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The SCUD was developed in mid-1950s using technology pioneered in 1940s. Back then, the only feasible electronics were based on vacuum tubes. Noir films were hip, chrome fins on the cars were just in, ball joints in suspensions were about to appear, and it was socially acceptable to call black man a negro.

I think it did amazing job in the 90s against the arguably most technically advanced and innovative military, even more so considering it was pushed past its original specs.
>>>Expect some CPU usage, and potentially on slower machines, some flicker/lack of smoothness or other issues.

OK, as I've stated before, I'm stuck right now with a crap PC: 1.6GHz, >1Gb RAM (can't go above that!).

I've seen people complain that last week's Google Buckyball demo chewed up their CPU. Now there's this warning.

I switched to Opera a few weeks ago and neither of these logo animations chewed up the CPU or froze the browser.

So, I'm beginning to suspect many of these problems are not necessarily inadequate hardware -- but a browser issue. Opera is doing something different, at least on my machine.
Hey Daniel,

Some of your advertising is running a little haywire on you.

> My cousin called me up and was telling me about all the weight he's lost on this strange new diet. He was really excited. So I dug around and found the link to share:
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You might want to block that ad manually or change providers. Don't know how much cash that's bringing in, but would you be eligible for something classier like TheDeck ads? Seems you've got the right market.

Took a screenshot for you, can be seen here:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/09113hrc2
> Bash is everywhere

No, it isn't. Here's the Unix spec (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/), search it for bash and you won't get anything. That's a Linuxism (http://www.google.com/#q=linuxism), but it's not even on every kind of Linux.

The only standard shell on Unix is the bourne shell, and having things break because someone ignorantly hardcoded bash without using any bash-specific extensions is really annoying.

I agree it's worth the time to find a shell you like and customize it, but that's not a good reason to pick bash.
I hate that curved space graphic. Now you have some mysterious gravity pulling both the sun and earth down. I wish someone would come up with a better example to show gravity as curved space.
OT: Do you know of any good French publications/blogs for hackers or entrepreneurs?
Alcohol makes it extremely difficult for me to stay asleep. Even two or three glasses of wine is enough to ensure that I'll wake up throughout the night, sleeping only fitfully.
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When people start selling Agile methods and trying to replace ideas with routines, meetings and paperwork - it is became a scam, of course.

But the ideas, on which Agile was built upon - like interviewing experts of the problem domain, extracting and preserving slang and vocabulary from the stories and keeping that terminology through data, code and even a markup by naming the same thing the same name everywhere. Design for changes, code for reuse, start early and iterate, adapt and evolve - all those ideas are working ones.

So, the problem is just with pre-packaged methods and forced techniques. Each group, each project should realize usefulness of some of those ideas by changing their habits and by practicing, not because some "guru" told you that something is such and such. It is the only way.

It is a common situation when some ideas replaced by routines and propaganda and authority of "teachers". Buddhism is the best example. The essence of Buddha's teaching is several simple ideas and conclusions from them. But in many places people have transformed them into sets of rituals, rules and endless empty talks.
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Where was there at shot taken a Newton? AFAICT, he explains how Newton's theory addressed the problem, but there is no shot taken. I've never heard of such a problem as people taking shots at Newton..
Just tried the site with my iphone 4. It guessed my location correctly and pointed out French lessons that are happening nearby right now. Cool!

I'd like it if there was a way to list events happening 'today' and also 'this week' in my area.

I'm not sure if the ability to post my own event is relevant to me, since I doubt any HN types would happen to be on your site for that one hour I was free for lunch.

I think this is a similar problem for location-specific services like http://messageparty.net/ as well. How do you hit that critical mass where there are enough people online to make a spontaneous connection?
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I'm inclined to agree with you. However, there are advantages to leveraging the user's current framework of understanding. Additionally, web-apps often use native web-browser controls.

When I look at many of the example differences between Facebook's app in iOS and Android, some appear to be design decisions that don't have anything to do with native interfaces. For example, I'm not totally familiar with Android, but I'd bet pull to refresh could be implemented if needed. Likewise, tapping the Facebook title in iOS also brings up the application menu-the little block button is redundant.
But gravity isn't curved space, it's curved spacetime. Think of a graph that shows both space and time, so that it shows constant motion as a straight line (four units of space per one unit of time with the slope constant). Then acceleration is a curved line. Now curve the graph paper - not through some higher dimension, but by stretching it and compressing it in ways that change the shortest distances between two points - so that the Earth orbits the Sun in a straight line. Not a straight line in space, mind you, but a straight line in spacetime: no acceleration. After all, since no one is pushing on the Earth, it should move in a straight line, right? Got it?
It seems he is correct. If you imagine a laser pen light being swung on an angle, the further away the screen is, the faster the dot will "move". If the screen is sufficiently far away, the dot will appear to move faster then the speed of light.
He's right.

Say you have a laser pointer and point it at a screen some distance away. Now, you rotate the pointer such that the tip is moving at, say 1/10th the speed of light. Simple geometry tells you that the spot on the screen will move much faster than the speed of light.

The important point, though, is that no physical object and no informaaation is actually moving faster than light. Each photon moves at exactly c in a straight line from the pointer to the screen.
"He had only a handful of vague memories of the Denver area in the 1970s and '80s, along with what he thinks are childhood memories of Indianapolis."

Well, I'd start with that - you can do whatever you want.
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I think it would snap. It would take a tremendous amount of force to move it and no material could withstand that force.
That's unlikely. How do Chinese people write a sentence on the computer? Old systems would have you write the letters, eg.: "shi", then display a long list of all the possible characters with that sound (for all 4 tones). Newer systems use context to figure out the right characters for the whole sentence at once (probably using naive Bayes --- see Peter Norvig's spell checker), so that I can just type "Wo shi Jianada ren" and the output would be the correct 6 Chinese characters. I never need to specify the tones.

So I would assume that voice recognition could do even better by analyzing tonal information.
That's also probably what annoys me about it the most :-/
There are many minor differences, of course. But the idea is the same.

But yes, IE support is the big one. I don't worry about it because I don't really market the page or anything. The point is to be experimental and innovative.
This site sure does have a lot of unexplained downvotes on substantive posts lately. If I want that, I could always go to Digg and Reddit and argue with idiots. This post clearly isn't degrading the value of the discussion here, unless the rest of you are totally amazing.
I've run an MTurk survey as well and asked standard demographic information. My results are surprisingly in line with national averages. I ran the survey at the suggestion of someone with much more experience running MTurk surveys, who claims he has verified that the results are better than typical phone and mall campaigns.
Very nice. Sphinx is a great, but what we found was that the open source acoustic and language models are not good enough. To get any decent performance out of it you had to develop our own. We gave up at that point and switched our transcription process to a manual one. Maybe it time to go back and have another look at it.
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Why would spinning the wheel backwards cancel out the gyroscopic effect? The gyroscopic effect makes it hard to tilt the wheel left or right (from the perspective of the rider). Spinning the wheel backwards makes it hard to turn the wheel right or left, which has the same stabilizing effect.

I get that there is some effect other than the gyroscopic action of the wheel (how else could you track-stand, after all), but I don't feel like this device proves or disproves anything.

Also, the "begs the question" and the footnote explaining why it's OK to misue that expression was annoying. (If you have to write a paragraph about why you want to use incorrect English, wouldn't it be easier to just edit the misused construction. "This leads us to ask, ..." Write that, and you save yourself a footnote, and people will think you're not bad at writing. </rant>.)
And the people wisely had the king beheaded for specifying implementation details instead of just asking for what he wanted and letting the -engineer- design it.
Chrome needs to work on its permissions messages or its permissions model. I developed a stupid simple extension[1] that just kills all the images on a given page, and the permissions required for it to do its work (mostly the `background.html` page communicating with a separate JS file) result in the exact same terrifying message when installing.

Specifically, I think it's the "tabs" permission in my case that causes that message, which I think I needed to ask for in order to have the permission show up as a page action, or something. The memory is hazy now.

(Note: There's a very good chance my extension could be rewritten to not need those permissions, but it was not immediately obvious how to do that when I wrote it, and I haven't poked at it since then.)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jjjmnickdhkfpaoc... and http://github.com/mccutchen/ImageKill
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A few sources, including toolbars like the one mentioned in the article (and including Compete's own toolbar), an opt-in panel (see consumerinput.com, for example), and anonymized browsing data purchased directly from ISPs. Majority of their panel doesn't realize they're sending the data - they've just agreed to do it in a terms of service somewhere.
Being Agile has become a fad off late. This has led to team adopting agile blindly doing things without understanding the reason or need behind it. This could lead to frustration mentioned by you involving a lot of long ass meetings standing.

I believe as mentioned in the article that Agile is a set of best practices followed by a ever adaptive team. I completely agree there is in no ONE TRUE WAY.
a simple experiment can demonstrate what really keeps a bike up. Hold your favorite bike by the seat and give it a hard push forward (even better run a few steps with it to get it going and then let go). Then repeat, pushing it backwards.

A bike moving forward will self correct to stay up until it loses speed. A bike moving backward will quickly go into a hard turn right or left and fall over. Gyroscopic moments for wheels in both scenarios are the same. The difference is that as a forward-moving bike falls to one side, the front wheel straightens out underneath it. As a backward moving bike (or any bike with a turning rear wheel), starts to fall, the front (now rear) wheel turns further to the side as it falls rather than straightening out, and the bike goes into a very sharp turn and falls.

As an addendum, that's why recumbent bikes stick with a rear drive and front steer, which requires very long chains, rather than driving the front and steering with the rear (which at first blush seems like a much simpler configuration - the pedals are up near the front wheel, and the hands are near the rear).
You don't have to go 'faster than the speed of light' to escape a black hole if you're not affected in the usual manner by gravity. And I'm not aware of any suggestion that gravity itself is affected by gravity.
I just define it for myself as "If it can transmit information, it could also be used given enough technology to send any kind of data, such as a Microsoft word document."
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"I love the fact that Google is using it's biggest property/asset to show off fun browser features."

99.9% of users of google.com simply do not care. In fact, not only do they not care, they've seen this stuff in Flash going back to the 90s.

"Oh some animated balls...that's nice. DIVs [or canvas or SVG], you say? Who cares!"

I think it's neat because this is my field. Yet, for the sake of Google, I also think it should remain on a "cool browser features" page, and should be kept from destroying Google's goodwill.

And it is destroying Google's goodwill. The buckyball completely clogged a core of a modern PC on the dominant browsers. Fine (aside from the measurable power consumption) if you're on a multi-core, but a lot of people aren't, and it left a sour taste in their mouth. Suddenly being on Google.com starts to represent a risk that it never did.

"Hrmmm...PC is clogging up...did I keep the browser open on Google.com?"

Google got big precisely because they represented utilitarian, trustworthy simplicity. Excite@Home showed us what was capable in a browser, and that's why they died an ignoble death.

"It also shows that they're still at heart a 'hacker' company where they try hacky stuff out which is fun/irritating/cool. It's done it's job - gets people talking about Google."

I've seen this rationalization quite a few times and I find it pretty extraordinary.

Everyone is aware of Google. They know about the search engine. They aren't hearing "Oh some upstart Google has a core-clogging buckyball...I better check that new search engine out".

It is Google's position to lose, and they gain little by such stunts.

Google has let the hacker's run free, and it is poised to destroy the company. From Chrome using a single shared profile on a multi-user PC to Wave auto-following to Earth-destroying buckyballs (irony), Google plows ahead with things that I would not expect a micro-startup to do, much less a hundred billion dollar company. They need some adult supervision.
Yeah, right. Next time your parents accidentally break Xorg's config, you tell em to go console mode and do some heavy VIMing.
Excuse me for rudeness, but most people who think anyone's mums can handle linux are very, very wrong because I DID tried it.
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I'm dumbfounded. That is literally the most beautiful code I've ever seen.
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Not exactly a tongue twister, but here's something similar from Korean: 가가가가가? (gagagagaga?)

In the Southeastern (Gyeongsangdo) dialect of Korean, this means "Does he have the surname 'Ga' ?"
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I am also a practicing patent attorney, and the case Mr. Kennerly cites to is the well known Phillips case. In any event, that case says that claim terms can be defined by the specification.

I agree that if you have a minute only and you are worried about infringement it may be a good idea to start from the independent claims. But you should not fool yourself that you have read the whole patent. Because if you only read the claims, and even if you think you understand the claims perfectly you can be in for a nasty surprise if you do not read the spec.
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Whole article is worth reading just for the phrase "Cargo Cult Agile".
She is saying,

Economics is not a hard science.
People often try to use it as a hard science to "prove" something in the social realm.
Those people are using economics as a pseudo-science.

She has made the case before(in other stories) that Economics is more like psychology than physics. While psychology can give useful information, guide treatment, and affect outcomes, it will never be able to "prove" anything about any person.
Rural areas can actually be quite expensive compared to a cheap city. Utilities are usually higher since low density means higher cost to the utility companies (more infrastructure for less people). Prices for most goods are higher at local stores than they are in town. And it's easy to rack up a lot of miles on your vehicle when work, shopping, and entertainment is miles away.

I say this as someone who grew up in rural northeast Ohio and now lives in Columbus. In the city, I don't even have to own a car to get around. Consider how much extra money you'd have every month if you didn't have a car payment, car insurance, and fuel costs. That's just the beginning of what you could save by finding a decent place in a cheap metro area.
To be honest, Mac's fonts rendering is sort of best right now with cleartype being a fair contestant.
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Your comment is unnecessarily condescending. I have the unabridged text of The Wealth of Nations on my shelf, next to books by virtually ever other major political economist: Locke, Malthus, Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Engels, Keynes, Veblen, Polanyi, Hayek, Friedman, Schumpeter, and a collection of institutionalists, rational choice theorists, post-Keynesians, neo/post-Marxists and so on.

The very simple fact is that Elepsis's post is quite literally a restatement of the 'invisible hand.' Here is the one passage from The Wealth of Nations where Smith uses the term:

"He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. …[H]e intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never know much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good…

"…[E]very individual, it is evident, can in his local situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him. The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it."

Elepsis's comment highlights a quote from an article about del.icio.us saying that personal benefit comes first and without personal benefit del.icio.us not only would not work, but there would be no substantial public benefit produced. If anything, this is an even stronger statement than Smith's statement of the 'invisible hand.'

Your comment is somewhat of a non-sequitur. You seem to be attacking the thesis that the market should exist entirely free from the activities of the state. This has nothing to do with my original comment. It's irrelevant if the 'invisible hand' metaphor was only used once—the fact remains that Elepsis's quote is a very straightforward restatement of the 'invisible hand' metaphor. Trying to turn that into some ideological flamewar about free-marketers is unnecessary and unhelpful.
Interesting to see the present backlash against agile and TDD. As an independent developer, I can pick and choose what works.

I can say honestly they are both really useful concepts filled with great tools, but I am not an expert on either. TDD has saved my life a number of times. I have seen lots of tragedies averted and productive discussions because of "scrums."

When process takes over function in any environment, innovation and motivation will be squashed.
If there is a drop in comprehensibility, then you probably need a better patent attorney. Patent applications should be as clear as possible.

Regarding expansion, this is sometimes necessary. A good patent lawyer may need to add a lot of material to your description. There are many possible reasons for that: for example, you may be so advanced in your field that things that may seem obvious to you are actually pretty complex and must be described in more detail. Or if you have defined your invention too narrowly, a good patent lawyer will describe your invention in different scopes (both broadly and narrowly) and think of all kinds of different fields and applications for your invention, thus ensuring you get a better value out of your patent.
He didn't summarize, he responded to a few points.
I still stand by my comments here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/343162/is-scrum-evil/3433...
Sorry, I don't; I'd appreciate any recommendations as well!

I used to read business and tech news in French, but it was frustrating because most of the articles were rehashed from things I read hours (or days) before in English, and I try to keep the S/N ratio of my feed reader as high as possible. The feeds I read in French are mostly related to local news, European politics, music, art, cinema, local events, etc.
I don't know if I saw my comment (looks like we posted at similar times). I'd be interested in your comments relative to that: there are a lot of factors this is quite a high correlation for a single one... (I think).
The problem with reading a newspaper is that you need to do something else to do that. This allows you to see words translated while goofing off on the Internet.

And obviously it's not a perfect tool, but it's great to learn assorted new nouns and things like that. I've learned a few things in German since I turned it on.
My sense is that the 'agile' label is not for a specific process or place-in-the-solution-space but for a direction.

It's a direction that's the opposite of many big company dynamics that can impede software productivity. It's also a direction that's opposite some proclivities of otherwise strong and well-meaning programmers, who nonetheless try to achieve certainty too soon in an ongoing, exploratory project.
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i read the comments here and wonder if the problems people are expressing here about agile are actually caused by agile, or rather, the people implementing agile?

my money's on the latter. agile, like any process, can be abused by those who don't understand or are too process-oriented.