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You're arguing that the music industry will be worse for lack of people with no discernible talent or even interest in music becoming songwriters for pecuniary reward. Seriously?
It wasn't that bad at all. In every discussion about Charnobyl I link this (translation from Polish) http://goo.gl/Djbag

> So what Chernobyl has taught us?

> That nuclear energy is the safest source of energy currently available. The Chernobyl disaster was the worst we can imagine a nuclear power plant. In addition, Chernobyl defied every rule of safety. This property was one big scandal. But that's not all. Following the outbreak of the reactor were released into the atmosphere huge amounts of radioactive substances, which reached even to Antarctica. And what? And nothing. Killed 31 people - less cluttered than in January hall in Chorzow. Dangerously contaminated was less than a square kilometer of land.That's it!
Well, you threw out a bunch of random thoughts, so here are some in return.

Firstly, double-check (no advice as to how!) that you're you're not just suffering from Imposters Syndrome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

You do write some code - are you sure it's not just a matter of insecurity and scale?

Secondly, do you really need to code? You've had great jobs doing things for which you receive recognition and praise - perhaps those things are your true calling.

But if you really want to code, find a mentor and get an honest opinion. Write something really, really small, and get advice about style and content from people who can code. Finding them is an interesting challenge, but there are a few here who might help.

Find something small that you feel will be interesting enough. Perhaps you just mostly suffer from a combination of procrastination and lack of focus. Perhaps you need to learn and work in really small chunks.

Perhaps you need to learn by doing, not by watching.

So here's a thought: Pick three languages that you've had contact with and in each, write FizzBuzz and post them here. And to prevent you from having the excuse to look it up on the net and getting clues from what you see:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100, except that if a number is divisible by 3 print "Fizz" instead, if a number is divisible by 5 print "Buzz" instead, and if divisible by both, print "FizzBuzz" instead.

Just a thought.
This is not fair. C was (and still is) intended for situations where writing your own list abstractions is the right thing to do.

Unlike lists, the array abstraction doesn't cost anything, as it's just straightforward pointer arithmetic underneath. This is why it is in the language.
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Woah, so that basically means that for coal in the US of the 3 or 4 cents per khw (wholesale price, not yet transmitted to your house) there is a hidden cost that is between 35 and 50% more, assuming $1mm / life (a standard non-conservative assumption by engineers). So basically coal isn't worth it at all? It's not just nuclear, natural gas could be made cheaper (and greener) than coal after you take in the human life costs. I also question why the oil cost in human life is so high. Do they take into account oil related conflicts like the Gulf War?
surely wind lights your lights just like nuclear does?

at what cost? and by cost I don't mean market cost. surely cost of electricity in Japan didn't account for nuclear meltdown possibility, thus far.

of course nuclear is still better than coal, which requires huge open pit mines and produces incredible amounts of dust, radioactivity of which is greater than all nucleotides released from nuclear power plants as far as I understand.
Close enough! Maybe not with the same level of disdain but I find the general consensus is that we have no idea what we are talking about, we are only interested in squeezing candidates for leads and that we like to pigeon-hole everyone we speak to into a specific role.
You must think markets are pretty inefficient.

Can you explain why this is time to start buying?

If you can explain why people are selling so much so fast right now, that might help your argument.
I'm not sure what you're saying.

Are you suggesting that because ignorant people think something is unsafe, that means that it actually is unsafe?
Oh, how America has changed.
Agreed with the writing. You're clearly not a native speaker, and that's ok, for coding. But the writing on the site is terrible and a turn-off. If you can't find someone to dramatically improve it, then remove it.

If you're serious about this, there are services out there that improve your writing. Or ask for free help.

You should spend at least a week fulltime just on improving the writing.
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My first thought is that once a solar panel is installed on the roof, that death rate has to drop nearly to 0. That is, the risk is foremost in hoisting and installing these heavy fragile panels on your pitched roof.

With nuclear, though, I'd think that very little comparative risk is associated with construction. The bulk of the risk is in ongoing operation.

So the die is not yet cast on nuclear deaths.

I'm reminded of a case a few years ago at a nuke plant in Ohio where an acid leak above the reactor head had slowly eaten away... The 6-inch thick reactor head was, in this spot, corroded down to just 1/8 (!!!!) inch thick.

Now, politically, I do favor nuclear power. I think it's a national security issue to wean off fossil fuels. But i think this "study" is a little overheated and needed a healthy dousing of sea-water.
30 days is perceived as longer. That's why "30 days money back guarantee" is standard phrasing.
I consider myself a leftie greenie politically, and I am pro nuclear (with some small reservations). It pisses me off no end to see the same people campaigning for action on climate change campaigning against the one proven at scale technology that can help us out of the climate change mess.
Chernobyl wasn't as bad as has been made out to be. In total around 50 deaths are directly attributable to radiation exposure(firemen and resue workers). 4'000 children contracted thyroid cancer as a result but with nearly a 99% recovery rate. In terms of cancers or birth defects there have been no increases over the average in effected areas.

Seriously, study after study by various international organisations have come to the same conclusion.

See these links for the reports.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326129

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326672
I would also like a more complete comparison of costs (including deaths, loss of arable land, ...) but I very much suspect that the picture would be similar. Renewable energies combined with nuclear energy seem to be a good idea.
Just a quick point of order: study after study on Chernobyl found major exposure by just about everyone. It was serious business. This is where, without any containment vessel at all, the fuel caught fire and the radioactive ash spread all over the place.

But you are right about Three-Mile Island.
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In responding to jbri's comment bellow, as the "Reply" link doesn't show up for me on that one:

> Are you suggesting that because ignorant people think something is unsafe, that means that it actually is unsafe?

Yeah, this is what I'm saying, but isn't this what web 2.0 people were calling "wisdom of the crowds"? I guess back then it sounded cool, now it's just "return to technocracy" once more.
3 minutes is very, very long. I'd shoot for 1 minute. As RiderOfGiraffes said, catch the attention in the first few seconds.

As in writing, editing is king. Remove bits.
Just so you know, Apple's linker is at least occasionally open source, both ld_classic (from "cctools") and ld64. You can compile your own copies and redistribute those.
It killed 31 people more or less immediately. Thousands of cancers are linked to it.
According to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue

The biggest oil and gas companies add up to 3.4T$ in yearly revenue. Considering they've been going for a century at least it seems feasible that they've surpassed the 75T$ mark in total.

So if you owned a monopoly on the most lucrative industry on earth maybe you could actually pay off the music industry in 300 years or so[1]...

[1] at Exxon Mobil's 9% net profit margin - http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AXOM
You omit the MPAA's definition of "kill". Their definition of "kill" is "forcibly reduce our obscene profit margin to something more in line with our actual costs of production and distribution".
Nuclear's big win over wind (and solar and wave and tide and hydro and...) is it's density. The _little_ reactor at Fukushima daiichi is ~500MW. The other 5 are closer to 1GW. Big wind turbines (at least here in .au) are rated at ~2MW peak, but with 15-30% utilization (the wind doesn't always blow at just the right speed to provide the amount of power you're using). That means the littlest reactor at Fukushima daiichi would need about 1000-1500 large wind turbines to replace it, and the 10 reactors in the two Fukushima complexes would need 20,000 or 30,000 400 foot diameter turbines on 250 foot tall pylons. That needs a _lot_ of space. Putting them off shore increases the maintenance requirements and the difficulty of getting to them means the increased maintenance is also more expensive.

I really like wind power. I think wind farms look beautiful. But they aren't capable of supplying anything like as much power as we need.
People behave irrationally during panics. Through a little bit of cleverness on my part and alot of luck I found myself sitting on cash when Lehman collapsed.

So faced with the prospect of fiscal apocalypse or (I had friends pulling money out of banks) the buying opportunity of the century, I bought a bunch of equities that were punished by the collapse, and made a bunch of money.
>... I'm not one of the "OMFG LOOK AT THE NUCLEAR ANGEL OF DEATH" people, but can we wait for this crisis to reach some resolution before we make loud proclamations either way?

Well you could see this as a calm article to balance those with cries of the nuclear angel because lets face it, they sure are making something of this.
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You can click the "link" button next to the comment header to get a reply box regardless.

Regarding this "wisdom of the crowds" crap, does the presence of a lynch mob indicate that someone was actually guilty? If masses of people swear by a medical treatment, does that magically mean it's not a placebo?

Crowds are dumb. The only time you want to follow the "wisdom of the crowd" is when the crowd is your marketable commodity.
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Yes and no. What I see is all of Japans equities moving in lock step regardless of where their manufacturing or distribution centers are actually geographically located. Much like Toyota or one of our own blue chips some of these companies are headquartered in Japan but exist all over the world. Those are the companies whose fundamentals do not reflect an equities plunge like we are seeing.
I'm not against nuclear. Sure, fission is the most energietic natural force we conquered as of today and we have to use it. Hopefully fusion will come online in this century.

I'm just saying that of all energy sources we have today the wind energy has the least negative impact on our lives.
I did a few times. It's actually easier to make something look exactly the way you want it to look in plain TeX than fight with some poorly documented LaTeX package.
I do a lot of math. That makes LaTeX much faster to write than any alternatives. At this point, in math classes, I can take notes in real time. A properly written LaTeX file is also much faster to modify -- if I'm giving a presentation, and I have an arrow between two equations on different lines, when I rearrange things, that arrow keeps pointing between those two things. I can generate LaTeX programmaticly (e.g. tables of results). I can keep it in version control and have sensible differences between versions.

My major problem is that it does not handle animation and video well. Those are increasingly coming to be critical parts of presentations, and are the major thing pushing me towards OO.Presentation or PowerPoint or similar.
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in the rules for first contact (they do exist) should be "Show them Go and Bach ASAP so we at least have a chance of not looking like idiots."
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The 400 mSv figure was a spike measured at one of the reactors, not ambient radiation in populated areas. In Shinjuku in Tokyo for example they measured 0.809µSv (note the µ) between 10 and 11 this morning, although the average for that period was about half that.

If there are no further blasts or fires I think things will be fine, but I don't know how much more damage the facility can take. Some of my friends and coworkers are evacuating Tokyo and I'm not sure they don't have the right idea...
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And example in action http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/flatland/
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It's all in the context. "A whole month", "Every day for thirty days", and so on.
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110315z2.html

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110315z1.html
If only people would know how to use styles! This is probably the most important thing to know about word processors. Styles make documents consistent and beautiful. Most word processors these days ship with really beautiful and professional styles (not OOo, though). Maybe not as beautiful as TeX, but easily good enough for most applications.

But people don't know about styles, and their documents are ugly.
I don't use Exposé that much, just some widgets. It has it's own button.
I think Tex is wonderful just as it is. It does have a learning curve, like any powerful system, but so does e.g. html+css or any programming language. Emacs is a great editor and I run it with a simple inotify script to get automatic compilation. The error messages could be better, but that too comes with experience; I can almost always tell exacty what is wrong from the error message. Tex is so well suited to the purpose of producing mathematical documents that I really think asking for a modern replacement is like asking for a modern replacement for HTML. If you are not interested in becoming an expert user, go with a front end (the equivalent of frontpage or dreamweaver or similar). For the heaviest users, learning Latex is not a big deal relative to the other arcane knowledge one must acquire to write something worthwhile with it. As others have said, the investment is paid off in beauty, speed, and control.
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"The World Health Organization study in 2005 indicated that 50 people died to that point as a direct result of Chernobyl. 4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after the fact and the cause and effect becomes more tenuous."

In other words, this article only counts the deaths of reactor staff and emergency crew, and goes on to outrightly dismiss cancer deaths.

The article's stated purpose is to show a comparison of death tolls. The dramatic loss of quality of life due to radiation poisoning for thousands of people exposed to the highest levels of radiation surrounding the Chernobyl disaster, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands, is also worth considering when weighing the negative impact.

That said, with Chernobyl, we're talking about the absolute worst-case scenario for a nuclear reactor improperly contained (actually, not contained at all) and neglected long after warning signs were shown. We shouldn't practice historical revisionism or insult its victims by downplaying its impact, but we should also remember that its particular history will not be repeated with the containment barriers and safety measures in place at today's plants.
Disingenuous opinionated twaddle masquerading as statistical reasoning.
Please, when "publishing" your offer state if you would consider some kind of remote working too.
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Are you really sure about that?

499USD = ~360EUR. A 499EUR ipad would seem to give another 193USD profit. But... do higher European taxes negate the higher price point? That was my original point. Yes, there's more revenue, but if they have to pay more (taxes, wages, etc) it might be a wash.
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> $4 billion is about the cost of one of the new 1.5 GW nuclear power plants, which would generate 12 TWh/year

In China maybe, but not in the western world. The EPR for example, is 1.65GWe, and is projected to cost €6.4 billion, or almost $9 billion in Finland. The one being built in France is now projected at €5 billion ($7 bililon), but may cost more as it'll take another 3 years to complete.
Why? They're already close to having IE9 on the phone.
org-mode can export HTML and LaTeX (and many more). However, I would not describe it as "hotkey-friendly", rather as "hotkey-happy".
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[edited] I wonder if humility and thankfulness might help.

Not humility in the sense that you put yourself down, but humility in the sense that you accept that you're part of a large world (and a huge universe) and that you're happy with that.

And being thankful for the things you've been able to achieve, the help you've received along the way etc.

You can quite easily practice both. http://www.google.com/search?q=practice+thankfulness
Wind has downsides for quality of life. I'm unfamiliar with particular research, but understand there are health effects on people who live near the installations, possibly from being constantly exposed to low frequency sound. It also affects visuals of the landscape, and you need to affect a lot of landscape to create small amounts of power.

My own disclosure: have positions in uranium, which have taken a bath this week :)
Nice to see a job posting from a Zurich-based startup here :)
Looking in awe at the fact that the plants are still standing after an earthquake "five times stronger than the older Fukushima plants had been designed to cope with" isn't the right way to look at this situation. Why were these plants built in a massively earthquake prone zone and not designed to avoid what is happening right now? If an earthquake this powerful was possible, the most sensitive pieces of infrastructure should have been designed to handle it. They clearly were not.

I'm no nuclear opponent... I believe that nuclear could very well be the only safe and scalable answer to the world's energy needs - but if we can't make the economics of building safer plants work, then nuclear is a nonstarter.

Proclamations like this that everything is and will be fine are really reckless at this point. Every day it seems like we are finding out that things are much worse than we had previously been told they are, and it looks as though they are still in the process of losing - not gaining - control at Fukushima.
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... In the States.
If you stick it in a pint glass it makes the speakerphone a lot louder as well.

I can foresee some funny looks from strangers however, if you were to sit there in a bar on your own shouting at your phone in the bottom of a glass. Maybe that kind of thing is normal in california, I have no idea.
"... The answer is for someone to plunk down a million dollars to hire some full-time developers to fix it. Honestly, the TeX language is wonderful; it's the editors which are terrible. A TeX editor should... ..."

Would it really take a $1M dollars to achieve a useful enough fix for TeX editing? And a better question, "is there are market for such an editor?"
I'd be a little hesitant about a Rails developer with all of the required skills in that job posting who'd take 25-40K in Cambridge. I know the economic climate isn't great but that's going to be a tricky role to fill.
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The interviewee is pretty far out, away from anything what pretty much all scientific studies of the Chernobyl catastrophe concluded.
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Same for me.. still got my BeBox, my SGI O2, and my NextStation though, right next to my PPC Powerbook G4 .. ;)
Indeed, it's something like the "Boil the Oceans" solution.

But to some extent, that's the point. I've outlined a suggestion for what you're trying to achieve at the next level down. It's now your job to think creatively to find a way to do it (assuming you think it's right).

If you succeed then you're doing better than your competitors, for I've rarely seen it done at all.
Only in early Lisps (and the broken newLisp) are functions lists.

The syntax for functions is lists. But at runtime functions are their own type.