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I suffered from a major depression some years ago, and with "major" I mean a condition where I used to have panic attacks everytime I left my house. It was painful and took me a very long time (2 years in the middle of my twenties), but in the end I made it.

Some random advices based on my own experience that helped me feel better and bow out of depression (please consider that I am not a doctor):

0) You are not alone, so you don't have to feel alone; talk to people that you won't feel judged by (the internet is great for this, and so are the therapists) and spit out everything

1) As you pointed out, medications can alter somehow your ability to focus, particularly on the first days. I lived my depression as a condition where I hadn't really too much control over myself, so I decided not to take any med because I didn't want them to take control over myself: you probably want to do the same

2) Day by day, write down simple todo lists, and try to complete all items. These lists will help you distinguishing days by their completed items and reacquire the awareness of time. Additionally, there is always a little bit of satisfaction in completing things you were supposed to complete, and we all need that!

3) Your job pays your bills, work hard but don't forget that you're only in it for the money, your life is something else, somewhere else

4) When you feel you're at the lowest mood, don't question if you deserve to be alive or not, rather smile and think that one day you will be fine again. If you didn't deserve to be alive, you would be probably already dead so let that bad bad thought go away

5) Don't be ashamed of your current condition but at the same time try not to get into the collective imaginary as 'that depressed guy'; there's nothing wrong about being depressed, but the last thing you want to deal with now is people's pity. I occasionally run into people that knew about my condition and I can still clearly see that 'oh, poor guy :-(' look on their faces: a bit frustrating to be honest!

6) From time to time during the day, for several days, give your mood a rating, write it down, then look for patterns and ask yourself why, at some point, your mood was increasing or decreasing. You have no idea how this helped me

7) Read this two parts post [1, 2]

8) As you sense you're starting feeling a little bit better, that is the time you should ride the wave and get yourself out of it, no fear, no look back: you made it

[1] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.it/2011/10/adventures-in-d...

[2] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.it/2013/05/depression-part...
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In some legislations this is exactly what happens: you're not granted any rights you didn't explicitly pay for. I don't think that this is a bad thing -- it errs on the side of the naive contractor, rather than the naive employer.
How does it compare to Shen? http://www.shenlanguage.org/
Failing that, his main page promotes the iOS app FRAX. Any opinions/experience about it?
This reminds me of an epiphany I had at my first programming job at a major bank:

If you want to work in software, try to go for companies whose main product is software.

These are the companies that will take software quality seriously because their bottom line depends on it.

These are the companies that will constantly try to improve their craft by exploring new technologies because it helps them maintain their competitive advantage.

These are the companies that will truly value talented software engineers because they have the potential to make a positive impact in the products that define the company.

If the company's focus is on anything other than software, whatever you're working on becomes a means to another, more important end. Your work then becomes that much less valuable, and you, that much more replaceable, to the company because they're only looking for the bare minimum functionality out of the software you develop to enable whatever it is the company does that really brings home the bacon.

I realize this is probably an over-generalization, and exceptions will definitely exist, but so far from my experiences in job searching, this seems to hold in an overwhelming majority of cases.
> Digital voice services, which are basically VoIP

You say that as if things like GR-303 and ISDN BRIs/PRIs don't exist. The only thing that isn't digital about modern, non-IP phone networks is the last mile when you order an analog loop.

> properly differentiate between calls and data, so calls on these networks are going to be much more reliable than simply leasing a SIP trunk.

In theory, sure. As I said though, in my experience the vast majority of these routes tend to fall behind their circuit switched counterparts in performance even on carrier grade routes.
Then why do so many people go to tanning salons? It's a signal you had time for leisure, you could spend time at the beach, you didn't have to work. So its not tanness itself people are attracted to but what it signals. In Asia, its the opposite, being pale, means you don't have to do manual labor, work the fields, so people look to seem paler so as to appear of higher classes.
First, sorry you're in pain!

Depression is psychologically being trapped in a prediction we feel we can't turn around. Financial, romantic, lifestyle and other elements play a role in the lack of powerlessness you feel. Either of these things may be significant enough to make every breath harder.

The way to fight depression is to empower yourself and give you more options to flourish.

If you're determined antidepressants are what you need - SSRI's are something we really don't know about. When you mixin meds into the equation, you're ceding your emotions to someone else, mixing in complicated medicine into your own personal growth narrative could sidetrack you for years from finding what your core problems are.
I'm absolutely thinking of "The Big Lebowski". Source/clip of the scene in question below. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYOzUHnPJvU
Very nice analysis of the policy implications of NYT's amazing visualizations: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/4/8546709/moving-to-opportunity
Do you mean the man and woman? pp 163+ (eg 164, 165) - the series shows a man in a hole with what appears to be a sharpened club or an unusual short sword. The man is fighting against a woman who bears a length of cloth with a weight in the end (perhaps a stocking with a stone in). The man and woman are in a small arena and wear white tabards/surcoats decorated with the St.George cross.
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It's certainly an advanced skill compared to taking a Facebook quiz, but I think it clarifies the assumptions people have about young people, that they know all the computer things because they grew up using them. That's really not the case.

If you want an alternative metric, something like 1 in 3 entering freshmen don't know what the BCC feature does in email. We know that pretty much everyone uses email daily (despite what they tell parents and teachers), so it cannot be that immersion alone leads to proficiency, or that proficiency cannot be learned as an adult.

If you want to rate candidates by skill, by all means do so, just don't go the extra discriminatory step of saying old people by definition cannot pass your measurement, and that young people by definition do.
This seems to be more about thinking about timing of a project. What has changed since this project failed that could make it successful today.
They don't own the raw materials. In programming there rarely are raw materials in that sense. The comparison is silly.

Under US law commissioned works may "belong" to the commissioner. Under German law, for example, they don't, unless that's explicitly part of the contract.

If anything, software is comparable to other commissioned works like art, literature or architecture.
One possibility is to keep the current publishing model but add an additional "meta" layer in a central repository to indicate the relations between the contributions of each paper.

The repository should be independent of an individual journal or academic field so that multidisciplinary collaboration would be easier and more visible. If designed well, cross-pollination of ideas between fields may multiply.

Each node in the dependency graph should not represent an entire paper, but a chunk of contribution (knowledge, information, or experimental data), with an option to delve deeper to see its source code/raw data. A hierarchy of compositional structures can represent broader units of knowledge. Citation links should allow for labels to indicate the reason(s) for citation: prior work, refutation, tool, methodology, etc.

This is a more practical transition than revamping the whole system and should still add much valuable information for researchers and consumers of research.

If realized, an automated system may be able to analyze the graph for additional insights into our knowledge structure and point to interesting research directions as well.
I thought this was actually standard operating procedure for laptop batteries (or really, anything using lithium batteries). Similarly, 0% is actually more like 5 or 10%.

If you actually deep discharge a lithium battery to 0%, think they'll sometimes have problems taking a charge again. You see this occasionally when someone has taken to 0% on the meter, then let it self-discharge on the desk for a long time.
Do you have a GitHub, OpenHub, etc. you're willing to publicize? What area are you work from?

Why a junior intern? Why aren't you ready for a full time paying role?
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>When someone offers him a better job, free of the legacy system's constraints -- one that pays four times as much, as Aleynikov's new job with Teza Technologies did -- the bank enlists the FBI's help in going after him for saving some code on an outside server.

This is where the entire article just falls apart. They're trying to imply people will be afraid to work for Goldman because they might get sued if the work for someone else in the same industry.

But if you're actually taking code a former employer paid to develop to another company it's perfectly reasonable for that former employer to seek some kind of redress. Most people understand this.
If I had my own company, the policies would be like this:

- Flexibility to work the hours around your peak creativity.

- Ability to remote work whenever you want.

- A quiet office!

- Freedom to work in all layers of the stack. I personally like to involve myself in design, frontend, backend and devops, and welcome the idea of generalists.

- Market rate salary or above.
Guys, stop reinventing the wheel. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ Browsers already implement scrolling better than you (or any of us) ever can.
It seems very clear to me. Perhaps there's a problem with your browser sound?
I want to 3D print with this. yes!
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Yet people think different ways. Its easy for a musician to think "everybody knows how music works; its easy for me so its possible for everyone". The evidence suggests otherwise.

I think we may all want to rethink our attitudes.
On ThinkPads this can be (or maybe used to be) configured in one of the preinstalled ThinkVantage utilities (Power Manager). But I believe that the whole charging logic itself is really in EC firmware and this application is only user interface for that.

As an aside: the mechanism works in slightly different way (at least on all of my 4 thinkpads of different generations). There are two thresholds, maximum battery capacity when charging can start and capacity when charging stops, the aforementioned application even seems to have some kind of logic to set these thresholds according to battery aging.

Also, trying to keep Li-ion cells charged to constant state of charge is not good for their lifespan. What is commonly known as trickle-charging (charging by infrequent, short but large pulses of current) is actively discouraged by most cell manufacturers, sometimes even citing safety reasons.
If I was going to do this, it would be at the laptop end, because that's were I'm sitting.

How long until the power plug, or the receptacle in the laptop, wears out?

How expensive is labor to fix the receptacle, compared to the cost and convenience of replacing a battery?

Unless the OS manages this for me (and maybe it does behind my back?), I'm not going to bother. But many thanks for the interesting writeup.
If you've ever been poor (I don't mean "I can't afford the new iPhone" poor, but rather "I have to light candles or not flush the toilet until the 15th when I get my check" poor), then you'd know you can't move if you don't have money. Where would you move to? With what capital to move out? What about breaking your lease (which obviously you pay rent because poor people don't own anythign, you're too poor), and the financial ramifications therof? Now you're "sent to collections" and "final notice red envelope" poor, on top of everything else.

That poor.
Apple ones also?

This has happened to several dell and hp laptops I've owned or used long term, but both apple ones still keep charges for close to 3 hours even around 3 years after purchase without replacing the battery.
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Just for anecdotal sake, my work laptop stays plugged into a charger about 22 hours a day most days, and is only off charger for the occasional meeting or to come home with me for a night (where it's only off for the suspend portion).

After 201 full charge cycles in ~2 years (trickle charging at 100% takes awhile to equal one cycle) I'm still at 95% battery life.

My take is that, at least for MacBooks, it doesn't make nearly as much difference as not letting your computer sit in a hot car a lot and other standard battery hygiene things.
Then what's the point in even bringing it along?
You seem to be describing a high-maintenance search engine, if I'm not mistaken.

The thing is, to my knowledge most academics keep up to date on most everything that is happening in their field; they don't need this high level overview because they don't communicate solely through journals.

It's only if you don't have the view that it's useful; which is obviously a problem for PhDs, but I'd question whether it's worth the necessary annotation investment (hours per paper for good classification, I'd imagine).
No, the narrator is definitely whispering.
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My first thought if I was hiring, and a prospect noted that they were experienced in editing wikis, is that they were involved in blackhat SEO.
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I treat the 2012 MacBook Air I use at work the same way. It's plugged in all the time, and it stays in the office. I think its capacity is 95% or higher.
It sounds like the list of people you're willing to receive calls from is pretty small. Have you ever actually received a phone call which spoofed the caller ID of someone you know? I haven't - all the spoofed calls I receive are from numbers I usually wouldn't answer anyways since I don't recognize them.

Also, note that Google Voice no doubt uses many termination providers (considering they're giving the service away for free, they'll need some pretty sophisticated routing to take advantage of cheap rates), so the second use case applies to any Google Voice user.
I totally agree but the question is what constitutes a field.

I once read about a whole series of areas where solutions to issues in one field happened from understanding from understanding another field. Unfortunately ver few people span over multiple fields and can call themselves experts.

So the questions is whether we could spread out the expertise to more in between studies and letting go of literature as the only way to collect knowledge might be a great first step.
My rental apartment in the Bay Area has special parking spots with chargers for EVs. And it's not a particularly high end complex (though it is large). Within a year I would expect this to be standard here, maybe within two years for the rest of the country. It seems pretty standard these days for large public parking lots in places like shopping malls to have them as well.
You are being entirely too abstract.

Once you try to embody these abstract ideas into concrete form, you'll discover that it does not work. Or rather, the gains are limited compared to the cost of creating, curating, and maintaining the extra metadata, and the error rate will be high.

"a label to the citation link in the dependency graph ..."

To start with, here's the Citation Typing Ontology: http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/cito .

I then write a paper which says that approach X is generally three times faster than Y, and http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsEvidence paper ABC.

Now, paper ABC is the one I mentioned earlier, which omitted a data point because of a transcription error by the authors. This is not a serious error, but it is a mistake. So you write a paper which http://purl.org/spar/cito/corrects paper ABC.

How does this automated system of scientific dependencies supposed to figure out that my paper is not invalidated by your correction to paper ABC?

"... would be very useful"

It may well be useful, but it can't be used to give what the OP wants. My comments concern the infeasibility of the proposed system, not the feasibility or usability of other projects which are in the same general area.
I'm not thoroughly sold on the "too old to learn" adage either. I think it has more to do with time and focus. Since moving into the stage of life in which I have a family and more responsibility in my job, I have considerably less time to focus on learning a new instrument or music theory or ______.

I have no doubt that there is an age, beyond which, your brain has degenerated too much to learn. But, I'm not convinced it's as early as 50's or 60's. Hopefully, with better awareness about nutrition, exercise, and stress, we can see people learning music instruments well into their 80's.
> Why would you use an HD codec to transcode to G711? Call on any direction can sound only as good as G711.

The idea is to use the timeslot g.711 normally would sit in to transport your own codec. Studios use this technique pretty frequently when they hire voiceover talent or do remotes.
Thought I'd chime in that for image compression (e.g in the JPEG2000 standard), the 2D discrete wavelet transform takes advantage of similar pixel intensities for neighboring pixels at various scales (i.e. "transformed magnitudes all nice and grouped for you"). The 2D-DWT is actually pretty cool under the hood. And, asymptotically, a bit faster than the FFT (DWT runs in O(N), and in 2D, O(width*height)).
Well, that's the kind of thinking that ties people down. In fact, if you have no credit rating then you can just hitchhike to someplace better, or catch a ride with a friend, or start walking. Right? Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
PHP : 1 week is not always 7 days:

$_1week = new DateInterval("P1W");
$_7days = new DateInterval("P7D");
var_dump($_1week == $_7days); // true
var_dump($_1week);
var_dump($_1week == $_7days); // false
var_dump($_7days);
var_dump($_1week == $_7days); // true

http://3v4l.org/CcAk8

Same result with '$_1week = new DateInterval("P7D");' :-)
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Gotta tell ya, Reston and NoVA is the land of A-rab opportunity.

(For those not familiar with Northern Virginia, ironically the only place I speak more Arabic outside of Arab countries than anywhere else, specifically in the United States, even after hearing NJ is Little Egypt.)

Anyway, cool story, man. Would love to see you write more about it!
Regarding your last point Gmail reminds me of train/plane/... events through Google now. It does also create Calendar events. My Keep remainders also pop on Google now, although they seem lower priority (?).

I'm not using Inbox.
That's insightful, thanks.

But how do I know the battery reports honest numbers? If all these years spent dealing with hard disks tought me anything, it's that what's being reported by the device could be totally different from the reality :)

Perhaps some brands charge a premium for a "long lasting" battery whose only actual difference from a regular one is a firmware hack that keeps it at %80 charge? Can I actually know this?
I was actually referring to the runtime performance of the code not time to completion.
Google found this: http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/

Edit: Looks like an older version, but still pretty fun to play with
Pop culture is inherently "pastiche".

To think of pop culture contextually, it's really only been a phenomenon we've experienced for the past century or so, depending on how you want to define "pop culture", but I'd say the advent of radio and cinema would be a good starting marker.

So, making claims about what pop culture is "supposed to be" are somewhat frivolous since we are still very much in the process of defining that. However, at this specific point in 2015, I would agree that we're falling into "an emptiness in contemporary pop culture" more so than ever before - but that emptiness has always kind of been there.

Take Elvis, for example. The author made repeated examples of Bruno Mars and Pharrell, but in a more abstract sense of the term, Elvis was the king of pastiche, most of his hits either being Blues/R&B/Soul covers or written by someone else. Considering Elvis as one of the first major acts in manifesting the phenomenon of pop culture, it's pretty fair to identify pop culture as an entity which capitalizes on previous work. The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Nirvana - the most successful pop acts have followed a formula of commercializing genre tropes.

I understand the author's main point that, in the most current critique of contemporary pop music, the 2010s feel more empty and less innovative as opposed to having a branded identity like the grunge of the early '90s, the (now retro-)futuristic visions of the '80s, et cetera. While the "EDM" movement may refute that, I think the bigger issue is that with today's level of exposure to different cultures, Americans are less "forced" to subscribe to pop culture.

Innovation doesn't happen in pop culture - pop culture just capitalizes on it and brings it exposure. Nirvana were a talented group but hardly the first "grunge" band, and if you've seen Dave Grohl's Sonic Highways, Sub Pop was actually a little surprised that these guys were the group to nationalize the grunge scene, when several other bands under the label were just as qualified. Michael Jackson was obviously talented as well, but a lot of his success can be attributed to Quincy Jones building off Disco's pioneering and nudging it into a "poppier" format.

Maybe we're reaching a point where the general public is no longer so dependent on "pop culture" as a means of exposure to something "new" or "innovative," where we don't have to sit through hours of Peter Gabriel and Cyndi Lauper music videos, hoping something by NWA will pop up on MTV, or where hearing something outside the same 7 songs the radio is such a jarring experience that we almost have to like the new member of the rotation by default. This is probably why the music industry is having a bit of a difficult time as well. With such a wider accessibility to culture, a byproduct seems to be that the general public is growing more cognizant of the "pastiche" of pop. (That doesn't mean we can't enjoy that Bruno Mars song, though)