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50 * $500 = $25,000. This is about what I would expect a restaurant to pay for a single server in a year. It seems like it might pay for itself quickly.

If the iPad doesn't work under glass, then a cheaper alternative touch sensor could be used, as suggested by others in this thread.
From a user's perspective, at least, I would think that language coverage would trump most other things when considering different highlighters.
Rarely have I laughed aloud like I did upon reading this.
Living off the dole is filled with stress. If you had a reliable, steady income and the health to enjoy it, I think most people would be much happier than they are working a typical job.

Living off the dole is also not something considered socially respectable, whereas early retirement is widely accepted.
I think that when he says "Immersion doesn't work" he really means that "Immersion alone doesn't work". Of course immersion is helpful, but it doesn't produce results by itself (at least not in Korean; maybe a language with more cognates with English would benefit more from immersion alone). Non-immersed learners sometimes use the prospect of immersion as an excuse, along the lines of "Once I'm immersed in the language, it will be much easier to really study effectively, so it'll be a more efficient use of my time to take the studying easier now."

I've made both of these mistakes myself (overestimating the value of immersion and slacking off study when not immersed).
When I first went to Korea, it was a huge ego boost since it felt amazing to actually be using the language. Because of this ego boost, I felt that "book-study" was suddenly beneath me and stopped. After a few months of immersion, though, I realized I was learning more slowly than just going through flash cards, so I picked them up again.
Even though immersion was useful for me, it was really only effective as a compliment to other study.
Nested array, fine. Now try that with a hash of arrays of objects with an array member, the 3rd element.

Python:

hash['foo'][3].children[2]

But it's instructive that you assume I'm talking about something as trivial as an array of arrays.
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They have most likely changed the practice - but any changes were really irrelevant to me when my 160Gb WD Drive died at 16months and was "out of warranty" completely.

I'm less concerned with warranty lengths these days because I have a larger budget for computer hardware - but Seagate has been very good for me since 2004 when I stopped purchasing WD (Which I'd been using almost exclusively since 1997.)
In the video explaining exponential growth it talked about how we would need to abandon many things we deem good in order to avoid over population. This video puts things in less grim terms by pointing out that increasing the average life expectancy reduces the number of children per women.
What stops population growth?
Add MSFT and put the graph in Max, gives another interesting perspective
Nice. Happy to see Dr Axup is heading along too Jay.
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Yeah, but they usually don't brazenly humiliate the President and the entire Washington press corps simultaneously.
What do you mean? At my local Apple store they were all toting around iPads.
Well, titles can be pretty important if your startup doesn't work out and you end up needing to go join the work force again. Being the CEO of a company of 5 people isn't a big thing, but it's better than being "Junior developer" at one.
It's not a matter of being innovative—it's just that, if anyone has a reason to show off their "iPad bling", it's Apple themselves—as you can buy one right there after seeing it in use.
I was addicted to gaming about a year back. But then, I was not working in those days.
Now, I usually don't get the time, but I manage once or twice a week for a few hours.
I don't enjoy or look forward to playing as I used to before, and apart from the obvious reason that I have started working and I don't have time, I think the other important reason is I have got a lot more social and started going out with friends more often.
Gaming can kill productivity when it gets out of control. Programmers may start playing games in the work place when no one is watching. This mostly happens for MMOs, as these games usually hook their players/subscribers for long periods of time.
One nice solution to this problem would be go to out more often and start enjoying real life with friends (and maybe encourage/help your employees do the same if there is such a problem)
I haven't gotten back into the habit of watching lectures in a while, but this was one of the best ones I've watched in a long time. Thought it was super cheesy at first, and didn't think I was going to keep watching, but it kept me rapt the entire time.
I upvoted by accident. You should invest where you see value. Otherwise you just sound envious and bitter.
Maybe this is why Paul got screwed. ;-)
In March I declared the end to the Wintel (Windows-Intel) hegemony when asking...

About five years ago, when blogging as an analyst, I asserted that computing and informational relevance had started shifting from the Windows desktop to cloud services delivered anytime, anywhere and on anything...

That's a pretty odious writing style.
This is probably the best reference for those who want to learn what is new in HTML5 if they already know HTML.
It is not just a quick start guide. It is a very good read and explains stuff very well.
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To add, there are unstable places in parts of Africa with civil wars that displace people into refugee camps where they can't do much farming.
This thought occured to me the other day as I wondered in the Apple store to just look and walked out with my wallet $1500 lighter. In less than 45 minutes Apple extracted more money from me than Facebook ever did during the five years I used that site. Despite eyeballs, large numbers of users, and other assorted impressive metrics, there's still something to be said for functional (physical) products that solve problems and a solid product line.
Before people freak out about exponential growth, please consider John McCarthy's Slogan. (Yes, that John McCarthy; Lisp isn't the only thing he's done.)

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html

Based on reactions to this video (among other things), I'd add Hartl's Counterpoint:

Just because you're willing to do arithmetic doesn't
mean you're not talking nonsense.

In case you're wondering why you shouldn't freak out, I offer you this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
Downtown/Little Italy, La Jolla/UCSD possible in the future?
Yes, and I think it's very possible that our energy consumption continues to grow, despite the number of people on Earth stabilizes. What do you think?
Why can't they have a server-based plugin architecture to take care of custom menu capabilities?
As soon as you start talking about 'cheaper alternative touch sensors' you'll have to interface those with the ipad in such a way that it will still work, that could be a lot harder than it seems. Also, when you customize stuff the cost will go up quickly.

A typical 'asshole' and 'dirty fingers' proof point of sale terminal for in a restaurant goes for 5 grand or so.

But that's only one for all the tables you've got.

Also, don't underestimate the cost of writing the software and integrating it in to the workflow of the restaurant.
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You can definitely get a ride from La Jolla/UCSD. Lots of people coming from there. Send a message to the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sd-hackernews

Edit: I see you asked a similar question last time. I'm curious: why would you prefer one of those locations?
It seems that 2010 is the year of the cloud on the desktop. With revolutionary products such as Youtube, who can argue?

On a more serious note, I really don't see why everyone is getting so excited about their devices becoming dumb terminals and giving away their power to corporations that own the cloud.

I shudder at the thought of powering on a ChromeOs device and having to log in to Google to be able to do anything.

Not sure about the Windows era being over, but we're certainly entering a Google era and it's getting really difficult to ignore Google. Both of the Opera browsers on my phone are locked into Google search (previous versions had mulltiple providers, Amazon, Wiki, etc).
Firefox comes with Google. Chrome comes with Google. Android is tightly integrated with Google. A lot of people use Gmail and Gdocs due to lack of alternatives. A lot of websites use a Google powered search.

I'll never buy an Android device because I'm getting weary of Google: they're becoming too powerful and control too much information.

Furthermore, they are competing unfairly: they use their ads profits to dump products on the market at very low prices or for free, killing the (possible) competition. For now this has been good for the consumer, with two observations: you're not getting something for free, you're paying with your privacy; once google gets big enough it may get to be the only player in some markets and that always ends badly.
I recently spent a few hours figuring out how much I need to be happy. Happy to me is living comfortable with enough extra cash to go out or take periodic trips without going into debt.

I'm currently living at home and paying off some debt (I'm only 19 so it's still socially acceptable to be living with mom and dad :P).

I wrote out the cost of necessities (rent, phone/internet, food, transportation, healthcare/insurance) and then all of the extras. I want to live comfortable so for rent I said $1500 (about what a 1bdrm condo in Vancouver goes for), food $800 (includes going out to eat and regular trips to starbucks), Phone/Internet $150, Transit pass $100, healthcare $100.

The costs are mostly rounded up, if I can save cash without sacrificing happiness I'll cut costs down. On top of the basics I want to save $500 (minimum) each month and have $2k or so in the "misc" category. This includes clothes, household expenses and extras.

I calculated the amount and it was around $5500/mo. I then recalculated and factored taxes in, I believe it was around $6800/month pre-taxes.

In the past month I've been looking at ways to get this income. I could look into a 9-5 job, but that wouldn't make me very happy. I decided to get a couple clients on retainer with $7k/mo. as my goal. I've already locked down a large client who will cover most of my income for about 40hrs/month of work on my end. I'm quite confident I'll find another client to get me to the goal amount.

I'll be able to live well for approximately 3hrs per day, 5 days a week of work. I'm talking to a startup right now about joining on as a cofounder, and if I do I'm glad I'll be able to work on my own company without having to survive on ramen or live in a crack den.
Well one benefit of increasing population is that we increase the chances of geniuses being born, and increase the diversity of the population.
Yea, really, who cares? The overwhelming majority of people will never use this feature.
Please excuse me for noting how apologetic the tone is, says the proud owner of an HTC Hero (Sprint v2.1)
Neat math trick from the video:

70 / x = number of years of constant growth required for a quantity to double given that it grows at x percent

The example used in the video: if the price of lift tickets goes up by 7% per year, in 10 years, that price will double.

(and actually, the constant 70 is an approximation, the actual constant is ln (2) * 100)
For what is worth, the average yearly income for salarymen in Tokyo is about 6 million yen (~=U$65k).

http://nensyu-labo.com/ken_tokyo.htm
(In Japanese)

I think NYC's cost of living is not that much higher than Tokyo's. However, as many pointed out in this thread, people care a lot about their income relative to their neighbors. So it's plausible that New Yorkers would require a much higher income to be content, compared to Tokyoites.
I feared walking into a trap like that.

I should have listened to the words of the great thinker Tracy Jordan: “Nah-uh. Superman does good, you’re doing well. You need to study your Grammar, son.” :)

That said, those little quirks are another problem with feeling yourself into a language. I was constantly misusing the German „wie“ – “like” – when making comparisons. I would say something like „Pasta ist besser wie Pizza!“ (“Pasta is better like Pizza!”), not „Pasta ist besser als Pizza!“ (“Pasta is better than Pizza!”) because it just sounded correct to my ears.

I would never ever misuse “like” and “than” in English but I quite happily confused their German equivalents for quite some time.

Which made a lot of people squirm and caused them visible pain so I dropped it. That in itself wasn’t all that easy. Since no automatic red flag was raised when I misused “wie” I consciously had to search everything I said for “wie” and consciously detect whether I used it correctly. Which, in the beginning, was quite hard. I would blurt out a sentence with a blatant misuse, pause a second and hastily add “Oh! ‘Als’ not ‘wie’! ‘Als‘ not ‘wie’!” But I was successful in the end.
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Nice sleuthing. Because I like to ride my bike or stay in neighborhoods less separated by freeways/open space.

No big deal, I'll probably make it this time.
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Many of the tricks discussed here come for free with static typed compilation + JIT. All those tedious type annotations are good for at least one thing, it seems.

I'd think the #1 thing balancing this right now is the overhead of the GC. No matter how good a GC we get, it's still going to be more costly than well-written direct memory management except in degenerate cases.
Ya, maybe I didn't express that properly, I AM bitter! I'm bitter that my government is using my tax dollars to play with interest rates allowing a real estate bubble to exist in the first place.

In a normal market, one should be able to reasonable purchase a home based on local wages. Since central bankers have decided to counteract the actions of the normal business cycle, I am now stuck in a 10-20 year battle while they hand out free money ($ below the cost of inflation) waiting until they find they are wrong yet again.

So am I bitter? Damn right I am.
Yes, many people are working on solutions, but I think the point is that for green industry to succeed, growth in energy consumption has to actually stop, and preferably reverse. It's good to be clear about about the goal.
True. However, working within our architecture and finding a good fit for most use cases was what trumped all else for the feature launch. I like the library we chose and hope it gains traction as a pure ruby highlighting lib but if for some reason it doesn't fit our users needs, we can certainly find a way to accommodate them.
Note that he does say in the video that these are not predictions* , and that it's just arithmetic. He goes on to pretty much agree -- in a less specific sense -- with what you've said: "the consequences of the arithmetic will play a major role in shaping our future."

* Except for the petroleum graphs. Video 8/8 1:00-2:00ish.
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When I visited Perú in 2006, I was really impressed with the level of entrepreneurial activity. Every downtown street in every city was bustling with entrepreneurs. I had entrepreneurs walking up to me everywhere to try to sell me stuff. I couldn't walk down the street without entrepreneurs honking at me in case I wanted a ride in their taxi. My wife finally gave up and wore earplugs whenever we went outside.

This is a result of Perú's economy being a giant crater in the ground.

I suspect that what's happening is that the US is becoming more like Perú.
My favorite example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvVAV09-dQ8
I didn't use it for a long time. It works, but it still needs cygwin to be install for some snippets.
That's a little ironic. installing cygwin on wine.. but I guess that's the only way to get a text-mate like editor on linux.

Or you could try something called Red Car Editor (http://redcareditor.com) which proclaims to be an editor specially made for ruby/rails programmers. It looks pretty impressive, but again I couldn't get it installed properly. (I think the latest version runs on jRuby platform)

EDIT: I got inspired to try Red Car again after posting this comment. Uninstalled Ruby completely from Windows 7, installed jRUby 1.5. Red car gem installation went perfectly, but the editor is shockingly slow and unresponsive. I don't know if the same applies to linux platform, or if there is something wrong with my system (its a 2 year old laptop, and its been a long while since I have reinstalled the Windows OS)
Aw, no assembler highlight. Even nano can do that...
Wow! It's a full book, and it uses a Lisp dialect called Parralation Lisp, whose compiler "is the first compiler for
a data-parallel programming language that compiles nested-parallel constructs into completely parallel code"[1].

I googled a bit and found this article by Paul Snively,

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.08/08.07/Paralat...

A type of Collection-Oriented Lisp dialect:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CollectionOrientedProgramming

--
[1] Linked book.
True, it's not the easiest place to get to on a bike. Are you coming from UCSD?
Not to mention homebuyers never had to worry about these things when the market set prices, but now when the central banks set the price of money, all hell breaks loose. (By this I mean 40% to 70% swings in real estate prices, maybe you think thats ok, maybe the people buying overvalued real estate should have "seen value")
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In the UK the paperwork of a LTD is the responsibility of a 'director' which is quite a handy nondescript indicator of general responsibility.
What about MS Office web apps?
You realize that this isn't about renting a U-haul, right? It's about traveling, on foot or by public transportation, to somewhere where you don't own any land, don't speak the language, and don't know anyone. In other words, to become a refugee. There are plenty of people like that already, but they tend to move to the cities.
It apparently depends on which Java GUI toolkit (Swing, SWT, etc) you use, but yes, 90% of Java apps on most platforms have massive UI latency and look like shit.
or it makes no difference. The happiness trade-off from having the little feller around, knowing you sacrificed your next car upgrade, might make it totally worth it; but if you weren't at 60k, the sacrifices would be too large.

it's possible then that 60k is just the number you need to be earning, whatever your costs base (drugs, gambling and other habits; and disabilities/chronic illnesses aside)
I think this is partially because there are very few short programs that attempt to teach people how to be good programmers. It's not like I can take a college course on EC2 administration or on learning TurboGears.
From skimming, this appears to be the algorithm given in the original PageRank paper from 12 years ago. You don't need hundreds of megs of RAM to do it, though; put yourself in the mindset of a 1960s COBOL programmer, and you can do the matrix-vector multiplication in a few K of memory space by the following approach. The adjacency matrix is a set of triples (src, dst, weight), indicating that there is a link from URL src to URL dst of weight weight, where the weights in a row sum to s. You're computing an occupancy vector consisting of a bunch of pairs (url, weight) where the weights total to 1.

1. Sort the adjacency matrix by src and the occupancy vector by url.

2. Iterate through the current occupancy vector and the adjacency matrix in parallel. For each triple (a, b, c) and pair (a, d), emit a partial-sum pair (b, d*c).

3. The partial-sum pairs will be randomly ordered. Sort them by URL.

4. Sum the partial-sum elements for the same URL, and add in the contribution of sD + tE. (I'm leaving out how to compute sD at this point, but it's not that hard.) This is your new occupancy vector.

5. Go back to step 2 for a few more iterations.

This approach parallelizes nicely with MapReduce, and doesn't require anything but sequential data access; you could do it with four tape drives and a microcontroller. I know I've seen it in some paper somewhere, but I can't remember where.
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Then you should have taken advantage of the other thing Mac does extremely well: support. There is obviously something wrong with your machine. Or did you think we're all just suffering through this, embarrased that we paid so much for a machine that doesn't run?
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Certainly a great video.

But one thing I didn't like about the bacteria in the bottle story was that he conveniently switched to 100% growth for that example. And then made it sound like Boulder was in the same position "it's 11:59 in the Boulder valely" etc.

But still his main point it dead on.
So the titles are merely for outward appearances? I wonder if it wouldn't be seen as presumptious for a two person company to have a CEO. I'm employee #1, so I don't have this problem, but my employers certainly don't call themselves the CEO and the CTO.
Windansea beach. Just one of those types that eagerly avoids driving when possible. Cheers!
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Make yourself known. I did some contract work for a $100B+ company recently, and there was no problem with them hiring me directly -- but I got the job because I was contacted by the person who needed the work done, and the contract never went through standard procurement channels.
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The National Enquirer didn't really scoop the entire mainstream media on the affair. It was an open secret in the Edwards campaign, and then in almost every major newsroom. Mickey Kaus, over at Slate, was alluding to it for practically a year in his column. The National Enquirer just beat everyone to, you know, publishing about it. (Kaus got the information on double super secret squirrel mainstream media background: i.e. picking up the Rolodex, calling somebody who would know, and promising not to tell anybody about it.)

For general background, see http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/11/politics/washingto...

There are a bunch of reasons for that. Edwards' wife was solidly behind him, and the media likes her (and Edwards, for that matter). One reason is that she had cancer. That is not the only reason. whistles

There was also a shortage of resources, since there was a political unknown out of Alaska who came out of left field and prompted the New York Times alone to have over a dozen staffers in Wasilla interviewing everyone who remembered a mayoral election in a town of 3,000 people ten years ago.

Plus, the mainstream media considers the sexual habits of a particular kind of politician (you know, Clintons, Kennedys, Edwards, do I have to hum any more bars for you) to be outside the scope of their purview unless the noise has gotten so deafening that not covering of them would itself be newsworthy.