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>There are few OSS projects that have done anything more than steal ideas from commercial software in terms of innovation. Programming languages are the only place I can think of that OSS is cutting edge.

Surely you're joking? Outlook is a crappy email client. Mutt which is older than I am, handles mail better than Outlook does, I hate using Outlook. It means archiving my mail every month (several accounts over several PST files over an a very high mail volume). Ever since it's beginning outlook was the crappiest mail software. You can't figure out what the hell it's doing and it crashes all the damn time without error or with generic/cryptic ones. The only way to fix it is to wipe your settings from the hard drive, and reset registry keys to defaults. And if that doesn't work reinstall office.

Not to mention compiz/beryl had desktop effects before any other operating system. Linux in the kernel level has removed the need for file polling, replacing it with iwatch. Linux has on demand file system and virtual file system mounting. There are hardly any drivers for file systems or virtual file systems on Windows. Dokan is the only place where you can get FUSE or SSH and the software is crappy.

MS to this day hasn't standardized it's own security structure (EX: runas.exe in XP will have the processes pass on administrator rights to all child processes 7 doesn't neither does Vista). And lets face it on the top of it's game Windows default security could have been over-riden by pressing cancel on the logon screen. On anything but a fickle consumer and ease level Windows and to some extent OSX (although the use of a BSD kernel and the growth of MacPorts mitigates this a bit) don't hold a candle to the features found in Linux.

You seem to equate success and innovation with sales and press releases. In this case you probably think that MS is doing something revolutionary by letting Xboxes read usb drives.
I would like to make it to one of these, but the timing's always been wrong. Tomorrow our youngest daughter will be eleven days old, so we're a bit preoccupied with her.
I'd highly recommend you all secure historious.com while you still can get it at a decent price (read: before you get funding, big name recognition, etc). While domain hacks are cheap and cool in the startup world, they confuse average people like our parents and neighbors.

The potential for confusion is one of the reasons that Yahoo forked over big bucks to buy delicious.com and redirect del.icio.us there. Even if you wanted to keep your domain hack, you could always point the .com version to your domain hack. It sure beats letting someone else show ads and confuse customers to where they think you've gone out of business.
You right. But I'll give you the counter-argument.

In the stock market, just like the real estate/auto market, there are never just true buyers and sellers; there are also brokers and dealers who keep a inventory of goods, so that they can sell to non-discriminating retail customers who just want the goods right now. Their expertise and self-interests in turns, affects the price of the good in the whole entire market.

The stock market once have had traditional broker-dealers that controlled the spread of a stock. That is, dealers are willing to buy stocks from impatient traders who are willing to sell at a market order at a price that is set by the dealer; the dealers then in turn, later sell their inventory at an artificially inflated price to impatient traders who are willing buy the stock at a market at the price named by the dealer.

Traditional dealers, in order to tack on the risk of carrying their inventory of stocks (after all, a stock could theoretically drop to zero before they could sell the whole lot), keep the spread of the stock big (they are willing to buy low and sell high) at the expense of retail investors.

HFT, due to their high-tech platform and high execution speed tightens this spread because they don't carry as high a risk of inventory; because their execution speed is in timescale of micro-seconds; so essentially, in the timeframe of seconds, they buy a position and then sell that position subsequently and not really carry that position through for the market to affect the value of that position.

This in theory is good for retail investors as they actually end up paying less for their stocks. But with good technology, you could also use it for bad. With fast computers and sophisticated algorithms, HFT traders could learn how to game the traders and big funds that they are suppose to server - just like a regular car or real estate dealer.

If you know where the consumer demand is, you could buy up all of the supply ahead of time and artificially inflate the price to make people pay more. If you know that your competitors are replicating your every move, you could deceive them by making a small trade against your true intention, have them jump on the bandwagon and swiftly punish them by executing your true big trade afterwords. The possibilities are endless.
If I'm not mistaken, Mudd has a very well regarded engineering school as well.
I wrote the article posted and until I had the experiences I wrote about in it, I would have agreed with you 100%.

I believe that doing always beats theory. If, however, one is open to injecting a small amount of theory into their doing, it can be quite powerful.

My goal with the article, and in general, is to reduce the barrier of entry on topics like 'music theory' that seem hard but really aren't.

I've gotten a few friends on the piano and said "Here, just mess around on these notes and see how it sounds." When it didn't sound like garbage, it felt like magic to them, but it was just scales. This simple example made them significantly more interested in piano and the fundamentals of music. Why do we obfuscate these topics and hold them back from otherwise capable people?

If we can find a way to integrate a small and specifically relevant amount of theory into our 'just doing', I think it only adds to the experience.
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This is officially on the roadmap. Cheers :-)
Out of lifestyle choice. You trying living in your employers office and see how long before the call the cops!

Note also in that article he talks about how much he likes to travel, and slates BP a paragraph later. Hypocrite, much?
Just a few small changes fixes it:

jQuery('div.entry').find(":contains('apple')").each(function() {
var html = jQuery(this).html().replace(/apple/gi,"<span class='apple'>Apple</span>");
jQuery(this).html(html);
});

I made the str.replace global and case-insensitive (/apple/gi), and changed $.children() to $.find() since on TC the content wasn't the direct descendant of a div. $.find() goes more than one level down. They also seem to be using jQuery.noConflict() so I changed the $ to jQuery.

example: http://fillerspace.com/techcrunch.html
That is a very good point and we are certainly considering it, thank you for your feedback!

EDIT: We have historious.net and .org now and they are pointing to historio.us. Thanks again for the nudge!
A fun afternoon and a chance to speak to great people; not just speakers but also the fine audience. Sound in the room was a bit rough at times..

Format needs tweaking IMHO. Geoff tried to get some more audience interaction going but would be nice to have a more workshop type feel. Afterwards was good but a bit longer break in the middle may have been useful.

Shame Arrington ran for the door after his dipshit company comment..
yep. It's just GS tax on the public that bailed them out. As shallow as it sounds, it is a fact. Only in America!
The suggestion that students should major in liberal arts instead of engineering made me literally laugh out loud. An engineering degree is the best value to be had in American post-secondary education. Not only do you come out of school with real marketable skills that employers actually want, the solid foundation in general purpose problem solving is damn good preparation for life, wherever it may lead you. The philosophy of the ancient Greeks may be the historical basis for Western thought, but in no way does that mean that it is a more worthy subject of study than, for example, an in-depth examination of the factors that led to the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal or the role that the Haber process played in WWI & WWII.

Whenever there's an economic downturn, there are inevitably sob stories printed in virtually every major newspaper about how it's difficult for fresh college graduates to get a job and these human interest stories invariably include an anecdote or two about some specific young person just out of college living at home while desperately trying to find a job and having no luck because the jobs just aren't there. How many times have you read this type of story in the newspaper where the sob story is about a kid who majored in chemical engineering or EE or metallurgy? I've yet to see such an article and I anticipate that if I were to see such an article it would be lamenting that the kid couldn't find a job in their specific major, not that they couldn't find gainful employment somewhere doing something. If you're an employer hiring for the kind of jobs for which a liberal arts degree is sufficient preparation, you'd be a fool to turn down an engineering grad if you were lucky enough to have one who was actually interested in working for you. Your requirements for the candidate are: smart and gets things done. If they can survive the rigors of an engineering school, there's little doubt that they can do the job. On the other hand, if you're a technical employer getting resumes from fresh liberal arts graduates, you're probably going to toss them straight into the trash bin.
I mentioned this briefly in the post, but I think this logic, again, puts scales on a pedestal.

I don't want to be a great pianist, I just want to be decent at expressing myself in musical form. For awhile, I thought this meant scales weren't really for me.

It turns out that, on the contrary, they are ideal for me because they quickly get me up to speed on what tends to sound good.

Ultimately, you're right, but scales may be worth a glance even if you're somewhere in the middle!
First time I heard about Appointment Reminder - Patrick's third second product - http://www.appointmentreminder.org/

Certainly a much bigger market than elementary school teachers, while clearly continuing to leverage the same key skills of making a mundane task automatic, and metric testing to consistently enhance the real world user experience. Perfect case study (assuming the market eats it up, of course!).
Maybe they're running the untrusted user-submitted code as processes under the 'nobody' user as a security measure.

I've built something similar for my upcoming programmer-testing service at http://codeboff.in and this is one of the precautions I've taken in my own sandboxing arrangement.
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I really don't see the point of using frameworks (libraries are fine). You should write your own. It's a lot easier than you think and you get full understanding and control of your request/response cycle. Learning and mastering somebody else's framework usually takes longer, and it may not solve your specific use case all the time.
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>Besides, acquisitions of young companies tend to be better for everyone involved, as compared to later-stage deals, said Geoff Ralston, who recently sold Lala to Apple. Integrations of billion-dollar companies almost never work, he said.

If there was no acquisition of LaLa, we'd all be listening to music for 10 cents a track on our iPhones and Androids. Hopefully they come up with something awesome at Apple.
Actually for me, the iPhone is a better reading experience than the iPad. The iPad and Kindle both are too big, and the iPad is too heavy.

iPhone + Stanza is perfect.
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Try Python. There is lots of interest in getting CPython to scale across multiple cores, but the use of refcounting to manage object lifetime and the Global Interpreter Lock makes it hard.

If you want, you could even try to prototype using PyPy (python in python).
Aye, Hacker seems to miss that the years they want you to have behind you are years spent working in that field, not simply years alive.
And no credit for fixing his httpd.conf configuration :(

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If you can add where a user looks first, that'll be great. Something like order of gazes on a page?
Most particularly hybrids that look domestic and cuddly with their floppy ears, but will still eat your chickens or bite your kid's face.
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I think everyone should spend an evening trying to write in ed. Knowing that most of unix was written in this simple editor shows the power of tight constraints in design decisions and the creativity that can come from them. It also makes the whole cascade of editors ed/vi/vim/... more understandable.
Sounds a lot like General Motors a few years ago, with Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, GMC. They just spread themselves too thin. Bankruptcy actually did some good because it forced them to shed the underperforming brands. Sometimes I think that Microsoft could have been better off if the antitrust lawsuits had broken it up into separate companies a decade back.
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Is anyone heading up from downtown? I would like to make it but my wheels are in the shop.
By the way the estimated cost of Red Hat 7.1 (not RHEL) is 1 billion dollars, so it's comparable with funds of the Gates foundation. [1]

[1] http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html
RMS is advocating that using free software is in people's interest. As he says in the answer to one of the questions, he rates freedom as the most important self-interest.
Opponents of "Pay & Spray" will have a field day with Ron Conway's quote:

Archangel Ron Conway, who said he’s put money into 500 companies over the last 12 years, kicked off the day with an optimistic and generous recruiting speech: He said he believes every “entrepreneur who has the guts to start a company” should get funding, and added “I believe the more angels we have in Silicon Valley the better.”
Thanks will do that. It was 3 AM in morning and you know.
I would argue there is some selection bias going on here. If we assume that both sexes are trying to maximise their evolutionary fitness then a beautiful woman marrying a less attractive man would indicate there are other factors involved. Money is the most obvious, and despite anecdotes against it, money has shown to have a positive correlation with happiness.
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I’m not saying GNU should brand itself differently. But if it’s going to change the logo to look less homely (in either sense), I think it could go a lot further than that version.
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id1: Off (aborted)

id2: Fear not, friend Robin! I shall rout the Sheriff
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id1: Thank you, my good fellow!

Gotta love hackers with humour.
My advice is to follow your interests, especially since they mean getting into solving deeper and more interesting problems.

There are lots of people out there with standard programming backgrounds, not a lot coming from the deeper and more esoteric ones.

I figure if you want interesting work, you gotta have an interesting education.

Also don't too hung up on the OO vs FP shiz. They're both just tools for solving a problem. Learn them both and take what you need.

Also I like your fugue...but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoA0cTC228M ...turn it up
Hey! We need good hardware otherwise where is all that software going to run? Keep up the good work!
A number of exchanges have already voluntarily dropped the 30ms preview. Just sayin'.
How about SpaceX? We have a lots of openings for engineers, you might be interested in the software engineering position: https://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=SP...
It's pretty hard not to. I prefer Python. But need lots of JavaScript (both browser and server (NodeJS)). Lisp for some stuff and still a fair bit of plain ol' C.
One of the reasons ed is so terse is because bandwidth was really expensive back when it was written. Not necessarily in terms of money (since everyone was at a university), but in terms of time.

If your editor were to echo back everything you'd typed, you'd waste twice the bandwidth (once to send a keystroke in and once to get it echoed back). Though in reality it would be more like 4 times because each character sent through would require a TCP-ACK packet sent back. By saying nothing, ed became really fast.

sed took things to the next level. If you already had a file on a remote system, and wanted to make changes to it, all you had to do was note down the 'ed' commands to make those changes, and then tell sed to run them. You didn't have to open ed to operate on the file, you just had to send your commands over the network and sed would operate on the file remotely. A more efficient rsync, if you will.
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Have you looked at FOOP - Functional Object Oriented Programming? It very neatly marries FP and OOP. ECMAscript and Python both implement the paradigm.

Suggest learning a solid foundation of Lisp, then languages like Clojure, etc will be easier to pickup.

Uni level math is very different from high school. If you need a bridging course take a look at http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput....
How does the OED define grep?
Instead of imagining performing music as a series of notes coming at you, A C G B A, imagine it as a series of motions: A-C, C-G, G-B, B-A. The purpose of a technical exercise like a scale is to put those motions into your muscle memory, so your conscious mind is no longer thinking about them. Scales should not be the only exercises you do; I do not play guitar, but a piano player should certainly also do arpeggios, circle-of-fifths, "circle of thirds" (rolling up major and minor scales by thirds, also going up and down the keyboard in pure major and minor thirds. there's also some good multi-finger exercises you should do to, like scales+fifths, and some genres really call for yet other technical exercises). I don't know what the guitar equivalents would be but I am sure there are some.

Unfortunately, the only way to put something into muscle memory is with repetition... endless, endless repetition. Alas. (No sarcasm.)

It is absolutely true that you can play without this, but instead of a powerful set of abstractions stuck in your muscle memory, you will have a patchy set of whatever you happened to need. Which, on average, due to the uneven need for them, will indeed correspond to most of what you need. But you will have holes compared to someone who is doing the full set, and the further you try to go the more those holes will bite you.

I say this without judgment. Far be it from me to condemn somebody for learning an instrument and choosing not to devote the time to become an utterly awesome expert. I think it's a perfectly viable choice to choose to become pretty decent. But you should know what you are doing.

It is not at all like needing to know Turing Machines to know how to program. It is much more like (though not identical to) needing to know how to type fluently to program; if you're hunting around for the open parenthesis, you're not programming. This metaphor breaks down because your editor will wait for you to find the key, at worst it breaks your flow; when playing music if you come up against a missing muscle routine you just failed something.

(Incidentally, when I put it this way it seems obvious, but for all the music training I've had and for all the various instruments I've learned or at least poked at, nobody has ever put it this way to me. It's too easy to insist that it's simply tradition, or to start babbling about some semi-mystical thing or other, when really it's quite simple: you can't play at a high level, or even a middling level, with your conscious mind. The vast bulk of your instrument-playing routines need to live in the cerebellum. It's that simple. It's not merely because it's tradition and there are concrete and simple reasons why technical exercises are necessary, appeals to authority are unnecessary.)
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Today's financial mathematicians are equally adept at programming and computational science. It seems unlikely that these guys are your run of the mill programmers.
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I just bought my first Mac after using Linux for 6 years, so I am speaking from recent experience here. Definitely like Linux, definitely awesome... but it does take some getting used to.
No quotes from Joshua Schachter. Inexcusable. Where is the commentary from the newer, non-reptilian investors?
Someone tries to buy an item for $1.00, and the HFT algorithm tries to grab the item first and resell it to our original buyer (and other people in the market) for just a tiny bit more.

No. The matching engine will match first the highest priced order, and in the case of orders at the same price, whichever order was placed first. You can't jump ahead in the queue, no matter how fast your algorithm is [1].

[1] This statement only applies to US equities/futures/derivatives markets. I think it might be possible in Canadian markets under some limited circumstances.
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The University System is one of the things the US gets right in my opinion. Industry - Academia liasion works pretty well, a lot of research is productized and sees the light of the day and overall the university system appears to generate substantial competitive advantage for the country. admittedly biased CS viewpoint
He lives in Japan and recently left his cushy full-time job

I don't think cushy is the word he'd use to describe it.
That's interesting. I recall ed from the Amiga...
The elevation plot is fantastic - it will help avoid any unpleasant surprises when I'm planning new routes! Would be even better if you could somehow link the elevation plot to the position on the route - e.g. if I hover over a point on the elevation chart (or click on it) it will highlight that bit of the route.

I used to use mapmyrun.com for this kind of thing, but they've added so many adverts to it that it's practically unusable now. This is much better.