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Does Einstein really hold an important relevance to 'everyman USA'? To nearly every citizen - and, I would argue, even with those a basic (HS) level of physics - he's not so different than Heisenberg, Bohr, Bethe, Shrodinger, etc. Sure, they made great advances for the world of physics, but how relevant is that to an individual who does not interact with that theory at all? More specifically, relevant enough to cause worry?

Now, I note that you could argue the Manhattan product is a reason for Einstein's relevance, but was he really significantly more relevant in that than any other of the scientists?

People know politicians because they affect taxes, healthcare, laws, etc. They know sports stars because it's a subject they enjoy following - featuring impressive feats of human ability. And they probably know a few individuals closer to their field of work.

Is Einstein really an example of something that 'everyman' should know about, or could your argument partially be a confirmation of the article's argument?
It's helpful to educate people, as always. But, I used to care a lot more about such rules than I do now. I changed my mind for a couple of reasons.

First, English isn't native for everyone. Mistakes are made. In today's world, it's easy for people to move to another country, and easy to E-mail someone on the other side of the world, or read their web site. There's a very good chance that when you read something, it was written by a non-native speaker.

Second, I think the only mistakes that really matter are the ones that fundamentally change the meaning of a sentence and add ambiguity. As long as I can figure out what somebody means, and there's nothing else it could be, I think it's fine. I can't think of a sentence where it is equally likely that someone is "losing" or "loosing" something, so I know what was intended. On the other hand, if you say "three" and you meant "thirty", that's a problem because I'm not very likely to guess what you really meant.
Finally! They should have begun work on this a couple years ago. But its good to see they're finally headed in the right direction.

I just hope the HTML & JS it spits out is nicer than the HTML that Dreamweaver spit out. :)
You want downvoters to explain themselves;

I downvoted you because this makes no sense:

I want to make it really clear that what I say is just my the way I see it.

1) If you are honestly going for clarity, then 90% of the words you use in your comments aren't helping.

2) "It's PG's house. You may not like to wear pants, but if PG feels that people should wear pants when over for dinner, you wear pants"

3) It's just a stupid downvote.
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I fully expect the next rev of the MBP to drop the optical and gain an MBA inspired case. If I could get a 512GB SSD and 8GB of RAM (for parity with my current MBP), I would happily take a regression in processor, even the wild hit going from the current i7 back to C2D. Put a higher res screen on the 15, and include Firewire, and I'm in heaven, but knock a pound or two off with a redesigned case (from losing the optical and using a custom SSD form factor) and I'll buy.

Including the OS on a flash drive just says to me that shiny plastic disk enthusiasts will have to look for a new supplier of mobile hardware. The DVD drive is finished in the Macintosh.
Wow - if this is true which I am incline to believe though admittedly haven't reviewed the raw data myself, I expect Digg will begin hemorrhaging even more users. This flies in the face everything (I thought) they stood for; allowing the users decide which news is newsworthy.
Your analogy confuses me. It seems that Lisp, and it's tree structure, would fit better with "multiple overlapping layers", and assembly would fit better with "2d layout", since it is so important to visualize the memory model, like a map in your head.
Not going to happen. Kevin is bored and on to other things.
i think its amazing, i love the name, with the quote that compliments it, the design and the idea is unique and catchy, and with 3 co-founders, i think y combinator will love you, they hate single founders, you see, definately apply.

p.s. theres a huge market for authors on the web, as to what ive seen anway
The first guy tossed was their VP of Engineering, right after Matt Williams came on board and V4 subsequently crashed and burned. But yes, layoffs will predominantly not be management.
When you own a site and you change it you are not gaming it, you are tweaking it. You don't actually have to game it, you own the thing. If digg wants to use their own batch of sockpuppets to influence the front page to their partners benefits they are free to do so, the responsibility, the upsides and the downsides are all theirs to take home.

This is like saying google is 'gaming' the search results by having their people influence the rankings / search result pages by changing things in a way that benefits google.

What would be more surprising is if digg would not try to modify the homepage to benefit themselves and their partners (assuming all these parties are in fact digg partners, for which I see no proof). They're a commercial entity, I do not have high expectations that digg would do what they could to make a fair rendering of what their audience thought was best.

Digg has been gamed beyond the point of recovery by voting rings and 'power diggers', to see the people behind digg join in the fray is absolutely no surprise to me.

Other sites call it editorial control, on HN stuff gets banned, or flagged. No algorithm has ever been able to survive in the wild without some form of human supervision anyway, in that sense digg is no different.

Whatever the motivation for the changes I hope they'll succeed in getting the runaway train under control and to get rid of the feeling that digg is being run by a couple of individuals gaming the system but if their main 'tweak' is to join in the game in a way that makes them look like a voting ring then I doubt that will be the case, and digg will lose visitors faster than they did up to now.

An alternative (and simpler) explanation for all this data that the author uncovered is that this is just a real (external) voting ring on Digg, possibly one that is for rent, which happens to benefit those parties that are already using digg for promotional purposes. Maybe digg turned a blind eye to this happening.

Bottom line is it is their site, and they can run it any way they want to including the boosting of stories they think ought to be boosted. That's not going to work as a long term strategy, but their 'publishing partners' may find it worth enough money that digg comes out ahead. It would appear to be a 'slash-and-burn' strategy though.

The individual profiles I looked at all have large numbers of diggs and no comments or submissions, so a voting ring for sure, now it needs to be figured out who runs it, and if it is the digg people they should explain the purpose of this in this way rather than in a more direct one.

Time will tell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi

A particular style of Japanese or Japanese-inspired food which has become famous in America. In America, sushi consumption is a ridiculously effective proxy for political liberalism. A landslide victory in the presidential election in the United States splits the country 53:47. The split among people answering "yes" to "Have you eaten sushi in the last 14 days?" is closer to 85-15.

Neither of the major political parties in the United States has any ideological commitment for or against sushi, but the coincidence that people in one tribe eat it and the ones in the other do not makes it a good example of political tribalism. Incidentally, since politics is a signaling mechanism, I have had people (on both sides of the aisle) profess to be surprised at my political leanings due to the perceived mismatch between them and my non-political preferences. (I love sushi.)
I agree and the comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. But it does make you wonder about local legislative bodies, and their jurisdiction.

Let's say tomorrow some country decides that any website their citizenry has access to is taxable. At what point does a company just say "not worth it". That decision would have a more to do with the wealth and power of the country than objective merit of the claims.
I don't understand why you go through the trouble of letting Mongrel/Rails handle the SSL. I've always opted to just let Apache handle it and I don't doubt nginx could just as well. Our Passenger simply doesn't know that everything between client and server happens to be encrypted.
With regard to your first paragraph, have you tried disabling "Safe Sleep"? I do this on all my MBPs because I find it makes sleep more flakey.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007030221032892...
Like a lot of people, I used to use Digg, and don't anymore. I think the hole in the boat is much more that the committed userbase has moved on leaving it to become a LOLCAT paradise.
The first step for me, as an untrained bootleg marketer, is to identify the functions of your product.

Second step, identify simple words that explain the function of your product.

Third step, identify the context in which you would most like your product to be perceived in by your customers (techno, natural, family, pet, baby, rockstar, sports, etc.)

Fourth step, combine functional descriptions and the idea you've identified as your ideal context to communicate your product into a solid group of names.

Step five, look at your competition. Analyze the name and contexts of their brand IDs. Don't emulate them in most cases.

Step six, combine steps 1-5 into a name that does three things: communicates your products major functions, identifies the brand ID context that fits best for your customers, differentiates itself from existing competition. A good method for doing this is to google search every potential idea. If it has a lot of results, move on, the name is played out.

Oh, yeah, step seven: Emotionally prepare yourself to defend whatever you decide is the best name for your product against all the random haters you tell your name to.

It only took me 4 days of obsessive, painful, brainstorming to develop the branding for my company and product! It was not enjoyable by any stretch and I still have insecurities about them but deep down, I believe in the brand IDs I have. I think you'll always have second thoughts but many great brand IDs are pretty terrible: IBM, Shell, Facebook, Reebok (are you kidding me?), etc.
The info is publicly available, but they are linking it together in a machine readable way. It wouldn't take much to add one of your 'multitude of accounts' and then the information would become more specific (interest wise) and also directly traceable to you.
"I am going to wait until 6:34 CST, that is 1 hr from when digg got a first chance to read it. If by then, they do not give me a reasonable time to wait, I will be going ahead and make this link public."

Wow !
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Actually he joined two days before v4 launched. I'm sure there was a healthy amount of "wtf have I gotten myself into" thereafter.
In that case go on - mobile google reader does not cover your needs and I guess there are more people like you :)
Occasionally, a single comment can get over 100 points. The site may not want to keep track of that many links to a single post. (Not that I know why it works the way it does, but this seems like a good technical reason for it.)
May be they want to keep things simple.

You anyways don't know other users unlike facebook where most of the people liking and commenting on your status are your fiends.

More features they have, more complex it is for users and developers have to maintain it.
Surprised there aren't more comments on this, given the number of votes its received. So I'll share something.

I was always a bit of a weird one growing up, especially in high school. I got picked on a bit by various groups, sometimes even by other picked-on kids that wanted to assert themselves. None of it was that severe and there were kids that had it worse. I had friends, and I got along with most people, but I was always a little bit of an outsider, and even my friends thought I was weird. I never fit in with any one group.

But I always felt like it was them that was f'ed up, not me. I never really lost confidence that I was okay, and that I was okay being myself, although it was lonely at times. Looking back I think it affected me more than I realize, because I was pretty anti-social for a while in my late-teen years. I don't have any friends from high school or earlier that I really keep in touch with.

Things started to get better in my second year of college, and I can honestly say that they've gotten better each year since. I moved away from my home state as soon as I finished college, and it's made all the difference. I couldn't be happier with my adult life, I have a lovely family, a good job and lots of friends. Sometimes I think that if I had fit in better as a kid I might have stayed close to home and missed out on the experiences that I've had as an adult. I don't think I'd change a thing.

So I would say to any kid that it's okay to be weird or different; embrace it and don't let anyone make you feel bad about it.
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I'm sure you will get maximum up votes for this post. :)
With all the flak Apple has taken over dropping its commitment to one "-VM," the JVM, I'd just like to point out Apple is the primary corporate sponsor of LLVM (I understand). How many plates must they keep in the air? This one is flying pretty high.
It's very annoying that 100+ karma users could act as really good trolls, they could just go around and downvote everybody without ever loosing karma, but costing the commenter karma.

Really good trolls? does getting downvoted really get you all that riled up? As far as I can tell, once you are over 100 and can downvote, getting more carma does not alter your user experience.

I'd suggest you grow a thicker skin, especially if you want to say mean things on the internet.
Mobile Netvibes is like this. It's pretty plain looking, but if your OPML is set up with categories and such, you can drill down or take in a specific site, an entire category, or your whole feed on one endless screen. I've given NV a lot of crap over the years, but I do think they have the most flexible and make-plain-able RSS readers out there.
A company I work with employs many of their sales force from Nordstroms, since they're on about the same playing field market-wise. Its been a few years, but I did once have a conversation with one sales guy about a story I once heard of a person returning a used tire to a Nordstroms which stood on the grounds of a tire store that was demolished to build the Nordstroms. He explained how he viewed the philosophy behind things like this rule.

If I remember correctly, where needed, they also have a large set of rules which do state things that cannot be done, but they are also very broad. Examples that come to mind involve observing shoplifting by employees, sexual harassment and absenteeism. It basically says that if one breaks the law or does things that negatively effect other workers or customers, the offending employee was subject for review and generally if someone is reviewed for these actions, the employee is most likely fired.

The sames person I spoke with gave me the impression that the 75 word "handbook" was a facade to make the company look very good from the outside, but they also had enough internal rules to cover their rear end for these types of scenarios.
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I was surprised to see Tim Ferriss advocating something like this in the video of his that was posted over the weekend.
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The author would be more credible if he had been through a techcrunch launch himself. While he makes valid points in theory, I didn't read any first-hand experience that would make this blog post a must read.
Do you suspect the bug to be in clang (the front-end) itself, or in LLVM's optimizer or back-end? For the latter cases, bugpoint is included in the LLVM source tree and does a good job of narrowing things down, so long as you provide a program whose output should be deterministic (this may involve some work on your part if your program usually depends on data from the outside world). It is described here http://llvm.org/docs/Bugpoint.html . It may be useful for Clang bugs too, I'm not sure.

People may help you by suggesting strategies for finding a small test case that tickles the same problem if you post to the mailing list here http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev . I've posted a couple times and found people surprisingly responsive and helpful.
This article would be a lot more interesting/revealing if it were what the submitter claims it to be (that's not a jab, just a sheepish admission of disappointment).

We have here the top ten brands for either political affiliation. Notably, some appear on both sides. While it's perhaps interesting that those brands do so well on either side, it would be far more interesting to know which brands are supported almost entirely by one side or the other. For example, say Dodge trucks have 90% Republican supporters and 10% Democrat. If that's the case, I want to know about it.

Edit: Sushi's a better example, and not just because mine was fictitious.
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Nobody cares about my idea, and they don’t care about your idea, either. Nobody.

I'm not sure why there is a difference, in Mr. Cancel's mind anyway, between "your idea" and a problem that needs to be solved. Your idea should = a problem to be solved. If it doesn't -- what the hell's your idea, then?
Awesome! I'm heading to Japan over Thanksgiving. We talked about visiting Shikoku again, so if I'm in the area I'll drop you a line.

Hope you meet lots of interesting people!
The major difference between the iOS store and the upcoming Mac App Store will be the volume of available apps. The Mac App Store will likely result in a larger volume of available apps than there are today, but compared to the sheer numbers on the iOS store, it will still be a small amount. This will perhaps make it easier for newcomers, but as Davide says, it's down to the quality of your app and making something that people actually want to have.

There's a chance to make money in either store, but it won't be achieved by making a better version of an existing app, it will be by making something that no one's seen before.
Surprise! The Air isn't even in the netbook category. Do you know why they are even called netbooks? It isn't because they are 12" notebooks.
What I'd really like to see is for more kids without the financial means to be given a chance to study abroad. Living in other cultures changes your perspective on the entire world, and it saddens me that it is typically the more privileged who are able to make it abroad.

In LA there are even kids in South Central who have never seen the ocean... and they live 13 miles from it.
Actually, I have been through it, which I linked to at the beginning of the second paragraph. But I suppose I should have been more explicit about it. Anyway, here's a link to the TechCrunch write-up: http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/11/preezo-enters-online-office...
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I always assumed it's because liking sushi as a typical European-American means going outside your traditional comfort zone and recognizing othe ethnicities may have something different you can nevertheless agree with. This is totally the opposite of two Republican trends: conservatism (rejection of change bey default) and racism (I said trend, and it's true. I'm an Arizonan and McCain ads run: "Keep those murderous Mexicans out! I'm McCain.")
It looks like this was targeting an x86_64 version of the kernel. For a good reference on LLVM-supported backends, see this table: http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#targetfeatures

Clearly, x86 gets the most love. x86, ARM, PPC, and SPARC are listed as "Generally Reliable." Quite an accomplishment, given the difficulty of building up a new compiler from scratch. For now, MIPS is notably missing from the party.
I love everything about it: concept, design, execution. The only thing that really bothers me is the domain.
In SQL you can store a tree in a table by creating a record for each node with the node ID and the parent node ID. That part is easy.

Now, in order to find all the elements in a tree, you can't do that from a tree table because the data doesn't do anything. The nodes just sit there as they should. In order to find all the elements you have to walk the tree. Don't expect the static data in a table to walk itself. Now, if you create a path table then you can find all the nodes in a tree or sub tree with a simple query. The columns for such a table are node ID, parent node ID, ancestor node ID, sequence number, and level. Every time the nodes in your tree table change, update the data in your path table. Create a path table for node name sorted ascending, another path table for node name sorted descending and if needed a path table sorted on node ID.

If you want all the elements for a sub tree you just do
'select node ID, ... from node_name_path where ancestor_id = 6 order by sequence'. Super simple if you apply a little graph theory to the problem, take note that trees and paths are different things and divide the problem into one concern for storage and the other for calculating.

If you want help doing this let me know. It is totally satisfactory, instantaneous and free of hacks. mckinley1411.removethedotandthis@gmail.com
I applaud this initiative! Years ago I wrote a blog post with a similar idea. http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/is-calculus-a-dead-...
Adding/deleting/renaming a column is instantaneous as it doesn't involve updating any of the rows on disk: I add columns to tables that have a hundred million rows all the time. (PostgreSQL)
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