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> I'd even say it's more trivial, as you can switch to an application living on a different desktop, it will just switch to the right desktop

Is that true? I'm an Ubuntu user and that always works for me, but I suppose I perhaps checked that setting in Compiz and forgot about it, so it wasn't like that by default.
I think this is an interesting and fair article, but based on the evidence discussed, it isn't "Facebook makes me sad" but rather "my unhealthy comparisons of my own happiness to the happiness of others makes me sad." Sure, divorcing your sense of self-worth from your perceptions of others is easier said than done, but it's a healthier pursuit than attacking one of the thousands of ways other people demonstrate their surface superiority.
Good philosophical debates tend to be about things that are, at least currently, unprovable or unobservable. I think a lot of people that come from the sciences are frustrated by how ignorant many philosophers are that the things they're debating have been observed in repeatable experiments and are no longer suitable fodder for philosophical debate.
I wrote my comment after finding and reading the abstracts of several surveys that supported my argument, but for the same reason you hedged against your example here, I didn't insult anyone's intelligence by posting my examples. The facts don't bore me, but I recognize that neither of us are in command of them. You also didn't address the sharp end of my comment, which is that you are defending a blog post that makes an even more egregiously unsupported claim.
God awful breathless hype article: 'calling x a rockstar would be an insult.' gag.
"The plural of anecdote is not data."

I'm not claiming it is. The point is that it's not a theoretical concern. It only takes one instance to show existence, I was actually being generous and giving two.

"And cutting off people's ability to pay for rent, food, and a car seems like a pretty poor way of getting out of a recession."

Second order effects, second order effects, second order effects. You are making the common-sense assumption that if you cut people's benefits off, they will simply have less money, and not change their behavior at all. That's not how it works. Common sense is not just wrong, it is pathologically wrong when thinking about the economy.

"what's the endgame here?"

Total economic collapse if we don't stop spending so much money on destroying wealth, no matter how good it makes you feel to do it. This is only a particular case of the general trend. You are also assuming that leaving people without unemployment assistance is more or less the worse-case scenario, and so I'm leading them into the worst case. It's not. Leaving people with no economy in which to get a job and no economy with which to give them assistance of any kind, government or voluntary, is, and that is distressingly close to on the table. How will a collapsed United States dollar render unemployment assistance? You have to think about the full consequences, not just the consequences to one particular instance of the problem at one particular point in time.

I personally strongly believe with what I believe to be good reason that all of this soft-headed money spending and wealth destruction is far worse for everybody that tightening our belts and making people work for things, so I reject your attempt at moral authority. The problem of not having enough wealth for everybody can not be solved by policies that destroy yet more wealth and we are perilously close to a wealth-destruction death spiral here, if we're not already in one, all in the name of helping people while actually utterly burying them. It's your policies that lead to ruination, not mine.
The point is that the CPR was only possible because of his earlier work in the "hard" sciences, at least in IMHO.
Try the MiniBufExplorer plugin. It gives you a list of all open files in a different buffer, and you can switch to any of them by just moving into that buffer and pressing enter while on the filename.
Yes, that's right. It was on my triceps and leg curls. (When you start in lower weights, the increase doesn't seem as drastic.)

I see someone has also down voted my original post, I guess that's because I mention Tim Ferriss. sigh
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Same here. My alma mater, Stevens Institue of Technology, isn't listed on the site anywhere and it's a pure engineering and science school.
It's true some successful company are the results of serious pivots. But I bet some 80% of them are the result of an initial good idea.

IMO you shouldn't build a company from a bad idea, but you can in your spare time try to validate an idea you're uncertain about. But don't quit your job at Google.
The cost to turn unemployed clerks into construction workers is not close to zero. They would need training, equipment, supervision, health benefits etc. For this reason, when here in Germany someone suggested to get all those unemployed to shovel snow during the winter, the local politicians did not want any such workers - while the unemployed would receive next to nothing, the cost to the community would be higher than having professionals do the job.
Forcing people down on their luck to work for free is going to put pressure on the wages of those who do the same work for a living.
For learning how to do the exercises, Starting Strength is worth the purchase. Even if you don't follow the program. It is used as the reference for squat, deadlift, press, and bench technique by many.

There is also a DVD and some YouTube videos out there with Rippetoe that greatly help.

For squats, also check out SquatRX on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C03D688F10C4DE1F
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I find that mentality interesting. Personally, I spent a short time in the valley in my very early 20's (internship) and found it so boring outside of work that I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my 20's there. I did see how if one already had a family it would be more bearable.
Sound bites beat reason quite a lot of the time. This is one of those projects I would feel good about, but wish they had never told the public. Keep it to security / terrorist experts and maybe some fiction writers, history profs / writers, and cultural anthropology profs.
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett is a great fictionalized spy novel centered around Operation Fortitude and spy catching in the UK during the second world war.
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I've used 5 x 5 to get in shape before. A lot of it made sense to me.. Free weights are "better" than machines, squats are important, start light learn the form and increase weight as you go.

I too was turned off by the author of the program - he comes across as a real dick in his forums -- It's analogous to the "if you're not doing everything the scrum way don't call what you're doing scrum" hardliners.

What's important to a newbie is the structure and the gradual, incremental improvements. As Henry Rollins says "the iron doesn't lie" If each week you're adding 5lbs that's measurable improvement and helps with the motivation.

I like to think of going to the gym like leveling up my constitution :)

Regardless if you do 5 x 5 or do "starting strength" just do something and get over the initial inertia. You'll be sore as hell that first week, but it does get better.

My other suggestion is bring a friend of similar level of non-fitness and start together (assuming you don't sabotage each other by talking each other OUT of going to the gym each time) -- makes it less embarrassing when you have a partner who is also struggling with a small amount of weight on the bar -- it's not a contest, but a little healthy competition and support goes a long way.

Also try not to compare yourself to the meatheads in the gym with multiple huge wheels of cheese on the bar... don't be intimidated. You're there to get stronger and that's it.

shrug
I found the answer:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Betteridge%27...
I believe the de-facto nomenclature for a NoSQL database's equivalent of an ORM is an "ODM", Object Document Mapper.
Sherlock says: India.

1. Look at HN profile. See manky website listed there: lifeasparesh.co.cc.

2. That website doesn't load for me.

3. Go to Mr. Google and type in lifeasparesh.

4. Find blog.lifesasparesh.in.

5. Notice that in the search results the owner of this site reports a HN username of rick_2047.

Economic/political analysis may now continue based on this piece of information.

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(And yeah I'm receptive to ideas the original article. "99 weeks of xbox" is hyperbole but after pruning away the hyperbole from the article -- and the opposing comments in this thread -- there are some hard questions remaining. It's worth talking about these questions in an adult manner while attempting to avoiding Godwin-lite debate tactics. Which, I confess, I frequently find myself using because it's fun to go "Ha! Score!)

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I find that I do experience a lot of negative emotions - envy, lust, etc. while browsing Facebook. On the other hand, I like seeing and responding to funny posts from my friends and family.
I think Greenspun would be less optimistic if he did not extrapolate wildly from his experience in teaching an RDMS course to a bunch of "bright" students (some of whom aren't even from MIT --- OMFG, are you kidding me!).

Instead, he should go find a bunch of middle-aged 99'ers, teach them his RDMS course and report back.
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That's like answering, "How do I write a good book?" with "Start typing."

That's the best answer I can imagine to, "How do I write a good book?"

The difference between writers and everyone else? Writers write. Want to write a book? Start typing. Want to write a good book? You won't do it on your first try, so start typing.

The time for literary criticism and feedback is after you've written something to work with.
Regardless of the validity of the data, I am proud to have graduated from #38! OH
Am I the only one who enjoyed this approach?

I was taught atomic theory chronologically starting with the plum pudding model, then rutherford's model, then Bohr's model and finally the quantum models.

At each stage, the focus was on:

* What observations led the scientists in question to propose the model? e.g. in Rutherford's case, there was an extensive discussion on the gold-foil experiment, the observations he saw, and the conclusions he drew from it (e.g. that a lot of mass must be packed into a tiny space).

* What properties follow from adopting them model? e.g. with Rutherford's model, the notion of an accelerating charged particle (electron) would mean that the electron would continuously lose energy until it crashes into the nucleus. obviously this isn't happening.

* Repeat the cycle: how did bohr's model attempt to overcome these problems.

We did the same with the theories on acids and bases: how Arrhenius' concept required the notion of liquid to be present, how Bronsted and Lowry formulated it more generally as proton donation and acceptance, and how Lewis formulated it in terms of electrons.

I like that at each step, we learned WHY these models were proposed and how they explained the phenomena seen until then. We learned WHAT the consequences of making a physical model are, and we learned WHAT new observations could not be accounted for. Then we learned about how concepts are generalized to account for more information.

In contrast, if I had just been shown a beautiful but complex model at the beginning, I'm not sure I would have learned as much or held as much interest. The difference is like seeing a very elegant proof to a problem vs seeing the different half-correct approaches culminating into a final solution. I feel that if the goal is to teach people how to think like scientists, show them the process not the final result.
Yes - I don't believe that training or education is a particularly useful solution for the vast majority of the unemployed.

Again: "I'm not endorsing Greenspun's plan, I'm just pointing out that the original poster didn't even bother to read Greenspun's blog post."

My belief is that most of the unemployed should accept lower wages, less pleasant jobs, and many should relocate. (Government assisted relocation was another one of Greenspun's suggestions, BTW.)
They're atypical outliers, but that doesn't stop VCs from investing in companies with the belief that there's a chance they can reach that scale.
NetBeans was my primary editor/IDE for Ruby till a couple of weeks back when I started evaluating RubyMine.
I enjoy Facebook.

But I actually have few friends who showcase "the most witty, joyful, bullet-pointed versions" of their lives. Perhaps people looking at Facebook from the outside showcase the "showcasers".

We mostly exchange idle-chit-chat. Who could guess how healthy that could be!
Every few month i get the feeling of trying out linux again on some machine. Had a MSI Wind U100 netbook lying around and got the latest Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition because i thought the netbook is pretty old now and stuff should work with the latest ubuntu. It didnt.

While ubuntu was running fine i had problems with the wifi waking up after hibernate/sleep which always forced me to reboot to use wifi again. Googling revealed some people having similar issues, stating that it worked fine under 10.04 but now unter 10.10 it doesnt. I thought minor releases were ment to fix bugs, not create new ones.
People on the ubuntu forums suggested trying the windows wifi drivers through ndiswra...nope, i wont start fiddling with stuff like that for hours on end again to get basic functionality working.
Power management also was worse than on windows... i didnt even try to get bluetooth to work and installed win xp sp3 on it...
Sorry Linux, it didnt work out this year, again :/
What's that Oracle?

What? You pooped in Monty's refrigerator? And you ate the whole... wheel of cheese? How'd you do that? Heck, I'm not even mad; that's amazing.
I think this has happened a lot. Some new technology makes an existing problem more obvious or more prevalent, and the problem is blamed on the technology. Technology may amplify social woes, but it certainly does not cause them.
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Best I have found is continued practice of overhand grip heavy deadlifts. The thicker the bar the better.

Also, make it a habit to use the thicker bars if your gym has an option.

I've also heard a towel and pullup bar is another option. Wrap the towel around the pullup bar and hang on it as long as possible. I've never done this method.
Pretty classy, HN flagging brigade:

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There's a better article on the rationale here: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/01/27/data-modeling-...
Great read.
I recently discovered that when comparing my facebook feed to my GF's, she had nothing but posts from friends and their new families (babies/marriages/etc.) while mine is typically links to news, witty quotes, and people venting. I had no idea girls indeed do spend more time on facebook posting only the positives of their life. I would think that definitely keeps out requests for help or posting only mediocre content.
This just came up in a thread. Jim Clark (who was hugely successful prior) invested $4M in Netscape to get it going. Andreessen got 10%. Now maybe this guy could argue you're no Andreessen, but you can point out that he's no Clark either, and hasn't put in $4M.
There are places to discuss these issues intelligently and philosophically; lesswrong.com comes to mind. I agree it's a shame that the classroom debate isn't better, but undergrads are really at the beginning of their intellectual maturation, and many of them think of philosophy class not as a place to learn how to think about things but as an arena in which they must defend their own naive intuition.

(I also took a mind-body problem class as an undergrad, at Georgetown. It actually wasn't as bad as the one you describe, though nor was it perfect.)
Most of the risk that publishers take on is in the form of returns: retail booksellers effectively operate on consignment, which is one of the reasons the industry is so screwed up. It's also a big reason most trade published books don't earn out the advance.

Editing, layout, artwork, and editing are outsourced. If you choose to self-pub, you can hire the same people the Big 6 publishers hire, as long as you're willing to do a little legwork to discover who they are.

Kindle / ebook publishing is making the layout and printing part mostly obsolete. If you know HTML and a bit of CSS, you can write the book in native Kindle format - it's pretty similar to writing a blog post. (I tested this yesterday - it's not at all difficult.)

Once you're done, you can publish in ~24 hours. That beats the 18-24 month trade publishing cycle. The successful self-pub authors have a lot of books, and doing it yourself makes it much easier to publish a few books every year. You also get to keep 70% of the sale price vs. the standard 5-15% royalty for trade publishing.

I'm thinking long and hard before signing another trade publishing contract, that's for sure. If I do, it's going to be with the publisher's understanding that I'm fully capable of doing this myself, which should be reflected in the advance.
"been around since 1991"?! while that's probably correct for vim proper, that ignores the much longer history of vi...
I researched a small, b/w laser printer for a friend last week. $100 at Amazon.

I return to Amazon yesterday to look for a wrist rest. In the "recently viewed" section of the page, that printer is $130.

I've come to consider seriously the implication that ~30% changes in pricing have in aggregate, in the demand this gaming places upon my time and attention. One or two items, I may say "time is money" and just buy.

When the entire system starts to feel gamed, like a casino in Vegas, I start looking seriously at my options for simply opting out.

Once again, information asymmetry is being used to disadvantage the small player.
No kidding. I could barely get past the first two paragraphs. From what little information I could glean about the company, they seem like just another web analytics firm. Yeah, its probably a viable business. No, its not, "the takeover of a small Soviet republic."
When I read these types of pieces by Philip, I am uncertain of whether it is a legitimate take or he is just playing a troll.

"Let them eat cake!"

I believe I posted a comment on his site to that effect in response to one of his earlier "cadillac driving welfare queen" missives, and it was quickly deleted (Mr. Greenspun is quite adept in deleting comments that do not agree with his sentiment).

I collected unemployment once, for a couple of weeks -- it was ~$200 per week, not even sufficient to cover the mortgage payment, let alone health insurance, food and utilities. It was shocking to me, as I remember my father experiencing bouts of unemployment back in the 1970s/1980s (tough times for steelworkers then, who saw their ranks dwindle), and he received ~$350 per week and we were able to meet living expenses (along with gracious helpings of government cheese).

Not sure training is the panacea -- put simply, as we become productive in the aggregate, it requires less workers. Corporate employment, even before the "great recession" has been trending downwards.

Sadly, nobody is addressing this structural realignment.

http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Start with little or no weight. I started my squat with the bar and 2x25 pound weights. I've reached 4x45 pound weights + the bar after about a year. I took it slow and steady because I did not want to injure myself. I actually had someone compliment my squat form the other day! Thats a great feeling knowing where you started. Like anything, you just need to devote effort to getting better.
I use this combination as well with one addition - topfunky's peepopen (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen). Works like an improved version of Textmate's fuzzy find - even displays Git metadata inline. Its not free - but its worth it imo to have something a little more polished.
What are the primary reasons the other 96.5 - 97.5% of applicants are rejected?
NoSQL systems are not SQL, but this does not mean they are unable to model relations. For instance in Redis you often have something like:

user:1000

That is an hash with a few attributes, and among this attribs you can have 'group_id", that is an integer, for instance 50. Then if you access

group:50

You have another data structure representing the group the user is associated with.
Support from Fred Wilson's blog that most of his successful outcomes (success defined as "exit) were pivots:

"Of the 26 companies that I consider realized or effectively realized in my personal track record, 17 of them made complete transformations or partial transformations of their businesses between the time we invested and the time we sold. That means there a 2/3 chance you’ll have to significantly reinvent your business between the time you take a venture capital investment and when you exit your business."

Source: http://unionsquareventures.com/2007/11/why-early-stage.php
My altma mater, DeVry University, wasn't listed either, but that's because DeVry sucks.
No, in fact you couldn't say that about every discipline.

There is a lot of two-way synergies between philosophy and mathematics, more so in days gone by, less so now. Many modern philosophers had a leg in both camps. Think Descartes, Leibniz ... Very recent philosophers have tended to stick to mathematical logic. Think Russell, Frege, the early Wittgenstein, Kripke. Now where is mathematical logic used an awful lot? Um, computer science! Little bit of a coincidence, no?

Computer science is part engineering, part craftsmanship, part mathematics. Many interesting conceptual problems are generated by comp sci that have been tackled in philosophy of mind and epistemology (by the way, I think you're using that word wrong) and the synergies are great.

You could absolutely not say this about any two disciples taken at random. There is of course the debate in academia that you allude to that the disciplines are becoming over specialised and that there is not enough cross-talk (inter-disciplinarity / trans-disciplinarity) going on and these debates have been held in cultural studies and at the governing board level of universities ... don't think these people don't see what's going on in front of there noses. It's a tricky problem to solve, there are only so many hours in the day and industry demands employable minds.
This is a pretty neat company making encryption apps for android: http://www.whispersys.com/
I tried to sort of create a program like this for myself 15 years ago. I ended up with a B.S. in comp sci and math - with one credit short of a philosophy minor. Unfortunately there were no professors asking the fusion questions, but I did some reading when I could.
Some domains are truly worth $1 million. If the guy has plenty of additional money to invest, why would it matter? A really great domain can increase your chances of success.
I know, but what with the world war II document that 'fooled Hitler' on the homepage and Bletchely Park still (as far as I know) under threat it made for a nice tie-in.

Maybe it's time for another petition? You seem to have the ear of the mighty now ;)

It might even be something the EU should take an interest in, they finance enough bullshit that I don't see why they shouldn't finance something of historical significance like this.
I double-majored in CS and Philosophy of Mind (this was in the late 1970's). I agree, the older philosophy of mind material is not too illuminating, but some of the newer work by people like Fodor and Dennett is more interesting (or so I seem to recall; it's been a while, heh). But towering above all these people, IMO, is Gregory Bateson, a name you probably won't find on the reading list at a university. Check out Mind and Nature.