mstroeck

I was the lead dev for Vienna for several years, and it still feels great to see a shout-out like this. Glad you enjoy it :-)

It is not generally true that physicians will treat people with somatic diseases well (or at all) if they personally believe symptoms are actually caused by psychological issues.

This is an unproductive, even dangerous thing to tell sufferers.

jessriedel, the consensus is that this is a physiological disease with an unknown mechanism. That's why it's an area of active research.

I don't know where you get the idea that the null hypothesis for the cause of any set of symptoms not explained by known biomarkers needs to be "psychosomatic disorder". That's not even wrong - it makes no sense.

The issue here is that you did some "brief googling" (your words) on a complicated, confusing, cutting-edge area of clinical research, and now feel competent to state your completely uninformed "null-hypothesis"...

Here's some basic information:

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-announces-...

http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/ME-CFS/MEC...

I'm not sure what you mean by "position statement by an encompassing field."?

ME/CFS is an under-researched, multi-system disease that affects people in a multitude of ways and is very hard to diagnose. There are no accepted bio-markers yet. There are, however, many well-respected researchers in the field, and more are beginning to enter it from all kinds of disciplines. Basically none of them think this is a psychosomatic illness. This is a good place to start for getting an overview of interesting current research: https://www.omf.ngo/the-end-mecfs-project-2/

Only on the very surface. Sleep apnea is relatively easy to test for. ME/CFS sufferers experience a kind of fatigue that is distinctly different from that caused by sleep deprivation. Look up PEM / PENE:

https://solvecfs.org/deciphering-post-exertional-malaise/

Co-founder of Gustav here. Thanks for the kind words :-) The 3% is of course a blended rate. There are positions/sectors where that would never fly, but others where 5% is feasible. Also we cover the full spectrum of what staffing agencies typically offer, including permanent placement type transactions. For those, our take-rate is closer to 20%.

Here's more info on the pricing: https://hellogustav.com/recruiters-and-staffing-agencies

Probably not. The event is off the record and will heavily feature group mentor session. You can still apply, however!

Both are a great choice, both are easy enough to travel to. It's awesome that this is happening. Berlin would draw more people from Eastern Europe, IMHO.

Here in Vienna, we'll have an event with quite a few YC alumni on May 29: http://foundertalks.org

We do not have the means yet to make it free, however. We basically started this a few weeks ago, because we felt that something like startup school is missing in Central Europe. I guess you must have felt the same :-)

EDIT:

P.S.: After our event, I'd be happy to give you some feedback regarding what kind of questions/interestes/etc. European founders voice in such a setting. It's an awesome experiment, I'm really looking forward to it.

Love it! Much better than the default, especially in Chrome.

You might have noticed (from her screenshots) that she is using Mac OS X.

Simply gaining physical access to the machine should ABSOLUTELY NOT enable an attacker to extract practically all web passwords in something like 15 seconds, without any special tools.

Are you completely ignorant of how the OS X Keychain works and should be implemented application-side, or are you just willfully ignoring it?

I'm the project lead for Vienna, the open source RSS client for the Mac. We support Google Reader, and we want to support this:

https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/issues/160

If you're a Cocoa developer, feel free to jump right in. If you're going to implement the server side, shoot me a note @mstroeck (app.net preferred).

I had no clue what the hell you want me to do :-) Seriously, this needs two or three lines of good explanatory copy.

Nice one, Oliver :-)

Exactly my point. All fluff, no informational content.

Ugh. Please don't read this and think you know anything about "closing" a sale. Closing techniques work well for small, unimportant, everyday purchases.

They do not work at all on sophisticated buyers. They might in fact cost you the sale.

The rule of thumb is: If there is any chance that the prospective customer might have heard of such a thing as a closing technique - DON'T USE THEM.

Being first is worthless in and off itself. Execution and customer service are what counts. If you are:

a) an entrepreneur; and

b) think that "rip-offs" like this one are in some way unethical...

... you need to get your head out of your ass, ASAP!

Taking other peoples' great ideas and applying them to make your own product even better is not called "ripping somebody off". That process is called "business".

Here's my question: HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT MATTER.

They are a business, they want to make money. Consumers will choose whichever product they prefer. Everybody wins. End of story.

1) This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.

2) I finally realize what has always fascinated me about him. He was ALWAYS working, with every single breath he took. He seems to have found a way of taking the hazy concept of "work" as it is commonly understood, and elevating it to a more in-focus ideal form through which to understand and shape his life.

This. I've always wondered what's so difficult about pointers for some people, mainly because I used a similar mental model from the very beginning.

How is pattern matching not computation? The fact that you don't notice the underlying computational complexity is just a measure of how freaking good humans are at pattern matching.

5% is actually pretty huge. Here's my simple heuristic, I call it the Income-Loss-Wince-Factor: How would feel about a 1% decrease in income next year? How about 5%? 22%? Ouch.

That's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks.

In my humble opinion, GitHub should bend over backwards to get this to work for him. Project admins really need better control over who can create pull requests, and what they should look like.

Is it just me, or is the entire article 100% hand-waving and ridiculous assumptions?

Wow, are you sure you're talking about the Mac OS X Finder :-) ?

-) This option makes navigation much easier, I don't know why it's not turned on by default:

http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/findertip1.htm

-) You can drag any file or folder into a Terminal window - simply drag and drop. You can also simply "Cmd+C" a file, go to Terminal and do "Cmd+V". The absolute path of the copied file will be inserted.

Have you heard of Spotlight? It's the button at the upper right of your screen. It indexes all your files.

If you are talking about files that belong to the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X: that's what locate is for, for example - try typing that into a Terminal window.

No - Linus' machine is still just another node. Git is fully distributed. Everything in that article still holds.

Which large scale science project in the US had the highest number of "graduates" who went on to win nobel prizes and make gigantic contributions to science? The Manhattan Project.

Which countries are currently working on their own versions of that project? Uh, North Korea and Iran.

You can be DAMN sure that some of the best scientific minds outside of western main-stream are at the moment toiling away in Iran and North Korea.