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Yeah sounds similar to Microtechnology rebranding itself as Nanotechnology and NMR as MRI.
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Possible explanation: A larger percentage of fake accounts on OKC are female accounts? Women are much more likely to be messaged, so if you're trolling it makes sense that you would choose a female account.
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Also from Fight Club (which, if you think about it, addresses exactly this question -- making a difference to the world instead of just passively consuming,) is the scene where Tyler holds up a convenience store. Tyler drags an Asian convenience store clerk out behind the store, ostensibly to shoot him. Instead, he badgers the poor clerk into distilling things: that he never wanted this job; in fact, he's just making time as a clerk, and he was at one point in school -- he had a passion to become a veterinarian. Tyler opts not to shoot him and leaves him instead with the message: You're the living dead now. Go back to school and make your life mean something, or I’ll kick you into the grave for real.

Getting people to contribute something, before they can belong, is powerful.
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Completely anecdotal, but I've tried chessboxing (as an amateur) a number of times. I'm an awful, awful chess player but a decent boxer and I'm reasonably fit.

Personally I've found some sort of link between mental and physical exhaustion, though I'm not sure which causes which.

I think that being struck in the head probably leads to a loss of control and an overall inability to remain cool more than it affects mental capacity. People panic when someone's trying to punch them. That said, the more experienced (and physically fit) a boxer, the longer they can last before becoming overwhelmed. I don't think it's as simple as purely a mechanical reaction to being punched in the head.
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Did you make it clear to Games Workshop why things weren't progressing properly?
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You don't get it.

What Gibson is saying is that, (1) The rate of development of new technology is speeding up and that, therefore, (2) Humans experience an increasing amount of change in their lifetimes.

So, in a way, the future is getting here quicker.

As an aside, I can't wait to read his new book. I got it when it came out and promised myself I'll save it as a luxury to read in between getting my startups product ready to launch and actually launching. I've had to cellotape it back in the Amazon box to ensure I stick to my promise.
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I specifically mentioned the Luddite Fallacy with respect to the expressed concerns about healthcare. The notion that the cost to provide healthcare will not change relative to the ability of people to pay for healthcare is a fallacy of not understanding that technology can and does improve, become more efficient, and come down in price. This is, in a sense, the modern form of the Luddite Fallacy (since we've mostly gotten over the fear of having our jobs replaced by machines...the machines have already won).

I think this attitude of "healthcare is expensive, deal" is particularly dangerous because of how insidiously defeatist it is. You start thinking nothing can ever improve healthcare, so why bother paying for research into improving healthcare, so healthcare doesn't improve. Universal healthcare is socialist and evil and doesn't work, and nobody ever solved problems by increasing the size of the public sector and funding research through the public sector...

To which I say: BULLSHIT! This is the very fundamental problem that we face. The private sector has no reason to decrease the cost of healthcare when they can just pump up their profits instead. Or, at least, they'll have no incentive to do so until healthcare is rationed. Or they'll start to have an incentive to be cheaper when people can no longer afford insurance. Either of those scenarios is not pretty, and will have a nasty transition period where people cannot get the care they need while the private sector figures out how to do things cheaper.

The public funds fire departments because structures burning, even private homes, is bad for society. If your house burns you become a burden on your neighbors or on the community, you can't be productive in the economy, etc. Why is it so hard, then, to see the parallels with healthcare? Healthy people are as or more beneficial to society as people with homes! If we can protect people's homes, why can't we protect their health?!?
yeah, among other things I've heard it called "Bubblegum Marketing" - sweet and juicy but full of air that ultimately collapses into nothing.
> ...a very small team creating an entire, enormously complex operating system...

I don't think the size of the team is a defense against the OP's critique. Criticism of Google's handling of the Android market includes the decision about how much man-power to devote to it.

This isn't a personal attack on the team members.
Is that like wrestling, only with Tessla coils?
Yes, I just told the truth of what was happening and they seemed to take it on board. But at the same time I think they were quite powerless to do anything. So much money had been spent, I believe at that point they needed a sustained gamer base of around 300,000 if they released within a year to make the investment work. I have no idea what that grew to once the switch to Mythic had been made.
I would be annoyed to if I was games workshop, having spent decades painstakingly creating the IP to have a flop of an MMO created that was clearly pushed out before it was done.
Ow, I don't know why you're getting downvoted, the point seems reasonable to me.

Defences against this type of application do need to be developed, and not just for celebrities, but for all of us. What happens in 20 years time when all of those security cameras have been networked, and hooked up to processing centres capable of identifying individual humans from the images. We're all going to be under the surveillance hammer, and it's time to start thinking about how we are going to deal with that as a reality. To be clear, I'm thinking mostly about what happens when such a surveillance system is compromised by hackers/dishonest users of the system.

I'm thinking that defences are going to look something like a combination of a webcrawler to detect when your location is being diffused online, along with legal provisions that specifically punish this type of action. We need to start thinking about this stuff now, becuase it's going to take a long time to get the new laws in place, and I for one would much rather that the laws get written before I need them, not after...
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Gizmo's reply totally nailed it, so there's not much to add... except this:

You can easily justify raising your price by adding value: a feature, an extended warranty, on-phone support, whatever.
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>>Microsoft has issued a thorough, unrevokable, legally binding Community Promise to not assert patent claims over .NET implementations

I remember when Microsoft claimed to open their Office document formats. I argued then that I didn't know how (legal loophole, impossible to implement, etc) -- but there was a catch. A monopoly company don't want to do that -- "follow the money".

Later, it was found out that the specification was thousands of pages long, etc.

Are there e.g. any creative loopholes in that agreement? How do you know? Has that Promise been analyzed by a good team of lawyers?

Has Mono been checked for other patent troubles? E.g. doesn't Microsoft itself pay licenses to Oracle, because .NET is too similar to the Java environment?

Edit: I do hope I'm wrong, of course. (Fixed a bit of grammar.)
Not quite. Why not show analytics of others at the same level of anonymity you set? The three levels of anonymity are completely open, the "vague" headline, and completely anonymous. The analytics can be of a similar level. The more open you are the more you learn about viewers of your profile.

The old way was to show (by default) the vague headline of your profile's viewers. The system I describe above is not a big jump from that.

What I find annoying is that for me to get any form of analytics, I have to be completely open. In buzzword compliant words: it is the incongruence between the 3 levels of anonymity and the binary availability of analytics.
That's like saying colonizing Mars should be a top priority to combat overpopulation.
Well, there's barely know Antichess, or Suicide-Chess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichess and I'd love to see a Anti-Chess-Boxing.

"stop hitting yourself!"
Glad to know that merit == went to Harvard/Yale. I wonder where the author of this article went to college?

Yale (http://www.anneapplebaum.com/anne-applebaum/)
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We tried to do exactly that a couple of years ago. I've no doubt lots of others have tried, it's not an original idea. The problems associated with it are legion though. The vast majority of small or independent stores have no electronic inventory system. Lots of store owners we spoke to didn't even know what they had in stock, or have a list (electronic or paper) of what they had in stock. And it's these smaller stores which actually make such a service truly valuable. And don't forget - there are thousands, 100s of 1000s of them. getting them all on board is nigh-on impossible.

Many the small stores we visited had thousands of items for sale. The job of itemising them is, for a small business, just too expensive and/or time consuming. Additionally most of these owners were absolutely hopeless with technology - they couldn't even upload a csv (what's a csv file?) with a simple web form. Many of them didn't have, nor want a website. It's out of their realm of knowledge or understanding, and they have no desire, in fact often an aggressive rejection of, adopting new technologies.

Couple that with the costs involved, they are simply not interested, whatever the business case.

This isn't going to happen by virtue of an active sales drive. This is only going to happen passively over the next 10 - 20 years as more stores get unified cash register/inventory systems - and then only if such systems provide a common or standard api for web or mobile platforms to hook into. And this in itself is a huge problem - there is no dominent player in the cash register/inventory business - just hundreds of little guys with no common standards.

It's a nice idea and would be wonderful. But it's just too big a project to make a reality.
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Elderly?! Hah, it practically takes a court order for the elderly to stop driving. In Florida, it's quite common for a pedestrian to be hit and killed by the elderly. Then the public outrage commences for a few months. Laws are crafted and then die in the state senate. Why? because the elderly don't want someone restricting how they drive and they constitute the largest (and getting larger) voting block.

The disabled market I could see going for this, but if Dean Kamen can't even sell a 5000 stair climbing robot wheelchair to this market how is a $50-60k car going to fair? Besides, if someone is so disabled that they can't currently get somewhere they probably aren't in a position to get in the car in the first place. I'm specifically talking about the people that require ambulance service.

And people always miss out on the human element of these technologies. You know why the FAA don't allow UAVs in controlled airspace? Because the pilot unions won't allow it. Currently, these cars are only allowed on the road if a licensed driver is in the car. Well the people that need them can't get a license. Think that's going to change? Not if the taxi, limousine, or trunk drivers union have a say about it.

Google may have lobbyists, but they won't stand a chance against the AFL, CIO, or Teamsters.

So my hypothesis still stands. You'll see assistive technologies long before you'll see a mass-produced automated car.
Seriously, I think the 'air traffic control' company should be enough to convince anyone.
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I think Orkut as well.
Indeed. I learned it doing that, and have come to appreciate what a marvelous little language it is. Always a pleasure to work with.
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Economic mobility != Social mobility

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If you would take a salary fit to live on (for some value of fit!) what would the numbers look like?
The bizarre thing about LI is you have all your current colleagues on it - why would you want them to know you were looking for another job?
>Statically typed code is only type-safe as long as you don't use any meta programming techniques.

MetaOCaml: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_Caml#MetaOCaml
TemplateHaskell: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/temp...
"A Verified Staged Interpreter is a Verified Compiler (Multi-stage Programming with Dependent Types)": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.64.3...

I think that metaprogramming techniques would only gain from strong types.

I don't agree with most points of your comment, but I do not think I have strong arguments against.
Unfortunately this is the ultimate reason many projects fail. It seems shitty management seems to be the running theme everywhere. People with "paper manager" certifications, or managed an entirely different group of people/type of project brought on to manage another completely different type of project because they have "management" experience.

We have a similar situation in my company, where a call center manager was promoted to a technical support manager. On the surface they might appear to be the same but they are different in their entirety on both the type of people you need working beneath you and the way calls are handled.

Because the new call center manager fired their best technicians (to save money for personal bonuses), they're now relying on IT engineering to solve their technical problems. It's gotten so bad that the "level 3" technical support person is actually going to be a position under IT and closer to the engineering group rather than someone beneath the technical support manager.

Why? Because that manager has no idea what they're looking for or how to handle that team.

Same theme amongst many other groups as well.

Rest assure EA Louse, it's unfortunately no different in most other places. Too bad it's "unprofessional" to comment on them.
Even without the privacy it seems fairly useless, leaves the same taste in my mouth as late night infomercials trying to sell me the latest ab machine.
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There's more to the idea (turn it into a chatroulette for pitches?) but I decided to throw my half-baked half-day effort on AppEngine & see what the HN community thinks.

Call now to check it out, because my free Twilio credit will run out at some point. (Hi, Twilio!)

So tell me: what should be the next feature for PitchPower?
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This attitude is prevalent among white collar workers. And almost nil among farming community.
Eventually a few cultures which promote large families (e.g. Mormons) will come to dominate and reverse this trend. Anyone have the data to estimate how long this will take to happen?

Trivial example: If an initial fraction f (with 0 < f < 1) of the population has a large growth rate of 5%/year and the rest of the population has a small negative growth rate of -1%/year, then the population as a function of time t in years is N[f(1.05)^t + (1-f)(0.99)^t]. For f = 1%, it takes less than a century for the growers to dominate the shrinkers: http://i.imgur.com/kv3KZ.png (blue is with f = 1%, red is f = 0%).
There is also the code reuse factor. Why learn/use yet other language if you can use javascript for both server and client?
Sorry, as someone who is 'naturally talented', this is BS.

When I was first introduced to programming in 4th grade, I took to it like a fish to water. It was instant. I had nothing to prepare me for it, but I was better than everyone else in that class. Right from the start. I was the only one that continued programming after the class ended, too.

Yes, I've practiced a LOT since then. But my natural talent gave me a boost other people around me didn't have.

I don't think you should make light of peoples' accomplishments simply because they have 'natural talent', though. In that, I agree with the article. Natural talent really only does get you so far. You need to practice just like everyone else.
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But they already have that. They are investor visas and the only requirement is you have a large ($million) wad of cash and no criminal record.
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LinkedIn have always had the feature if you had a premium account you could always see the names of your visitors. I guess they're changing it now to make it available to all of their users.
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I've been to BarCamp a few years in a row now. They have 30 minute talks, usually 2-4 at at time, so you can pick and choose what to sit in on. It is totally volunteer for the presentations, and I've only seen a few that were about products for sale, and even those were about how they were made or some techie thing about them.
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I guess I use the standard toolset most people here use, with one thing no one else has mentioned.

I have a cheap ($100/year) Dreamhost account, which has unlimited domains, and unlimited mysql databases.

I use the websites for experiments and my blog etc, but the good thing is that it comes with unlimited subversion hosting, trac, and jabber accounts.

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Agreed. This is the first time I've seen someone mention lua on a non-lua based community site. :(
problem is: you cannot use it for both server and client. if this were true you would've been right. with node.js you still need to be aware if you're coding client or serverside for some constructs.
I was pulling the piss out of the headline more than Gibson (if Gibson at all) - it just reeks of journalistic superficiality - and is rightly parodied by the other commenter with the futurama quote.

I mean - listen to the way gibson puts it:

"The present is really of no width whatever,"

That's a much richer metaphor to my mind.
I think google is trying to make itself into an organization similar to Bell Labs in its heyday. Bell labs had a lot of research going that was only peripherally important to phones.
>As for Japan, one expert has calculated that the very last Japanese baby will be born in the year 2959, assuming the country's low fertility rate of 1.25 children per woman continues unchanged.

Bah. They won't last that long. We all know the world's going to end in 2012, by similar mental functions.
Indeed, C(++) interop is easy. The API is also described in the PiL Book linked above.

Furthermore, the VM binary weights 200k. It is extremely portable (it uses the common subset of C89 and C++), and its code is a pleasure to hack.
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It'd be nice to see an example deck for a B2B startup, eg. selling enterprise software or such, so selling fewer copies but at a higher pricetag.
Wasn't OMGPOP from the batch prior to that (W06 as opposed to S06) ?
Beware that people react very badly to you charging them to 'talk' or 'discuss' things.

I remember a senior exec at a telecoms firm that had a high six figure budget to spend on a particular type of solution. He was so offended by the idea of paying $250 to attend a workshop that he just ignored that solution provider.

Build the cost of talking/discussing/brainstorming into your overall price and this will no longer be an issue. Consider it part of your sales and marketing budget.
Better yet, let's go back to using ALGOL or something. Imagine how many reusable components we could have mustered up. We'd best stop all this innovation right now before it's too late.
But isn't there a minimum of 1800 ELO points to compete? I asked elsewhere in this thread and it seems that 1800 is not quite 'awful' :)
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IIRC, code sections with foreign call cannot be traced by the compiler... Or, if they can be, the performance would be worse than not doing it (my memory is a bit foggy).

A custom API for LuaJIT is in the works, to alleviate this problem. Extensions will have to be written twice though, if one wants to support both runtimes.
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That's what I hoped to see when I clicked in the link; an explanation of the collision model when the bird hits the blocks. The initial parabolic flight is just basic physics.
A similar example is Forrester Research, which charges $1750 for most of their ~10 page PDF reports.
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This might be a partial explanation of why EA's takeover of Mythic never resulted in a shaping-up of the jaw-droppingly bad programming DAoC still suffers from, 9 years after its launch.
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