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Isn't there a version of Alibre 3D CAD for Linux? I've used the free Windows version and it's sweet!
Erlang: The Programming Language
Innovating Around Your Customer Waiting Time
What's all this fuss about Erlang?
It is my recollection that FAQs were a product of Usenet, where there really were frequently asked questions. The salty dogs who ran the group would get sick of seeing the same questions over and over, so they would compile them all in an article which would be posted on a regular basis. You were supposed to read this before asking any question. It didn't work.
That's still not correct.

For HDMI in particular, there's no error correction at all on the video data (though there is on the audio and control data).

So if one bit gets flipped in the video data as it goes through the cable, you're going to see that wrong bit on screen. You'd have to have an insanely high bit error rate for your eyes to notice it, but it's there, and it gradually gets worse as the error rate increases.

What could flip a bit in a cable? Any number of things. EM interference from outside a badly shielded cable. EM crosstalk between conductors inside a badly designed cable. Signal reflections at badly designed connectors. Basically anything that can happen to any other cable, whether the signal that goes over it is considered to be analog or digital.

I assume the reason HDMI applies EC to the audio and control data is that errors in those channels are more noticeable to the user, whereas errors at reasonable rates in the video will mostly sneak by.

The HDMI spec at http://www.hdmi.org/download/HDMI_Spec_1.3_GM1.pdf is a great source of information about this.
Integrating Erlang and Java
I love this stuff!

If you like it, you could also check out 8bit Weezer: http://www.ptesquad.com/more/pte018.html

And for NES specifically check out The Advantage Band. Two guitars, bass, and drums covering NES songs perfectly. They released two albums on 5RC and toured a few times but they haven't been active for a couple years. Here's a little Contra "Alien's Lair & Boss Music":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBtcto6ebI
This is a handy set of slides, I am seeing a lot of the same idioms, one thing I dont agree with is

"remote shell works great"

I have found remote shell to be pretty useless, the only time I find them useful is when you do something that generated too much io to deal with, run_erl / to_erl (or screen) lets you attach / detach from a running deamon, you can read rb reports and io works (unlike remsh)
Recursion, I love it.
I'm sure they do feel they're working hard to compromise on this issue, but their decisions for this will break sites with very careful styling/designs (e.g. checkmarks, font styling, etc). It just doesn't sit well with me that Mozilla feels so strongly (or caves to pressure) on issues like this that they're willing to break so much backwards compatibility.

I would love to see them make this optional and turn it off by default. It's a paranoia thing that people have lived with forever, and the most concerned people could turn on this mode if they ever need to do so.
The technology probably did matter, but people don't view it in those terms. What he describes is people testing the "technology", but they certainly don't think about the materials or the notches. Same's true for software. People don't care about AJAX and clouds. They do care about responsiveness and usable pages.

This is not about "back to the basics", this is about advertising. Apart from some "deviants", runners still use the high-tech shoes, not Converse Chucks. And the basic ads about shoes certainly don't focus on tiny tidbits of the technology. Maybe a large catch-phrase ("Torsion", "Pump" etc.), but the rest is aesthethics and athletes...
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ugh, I hated signals theory at uni... but let me dust off that knowledge...

> All signals are analog.

I see your reasoning in saying this ("on the wire" etc.); your incorrect though. Not all signals are considered analog (which is important to the point being made)

Analog signals are generally susceptible to noise because they are usually non-recoverable; error checking is hard because it is a non-discrete continuous signal.

>It is possible to receive spurious bit errors for many reasons.

Yes, which is why error checking exists in all these systems. In the context of the wire alone, yes, it is not a case of "it just works". But in the case of the communications subsystem (i.e. the transmitter, medium, receiver) it really does either work or not work :)

Ultimately thought the phrase "it's digital; either it works or it doesnt" is making no comment about the actual signal. It's really saying: an expensive cable is not, due to the digital sub-system, likely to make any difference to error rates (or more succinctly: the performance of the error correction is better than the noise affect of the transport medium)
The details where they differ are not standardised. If you stick to the standards, you will have no problems. The problem with BSD is that following standards is what gets you in trouble.
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Hmm, to me shoes are signal of status for many ppl too, but still there is a huge group for whom car is a irreplaceable tool for transportation and delivery. I might be wrong, but my guess is that market of "budget cars" >> market of "status cars"
I'm not sure about the "make it a goal.." conclusion of the final paragraph, but otherwise, this is smart: waiting is part of any interaction. This especially goes for the time between their initial request and your first reply to them (whether it's an actual message, service setup, etc). The more you can make them feel like they're being taken care of, the better.
It used to annoy me too. When I saw those forms, I usually assumed a website owner didn't want to talk to me anyway. But then I realized that's okay. US generally don't care for the rest of the world and I believe they have the right and the privilege to do so. So it's either I move to US or stop complaining. And US companies that, say, want my money - they usually have the right kind of forms already.
Both are correct.

1) Intent matters. Clients won't go to your site.

2) It is MS' fault. No amount of JS should ever crash the browser, at worst it should replace the page with "sorry this page has crashed, please continue browsing elsewhere" like what chrome does.
I'm not going to debate on the usefulness of this post, and I'm not sure if you were saying this tongue in cheek but... if that is hacking, then pictures of my dog fetching a stone underwater are hacking too.
Heh, had a FF 1.5 bug happen a month ago. Turns out the user had auto updates enabled and THOUGHT he had the latest FF. He just didnt realize that it won't upgrade major versions automatically.
Skeptic != Denier.

Using the word denier with its obvious connotations with Holocaust denial... classic fundamentalist lefty tactic.
Thanks very much. I will.
Same here. I don't see anything big enough to warrant splitting it into two articles.

Goddamn page views.
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Now that is something I'm greatly looking forward to.
The iPad, internet, and climate change links in the spotlight
I strongly disagree. How else will they discover the right price point?
Perth repping.
Geez. This is the type of talk that makes me never ever want to get VC funding....
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That sounds like Freud, who is pretty much discredited on everything. There's really no evidence for "latent" or "subconscious" processes that are analogous to conscious processes, such as fear. Fear is always pretty damn conscious.
If I had to define a mediocre life I'd define it as a life where there are things you want to achieve but you aren't trying to achieve them because you're afraid of failure. It's more of an internal mental state than anything.
+1 i also mostly have durability as one of the top reqs in mind when shop for a new car.

sadly you hardly can expect same quality from modern manufactures, while most of them pray you buying another product of theirs within 1-2 years
"messing around with jQuery is far easier for the beginner than playing with Javascript"

Also, because getting awesome work done with jQuery is far easier for the seasoned professional than messing around with plain Javascript DOM traversal.

Of course, you still have to use native JS functions for a lot of stuff, so you're not taking a shortcut around JS. You're just skipping the parts that are time-consuming, awkward, and inconsistent across browsers, and getting right to the useful stuff: shorter, more powerful, more expressive code.

Or is that just 'for beginners'?
It only seems like paranoia because widespread, highly-publicized abuse of history sniffing hasn't started yet. I'm happy they've jumped onto this grenade before it exploded.

The most valuable thing Mozilla just did was to send a signal to the market that history sniffing is going to be unreliable, and that ad networks shouldn't invest time and money into exploiting it. The scariest thing about history sniffing was the idea that some large company would adopt it and create pressure to keep the vulnerability there forever, as part of how the Internet works.
The real time to worry about the quality of those cables is when you go over 6 feet.
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Firefox already allow you to disable all visited
styling (immediately stops this attack) by setting the
layout.css.visited_links_enabled option in about:config
to false.

I would rather they stop here. Don't break things for everybody for something that most people consider to be a non-problem.
I think saying that customers tend to prefer "simple done well" is an oversimplification (pun unintended, but kept anyway). I've found the real issue is that people have a maximum rate of information absorption and when a salesperson starts rattling off a list of features, that rate is quickly surpassed. If you could make a potential customer in a shoe store understand that the rubber compound in a particular shoe would make it perform 30% better, it would likely have an impact on the sale. The problem is that it is nearly impossible to make someone quickly understand something outside of their frame-of-reference. Most people will just start ignoring you as soon as you say "rubber compound."

I think this post is a more valid commentary on how products should be sold than how products should be made. For example, I used to sell a fairly complex piece of engineering software. I found that the most effective way to demo the software was to find out about one of the customers problems and show the software solving that problem over and over. Often I would only end up showing 2 or 3 features of a program that had thousands. That doesn't mean that the customer wouldn't go on to find value in many other parts of our product once they started using it, it just means that in the context of a sales meeting, making one point well is often as good as you can do.
For UK peeps my recommendation would be

http://euronetworks.co.uk/acatalog/HDMI_Cables.html

Really high quality cables, low prices.

Confusingly named, it's UK based as I said.
> Also, US healthcare eats up 16% of GDP, compared to ~10% in the UK and ~12% in France (source: Economist).

Would you rather live in a country with $1M/person GDP that spends 50% on healthcare or one with $1K/person GDP that spends 5% on healthcare? Feel free to assume equal lifespans.

I ask because that difference in healthcare spending is dwarfed by the difference in after-tax income.

Also, the US spends a lot of money on things that those other countries don't, specifically obesity and "right before death" spending. The former can't be reduced with healthcare spending and the latter is a choice, albeit one that doesn't significantly affect lifespan. However, changing it is "treating grandma as shovel-ready".
Yea, thanks for bringing that up. To be honest, I only submitted it to HN because of it's genius title. the whole concept is just brilliant!

I think it's a subject worth discussing about and a lot of tangible and intangible opportunities that are to be had in this 'wait time' period.

This epiphany reminds of IDEO's Tim Brown who suggested hospital ceilings are bad for patience. The patient is spending most of their time in bed, looking at the ceiling, yet there's nothing there to interact with them. He changed that.
Yes I agree that one should "follow their heart" to go somewhere. One thing to remember is that as the "awareness" of what is possible with their potential changes, their heart will start yearning for reaching that potential.

So, who you are with and what conversations you have on a daily basis will have a huge influence on what your heart will say.
Clearly you've never had an Ethernet Cable that got caught in a door. Or was terminated poorly. Or doesn't have the insulator sheath under the crimp. Or run parallel to a set of Florescent light ballasts. All of these events can reduce performance on Ethernet without causing it to fail outright.

There is a reason why every single TIA/EIA 568 cable plant is carefully tested for things like Near End Cross Talk (NEXT), Latency, Skew, etc..

There is also a reason why there is an entire _discipline_ dedicated to ensuring that the "Digital" signal not only has a channel, but a meticulously crafted one. (See: http://www.linktionary.com/t/tia_cabling.html for details)

To reiterates the OP - there is no "Digital Signal" - signals are analog in nature, and they need an analog channel to transmit them. That analog channel needs to be engineered carefully to get the lowest EBR (Error Bit Rate) possible.

What's interesting is the Failure case of the Digital CODEC on the other end - some may reduce transmit rate in the presence of an increased EBR resulting from dropped packets. Or some may seize up and cease to function. In the degraded case, having a pristine analog channel from the transmitter to the receiver will certainly result in a better digital signal.

There is also the issue of future proofing - We're installing an entire plant of Category 6a cable right now in one of our data centers for a gigabit environment - Category 6a is like the "Monster" version of Category 5e/6 - It seems like a douchey way to do a network install, except when you consider the following - (1) this cable plant will be in use for 10-15 years, (2) We're testing a bunch of Nexus 5010s that will likely make good use of that 6a for 10 Gigabit. So, in addition to passing _today's_ signal flawlessly, it will also pass tomorrow's. This might be an important factor if your HDMI cable is being run through hard to access cabinets/walls.

Now, with all that said, it is still probably the case that the $150 Monster Cables (under normal circumstances) don't have a lower EBR than a $10 cable, but, in the face of RF interference, It may actually be a better performer. I don't know, but I wouldn't discard the possibility without a bit of research and education.
Read-only shared heap in Erlang (ab)using module constant pools
The question of whether it is better to engage or not engage China has been hotly argued within Google and elsewhere. There are good points on both sides. And indeed initially Google came down on the side of engaging despite things Google didn't like. See, for instance, http://www.lot49.com/evil_scale.html for some of the thinking that went into that.

However after several years of trying that, censorship has increased. Repression has increased. And Google came to the position that the policy simply was not working. The attempt to compromise gmail was simply the last straw.

The OP is firmly on the side of believing that engagement is the right approach. But believing that does not mean that they are right. Perhaps Google is wrong, but after consideration and experience Google moved from agreeing with the OP to disagreeing with the OP. And even if Google actually is wrong, it is not obviously so.
No the best ever is Denon's $500 ethernet cable.
if you want the best quality for your downloaded MP3s you really need this.

In tests audiophiles showed that not only are the 1s sharper but the 0s are much more rounded giving a more fulfilled sound
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Even among those who for cars are irreplaceable, many make their decision entirely based on status.
I, for example, am still running IE6 due to it being the standard at work.

When almost nothing will work on IE6, I hope that would encourage the "standard" to be updated. If all sites "sorta work" in IE6, there's no pressing motivation to upgrade.

While crashing people's browsers isn't exactly mature, dropping support for IE6 to the point of sites/apps not working in it is the right move (as Google has recently decided).
I should point something out: this isn't really saying that autoconf isn't portable. It's saying that people need to quit writing autoconf stuff without realizing it might be run on a system other than linux.
YES. This is exactly the right approach. It DOES take more work to support. If they want to pay for it, fine. But it also exposes the internal "upgrading is expensive" excuse as fallacious. NOT upgrading is also expensive. At some point the balance tips and it's time to move on.
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I wish author was a little more constructive here. What phone number pattern would he recommend we use?
It's a full blown web-app and it is the core of our business. It is also used worldwide with one of our fastest growing user bases being China. In China, at least for our app, IE6 and Maxthon (which like IE is based on Trident) are the most popular browsers. I'm sure there may be features we will miss out on but off the top of my head I can't think of anything that we couldn't accomplish. Are there specific features you have in mind that are impossible in IE6?
Yay!!! Real needs to go away.
I'm actually quite tired of people telling other people how to be successful. First, it's quite a vain goal.

Second, and more importantly, consciously knowing what actions lead to success/failure does not translate into one taking/avoiding those actions (e.g. most people understand that flattery may be insincere, yet many people fall prey to it. Nearly everyone know about honesty being the "best policy", and yet humans across the centuries have deceived (and have been caught)).

What would be more useful would be a "n ways to always practice what your mom told you". Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational is a great start in the direction, but I doubt we'll ever find all the hacks to cure our innate stupidity.
Does Ericsson still use Erlang and to what degree?

EDIT: "Erlang is currently used in several Ericsson telecom infrastructure products." (http://www.ericsson.com/article/open_source_20100211163350)
Dear everybody else:

Some of us don't even have postal codes. Those profane-looking ones we enter aren't real.

Love, Ireland.
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I guess the argument should have been that once you cross a certain threshold, cable quality doesn’t matter. That was of course also true for analog signals (human senses are only so good), but the transition from good signal to bad signal might have different characteristics with digital signals.

While a image from a analog signal will only get noisier and noisier as signal quality decreases, images from a digital signal will first show artifacts and then just stop displaying altogether. That’s a rather sudden transition. One second the signal is there, the other it's gone. Something like that just doesn’t happen with analog signals. (I’m basing this on my experience with terrestrial digital broadcasting – could be totally wrong for HDMI connection but I doubt it.)

I would guess that how sudden that transition is has something to do with the error correction and the codec of the signal. How many wrong bits can the error correction reconstruct? And, as soon as the wrong bits get past the error correction, how many wrong bits can the decoder handle and still reconstruct a image (albeit one with artifacts)? It would certainly be interesting to know how that problem was solved for HDMI connections. If you know the maximum bit error rates for your cables figuring out which are the right ones should be easy, given enough testing :)
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I disagree there's there's nothing wrong with wanting to raise web standards. More people should complain, we'd have a better web. Some sites still don't have encryption when entering credit card numbers.
Years ago I ran across some interesting research that said that while caffeine is a stimulant, we have a homeostatic response that acclimatizes us to it. Therefore when you start, caffeine gives you a boost beyond where you would be. After a month of regular use caffeine boosts you to about where you'd be without caffeine, but you wake up in far worse shape.

This fits with my experience, and I'm glad I took the effort to break my addiction a number of years ago. (I sometimes miss the taste though.)
I'm going to use your post as an excuse to talk about shoes some more.

Shoe shopping is a great example of pathological shopping behavior. Men will gladly drop $250 on a pair of Kenneth Coles, thinking the label means status and some kind of guarantee of quality. KCs are ugly and poorly made.

The irony is that, when they're on your feet, nobody will know they're KCs and you spent $250 on them. But some people are so programmed to care about labels that this thought will not occur to them. At least designer jeans have exclusive copyrighted designs sewn right onto the ass pockets.
Hah, my obvious answer seems to be less obvious than I thought :) No admin rights? Enter portableapps.com:

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable

Obviously the usual caveats apply to software from 3rd party sources, but portableapps.com has been going for years with no complaints.
Actually, I think the car industry has this pretty well figured out. The restyling is because (most) people don't want to have the same car as everyone else. Any given model comes in a dozen colors for the same reason, and because there are people who literally won't buy a car unless it comes in their favorite color (and base their decision on almost nothing else).

"Auto-everything" is about "don't make me think" design. People just want to point their cars where they are going and be done. They don't want to worry about: did I lock all the doors? Did I dim my high-beams? When should I shift? Will I remember to pump the brakes in a skid?
Javascript DOM traversal is simple, very standard, and extremely powerful IMHO

Depends what you're into I guess. To me there doesn't seem much point having a largely pointless abstraction layer in between.
Can you not run portable versions, too?
Unless you can prove this, it's hearsay. Part of the reason why linux and BSD don't actually get POSIX certified is because they change so quickly that it wouldn't be practical. So it's difficult to get an idea of what system is most compatible with POSIX. And even if you did, it would be different by the next version.
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System headers should only require BSD_SOURCE if you've asked for strict ansi mode, just like gnu headers require GNU_SOURCE.
But did you use audiophile, linear crystal aligned cables?
And did you install them the correct way round?
https://usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp

Presumably on ethernet you have to decide if you want the Tx or Rx signal to have the extra digital nuance?
Indeed. However it uses TMDS [1] which is a "blind mans" error reduction technique.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Minimized_Differenti...