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The work on dynamic JITs in the Javascript world completely outclasses anything the DLR or whatever the Java version is now being called can offer without major overhauls.

I mean, look at the computer language benchmarks. Lua and Javascript are starting to inch into compiled language territory, and they are getting better by the day. There is a thriving, competitive atmosphere.

CLI and the JVM on the other hand are bloated, slow moving monsters. They just happen to have the static typing crutch keeping them afloat for a while.

No, we don't need CLI on the web. We need the CLI to go away entirely.

Now, maybe we want to target different languages to the Javascript engines, sure. That actually shouldn't be that hard. A portable bytecode format might be nice. Given the generic nature of Javascript, the semantics of other languages map quite nicely onto it.

If you think a bit, the lack of indirection in static languages is really a fancy way of saying "I'm declaring a bunch of things 'const' and letting the compiler get rid of indirection that might otherwise be there." That concept could be brought into dynamic language engines writ large if we really wanted to.
We plan worldwide domination. :)

We already offer phone numbers in Japan. Some Asian countries don't allow voip services to operate or have extremely high costs. So it depends on where in Asia you're looking. From your Twitter profile, looks like you're in Singapore. We can get you a number there but they are fairly expensive. Feel free to send an email to Tropo sales or support and we can figure it out.
Do you really expected university IT to provide comparable solutions? Even the biggest university IT department is providing the stuff to maybe 50k people, and as long as it more-or-less gets the job done, they keep their jobs and don't really care that it's not spectacular.

Dropbox is providing the service to 5M people, and the whole business is built on it being spectacular. The economies of scale mean that they can afford to make tiny improvements, and they have serious incentives to make it as great as possible; otherwise, they go out of business. (In fact, otherwise, they would have gone out of business long before they made it to 5M users.)

Good OSS can fix this to an extent--if someone started a really good host-your-own Dropbox project, every university could use it, getting you similar scale when it comes to coding it, so people would contribute from all over to make it great, and the IT at each individual university would just have to deploy it and update it as it improves.
I understand where you're coming from, but the only reason the source is available here is that he wrote in client-side JavaScript. There is no link to the source, no download, no indication that the source is meant to be available, and the explicit invitation to interact with it is to play the game, not monkey with the source. You make it sound like he was exhibiting the code just because he didn't make it impossible to see.
"Unlike Japan, France and other countries, the U.S. has no true high-speed train lines."

Unlike Japan, France and other countries, the U.S. is really big.
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There are other forms of creation than coding. The choices are not just code more or watch TV, as he seems to suggest.
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This is incredibly accurate.

I'm speaking as a senior at a college to which a huge number of firms come to recruit and a huge percentage of the senior class heads into banking or consulting.

I'm doing neither, but the draw was definitely there. Especially the part about lifestyle appeal over money appeal. When companies recruit, they never explicitly talk about how much they pay, but their recruiting videos and the demeanor of the recruiters and employees who come to visit say everything needed.
This is such a great idea. I donate to charity regularly anyway and I'm a sucker for games. Now I can have both!

I ended up paying $100. Most of the money went to Child's Play but the devs still got $20 and the EFF $10.
He's in his thirties. But I don't think "productivity" to the point of putting yourself in the hospital is good for you at any age.
"reliable support of Web standards in the major browsers."

Ha Ha Ha...
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The takeaway line: "The typical Harvard undergraduate is someone who … is driven more by fear of not being a success than by a concrete desire to do anything in particular."

To the extent that this is true, it applies equally well to most people who excel in school, and I think there's a point there that the author leaves untouched.

And that is that it's emotionally very hard to watch your friends — especially people who appear less intelligent, diligent, or otherwise "worthy" (that's subjective, obviously) — make significantly more money than you. In the long term, that can strain friendships, and I think it's a major explanatory factor in why smart kids go "waste" their talent in finance and consulting.

In other words, appearing to be less successful than one's peers is something that few overachievers are emotionally capable of handling.
I've had this since the beginning of the year in Chrome/Win7, a few months Firefox/Ubuntu and yet I don't have it in my main browser Chromium/Ubuntu.

Oh well, certainly not new though.
Can someone explain what "lightweight" means in this context?
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I'm sorry that you go to such a crappy university then.

Where I study, IT staff try to be use- and helpful, and not just to keep their jobs.
> If wholesale murder really was their goal they could do a whole lot better than they're doing, let's hope they don't catch on to that.

Oh, some of them certainly have. Why do you think Mr. Ahmadinejad has so many uranium centrifuges?
This seems pretty accurate, and if so it would explain why so few of this type of student start startups after college. A startup is exactly the opposite situation: you really have to commit to something, and you are immediately and uncompromisingly judged by customers. It's the opposite of a decorous way to keep your options open. But of course risk and reward are usually proportionate.
You may check the System.Speech.Recognition Namespace in .NET 4
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Good catch, I should have said uniformly sampling.

Anyway, this blog post and much of the surrounding discussion make me really sad about how poorly people understand data analysis.
The same way Google was different from the crowd of search engines that already existed when they started: better execution.
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Which they should crack down very hard on. The recipient of an affiliate's spam can't tell the difference between them and the actual company. A quick way to a tarnished reputation.
If only Microsoft knew that the only people that use their products are those that get paid to. No outlook integration? No chance.
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You might also throw in p(procrastination | is_user, gender).
You're not the target audience
You can also do that with Chrome's builtin inspector.
I hate how people blame Adobe when videos run slow, it seems to work out well for Apple...

People on this world: If flash videos on your mac have been slow in the past, it is because Apple, as a closed and proprietary platform, didn't expose the proper API for hardware video acceleration and thus, Adobe wasn't able to use hardware acceleration! This is not Adobes fault!
I don't think it is fair to say Steve Jobs motivated Adobe. Yes, we've all seen the hundreds of articles basically saying "Steve Jobs thinks flash 'sucks' for various reasons and will never run on the iPhone OS;" however, it is clear that other companies, like Google, Nokia, ect., have an interest in Flash. Flash will run on the Android phones (for example), and I know Google has been "motivating" Adobe to get moving.

All in all, I would say it is safe to say Google has been a great motivator for the engineers at Adobe, not Steve. I would guess the engineers at Adobe could care less what Steve says, for they won't be helping him with his iPhone OS.
I'm just saying that to make something as seamless and all-around good as Dropbox takes some serious work. Not only do IT people have little incentive to reach that level of perfection, they often aren't really coders and wouldn't be able to get a budget through that gave them enough man-hours to have time to make something like Dropbox. It's not worth it to the university, in general, to pay the full development cost of an extremely well-done implementation of a complex, nonessential system. The economies of scale aren't there.

And I'm still a few months away from college. It looks like Stanford has some pretty good systems overall, but just as a datapoint, the design of Axess (the system that appears to handle pretty much everything--course signup, financial aid, etc) is much uglier (and a little harder to use) than any commercial site I use. It gets the job done, it probably dates back to when all sites looked like that, and the people in charge of it don't have enough incentive to give it a facelift.
This is exactly why, in hindsight, I am extremely thankful I did not go to an ivy. I would almost certainly be stuck in a well-paying, soul-sucking finance job.

Whew.
What's next? iPad running flash?
The only part I cringed on was the "man hours" line. Just does not work in text.
Given the financial crisis of the past few years and the reasons behind it, I think the magnetic draw of Wall Street has lessened to some extent. Smart students still have the same fears of not being a success and the same draw to something that promises the possibility of greatness, but they're looking into other outlets. Anecdotally, I've seen a pretty big handful of my non-technical friends applying to Google and similar places. Googlers seem to have a nice lifestyle and the company has done a good job at fashioning their image such that they're seen as an instrument of social change (google.org), innovation, and ethical consistency.
The gaming/Xbox tie-in seems so obvious. I think we all expected to see this on the Zune HD and that's still mostly a work-in-progress. I can't decide if Microsoft is scared to leverage the Xbox brand or scared to delude it. As far as the price goes clearly these devices were conceived at a time when SmartPhones were $200+ and there may have been a bigger market for limited functionality devices at a lower price point. The one thing that stands out to me is the Kin Studio. I would like to have a similar feature on my iPhone.
What? I thought that was an April Fools joke.
As the maintainer of the clojure emacs support, I should point out that this comment shows the best way to get started. The linked article shows a method that works for old-time emacs vets but is much much more complicated than necessary. Unfortunately this gives the impression that it takes hours to get started with Emacs, but this is only true if you ignore the instructions in the readme.
The only way for a company to remain "dominant" without doing a good job is for it to curry special favors from the government. This is done usually by lobbying for regulations that harm competitors, while leaving the company relatively unharmed (differences in scale following consolidation are natural, for example, but additional regulatory burden will keep small upstarts from entering the market - think about the way milk is sold in California). Without regulatory assistance, unearned monopolies are impossible to maintain.
Friday was my last day at Microsoft. I was working on the gaming story of the ill-fated Windows Phone 7. I've seen some depressing things from the phone teams, but I wanted to give the Kin team the benefit of the doubt for their unique approach. However, this review makes me genuinely embarrassed to say I used to work there. How do you even get a "Try again after restarting your phone" error message past a code review? My team certainly would not have allowed that.
Xbox/gaming is a primary pillar of the Windows Phone 7 effort: http://www.intomobile.com/2010/03/15/a-look-at-windows-phone... (random article, I didn't read it, but you can find many like it).
"It's the End of the World as we Know it ... Again" is another reference site for end of the world predictions: http://alma-geddon.com/
I don't want outlook integration. I'm just saying that's their market, not kids that want Twitter.
I started using emacs as a C programmer; even for C, emacs was a great environment, especially back in 1989; good integration with the compiler and cvs, auto indent, syntax highlighting, etc..
No one is begrudging Apple their success. It's Apple's non-technical actions that are at issue here: rule 3.3.1 and Apple's lawsuit against HTC do nothing to make the iPhone better.

If Apple wants to compete on features or price, they will find no objection from me. But what they're doing now smells exactly like what Microsoft was doing in the 90's. I was there, and saw the damage it did to the market and the emerging web.
I think you're confusing two very different points in the history of the Universe. The CMBR was emitted after the decoupling of matter and radiation, as you mentioned, but this event was over 300,000 years after the Big Bang. And you are correct that there could, in principle, be observable signals emitted before this event in the form of neutrinos or gravitational waves. The observable universe, however, is defined not by reference to the signals emitted at the decoupling event, but rather the start of the inflationary epoch, which was merely 10^-36 seconds after the Big Bang. So, the OU is big enough that it encompasses all of the space from which any signal, even neutrino or gravitational, that might have been emitted 13.75 billion years earlier that could eventually reach us.

But, terminology aside, this still leaves your question: How much farther could we see if we could pick up neutrinos or gravity waves? Not a whole lot, unfortunately. Most of the expansion of the early Universe occurred during the (aptly named) inflationary epoch, and that lasted less than a tiny fraction of a second, leaving very little time for a neutrino or gravitational wave to travel before the Universe became very large. The expansion that occured in the following 300,000 years is negligible by comparison to that first tiny moment, so you won't get a whole lot more than 300,000 light years out of those neutrinos. I'm too tired and lazy to do the math to find the radius of the surface of last scattering, so I'll run a quick Google search, and...

The final answer is that the visible universe, or that which is not obscured by the opaque matter that dominated in the first 300K years, is a sphere with radius of 45.35 billion light years, while the observable universe, which is everything that can observed in principle, is just a bit further at a radius of 46.5 billion light years. So, yeah, we've got most of it covered.
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What do you mean by "ill-fated"?
Because of the money . . .
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'We are Wall Street - we are smarter and more vicious than [dinosaurs]'
My university has kick ass WiFi (Damn you WiFi and the constant distraction you provide!), you can use a VPN client to get access to, e.g., free papers anywhere in the world, the mail account is a bit low on space but works like a charm and you never have to fool around with writing anything on dead tree at some fixed location in space because you can do pretty much everything online. And the IT department tries really hard to make it possible for you to access all that stuff no matter which software or hardware you are using (that’s in contrast to what might be the case in some corporate environments).

I can’t complain but it’s probably also true that something like powerful tools for seamless online collaboration is outside the scope of university IT departments.

(The university actually uses moodle which would offer some useful functionality but not even the lecturers like it. Asked whether we should use moodle to upload our stuff: disgusted-look “Uhm, it would be nice if we could use Dropbox, that’s a pretty cool service. Do you know it?” :)
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I appreciate mattheww's viewpoint. I take life very seriously, perhaps because I have only a finite amount of it. I read this site because I'm looking for a certain type of information, and I'm grateful to learn if a link does not contain that information.
Or prescription meds etc; but there is some help:

Once your startup is incorporated, you can get a PHSP-HSA (in Canada, different than the HSA idea in the US).

You can then pay these expenses using pre-tax funds (your corp reimburses it to you as a benefit, via the HSA provider which checks it for CRA compliance).

You can also get one of the personal Blue Cross-type plans -- at around $100/month this will give you some insured coverage for some dental etc.

You can then claim back BOTH the premiums you pay to Blue Cross, as well as most of the expenses that they either don't cover or won't pay fully, from the HSA.

http://pretaxhealth.com is a pretty good Canadian PHSP-HSA.
I'm breaking my own personal rule of the internet by saying this, but I went to Harvard in the late 90s, and I was friends with a bunch of math/physics types while I was there. A good number of them went to Wall Street.

I think a lot of what this says is accurate, but I think it downplays something important. It's not just that there's a lot of money in Wall Street, it's that it's not a great time to be (for example) a physicist in this country, or at least it wasn't when I graduated. I remember a friend of mine telling me how you were typically looking at two postdocs after your PhD, and then your options were either to be an academic or to build weapons. (That guy, ironically, is the one who stuck with physics.)

So apparently a lot of people took the money. Those kids could grind, and it all must have just seemed too easy. I find it hard to judge too harshly. A part of me feels like we failed them as a society, in the way we collectively assign value to human activities. Because their minds are capable of things I can only imagine, but we couldn't think of anything better for them to do than this.
I'm a senior at Yale. I'm pursuing a start-up after graduation rather than a banking/consulting job.

I'm certainly afraid of what the future holds. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. And this fear almost had me applying to McKinsey and Goldman (along with 30% of my class). But in the end I realized that doing something I'm deeply passionate about (hacking) far outweighs any of the apparent benefits of a cushy Wall Street gig. I think it's time for me to stop worrying about leaving doors open, and start sprinting through one. Maybe I'll end up choosing the wrong door, but I'm confident that I'll learn more at that pace and with that passion than I ever would have in the monotony of a chic midtown office. I've never been so scared in my life. But I've never been so hungry. We'll see how it goes.

(Btw, incidentally, my brother (one year younger) is interning on Wall Street this year. I'm interested to compare notes...)
"Government of U.S., on behalf of Adobe Corp..."
Totally agree and well said. You've hit on my major frustration with both Fried and Seth Godin. It's almost snobbery. Expecting a level of fun and "humanness" from ALL businesses when really that only applies to a scarce few.

That's why we see the same few examples over and over again.

Cupcake stores, sneaker companies, farms, trendy software firms, design companies, etc. etc.

Of course they are going to have interesting language; they're emotional products and services.

But that's not applicable to server technology, serious consulting firms, medical, accounting, law, 99% of B2B and a slew of other types of companies.
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That URL needs to lose a trailing hyphen:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...
"Especially the part about lifestyle appeal over money appeal."

I heard someone say that during the height of the dotcom boom, Yahoo made over a billion dollars by putting a big purple chair in the lobby. Something about social signaling to attract the right sort of people on the cheap.
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Clojure, OTOH, is beautifully functional. Also, it is supported by NetBeans and Eclipse, so no SLIME needed.
First let me say that I agree with you on one thing: there are probably thousands of jobs that I feel fortunate to not have to do every day. And many of those are physically difficult professions that are taxing on the body. I also feel privileged to work in a profession where I get to do something that I enjoy, and I get paid for it.

However, the situation you describe for yourself is not the same situation discussed in the article. You are making your own decision to work how ever many hours a day you work. And you are reaping the rewards from that work directly (I'm assuming you are self-employed, since you said you are your own boss). You are not being asked to work 80 hour weeks by someone else, and then not getting compensated even in the form of gratitude from your employer for going the extra mile to get something done for the company. I (and multiple friends of mine) have been in that situation before, and it's no picnic. When you are expected to deliver on deadlines that are beyond completely unrealistic, and are pressured on every side to "just get it done" by people who know absolutely nothing about developing software, and are reprimanded for coming in late after working long hours the night before it can be extremely hazardous to your health. Stress can kill you, and the body does need sleep. Long hours day after day for weeks on end catches up with you, and yes it can cause serious health problems. BTW, the fact that you are sitting on your backside the whole time actually makes the situation worse, not better.

Happily, it has been a long time since I've been in that situation, and I intend to continue to do everything I can to keep it that way.
That's good copy. I think it's very good, actually.

But it's use of "global impact," "interoperability," "integrated," and passages like, "The award-winning EpicCare EMR is known for being fast and physician-friendly. Integrated access and revenue systems simplify administration," are the kinds of things that get made fun of unfairly.

It's an easy target because so often those terms are over-used, but as someone else commented here in talking about "full service, end-to-end, etc." sometimes you have awkward or niche language because you're describing something awkward or niche.

Not all abstract language is empty.
No, whether you want commas depends on the sentence. Most good writers wouldn't punctuate that sentence as you did. Too halting for such a short sentence.

But this is not the point here, is it? The point is that any abbreviation with periods in it could appear in the middle of a sentence.
So, if I'm reading between the lines correctly:

* working in finance is bad

* working in corporate law is bad

* working in consulting is bad

* working at a startup is bad

* working as a college professor is bad

* working a "public interest" job is good

I don't see anything here that makes me want to take this person's point of view seriously.
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