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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. T…

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 th…

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 complete…

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, howev…

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 deprivati…

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…

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…

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 practica…

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 I…

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 …

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 w…

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.…

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 matchin…

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.