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Weirdos are going to be weirdos. I'm not sure why we expect these characters to act like level-headed middle-class people when they've spent their life acting the opposite. Health typically ties to religious faith often and Jobs was a pretty faithful California-style Buddhist and naturalist. Or maybe Jobs didn't want to go under the knife unless he had to. Who really knows. I don't begrudge anyone who is afraid of surgery as it scares me as well, even "routine" ones.

This type of outsider judgement reminds me of the people who meet their favorite authors or other creatives and expect this Hollywood-esque falling in love scene, but in reality just get brushed off by an overly busy or overly neurotic creative person with poor social skills (how can you develop those wonderful social skills when you stare at a word processor or IDE 12+ hours a day obsessing over trivial details?). Every week there's a new AskReddit about, "Tell us which celebrity is really an asshole" full of stories of meeting someone you respected who didn't instantly become your best friend or spread his or her wealth out in an overly generous fashion to the help.

I find overly successful people are messed up in more than a few ways. Nice, balanced people don't usually engage in entrepreneurship or the arts. Or if they do, they're beaten down by the guy willing to burn himself out and destroy his family life to succeed. In an overly competitive society, the people who reach the top levels are half-crazy as wanting to get to that level is a half-crazy prospect in itself. Non-eccentrics just don't seem to break through.

This is currently a big struggle in my life. The next level for me financially is kinda risky, if not crazy. When do I tell myself to stop? When do I tell myself to be happy with what I have? The people in my life who are well-balanced and well-rounded don't seem to have this struggle. They're not obsessed with "making it" like I am. If I do "make it" I'm sure people will find me to be more than a little eccentric compared to the norm. Good or bad, that's just how I am and that's not going to change if mega-success comes my way. If anything, it'll just get worse.
Magic had a barebones page with no privacy policy too (and still does, surprisingly), yet thousands of people gave them their cell number.

That's not a good thing, but still.
Ecuador wouldn't be happy.

They did threaten to do this a few years ago.
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This is who I think of:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2665/4048198665_d9b03610c4.jpg

Which is Heimlich, the caterpillar, voiced by Joe Ranft.
> As worldly as jobs

#1 Anyone who is "worldly" cannot achieve the high success rate he achieved. His motto was "stay hungry, stay foolish".

#2 Jobs was buddhist but I dont remember where I got that info from.
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Related: https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/576389996019462144
But if a company has a high turnover rate with domestic hires, the added cost may become marginal compared to the cost of constantly hiring.
It's not erase(), it's begin(). It's going to do a linear scan of the hash table from the beginning to find the first non-empty cell.
"Earlier this week, we reported a glitch in Google Search, where clicking on a link after a search for Gmail listed someone’s email address, complete in a window ready to send them email. With today’s Gmail outage, that error — never fixed — has resulted in at least one person getting thousands of unwanted emails." http://searchengineland.com/google-search-error-gmail-mistak...

In 2004 user "Lonely" on the Movie Codec Forums posted a message with the title: "I am lonely will anyone speak to me.". Within days this thread became the number one result in Google for "I am lonely". 10 years later this thread has amassed over 20.000 replies. All from people who felt lonely and typed their mental state into Google. http://lounge.moviecodec.com/on-topic/i-am-lonely-will-anyon...

A Dutch politician responsible for investigating failed ICT government projects took to Twitter to deride Microsoft's support desk for calling him 10+ times a day from India. "Dear user, we will never call you and ask you for passwords. This was a criminal phishing attempt."
https://twitter.com/Juliedewidt/status/574887734608805888

Wolfenstein 3D had an easter egg in a secret room which said: "Call Apogee. Say Aardwolf". Hackers found these rooms through reverse-engineering so the entire easter egg phone campaign was scratched. This one Easter Egg somehow remained in the final product and for many years Apogee got these "Aardwolf"-calls. http://static.rookiemag.com/2013/03/1362676256wolfensteinpic...
You might be interested in the Isaacson biography. It's not really much of a surprise. Jobs has always been quite a bit out there. Even in the early days, he would go on all-apple or all-carrot diets. Heck, the name "Apple Computer" probably came about because of the apple-orchard/commune he went to all the time. He also reportedly was not a big fan of bathing for similarly esoteric reasons.

"Worldly" is not the adjective I would apply.
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"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%"

--Donald Knuth
@mitchty, I don't see how the Beagle probe relates unless parallel but different measurement systems caused that, and I'm not seeing anything to indicate this (but let me know if I'm missing something, I'm curious).
We spent a bit of time talking about about these "shingled drives" at the LSF/MM summit earlier in the week in Boston. Storage is becoming a more fascinating topic with so many technologies (SSDs, shingled disk, non-volatile memory) and so new open source solutions (Ceph, Luster).
> when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc

While it's known that Jobs used 'alternative medicine', it's unknown what he actually tried. It's possible he was using homeopathy, but it's also possible he was using an FDA-approved drug off label, using some drug still undergoing clinical trials, etc.
It's surprising (water is perceived to be scarce) because:

- oxygen just as readily binds to everything else, to form metal oxides (the well-known rust on Mars) or silicates (rock) or just CO2 (Venus)

- hydrogen is so light it readily escapes into space from anything smaller than Earth

- H2O as solid ice is common anyway, but not as liquid water, which is more relevant for potential habitability and life. The conditions for the liquid phase of water are a remarkably narrow area on the phase diagram. That we have found in few locations, and it's news when a new such place is discovered.
At some point, you don't want to fight any longer. It is easier to escape into make-believe beliefs. Even if you don't admit it to yourself. Hell, that's how religion managed to get so popular.
Indeed. It isn't always so simple. I'd prefer to always drive 100% perfectly with 100% awareness of speed, speed limits, road conditions, and so on. Unfortunately I err from time to time. Hence the 'if' in my statement.
"Caldwell, who is probably the world’s greatest free-climber"

2 names: Adam Ondra, Chris Sharma

1 level: 9b+ (or 5.15c for US)
This may sound a bit glib, but the reason it's so slow is because basically every Rubyist goes "Does anyone know why installing gems is so slow? What is this thing doing?" And then _takes a coffee break instead of figuring it out_.

There are very, very, very few people who actually do any work on core infrastructure projects. I don't blame them. The codebase of rubygems is... not exactly welcoming. I myself did some work a while back, got frustrated, and quit. But if you want the real reason, there it is.

Oh, and when you _do_ overcome all these barriers and then actually make an improvement, people will say "lol rubyists learning data structures" instead of saying "thank you for saving a bit of the most precious resource I have every single day, time."
Agreed. The "C/C++" designation is all too common. What I was getting at is that any experienced Objective-C programmer would also know C. C++ is an entirely different matter.
This sounds like a perfect example of bikeshedding.
> You sound like you think you're disagreeing, but you're not. The point is precisely that games can span a huge array of things, but AAA games are (almost) all trying to jam themselves into the same small "cinematic" bit of the space, basically literally at all costs. AAA games are absolutely staggeringly absurdly expensive for what gets ever closer and closer to a movie.

How much of that is a product of circular reasoning, though? What is a "AAA game"? Is Civ 5? Are the games in the Total War series? Is this a case where, because of perception, in order to be considered AAA a game needs to reach for the "cinematic"?
+1, except those people are NOT "messed up".

They think different. They think selfless. And they think there needs to be better ways of doing things.

Herbal organic treatment was one way of possibly doing it better and Jobs tried it.
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I recently played The Cave from Double Fine. It's a kind of attempt to create modern kind of classic adventure. You still have fun story, items and need to use them properly, but UX is more fun than clicking the mouse all around.
A system could be worked out that reduces that inequity - A tiered system like income tax would be easy to apply.

A system that charges based on a fixed, high percentage of your income above a certain threshold (e.g. the living wage) would ensure that offenders lose most of their disposable income for a period, regardless of their wealth, and that they don't risk eviction and starvation, regardless of poverty.

Of course, if, due to your lack of spare cash, you're stuck in your mansion, swimming in your own pool, and unable to replenish your comprehensive cellar of fine wines as you drink through them (until your fine expires), it's still not as much of an impact as being stuck in your flat, unable to buy admission to the municipal pool or buy a single can of Special Brew; but it's fairer than a flat percentage, which in turn is fairer than a flat penalty.
> You wouldn't be an expert computer scientist. You'd be a junior developer, probably.

+1
If find it funny when a tutorial is targeted at experienced developers but then on slide 6 it defines the term 'variable'.
Balance your personal & professional life - too difficult right now for us.
Yeah after witchcraft had failed.
Ah yes, David Eagleman. You can see him talk about his research in video-lecture form here:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/11/08/...

(among other time-related talks)
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I know this is old, but I still have to ask. Are you talking about machine learning and artificial intelligence?
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The point being that his particular failure could've possibly been avoided if we were not using two parallel measurement systems...
Unless you know of someone who lives forever, yes it is.

Getting another second is all the live-saving we have.
Could very well be the style guide at work here. If I had to write an article for public consumption, I would avoid techy acronyms as well.
How does it compare to Om?

edit: Found this write-up http://getprismatic.com/story/1405451329953
I really hope that Santa Barbara gets its act together on desalination as we are solely reliant on rainfall catchment in three area reservoirs. We have a desalination plant which ran in the 80's for a couple months until the rain came again, but is now in need of major repairs.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-santa-barbara-...

Apparently water bills would rise by some 30% (from $78 to $108 for average usage), but that seems like a low cost to pay for living in an area so susceptible to draught. After all, we already have a desal plant so we clearly know how bad it can be.

EDIT: We are solely reliant on rainfall catchment unless you are wealthy enough to have water trucked in to water your lawn :)
Indeed, I'm 36 and have a little baby daughter (3.5 months), the article opens your eyes and make you aware of what you have makes you fill small and fragile, in a good way.
I'd recommend an American Scientist subscription to everyone with an interest in science and engineering.

It occupies a kind of middle ground by being both engagingly written and substantive in content: not dry like Nature or Science, but not simplistic and sensationalist like Discover or Scientific American.
My position on "computer science is math": http://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928276
Does anyone else think NASA should reconsider their plans for a manned mission to Mars? With Europe, Ceres, Enceladus, Ganymede and many more promising moons out there it seems kind of a waste to spend time, effort and capital in Mars now.
If you live in the US, it's pretty much standard to use considering that Epic, VistA, GE, and MEDITECH are all based on it.
I usually buy/order sugary drinks and beer by the ounce or pint.

Other than 1 and 2 liter bottles of pop, I can't really think of any time I would buy pop or beer using the metric system.
Spinning rust can fail all at once too. When ssds die of write endurance they loudly complain long before they actually lose data.
vegatables, and fruit to a lesser extend, is much cheaper than junk food. Why isn't that encouraging healthy eating?

I believe junk food is like smoking. Everyone knows it's not a healthy choise, but they do it anyways. People are choosing to eat unhealthy food because they want to, it tastes good.
You mention spain, is the Spanish Internet Party[1] using DemocracyOS? Are you considering incorporating Liquid Democracy features/ideas into DemocracyOS? They have an open source Rails app aimed at this idea[2] that I was very excited about/helped out on... curious how you see Liquid Democracy's problems/potential

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_%28Spainw%29
[2]https://github.com/PartidoDeInternet/AgoraOnRails
Put physical stress on your body for too long and it will take damage. Why should the same principle not apply to your mind?
I was inspired by Braid, Fez and Limbo to create a puzzle platformer myself because I really enjoyed playing such games and there aren't many challenging games of that type around. I started developing about 5 months ago, learned how to draw pixel graphics in the process, and will have a free playable demo (about 2hrs of gameplay) out in a couple of days. If you're interested, watch my twitter profile and/or blog, where I'll announce when it's ready.
Rails jobs seem to dominate all the remote programming jobs too as far as I can see.

Learn Java they said....
How to integrate with Epic (or any EHR)
> old textmate themes

I really wish the people working on Textmate right now would do SOMETHING to indicate on the homepage that Textmate is now open source, free, and actively developed on Github. Instead, they leave the Textmate 1.0 homepage up and people think it's an archaic, dead editor :(

1st Google result ( years out of date ): http://macromates.com/

2nd Google result ( actually the current project ): https://github.com/textmate/textmate
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I am a member of the IEEE Computer society (and not the ACM) precisely because IEEE opposes H-1B expansion. This is not necessarily a "litmus" test for me, but it is a sign that the IEEE is sticking up for engineers and not the financiers of tech industry.
I think it's good to see this outside of an employer-managed context. It avoids the problem of someone being afraid to use a service because they assume their boss will get a report even if it's supposed to be anonymous.
Reagent is still very early in its development but so far much simple to use than Om ...
The first part of that is true, but they are the ones who are least likely to seek help, and the most likely to be at DjangoCon. This is why we are addressing young men in particular.
> However I'd laugh at anyone who suggest metric is better because people inherently internalise it better

I disagree. Once you've been taught a base ten counting system, units that change based on orders of magnitude is very easy to understand. Since almost everyone has a base ten counting system internalized, metric is MUCH easier.
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I wonder where Apple would be today / a year from now if he were still around. Would anything major be different?
Roman Polanski serves a good example of the US pursuing someone accused of rape internationally with no statute of limitations. Of course Roman has son implicit support in Hollywood, being a famous director and all, but that has not stopped their efforts to apprehend him.
I don't think I've heard anyone at all call it an "Integrated Developer Environment", instead of "Integrated Development Environment".
Actually, the Irish musician was eventually extradited to Sweden and prosecuted.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article17836961.ab

It seems that in that case, the prosecutor initially dismissed the case as a drunken brawl on a ferry to Finland, and did not want to bother. Then there was some publicity and it was evident that it was a case of actual bodily harm.

In a manner somewhat similar to Assange, the Irish musician evaded court sessions in Sweden by going to Portugal, but unlike Assange, did not seek asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in Lisbon, and was returned to Sweden to stand trial.
> Ceph isn't ready for production

DreamHost would beg to differ. They've been using it for their DreamObject[1] for few years. Granted that they have have better visibility earlier because Sage Weil, but I've seen Ceph deployment for production in the wild since mid-2014.

[1] https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/
Welcome! It's something I was working on for a while.
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"Steve only yelled at me four or five times during the 13 years I knew him." am I the only one who think being yelled at by your boss is... a bad thing? Like, at all.
I think it's based on columns from men's magazines where readers send questions to a relationship, sex, or dating expert, and get them answered in the next issue. The premise is this: "Hey, you're a clueless _guy_ and I'm a _girl_. You have questions about girls, and I am obviously qualified to answer them because I am also a girl and I have a modern + sexy + feminine name like Alexis."
Personally, I'd define the difference as being whether or not you ultimately die of the same incidence of the same disease you're treating, or of something else.

If you're treated for brain cancer and you live some more years but ultimately die of that brain cancer, it's life extending. If you're treated for brain cancer and die of an unrelated heart condition, it's life saving. I don't know how meaningful that difference ultimately is, but I think that's how I'd use the terms.
Perhaps it's not what you do, but the quality of how you do it. If you do the same thing every day mindlessly or in a rote fashion, then time passes quickly. If you are attentive to the moments of doing, even the same thing every day can feel fresh and new.
Except the linked list implementation was added to the project in 2013[1], and is presumably used elsewhere in the program. This only fixes a couple of bugs using that same mechanism.

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/800f2e63bc6174b5b4...
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/rand-paul-mets-...

> Rand has previously said all of the country's illegal immigrants should receive work permits and mentioned that he did not vote for the Senate's comprehensive amnesty bill because it did not award enough high-tech visas.
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I feel the same way. A few years ago I became convinced that any well known brand name toothpaste was doing more damage to my teeth than help. I switched to using clay based tooth pastes as well as some other powders, and sometimes Ill take some tea spoons of cod liver oil. I grew up with cavities every visit and now it seems like going to the dentist is pointless. They tell me my teeth look great and I must be brushing and stuff, but really I just don't eat much sugar and brush my teeth with toothpaste that is edible, floss occasionally. I think dropping the listerine was the hardest part and also the most helpful. But ultimately it just makes sense in my own mind to brush with a paste that won't poison me if consumed.
> the shaX functions do that perfectly.

The SHA-2 family (namely SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) are good candidates, and probably SHA-3 too. Let's stop recommending and start phasing out SHA-1 (and definitely never use SHA-0); nobody's demonstrated a collision yet, but it could well be coming. SHA-1 has been deprecated by NIST since 2010; new applications shouldn't use it.
A hedge fund wants an exclusive on our algorithm. Any pointers?
We've never had an experience with a hedge fund or exclusive licensing for that matter. They want to incorporate our algorithm exclusively based on the back tested historical performance. An exclusive seems fair if we take them up on their offer of 12% of net. If anyone has any pointers feel free to send them this way. Thanks.
And companies can only find those skill abroad? And not by - say - offering local graduates lower starter pay but extra training?

When everyone is talking about how hard it is to predict hiring outcomes, it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that this problem magically disappears for prospects who happen to be from other countries.
It has a HUGE impact.

The MMM lifestyle is something like 25-30k to live.

If you make 50k.. you can save at most 20-25k, taking (10-15 years to retire, would need to do math).

if you make 200k, you can save 150-175k, reaching retirement in 2-3 years.

The "higher income -> higher lifestyle" is a myth MMM tries hard to dispel. You don't NEED newer cars because you make more money. You don't NEED a bigger house. Sure you can choose those things...
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Beer and soda bottled or canned for individual servings still use imperial units (12oz/16oz/20oz). Oddly, water bottled for such has mostly moved over to metric. Keg beer also still uses imperial.
This is an interesting comment because Alexis is historically a gender-neutral name: http://www.behindthename.com/name/alexis
A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and time
> Precious few indies are gracious enough to share their numbers but it's curious to me because the games continue to be made.

Like other forms of media content, games are not only made for financial reasons. Some people just love making games.

In fact, the rise of "Early Access" and crowdfunding seems to provide a platform for what could probably best be described as "exploratory" game development.
Tell her that it is her spirit animal. A pretty cool list of features to have for your spirit animal!
Over the past few days since launching Lisdin in beta, and being submitted to hackernews we've got # of responses; mostly ideas of gibberish and few form submissions asking questions, "What is this?", "Requesting Access", etc. In summary, Lisdin is working on a sticky, to bring value, to the users... Also they need help to spread the word, "Lisdin: Life is Short, Do It Now!". Come help the movement.
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