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> Are you suggesting that there aren't people in developing countries who know about these mistakes?!

Given your use of interrobang I guess you are offended by my earlier post, but I think you are reading something between the lines that I did not write.

You're citing an article that rails against "growth-mediated development" which has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm talking about, other than "are there economic means available to re-educate our teachers", which is also not something I'm talking about. I'm talking about how teachers teach. Your second source comes closer to this point but is more focused on the goals than the means.

I'm probably biased, being an educator myself who spends a lot of time trying to come up with better ways of teaching my classes, but how you are being taught is just as important as how long. And a lot of that depends on the ideas teachers have about how education works. We know a lot more know about how the mind learns than we did a hundred years ago, and what makes a good educator. For example, the need to be unconditionally respectful [0].

I'm not "suggesting that there aren't people in developing countries who know about these mistakes", I'm sharing my own observation that the majority of teachers I met in Ghana follow a model of how to educate children that is a century out of date.

So I'll just cite my finishing sentence again, emphasizing the delimiting part that you seem to have missed the first time:

> So in that sense I expect them to be able to catch up much quicker.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvgbvtxYRX4
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I love the ability to go get things... but from a multi-component perspective, go-get doesn't really work with our environment, specifically the notion of multiple deploy keys, private repositories or hyper-componentized go codebases.

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that just means you have the tools configured differently.

twitter can be a noisy firehose, and facebook can be delightfully refined.

take a look at two of my interest lists on facebook.

http://i.imgur.com/LRK7Wi9.png (the left column is this list http://i.imgur.com/BCkOXCN.png)

if you have noise problems it s because you follow noisy sources, which is true of both platforms.
From an efficiency standpoint, the only thing that matters is how you handle the high drain equipment. It doesn't make sense to worry about inefficiencies in your 5V phone charger because its power draw is trivial anyways.
> 97. Have Pixar make 3001, A Space Odyssey, with HAL replaced by a Mac.

Kinda like Wall-E's charge-cycle-complete boot sound and EVE's iPod-inspired design.
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This video[1] shows some simple exercises that target posture. YMMV but it seemed to help me.

[1] https://youtu.be/LT_dFRnmdGs
Check yourself into a hospital and get things started that way. The doctors, nurses and case workers will help you get everything setup for you and you will have the ability to get the required help right away.

But don't go down that road alone. let someone in your life know you are having these problems and are getting help. Being alone on that journey is difficult. The big thing is taking that risk with being vulnerable with someone.
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I think with tractors you need some heft so they have sufficient traction to pull the equipment behind them. Also with ten small units you have 10x the parts which can break down. But maybe there ate mitigating factors and maybe crops like beans could be planted with smaller tractors.
First, realize that "all your life" is not really that long if you're 20 years old. You've got a long ways to go and you will absolutely change over time, usually without even noticing it. You're in college right now, don't sweat it like this is going to be your whole life.

Second, I would suggest getting some different kinds of hobbies. Do a bunch of different kinds of things. One benefit of this is that if you know ahead of time you won't be good at them so it's easier to not hang your self worth on them. You'll also meet different kinds of people who aren't just CS people doing projects you can judge them on. Doing lots of different things also makes you a more interesting person.

Third, in terms of your programming; find more joy in the process and the trees instead of investing everything in the forest of The Project. If something turns out worse than you thought but you learned a lot, great.
I've done enough looking around in MC's code that I don't want to taint the project. Too bad, though.
Of course it works. It all depend on what the goals are. If the goal is to stop people from using drugs, that'll never work. But if it is to make a lot of money for some, it sure works.
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>Businesses should be able to fire someone for being under the influence of any mind-altering substance.

TIFU by drinking coffee in the morning...
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People who were legally in the US, were literally picked up off of American streets, blindfolded, put into secret CIA aircraft, flown to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Uzbekistan, and then tortured [0].

Yet not a single person has gone to jail over this. The CIA hasn't been reformed structurally, and no additional oversights have been added. In fact the only difference between then and now is we have a different administration in the White House who are just choosing not to continue it...

Does this not disturb anyone? Isn't this exactly the type of stuff people used to joke about the USSR/KGB doing? Since when did the US constitution only apply to citizens and not residence?

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Work is work. You are a human being, not a machine.

That code you output? It's meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Cherish what makes you human, not what makes you a good worker.

Do things that you love outside of work. They will be just as meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but they will matter to you. Base your self estime on those.

Work is there for one reason and one reason only. To get you money to do the things you like and to give you the means to cherish the people you love.

Bake a cake, share it with someone. It's just as meaningless as outputting code, but you made two people happy. The code you make at work? The only thing it's making happy is the wallet of someone.

If you love to code above all else, do code. But try to only base your self estime on personal projects. Work is work, and your workplace shouldn't be tied to your self worth.
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I got a book with lots of helpful diagrams.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979303605/

I found it to be immensely helpful, and my posture is now dramatically improved. The suggestions are clear and actionable. I'd try to explain them here, but honestly the book will do it way better.

I think that the key for me is to check in with my muscles. When my posture isn't right, I can feel it because the muscles on one side or another (or forward and backwards) of my spine or neck are slightly tense.

I've found that not everyone seems to be able to monitor whether a muscle is engaged or not, but if you can, that's a tell-tale sign that your posture isn't neutral. I learned this technique from many years of karate, honestly no idea if it's transferrable if you don't do any physical activity. I feel like it should be possible, but maybe 10% of people I've described it to can feel it.

Other thing that I know for sure is that physical activity will repair a lot of the damage you can do to your body. When I don't do karate for more than about three weeks, my lower back starts hurting (old injury). Regularly not just stretching it out, but working the muscles in those areas by rotating at the hips (in my case with karate punches) smoothly and repeatedly seems to get a lot of blood flow to the affected area, work out deep muscle spasms that are pulling my spine out of alignment, and basically smooths out the action of the joints in the spine. I'm not sure biking or running would help, but I bet swimming would. Needs to be a fairly full body exercise with rotation action around the axis of your spine I think... at least for lower back.
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There's one solution that the author didn't cover: Start treating self-signed certs as unencrypted. Then, deprecate http support over a multi-year phase out. That way, website owners who want to keep their status quo, can just add a self signed cert and their users will be none the wiser.

For https there are two major objectives. 1) Prevent MITM attacks. 2) Prevent snooping from passive monitoring. Self-signed certs can prevent #2, which the IETF has adopted as a Best Current Practice (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258). I'm much more in favor of trying to at least do one of the two objectives of https, rather than refusing to do anything until we are able to do both objectives.

Here's a proposed way of phasing this plan in over time:

1. Mid-2015: Start treating self signed certificates as unencrypted connections (i.e. stop showing a warning, but the UI would just show the globe icon, not the lock icon). This would allow website owners to choose to block passive surveillance without causing any cost to them or any problems for their users.

2. Late-2015: Switch the globe icon for http sites to a gray unlocked lock. The self signed certs would still be the globe icon. The would incentivize website owners to at least start blocking passive surveillance if they want to keep the same user experience as previous. Also, this new icon wouldn't be loud or intrusive to the user.

3. Late-2016: Change the unlocked icon for http sites to a yellow icon. Hopefully, by the end of 2016, Let's Encrypt has taken off and has a lot of frameworks like wordpress including tutorials on how to use it. This increased uptake of free authenticated https, plus the ability to still use self-signed certs for unauthenticated https (remember, this still blocks passive adversaries), would allow website owners enough alternative options to start switching to https. The yellow icon would push most over the edge.

4. Late-2017: Switch the unlocked icon for http to red. After a year of yellow, most websites should already have switched to https (authenticated or self-signed), so now it's time to drive the nail in the coffin and kill http on any production site with a red icon.

5. Late-2018: Show a warning for http sites. This experience would be similar to the self-signed cert experience now, where users have to manually choose to continue. Developers building websites would still be able to choose to continue to load their dev sites, but no production website would in their right mind choose to use http only.

Here's two relevant Bugzilla bugs:

Self-signed certificates are treated as errors: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431386

Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041087
I ended up sticking with the monetary payments on my DO referral account but I also earn credits (they don't offer cash) from Linode.

With Linode, I keep a small box there with my smaller sites and just let the credits pile up around it. I consider it a rainy day hosting fund, if anything I'm running blows up, I can scale up without worrying too much about the immediate economic impact.

If you're feeling a bit more altruistic, perhaps you could find some open source projects that need documentation mirrored or a not-for-profit that you could donate a droplet to?
That question has seriously bothered me too. OS threads are not a replacement as they are preemptive. The deprecation was way premature.
>people must be made to realise that the policies they vote for are killing people around the world

A failure of the so called "free press" that does not delve into the root causes of issues. When the news talks about going to war to "protect our interests", it is not explained what this means.

When a brutal dictator must be removed, it is not explained how they consolidated power so profusely and with whose help.

When the horrors of the Mexican cartels are shown (quite rarely for British news considering the death rate) the logical conclusions are not drawn.

And the average person does not ask questions, just consume what they are told

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Based on mainstream news outlets and using my parents as a base for my generalisations

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But the status quo must benefit some, otherwise it would be changed.
Good info. I have a different take on #2.

"2. The "billions of dollars spent on patents instead of hiring engineers" argument is a red herring. Firstly, these companies cannot find enough "good" engineers to hire, which is why they're lobbying for more H1s. "

They can't find enough good engineers at below market price.
If you could find a good engineer if you paid 1 million dollars, than the "market price" lies somewhere between what you are offering and 1 millions dollars i.e. the price at which you can purchase a commodity on the market.

If I can't find enough gold at $1000 an ounce I wouldn't be correct in saying that "I can't find gold". (The market now is ~$1200 oz.)
> How much is your power bill in summer? Must be $300+, going on 500 during the hottest months? At that rate, you'll make back the $20k + $10k that 10k Wp + 2 of these batteries would cost you in what, 5 to 7 years?

No, here in Houston we've got "deregulated" power in a completely reasonable way. One company owns the lines and handles recording the meters. They charge about $0.015/kWh for this. Then there are about 100 companies that offer electricity in a multitude of different ways. I'm paying $0.08/kWh delivered to my "door" so my worst months are only $150 or so.

Your idea is a nice one, except that I would need more panels and at least 2x the batteries/inverters. If I need 3kW CONSTANT to run the AC then 3kW PEAK doesn't do me any good.

> but that doesn't take away from the fact that with one extra of these units + 10k Wp of solar panels, you could power your AC's with power to spare to be stored in the battery pack

Not really. Look I know Tesla is awesome, and solar is awesome. I'm interested in both. But the economics really aren't here yet in Houston because of how cheap power is, because there's not a state owned utility screwing us bigtime. Houston has a lot of problems to be sure but power prices aren't one of them.

tl;dr Houston isn't California.
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You are planning to charge the thing overnight and use it exclusively during the day, nearly exhausting it each time?

The battery is going to wear out well before 10 years. If you oversize your battery so you are only pulling out half the charge in the battery[1], you can probably get 1500 cycles out of it[2]. That's still less than 5 years.

(This is a common pattern if you are trying to price-compare an electric car to a gas car. For the electric car, the electricity cost is a rounding error compared to the capital cost of the battery, so you can just about assume electricity is free, and worry instead about how long the battery will last.)

You will get a much bigger bang-for-the-buck by demand-shifting: if the biggest load is cooling your building in the heat of the day, run the A/C overnight to superchill a heat sink that can be accessed during the day. No battery installation needed.

[1] Toyota did this with the Prius. They purposefully did not use the full range of the battery because they wanted the battery to last 7+ years.

[2] http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li...
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I am an original backer at the machine level as well.

I don't really hold a grudge on this project but I can understand (to a certain extend) the people who do. If my memory serves me well, throughout the project they never mentioned that the founding engineer had left the company or any other of their most serious issues. The last status update was that they only needed UL certification and would be ready to ship the machines and then suddenly they reveal that the project is pure vaporware. Even after that, they promised an update 'in the next month' on fulfillment possibilities and it never came.
The failure is excusable and was always a risk but the dishonesty and almost total lack of transparence makes the rancor of some backers very understandable.
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Agreed. It read as if written by legal robots, far more interested in avoiding words that could possibly imply any sort of responsibility.
That is kind of like http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/community-of-licensees/
Mostly, I'm comfortable with the git CLI workflow (of course, I have often worked as a "lead" before, as well). However, we do use gitk at my current job to visualize the change history tree of a project.

Tools like gitk need a mode to auto-sync their visualization (BUT NOT your workspace) with the "origin", so you can quickly see what is going on in the outside world, as well as your own work, just like you would see in a centralized system. I wonder if gitk has a --show-origin flag or some such thing that I missed?

It's nice to be able to work off-line, but most of us at the end of the day are part of a work-group all trying to complete something together, and need to see the centralized view of project status/history.
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I think they're saying that the investment in peak capacity may be already made, whereas the returns on use are ongoing, so creating incentives to save electricity may not be valuable to the companies.

Don't know if that's their actual cost-structure, but it's plausible in the abstract.