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One thing that helps me is this: whenever I'm in a situation that makes me nervous, I think about even more stressful situations in the past that I went through unscathed. For example, if I get nervous before speaking to a group of 10 people, I would recall events where I managed to present to a larger group of people. I was nervous then, but I "survived" it, no reason to think I wouldn't survive this one either.

Alright, since this is not the first time I see this: what the deal about people from Austin trying to shoo people away? As if Austin was really that great and everybody wanted to come there? And isn't it the case that the more tech people go live in the Austin, the better the tech scene and thus benefit tech people like you (I assume you're in tech)?

I had lived in the Bay Area, moved to Austin just to move to another place within a year. Austin has many nice things, but definitely not one of the top US cities I would consider building a family in. I can list out tons of things about Austin that would be deal breakers for many people and there are better cities out there in many aspects.

I'm truly puzzled by this sentiment from Austin people.

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The data I put in Google is MY property, I want that data protected and don't care less about servers just as I do not claim ownership to the school locker.

bs. This makes it sound like these companies like Apple are harming the Chinese. I came from a developing country and I can tell you right now many people have to do much worse jobs to carve out some food for themselves and many others die from the lack of it. The moment you pull out jobs made possible by Apple and the likes, many will suffer.

Why would I prefer to plug and play (and toss away) micro, modular libraries/frameworks designed to interop or to be independently used instead of using a monolithic technology that pushes to my throat ObjJ, Cocoa and a other contraints that follow (like IE8+ only)? That needs an explanation?

What a hypocrite. You can joke dirty publicly, but when it comes to 2 friends making private jokes with one another, you become Joan of Arc, a heroine, an activist. Well "calculated" though, I have to say.

Don't know about Rails, but I'm building a MVP using Node.JS and hosting a free dyno. Can handle 250 reqs/s for dynamic requests (i.e. full stack, Postgres, Redis, Jade, Express etc.) and 1500+ reqs/s for static contents. I do use cluster with 3 workers though. Pretty happy with the result so far.

> Within a single request, Node can async its dealing with outside services (databases, api's, etc), but it is still only processing one request at a time. There is no 'synchronized' keyword in javascript. ;-)

This is as wrong as it can get. Multiple requests are processed "concurrently", in the sense that a request gets served as soon as an existing request awaits on async calls. It is different from thread-based concurrency and thus there is no need for things like "synchronized" keyword.

Can anyone explain why this random routing is supposedly good for Node.JS and Java? I mean the net effect is busy dynos might serve more requests while idle ones remain idle and that is certainly not good for Node.JS or anything. What am I missing?

The author is a developer, not a designer. And I don't see the point of trying to persuade people to not listen to her because she's among the awful designers although they already say they find her writing useful.

Uhm, what? The button name is "Buy now with 1-click", not "Rent now with 1-click". If I buy something, I own it. Period.

I came from a developing country and among the things I miss about it is low cost phone, cable and internet. Basically $25/month vs $150 I'm paying now for pretty similar quality of service. That has puzzled me a great deal, shouldn't tech cost be much higher in a developing country than in the #1 technology country in the world.

I'm tired of this. Can't people realize that they'll change, and what they love doing now might not be what they will love doing in the future? For example, when you're old, your hormone dies out, I guess you would wish you had spent less time chasing girls in order to start business sooner, learn to play guitar or something like that.

As I change, I will want different things than what I want now. So I don't care less what that old man in the future, with different priority, viewpoint, and most of all, the privilege of hindsight, thinks his younger self should have done. Just try my best and enjoy life as I feel it. Old man takes care of himself. I'll try not leave him bad health or broke, but I'm sure he'll have something to regret. So be it.

Don't want to nitpick, but the article says "Baxter will sell for $22,000, not including its base and hands, but including a software subscription and warranty." So not really a 10x cost saving.

Why are you so sure he hadn't have read all those in his 20's? And didn't it occur to you that those "real" books may just be real for you only?

My bad, I misread it. Still, I would ask the same for the requirement of "have considerable technical skills".

>> Have some way to pay the developer.

>> Have an impressive track record of expertise / success in the relevant industry.

>> Have considerable technical skills.

>> Have considerable design skills.

If I have all that, why do I need YOU to execute this idea?

+1. While I haven't got any deal out of it, I do think the ads make very good cover screen. I'd prefer them much more than an empty dull cover screen.

NRefactory itself depends on Cecil, so his translator might not use Cecil at all.

And because you're already rich, it is okay for people to rob you?

This "x happens everywhere" argument always sickens me. Murders happens everywhere, does that mean we shouldn't criticize a specific mass murderer?

May I ask which brand you bought and for how much?

So Google bought Sparrow so that they would never release this?

They wouldn't, because at least gene has its role. Life events + genes + free will => destiny. The role of the first two are pretty self-evident. I'm not sure about the role of free will, if it exists.

Robin Hood is only good if all the rich he robbed from were bad.

If you hate your job and have no interest in the success of your company, good advice. If you love your job, there's nothing wrong doing it a bit more. I sometimes see myself work 12 hours a day just because I can't get my mind of a coding problem. And I sincerely hope the company I work for become successful.

Why not both? I'm not advocating overtime, but if overtime is needed in a certain period then what's wrong with the company gives out bonus?

Thanks for the advice, kls. I'm not afraid of learning new tools, I do that all the time although it's really hard to master something (much less the whole cool modern stack) within 1 or 2 years (while still keeping doing whatever paying you). I'll think about it.