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>People I don't feel comfortable calling I probably shouldn't be stalking on Facebook anyway

So so true. I wish more people realized this.

FYI it looks like in the iOS store its still called Viewport. Can't speak for the Android side though.

The amount of condescension/lack of empathy in your comment is astounding. Haven't logged in in 2 years, had to log in to say that. And before you worry that I downvoted you, I still don't have enough karma to do so.

Do you mind sharing what your wife does? I was recently in Phnom Penh and really liked it.

Could you please expand on "realizing that absent mindedness is a symptom of poor plannning"? Also limiting gifts and travel?

There's no way to contact you in your profile.

I don't see how being a "multipotentialite" precludes you from finishing work. If you're bored with something and don't do it, that is an issue of motivation and discipline.

>I wonder if there are similar motivations for super rich American philanthropists. My guess is they're less worried about revolt and more motivated by vanity.

This is a bit more pessimistic view but what about the raise in minimum wage for fast food workers (in NY) to $15 an hour? I daresay those employees are less likely to participate in Occupy Wall Street protests now, not that the balance of power in this country has actually changed any.

Does your ADD have any overlap with ego? Rather than answer (directly) an honest question, you leave a sarcastic non-answer. Seems like you are pretty insulted by his query, perhaps your sense of self identifies a bit with your diagnosis of ADD.

Does your apprentice have to be local to you or can they be remote?

Looking at the title, I assumed this was going to be about audio versions of Wikipedia articles. Obviously, this is much cooler!

Have you found a programming job elsewhere?

This post was rising up the front page when I refreshed and it was dumped to the middle of the second page - would I be crazy for guessing that some of these CEOs have more karma/power on HN (TBH I don't really know/care how it works on here) and have buried it intentionally?

This book is dedicated to detailing some of the inner workings of that phenomena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

I've spent lots of time studying neurotransmitters and their relationship with various mental illnesses and amino acids. It has been my understanding for a while now (from the book 'The Mood Cure' by Julia Ross) that too much of a neurotransmitter can have the same symptoms as too little. That book also seemed to indicate that dopamine and serotonin have an antagonistic relationship with each other, so too little (or too much?) serotonin can cause an excess of dopamine, which can lead to all kinds of anxiety, including potentially social phobia.

I've been considering buying books on endocrinology/neurobiology to further study these phenomena, if anyone with more knowledge/experience could enlighten me on this I'd really appreciate it.

The amount of ego in this comment is astounding

"impact on world around us" should read "impact on the world around us"

Reading The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle), A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle), and Radical Honesty (Brad Blanton). I am now at peace and happy all of the time. I could spout off about technical stuff, but none of that has paid off as much as the mindset these books gave me.

I'd like to help you work on this. Would that be doable?

"If your bug works specifically under GNU/Linux, don’t worry about it. If it works specifically under x86, no problem. If it only works on BeOS R5 on a dual G3 box when all four MIDI ports are active, then no."

I had Dr. Craver as both a professor and project advisor last year, and his brilliance and sense of humor are second to none.

PI... principle investigator?

I'm sorry for your loss

Can anyone link to AirBnB's 999 days without traction that he mentioned?

This reminded me of something that I came across years ago, strobe lights shifting the "timing" of fountains ( http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain ), hopefully this summer I can find some time to build one or a combination of these cool fountains :)

No offense but I think your second paragraph is much too idealistic. You're describing a sort of jury duty, but for doing government work.

"Now the details of how that labour gets applied to building infrastructure for the common good would need to be worked out, it would be a much fairer system than we have now, and much less subject to being gamed."

People already crack jokes about working in the government, doing a minimal amount of work. Imagine if people were actually mandated to work in government instead of paying taxes. Nothing would be achieved, because no one would seriously want to do the work. Or the people who had positions of power would abuse them to no end.

You describe a nice system, but how would it ever be implemented in practice? What kind of media campaign/propaganda would be required to convince the entire country they should work hard at serving each other? Would this shift be characterized by a revolution? Perhaps it would start small, in communes? Would the shift happen nationally or on a state by state basis (in the US)?

My guess is that that gradual decline over time may be related to more people getting online. Put another way - when the internet's use was limited to more tech-savvy people, this term was searched a higher percentage of the time than today.

37 Signals did this, and they've written lots about their conversion. Check out the book REWORK by Jason Fried.

You said you were a good software developer before prison - was your crime a white collar one? Do you mind sharing what you were convicted for?

link for anyone else curious what a 360 deal is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal

what happened with your first company?