would be for you to provide an equivalent or better alternative.
Or, if you've not signed anything yet, the better work around is to find another venue (and drop them a letter with proof of the booking for the other venue and an explanation as to why you passed them by and went with a competitor).
> What about informing people of goods and services they might want but didn’t know about?

If marketing didn't exist, this need could easily be fulfilled by organizations acting on behalf of the buyers. Consumer buying guides and professional industry-specific journalists publishing reviews are examples.
You'll likely only program 5-6 hours per day, unless you're super excited for the project. I'd still quote 8 because while you'd only program for 5-6 hours, you still have to deal with email/phonecalls/text messages as part of your job, which are part of your work for them.
"Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our Inn, your friends and families may not. This is due to the fact that your guests may not understand what we offer - therefore we expect you to explain that to them. USGH & Hudson are historic. The buildings here are old (but restored). Our bathrooms and kitchens are designed to look old in an artistic "vintage" way. Our furniture is mostly hip, period furniture that you would see in many design magazines. (although comfortable and functional - obviously all beds are brand new) If your guests are looking for a Marriott type hotel they may not like it here."
No, posting reviews of a service you've never used because of something you read on the Internet five minutes ago is not OK.
So where is it in use?

I am always skeptical of any claim of more than twice of an improvement over things that are already highly optimized (like nginx).

Found this list of "customers" http://twd-industries.com/customers.html but not sure if gwan users or what websites.

g-wan website needs a redesign for certain
Just to throw something out there, maybe for important cures to diseases, the government should just pay a one time purchase of the patent and make it public domain (or something like that). I imagine the price of the patent would be extremely high, but it might be a simpler way of dealing with things than regulating the price. And given the direct and indirect costs of regulation (such as lobbying, counter-lobbying, etc.), it might be worthwhile.
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Thanks, much appreciated. Exactly the kind of people I'm trying to target. Students in film school would benefit greatly from this kind of resource for educational purposes. I hope to become the defacto source for scripts and at some point approach studios to gain access to more.
> Yes, this is why most people generally hate doing translations in general - people like you who nitpick.

I don't know a bit of French, or Japanese. But I do know that there are a awful lot of English translations, done by well-meaning people, which vary from mediocre to Godawful. Almost every anime subtitling job I've ever seen is at the very least somewhat stilted and awkward to my ear. (Though they're still better than the dubs.) And a lot of it comes down to native English speakers who fear losing the intended nuances of the original and so do a rigidly literal translation, because they think that's the "most accurate."

So the problem isn't nitpicking; it's the wrong kind of nitpicking. If you think you can do a translation by following a rulebook and wave off dissenters as "nitpickers," you are probably going to do a shitty job, and have no idea why.
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