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I started to get better once I began to understand what had happened to me. It's awesome that you are already aware of your coping habits, how it's affecting you, and what you are trying to avoid. It took me a long time to realize I had even been affected by trauma, and it took even longer to realize how I was coping.

The book 'The Body Keeps the Score' that showed up recently on here[1] has been immensely helpful for me. It explains all of the changes your body and mind go through after trauma. Before reading that book I tried to treat the symptoms and it didn't work. I also didn't realize that a lot of the things I was dealing with were really symptoms of underlying trauma. Reading the book is hard (there are lots of stories of other people's trauma that can be triggering) and I cry a lot and need to take a break to self soothe but it's been my roadmap to getting through this. This is the first paragraph of chapter 13, when the book finally explains how to heal:

> What has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the imprints of trauma on body, mind, and soul: the crushing sensations in your chest that you may label as anxiety or depression; the fear of losing control; always being on alert for danger or rejection; the self-loathing; the nightmares and flashbacks; the fog that keeps you from staying on task and from engaging fully in what you are doing; being unable to fully open your heart to another human being.

> Trauma robs you of the feeling of being in charge of yourself...The challenge of recovery is to reestablish ownership of your body and mind--of your self. This means feeling free to know what you know and to feel what you feel without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed. For most people this involves 1.) finding a way to become calm and focused 2.) learning to maintain that calm in response to images, thoughts, sounds, or physical sensations that remind you of the past, 3.) finding a way to be fully alive in the present and engaged with the people around you, 4.) not having to keep secrets from yourself, including secrets about the ways that you have managed to survive.

For 1.) yoga and meditation have been really helpful for me. Both yoga and meditation have been clinically proven to help PTSD sufferers. For meditation I enjoy using the Headspace app. I've mostly been doing yoga with Youtube videos by 'Yoga with Adriene'. I would suggest starting with the video 'Yoga For Post Traumatic Stress' or the 'Dedicate 30 day Yoga Journey'. All you need is a mat. I've started going to in person yoga classes and it's been really nice but I did yoga on my own for about a month beforehand.

For 2.) I've been learning how to 'ground' which is essentially mindfulness with a focus on your touch points (your feet on the floor, your butt in the chair, etc). The breathwork from yoga and meditation is also super hepful. Your breath is one of the few things under both conscious and autonomic control so you can use it to tap into the part of your body that is losing it when you're triggered.

3.) comes back to mindfulness, and again yoga and meditation are really helpful. After experiencing trauma I started to disassociate all the time. Now I can usually notice when it starts and check back in with myself.

For 4.) therapy, journaling, and self help books have been helpful for me. I would suggest trying multiple therapists until you find one you like. The consensus seems to be that you eventually need to revisit trauma to move past it, but you don't want to do that until you have the tools to revisit it without reliving it. You might be able to do that on your own but I feel a lot safer doing that with a trained professional. I've also realized that the stuff I am dealing with is a little too intense to expect a friend or partner to deal with so my choices are either journaling or therapy.

As I've worked on those 4 things the hold of addictive behaviors and coping mechanisms has started to loosen. It's easier to not drink when I'm actually comfortable being in my own skin and feeling what I feel. I still compulsively check my phone sometimes but I try to acknowledge what I'm doing and ask myself what need I'm trying to fulfill when I do it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340636

If you build the dome tall enough it isn't really an issue. My dome is a 20' diameter 5/8 dome and my head will only touch if I am standing 4" away from the wall.

Each of the 15 sides is around 4' long on a 20' dome so you can put square furniture against the side if it isn't over 4' long. It is a problem with long furniture. I have an 8' long counter and I drop stuff behind it all the time.

Loyd Kahn wrote a few articles about the problems with geodesic domes, like this one: https://www.shelterpub.com/domes/#domebuilders-blues

I just started using enpass today. They have a native Linux app, it works almost identically to 1password, and you can import your 1password vault.

This is my first week back on Linux after using OSX for ~4 years. I switched because it's cheaper. I needed more power and building a Linux desktop is way cheaper than buying Mac hardware.

So far: KDE is incredibly nice. I'm pretty blown away. Aesthetically I actually like it more than Aqua. The file manager is nice, the terminal is fine, there is a spotlight style search, virtual desktops, pretty much everything I would miss moving from OSX.

I miss 1Password the most. Right now I'm using a CLI client (passcards) to access my 1Password vault. I haven't setup notes yet but it seems like there are decent Notational Velocity alternatives. Relearning muscle memory to use CTRL instead of CMD is painful. I'm wasting a lot of time tweaking keyboard shortcuts.

Just a heads up, using safari on OSX there are big blank boxes over the hero text and I can't select radio boxes.

It looks like only glot-www is Haskell.

glot-snippets and glot-run are both erlang APIs, and glot-code-runner is a go application.

Nice, it reminds me of Ken Isaacs. He designed free standing living structures with movable pallets so they could be reconfigured and plywood skins for privacy. You can read his book online [https://issuu.com/golfstromen/docs/ken-isaacs-1974] since it's out of print.

Worked great on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) with an old panasonic boombox. Very cool!

I've used RAML for the past six months, but only to generate documentation. It's pretty easy to learn. A RAML file is a lot cheaper to rewrite, so I write RAML first and figure out if the endpoint makes sense before I write the backend code manually.

I don't know of projects generating the actual server side code from RAML/Swagger/API Blueprint other than the OPs project.

Other than documentation, they are useful for generating mock servers for testing, API client libraries, and collections for postman/paw.

Its actually an open source hardware design built around a Freescale quad core arm CPU. It is definitely designed to be user replaceable; you can print your own boards if you want.

Info here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

I started learning HTML / PHP when I was 14. It took me 10 years to get decent at it. I dropped out of school when I was 15. I worked odd jobs; settled on working as a bike mechanic. Did that while doing random programming gigs on the side.

A few years ago I worked at a bike shop where I was salaried and the owner wasn't paying overtime. After working way too many unpaid hours in a week, a pointed out that it was illegal. Ended in a 'well prove it' argument so I did. Got my overtime, then left the company since it was super stressful and uncomfortable after that.

After that I pushed shopping carts at Lowes all day, then came home and practiced programming and did random Odesk jobs. It sucked. At this point I finally learned enough OOP and Mysql that everything clicked and I started learning a lot faster from there.

Another bike shop finally had an opening, so I went there. I moved on to a sailboat and saved enough money to try freelancing. I did freelance work for a while. After that I tried to start an IoT startup. The stress totally destroyed me and I was broke. After our big contract fell through, I applied to a local software company and got the job. Did that for a while and now I write software for a startup in the bay area.

I switched to a Wacom pad and I really like it. It's a little weird to get used to picking up the pen but that is mostly when context switching between programming and web browsing.

I have heard good things about using a vertical mouse but I haven't tried it.

I just moved from Asheville to the bay area and wish I didn't :(

I just moved to the bay area for work and I rented from Brandon for a week while I went apartment hunting.

I don't think he's a 'scumbag' or profiting off of others misfortune. I was able to rent a place to crash for ~$150 less per day than a hotel would have cost and I had access to a full kitchen, washer/dryer, fast internet etc, which I wouldn't have had with a hotel.

The sailing documentary they briefly mention in the article is called Hold Fast. If there are any HN readers that are into sailing I highly recommend it.

You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/15351476

how? I didn't see a way to add trackers or magnet links

The ability to play a legitimate dvd would make the player qualify for safe harbor under the Betamax case.

Unfortunately, it looks like it is impossible to use Popcorn Time for any non infringing purposes. You can't add other trackers and it seems to filter out torrents that aren't from popular movie/tv piracy release groups. The screenshots and the software's tagline that "they want to make the experience of watching torrent movies as simple as possible" support the argument that they are aiming to satisfy a known source of demand for infringement.

The only case that could be defensible is that Popcorn Time is developed as a proof of concept and is not intended for actual use. I still don't think it would qualify because the use of Popcorn time as a way to stream movies is more "commercially significant" than any other use.

I think it does and it's something I work on. I don't think speed is as important as touch typing with less errors. having to backspace every couple of lines because you hit ' instead of ; really messes up flow.

I started practicing typing because I tend to type with 2 or 3 fingers per hand and was experiencing RSI symptoms. My hands feel a lot better when I type properly.

There is a great article about this on Coding Horror: http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmer...

I've enjoyed typing.io for learning as well as typing of the dead.

I just interviewed a few days ago and was agonizing over the same thing. The place I interviewed at had a casual dress code - jeans, t shirts, shorts etc. It's a software company, not a company that has in house software.

I didn't want to over or under dress so I wore dockers, dress belt, dress shirt tucked in and a tie. I think the best idea is to hit business casual - not full suit but not casual.

The founder was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He didn't say I was over dressed and I got the job. I would have been really uncomfortable in a suit.

In the early 1970s if you took a secret plane trip alone and came back with 27k you probably didn't go to Vegas...

paper + pen. After that balsamiq, kuler, and I make a moodboard in illustrator.

Aaron's Law was just recently introduced:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2454#overview

There is a really great talk by Lessig about the legal issues surrounding the case at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAw1i4gOU4#t=44m39. After seeing the debate around the movie, this quote really stuck out at me:

"He was a citizen who felt a moral obligation to do what he believed was right. And if he is guilty here it is because he acted on that view of what was right. And we need to act to respect that act of citizenship. To think beyond what Aaron did, to think beyond what was done to him, to think about the ideals he gave everything in his life to, and to make those ideals the law."

The issue of temp files is covered by the author's approach of having a dev and a live folder. This is probably primarily useful for static sites html sites which wouldn't need to worry about that.

I work with a largely non technical team on a site that is 95% built with a static site generator. They needed versioning but I couldn't convince them to take on the overhead of SVN or Git.

We sync the project using Dropbox, than deploy the build folder via FTP. We use folders for branches and Dropbox has limited versioning.

The biggest problem is that the people this is useful for probably aren't going to have a VPS or know how to install the btsync daemon. There are a couple of services that offer hosting for dropbox static sites like site44[1]. I could see a Btsync equivalent being a popular service.t

1. http://www.site44.com/

you get multi threading, which is helpful for reading sensors and listening to the radio at the same time, or prioritzing urgent tasks.

the hardware abstractions look like they allow you to reuse application code with different hardware drivers too, which is nice.

When I was looking to experiment with Contiki I realized that most of the supported micro controllers are a lot more powerful than an Arduino or something comparable, and a lot more expensive for a development board.

There are some ports to low cost hardware - the arduino port for atmel chips [1] and a port to the TI launchpad [2], which is a $3 chip.

https://github.com/contiki/contiki-arduino https://github.com/msloth/contiki-launchpad