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This is Microsoft's ICQ moment. Overpaying for a company at the moment when its core competency is becoming a commodity. Does anyone have the slightest bit of loyalty to Skype? Of course not. They're going to use whichever video chat comes built into their SmartPhone, tablet, computer, etc. They're going to use FaceBook's eventual video chat service or something Google offers. No one is going to actively seek out Skype when so many alternatives exist and are deeply integrated into the products/services they already use. Certainly no one is going to buy a Microsoft product simply because it has Skype integration. Who cares if it's FaceTime, FaceBook Video Chat, Google Video Chat? It's all the same to the user.

With $7B they should have just given away about 15 million Windows Mobile phones in the form of an epic PR stunt. It's not a bad product -- they just need to make people realize it exists. If they want to flush money down the toilet they might as well engage users in the process right?
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This happens so much to me that I got a dry erase marker and write down my ideas on bathroom mirror as soon as I get out of the shower ... naturally, everyone who uses my bathroom thinks I'm crazy.
"Anyway, I think you need to quantify just how much more, on average"

As of 2007 census numbers, $80000 (median) in Asian households vs $65000, $41000, and $42000 in White, Black, and Hispanic households respectively.
> I'm still bummed that I failed to talk you in to making #!/usr/bin/javascript work back then, because I think that we were still in the window where we had a shot at smothering Perl in the crib…

It's like catching a beautiful glimpse of a future that never was.

(I might update the last three words of that sentence if I take the time to fiddle around with Node.)
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If that's true, its even worse - you don't know where you stand if your plans could be ruined because somebody's having a bad day.
That law says that parental consent is needed to collect info from kids under 13. The article references a case where clearly the parent gives consent to have an account.
I love ambiguous headlines. I was hoping that there was some sort of jewish genius generating ... something that would help me alliterate better. Damn.
Foldershare was a good name. What happened to that? :)
I have not read Harriman's book and don't know Jaynes' work well enough to say whether he inverted the hierarchy but it wouldn't surprise me if he did since he was not an Objectivist nor was he familiar with AR's theory of concepts and other important work. However, I suspect that even if he made such an error it would not invalidate much of what he did achieved.

I'm a bit confused by your use of the term "frequentist Bayesian"... Perhaps you meant "something [both] the frequentist [and] Bayesian approach [to statistics] can't do." The Bayesians are opposed to the frequentists and Jaynes was no exception. I think a more important unsolved issue, even for the Bayesians, is how do you get out of probability (as a measure of belief) to 100% certainty (i.e. to truth, 99.9999% probability is not good enough). This is the big kahuna of induction and once we solve that we are off to the races on such things as AI.
Definitely a prophet in the sense described. Kurzweil is absolutely amazing.
A bit hyperbolic, but amusing. Why doesn't Microsoft adopt meaningful brands that aren't 4 words long (Microsoft Windows for Workgroups) or vapid and diluted (ie, live)?
I'm looking into doing some sort of autocompletion related functionality for a project soon... so, why a separate daemon rather than ctags?
The linux client is missing a critical feature for me: joining an in-progress audio call. One call I'm in is almost always running, and the host is often not there to add me. I end up running windows skype in a VM when I'm on linux.
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Speaking of flag links, I've lost them. Did I inadvertently do something to get myself flagbanned?
It doesn't matter if the questioner is white or not; they likely reacted as explained in msburnett's interpretation. As worded, the question seems to presume that they are foreigners/immigrants and the follow-up question that their parents are foreigners/immigrants.
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The problem is most artists aren't happy with the amount of fame and sales their skills would deliver in a total meritocratic market. And so there's never a shortage of takers for the labels' Faustian bargian. Someone's got to handle the payola/promotion/production aspect and that stuff ain't free.
I can use skype on my nokia e63. It's even free to make and receive calls to/from skype contact through some landline gateway provided by my carrier.

chat works too but the interface is not that great.
First of all, this is a false dichotomy—you’re presenting an example with two fantastic iOS developers who don’t self-promote and one mediocre one who does. In reality, it’s probably more likely the fantastic iOS developers who self-promotes gets noticed over the fantastic iOS developers who doesn’t self-promote.

Ignoring your rhetorical feint, though, I think it’s completely reasonable to say that—by definition—you cannot be a fantastic iOS developer if you produce things that nobody knows about or uses. I would call the mediocre apps that get usage the product of a superior developer than the good ones that don’t. Software that exists in a vacuum with relatively little adoption is more or less useless. (At least, if we’re talking about a consumer-focused platform like iOS.) It doesn’t matter how elegant your apps are if no one uses them.
Skype is demonstrably worse on Linux. Aside from it's tendency to lock up, its support for conference calls is wrong; for example, if you're in a call, and call out to a phone number it offers to add the new call to the conference after you've made the request.
I suspect that won't happen -- with music labels, at least -- for the same reason Netflix didn't look at Blockbuster and think, "We should buy them up!" The whole music distribution model has been based on top-down control and seems very inefficient in light of modern technologies. All signs so far indicate that Apple and Google know that and believe there's a lot more money to be made in coming up with the next distribution model (such as iTunes.)
a) Probably, though I bet I don't know most of them. If I were MS M&A I would bet disproportionately on mobile, though, because that's an area they need to nail if they want to stay relevant. If they could get 70 out of 200, that'd be a darn good start.

b) Individually, not terribly likely. Collectively? Sure. (And it's $35M each, but the exact number isn't the point - let's say you could offer every ycombinator and techstars startup an average of $35M each, you'd likely end up getting two or three Dropbox-esque gamechangers, a few dozen decent products, and 150 otherwise good ideas folded into MS and dead-ended.)
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"Asian populations at the Ivy League are ~25%+ (nearly or more than 30% at Stanford and MIT)"

This is simply not correct. If you find yourself saying something like "nearly or more than" after a number with as little precision as 30%, then please don't use it as evidence
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Link to the poll itself:
http://polldaddy.com/poll/4989935/

And the article itself:
http://www.techspot.com/news/43558-weekend-open-forum-the-mo...
> A lot of people will recognize when being asked that "Where are you from?" is supposed to be a politer way of asking "So why aren't you white?"

It's also a rather normal, conversational, question.

See also 'What do you do?', 'Did you catch the game last night?', 'Have you seen Avatar?', etc.
To paraphrase an old anecdote, No software company ever went broke flipping Skype.

I do hope Microsoft flubs up like Ebay did, and purchases Skype, but make the same IP mistake and neglect to license the core software that runs Skype.

Anyone recall the old news about the Skype founders selling Skype to Ebay, but retaining the licensing of the core software, then pulling
the plug on the license years later, and regaining control over Skype?

I'm looking forward to 2014 when Microsoft has to pass the football
again, though hopefully this story will get more interesting next time.
> This is Microsoft's ICQ moment

Is that a reference to ICQ's "Uh-oh"? If so, I fully agree.

If Apple stock is priced to perfection, MSFT is priced to stupidity. This kind of wasted earnings is exactly why Microsoft stock sells at a mere 10x earnings. Investors are fully aware that a large portion of all future earnings will be wasted.
Thus failing to put to good use of one of the biggest assets the U.S. had in comparison to the rest of the world -- space and cheap land.
For those that are interested, this book was the work of many people on the SomethingAwful forums. There's a thread about it here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=341...

Note that these are pay forums. Interesting to know the story behind it though.
Who said that sitemap.xml is always in that location? If it is not specified in robots.txt then they don't want you to know about it in case it exists.
I have a feeling that this article resonates with the majority of Americans who, for whatever reason, feel themselves among the minority
"They will then quietly accept their mundane, normal, and honestly, somewhat boring existence in good grace."

Wow, that is some kind of assumption. Wishful thinking, or perhaps projecting?

"Some have become miserable in this process - this goes double for those who had a real passion for something off the beaten Asian track (art, literature, music, etc). Some of these people will eventually crack and throw it all away to pursue what they actually wanted to do."

Just as a data point apropos of nothing, every single winning team in the television show "America's best dance crew" has either been exclusively or overwhelmingly Asian. That's after 5 seasons.

So, I think you might be conflating the "typical chinese tiger child" with all Asian/East Asian parents. You may need to head to the West Coast to see how much culturally different the kids (and their parents) are there.
Mostly correct. Only about half came from SA members, who were my fastest-adopting and highest-trafficking demographic upon launch. Their sense of humor also turned out to be quite a leap of unfathomable.

We're writing a new story right now, if anyone wants to watch. http://www.neovella.com/Reader.aspx?ID=836
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Website operators must use reasonable procedures to ensure they are dealing with the child's parent. These procedures may include:

obtaining a signed form from the parent via postal mail or facsimile;
accepting and verifying a credit card number;
taking calls from parents on a toll-free telephone number staffed by trained personnel;
email accompanied by digital signature;
email accompanied by a PIN or password obtained through one of the verification methods above.

I don't really see it feasible for Google to do any of those things just to set up a gmail account.
I think this is a reference to AOL buying ICQ.
>it's like IRC, except when I log in I get all the missing chat history I didn't get while I was logged out

What?

screen + irssi + /lastlog your_nick
Don't mean to hijack the thread but ulcers have nothing to do with how hard you study or how stressfull your life is; it is a misconception that really needs to be put to rest.

Most ulcers are caused by h. pylori infection (and sometimes by over-medication in childrens cases).

Your friend most likely ate unshashed fruits/vegetables overseas, or had access to someone who did
Surprise, I grew up on the West Coast. Tiger kids are tiger kids - there isn't a huge gradient from coast to coast.

> "Wishful thinking, or perhaps projecting?"

On the contrary, I'd be delighted if more Asians broke the mold and had the resolve and determination to buck expectations. It is difficult, and most will never go through with it, but I suspect most will think about it, a lot.

> "every single winning team in the television show "America's best dance crew" has either been exclusively or overwhelmingly Asian. That's after 5 seasons."

That fact alone is pointless without knowing how many Asian dance crews have entered. Like I said, most will never buck the trend and go against the grain - especially in such a dramatic way as pursuing dance and popular music. Maybe Asians would win more if more of them pursued this - or maybe they won't. It's all supposition.
I have loyalty to Skype. And this is infinitely better than Facebook owning Skype, imo
Hopefully this forces Google to drop the "play nice" attitude with carriers & Skype and properly integrate video chat into Android across the board (yes, it's in 2.3.4, but it annoys me that Google left it this long and even then made it tied to a release that many phones will not get for ages if ever).
Very cool: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...

>> "Ten days to implement the lexer, parser, bytecode emitter (which I folded into the parser; required some code buffering to reorder things like the for(;;) loop head parts and body), interpreter, built-in classes, and decompiler. I had help only for jsdate.c, from Ken Smith of Netscape (who, per our over-optimistic agreement, cloned java.util.Date — Y2K bugs and all! Gosling…).

>> Sorry, not enough time for me to analyze tail position (using an attribute grammar approach: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:proper_tail_...). Ten days without much sleep to build JS from scratch, "make it look like Java" (I made it look like C), and smuggle in its saving graces: first class functions (closures came later but were part of the plan), Self-ish prototypes (one per instance, not many as in Self).

>> I'll do better in the next life."
I love the tone of this article, I was smiling the whole time. Especially here-

the onslaught of some social media hoo-hah

edit: just clicked through a few pages- whoever does the writing at Archiveteam is fantastic!
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Impressive, but not surprising. Chrome isn't magical; ASLR and DEP have been bypassed in the past, and even if its own sandbox is perfect, the kernel it's sitting under is a huge attack surface.
"My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what?
My dad didn't know, so he said get a job.
When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what?"
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

It's not a quality unique to an Asian upbringing. Chuck Palahniuk was born in the Tri-city area in the state of Washington.
We all have h. pylori in our stomachs, but only some of us have ulcers. This is because stress plays a role in weakening the stomach's defenses, giving h. pylori a chance to create ulcers.
On that node, didn’t Apple say, via Steve Jobs at the presentation where it was announced, that FaceTime was to become an open standard? What ever happened to that?
By the same logic Apple should buy Google.
"I think the Zend Framework is terrible, personally. I think it was very obviously written by Java programmers."

Thank you, thank you, Marco Arment (who wrote Tumblr). Programs written in the ZF style are a nightmare to work with (I'm looking at you, Magento).
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> A marketer who has nothing worthwhile to market is no better than a technical person who can't communicate his achievements.

I disagree; working code speaks for itself. The real point is that the marketer and technical person are complementary.
"Some data is simply not worth indexing, and not worth serving up to bots."

The broader points being made in the article are that the value of information is determined by the visitor, and that the burden of keeping the site up and running should fall on the host.

By that reasoning, the presence of a ROBOTS.TXT signifies "damage" or "temporary madness", and should therefore be ignored.

Also, keep in mind where this article came from - the Archive Team are bloody-minded about preserving information.
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Ackppttthtt, my fail. Still not a lot of $35 million exits, but significantly more of those than $350 million. The point still holds though--not sure there are 200 of those $35 million exits either. (Isn't that still almost twice the size of a CDBaby exit?)
First, I love this kinda stuff, but this is not exactly the first. SMITH magazine published Six-Word Memoirs in Feb. 2008 and made the NYTimes Bestseller list. The book had almost 800 authors, each of whom received a copy.

http://www.smithmag.net/sixwordbook/about/
Most Americans don't live in particularly low-density areas.

I assure you that the great majority of Americans live in areas which are not so dense in population that it becomes overly burdensome to own a car.

Add em up. The densest cities in the US are a few tens of millions maybe? And they have a lot of cars even there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by...

The Los Angeles metro area is about as dense as that of New York; the fact that LA is car-based whereas New York is based on rail is due to infrastructure choices

Yes, in the case of New York the infrastructure choices were literally set in stone well over a hundred years ago.

made based on people's desire to drive more instead of walking or taking mass transit.

We all have choices to make in life. You can:

A) Live in a place like Manhattan in a small, expensive apartment, high population density, crime issues, impractical to own anything that doesn't fit in an elevator (including a car), but you can walk around and it has a usable public transportation system. Or..

B) Live in a place where for less money you can have a single-family house, room for multiple cars, a lawn and garden, low crime, and a reasonable commute to work. But no subway system.

Most Americans voted with their feet in the 20th century and chose B. They didn't need convincing.

That desire was in large part created by marketing portraying automobiles as signs of wealth, power, modernity, and of course sexual potency.

That's ridiculous.

There's nothing more potent to a young couple than a house with a few empty bedrooms.
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NYT's DealBook is concurring: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/microsoft-in-talks-to...
It's a beautiful ad.
Agreed completely. Skype certainly has brand recognition and people know it’s “the” way to keep in touch across the ocean, but — and I don’t have studies to back this up — I bet it’s one of those brands people know but don’t feel very fond of. Skype is kind of annoying, for one, and is less reliable and more complicated than traditional telephone solutions (by virtual necessity, but that doesn’t matter). This should theoretically make consumers prone to try alternatives, as parent suggests.
Wasn't this one of the things that broke a whole bunch of twitter apps a while ago? And the reason the twitter API returns post ids as both integers _and strings_ in it's json?

(at least in Fortran you knew the variable "i" was a properly specified integer, dammit!)
As I commented in one of the other postings for this event: "There goes the neighborhood....".

Skype is/was one of the most significant products of the last decade or two. one I use and depend upon every day. I doubt that Microsoft will be able to avoid killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
'Would they keep you on the payroll, out of a sense of fairness, if it developed that you were not the best offer? Nope. You'd be shown the door. It's just business.' <-- dead wrong.

You can't rescind an offer after extending an offer just because a better candidate showed up at your door. Because he hasnt joined yet, in most states the at-will rules dont apply. In NJ and NY, for example, the employer is legally obligated to pay damages.

After joining, the implied-contract exception to at-will employment kicks in [in most states] which would protect you in the case a better candidate came. If you actually were incompetent and demonstrated it on the job, that would be a different story, but there should be no concern about it ...

I read something from BLS about this a long time ago, and I'll try to dig out a citation.

EDIT: found citation: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf
> The linux version has never been on parity with the others

That may be true, but in my experience, I could barely get skype running on an old windows box: it would routinely grind the system to a halt. In 2010 I switched to that box to SuSE 11, where Skype, though a bear to set up, ran smoothly, with a non-noticable frame rate and better-than-TV graphics on old hardware (circa 2003 2GHz Dell with 1 GB RAM. It did that while providing NFS filesharing to another computer playing movies and a laptop playing audio.

The audio setup hassle had all the features of any other sound setup headache in Linux. I lay that problem squarely in the lap of the Linux sound community.
Why does "European" typically mean the western half of Europe?

Why does "American" almost always ignore all the non-USA countries on the two 'America' continents?
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To the extent that my math was way wrong, I think your point carries more weight (meaning: you're an order of magnitude better than I thought). I'd say if they bought the top 10 mobile plays for $70 million each they'd have a much better expectation (assuming that the acquisitions could be digested--risk which itself carries a significant reduction in expected value).
Microsoft releases Windows Azure toolkit for iOS on github.
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Can you explain what you mean by a "visual" editor? Using jquery, I might do a DOM manipulation like:

$('li#tree').append($('<ul>').addClass('treeNode').text('node text'));

How would this be made visual? I don't think I completely understand the problem you're trying to solve.
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Yes, but the freedom to ask "the self-fulfillment question" is new to some families.
You forgot the last step, he has to raise his son to do all those things too.

This closes the loop to create the "asian circle of life".
Most second-generation immigrants (and even the first generation ones who came to Canada as kids) identify themselves as Canadian. I do. "rejecting origins" part of moving on and settling into the society. I would not expect anything else, most of us have nothing in common with the country of our ethnic origin. "Where are you from?" is one of the most offensive questions and it is not white people who ask me that that question that often, it is almost always older first generation immigrants. Perhaps they don't realize how offensive it is.

Sticking to your ethnic origins decades after you have moved to a different country leads to tribalism and ethnic nationalism which are two of the most poisonous things to a country.
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I was actually looking into making something like this over the past couple weeks, and the answer is that the format is too constrained. It just doesn't express legitimately useful semantics that could be used for things like "go to definition", it would simply recurse all synonyms rather than understanding that you're specifying the instance of a class, and want to see the class definition.

I'm actually feeling chastened now that this has come out for a relatively small language, but I haven't implemented my idea yet.