ccallebs

I'm just now seeing this. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you weren't trying to put words in my mouth with the nuclear reactor comment. I've made no such assertions in the past and don't really have an opinion on the matter.

However, I think it's pretty easy to see how someone's prejudices/preconceptions could skew someone's opinion of the article. If the article was about cockroaches rather than human blood, I would have the same opinion.

Don't be so quick to dismiss. It sounds odd and offensive to western sensibilities but there are reasons why it could be genuine. As mentioned earlier in the thread, there are so many micronutrients in the blood stream that some deficiencies might not show up on a panel.

I originally commented and was perhaps too harsh, so I deleted it shortly after submission.

This really shouldn't be considered a prank. He might have deserved it, I have no idea. I wasn't there. But that's playing with someone's personal life.

PowerShell is a really cool, powerful tool. Though, it's really more of what you'd consider a modern REPL to be than a conventional shell. It takes an OO approach to scripting as well.

For some reason, I seems like it's a hard sell for a lot of .NET developers. A substantial number never leave Visual Studio and old habits are hard to break. I left that ecosystem many years ago, but still try to keep up with it.

I built this to scratch an itch I've been having when working on a service that uses SendGrid Webhooks extensively. To better simulate a production environment, I made something that generates SendGrid-esque requests to the application. Because I've just been using it locally, there's no authentication functionality yet (but it's in the pipe).

Although its primary focus is Webhooks, it could be used to mimic any sort of API request.

There seems to be enough interest in this to actually start talking seriously about it. I created a Slack account for it.

https://farmcombinator.slack.com/

You'll need an invite, so if you're interested in this sort of thing seek me out on Twitter (@ccallebs) or send me your email (chuck@callebs.io).

I'm in. Not at all joking / exaggerating. My wife and I would love something like this. We are currently looking to switch cities with no specific desire for one place so the iron is hot.

I'd not limit it to engineers though -- just makers in general.

It doesn't matter if Npm is ever profitable. If an investor puts money into Npm, they are indirectly adding value to every company that uses Npm. Making sure that a comprehensive dependency manager exists for JavaScript helps every company that uses JavaScript.

Additionally, neither JavaScript or Ruby is nearing their "swan song". Other languages will come out. The current languages will persist.

Of course not. But there are varying degrees of evidence supporting the idea that consuming excess carbohydrates (and more specifically, "simple" carbohydrates) contributes to a wide array of health issues.

We know consuming excess carbohydrates is bad for you the same way we know that climate change is happening. The same way we know that a sedentary lifestyle is detrimental to your health. The same way we know that smoking causes lung cancer and a cornucopia of other health concerns.

Science rarely affords us the ability to make absolute statements.

I agree with everything you've said except for the conclusion. I think Thiel's point is that it doesn't have to only apply to statistical outliers. It only applies to them right now, as the culture surrounding higher education is very ingrained in the developed world.

Also, I agree widespread adoption of going straight into the workforce could affect unemployment numbers tremendously. But for most people, the current "fix" is to have an institution babysit young adults for 4-5 years while allowing them to accumulate a mortgage's worth of debt. At least with the unemployment numbers the weakness would be more visible.

Disclaimer: I'm not advocating the abolition of college as an institution, but I've seen too many people graduate with no marketable skills (and no job prospects). I would argue that for most people, it's not worth the price of admission.

Ah, my understanding was flawed then. Sorry to spread misinformation!

I don't think this is true -- the index rises in proportion to the stock's price. The stock price of company A would have to rise $26.66~ to incur the same index increase as company B.

It does ignore market cap though. So if company A's market cap was $800M but company B's market cap was $3M, and the shares rise as I explained, they'd still have the same impact on the DJIA. That's why it's flawed.

However, it's a really good indicator of investment performance. Just not necessarily market or economic performance.

Many people are telling you that discipline is the solution. They're not necessarily wrong, but the most disciplined person in the world cannot squeeze blood from a stone. Sometimes you're mentally fatigued, discouraged, and the task at hand seems overwhelming.

For me, progress is the solution to burnout. Stop whatever hard problem you're working on for a bit and work on something simple -- layout tweaks, small bug fixes, code cleanup, automated tests. This usually gives me the extra boost of dopamine I need to handle the larger task at hand.

Your mileage may vary of course but it's something that has worked wonders for me.

Take the following with a grain of salt, as I've only seen this in action once.

The language barrier is pervasive even if the consultants speak English fluently. At my last company, we hired consultants from Belarus and besides a small accent there were no problems communicating with them. However, when it came to actually coding, the differences in language were more visible.

It was mostly simple stuff. the difference between an "Order" and a "Subscription". The knowledge about western addresses (we had to explain what a postal code was). You could always tell if it was one of our consultants that wrote a given piece of code.

That being said, it was effective. We accumulated quite a bit of technical debt that we later had to pay off, but by any metric, it was successful. They were very competent programmers (one was amazing!) and I wouldn't hesitate to bring them onto another project. But I would try to micromanage more.

I understood it as saying the sensors are reading terabytes of information every second. The data would get selectively loaded into the device based upon the task at hand. I don't see that as far-fetched -- I can hook 100 digital cameras up to my computer and make the same claim.

For enterprise (large, bureaucratic organizations), I imagine that it would be.

Your example page is kinda busted when scrolling horizontally. (on Chrome 37)

http://imgur.com/HmzC1v0

Looks good otherwise though.

I agree with your sentiment. However, it wasn't her political views. It was her involvement with a fraudulent war.

How sure are we that there's no petroleum on Mars? If Mars contained any sort of life at one point or another the likelihood of fossil fuels is there, correct?

Amazon is a big help for my wife and I. We get our staples at the groceries around here, but we get our more "out there" ingredients from the web. For the fresh ingredients you may be out of luck, but you might be able to grow your own.

My wife and I are a year or two away from a cottage endeavor. I'm not sure why I'm wired the way that I am, but hermitage has a romantic appeal. Distractions and potential interruptions make me anxious. My disconnect with nature and the food that I eat does as well.

It's an odd juxtaposition -- I love technology. I just dislike what comes with it.

I agree with you. But with many people, I would classify the safety premium with the other things that those people "need".

When I first arrived in Austin a few years ago, so many yuppies told me to NOT go east of I35. They were paying outrageous sums of money (actually quite tame by San Francisco standards) to live far from the side of town they perceived as dangerous.

However, once I became acclimated to the city, I realized that they were blowing a lot of smoke due to irrational fears. The east side was certainly more diverse. It wasn't as white-washed as the west side of Austin. It has more graffiti and was generally poorer. But, it was not dangerous.

Again I'm making some pretty broad brush strokes. I realize that other places have dangerous neighborhoods and many cities have a legitimate need for a safety premium. My main point is that for many people, the necessity of the safety premium is perceived unjustly.

San Francisco, Manhattan, D.C. -- they're all outliers. My great-aunt runs a day-care facility in Kentucky. They charge $200/month/child. (This is definitely an outlier on the other end of the spectrum)

It's very difficult to talk about wealth, as wealth means different things in different places. My argument for a $100k/year salary being "rich" falls apart in expensive cities.

That's a fair point and I understand why you'd argue that.

However, you'll notice that most people consider rich to be "having more than what I have" or "having more than other people". Many millionaires don't think themselves wealthy -- and they're not necessarily wrong. They've reached a point where many of their peers have more capital than they do. Others may consider them "poor".

I caught that too, words cannot express my distaste for that kind of mentality. It's unfortunate that normalcy to the author is not keeping track of finances and buying things you cannot afford.

The availability of usable land is fixed. There's a limited amount of single-family homes you can build in a given area.

Consumerism. It convinces people that once they make $100k/year, they require a vehicle that befits someone who makes that much money. It convinces people that they require a place to live that compares to their other 6-figure earning peers. More, bigger, better -- the importance of those three things outweighs most everything else.

I grew up (and now live) in rural Appalachia. The "American dream" is defined much differently here. The American dream is owning a trailer and not having to live off of food stamps.

Let's ignore the absurdity of comparing a 1980 $100k/year salary to a 2014 $100k/year salary. In most areas of the United States, six figures is enough to qualify as well-off. Compared against the backdrop of abject poverty, six figures is certainly rich.

My wife's cousin was talking to her about a new job he landed. He was giddy with excitement, as he told her he was going to be "making bank." The salary was $22k/year.

My point is that "rich" is relative to your geography and your upbringing. In most areas of the U.S., a six-figure household income is enough to have a warm place to live and healthy food to eat, with enough left over to provide security during times of famine

Wildly, I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago when I got the itch to create a text-based game. I came across ncurses, but this looks to fit the bill a lot better than that.

I doubt I'll get around to pursuing the game in any amount of time, but I definitely support the project. It fills a niche I was looking for.

Great, thank you for the write-up. I'll definitely have to take a look.

Is the main benefit to Yeah vs. other frameworks (Gosu in particular) that it compiles to JS? I'm actually weighing game framework options for a project I want to undertake.