jakubmal

The guys behind ikeahackers should escalate this to higher positioned managers within Ikea, until they have a chance to talk to someone who will understand and appreciate the idea behind the website.

How would you tackle named functions in coffeescript?

why is it dead for me?

Yeah, Mt.Gox behaves really badly. I made a few immediate orders some time ago and they're still pending. Totally unreliable.

The article is from 26 March 2012, over a year ago. Would be great to hear on developments that happened over last year.

May this be another 'lost' case, appeared once and never again?

Right, don't back up. Just diss.

I can't believe my eyes actually. As I was opening this comments page, I thought that majority will represent vastly different opinion here. But since that's not the case, I decided to speak up.

Nick Hanauer cannot be more wrong. Taxing rich people means punishing someone for his success. There is no argument that could justify such Robin Hood's behaviour. In fact that's what was (or is) happening in the communism. So regression at it's finest. I think that someone hasn't had his history homework done. The things is that the root of the problem is somewhere else. If you think about evolution for a second. Weaker species are removed, stronger survive. It leads to creating better and better species. On the other hand, if we helped weaker species to survive as well, then not only this natural filter is effectively stopped, but also ironically, the situation is even worse for the stronger ones. That would inevitably make the whole ecosystem poor.

To wrap it up, if God (or some other kind of Force) decided to help poor species, we, humans, would never exist. Why don't you just support the idea, that put you into existence?

I have the same thing, but only for cells - it starts after more than 5 mins of a call. Yet, I'm not sure whether it isn't just a nocebo - after all, I KNOW I'm holding that device. Maybe try to ask your friend to hold EMR device close to you but without your knowing about it ;) Share the results then.

Try attending local TEDx meeting: http://www.ted.com/tedx

Nooo, it's dead! 500

LOL, who could think of something so stupid...

I live in a tiny country, Poland (that's eastern Europe). We've seen these ideas before, right before 89', Berlin Wall, right before getting out independence back from Soviet Union.

But it seems I can go West and hear it again, cool.

just curious: who's behind this?

Yes, this story is, to put it simply, old.

jakubmal [thanks for invite]

please, please, please ;) jakubmal@gmail.com

This is about your not wanting to waste time on things that should just work.

If you're not a designer - just buy a layout: http://themeforest.net/, http://www.woothemes.com/ or whatever.

Yeah, they say they reduced the latency by 30% for 90%, but they actually increased it for 90% of sites I visit. Canary seems to be better in many cases, but still incomparable to FF4. On win7.

lots of errors only, oh and blackscreen on FF4 4.0.1 win7

Specifically, because they get rid of the car very quickly and it was never found.

But I want to ask you about something. And please don't downvote me.

I believe that 6 months of keeping data about calls/ips/others is reasonable approach. If you're not commiting any crimes, only situation when it might be harmful is some kind of political situation. But then, I'm sure you can provide other means of communication. So what is this actually about?

Listen guys, I just want to know, so no flames, no downvoting please.

I do not fully agree, my neighbour was hit in a car accident. The driver was some young idiot, driving at 90kmph (56 mph) on red on zebra crossing. Later he said that the car had been stolen. The only proof that led to conviction was data gathered from BTSes and data about 2 calls he made (times, location).

But for the Data Retention Directive, this reckless, young man would have been found innocent. Now imagine the same thing happening to someone who is important to you. What would you say?

This is a letter I sent to the author of essay few minutes ago:

Hi, As you probably know already, your essay landed on Hacker News main page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345552 Also, here you can see comments. Congratulations for that.

However, being keenly interested in applied psychology I’d like to point out few things about your essay.

First thing that made me worried is that you actually didn’t mention Emotional Intelligence. I’m not sure whether it was so known back then in 2005. You rely on extrovert/introvert factor to categorize people. The same what Jonathan Rauch did.

Very latest researches and publications tend to categorize people by low/high Emotional Intelligence (EQ), which is a good choice in my opinion. Note that EQ covers wide range of factors, but generally relates to understanding one’s own and others’ behavior. So this not only applies to dealing with any social interactions, but also to dealing with one’s self.

You may now assume that introvert means low EQ and extrovert means high EQ, but it isn’t necessarily true. I’m in one of very top high schools in Poland. And we have an AP Computer Science class, which has a program that is very similar to what is done on University on Algorithmics. Also we have analogical Mathematics class.

Obviously, we observe EQ drop when comparing these special classes to others. However we do not observe introverts/extroverts categories. Of course those extroverts – low intelligence guys are quite funny ;) , but that’s not the point. The point is to show that there’s not so much connection between EQ and being extro-/introvert.

Now, you are right that introverts are generally ranked lower in “life/people categories”. That happens because emotions plays key role in human brain. They were introduced by evolution to help species survive, but now it turned against us.

High EQ people (not all extroverts and not only extroverts, also some introverts) know how to use this to help themselves in many life situations. They know how to negotiate, how to talk people into something, how to have great friendships and fulfilling marriages. In our times EQ became one of the most important factors in life.

So I believe we should stop complaining against people treating others worse because these others are introverts. Rather we should improve our EQ to be aware of our own behavior, of what controls us, because this is the way to living our lives better.

With equal EQ levels introvert and extrovert will be dealing with life very similarly, they both will be able to find a way in difficult situations. Unfortunately, extrovert will always have an advantage over introvert, e.g. extrovert will have more connections and that as we know is better in business. But it will not be that significant.

What I want to point out is that we need to help people improve EQ and choosing people by high EQ levels (observe them in social interactions) is not so surprising from the point of chooser. Fortunately, Emotional Intelligence is not something like “being tall”, which cannot be changed.

At last I’d like to thank you for this essay. I’m sure it is going to have positive impact on its readers. When hunting for those EQ guys we sometimes forget that there is also a place for IQ guys. And they are going to find it too. Also, they are in lucky situation, because they have high IQ, which cannot be changed and probably low EQ, which can (easily) be changed. The life would be theirs, only if they did a little to improve Emotional Intelligence.

Sincerely, Jakub Malinowski from Poland

Market can't and won't solve some problems. Wasn't US debt crisis caused by market?

We could let market solve the problem if all people were intelligent and aware of biochemistry (at least when we're talking about food). This, however, is very rare.