nickbarnwell

It was unclear to me from reading the article whether the thirty-two hour week is still in effect for employees or not. He's abandoned it, but has the rest of the company?

It seems reasonable that a schedule that suits the deep focus and creativity required for knowledge work is not as well adapted to the demands placed on a CEO.

Often! I journal daily and use a G2 0.38mm that's kept with it at all times. I'll go through two or three journals a year and three or four of the G2s. Once you get in the habit of keeping the pen clipped to the cover when it's not in use, losing one is quite rare.

It’s mainly due to the cost of spinning up subproccesses and certain FS operations on Windows. Magit spins up a bunch of git processes for certain operations and can be quite slow due to it. Look into fscache settings for a speedup

I commit dozens of times a day, make half a dozen branches, pick commits between them, and generally (ab)use git as a normal part of my workflow. I will generally push one or two of those commits in the end, typically a Frankenstein creation comprised of all that has come before.

There are so many ways to approach a problem in any given codebase, and I rarely know which will be the best without experimenting. Having tools that reduce the burden of experimentation and branching is incredibly powerful.

The videos touch upon a fraction of magit’s capabilities; if nothing else, it’s a far more mature project.

But the real power is integration with the rest of emacs/being written in elisp. If I want to change or script behaviour, I have easy access to all the internals, and I can integrate it with other parts of my emacs workflow. For example, I can use magit to view the diff of a coworker’s PR, easily capture snippets, including links to their location in our internal BitBucket instance, into an org buffer, and then write up and send an HTML formatted message with my comments, syntax highlighting, etc to my colleagues with my feedback.

Similarly, my TODO list is managed by org, and I can have links to commits or files at a certain commit directly in my agenda or notes and jump to them.

This is all within my editor, with all the text editing, code navigating, and linting capabilities it provides!

If you're an emacs user, I can't recommend magit [1] enough. I was a diehard CLI user and had flags and aliases out the wazoo, and it was still a step change in usabilty and power for me. Staging hunks, rebasing, and stashing are all vastly easier. Amending or editing a commit is a breeze, and it's tied in to all of the other emacs tools you already use, e.g. org-mode to boot!

It's easier to see it in action than explain it. If you've two minutes to spare, check out this emacsrocks screencast [2], or Howard Abram's longer presentation from the PDX Emacs Hackers meetup [3].

[1]: https://magit.vc/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQEIRRJ2T0

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA

If you install bash-completion or use git-aliases [1], you can also get tab completion working for those aliased commands like so [2]. Lets you save some typing even when you need to pass a rarely used (or difficult to remember) flag.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases [2]: https://github.com/nickbarnwell/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.e...

My favourite part of interning at Google was learning that tickets for Sev0 globe-spanning outages and "the bathroom tiles are too shiny and let you see into other stalls" lived in the same issue tracker. When all you have is a hammer…

If, as GP stated, life experience was a significant factor in fostering the therapeutic relationship than older therapists with equal or lesser experience than their younger peers would have better results, though I agree that it likely is simply a proxy for YoE

Can you link to published research indicating that there is any correlation between therapist age and patient outcomes? Many people come to the helping professions later in life, and time spent practicing is the just about the only factor that counts for behavioural therapies (with the caveat that therapy outcomes are a difficult thing to measure). [1][2]:

1: Estimating variability in outcomes attributable to therapists: A naturalistic study of outcomes in managed care - Wampold, Bruce E.,Brown, George S. (Jeb) Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol 73(5), Oct 2005, 914-923

2: Huppert, J. D., Bufka, L. F., Barlow, D. H., Gorman, J. M., Shear, M. K., & Woods, S. W. (2001). Therapists, therapist variables, and cognitive-behavioral therapy outcome in a multicenter trial for panic disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69(5), 747-755.

I am only familiar with the laws of OR, WA, MA, CA, and CO – the states where I'm considering doctoral programs – but "therapist" and "counsellor" are regulated and require one have a license to advertise with them. "Life coach" is the only title I am aware of that is completely unregulated across the US.

Psychoanalytical Therapist is perhaps the caveat you're thinking of? I know in New York it is a regulated title, and it may be possible to practice independently without a Counselling or Social Work degree provided one isn't billing insurance or advertising as a "psychotherapist".

A) With regard to "no standards of treatment", that is not the case, at least in the US. Licensing and professional bodies for both Masters-level clinicians (LPCs, LMHCs, MFTs, MSWs and others) and Doctorates (PhDs, PsyDs) effectively mandate therapists rely on evidence based practices, and insurance companies are quick to push highly manualised behavioural therapies.

Private practice is one thing, but treatment outcomes are tracked in CMH settings as well as IP psychiatric settings.

B) Licensure is not all over the place. At a bare minimum, an independent clinician in the US will have several thousand hours of client contact (e.g. group facilitation), a thousand to fifteen hundred hours of 1:1 counselling with clients, a hundred hours of supervision, and have taken two years of graduate level coursework on psychology and psychotherapy, with the curriculum on its way to being standardised nationwide by CACREP.

Studies have demonstrated that treatment outcomes are not strongly correlated with clinicians' educational background, and that the perceived therapeutic alliance is the strongest predictor of success.

There are problems with psychotherapy research, but they're mostly those shared with the rest of the sciences.

This reminds me of a far better executed version of London's "Mole Man" [1]. I think it must've been linked on HN a few months back, but I can't find the link now.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities....

Howard's blog and github are an amazing resource; I'm a huge fan of his demo-it package as well. Highly recommend checking it out if you ever give technical presentations or talks.

It was a quest called "A Falling Wizard"; the scroll was the "Scroll of Icarian Flight". I spent wayyyyy too many hours of my childhood playing Morrowing. There's a human speed run that relies on it for a blazing fast ~3min completion of the main quest: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/04/this-morrowind-speed-run-t...

Source: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/A_Falling_Wizard

emacs' org-mode / org-babel is well suited for it. This blog post [1] has some fantastic examples. The problem, of course, is that it's so closely tied to emacs.

1: http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

Slashdot meta-moderation was fantastic for this. I'm curious why it never made an appearance elsewhere - it really was a great idea.

For the Alfred users out there, this [1] workflow gives you this and a handful of other kaomoji with a single chord

[1]: https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows

Software Engineer | Microsoft | Redmond (Seattle), WA | ONSITE

Hi HN,

The OneNote team at Microsoft is hiring for our Customer Insights & Data group!

We're a small, five person team working with petabytes of data and a host of interesting problems. Currently in the early stages of migrating our ETL and analytics systems from our internal BigQuery equivalent to the Hadoop ecosystem, we're keen on hiring people with functional programming experience and/or war stories from the Spark/Kafka/Storm/C* trenches.

Have questions? See the job postings below or email me at nib@microsoft.com!

Software Engineer II: https://aka.ms/cid-swe2-opening

Sr. Software Engineer: https://aka.ms/cid-swe3-opening

The latter :) We've considered becoming a 501 or something but for now we are just playing it by ear and doing what we can to bring tea time to as many people as possible.

Fixed now, thanks again for pointing it out!

Building this this evening! Will reply back once the feature exists

My bad. Forgot to fix that to 301 when moving stuff to S3/Cloudfront. The straight GH link someone linked down thread should work.

If you love the idea and want to contribute, we're totally open source and transparent with regard to roadmap. On GitHub as @teawithstrangers, and more background and info is at http://making.teawithstrangers.com

Hey Tom. We have big plans to scale out, but we're still working on ensuring we have a plan for consistent quality of hosts and experiences before we open it up to all comers. If you want to get it up and running in your city sooner, drop me an email (in profile) or shoot Ankit, the founder, a message at ankit@teawithstrangers.com.

Then you'll love Tea With Strangers (http://teawithstrangers.com) – we're coming to Seattle soon!

Disclaimer: MSFT-employed.

It's OneDrive for Business (i.e. SharePoint) that sometimes modifies uploaded files. To the best of my knowledge, OneDrive Consumer (http://onedrive.com) operates no differently than `rsync` would.

Hey awa, I work on the OneNote team – would you mind us potentially featuring this on our blog?

Hey Felix, any chance that that offer is open to researchers as well? One of the groups I'm involved with at UW needs a decent amount of compute power and would love to move some stuff off our homegrown cluster of spare hardware.

That's only OneDrive for Business [1], a product that (fortunately) shares nothing but branding with the consumer product. Not so say the latter doesn't have its own warts...simply that it doesn't have that particularly egregious one.

1: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/cloud-services/micros...