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It may not advance today's hardware technology, but understanding these sorts of things means you have a deep understanding of many, many principles.

It's common when writing threaded software for multi-core systems to have an ""edge-race," where correct behavior can depend on exact ordering of earlier processing. Most of the people I know who have never had a software edge-race are people with significant hardware knowledge. They know what it's like to have many things going on simultaneously, and have the experience to reason about it more easily than those with a pure software background

With aggressively multi-core systems becoming more common (we are routinely using systems with 32 cores, and then we use 30 or more of them) material like this is becoming more relevant.
Do you really consider it likely that such a puzzle, with such a title, which has received plenty of scrutiny from mathematicians and logicians, is flawed and such a fact would not be noted anywhere? I consider it much more likely that your analysis is flawed.
IP has gone "the way of the dodo", meaning become obsolete, for all digital copyright forms including software. The solution is to develop a robust business model that depends on generatives. See http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_f....

Assume your competitors are already doing the same thing and even putting out better code. Your business model should be robust enough to withstand this also. Consequently, a new worker who downloads and walks away is no greater threat than the existing competitor, assumed or real. Stronger stated... the loss of IP and consequent spread of one of your infinite resources... why that's beneficial advertising in this day and age. Get the business model right, and the IP worry disappears.

Open source is like the musician giving away free mp3s. Proprietary code, and all the IP concerns it requires, are like overpriced physical CDs from major labels. More prosperity awaits you in the long tail and in generatives.

Best of luck!
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A confirmation from this site (that me and my crush like each other), would make things awkward, since it would mean that I wasn't confident enough to talk to her. This wouldn't boost my confidence level, thus I wouldn't use this site.

Not trying to be rude, this is just my opinion.
Interestingly enough, Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) has come up here before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=908868
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I couldn't find my Ask HN on what game developers should use instead of C++. Was it that bad? Anyway here it is in case you want to add it later: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=888643
I've been using CSS off-and-on pretty much since the first browsers started supporting it; I too struggle to see the point of the frameworks I've tried. There's only one thing I have trouble with: maintaining clean & tidy CSS once a site grows beyond a certain point. Details get changed, which causes classes, etc. to be forked, rules don't get deleted because it's not clear if they're really unused, etc.

Do you have any advice for dealing with this? I feel there ought to be some way of semi-automatically "refactoring" style sheets, or keeping them compact and neat to begin with, but I haven't yet found it.
Just a little note: I read hacker news from hackerne.ws, and you currently have it domain restricted to news.ycombinator.com. Not a big deal, but why not just remove the domain restriction? Seems like more trouble than it's worth.

Other than that, fantastic. I can't believe you made this - I was honestly thinking to myself earlier today that HN needed a collapse comment link.
Terry Pratchett writes movingly and convincingly that assisted suicide should be allowed. Coming up with some general rule about how and when will be the hard part.

I can't see any legal reforms in this area being anything except controversial and problematic. I fear it will be a long time before the legal system can accomodate the mature, considered decision to end one's own suffering.

I'm referring, btw, to the Australian legal system. From the sounds of it, the UK system is in more or less the same position.
The ads in magazines are just as relevant, IMO, as adsense ads (at least because print ads are targeting a demographic rather than direct intent), and Google seems to be doing an okay job with their method of ad targeting. The news/magazine publishing industry is stuck in a seriously delayed feedback loop, it can take months for an advertiser to see returns on their marketing/advertising investment. With things like adwords, you can see it almost instantly, and (assuming you have funnel analytics) almost down to the specific part of the page that generated revenue -- you can't do that at that kind of detail with magazines that are published on a slow cycle and are only accessible bulk (you buy/subscribe to the whole item, not access to individual entries, no one can track which parts of a 50 page magazine you read).
For example, some forms of encryption are classified as "munitions" so that their export is covered by the many regulations that govern the export of weapons.

Isn't this not true due to Bernstein v. US?
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That almost makes it worth overthrowing the government and getting injured in the process, just so your newly-founded legal system can ignore that clause. (Only those that perpetrate unsuccessful takeovers are bound by the law.)
ugh, 3 pages of how Stackoverflow and everything around it is doomed to fail. Also, seems like he's attacking Jeff & Joels decisions on a regular basis. Is this some personal thing of him?

Please just let them do their thing, they've been successful with everything they've done so far and I'm sure they have their reasons for raising VC. Kinda hate this gossip sometimes.
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This seems to apply to the demand for computational resources. Networking also.
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He's so right about Tallis...I'm an atheist, and the Tallis Scholars' rendition of Allegri's 'Miserere' is simply breathtaking. I made sure it was played at my father's funeral last year September. He was a Christian minister.

My father died of a sudden heart attack, a day after his birthday and two days after mine. We had never talked that much about death, but I remember he once said that he wasn't interested in living to any ripe old age.

I'm glad I didn't have to watch him suffer.

I've been thinking a lot about euthanasia lately. And my position is that if I were ever in a position where I couldn't take care of myself, and saw no hope that my condition would change, I would want to die.

I don't remember his name but a year or two ago, a famous British composer and his wife decided to on Euthanasia after one of them was diagnosed with a terminal illness. They died together, holding hands I think, with their favourite music playing. There's something noble about this that appeals to me.

If I get to choose, I'd like to die to the strains of Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'
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A side remark because I'm a bit confused by what you wrote:

What has Thomas Tallis got to do with the Tallis Scholars' rendition of Allegri's 'Miserere'?
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I don't wish to slag on what is obviously a labour of love, but other than the use-case outlined above, is there a point? Otherwise the site is plainly consuming more than it creates.
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Yesterday, I came back from Russia. Though this wasn't my first time there. The first thing you notice there, is that there's plenty of illegal competition. In one of the biggest shopping centers in Moscow, there is a shop just a side of an authorized Apple reseller that tries to sell you an iPhone (which is actually a chinese TVPhone).

Apart from this, I really do think that Russia needs its own Silicon Valley with VCs and Incubators from U.S. There are many talented people with innovative ideas and products.

Speaking of corruption level and unsafe environment, I don't think that India is better, but nevertheless they have their own SV with well-established VCs from the States.
Until recently, I hadn't actually heard that definition of startup, at least outside of VCs talking to each other (because obviously VCs only care about the subset of startups that involve VCs and, ideally, large-multiplier exits). But in general I've thought of a "startup" as simply a new business based on technology. Some subset of startups were funded by venture capitalists, and a subset were aiming to grow huge and have quick exits. But others aimed at medium-sized businesses, or even smallish businesses. A large proportion of the people I know who've founded startups actively don't want an "exit", because they built it, and they aren't going to give it up anytime soon.

I'm not even really sure how it became that people assumed that startups ought to aim for large funding and under-5-year exits. Is that just a legacy of the fact that anyone with eyeballs could (and therefore, often did) get funding in the first bubble, so it just became assumed that it was the norm?
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Terrible story but beautifully written.

These types always make me reconsider the value of the work I am doing. Because it seems so inconsequential to be writing code when so many significant problems in the world remain unsolved.
India is perfectly safe. There is also a vibrant technology economy already in place in many cities - albeit service based. This is a very different circumstance than Russia.
I'll take a Caterham 7 over your Tesla any day. It's cheaper, lighter, faster in a straight line, faster around the corners, and better for the environment.

Did I also mention I could drive it from San Jose to San Francisco and back without needing a tow truck or an overnight recharge?

Did they do anything to advance technology to build it? Probably not. But they sure made damn good use of existing technology, and in doing so have produced something truly amazing to drive.

In the same vein, have the retro CPU hackers 'advanced' existing technology? No. But they've given themselves a really deep knowledge of how CPUs work, and on top of that, added a rather impressive bullet point to their resumes. And they've made something that is pretty damn cool.
I wonder if other city-states during the Renaissance sat around plotting, "How can we have our own Florence?"
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I don't think it should necessarily be said that a person who chases money, chases wealth. Trying to aquire an excess amount of money is a form of chasing wealth yes (which the author is mainly addressing). But to say that spending Time making money is somehow not an ideal trade off is pretty nonsensical. Surviving is pretty important. And thus having food, water, clothing, and shelter is pretty important. Should we all grow and prepare our own food? Sew our own clothes? Build our own houses? Society as we know it has made survival, in its raw sense, pretty trivial, so long as we align ourselves (more or less) within the system. I don't see how that's necessarily a detrimental or even less-effective/efficient/optimal use of ones life, regardless of whether or not how you make your money is "truly one's calling".

"If your calling in life is to be a musician, what are you doing wasting your life as a store clerk? Isn’t your life more valuable than your job? Part of walking in who you are is being bold enough to throw away the parts of your life that aren’t valuable, in order to chase after what is."

Surving is a waste of life? Survival is not valuable?
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It's certainly not true that the amount of money you get paid is "an objective measurement of how much wealth you create for other people". It's quite possible to make money in lots of ways, some of which also create wealth for other people, some of which are relatively neutral for other people, and some of which take it away from other people. I'm not aware of any general formula for determining which is which, except perhaps in the extremes (obviously, various kinds of scam artists fall into the 3rd category).
Is that how you feel about people who cook their own food?
Is this really true? I may be wrong, but from what I've heard - India is perfectly safe in a few cities.

Perhaps, I didn't get into any trouble in Russia(and I was not only in Moscow, but in small 200km away from Moscow cities) because I'm white and speak fluent Russian. Anyway, as the saying goes "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". Once, everything was built from just an idea.
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India's cities are by and large safe (unless you are doing something really weird/ in the sleazy parts - every city has its dangerous parts just like every American city I know of). You do have the very occasional sensational attack on foreigners which grabs the headlins.

I have friends from the USA, Sweden etc who have been living here for years without getting into any trouble. The best way to decide such things is to talk to someone you know who has already lived here.

And we don't quite have our "Silicon Valley" yet, though Bangalore has many outsourcing companies and offshore development centres where large companies in the USA or Europe offload work no one there wants to do. But yes, (as rjurney points out) there are cities with very large populations of programmers, Bangalore being the prototypical example.
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Maybe not for Stack Overflow, but for the umbrella company that he wants to start to land grab the space.
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And where in gods name did you extract the notion of political indoctrination from my comment? So is it now the case that suggesting people should take an opportunity to live in new places around new people is considered a political statement or one that suggests that that experience is itself indoctrination?
So we need utility testing instead of usability testing? Any ideas how to do that?
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I saw in the server referrers that people were trying it on other pages where it has no effect, or might have strange effects, so I think it's good to have it there to be sure people understand where it's to be used :)

I have added the hackerne.ws domain to the check and also added a no-domain check bookmarklet to the blog post.
>But, why wouldn't they just refuse to pitch to clients who do this?

So allow big businesses to ruin the smaller ad agencies by getting them to pitch just in case?
Does that actually happen, though? To a large extent, colleges are socioeconomically segregated much like high-schools are. Rich kids from private schools go to the Ivy League, poor kids go to state school or community college.
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I'm not against analytics or facebook in general. It's just that this company and this article in particular gives me the impression, that they dont give two shits about privacy and just do it because the last few times they tried to cross the line they got caught. I'm not expecting them to be nice, no company is, but they should at least try to show some respect for our privacy - and checking whether I'm happy or not is not doing that.
The implicit association test usually shows that you like the folks you look like. And Putnam's study reveals the same thing, on a large scale. Once you consider the fact that for most of human history, we were part of small tribes of close genetic relatives (so kin altruism was good for our tribe's genes, which we are likely to share), you have an explanation that fits the data and makes sense.

If that weren't true, you'd have some data that don't make sense, and an evolutionary hole to fill (how would the non-prejudiced tribes outcompete the prejudiced ones before the invention of trade?).
...which spare the rich the expense of having to hire a private army to prevent the rabble from taking their riches from them.
If I understand it correctly, they introduced this algorithm to solve the exact same problem. Hence, it should work beautifully for solving the "Fastest gun in the West" problem also.

StackOverflow should seriously consider using this algorithm, at least for a day since the question was asked, as one previous commenter said.
Yeah, I think you would actually see more idealistic innovation in schools, especially those considered mid-tier in prestige, if they felt they could get away with it. As it stands now, schools below the top-tier are spending all their time worried that their grads won't be able to get jobs anywhere, so don't feel they can take any chances on something that would seem experimental and crazy. There's a lot of defensiveness and worry about seeming wacky or non-mainstream.
I'd like to build an Apple II from scratch, I think I would learn a lot from it. Do you guys know if it is possible? Are there any "blueprints" or guides to do it? Are the parts still around?
Backward compatibility with their absolutely massive install base of WinMo 6.1?
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It's a little difficult to pin down the numbers right now because everything has changed so much in the last year. But 95% vs 400% is definately utter nonsense.

This IMF paper (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2009/spn0925.pdf page 35) from Nov 2009 projects US and UK government dept for 2010 to be 94% and 82% of GDP respectively.

The US and the UK, in spite of the many differences, have one important thing in common. In both cases debt is almost exclusively denominated in domestic currency. So neither of the two can default outright as long as there is enough energy left to start the printing presses. Any default would come in the shape of inflation.
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Making a Silicon Valley by fiat is pretty tough, even in a country where coffeemug's perceptive comments about the rule of law do not apply. Japan has at least a dozen places which wish they were Silicon Valley. I used to work at one of them. It wasn't a failure -- it employs a few thousand people and you are statistically certain to have used something containing something made there -- but it also wasn't the "put our town on the international map" thing the mucky mucks were hoping for.

I think PG had an article about that a few years ago. Yep, here we go. http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html I translated that for internal circulation among my bosses. It got... mixed reactions.
Money is fungible; time is not. Not all wealth is time. Thus it makes sense to trade time for money, and money for other forms of wealth.

But yes, ideally way you trade your time, i.e. the wealth you create with your productive time, should involve the things you want to do in life. But we are not always so lucky - and it is not always a good thing, as doing something for external reward can destroy intrinsic motivation.
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Do you really think the schools would be contracting out if their employees would meet the mandates the law requires the schools to meet? My wife is an occupational therapist who works with special needs kids. She has worked in private clinics, major hospitals, contracted into schools, and currently works for a public school system. She has never hated her job until working for public schools. The bureaucracy is crushing her soul. Innovation is simply not tolerated. Rather than representing additional earning potential to her boss, innovation represents a threat to her boss's legitimacy.

Some of the teachers are bitter, some are just bad, and many start good and get worn down. For me, my observations of her experience add evidence that while the idea of public education is a noble one, the current model is corrosive to our society. I will not be sending my kids to the public schools in this region.
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>It seems ironic that these advertising agencies can't seem to figure out how to get clients.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:.be+advertising+agency shows that they're some of the top advertising agencies operating in Belgium.

They're complaining not about not getting clients but about getting potential clients who insist the agency outlay a large amount of time and resource before committing. This is simply abusive as all the ad agencies work is out in the open for the client to determine if they like it and so the pitch is simply about deciding if the advertiser can work with the agency.

It seems a reasonable complaint. Trying to return a sense of decency to business practices is probably a tough road though.
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Mr. Shields (Cletus) is a very active member of the StackOverflow community who have contributed a lot to the site. I believe this is more like friendly criticism, not "personal vendetta".
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The nineties are over. Nearly everyone has high resolution screens and every major OS now defaults to subpixel anti aliasing. No reason not to use a quite nice font like Minion Pro.