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If everyone smart could spend 10 years and hit it with startups, then, well, things would look a lot different and no one would choose a normal job until their 40s, and nearly everyone would have made it with a startup and be wealthy. That's obviously not reality so the 10 years = success thing is just a wrong idea. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you, and it could even be pure luck!

If you've been at work every day for that long, a: cut back the hours and b: go disconnect. Take a week or a month or whatever, and just don't connect to the Internet. (It gets easier after ~3 days.) Reflect on things.

Another trick I've used is to go consulting for a bit. Work on somebody else's stuff, deal with their problems, collect cash. Importantly: Get a job where you're not shouldering the cognitive burden of their business (so, not a CTO role, or Lead Technical Architect Designer Whatever). Look for a more 9-5 thing.

Eventually you'll start feeling the urge to go do your own thing and switch back.
All waffle-words that serve to reinforce Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Without doubt, there are far more important things to worry about that earnest botanists trying to make better plants to feed the world.
The last one with the IBM logo was the X60.
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Why/how do browsers allow sites to query the list of installed addons? That seems like it should very much be opt-in behaviour, that an addon would need to explicitly inject functionality to be discovered.
bad UX is all sorts of icons that i have no idea what they mean. i can't even google what it does. otoh, if i didn't know what, for example, rm -rf does, i can google it.
Regarding build quality, check this:http://imgur.com/rqVgisL

Thats my W540, sans plastic covers. The inners are solid magnesium.
"If psychiatry aspires to be scientific, on a par with other branches of medicine, how can it be content with this peculiar practice of delineating the outlines of a disease by a drug treatment?"

Sigh, there is plenty of scientific evidence of a biological basis of ADHD, i.e. genetic and neuroimaging studies:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22306277
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE

Of course, we don't know what is causing these differences, and false positives are a real problem, but the misinformation in this article is very irresponsible
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It's not a disease, it's a disorder. Big difference. One is a cause, the other (edited) is a collection of symptoms with unclear origin, but which happen together enough to be their own thing. It's pretty likely different people acquire dysfunction from different circumstances, whether traumatic, epigenetic, genetic, or whatever else interacts with brain development.

But to your point, and without going into a bunch of personal info, I doubt it. There were plenty of issues and deficits that I can't imagine being appropriate in any setting.

Moreover, ADHD has been acknowledged for a long, long time. The term is modern, but the disorder is not. It was minimal brain damage, IIRC, prior to ADHD, and had a bunch of increasingly archaic terms as you go back.

You have to understand, the popular view of ADHD--stereotypical hyperactivity and scatterbrained behavior--yeah, those are part of it, but they're not the whole. The cluster of symptoms mimics prefrontal cortex damage. Executive function is responsible for a whole lot of stuff.

If you're willing to acknowledge that mental disability exists in general, and that there's a line where we say, OK, that person is impaired, then it's not a huge jump to understand that it can exist in specific physical areas too. When it affects executive function to whatever degree you're going to draw that line, that's ADHD.
Reminds me of my experiences playing Ace of Spades before it got bought out. One time we just randomly had a ceasefire on the server. An embassy was built half green and half blue, halfway between the two sides. We built a night club and bar in the basement and everything was strangely peaceful. Unbeknown to us, one rogue player dug all around the embassy until there was just one block holding it all up at which point he collapsed the whole thing leaving a gaping hole. Within moments the fighting started up again and that strange magical moment was gone.

An experience like that is one you can't script and it is richer as a result.
It's relatively simple, if you're the kind of person who grasps that 1+1*0 is not 0 under most parsers and under the order of operations implied by e.g. the vector space axioms...
It's a vacation home that looks fairly secluded, has big windows and nice furniture. Am I just too paranoid? This seems like the sort of thing that's due for an inevitable burglary. That's one attraction to me of the cargo container homes, despite the terrible aesthetic. If you need to go on an extended trip, you can just throw a cargo lock on the front door and be done with it.
Here's PyCon2015 talk on how to call Rust from Python: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA
Yup. The flight from my city to Houston is on an ERJ145, and is nearly 3 hours. Its absolutely ridiculous.

737's are increasingly becoming used for transcons (USA + South America/Carribean/Hawaii), while the 752's that are still in operation are used for Transatlantic flights.
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My hypothesis, which I am not doing the best job of working in harmony with, is that the effort that's gonna have the most positive impact is proactive thinking and experimentation around both hastening and potentiating/spreading but also _planning for_ a post-scarce economy and society

My cynical view is that hardline capitalism operates on a faulty assumption of unlimited opportunity and unlimited growth. I believe that between population growth and accelerating automation, that barring a major casualty event such as a large-scale pandemic, the number of people will eventually outnumber the number of useful jobs that legitimately need doing. (or that worse the resource burn to sustain the model will undermine its feasibility and that of "good life" in general).

To this end, I think we need good minds figuring out how a world works in which people are less busy and own less. I don't know how that works but I think it involves education, maybe art, and also probably a greater popularization of mindfulness and contentment-first thinking.

This isn't to say there aren't big "hard" problems to tackle as well. In my eyes they are mostly the resource-management ones:

- Alternative energy
- Waste management and improved recycling tech
- Space exploration?

And probably too the health ones, though population age bolstering is a real double edged sword:

- cancer treatment
- antibiotic alternatives (in the face of resistance)
- better, more pleasant contraception?

I also have strong beliefs in the inherent good of technologies that can improve large scale understanding and communication:

- machine translation (accounting for cultural factors too)
- software for sensemaking and fair/just governance
- more far-afield: neuro-analysis and possibly "telepathy" tech

... and yet for some reason I work on the infrastructure for a marketing platform :-/
Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight
Great, I wonder if this is also cause of related Cron's disease and Colitis ulcerosa.
Imagine how cool it would be if I could share a guid for my repo - and then your bit client (let's call it gitcoin, or maybe just bit) can fetch new commits from a distributed block chain (essentially the git log). Github is no longer an intermediary or a single point of failure. Private repo? Don't share the guid.
You're welcome to do that. That's assuming you have the power to press a key and duplicate data that comprises a home and materialize it for your use. I'll even throw in a housewarming gift basket and a helping hand.

The unethical people in these equations are the ones who try to bend the world to their whims of "intellectual" order. They see no problem with violence on human beings over literal duplication of information. Economically speaking, a lesser degree of unethical behavior surrounds only people who duplicate data who would have paid for said content. A minority of content spreads worldwide on that basis. Hundreds of millions of teenagers and adults getting online can barely afford an internet connection if even a personal computer. Meanwhile, the amount of content and producers exponentially increases. They are not "completely unethical" for taking part in fleeting, frivolous entertainment -- the vast amount of it they wouldn't deem worthy to purchase in place of other choices. Everyone's situation is different. Rarely in the human condition is something "completely unethical", especially in the context of data and non-violent actions. Streaming services like Spotify are a good start. They respect the nature of information more. They try to appeal to hearts and minds. That's healthy.

Then there are industries where net positives exist along with piracy. Growing the size of a user/fan base becomes an added dependency of future success. Industry sets adoption. Adoption sets industry. Piracy by individuals is tolerated or even internally respected, while only the piracy of moderate and large businesses is targeted. The world, for instance, was awash with Windows cracks and serials in the 90s and early 2000s, having a tremendous impact globally on people who couldn't afford it or who wouldn't buy it. In the absence of such piracy, such as by a hypothetical corporate-fascist state putting people to death or by magical DRM, Linux would be in millions of more households by now.
>What does it say on the blank first page of the Zappos employee manual?

All employees are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Yes I signed up for a free course that has techniques about selling eproducts
Unless I a missing something this is just for relational databases.

The term database can encompass pretty much everything from CSV files to in memory distributed grids.
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Yes, one of the more depressing things I did recently was level up a new character in WoD after having not played since pre-Cataclysm, basically. Going back and soloing instances that I remember grinding for months and months, encounters I remember working out for the first time with my guildmates (no videos or strategy guides!), bonds I made and the sense of achievement we all had at the end... totally destroyed by a fifteen second punch to the face by my brand new level 100 character. Though I wanted the gear for nostalgia's sake, it wasn't worth the heartache.

It felt a little like going back to college a couple of years after graduating, where a layer of nostalgia wasn't enough to disguise how much I, and the place itself, had changed. (Because college, like WoW, is a lot more about the people for me than the physical buildings.)
Yes, but the standard crates don't really use any of the glibc specific Stuff. I found it not too difficult when I ported Rust to use `newlibc`, for use with PNaCl. I have even managed to build a PNaCl version of `rustc` itself.
Happy to see this side is getting attention!
Nowadays I only stay late if I'm troubleshooting a production issue.

Otherwise, I just take notes of where I am, what I was thinking, and finish the next day.
I use swarm, and the reason I use it is timehop.

The ambient social networking is a side benefit, that ramped up following my adoption of foursquare, and is slowly tailing off as everyone drops swarm. It's nice as a source of real time recommendations from people you trust, and as a source of small talk, however it's not that important to me. But tracking myself from a year ago is generally rewarding.
I really didn't expect so my replies from my half drunken post! Thank you for all the kind advise.

A lot of people seem to be pointing out that I'm still young and that there are lots people in similar positions to me who have been failing for a long time.

I know I'm still young, and I know it's not easy to build a successful startup, but I think that's missing the point. I am still relatively young, but I won't be as young in 10 years. And what if I keep failing for another 10 years? Or even another 10 after that? Do I really want to spend 20, or 30, years of my life in a job I don't enjoy that much for a dream that may never happen?

Don't get me wrong. All I really want from life is to build something I'm proud of. I don't care much for cars, houses and holidays. They're nice, but I'd give up any chance of having them if I could build something that fills me with passion everyday I wake up. It's just, I can't guarantee that the time I put into having those things will actually get me anywhere. I mean, I've already gambled 10 years unsuccessfully so far.

I really relate to what nacrikt said:

> I'm thinking about leaving tech, as a profession, because professionally it turns everything I love into a thing to loath. And going back to the slower pace of living, without fear of failure or success, just living intentionally and taking every day and every moment for what it is.

After 10 years of nothing, I feel like cutting my loses and living life a little slower for a while might not be so bad.
OP didn't say how much he was making though, I expect it's more a free trip to Starbucks every week rather than sipping mai tais on a beach.
Not the OP, but the best way to deal with wash sale rules is to never sell at a loss. :) Other options would be

1) close out all positions around december and wait 31 days (and until the next year) to open positions again.

2) There's a mark-to-market election you could use to be not subject to wash sale rules, this seems like a complicated topic, but is probably worth investigating.

3) In line with always sell for a gain, you may be able to structure bitcoin lots like you would stock lots, and sell specific lots to avoid many wash sales.
one wonders what the difference between "delete" and "modify" is...
Taking only graphic porn into consideration is a bias; women consume 'porn' in the form of romance novels.

"By and large, men prefer images and graphic sex sites; women prefer erotic stories and romance sites." - http://rescuefreedom.org/parallax/wp-content/uploads/2015/01...
Or are people just not understanding what the word "almost" means? It means "I'm using this unrealistic comparison to make a point."

It doesn't generally mean that though, in what I would think to be the popularly understood context of what you were saying, you were claiming they were very close, not that it was an unrealistic comparison of things far apart from one another.

If you said "I would almost rather die than have my hand cut off", and seemed completely sincere about it, most people would think you were an idiot.
I'm not sure if I can agree with that. In my 10 years of development, I encountered only one company whose tech side had to work under such conditions.

Any other time, it was a rarity, maybe like 3-4 days a year in case of emergencies. And this includes CTOs.
You could just grew out of it. I had asthma since 3 years old, till around 19 I had attacks very often, and a few times each year I had to be hospitalized. Since then it become much less of a problem, and I had not needed to be in hospital for 10 years already. No change in meds (except since few years I only get them when I have attack and it's very rare - a dozen times a year maybe).

I've heard it's often the case for others (but you still need to have spirometria every few years to check nothing's going wrong).

On the other hand I got colitis ulcerosa at around that time when asthma stopped being a problem..
How would you go about achieving #3?
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Without more information about iCEO, this reads like a late April Fools joke. Interesting topic, though.
Via /r/adhd:

>"In her book she advocates a "gluten free diet" and makes the repeated claims that "big pharma" are pushing these drugs on kids, who are simply a bit "different""

I don't know about you, but IMO if a person is advocating against gluten to cure ADHD, they probably aren't worth listening to on anything.

If you want to have an informed opinion on ADHD, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo
Oh, that's so sad!
3 is sage wisdom. Reminds me of Andy Rachleffs excellent advice. Do you think 3 is worth it if 70 hour weeks are mandatory and the tech chosen is clearly inferior? Hmm...
The westernized aspect has absolutely nothing to do with having an impact or not. The east / west thing is bullshit, nothing more. If someone tells you that you can't have an impact because of western culture, they're merely looking to prey on naivety or ignorance to further their own irrational agenda or bias.

To have a meaningful impact, you need a platform / vehicle. It's what all people have in common that have made a positive difference throughout history.

You can do it by inventing something new that makes life better (easier, healthier, more fulfilling, etc). Imagine how much time and effort things like refrigeration save us today, and how much better that makes ~2 billion lives. If you save someone an hour per day with an invention like that, you've just given them more life in real terms - time with their children, time in which they can make a difference, or just spare them hardship.

You can make a lot of money and put that to good use. Even though it's a wildly unpopular thing to say, Bill Gates will have a drastically greater positive impact on the welfare of humanity than Mother Teresa (or people like that). Drastically is understating things too much.

You can - try - to make a difference through politics. This is extraordinarily challenging, and can usually only have maximum impact at times of desperation and chaos. That's when people are open to new messages (good or bad).

You can make your platform an idea. Whether that's civil rights, or universal suffrage, or liberty, or privacy, etc. Then you have to choose how to go about furthering it, whether through an organization, or writing on your own, or a dozen other options.

Bottom line, you must have a lever. Your platform / vehicle is at its core a system of leverage, ideally. Meaning, it's something that other people too will care about, because it's important. If it is, then they will contribute energy into amplifying the reach and impact of that platform. You don't get very far on your own, build systems that other people will get behind and readily lift higher.
The dynamic range limitations that slide film has and early color negative film had during the last century is a technology limitation.

The progression of film development is toward more dynamic range, finer grain, greater speed (sensitivity to light), and to truer color and color fastness. If Kodak, or any other film maker were able to make a color film which could capture the wide dynamic range of skin tones, it's likely they would have. The benefits of a wider dynamic range have implications that even if the thesis of this article were true, would have driven the marketplace to adopt this better film. Greater dynamic range is a generally desirable feature.

Film, as a technology, is limited. What I would consider to be a more interesting discussion, would be to address the decisions made by photographers that resulted in the underexposure of non-white skin tones.

I'm fully willing to believe that a photographer took a photo of a group of people of mixed races, exposed the image such that the white people were properly exposed and called it a day, simply because in their estimation the proper exposure of the black faces was unimportant. I can also believe that this happened quite a lot. This can seem rather passive, on the part of the photographer, who can claim that film just can't capture the dynamic range, rather than taking the time and effort to light the people properly, or other measures necessary.

One could also argue that 18% gray, as the default for exposure metering, prioritized the white face over the black one.

The substance of the argument that film is racist, could be rooted in these sociological issues, in the choices that were made by individuals everywhere, their assumptions and their decisions about who mattered.
The T61 was the first laptop I bought and it completely put me off of Lenovo. Complete piece of shit -- broke multiple times even after I had them repair it and I even waited like 4 months for my order to arrive because they had some sort of manufacturing problems.
Another typo:

TimeBlock helps Makers and Managers plan and use their time more [effectively] while improving communication and happiness.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't the primary argument against Tor routers simply that it's a really bad idea to send all your traffic through Tor? You certainly don't want to be sending logins, banking data, etc., through some unknown exit node. I mean, presumably you can configure the router to only use the network for some traffic, but then what do you gain over using the Tor Browser bundle?
Well, yes. Dubai is the Emirates hub. Europe-Australasia is one reason Dubai makes sense as a hub location. In fact one of the (few) redeeming features of travelling to Europe from Australasia is the large number of countries that are about half way, meaning a lot of airline/stopover options.
I agree. One of the things I love about PvE is the ability to feel powerful, properly powerful. Unfortunately, that can be at odds with competitive PvE, so it's unsurprising that the two goals can affect one another.
Oh nice. I want to develop Android app on .NET!
>It's not a disease, it's a disorder. Big difference. One is a cause, the other is a collection of symptoms that are frequently observed together, and which cause an issue.

I'm not able to tell the difference about which one you are talking about even after reading your definition. Maybe there isn't much of a difference after all?
Indeed. Still needs to be fixed.
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If it's distributed then I don't think private repos would be possible, unless they were encrypted.
The hints at the bottom recommend using scapy (along with a few other libraries).
still looking for solution using RDF/OWL logical reasoning...

the python solution is neat, but i have a feeling that there are tools that are more native to these kind of problems than general purpose programming language.
Hmm, it doesn't move at all for me. (I'm on Windows using the default driver.)