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"In my most humble opinion, the value of CS education is not to prepare young people for a job in IT. Instead, its value is in teaching young people how to think in an abstract and rigorous manner."

How can one disagree with such a goal? Yet surely any education should aim to teach the young how to think rigorously, and abstraction should be one of the tools. What then distinguishes CS education from what the should be doing across the quad in the departments of philosophy/history/literature?
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yes, it should excuse them. if someone wants to bust their ass and make enough money that their children don't have to work hard that is their prerogative, one I would not try to take away from them.

the whole point of productive labor is that it excuses you from certain responsibilities. you choose to work above and beyond subsistence to excuse yourself from future work no? investment is deferred consumption. as PG says, starting a business is like compressing your whole working life into a few years. what is this if not excusing yourself from future responsibilities?

I find the whole notion of social contract theory to be deeply flawed, but that is a very long conversation.
The Lost Symbol sucked - I was entertained by Vinci Code and Illuminati, even though some of the riddles seemed chilidish. But Lost Symbol adds an unnecessary esoteric, New Age angle ("Twitter is god"), and the riddles have become too ridiculous. One of them is turning some letters on their head to make them readable. Another thing were "magic squares" - so I guess because they have "magic" in the name they have to be something deep and conspirational...
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Nobody's claiming equal-to or faster - currently JGit is twice as slow so there's a lot of room for improvement. Faster than now, not faster than C.
I should mention that so far i've found The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith) and this blog (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com) have built up an idea of classic economics and hinted at Austrian economics.

I'm still having trouble understanding some of the macro stuff like foreign currency reserves, printing money, inflation + employment etc.
01-02-2010 can be read the same way in both directions.
it's nice to see david brooks say something intelligent for once.
But I'm not convinced branching+merging is really good for your productivity.

Because branching and merging are slow? I can see this argument getting stuck in something of a rut.
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The danger of self-teaching is that it is easy to focus on what interests you to the exclusion of things that you really ought to know but which don't grab you the same way. I wish I could tell you how to avoid this danger, but I can't. Perhaps you could browse sites of respected departments and see what courses their students must take, and what the students are expected to learn in the courses.
Non-US people (dd-MM-yyyy) will have to wait until the first of February but still a cool thought.
Disclaimer: I'm very much not a Java/C# guy, so this might be totally barking up the wrong tree. :-)

Would it be a speed win to keep some JVM processes "half-started" if load and memory use allowed? The next started Java app will use one of the already half started JVMs.

You wouldn't need to do anything fancy to keep the JVMs around; if a half-started JVM wasn't used for so many seconds that it might be swapped out, you half-start another JVM and throw away the timed out one.

(Hmm.. I don't remember, but another process could take over stdin/-out/-err? Or you could just limit this to non-console applications.)

How much of the work time is in initializing the JVM and how much is specific for initializing the application? Could the JVM data structures (JIT etc) for an app be cached between runs?

Edit: Made a little clearer. Moved disclaimer to the top, so people know they can stop reading if I'm in the wrong forest..

Edit 2: I probably have read and unconsciously copied a similar idea that some Perl guy implemented?
143% Faster than your current primary DNS server

Yep, that'll do me !
I'm use dnrd http://dnrd.sourceforge.net/ caching DNS

So I plugged in the fatsest three servers from the returned list and ran it again :
399% Faster than your current primary DNS server

dnrd is slowing me down !

I did some tweaking and got it better but still dnrd using the fastest servers is slower overall but I guess it's not getting to do any caching.

Also namebench identifies errors and hijacking so fully recommended.
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It's a pretty specific shootout, of course; the reasons brought up for JGit's relative slowness are not issues present in most applications, they're specific to certain realms of system. Unsigned number support is a major headache about Java when doing low-level work, in particular.

I think it's also important to note that the slowness is relative to an incredibly fast C implementation - taking twice the time sounds painful, but in reality the pauses caused by Git are barely perceptible as-is, and double of that is not likely to be very annoying.
Education: One thing that strikes me in looking at Loony Tunes from (I suppose) that 1950s is how many allusions to classical and folk music they could slip in. I'm guessing that something has been lost in music education in the schools over the half century.

Stodginess: as aristoxenus says, the classical stations do figure on an older, more conservative audience. I used to get a kick out of a Washington, DC station, since defunct. It wasn't unusual to hear a commercial with a relaxed, folksy voice telling one how important the F-15 was too our national defense.
I think that idea that men use wealth to attract mates is pretty damn obvious, but I never really considered that women use displays of altruism to attract males. But makes sense that women would want to say "look! I'll make a good mommy! I am nice and selfless!"

But to go back to our usual question of women-in-tech, people often remark that women tend to go into fields that are more "helping" i.e. medical professions, non-profits. In general, I think the implication that women go into more "helping" fields and men go into more revenue generating fields is used to paint men in a bad light; but here they've shown that women are being just as selfish when they appear to be more altruistic than men. After all, they're much more likely to do charity when a potential mate is watching.
They use the word "high-level languages" and then use Java as the example. This is going to lead to some very wrong conclusions; the problems listed in the article are problems with Java, not problems with high-level languages.

I imagine a Git-in-Haskell would be very close in performance to the C git. (Then why is Darcs so slow? Because it uses an icky imperative, mutable model, whereas git uses a immutable functional model.)
As Deestan notes, delays have direct multipliers. Beyond that, delays often have indirect multipliers that are even worse.

XKCD "Compiling" http://xkcd.com/303/ is funny because we have all done it. If there is a noticeable lag in a development step (VCS operations, compiling, running the program, etc.), it is very likely that the developer will lose concentration and switch to reading email, browsing HN, reading /., BSing with co-workers, etc.

This takes the direct delays and turns them into exponential multipliers. The result is that 30 seconds of lag has a high risk of becoming 30 minutes of wasted time.
Other interesting Tcl interpreter is hiccup, implemented in Haskell

http://code.google.com/p/hiccup/
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Sperm Wars - A fascinating evolutionary biology book focusing on sperm competition.

Caesar by Christian Meier - Got totally hooked on this, wonderful read.

Happy Hour is for Amateurs - Novel by web author Philalawyer. Drugs, Alcohol and the Lawyering profession, written in a gonzo-style.

War of Art
Oh, and you conveyed it well. It's a good story, and I think it really is a hard pill to swallow that some people who are ostensibly on your team will hope for you to fail. I was just confused about that minor point.
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it is a good point that classical dbms's aren't always good, however the method that a dbms uses to perform queries are always good to know. the author here implemented a sort-merge-join which is one of the classic implementations of join algorithm. for a good overview of the trade offs between various the various join and sort algorithms see "Principles of Database & Knowledge-Base Systems Vol. 2" by Jeff Ullman. The first chapter in the book is the one you want. It is dated but therefore cheap if you get it used.

here is the worldcat link http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/439156325
High interest rates normally occur with high inflation making it cheaper to borrow. The "real" rate your paying back is interest-inflation. Prodigals and projectors borrow at a premium above the interest rate whatever the prevailing rate.

Directly quoting Adam Smith is an argument via authority. Evolution doesn't rest on The Origin of the Species but on predictive power. Unless your interest is historical you would be better off reading a modern text.

edit: Actually Smith is talking about Usury Laws.
If any site could claim credit for making the broader notion of crowd funding mainstream it's kiva. There are now a whole range of sites, including many niche sites, that are variations on the same theme. Claiming ownership of the idea of crowd funding and singling out kickstarter is incredibly myopic.
Probably the best prediction I've read on this thread.
Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael L. Scott: The explanations of many things I'd read in other sources are no less than fantastic, I now understand a bunch of things I had only superficially "got" previously. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Pragmatics-Third-..., check out the overview and reviews.

Coders at Work by Peter Seibel: By far the best of this type of book (well, not counting the '80s classic Programmers at Work which I haven't read since then), one of the best Lisp authors interviews in depth a lot of really interesting and/or important people, from James Zawinski to Donald Knuth, with Javascript, static FP and PARC people, Guy Steele, Peter Norvig, Ken Thompson, Fran Allen (really important interview which points out how C/C++ to the exclusion of truly high level languages have been a disaster when used beyond their proper niches), etc. All are masters who've gotten their hands dirty, many are theory people as well. http://www.amazon.com/Coders-at-Work-Peter-Seibel/dp/1430219...

Garbage Collection by Jones Lins: Pretty much the only book in the field (except for the forthcoming Advanced Garbage Collection sequel in the middle of this year), covers the territory as of the mid-90s. Much more fun than trying to track down 100 individual papers and trying to make sense of it all. Exposition is clear and you get a real feeling for the subtleties of the field (especially when you try fun things like generational and/or concurrent GC). http://www.amazon.com/Garbage-Collection-Algorithms-Automati...
Or use the ISO format, 2010-01-02 is a pallindrome, too.
We call that a palindrome.
That is why the rewording I use is "First make it right, then make it fast". If you make it fast first, then that is premature optomization.
Well "pretty damn obvious" wasn't so clear. As a concept it sounds nice and clean that we're all motivated by sex but when you (I'm assuming you're male) go and buy a new car, new watch or a trip to Europe, are you really thinking "this will impress the ladies"? Because that's what this study has actually proved for once - conspicuous purchasing decisions are motivated by sex (conversely conspicuous charity for women).
In fairness, I thought that when I read that line too - it seems almost too perfect. Goes to show that, despite all the quotes about world markets for five computers, sometimes yesterday's futurologists were right.
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Major Propaganda Vessel of Communist Country Denounces Capitalism; Hell Stays Hot; film at 11.

I'm sorry for the cheap joke, but the op-ed doesn't even try to be coherent. Lesson one is that free markets don't work, even though 3/4 of the argument supporting it has to do with the huge government bail-out of the financial industry.

Lesson two is that the reliance on that kind of bailout creates perverse incentives (and lesson one was that markets don't work?).

Lesson three is that Keynesian policies do work. Which seems to contradict lesson one. (Yes, Keynesian policies do work. The debatable issues is whether they work better than letting the free-market work things out).

I don't understand lesson four (mea culpa) and lesson five "is that not all innovation leads to a more efficient and productive economy". Well, duh, no. But bailing out the innovation that doesn't work doesn't lead to anything good, either.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6201814/Google-... has some other great Google Easter eggs.
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I'm particularly interested in the public vs. private trend.
Ask HN: Any Internet retailers of physical goods here?
I have a source of stuff that I can purchase cheaply in one country. I would like to move that stuff to the US and sell it for more, through an online store. Does anyone here have experience with something like this and, if so, would you be willing to give me some suggestions on how to proceed? I'm basically looking for a "hello world" of the process (although maybe it's not so simple as to be hello-world-able).

Here are obstacles I think I will have to deal with:

-government (Taxes? Regulations? Do I need some sort of permit to do this, even if I'm not importing food? Can I just put things in boxes and mail them between countries? This is the area where I feel like I'm missing the most information)

-shipping costs

-keeping inventory in stock (when I first open, what's a reasonable amount - I don't want to make my first customers wait while I reload from a foreign country if I run out, but I also don't want to buy huge amounts of stuff it might turn out I can't sell).

Am I missing anything? Can anyone give suggestions?
You've missed one variation: I've spotted cases where Google "forgot" something.

Where Google had the information in part of its index and could retrieve it, but didn't have that same information in its more general searchable index.

Cases where you could get the data back from its residence (on Google's own servers), but where Google's indexes didn't offer up the data.
Spent is a great book. I particularly liked the descriptive part of it, should be required reading for anyone working in marketing or trying to sell products. I'm not so sure about his prescriptive ideas. He proposes different ways to shape policy so that people rely less on consumerism to send status signals to each other. In general they are interesting but sound a bit impractical. Still, it's very well written and enjoyable.
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I read ~40 books in 2009, so maybe I can answer this as well: my commute to the office is a 30 minute train ride - it certainly helps having an hour each day to sit down and read while getting to work (and beats the hell out of driving).
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I think they go into nursing because the income is better than programming.

My cousin's wife just became a nurse. 2 years of schooling, and her first job started her off at $80K a year. And since she doesn't work at a hospital, that's $80K for regular hours.

And she is just a regular nurse fresh out of school.
It's a set of reminders on how you can go wrong. Every time any of us hears ourselves say something similar to what he said, we're going to back off real quick.

And frankly, Michael Pusateri's response at the end was pretty wonderful.
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extrapolating from a single data point is a bad idea. the national average for 2009 is in the ballpark of $45k
Non-fiction:

Coders at Work by Peter Siebel and Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston - I loved reading about the founder's stories and first-hand perspectives of notable programmers.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton - really interesting perspective on "work" and various types of careers and people that find happiness in them/work itself.

Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - even if you don't agree with their arguments or think that the authors are all fluff, I think that their writing style is exceptionally clear and easy to understand.

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - some really interesting ideas and analysis, although the book could have been 1/2 as short

Fiction:

Anathem by Neal Stephenson - starts out slow but after the first 200 pages it became a really great story that I couldn't put down.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel - loved the main story of the book, the controversial ending didn't bother me too much because I don't feel like it takes away from the story at all.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson - cheap fun and suspenseful

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - I don't think much needs to be said about this book

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - extremely interesting and gripping novel about a side of the world most of us Westerners never see

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - finally read this classic. I read the "Ultimate Edition" which contains all 5 of Adams' novel, loved the first one but the story felt like it started to putter out by the third.
I would imagine you would start seeing a bump from Christmas sales after December
Economics in One Easy Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. A set of short "lessons", starting with the Broken Window Fallacy. No special background required so it should work for someone with "a coding background". http://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-50th-Anniversary/....

There's an old 1948/52? edition available as a scanned PDF which can give you an idea if you want to buy the updated version: http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf.

At a higher level, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek is also short but unlike the above quite dense. Most useful (to me) for applying information theory to command economies. Rather apropos to the situation in the US today, it was published in 1944 and dedicated to "The socialists of all parties". It was intended as a warning to the British socialists of the day who were about to take over and remake their country, warning them of a variety of things, some of which they found out the hard way, plus the demonstrable even back then danger of concentrating so much power at the top (too easy for idiot thugs to take over, e.g. Stalin, "Those who are good at acquiring and exercising discretionary powers in government are usually the most ruthless and corrupt individuals." (Wikipedia)). http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/0...

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom#External_li... for the Reader's Digest condensed version (Hayek was amazed at how good it was) and there's even a cartoon version that I reviewed and found to be quite good.

After the above two you'll be oriented for a variety of much larger tomes, from the classic The Wealth of Nations to e.g. von Mesis' Human Action.
Decimal numerical system is a rather random thing. As is the Gregorian calendar.
What's a 1900 penny worth today? My commute is only a couple of bucks - with inflation considered, it might be close.
The quote was to illustrate that Smith wasn't anti-regulation.
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Amen. Wish I had a time machine just to unsend some of my own emails...
I guess what is obvious to me is that conspicuous behavior != conscious behavior. No one is really thinking "this will impress the ladies" or "this will impress the guys" when they perform these behaviors, but that's really irrelevant.

Most of human behavior, I would argue, is not conscious. We're conscious of the decisions we make, but not always about the ultimate (evolutionary) causes. And why should we? It's completely unnecessary for the evolutionary reasons for our behavior to be conscious, only that we act in a manner that will produce more copy of our genes.
Our phonebooth.net offers hosted voicemail transcription by email and you can read, listen, and manage voicemail from the web (as well as the phone, of course).

There is simultaneous and sequential group ringing.

Conference bridging with up to 8 participants.

Each user/phone number can also configure external phone numbers to forward to.

Finally, you can create an unlimited number of "automated attendants" for your "press 2 to sound like a big business" scenarios. Along with nested menus to drill down to the right person/voicemail, if your needs are more complex.

If hosted isn't for you and you are willing to get your hands dirty, try the open source FreePBX.org for on premise build out of the functionality you've described.

Disclosure: I am on the phonebooth.net product team and are the primary contributors to FreePBX.
Beyond traditional bank loans, specifically for small business
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Stating that someone has "incomplete experience" is hostile, as opposed to informative? The statement was meant to tweak natural curiosity. Apparently, I'm supposed to stroke everyone's ego so that they feel perfect, otherwise I'm called "hostile."

I posit the "tone" comes from the reader.
Heh, "having trouble understanding some of the macro stuff like foreign currency reserves, printing money, inflation + employment etc." shows that you've learned enough to be as confused as any honest person is about these fields, e.g.:

The Phillips Curve postulated there was an inverse relationship between inflation and employment (e.g. one aspect was that as labor got tight, it cost more to hire people and that lead to inflation). It was utterly destroyed by the stagflation of the '70s where we got both high inflation and unemployement, but it's still the law of the land in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey-Hawkins_Full_Employmen...).

I prefer the explanation that you get inflation by "printing money", but as we and e.g. the Japanease in the last two "lost decades" show, it's not that simple: this is confounded by the velocity of money as the high level concept and at the low level is expressed as the futility of "pushing on a string" (e.g. "dropping money from helicopters" as the current Chairman of the Fed puts it does little good if people are afraid to borrow or lend).

Macroeconomics is a wild blood sport where no one is really sure of their view of The Truth.
Yes I know. But if you are running a game on a PC with 8GB of memory and the game can only use 4GB of that (actually 2.7GB in windows), it's not really taking advantage of it, is it?

Also consumer versions of 32bit Windows don't support PAE so only see 4GB of memory (actually 3.5GB after memory mapping of hardware devices) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx
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No Crunchpad in the list?
Please re-read this post. You've capitulated to the point I was making, which refutes your "bragging" claim.

Now perhaps I should make a point about "writing comprehension."
Probably "wrong" here should be in scare quotes. It's not the wrong year; it does return the correct ISO year. It's just that ISO year is not what you want so you should be using %y rather than %g.
Where do you store the processed data for recall? It seems you have data per fan page as well as a google style suggest index of those page names.
It would've been amusing if CmdrTaco had taken his advice and shorted Apple stock.