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Or his written views as in this article I was reading this morning: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscienc...

The essay's quote was used to help describe an experience many people go through, probably better than Paul could himself, and therefore was very appropriately chosen. Why would there have to be an artificial caveat? Later quotes would not be relevant to the time of life the essay was discussing.

Absolutely, he maintained his Jewish identity - the payload of beneficial cultural values - but he consistently rejected the religious practices (non-payload portions) - up until his choice of what type of funeral to have.

Here is a good quote from the article that recognizes the balance however:

Despite his categorical rejection of conventional religion, Brooke said that Einstein became angry when his views were appropriated by evangelists for atheism. He was offended by their lack of humility and once wrote. "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
Bruce, I think you're on to something, but I wanted to provide some insight.

I work at Angelsoft and we have found that Angels do NOT read business plans until much later in the funding process. However, they are extremely interested in a company’s one-page summary, and will usually make their decision on whether to purse further talks based on that. If you want to build a site around refining something, I would recommend focusing on the one-page summary. It is a less onerous thing to read and comment on for your community, and it is what investors really care about.

If you want a good template for a one-pager, goto http://OPEN-deals.com and register. Fill out all the questions and click Preview at the top of the page to generate a one page PDF summary. You can do that for free, you don't need to pay the $250 fee to submit to OPEN-deals to get it. Hope that helps.

-jason at angelsoft.net
I built (the first incarnation of) the TechCrunch job board in the summer of 2006. I started at Cambrian House a month later (worked there about 9 months) and tried to introduce Arrington to Cambrian House's CEO to get some coverage. Nothing ever came of it, MJ just sort of blew it off. Sad to see that this is what finally gets them covered.

A lot of CH employees invested in the company, and I'm sorry to hear they've lost their investments. There are also some truly excellent people in the community I met, and I hope their experience with CH has left them with a desire to succeed at their own ventures.
Also, that passage made me think that he was repeating the common (probable) falsehood that lactic acid is what causes the soreness and tiredness of muscles following anaerobic exercise. Recent research suggests that it is in fact a source of energy for the body, and slows down acidosis: http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/287/3/R50...
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Don't worry sofal, you're not alone. No matter how rational the scientific view of the world is, there is nothing in it that precludes the existence of a Higher Being that made it that way!

Also, whether you view the fundamental moral principles as divinely given or the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of society, they are critical for children to have.
This is good general advice for anyone with even a remote interest in writing academic papers (or even just good technical papers).

I just finished teaching a graduate course in computer architecture, and I was shocked at how unprepared they were in this regard. I literally had a student, after submitting a straight-up copy&paste of an ACM-published paper as his own (read: plagiarism), whine "but I've never had to write a technical paper before!". I had others, after having a week to work on an assignment, come to be the day before it's due asking "I can't find any papers.".

These are graduate students. Holy crap. I wish I'd thought to write a brief thing like this and stapled it to the back of my syllabus.
negative, ghostrider. Suggesting that a male obgyn may have a different and valuable perspective from a female obgyn is not the same as suggesting that all OBGYNs should be men.

To be explicit, I don't claim that all articles about parenthood should be written by non-parents, just that there's a particular type of value in ones that are, since they may more successfully divorce themselves from the visceral feelings of attachment that parents have towards their children.
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"Let those of us who believe in the resurrection of Jesus, the coming of the semantic web, or other supernatural phenomena believe what we want to believe."

Bruce, you can't stay stuff like that while I'm at work - I've got people around me who can hear me laughing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg

this one is pretty interesting.. probably would take some getting used to
What do you think sets PHP apart from "every other language" which is actually a positive thing?
Keeping a taboo when the underlying reason for it has gone away tends to be detrimental for society. I saw a wonderful documentary recently called "Born rich" (I highly recommend it, amongst other things from it I finally learned why there are a number of US personalities whose educational background seems so at odds with their outward demeanour. It's that the privileged simply can't get chucked out of a University, no matter how poorly they perform.) in which one of the interviewees was worrying about whether it was OK to have taken a group of her Jewish friends to lunch at her club, and speculating that it certainly would have been frowned upon had they been black.

I've no idea whether this taboo she transgressed is real or not. I'd certainly suggest it shouldn't be, it's the kind of prejudice you giggle at when you read it in the popular literature of the 30s and 40s. However, if it isn't real, the mere concern over it in the mind of the members keeps them from expanding their cultural horizons. It has become a permanently inhibiting fear, without any real referent.

In short, if you suspect a taboo is no longer culturally relevant you should probably consider yourself to have a duty to break it to get it out of the way as quickly as possible.
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I grew up in SF in what a lot of people call "residential neighborhoods" rather than "suburbs". There are houses, with small yards, and sometimes the houses don't even border each other. It's very different from palo alto (which is generally regarded as a suburb), and utterly different from, say antioch (whis is part of what people often call the exurbs).

You do, as a kid, see a lot that needs explaining. Some days, as we drove home from school, my brother saw a long line of men lining up outside the "nob hill male". They must, he concluded, be the dancers rather than the audience. Snort.

I actually think that cities are a pretty good place for kids to grow up, largely because it cushions the impact of growing out of the lies PG has mentioned. At age 15 in SF, I found a release in coffee shops in the haight, north beach, and the mission - and I could easily get to them without a car. Sure, I did plenty of the things that parents worry about, but in the end, there were interesting and exciting ways to get away from childhood that involved expanding my mind rather than looking for trouble. When I look at the ennui of the kids growing up in the exurbs, sometimes I think that maybe the lure of drunk street racing is greater, because there's less to do.
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Both examples of lies about death don't seem to be lies about death. They would both seem to be an examples of lies designed to protect from details that would otherwise only cause pain. Doctors frequently tell both types of lie to adults.

Lies about death and sex etc are frequently this topic of lies between adults. That they take a different form is of questionable importance: they may just be because adults have to much experience to be so easy lied to, requiring a more elaborate lie (contrast became a star in the sky and the bible).

It would be interesting to ask what lies are told solely to children and are not simply more egregious examples of lies more generally told.
Was her work more important than Newton's, Darwin's, or Watson's? I'm not questioning that she was a great scientist. However, if you are going to remember three, she should not be one of them.
PHP is going towards where other languages have already tread long ago. I highly recommend anyone considering writing a webapp in PHP think twice about alternative languages, Python in particular.

Perl, Python, Ruby, and ASP.NET are all great webapp languages; but Perl is old, Ruby is heavy, and .NET is Microsoft - however PHP developers have no reason not switch to a real OOP language like Python and save themselves from a wheelbarrow-load of trouble.
"To move forward you have to, by definition, be going in the same direction."

The idea that progress has directionality is just a metaphor to aid visualization. It has no basis in reality. Your argument is a logical fallacy; I forget the name, but it involves using the same word in two different senses.
Odd, outside of the top 5% of the academic class I never saw much competitive spirit.
pg -- do you have to work hard to remember particular conversations from your childhood? (E.g. in the 6th grade when your father contradicted your teacher.)

I can only seem to remember events related to girls, programming, and church. I don't remember particular conversations I had with my parents or teachers. Conversations with my favorite grandfather seem to stick out.

It seems like I should sit down and try to remember past realizations and conversations. I've never explicitly tried that.
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As a descriptive account of what people do, he doesn't need kids. As a prescription for what people ought to do, we might trust someone more who has been through the process themself.
I'd like a link to any replies people make to my comments. Like the red envelope in reddit. I sometimes make comments asking questions or simply brain-vomiting and would like to know what people's reactions are.
There's also Marmite, which, according to wikipedia, is suitable for vegans (I'm a meat-eater though, so I have no idea really). I grew up eating practically nothing but Marmite sandwiches - it's awesome stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
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I have a one month old and a 2.5yr old. Even before reading this, I've caught myself telling lies (or hiding truths) with my older kid.

We were watching a show about baboons on Animal Planet and the dominant male baboon killed and ate a baby impala (more graphically than I expected them to show). I was going to change the channel, but I asked myself "Why is it bad if my kid knows that some animals eat other animals?" I left it on and talked to her about how some animals get food. I also told her that it's different with people, because we've more or less agreed to let every person live.

Then I was going to change the channel again when there was a (again, more graphic than I expected) fight, I left it on and told her that animals fight, but it's not OK for people to fight. Something like "Animals fight, people hug".

So I guess I picked my lies, but I was conscious of it. My guiding principle is that I will

1) instruct my kids on correct and appropriate behavior

2) let them know that people have different expectations and not everyone behaves as well as I expect them to.

PS My wife was pissed that I let her watch the baboons killing and fighting :)
You're right.

So the question then becomes:

"Does a male obgyn may have a different and valuable perspective from a female obgyn?"
I agreed that the essay could use more examples. I understand that the examples might seem silly in 100 years (or even 10), but it would have benefited from things like "In 2008, many parents told their kids X"
Responding to half your post, there are cultures (such as farms) where death is dealt with more frankly, and it doesn't seem to cause harm to children outside of making them more practical.
Congratulations. You're a very rare parent, in my experience.

The essay is based on PG's observations of what he believes to be the majority of families. Essay's targeted to the edge cases tend to have small audiences.
Does it count as a 'lie' if it is believed by the parent?

There are senses of the word that include that, but I meant mostly things parents say knowing they're false, or at least that they'd admit were false if questioned.
While I'm sure that DTrace does nifty things, this was probably the flimsiest explanation of what makes it great that I've read. The summary seems to go like this:

There's this great tool for Solaris called DTrace. It's only available on Solaris, and it's so cool. One time, Twitter found a problem with it that increased speed by 30%!!!
You could look at Joyent Connector. It is built in Ruby and it has been open sourced. It does not have all the things that Google Apps has though.
I'm aware that I lie to my kids, but sometimes it's appropriate for the child's development level. I said in another comment that "Animals fight, people hug" when we were watching Animal Planet. Now that's not true - people fight all the time and "hugging" - cooperating, loving, etc - is a conscious act that requires work and is relatively uncommon. The intent of the "lie" was to tell her that, as a person, she should not fight. I'll explain human nature and her responsibility to behave well despite the fact that others don't when she's older (like before she goes to Kindergarten)
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"The truth is common property. You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true."

This, my friends, is a pearl of wisdom.
Having kids is one thing that would allow you to speak on this topic from personal experience. Having been a kid is another.
>f you think I am totally deluded because of my beliefs, I would ask that you at least show respect for the fact that I am devoted to them and value them sincerely.

Belief qua belief does not deserve respect. That is a self-serving myth told by believing people.
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A couple questions regarding your points:

1) which city, and how urban? I keep trying to convince my wife that the city (Chicago in my case) is ok and I'm gathering data

3) that sounds like a great school - public or private? name? I'd love to find a school like that.
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the tours are cool!
That's a key reason for many "lies" told to kids - let them deal with it when they're ready.
it's also for MAC you smart, no comparison to the web version of Google
During Black History Month, children will learn about nothing but black scientists. As far as I can recall, the most important one did something with blood types.

>What powerful groups in America wanted a black scientist to be seen on the same level as Einstein?

Identity politics runs very strong in classrooms, which tend to be politically controlled by left-wing teacher's unions. I've spent years of my life learning about the lives of various Indian tribes, for example.
"This is ESPECIALLY dangerous if you (or your kids) are smart. If you're fairly smart, then school is easy. It's easy, so you never fail, so you never understand that many things (including most worth doing) are hard."

Add to that parents who keep telling their smart kids how they expect them to do well, that they can be and do anything they want in life, etc., and the amount of personal disappointment these kids face when life turns out to be more than just doing well on your SATs.
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but isnt its uniqueness the whole point of the language?
i dont know php so dont know what makes it special but from what ive understand its constructed more like chinese than western languages. ie a lot of symbols that do stuff rather than adding a small set of powerful blocks to cronstruct something?

so it is good for fast scripting but poor for real programming?

isnt that the point of the language? i could be way off in my perception of PHP here though.
I have a house in the suburbs but would rather live in the city, despite the smaller size I'd be able to afford. The biggest benefit for me to the suburban house is that my kids have room to run around and expend some energy in the winter when (or hottest part of the summer) when it's not so nice out. Other than that, I'd rather have a 2BR in the city with the kids in bunk beds.
Uh no. Well, if you're running Windows in Bootcamp, then yes, but otherwise your Mac ain't gettin' no Microsoft lovin'...
A little over a year ago, my sister bought a HP laptop (1.8gh, 512mb ram), with Windows XP, but with the option to upgrade to Vista for $15 when it came out.

Few months down the line, I bought a faster laptop for my parents, and realised how aweful Vista was. I still regret not having wiped it out, and just installed XP on it.

Then my sister asked me about upgrading ther laptop. That laptop was fast enough for XP, but not for Vista. Imagine, installing Vista limited to it. A laptop that was adeguately fast and decent for XP, it would have been dog slow for Vista, with very bad user interface and the awkwardnes of a really bad Operating system.
My sister whould have been duped badly if I hadn't told her not to "updgrade" her computer.

Image all those people that bought Vista for $150+ as an upgrade from XP, maybe paid a $50 installation fee to the local BestBuy, and realise they just spent a lot of money in a very inferior product.
I think this plus pg's point about "cuteness" is key - kids are ready to be emotionally mature, but parents don't want to let them have the experiences required to gain that maturity.
If you had to remember only three you could easily have an argument debating the merits of any three scientists. I wouldn't say her work is more important than those three, but I would say it's on that level. The book "Six Great Scientists" by J.G Crowther seems to think so too. It's quite unfortunate that Wikipedia has very little on her.
OK, got you there.
One point this article misses entirely: the paid side of the freemium model is about including extra features useful enough to power/pro users that they'd be willing to pay for them.

Lack of ads is just a bonus.
I've taken great care (and gotten my wife on board too) to change the way we praise our older girl. When she does something new, we no longer say "Wow, you're so smart!" - we say "Wow, that was great how you worked hard and kept trying until you succeeded!".
ok, I didn't notice that...

I guess though, he shouldn't trush something before he tries it...
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I got the same email. And I found out it was true. I googled the email address to which it had been sent and in fact, it was online at
http://www.newsreadersite.eu/?page=562

Which goes a long way towards explaining why I have started getting SPAM on a previously clean email address.

The original author is correct, if you are a system architect at BEA and then you move to Google and you still can't keep a blog site secure, it is pretty lame.
They aren't adding 'goto' statements. But they are allowing you to jump to labels with break statements, which is similar.
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I live in Cambridge, MA. While it's not inner city, it's not the burbs, either. I have several parent friends who live in NYC, Austin, and DC, as well. Chicago sounds like a great city to raise a child. My son goes to a Montessori school, and it's perfect for him. He's already defining his own curriculum, and starting to work on being responsible for setting and accomplishing his own goals (he's 6). However, YMMV with Montessori programs. Some are much better than others.
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"In short, if you suspect a taboo is no longer culturally relevant you should probably consider yourself to have a duty to break it to get it out of the way as quickly as possible."

If your goal is change society, maybe. But, if your goal is to succeed within a society, then maybe not. Some taboos begin for good reason and just because you suspect that they're not relevant doesn't mean that they're not.

I would suggest that if you suspect that a taboo is no longer relevant, you have a duty find out for sure and learn why it ever was in the first place.
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I think the statement "as a rule people planning to go into teaching rank academically near the bottom of the college population" should really have a source to back it up.
How about civility? That's kind of like respect. Do I "deserve" any civility? If it's a myth and a self-serving lie to think that you should show respect for other people's beliefs, count me as one of the self-serving liars.
I run Xubuntu on a quad-core machine just because it appeals to my neuroses.

You probably do a lot more with your machine than run Office, play Windows Solitaire, and read email. Three year old machines can do all of that perfectly well.

That $600 laptop is cheap, all right, but it's more expensive than "another few years for free". Especially when you multiply it by a headcount the size of GM's.

I do agree, though, that "systems requirements" is partly an excuse of convenience. It always looks better to complain about price-gouging vendors than to complain about the enormous amount of extra work, overtime, and personnel budget that a major OS upgrade might require of you. Plus, carping about Vista's systems requirements is easier than trying to use the phrase "sucks ass" in a corporate report without being fired.
How would switching to python help a bad developer? Any good developer will never run into a wheelbarrow-load of trouble.
That's the increasingly fragile business model though. MSFT and generic PC makers are like siamese twins who can't be separated. The makers depend on MSFT to create new versions which require new hardware. In turn, MSFT gets exclusive distribution licenses from the makers.

If MSFT screws the product, as with Vista, the makers suffer the fallout because the market doesn't buy their latest generic plastic. Apple managed to identify this rotating gimmick early on, and went down the proprietary hardware path because it was their only choice. And look who has the market attention now.

So I'd say that the makers are a bit pissed right now that MSFT didn't hold up their end of the deal. They know that all the crap they sell is generally indistinguishable, but that didn't matter because MSFT would provide them with a mechanism for recurring income that was better than just waiting for the plastic to simply wear out.

And with MSFT depending on thousands of licenses just to keep the lights on, I'd say the next few years are going to be interesting for the siamese twins.

With my MacBook Pro, and my dual Dec Alpha box that I plan to put Genera on, I think I'll just sit back and watch.
"However, it is also almost certainly true that she was taught because she was female"

This is actually not the case. In fact, she was repeatedly denied entry into universities and had to fight especially hard for any education or appointments that she recieved.