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Right, but when it is exhaustion from not sleeping for days at a time and working 14+ hours days 7 days a week for weeks at a time it stops being about stress and simply trying to stay physically and mentally conscious. It sounded to me original question was about dealing more with exhaustion than stress. For stress, I would consider exercise an excellent suggestion.
You got that right. I tried RC heli flying for a little bit. Spent several hours flying in the sim and several more flying the real thing, and could never comfortably do a nose-in hover. Very humbling. These professional RC hell pilots are incredible.
Cool, would love to pick your brain sometime.
Continuity is only designed to work within a few meter range for handoff (and indeed requires bluetooth), which could easily be achieved over local bluetooth-bootstrapped p2p wifi.

Red herring.
We have plenty of literature devoted to the topic of building “web-scale” applications. I would love to have books that discuss the tricks that you have at your disposal when you know that your application will never need to accommodate more than, say, 50K users.
lol. well said.
It's unlikely that a competitor with only a $1bn market cap building a similar product to you will be the reason you are or aren't successful unless they're OTHER product makes their new, more similar to yours offering more valuable by extension.

Unless you're certain that their product will be much better than yours no matter what and they've gotten it exactly right, just learn from them and keep going. However I should reiterate: if you think their product is perfect or close, don't keep going. I've seen people do this and there's no point - you've lost the passion for the project at that point because you'll just stare at their product and wish your product could be like that. You won't think critically and differentiate, you'll just try to catch up.
Unicode kinda jumped the shark with all the emoji.. they might as well encode all frequent words/meanings.

Though I like them. The only emoticon(s) I always miss is for one "shrug", something like either "I don't know" or "I don't care".
Scripting AoEII maps with a decent scripting language has long been a dream of mine. Current trigger editor is "hard to use and lacking" to put it politely. Python support in the map editor would be amazing.
It really depends. E.g. if you're a rockstar dev, you can afford to piss whoever you want, as long as they deserve it. Making the right enemies is also a very important social skill.
LaTeX has one large advantage over lesser text processors which this article does not touch upon:

Quidquid LaTeX dictum sit, altum videtur

Put two documents in front of someone used to quickly scanning scientific articles. One of them is formatted using LaTeX, the other using whatever document template Word happened to be launched with. In my experience the LaTeX-formatted article will be seen as a more reliable source than the Word-formatted one, even if the contents are similar.
Hit the brakes. 9 to 5. If your boss has an issue just let him fire you.
I don't think "focus on getting lucky" is quite right either.

I didn't sift through all the available opportunities and choose changing education. I was personally interested in this problem - it mattered to me on an emotional level. I've interviewed Evan Williams and Mark Zuckerberg personally and I see the same pattern there.

It kind of sucks to say "You just need to be interested personally in solving a problem" but it's true. I don't think you can simply identify a problem and solve it, without the personal passion.
Storing the heat chemically, in an easily reversible endothermic reaction including but not limited to phase-change, could be much more efficient than using Peltiers to cook the crewmwmbers
I don't think of myself as being good at learning foreign languages, and I don't know enough of any of them to have any useful conversation, but I kinda disagree that just being in a country that speaks that language will get you started.

I've spent weeks in Mexico, and my Spanish abilities are barely adequate to order a meal in a restaurant most of the time. I didn't feel like I gained anything at that point by being surrounded by Spanish speech and media.

I think that the first hard part or learning a new language is just bridging that gap of memorizing thousands of new words and their meanings. If you haven't done that, any amount of exposure to the language is mostly meaningless gibberish that you don't know where to start at deciphering. I don't see how that helps you learn it.

For what it's worth, I learned a lot more from using Duolingo for a while than from immersion. I figure a better way to really get started would be to work at that, and translate newspaper articles by hand for a few hours a day, not that I've tried it.
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0 A.D is great, on the other hand, the balance and the tactical variety on the AoE series is hard to match.
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It is possible to retrieve individual files or small collections of files, so you can use it as a "I forgot to upload my presentation" solution in addition to just plain disaster recovery. However, it's somewhat cumbersome and pretty slow (restoring a single file still takes on the order of minutes) so not a practical solution for general-purpose data storage and retrieval.
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> I feel like "<most other languages> bugs" tend to get ignored because it's not popular to blame <language> for bugs unless <language> is C. For example an enormous number of high severity CVEs are SQL injection but I never hear anybody saying we should replace SQL with a binary interface that clearly distinguishes statements from data, even though that would make more difference in practice than replacing C with something else.

I don't even use SQL, but I've heard a similar mantra plenty enough times to internalize it.

"but one thing is clear: you should never, ever use concatenated SQL strings in your applications. Give me parameterized SQL, or give me death." ( http://blog.codinghorror.com/give-me-parameterized-sql-or-gi... )

This is an API level change, not a protocol level change - but an API change is the correct answer anyways. If you change the protocol and slap an API like the SQL injection prone ones on top of it, you'll have the same vulnerabilities no matter what the protocol.

For bonus points, use static analysis to catch and forbid query strings that can't be trivially proven static.

> For example an enormous number of high severity CVEs are SQL injection but I never hear anybody saying we should replace SQL with a binary interface that clearly distinguishes statements from data, even though that would make more difference in practice than replacing C with something else.

I see 3x more memory corruption CVEs alone, than SQLI CVEs. I'm not convinced that replacing SQL (or SQL APIs) would be higher impact than replacing C and C++. And since I actually use C and C++ in my daily bread and butter, they're significantly more relevant to me.

But SQLI may be significantly more relevant to you. If that's the case, by all means, focus on them more.
I have briefly followed your work on pixie and read the [R]Python code a few times when I had down time after it was published on HN the first time. Very inspiring stuff.

Out of curiosity, how long had you been coding Python or programming in general prior? Your comment is so motivating, but as a father with a 1.5 year and no free time I dream of being even half as productive as you.
Wouldn't the SATA controller tell you which port the bad drive was on, and then you'd presumably have some standard mapping from ports to physical locations in the case?
Even if you're using pandoc + markdown you're still dependent on LaTeX, so the question to ask is really why not write in LaTeX directly to begin with? If you already know it, and you do if you are in certain parts of academia, it's probably the easiest route. Or put differently: nobody has even gotten rejected for typing in LaTeX, if you pardon the expression.
It's argumentation from "my journal requires Word".

Somebody should add that to the Wikipedia list.
I decided to try it. You can only select entire hard drives and work around this by excluding folders. That's odd but what i don't understand is why you cannot exclude your c:/ (or Main Drive). Why should anyone be forced to backup something?

Seems to me like the design is backwards and doesn't make any sense.
I handed in my resignation recently. Can confirm, watching "Office Space" then buying the soundtrack and repeatedly listening to "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster" was great moral support.
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Yes but it's in Chrome Stable right now, I'm sure that when ES6 is implemented by vendors next year, they might throw in a few ES7 bits.
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For anyone who has taken the time to learn Dvorak: From the point you began to learn it, how long did it take to become more proficient at Dvorak than QWERTY? How much more proficient do you consider yourself to be at typing as a result?
Yes, that's true - and I guess my point is that you can dial it back without necessarily planning to leave, but it comes at a cost. And, better yet, the cost may not be permanent - you could regain your former status by dialling the hours back up and making sure your superiors notice, or learning how to work smart as a substitute for working hard. The other people are bound to burn out eventually.

I guess I should provide the disclaimer that a lot of this depends on your history with the company. I singlehandedly got my company through a transitional period that has caused it to double in size since. That bought me a lot of capital. And while I have not been able to keep up that pace since then, my bosses remember even if their attitude seems to be, "What have you done for me lately?"
This has always interested me. I need to do decently big storage for genomic data. It doesn't have to be fast, but it needs to be able to survive one data center blowing up. If I have 3 data centers, need to store 2-3 petabytes and need storage to survive in the case of a data center failure - the solutions really narrow down when you have to get under the $200/tb range.

Playing with Swift now - but it has really opened my eyes to how much more difficult 2-3 petabytes of storage is (disk failures, number of disks in your infrastructure, the time to redeploy a datacenter on a 1gpbs connection). All the little problems become much bigger!
You should post this on aoczone[0] - probably the largest aoe2 enthusiast forum. Voobly[1] is the primary aoc client at the moment with fan made compatibility patches, such as userpatch[2]. They are also hosting a $120,000 tournament in a weeks time with some of the strongest teams around. I'm sure some of the developers from voobly/userpatch could have a look at it.
As someone mentioned 0ad[3] is an aoe2 inspired game, unfortunately I think their kickstarter failed but they did add multiplayer support which looks promising.

[0] http://aoczone.net

[1] http://voobly.com

[2] http://userpatch.aiscripters.net

[3] http://play0ad.com

edit: I jumped the gun before RTFM, sorry about that, might want to check out http://aoccs.net too for aoehd.
The roadmap/goals for post-MozFest 2014 pique my interest. The following especially:

"Users will be able to read from sensors and control motors, LEDs, solenoids, slave boards, etc"

That will make it easier for people to start playing with electronics from the browser on their Raspberry Pi. Chrome has a serial API, which I think is only accessible to chrome extensions - https://developer.chrome.com/apps/serial. If Firefox OS on the Pi comes with no-limits unlike Chrome, then it should be fun to play with.

Looking forward to it ~!
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> so difficult I was even suspicious I may of had adult ADHD. Turns out that I don't.

I want to thank you so much for writing this. I feel like I've heard this story a million times, but every single time it ends in the author self-diagnosing AD[H]D. This is literally the very first time I've ever heard of someone suspecting they had it and then ruling it out.

It's a relief to hear that there might be other possible causes of common problems.
They're obviously not going to be making much more money from this. 95.5% of users do not store more than a TB. From the brief snippet provided, it doesn't seem like a bait-and-switch was their intention.

> the low demand combined with the growing number of suspected abusers

Probably what has happened is that the ones taking highest advantage of the infinite space are also doing it against the TOS, and bitcasa has found this to be a very difficult problem to solve. For example, running some video site and hosting all the content on bitcasa is probably something lots of people try to do, which is probably against thier TOS. I bet the storage space for these users alone may even have been okay, but the bandwidth and resources needed to monitor & prevent TOS violations added up.

It sounds to me like they are probably not even counting on much revenue from the 10TB plan. It's mostly there so they can claim they offered a fair chance to people needing more space who might be abusers. And instead of paying they'll just leave the platform, which maybe they're just okay with. The pricing is also along the lines of Drive/Dropbox now, so it doesn't seem particularly malevolent.

Sucks it had to happen though.
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I can see requiring org mode files, but not word.
Markdown is a great idea, but are there markdown based solutions for 1) figure numbering and caption handling, 2) references, 3) automatically updating an index?

Anyone in academia needs to worry about all of these, and solutions in Word are sufficiently worse than LaTeX, which automatically updates all references, heading numbers, regenerates figures that have changed, and tracks your index for longer documents like theses.
Very interesting. This topic has some rather pertinent parallels to our current civilization.

Suppose:

a) Human intelligence is heritable.

b) Less intelligent humans are more fertile than their brighter peers.

c) The breeding of the less intelligent is subsidized by society over a long period of time.

What are the long term consequences going to be? I'd bet Peter Thiel has secretly considered this among his theories of why innovation has slowed, but wouldn't dare say so in public.
Maybe this is a quirk of my personality, but I'm interested personally in solving a lot of problems. From what I saw of Larry Page's decision-making when I was at Google, this was true of him as well. From there, it's a matter of choosing the intersection of that set with the set of problems that many other people want solved and the set of problems that you personally have the ability to make a dent in right now.

Business books like to talk about the "hedgehog" principle:

http://ilead.byuh.edu/node/133

This is what it means in practice. It helps if all of the sets are relatively large, and the intersection is quite narrowly focused. Usually when I've had "small" successes (projects beloved by a handful of users, but not enough to make any money), it's because I was following my passion but not considering how many other people cared about the problem. When I've had outright failures (like the graveyard of projects that I never completed), it was when I followed my passion for a project that large amounts of people would want, but didn't pay any attention to whether the problem was tractable with the resources I had available to me.
How is this stuff still controversial?
This is surprisingly interesting to watch.

The way he responds is almost like he is playing a high-level chess match, which is unfortunately absolutely necessary because the person deposing him is fishing for a simple "yes" answer to a question without all the context he already provided (so that this can be introduced in a dramatic way such that even if those deciding the case get the full context later they will have already made up their mind that "Java == Competitive Threat" based on the introduction).

Having been on a 6 week long jury trial that included a lot of these sorts of deposition "revelations" where people (who you'd think would be smarter, though it is difficult to adjust for how much stress this sort of questioning puts them under) said something that sounded terrible in local context (but innocuous in the wider context that the defense later showed), the local context that is introduced first is really all that sticks with a lot of people, if the majority of the people on my jury were any indication.

In this case, all of his answers are smart, which isn't that surprising since like him or not Bill Gates is clearly a really smart fellow (and one who was surely coached for this up-front by a crack legal team).
Libraries such as wv has been built by reverse engineering the format, not from official specifications. The latter turned out to be pretty much useless as they didn't contain enough information to actually parse .doc in the wild.
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>This is an Inno Setup based wrapper around MinGW's mingw-get which installs a development environment for building Git for Windows using GCC.

This installs the dependencies and environment needed for building Git from source. I think that's overkill for most users.
Modern C# does provide some FP constructs (in the form of LINQ, lambdas etc.). I know that having used them a lot made it easier for me to grasp Scala.
Much as it pains me to admit it, maybe this is an indication that those who said "javascript is the assembly of the web, it's better than bytecode" were right.
Here's the story from the founder's perspective: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QkTa-zW...
On balance, I would consider this a fair appraisal. Black swan companies get built because it is the right time. Obviously, it takes skill to know when that is and that the right time is a range. As time goes on it gets easier to do these things, ie electric cars. These were really hard to do in 2005 but now they seem rather obvious. Be early, be correct, and be gritty.
I prefer SourceTree from Atlassian, but GitHub for Windows may be easier for beginners.
Nitpick, but I think you mean "flagrantly" not "fragrantly".
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> Probably what has happened is that the ones taking highest advantage of the infinite space are also doing it against the TOS

The thing is that, realistically, they have no way to know. That same model that doesn't allow them to see what people use their account for, also doesn't allow them to assess how much of the usage is against TOS. At best, it's a suspected problem, and that doesn't seem like a reasonable cause for mass-deleting user data. Plus, I'm not sure I see how "usage against TOS" is a problem to begin with, if it's not adversely affecting their legal status or infrastructure (which it doesn't appear to, given their post).

> For example, running some video site and hosting all the content on bitcasa is probably something lots of people try to do, which is probably against thier TOS.

I can see this being a problem, but it's easily solved by eg. capping bandwidth for the account at 100mbps when you go over 1TB space used. Nobody is going to successfully run a video site of considerable size - which over 1TB of data would be - on a 100mbps connection. It would still suck for large users, but at the very least their data won't get deleted.

Even if they had no intention to suck more money out of people, at best their 'solution' would be so mindnumbingly and obviously inappropriate that somebody would have had to realize it wasn't a reasonable solution.
It seems weird to not only get rid of your hook (infinite storage - which they got rid of a while ago) and raising your prices for less product. And to boot, they aren't grandfathering anybody in.

I was a beta tester and at one point a paying customer. I left after they originally did away with infinite storage and the other cloud offerings became more attractive (Google Drive and One Drive). Visiting their website now makes it seem that they really want out of the consumer space and want to cater more to business/enterprise.

I personally don't hold out much hope they'll be around in a year or two.
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Cloud is almost universally antithetical to any form of privacy, content security, or exfiltration protection.
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Don't know if swift has erasure coding yet, but QFS[0] has it.

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I took the bait; it happens at the 12 minute mark.

Gates does an impressive job of staying sharp through incessant questioning. The opposing counsel has a job to do, but it's unpleasant to experience.
This is Dan (author of the article).

I agree in full with this comment. I actually never introduce myself as anything other than "a co-founder of reQwip" and when asked to print my role, I try to stick with that, occasionally allowing (when pressed) for "ceo" rather than the ALL CAPS version.

Which is very core to the point I wanted to make. This startup founding experience is not the glamorous joyride that many imagine based on the VentureBeat and TechCrunch and mainstream media articles that we love to read. This is a "shit, $5 for a beer?! ... maybe I will have water instead ..." lifestyle.

Startup life is an out and out hustle and grind. You find money to oxygenate the flame wherever you can. You think outside the box for unique ways to bring attention to your company that don't charge by the click. You recognize there is no script, you will never be on top of things, so just #JFDI.

And most importantly, you put your ego on the shelf. You identify what you suck at doing and add awesomely talented team members who can kick ass in those areas. You accept that kids half your age are probably already doing what you are doing and can do it better than you, so you work even harder to stay competitive (or you partner with them). And wherever and whenever a situation requires you to roll up your sleeves and do the hard and unsexy work necessary to keep going and growing, you do that unflinchingly.

I do the latter a lot, in no small part because my teammates are indeed better than me at almost everything. My job is just to block and tackle so they can do what they are so good at doing and shine as a result. Coffee bitch? That's me.

And yeah, those Uber rides help me pay for that coffee (as well as our marketing, ads, etc.). #JFDI
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I believe 7k is good enough money to put together a MVP if you know little bit of programming. Or talk to a programmer and convince him to work on this project on a 50% partnership along with 5k monetary compensation. I believe if you contact few programmers and clearly express your idea and where will it go in long term then somebody is going to help you. At least to build a MVP which you can test to see if it has any potential to go anywhere.