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I'll provide an example of what I'm thinking, as it may be that we disagree less than it appears.

I believe that one of our goals as a species should be ubiquitous travel, so that any person can afford to travel anywhere within a reasonable amount of time. The current approach of burning highly refined fossil fuels to power airplanes is obviously unsustainable, but that doesn't mean we stop flying. What we should be doing (and this is a very long-term view) is developing alternative energy storage mechanisms dense enough to power airplanes. One approach that seems reasonable to me is using nuclear power to store energy as biofuel, then switching to solar/wind/hydro power once it is possible to do so. Hypothetically we could design fuels and engines that result in zero harmful waste entering the atmosphere, and direct any byproducts from combustion into the next batch of fuel.

I will concede that Star Trek's unlimited energy universe is a bit like playing Sim City with the money cheat, though.
I feel the same dichotomy. What people said below is correct -- he does not mention sexuality -- but it still tinges what he writes.

In thinking why this is, I have the following to offer: if it was "John Q. Random on Why Software Companies Die", there is a good chance it wouldn't rise to the top of HN quite so quickly. The accumulated reputation Card has is actually important for people reading this article. If this is so, then we must remember some of his reputation is being anti-gay-marriage: it is no less important to this article as is him being the author of Ender's Game.
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Sawzall as a language is quite a bit uglier than the vast majority of general purpose languages. Couple this with the read/emit nature of the language, and it's either useful as a stream processing language, or as a step in a mapreduce chain.

Given how easy other languages are at processing streams, tagging output, etc., and that Sawzall doesn't really have an idea of shared state between "records" (aside from data emitted), it's hard to find things that Sawzall is good at other than mapreduce.
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It would be nice if the Fed was putting this much effort into lowering the interest rate on credit cards, and other actual consumer fees, that could effect buying power for computers, technology software, and Christmas.

Restoring the housing bubble seems of little overall value for the winter, when housing sales are slow anyways.
It's true: the old ones are very good, the recent additions to the Ender series for instance are terrible, they're an obvious cash in on his brand, I suspect he writes them quickly so he can make some quick cash (or to fill up his existing publishing contract.) and spends the rest of the time on stuff that doesn't suck so hard.

A review I read of his recent story collection said his recent stories didn't have to try so hard, he knew they'd get published and he was more or less keeping a hand in, his earlier work he's working hard and striving for quality, this applies in spades to the rest of his recent work and may well apply to any entity's (sometime) fall-off in effort or innovation after they've succeeded.
That's the ticket. Promote "science" by relentlessly repeating the same thing over and over again and refusing to engage in a meaningful argument.
Did you read the parent comment ? He asked about adsense script, not analytics tracking code.
Well, I guess people would've been pissed if the 3G was not updated, but sue? I don't think so.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for that Harry Potter fanfic. I am neither a Harry Potter fan nor a fanfic fan, but the premise piqued my nerdy interests just the same. Perhaps it's coincidental that I'm writing a story (not a fanfic; original IP) that is sort of like Harry Potter but involves an alternate future in which the combination of nanomachines and quantum physics allows people to wield "magic"-like control over the physical world. It's magic from a theoretically plausible standpoint, even if I'd still consider it highly sci-fi and less spec-fi. Dorky? Ooooh, boy. Well, I'll put it this way: not exactly the project I'd bring up on a date!
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The problem is that you can't "create" Silicon Valley.
Why has Sawzall not experienced the Firebird moment yet?

http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344-5156101.html
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Man-made global warming is a myth.
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> My biggest issue with webkit is that there was a perfectly fine rendering engine to begin with that both Safari and Chrome could've simply built a new UI around.

You're right, there was. It was called KHTML, and they did.
You're being snide, I suspect, but that's a time-tested and well-proven method of reaching the segment of the population that is currently being inundated with anti-science messages.

Many, many people believe what they hear first and what gets shouted loudest. Not liking that fact, and therefore refusing to engage in those tactics, doesn't make it any less true; it simply cedes a large segment of the population to anti-science proponents who are willing to do what it takes to get their message heard.
Doesn't matter. I ditched Apache completely for nginx and didn't look back since then. Every apps get proxied through nginx: PHP scripts run as FastCGI (php-fpm), Rails and Sinatra apps run on Unicorn ...
Also, the language was purpose-built to be used as a step in mapreduce, and not as a general purpose language.
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You tempt me to try submitting a patch. I suspect it's a bikeshed problem, but I could be wrong. There is no technical reason why you couldn't enable it only on elements with a "-webkit-hyphenation" CSS rule. Then it's not a regression, it's an optional feature.

You are right that there are real perf concerns. A web page reflows multiple (sometimes hundreds) of times during pageload, unlike a print document.
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Seems like all of the security "threats" that I've read about recently have something to do with using a sensitive service on an unencrypted WiFi network. In reality, it's not advisable to be doing any banking or anything else really on an open network that you positively do not want to gamble on.

Good to hear PayPal took action and is fixing it right away. On the flip side, a silly issue like that could have been caught with proper security auditing practices.
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I knew I'd get downvoted for stating the fact...

The problem with that Twitter bot is that which ever side it promoted, it's still stating "facts" without citation (as I have done). That's the problem with Twitter: it's useless as a platform for DISCUSSION.

The bot author is a spambot, not a chatbot, and is another reason to stay away from that website.
Well, that seems to work for the global warming denialists.

(Also, Leck's chatbot actually avoids repeating itself when talking to any particular person. I don't see anything wrong with repeating the same arguments when responding to different people.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29

Not that it really matters for the sake of the argument, because my point was that gecko was widely used already whereas KHTML was not and so they should've used it instead, but gecko was also around before KHTML.
Wow, it's a proactive FAQ! I wonder how many other persistant myths could be addressed with a tool like this?
The ironic thing about Star Trek (and part of what makes it so kitschy-great) is that you don't suspend disbelief about the future tech on the show; you suspend disbelief about the lack of present-day tech on the show. GPS, for starters, to say nothing of SMS, MMS, etc.

It's best not to think too hard about why a society capable of telling you from orbit precisely how many lifeforms inhabit a planet is incapable of telling you exactly where their captain is when his badge is removed.
Well part of the reason this is so exploitable is because with Wifi, packets are broadcast through the air for anyone to pick up. With modern switched networks, packets only get routed to the IP they're intended for.
It's true by definition unless that someone else is a sucker.
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Glad to see GitHub taking extra steps to secure users. Even though the recent scary news brought forth by Firesheep is nothing most relatively tech savy people know, it's definitely going to shake things up. Huge wake up call for many companies and I'm sure we'll start to see more online services provide end-to-end encryption with encrypted cookies as well.
I agree. However some of the reason for the anger may be that anger sells more Slate magazines than intelligent discussion would.
Let me see if I understand this correctly.

Some programmer assumes that he is right and others are wrong, so he writes a bot to chase down people he might disagree with and bombard them with one-liners.

And Technology Review thinks this is behavior worth promoting?

I suspect the reason is that they agree with the programmer.

Try it out for a bit with the roles reversed.

Doesn't feel quite the same, huh?

ADD: The assumption here is that there is no way you can believe in X. Therefore it is okay for me to write a bot that spams and pesters everybody who believes in X, since they are horribly misinformed.

Works great -- as long as you're omniscient.
Makes me think of the Turing Test for artificial intelligence.

Then again, is it still a Turing Test when the human involved is as automatic and predictable as a computer?
I glanced over the bot's Twitter stream and it appeared that every response it sent out included a headline/quote and a link. None of the tweets were simply assertions without a link to research or an article to back them up.
I was actually thinking of Ruby/Python folks, perhaps there is a group that will skip Java/C/C++ entirely.

Against C there is always the "Java makes it more difficult for you to mess things up" argument...
> Nowhere does it say they council changed its restrictions due to the chess club.

Actually no: "Soon afterwards, the student government relaxed the rules to let clubs have lunch sales more days per week."
it really just depends on how much he wanted the job

I disagree. Feynman was famous for speaking his mind regardless of the context (Bohr insisted on Feynman's presence at critical points during the Manhattan project for exactly this reason, in fact -- everybody else was too inhibited around Bohr to speak up).

Feynman might have kicked himself afterwards, but wanting a job wouldn't have prevented him from pointing out an interviewer's errors.
Facebook could potentially be sued by Tippr (so could Groupon).

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/16/tippr-buys-up-collective-buying...

Unless Zuck & Co. ponies up like they did for the Friendster patents.
Before Google's Go, there was another language named Go. "Chrome" is the name of the UI outside of the content in Mozilla's browser, email client, etc. Google has a smaller-scale ad-hoc SQL-inspired language and system for log queries called Dremel (which is awesome to use, I miss the hell out of it).

Sawzall as a physical tool falls into the same category as Dremel, which hasn't seemed to have been an issue. Never mind the "Go" and "Chrome" names.
4.1 did not fix all the problems: many people (including me!) find that the OS is still much more sluggish than it was on 3.x. I still see delays of up to several seconds in between keystrokes when typing sometimes, which makes typing really unpleasant and frustrating.

It tends to get worse over time until I reboot my phone, given that the iPhone 3G has less RAM than the 3GS or 4 I guess there's a memory leak somewhere that hasn't been fixed, but there's likely other issues too.

It really did feel like Apple didn't even bother to test the iPhone 3G, which is madness.
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I totally agree, the bay area will always be preferred over other centers. But I think this will be a great alternative for European entrepreneurs that can't secure a visa to start up in the US.
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By relying on such tactics you are abandoning science. You are saying essentially "who cares that these techniques can be used to get people to believe anything, what matters is that we are using them to promote The TRUTH(TM)". And every religion in history has believed exactly the same thing.

I don't want science to die, I don't want it to be replaced with some new ideology or religion which can trace its roots to some sciency origin.

Perhaps you can claim that in the short run you've improved things, but in the long run you've drowned out the vital dialog that keeps the process of science alive, you've killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Meanwhile, someone else figures out how to shout even louder and more convincingly than you and we're back to square one, or the dark ages.

People aren't accepting what you believe to be scientifically provable facts? Argue more persuasively, provide better evidence. Don't just shout louder.

P.S. Yeah, it's a tough and frustrating process. Nobody said it'd be easy. It took millenia for human civilization to pull itself out of the morass of uncritical and superstitious thought. People, many people, suffered and died for that achievement, and the results have been spectacular so far. Giving up on science just because convincing other people of something is a frustrating and difficult process is the height of immaturity.
Perhaps the "proponents of anti-science nonsense" are also secret chatbots and the robots have hijacked both sides of the discussion.
<evil>I don't care about future generations, if you want me to teach you need to pay me real money to do so.</evil>

Clearly there are people willing to significantly sacrifice their family's financial future for the good of the community. However, there are not enough such people. Thus paying more money allows you to pull in talented people who don't feel the need to sacrifice for their community.

PS: You don't actually need to pay market rates. You just need to reduce the sacrifice enough to attract talented people. EX: I would be willing to take a small paycut to do scientific research, but I am unwilling to take the massive paycut it would take to do so.
I am as skeptical of the details of man-made global warming as anyone, but people who argue on twitter, for God's sake, are at the level of a chat-bot and it's probably for the best.
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It looks like it's having a tough time with a lot of misfires (probably due to sarcasm according to the article), at least from a cursory glance at the bot's twitter feed (http://twitter.com/AI_AGW) that currently has a lot of apologies.

It's a neat idea though.
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You forgot to mention the power connectors on the laptops.
Any votes for Silicon Ditch? "Silicon Roundabout" is one name that has stuck for the tech cluster around the ugly traffic circle in the Old Street area of Shoreditch, East London. I think "Silicon Ditch" is catchier and maybe articulates the British penchant for self-deprecation better...
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Nit: he's not really "chasing them down", he's sending @replies to their public messages. I get the feeling those sending messages into the ether about global warming are looking for an argument.

But your point is well taken. I would find this incredibly annoying if I didn't agree with his viewpoint.
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That's "fine" as in "fine motor skills", or "fine sandpaper", not as a synonym for good.
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How about "Silicon Ditch?"
"Silicon Roundabout" is one name that has stuck for the tech cluster around the ugly traffic circle in the Old Street area of Shoreditch, East London. I think "Silicon Ditch" is catchier and maybe articulates the British penchant for self-deprecation better...
It just appears that way because he processes the apologies in bulk when he has time.

Apparently he recently worked through a little backlog of apologies, but if you scroll down you'll a longer streak of non-apologies.
Perhaps I'm biased, since I very much believe you can call me whatever you want, as long as I'm suitably paid. This function-over-form attitude is why I prefer startups.

Then I'm biased, too. I don't work for a start-up (100+ employees, with only seven of us doing software development), but we really don't have "career tracks." There are two management positions in our group (VP and lead engineer), so unless one of them leaves the company, no one is moving up, nor do titles change, even with raises. And this suits me perfectly fine.
do you know of any research on randomly electing people in the government offices? I believe it would also be much more effective.
It's not likely we would have had the same success on mobile if we'd started with Gecko, since at least at the time it was a much larger code base.
I agree that Card's writing is not what it used to be, but I don't think he's crassly cashing in on his past success. I think he has simply lost his touch (or at least, he no longer has the touch that appealed to us).

His early works were written when he was still relatively young and passionate and had years' worth of crazy ideas swirling around in his head. Fast forward 25 years, he's written all the good ideas he originally had, and he's now a middle-aged Mormon father and conservative political activist. If you read his books nowadays, you'll find they're pretty much what you'd expect from that description.
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Apologies, I thought the text displayed was all the twitter feed was sending.

Twitter still sucks, though.
What type of award is valued is very person-dependent.

Some people thrive on non-cash awards (like medals and award ceremonies), some like recognition from above, others care more for money.

It's very easy (even expected) for a large organization to guess wrong in a particular case. So that anecdote is not really data.
>firing 10% of management every year

that is completely different. All stack ranking mentioned so far was about employees. Firing 10% of management every year have real potential to improve morale.
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Google's implementation of MapReduce is so tightly bound to their internal infrastructure (GFS, BigTable, etc.) that opensourcing wouldn't do anybody much good.
They should have used epipheo studios.
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A peer-to-peer towerless mesh network ( e.g. Terranet http://www.terranet.se/ ) could solve this problem.
I agree and would add that even in a 20 person company it is better (much better) to get agreement rather than trying to make a decision stick because you have 51% ownership. I have done that in the past, and it is amazing how long people can hold onto their dislike of your decision and try to 'get back' at you later. Forcing your will because you have majority is not good for anything. Companies need to have a clear leader, and leadership does not come from a 2% difference. This is from my previous company of 20 people where I had majority interest.
Most of those people would hopefully be above the social security threshold of around $100K/year so that would not apply. I think a marginal tax rate of more like 30-40% is more accurate.
The least they could do is have the q tag render with smart quotes. This is already handled in Firefox properly.
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How about if the message promoted (i.e. THE TRUTH(TM)) is that that the scientific method works and that we should place our 'faith' in it? ;-)
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>Notice, there's no competition against other employees or any other such race.

there is. Limited promotion and salary increases pool.
This is exceptionally rare, and no major email server does this.

File systems are reliable, easily scaled and distributed and backed up. :-)
> By relying on such tactics you are abandoning science.

I don't think this is true. Science is a means of building knowledge via testable predictions. It's not a promotional tool.

It's unrealistic to expect that effective techniques for performing science will be at all effective for promoting science; in fact, we have ample evidence that trying to promote science via reasoned engagement doesn't work very well. Anti-scientific proponents of vaccine-avoidance or evolution-denial continue to gain the mindshare of a significant and powerful segment of the voting population that "better evidence" has been unable to sway.
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Except that being the author of Enders game speaks to his ability as a writer. His views on gay marriage are completely irrelevant in this context.
Must admit, I was surprised to see all this publicity for the demo but they have not posted a patch nor shown their code changes to the folks who maintain WebKit's text layout code.
I bought the app this morning (PST) but only had time to try it with Hulu with no luck (Hulu wants the iPad to go Paid). Since you can see TED and Youtube already on iPad and no games it isn't easy finding flash to watch. It is wonky at best. At this point I haven't found anything that works on it, although like they said, they're having launch day overload.
Yes, perhaps free, community-operated p2p wifi networks could replace the monolithic paid cellular networks. It might take a long time before this would happen though.
Then you all are getting exactly the world that you deserve.
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I want to quit my job, but I am scared. I have enough money saved to possibly invest in other small companies or to pursue some kind of active investment strategy. I am a programmer, not a business person as such, and have never had my own company. Can anyone succinctly give some hints as to how they made the transition from employee to self-sufficiency? My instinct is to sidestep the operational risk that comes with direct involvement in a startup, by investing in other ventures. Is that an untrustworthy instinct?
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It would be refreshing.... the US is far too restrictive with it's Visas.
Thank you for that reference, brianobush.

Unfortunately the consumer price index in the US demonstrates another kind of inflation altogether:

http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/inflation_truth_federal_res...
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