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In Japan, one could just reach out and do just that, yet nobody did.

What would be the challenge or rule-breaking here? If you can just do it, there's no accomplishment. The more you guard something the more valuable breaking it becomes. Reminds me of the old story of a mainframe operator who, having grown a frustration against users hacking the system to have it shutdown, simply added a suid script accessible to everyone that shut down the machine. The machine stayed online from that point on.
Ah, OK, now I understand a problem I can agree with - so it's not so much the damage from paying 1.5% on a profitable transaction (employees exercise options as part of winning start-up lottery) but rather the company has to pay cash for a gain it only realised in paper. So now I understand why they were saying a company going for IPO would have to pay most of the money raised as taxes, rather than just 1.5% of it.

Why is no one suggesting applying the 1.5% when cash exchanges hands? Everyone is either suggesting keeping the 1.5% as is, or scrapping it completely for stock options. But surely a middle ground allows cash for taxes as a small percentage of cash from profits?
Even a decade ago, or 4 decades ago, I think there was a lot wrong with mainstream media. The disruption the internet is causing is revealing a lot of these problems more than actually causing them.
There's nothing stopping you from running multiple JRuby instances, just as you would with any other interpreter, it's just you can't use fork() to create them. Use an external script/daemon to start up multiple processes.

It's not as memory efficient as MRI, but isn't _too_ bad unless you're on a cheapo memory constrained VPS.
asking as a total noob, how does a PEG grammar compare to ANTLR's grammar? seems very similar
>that weird sensation and the urge to return it, like if we were guilty of something we really didn't do.

Same thing happened to us in a Spanish clothing shop. Wife went out with some blouse she tried and somehow this didn't trip that alarm at the door. While groceries shopping nearby we notice the blouse.

>And we did, they guy thanked us like a million times. We felt the most honorable people on earth.

We go return the blouse, the alarm starts while we enter then we have to fiddle explaining in half-Spanish what we meant to do.

We end up paying for the damn blouse, with the guard next to us but we don't get a receipt because that's company policy (I'd guess a form of punishment so you couldn't return the item).

In the end we both regretted returning it and kinda ruined the whole evening.

Not sure if this is a valid Spanish/European-Japanese comparison but it certainly is a corporate versus humane shop comparison.
No, they don't even have a Taco Bell. You may ask what is Brisbane then? Its a residential area with a few industrial parks. The gasoline for the greater San Francisco area is pumped from the Brisbane junction.

For anyone who wants to move a company there, they don't have much amenities. They have a single chinese restaurant, una taqueuria, and have a stellar coffee shop, but its not open long enough for the hacker personality.

Brisbane is a small town that used to be lively during the days of Johnny Cash. Its not a substitute for a city like San Francisco or even a south bay area like Mountain View. Its that mountain town you see up in Tahoe, but 1 mile south of the city. I actually suggest making a daytrip to hike the abandoned railroads through it.

If they were to move into the open buildings in the area, this could make lives of people who use public transit annoyed. The Caltrain stations are 1 mile away on each side away from Brisbane, there is only a single SamTrans running along Bayshore and forget BART, its way too far. Biking is your best bet via caltrain.

Since Brisbane is an economical situation where they are talking about shutting down the elementary and highschools, this could be a very good thing for the city. As for Twitter and other companies alike, its a question about what type of culture they want to grow. As a resident of the area, I prefer living in Brisbane, rather than working.
I'd suspect that at least half of the journalists reporting on this don't even know that there is a replacement for the Richter scale. Particularly with translation involved, it's pretty easy for one publication to drop the reference to the moment scale and the next publication to reattach the Richter name to the number.
I love interactive tutorials! I wish there would be one for python I could pass around (is there?).

The timeouts on this particular page could use some tweaking, though.
I do indeed; that's why I had forgotten my password, because I always log in with my key. Amusing, this!
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The tax bill your hypothetical company faces will be based on options that are actually exercised. Except for an incredibly fortunate few early employees, I'd wager the vast majority of options have a strike price something higher than 1.5% current valuation ... and, viola, there's your cash to pay the bill, perfectly timed. Crisis averted!

More generally, a company whose valuation shoots up but which is unable to find cash to meet shorter-term needs is Doing It Wrong and doesn't deserve the higher valuation.

Musing about this tax in general, without specifically debating:

I think payroll taxes of any form are one of the worst kinds of tax, so from that point of view we can agree. (Somehow I don't think you'd agree that significant increases on taxes for the wealthiest are a better alternative, though.)

But, if you're going to tax wage and salary compensation, then it's more than fair to tax options and other forms of compensation, too -- otherwise you end up with a regressive payroll tax, which punishes poorer workers & companies at the same time as being far less efficient at raising the needed revenue.

(edit: Part of my post was in response to something I hadn't noticed you'd edited out, so I snipped it belatedly.)
Hopefully you have more experience when you are older.
Even if it was AOL asking for them to tone it down, what's the problem? A rep asks nicely if the language used is appropriate and if perhaps some better wording could be used instead?

To pan a person or company over a request like that seems ridiculous.
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That's not the issue - or rather, not for the city. They are not particularly anxious to get their hands on a slice of everyone's stock options. Losing payroll revenue from Twitter for 6 years is worth less than the potential overall gain from getting the company to move into the mid-market corridor over the long term. San Francisco is facing a 3 million sqft glut of empty office space in that area over the next 12-24 months, which will mean another 10-20 years of blight if they don't head it off.

By the way, anyone who's been seriously thinking about opening an office in SF should try to lock in lease terms this week. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/50842673/101155-economic-impact-fi...
And most importantly they are big whales not startups. TC is talking about two big billion vauated companies and their problems.
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What limitations and bugs? Could someone add some context here?
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My company is right next to that donut shop on 6th, hooker area hasn't got anything on the strung out homeless people near my office. I know this isn't the point of the article, but the bigger issue here is how the city handles its homeless. SF pays $200 million/year on homeless programs targeting the 7k homeless people, something is wrong with this picture.
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Is there an online resource that hosts quite a number of the videos that people have made around the event? Or even of the keynotes?
> I think parser-generators are unpopular because people would prefer to just write code, rather than compile something else to automatically generated code that is nigh on unreadable.

Also, a manual lexer/parser can introduce context when necessary. E.g. Python has significant whitespace. The lexer (with context knowledge of indentation width) can easily emit indent/dedent tokens, so the grammar is context free. With a tool like ANTLR you have to do wierd stuff to parse Python.

Programming languages older than 10 years or so are usually not context-free. For example C needs context to parse "A*B", because the meaning depends on whether "A" is a type or a variable. Recent programming languages usually try to be LL(1), which is why the keywords "var", "val", and "def" become so popular.
"They still have public spas that allow both men and women in one tub."

What do you mean "allow"? Where I live (Europe) there are no restrictions in spas, and people can sit in tubs in any combinations they want...
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> Just consider. The simple way of removing a single "i" tag from strings like "<i>help me</i> he said" is never going to be "load XML parser, issue commands, close XML parser". A single loop removing the offending character is going to beat this "algorithm" a thousand times over. Manual parser generation more or less allows you to boil down your parser to this.

However, the parser-way might enable you code to handle tricky XML stuff. E.g. namespaces: "<html:i>help me</html:i>".
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"Maybe the laws of physics will change, but I'd be willing to bet that they won't."

There's absolutely nothing about the "laws of physics" that guarantees that this particular reactor design is going to be able to contain a full meltdown, because it's never happened before. Nobody knows.

"Concrete doesn't burn."

No one said it did. There's plenty of other stuff around that does burn readily, which is why the plant is currently on fire. A lot of that stuff is radioactive.

"Explosions don't just happen for no reason."

Indeed. But red-hot piles of radioactive waste are a good way of making explosions happen, particularly when there's lots of hydrogen gas floating around from the breakdown of the cooling water and the fuel. That's why there have been several explosions at the plant.

"Nuclear reactors don't hold enough fuel to form a critical mass. In order to become critical, they need a moderator (usually water) which thermalizes neutrons."

You're assuming an intact core. Criticality is a function of density, shape and temperature, in addition to mass. Melt the fuel rods, and the guarantees of that nice, well-moderated behavior are off.

In general, you're making lots of simplistic assumptions about a nicely behaved, engineered, controlled system. What they've got now is far messier. Moreover, a lot of the stuff that you're saying can't happen, is actually happening right now. The reality of the situation trumps your theories of the situation, however confident.
Perhaps they should just come out and say, "we're experts but please, stop mailing us questions".

In my view, the reason why this new version is less enjoyable to read is, that they've just precised the numbers, labels and terms rather than the conclusion.
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I'm not sure I follow your post; apologies if it's my own up-too-late-itis. "When cash exchanges hands" is when the tax does apply, assuming by that you mean options being exercised.

That's why in my imaginary example a post or two ago, one of the more fantastical & unlikely parts of it was a full 30% option pool all being exercised at once.

Hence, (and I apologize for any inaccuracies in paraphrase) the post you are replying to is recasting the tax as a potential cash-flow issue, rather than a great and unfair ongoing burden: because it's not.
We also have an easy way to mark things as 'want' and 'have' and to share them on Facebook. But yes, real-time scanning of the shelves is a key differentiator.

If you don't mind my asking, how long does the process take you with Amazon's app? If that process could be sped up substantially, would you scan more products: multiple options for any one purchase, and less expensive products too [1]?

The UPC scanners take too much time [2] and too much effort. Steps: find and extract box, aim for its UPC (maybe while awkwardly balancing the box in one hand), wait several seconds to get simple data like average rating. Then: put box back in its place, touch 'back' on phone, repeat steps for next product.

[1] - Judging by the # of reviews on Amazon for even trivial items like HDMI cables, people like to research all kinds of products, as long as it's quick and easy.

[2] - The whole process with UPC scanners takes me about 10-20s, whereas ShopSidekick takes 1-2s.
Despite all that, JRuby does an absolutely bang-up job of working around the JVM's limitations where it can. As far as I know, it was the first language implementation anywhere on the JVM to allow forking, for instance.
The title is technically correct; however, it seems like link bait once you get to page two of the article and see:

"Bridenbaugh told ABC News that he believes the design flaws that prompted his resignation from GE were eventually addressed at the Fukushima Daiichi plant."
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I might choose the one that is closer to me, or closer to where I would want to use the stored items. I might choose the one that also offers a parcel reception service. I might choose the one that has better security - some storage outfits are just a single room separated into lots by loose cardboard. I might choose the one with greater hours of access.

One day people will get that there is far more to 'value' than 'money'. SF is a nice place. People want to be there. Why shouldn't they capitalise on it? Boo-hoo, stupidly wealthy company can't take the heat, so go move to Idaho and see if that tax is really the kind of thing that cripples your tech company.

Rah, rah, private companies should be allowed to accrete wealth for their superior products because that's The American Way. But should a city offer a superior product, suddenly we're all supposed to be communist equalists when it comes to the public life?
Is it true that there is no japanese word for 'looting'.

This all came up from a joke, we were watching the news broadcasts, and my friend said 'you know there is no looting in Japan' and I said 'that is because they don't have a word for it'. I ended up looking it up, and it seems true - can you confirm?
> The biggest thing that could be improved about parsing IMO is for grammars to be reusable.

This is not solely about parsing. There is the semantic analysis phase afterwards, which is just as hard. In your example "sizeof(struct MyStruct) = 96" must be related to the type definition of MyStruct. Then the compilation target must be asked for the sizes of the primitive types inside the struct. Effectively, the IDE could as well execute the compiler (with a parameter not to generate code) and parse the output.

Maybe an IDE wants a complete frontend as a library. Feed in the file, retrieve the AST. Insert callbacks for warnings and errors instead of printing to stderr.

An interesting problem would be to reparse parts of a file. The parser would have to get an AST node and a file position, to "resume" parsing from there. This only works, if there is no context apart from the AST, though.
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The tone of this post seems to indicate your effort to "clean up your act" isn't going very well.
I may ask you about the spent fuel disposals that seem to be on fire.

Are they within the containment? This picture doesn't clear things up for me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BWR_Mark_I_Containment_ske...)? And if so and if they are on fire, does the containment still work?

And if they are not within the containment, aren't we f..ked?
Isn't the greatest risk of nuclear plants not the reactor but the proper waste disposal? Storing it near a nuclear plant seems to be idiotic.

EDIT: Most news articles read like there was a waste disposal next to the plants and outside of the containment

EDIT 2: http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300...
Yeah everyone wins, the guy at AOL can be like the the movie company, well I tried but I have no control there, and any attention to the link bait article helps the AOL bottom line.
It does to the examples you gave.

You get better output quicker -- a neatly formatted PDF -- with CLI tools like LaTeX or troff (they work as a pipe of filters), than with a WYSIWYG like MS Word.

You get more relevant data quicker with SQL querying a Data Warehouse than via some GUI front-end that only lets you use some opaque, pre-defined queries.

GUI is meant to flatten the learning curve; CLI is meant to let you unleash power of tools you know well.

GUI may shine when you do a task once in a blue moon, but CLI is the choice for frequent use.

On the other hand, I've never seen any good CLI approach to browsing the web ;-)
Actually they are not reducing their risk by keeping the number of shows low. Here is why:

Upto 211 degrees, nothing happens. At 212 degrees, water boils.

Similarly, will 1 good show make a lot of people subscribe to Netflix? Even if the show is orgasmic - I doubt it. There is no momentum here. No tipping point. 2 shows won't do it either.

I don't know what the minimum number of new shows is that would get a lot of folks to subscribe. But for myself, I would put it near 12 or so.

If Netflix wanted to reduce their risk, they should have targeted niches that are not so expensive. Mainstream entertainment is not a good idea to start with. Something like History channel or World Travel is.

But going with low risk niches, would not generate so much publicity for them. Would not make the studios and cable companies take notice. Netflix is in a fight with them - and so this is a strategic move to get noticed. Not a risk reduction move.
Nice try, Soviet Propaganda Ministry.

Nobody volunteered, this was soviet russia. The 'bio-robots'[1] were all culled from reservist regiments and most of them were absolutely scarred shit of going in and cleaning up.

Even the miners who worked to re-support the foundation were never 'asked' - they were simply bought onto the site and dumped there.

The full time military units never went anywhere near the reactor - that was for the reservists. They needed the military units to keep everybody else inline.

As a person who's family survived eastern euro communism, I can tell you that your view of it is greatly, greatly skewed and straight out of what they wanted people to believe.

there was no 'please' or 'thank you' or 'yes' or 'no' - there was say nothing, or be missing.

checkout this excellent doco about the biorobots and the cleanup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vMTdSAm1w

[1] Why they were called biorobots is chilling. The roof of and surroundings of the reactor had to be cleaned up. They bought in robots, but they would break down due to the high radiation exposure. It is estimated that on the roof it only took 40 seconds of exposure to receive a lethal dose. When the robots broke down, the army response command bought in reservists who they dubbed the 'bio-robots'. These guys were given sheets of lead to stick to themselves to provide some protection, and then sent up to the roof holding a shovel in 1 minute intervals. Some of the bio-robots made 5 or more trips - there were almost 200,000 of them in total, and it is estimated that over 25,000 died right afterwards, and the majority are now disabled or dead. All of the official reports were downplayed and the incidents covered up until after the wall fell.
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Sigh. This is one of the reasons that I will miss newspapers when they are gone. Folks, one of the key tenets of traditional journalism is that advertising sales department is never, but never, allowed to ask anything of the editorial department. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and it's easy to see how little requests to change content, "if you don't mind," could over time undermine the integrity of a news organization.
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Some agencies do charge around the 10% mark. Mainly the rubbish high street agencies who tend to give the rest of us a bad name. That being said, rubbish recruiters aren't exclusive to rubbish agencies.
I was just speaking with someone at the Kauffman foundation yesterday. Their research says that the vast majority of new job formation in the US economy comes from companies less than 5 years old.

And, out of those new jobs from young companies, 40% of those come from high growth technology sectors of various flavors.

50 to 60% of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by immigrants, or the children of immigrants.

Getting motivated, smart entrepreneurs in to this country is a no brainer way to jump start the economy, especially since capital is relatively easy to come by for new companies.
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A foreign minister that calls gang rapists "virile" and all sorts of extremely mysoginistic pop culture suggests not that "the Japanese are so civilised", only that they are merely different.

White friends of mine recall looking for a flat in Japan and being constantly rejected with "you're white, we don't lease to whites", which is not a problem there. There are second-generation Koreans living in Japan who can't get citizenship or the vote.

Japan is an awesome place and the people are very different to a great many other places, but can we keep the cultural cringe to a minimum?

I also find it interesting in the story that there is no mention of Feynman making a fuss about a colleague being stark naked in the same room. Does this mean he's also much more advanced and civilised? Why doesn't Fernman mention this; why is it beyond notice? Why is the maid's lack of reaction that much more noteworthy than his own lack of reaction?
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This would make sense for web apps. For (presumably) many people, ruby still is mostly a sysadmin scripting language. In that case, shorter startup times are often more important than runtime performance. I personally love ruby but I wouldn't want to use it (or any dynamically typed language) for anything bigger.