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Honestly, read your post and try to apply basic scientific tenets to it. I see examples of bias, rejection of results without justification (peer reviewed support), misidentification of a report to the public as a scientific paper, a claim without any scientific support, and an assumption that researchers aren't trying to perform good science. When weighing up your anecdotal claims against real research, I would always accept the latter. Do you disagree?

Note: I have no problem with you at all, and I'm not trying to flame, but I do have a problem with posts promoting what I consider a misunderstanding of the process of science.

My general point is that you are claiming the research is bogus without even a good critique of the methodology, sourcing the original article or providing any evidence of your own to the contrary, and using Norvigs article to prop up your argument. Science doesn't work that way.

Norvig's material is great when applied properly, and I have no issue with it. To reiterate: I am not critiquing Norvig's article, I am critiquing your argument.
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Got it, thanks! I hadn't even noticed being redirected to the local page..
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It's funny that they are talking about maximizing the vertical pixels while letting title bar, menu bar, url bar, bookmark bar, tab bar, horizontal scroll bar, and status bar eating up 1/3 of vertical pixels of the primary web browser window on the home page photo at <http://www.canonical.com/products/unity>.

Seriously, Open Source marketing should be improved in this level of detail. Yes netbooks have shallow screens, then why wasting 145 precious vertical pixels to show non-content controls on a web browser window only 428 pixels high?

Some naive ways to improve the impression:

* Make the browser window taller, preferably taking all available vertical space. Present more web content when you really want to improve the web experience. (Right now I can only see the big heading of NYT, not really interesting.)

* Bundle one of those Hide Menu plugin to kill menu bar. How often do you really need it? And when you do need it, just click one button on the url bar to summon it.

* Choose a page that is slightly narrower or widen the window a little bit (you have the horizontal pixels to waste!) so horizontal scroll does not show up.

* Hide the status bar. Most users don't look at it anyway.

* If there is only one tab, don't show the tab bar.

Or better yet, replacing Firefox with Chrome solves it once and for all.
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Amen, brother !!

I have asked a lot of people in my life: Every single person I meet consider itself above the means!!, and when things don't work as they want, they make excuses.

It is so easy to blame the school,college, university system and don't accept personal responsibility. I met people with enormous success in live(social, economical, and personal) and they worked a lot in what makes them special before getting results.

Of course, you need to be special in something, like good on math or writing, but then you need to work in this area. It takes risk.

I recommend "the tipping point" if you are interested on this area, it talks about the creator of IQ test and its experiences(he tried to prove that "gifted children" would success in live, so he made a study in California and the people that won Nobel prices were dismissed as non gifted by him when they were children).
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I kind of agree, and as a long-term Netflix user, I never really used the "Friends" feature on Netflix. I may have a really strong friendship with someone, but that doesn't mean we have similar tastes in movies.

I am good friends with someone, we'll talk about movies in meatspace, or maybe on Facebook.

The Netflix "Friends" thing seems to be caught in a bit of a void. Your stronger friendships for casual movies discussions are likely to be maintained on Facebook or Twitter. While the hyper movie aficionados seem to be on imdb or other highly specialized movie discussion boards.

I like the recommendations engine on Netflix, the streaming, the ease of finding movies to watch, but I don't see it as a social hub.
The big problem with any centralized deletion of porn is that there is no standard definition of porn. Commons should strive to only exclude images which can lead to legal problems and leave the decision which of the remaining images to use up to the different language Wikipedias.

Maybe that’s what they plan to do and I would have no problem with that. I would have a problem if they went above and beyond that.
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I wouldn't call not understanding the theoretical underpinnings of big-O analysis a "crippling flaw" for a programmer. As long as you understand what it means that an algorithm is O(2^n) and what limitations that entails, then you're grand. If you can also look at an algorithm you've written and work out what its big O complexity is then you know more than most programmers. Both of those can trivially be done without ever touching infinity.

Equally if all you care about is working out if your bridge is going to fall down, you don't really have any need for infinity. In fact you can spend an entire career using math to do all kinds of really awesome things without ever actually understanding math. I'd say that a good 95% of engineers fall into that last category, and I'm certainly not worried about driving over bridges because of it.
That Sanger thing was just him trolling; I'm surprised it got the rise it has done... (there is no way those "etchings" would ever have been considered CP by a criminal prosecutor)
Even most private schools in America charge less per pupil than the government pays to educate a student in a public school. Governments are rarely efficient because they do not have to be.
Why not? I think it is and should be.

When 90% of your end users are old people who rarely use a computer you have to ask them about there needs. You will collect the 'votes' and may discover you have to drop some functionalities. And maybe a slider UI will be better than a number ticker/spinner control.
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Saw this a couple years ago and again last year on ABC. Quick video from ABC special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVFWR7ay90
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The best - and by "best" I mean "most depressing" - thing about ethanol-from-corn is that it's a net energy sink. It actually takes quite a bit more energy to grow and process the corn than it produces in ethanol. There's on way an ethanol industry would even exist without the colossal American subsidies to the corn industry.

Not to mention the fact that the ethanol itself has a lower energy density than gasoline, so mixing it in with gas is simply diluting the energy of the gas.
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June 6th, 2010, chosen for being D-Day: Commit to NOT LOGGING INTO FACEBOOK for ONE DAY! That one day could cost them millions. Maybe THEN Zuckerberg will 'believe in' privacy"

One day? Really? Will your farm make it? Is that like not filling up with gas for a day when it was >$4/gallon?

If you want to make a real impact, delete your account and post your reasons why on twitter or your blog. Then email Facebook letting them know your reasons why and you won't come back until things change. The real impact only comes when Facebook doesn't have your data... not this 1-day BS.
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I would look onto game design. game designers has plenty of techniques to create a lot of motivation with people. just look at farmville , leading millions of people to spend a lot of time in an inherently boring game.
A good book about game design:
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That's like eating meat while being morally opposed to killing animals.
They might not have been in the best taste though.
I've lamented the fact that we are such small thinkers today. Our neighborhood public school is among the worst in the state. Local private schools cost about 1500/mo for gradeschool. I was looked at as a wild man for suggesting we should start our own school.

20 kids' worth of parents can afford to employ a teacher at a very attractive rate for both parties I suspect.
I also find the workflow demonstrated by the author to be somewhat bizarre. Shouldn't you be working much more closely with the client, sending them various iterations and getting feedback?

In my defense, I must say that the client paid me very little for the job initially, so they only wanted one revision, and then proceeded to make the changes themselves without asking me.
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That isn't so easy when there could be 15 redirects between bit.ly and the malware site.
When you add new features for your customers, do you default them off?
I'm not entirely sure but I believe the idea is that any 301 will cause bit.ly to show the interstitial. So you're right, it does apply to any site on the internet. It's just that you mostly notice it on other shortener services that haven't been whitelisted (blacklist makes no sense because it would then be bit.ly's responsibility to know of and check every other shortener service out there).
Use non-blocking IO, like PyCurl.Multi interface (or any other Curl.Multi bindings). You'd have to generate DELETE cmmand URLs to call from some S3 library, the rest is up to Curl (to call those URL).

It's not a trivial task, but reasonably exprienced Python (or maybe even C) programmer would do it easily. (I'd say in a couple of days) And I can confirm that even on EC2 small instances 700 HTTP req's a sec is achievable (not sure about S3 API usage limiting).
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This is very cool, but I can't help remembering that the Wahhabi schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan (incorrectly called "madrassas", which is just a generic Arabic word for "school") would also fall into this category of small, private, low-cost schools. I wonder what can be done to ensure that schools like this that are run by potentially less scrupulous proprietors provide a quality education. I know that's not well defined, but I do not think we don't want to go down the Wahhabi road of teaching only a corrupted religious/political doctrine to advance political ends at the expense of promoting reading, math, and science -- or any number of other educational scams that one could devise.

It seems that one of the advantages that a public program could have in volatile areas is some manner of centralized curriculum oversight. How are private schools in the US regulated to prevent similar situations (if they are at all)?
Ah, but I'd take immense determination and (supposedly :) ) average talent over immense talent and low determination any time of day.

I had a classmate at high school and then at university that was the brightest student I ever saw at math. He could prove theorems in his sleep, and often did a different proof than the one taught "just for fun" (and giving teachers headaches).

Sadly his parents were quite rich and also a troubled family, so he went into recreational drugs, partying and D&D. Last time I saw him, he still hadn't finished university and had accomplished nothing with his life (well, he'd had a lot of girlfriends and partying AND D&D, so maybe he hadn't "wasted" time from his point of view)
FWIW, the UK police often get confused between art and child porn:

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Sure, but there's also the issue that they have to educate the worst behaved pupils, who presumably cost an order of magnitude more to deal with because of all the disturbance they cause in class.
It's true that you can't extend the number system to include something called "infinity" that would behave like a number. Just like you can't extend the number system to make division by zero make sense while keeping all the usual laws of arithmetic. But this doesn't lead to any philosophical implications like "infinity doesn't exist". In every context where it makes sense to talk about infinities without leading to contradictions, we want to do that, because it enriches our vocabulary and allows us to solve more problems.

Allow me to illustrate. Take the following problem stated in school geometry terms: A square is cut into triangles of equal area, now prove that their number is even. Interestingly, we don't yet know any elementary solution to this problem that can be stated in school math terms. The only solution known was discovered in the 1970s and relies on something called "p-adic numbers". What are those p-adic numbers you ask? They are weird number-like things that have infinitely many digits to the left of the decimal point. Freaky constructs without any counterpart in the real world, but you can still add them, multiply them and all that. Do such things "really exist"? Don't know, don't care. But they helped us solve a difficult problem and that's all that matters.
On my netbook with Ubuntu I wanted to move the top gnome panel to the right side so I'd have more vertical space; apparently this is impossible to do cleanly.

We have wide screens now, and a lack of vertical space. The solution seems obvious to me; don't take up vertical space with desktop UI and move it to the side instead.

I love the gnome-shell, but I'd love it more if I could get those top pixels back. On a netbook, every little bit counts.
This is a nice board, though of course Europeans pay more than Americans, as usual.

Incidentally, LinuxJournal has quite a few advertisers with small Linux boards.

Has anyone found a good source for suitable screens for these small boards? I am not talking about USB2 based displays(which tend to be quite pricey), but precisely screens using more specific ports(DVI-D on Beagle) and VGA here on Hawk.

That is, I am looking for a screen suitable for putting in enclosure with the board.
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Saying that a function is defined "in terms of itself" is a useful mental shorthand for what's going on, but it only works if you deliberately confuse the function at compile time with the function at run time. If you think about it as a function calling itself, you don't run into this difficulty, since "calling" implies "at run time". There are a lot of things in how computer science is taught that have this "and then some magic happens; just accept it" flavor, when there's really no magic -- everything is ultimately and really imperative.
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Although I sometimes get downvoted for this, I'll say it again:

You can't outsource your liability.

If your product is a webapp, then the underlying messy bits of backups, hardware, availability and redundancy also require some amount of conscious thought on your part. Not every site/app needs it's own mini-datacenter, and you might not even need your own dedicated server (though you probably do when you reach a certain minimal amount of scale). But you DO need to have someone who is thinking about backups and availability, and a valid solution is not to assume that the smart folks at Amazon or Rackspace or any other hosting provider are going to be completely and consistently working with your best interests and uptime in mind.

EVRYTHING fails at some point. Every server, every generator, every upstream connection, every hosting provider big or small. And in this case I mean fail as in goes dark for some period of time not covered by backups or hot-spares.

So, plan accordingly.
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Right, because if you happen to not get into MIT, all of your high school preparatory effort was entirely wasted. (MIT alum here, but there's nothing all that singularly unique about MIT in my book. I'm glad I was able to go, but I also realize (claim?) that most people who would be successful at MIT will be successful wherever they go, and that MIT is likely a rounding error in their success. MIT doesn't turn lead applicants into gold graduates.)
Instead, if you want children, go for it while you are young, adaptable and have tons of energy.

I can appreciate the logic in that, but I'd caution anyone against jumping into a commitment of that magnitude before they've achieved some minimum threshold of maturity.

To illustrate my point, the rate of divorce declines rapidly as the age when married increases. In my experience, the same factors that contribute to a successful relationship also prepare (to the small degree that preparation is possible) a person for the utter, absolute responsibility and sacrifice that is parenthood.
Thanks so much for that. I printed and highlighted the pee out of that.

I've been hearing about Gatto for a while but have yet to pick up one of his books.

I can quibble about some points, but most of it fits with my experience: the abilities that I retain are the result of my resisting the educational system. So I expand the traditional maxim of, "1) Those who can... do; those who can't... teach." to include:

2) Those who can't teach... administrate.

3) Those who can't administrate... design educational systems.

4) Those who are concerned only with controlling deviance (aka creativity)... run for school board.

Disclosure: My UC-Berkeley diploma is validated by the signature of a movie actor. [No, not Arnold; think early pleistocene era.]
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Given that ~26% of the British population will definitionally have IQs of 85 or less I think that's a pretty creditable result. They can mostly read, write and do arithmetic; given what the teachers have to work with they're doing pretty well.

Academics said that literacy skills had also failed to improve since the late 1980s.

And what happened then? They got rid of streaming. They'd probably hit the point of diminishing returns by then anyway but seriously there's only so much blood you can squeeze out of turnip.

“People at this level can handle only simple tests and straightforward questions on them where no distracting information is adjacent or nearby,” the study said.
“Making inferences and understanding forms of indirect meaning, eg. allusion and irony, are likely to be difficult or impossible.

I don't think that's a problem with their ability to read, but to reason, and to discriminate.

Anyway the only thing I can see as having some chance of reaching those with these difficulties would be Direct Instruction or something similar, like Kumon. This has the small problem that teachers will not stand for it. It makes a stressful, demanding job a boring, stressful demanding job.
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Governments also have a care of duty to disabled pupils as well, and I bet the private school equivalents are vastly more expensive.
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>Governments are rarely efficient because they do not have to be.

I'm starting to develop a theory that governments are efficient, even very much so, except to another metric. The US Gov's Education Department metric seems to be "pleasing the teacher's unions", not financial efficiency. And at that, they are very good.
> It's a good practice in almost any language, BTW.

In any language that's susceptible to this kind of bug, yes. Python and Haskell solve it in different ways.
Music and writing are two very different industries though.

For musicians record sales have never been the revenue stream, a musician gets paid an advance and then they make more money touring selling merchandise and eventually from licensing royalties after the advance and marketing gets paid back.

For writers book sales are pretty much the only revenue stream, they get an advance and a cut of every book sold, then what? Writers can occasionally swing speaking engagements but by and large there's no merch, no tour, movies don't pay people so they can read passages in the background.

If writers aren't in a hurry to drive ebook prices down to $0.50, it's not because they think publishing houses are powerful, it's because they like to eat.

EDIT: Another problem thing to remember is that a song, at 3 minutes or so, can be rapidly iterated hundreds of times, and done so at paying gigs. Listeners can stand in for the editorial process to a degree.

A 400 page novel has a minimum iteration speed of probably a week, and normally several weeks, which the author is not getting paid during, and how many people are willing to read the sometimes subtly different 400 pages a dozen times.
The math can't possibly work out that way (or your school isn't attempting to report anything remotely useful as a GPA).

Get straight Bs and take 4 AP classes or 8 honors classes over your 4-year career and get a 4.0? I call BS.
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The 'delete everything sensitive' step would either not be reliable (unlinking all the files) or would take an extremely long time (writing zeroes or noise over all those bytes).
...making it easier to craft boilerplate code

Funny... I thought the goal of metaprogramming was to eliminate boilerplate code. I suspect that's what they really meant here - maybe they phrased it that way to make the intent understandable to Java programmers.
I think a good model could also be for an author & editor to team up with a book project, where they both share in the revenue. I think this would incentivize both to do their best.
They are doing this. "Third, we will make the top panel smarter. We’ve already talked about adopting a single global menu, which would be rendered by the panel in this case."

See also http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/359
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