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I used to play a MUD called DragonRealms. They charged $10 for a basic account and $30 for premium. The servers were quite crowded and there was a fair bit of lag.

Suddenly they announced a price hike to $15 and $40. Many of the old-timers left. The servers weren't as crowded and laggy.

Everyone called them greedy at the time, but I theorized that they did it because they couldn't scale their servers any more and they had to find a way to earn as much money but have fewer customers. Since they're still in business and haven't lowered their prices yet, I'd say it worked.
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That's a habituation to the reality of the Win32 style — "Find reached the end of the document | OK"

Users don't have an a priori instinct to dismiss dialog boxes out of spite — on the contrary, the elderly noob reads every one carefully as if the wrong choice would actually destroy the chair beneath them. A new dialog box like that would ruin their day, and mine when I get their panicked phone call now that they've gone off script. If they ever do build a mental model of the UI, they'll have learned otherwise.
"Also its not fraud as they are not keeping the money, the money goes to the authors of the stories."

The buyers (i.e. the people being defrauded) might disagree.
It's actually Bob Sutton's rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule
Does anyone know of an "online shell" and tutorial combo that would give a similar kind of learning experience for understanding how computers work at the lower levels, as mentioned at the end of the article:

"The day of study had begun with what must be the ultimate hands-on technology experience: Mr Abrams got the students to be a computer.

They each took on the role of a different part of the machine - CPU, accumulator, RAM and program counter - and simulated the passage of instructions through the hardware.

The five shuffled data around, wrote it to memory, carried out computations and inserted them into the right places in the store."

Through self-study of CS texts and good code that others have written I've been gaining a lot more depth to my OOP programming skills.

I'd love though to get a more ground up, "live action" education on what's happening at the machine level, albeit it would probably need to be based on the simulation of a tiny computer by modern standards, maybe something like Knuth's MixMaster.
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regardless of your personal ethics

My comment has nothing to do with ethics. Your prime example sounds like a common logical fallacy, which is independent of my ethics and raises my suspicions about the contents of the essay. I don't understand why I'm being downvoted into oblivion.
ditto

http://www.patternry.com/

and (more design oriented)

http://patterntap.com/
I (very happily) pay about 40 euros/month for unlimited internet (fiber nonetheless) plus free VOIP to Europe and the USA/Canada (and relatively cheap rates elsewhere). I believe I could get VOD as well plus TV but I have no interest in the latter and get my video from iTunes rentals.

Poor Americans are so isolated in their MSM cocoon they have no idea how they are ripped off! One would think that since they spend 40+ hours a week or whatever it is watching telly they would at least understand the true costs (i.e. how much they are being exploited).
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From the paper, they appear to be using a rather extreme definition of free will: that free will means a radically unconstrained-by-the-material-world decision-marker, who lives somewhere outside the world (perhaps in some sort of Cartesian "mind" or Christian "soul"), making completely free decisions on some ethereal plane, and then swooping into the material world to enact those decisions now and then. Hence their "bits of free will" metric, which appears to measure just how ethereal and outside-of-physics's-control each bit is. But that's hardly an uncontroversial definition of free will, and probably actually a strongly minority view among modern philosophers (it was dominant in the middle ages, but not anymore). For alternative views, see, say, Daniel Dennett, who argues that free will isn't even incompatible with determinism---the "free" in "free will" doesn't mean "free of physics", but a description of a certain kind of behavior within physics.
out of (genuine) interest what happens to the $1000 of music if (gasp!) you ever decide to move to a non-zune device? Can you export it in an open format to move to the new one?
That's what I need to not procrastinate when doing my game - record myself.
one of the best replies ever. Thank you.
But to the extent they want to compete with Intel and AMD in server space they're going to have to go all in to a full 64 bit design. What is the Eagle design for? Is there any other target market that needs a PAE half-measure like this?
At university I had to code an emulator in assembly and I thought how much more fun it would have been to use some old 8-bit micros.

I've got a BBC B+128KB and the coolest thing about them is that you can mix BASIC and assembly.
Even that's not immediately gettable. "A place for debates" (or some variation: "A place to debate your friends.", "Take on the world.", etc.) does it.
relevant part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU#t=4m18s
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Yes this is true, but only to a certain extent. It's why I put in the "when comparing with a constant standard of living though", but that is trickier than just that one line of course, as you correctly point out.

Still many of the factors that are considered 'requirements' today aren't in my book, but of course this can be subject to discussion. To take your telephone example, here in the Netherlands (an advanced Western country by all measures) I don't know of many jobs that one wouldn't be able to get or keep without a phone. For those where you're on-call, you are provided with one.

Similarly, cost of living statistics by our national statistics institute changed their household budgets a few years ago - the tv has been a 'basic necessity' for decades (in these statistics), but the budget was upped several hundred euros because now LCD tv's are the norm. Still I think it's stupid to budget 800 euros every 5 years for a TV into a 'basic necessity' budget.

I remain convinced that even after accounting for an adjusted lifestyle to the level of a 'basic lifestyle', and where 'basic needs' have evolved to match societal progress, the increase in income has outpaced the rise of cost of living.
Amen.

I'm usually taking my personal AspireOne on business trips. Our operations guy refuses to stock netbooks because they are "underpowered". And, at least once I had our contractor remark that it's impossible to work on such an underpowered machine - while it was happily rebuilding Linux kernel at that very moment.

The thing's so much lighter and compact than company laptops, it makes huge difference when you have to climb a 70m tower with it, or unfold it during 13-hour flight. And most typical tasks in personal computing are not resource-intensive at all.
I live in Michigan. It's no secret that Michigan is having severe budget problems. In fact, there are several counties in Michigan (38 comes to mind) that are actually UN-PAVING roads because they are too expensive to maintain. I often wonder how Michigan would look if instead of making tax cuts, and then cutting services, we instead paid .5% more taxes a year to the state. Would it improve our situation? I hope so. At the very least, we might not be un-paving roads.
I think that would be unlikely seeing as he's not being employed by either company.

He has to observe his non-disclosure duties to Oracle regardless of the suit, although obviously they are going to be a lot more prominent due to it. Oracle could try to take legal action to shut him up but the fallout from that would be catastrophic and they've not shown themselves to be that dumb yet (I think; encouraging most/nearly all??? of their best software developers to jump ship by paying them a lot less is seriously dumb, though, unless they bought Sun's software portfolio purely for its IP as Gosling has been wondering).
I think you should be looking at revenue by taxes as a % of GDP, rather than in $ terms. Real GDP per person is much higher in CA today than in 1964. Did government spending increase relative to the size of the economy? Or decrease?
Do you have any idea of how much a prostitute in a Chinese city would make? Is there any open reporting, human interest reporting or something like that in China? Is prostitution visible at all?
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What matter to me is how they perform under load. IO/network/cpu benchmarks between your 10 VM would be probably more interesting.
In regards to twitter...they should just give pg this guy's twitter account http://twitter.com/paulg

He only used it once, and that was back in 2007. I'm sure the twitter guys would pull some strings to get pg as a user. Especially since they have no problem securing unused accounts "We have a rough guideline of 9 months of non-use."

Other viable alternatives:

http://twitter.com/realpg - only used 2 times a year ago.

I've also registered http://twitter.com/pgyc so you can use that if you want(registered so some asshole doesn't go and hold it hostage). I figure YC is something you'd be known for...and even if you stop doing the whole YC program...it'll still be part of your legacy. And it's a short username.
I don't know anything about this. But doesn't this mean that all age calculations for fossils and such are completely wrong?
That's probably true. It'll be interesting to see how many people continue the subscription.
The pun is in the irony. Many people still question the usefulness of Twitter and Facebook.
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Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition

Your family is part of one of your private lives. Having others can be healthy. Depending on your relationship with your family, very healthy.

And, yes, you still have to make sure that your stuff posted online passes the New York Times test: If it turns up as front page news you have to be able to survive. That said: The advantage of a social network with loudly stated privacy norms is that (a) people will be told not to share outside the list, (b) you can control which friends are on the list and hopefully keep the untrustworthy ones out; (c) when people cut-and-paste anyway, despite your precautions, they can be properly ostracized, which (one might hope) will teach them some manners.
Ah, the '[' trick, I remember when I first found out about that and thought it the neatest trick ever, no need to have a separate assembler. That said, it was mostly useful to speed up basic programs, if you wanted to write a program completely in assembler there were better options (the 'ade' rom for instance).

I still have a 'mostly functional' bbc emulator that I wrote for the ST laying around, there are much better ones available now so there is no point releasing the thing, but it was lots of fun to code that up, the 6502 part is about 1600 loc, the rest of the project another 1600 lines or so.

I never did implement mode 7 (teletext) or sound, but most of the other stuff worked.

Can you still read your old media?
Great points. I wrote a blog rant on similar lines: How To Build Something People Want? - http://www.nilkanth.com/2010/05/28/how-to-build-something-pe...
Not really. There is no way they are not going to suck, even just one does not work that well.
Ahh I see. I wanted to avoid using the word debate, because I found it made people think of everything as plain serious.

I tried to exchange that word with "battle" but that isn't as descriptive as the word debate. I'll defiantly have to change that specific sentence so it clicks easily.

To be honest I had the idea that we should simplify that phrase. One shouldn't have to be confused by the 5 words that describe the website in a nutshell.

Thank you for letting me know what you think I really appreciate it man! Thank you
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Rules to live by:

* You must not dilly-dally.

* You must be your word.

* You must have good intentions.

* You must admit to being the maker of meaning.

* You must not feel sorry for yourself.

* You must have a vision that you are striving for.

* You must tie creativity and experimentation with survival.

* You must be the change you want to see.

* You must rally others with your vision.

* You must stake your reputation on your better self.

* You must be comfortable with the consequences of being who you are.

* You must share.

* You must make your own advice and take it.

* You must manage your stress, health, and clarity.

* You must study your mistakes.

* You must retry things you don’t like every once in a while.

*You must make time to enjoy things.
So far, patients and practitioners in allied health. It's already in the market, but we're looking at trends and bus. models to plan ahead.. neorehab.com
Yes, that was a funny mistake there. 18 years ago we were almost a decade in to 'ARM' (Acorn Risc Machine) territory already.

Anybody here remember 'lander'?

edit: maybe they meant the 18 years relative to the date the computer was officially discontinued? But it had already been out of the regular trade for many years at that point.
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That's <3% of refuse collectors
So women are more shockingly underrepresented in refuse collection than in the upper ranks of the Fortune 500...
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I'm amazed they're using BBC Micros for game programming, an awful choice. They should be using ZX Spectrums or C64s.
Yes, remind me of an old quote.

They laughed at Newton, they laughed at Einstein... but they also laughed at Bobo the clown.

Just because someone asks why is not positive thing.
I don't see why being a house-husband couldn't be a suitable, meaningful, and happy occupation neither. You made some interesting remarks but didn't push it to its logical end.
I recommend The Element of Computing Systems (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/). It's has no "online shell" but the book is accompanied with hardware simulators
Don't forget Copy and Paste on the Edit menu.
That is inaccurate and a strawman. Feminism is about destroying the concept of gender.
I only have the one :)

That's complicated enough for me...
So, to save everyone the time, the 'no asshole' rule means they don't accept assholes and has the obvious benefit that there aren't many assholes in the 'alumni'. That's it.
Yahoo is number 1 or 2 for the most popular sport, tv, entertainment, etc...

Loads and loads of sites, Yahoo is more a content provider than anything or anyone else.
"Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance" was submitted in 2008.
If you're interested in this sort of thing Vaughan Pratt has an excellent paper explaining all this mindy/body dualism using Chu spaces[1]. When I was reading linear logic I found it a pleasant diversion

[1] http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/ratmech.pdf
That is why I am against using analogies (water through pipes to understand electricity). All analogies are false. The only question is when it is going to mislead, not if.
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The problem with Facebook settings is not merely that they are hard to find, hard to use, and tedious to set.

The problem is that you can twiddle the knobs and dials, but you have no confidence that they are connected to anything. Or that, if connected today, they will remain connected tomorrow. Facebook has made it clear that your privacy settings are not particularly important to them. They change the settings mechanism and defaults every six months, and somehow every such change tends to start leaking information for advertising or SEO purposes. Why, it's almost as if Facebook was being run by this guy:

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December.
I think it's all relative to what you're doing at the moment. I have this scary machine as a desktop here, that basically functions as a glorified terminal most of the time, but when I start coding I'm so happy that it is as large as it is.

But that's mostly due to software bloat and a memory hungry strategy, I'm sure you could do the same stuff with a much smaller machine if programmed more efficient.

I'd hate to travel with this rig :)
if you look at many inventions we use today...they were actually invented decades before they started getting used by consumers.
Years ago I had the opportunity to host a professional astronomer at a star party at a dark site. He was really excited because he had never seen the milky way before; at least not with his own eyes. He was totally blown away. Most of the regulars were complaining about the transparency that evening, but to this guy it was a revelation.
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Perfect! Thanks a bunch.
If that were true it would be called "equalism".
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The fundamental problem is that everyone has only ever focused on expedient solutions.
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Maybe because it isn't useful to everybody?
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BBC Basic was easily the best on the 8-bit micros. You can go straight to procedures and functions without ever using GOSUB or GOTO. Plus the OS provided an interface to its internals (e.g. *FX, the OS... routines like OSWRCH, the in-line 2-pass assembler) and vector tables, no need to peek and poke.
Ordered on Amazon! Really, I feel very excited, just wanted to say thank you again. I had not stumbled across this resource when googling around for such an intro/guide, or maybe it just didn't catch my eye.
It has not more than doubled. Don't throw around numbers if you haven't actually looked at them.

Population in 1960: 15,717,204
Population in 2010: 36,961,664

$28B for 15.7M people is $1783 per person
$119B for 37.9M people is $3140 per person.

And the costs have increased far faster than inflation, so comparing constant dollars is not an apples to apples comparison. Inflation includes a lot of things, but not everything. The state spends a massive portion of its revenues on education and healthcare, those are two things notoriously increasing in price faster than inflation.

It is fashionable to be anti-government, but the the numbers don't seem that bad to me when you look at the whole picture.
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If I gave the impression that good analogies are anything other than a good thing then I apologize.

A good analogy can be crucial to understanding. But understanding an analogy in and of itself is not the same thing as understanding the thing analogized. At some point demonstrating the ability to move beyond analogy to explaining the real thing is necessary.

In other words using an analogy to augment an actual explanation is one thing; substituting an analogy for an explanation is another. It's actually an argumentative fallacy and has a name; 'Retroductive Analogy' (Retroductive as opposed to Inductive, or Deductive.)

Some more info: "This fallacy derives from the retroductive or abductive form of reasoning described by Charles Sanders Peirce. According to Peirce’s account, retroduction can provide good reasons to pursue a hypothesis but does not, by itself, provide good reasons to believe the hypothesis. In successful applications of retroduction, pursuit leads to the accumulation of evidence. In retroductive analogy, comparison with other successful hypotheses is substituted for the genuine pursuit of evidence."[1]

[1]: http://www.springerlink.com/content/57557324753u6881/fulltex...
I remember a brand of washing detergent running a "Computers for Schools" marketing campaign, here in Ireland around about 1986. Myself and my classmates had to cut out tokens from the packaging and bring them into school. After a year, all the tokens were counted up, and we finally had enough to get one "free" BBC Micro.

All we were missing was a teacher who knew what to do with it.

/doh
We have no way to control for all of the variables. There are so many factors to why education costs are so inflated, the relative effect of technology on the cost is impossible to determine.
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Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East" is strongly recommended - a very personal account, and all the better for it.
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To some extent, yes. It has never been officially sanctioned academic research, but rather an approach that I decided to pursue directly by hiring two PhD candidates to work with me on it for several years, privately.

It's a new form of graph. It's turning out great.
"Physics is pretty much as deep as you can go." ... http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png
It has been a while since I've read it (as a rusty but not novice haskell programmer), but most of that does actually ring true. I do remember the error message now that you mention it! I assume the code was run automatically when the book was compiled.

There were a reasonable amount of typos and similar errors I seem to recall now actually, which is either surprising or perhaps revealing given that it was publicly reviewed.

That said, I still think it's a good book. I'm not that fussed by having to work through it; that's just how some books are constructed if they're not reference material, particularly when earlier chapters are pre-requisites. I take your point though.

As I said it has been a while, but I don't recall being perturbed by the non-idiomatic->idiom transition either. The numerous monad tutorials mentioned in other comments are a great example of how forcing a particular learning path on someone doesn't always work, but by the same token I believe it can be useful to gently show a common path from common naive code to idiom for example.

I'd still recommend it anyway, if just for the "real world" approach of the title.
Congrats to all Y-Combinator startups.

FutureAdvisor grabbed my attention. It seems like a great idea and will work for a majority of their costumers.

Does anyone know what direction they wish to take the company? For example, are they going to expand into more types of investment? Do you think they will help manage businesses at some point?

Those types of expansions, would interest me personally. However, I bet it is still way to young and non-profitable to know if they want to go down that road.
Apparently Digg in the future will be spitting out HTTP 500 errors.
Files and folders are an analogy. Files aren't really in a folder, they're just associated through clever indexing. Is there any reason we should stop using that analogy?

Analogies are useful when they allow you to not think about something low-level so you can work on something high-level. If I had to think about electrons every time I sat down to write code, I'd never get anything done. If I had to learn it before I started learning to write code, I'd still be in school.
It is wonderful to live in a day and age when a single person (albeit with good connections) can confront the CIA, all thanks to technology.
It's a classic -- although a lot has changed, the principles haven't gone out of style.
Having used a BBC Micro and ZX Spectrums I much preferred the Beeb - everything from the nice keyboard through to the (relatively) pleasant Basic where it was pretty simple to drop down to lower level stuff.