lilcarlyung

Maybe us living things are nodes in an artificial neural network? We as a network are reaching self-awareness. Holy shit.

You hit the nail on the head with that last sentence.

Is quitting your job for your own startup idea, when working in tech, really that big of a deal? Especially if you are a software engineer? You'll probably end up doing the same thing as on a corporate job but for yourself while learning a lot of new things about building software (marketing, sales, design, etc.) and about yourself (grit, character, etc.). You are still gaining experience. If shit hits the fan, with all digitalization going on everywhere, finding a new job won't really be that big of an issue.

Sooo... These are the things that I need to do to build a successful app?

Value pricing is very difficult when it comes to consulting and freelancing. Who and how does one decide the value. How does one measure it in terms of output? Scope? Feature changes and bugs? Charging by the hour makes some of these problems easier and is probably therefore more common.

How do they identify which social media accounts belong to which students?

I find your last comment interesting!

From my experiences with employers in many parts of Europe, they value partial contributions to teams more than complete individual achievements. Talking to much in "I did..." sentences instead of "We did... (...and I helped with...)" can come across as self-centered, which often is considered a negative trait here.

Well, at least we still got poker. Until AI knows how bluff or how to call out bluffers.

I have an inner monologue when thinking and I hear an inner voice when reading (sometimes several if there are several characters in a text).

The voices differ. When reading something from a friend I will hear their voice, my own when reading my own, and my brain will try to create a auditory context if its by an unknown author. For example, Hacker News covers a lot of news from Silicon Valley/San Francisco so reading the comments here I mostly hear an American voice with an Californian accent, mixed together with my own voice.

My brain pairs this together with inner images. So if I read a book about exploding stars, for example, I will hear an inner voice narrating the topic while also seeing images of the things being explained. These voices and images are very weak compared to the real thing though. My inner voices lack clarity and my inner images have no color.

Obviously this is not great for my reading speed. I did a test a while ago and according to that test my reading speed was compared to that of a 5th grader, with high memory retention of general concepts and average memory retention of specific details. I read for several hours every day.

As for numbers, when doing maths in my head, I do it visually. I see the numbers as images. What is strange though, compared to other things I imagine, is that results to math problems manifest themselves as a gut feeling rather than as the logical result from a chain of continuous inner dialogues and imagery. If I try to calculate 5*5 I get a gut feeling to answer 25, often faster than I consciously understand how I arrived at the answer.

Needless to so say I have a very strong imagination, sometimes so strong that I stop paying attention to the real world for a little while.

Parse going open source is all good... But is it only me that considered one of the best things with Parse being their very generous free tier?

"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover is a really interesting read on this subject. For me it was eye-opening to think about app development from a behavioral and psychological perspective, albeit manipulative.

http://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Product...

Obviously the sane approach is to write new code in Swift, including tooling and tests (as in Federighi's example). Not to rewrite and possibly breaks apps that are shipped to millions of users, just because of ideological reasons. Any software engineer who has worked on complex projects should understand this, no?

The perfect solution is to know what you put in your mouth. You can have a six pack and still enjoy sugars and fats. But you have to be aware of how much carbs, fats and proteins your body needs and how much you actually get. Then adjust your diet to that on the fly.

Ate a bunch of fries (fat and carbs) for lunch? Eat a stake and veggies for dinner (protein and fiber).

My observation is that unhealthy people are the ones who usually end up at “healthy diet” salad bars, trying to compensate for sugar addictions. The really fit people I usually find at buffets - Asian, etc., which many people in my social circle consider to be “unhealthy diets”. There they can put together their own dish by themselves, depending on how much carbs, fats and proteins they roughly estimate that they need right at that moment.

How important is it really to be able to recall information using ones long-term memory these days though? With my phone I pretty much have access to all the information in the world from one single place, from almost anywhere in the western world. Why would I want to memorize most of it? Books are not only for sharing knowledge but also remembering it? These days, just memorizing core concepts such as finding the correct information, how to evaluate it, and how to apply it should be enough? Leave the rest of the recalling for our computers.

In you do not have Flash installed on your desktop here are direct URL's to the .MP4 files.

http://download.cbsnews.com/media/mpx/2015/12/20/58912825989...

http://download.cbsnews.com/media/mpx/2015/12/20/58913184361...

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Free Will by Sam Harris. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Not in the "War on Drugs" sense. Each to his own. And one can't argue with evident medical benefits, right? As for recreational use, mind expanding substances can offer wonderful insights into the world and oneself. But to actually change anything, one has to internalize and act on those insights and this can only be done with a sober brain. I've met too many people who get hooked on getting more and more insights, instead of making a reality of what they've learned. They themselves think they are changing for the better but their actions show that they are still the same.

American intellectuals and higher eds experiment more with and stigmatize less the use of mind altering substances. This is strictly a personal observation though, not necessarily a fact.

What with the pro-drug posts here all the time. I'm guessing that most of the HN audience is American. Is it common among techies in the U.S. to experiment with psychoactive drugs, hence the interest and knowledge? Please, do not mention Steve Jobs acid experiences.

What with the pro-drug posts here all the time. I'm guessing that most of the HN audience is American. Is it common among techies in the U.S. to experiment with psychoactive drugs, hence the interest and knowledege? Please, do not mention Steve Jobs acid experiences.

Working in Europe I can never believe these fantasy numbers from the U.S. 250k USD after 5 years, seriously? A good Senior Developer here, with 5-10 years of relevant experience, might have a base salary of around 50-60K EUR, and perhaps another 0-2K EUR in bonuses. Then you have to pay around 30% income tax and another 20% if you hit a certain income bracket (which you do with 50K) in many Western European countries. If you want to make more you need to do contract work or roll your own business.

If you are into scraping then here is another interesting tutorial on PhantomJS, Casper, and how to run them over Tor.

http://blog.rimthong.com/ghost-in-the-web-scraping-with-phan...

Would be funny to come into an interview as the candidate and give the employer pre-packaged tasks to complete to evaluate them on, to decide if I as the candidate actually want to work there.

Reminds me of this TED Talk.

Given the choice between a job candidate with a perfect resume and one who has fought through difficulty, human resources executive Regina Hartley always gives the "Scrapper" a chance. As someone who grew up with adversity, Hartley knows that those who flourish in the darkest of spaces are empowered with the grit to persist in an ever-changing workplace. "Choose the underestimated contender, whose secret weapons are passion and purpose," she says. "Hire the Scrapper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQVEvkYuvWk