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You are your own worst enemy.

[edit] After reading my post again it seems pretty scatter-brained, I guess that's appropriate in some way.

Back in 2011 I decided that I would teach myself all this great computer science stuff and work in information security. Apart from the fact that security in itself is an advanced topic, I had given myself a very long-term goal without realizing it.

It wasn't until a few months of research that I realized how truly enormous computer science as a topic really was. The moment I realized this I remember sitting back in my chair and thinking "fuck". So, I started with fundamentals and went from there. Thus far I've learned enough to hold my own and have the confidence that I can make it in information security once I get there.

I can't tell you how many articles, blog posts, and comment threads I read about being productive. Books I've put on my list to read and am currently reading (about 4 right now) is virtually always growing. It wasn't until the last month or so that I realized a pattern in my behavior; I will focus intensely on one thing for a variable period of time and then lose interest in it.

A few tactics against myself that have proven useful:

- Blocks all websites that waste my time between the hours of 0800-2200.

- Uninstall all games and their respective clients (done this many times).

- Keep work/studies on screen/desk 24/7; the idea here is to have to stare at what you're supposed to be doing right now, as you do not do it.

I still procrastinate terribly and go around my own countermeasures on a regular basis, but I've improved nonetheless. Hang tough buddy, you're only fighting yourself so identify your weaknesses and exploit them.
If our enemies don't have antiaircraft capabilities that can beat it, it's not obsolete. So long we're fighting countries that use salvaged soviet weapons, we won't have a problem. We're not going up against China any to e soon.
Open sourcing some code means making it available under a license. That's it. No further promises are made by you.

So you're free to add a notice that you won't maintain it and that people are free to fork it and maintain it under another name.

Or you could maintain it if you think it's good for your career and/or you simply enjoy doing it.
And nobody credited da Vinci.
to expand, since Dividends are taxed immediately, you can only reinvest the nontaxed portion, whereas with buybacks, you effectively reinvest the entirely amount and can have better compound returns.

Also, some people will need dividends for cash flow needs.
Is "gender activists" the new phrase to use when insulting strawman (strawwoman?) feminists?
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Haha, yeah when I saw the stock photos of the Tina Fey lookalike and the hipster bearded IT manager, I said "okay, um this part of the site doesn't appear to be targeted at me".
SpaceX as of right now only has medium class rockets which is aimed at space station resupply. The Space Launch System that Boeing uses to carry the Orion is a heavy lift class. The difference is in carrying capacity. Think star destroyer and super star destroyer.
To be specific, magit enables a couple of incredibly useful workflows, like the "what changes have I made that are outstanding? review them, jump to the file in question to gain additional context if confused, stage individual changes and THEN commit" workflow (a compelling way to review your work for bits you'd forget with commit -a and far more convenient than git add -p), the "darnit, I just lost my place in the code again -- I know, I'll find it in the diff and jump to the line" workflow, and a number of other interactive repository history-viewing workflows.

The functionality provided by magit and a couple clever hotkeys to find code and run tests have proven in my own experience to be excellent foundations for developer productivity in any medium-to-large sized codebase.
Indeed. Additionally if you loose interest in the project you can also see if someone who contributes back would be interested in taking over the project as well.
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>> * Can consumers and producers look into the queue, or is it totally opaque?

> Not sure what this means..sorry..

I'm definitely an amateur on this topic, but I suppose he talks about privacy issues. If you're delivering secrets you don't want that every actor can read the messages of all the others.
That's a bit like saying the road-makers must take responsibility for the bank-robbers driving away to safety.
similar to the readability bookmarklet here:

https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

for example: if an rdio page is already open, click the bookmarklet to see all the other services
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Over four years have gone by since this post was written and there are now a number of other options for working with Clojure. For example, Counter Clockwise adds Clojure support to Eclipse and Light Table is an editor built from the ground up (in ClojureScript) that adheres more closely to modern UI idioms.

You can see which development environments are most popular in the 2014 State of Clojure survey results [0]. It's interesting to note that Emacs is still by far the most popular.

[0] https://cognitect.wufoo.com/reports/state-of-clojure-2014-re...
I agree, the focus of the article seemed to shift halfway through from "man, what an unfortunate name collision" to "uber needs a phone line."

I do appreciate companies that take a stand for "their way" of doing things, especially when it narrows their focus. You don't have to do everything conventional in order to be successful.
You have to read the link:

"On 4 October 1999, a Su-25 was shot down by a MANPADS during a reconnaissance mission over the village of Tolstoy-Yurt killing its pilot. The wings of the aircraft were put on a pedestal in the central square in Grozny."
I've given it a whole day to ponder and I apologize for calling this article out. The article was really bad in my opinion (not just disagreeable, but poorly argued), but it should have just remained my opinion. I don't care who wrote this, frankly, I never read bios anyways. It would however, prevented me from blathering on about why I thought this article was written.

I would suggest more editing in the future, not to change messages, but in the way that we always need other people to read our work to provide some external perspective.
I would just put that clearly and prominently in the readme.

"Released open source in case this code is useful to you, but there will be no support, no further releases, no bugfixes, and no response to issues. If you find this code useful and would like to modify it, please feel free to fork it."

[I forget if Github lets you turn off 'Issues' entirely, but if it does, do so.]

This way people know what they're getting into when they use the code. You have no _obligation_ to do anything, and it's better to share the code as examples for others trying to do the same thing than to keep it private because you don't want to support it.

But people may assume the code is supported, and regardless of what they assume, they can make a better decision on whether to use it or not (and use it how), if they know it's unsupported, and it is the right thing to do to let them know up front. If I found useful code, but knew it was 'abandonware', I might or might not choose to use it anyway, but that knowledge would effect my decision.

If you have code that you released without making that clear, and _have_ been supporting half-heartedly anyway (setting some expectations), well, contrary to what I predict will be the HN consensus, I think you do have some responsibility to your users. But you still aren't trapped forever in indentured servitude. Wind it down gracefully, maybe find someone else to take it over (have you accepted a pull request from anyone ever? if so, that person is a good candidate :) ), maybe keep responding to issues for a little while after you make the announcement that it will soon be abandonware. Or if you're completely burned out on it and just don't have time, then stop cold turkey if you have to, but post in the README what you're doing. (Don't delete the repo, that would be very rude to current users).
I am sorry but this seems like complete left wing rethoric bullshit. I can pick data too.
In the meanwhile, conservatives have "experts" like Anthony Watts to come and say that not only are we not in a horrible drought[0], but that our recent showers[1] are proof that the alarm over the drought is just part of the global warming conspiracy[2].

So, if you were wondering how conservatives in good conscience can oppose efforts to deal with climate change, here's one of the reasons. They have their own experts from a bizarre alternate universe, where they start with the same data but conclude that everything is opposite.

[0]http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/worst-drought-in-calif...
[1]http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/04/the-perfect-storm-cali...
[2]http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/23/people-starting-to-ask...
One could argue that if an editor needs it's own stackexchange it's somewhere in between being too complex and being self aware...
A friend and I were discussing the Brave New World and 1984 once. We took it for granted that our world resembles one of these dystopias, if not both. She summarized there difference in terms of access: Orwell's universe depended on a restriction of information to keep its citizens ignorant of the very concept of justice; Huxley's world was flooded with information (but only just enough) and so people couldn't sort the important from the pleasurable.

It seemed like our world was looking more like Huxley's. There is so much crap in cyberspace that justice is hidden from view (but its out there...).

But the what-seems-like-de-facto centralization of mainstream internet makes Orwell's fantasy seem all too real. That China uses "strategic, timely" censorship is only one side of the coin. Surveillance too, whether from browser cookies or 'telescreens,' is driving us towards an even deeper conflation of these two nightmares.
There's some footage of the upgrades that they have done here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YktOuoqA-I&feature=youtu.be...

It's quite an interesting documentary in general on the A10s role. "Grunts of the Air." Made by the air force then shelved.
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Uh, what about Qualified Dividends?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
lol you know, unless were on HN where people know about the hosts file :P

I kid. It still works, although I use rescuetime now and it's pretty useful seeing how much time you waste on certain things. Costs money though.
I thought it was fairly common etiquette on HN to actually provide footnotes[0].

[0] like this
Time to fire up DOSBox and play some more A-10 Tank Killer?

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/a-10-tank-killer-v1-5-12w
very cool! thanks for the link!
it is overloading your brain because they are not essential, need to know information that you are forcing down your own throat.

If the information is not urgent enough for you to know at that moment then it's not worth it. As time passes so does the value of the information.

This is entirely controllable and one must stop falling to the prey of information greed.
good information - if you have any links to share id love to see them.
I love this app!!! Amazing design, fun and simple!
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I don't think you should keep your opinions to yourself. However, when you present your opinions with sarcasm and ad hominem attacks, you are bringing down the conversation to a level that is not conducive to any meaningful discussions. I don't think that was your intention, but I do think it was the result.
You can, but you most likely get some modular drone...
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Thank you for writing this. I wish I could upvote you more than once.

This is a very accurate way of describing him.

He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that actually tried to understand him in good faith.

These hacks (in the pejorative sense) also had a penchant for using math sounding language because in their sociopathic minds it lended credibility and gravitas to their speech.

Nothing but contempt for charlatans like him. Some excerpts to give a taste.

>The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, is not a center. It is the very concept of variability-it is, finally, the concept of the game. In other words, it is not the concept of something—of a center starting from which an observer could master the field—but the very concept of the game which, after all, I was trying to elaborate.

> This differential topology [topique différantielle] adjourns, guardian after guardian, within the polarity of high and low, far and near (fort/da), now and later. The same topology without its own place, the same atopology [atopique], the same madness defers the law as the nothing that forbids itself and the neuter that annuls oppositions.

The man is glorified poorly trained Markov chain.
Actually magit is the second most downloaded package from MELPA.

Thanks. I didn't know MELPA had download counts, now I do. But there is nothing in `list-packages' that hints at this, really, it's just a list of packages.

It's kinda hard to miss it.

The person who wrote the article managed this easily enough. Emacs packages also interact with each other (e.g., completion minor modes and language major modes, things like flycheck). I still think there's a fair amount of uncertainty about what packages one should install, and that projects like https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude are really helpful in this regard.
If you don't plan to maintain your code what you did is not "open sourcing": it is merely a source code "release". "Open source" means "welcome", if you don't mean it, don't say it.

If you are tired of maintaining your old project just put a tar.gz of the last stable release up on your own site and let it die or be used. Or, at the very least, disable GitHub's issue tracker.
You can turn off issues and wikis on github repositories and force people to file pull requests to fix issues if you'd like.
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it comes down to this: you should be training like you are gonna have to fight (i.e. in real world you won't always have the luxury of having suppression assets perfectly positioned.

and yes, I am blowing a little shit at my brothers in the air wing side of the house but, everything in the Marine Corps exists to support the infantry (that's why MC pilots wear cammo covers on their helmets), and frankly I was disappointed at the time they didn't have a go at it...
More resources for a quick start:

http://emacs.sexy

brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick
You can hand it off to other people to maintain if it's something you don't want to do.

Other people can fork it if they are unsatisfied with what you're doing.

Please don't allow it to cause you any stress! Many quiet users are just grateful that devs release stuff.
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I liked the piece, but "formidable" feels like the wrong word to me. This piece is about becoming more "impressive to seed stage investors in silicon valley", not becoming more "capable and relentless, plowing through everything in your way", which is closer to what I think PG was talking about and what I aspire to.

This piece does nothing to help you pass the "animal" test, in other words, which is what the title makes it sound like.
You're thinking of the terrible "photoshop effect" style tone mapping you often see, like [this monstrosity](http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs38/i/2008/313/2/6/Paris___Eiffe...).

Obviously it isn't all like that. But when it's done well you shouldn't notice. Probably every time you notice tone mapping it is a bad example so you think all tone mapping is bad.

The examples near the end of the woman driving, and exiting the tunnel were pretty amazing examples.
Normally, I admire Chomsky, but this seems like a version of "if you won't educate me, how can I learn": http://www.derailingfordummies.com/derail-using-education/

Put in plain words, the point of Derrida is "there's no such thing as plain words". So the task which Noam Chomsky is setting before deconstructionists is not only onerous and a waste of their time, it is -- fundamentally, according to deconstructionist thought -- impossible.

It's like trying to grok zen. You either get it or you don't.
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Glad to see the A10s going. I'm involved with helping raising money for the refugees in Iraq and it seemed a shame that tens of thousands of people had to flee their homes when a few A10s shooting at ISISs vehicles could have prevented much of that.
Another German chiming in: Please stop using foreign words. I won't buy the keyboard and label everyone that does as .. weird. I would never enter a contract with a company that thinks the word über is cool (it is not) but is unable to write it ('schade').

Just.. don't. Occasional German references in English contexts are usually cringeworthy. Uber is ridiculous from this particular point of view, just because their name is absolutely useless. Unless you're trying to make the xth Nazi reference and think that German sounding bull.,.. might so the trick, please reconsider. The shop in this article at least knew then spelling and had a decent explanation. The other (HN loved) company is just... sad. I would suport the real über if they offer a way. Uber? Ridiculous, even before this article. But hey, who cares about the language you steal your laughable name from, right?
"Offtime" does a reasonable job for Android.
>but perhaps it can remind us that nothing we do can guarantee a long and healthy life.

Except advances in biotech...or at least I'm drastically hoping so.
yes, there are scenarios where you are limited by the terrain, bad guys, etc w.r.t. routes from the IP to target, and the only way to get suppression onto the necessary locations is shooting over the IP to target route.

A10 pilots are bit of a different breed and I didn't have to ask twice to get them to do it they were pretty game.

granted this was right after we got back from first gulf-war and so for those of us that had been there this was just run of the mill stuff. i don't know if things are more safety focused now, probably are...
Open sourcing does not imply future maintenance. That's why everyone should evaluate the state of a project before starting to use it.
Meditate every day. Start with 2 minutes and work your way up to 20 minutes.

The book, "Mindfulness in Plain English" is a great place to start.

Good luck!
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The essay writer really doesn't seem to comprehend the decision Uber is making, or the reasons behind it. It's the model Google used to build Adwords, scalability by refusing to implement anything that requires massive call centers, not the Comcast model of trying to minimize the cost of having hundreds of thousands of employees.

Uber should work with this woman to take action to avoid an externality of their business model: the harm of her getting spammed by Uber customers. But that has nothing to do with implementing phone support.

(Maybe a number for Uber support that leads to an automated prompt, "We don't have phone support, please email us?")
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I disagree. It's certainly still 'open sourcing' if it's released under an open source license.

But some people (like you) will assume by default that it is supported. So be clear in your README that it ain't. I think we should start popularizing the term 'abandonware' here -- some code starts out as abandonware, but other code becomes so when the authors lose interest. We all know that using abandonware is 'riskier' to your project long-term than using supported open source, and many of us find ourselves depending on abandonware that used to be supported, and looking for alternatives. So it goes.

And especially for 'abandonware', I think it's actually much better to put it in a github repo than as a .tar.gz. One of the main uses for born-abandoned open source would be to look at the source code as an example and copy-paste from it, and a github repo makes those sorts of uses a lot easier in several ways than a .tar.gz.
No, you are not. But it boils down to what you advertise.

Perhaps declare in readme that project is unmantained and disable Issues on such project (no emails). Also declare how much hours/month you are willing to put into maintenance. And finally use separate email for OS activity, public email generates a lot of spam (viagra etc)

I actually build my living around one such abandoned project. Original idea was great, but it needed some TLC to make it usable.
I have tried mindfulness. I get really agitated really quickly because I am not doing something actively. I then stopped. Is that all normal?
> The truth is that the Air Force doesn't want the plane

I'm not disputing the truth of this (as their actions seem to agree with you), but what do you think motivates the air force to want to get rid of such a successful platform?
If you release it under an open source license, you've open sourced it. Nothing changes if you do so with the intention of never touching it again.
I was having trouble with Leechblock until I realized I could redirect the page to something like a static image. I often find myself blinking and staring at a Leechblocked result without quite knowing how I got there, particularly from the middle of a flow state. (I'll be hacking on something and randomly open browser, ctrl+l, "reddit.com" without conscious thought.)

I change up the image every few days but I try to have it point to something like the recent Orion launch or a trip photo from the Portland Hikers Field Guide. Instead of redirecting to Google's homepage (which is what I did at first), seeing the image gives me positive reinforcement to pause and be more mindful about what I'm doing, where my head is at, etc.

It's been an enormous help in instilling my habit to stay focused.
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The title of this blog-post is Emacs isn't for everyone". Another posts on the same blog is charmingly titled "Emacs undying hatred" (http://briancarper.net/blog/290/emacs-undying-hatred ). Just putting two and two together here, I'd come to the reluctant conclusion that emacs is not for brian carper (the blogger).
Sometimes though I'll see an article about a very interesting topic. I really do want to read it but then I see it's many pages long so I'll set it to read later and then I never read it or at least don't for a while.

You're right about the value of the info. There are times I'll go back and then just delete it because I don't value it anymore.
This is how you fuel the HN addict.
> Stock buybacks are mostly a tax dodge. But that's not the full reason for their popularity. For stockholders, they're no better than dividends.

Aren't they better for stockholders as well?

Suppose I have 1 share of stock, and I will sell it two years from now.

If the company pays out dividends, won't those be taxed as income at my marginal rate? Whereas if the company does a stock buy back, then two years down the road the marginal value that would have been paid out in dividends is now captured in the stock price. So instead of paying the marginal rate, I pay capital gains on that amount.

I might be missing something, but it seems like a tax dodge that benefits all (except the government).
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