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My wife's in her final year of residency, so I know what you mean. I work from home in part to be around when she's off, but the demands of the lifestyle are especially clear when you see neighbors pulling into driveways at 5:30pm, friends enjoying a full weekend, vacations, and having several days off around the holidays.

Residency, by not granting you those things that people normally take for granted, helps you appreciate them!

The feature was recently delayed, but it should help once it's ready

content blocking in iOS is 64-bit only, so it's 5s and onward only

Unusable in terms of performance?

There's Redfin

When I read the book I found myself looking up various locations mentioned in the book and ended up making this list: http://romej.com/2012/06/places-of-doom-where-id-built-games

Not entirely sure, but a lot of these VOCs come from stuff in your house (carpet, paint, plastics).

When I lived in Augusta, GA the air around the city would occasionally reek due to a nearby paper mill. The smell would blow over the city after an hour, but anything that slipped into drafty homes would remain for hours; I'd only notice after returning from walking the dogs.

I started to wonder what I was breathing and found a list of possibile offenders: formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, benzene, chloroform, tetrachloroethylene, and trichloroethylene [1]

I was hoping my plants would help (the link nate_meurer posted casts some doubt).

[1] http://www.sonomatech.com/project.cfm?uprojectid=1103

If you're looking for some plants for your own home/office that are capable of removing toxins from the air, here's a good list, originally compiled by NASA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air-filtering_plants

a walk on the lighter side: the bitcoin is inside the computer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw

I remember a few of us developers resisting a push for 10-12 hours days at a company I worked at. It was easy to find precedent in research and blog posts about how it wasn't sustainable.

It's been interesting to see what my wife experiences as a medical resident lately, in contrast to what I'm used to in the software world: 10-16 hours a day, 6 days a week, and it's incredibly normal, necessary, unquestioned. Today's residents have it easier with the lower 80-hour restrictions in place. When there's talk about the workload, it tends to center around how the lower limits might actually be bad (eg, this recent New Yorker piece http://nyr.kr/15hELxF).

An exciting field; I haven't heard anything recent, but former Mint CEO Aaron Patzer started work on some new transit ideas a couple years ago

ISP: Comcast

Location: Atlanta, GA

A really nice site for pink noise (and fans, traffic, babbling, airplane cabins, waterfalls, rivers) is http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php

The creator is a signal processing engineer.

Thanks for publishing these code reviews; it's fun to load up the projects and jump from file to file on a guided tour

thanks, looks nice. I need to compare some plans in a couple weeks so I'll try this.

I'd like to see the whole video. Here's some info on it - not sure where to actually get a copy though https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1261137

Interesting to see him mention the 'Live each day as if it would be your last...' quote here (and again a decade later in the 2004 commencement speech)

well done, I like the design

I'm self-employed and make it a point to sit down and start working at the same time each day, just as if I had a normal job. That's not always enough. If I find myself reluctant to start a task I pick something easier, maybe even fun, and start with that instead. That usually pulls me in and gets me rolling.

The Tron soundtrack has worked well for me too as far as music. I was tired of it but then discovered the two-disc version and extras (15 extra tracks)

nearly a year of writing iOS apps

that works fine too and prevents any issues with releasing the variable before it gets retained again. objects might hang around in memory a little longer this way, though (for foos != bars)

The initial version written by the authors of MapReduce and BigTable

fun FAQ http://wufoo.com/surveymonkey-wufoo-faq/

The article mentions a discussion started by Micah here a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1780348

I'm getting parse errors on this headline

I made and use Chapters for iPad. Not as fluid as pencil and paper, but I don't lose things and can search for things I vaguely remember.

Homer constantly refers to 'swift-footed Achilles'; and you can't google Bjarne Stroustrup and not see 'creator of C++'; we may be stuck with Gmail creator Paul Bucheit. Makes the name easier to digest on casual mention, or something.

Bested by slater again! Yeah, the urls looked the same so I wasn't sure if things were working as intended.

I think I submitted this with the same url 6 days ago ? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629588

I know quite a few people use their iPhones/iPads for such writing.