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If the ads are meant to be entertaining, they could be more clearly labeled as ads and still be entertaining. They're supposed to "blur the line between real and fake" by being creative and entertaining on their own, not by mimicking the real content.
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You could get very good performance when you do the fusion manually, too. The really exciting thing about fusion is that it allows really fast code that _composes_ well.

Composability is also what makes Haskellers excited about Monads and software transactional memory (STM). STM give composable concurrency --- in contrast with locks which are notoriously uncomposable.
I think that was a reference to farm animals living in mostly the same conditions. The only difference is that their purpose is food rather than entertainment.
Yeah, it's advice from the "kids'" perspective, not the parents'. Don't be so presumptuous.
Actually, the Olympic athlete has it all. It is extremely rare to achieve greatness through stick-to-it-ivness without it having a meaning deep into your core. Lots of programmers work long hours week after week without wanting anything other than a paycheque. They write zillions of lines of COBOL or PL/1 or MUMPS or Visual Basic year after year. Yet they are mere worker bees, their contribution is to do as they are told and that's it.

Passion is not entirely orthogonal to the result. And further to your discussion of PhDs, there are many PhDs whose work contributes little of importance to history. The great dissertations are from those who are passionate and dedicated.

Sure, enthusiasm by itself is not helpful. Nobody serious about hiring hires passion without anything else. But I haven't read anybody saying "Hire people who are enthusiastic without accomplishing anything." So why argue that point?

The OP makes the point that passion correlates negatively with performance. This is bunk.
First JRuby guys to Engine yard, now Tim. Sun is losing a lot of good people. Now I wonder how the main ordinary developers are doing there ;/ Can't be a fun place right now
Doesn't seem like there are any rules, why not?
Yes, you can of course use lists. I'm interested in getting the compiler to produce the best code it can, hence I use slightly different libs and flags and such.
Could it be Prezi (on JayNeeley's post)?
Adam is doing this story generation work with me at the Expressive Intelligence Studio (UC Santa Cruz).
What is Tim Bray known for? (please excuse my ignorance)
I don't know why anyone pretends that these people actually care anymore. They're there to get money and power, and to make sure they can get it again when they go up for re-election. They want to be everything to everyone, which leads to big problems because you can't do one thing without pissing off someone, so then they do the other thing too, but in amounts just enough that neither side will freak out too much, and just so that the Reps can claim to support whatever suits their campaign.

Take the health care bill, for instance. It doesn't do anything helpful, just forces everyone to pay for a private insurance policy. Republicans can say they protected business, Democrats can say they reformed health care and everyone now has access, businesspeople stay happy and their money keeps pouring in, normal people are hoodwinked into believing their side did whatever it was they wanted, and this cycle perpetuates.
How many people don't have JavaScript enabled these days? I guess you have to consider your audience. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp has some clues.
I would say mainly being an author of the XML specs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray
It clearly works well enough in their own testing for them to be comfortable releasing it. That it's not working for you indicates there's something going on they don't know about.

You could assist them and other prospective users by helping them fix it.

Or you could sneer. Whatever you want.
i simply don't have enough hours in the day to engage all groups :)

i'm engaging promising applications where i'd like to know more about the team but no doubt i won't be able to engage them all before deadline so if you don't hear from me, it's not an indication you've not made it to interview
The experience when you're trying to upload a dozen or a hundred photos is obviously different.

How so? In my experience when I have needed to upload multiple files the website has presented a Flash based uploader that really only differs from a native HTML form in that it allows for multiple photos to be selected in the browse dialog. I've never uploaded more than perhaps half a dozen photos at a time using one of these - do they not scale to hundreds of files?
He was the director of web technologies at Sun, he's also worked on the XML and Atom standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray

According to his website, he is also a member of the Technorati advisory board and a friend of the company, a former advisor and friend of Make Technologies, and a friend of Smallthought Systems; I have an equity interest in all three companies.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Tim
maybe I can show it off for you? There are going to be more of these events soon too
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I don't want to be mean but that sounds like very shitty laptop. What laptop are you using?
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I think it's safe to say that Sun no longer exists:

% curl -I http://www.sun.com/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:16:46 GMT
P3p: policyref="http://www.sun.com/p3p/Sun_P3P_Policy.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa CONi TELi OUR SAMi PUBi IND PHY ONL PUR COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL PRE GOV"
Location: http://www.oracle.com
Content-length: 0

Somehow, I have trouble feeling the same sense of sympathy for Oracle at the moment.
SeaWorld should really be ashamed of themselves. Which is more important: profits, or human lives?
Slightly related, amusing comment by a friend of mine on Twitter:

"It's sad that now we can finally communicate with plants and ovens, we limit their expression to 140 characters."
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Good stuff, liked it a lot.

And I did not know it Posterous as in preposterous as opposed to post-erous.
Your version is good. I just wanted to give a small sample of idiomatic Haskell code.

Colomon's post (and his subsequent enlightened reply) were good parts of the discussion, too.
I'll just probably show up later. my mashup kinda sucks right now anyways. but thanks for the offer.
I'll just probably show up later. my mashup kinda sucks right now anyways. but thanks for the suggestion.
Personally, I'm rather excited by the impending death of Sun. There must be dozens of new startups in the works because of this. Recurly.com is one of them.
I kinda meant in terms of technology but yes, the coldwar is a good point.
FYI, SeaWorld uses the word 'Shamu' as a synonym for orca / killer whale. Shamu is not any specific orca. The specific orca in this case was Tilikum.
"... While we're nit-picking ..."

Good point, now enough trolling.
Compare:

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The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union
Not the greatest article, but I submitted it because of the idea; it very novel, and illustrates the "elusive obvious."
This sounds like a cool idea, and the premise doesn't sound too complicated. You could probably build something very useful quite quickly.

I think political campaigning is ripe for cool startups. I have an idea that I've dubbed "Pressure", which would be sort of a hierarchical, goal-setting and -rewarding online campaign management tool.

Basic premise: any sort of campaign, to be successful, must bring pressure on a variety of fronts - in traditional media by way of letters to the editor, calls to talk shows, etc.; online through blog posts, social media engagement, and email; by applying pressure to elected officials with phone calls, emails, and snail mail letters, and so on.

So, you would start a campaign by setting a variety of goals for these ways of applying pressure: number of letters to political representatives, size of social media presence, etc. Then you delegate these goals to top lieutenants, so that one person becomes solely responsible for social media presence - the social media division if you will. They can further delegate others, e.g. setting some other person as responsible for number of Twitter followers in the social media division.

To make things interesting, the site could either automatically, or via control by "upper management", promote people to higher levels if they have demonstrated exceptional ability in the goals they were originally assigned. Goal progress would be visible, creating a competitive, game-like aspect to the application.

Anyway, perhaps not the best idea. But the point is, I think that the field of political campaign management software could really use a shakeup.

Good luck!
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"Phillips also got Aadvantage Gold status for life with American Airlines, which brings a special reservations number, priority boarding, upgrades, and bonus miles."

- reminds me of the film "Up in the Air" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/ I only hope that the Pudding Guy story has Happy End
There is probably a market for allowing the challenger for the 3rd Congressional District in Nebraska to have an online operation as sophisticated as Obama's was. Unfortunately, it probably requires a lot of consulting in addition to product development. And if you thought politics was a blood-sport you haven't seen the politics industry.
Good idea, but this is more like a lobbying organization than a union. Are they going to walk out of their job if they are not paid well? Probably not.
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This would be one example where the DRY coding principle would backfire on them, at least for their purposes. If all of the Game Saving code funnels to one function, then the hackers may be able to relatively easily find and break just that function, and consequently the entire DRM.
An interesting article. It should be pointed out, however, that it contains an easily misunderstood statement.

> Adult intelligence predicts adult espousal of liberalism, atheism, and sexual exclusivity for men (but not for women), ....

But this is not "liberalism" in either its usual American or European usage:

> Liberalism … [is] the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.
What leverage does a union of unemployed people have? What will they do, go on strike? Or just clog the sidewalks around state capitol buildings?
If you don't see this as clearly labeled ads than I believe something is wrong with your eyes. http://i.imgur.com/8Djg7.jpg

The "digg-style" ads also lights up on mouse over. I know this sucks and feels like being duped, but if user gets duped by this kind of ads, they probably deserve to get duped. But they paraded the idea (more than once) months before running it to make sure everyone understands what going on, both within digg in the form of digg blog posts which was on the front page and outside digg in the form of interviews to tech sites like techcrunch, which were also on the digg frontpage.

I am not a big fan of digg, I much prefer Reddit. But Reddit has almost the exact same system as digg (I think reddit's system was live first).

Its easy to sit in your chair and criticize, but someone's gotta pay the bills.
Sure, yeah. But they can vote in an organized fashion.
> a byproduct of the "serious" gamers' shift towards preferring console games.

Or maybe the complete opposite: Casual gamer's are a much bigger audience than serious gamers. And PC games tend to be more serious. So the shift could be explained in this way, too.

(Just a hypothesis. Your argument has more going for it.)
That's a hand-wavy comment. AES is just a bit of mathematical formalism away from XOR.
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I would delegate but with feedback. After a while the guy is going to get in everyone's way. And by feedback I would mean more than numbers crossing his desk.
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Haven't seen many links on pitching or creating a story. The best story is demonstrating. But at some point before a product you have to tell a story of what you want to build.
Maybe I'm a defeatist but Patriot Act or no Patriot Act I believe they're just going to do this stuff anyway. These intelligence organizations aren't really held accountable often to the public for their actions. Just look at all the shady stuff they've done over the decades -- and that's just the stuff we know about. Who knows what really goes on inside the NSA or CIA? If they're out to get you I really doubt laws are going to save you. We know for an absolute fact this stuff was happening before the Patriot Act was law. Who went to jail? Was the President who permitted it held accountable? Nope. Were a significant number of the Representatives and Senators who voted for the Patriot Act expelled from office by voters? Nope. Maybe America is getting what it deserves. It looks like civil liberty violations are going to have to get much worse before Americans turn off their TVs and put down their Big Macs and actually care about the issue. The solution won't be so simple as repealing the Patriot Act either.
I agree with this approach. You don't need a lawyer for most things of this nature. They're expensive and finding a good one can be a real crapshoot.

I don't think there's anything wrong with researching the legal side of things a little bit, then firing off a letter that politely but firmly disagrees with their position.

If they're really serious about coming after you, you'll find out soon enough, and you can get a lawyer then.
Nah, I want to have a prediction how full a plane would be. THAT would be a service worth paying for..
http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Amenu.asp%3Flocationid...
Do you know why Skype is so keen on obfuscation?
Flash is ok so long as it's on a leash. Most of us are ok with video games and a few cute things here and there. What we're not ok with replacing the entire browsing experience with flash or flash ads, or anything that just chews the cpu or makes sound without being explicitly requested.
>if user gets duped by this kind of ads, they probably deserve to get duped.

This is not the correct way to think about the user experience

I'm wearing my glasses, and it honestly took me about 30 seconds of scanning to figure out which of those articles was an ad. Now think about the readwriteweb/facebook fiasco (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...) and consider how an average person interprets that page.
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Actually, a lot of Ajax handles the back button very well. The Extjs framework, as one example, lets you back through almost all the navigation including flipping between dynamic tabs. I'm not even sure how they've implemented that.

There was a Ajax chat application that was posted here recently. And this was my comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128206

The back button is an extremely useful feature and should probably be in every application. Whenever a user gets confused or lost they just click that button -- it's a universal undo for navigation.
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While I agree that the American political "liberal" says much more than that, it's still similar. Hence the phrase "bleeding heart liberal."
As much as I don't like digg, I think it is fair to say that the avg digg/reddit users are more tech savvy than facebook/myspace users. So this is not an equal comparison.
> There is probably a market for allowing the challenger for the 3rd Congressional District in Nebraska to have an online operation as sophisticated as Obama's was.

I agree. Except I think that you could do this just as effectively all the way down to the city councilor level, and you could also use it for any virtually any campaign - including ones for social justice, for changing governmental policy, etc. That's a lot of campaigns. Tie it in with innovative technology for integrating with social media, Twilio-powered telephony, etc., and you could have a winning application.
The last entries before they shut it down:

@shamu: Someone's come into the enclosure with a weird looking gun. - 2 minutes ago

@shamu: I warned them when I came here. The clue's in my name. Killer Whale. The first word specifically. - 1 day ago

@shamu: I messed up today. Killed one of my best friends but my instincts got the better of me :o( - 3 days ago

@shamu: Shit, I'm in big trouble. - 3 days ago
Actually the U.S. Mint is one of the few government bodies that is widely profitable.

http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/?flash=yes&action=press_...

Granted it's from 2001, but I visited the mint in Denver earlier this year and they still claim the same thing.
The first block (++[[]]) is incrementing in a object but the object is superimposed with other object and the result is error.

the second block [+[]] when [] is object but incrementing + is a number 0 and side-by-side with the block the result is exactly 1.
This is one of those times I wish I lived in the Bay Area.
I read the pdf of the letter:
It seems to me that they're using the mention of Shankman's name to get it all started, and the strange New York law for scary padding, but the bulk of their claim is copyright.

You need to look through everything and see if there's any word for word content on your site (user contributed or otherwise) that matches Shankman's site.

My guess is that they'll cede the look and feel and New York business law wackyness to create a sheen of compromise and then surprise you with some user generated content that appears on both your sites identically and claim copyright infringement.

The fog of how user generated stuff ends up on sites may confuse the court enough for them to rule against you just because Shankman's site existed first and theres "identical content". Hell, even his lawyer may not fully grok it.

If the evil runs deep, they'll plant such content themselves in the form of submissions.

Of course, talk to a lawyer, yadayada, like you haven't already! Don't underestimate them. This looks like a plan to take over your (obviously better) site. I believe that they think they can win.
Even smarter people are more likely to be Agnostic over Atheist. Here is Bertrand Russell on the topic:

"I never know whether I should say 'Agnostic' or whether I should say 'Atheist'. It is a very difficult question and I daresay that some of you have been troubled by it. As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods."
Oracle's acquisition of Sun seems to be leading to a similar exodus of talent as did Microsoft's long courtship of Yahoo.
If you want to build business out of this, send back said response, but respond to the ridiculous points in a snarky way and post the response. Whatever you pay in legal fees, you can justify as PR expense.
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APIs for the invited companies:

http://bu.mp/api.html

http://www.twilio.com/docs/

http://www.olark.com/docs

http://www.box.net/developers

http://pbworks.com/api_v2/

http://www.webservius.com/corp/documentation.html

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Lots to play with.
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Well, actually, many people have hacked theirs to use black permanent markers (which are etch resistant), so, I don't see any reason why you couldn't use it to black out circuit tracks on PCB's, than simply etch the boards with acid. It isn't quite printing them, but it does make the process much easier!
Why don't you give Peter a call? I've met him before. He seemed like a nice guy. See if you can resolve this thing without lawyers.

Btw, the name of his company makes this whole thing sound like a joke.
I don't agree. American liberalism is associated with allocating public funds to others. The article specifically stated private. So, for example, some Muslim societies are what we would call "ultraconservative" politically, but rank rather high on a liberalism scale by the definition in the article, due to private contributions to charities.
Did you enter an email address? (And possibly leave the field after you've entered it?)
An average half-kilometer S-type asteroid is worth more than $20 trillion.
It could be stretched to "unauthorized use of a computer system" which is the legal definition of hacking. It doesn't have to be difficult to qualify as criminal.
Why are online comments so negative while product reviews are so positive?
I know a few people from Sun. The salespeople are happy to go to Oracle. The technical people are all looking for other things to do now.
Actually, if I understood the HyperSpec correctly, in theory a conformant Common Lisp implementation would be allowed to just crash if you declared that x is a list and then you call it with something else. By declaring the type like this, you're telling the compiler: "I assure you that x will definitely be a list".

Of course, in practice implementations like to check everything by default.
The key fact presented is the correlation of IQ to atheism, liberalism (of the classical variety), and sexual exclusivity for men but not women.

It's disappointing to see serious research follow up such a clear, factual presentation with what amounts to pure speculation. Statements about how the evolutionary origin of religion MAY be such-and-such and certain behaviors MAY have created an advantage in such-and-such context, IMO, detract from an otherwise interesting bit of data.
They pay $15,000 for it, as far as I can tell from the blog post.
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"less intelligent individuals have more children than more intelligent individuals, even though they do not want to do so."

... I love this study!
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They can vote. Even small groups of people can do interesting things in local elections with low turnouts, for example teacher's unions and school board elections.
Seems a bit late for that, as he's already got his lawyers involved. There's nothing to resolve, other than me just shutting the site down. If he had a problem with me mentioning his name, he could have just emailed me and I would have immediately removed it with no questions and never mentioned it to anyone. The fact that he decided to skip that and just have his attorney try and bully me into shutting down and giving him the domain tells me that he's not interested in working anything out, just fighting competition in the most cowardly way possible.
I suspect that flooding the market with those metals would depress the price of those commodities significantly.
The fact that a C&D landed in his mailbox means the lawyers are already involved.
Perhaps Nasa can become a profit center. :-P