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I detect a judgmental tone in your post, even if you didnt mean it. People dont like their core beliefs judged, even by friends. Perhaps you were thinking ethical principals and your friend was thinking spiritual maybe even contradictory beliefs. The best thing is to realize that there are no axioms to being human. We can act morally and ethically (or not) from many different foundations. The best way to find out principles is to infer them from the discussion of issues.

You really blew it when you cast her aside on an issue of metaphysics. Unless she really amoral or psychotic, I would patch things up in any way possible, including a sincere apology. If you dont have time for your friends, it is you who needs to reexamine your principles.

Apologies if I came across too strongly. I did want to help.
Perhaps MonkeySphere, which begins ejecting least-touched contacts once you hit 100.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
Do you have a computer for those other things?
MSDN?
And MySQL don't receive any money from it, BTW.
25 years after chernobyl, we still find contaminated material in germany. e.g. mushrooms and wild boar. so i would be VERY carful with such a bold statement as in the linked article.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/langfristige-folgen-von-ts...

"And the willingness to eat contaminated venison has dropped obviously, more and more hunters and forest owners can check the meat of wild boars - and compensation from the Federal Ministry of Environment, if they can not eat the contaminated venison because of the large cesium-137 content or sell.

€ 424 650 paid by the Federal Ministry of Environment last year for it. In the first half of 2010, the amount of compensation was 130,000 euros. 2008 there were 380,000 euros and 104,000 euros in 2007."
The execution allows the idea to reach its potential.

If the potential is clear and enormous than I think the idea takes precedence (e.g. - whoever discovered beer).

This question is really about demand. Could you have had the demand without a seamless execution? I think that's possible to estimate in some cases.

If the potential "could possibly be huge", but the execution really helped to facilitate the demand. I vote for the execution.

Why do smart people love chicken/egg arguments so much?
Let's use the smarter, more innovative, and safer energy solutions available today. Let's leave these 50's and 60's era shitty technology behind.

Oh, and what do you suggest? In the US, for example, we've just about dammed every river that can be dammed, and solar and wind are too expensive for wide scale deployments.

The only real alternative we have to the 20% of our energy which comes from nuclear would be to add to the 45% which comes from coal (or to the 23% from natural gas.) That would be a disaster, coal plants are far more damaging than nuclear plants are.

We should be doing the opposite. Replacing our alarmingly high coal energy usage with nuclear plants, instead. Too bad there's so much propaganda (and big-coal lobbying) against this. Nuclear is the only practical source of zero-emission energy for wide scale use.

Personally, I'd much rather live with a couple nuclear incidents than with the horrors of today's fossile fuel industries.
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Appleseed is a platform. It's a combination of a social framework you can build upon and a protocol that can be implemented in other projects.

The goal is for most people to use Appleseed without ever knowing what Appleseed is, much in the way people use the web without realizing that their web server is Linux + Apache.
Are you from Texas?

I give a gentle handshake to a woman, and a firm, two shake to a man. Limp handshakes are gross from a man.
The iPad cannot be used for productivity work (coding, writing, even longer emails)

Coding apart, it works great for these things if you use the bluetooth keyboard.
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Winter doesn't make biking impossible, just challenging. Get a basic aluminum mountain bike, put studded tires on it, and dress pretty much the same as you would for skiing (but with right pant cuff held down somehow). Make sure to clean salt off the bike, or you'll have to replace components more often.
Way more here: http://www.icebike.org/ and here: http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winter?so...
My guess: because it's somewhat tangential to their sekrit plan. Namely, pissing off the governments and forcing them to pick one of "secure and hobbled", "leaky and embarrassed", or "nothing to hide".
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Temporary hack before what? Back to laptops, or forward to neural interfaces?
I don't understand why people continually compare the two as if they're mutually exclusive. Why can't we just settle on the fact that they're both equally critical to a successful company?

Is it because some outlying success stories seem to be deficient in one and it causes people question whether that was necessary in the first place?
I don't think you've provided enough information to know for sure what her response really means.

Most people, particularly intelligent people, are not extremely confident in their principles... they constitute a working hypothesis more than a firm foundation of belief. In a sense it's deeply arrogant to claim that any belief is anything other than a working hypothesis... and so I'd argue that the most important thing when considering a person's principles is the notion of what about the world has led them to act passionately toward a goal?,... since anything that is actionable has likely passed a fair bit of scrutiny on the part of the belief holder.

On one hand, she may have very deeply held principles but may not have felt like opening up to you about them just then.

On the other hand, she may disagree with your principles and wishes to avoid an inevitable realization of conflict.

Or she may be more the wishy washy type and not really have any principles, but may realize that she probably should.

I think your opening with "who doesn't at least have the honesty and moral courage" may have made her reluctant to open up, since it suggests that you're ready to judge whatever comes out of her mouth.

If you really care about this person, I suggest you apologize for being brash and tell her that you're very curious about the big picture philosophies that guide her life, and that you address them more narrowly in a future conversation... such as:

What do you think is most important about how a person lives his/her day to day life?

What is most important about how businesses conduct themselves?

How do you feel about the Earth and humanity's role as stewards of the environment?

Worst case, you realize she's a bit shallow. Best case, you open the treasure trove of the deepest innermost thoughts of someone you respect.
I didnt want to go into all these little details and pull my medical file for it, just wanted to give the general idea of it is.
From what I understand, The Fridge (YC S10) has been providing this ability for a while: http://www.frid.ge/
I don't follow the logic here: evaluate a startup methodology by looking at how many public companies it's generated? Creating a public company is not the only success path for a startup.

It's like evaluating a basketball camp for kids by seeing how many make it to the NBA.
I just see it as another gaming console.

Whenever I think about buying one, this is why it comes to mind. I think it would be fun to play games on.

I really don't see the harm in marketing it as a game console. MS has XBox, Apple has iPad. Seems legitimate to me.

All I use my Galaxy Tab for is games. Except maybe to check a website from time to time.
My first step when determining whether or not I want to talk to a candidate, is finding any code they've made available online. I'm much more willing to talk to someone who has published bad code online, than someone who hasn't published anything.

It's great if I'm impressed with their code, but bad code isn't necessarily a negative. I'm much more interested in why they wrote it a certain way then looking at their code with no context. Everyone out there has written bad code, it's understanding the decisions made behind the code that's interesting to me, in regards to whether or not a candidate will make a good employee.
Real technical background on the affected japanese nuclear reactors
Meetup uses it to some extent. I don't know how much, but I'm told by some of the programmers I know. I think it was Andrew who gave a Jython talk at Meetup HQ a few months back.

Jython is a great way to leverage the huge the amount of libraries and infrastructure available on the JVM. It also lets you reuse what you might already have, which might allow you to (covertly?) transition languages. I use it regularly.

If you're not already entrenched in the Java world, you probably don't need it. I use it because my clients are comfortable deploying WARs, EARs, JARs, SARs, etc. Oracle and IBM sell a full stack, so there's never any scrutiny.

Technologically, you might want it. Despite the tendency to ignore them, Java has a lot of superior tech that comes in handy. You'll get real threads, connection pooling, distributed transactions, fantastic async I/O libraries; Jython inherits all of this. If you need this, it's available. You don't have to roll your own. (You will have to learn it, though, and I think that's what really drives NIHS...) Understand that Jython does come with a performance penalty on some tasks, but pays dividends on others. You can also spot tune with pure Java to some extent.

So it's really a strategic thing. If you're selling into orgs that have established practices, or if you need really serious throughput, Jython will probably be a good choice. If you're building a web app that you run on your own infrastructure and you've already chosen Python and Django, you're probably better off without the extra layer.
Thats when different radioactive material than in this case in much higher amounts was lifted to high altitudes, which also didn't happen here.

I'd be very careful to compare this incident with Chernobyl
I am a US citizen, my father is from the US, atleast that was on my side :)
I don't use software that requires a gmail/facebook/twitter login.

I'll keep using one of the deployed clones.
Good points. I never thought about pedantic programmers being a waste of money.
Does Google Doc's revision history not provide this?
After reading the article, it kinda sounds to me like Dvorak just can't see Facebook's relevance as a communication tool for people who aren't super skilled with computers. I'm not really a fan of Facebook myself, but shantanubala is right; It does help people connect and share information easier. I wouldn't agree with Dvorak that Facebook is a ghetto, then again the definition of the word "friend" seems to be a little different these days.
In the UK 'Regulatory Investigative Powers' RIP was introduced to catch terrorists and international drug dealers. It allows government to get pretty much unlimited snooping ability on phones, web visits, cell phone location etc.

Within a year the majority of RIP requests were from local city councils famously investigating cases of dog crap and people giving a false address to get kids into better schools.
You are absolutely right! I keep letting my myopic worldview of instant information at the end of a search get in the way of my memory.

ha, relevant http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318310
> Jython 2.5.2 Has Been Released (March 3, 2011)

It's being actively developed. I know IBM uses it, at least in WebSphere.

About scalabilty I don't know, but it compiles to Java bytecode and the JVM is very mature (with Jython itself being mature as well), I'd wager that it scales well.

However, why are you using Jython with Django when you can use CPython? You're adding an additional layer of abstraction that will incur a performance hit.
Spot on. But this is exactly the kind of article that one would expect to get many negative comments on HN. It's critical of a hyped website and the argument isn't even economic.
Honestly iWork didn't work on the iPad the first time around because the performance wasn't there. I found Numbers and Pages too choppy for anything other than basic editing tasks.

Secondly lots of office apps are based on traditional paradigms and metaphors related to printed documents. I think the key insight will be to create a new document type that makes more sense for tablet consumption, and maybe this new document will lead to a new kind of office app less reliant on the keyboard and mouse.
That's a remarkably informal tone of writing for a resume. Is Steve Jobs just casual or have resumes gotten more formal?
Well that certainly is good to know. I just worry though that compared to candidates who have no online code, those who do will have more to criticize. Maybe not by you but I am sure there are some managers who would be more willing to hire somebody with no online code than somebody who did have some online code who maybe made a few mistakes.
I'm writing this in bed with a laptop on my lap. The bluetooth keyboard (at least the one Apple has) is just not functional in this position. And I do a surprisingly large amount of work in bed.
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I'd also accept "I'm doing it" from a Great programmer.

Somewhere in there should also fit, "Let me teach you how to do it too."
> Red Hat provides support for MySQL?

No. But it does have mysql packages in the distribution.
Aww, and here I was hoping no one would know about it...
The Boston Globe this morning talked about people with acute radiation sickness, too. I don't know how much faith to put in that statement, but if it's true certainly the amount of radiation release is far, far greater than anything that this post envisions. In that case, he clearly can't be correct.
Right this seems like a zero sum game across the agents involved:

- users
- advertisers
- "killer apps" company

It's obvious from the reviews that the users only care about the gift cards. So if they get more gift cards than the other parties get back in app sales commission, the users win. However the terms state you're limited to 3 cards per year and that you lose your points after 60 days of inactivity, so I'm guessing that other parties come up on top via this bait and switch technique. It's also possible that the advertisers get the short end of the stick if they're just paying for impressions.
Just putting myself on the list as yet another person who would be trying this out right now, but it requires a Facebook login, so I'm writing this comment instead. I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I would not be pleased with creating a permanent link between my Google account, which is important to me, to some little application that I may forget about quickly.
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isn't it basically the same as http://www.myipneighbors.com/ ?
I don't think Apple was really trying to pitch office applications on the iPad as an example of what you would do with it, but to be an example of what you could. As if to say: "Don't think of this as just a toy, just a gadget, just a big iPod--think of this as a personal computer."

In that sense I think Apple's message is the same this year as it was last year. Consider Garage Band. It's not about the five bucks. It's not even really about selling more iPads (though it will undoubtedly help). It's really about demonstrating the absence of certain perceived limitations about what a "giant iPod" can do.

I think that's what Apple's overall strategy with its apps is: to keep pounding away at perceived limitations of the platform, both in functionality and performance, with vivid real-world demonstrations of what's possible. Consider that all five paid applications that Apple has demoed at the iPad events are content creation applications, striking squarely at the persistent criticism of it as a "consumption" device.

Maybe next year we'll see Xcode.
The limitations people will impose on themselves just so they don't have to spend time learning something will never ceases to amaze me.
I've never seen us go "back" to any technology in anything other than aesthetics which seem to cycle. If I knew what was coming next though, I'd probably go build it. I bet it is exciting, technically currently difficult, and will make a lot of money.

Neural interfaces seem a little too far forward though, it seems like you'd need another generation to have that be socially "normal," and that they'll need their own cultural bridge technology. There must be something between an iPad and neural interfaces which lets us casually and continuously wander in and out of the internet.
Did not work out too well, given the history of nuclear power plants in the US. When was the last one built?

The list of cancelled nuclear power plants is impressive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canceled_nuclear_plants...
I was going to disagree with you about the boilerplate until I actually looked at the article, and you're right, it's just silly that the the Objective-C version gets about 10 additional methods that serve no real purpose.
Dublin: Europe’s next startup petri dish?

http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/08/dublin-europes-next-startu...
As is often quoted, "real artists ship".

If you publish code, even if it is buggy, you have proof that you can code (which is pretty important). However, I'd ensure that it works. If you are aware of bugs, document them in the code.

Would you buy clothes at a store that didn't let you see them until you bought them?
He also has a bit of lisp, so yea, that he put on such a good speech is an impressive feat of self-confidence.
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I was at the keynote and his explanation about using any() to move a tight loop to C blew my mind. I had never thought about optimizing that way, and that is a very enlightening look at making tight loops faster. Quite a dramatic improvement, too.
Thanks for the response. Not CPython because we want something that runs on JVM and also be able to utilize existing Java code/technologies.
Chernobyl had much higher number of deaths.

WHO:

http://sciencev1.orf.at/science/news/147988

The range mentioned is 14000-17000.
FTA: "Some radiation was released when the pressure vessel was vented. All radioactive isotopes from the activated steam have gone (decayed). A very small amount of Cesium was released, as well as Iodine. If you were sitting on top of the plants’ chimney when they were venting, you should probably give up smoking to return to your former life expectancy. The Cesium and Iodine isotopes were carried out to the sea and will never be seen again."

And my main point is not that i want to set the japanese accident on the same level as chernobyl, but more to make clear that nobody expected such a strong contamination after 25 years thousands of miles away from the center of explosion. World is not behaving linearly, even though some people want us to believe it does.
The Ipad's Achilles heel is that it doesn't lend itself well enough to Enterprise, and it can't serve two masters, design-wise. In the same way the Blackberry got popular for enterprise use, I think even a slightly clunkier device which fit right into the standard Windows enterprise and gave IT departments a lot of control, business apps, and integration with their infrastructure would do very well. Closer to what the IPad would be if it was instead just a PC in a different form factor. Where is the Dell Ipad?
I can say from the perspective of hiring at Twilio that we often look first for a github or projects link in a cover letter or resume. Fairly often we decide to give someone an interview based on that. The opposite is often true as well. Without seeing code, a candidate who is on the fence may get passed over.

Ultimately we are looking for creative hackers, and public projects are crucial in determining the inquisitiveness of a potential candidate. Other employers may have different priorities, but I think most startups are looking for similar types.
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well probably not, but people do buy clothes online all the time.
Desperate, but not unforeseen. I guarantee you that there is something on file at Japan's nuclear regulatory agency describing exactly what they're doing now and the circumstances under which to do it.

Nuclear engineering is imagining the worst case, every reload, and coming up with a plan for what to do to contain radioactive material if it happens.
Thanks for your great response. About the extra layer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320299
writing books

Really? I know some people who are amoung the most notable names in tech books, and almost none of them make a living from the books they write. What I usually hear is the book gets them in the door for speaking engagements and consulting, but the books themselves don't pay much of an hourly rate.

But I do agree that you can make a living with open source software, but you're not likely going to be able to get rich.
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Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but Cs-137 has a half life of 30 years or something. It certainly does not disappear quickly. Most of the Chernobyl contamination in Sweden was from Cesium, and that made berries and reindeer (which eat lichens) unsafe to eat for many years, if not decades.
No thank Fucking engineers. God did the deed - engineers countered it.

Given the few 1000s casualties against a Mag8.9 earthquake I think God lost this one
I'm not sure about the development state of Jyhton, but like others have already said, using the JVM opens up an enormous box of Java platform goodies. With Jython you can build your web app front-end with Django and your backend business logic with Java, Scala or something else. It also gives you the ability to create worker thread etc.

This is a great online book about using Jython:
http://www.jython.org/jythonbook/en/1.0
yet again we have someone saying that ideas are plentiful, easy, worthless, and don't "count"

What? From the article: "Having a great idea is not enough. It is the manner in which ideas are executed that counts."

Apparently all ideas are equivalent, that is. don't "count:, and only execution counts.

What article were you reading?
I couldn't agree more... good ideas are a dime-a-dozen. What's rare are people who put in the effort to execute ideas, and execute them well.

People tend not to act upon their ideas because of the lack of time, money, or the right skills. I'm trying to help solve the third problem on my site www.iinspireus.com -- helping people find real collaborators/partners with skills complementary to theirs, so that they can realize their ideas.
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