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I would probably not stop at the power cord. Why not get a second laptop?

Though syncing stuff might be a pain, depending on the nature of your work. Source code might be easy to share with git.
Yes, in a way. You would have to work with the mayor or counsel members of your township in the U.S. They are responsible for controlling what companies may lay wire and services in your township.

Note: Townships get a nice kickback per subscriber within their borders. Yes, another money game. And yes, that kickback is a negotiable price-per-subscriber...
losing money early-on

The business put more money in my pocket than it took out since, hmm, about 30 days after I threw the doors open. (I think I know how you came to this misconception, so sorry for the unclear phrasing in the interview: I had a few hundred a month in sales from SEO/etc when I was burning $1 a day trying to figure out how AdWords worked.)

Did you sometimes take a break from the Bingo Card Creator to try other things?

I put it on the backburner to focus on either the day job or on living rather frequently.

As to the frame of mind, I always say that business is a lot like WoW. People express huge skepticism that you could play WoW for 30 solid days of your life and not feel bored out of your mind... but you don't get 30 days of /played all at once. You smash a goblin here and complete a quest there and organize a raid for your next weekend and maybe think about offing that dragon eventually and then collect some mushrooms and kill the dragon and then... whoa, 30 days.

I passed the last four years on a thousand and one intellectually engrossing mini-projects. They never got to the point where they'd lose my interest -- after all, if I just hold out until Saturday, I'll have A/B test results to look at. If I just put in another hour, I'll have a new feature. If I just write this email, I'll have a happy customer and maybe get another postcard for my fridge. etc, etc.

The loot is a bit better than WoW's, too.
He is actually talking about warm fuzzy(any sort of affirmation not sex in particular)

The original allegory was written by Claude Steiner.

Here is the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v683T1GVS1U

if that is annoying
read the story here
http://www.claudesteiner.com/fuzzy.htm
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Crap. I totally forgot about ESR. He completely screws up my pithy "compare and contrast".
Thanks for the reminder, I just fired up Time Machine to do a backup..
First of all, we have a few modifications in Django itself that make Django more flexible. What exactly are you thinking of that we're missing?

Regarding SQLCompiler: Maybe the name is just misleading? We had several attempts at this problem and one of them was a complete refactoring of the ORM as you try to suggest here, but in the end we had to face the facts: We'd reproduce pretty much the same functionality that's already there. It would just be named Query instead of SQLQuery and it would take a huge amount of effort to get there. So, we decided instead to reuse as much of the code that just happens to be named "SQLSomething" as possible. And IMHO this is the best of the approaches we've taken. It's simple and it works really well, as you will soon see for yourself. Then we'll talk again.

BTW, we also tried to work with the Django team, but in the end it was all discussion with the hidden message "show us that it works". That's what we are doing now.
a startup we advised for some time had a registration teaser that looked like a banner ... surprisingly nobody registered... they also had a flashy news section with images, when we changed it to text only the click trough rates doubled...
(Not a lawyer)

From my point of view, there has been lots of individually useful rules that have been added to the court system, that when taken in aggregate have negative effects. There are lots of pre-trial motions that have specific uses, designed to stop a problem, or plug a loophole in the law. The problem comes when you have multiple dozens of them. Or even just a few big ones.

For instance, discovery. The idea is that fairness is not helped by surprise evidence. So, the solution is that both sides get access to the other side's evidence. But how do you do that? You have lawyer time, calendar time, etc to collect and go through it all.

That's just one (although one of the larger ones). Add in requests for everything else, and you can see how much lawyer time is "wasted".
You've completely avoided reading Pullum's article, it seems. No one said grammar is pointless. No one said novices shouldn't learn grammar basics. Only that they shouldn't be taught falsehoods.
Agreed. I've got a journalism background (though I'm now a web developer) and it has helped me tremendously.

The main thing is this: think and write carefully. I get emails from business people that are long, rambling, and at the end, I can't even tell what they mean or want. And the subject line isn't helpful if I need to find it later.

I write emails with the assumption that you've got 5 seconds to read it. Subjects like "Are we still meeting at 2PM today?" so you might not even need the body, which is short and to the point.

Also, if I have three unrelated questions for someone, I write three short emails. I want them to be able to answer two and flag one for later if necessary, without drudging up the other issues that were already solved.

The other great lesson from journalism is "people have short attention spans." The inverted pyramid is for hard news stories, but even fluff pieces try to start with really catchy first sentences and be clear throughout. If you lose people's attention too often, you lose your customers.

Many academics and businesspeople should learn from this - they often seem more concerned with sounding smart than really conveying information. Great ideas are no good if nobody hears about them. And in my experience, great minds are generally good at explaining their ideas clearly.
Literature == art

Journalism == engineering

(both of the written word).

Complaining that literature is a waste of time is like saying I can't paint my house with oil paints and a tiny brush. Technically true, but you're really missing the point.
We don't know how long that tail is

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

until all Web browsers are equally easy to install, as the submitted article shows that Firefox is discovering to its chagrin.
Enough that they didn't pay to have the metal layers "peeled off" one by one (or just all of them as Arubis suggests) so that we could start to guess what it really is....
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good interview, but the format just looks weird to me. i.e. when the guest isn't talking, you are just watching someone listening.

With both people on the screen, you can change focus between each person, as they speak.
I often conclude that the people running websites are doofuses, and thus their product may be a no-good product, if the website doesn't meet the universal usability standard of speedy page views. That's a simple quality proxy heuristic.
I think it's a pseudo-explanation for why someone doesn't live up to his public morality. "Honestly, I really wanted not to close this plant, but we have a responsibility to our shareholders." Sometimes even that play fails, such as when shareholders actually wanted Stanley to stay in Connecticut, but management wanted more profit. In that case, they disobeyed the shareholders for their own supposed fiduciary own good.
Ideally, whoever grants the telcos monopoly power (Is it the FCC that does that? I don't know.) should be able to enforce net neutrality. If that's the FCC, they should be able to enforce it; if it's someone else, they should.
Nice one, thanks.
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Looks cool. I'd suggest putting some screenshots on the app pages, to make them more inviting.
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My company holds a monthly lunch/technical presentation, with the lecture given by an employee. Four of my clients have yet to approve hours, so next week is my turn. What topic can I talk about that won't put a group of custom software and web programmers to sleep?
As I said on reddit, the name isn't misleading. SQLCompiler is used for generating SQL, and assumes relational database concepts like joins, table aliases, and aggregation.
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It would be interesting if you added in a question about price that people paid as well.

While the sample size is small, I'm surprised that the US is largely on par with Europe in terms of speed. I'd expect though that price / speed is much better in Europe.
Cuban's title is wrong for his post. Obviously, if your customers think a new product sucks, you should listen, right? Apple didn't sink billions of dollars into AppleTV.
I had the pleasure of spending a week with a group of techies in Montreal (referenced in the post). Definitely a nice and interesting crowd to hang out with (and have a drink with (which did NOT == get blitzed)). Once I read Montreal, that part clicked a bit more. The value and pleasure in such does depend on the crowd and attitudes. Back here and at the corporate job, having drinks has usually been about awkwardly commenting on the attractive women (even in mixed company), an in depth analysis of some fellow's paintball games and season, movies movies movies (but only Hollywood blockbusters and comedies), and wondering when the next bit of shit would hit the fan at the office. Straying from these points often seems risky; people are not too open -- as/in a group -- to alternatives and everyone is at least partially watching their back.

I very much like the point about 'removing small frustrations'. So often, the temptation is to pass the opportunity by, perhaps because it is small compared to everything else we are worrying about. But add it up, over a year or two, or take them all as a set, and the cumulative effect is quite significant. The satisfaction of addressing even one is a real, immediate boost and sense of accomplishment.

Finally, to return to the drinking. I find, especially as I get older, that I enjoy a cup or two of coffee in a cafe as much or more than a drink in a bar. The caffeine elevates dopamine and thereby seems to open up conversation, but the results tend to be more interesting and don't culminate in a hang-over.
Thank you Patrick for the explanation. I'm trying to think of the ways in which a widget can create a link on a site where it's installed. I'm thinking:

1) Javascript, buy making a GET back to the widget server, and then inserting the link into the DOM of the widget host page.

2) Iframe.

3) Flash or something like that.

What am I missing? Can't Google easily ignore a part of a page that's generated by Javascript (their bot doesn't process it anyhow, right), and also ignore Iframes or Flash?
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WTF??? I may not be a fancy big-city lawyer, but I would think that even someone as dense as a Supreme Court Justice (and obtuseness seems to be a job requirement these days), let alone a clearer-thinking lower court judge, should be able to see the clear applicability of common carrier statute and precedent here. Unless and until the ISPs actually create, procure and provide exclusive content and only their own content (goods) via their delivery means, they are bound by common carrier. That goes back to what, Domesday?
It's more informative. "buf" gives you a few more bits of information about the source and purpose of the data than "data" does.
The largely arbitrary way US law applies or doesn't to various data/telecom services is in need of an update anyway.

It makes no sense to treat cable differently than copper, or internet service differently than phone service.
From the article, regarding their website:
"We tell people it's where Walmart meets Google," he said.

Can't fathom what that means...
A great and somewhat related article by David Brooks: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/opinion/30brooks.html

From the article:

"... economic and professional success exists on the surface of life, and that they emerge out of interpersonal relationships, which are much deeper and more important."
I guess it will make it easier, but that is pretty lame. I mean, proper nouns pretty much covers every letter combination these days.
I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that public key cryptography is very processor intensive. Because of this, instead of using your private key to sign every bit of communication, you use the public/private key crypto to negotiate a shared secret for a different algorithm, such as AES.

It's more than just an issue of efficiency. Encrypting/signing nonrandom text with RSA exposes you to all kinds of nasty attacks. For example, if you directly sign a message whose blocks are composed of prime numbers (rather than hashing the message and signing the digest), then an attacker can afterward forge your signature on any message composed of a sequence of blocks which are known powers of those primes or their mod-N inverses.
I pasted it to Jottit because a) I don't have a blog that's relevant to the topic, b) the original comment is hard to link to accurately due to sloppy coding on ET, and c) I wanted to try Jottit after learning about it. I considered adding an explanatory paragraph, but I felt it could be crude and self-promotional (if someone says something, they should have their name against it) as the quote stands alone pretty well.

The issues you raise regarding link sharing are valid, and exist, but in this case it's really just a cut and paste job (and if it were not interesting, I doubt it'd get 100 upvotes here). I could have put it on Gist, Pastie, or 101 other sites. The quote is the whole bit. No analysis necessary.

Nonetheless, this would have worked better as a brief personal blog post. If I get back into personal blogging, I'd certainly tackle it that way instead.
Your thoughts on some language or technology that you are interested in but that is not used at your office.
> Im not sure if it was just your wording but it was several minutes before they fired on them.

It didn't take “several minutes”. They hadn't even moved the injured man to the car before they were dead. And it's unlikely that they understood they were in a combat zone. Those helicopters fly high above the scene.

> Have you watched the full 39 minute video?

I've watched the full video once and then after that the shortened one.

> I've only had time to watch it once (so am withholding my full analysis of the engagement) but the same van is visible near the start of the video.

You can't tell if it's the same van on IR. They don't have a color, and I didn't see enough detail on the vehicles we swept over initially to resolve it without color information.

But even if that were the case, would it be so unusual? That wasn't a combat zone, it was an inhabited residential area. People live there.

> It may not have been the same van but it seems a natural and fair assumption that it might be.

Even if you allow for that, the people in the video never take any clear action constituting engagement. They were addressing a wounded man, and showed 0 evidence of retrieving weapons.

> Saying things like "it is clear" based on the single perspective of the Apache gunship seems a little clear cut...

I'm only speaking from the perspective of the pilot's actions. They massacred a family and innocent journalists. And I have to tell you, if they think a tulip hood on a 200mm lens looks like an RPG, then someone is in dire need of a refresher course. That shape couldn't be a more distinct signal of photographic equipment.

The entire engagement and the series of decisions that lead up to it stink.
I wouldn't try this, and potentially damage the drive further. If the data is worth recovering, then send it over to professionals. Of course if you really don't care about your data, then you could try this, but the question arises, why?
I am not a crypto expert so correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, anyone with a root key necessarily can subvert the entire system in a straightforward way.
Nice to hear, let us know if you need some help writing the backend for django.
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i think full blown ORM-style is the wrong abstraction, at least for now. until the abstractions are good enough, staying close to the metal is a good idea. also querying is easy (there's not a lot of options), but keeping multiple indexes updated and partitioning them etc. is where the fun begins.

for my own needs, i've started building a thin (transparent) abstraction layer for cassandra . take a look here for a code example: http://github.com/enki/tragedy
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I've read that in the structure of the human brain the Amygdala has the ability to detect sensory inputs similar to threatening memories and can the override our normal action formation. This is that sudden sharp panic you get when walking through a house at night and some combination of shadows looks like a figure or animal. It's very easy for our brains to trick us... and if your finger happens to be on a trigger when this happens...
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Literature isn't about writing anymore than Computer Science is about programming. Part of your bad experience seems to stem from you not realizing this. The CS equivalent is assuming you're going to learn how to program in Theory of Computation.

The other part of your bad experience comes from the fact that your instructor was a poor educator. Grading solely based on the instructor's interpretation of the work is the canonical teaching mistake in English. Of course, having a bad instructor will make any course a bad experience, regardless of the discipline.

It's unfortunate your experience was so terrible because I find English to be very worthwhile. I've taken some of the most advanced undergraduate CS courses in the country and they were very worthwhile. Yet AP Engish senior year in high school and one English course in college match the CS courses in terms of being worthwhile.

I think it's best to clarify what I mean by worthwhile. One worthwhile moment in Computer Science was when I finally understood Lisp macros. Another one was when I understood Turing Machines. I'd say I've had about 5 or 6 of these moments over the past few years in CS. These are moments where you feel like you understand something in a fundamentally different and higher way. English produces similar moments, but they are about the world at large instead of just a technical field. Taking one English course per semester has netted me one or two worthwhile moments a month. It's really quite something.

If you're ever given the opportunity, I urge you to give literature another try. It's difficult to find a competent teacher, but it's worth the effort.
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I have thought that what we need is to revamp the smtp standard a bit to include some PKI/certification. I.e., if I want to perform a write operation on your SMTP server, I have to authenticate. You can give me a certificate that will allow me to do so but you can set expirations on it, audit it and may revoke it at any time.
Seems pretty clear he's speaking within the context of features/functionality.
There already is a few examples of gcc giving helpful hints (although nothing like LLVM).

For example (t.cc):

template <typename C>
void test (C c) { C::iterator it = begin(); }
⋮
test(std::vector<int>());

Shows this error (with a note about what the programmer likely meant):

t.cc: In function ‘void test(C)’:
t.cc:2: error: expected `;' before ‘it’
t.cc: In function ‘void test(C) [with C = std::vector<int, std::allocator<int> >]’:
t.cc:7: instantiated from here
t.cc:2: error: dependent-name ‘C::iterator’ is parsed as a
non-type, but instantiation yields a type
t.cc:2: note: say ‘typename C::iterator’ if a type is meant
It's for creating an abstraction layer that allows to write portable apps and that provides a much more powerful API than boring hashmaps (as you might have noticed, lots of APIs for those DBs try to get away from the hashmap representation). How often have you written manual denormalization code or manual in-memory JOIN code? How often did you manually keep track of counters? What are you trying to achieve with that, anyway? You're "manualating" features you get for free with SQL. That's waste. It's something you shouldn't have to do. It can be automated and that's our long-term goal.

These DBs are like writing with Assembler just to get more speed (or scale in this case). The point is, you can use a high-level language (here, Django's ORM plus a few "optimization" specifications) to achieve the same result much faster and in a portable way.

For anything that goes beyond the ORM's features we can still provide MapReduce and other mechanisms, but again with a higher-level API. Do you really believe 10 years from now we'll still be using hashmaps to access those DBs? (just trying to provoke some thought; I don't really believe that you think that way)
It's at least more likely that the two guys at 3:50, is carrying an RPG and an AK, then any of the other guys I see in the video. Their behavioral pattern doesn't really match the rest of the groups. At 4:46 you can see something that resembles a magazine sticking out from the striped guy. And the weight of the lift at 3:57 more matches my experience.

To me the chopper crew is just sloppy and they shouldn't be. I get why some grunt storming buildings may accidentally shoot someone holding up a broom or something. But these guys should have the discipline and training to be able to stay cool and wait things out. There's clearly not a full blown street fight going on at this location. And what happens at 5:13?

But frankly I'll always be on the side of war corespondents after reading "My war gone by, I miss it so" and seeing "War Photographer".
Right. In fact it's exactly the opposite case.

It's really blowing my mind that there are people on this site, which is ostensibly full of informed and educated people, arguing that it's okay to kill someone just because you're not sure and they're helping someone you shot.
Newspapers' role in cheering on, validating, and accelerating the Trillion Dollar Housing Bubble helped seal their death warrant. In addition (especially in this case), many "reporters" functioned merely as stenographers for interested parties ("Home prices remain fundamentally strong, according to the National Association of Realtors).

It was especially obvious when I found well-informed Web sites blogs that would intelligently dissect and contradict the bad "reporting" on the subject.
Maybe a better title would be: Why you should never listen to your customers until after they've tried out your new product.
thank you for correcting my facts the way a robot or autistic child would, but allow me to spell this out for you.

ignorance is not the same as factually incorrect. if i said to an obese woman "you are looking fat today," though correct, i would either be behaving purposely mean or ignorant to social norms.

similarly, someone telling another person [the people you love who have chosen to defend your country in war have done so needlessly] is ignorant to social norms.

since you are not american is it safe to assume you personally know zero american soldiers at war right now?
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