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Clothing was much more expensive until the early-to-mid twentieth century; circa 1900 a pair of men's trousers would cost 8-10 times as much as a proportion of per-capita income than they did in 2000. Consequently, old/damaged clothing was cleaned and repaired, fashion fads changed much more slowly, and wearing new/formal/tailored garments was as much an ostentatious display of wealth as driving a Porsche or a BMW might be today.

(Cheaper fabric and increased automation in clothing factories -- the deployment of sewing machines and then sergers is where the change really got going -- drove down prices; the £2 mass-produced suit in the UK in the 1920s meant that any working man could afford a new suit, so the suit became a working garment and the display of wealth moved on to new fields. And that's why we have ultra-cheap, badly-made clothing, fast-changing fashion, and a casual attitude to what we wear.)

(( A good suit is something special. But you can keep the neckties ... ))
I never win this game.
Microsoft was preceded by Traf-O-Data.
If they give away 50k without requiring equity, what's in it for them?
my guess is it's the domain Like.com plus their particular image search & tagging/semantic work plus possibly talent plus eliminating competitor plus denying it as acquisition by another competitor, plus eyeball stream. okay that's not a specific guess at all!
There are some shells like that:

http://poshconsole.codeplex.com/

Windows only - WPF based Powershell console.

I think the simple reason is there are better tools for working with graphics. Text terminals were great, and are still immensely productive if you are proficient with the command-set. Even in a full-blown word processor, people have trouble laying out text along with graphics. It would simply turn out to be chaotic I fear.
Nonsense. That's not something anyone can "know". It's something we decide. It's puzzling that anyone would take it seriously when people like Google or Facebook claim to simply adapt to inevitable societal changes when they have very clear vested interests in a particular outcome.

These changes are going to lead to huge disasters and Messrs. Schmidt and Zuckerberg will look like the bosses of Lehman and the Fed claiming that markets always price risk correctly. The privacy thing will crash badly.

As a shareholder of Google I will work towards getting Mr. Schmidt fired.
A pithy statement, but a pretty weak argument. Given the entire purpose of the field of philosophy, this paragraph or so doesn't resonate especially strongly.
You should definitely measure something from the real life.

I measure something as simple as a loop in which some short floating point calculations is made (actually only two additions per loop and one FP comparison) and my measurements on the latest Intel i5 give (in seconds):

0.31 VS2010 -O2 SSE2

0.35 VC 6 -O2

0.44 cygwin gcc-4.3.2 -O2

0.95 cygwin gcc-3.4.4 -O2

I haven't tested the later 4.x gcc but the results are clear -- even VC 6, 12 years old, is better than a quite recent gcc, at least for FPU calculations.
I'm no expert on the antiquities of English, but they were interchangable in English in Shakespeare's time. Here are some asciified lines from Macbeth:

I goe, and it is done: the Bell inuites me.
Heare it not, Duncan, for it is a Knell,
That summons thee to Heauen, or to Hell.
This is pretty cool. But what is the target audience? Is it for people who already know how to program? I think some novices would have a really hard time just with downloading, running the right file, understanding the output enough to open the right source file, and then know how to edit that file just based on what was in it.

But a PHP programmer or something... they should be able to do it.
I suggest directing some of your curiosity towards Google. This topic has been discussed many times before. In short: Your notion of "cause and effect" is not necessarily meaningful or applicable to all aspects of nature. Time could have been created in the Big Bang.

Also, it's possible that the entire process was continuous... the closer you rewind towards the big bang, the longer it takes to rewind just a little bit further.

http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/big-bang.html
This may be a meaningless question. If the very moments of creation of the universe are indeed the moments of creation of spacetime, what does "before" mean? Moreover, if the universe is "existence," how could we begin to perceive, imagine, or study existence without existence?
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I can somehow relate to this from my own position. I've been quite a fan of Clojure, got to the point where I even wrote a few apps, but 1-2 years later I found that somehow it didn't make it into my production code. No idea why, really, I am just as impressed by it as always. Maybe the distance between writing code and writing production code is much greater?
I'd have to take the Nihilistic stance that life is without any objective meaning. It appears to me that any meaning, morals, or values that somebody claims are inherent to the universe are merely their own human abstraction; this post included. Yet, that shouldn't (and doesn't) stop anybody from prescribing meaning to things and living "full" lives and achieving happiness. There are two facts that I strongly believe in: We're stuck being humans, for better or worse, and the universe will continue to be indifferent.
facial recognition search: it's so when everybody changes their name per Eric Schmidt's recommendation, Google can still find you :)
I'm about 5 minutes north in San Carlos and I'm spending $50/month. My apartment is poorly built (gets up to 80 F when it's only 60 F outside, no idea what's up with that), however I try to avoid running the A/C and it's still that high. My Mac Mini and a couple of external hard drives are always running but otherwise I'm surprised at the energy usage.
I lived in an apartment in Northern England one winter.

In about January I found out that I hadn't understood the thermostat and the central heating had never turned on. I went through the whole of December oblivious (and warm) thanks to the surrounding apartments providing heat through the walls, floor and ceiling.
Mine motor driver electronics consisted of a 8051 connected by serial port to a PC. It had latches and glue logic that drove the '244's that set the TIP120 darlington switching transistors for the 4 phases of each motor, up to 4 motors. Sometimes you drive two phases at once.

I did research for Ticketmaster on stepper motors just before starting that project. I worked with microstepping stepper motors. (They wanted better ticket printers) I always wanted to try encoders, but they're pricy.

In my project, I machined an encoder wheel by spinning a stepper with a tin foil disk and moving a dremmel back and forth to carve slots. It actually almost worked. It would haul-ass making almost a full revolution, but stall.

Yeah, I did a CAM CAD. Pretty dismal, honestly. I was pursuing multiple fronts simultaneously -- the frame and platforms for the motors and tools, the electronmics and the software.

There was simply no way it was gonna be consumer grade. I worked on it for a little less than a year.

I have achieved greater glory since then and hardly need to boast about it.

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Ask HN: What do you do when you have a lot of waiting time?
How do founders here deal with waiting time? E.g. Waiting for a customer's reply before proceeding further, waiting for users to try out the product and give the feedback needed, etc.? Or is it even normal to have stretches of time where it feels like there is no work to be done?
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I think that having an employee who is also a startup founder is a big risk. It feels like you might be flaky, disobedient, and all-round difficult to manage.
Yep, it's not easy, but this problem is already solved with split ACs. While they do require drilling the wall, some people still prefer them to the in-window units.
A decent summary, but I'd still suggest anyone who relates to this answer to read Nietzsche (specifically, The Gay Science and probably Beyond Good and Evil).
I've found it's useful to look through the man pages of commonly-used tools for an option to prevent traversing filesystems.
It was interesting that your summary at the end of your article didn't make a mention of the personal impact. Why didn't that stand out?
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I'm sorry but without concrete definitions this entire discussion is stupid. (Retroactively defining words to make your position tautological is not valuable either.)

The entire article consists of a remark that life is a self-replicating chemical reaction.

A more interesting question to debate might be whether this replicating property is an acceptable definition for life, (i.e. can there exist systems that aren't replicating but can be considered life, and how might these arise independently of replicating life?), or what happens when you apply various definitions of life to other systems than the physical universe.
C doesn't really have a string type, it just has something called pointer to a character, and another thing called 'array of characters'. The standard library is what implements the string functions, not the C language, and the standard library was not written in such a way that the guts of the implementation were hidden from view so it is nearly impossible to fix after the fact. The few string routines that are now 'overwrite safe' notwithstanding, the 'old' stuff is still in use and plenty of new code is still being produced using these unsafe functions. Nul terminated strings are a convention, not a language implementation detail. So the blame does not really go to the C language but to the library implementation.

Another thing missing is homoglyphs.
Yep, it's not ideal in the cold weather, but presumably split-system fridge itself is well insulated and thus not cooling the house interior significantly. And house heating system is capable of delivering heat to the right places more efficiently than in the case of traditional fridge "we heat the kitchen because that's where the back wall of the fridge is." But of course only real modeling and prototyping will tell for sure.
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It would depend on the copyright laws in Holland at the time. I don't know that anyone here is sufficiently well-versed to determine that.
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Yes and lets ban technological progress while we're at it. We don't need more technology, it's dangerous. We can make it so unpleasant, only starving Indians will do it. We don't5 want smart people in the USA because they're dangerous. Lets sabatauge schools and fix it.

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Catholics are down-right liberal compared to you ludites.
Because I don't feel like putting my private life out for the world to dig around in.

It's painful enough as it is to dig through this old stuff and to try to abstract out the lessons learned in such a way that someone might get some mileage out of it.

As for the private aspect, what happened is that we completely lost focus on what was important in life and what was not (or at least, I did) and that I allowed myself to be used in a way that was not healthy. The fights about money, the talks they would differ so much from one person to the next that I don't think that it would contribute much to the story.

I'm still in contact with the woman I was with back then, she has since found someone else to live with and has a really nice kid so at least I know that she landed on her feet. She was/is a good person that stood by me until she couldn't take it any more and I really don't blame her. After I quit the company we tried to get back together again but it never felt like it was before and it fizzled out.

The carrot was being held about a week to a month ahead of where we were all the time so we really believed that we'd be out of trouble shortly. And I think that 'Fred' believed that too, he was no longer objective about any of this.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The goal of my current startup is: finally a toolbar you actually want to use. I'm eliminating the need for installation, the toolbar only comes up when you tell it to, it's customizable, and it's actually quite useful. You pick the things you want; google, amazon, urbandictionary, whatever.

I realize this post is little else than self promotion, but I've been working 60 hrs a week on it and rather enjoy hearing that people are still suffering from toolbar hell. Beta in 2 weeks.
>how could we begin to perceive, imagine, or study existence without existence?

Through the deduction and reasoning. We don't exactly perceive sub-atomic and many galactic processes, but just infer their existence from some or other observation. Presumably "existence" is not entirely detached from "outside".
It seems that the art of building efficient houses is contained only in Europe.

The houses in the US all seem to be made of wood, without much insulation. "Problems" that that causes are all dealt with using "efficient" heating or air conditioning systems.
From what I've seen the same is true of Australia and New Zealand though. There you see a whole lot of portable electric heaters being used for the winter, which are probably the most inefficient way to generate heat.

The way typical Americans treat "energy conservation" is also an affront to people from Europe. Nobody in the US seems to think about conserving water in any way. Just look at the toilets, they flush a massive amount of water compared to the ones in Europe. Or the amount of ice that is used in drinks, the amount of water that is served and thrown away in restaurants.

It's all the little things that make a huge difference, and there seems to be a huge gap in the way these things are treated in Europe and in the US.
I am and there is some truth to it, there were enough witnesses to the deal that I could have probably done that, and possibly would have prevailed. Don't forget that I was not the only person that got screwed out of his share, another key point would have been that my 'take home' was well below market rates, and that - until 'Fred' stripped out my name - there was a copyright notice in my name in the code and that I had about 500 subdirectories with backups of the code as it was developed (I didn't have any real version control).

But frankly I didn't care enough about it to put that much negative energy in to it, court cases are extremely hard on the system.

I simply chalked it up to experience and enjoyed my new project, which was building a very large scale message switch using QnX, it was my first experience in networked computers using message passing and a completely new world.

The contrast with the other company was remarkable in every which way and Jan (the guy that owned the new place) and I are still friends today. The funny thing is that a couple of years later I employed him for a bit!
Interestingly, the payday advance industry has been pretty much banned here in Georgia as of several years ago. I wonder, how many other states?
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Nice of you to write with such conviction and assuredness about my psychology and motives. It is really amazingly impressive how you have become such an expert in me from a single comment I made. I bet your friends are in awe of your ability to deconstruct people with such blithe ease.

But just to clarify a few points, I did not take the article as a personal attack on me or my programming philosophy.

I just happen to think that in its key points the articles was completely wrong. I know of no programmer - good or otherwise - who only produces 12 or so useful lines of code, or spends 80% of his time thinking about coding, rather than actually doing it.

Now, maybe my situation is not typical (but I bet it is not that atypical) but when someone claim's something to be true that in your experience is clearly not, it is one's duty to point that out.

Also, anyone who claims to know the truth about programming - I would certainly not claim I do - has to be dead certain they are right before putting these claims to publication, and one has every right to ridicule them if they get it wrong. Claiming to know the truth is not something that should be taken lightly.
“Don't brag to me about riding your bicycle to work; a lot of energy went into building that bicycle. Stop being a hypocrite like me.”

That doesn’t make any sense, does it? Making something will always require energy, what matters is whether something needs more or less energy than the alternative. (Making a bike needs less energy than making a car, riding a bike needs less energy than driving a car.)

Scott Adams’ writings always seem very shallow to me. He says something that sounds sorta good if you don’t pay too much attention.
Yes but if the universe is everything that we perceive as physical, that is the material world, how could we possibly seek to examine the nonphysical world through the physical?

Consider, even reason itself is based on the rules and inherent properties of our physical universe. How can you examine a system which may not even have "reason"? Hell, our "physically" limited brains may not fundamentally be capable of comprehending such a system.

In essence, you may as well try to describe the nature of the supersensible using the sensible. It just doesn't make sense.
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Thanks for the link, it's interesting read.
Even if time is created with Big Bang, and there are probabilistic quantum processes that don't demonstrate "cause and effect" in traditional sense these explanations come down to some singularity and suggest to accept that singularities just happen.
Did that 50MB figure derive from just the protein-coding part of the genome? I just tried out the sequence from http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human. After converting it to binary, 2 bits per base pair, bzip2 compresses it down to about 650MB (from 715MB uncompressed). I'd like to know what assumptions give you an order of magnitude greater compression, and how probable they are. I suppose the biggest factor has got to be junk DNA, since species can vary so much in genome length -- but I get the impression there's a lot of uncertainty still about functional noncoding DNA.

(The other number estimated was how many lines of source code the compressed 50MB or 25MB might correspond to. In the last thread I couldn't get this number to work either, though it came closer; and I actually know something about programs.)
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The first one is very important.

The second can be a death sentence for a language, but when the consensus is between Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer, it's a good thing.
Our brains comprehended a lot of stuff which appeared to be incomprehensible. Relativity theory, quantum mechanics, most branches of mathematics are so abstract that have no direct connection to the real-world "physical" experiences of our brains and bodies. And yet some members of humanity (although quite limited subset) develop these areas and reason within them. If "reason" in the widest sense is such a fundamental law that it extends beyond the whatever singularity took place, then it might still be possible to deduct something. (Simplistic example) Imagine creatures living in 2D world that itself is in 3D world and sometimes interacts with 3D object. Should these creatures be able to deduct some information about "outer" 3D world after prolonged study of projections that sometimes suddenly appear in their 2D world?
> Otherwise the hundred-million dollar a year industry that is homeopathy would not exist

Just because there are crooks in the world that became rich by seeling fake homeopathic remedies, that doesn't mean there aren't homeopathic remedies that work.

The placebo effect doesn't work on me because it is in my nature to be pessimistic about everything. Having asthma also makes my lungs sensitive to any cold I catch.

Paracetamol [1] doesn't work on me. Oscillococcinum [2] does.

And I'm not into homeopathy, but I'm a tea addict and I know from personal experience the effects dozens of plants have on my body. Just last week I drank tea made from cherry tails ... it made me go pissing every half an hour (really useful when you've got prostate problems).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum
Programs sold based on FUD always do well. c.f. antivirus, PC cleaners, etc.

Especially when recommended by your hardware sales assistant.

(Note: I'm not passing any judgement on the necessity of these programs)
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It's flabbergasting to me that Google haven't fixed this. Cynics say it's because it boosts the ad income, but if you want to compete against iPhone and iPad, surely this is a huge boon in those markets and developer communities.
Shouldn't clojure be at the very top there, on the left above lisp? ;)

Smalltalk is conspicuously absent.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work?

Medicine.
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I really would like to write a more articulate reply, but it's late and I'm tired, so I'll leave you with:

I don't believe you.

Portable electric heaters can be incredibly efficient, since they only heat the room in question. I don't know much about building materials, but the article suggested that most heat loss is through windows, so worrying about wood building seems unnecessary.

Water conservation discussion need to be very localized. Lots of places in the US have very low population densities and plenty of water. Conservation is silly in this case. Whether your toilet uses a lot of water or a little, the same amount of poop and same amount of water are going to end up back in the river. Besides all this, toilet flushing and ice in drinks is peanuts compared to agricultural usage. They are little things and do not make a huge difference.

Please site your sources. Here are some of mine:

http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Energy_Efficient_Space_Hea...

http://www.toiletabcs.com/toilet-water-conservation.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_resources
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