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The bias for promoting people who build massive card houses is frustrating. I've found myself cleaning up the mess my manager left behind pushing through whatever feature he used to get promoted countless times. And then getting pressure by that same manager when there is too much tech debt in the code base they left behind.

Agreed and I think the high production podcasts are definitely hitting a bit of a bubble. But my favorite podcasts are ones that always have different guests and I think that category has a lot of growing to do. The expertise required for the guests is only the one they already have. For example a nutritionist just has to come on and talk about nutrtion. Something they do for daily anyway.

I don't think the bubble is bursting at all. If anything its maturing. It's not working for large companies. But I now listen to podcasts more than I read books and I learn more that way as well. Most of these podcasts come from small independent sources. Human conversation was how stories were spread for thousands of years, until the printing press. Now we have the technology to share information through conversation, but with the same reach as written language. Among my group of friends, talking about what podcasts we've read has become very similar to the old conversations we had about boost. The best podcasts are in depth often niche discussions similar to books. The don't require the production level of TV, which is great because a lot of great podcasts don't have a large enough audience to support that cost. They require time, and expertise to produce, not much money.

Interviewing. I'm good at my good. My portfolio is at least decent, and I get a lot of responses on my resume, but I consistently can't close the deal. I also have a very hard time bettering myself with the lack of feedback. I've gotten better at all the stuff you can read about online and often made it to the final round, but I can't make it to an offer.

Sounds kind of like the unemployment income most states have.

"Not psychoactive" is definitely not the right term. CBD affects, indirectly, the GABA receptors in your brain. It's pretty clearly psychoactive. The "non-psychoative" seems to have picked up a colloquial usage that essentials equates to "doesn't get me high".

This is a bit reductions. There is a lot of research chemicals that are very safe analogues, e.g. 4-ACO-DMT or 1P-LSD. Often times more safe because when you purchase these its from a lab that does testing and you know exactly what you're getting.

The real danger of Research Chemicals is the large amount of cheap drugs of other classes produced that have similar effects and are labeled and sold as LSD. Very few people are buying those type of drugs and taking them on purpose. And they are incredibly dangerous.

Have you tied pot? I have a similar problem with some nights were I can't sleep and if I smoke the right weed I'm out like a light.

Awesome project. I'm a bit obsessed with making food from scratch. I love to see how far down the rabbit hole I can go.

I don't know if ownership of the actual robots is a key component. But certainly, have full access and power to customize the machines in use is important. Something similar is already happening now in the developing world where the first access to the internet and computing for most people is a mobile phone. There is a growing number of people who don't know how to type on a keyboard but know how to use a computer. Voice commands are a large part of their input. As great as voice command can be, there is power and flexibility you simply can't access without a keyboard.

The only way I learned to program and now have a career is because I had easy access to the internals of a computer. I could start tinkering. I started messing with the internals of the computer even before I started programming. My curiosity led me to the file system of games and I started replacing sound and image files to mod my games. If someone's access to computing is a mobile phone they download and install prepacked bins. The can't and don't get to look at anything under the hood. No matter how strong their curiosity is they can't just discover.

I'd rather flip it around. Put the scientist at the top and having him use advisors to navigate the political landscape.

I had a similar habit and discovered I was self medicating for ADD/bipolar disorder.

I fasted for the first time after seeing some research on the benefits. Once I realized it's safe I figured, why not try and see how it affects me. I noticed a definite improvement in stress over the week following and now I try to fast once every 3 weeks if it fits into my schedule. Everyone reacts so differently to different diets I've found the most benefit from trying whatever I can and being mindful about the changes. We've become a little too obsessed with the one fits all approach to health.(e.x. Soylent) There is benefit to finding general guidelines through research, but a little self experimentation goes a long way.

Yes. Me. I've been programming for about ten years, but mostly jumped from language to language until I found clojure. Clojure is the only language I really "know".

It's about having a declarative UI library. React is just the syntax Facebook prefers.

A last chance to see - Douglas Adams

I didn't understand the importance of conservation efforts until reading this book.

I've started taking CBD semi regularly as a stress/reliever, and anti-inflammatory. It's a great alternative to ibuprofen for pain or alcohol for an end of the day wind down. Only side effects I've found are dry mouth/eyes. I'd rather have to take some eye drops than deal with the destruction of my stomach from ibuprofen or the side effects of alcohol.

> Trump won largely because of disenfranchised blue collar Caucasians resonated with him.

This is one of the most startling facts of this election to me. Trump got the support of these people with emotional rhetoric that had little basis in reality. By putting on a hat and giving people groups to blame he positioned himself as a champion of the people besides his past showing is the complete opposite. Trump has spent his whole life taking advantage of middle-class people and sits on a literal throne in a tower in Manhattan. There is a large number of people in the United States, not just blue collar Caucasians, who have a couple inability to think critically and make well calculated well-informed decisions. Education is one possible solution to this problem, classes on logic and reasoning, starting at a young age. But what about now? Can we wait 20-30 years for a new population with better reasonings skills?

Headspace is a great intro. After that all you really need is to set the time aside and practice.

Try meditating. My favorite way to meditate is outside sitting up, but on the days were I struggle to even get of bed I'll start meditating right there and try and work my way to the floor and then sitting up. It's not about doing it right, well, in certain positions or any. Start trying to bring your attention to your breath until you feel like you can work your way out of bed to the floor and then upright.

I've also found bike riding can be modified in a similar way. Throw on a hoodie even if its hot out. This allows you to put your head down and your hood up and generally ignore the world. Even when its hot out, its normal enough to wear a hoodie to work up a sweat". Bike riding also works at low enough speeds you can do it in a very apathetic manner(I find it easier than walking.) You don't have to work hard, just getting a little motion starts blood-flow and can provide a small lift. For me its about finding the easiest, simplest, way to provide some sort of lift to start the day and then hopefully you can snowball it.

> I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.

Whether or not someone agrees with your idea of the purpose of life is not the only cause they have for decision making. Even the very idea of "human flourishing and happiness" means something different to everyone. Personally I cannot imagine myself flourishing or being happy in world were we have destroyed the beauty around us. Here is an excerpt from the book "A Last Chance to See" by Douglas, which does a much better job than explaining the ideas of conservation.

> "In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction. But why do they bother? Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks? Well, yes, it does. Every animal and plant is an integral part of its environment: even Komodo dragons have a major role to play in maintaining the ecological stability of their delicate island homes. If they disappear, so could many other species. And conservation is very much in tune with our survival. Animals and plants provide us with life-saving drugs and food, they pollinate crops and provide important ingredients or many industrial processes. Ironically, it is often not the big and beautiful creatures, but the ugly and less dramatic ones, that we need most. Even so, the loss of a few species may seem irrelevant compared to major environmental problems such as global warming or the destruction of the ozone layer. But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving. There is one last reason for caring, and I believe that no other is necessary. It is certainly the reason why so many people have devoted their lives to protecting the likes of rhinos, parakeets, kakapos, and dolphins. And it is simply this: the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.”

Studying nature shows us just how resilient plants and animals have been to the intense changes in environment and finding and endless stream of ways to survive. However, it has become increasingly even more so since this passage was written that the human race may be the one hurdle life on earth may not be able to overcome. Human flourishing and happiness itself is reliant on the very planet we currently occupy and it's no longer enough to try and temper our environmental impact. We need to minimize it. I'm not well informed enough to have an opinion on hydro verse solar, but I can say its incredibly valuable and important there are people who hold different ideas on the importance of conservation.

When I first started writing Lisp I was put off by how simple the syntax was. Everything looks the same and it was so hard to tells things apart. After working with Lisp for a long enough time I began to love the simplicity. Everything is so simple, nothing gets in the way of reading code.

Reading this is impossible to not to think of Bill Gates. Someone who realized the impact his money can have. Many people in this industry have been influenced by the actions of Gates, especially in the tech community. As a 20 something the money I make certainty pales in comparison to that of Gates or Zuckerberg, but even at a low rate for the tech industry it is much above that of my friends, many of who have worked much harder to get to where they are. It is difficult to be in a position to give help and refuse. Perhaps the effect Gates can have on the minds of the wealthy will be even greater than the already vast contributions he has produced.

I spent 10 months traveling and contracting in hostels, and struggled through some pretty shoddy and slow internet connections; However, Taghazout was the one place I couldn't find a consistent internet connection. I only lasted about 2 weeks trying each cafe and even some of the more expensive hotels, but the bigger problem was the power dropping out every 2 hours or so. I tried to get myself to be able to with develop offline, but unfortunately the product ending up getting more and more tied to SaaS products and I wasn't able to stay in Taghazout for longer.

I was curios to see where they found to setup and it turns out they are actually in the adjacent town. I can think of a couple other good reasons to setup somewhere else, but I imagine reliability is part of the reason they are located in the next town over.

I don't understand the pirate right that its not okay to control distribution of an item. I understand the argument against DRM and definitely feel that when I purchase I should of have full ownership of that product. Distribution, however, is a completely different argument. Scarcity is something companies have consistently used to control values of products. Should movie publishers not be allowed to keep movie in theaters before a DvD release. Or gaming companies not allow early access to pre orders?

Here is the important 2 lines of code.

  response = urlopen('https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=' + search)
  command = 'youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 ' + video_link

Amazing how useful of a tool you can make with such little code. There is really some great libraries available today.

It seems like the key to writing current code is to abandon the idea of understanding how to construct a concurrent architecture and to figure out how to adopt a pattern concurrent which provides certain guarantees. Often it is something baked into the language, but frequently it is a library. This is one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with Clojure.

1) Because it has STM baked in and there is a core library for CSP.

2) Because it is a lisp so adding foreign syntax is as simple as a library and doesn't need to be a language extension.

I had a similar feeling when I first starting using Clojure, but I found it was more of a discomfort from discussing programming language with a direct and accurate vocabulary. After a while I've become much more comfortable reading about and watching videos on programming languages in this style and I really enjoy being able to discuss and think about design decisions in a straightforward way.

It is a problem, but I also enjoy the fact that I can rely on HN for to reason about why things aren't as great as they seem. It's important to know what stills needs fixing and I'd much rather digest it in a matter of fact HN comment than the common world is ending tone many other tend to take towards the US government.

Apple is too large to implode and fail quickly. Even if they do fail it will be a slow death or just a leveling off. Look at Microsoft. The last ~10 years they been getting beaten in many large markets they are entering, but they are still a massive player.