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Sounded wrong to me too. But, as 'ig1' pointed in another comment, it's a signed piece extracted from a book - seems like one of those "we asked N people question X" things.

The "official" Economist pieces are unsigned.
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Basketball is a paid profession. Just look how much money the NBA teams have. Fewer people see it as their future but many children still grow up wanting to the be next michael jordan..
If they had implemented genetic programming as a part of the language, instead of needing to write all that code, that would have been more interesting.
Does this mean it definitely was talent (including know-how etc) rather than technology or market acquisition?
I'm curious, do you think Google should operate in the United States? There are laws that could be used to force Google to say turn over your private data. Would not then the same argument apply?

On the other hand, the value of being able to use Google, despite its marginal risk, seems quite a good "exchange" for many people (that is, the usefulness of say search being weighed off against getting rounded up in say a war on child porn). I think there is a value judgement that is much more nuanced than what you are suggesting.
With one hour of fake studying, you can fail a class, but with 5 hours of real studying you can get a C- or whatever the minimum passing grade is. I have a feeling that you already know this.

Go to class if it's required, but bring a laptop and work on something you like or surf Hacker News. You don't need to pretend to be paying attention unless the teacher has explicitly banned not paying attention by playing on a laptop.

You're ultimately right, of course, your degree is just a piece of paper, especially when it's in philosophy. It has nothing to do with your startup plans. Does that matter? With psychiatric medication, you may very well gain the emotional detachment needed to do something you really don't want to do. I can tell you that the average person is much more capable of doing things they don't like than either you or I. Unfortunately, we in the proletariat do not get to do only things from which we derive happiness. If you do it right, passing college won't even be much more difficult than failing college. It will also be less stressful. This assumes your parents or someone are paying for college. If they aren't, then you should probably just drop out, a philosophy degree is only worth spending someone else's money on.

I took about a year off from school to work on a startup. I did this naively hoping not to return, but I went back and actually just technically graduated, except for the midterm I have in about 3 hours and the other midterm I have in about 7 hours. Email me if you want, I'd be happy to give you more details about my personal situation and/or answer questions and give advice.
The Article Just Tells people what they want to hear. Management Positions will still be filled with the MBA Crowd.
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> are there any potential applications for this knowledge at an earthly scale?

in broad terms, it's unlikely that any new physics has applications at an earthly scale. the argument is quite simple - if there are significant differences between whatever is "new" and what we currently know at the kinds of scales that are appropriate for applications then it would be easy to do the experiments. the very fact that physics is reduced to using astronomy or the lhc to explore extreme conditions indicates that anything new applies only at scales that are largely irrelevant to us here and now.
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It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don't-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can't even tell when they've broken their own misbegotten rules.

He says that grammar can't be reduced to a bunch of trivial rules, but that doesn't mean there can't be a good alternative to Strunk & White for teaching grammar to students.
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When your company hires some 30,000 contractors a year, using that "excuse" twice seems quite legitimate.
Just as in genetics, diversity is good. Thats not the issue people are having with the article.

The article says that CS should change its culture in order to attract more and become popular, conforming with mainstream values.

If you told Stephen Hawking im sorry you cant have that picture of Spock on your wall, instead you have to have this poster of some pop group because thats what society deems acceptable. Do you think that would be well received?

The point is that if you have an interest in a field then you are tolerant of such idiosyncrasies in order to learn.
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Totally agreed on the rest of the list though
The fuss is that the inequality is undefined when x=1.5 and so there is no definition of what happens in that case.

Performing "obvious" completions of incompletely defined functions is assuming you know the context, and sometimes you don't.

This is a sloppy engineering solution that is not guaranteed to be right in all contexts. Without the context, the correct solution is to say that the question is ill-defined/undefined when x=1.5, and all values of x such that x>1 and x.ne.1.0 satisfy the given inequality.
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I think it's definitely a good thing. I've been out a couple of times with Canonical staff and their partners, both are amazed at Shuttleworth's general attitude towards profitability - he's in it for the love, and is content to keep losing money. It's his money, so fair enough, but there's a lot of concern about it running out sometime.

I do wonder what the point of desktop OSs are though. It seems in the fight between various desktop OSs, the desktop OS itself is losing, and the browser is winning.
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Elsewhere (on the excellent "Language Log" blog) he recommends two books: for grammar/usage, the Merriam-Webster Concise Dictionary of English Usage; for style, Joseph Williams's "Style: toward clarity and grace".

The first recommendation I ever saw for Williams's book, FWIW, was from Richard Gabriel (founder of Lucid Inc., author of the paper commonly but misleadingly known as "worse is better" and of "Patterns of Software", and these days concentrating on poetry rather than software).
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Not necessarily: maybe Google also wants to use some of the acquired technology, which they now can in its open source form. They're just not stopping anyone else from using it.
Some time ago I noticed that I was using too many parentheses, and adopted a rule that every time I notice myself writing parentheses I stop and consider (1) whether I can just delete them or replace them with commas and (2) whether I can get rid of them in some other way. I find that maybe 90% of the time this leads to an improvement. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the same applies to other relatively unusual kinds of punctuation.

Remark 1: "sentence/thought" contains "special punctuation" and is indeed improved by substituting "sentence or thought".

Remark 2: my parenthesis-removal rule turns out not to work very well for programming :-).
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> So if I lost my "appeal" at PayPal, I would involve the real legal system, instead of their made up one.

That's not really worth it though.

Im smart enough [sic] to write a letter that sounds sufficiently legal and blustery for them to take notice. But taking real action costs a bomb...

I felt a bit silly doing it but it was one of those "oh ffs" moments - I couldn't face another month of getting nowhere :) If they had called my bluff I would have backed down and tried another tack; but it occurred to me at the time that it might work, and was at least worth trying as a shortcut.
It shouldn't be dismissed. Suppose two candidate hypotheses are (a) no dark matter and (b) enough dark matter to produce an expected signal at +1sigma in this experiment. Then a 1.5sigma event is about [EDIT: following ratio was wrong, sorry] 3:1 Bayesian evidence for (b) over (a). Of course that's nowhere near enough to justify saying (b) is right and (a) is wrong, and of course the simple normal-distribution model I've assumed is likely too simple; but I think a 1.5sigma event should certainly lead you to adjust your probability estimates a little.
As far as #3 I would argue that you can't know what word a foreigner might find difficult. If you're coming from a Romance language, for example, words that may sound "fancy" or could be considered difficult by natives are actually easier because of their common Latin root.
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No matter how bad Iraq is now, it will be worse off if these people take over.

So? The concept of American responsibility for the well-being of foreign citizens is the root of this whole war problem. Let my people go!
I recommend reading it anyway. It may not be the authority on grammar, but it can teach you a lot about (surprise!) style.
Remark 1: "sentence/thought" contains "special punctuation" and is indeed improved by substituting "sentence or thought"

Which is fitting, since I consider the use of special punctuation a cheat. I don't hold myself above cheating all the time, and I did cheat. It helps to save time, since a single paragraph can be refined endlessly.

You have to have flexible standards.
I think this perspective might help a bit: Think about the average person purchasing a handful of applications for a couple of dollars each (My girlfriend has probably spent a maximum of $20 on apps for her iPhone), with a smaller portion of that money actually making it into Apple's pocket (costs for operating the app store service itself as well as the people who approve and manage apps, paying developers their portion, etc...) versus a couple of hundred dollars per device. An iPhone without a contract is even crazier, take the subsidized AT&T price and add $400. The app store is the biggest reason why people want the devices, but I can see how it's not the reason for the devices.

Just looking at my Android phone (I previously had an iPhone and got bored with it) I have three applications for Facebook and all of them don't even do 20% of what the iPhone one does. I get so frustrated with my device now that I'm considering dishing out cash money ($699) to buy a new one and stick with my T-Mobile plan.
That should go away if you clear your cookies. Or you can Google for the story and click through from there. http://www.google.com/search?&q=That+Tap+Water+Is+Legal+...
There's several companies working on sentiment analysis. The NYT had a roundup: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emot...

Backtype is a YC company that probably does some NLP stuff on the backend. http://www.backtype.com/

Also, Powerset and Wolfram Alpha.

The most obvious killer app is sentiment analysis applied to product reviews. Overall I don't feel like NLP has game-changing applications yet since good data is structured data. The research is in place, though.
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One of the more interesting features is Transients, which has just been added. Transients allow you do locally mutate some data in a very fast manner, without the possibility of leaking mutable data into the rest of your system.
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I registered around Jan-feb, never got prompted for username and password. Really once a year can't be so much of an effort, considering most google services has a policy of asking for your password every few months even after you have saved your password on the browser.
Large sum transactions with low level of pre-established trust still don't have a replacement for a check. I bought a used car from a small dealership. The dealer didn't have the resources to check my credit, and I didn't trust him enough to just wire money to him ahead of time. Also, there's no way I'm going anywhere, especially not in the kind of neighbourhoods that have small used car dealerships, with enough cash to buy a car on me.

So I went to my bank and got them to make a check in my name for a ridiculous fee, and brought that, and figured, "why can't I just do that online"?

Another purpose would be quick settlements of bills. If I transfer the money it takes up to three working days for the amount to appear in the creditors account -- sometimes that's not practical if I need someone to ship something to me today -- this electronic check would solve that problem, because the creditor would be informed immediately by a trusted party that the money is there and on the way.
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My question is: Is this URL structured approach a good SEO strategy for dealing with products in multiple countries? Or should I be using country specific domain names and redirecting to them (but surely I can't use "nofollow" then and Google will mark the content as duplicate).

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People dont know about this - but another company in Delhi (India) : Routeguru.com, does this too.

But I guess you cant beat the mothership - even with a headstart.
Issues that stand out:

1. The location data is interesting but I have to question it accuracy.

2. Ten minutes of testing is way too little to spot subtle problems even in a simple app. Is this really the standard quality of review?

3. <cynically>Will Apple now re-review the app and reject it? Or will they reject later versions?</cynically>
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GS had already arranged to be "bailed out" by Warren Buffett. They took the TARP money because the government made it mandatory to do so (so banks that needed it wouldn't be seen as weak in the marketplace). They simply sat on it, then repaid it with interest (20% APR, how likely is the government to get that from the bond market?!).

There is a paradox here: banks were simultaneously supposed to a) increase their lending and b) increase their capital reserves. Those two are mutually contradictory, and the banks chose b.

I'm not saying that TARP wasn't abused at all, but I will say that it presented an enormous moral hazard. Also here in the UK, the government knew that the state of Lloyds was far worse that it was, and didn't tell anyone 'til the risk had been transfered to the market... If a bank did that, people would be going to jail for insider trading.
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I'd put much higher odds on this being some disgruntled teen, who may or may not be Persian and may or may not be in Iran -- you know, like 99.9% of website defacements.

Do you really think the focus of a cyber ops campaign or anti-competitive campaign would be ... to put a stupid message on Twitter's website? There are no doubt cyber ops teams in foreign (and domestic, naturally) intelligence, but they don't waste their time on shit like this.
A more detailed link in addition to the one above:

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Thinking about it... Everyone does live by that motto. Mostly.
Simplifying slightly, the way consumer credit works is, if you expect 10% of your customers to default then you need to change 10% interest to even break even, let alone cover your administrative costs, and let alone to make a profit. If you are in a market segment that has somewhere near 30% chance of defaulting then your options are a) a 30% credit card b) no credit at all.
I like the name (although not sure how to pronounce).

"Avatar" could also be a cool name. ;-)
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but with all the new deals they got, they are probably going to restart growing soon. And of course there are lies, damn lies and web-statistics-selling companies.
On the other hand we are a French startup, so our pronunciation probably doesn't make much sense for native English speakers.
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You mean that it usually does not prevent a statement from being overly-broad. :)
One grammar question that I don't know the answer to. When you have a statement using "than" (eg. A cow is bigger than an ant) using pronouns, what case is the word after "than" supposed to go into.

Is it always:
I am bigger than him.
I see him better than her.
He does it better than me.

Or is it:
I am bigger than he.
I see him better than her
He does it better than I

The first one is way more common colloquially, but I see the second one used in some formal styles. And it makes more sense too - it resolves the ambiguity between "I see him better than her" [I see him better than she does] and "I see him better than her" [he is more visible to me than she is].
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Comparing Unity3D to O3D is a bit like comparing the Unreal Engine to OpenGL. Unity3D is much higher level, and provides lots of things like Ageia PhysX™, etc.

On the other hand not having to install a plugin would be a killer, so we are definitely keeping an eye on WebGL...
I think the latter is `correct' because it is:

I am bigger than he [is].

I see him better than she [does].

I see him better than [I see] her.

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Seems like they misjudged. They wanted to balance out between getting sympathy and wining too much. Looks like they crossed that line.
And in this case specifically, prestige is a French word (pretty clear given the pronunciation) that's also been imported into several European languages.

Edit: fixed typo
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Am I the only one a bit freaked out that this guy thinks it's cool to publish someone's address that he detected through their iphone? He's even said he thinks it's a home worker.

Or have I totally misunderstood what's going on here?

I just worry some poor tester is going to have hordes of disgruntled developers turn up on his door step demanding approval.
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