Hi, <name> from Coinbase here. Sorry for the delay on that - definitely not the customer experience we are striving for.

<some phone shit right here>

Edit: <we actually did our job and made it work. we also gave you 0.01% on top!>

Sometimes when you look at similar graphics to this one, you go: "Wow, that's big."

Somehow, this wasn't one of those times. This one was: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_gree...

That is a really cool link, i especially like the page about gold.. crazy so much ( ~50% ) of the worlds gold is in jewelry..

Good link, thanks

Strangely enough, this idea has gone through my mind a couple of times, for a completely different reasons though.

Mortality is closely connected with the hours we spend sitting each day. So that's one reason.

The other one is that after working so hard and saving up enough for the rest of your life, you need something that is much more stress-free. And selling something so basic as food is exactly that.

While sitting is correlated with mortality, I don't think it's been proved that it causes it. I suspect the relation between the two is more complicated than that.

As far as stress free... Interacting directly with many customers can be a trying experience. I think it can be a lot more stressful than an office job for many people.

I'm not saying you'll be dead in 5 years time if you spend more than 12 hours a day sitting on a chair programming. But it adds up if you're doing that your whole lifetime and neglect healthy food and physical activity. Of course it differs from person to person but I think you see my point.

Regarding stress free comment... I guess it depends on the person in question. Besides, when you finish for the day, you really finish for the day and that's the most important thing. Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Smart people will put health before entrepreneurship, especially if it prolongs their life and not just in the sense how many years will they have to life.

> And selling something so basic as food is exactly that.

There is very little that is as stress free as being a programmer. Certainly not the food industry. My wife's cousin is a chef. Her job is terribly interesting, but she works 80 hours a week to make 1/3 as much money as a programmer and has to deal with tremendously demanding situations (cooking at peak dinner service).

> And selling something so basic as food is exactly that.

I dare you to take a food safety course. I sweat bullets just thinking about what might happen in the tiny chance that a customer gets sick from eating my food even after all the ten million precautions that were taken. Then I dare you to run a reasonably high volume restaurant during peak lunch/dinner hours. :)

Forget all the other stresses like how it's really hard to find good burger flippers in the bay area, even for $14/hour plus tons of overtime 3x meals and more. And the health inspector breathing down your neck giving you a 99/100 for something that has nothing to do with the safety of your restaurant.

Compared to my development work, running a restaurant is a whole different set of stresses and just as bad, all the time.

Bear in mind that while selling food worked out well for the guy in the article, most game programmers don't need to make a move that drastic. For most game programmers, the right move is to just get out of the game industry and get a programming job in some other sector where the ratio of supply to demand is healthy enough that you can stick to reasonable working hours and have some time to spend outdoors.

I thought these points are common sense.

I'd like to see what's inside that 512MB file, though.

Witty attempt to be funny but the reality is that their service which isn't free is down. I don't see the funny side.

I don't think they were trying to be funny. I think it's just jargon talk. I work with unicorns all day and this didn't strike me as an attempt at humour, more as a technical description of what is going on.

When storage availability is degraded and I can't even clone my repositories (not using the web interface at all) it is pretty enraging to see the status page and twitter account talking about angry unicorns. I get that ruby devs understand this, but not all of us who use Github know or care about them using Unicorn as their webserver. It seems to us like they are trying to be cute and funny at a poor time.

I agree. It's a perfectly cromulent description of the problem at hand.

I'll give you a little advice that's been working wonderfully for me so far - don't ever post something that is politically/ethnically/whatever questionable and you'll be fine. Even better than that, it'll play in your favour.

You probably have one of the most bland profiles out there.

(This may be a good thing.)

I also run a pretty tight ship on Facebook. Only closest friends and family (13 people in total), visibility to friends only and such things.

Father created Facebook account a week ago to keep up with our favourite sports team. I sent him a friend request but he managed to hide it and didn't find it later. Yesterday he received an email saying something in this style: Do you know these people? A list with 13 people was underneath it and these 13 people were my friends.

Thankfully he knows most of them so it didn't get awkward but still a massive, massive worry for me.

Internet's a postcard, not an envelope.

It's not mine but a product I frequently use. See for yourself.

Before I read the article; why does the permalink symbol looks exactly like the infinity symbol (∞)?

Because it is an infinity symbol (U+221E).

I guess the idea is that the permalink will last for an infinite amount of time. I personally think its pretty clever.

I guess it's because this is what a permalink really is: an URL meant to last forever (hence the infinity symbol).

because it is?

Thanks! I think of this topic as rarely discussed but its 'products' are often used.