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I have so many damn unnecessary problems with OS X that I've resorted to running a lightweight Debian VM with VMWare. It uses ~250mb out of my 4GB RAM and I can just suspend it whenever I'm not coding.

Benefits: I can use apt-get and have all the other conveniences of a true *nix environment. I can update and try out new software easily (I had XHP running in about 5 minutes). Also, I can create snapshots of my OS so that when my environment is just the way I like it, I can always revert right back to it.

I interact with certain paths on my virtual linux filesystem just as though they were local (like my ~/Sites dir) and have various dev domains in my /etc/hosts file pointing to the VM (which has it's own internal ip).

Cons: It's a standalone VM so it consumes a consistent 250mb of memory. Never really looked at what mysql/apache were doing on my Mac previously (I would assume far less) but I haven't really ran into an issue where the VM is a big issue yet. The convenience far outweighs the chuck of memory it eats up :)

I haven't had a single configuration problem yet ;) For developers the popular phrase is reversed, Debian "just works" and OS X is a pain in my ass.
That's a problem inherent in the nature of HD codecs. Decoding with a general-purpose CPU is too inefficient. Any platform that has acceptable power consumption for the ultra-portable market is going to have to use dedicated decoding hardware. Once you take HD decoding off the list of things the CPU has to be fast enough for, you have the option to use a small, low-power CPU like the Atom. I don't see any room for improvement by using a different arrangement. Software writers will just have to get used to using the OS provided decoders so that any accelerators present can be used.
At the risk of being downvoted, the phrase "What's up, doc?" was the first thing that came to mind.

The opportunity for ridicule has probably killed many an invention (i.e. Nokia and "side-talking").
In just going by how it is for my parents, BCC Field? You're not even in the ballpark!
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I wrote about it a while ago as well. My solution is to use AviSynth. And I created examples of how a lecture sounds like from 1x to 3x.

"How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds"

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/how-to-save-time-by-watching-vi...
well, it doesn't mean that i want to escape the corporate world, it is just that by staying here at corp, i feel like i can only make little changes. i am one of those idealists that want to take challenges, even if its simple but it has direct impact to a problem. creating a new solution etc.
i happen to have experience in working at start-up, it was just part-time when in university though. but i like that i can try to solve problems that is there, in business or technical stuff. this is way much different when you are in corp, especially for Japanese corp.
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SGML is fun. It looks like XML, but is way crazier.
While I agree with others responding to this comment, my major complaint with my Roomba and Scooba is the ongoing maintenance. If I don't thoroughly disassemble and clean the robots after every couple uses, they will stop working. Hair and fibers end up wound around the brushes and wheels and quickly stop them from working entirely. My vacuum does not have this issue. My broom does not have this issue. My mop does not have this issue. Honestly, it feels like I spend as much time cleaning my robots as it would take to just vacuum and mop by hand.
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Agreed!I use facebook for:

A) Keeping in casual contact with large number of friends when a phone call out of the blue would be too intruding\unexpected.

B) Finding bar nights\parties by promotion groups.

I've never used it for blogging\micro-blogging (even though it has these features). Facebook news updates actually work well IF you block everyone you don't care about, which would be impossible to do if you used his friending strategy...
I think this misses one very important point. FB has a killer feature in photo sharing and a comment feed that surrounds that and now other media and updates.
However, I still believe that the photo sharing on FB is done better than anywhere else, and that will continue to be a driver for them.
http://www.facebook.com/joanne.mcneil

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Oddly, reminds me of "The Small Assassin", one of Ray Bradbury's short stories.
whilst i agree with their protesting of our governments unnecessary proposals on censoring australia, their methods are not helping.

a ddos attack on the government only gives the government more ammunition to paint the average protester as a criminal or someone who is trying to harm the government. a peaceful protest is far more effective.
You can have a funeral in winter before the frost line raises, however it'll destroy this. Frost doesn't stop a backhoe, I'd bet a lot of money it would stop this because the torque required to break and shift frozen soil is immense, especially considering it has to displace its entire volume around the coffin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-plus_contract versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_price
You could probably whip up a quick Django app to catch your potential user's email addresses... or some other framework.
"The output of a sales person is easy to measure. " .. Spoken by somebody who was never actually employed a sales rep. I've closed deals that were worked on by sales reps who had been gone for a year or two. How exactly do you measure that value?
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Stopped reading at "I have 1,110+ friends on Facebook."
Yes indeed, from the SC state website:

Any organization or person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or by both fine and imprisonment.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t23c029.htm

Not admitting to doing something that isn't necessarily illegal puts you at risk for a ten year sentence...
My personal funeral arrangement is going to be on the lines of "throw my corpse on a pile of logs and light her up", if my survivors want something fancy, that's their deal I'm already dead, just get it over and done with and carry on with life.

I'm either getting an autopsy or donating when I die, either way I'm going to be stuffed with sawdust. I'm not going to make good worm food, so you might as well torch me.
> ...there is in fact no objective truth that can be expressed.

Agree denotationally but object connotatively. There are degrees of relativeness. Just because you can't be 100% sure about something doesn't mean you can't be 99.99999(insert more nines here)% sure. Of course there's some astronomically tiny chance that I'm a Boltzmann brain, but it's so small that I simply ignore it. Likewise, it's possible that my internal representations of some words or statements are quite different from everyone else's. But people don't look at me funny very often, so I guess I do a good enough job of conveying what I mean.

It's easy for someone to misinterpret your statement as endorsing the stereotypical hippie "dude, everything is like, relative, man" relativism when it's really very different.

I really hate to seem like a shill for the Less Wrong/Overcoming Bias crowd, but much of the discussion here has been covered there. For example, on truth: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth
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I thinks its only a matter of time before Anonymous gets labelled a terrorist organisation to increase the counter measures / invasive laws that can be used against them.

Disrupting Goverment sites and services would be considered as an attack as per the Australian Terrorism definition:

(e) seriously interferes with, seriously disrupts, or destroys, an electronic system including, but not limited to

(i) an information system; or

(ii) a telecommunications system; or

(iii) a financial system; or

(iv) a system used for the delivery of essential government services; or

(v) a system used for, or by, an essential public utility; or

(vi) a system used for, or by, a transport system.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/slaa200245...
Hrm AOL provided internet service via a restrictive piece of software to people who didn't know any other way to access all of the internet. AOL distributed so many FREE AOL CDs that you could probably hollow out Mauna Kea and fill it with those ubiquitous bold font neon colored plastic discs. More than once in the early part of this decade I would find broken AOL CD litter on the street. Then there is the stop loss phone policy where customer service reps would put you through such hell when you attempted to cancel your service that you'd end up rather going with 90 days of free service than bear it. AOLHell punters, password stealer detectors, and various buddy invite spam proggs. Phishing was practically invented via AOL IM. Rainbowed colored ~~~&&&(({HuGZzz$}))&&&-- chat. Steve Case's tight control over everything makes Steve Jobs look like Richard Stallman. To top off it AOL even fucked its own AND Time Warner's share holders and settled a massive half-billion dollar accounting fraud. Since Case left, AOL has been in the business of layoffs.

In what universe is Facebook worse than AOL?
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The main reason for the 140 char limit is SMS. When it launched, Twitter was mostly a way to do a sort of SMS listserv.

I wouldn't call the 140 char limit an anti-feature either. Its become a key differentiation point, and is in many ways what makes Twitter Twitter.
If VOIP over 3G is enabled, it is the beginning of the end for the profits of the big cell phone providers. They will be relegated to being a "utility" or commodity provider.
http://www.aph.gov.au/

The Parliament of Australia site is down.
Great, great comment, thanks so much for all the info. I'm well aware that press releases aren't a "fire and forget" kind of thing (though that would be really nice). I find that it helps to have one ready when doing direct outreach, though, as you say. Unfortunately I'm not well tied in with the industry, so it would be great if the distribution could do some of the heavy lifting vs. the direct outreach.

HARO looks AWESOME - PRNewswire looked like it had something similar, but I think they wanted a massive amount of money by startup standards to take part in it.

A bunch of other good ideas too, thanks again. I'll check out marketwire. I couldn't find pricing on their site, but if it's not too bad, I'll try them out.
I'm reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZcEwHBAk8
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48 Laws of Power was pretty dumb, unfortunately. It celebrated con artists and manipulators as the powerful. As I recall from having read it 10 years ago, it strongly suggested Napolean's advisors were the powerful, whereas its dearth of stories about Napolean's actions themselves suggested by comparison that he was not. Instead of discussing true, active, forthright power, it pretended passive aggressiveness was the epitome of power.
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The notion that peaceful protest is always better than violent protest is simply historically bankrupt. There's a time and a place for both. To be honest, what they're doing, at least by revolutionary terms, might as well be considered "peaceful protest."
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Sales tax is considered a regressive tax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax
If they DDOS'd the server by massive amounts of complaints I'd consider it different. However, a straight out attack isn't going to do anything.
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I'm also very interested in how it is able to escape properly... anybody?
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Imagine you've just arrived at a new town and you're chilling at a coffee shop and you get into a conversation with a local. "Tell me about this place" you ask them.

"Well, Lexington is 3 blocks away from Jones St, the bakery is located on 875 Jackson Heights Rd and you can't park on Woodrow St between the hours of 8 & 6 PM."

This makes about as making high school students memorize dates & places. Historical facts provide context to the broad sweet of history. They help you navigate through the historical space. But they're close to useless if you don't have an understanding of the historical space to begin with.

Now, imagine you've been in town for a few years, you're starting to understand how everything is oriented around the hill, what the major thoroughfares are, the general nature of different suburbs. You're starting to get a feel for how the city operates. Now it's helpful to know if someone lives on Lexington St, you can just go down Jones and turn right at the light, that it's ok to drive to meet someone at a bar on Woodrow because the streets are free parking after 6pm and that the bakery is 3 blocks south of where you're meeting your friend because she's at 511 Jackson Heights Road. What were previously useless pieces of trivia are now what make you "street smart" around the place. They're what help you navigate around the city by feel rather than directions.

Of course, you're never going to be a professional taxi driver so it would be pointless to memorize all the streets and how they are laid out. But, at the same time, you understand how owning a GPS and relying on that exclusively is missing out on some vital part of what it is to live in this city.

So many people I meet pooh pooh history because they don't understand this analogy. They're bumbling around without a mental map and they don't even know it.
Of course, there's a flip side to this:

http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/
Let's see. Your response to the 3 UI changes question is Measure the change in usage for each screen or section of the app that each team worked on. From that I conclude that you've probably never done A/B testing and discovered how difficult those deltas are to accurately measure, or discovered how changes upstream waterfall down through your site. The amount of data you need to narrow down performance changes to within, say, 5% is much more than most people realize. And from a business view you don't want to do that for the simple reason that once you have a demonstrated improvement, continuing the measurement to figure out the exact win is costing you real money.

If, as with several of my employers, people take a long time from engaging with your website to making money for you, the tracking problems get MUCH more challenging. When you add complex social dynamics on top of it (such as person A getting person B to make a purchase), you're in for a world of fun. (Yes, I've worked on a site that had to solve exactly this problem.)

Measuring support calls per user is also not as simple as it looks. Different parts of your site generate support calls at different rates. And it isn't always obvious what part of the site generated the call. This gets worse if you have the long lead time issue that I've faced multiple times.

As for whether QA is viewed as a roadblock, that depends strongly on team dynamics. But in places I've seen that had that bad mindset, things can get very, very bad.

On the randomizing tests, sure you can limit how many users are shown the option. But when someone makes changes that introduce technical debt on the back end, that debt and resulting bugs can't be segregated out so easily. Sometimes you really just need to say no to features. Anything that limits your freedom to do that is a Bad Thing.

Now don't get me wrong. I like the idea of performance based pay. My current employer (Google) is all about performance pay. But you have to structure the incentives right. Giving people pay after the fact based on feedback from people around you creates incentives to not just optimize a flawed metric, but to work together as a team and get stuff done.

This is important enough that while I'd read with interest what the experience of this experiment was like, I'd personally not want to be involved in anything like it until I'd been convinced that it really works like you hope it will.
No doubt, but the government has thus far proven itself inept with respect to technology let alone counter measures and risk mitigation.

A political assault is far more likely: "Anonymous are terrorists, therefore all who protest against government censorship are terrorists or supporters of terrorism."

Given we've already been declared pedophiles or supporters of pedophilia this is a bow barely drawn.
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It wouldn't make any difference. Anonymous isn't a set group of hackers, it's quite literally anyone and everyone that wants to get involved at any moment for any cause whether for fun, such as sabotaging Time's most influential people list, to objecting en-mass to outlandish proposals such as these censorship laws.

Labelling Anonymous as terrorists is essentially labelling the general public as terrorists.
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Now if only they'd start serving images larger than 800x600! You don't even have the option to laboriously click through twice to see a larger version (as with Flickr) -- I think they don't even store any larger sizes as a way to avoid boiling the ocean of storage.

At least the default display size is larger than Flickr's absurd 500px, and it's much faster and nicer to browse quickly. Flickr is fucking abysmal for actually looking at photos, and for no good reason. Everyone just has to use greasemonkey scripts to get a decent view.
This is a solved problem.

http://stackoverflow.com

Pick your topic, search for questions, and ask them. Scala, Clojure, Squeak, Rails...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scala
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/clojure
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/squeak
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby-on-rails

These days it's much easier to go from noob to expert in whatever topic, even if the topic is a bit esoteric. The great thing is that you're throwing down breadcrumbs for the next guy.
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> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money.

Actually I think Google is just escalating their war with FB, the other companies you refer to could end up being collateral damage though.
I am confused by this assertion. I always thought the Who/What/When/Where were more useful, in general, than the Why. Why is tagged with bias; you are receiving somebody's perspective and interpretation of an event, especially as you look further from the source. Who/What/When/Where gives you the facts.
What happens when the feature doesn't quite work, eats the client's ten-million-dollars-worth of data, and the developer that hastily implemented that feature retired to his own island with the "bounty" money?

Oh yeah, you're fucked.
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It sounds like the author is using Facebook as if it were Twitter and Twitter as if it were Facebook.

Stop laughing, I'm serious.
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Flickr is fucking abysmal for actually looking at photos, and for no good reason.

How about bandwidth?
OK, it only applies if you survey everyone in the city until you get a match. Same difference. Yes, things may be heading in that direction. That was not the original argument, though.
I'm starting out in Ruby the last couple of months, but I've done a lot of Python, among other things. I've read other people criticizing the poor standard of documentation of some parts of Ruby and Ruby libraries, and from my recent experiences, I can sympathize. But as a maintainer of an open source library, I can also sympathize with the feeling that documentation always seems like a lower priority compared with new features.

Recently I've been getting a lot of user support requests that have made me realize I have to lift my own game when it comes to documentation. It is worth remembering that the 'Laziness' component of 'Laziness, Impatience, Hubris', includes a healthy dose of documentation:

"Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer."

From http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris, quoting Larry Wall.

I found that to be good motivation.

EDIT: Also, API documentation isn't enough for new users. As the article points out, users need to be taught the basic concepts to know they are dealing with an elephant, not a snake. Without the basics it is hard to ask intelligent questions.
Besides the misspelling of "Rials" in the first question, I was also put off by Yehuda's nonsensical criticisms about Django and Python -- doesn't sound like he's used either.
And of course, the ad shows the limitations of Google Translate: "you are cute" was translated to "you are a cute [man]", which would be something really weird to say to a girl... Since there is no gender information in the English original, it wasn't that easy to figure out that the cute person is female... although most humans would have known.