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I liked Erlang day in part because it engaged the core community. Whatever is done, it's going to need to engage that community. No "rule" is going to suffice; influential participation will.

I think we could all do without "the news" for a week. How about Erlang (or, Erlang and friends) week? Anything OT, we all vote down to hell.

I'd hate to lock someone out e.g. of needed feedback or launch publicity. Would a week be a sweet spot -- not too long, but long enough?

We could even have some fun at it. I'd love to have a week's worth of that good old "brand new HN" front page.

Note: Anyone who doesn't follow the community enough to know what is going on, is going to be in for a rude surprise if/when they post other content.

As for the hard coded rules, I'd proceed cautiously. For example, 100 point penalties seem a bit harsh for what might be 1 time out of 10, or even 20, an honest mistake. I've come to appreciate the way pg tends to do the minimum necessary/effective, in design but also in adjustments to the karma scheme.

Of course, my own proposal could well whack some people who pop up and contribute a "non-jErlanjure" story after some days' absence. Sigh, at least with live people participating, perhaps we could suss out and, um, moderate our response in such instances.

(Hmm, BTW, losing 100 points for an upvote cast on a thread that gets killed would likely lend new energy to the "arrows are too small on the iWhatever"... discussion.)
I feel like I should be trying the 24 hour day to 'shake things up' a little bit.
CSEC is hiring - You'll need a security clearance at the Top Secret level and this will involve a polygraph among other things...

http://www.recruitingsite.com/CSBSites/CSE/English/JobDescri...
An ever expanding space would be neat too. No need for an eraser, just find some blank space to write on.
Different product class and/or different product altogether. Think BMW or Merc and many other good quality brands that are well marketed. Different buyers. And yes there are a lot of rich buyers outside US.
We're in process of pushing it live on TSF now. It has been great to work with in the past.
I can't see how a touchscreen in a wristwatch form factor will be anything but clunky.

Why not just make a nice stylish watch that also acts as a voice interface to my phone? Or a watch that can accept a SIM card for those occasions when carrying my smartphone is too cumbersome (seems that this might be especially useful for ladies who want to wear evening dresses that don't accommodate full-size smartphones).
Check out how much private insurance costs in Australia:

http://www.privatehealth.gov.au/dynamic/healthfundlist.aspx

Most plans are around A$100/month or less
Maybe they didn't like the outcome either.

But the bigger reason is probably that ultimately they know the key to maximizing their long-term profitability is to funnel as much money into Washington DC as they possibly can.

There will be more laws regulating healthcare in the future.

Baby boomers are going to be using a lot of healthcare in the coming decades and retired people vote. The debates will be no less political.
Some people ask me why I still go to therapy despite my life generally being pretty awesome right now. My response tends to be: exactly.
This is a insightful post, but I think many of the problems with Agile have been apparent since the beginning. A lot of the early Agile proponents went straight into selling snake oil to corporations with deep pockets and dysfunctional cultures.
I'll admit it - I'm a former fatty (BMI 34). In Canada the government paid to send me to a dietician, along with an 8-week course that now makes me more informed about nutrition and dietary choices than most of the population.

That played no small part in getting me back in shape.

A single-payer/public system has a strong incentive to preventatively fight lifestyle diseases in a way that bickering insurance companies simply do not.
I would have lost my sight and probably then died slowly and painfully from a tumour some time in my teens if not for Australia's national Medicare system that's been treating my condition since I was 12 years old.

Instead I've only had to pay a nominal fee every time I need medication. Surgery, over a dozen MRI scans and visits to specialists over the years plus other tests and whatever else have all been paid for at no cost to me.

It scares the crap out of me to think what would have happened to me if I was in the USA.

To be able to see specialists or have expensive tests at times when I've been lucky to have $5 to my name is something I feel enormous gratitude for. I can't imagine the hardship having to pay for all this out of pocket would cause.
I always found the "I don't want to profit from this" kind of cheap and rarely true. I don't see the moral problem with profiting off of banks over lending and making risky bets. If you do have a moral problem with this then you can setup a charity with proceeds going to a worthy cause.

Or do you also have a problem with giving money to the needy?
Gabe! Fight-On, you should win!
Here's a quick intro for beginners who may not be ready for the full book.

http://www.how-to-meditate.org/breathing-meditations.htm/
The importance of predictability for platform developers
The cost of healthcare and college basically scared me away from migrating to the US. It's a definite trade off but here in Australia, having paid off my house, I can live almost free of overheads. It is incredibly liberating to get up in the morning and know I can go to work on my own business without worrying that some freak accident or illness will destroy me financially.

On the other hand, I do think that the lack of these other costs is one reason that we have some of the highest house prices in the world. When you take away these other costs people just devote their disposable income elsewhere. Even so, I think it's better used that way than paying executives in health insurance companies.
Apple patent application opens the door to free-form acoustic gesture commands
You're right, when your finest granularity is "per day" you lose any real sense of what a day means to the user (and when it starts and ends).

Right now we don't have a solution. As it turns out (I guess) our users don't mind. In the future we want to provide certain (or all) stats also in the "last 24 hours" (rolling) time frame, which will help. One benefit of our Redis-powered analytics is that they're live. Even if your idea of a "day" is different than ours, you can see the count/totals/averages/etc updating in realtime (relative to the "day" we decide on). So users can get instant feedback if something is happening, but for the most part only care about day over day stats (which make the TZ matter a lot less).
> The difference is significant: my recent M.R.I. cost $1,300 at the “retail” rate, while the rate negotiated by the insurance company was $700.

The shocking thing is, if you get an MRI at a cash only diagnostics facility it can cost as little as $300.
So frustrating to see all these people doing cool things with Redis and not having people free to do that stuff here. :) Any Redis hackers looking for a job or even some contract time? Big advantage is all the work will be open source and able to be shared and blogged.
Didn't MSFT try to do this like 5 years ago with the smart watch? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Personal_Objects_Technolo...

I remember it was expensive and nobody really wanted it.
She's got a lot of good stuff in her comment history.

I really wish Instapaper worked with reddit comments. Lots of good reading there.
I moved to the US from the UK over a year ago and I can't find words to describe the feeling of not having the NHS to rely on. This whole new world of potential disaster has opened up. It's something you've never had to think about before that is now at the forefront of your consciousness.

You can be young, fit and healthy, but get hit by a car and your life is over. Once you're bankrupted by medical fees, you'll never have good credit again - and in the US, this is like the mark of the beast.

It's no wonder that American streets are filled by the homeless and disabled. This is a great country, with wonderful people, but in some ways it's medieval.
I just wish her report include some mention of WHAT the new legislation will in reality do for her?

Because I suspect it will do little for serious health problems. IF they can pay for it, all it will do is prevent the insurance companies dropping her when she gets sick someday or stop paying out when they hit a limit like on cancer.

I say that's not a lot because they ARE allowed to raise the premiums so high that the patient has to drop the insurance on their own because there's no way to for it.

So the legislation is useless for the serious stuff.
How easy are these countries to get into (and become a working member of their society)? I know Switzerland and New Zealand are particularly tough.
Japan forces their doctors to charge only what's published in a book that the government issues and negotiates prices periodically. Simple price fixing in an otherwise private healthcare market. In return, Japanese doctors and hospitals (FYI, there are more private hospitals in Japan than the US) are allowed to set whatever prices for ancillary services (like private or semi-private rooms) that they want. BTW, the average stay overnight in a private room at a Japanese hospital is about $100. An MRI (which was 1400 negotiated down to 700 FTA) is $98, due largely to the fact that the Japanese have more MRIs and CT scanners per capita than the US. I mean, wasn't technology supposed to be our superiority play?

And, if you want to talk care and outcomes, let's pick the most grim of diagnostics: Cancer. Japan's 5-year survival rates are among the highest in the world, and the highest in particular cancers such as colon and rectal cancer. And, FYI, the US isn't #1 in survival rates for all cancers. It's spread evenly through the G8.

And, the most free of supposed free markets and tax-friendly wonderlands, Singapore, also puts price controls on procedures, with similarly successful outcomes. So it isn't a cultural or "economic" thing, it's a government thing. It always will be. An adult just needs to come in, put their foot down similar to what Tommy Douglas did in Canada, and declare either we all buy in to a government-run healthcare system, or we buy in to the government completely regulating the market much like it does the stock market or agricultural industry. States will have no say, no quarter, or feedback. They can choose to secede from the union to opt-out of the program.

And, while I love me some comment karma, I know that my position is tantamount to heresy on this board, so, get your dismissive hand cocked and ready to wave me away :D
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This is exactly what we'd do in tutorial classes for most of the CS subjects I took during my degree. I can see it being harder to do in lectures, especially in early years, where large class sizes make it more difficult to keep everyone engaged.
I am one: have over 27apps in app store:
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I love this one too "pretty much everyone knew"

Think about what you're actually saying here. If pretty much everyone knew then 401k account holders would've hedged their bets or moved into safer places. Instead they took a bath with the rest of the economy.

Your 20/20 hindsight vision is amazing. I can't wait for you to tell me who will win the 2008 superbowl.
This stupid insistence on ignoring the background and experience of interviewees and instead rank them based on how fast they can write code on a whiteboard is the reason why 1) google can't polish a product to save their lives and 2) every time I look at the code they produce, especially small projects, I cringe with the lack of mantainability, header standardization or design coherence. Keep thinking the best people to hire are the ones that can spout basic cs theory at a moments notice on a whiteboard and nothing will change.
Exactly. The "brain work" rationalization was just a way to sell outsourcing to the middle class, enabling conservatives to break working-class political power. The next wave, well underway since the tech bubble reduced communication costs to zero, will break the middle class.
You went to the wrong doctor. When I get my bills for office visits, the rate is something like $300 on average (including lab tests). My insurance company then negotiates that down to something like $75, and then I pay the $10 co-pay. Now, all these numbers could be made up, but $300 seems about right for a doctor's visit when you consider how expensive it is to run a medical practice. It's not something I'd want to have to pay every week because I would die if I didn't, but it's not exactly financial ruination either.

If I had some rare disease but still wanted to do a startup, I think I would just work for Starbucks for 20 hours a week or something, simply for the health insurance.
Ahh Zelda!
The many fond memories I have of this game. I remember playing through Zelda as a child and my Dad getting into as much as I was...and then even more so. He played through and then beat the hidden second world. He still does, I was surprised to come home, 20 years later and find him "trying to get the blue ring".

I remember being terribly disappointed by Link but playing through as far as I could anyways. The strongest memory however was the awe Zelda: A Link to the Past invoked. Entering the names on the original screen I knew that I was on the beginning of a magical journey. The controller was respectfully passed around so the entire family could enter their characters names.
Sounds like an umbrella company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_company). Almost all contracting in the UK is through umbrella companies or a single member LLC's rather than directly between the employee and employer.
Sweet video! The best part of the evening was when someone repeatedly text their name until the recent entry times read "4, 20".

I think you could do more with the SMS reply, like have it send a random puzzle and award points for a solution (may have to be careful not to repeatedly unlock the door), send a horoscope based on a user profile, etc.
I think the basic problem with Agile (with a capital "A") is that it has always been a marketing term and not a technical one. Thus it has been drowning under the weight of its own hype for so long that it no longer really means anything.

I'm sure a lot of practices that are commonly considered Agile have genuine merit. Indeed, good developers have been using many of these practices since long before anyone started naming them. Equally, bad developers probably won't adopt them whatever they are called.

Other practices that tend to get bundled into various specific Agile processes are, IMNSHO, 100% pure snake oil. After so many years, they have a pretty poor track record, when surely they should be dominating the software development field by now if they were as effective as their advocates claim and everyone else is doing such horrible things.

I always find it rather ironic that despite the basic tenet of the Agile Manifesto that individuals and interactions are more valuable than processes or tools, we still have consultants and authors pushing processes like XP or Scrum or whatever the next one is, almost invariably using all-or-nothing arguments about how you need to use all the components of their favourite buzzword method or it just doesn't work, and if you don't and your project fails then that must be why.

What would I do differently next time, in the sense of promoting what actually works and not some diluted buzzword bingo entry? I'd single out individual elements, such as using shorter iterations or emphasizing ongoing communication with a client over formal up-front specifications. I would describe them in plain English, I would consider their merits and risks individually, and perhaps I would consider how some of them interact. But above all, I would not artificially bundle up a whole bunch of distinct ideas that can be understood perfectly well in isolation (whether or not they are actually effective) and create some artificial super-idea and a black-and-white approach to using it.

And I'd execute anyone who started naming practices, overall processes, or the roles within those processes in a way that would make anyone outside the Kool-Aid drinkers burst out laughing.
I'm still not getting why it would be an issue if it was.
The method isn't about preparing students for a programming job, but about preparing them for real-world interviews.
I pay about $550/mo for the 5 of us, but that's just because my employer pays 2/3s of the cost.
I'm the author. What about a junior developer with an interest in Redis? This stuff isn't hard; I have recommendations. E-mail in profile. :)
Countries like India, Malaysia are starting to see a boom in Medical Tourism. It costs approximately $4500 for a open heart surgery at the best hospitals compared to $15-$20K in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism
Here in Melbourne, SE is a 4-year version of CS which requires you to take 2 years of math, 1 year of physics, some EE subjects, and two projects with industry clients. Most of the time little distinction was made between the degrees; they were referred to collectively as "the CSSE department". Computer Engineering, on the other hand, was very close to EE.
That's awesome – nice work.
Fat content has virtually nothing to do with obesity. I get 20-30% of my calories from fat (mainly butter and cheese), weigh about 155 lb., 6-1, lipid levels good.
I don't really get the difference between Tumblr and a blog. Every major tumblr I've seen is just a blog with a blank interface. You can do that anywhere else...
A wristwatch? What's that?

- Sincerely, people under 25
Really great. Specially since as of now, Feb 21 2011, the spoon downloads on this article were taken out (it happend 7 days ago).
It's probably running as a low-priority process, so that if any normal process needs CPU time, it get it. I'm currently running Enigma@home and Milkyway@home on my computer, so all of my cores are always at 100%, except when my other programs start to use more than 25%, and then the @home's instantly suspend processing. The only time my system seems to slow down is when starting virtual machines.

I imagine this software is similar, which is why it's not meant for people that need reliable access. If somebody starts rendering in the middle of a SpotCloud job, then the SpotCloud job doesn't continue until the rendering is done. And if the rendering doesn't finish until after the job expires, then the job is restarted on a different computer. The worst thing you could do (from SpotCloud's perspective) would be to have your computer available for 99% of the time it takes to do the job, and then become unavailable until after the deadline, but I imagine that doesn't happen very much.
Try to run some computation on top of Twitter using the followings in common and you'll see that it's actually working great.
We only display with whom you have more than 4 followings in common.
This is useful to know, and a great tip! I actually meant that "the OP question applies to searching for info about command line options as well". I find it amusing how your interpretation is equally valid. There is a lesson about clarity of communication here. :)

(also thanks for the reply, I appreciate it even tho it wasn't what I was looking for)
An 'upgrade' feature that has been promised, but will not be available on the day the Xoom ships.
Let me see if I understand what you're saying.

I make a generalization that people who want to will form a startup regardless of circumstances.

The counterpoint to that was providing an example of somebody who didn't form a startup because of some condition.

That's known as a counter-factual: taking what actually happened and changing something and saying that it would come out differently had this one thing changed. Sure, the person in question says that's the reason, but my entire point rests on the fact that people will rationalize.

I, on the other hand, provide a _real_ example of somebody without insurance who has formed a startup, and on top of that I'm the one saying that both of these stories don't tell us much.

So where am I in error? Counter-factuals are horrible ways to argue, and anecdotes don't get us anywhere, no matter which point they support, and the conversation isn't really going anywhere. In fact, this entire sub-thread started when I announced that this looked to me like a fruitless line of discussion. I flagged the story.

So you agree, right? Or are you trying to say that somehow there is some progress being made that I missed out on?
Someone asked me what Apple's next big thing will be, I said, "Look at something MS did, but failed. It's what Apple will do next".

Apple's already half way there with the Nano.

If you integrated this with your other services: voice (just to know when you're getting a call, missed calls, voice mail), sms, twitter, email, facebook -- now you may have a somewhat interesting device. The tough part now though is that everyone has a smartphone... is this device necessary anymore?

Although if you could add a lot of biometric feedback that would be nice. And also solar powered so it had crazy battery life. My current watch has been going 10 years on solar power w/o a charge.
The whole point about meditation is about self-reflection. Yes, you may argue that comparing meditation with volunteering, the former would seem like a complete waste of time with no benefit to society, but its only because you're looking at it in one-dimension.

If the OP is able to turn his life around, become calmer, more understanding and more compassionate, his actions and interactions in the physical world would have an impact to all those around him and create a multiplier effect that is much more effective in the long run than just pure volunteering.
That's an interesting way to do things, didn't know Japan did that. Thanks for the info! How much do things like emergency services cost? Do they fall under ancillary or not? Anything that's nigh-essential that does? Know if the hospitals are supported by the government, and how much taxes it takes?
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Isn't that pretty much how the "Made for iPod/iPhone" program works?
Not in any fair-market sort of way.

The price of prescription meds, tests, and procedures is "negotiated" between pharmacies, providers, and insurance companies. The Dr. bills "X" and the insurance company comes back with "X/2". The Dr. may try to collect the difference from you, but they usually don't.

If you aren't paying with insurance, you have to pay many times higher prices than an insurance company would for the same treatment.

Last I heard 80% of the market did have some type of coverage. Of the remaining 20%, many of them simply can't pay their emergency room bills. So if you have a decent income and don't have insurance, you are a very small minority with no bargaining power.

In other words, no, you are not able to purchase health care in any sort of functioning market.
I didn't want to just guess this - there's enough misinformation driving this particular metaphor - but in fact I was pretty darned sure that, in addition to all the stuff I mentioned, every surgeon travels with the equivalent of a formal certification that he or she has passed the surgical equivalent of fizzbuzz.

Thanks for the confirmation.
There are many brokers that will show you what you need to if you want to bet the economy is about to go bust. You can short, buy options, buy bonds, etc. If you truly thought it was very predictable then it wouldnt have been difficult to get those money hungry bankers to show you what to do. They'd even teach you how to bet their own bank would go under.
ER bills are absolutely insane. It's not hard to break a few dozen thousand dollars in almost no time for almost no treatment. It strikes me as opportunistic preying.