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>The wavefunction collapse in the Copenhagen interpretation is ugly

thank you. i thought i'm alone here.
Personally to me this one is an example of the broader method of accepting postulates as-is. It is an ugly shame that makes science into religion.

Another one is doubling-down on dimensions and adding one more on top of it :) I mean it looks pretty logical and reasonably motivated, yet not everything true that is logical. "The sleep of reason produces monsters". Well,
active work of human reason seems to produce even bigger monsters :)
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Forgotten? I still use it. I also like to refer to companies as groups of people rather than individual entities. I prefer "Apple are evil" over "Apple is evil", and "Google own you" over "Google owns you".
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Rem, isn't "club" a bit different than "conference?" Conference has one he'll of a connotation...
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Yes. I paste long documents into Microsoft Word, adjust the line spacing, print to a laser printer, then use a mechanical staple gun (see PaperPro).
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Thanks, I'll look into the BarCamps once again, had kinda forgotten about them. The selection in Switzerland is not that big.

I've started speaking at smaller Open Source conferences this year, and hope to expand that. It's a great experience.
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Those virtual images are for Microsoft Virtual PC, which only runs on Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Everything I can see on the Internet suggests that the files used to work with non-Microsoft virtualization software (like VMWare), but does not anymore. See http://petelepage.com/blog/2009/09/running-the-ie-vpcs-on-ot...
I feel dumb now because I fear I don't understand what you mean when you say block scope...

for(var i=0; i<3; i++) { console.log(i); }

appears to be valid... (or just in Chrome?)
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Dang, I just purchased the entire series after falling in love with the first book. Note to self: do not make impulsive purchases.
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Agreed. Small, focused local meetups, however, I've found useful much more frequently and should not be lumped together with said conferences.
StartUp Idea #2:Big Fat Indian Marriages and the opportunities around...
The environment thanks you. :)
Older iPhone models cannot run the current OS anyway.

This is true only for the oldest (1st gen). iPhone 3G and 3GS
run 4.2 just fine. Sure, some of the most prominent features of iOS 4 are missing on 3G, but it still does not qualify as not running.
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The objective of this game is drag the dot into the hole.
In the consumer space, they're on the way out, pads are taking over.
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This is too long, where's the tl;dr?
I also have the habit of selecting a couple of lines to mark where I stopped reading before doing something else. Or even when I'm just scrolling down, to make sure I don't scroll too much.

But I don't seen anything wrong with reading online versus reading a long pdf document. As long as the text isn't split in a lot of small pages that take 15 seconds to load, it's ok.
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Ballsy thing to type on your own 3000 MHz computer.
the problem is, that people in some countries don't have "paid" market. but for some reason maps, skype, reader and many many other things are included into that "paid" category, even though they're free.

sorry if my posting's intended for quite small audience, although not all the people live is US and Europe...
actually sorry, that's the full episode. for just Zuckerberg's parts:

Part 1: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7120522n

Part 2: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7120538n
I love the idea of automatic secure saves for my writings. I can use flashbake instead of dropbox. But i'd like to have a clear understanding of GitHub free plans caveats, especially about privacy of the repos :)
But I want the future generations to know that I praised Justin Bieber's haircut on twitter while listening to his latest song!

Yeah, I agree - completely irrelevant. That time better get spent integrating diff-able formats like textile, markdown, even TeX into writers' versioned workflows.
Hi, i'm extremely interested!
I think a friend of mine have talked to you just recently. Overall idea is just awesome!
Geneva maybe?
Maybe help Billy get to Sundance?

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Huh? Creativity is what humans do! For everything else we find a way to build machines to do it (or enslave other humans :-)).

There are very good arguments that constrained creativity is the best creativity -- or perhaps the only creativity. Just choosing a medium or style for your art is constraining. Making a web page is constraining, making chocolate cake is constrained by certain parameters.

I think what you're looking for is "expressive" -- and I'd agree, scientific discoveries are by necessity creative, but usually not expressive. But that's not really an aim...
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Hey, didn't make the tech call on that one. It just that that's the tech my tech consultant recommended after we looked at and discussed options and it's also the tech the team that I outsourced the first iteration of the project, which is virtually 95% complete, built on.
If memory serves, Cory Doctorow commissioned flashbake, and he wanted it not for backup purposes but as the equivalent of old drafts of books and the like for scholarly research. Git in particular will commit with an empty commit message but is not thrilled about it, and I think there are other VCSes that are more anal about that, thus the need for some text was expressed and "whatever was going on for me while I wrote it" in particular was desired.

So yes, it is completely irrelevant for most purposes to you. I suppose it might be nice to run some sort of semantic analysis that notes that someone writes depressing drippy love poems when it's raining out or something, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why the hell that would be important for me at all. OTOH, flashbake also has a plugin that supports some crude notion of where the commit was written (pretty much gotten from the weather info), which might be more legitimately interesting.
I constantly see my peers lamenting how technology has "taken" their time and space for reflection away and have no idea what they're talking about.

It may be uncool to admit but I have no trouble at all keeping my inbox to zero unread items. And I do have a social life -- less active than many, but more active than a lot of people. I even read books, actual physical things made of paper, in my spare time.

How do I do this? I think maybe I instinctively understand that my personal information processing abilities are limited. I know I'm not a computer; I don't try to be like one. First of all, I subscribe or commit to relatively little, and of what I do follow, I don't feel any obligation to read everything. Mailing lists are aggressively filtered, even when I read them I'm culling entire threads left and right. Facebook I avoid unless I want to keep up with invitations and so on. Quora was starting to become a bit addicting, so I've curtailed that.

Am I abnormal? Do the rest of you just... let the machine take from you what it will? Why? Is there some ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: I READ THE INTERNET that I'm unaware of?

P.S. I'll admit that I failed rather badly a company where everyone was expected to read hundreds if not thousands of mail items daily. But I still blame that not on the fact that I didn't read EVERYTHING, but that I didn't prioritize effectively.

P.P.S. It even grinds my gears that this person laments random connections with people on the subway have now, in the Facebook era, somehow become an impossibility. It's not! I've done it! It's really not that hard. And yes I live in San Francisco, not Iowa.
Anyone ever built a per-tab horizontal/slider bookmark as a Firefox add-on?

I also do that select-before-scroll thing.
Up to a certain point, lot of backend issues can be mitigated by throwing hardware at the problem. At Torbit we've seen a lot of people realize their site were slow and their first response was to add more servers and upgrade to beefier boxes. By the time we get to them they've got their backend serving up HTML in 200ms but their site still takes 20 seconds to load. More often than not the front-end is the problem.
Anecdotally, optimizing BCC took user visible load time for e.g. the front page from seven seconds back in the day to two or so these days (and it is interactive faster than that). That page spends no significant amount of time at the DB.

Total time I've spent on front end performance in four years: maybe six hours if that.

This is one of those things whose ROI is so staggeringly high that not doing it is just wrong. It is like source control.
Can appreciate that this probably serves as a joke as much of a helpful reminder, but I've added TL;DR for those short of time anyway. ;)
The prosecution's case has several puzzling flaws - so obvious! Come on!! Those are NOT the reactions to rape and sexual assault. However, sorry, I do think the recent release endangers people's lives in wars.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Ju...
Closure compiles it down to 5000 or 5E3 or whatever is smallest in my build process, so all the browser sees is '5e3'.

I find 5*1000 most readable in my source code though.
Valid, just doesn't do what you think.

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var x = 1;
if (true) {
var x = 2;
var y = 3;
}
console.log(x);
console.log(y);
}

foo(); // 2, 3 (vs 1, undefined if there was block scope)
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wtf?

Textmate uses ⌘[, skEdit uses ⌘[, CSSEdit uses ⌘[, Coda uses ⌘[, BBEdit uses ⌘[.

Objective-C for me personally is probably the second language by elegance after Ruby.
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Not sure I understand the target audience for this. If you're writing in text files instead of Word and are comfortable working in the terminal, wouldn't you also be comfortable with a Git GUI? What would be cool is if there were plugins that could show diffs for non-text files like Word.
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In theory, sure. There's a gray area where you're not quite content with the employee, but the employee is making some progress, so you may want to hold out. But surely in that case frequent feedback is a must (to guide the progress) so I guess your point stands.

And in many cases the manager doing the technical supervising isn't in charge of the hiring and the firing.
As I was reading, I was having a hard time empathizing with the author. Then I realized that I had assumed the author was male, and checked. Sure enough the author was female. I feel like maybe men experience this stuff differently. For example, take this passage.

>Same with all-or-nothing friends: they’re only compelling if you talk to them all the time; when the chatty, daily interactions end so does the prospect of an interesting expository conversation. Without consistency, a long phone call seems not only daunting but also profoundly dull.

I have friends I meet with rarely and have great conversations with. We don't talk about each others' lives quite so much though. We talk about stuff :)
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We're drifting from the topic at hand, but None of the most successful women I know really care or complain about things like he/she in the English language misses the point completely. The effect of sexist language on successful women is not the source of people's concern. Rather, it is the (subtle) effect on women who are not yet successful, and the reinforcing effect on men.

Casual minor acts of racism probably have very little effect on Michael Jordan. That doesn't make them ok.
I don't get the "accidentally" part. Somebody inside Google shared a screenshoot of something they should hane not...

Anyway, I don't see much of a product here.
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It's good, but I just wish it wasn't so buggy. It's very annoying how intrusive and buggy it is for such an important piece of software.
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I would love to see someone compete with FB to prevent it from becoming a total monopoly. Having said that, it is really difficult to believe that google can do that, based on the last few new products from google.
As an enthusiast of pagan mythology, I am offended by their calling Zeus a Roman god.
You're saying when people don't care about a particular issue they just follow the accepted norm and get on with their lives. And you applaud that. But I don't see how that's incompatible with others who do care making an attempt to improve that accepted norm.
I disagree with your assessment. There's no evidence of malfeasance, just poor judgment with regards to publicity and possibly some oversights in the lab. It wouldn't be reasonable to deeply fault the authors on a technical basis -- it's the job of peer review to catch mistakes before unfounded or embarrassing claims are made. I've seen disputes over conclusions unfold in two ways:

1. The party disputing the finding contacts the corresponding author with specific objections and suggests followup work that would meet those objections. If the objections appear substantive, the author('s lab) may then attempt to validate the finding.

In the case I observed, the lab had fallen victim to a technical artifact. My PI suggested an approach for remedying the error. At the end of the process, he ended up co-authoring a retraction with the author.

2. Someone with specific objections writes to the publication. Generally the publication will give the author an opportunity to produce a rebuttal piece.

This, on the other hand, resembles a slug match.
I did not mean to be mean. I was trying to say I would feel uneasy donating to a cause which may put other people in danger.
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I would have expected the following google reply:

"While we don’t typically comment on confidential matters, we do believe that social initiatives are important to the future of the company,"

Reference: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/google-pay-hike/
Actually there's even older work using tracing for re-optimization of assembley :)
Terrible redaction job by the editor, too... that blur might as well not be there.
Why should post-publication peer review be limited to working through Science. That will happen in due course (e.g. Rosie Redfield has already written a letter), but it is perfectly fine for scientists to dispute the paper via their blogs, etc. We live in an era where you do have to be ready for post-publication peer review, especially if you make far reaching claims and choose to do them in a very public manner
As others have said, you should try to fix it.

1. Convert things you can to open source alternatives. Google Docs/Open-office should replace ms-office. The QA can happen on Linux, if it's a web-based company.

2. Make sure your founders understand this as part of the cost of running the company and know that they can't do it for ever. It must be in their roadmap to move to legal copies when they have funds.

If you find the attitude too casual and you are looked down upon on raising the issue, quit. Period.
AFAICT, free Github repositories are always public.
Unfortunately, this is common. It's also something for which there doesn't appear to be a gray area. You either see a mature (in the 'attitude' sense, not 'age'), professional company that legally obtains licenses, or you see people using cracked licenses for just about anything. Not just the 'expensive' licenses, but all the way down to WinZip.
Just guessing: instead of handing you an installation disk and a license key, they tell you "on disk X there's the installer and the keygen"?
Google invents the Facebook/Twitter/etc share button, and somehow this is the #1 story?
exactly! I was just about to cite this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607
> Exponential growth in energy consumption was viewed as unsustainable as early as the 1860's but Henry Adams noted that it continued throughout his life up until the time he wrote his biography in 1904 and he saw no end to it.

We're seeing it now, however.
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I found this (if true) to be an interesting concept which I blogged about. Or you could just go through the comments sections over tech crunch.

http://techstopmuse.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-1-unraveling...

gist of it is, its their own way of entering the social graph/search space and their way of telling facebook to stay off their space.
A lot of conferences are poorly run and are a waste of time. The conferences I find that I enjoy the most (and I go to a lot by way of my job) are the ones where the topic attracts the kind of people I find interesting. The people are always more valuable than the content. I have yet to attend a conference I've enjoyed where this wasn't the case.

It also depends a lot on where you are with your career. If you're new to things, meeting new people and learning new things will have more appeal to you. If you've got an established network and aren't in a hardcore learning mode, you'll probably be disappointed by most of them.
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You are thinking of the Internet. The Web is an abbreviation of the "World Wide Web" (of hyperlinks), rather than the medium which conveys its data.
If you need the photoshop look and layout, have you tried http://www.gimpshop.com/ yet?

Personally I disagree with your point on the GIMP. I've used the GIMP for years and find that just as good as Photoshop - but then again I've used the GIMP for years, and more than photoshop.
> There are a lot of large volume purchases who would not exist today had they not relied on pirated software early on.

Or they would have made do with less expensive alternatives--Pixelmator on Mac instead of Photoshop on Mac, say. And with enough companies buying those cheaper alternatives, there would have been enough competition in these areas for a wide range of, say, Photoshop alternatives to develop.

This is an often overlooked consequence of piracy. Yes, someone who just can't afford a $1000 package is not a lost sale for that package. But there probably IS some price point they could afford, and their piracy does represent a lost sale to whoever would have provided that less expensive alternative.
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Perhaps that is because I am well patched.

Anyway, 2.6.32 <= 2.6.37 (my kernel).

Beside, people are here have reported about their Ubuntu boxes which this exploit showed some success at there

tzury@precision:/tmp$ uname -a
Linux precision 2.6.32-26-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:14:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
tzury@precision:/tmp$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"
tzury@precision:/tmp$ gcc full-nelson.c -o full-nelson
tzury@precision:/tmp$ ./full-nelson
[*] Resolving kernel addresses...
[+] Resolved econet_ioctl to 0xffffffffa01815d0
[+] Resolved econet_ops to 0xffffffffa01816c0
[+] Resolved commit_creds to 0xffffffff8108aed0
[+] Resolved prepare_kernel_cred to 0xffffffff8108b2b0
[*] Calculating target...
[*] Triggering payload...
[*] Exploit failed to get root.
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I dont really see how is this amazing or interesting...

Its just a toolbar, nothing important has been leaked, and also to me it looks like a leak with marketing purposes, to make us start hearing about the google product and wait for it with more anxiety.
Yes. This is a pretty common 'desired characteristic' for positions like these.
I just want to get out of debt and throw a party at the ISS... so 1.4M to get out of debt, and like 200M for the party?
Try Idiorm (for basic ORM and query-building) and Paris (a simple Active Record implementation):

http://j4mie.github.com/idiormandparis/
>nope. It is just that we didn't have strong enough competition from other predator species to force the efficiency increase. Instead we use the extensive way of increasing the size, even if it is accompanied by decreased efficiency. Like going cheap low-tech V8 instead of efficiently increasing horsepower of a V6 engine.

ok, sure. point is our engine beats the pants off a dogs no matter how you slice it.

>yep. that one. The top manifestations of that ability were Inquisition, Hitler, Stalin, etc...

like I said, debbie downer. you have this absurd fixation on killings.

>I have an MS in Math, and spent enough time on QM to get a "grasp".

In other words you are not a physicist. The saying that no one understands QM is not a joke. Mathematics is useless without reality; it's like literary analysis without story-telling.

I've been joking and condescending in my responses to you, but I'm going to get a little serious now:

>If you look into the history of human species, it is a continuous blood-shed

Yes, it's continuous bloodshed. You know what? It's not your right to determine that what people fought for was meaningless, or too "violent" for your modern middle-class tastes. It's not your right to prissily look down on the human race from your ivory tower of Math and grumble about killing.

What I see when I look upon our history is a series of people taking their actions seriously. I see a series of people that slowly, agonizingly, painstakingly turned away from violence in order to serve those 'side-effects' that you think we killers disregard.

And that's the crux of it. Do you really think you're any better than the killers you despise? Maybe you don't, maybe you lump yourself in with us savages; if so, though, you must have some self-hatred issues that'll keep your therapist employed well beyond his retirement.

If all you see when you look at history is the pain, then all you will _feel_ is pain.
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