dbz

Are you an engineer? I didn't quite understand what your major was.

I do a lot of coding. Hours and Hours a day. A lot of that coding is for other people. I like coding, but there is something else I like. I like when people receive my code, take a look at it, and say "Wow. Erm. Thanks."

I like being appreciated.

I like thinking about how I am going to code something, and then doing it in an efficient algorithm; I like feeling as if I did something clever. I also like how I view everything in life differently because coding is a huge part of it.

The other day someone asked why I always respond to their texts 'no matter what,' and I said, 'well, people with a friendship level of 1 or higher always get a response.' They asked me to give them my friendship levels, so I had to make up a system on the spot- I said 'lowest should be (-2), wait no- (-1) so I can use bitwise operators,' and then structured the system around the use of bitwise operators just because I thought it was cute.

The fun in coding is the same fun that you receive in web design, however, I like to think that coding gives me more pleasure in more areas because I can use concepts I learn in everyday use, like ranking friends.

I didn't read the entire thing, but I got far enough to do this:

We all know the grandfather paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox

Go back in time and kill your grandfather- wait that doesn't make sense? You wouldn't be alive?

I now introduce the Dbz Paradox:

Know the future and then change it before it happens- wait that doesn't make sense? I'm not sure about the consequences to this one.

Eee. I think your idea of degrading isn't actually degrading! Respectfully, I believe you are misunderstanding the meaning of his words and possibly the idea of "degrading to woman."

When you reversed the story (I'm completely ignoring the wife's second comment), you used a nickname "husby," which is clearly meant to be derogatory because you used it in a context akin to talking to a young child. Husbands shouldn't be treated like young children on leashes, so it is negative. The actual husband's article, however, meant to convey a sense of glee and admiration which is innocent and childlike in form. A positive emotion rather than a negative one. You may say because it is such an unadulterated emotion (and she starts "Tap. Tap. Tap" -ing away), that it is animalistic, but still not degrading to woman.

I believe you are seeing what you want to see- rather than what is actually there. His wife didn't just discover the internet, she discovered a new method of browsing it which is enchanting. Honestly, if you switched the husband and wife aspect of the article (not your recreation), it wouldn't seem degrading to men.

Respectfully, dbz

No one may find this interesting, but in virtual worlds, this is a very big problem. For example, in Second Life, if a bug report/ticket contains the terms "Grey Goo" (or) "Gray Goo" it is immediately taken care of. To the point where, if you are a worker who can handle it, you will be given a phone call and you must drive to your office immediately- it doesn't matter what else you are doing. Grey Goo can destroy a server in a matter of seconds.

I hope this comment is taken the right way. I don't want to boast, but I have to say some things which will sound like bragging (even though it isn't) in order explain my 'ness' =]. Furthermore, a lot of what I say may be controversial to some and won't be appreciated. Also, I can't recommend you do anything I do, because even though it works for me, it will most likely have unintended consequences for you.

I use my street smarts every day. I may say the same thing to ten people ten different ways- not because I want to `change things up,` but because I analyze and judge everyone I meet upon every occasion I have. It also helps that my verbal IQ is off the charts (and therefore placed in the 99.99th percentile). This allows me to articulate and find words that accurately represent the people I meet, and understand them more. (Please note I am dyslexic and have processing difficulties which mean how I write is not representative of my verbal IQ because I can't process fast enough while writing to say coherently what I think like I can when I am talking. <- example there)

(1) Analyze every person and remember it

The importance of what I am doing is used when I get in a sticky situation. There are two types of people, those who give excuses, and those who solve problems. I use what I learn and assume(#1) about people to describe to them in the most effective way possible what needs to be done. When I present ideas to people, I don't present ideas- I present the problem and why the idea solves it. (#1 cont. Don't tell a person what you assume about his or her character- not only is it unbecoming, it will probably piss him or her off unless it is a special circumstance)

(2) Become the person who is (known for) immediately solving problems

I, unfortunately, break a commandment more than I should. I lie. When I lie, I don't think that the most important thing is not to get caught. I think about how the lie is helpful, and how I am going to expose the lie later ESPECIALLY if the person knows I am lying. For example, I had a tutor who was approaching a subject I could not talk about for a reason I will not explain. This is the kind of guy who will not accept an "excuse" for not talking about a subject regardless of the validity. In this circumstance, talking about the subject (it was personal) would be detrimental to our working relationship and the time would be better spent working on something else..So I lied. I did not lie elaborately, but I lied in a fashion where I knew he would believe me. Three hours after he left, I wrote him an email apologizing for my lie, explaining why I did it and the benefits it had. He was not upset about it, but understanding and appreciated the honesty, ironic huh?

(3) Choose your words carefully

Nothing is free. When you accept something from a friend, even if it is explicitly spoken that no strings are attached, you owe them. Of course this may actually be the kind of person where he or she truly believes that you do not owe them anything, but expect it. When you deliver a favor, unless explicitly stated and agreed upon, the person receiving the favor owes you nothing, so don't ask for anything in return. I know, I am saying "Be the person you do not expect anyone else to be". However, if you want to enter show biz and need connections and will have to rely on people to make your way to the top, make damn sure you can rely on who you are relying on.

(4) Low expectations cost you nothing, but let you reap the benefits of positive events

Unfortunately, a lot of the rules I live by don't allow me to be an open person. I don't like to talk about myself, ect. Today, I had a very in-depth conversation with a friend who I consider to be one of my closed friends. She is one of my closed friends because I know if were in another state- and I needed a way to get somewhere else, she would drop everything and drive cross country to help me. I talked to her today about some of my problems and I brought her to tears. She explained how she feels like she didn't know me very well and how she feels like she has failed as a friend because she didn't know me better, and she wished that she could have "watched movies and ate ice creme with" me during all the times I have had trouble because of depression or my pet dying ect. because that's what she would have done. I had to explain to her that it wasn't her fault but mine for being the kind of person who isn't sharing. At the moment, lots of bad things are happening to me even though I don't deserve them (I'm not going to talk to everyone about them, but I talked to her about them), and she got very angry, and didn't understand why I am so forgiving to others. Why don't I hold grudges? Why did I forgive her for being a "bad" friend? Why am I understanding when I shouldn't be? Why don't I just accept (things)? I responded with,

(5 part 1) Forgive and Forget(However, learn the lessons of the situation.), Cut your losses, Make your next plan, and execute. [I'm clearly an introvert] (5 part 2) Most heroes fail before they become successful

Most of what I have said applies to my weird social situations. One last piece of advice which is on my mind- I have purposefully saved for last. When you are in egypt, please don't accept a tour of the mountains in the valley of the kings from a kind local (long story). Again, when you are above under-ground tombs and locals want to give you a tour. Please don't take it (long story). Furthermore, if you are going to take it, PLEASE walk behind them. (Again long story).

(6) Just because you can, doesn't mean you should - Well, that is all I can think of off the top of my head. This is unedited and probably contains errors. I can also see you saying I am FOS. But you need to realize, We all live in our own world. I'd appreciate anything anyone has to say to me- especially if you think I am FOS, but please- respond tactfully.

It is expected that one who has something would want more or nothing, and one who has nothing would want something.

What I found interesting was the level of how achievable most of the yearnings were.

I don't think it is fair to say Steve Jobs motivated Adobe. Yes, we've all seen the hundreds of articles basically saying "Steve Jobs thinks flash 'sucks' for various reasons and will never run on the iPhone OS;" however, it is clear that other companies, like Google, Nokia, ect., have an interest in Flash. Flash will run on the Android phones (for example), and I know Google has been "motivating" Adobe to get moving.

All in all, I would say it is safe to say Google has been a great motivator for the engineers at Adobe, not Steve. I would guess the engineers at Adobe could care less what Steve says, for they won't be helping him with his iPhone OS.

"reliable support of Web standards in the major browsers."

Ha Ha Ha...

I can't find a good link either, but I believe that most of the oil (for gasoline) comes from a time period of giant bugs. Like...Foot+ long giant centipedes ect.

I'd bring a sword and shield to school everyday.

What happened to privacy?

I was using it, and it inspired the question. It's a great search, and I use it all the time, but I have to remember a title name or something of the sort to use it vs. part of the article.

I'm going to assume the design ect. isn't causing the problem, so I have some suggestions in the order of what I would do:

1. Posting on HN

2. Email all your favorite bloggers

3. Email TechCrunch (you may get lucky with a ten second email)

4. Go onto the correct types of forum and advertise (possibly Second Life forums?)

Now, if you are just interested in getting some traffic, you can:

1. Ask your friends to post the link on their social media sites

2. Pay some myspace dudes with tens of thousands of friends $50 bucks to message all of their friends a note you have written (including the link of course)

3. Go onto Second Life and pay advertisers to advertise for you

4. Eh, Google Adsense

Well, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

I made the IT guy find the 10 lirpa viruses my anti-virus software was picking up but wasn't able to remove. Funny thing; he never found em =/

I'm totally for the war. I'm elated that the engineers aren't involved because if they were, then the war would be a completely different situation, but they aren't. That said: If this war really takes on momentum, then (assuming one side doesn't just win [Lawsuits take a while]) each side will try to out build the other with new technology. Has anyone seen the new Nexus One commercials (on hulu for me)? Google is finally advertising the capabilities of its new phone.

What's the best part? The engineers won't be pressured to give a hoot, but I admit it may seem a bit stressful.

General Google, I side with you =]

Well, this is what I hope will happen =/

I guess I should have said she was unprofessional if she acted upon that lover of the day thing. I have great friendships with a lot of my old facebook teachers and I am facebook friends with some of them. They are truly good professional people. I just don't think that person is professional because she can't handle a social network, yet chooses to participate in the fray.

Yes, I agree Facebook Apps are often not your friends, but because they sell the data they mine off of you to spammers and the like.

This example is awful. That teacher is unprofessional, imho, if she was even friending her students. At all schools I have been to- It is against the rules for teachers to contact students for reasons other than school work related issues. No playing Xbox live with my awesome Art Teacher =/. But if I were that teacher, I would accept full responsibility for (1) Joining a Social Network and not knowing what I was getting into, and (2) Becoming friends with the people I teach and the consequences that follow

The number is right, and again one mutation most certainly will NOT ensure a cell goes wrong. Most "bad" mutations are not anything like cancer.

You don't have to believe the "stuff" about mutations being just as likely to be good because it is true. Furthermore, that's not how cancer works.

Cancer might happen when a beam of light hits the nucleus and blasts the DNA out of the nucleus. (This is normally at x-ray or gamma-ray level, and the common skin cancer has to do with our repair cycle for skin when UV light hits it, and our not repairing fast enough.) Other cancers happen other ways, and I don't want to pretend I know everything either, but I do know- the idea of the cells being degraded enough over time to just kill the animal is a little far fetched. Yeah, could happen, but the degrading will take a hell of a long time based on what I know.

Also on a side note: How many base pairs do you think there are? That 1 in 1 billion may look bigger if I tell you that there are 30,000 base pairs in humans, most of which is junk DNA, and then there are also probably quite a few less in a sea jelly. 1 in 1 billion is a pretty big number now isn't it?

In humans, DNA Polymerase (the thing that replicates DNA) makes about 1 in 10,000 base pairing errors. After other enzymes "proof read"- the mistake count is 1 in 1 billion. Keep in mind, that there is a lot of "junk DNA." junk DNA is DNA that does nothing, but a lot of mistakes are made in the junk DNA and the introns (parts of the junk DNA that do nothing) are cut out and we only keep in exons.

Now I have another very important point to make. Errors in base pairing, also known as mutations- are usually very very good. Why? Because 1/3 of errors are bad, 1/3 do absolutely nothing, and 1/3 are good and provide benefits. That means 2/3 of the time- mutations do nothing or help the organism.

So, I guess I am saying I think you should expect a different result =p. Mutations are good!

I apologize for not reading the entire post, but I don't have the patience tonight. Couldn't this problem be solved by saying that 0 is not a normal number with normal properties? Therefore, it might not fit into all of the properties of equality.

1/0, 0/0, (5)x(0) = (88)x(0), 5^0 = 77^0

are a few example of really weird math things. Accepting 0 can not be used as a number but as a placeholder for an ideal would be better because then you won't make logical fallacies.

We have serious problems to fix: like the pile of garbage the size of Texas that is sitting in the middle of our ocean.

I couldn't find a good article, and I am petty sure the wiki-has some incorrect data displayed, but I'll leave it to the curious to research =p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

I do a lot of free coding for people, and my most favorite email is "YOU CHEATED ME AND GAVE ME A BROKEN SCRIPT!" because they didn't understand how to use it.

I've almost never gotten the 4th and best type of email =/

I found this piece very interesting =]

Joining Google for Andriod- yet never making a useful Application for it. I wonder what he will be doing exactly...

Indeed this would be very useful; however, the possibilities for spam are endless =/

This would have been an amazing read if the author had included something more than a few quotes. Charts and Graphs and Statistics and Links Full of Research. I don't have the time to check up on this information myself (hence reading the article), but if the author had backed up all of his crazy theories with tangible evidence- this article would have been amazing.

So to answer your question, Mr. Author, I will listen to you when you back up what you say with something tangible I can hold onto.

That's a good idea. I can subscribe; however, it seems like it would be beneficial to HN to keep the links clickable. I still don't really understand the need to kill them though.

ChatRoulette is no fun, imho, because I don't want to see people jacking off or talk to random 70 year old men. (I tried it two days ago with a friend.)

People who use ChatRoulette say "I'm used to seeing guys jack off." (not just my friend, everyone I have talked to says it) That's a phrase I never thought I'd hear- nor something I want to hear. I wonder what they will say about this site.

This is amazing. I wish there was the ability to make text via typing as well because I could easily make some basic designs to pretty up my website with this =]

(Yes. I'm not a designer)

Edit: Hold Shift for colors!

I'm not going to lie. I literally said "Awww, Coool!" Then looked around to see if anyone noticed because I felt like my inner child surfaced a bit too much.