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Why is this anti-science, irrelevant to business and technology trash on here? Not more than 3 hours ago I scolded a friend for posting political material on here and then I come home to find this?
My kids have context, something members here lack. It's been a long day. Probably no point in trying to elaborate right now in order to be understood. Suffice it to say that I was simply trying to express why I liked the quote from the article. Perhaps that was done badly.

Thank you for editing out the personal insult and adding a citation instead.
"They're not sure how the built in feature will impact sales of TrueHDR, but they believe that there is no single 'best' way to achieve HDR and there is room for other apps in the market."

uh, until Apple removes your app for duplicating OS functionality...
That was the most incoherent thing I've ever read.
Biggest reason: support for Silverlight is crap on the Mac, nonexistent (for video) on Linux. Market penetration for Silverlight is very low, so a large percentage of Netflix users are forced to install it or upgrade for the first time (which is lame).

Why would Silverlight be chosen on its technical merits in an engineering-driven company? I don't see many other companies making that choice and I certainly wouldn't.

I happen to know that Microsoft is very interested in persuading big web sites to use Silverlight. I always assumed someone at Netflix was bribed^Wpersuaded with an XBox integration deal, or some other licencing/partnership deal.
They're still culpable. It's their responsibility to police their affiliates. They can't rightly turn a blind eye to the means by which they profit.
Function of flux
And why aren't the dishes done? And who the hell ate all my Oreos... AGAIN!?
I think you could find a good spectral match for just about anything given the number of stars out there.

This whole thing screams pseudo science at me, and I'm still not sure what exactly is the state of arxiv published research. It's a mixed bag.
It's amazing stuff like this can get published in large newspapers and probably shows a bit about how religion is in America. So I guess because spontaneous existence from nothing sounds ridiculous it must not be possible.
OK, that explains why I am always screwed! :-)
Not only was it terribly written, but it was terrible advice (assuming I understood the author's thesis... I'm not exactly clear on that).
I thought god wuz a hacker
"I confess that something in me tightens whenever I hear a scientist pontificating on issues that belong to the arena of philosophy or metaphysics. I will gladly listen to Stephen Hawking when he holds forth on matters of theoretical physics, but he’s as qualified to talk about philosophical and religious issues as any college freshman."

The existence of the universe is very much a matter of theoretical physics and Steven Hawking, understanding this, is surely more qualified to talk about such issues than Rev. Robert Barron regardless of his opinion that they are philosophical or religious.

I don't know what prompted Steven Hawking's appearance in the media with this opinion, but here is a lecture on one explanation for why the universe does not need any first cause, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
At least in Ontario, alcohol has the tax wrapped in the price as well. Well, at least at stores, don't remember about restaurants.
FYI: 37 signals is an LLC and pays out their profits at the end of each year. So Bezos is getting a check once a year (though obviously that's not why he invested).
God's Voting Ring.
Can someone please TL;DR? I lost track at point #8 and then noticed I'm not even half way yet
I think you should split it up into multiple images and text. For one thing it will be more accessible and search-engine friendly, and also... that jpg is horribly compressed :(
Great article, if undermined by the author's penchant for labeling every foible of modern life a result of everyone's inescapable narcissism.
5 to 10% seems the historical average.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-i...
Well, if this is anti-science, and I agree it is, why is this so popular and totally rational people are responding to this?

Is it irrelevant to business and technology? I am not so sure. Random House is the publisher of Hawking and Random House is a business and they are making millions by marketing this type of charlatanism spewed by Stephen Hawking the physicist in the name of science. What is your answer to this?
I really hope this includes all of the code needed to do Operational Transforms. I've got a single user application that I'd like to make multi-user, but OT is the correct way to do it and I've been dreading implementing it. I suspect rewriting this to use my backend and frontend would probably be easier than writing that middle layer.
Eh, he makes valid points. There are areas of knowledge outside of the purview of the dynamics of energy and matter. For example...math. Hawkings book from what I can tell doesn't really add anything new to the dialog.

Also, if you got ANGRY reading that, I feel sorry for you.
I actually used this one once, disclaimer: I was not actually in prision but I am big enough and bald enough for it to be believable, anyway it went something like this:

Drunk guy with buddies asks me if I have ever had my ass kicked, My response was:

prison 93, I got jumped by four men in the yard, man 3 of beat the hell out of me and shived me in the arm (I have a huge scare on my arm and showed it to them) but that fourth one, I got him good. Ripped his larynx out I did, you ever seen that happen boys, it makes the strangest sound, kind of like a pig squealing.

Worked like a charm, His buddy chirped up, come on man, lets go it's not worth it. His buddy gave him an out because he saw that I was steadfast so my story was possibly true. He readily took the out with a f*u man to save face.

Side note: I look like a big younger Jack Nicholson so I can give someone a pretty crazy look if I want to, that probably played into the situation.
Either you're looking at a different, older OAuth spec or you too are quoting it out of context, because the spec provides examples.
Why is that dumb? What's wrong with a fight? IMHO a fight is better than waking up knowing you are a coward.
Would like to read a good explanation, even a lengthy one, but I'm not so interested in watching an hour-long lecture. Any links to text?
One of the best-selling apps in the app store, Camera+, is pretty much nothing more than a replacement for the Camera application. I doubt Apple's going to freak out about HDR apps.
It's well worth the watch if you can get a spare hour, entertaining and informative throughout.
Jesus.

Someone comes up to you and you don't want to talk to them, how about start with "excuse me, I'm busy"?

What's wrong with getting in a fight with a minor? Jail's a good start.
Whether or not Stephen Hawking's position is philosophically sound, this response certainly isn't. The question is where does the universe come from? The author's argument is that something can't come out of nothing. You can't use the laws of nature (like Hawking does) to explain where the universe came from because those are something. Therefor, the universe must have been created by God.

Except that the next obvious question is "Well then, where did God come from? God is something, isn't he (she/it), and you just said that something can't come from nothing." Ah, but when you define God, you define God as something that didn't have to be created. But if one is allowed to define God as something that didn't need to be created, certainly, Stephen Hawking should be allowed to define the laws of nature as something that didn't have to be created as well.

If your argument is that there had to be a "something" that got the universe moving, then I wouldn't disagree. But it's a pretty huge leap from, 'there is "something" that got the universe moving' to 'that something is an omnipotent, omniscient being.'
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I would love to see Retina Display picture quality on iPad, but can you imagine the resolution of that screen?

Today the screen is 132 ppi - taking that up to 326 ppi would make it somewhere in the vicinity of 2528x1896. Would Safari then be blowing up web sites so ~960px width sites don't look tiny on that resolution?
I find it... unlikely that the average teen will be selective about what they inject into the system. The average teen goes out of his way, sometimes way out of his way to shock parents and society.

Sure, there are a few teens who will try to appear normal and responsible, but I don't think that will matter. the average decides what is acceptable.
Science is not politically correct, as we've seen in the whole Global Warming fiasco. Ever since the government took over the universities, we've seen this increasing more and more.

I say this as scientist who used to work for a major university in a major national lab. Certain outcomes are not acceptable, even if they are scientifically correct.
These look quite similar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microspherulite
That being said, the ipad needs user profiles so badly it's not even funny.
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All that you have to consider is how much you burn on a monthly basis and how long you can sustain to focus on your endeavor without any stable source of income.

Having full-time to focus on your plans will help, if you can afford to not be making money for some period of time.
Where I live that fight will include you, the kid, all his buddies, and his mates outside that you havn't notice. It probably ends when one of them jumps on your head or sticks a knife in you.
I have. Depends on what your goals are when you quit.

For me, it was to do a startup, but I made some fundamental mistakes along the way.

I spent a good chunk of time learning how to build. Before then, I had never built something from the ground up. So that was good.

However, there's a bunch of stuff outside of coding that I didn't know. The biggest thing was I didn't know anything about customer acquisition. Once I built something, I had no idea how to drive people to it.

The others are usual mistakes. Not finding another cofounder sooner. Not moving to Silicon Valley. Of course, you'll have people that say you don't need a cofounder or that you don't need silicon valley, but I've found both to be tremendously helpful. So, know yourself and what you need.

As long as you know what your goals are when you quit and work towards it, you'll be fine. If anything, it'll give you time to build skills or notoriety.
Here's where I decided to flag this stupid article.
I shouldn't get drawn by this stuff but I do.

Here's the line of thinking that gets me: current scientific theory suggests the universe started with the big bang. It doesn't suggest how or why the big bang started, but let's assume a cause. Then the cause must be a deity (in this article "the true God", or "he").

All this assumes far more than is warranted. Even if you choose to say an "entity" caused it, rather than a "process", or something else entirely, why assign such an entity (or group of entities) with number, gender, agency, and magic powers (beyond the ability to start the big bang, once, back then)?
Uh, guys... you found the rain on earth. This is where you saw it. Just sayin'.

There should be some kind of rule that evidence is only strong enough to support a theory of equal or lesser weirdness. "Bacteria reproducing at 121 degrees" is way less weird than "Bacteria from outer space".
I strongly suspect BigTable is one of the primary reasons they don't want to open source the current release seeing as they mentioned using a Mongo DB backend.
Here's an idea for next time. Assuming you don't need the data in real time, but instead just need to be able to say, when X story broke, we broke it first 80% of the time.

This is probably a stupid idea but I've only given it a few minutes of thought, so thats all you get tonight :)

Take automatic snapshots of news pages, like Drudge.com, cnn.com or whatever you want to compare to. Maybe once a minute.

Now hook it up with Mechanical turk and pose the question (in turker language its HIT (human intelligence task), "does X story appear on this page at 10:00pm?". They answer as true or false, then keep moving the capture forward and keep asking the question.
Sorry, I'm not a physicist. I just like listen to lectures while I work. Please post here if you find something though.
Yes, but the first paper has images of daughter cells in various stages of reproduction.

Bit hard to get a piece of rock to do that, no?
I've never been in the situation you're in, so I can't say my advice is particularly worth much.

But don't make important decisions based on emotion. Especially if you don't have something lined up (unless you're good for cash). In your described situation, it doesn't look like the benefits of quitting immediately outweigh the cons. The weekend is coming, why not use that time to think about what you really want to do?
I kind of did, about a year ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941417.

I didn't exactly have no plan whatsoever - I had a consulting company, and another side business, but I was kidding myself when I thought I was "ramen profitable". A few projects done for a couple of grand is NOT "ramen profitable". But I was so sick and tired of burning away at Wall Street that I just said "fuck it, I'm gonna do it".

After a year of working harder than I ever did at a Big Soul-Sucking Corp., I'm finally making some money. I experienced a situation where I didn't know how I'm going to have rent money for the first time in my life, but that's turned out to be not that bad.

I'm still not where I need to be - my main business is still working on custom projects for clients, but I have a few sources of income, some more passive than others, working on a startup, and definitely on the right track. But I've learned more in the last year than at last 7 years spent at BigCo, having a lot of fun, being my own boss, and it's awesome.

If I knew how hard it was gonna be, I probably wouldn't have done it. So my advice - just dive in, you'll figure out a way to float somehow.
"The existence of the universe is very much a matter of theoretical physics"

Surely this needs a bit of qualification. Theoretical physics can certainly talk about why the universe exists in the way that it does (because this force did that, then there was a big explosion, etc.) But that doesn't mean that theoretical physics is capable of explaining why there is a physical universe (something) rather than not (nothing).
I wonder if HDR can be done digitally and automatically, so the whole process is just one click? Otherwise there's no real point putting the feature on a phone
The keyboard is fine.

The problem is the complete lack of copyediting shortcuts. There are no keys for moving the cursor, or selecting next. There isn't even a forward-delete key.

When I write long text and long emails I will invariably need to go back and copyedit my work, and iOS gives me very little to make that job easier. (Android is even worse.)

It bugs me so much I actually drew up a prototype iPad keyboard [1].

3 years in with iOS and I'm still far more comfortable and productive writing long text on my Blackberry than on an iPhone or iPad.

[1] http://a.imageshack.us/img16/425/ipadarrowkeys.png
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They are high time preference and relatively high IQ. These are the features that distinguish the various ethnicities that build pleasant societies.
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wow, just googled that. here's a great summary of Operational Transforms. http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/understanding-and-applyi...
AMQP's scope is too large. STOMP or 0mq give most of what's good without all the bloat, and you can handle brokering, exchanging, transformation &etc with your applications resident on the bus.
FYI, it was actually a calligraphy class.

From the transcript of Jobs' speech (http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html ):

"Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later."
So hga has the gist of the history, but here's a bit about the use of dynamic vs lexical scoping.

Dynamic scoping allows you to do things like:

(setq x 10)
(defun foo (y) (+ x y))
(foo 3) ;; => 13
(let ((x -10))
(foo 3)) ;; dynamic => -7, lexical => 13

lexical scoping requires you to either explicitly pass this as a parameter:

(defun foo (y &optional (x 10)) (+ x y))
(foo 3) ;; => 13
(foo 3 -10) ;; => -7

or modify some value that is in the same scope as foo (lets assume they're both in the global scope for instance):

(setq x 10)
(defun foo (y) (+ x y))
(let ((old-x x))
(setf x -10)
(print (foo 3)) ;; -7
(setf x old-x))

The second one allows us to not change the definition of foo, and the former requires us to be aware that we need to pass this parameter through every function call until foo is reached.

On the other hand lexical scoping offers the possibility of closures which dynamic scope does not:

(defun bar (x) (lambda (y) (+ x y)))

In a lexically scoped language we can then do:

(funcall (bar 3) 10) ;; => 13

In a dynamically scoped language if x is not defined the above results in an error, and if it is defined we get something like:

(let ((x -10))
(funcall (bar 3) 10)) ;; => -7

Those are, of course, just two (simple) examples. All the above example code should work (unless I copied it wrong, next time I'm writing a comment like this in emacs with slime running) in emacs lisp and Common Lisp if you have either or both available to play with. In emacs lisp they demonstrate dynamic scope, and by using setq in CL it will demonstrate lexical scope. If you want to see dynamic scope in CL try running it with defvar instead.

Another example, this is to demonstrate that dynamic scope is also influenced by parameter names:

(setq x 10)
(defun foo (y) (+ x y))
(defun bar (x) (foo x))
(bar 3) ;; dynamic => 6, lexical => 13

This demonstrates a (potentially) major issue with dynamic scoping (at least as implemented by emacs lisp), that any free variables in functions can be altered by name collisions in any let or parameter list which may occur before it is reached.

Edit:

Found a couple discussions which add more than what I covered and better demonstrate the utility of dynamic scoping:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2979428/uses-for-dynamic-...

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DynamicBindingVsLexicalBindin...
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silverlight supports a DRM implementation that the Studio's are happy with.

The alternative would be flash (which is a steaming pile of shit for osx and linux) and DRM for flash is shockingly expensive.

With silverlight, I can watch a 720p video on my mbp and use less than one core. I can not say the same for flash.
Netflix has to deal with DRM. I've asked this question before, and it's not just the "oh, this is good, let's use it!" they've experienced the linux question plenty of times before. They have to submit to whatever their content providers demand they use. Right now, it's Silverlight. :/
Wow, I didn't realize that. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Oh gosh, I came here to say please, please, please never use a jpeg for anything with solid colors and contrasting text. The artifacts are killing my happiness. This would also not be that hard to pull off in HTML, and you can use Google Fonts to do the big-courier style.
Over 1/3 of Ohio LinuxFest speakers are women this year
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I did this about 2.5 years ago: I was just totally drained I figured I knew enough to get something else started, I was pretty much prepared to sleep on a friend's or family member's couch until I could make money doing some online marketing. I had no money but I couldn't imagine another year in the office. When I walked in to quit my job my boss wasn't expecting it (tad different from your scenario) so started to drill down why I was leaving-- for me it amounted to not being able to have freedom of movement and work when I want etc. The office was killing me. We ended up hammering out a remote working arrangement that has served me well and allowed me to get a bunch of other projects off the ground. I wouldn't have predicted this opportunity to come up, so I guess I benefited from a classic case of "you need to close one door to open others..." Not sure if that's helpful, but I find when you are done emotionally in a job or project compromise can be a killer especially for people with the creative entrepreneurial spark.
Linode is inexpensive and the control panel is great to do lots of tasks. If you want a _big_ dedicated server, go for 100tb.
In the restaurants the articles describes, they can afford to alienate a few people. There will always be more people to replace them. It was written in New York when the economy was booming.
Coworking spaces are great, but good coworking spaces are hard to find. I toured and worked from every coworking space I could find in Portland before settling at the one I presently work out of. I'm happy with it, but not thrilled; I've talked to other Portlanders about doing something better.

Point being: do your research. Many coworking spaces do "day passes", or if you know someone who works from or runs a space, ask if you can work there for a day for free. Everyone has different sensitivities to noise levels, the ergonomics of the work furniture provided, and so forth. Not every space is going to work for everyone.

It is a big cost saver, though. Even in a cheap city like Portland, getting decent office space and everything that has to go with it would be a helluva lot more than I pay to work from a coworking space.
In his analysis of the situation, the kid didn't actually want to fight, but was just trying to look cool in front of his friends - "no one would think any less of you for backing down from a 17 yo black teen than if you backed down from a grizzly bear." That said, the sentence could probably be phrased a little more politely.
From the article:

"Yuanzhen Li and Michael Parker have been offering TrueHDR for the iPhone for many months. It works well, and I have found the results impressive when it's used properly. The developers say they wrote to Steve Jobs last year requesting more control over the camera, and they submitted a detailed work-flow that pretty much matches what Jobs announced yesterday. Oh well."