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This is an article bashing Ebert and siding with contrarian "intellectual" film critic Armond White. Here's what Armond White wrote of Toy Story 3:

"But Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination—the usefulness of toys—and strictly celebrates consumerism."

Let's pick apart his argument. I'm guessing that for White a movie in which children grapple with adolescence and sentimental value over their childhood belongings is celebrating consumerism. In my book celebrating consumerism would be a movie about a child not being able to decide what new toy to buy at Toys R' Us. Consumerism, at its worst, is about companies convincing you that your old stuff isn't good anymore and to forget it and to buy the new stuff. Toy Story is about just the opposite. But you wouldn't think that right away for the seductive allure of agreeing that a popular movie "celebrates consumerism."

My point is that Armond White takes big words, in the tradition of French literary and film criticism, drops them in to troll and get attention, and then sheepishly backs off when you try to scrutinize what he says. This is the same school that brought you "the author is dead" and "writing precedes speech." There's nothing for White to defend here. His way of doing criticism is a house of cards.
Then how about giving an example of somebody who had some benefit of learning Klingon, not related to Klingon as is?
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I never understood how Ebert became so popular. I remember (years ago) when he lambasted Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke", thinking that he just didn't get it. The movie was about two stoners in a van making stoner jokes for a stoner audience. That's what it set out to do, and that's what it did. You can't properly critique a movie without taking in context what the goal was - something he consistently failed to do.
Here's something I didn't know until I started writing for Inc: The editor, not the author, writes the title and subtitle.
> You assume that a person cannot gain something by simply learning something that has no practical purpose

Actually, what I wrote, if you'd bother to read it, is: "Yeah, he learned something for sure, but that's pretty much all it can be." so don't put words into my mouth.

The point boils down to this:

* It'll probably never become big.

* That doesn't really matter, it's mostly for learning and for fun.

* But even so, why preclude that? <- this is all that is causing people to get their knickers in a knot over what I wrote.

> You're assuming that every thing that people work on actually needs the potential to become "big".

If you get that essentially for free, then why the hell not?
In Polish you literaly have "clean or dirty conscience", Bible also tells much about cleaning sbd's sins.

I'd like to see if this is about language (people primmed with concept being close to each other in language skew their judgements), or is this universal link between ethic and hygiene.

Maybe being clean is universaly considered good thing, but there are other more arbitrary associations that could be checked - for example in Polish "prawy" means "right" and also "good". Probably there are some cultures where it's the left that is associated with high ethic standards.

These 2 cultures should skew their moral judgaments to opposite directions when primmed with either "right" or "left".
I think you have to censor for kids - eg don't play it uncensored in public places.

For a good laugh though checkout "Uzi Lover":

Lyrics - "C@nt! B@tch! C@nt! B@tch! Motherf@cker!" - "Shove it up her motherf@cking ass and fry it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sxZ4tsp8gc

(From 'The Day Today' spoof TV series)
I think some of the stuff about "hard-wiring" is actually parents underestimating the influence of society vs their own influence. I once read a study that found that eight years old was the point at which children were influenced more by non-family sources than family sources.
Appreciate the feedback. I'm not going to develop a sense of style by not trying.
Not in my country they don't.

I'm not sure which is more common (fixed price across the country like here in Uruguay or Argentina, or store-by-store variation like the US/Canada)
Ludwig Von Mises actively spurned empirical testing, claiming that economics are too complex to abstract into evaluative models.
Bested by slater again! Yeah, the urls looked the same so I wasn't sure if things were working as intended.
Have a listen to http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/ (Live feed: http://abc.net.au/streaming/triplej/triplej.m3u )

An Australian government funded (no advertising at all) radio station with no limits on content or language.
Specifically, some of the gutteral sounds used in Klingon are sounds that are used in real languages. If you're a native American-English speaker, these sounds do not exist in our language. If someone here is so dedicated to learning Klingon and Star Trek, it might open their ability to A) learn real languages easier, B) to pronounce many of the sounds used in those languages.
Thanks, will keep that in mind. Design an iterative process.
I taught Introduction to Programming at a University after I graduated. It was an great experience and I believe I might return to teaching later in life.

The biggest issue for you will be unlearning what you already know. Since you will be dealing with someone starting at zero, you will have to teach things you take for granted. Simple things like for-loops trip up a lot of people. Keep that in mind when you are teaching her, that you might be using concepts or ideas that you didn't think about, but she doesn't understand yet. I would move as fast as possible to working on an IPhone, simple hello world aps, so she can get the visual feedback.

I also would not shy away from the right way to do things, even if it is more complicated. As an example, Java was the language we taught at my school. Not knowing any different (not unlearning what I knew) I had my students properly define every class in its own file. This is just the right way to do things. Turns out all the other teachers would use a single class with private classes nested inside. My students had a small leg up on all other students, even if my best students were not even CS majors.
Good point, I should hide the previous and next pages.
You want to make sure that the code is not crappy.It is possible to find some very good developers that are cheap, but again is not the norm.It depends what kind of programmer you need (I presume web). Then go with PHP those are the cheapest ones.
I was never taught heel strike yet I use it. It's not that the shoe retailers teach it, it's just the most natural way to run when you're wearing shoes. When you run barefoot you naturally switch to front strike. I'm going to try running barefoot again. The problem I had with it last time is that you can't run fast because when you run fast and you're exhausted you're going to hurt yourself by making small landing mistakes and by stepping on stones and tree branches and cracks in the road...anyone have experience seriously (i.e. not light recreational) running barefoot on less than ideal surfaces?
Thanks, I thought it worked kinda funky on my phone and tablet.
Aggregate demand is a money quantity, so it is perfectly well-defined. Keynes never tries to add 1 slice of pizza to 1 computer, and in fact goes into great detail about units and definitions in book 2 ("definitions and ideas") of The General Theory. An uncharitable person would say you've probably never even read it.
I think we disagree only on definitions. I'm treating Chicago as a subset (the majority, from what I've seen) of Austrians, you seem to be treating them as a separate group.

I'm also not sure what you mean when you distinguish logical from mathematical models. Could you explain?
I checked the Dropbox, but I don't see why a service of "storing something on some servers" has to be bound to "you must install this app which you have no control of to use the service."

The only answer I see is "they want to do something nefarious." Otherwise there would be a simple web interface for people for which that is enough. Or even a simple html based API.

Is Tarsnap better?
no offense taken... sounds like there is a market need for some web based disintermediation? calling ycombinator...
To the point where the article becomes semi-uninteligible.
And the writer seems oblivious to the irony.
Are you serious? Catalyst must be one of the worst, bloated and downright obtuse configuration software ever made.
thats not their primary business. they are bringing in 8 figures a year in subscription revenue from their SaaS products. why would they devote a huge chunk of their time to a 5 figure line of business. now with the bosses less integral to the day to day programming work, they can focus more time and effort on teaching, which they seem to enjoy.
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"Determines a vision and strategy..."

...and for this nebulous MBA speak, gets paid 40x as much as the people who actually do work.
I think you completly missed the point of my comment.
Here are my observations as a layman:

1) The economy is really, really complex, to the point that people who study professionally are about as good at predictions as a dartboard.
2) Therefore, monkeying with it means pulling levers on a machine you don't understand.
3) While pulling those levers (via stimulus, bailouts, etc) may or may not help, it DEFINITELY costs lots of money.

My conclusion: as much as possible, leave it alone.

Exceptions: "referee" kinds of issues - no stealing from your customers; banks can't have a bunch of CDO debts off the books, etc. Then let the market work it out.

House prices falling? Well I guess we built too many houses. Sucks for the people that are trying to sell, but it's awesome for the people trying to buy. Leave it alone and it will work itself out. Propping up the market just wastes money and delays the inevitable day of reckoning.
tl;dr: Roger Ebert is undeserving of his success and we're very bitter about it.
> We started to believe that perhaps there was some hard-wiring about gender.

Uh... gender, perhaps?
I didn't say that I was miserable!

My life is pretty great right now. To some extent I already have the life I want. I can use my skills appropriately, it does have a big impact, and my workplace is totally understanding about reshuffling work hours for a better quality of life.

My regrets are mostly about what I did or haven't done in the past. I'm in my late 30s now, and I am having to face the fact that I don't have the energy I did in my 20s. Instead my youth was wasted on wrestling with depression in various forms, causes that didn't deserve it, or companies that ultimately flushed my work product down the toilet.

Perhaps my "dent in the universe" comment makes you think I want to be Steve Jobs... not really. Actually I am convinced that if you become famous, your success is probably of the wrong kind.
I was under the impression that a CEO:

Gets rewarded when their company does well.

Gets paid off when their company does badly.

(Golden parachutes: http://www.economist.com/node/16685706?story_id=16685706&...)
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A chinese villager who sells more software daily than you do
Great idea but do this for future-proofing while you still can:

http://nyc.rentenforcer.com/

then one day you can grow, ie:

chicago.rentenforcer.com

boston.rentenforcer.com

etc.

for now you can map www. to nyc. to keep inbound links
That it was pizza and you were in Scotland instead of France probably helped.
i was more inferring that they should be required to try all the available options to clean up this mess. in the grand scheme, investing in untested tech is NOT the worst that could happen to bp. leaving viable options on the table is what took them so long to eventually cap the well.
What kinds of things are you talking about?
My best friend's brother has a long history of back problems. He dropped a few grand on a TempurPedic, and they all but disappeared.

It's only one data point, but I'd imagine there are others.
gdb has had reversible debugging since 7.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Debugger#Features
Search is about what the engine misses, not what it hits. If Google hits 99% and Bing 98%, in some sense, Google is twice as good. You wouldn't call 98% site uptime "basically 100%."
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While that would indeed work, I'm sure there must be a better way.

One that always works is to put all the grub stuff into its own primary partition and make that one bootable.

Of course that would greatly complicate the installation process, but maybe grub can reuse some of the work that was done for parted.

If grub was in its own partition, the likelihood of it being broken by third party software is much lower. What could happen is that some software resets the boot partition flag, but that's easily restored.

In case of EFI, if I understand correctly, you can even mark any file on any partition bootable (blessing the file is the term, I think), which makes it even easier.
I eat fairly simply, so leftovers are usually the best tasting thing in my fridge!
How many scientists go out of their way to bash Bill Nye as a hack who damaged American science?
Thanks for the suggestion. I've updated that in the right hand column but yes mentioning it near the time seems a better idea.
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A Chinese villager who sells more software daily than you do
Well, you could do it the django way, where you can't filter a queryset after a slice has been taken (eg. limit has been used)

This is ten times more logical if you ask me.
AMD died to me when they bought ATI and continued to refuse to provide decent Linux drivers. Now I don't consider either brand as even existing, and spend my money accordingly.

I ran nVidia for about 12 years (since I built my first PC in highschool), and in the past few months I've switched my home and work PCs to ATI HD4650 cards due to nVidia's refusal to make a halfway-decent 2D driver. Intel's always been good, and I was holding out for their discrete line, but once that was cancelled I gave ATI a shot, and in 2D land, they work really well. 3D is functional, but it's probably pretty slow compared with what the card should be capable of. Anyhow, I'm a lot happier with ATI's linux drivers than I was with the nVidia ones.
Armond White writes for people that want to pretend that they are intellectuals. If you want to dive into a movies deeper meaning you need to look at it from the perspective of the content creators and not just treat it as literary crit 2.0.

In many ways movies are closer to architecture than novels because there are far more constraints on the artist. Conceder how a useful hospital and a successful blockbuster are both built for the masses, yet using what freedom remains and artist can still create art and not just another forgettable commercial success.
In many places it is illegal for a restaurant to use the leftover food in a meaningful way (e.g. feed it to animals). Personally I think this is ridiculous, but it's supposed to prevent diseases from spreading.
cough

"Elvish" doesn't actually exist. There's Quenya, or 'high' elvish and Sindarin, 'low' or 'gray' elvish.

cough

Carry on!
Well, I wasn't talking about a career. I was talking about working harder, and having achievements you could be proud of. That's not the same thing.

I think it's been established beyond doubt that a successful career doesn't make you happy. Plenty of researchers have looked into the correlation of income to happiness, and above the poverty line it's pretty flat.
Show HN: I took your advice and prldr is now a visual RSS reader
Last week I showed prldr.com, a small project I created during my weekends. The immediate thing I learned from the comments was that prldr had to be a RSS reader, which I already had in mind.
So after another couple of days programming prldr.com is now a visual rss reader. You read the news by just opening the links from the RSS feeds, simple as that.

features for now: management of feeds, import OPML file, keyboard navigation, automatic feed fetching.

ps: I disabled preloading of tabs, because some browsers tend to crash when opening 30 iframes :P. Have to implement some stack mechanism to do this. Expect it online tomorrow.
pps: Some bugs may exist. Still very alpha. Testing an idea right here.
I did not claim Keynes ignored units. I claimed he reduced the economy to a few aggregate quantities and claimed they are sufficient to make predictions. Statistical physics does much the same thing - they reduce a complex newtonian system of 10^23 particles to a few aggregate quantities: temperature, pressure, etc, and makes predictions based on the aggregates. Keynes tries to do the same thing, reducing a bunch of sectorial demand curves into a single aggregate demand curve.

Austrians/Chicagoans believe this reduction is unjustified.

I freely admit I've only read a small portion of General Theory, though I've read a bit more by newer Keynesians (Krugman and Thoma are two names that spring to mind).
Walter Benjamin and the iPad
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I'd be willing to bet the teaching, workshops etc are the funnel into which flow people, who leave thinking "wow they're cool. I better signup to a basecamp account".

Without the teaching, book, blog, workshops etc, who would buy basecamp/campfire?
didn't see a place to put my contact info... I'll find that and do it now.

I've been in online marketing for years. Currently working at a large ad agency as a Sr. Search Media planner. 9-5 is not the way I want to go for the next 25+ years.

I am serious, and have reached out to a few programmers I know to start discussing the idea. I just don't "speak" programmer so I'm not sure the best place to start.
Ugh. Guys like these are the reason people get drunk at cocktail parties.

Roger Ebert and his peers fulfill a perfectly useful role: telling most people whether a Friday night movie is worth their limited time and money. He is not Plato. People will not be reading about him in 800 years. Nobody has ever suggested as much.

If you want to sit around in the dark, drinking expensive wine and trying to pick the deepest meaning out of obscure indie films while secretly enjoying your pervasive superiority, that's fine. But pretending that Roger Ebert has single handedly destroyed your precious little past-time is utter bunk.
No pictures, no links and no supporting information at all in the article. How do we know this isn't an excellent fiction piece?

All that aside, using those services to farm for project ideas is pretty cool.
Yes of course Guinness sticks out. Guinness is the only Irish dry stout in the list which is a different product entirely, once you're discussing beer. To non-beer drinkers they are all lumped into the 'beer' category, but that's unfortunate point to illustrate because that cool new web startup? In the same hyperopic view, they're all websites, and Hipmunk is the same as Wikipedia is the same as Techcrunch and you need an advertising budget the size of Google or Microsoft's to build stand-alone brand awareness
http://prldr.com

and a link to a demo: http://prldr.com/demo
Why is Reddit all over Digg Right Now?
They used a lot of dispersant to sink the oil on the surface into the water. So now it's pretty much impossible to clean up ourselves.

Interestingly though some bacteria have cropped up to help out clean up what's in the water: http://www.hindustantimes.com/BP-may-have-to-thank-bacteria-...
This has been posted before recently. The title is just something flashy to attract attention, but there is no real substance to the claim that the "web" is dead (let alone that everything is dead), it's just that the web is undergoing some logical transformations, as it evolves. Sounds to be like Wired is either becoming desperate for traffic, or it wants to become act more and more like a tabloid instead of an intelligent news source.
No, I didn't say there wasn't a place for "deeper analysis", but let's be real and not compare science with "literary criticism".
> This is a great project for learning how to use LLVM because there is nothing to add complexity.

Speaking as someone who's written a very simple Brainfuck interpreter, this is absolutely spot-on. As someone who'd never written an interpreter before, I didn't want to have to think about the language itself, just focus on getting the absolute fundamentals down.
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Nice work!

Let me make a tiny plug for a short Sunday project as well... Brainf*ck in Prolog:

http://github.com/danieldk/brainfuck-pl/

One nice thing is that unit testing is really simple:

http://github.com/danieldk/brainfuck-pl/blob/master/unittest...

And for some very trivial outputs, it can generate the program to create that output.

?- brainfuck:interpret([A,B],[],[0],[0],[1,0]).
A = <,
B = + ?

Ps. Yes, it's easy to improve generation...
It is all about marketing :). Same product (url) sold differently (headline, timing). one hit number one the other 0 points (I will not include the point for submitting). I have learnt a great lesson here.
Well, it's not always 40x. Here in Norway, it's more often 3x-5x (except in the largest companies.)

And don't knock the value of determining a vision and strategy: people don't just wake up in the morning knowing what they should be doing at the office today/this week/this year. If you don't think a clear vision and strategy matters, just ask Yahoo.
basecamp came before their initial workshops. they taught by blogging alot. workshops/teaching only bring in a small number of people at a time. But they do usually result in high LTV of each of those customers.
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sinc people already pointed out the missing ack & comm, I'll add: no love for tr?
Umm... just downvoting today? Is there something specifically that you disagree with? Do you feel the need to downvote when you disagree with something?

- All fats are more than twice the calorific density of carbs/proteins. Disagree?
- Good fats will still make you put on weight if you eat a lot of them. Disagree?
- Predominate attribute used to decide "good"/"bad" is effect on heart/cardiovascular health. Disagree?
- Essential fats cannot be metabolised by the body from simpler substances. Disagree?
- All calories have the same energy content by definition, and apart from details will make you fat at the same rate per amount eaten. Disagree?

I think it's pretty obvious that I don't believe "fat [alone] makes you fat" as in the quote but health fat most certainly will if you eat a lot of it. I haven't read the famous popular book on the subject, but my understanding is that the thesis is based on things like satiety and a new take on heart health, not a fundamental difference in "types of calorie" re: weight gain. Regardless, downvoting seems inappropriate.
Every month, he makes more than $5000

At the moment he’s making more than $5000 a day

Which is it?
Generally, as long as it's part of something constructive and adds rather than detracts from the message, the community won't downvote profanity. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636262
This was my question.

I used to live in London and there were a lot of panhandlers there. It was clear that for some this was their job. Moreso, you just need one little old lady to give em a fiver to beat busting your hump at MacDonalds for an hour (for less, even before taxes).

A lot of panhandlers were (clearly) illegal immigrants. Some had mental health problems.

Whatever the reason there seemed to be a code for the homeless, like not crowding certain areas (basically "territory").

I don't know the details but from an anthropological point of view it's interesting that even the desperate, destitute, mentally ill, drug addicts and illegal immigrants seem to have an innate capacity to self-organize.
WebEx Connect is still a frustrating piece of "Enterprise" software that I wish I wasn't forced to use on a daily basis.