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Can someone explain how Wonga took the concept of pay day loans (which has a negative connotation in America) and spun so much posititivity out of their brand? I like how they make it easy to pay bills directly but there is something i'm missing here.
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you set a trace point inside baz, investigate with the REPL, and fix your code.
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How are we defining a large program?
Just as Werner Von Braun's character in "The Right Stuff" said: "NO, our Germans are Better!"
As far as I can guess, any networking implementation would have to pass low level requests through a proxy on the server, which would end up making things pretty slow even on an unburdened server.
You should highlight this fact in your marketing. I'm buying the app now primarily for this feature.
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Gecko's GTK backend has dependencies on X11, if that's what you were asking about.
It sounds like you're saying you have to accept all or none of Chomsky's ideas. Just because I quoted him doesn't mean I believe everything he's written, in fact quite to the contrary.

However... I do feel the quote above accurately reflects the sentiments of your first comment, which is why I posted it. It wasn't meant to reflect the entirety of Chomsky's work.
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Have these robots invented words for what's outside of the space they can sense? That would be interesting.
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Slots at major airports are very expensive, and scheduled very carefully. You could only do this if you used minor airports, which would probably kill the convenience factor.

edit: Actually there probably are pairs of cities where it could be made to work by using small, low-traffic, convenient-to-the-city airports which can't handle large planes. But now your main problem is chicken-and-egg: until you have a lot of customers you can't possibly run a frequent service, and the customers won't be interested unless it's frequent. I suppose you could take off every twenty minutes regardless of passenger load, but in that case your operating costs are going to be enormous from day one.
Is there a reason you're still on 3.6, if I might ask? 4.0 is a _much_ better browser....
Not necessarily. Many reports on the Android Market revenue split say that Google shares most (if not all) of the 30% side of the Market split with the wireless carriers. This is not as surprising as it sounds when you realize that Google has been making a big push for carrier billing, but it does mean that Google is less threatened (on a revenue side) from an Amazon app store than it might seem at first glance.
Hi, I'm the other cofounder of WhereBerry. Thanks for the feedback!

dodo53 and useflyer's comments do a good job at explaining how WhereBerry is different from a calendar.

WhereBerry is helpful for capturing ideas that aren't fully formed events yet – simply things you'd like to do. In fact, a lot of our items don't have a set date (movies, hikes, restaurants...). Once you know who's interested, it's easier to pick a date and organize it.

Re:curation, for now you can unfollow people who post activities you're not interested in. As we get better data, we plan to add relevance ranking so manual trimming becomes less necessary.
Hey Mark -- one of the WhereBerry co-founders here -- we think you are right on the money. We also find that having a persistent list of activities you want to do helps make that activity actually happen. Cheers!
You can see some snapshots from previews works here: http://dribbble.com/nicogarcia
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Learn Ruby on Rails and take over the development. Maybe it didn't make sense back when you had a job, but now that you're out of work you should totally try learning to code yourself. Maybe you could hire an expert trainer who could help you fix your app while learning the ropes at the same time.
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You forgot: Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Oh wait...

Edit: Not sure why I got downvoted, probably the snarkyness.
Fine, I can also put it the long-winded way:

There used to be a time when flying seemed beyond our abilities to dream about how we might approach it. Likewise for most other achievements that we have made.

What's going to stop us from building a human body, including the brain, once we have the manufacturing technology to do so?
I stayed focused by:

1) Frequently switching revision activities between writing sample answers, creating cheat sheets, drawing mind maps, cramming and participating in group study sessions.

2) Working out for half an hour every day. Kept energy levels up.

3) Taking three hours off every night (from 9pm to midnight) which I spent socializing with my friends and my girlfriend -- cooking, watching movies or playing Mario Kart. Having something to look forward to at the end of the day kept me motivated.

4) Saving coffee for later in the day (after 3pm). I've found that I become tired X hours after my first cup of coffee in the day and, given that I'm naturally energetic in the morning, I like to save the boost until late in the day.

5) Working in a room with fresh air and good natural light. Kept me happy.

PS Shameless little plug here but if anyone has just finished finals you can sell your old notes on www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk, my little startup.
The power of the internet...always finding a way to really get stuff free. Thanks.
The difficulty is that the problem must be of a predictable complexity. In other words, you must know ahead of time how long it takes a given amount of processing power to find the solution.
#3: I've messed around with .NET WebMethods a bit. They allow me to go completely around the rigidness of ASP when I need to and they can stay inside the same C# backing code for the page.
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"Hubris of the highest order when company managements think they know much better than shareholders, how to best use the profits the company generates."

I hope you're not seriously suggesting that in a publicly traded company the shareholders know better than the management how the value of the company can be increased, therefore generating shareholder value? Google does have a publicly stated dividend policy, a policy that in the end is decided if not at least tolerated by the shareholders; tolerated presumably because they agree that it will give them the best ROI on their investment.
I like CL with a few caveats. I've just finished 6 weeks of apartment hunting and I want a way to kill overposts with the click of a button (ie. if it has been posted daily for the past month then I want to see only ONE post). Likewise I want a way to filter out the idiots who post apartments outside of the city in which I live. And I would really like there to be an anonymous feedback loop to the original posters (not a throwaway email account) to tell them why I'm not prepared to pay $1500 per month for their one bedroom apartment.
Dora (etc) works magic at restaurants with fussy toddlers.

iPhone + 3G + handy stand = quiet(ish) meal.
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Cost to repatriate money ~ 35%
Cost to borrow money < 1%

No brainer
I think this is pretty useful for broadening your social graph, or as normals call it - making new friends. There seems to be a trend towards using technology to facilitate having experiences with people that aren't your closest friends but that you have some kind of connection to or common interest with (see grubwith.us). Maybe it's a new kind of social dating, although it certainly could be used for making/solidifying platonic relationships. This is obviously useful for someone that moves to a new city or just wants to explore new relationships. Also, it allows you to throw an idea out there to see if there's interest before having to figure out all the scheduling details.
Someone please do the math on the energy lost in GPUs calculating hashes compared to the dollar value of the bitcoin rewards. The average miner might be better off just powering down their machines.
If you want to see who out of your group of friends wants to watch a movie, are you really going to IM / call / email 25 people? Organizing stuff is a huge pain in the ass. Whereberry gets you doing stuff with people you wouldn't ordinarily have even contacted.
how bout having the interface with grooveshark's APIs?
I was a bit disappointed that the article didn't really say much that you couldn't grok from glancing at his Wikipedia article and reading something like The Mythical Man-Month. I was hoping to learn more about him-- how does he separate his work and personal life? How does he make money? What are his goals? How does he focus?
Why would they use something that's similar to Spotify when they could use Spotify? The number of times I'm on someone else's computer and go "Oh, I'd really like to listen to some super obscure track not already on my MP3 player/smartphone/Kindle/what-have-you" are virtually nil, and competitors lack the huge selection of music that Spotify has.
A good programmer knows how to represent a large correct program as a number of small correct programs that interact, thereby eliminating complexity. Bad programmers get lost cause they run out of brainspace to hold the complexity of a 10000(0)-line program. Good programmers don't need to.
The police say he wasn't arrested.

He claimed in a tweet that he was, but I kinda doubt it -- for starters he wasn't arrested for anything, and secondly if you are under arrest are you allowed to keep your phone and tweet all about it?

So, was he being over-dramatic, or did he genuinely believe he's under arrest? (Oh, and a handy hint: if the police ever ask you to go with them then make sure you ask 'em whether you're under arrest or not.)
Perhaps you've never been at a startup with recent college grads. 10 to midnight is a common schedule. That kind of work ethic isn't healthy, but recent college grads don't notice and even seem to enjoy it. What is does yield? A hell of a lot of code and an obvious boost in absolute productivity.

I would like engineers to work those hours with enthusiasm. My concern is that this wouldn't happen with a founder that is absent in the middle of their work day. The solution is to have a cofounder that works those hours, I suppose :)
There I stood in front the infernal machine. Crumbled, soggy paper in hand. It fell to pieces before I even had the thought to preserve it somehow. Sixteen random characters, gone in the wash. My thesis, gone in the wash. A decade, gone in the wash.

I could try to rewrite it. But I wouldn't even know where to start. Of course all my research was encrypted too! I'm no idiot! This was work, this was hard work. I'm not even sure I could remember it all. "I wrote them down in my diary so I wouldn't have to remember."

I did the calculation. Brute forcing the password would take more than my lifetime with all the machines in the lab. Would Moore save me? Could I stand the wait? Later on, I stood on the roof of the math building (a quiet escape a few grad students shared) contemplating my next move. Looking out, late at night, it came to me. I couldn't do it, but the they could. Even just a fraction of the computers out there could get me my thesis back.

But how? I could create a distributed computing project, it was something I had worked on before. But there was no way to attract the required users. I needed something as least as big as the largest projects that already existed. I needed to give people something. A bounty isn't enough, the prime project has a great bounty, but I need more users. They all want money. But I had no money. So, I gave them the next best thing: the promise of money.
Well, the one thing I am suggesting for sure is that when I buy a stock in a company, I own a part of the company and as a result own a part of the profit.

And I am seriously implying that the managements in tech companies do not necessarily know better how to use the profits. And sharing the profits with stock holders is not to be looked down upon.
I'd consider a single program that is "large" to be a failure already, if we define "large" to mean "too big to easily fit in a single programmer's head."

The skill of a decent programmer is to decompose a large problem space into orthogonal components, so that each appears to be a small program that keeps you from being mentally entangled into the needs of the larger problem. Or even better, be sufficiently knowledgeable of the field to recognize when some of these orthogonal components already exist.

Once you've crossed the line where a component is "large", by the above definition, you've reached the point where future programmers will find it easier to insert new functionality ad-hoc wherever it seems to work, rather than attempt to understand the design and modify it appropriately. This design-by-accretion style can rapidly make a codebase unmaintainable.
"Since universities are public, so republican, schools, it makes sense to make them apply and respect the constitution."

Many constitutions have a clause like that. Encouraging international visibility, which requires English language skills, is not contrary to that.

"French can always go to private school (or emigrate) if they don't agree with that."

The point is that they're cutting off their nose to spite their faces. French researchers and students, and citizens more in general, are isolated in their own little world because their strange sense of 'pride' is causing them to be so. I don't care, really; but I do sometimes feel sympathy for those that I talk to who realize this and (rightfully) blame the system for their lowered chances at international success.
WHEN Barack Obama met Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, at the G20 summit in London, it was an encounter not just between two presidents, but also between two professions and mindsets. A lawyer, trained to argue from first principles and haggle over words, was speaking to an engineer, who knew how to build physical structures and keep them intact.

The Chinese should build a Space Pier, in the form of a massive ramp with a huge accelerator on it.
That's a great idea, and it will probably speed up possible native implementations (though likely at the expense of scripting languages).

To deal with large runs of identical numbers (e.g. all zeroes) someone suggested in my blog comments to XOR the input array with a result of a chosen pseudo-random function. This will bring any dataset into the realm of average (5.9375) except for the dataset that is specifically targeting the chosen pseudo-random function. :)
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This math has already been done (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Power_Calc). Right now it's (theoretically) profitable to generate bitcoins; that would change if the exchange rate goes down.
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So who swaped the envelope?
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Nuanced comment here, good analysis. I agree with a lot, but two nitpicks about the first point -

1. I'd say Communist movements attract intellectuals. Communist governments usually do not employ those intellectuals for very long after taking power.

2. Despite the name and symbols, I don't think China is actually Communist any more. I don't know what to call them. If they remain a world power and continue to thrive, I'd bet quite a lot that a new word will be coined for their precise political/economic/geographical/military mix - there's quite literally no comps in history for what they're doing right now.
Well - the protocol is published and everyone can verify it for himself, the implementations are also open-source. This is not like someone is drawing a lot for you and you need to trust that he is doing that fairly - it is your computer that is doing that and it also checks that the others play by the rules.
What's your pen name so I can buy your books.
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In theory, someone could create a common bytecode as a library. Such a library would probably use the Relooper algorithm from Emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) and JIT the bytecode to Javascript that can then be eval'd for near Javascript-level speed.
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> to run ASP.NET on a Linux server

I can understand using ASP.NET on Windows servers. There aren't that many better alternatives (there are a couple, but not that many and most of them would require some tweaking), but Linux, like any Unix-like, server has a whole lot of exquisitely refined web platforms that are superior to ASP.NET in each and every way.

Unless you are already invested in ASP.NET. Linux would be the lesser of the two evils.
As much as I really can't stand Wonga for its concept and largely its advertising; this is pretty shocking. I would imagine that if I were a newspaper editor I would rather been seen to promote a company that wasn't necessarily in line with the attitude of the paper than to be known for falsifying results in a competition.
Is there any positivity in that brand?

I see their scammy looking ads from time to time and mentally group them with those auction sites claiming you can win an iPad for $4.38.

This is the first I've heard that they are an actual company.
6 out of 20 of the entrepreneurs were funded by YC. How incredible is that?
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Love this idea - really think there's a huge opportunity for making suggestions to people (what Lorimer calls randomness). Users are inherently lazy for the most part, so the more "work" you can do for them while also keeping them engaged with and excited about the product the better.
Let me be an a-hole, because I want to be helpful not pander:

1)	Your page assumes too much (it assumes I know about the product). It does not speak to me directly. EVERYBODY and their donkey makes plans, but who, what, how why will use you? For example, if this was for travel plans, I'd say "Taking the next trip, let us be your assistant (the value prop is not a place to write - a paper and pen can do that - it’s the benefits of having an assistant)."

2)	That image makes it look difficult/techy product to use. You’re saying I will be using the tools NASA scientists use, that makes it not easy for me to do.

3)	Your round logo makes you look old, not you age wise, but it makes your company look like something from the 80s. Like a soap bar logo. Look at the top 10 companies your customers like or use, and take hints from their logos. Honestly, I don't know why companies need a logo, just use a short form of your company name in its colors (hint: look at the top left corner of this page).

4)	I said I wouldn’t pander but I can't help but say that your blog is awesome!

5)	Inviting people to the launch party? That’s the benefit? But you’re not desirable enough (yet) for me to give up my email address for the opportunity to hang out with you.

6)	For enticing people to sign up, I’d say do this: Give a solid value prop in your landing page so anyone who reads it wants it immediately! Then offer your service free for a limited time or something. This will do 2 things, first it will force you to sell your product/service in a sentence, second it will keep out people looking to get something free off you instead it will entice get people who are actually excited about using your service to try and get in - they will be your word-of-mouth army.

7)	Add a descending counter (15 invites left) etc. to create a sense of urgency.

May you have great success!
There's a port of urxvt to JavaScript: https://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js
By the by, one of the things that always tripped me up about the DFT was understanding that for signals that are already sums of sinusoids, the discrete sum gives exactly the same answer as the integral would. Remember the trapezoidal rule for integration? It turns out it's exact for trigonometric polynomials sampled at or above the Nyquist frequency.

Now, to find a life sciences journal to publish that in...
Perhaps this should cause some reflection on the following question: why do scientists seem to be disproportionately inclined to serve authoritarian regimes?

My guess is that scientists believe that people like themselves -- people whose ability in one field they imagine transfers to many others -- should control the world, and those that they consider their intellectual inferiors should shut up and surrender control to cognitive ubermenschen.

Unfortunately, that idea hasn't worked out too well in the past.
If find it hard to believe that the free YouTube, which gets 500M uniques a month--over 100k in the US alone--gets less traffic than Netflix with 23m members.

US traffic stats
http://www.quantcast.com/youtube.com
http://www.quantcast.com/netflix.com 11m (obviously doesn't count xbox and apps, etc)

Really minutes spent is the most important factor to look at. with 5x the uniques, and being free, I wonder how total minutes spent with netflix content compares to youtube's.
Indeed this is done often by BigCo. Raise money when you have stellar credit rating and the terms are really favorable. They can keep the money to invest later or hold it for a rainy day.
I don't ever want to do something with 25 friends, that's more of a meetup.com type thing. I would usually have a few people in mind...
How sad that they only listed companies that got funding. It is not a good culture to look at funding as success, how about growth, revenue or even profit.
... or Beakman's World, Dr. Who, and McGyver.
I don't know much about the other ones, but Havel most assuredly is not an economist. He has a cultural background and is an author of a number of theater pieces. His successor at the post of Czech president (Klaus) is an economist, so maybe that's where the confusion comes from.

Just as a matter of interest - the current Czech prime minister, who, at least in theory, has more power than the president, has graduated in physics, and has actually worked in research for some time. Angela Merkel (coming from Eastern Germany) has also a scientific background (in physics and chemistry).

But otherwise, it seems you are right about the fact that there is no such rule about post-totalitarian leaders being educated in engineering or sciences in general.
Never mind the energy; think of the capital expenditure. If I have US$1,000 lying around, I could either put it in a mutual fund, getting a certain number of dollars per month (with which I could buy bitcoins), or I could buy a kick-ass GPU card and become a miner, generating a certain number of bitcoins per month (which I could then sell in exchange for dollars). At current interest rates, which is a better investment?