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There are historical reasons for these provisions though.

Take, for example, the standard UK limitation of liability cut-and-paste block. (About half a page.)

It's that long because there is case history on each point suggesting that if you don't enumerate each of those the conditions separately then you may get nailed for it. And every time there's a new test case that isn't quite covered, the list gets longer.

The only way to correct that kind of mess is through legislation. And there are so many examples of that kind of crufty-for-a-good-reason language that the patchwork would take years to unravel and have many unexpected consequences (not to mention lots of uncertainty until five hundred years of new case law was established).

There are people working on this kind of thing (for example the new companies act, which makes incorporation documents much simpler and removes some of the 'peppercorn and two groats must be thrice weekly burned over a blue flame' anachronisms) but it takes time.
Why? Seems like an interesting wee story to me.
That could happen but I somehow think that’s still better than those five horrific years after 2001 before Microsoft brought out Internet Explorer 7.
The recent Apple "HTML5" demo, the video one in particular, crashed Safari on my iPhone 3G.
It's one of those hoax stories that keeps popping up, along with energy from water.

Try this copy/paste from the story:
"He is the 38th independent amateur physicist in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from a homemade reactor, according to community site Fusor.net. Others on the list include a 15-year-old from Michigan...

Some experts are sceptical that all these people are producing fusion reactions, but when he demonstrates his device, Mr Suppes says a bubble meter placed next to the reactor indicates that a fast neutron, a by-product of fusion, has been produced."

I'm not impressed with the BS-checking of the BBC in this case.
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Fantastic! Though the process sounds interesting in theory, I have always wondered the effectiveness of this process. Can you walk through a sample keyword research process with examples? I'm sure this will make an interesting blog post.
Looks like a Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor to me.

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

It's a reasonably good neutron source with little chance of generating more power than it consumes to sustain the fusion process.

edit: And the classic NIMBY reaction is priceless.
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Not sure how good the compiled Clojure code is. Also -- it might be too dynamic to allow any kind of obfuscation so it won't be used for stuff that's sold with licenses for example.
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Well, unless the concept of the Farnsworth Fusor is complete BS (IANAP!) it looks reasonably plausible (if rather unlikely to achieve break even or better).

As long as what they are doing is reasonably safe I would applaud these people for trying, it's not like they are taking billions of dollars from taxpayers to pay for this stuff.
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I used to work there a few years ago and now I work at a 'big, boring organization', as some might call it.

Having interacted with people who've been at EA most / all of their careers, I can enumerate the following reasons why they stick around and put up with crazy overtime:

1. Glamour: being in the credits of a multi-million dollar game that millions of players will play worldwide is pretty cool.

2. Love for gaming: I have not met a single developer there who wasn't a regular gamer.

3. Love for sports: EA is the biggest developer of AAA sports titles out there. If, for example, you love gaming and basketball, can you think of a more enjoyable way to earn a living than being one of the developers on a AAA basketball title like NBA Live?

4. Guilt: This might come as a surprise to some but when you actually enjoy what you do so much and when 'reproing a bug' to you means playing through five minutes of the game with the debugger attached to your Xbox, you kind-of start feeling like you're cheating the organization for money. As a result, you start overcompensating by staying later and doing more work even when overtime is not mandated.
After having read 2/3 of this, I began to entertain the idea that this might indeed be an honest praise of Alan Turing's work, without the Wolfram ego spin that we all expect. One can hope, right? Unfortunately, that was right before Wolfram goes on to explain how much further Wolfram sees than Turing ever could, how Turing would be impressed by all the significant results of Wolfram, how enthusiastic Turing would have been about Wolfram Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and finally, how Wolfram Wolfram Wolfram Wolfram.

In other words, this is exactly the article I expected.
Question to those in the know: I've done a lot of data mining, statistics and inverse problems, but I've never even looked at cellular automata. Am I missing anything?

What are they used for - what problems can they solve that other methods can't?
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Interesting ... can you find technical details on that? ...

I guess the more static typing you have to deal with when generating bytecode, the harder it is for dynamic language writers.

Still, generics are used to great effect in the DLR for the call-sites inline caches ... like when you have a "doSomething(x, 2)" ... you know that "2" is an integer constant, and the generated call-site method that does the inline caching (to avoid hash-lookups) is using an "int" as the second parameter ... they can do that because method references are getting specialized so you can avoid boxing/unboxing for obvious cases, like passing integer/double constants.

[EDIT]

The MethodHandler from OpenJDK's invokedynamic proposal is a light-weight method reference, resembling System.Reflection.Emit.DynamicMethod from dotNet. MethodHandler will be used for call-sites and I think MethodHandler also gets reified.

The thing I don't like about the JVM are the inconsistencies ... you've got primitive types, but you can't define your own. Arrays are reified (and now MethodHandlers too) ... but you have no way to have your own reified generic data-structures.

Still ... in the long-run I think the JVM is a better platform than .NET ... if only Oracle would not stagnate it (or maybe now that it's open-source, some fork might be in order ... but I don't think it's doable unless it's a big company with lots of resources ... maybe Google, but I'm not holding my breath).
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hm. just red that. let me tell you something. i was working for outsource companies (sorry to admit, but i'm from Ukraine) for more than 5 years. i can tell that the average hourly rate of the programmer here is still around 15USD for an hour.

it's an extremely rare occasion when project goes "right". When you work in outsource, you get tight time schedules promised by the people who have no idea about the development process, and teams inevitably kill themselves for the sake of project. it's most of time not any less than 10 hours a day, with often working weekends. if you don't like it - just go ahead and leave.

but if you leave, you just find another head of the same beast. afterall, if you switch jobs way too often, they claim that you're not trustworthy.

well, i'm sorry about the guys who work for EA. they're brilliant people who got possessed by managers. but there are places, where whole industry is possessed, and owned. most of the time less skilled people are being taken for the job just because they could be easily fired, they won't take the ownership of anything. they'll just do whatever you tell them to do. maybe EA should do the same? :)
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More specifically this seems to be Bussards version of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
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Acutally, Simtec states: "each 256 bit block of data handed to the host was formed from somewhere in the region of 3840 bits read from the quantum generators."

Yes, you can buy "quantum generators" for only £36!

Seriously though, the noise that Simtec is measuring is unpredictable and based on a quantum process (electron tunnelling.)
Did you misread my statement as saying hashing the output will magically give another 80 bits of entropy? No, I'm saying to get another 80 bits before your PRNG repeats. I know you can infer things like linear congruential generators. I implemented such an inference program in grad school from someone else's thesis, then demoed it on a crypto USENET newsgroup. The hash is going to make inferring the seed much harder. Using a cryptographic PRNG will make even the unhashed output hard to infer. Using both is going to be way beyond the ability of most attackers.
R has a lot of packages and functions for time series analysis. These links might get you started:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/TimeSeries.html

http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa2/R_time_series_quick_fi...

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-ts.pdf

http://people.bath.ac.uk/masgs/time%20series/TimeSeriesR2004...

http://www.statoek.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/veranstaltungen/ze...

http://www.r-bloggers.com/tag/time-series-charts/
The problem is that none of these amateur physicists are generating any power. I guess the holy grail is not fusion, but generating power from it.
Would like to see how Tea Baggers do on questions of basic law, government, policy and economics. And I mean basic. While I'm sure many are thoughtful informed people I've been given the impression that most are not.

Genuinly curious to see how perception (mine) versus reality.
I stopped reading this article because he misspelt "once" as "ones".
Don't be fooled by the high number of updates for TF2 - it was already a quality product upon release. The updates aren't just fixes; many include genuine new features, maps and game modes. I think the idea is to keep community interest high, since the game dies if its fanbase deserts it for pastures new.
your viability test is a perfect example of "doing more". It is actually in the core just repeating what you can read in "4 hours work week" and yet it feels like good work.
"This collision between the inclination to regard PUT as creating and POST as updating is a significant source of confusion about how to well-design a RESTful system, and deserves more attention."

I like this text for explicitly bringing this problem up.
Annoyingly the web preview is in color, but the PDF download is black and white only.

Actually, on closer inspection the download is missing many of the larger diagrams completely for some reason, while others are rendered without color.
What about hashing the output from the A/D converter?
Yes. Even assuming FB is correct, they would then have to create a list of which browsers they consider "non-automating". Would GreaseMonkey installed on FF count? How about some VBA on top of IE? If I travel outside of net range and my browser caches up lots of FB pages overnight, does that count? Beats me. We'd all have to use pre-approved tools to access our FB accounts -- or face criminal prosecution.

It's not just that it is non-intuitive. Lots of legal things are non-intuitive. It's not even that it completely breaks the idea of HTML, even though that's pretty huge. It's not even that somehow by using FB I have given up my right to purchase and use my own equipment to browse the web, thereby limiting competition, although that is huge also. FB is actually trying to reserve the right to criminally prosecute me unless I use tools that are on a list that they preselect, and presumably update. So, logically, the first thing I'd like to do is see this list and find out how it is created and updated.

The entire purpose of software in this setting is to automate the retrieval and display of HTML based on my particular preferences, and in the time and configuration of my choosing. That's the way the web has worked ever since there was a web. That's why the the web is structured the way it is. That's why the web can continue to expand and grow.

I'm growing tired of attorneys on fishing expeditions.
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I paid $97 for the product. I agree that their page looks scammy, but I bought the product after a friend recommendation.

I usually never buy products like that because in most cases I could recreate it myself in ruby in a few hours, and to be honest that was my intention initially.

However I was impressed about the overall quality of the product and decided to buy.

They also have a series of videos that were very useful to me in case you are interested: http://www.noblesamurai.com/dojo/marketsamurai/
Very interesting. Eagerly waiting for Node.js bindings.
Interesting article (or at least the first part of it). Just to clarify I did not believe that believe that the word 'fanboy' by itself specifically referred to Apple 'evangelists'. The meaning as defined by the article does however describe fairly succinctly a certain attitude that is consistent with the attitude of some Apple 'supporters' and 'fans'.

The word is certainly older than I'd expected but the meaning seems to have remained pretty constant.
M4 is not as unpopular as you might think.

It is the base of GNU Autoconf, so everyone who touched a configure.in / configure.ac file did in fact work on M4 code.

(... which is then expanded to a portable shell script also known as the ./configure script.)
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Isn't part of his point that you can make money or engage users via SMS or the web without an application marketplace?
> Here in the UK there are actually quite good limits on that. I'm not sure you would, say, ever see Starsky and Hutch (the film) on at 4pm.

I'm from Portugal and here is quite usual to see some Mission Impossible, van Dame or Schwarzenegger movie on at 4pm. Actually, most of the movies aired at Saturday and Sunday afternoons are something like PG-13.

Since here there are only 4 broadcast conventional channels, and many people don't have cable, it is quite easy for kids to be exposed to such movies.
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A few people might be like that, some people enjoy the atmosphere and meeting over Apple fans (and seem to have too much time on their hands), overs can't wait for anything, and a few are developers who want to test the apps they have been writing for weeks, on an actual device, and be the first to utilize the new phones abilities.

I waited 20 minutes for an ipad in line, got bored and left. It took me two weeks to get one from the Apple store, when they had supplies, despite putting my name on the list. I had produces apps for people, and they were doing strange things, and it was not easy finding out why without the actual device.
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> search articles?

GET /search?q=terms

> What if I want to approve articles?

POST /articles/articleID?approved=1

It's actually got potential to be very clean.
"Am I missing anything?"

Not really. They're a fun diversion, and useful for some simulations, but that's about it.
Indeed - it is truly nauseating. This made me want to slap the guy:

"But I fully expect that long before I did, he would have discovered the main elements of NKS, and begun to understand their significance."
> You just have to make sure that when you do decide to make a post that points out flaws in Apple this or that, your post should be well thought out - and avoid being inflammatory.

Actually this argument reminds me of the concept of an 'Uncle Tom' for African Americans. Sometime I think you are right and other times you I believe you just need to 'tell it like it is'.
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What good would that do? It doesn't introduce additional randomness, does it?
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> If 'fanboys' is considered an offensive slur

If you remove the offensive slur, the comment would end up just saying, "many people who liked previous Apple products also like the new iPhone." Without the offensive slur, it's clear that the comment is practically content free, and likely not worth saying in the first place.
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do you have the source code for the news-aggregator?
So what's the big deal - why does Wolfram seem to think they are the answer to the world's problems? I'm confused - there must be something there, as he's obviously a smart guy.
Taking undue risks is not a good thing. The greatest thing about a makret economy is that there is both profit and loss. Loss is to keep you from producing things no-one really wants, and is important. Without any risk, sure, people could do creative things they wouldn't have odne otherwise, sure. But you would soon see that the value produced in a society like that would be very small compared to a society where you have to turn a profit.
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Actually France on the whole has figured it out. Contrary to the stereotype, France has relatively few fully unionised fields, and very low union membership. It is just a few fields, like printing, that still has archaic union regulation and rules still in effect.
If that's so, it has a higher chance of being net-positive.
You should check out the 30 day challenge. It is free and the market analysis videos are very interesting (first 10 videos).
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It doesn't add more entropy, but it makes the output look better on various tests of randomness.
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Love it, but it has one problem. Your argument is basically that it's a free market.

So, assuming the market is bad and jobs are hard to find, is it then ok to work nights and weekends like the article describes? Or should there be some kind of limit to "slavery"?
why hash the output then? this is introducing a dependence in the PRNG that you seem not to need (nor want).

if you're going to generate another 80 bits of entropy, then simply use this as the seed for another PRNG. this, sure, i agree, will get you more entropy, because you're adding more entropy to the system from an external source (such as the advertised device).
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A GPL hardware RNG, using a bunch of ring oscillators in a CPLD:

http://warmcat.com/_wp/whirlygig-rng/
Add another noisemaker with a chaotic component, like a Pacinko ball game with an automatic ball feed. Hashing the output will obliterate the patterns.
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Hi Phil,

I went back through the mailing list and think I have found the issues you are referring to here. I have asked Chouser for feedback on the XML issue, and have responded to the "deeper" question myself (http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...) Let me know (preferably on email) if I found the right ones, and if the answer is satisfactory.
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I think six slides + an actual working MVP with some traction is probably the best proposition for first-time funding.

Keeping your deck to just six slides, when you have nothing else to show might not be the best idea.
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Got any examples of something you found that way that worked out well for you?
Consolas was designed for ClearType, but on a Mac, Consolas seems a touch heavy to me. Lucida Sans Typewriter and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono are also somewhat heavy, as are Menlo and Mensch.

I find Andale Mono to be the perfect blend of legibility, distinctive character forms, and lightness, for black letters on white background. With its shorter and rounded letterforms providing a sense of white space between lines, I suspect this font is reminding me of highly legible daisy wheel printouts. This is my font of choice for both coding and plain-text email. It's not as widely known, but people who use it become somewhat fanatical.

In Terminal I use amber on black, and find Monaco 10pt. better because of the line height and old school terminal feel. I suspect this font reminds me of the plotter-style vector fonts pre-dating MS-DOS. Like Consolas, Monaco has a slash through the zero, which I much prefer.

Just for fun, try http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ in 20 pt (15 pt in Windows) terminal window. It's a DEC VT220 terminal glyph font complete with raster lines.
The article has potential, but I feel that it is too short for someone who is at best incidentally familiar with the material. If its purpose was to give the reader some threads to explore, it was fine, but each of them could have a decent section explaining the basic idea.
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I'm on OSX, and suggest some alternatives to Consolas above:

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