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Ask HN: What keeps you from burning out?
Let's face it, nobody can code every minute of their lives without burning out too fast. What kind of stuff do you promote at the office / home office that keeps you motivated, loose, and happy?

We're setting up the office space now, and we're committed to making it as fun as possible from the start, to help offset all the stress that is sure to come. Given a budget and space restraints of course ;)

Here's our table / setup so far: http://post.ly/AkcX
If I were designing html5 I would have removed a bunch of redundant tags instead of adding new ones.
That review is wrong.... Android 2.0 supports multitouch
Thank you for the suggestion. Dishonesty is definitely a much bigger factor to be considered.
A reasonable voice and messaging plan with unlimited data is somewhere around $70 or $80 in the US. Unlimited voice and messaging will cost you.
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The topic will become more interesting as you understanding more about divorce lawyer. divorce lawyer is not an exception to this rule, as you will find while you continue to read this article.
There's feedback in the comments now from the users of Safari Books Online and responses from Tim O'Reilly. Tim is surprised at the hatred the site is getting for it's Print Fidelity feature.
This is a very good news. I've been using Unity for a few months and frustrated to adjust my clock to an earlier date to get more evaluation days :-)

Unity is a high quality and very practical product. I'm using it to develop an iPhone game. New features with this release seem good, like version control support, better C# integration and optimizations.
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Interesting excerpt. But isn't Murdoch actually something of an "upstart" in media, who himself has been viewed as corrupting the journalistic standards of yesterday?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch#Beginnings
Well, obviously Dilbert is an extreme caricature of what happens in most offices, but the comic in and of itself is not a good emissary for the software engineering profession. It unfortunately may have unconsciously biased many people away from jobs in industry.
Culture (Not Just Genes) Drives Evolution
Software assigns them randomly. But if you want me to delete your application just let me know.
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Also, images for all the text? Really?
Spam of the Future
In 'A Plan For Spam', PG talks about how the spam of the future will have to be decidedly unspammy to get past bayesian filters.

I think I just got one:

"Am Vincent Cheng, GBS, JP Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.I have a sensitive, confidential brief and I ask for your partnership in.Get back to me for more information."

It has amazingly good grammar (for a spam message).

Of course, the from/reply-to still gives it away:

from: Vincent Cheng <ctruitt79@sbcglobal.net>
reply-to: chengmr.vincent65@yahoo.com.hk
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It's interesting that when people criticize what you do, you state that it's a forum for opinions. When I express an opinion, you call it gratuitous.

Give what I wrote another read. I wasn't suggesting that you say what people want to hear. I was suggesting that you say what you need to say in the most effective way possible given your goals. Telling people stuff they don't want to hear is a pretty common necessity. Standing your ground is important. I'm telling you that I think you probably did a disservice to your partners by doing what you did the way you did it. As one of the people who could actually review your app, I would think that'd be useful feedback. From the other folks who responded with incredulity, I don't think my opinion is unique, but I guess you can feel free to disregard it.
Sounds like XKCD
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>No, not really. Apples and oranges.

No, they come down to almost the same thing. If God is both good and omnipotent, it's obvious that evil should only exist if it is logically necessary for some amount of evil to exist in order for the maximum amount of good to exist. (God's omnipotence doesn't allow him to do things which are _logically_ impossible, such as creating a square circles, so if some degree of evil is a logically necessary corollary of maximal good, it follows that the best world that God can possibly make must still contain some evil.)

> You really can't imagine various gods for whom the question of evil arises in any interesting way?

It only arises in an interesting way for the kind of God I mentioned, so far as I can see. Can you suggest another kind of God for whom it arises? If God is not 100% omnipotent, we can put down the existence of evil to his inability to fix it. If he's not 100% good, we don't expect the world to be 100% good in the first place. I suppose you could argue that the world is in some sense "too evil" to have been created by a God who is (say) only 99% good, and pose the problem of evil in that way for a non-maximally-good God (and similarly for a non-maximally-potent God); but that seems like a pretty uninteresting variant. I think it is a fairly accurate historical statement that the problem of evil is really one that only came to be posed with the advent of monotheistic religions, which all have a broadly similar conception of god.

In any case, what would it matter if the problem of evil arose for other kinds of god? It would not make the hypothetical questions any less interesting. At the very least, it's a cute way of framing questions about good, evil and various kinds of necessity.
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Tumblr link (same content) if you prefer a white background and Disqus commenting (although as of this post, there have been some problems with Disqus comments getting through): http://hikkikomori.tumblr.com/post/226658450

QUOTE:

"I will also try to post this link in several social media sites so for those who are reading this that are not Hikikomori or do not care for the English-speaking Hikikomori community, my apologies for blogspamming in your favorite sites. I just felt this issue was serious enough to "report" as to keep future Hikikomoris from (possibly) being associated with a spammer."
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Forgot to add blogspam.

I am the author of this blog and I am submitting this here.
I would also like to do this for one off events. The important thing for us is the ability to view the event metric across property values (intersecting segments):

{"google/organic":"widgets"}

vs

{"google/organic":"sprockets"}
But not me

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+-+2+%2B+3+-+4+%2B+5+-.... .
Ooc: low-level / high-level goodness Obviously Over Cool Language
Charming perception. I'm just going to ignore the OT bit as a troll, mmm-k?
The Taj Mahal is wonder, one of the most beautiful things in a country filled with beautiful things. It stays on the logo, period, your distorted perceptions of our history notwithstanding.
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I think the best thing you can do is focus on results and not the clock. If someone wants to take 2 days off in the middle of nowhere, or work odd hours, they should, as long as they eventually produce as much as they're supposed to.

A "fun" workplace may not actually be, since it seeks to turn the office into the new home. People should actually go home in order to feel the most at home.
Adding a '+' to the end, before the '..' makes it work again, maybe it needs an operand and the '..' to show that it is an infinite series, maybe !

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+-+2+%2B+3+-+4+%2B+5+-....
Why stop at the American Midwest? I'm fairly certain that there's no "inherent virtue" in Africa. Oh, and let's add China too. India maybe. Everyone should just come to America. Yes, you Canadians playing peekaboo in the corner too.

The Midwest and its way of life depended on a technology and an industry that is not anymore experiencing growth. This could happen in coastal cities tomorrow too. Trying to adapt your town to meet the needs of a modern economy is, I think, a much nobler cause than letting it wither and die because it lacks some sort of abstract "inherent virtue" thing.

I'm pretty sure there's no "inherent virtue" in having kids anymore either. I mean think about it, kids increase net environmental impact by humans. :|
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Had a little cognitive dissonance when I noticed that the status is "accepted" for that attribute value.
Where's "arch-nemesis"?
My favourite (home-)office 'things':

* big punching bag. (this is a must have!)

* place to be alone (toilet does not count!)

* working hammock (as homer suggested) probably a big sofa is ok too

* a kitchen

* my brother works for a company where they have breakfast together every Friday.

and since I visited your website, I would like to have a fish-tank. :)
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I've used Open Office in the past and advocated it to my friends but I hypocritically use Office.
The ribbon for all it's criticism seems to be highly functional, aesthetically pleasing and usable (using pictorial representations that aren't 16x16).
There's a "Save as XPS/PDF" plugin for Office as well, no one has mentioned which works fine.
I only use LaTeX for technical documents with a lot of math, but the Office equation editor does the job nicely with a few quirks here and there though.
My only qualm is the lack of ligatures and kerning in Office, which will hopefully be added in '10.
> Why stop at the American Midwest? I'm fairly certain that there's no "inherent virtue" in Africa. Oh, and let's add China too. India maybe. Everyone should just come to America. Yes, you Canadians playing peekaboo in the corner too.

D'oh, I upvoted your comment before I read the whole thing. After spending time in provincial China, yes, I agree that the people living with miserable quality of life on subsistence farming should move to Chengdu, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, or one of the developed places in the rest of Asia or the West. Haven't been to Africa but I imagine it's similar.

Most of the valuable and useful things happening in the world right now depend more on working with other people than natural resources or lots of space. If you like it as a preference, go right ahead for it. But speaking in terms of individual success and progress, or as advancement as humanity/society-at-large, yes, generally speaking we ought to migrate to where there's other smart people we can work with. So I agree with the first part of your semi-sarcastic comment because I missed the sarcasm, though I disagree a bit with the rest of it.
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Also doesn't Verizon have 5 times the 3G coverage of AT&T? I saw it in a commercial, so it must be true.

Hopefully this forces Apple to up the ante.
I think BillShrink did a comparison here too:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/6...
I was working on a little side startup that used crowdsourcing to help ID songs, I was just getting into researching how programs like shazam and midomi worked until I killed the project. His paper and the way it works is quite nice, but it's not perfect for other rare music and songs without elements that really stand out(frequencies or otherwise like house music). Thanks for the link!
I voted up the article because I think it'd be fun to discuss, but I think its premises and conclusions are off. Let's start with this one:

> Achievers score well on SATs and imbibe the poisonous assumption that success can be measured by the distance one travels from home.

People who've traveled far from where they originated have been highly respected through almost all of history. Even in extremely anti-immigration/xenophobic places like Tokugawa Japan 1600-1850, travelers were always highly respected and sought after.

There's a number of reasons for this. People who successfully migrate are looked upon as strong and healthy, because it's hard to move away from your support network. They have valuable different perspectives and understanding of culture, organizations, and technology. In sex and marriage, someone from further away reduces the chance of inbreeding and lets the dominant (usually more robust) characteristics from both parents take over, leading to more likely healthy and strong children.

People from New York are more respected in Los Angeles than in NYC. People from California are more respected in New York than in Los Angeles. Migrating does take guts and it is hard, but by living in different places you get multiple perspectives on how the world runs. And yes, quite literally the further you go, the more diverse, varied, and valuable your alternative perspectives are likely to be.

> Thus to achieve is to leave—shaking off the dust of a hick town and migrating to exotic locales with "diverse cuisine and more varied shopping."

He missed the biggest part of leaving to an urban place - a variety of ideas. Someone who is highly intelligent starts to question society - but if everyone, literally everyone in a town of 3,000 belongs to the First Baptist Congregation, and you're starting to have thoughts like - how come the Bible contradicts itself? How come it advocates enslaving your enemies? Genocide? Religious wars? Well, these are interesting conversations to have, even if you remain Christian. But you can't even have that conversation in many places where everyone is conformist. Sure, New York probably has a better mix of restaurants than Iowa, but that's not why smart people leave. It's because there's a better mix of ideas, simply by there being more ideas that you can find someone to talk about with. If you're intelligent, you begin to question things other people take for granted. If you live somewhere where people don't appreciate having their core values questioned, then you have to leave to keep growing intellectually. So the intelligent people leave. It's not some rabid consumerism.
A similar, though less automated and small scale, variant of this scheme was discussed some time ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511935
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The stickers had symbolic value. The fact that you acknowledged my feedback with something more than an automated thank you email was what left a lasting impression.

The reddit alien was my first bumper sticker. At some point I thought about what made me put it on my car and I realized that the flattering human acknowledgment I received to the feedback made me feel like I was responsible for a tiny bit of all that was good with Reddit.

I have since used this approach (it's almost insulting to call it a tactic) to my own advantage with my startup. So thank you, for what the stickers taught me :)

If I had met you at a party and you had given me some free Reddit stickers it would not have meant as much.
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Reading Hacker News and not being made feel guilty :-)
This is at the same time really cool and horrific.
I tried to find out how, but there was too much filler to find the reason in under a few minutes.
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Ramanujan is well known.
Just BTW: Regarding the time to prepare the article itself, it's standard practice for companies to send press releases to magazines/articles that are already ready for publication as is. It makes sense: they will benefit massively from the publicity, and they have the best access to the material. Who knows, in this case they may even have included the "too slick" passage for verisimilitude (with an ironic wink). Most probably, wired did extra work, and just used the press release as a base. I'm just saying that that base reduces the work they had to do.

In the long term, quality will improve, in tiny marginal steps. The company already talks about that extra $1 for fact checking; but if another company is doing the same thing, and starts ranking higher, there will be pressure to increase quality. (That is, assuming the ad-clicks are worth fighting for...)

It occurs to me that Google's pagerank is out of date: today, few people will add a link to their webpage/blog to one of these $20 videos, so pagerank can't rank them using links. (this isn't a danger to google; and their algorithm already uses many factors other than links). It would be a valuable to rank them somehow, using the behaviour of users. How to do that?
As I understand it, the mathematics approach is for finding questions, and I don't think there is something inherently nightmarish about that. It's the quality of the answer that matters. I don't know, I just watched the "What is the best vodka?" video, and being an amateur in this area, I actually found it quite useful.
Punching bag is cool, helps promote health too! Good suggestion.

Glad you took a look at the blog, the fish tank is currently in my house, but if budget permits, I'd like to set one up in the office area too. Saltwater reefs are ridiculously soothing to watch and take care of.

breakfast together sounds like a fun idea =) do they go out somewhere? make it there? cater it?
that's definitely a good point. balance between real life and work is a must, rather than trying to keep people only at the office. I like the foosball table because it lets everyone step away from work and do something together that's fun and totally different than what they were just doing before.
OK, there's no 'hate', 'kill', 'restraining order'. Is Web 2.0 becoming too goody-good for its own good?
Ramanujan was also mentioned in "Good Will Hunting". However I do agree that Indians have done a bad in terms of Marketing our selves.

Our brand image over some time has been:
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Now: Bangalore(Outsourcing) & Spicy Food
YES ! Open Office has been my only office package for over two years now. Use it mostly on Ubuntu but also on a spare Windows XP notebook. No problems sharing files between the two environments. Send documents, etc to others in PDF. Have struck some compatability issues reading Office 2007 files, but so do Office 2003, etc users. I just ask people to SaveAs in an older version.

I have tried Office 2007 out of curiosity, for me it was less of a transition effort to go to OO than to get used to MSO'07.

For publication quality writing I use Lyx and Latex. Lets me concentrate on the content and not futz with styles, etc.
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I would think that for touch typists (those that avoid the mouse) Latex is more productive that Office. The typesetting is far superior.
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'I really can't think of a good reason for small towns to exist any longer'

I found this post really insensitive. But it's good, because it made me realize that I've been insensitive in a similar way without knowing it.

My brother and I grew up in a rural town of 6,000 in the Midwest. He went off to Harvard and is now a doctor on the West Coast and I went off to Stanford and now run a business in China. We visit home on the holidays. So you can say the article struck a personal note - I'd never read about the pattern before (though I was intuitively aware of it) and knowing that I'm contributing to it leaves me with a sense of melancholy.

The point that you miss, jballanc, is that these are communities of living people - each with its own tiny culture. There are problems with these places that I don't know how to solve, but their gradual decay is sad in the same way that the destruction of cultures all over the world is sad.

I have to thank you, though. As a foreigner in China whose invested a lot of time in mastering Mandarin, I've come to strongly believe that the elimination of the other Chinese dialects and the traditional character set is a very favorable thing. I've probably said, at some point or another, that I 'really couldn't think of a good reason for the traditional character set to exist anymore'. Until now, I've never been able to fully understand why, for example, some Taiwanese Americans get so upset about the gradual decline of their character set. When speaking to them about the issue, I must have come off as insensitive as you do to me. In the future, I will change my behavior.
I'm on your side, but to answer your first question.. yes, that's how it runs in many communities. In some English countries it's called the tall-poppy syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome - in Scandanavian it's the Jante Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law

The US has a much stronger recent history of personal ambition and "go-getting" - which is why European incomes tend to have a smaller gamut and the US has a big gulf between rich and poor. Good thing or not? I think the US has it right, to be honest, but there can certainly be cultural expectations not to get "too big for your boots."
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Trying to be conscious of feeling like I am burning (out). If I can be conscious of that feeling, I am able to detach to a certain degree. This enables me to go a hell of a lot further. I guess simply being aware that I may be burning out helps me find perspective.
Sounds like the main thing they did was to emphasize that no previous programming experience was needed to study CS there.
I believe Pratchett calls it "the Crab Bucket" in his latest book. Even amongst European cultures, or any small-community culture anywhere, the ones that actually sit down and think about what it all actually amounts to quickly start feeling a bit of wanderlust, I suspect...
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Another vote for "SPIN Selling", good one asher!

Remember, if they don't have a need or don't have the money, no amount of persuasion is going to make you a profit. Difficult customers will bleed you on support, complaints, etc. At the end of the day, Sales is a Numbers Game, understand your sales funnel and cycle. If you can optimise it ... great, otherwise just keep filling the funnel.
If you count him as unknown then you might as well count just about every other Mathematician other than Newton as an unknown as well.
(Hmm, maybe we need a form with "Just a flesh wound" or "I'm feeling better!" options.)

Or at the very least, a "pining for the fjords" checkbox...
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