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> The parent comment wasn't making a comparison. That was an absolute comment that Android has no consumers.

It's always a comparison.

> But to answer your question I don't know how many iOS devices are shipping each day. Do you?

No, which is why I'm asking. If I knew I wouldn't have to ask.
From the author's final post update.

I have also heard from a continuing stream of extraordinarily hostile young men (always men) who insist on "educating" me on the ins and outs of cybermorality, the definition of "stealing," and why I deserve to choke on my own obsolescence.

What he interpret as hostility is a bunch of young men who can't help but try tell you the truth as they see it.

It's about watching people oblivious to the fact of life getting chop to bits by pirates and free markets because they refuse to recognize something crucial.

And when they can't help you, they will buy other people stuff just to spite you. If they're in the same business, they will manically laugh at you. Then they will try to help you, knowing that you will just dismiss them like last time.

Admittedly, they describe me. I am one of those young men who would do this on and off. I wanna crush them, and then tell them the good news.
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That's what I assumed when I upvoted him. Recursion & lambda ftw.
maybe: "Google employees discuss what working at Google is really like (via Reddit)"
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I heard a story (I don't know if it's true or not) about Fedex and Frederick Smith: supposedly at one point in the company's early history, they were going through a rough time and realized by Wednesday there wouldn't be enough money to make payroll. So Frederick Smith took the $30,000 the company had, flew to Las Vegas and put it all double or nothing on one roulette bet. He won, and deposited the money Thursday night so they made payroll Friday morning.

I don't know what would have happened to him if he had lost.

I'm not sure whether to conclude from that story that it takes determination, or that Fedex exists today because he was lucky.
Read P.J. Eby's "Thinking Things Done". It's unfinished, but chapters 1-7 are very good. You have to sign up for his mailing list to receive them. I found out about this from http://lesswrong.com/lw/21r/pain_and_gain_motivation/

Consider spending a lot of time alone, or at least outside any institution for a while. Hell is other people. It's hard for me to think clearly when other people's thoughts are an important part of my day.

Consider meditating. (See the recently posted "Mindfulness in Plain English"). I just started, but I'm already getting the same euphoric level of concentration that I get from programming.
It always amazed me that only 10% of the biggest companies are able to have anything close to a fun environment. Is it that hard to treat employees as...I don't know... Humans and not working units of a factory? I can see why in many of the industries it is hard to implement such standards because of the type of work they do (for example manufacturing industries cannot have time flexibilities) but that only makes up the 50% what about the other half.
Somehow, the more I read it, the more it seems like a case of "Sorry, I don't want you [the entire tech-literate demographic] as a customer". These guy makes a good point : http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2010/06/fighting_with...
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I think this was about the ability to understand a fundamental concept.

The fundamental concept of a god can be easily grasped by small children. There is a powerful being. He controls physical laws. How hard is that?
Also try green tea. I find the caffeine stimulus a little stronger and more mentally soothing than black tea, but the side effects are no worse.
If the question is meaningless, it has no meaningful answer; the answer cannot be "no", so... no.

Your line of thinking is begging the question; you pre-suppose that the question is meaningful before you address its meaning.
You know what else is interesting - the means to produce music and movies is moving down market, fast. My friggin phone records HD, and my Mac comes with some basic music production software, I can self-publish my own books on amazon or just host them electronically myself.. and this trend is only accelerating.

So will we see less art in the future? Absolutely not - we'll be seeing huge amounts more, and from people who may not have had access to, say, a recording studio in the past. The economics are changing on both ends of the "business," which I think is a net positive.
> That's all fine as long as you don't make the leap from "my imaginary friend is useful" to "my imaginary friend is real".

You seem to assume that the later is a bad outcome. Also you can't really have a useful "imaginary friend" if don't believe he's real, or do you?

> why use a word (God) that has so many assumptions built into it? Invent a new word, and confuse fewer people.

Because God is word with a clearly defined semantic and definition ...

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and
omniscient originator and ruler of the universe

All unanswered questions about the Universe or God start with the most important question ...

considering the law of Action-Reaction, how did it all started?

Which has the nice property that has the answer to all unanswered questions. And if you're going to answer that with "some superior, omnipotent being (whose existence we can't comprehend) did it all", then it's philosophy 101 ...

there can't be two unsurpassable beings each of which is God

So why have another word with a watered-down meaning for it?
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Those ideas are not the core of buddhism. Its like saying that christians believe in the easter bunny. They are just historical and cultural baggage that got along for the ride.
Interesting resources, thanks!
I did IT at a UPS call center. I had to take a test after orientation that included knowing company history.

Another interesting tidbit: even in a call center/office we had to adhere to the same "grooming standards" as drivers (hair, facial hair, etc).
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Some people have so much fun (and ability) making art, they can make a living off of it. There's a huge overlap between art made for fun and art made for money, and taking away artists' means to make a living takes away a significant amount of art.
Yes, my thoughts exactly.

My friend, you've just completed 10-30% of your work.

You now have infrastructure, support, updates, marketing, sales, pricing, subscription systems, and competition to deal with. (to name a few)

Creating the product is step 1.
Back when I took probabilistic combinatorics with Richard Karp, he discussed the "coupon collector problem": How long does it take someone to collect all twenty of a set of coupons, each of which appears randomly in a daily newspaper.
It turns out that to get the last ones takes a good percentage of your time, since as you collect coupons, the chances of getting one that is new-to-you goes down.
I think the structure of a lot of tasks has a similar diminishing returns quality. You happen to find some ingredients but getting every piece is going to be inherently harder (aside from any other factors you could name).
Funny! Before I went on a trip to Lisbon, a lot of people 'warned' me about the sound of the language. Event Tourist-Guides for Lisbon tell you that when you hear portuguese, you'd confuse it with polish.

I think this is because of the combination of rothic-sounds (rothic R), and a whole lot of nasal- and smooth-sounds alltogether. (Feel free, to translate this sentence into linguistical-speak).
My wife and I ran into this problem in grad school when we first wanted a credit card. (We discovered the hard way that hotels prefer to be paid with credit cards than cash. When this happens on the same day the ATM system breaks down, well...) We asked for one with a $200 limit and got denied. We went to the manager of the branch, pointed out what our bank account was at, pointed out how many months in a row we could max out the card we were asking for out of the bank account we had been keeping there, and said that if we didn't get the account, that money would move to the bank across the street.

The next thing we knew we had a card with a $500 limit. :-)

(The limit was raised fairly quickly thereafter.)
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You might want to also agree upfront on how much is individual versus couple during the marriage. It saves time and hatred when one of you buys a toy.
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The one thing that I didn't hear which I expected to was confusion about whether forms should be month/day/year or day/month/year. Being a Canadian living in the USA, I never remember which is which in which place, and just want to use the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD instead.
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I don't see how the concept of meaning can be discussed in general terms at all. It seems to inhere in the relationship between a person and the ideas he considers.

I've certainly encountered other people who behave and speak in ways that indicate that they attribute a great deal of meaning to this question (often ironically because they insist on asserting an empirical basis for their faith), so I would not presume to speak for them.

(BTW, note that I'm being pedantic in this thread in order to discuss this topic with a high degree of precision. I'm not trying to create a semantics rathole, honest. But oftentimes clarifying the semantics is necessary to have a productive conversation.)
> I wanted more hard and fast rules about when a crisis reaches a tipping point.

I bet everyone wishes we had some of these. It’s not at all clear to me that hard and fast rules are possible, or if they were, that the widespread knowledge therof wouldn’t invalidate them by changing the society/market.
I think it is a factor though, even with efficiency improvements in studying over time I doubt the average student can spend half the time and possibly get an understanding as deep as before across all subjects.

For some specific subjects though this may be a natural progression with technology improvements, certain things may just now be simpler.

We also have to look closely at where the students are coming from, I think the trend starts in high school, an increasing amount of people anecdotally seem to be developing the bad study habits here. Myself included, I think I have improved as time has gone on but I still don't feel most classes are giving challenges worth of close attention and study when I have much more interesting stuff on the side.
And that, sir, is your answer. As far as the enthusiastic part of you is concerned, the problem is solved. It's like doing math in early high school -- you've already figured the thing out, but now you have to transcribe your method to the appropriate format and attend to the stupid details that will get you full marks for "showing your work" when you hand in your homework sheet (or notebook or what have you). Nobody who actually liked math for its own sake ever liked doing that crap -- I know I never did, and it wound up being the main reason I had for dropping out of school. And that same attitude is still with me, and still something I have to put a lot of effort into overcoming -- "dropping out" before the payoff really isn't an option for an adult. So yeah, it's tedious, "unnecessarily" detailed and completely uninteresting, but somebody's got to do it -- and waiting for a volunteer to drop by probably isn't going to work. Close your eyes, hold your nose, and swallow your medicine as quickly as you can -- you don't want to spend too much time tasting it.
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On a similar note, I made a payment to my creditcard back home(from China) using SWIFT method of international payments(it's an interbank payment system).

On the form there is a section to leave a mesasge or comment for the reciever. My credit cards co told me to put only my CC No. with no spaces or nothing else.

Told my wife all this (wrote it down) and she went to make the payment (she's Chinese, it's just easier that she does this kind of thing, from a paperwork efficiency point of view.

So of coarse she also puts my name after the card number. The next week I call the company, they can't find the payment, dissapeared into their system. POOF, gone. Will be spending the next few weeks making international calls to chase that one up.

They're system is sooooo brittle.
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Just to be totally clear — you've explicitly done a lookup against their resolvers for a record that is not in flux and received a TTL higher than what the authoritative servers give out? Any chance you could post their name server addresses?
I'm not sure your example proves your assertion. This isn't sarcasm, I simply don't follow your reasoning. I will acknowledge, though, that the scriptures certainly do assert (Hebrews 11:1) the distinction between faith and proof.

I was using the word "prove" ironically. My actual contention was that believers lack not just proof, but also reason. They act certain, but cannot explain their certainty except with self-referential argument. It was this inability to maintain coherence that finally undid my faith.
Ok, how's this for an edge case...

I'm a Canadian citizen who was born and lived in UK all his life who lives and works (legally) in the US for 4 years on a non-resident TN visa,

I'm not allowed to be considered even a temporary resident in the US despite the fact I've lived here for 4 years, oh but I am considered resident for tax purposes (ie I pay tax here and do a US tax return - but no other residency benefits).

When I arrive back in the country I have to say on my landing card that I'm temporally visiting the US and that I'm a resident of the United Kingdom. However, I don't pass the "residency test" of the UK as I've not lived there for 4 years. Technically I'm not resident of any country, which is kinda unsettling. And I'm 'temporally visiting the US' in that I drive out of the airport in the car that I own here and drive home to my apartment where I live with all my furniture and all my stuff in it.

US Immigration finds it difficult to accept that I am a Canadian citizen (and have Canadian passport) yet I've never lived in Canada nor do I have a Canadian SSN nor do I have an address in Canada nor have I filed a tax return there (my father is Canadian but I was born in UK).

I can't get any loans in the US as I don't have residency (although I don't really want a loan) and I can't buy property in the US, although I do have a US credit rating (I have a US SSN) and I managed to get a US credit card by already having an Amex when I lived abroad, and they carried the relationship over to US card (and started to add up my credit score against it).

I believe I traverse a lot of terms and conditions for things like insurance because I'm not a resident and end up being considered in the same category as an illegal immigrant - where the companies want to take their money and turn a blind eye to lack of documentation. Except that I am in the US legally and do have documentation, I'm just not a resident.

The visa I am on has no route to Green Card and so I will be in this limbo status indefinitely.
I didn't vote and I wouldn't identify myself as Shinto, but I did get married in a shinto shrine here in Tokyo. I typically describe shintoism as similar to native american religions and/or paganism. People here in Japan seem to practice shintoism more as a set of cultures and customs than what a westerner would describe as a religion.

There is a belief in good and bad fortune which can be altered by prayer to various spirits. The shrine sells lots of trinkets to help improve your luck in various aspects of your life. It reminds me a bit of Catholics who keep a St. Christopher trinket in their car for safe travels. At the shrine where I got married, it was discovered that there was a "power spot" on a path behind the shrine: a little puddle of water from a nearby spring. People would line up to take a turn standing in front of it and say a prayer.

We visit our local shrine on holidays, mostly because it is fun and peaceful. Sometimes there are festivals with good food, drink and music. People here will celebrate and visit a church, a temple (buddhist), or a shrine (shinto) without really seeing that there might be inconsistency. Christian weddings are very popular these days because the girls like to dress up in the princess-like "costume". I was recently told that you often don't know what religion someone is until they die: because then it comes down to what part of the cemetery do they put your ashes in.
Does the SSD really treat overwriting everything with zeroes as a low level format? I'm guessing "no", and that the entire test was performed on dirty disks.
Yeah, in this situation they are forgetting that not everyone in the class is doing it just to essentially check off a box in their degree process. Recently there was an email sent out that was basically like "do data mining, it's big in industry", giving that subject a miss because the lecturer is terrible but also because he's so industry focused.

I'm not planning on continuing in academia but I'm certainly not wanting to take classes that are just there to fulfil degree requirements without going deep into the subject and providing interesting and challenging content.
The problem that I have is that the 90+% of religious people are awfully hazy on which bits of the bible are inspired vs. literal, but all too keen to inflict the results of their beliefs on everyone else, despite no credible evidence that they have any benefit - universal suffrage, contraception, homosexuality/same sex marriage, single mothers, abortion, the earth going around the sun, etc.

In fact, religion has been fighting a rearguard action against science and the enlightenment for hundreds of years now; there's not a huge amount left to believe in, from what I can see.
"you will have plenty of time to kill yourself"

And plenty of opportunities, too, I suppose.

Isn't there another way than becoming a soldier? I was going to suggest going traveling, for example a hike over several weeks. That would also be physically demanding and good for focus.

I tend to agree with the "normal young man" thesis.
For background information, here's a write-up on the matter:

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What? They are so - they don't believe in God, but also don't want to bring down the hellfire and brimstone just in case they're wrong!
Yes! There is enormous demand for actual leadership, as evidenced by the Tea Parties.

The problem is that Obama is standing up to the oil industry. He could have gone to the industry execs and boards with no shame and asked "Who do I have to blow to plug this epic environmental disaster? Who do I have to pardon?" Instead he put His Boot on BP's Neck, and put together a relief fund with opaque management. And the well still leaks, and enormous numbers of people and machines sit idle.
The zero vs. one-or-more dichotomy hits the nail on the head. The problem with Pascal's wager is that its rationale can apply to every proposition. If you're committed to err on the side of safety, you need to accept every possible non-falsifiable idea, because, hey, what if it's true?

Taken to its logical conclusion, accepting Pascal's wager would at best generate immense amounts of cognitive dissonance as you attempted to integrate potentially infinite contradictory ideas into your worldview.
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Sometimes reinventing something as simple as the wheel is more robust than adapting someone elses equally half baked and unmaintained attempt at wheel reinvention from 2002.
Or a straight copy of of an exam from the previous 2 years with possibly a few numbers changed.
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It is hard to sustain such understanding ... all children believe at some point in Santa Claus, but that's only because they receive gifts (or fear punishment in the case of God) and they believe in general whatever the parents tell them to.

Einstein's theory wasn't believed by the public until it was proven.

So yes ... if God exists, our primary senses cannot perceive Him, and although I have reasons to believe He exists, all of them are subjective, but as our species evolves we may actually be able to.
I just bit the bullet and bought a 700 dollar SSD for my MacBook (which is over half the price I paid for the MacBook Pro itself!)

It's really hardest on the wallet for us laptop users. On the desktop, you can get by with a 40GB+ SSD and a secondary traditional disk (in my case, 2xVelociraptors in RAID0). But on a laptop, you've got to shell out the extra bucks for the largest SSDs on the market, because it's ridiculous to walk around with anything less than 200GBs in your notebook these days.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I was trying for a magazine type thing, but perhaps I'll make it more traditional if it's difficult to follow.
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Several hundred years ago England had different dialects in different parts of the country.

New England was settled by a different group of English than various parts of the South. Therefore the dialects were already different before they came here.
There's an even more subtle point here that teenagers don't have an easy way to purchase things in the online economy without their parent's permission. Part of the reason she's trading is because she can get it no other way. If I'm an aspiring artist, I'll be damned if some four dollar barrier stands between me achieving my dreams and not at all.

It's pretty clear that she had already tried to convince her parents about this, but failed. Teens can use cash to buy whatever they want, but not online.
Who is to say that our concept of things "coming from" places even corresponds to anything real with respect to the origin of reality? Why must we presume that the universe has a definite point of origin in space and time?