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OK, let's be fair here for a second. If you read Apple's support docs you will quite often run into documents that advocate backing your files to time machine and doing a complete reinstall of OSX.

I don't even need to search too hard. A few weeks ago I wanted to install bootcamp but found out that the bootcamp helper refused to partition my drive because it couldn't find a contiguous 30gb slot on my 80gb free drive. Oh! I could just defrag, I thought to myself... but not so fast, Yuri, Apple does not support defragging because Apple knows best. What do they recommend?

"Another option is to back up your important files, erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files." (source: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375)

Anyway, personally, I think the push button reset is a natural progression from the System Restore Points, which are great.
What risks are taking that makes you deserve ownership?
What are you doing there that makes you irreplaceable?
What parts of the business will you take on and be held responsible?

Answer those questions and be firm on why you want to take on ownership and how you can grow the business.
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"Any time I would've spent on that could be much more productively spent by just making more income."

Which is actually a good reason to make taxes lower and less burdensome, so the most productive members of our society (as measured by income) will spend their time producing, instead of defending the fruits of their labor from the tax man.
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Really that reduces to looking at how often pi appears by itself (without being multiplied by a constant) versus how often 2pi appears. If there's a multiple other than 2 it's a wash; "4/3 pi r^3" isn't any better or worse than "2/3 tau r^3". And 2pi shows up all over the place, while the most common occurrence of a single pi is the area of a circle, which the proposal convincingly argues should have a 1/2 factor.
Agreed. He mentions overloading the pi symbol for the prime counting function but the difference is that you very rarely encounter pi in the prime counting function.
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More specifically, I think they are trying to convince Dell/HP that they can build an Apple-like brand without leaving the Windows ecosystem (e.g. in favor of buying/building their own OS, e.g. via Palm). That's what the hardware-manufacturer-branded app stores are also about.
The first example wouldn't be the same. There's a big difference between it being a theoretical impossibility, and something that sounds like we just haven't tested it enough.

Proponents of homeopathy like to confuse the issue by citing some of their own badly done studies. Explaining to the layman that proving the efficacy of homeopathy would earn you a Nobel Price in physics helps to bring some context to that.
An interesting read.
Hedging: A transfer of a portion of a position's risk to another party. Risk can be transferred, it can not be removed.
I can answer very broadly.

Compressing data is the art of taking a large amount of data, and turning it into a smaller amount of data saying much the same thing. Compression comes in two fundamental forms, lossless and lossy. Lossy compression is just a fancy name for selecting some of the data for the great bit bucket in the sky. Lossless compression is about finding a compact description of the data. Wavelets are useful for both.

The simplest way to describe a signal is as a bunch of data points. This is perfectly localized in space, but not in frequency. With solid blocks it gives you an easily compressed description, but a smoothly varying curve takes a tremendous amount of data to describe this way.

The next simplest approach is to describe it as a superposition of pure frequencies. This is what the Fourier transform does. A smooth curve can be described very efficiently this way, but if there is a discontinuity in it anywhere, then it takes a tremendous amount of data to represent it.

Wavelets are little waves that are somewhat localized in both space and frequency. A wavelet can be moved around or stretched to provide many different trade-offs. This is good for efficient description of mixed signals, such as pictures with smooth regions and sudden jumps, or the sound of talking with boundaries between different phonemes. A lot of audio and visual data looks like this.

This is good for lossless compression because wavelets tend to wind up fairly efficiently describing each part of the signal in an appropriate way for that part, which is overall very efficient.

But wavelets give you another trick. To specify a lot of detail takes a lot of wavelets, but you can track how much "energy" each wavelet has. This lets you prioritize the signal and figure out which parts you can get rid of without changing the signal too noticeably. This is great for lossy compression.

But, and this is a big but, wavelets were very, very popular in the mid-90s, lots of research was done, and then it was all locked away with patents. So there is a lot of good stuff out there that nobody wants to use until the patents expire. Which has stifled research, and makes a lot of this stuff we'll all ignore for a few years. :-(

(The legal questions are one of the reasons that JPEG 2000 has not been widely adopted. See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/JPEG_2000... for a visual demonstration of how much of an image remains even after you've thrown away 99% of the data.)
> Edit: Also no defragmentation on OSX!

OS X will still fragment large files - they don't fit in the catalog so HFS+ compression won't work on them (not that it works on user files anyway), and the auto-defragmenter only works on small things.

The difference is Apple doesn't ship a defragmenter, so you don't care. I think this solution would work just as well for MS.
You made me hit some major cognitive dissonance here:

Additionally, both Microsoft and Boeing more directly support the state economy in other ways (many donations, and support of public works, etc etc). Obviously, these tax breaks do lose the state some money

Are they supporting the state economy or not? I doubt they can support the state economy by making the state lose money.

(Honest question, I'm not American and don't live in the state of Washington so I have no clue)
Living with one's mother?
How is it that he equates herbal medicine with homeopathic medicine? The two don't have anything in common.
Most of the prime spectrum <3GHz won't be able to be reallocated, unless they're going to be willing to spend tons of cash and/or upset lots of people. If they won't, it'll most likely only be valuable for non-portable or semi-mobile devices. WISPs, in-vehicle broadband, anything that can have relatively large antennas at the consumer side. Currently, handset-type devices have more spectrum than can be practically used within the next few years.
This torque issue was really bothering me, and I finally realized why: I was pretty sure I'd already seen torque represented by a letter other than tau. Sure enough, I checked my copy of Introduction to Electrodynamics by David Griffiths, which is a popular (and truly great) intermediate E&M text, and there it was on p. 162: torque written as N = r X F. The same usage appears in several other places in that book, and Introduction to Electrodynamics is a standard text, so I'm confident that other sources use it as well. So we see that the idea of using a letter other than tau for torque is not some theoretical possibility—it has already happened, and in a standard textbook to boot. I've updated the manifesto with a note to this effect at http://tauday.com/#sec:four_arguments.

I realize that this may not convince you, but I urge you to reserve the right to change your mind about tau. After all, I changed my mind about pi. ;-)
Can you explain how to do this?
You sound like a smart guy. Create something related to the start-up that will "wow" your colleagues and help build your reputation.
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I was very happy to see Apple release ITConnect as a mobile app with some nice graphs, simple charts, etc but where the heck is the online version?

There are several good third-party solutions for iTunes sales reporting on Apps but they all charge monthly . . .
> After 100k your FICA payments taper off to nothing. That's money off the top, right into your pocket.

Since your SS benefits are also capped, it's unclear why you think that capping the taxes is wrong.

The folks who set up SS thought that the tax and payout cap was a good thing beause it kept rich people from caring about SS. If you uncap both taxes and payout, you end up paying Ross Perot $400k/year in retirement. If you uncap taxes but cap payout, rich people start caring about SS.

What is your alternative to capped payout and taxes?

FWIW, SS payouts are progressive - the less you contribute, the better your return.
I giggled at the "Why Humans Matter" on the right:

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This isn't a technical spec, it's a pitch deck to be delivered to managers/execs at another company. They're talking to their audience.
> couldn't find a contiguous 30gb slot on my 80gb free drive

I had the same problem last year and I used iDefrag to solve it.

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php
There is an option to reset your password, assuming you've set up an email for your account. Try to login, and when that fails, there is an option to mail yourself a new password.

Note, I only found this by looking at the source available from: http://arclanguage.org/. So it could be made more obvious.
Wonder if oxytocin is regulated enough to stop car dealers and pick up artists from wearing it as cologne. Also can you source the inhalation comment? The wikipedia article is contradictory e.g. "(for injected cows) It is a mistaken notion that oxytocin produces extra milk. Although it increases milk flow, it can also cause painful contractions in the animal's uterus"
> partly because companies that embody its dreams are not chipping in with the bills.

Nope. CA has a spending problem.

CA is taking in about what it spent in 2008. Unless you think that 2008 was a disaster, spending that amount now should be perfectly acceptable.

CA has a deficit because it is spending far more than it spent in 2008.

As to my "spending plan", it's rewind the spending until the budget is balanced. If the legislature and governor want to keep any specific new spending, they get to cut an equivalent amount of old spending.
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If that's true, it's disappointing. I was hoping it would be used for something like identifying genetic risk factors for various diseases, or helping the pharma industry develop drug treatments that could be custom-tailored to someone's genome. Instead it looks like we're going to get navel-gazing.
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We got to where we are with 250K, and are pretty close to product/market fit. We have paying customers, a great product and a repeatable sales model. However, for us to really step on the accelerator and grow, we need to hire A+ salespeople. We can pay them from cashflow, but that will slow things down. We'd rather raise a small amount of capital (i.e. < 1M) so we can hire a couple of great sales guys and really speed up the growth of our business.

Just a tangible example of why our startup needs money!
Windows seems to happen as a bottom-up thing. Feature teams conceive, design, and implement features, and a bunch are put together and shipped. Thus, any top-down view will be necessarily meaningless until the details float in from the teams actually doing the work.
I tend to agree that it is not journalism. I also fully agree that we are seeing very little journalism around.

I think Wikileaks fails the journalism test because they are not telling the stories behind the leaks. Those stories are what cause people to change.

I also think Wikileaks could do a better job than saying "anything that is secret, we will publish." If they want to be relevant, they should be deciding if it actually matters and will impact the public discourse.
Seeing how you plan on dealing with companies and traders, there is nothing on the site giving you credibility. I would recommend to add an "about" section, as it stands right now, I have no reason to trust you (who is the "we" on the API overview section?).

The project looks interesting, I'm just not sure about who your target audience is. I guess its the homebrew trader?
For a different take on local storage, have a look at MilkCrate
http://github.com/garrow/milkcratejs

MilkCrate is a wrapper around html localStorage/globalStorage that provides support for saving and querying collections of objects.
MilkCrate attempts to implement a similar querying interface to mongoDB.
It used to be 1000 uniques per 10 karma points on the submission, although that may have changed with the vote weighting that was instituted a month ago or so
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When I read "aliases", I was excited, because I was hoping it would work both ways: people get an alias they can use to e-mail you, with the messages transparently modified so that when you reply, you reply to them as the alias, and can carry on an extended conversation that way.

But nope, it's just a one-way temporary inbox service, not much different than spamgourmet or mailinator.
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There is no need in "#.".
irrelevant JVM rantings - it is just a calling names. ^_^

I can do it too - the widely used and popular implementation of an outdated, bureaucratic-designed concept which is situated well to simple and bureaucratic in-house application development and became bloated with badly-designed and poorly implemented so-called enterprise stuff which most people tent to reuse without thinking just because they heard (very good marketing) that everyone else did.

It have a fundamental problem being designed as an isolated from an OS blob (same as Flash, btw) which is proved to be dramatically inefficient for most of task other that very basic and general computation.

It was a complete failure as an in-browser technology, desktop-technology, and even server technology in the case of highly-loaded or low-latency systems. It is still in use because of almost parabolic increase in the x86 processors power and the same-curved decrease in the costs of CPUs and RAM. That is why projects like Cassandra are there - hardware is so fast and cheap that you can use even a bloated and crappy tools.

In the mobile segment - J2ME and Dalvik VM have no relations with JVM. ^_^
> I'm voting for positive values == CE and negative values == BCE. They're already numbered that way, just adopt the frickin' sign instead of the suffix!

Nope, not really. There's no year 0. Neither A.D. nor B.C.--that's because zero wasn't known to the guys who invented this numbering system, and also because those guys counted years with ordinal numbers (first year, second year, etc) and not with cardinal numbers since Christ.

You see the same confusion over death (Friday) and resurrection (Sunday): Jesus rose on the third day, not after three days. (Since the weekdays are not given in the bible directly, you can also find alternative suggestions for the weekdays.)

Disclaimer: Words like Jesus, Christ, death and resurrection are used purely as labels to describe stuff some people believe in. No judgement implied.
Because it's designed and implemented by a huge team with no vision except for how far away payday is.
The parent comment is now obsolete; I came up with something even better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470379
Doesn't work on my Magic + Cyanogen 5. Random words from my book show up, but they are interspersed with strings of Japanese and other random Unicode characters.

Who knew that rendering a subset of HTML could be so difficult...
The actual blog post: http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/06/28/how-do-you-hold-yo...
Glass houses, stones, etc.

Heres someone demonstrating the same problem on a Nokia E71 phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPG52DVQuk&feature=playe...
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I'm wondering: are there any errors in your favour at all?
>not so fast, Yuri, Apple does not support defragging because Apple knows best.

Well, they designed and implemented the system, so they should know best.

And they do support defragmentation. Read that page again: "In this case, you might benefit from defragmentation, which can be performed with some third-party disk utilities".

The reality is that few users ever have to worry about fragmentation of their HFS+ drives. And if you are concerned about fragmentation, I suggest 'hfsdebug', a free command-line tool.
Actually, it wasn't a sarcasm. I do need cross-domain user tracking for perfectly legitmate reasons. Many of my users do A/B test where control is www.example.com and variation is www.example.org (for example) and the goal page lies on www.shoppingcart.com -- currently there is NO way I can track a user across these three domains (no, third party cookies don't work properly on Safari and Opera).

I am left to experiment with user fingerprinting md5(user-agent, http accept and screen resolution) but that is less than ideal situation.
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This service seems similar to another of my favorites: http://mailinator.com/

From the FAQ:

"If I don't "sign up", then how do I create an account?

You don't. Mailinator creates an email account as soon as email arrives for it. All you or anyone else needs to do is send email to the name you thought up and - Kazam! - it will be there waiting for you.

Um... how do I get the email then?

Visit mailinator.com and type in the email name where is says "Check your inbox!", then click "Go!", and Mailinator will display the list of email waiting."
It's a fairly vanilla mutt+fetchmail+procmail setup. Complicated compared to an all-in-one email application, but not if you're used to separating MUAs (e.g., mutt) and MDAs (e.g., procmail).

(EDIT: Oh, and I agree with my sibling about IMAP -- not trying to ignore the parent.)
Not to get all tangental, but these are reasons why something like iOS is the probable future of consumer computing. There is so much crap that people deal with on a day to day basis with computers that they should never even have to know about.
i've seen a review of the guru plug that claimed that for network workload, this 1.2GHz ARM is not really faster than an ALIX board with a 500MHz AMD Geode and two 100MBit ethernet iterfaces, while running so hot that you cannot touch the ethernet plugs while it is idling.

[Edit:] it is the "Guruplug: don't waste your money" article that is the top result if you ask google for "guruplug alix". And netxt time I buy a phone with copy & paste support, I swear.
At the same time, you need some top-down direction. You can't just tell a team of thousands of engineers to go build something, and expect it all to have a unifying theme, and work well together.

It works well for small teams, but breaks down pretty quickly as team size grows.
This link crashes my iPad every time I load it. Anyone else have a similar experience?
And there are only so many letters in the alphabet(s). Although I have to admit common usage hasn't really exhausted the hebrew alphabet, yet.

And when the Chinese finally take over, we will have enough short symbols to last us for millenia.
This reads like an Indiana Jones script. I can just picture a professor frantically waving his hands in the air and yelling, "if Plato's music fall into the hands of the Nazis, it could spell the end for Western Civilization as we know it!!"
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The benefit this has over mailinator is that the email ends up in your regular email client, and can be managed the same way. It won't be deleted unless you delete it, and no one else can come across it (mailinator has intoduced something to combat this: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/03/introducing-alternate...).
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when did this happened? i feel ignorant!
Now, someone give me the equivalent 'Essential Emacs' link please! =)
We pronounce the constant as pee in German anyway. (No confusion with bodily fluids there.)

Or we might as well go with dvapee (Russian), or tsveypee (German (zweipi, written so that you can pronounce it the English way and it'll come out ok)).

We can go for pronouncing the thingy pipi. (Though would lead to confusion with bodily fluids in German.)
IEs4Linux might work for you then. It can install the original IE6, IE5.5, and IE5 under Wine. IIRC it uses a separate wine tree for each version, so there's no chance of the IE6 js interpreter being run in IE5.
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Thanks for the link - interesting - Liquibase seems very much oriented towards the Rails style migrations.
Sorry, I missed it.

Most people here should actually skip the general public explaination and read the part written for scholars, which is more straightforward.

I haven't read the essay in PDF format, but I expect it to be quite an insightful read.

Edit: the server ate my upvote. :-/
What is it that you do for 12 hours (genuinely curious)?
I try to be fair, I really do. Of course I'm biased - I grew up using Windows and can't help being bitter about it - but I try to keep things in perspective. Push Button Reset is great for geeks using Windows, but it's a bandage not the cure.

My experience is that Windows' performance deteriorates over time just by using the OS normally. Installing programs and using them, etc. That's one of the things that drove me away from Windows several years ago. Vista and 7 may have changed this but Push Button Reset indicates to me that's not the case. While I agree that the solution to the Bootcamp problem is lame, the situation is quite different. Apple is not recommending you reinstall just to be able to use OS X normally.

Maybe it's not that different, maybe my bias is too strong for me to see it clearly, but I don't think it is.
If their strategy for Windows 8 is to continue treating me like an idiot, I'm probably going to switch to Linux.
It's an April Fools day joke. Check the date of the post.
I almost never use i to get into insert mode. I use a or o almost exclusively.
yea amen to that
Here are the research articles about the effects of oxytocin on human social behavior:
Trust: http://www.socialbehavior.unizh.ch/static/home/heinrichs/dow...
Empathy/generosity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040517/

Both studies use intranasal inhalers to deliver oxytocin to the subjects. I doubt that you would be able to deliver sufficient quantities by wafting it in the air. If anything, it would have a stronger effect on the stop car dealers and pick up artists themselves, so THEY would trust YOU more :)

About the wikipedia article: when I mentioned the effect of oxytocin on maternal behavior above, I didn't mean specifically on breastfeeding or lactation, but on the general care that is given by mothers to their pups (such as grooming, bringing them to their nest, etc.).
We don't encourage them to do this. The shareholders elected the board that is currently minimizing the taxes.

If you don't like that, you can become an activist shareholder (or just an activist) and campaign for changing this company policy.

This is no question of company ethics. It might be a question of the ethics of shareholding.
It would be nice if that table included the full versions of some of the commands. For example:

:sp is equivalent to :split
:vs is equivalent to :vsplit

For me at least, the abbreviated commands become more intuitive if I know exactly what's being abbreviated (most of the time I type :vsplit instead of :vs anyway).
You basically described the plot of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the adventure game released in the early 90's.