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The last mile problem is presumably exasperated by P2P users being mostly consumers, rather than businesses, and therefore paying next to nothing for the connections.
Follow up post: http://www.leavesofcode.com/2011/05/creating-healthy-design-...
but if you have a family (which most people do after 30), you do need to take a much higher risk, which many people aren't willing to take.
How is this different than everything2?
Just about all nontrivial code that accepts input, whether or not that input is "code," has a tainted security track record. There is no point because you're not addressing the issue. Running code in the browser certainly creates its own class of security issues no matter how safe the execution environment is, but the fact that browsers do very complex things with a huge variety of inputs means that there are tons of vectors for manipulation. This is much closer to what your trying to talk about, but is pretty meaningless to discuss in the broad sense.
OK, what about the mixed smell of sweat and urine in the subway stations in the still, humid air of July. Yikes.
I ditched my car in 2008 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the most walkable cities in the US. That was one of the best decisions of my life. My daily commute is a few minutes of walking. The city is very compact, meaning every place I go is within walking distance or a short subway ride.
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Me too! I look forward to 20-30 minute commutes (Bay Area) during which I can finish one half hour podcast. iTunes syncing, or Stitcher Radio app does wonders here.
The parent said “You don't need to use hashbangs or fragments for this”. I'm just pointing out there is no way to _not_ use fragments and still have a single page app.

I do agree that we should probably leave IE users to reload pages and provide graceful degradation. Modern browser users will enjoy the benefit of no refreshing on single page app. However, for some, this is not an option.
> Internet and cell phone access is not available underground, and most of the NYC subway line is underground.

I have no trouble reading a book on my iPhone on the subway. The ride just isn't long enough to make having internet access an issue.

> it's not safe to use or show your expensive anything on most of the subway lines.

During the day, almost everyone has a smart phone out. I've never had a problem, never expect to.

>Majority of that stations are very dirty, cars are just tolerable.

The cars are generally quite clean, and air conditioned. The stations can be dirty, but no more than the street is. You're not supposed to be licking the floor ...

> During rush hours NYC subway riders stuff like sardines in the...let me find a picture

Depends on the line and how much of a rush you're in yourself. Either way, there's room to read.
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I'm not sure why this is being downvoted given that it's essentially true (link to the widely disliked Ken Rockwell notwithstanding.)

The reason digital has eclipsed film is a combination of rapid results, ease of use, portability, and cost. This camera only hits 1 out of 4, with the added restriction of requiring multiple exposures per image.

For the kind of mega-high-res "slow" photography its marketed for, it's not really clear to me why you'd use this over medium/large format E6 film unless you had unlimited money, or needed absolute speed in delivering results.

Of course, OTOH, for 35mm/medium-format equivalent stuff it's fairly clear that digital (35mm or digital MF backs) has now been adopted pretty much entirely, at least for commercial & professional photography.
Given that people don't treat others nicely I'm glad that we do have the rule. Easy way to identify the assholes.
(I didn't know I had a direct competitor, but it makes it more fun)
I live in a fairly rural area. My commute by car is 20 minutes each way. There is no traffic jams. No smog. If I travel by back roads, I can avoid all traffic lights. Leaving early, I might see some wildlife.
>doing something more pleasant than driving a car.

Driving is, for me, one of my favorite things to do. You're right, it's not productive, but I don't want to be 100% productive 100% of the time, I want to take some down time each day as well. What kind of car do you drive? Perhaps you could upgrade, and/or take a more scenic route.
I was a bit surprised to see an entire article devoted to this, as it's a very common in the theatrical world. Because of the short turn around time, directors are constantly having to work with new people. As well as calling people they know on the resumes, they will often ask the people collecting headshots and herding cattle outside the audition room if anything notable occurred. It can make or break an actors chances.

This is easy to apply to business. If you have a secretary greeting interview candidates, just get a quick opinion. Nobody wants to work with an asshole, and everyone remembers them.
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dblock - moving to the largest metropolis in the country cannot be a great way to improve the commute!!! You found what seems like a pretty small niche that makes your commute okay, but if enough people imitate you, will that niche become overcrowded, and your commute turn into 45 minutes of suck?
This article is silly. Entrepreneurs and unions are natural enemies.

A dynamic entrepreneurial environment is the last thing unions want. In a competitive market with many players and new startups improving things regularly, the union shop will have higher costs than their competitors and they will go out of business. Even if costs are equal right now, a startup will come along and disrupt the industry, destroying any business with rigid contracts.

And if entrepreneurs work with unions, they are playing with fire. What happens when a startup invents the UnionLaborTron (a machine which replaces union laborers)? Work rules incompatible with rapid iteration. My startup employs low skill labor and we have a new workflow every week. If I needed to negotiate with a union rep every time I do that, we would shut down.
This is the crux of the matter:

> imagine that the cars would save many lives over all, but lead to some bad accidents when a car malfunctions. The evening news might show a “Terminator” car spinning out of control and killing a child. There could be demands to shut down the cars until just about every problem is solved. The lives saved by the cars would not be as visible as the lives lost, and therefore the law might thwart or delay what could be a very beneficial innovation.

It's otiose to point out that the premise of personal motor vehicles is not called into question every time a human driver spins out of control and kills someone.
3000$ laptop, are you crazy?! Mine is less than half that price, that is new. Get a linux netbook for half the price of a cell phone if that's a concern.

Nobody steals anything from Russians on the subway because some Russians carry guns :)
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True, it's inefficient, but it's good for profiling Python interpreters, since it does a lot of work.

It's also fast enough for low n (up to 8). Why write more code when you can get your result with less? Maybe the time he's saved with this approach can now be used writing a deduplicator (to cull out mirrored and rotated solutions).

Maybe the point of the article was not only to show how fast PyPy is, but how convenient itertools.permutation() is. You can't show the convenience of itertools by not using it.

However... You know what? When I was asked to write a n-queens solver recently, I also wrote a backtracker. It just doesn't mean I did it better than this guy.
Regulation and fear are to be expected. The question is, what to do about them? I predict the largest PR campaign in the history of technology. Public opinion generally drives regulation. So less public fear will lead to less regulation.

While I have no way to prove it, I'd bet my right hand that Google's PR people made this story happen. I'd bet they also made the first NYT piece blowing up the Chauffeur project happen and they made it look serendipitous for authenticity. I think "The Suit is Back," and I think it's going to come back again and again.

Prediction: Driverless cars will be portrayed in a very positive way in a major motion picture within the next year.
Russians that carry guns dont take subway.
Sorry, looks like you replied before I edited down my comment. I mentioned $3000 laptops (and how unwise it is to pull one out); Occasionally I see a tourist with:

* A MacBook Pro balanced precariously on their lap.

* Sitting right next to the door.

* ... where someone could simply snatch the laptop and bolt out the doors just before they close.
Will it works like the Facebook Like button? Except it will Flag content?

If there is no code required them I'm guessing you'll follow the the facebook model and grab the URL which the user is currently viewing as the identifier for the content being flagged? Otherwise you'll need the site to provide their own custom content id.

Abuse is going to be another obstacle. If everything is client side then you really can't stop any sort of abuse since you can't authenticate that the user is who they say they are. I suppose you could get away with logging the IP address with the flag request. That way its just a tiny bit hard to sent more than one flag request.
I do. I like to think and walk. Being able to whip up my phone and say something like plot d/dxdydz of [some equation in 3 terms] or maximize f(x) or solve some differential equation in a mix of english and symbols is very convenient.

On chrome, I also use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/acgimceffoceigocab....

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What wolfram alpha is not good for is the trivia natural language stuff that they touted. Its very hit and miss, awesome when it works but often doesn't. Stuff like trying to find a list of countries orderable by gdp,average income, democratic index, crime is easier to put together using google. Its not just about comprehension, a lot of the data just is not there. A query that I was surprised it didn't get was "basketball player with highest field goal percentage". google got that easy.
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There's still no denying that the placebo effect plays a substantial role in the efficacy of antidepressant medications. It's part of the reason that fewer new medications are making it onto the market. Additionally, the SNRIs are marginally more effective, at best, than SSRIs in the treatment of depression. They are usually more expensive though! Fibromyalgia is a different story.

I'm negative on the subject because I have been on six different antidepressants and they did nothing but cause me intense discomfort. I took desvenlafaxine at a non-noradrenergic dosage level, and it still made me insomniac, gained weight fast, triggered manic symptoms, and caused intense withdrawal symptoms. I was also on an NDRI (non-sertonergic) and a tetracyclic. I am not a doctor, but given how a doctor is responsible for putting me on a carousel of medications that screwed up my body for over six months, I don't particularly care who's considered qualified to read papers.
I simply live near where I work and walk to work. It is pretty easy to do in San Francisco proper.
Commute is a considering for where we live. If my commute were to become 45 minutes of suck, I'd move. All I am trying to say is that it's possible to commute a long distance and look forward to it.
Man, all those hills! :)
No entrepreneur in her right mind would allow organized labor anywhere near their business. Best case, you cut out one of three monopolistic entities. (union labor and stockmen, cut meat packers)

Once you let that camel under the tent -- you're screwed.

Example:
http://pressrepublican.com/0200_opinion/x1859507528/Labor-ag...

In the example, unions from one area of a state used their political influence to require a type of labor agreement that excludes companies that aren't union shops -- even though those companies pay union prevailing wage.
This is a great idea. I can see this being very useful for research and helping others with computer problems and troubleshooting.

I assume you are the developer? If so, I suggest you add a text tool, box tool, and arrow tool, because my drawing skills are crap and sometimes I just need to quickly highlight something or point something out.

If those features are implemented I could see myself using this a lot and saving myself a lot of trips to photoshop. Great Work!
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"Version numbers? We can increment them!"

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...
You can consider it a matter of preference, I suppose. I prefer having a GUI file browser over NERDTree for similar reasons as I outlined before. VimAck has the same line of thinking behind it.
Driving the exact same commuter route day after day is a very different experience than driving for fun.

I do enjoy driving for fun, but no more than I enjoy other activities. What I don't enjoy is the incredible commitment and mental involvement required to own, park, insure, fuel, and maintain a car -- so I don't just own one.
we got plenty of wildlife in the NY subway
Balance, though, is key. I've never quite managed to figure out how to make sure an exciting side project doesn't consume my life leaving everything else to rot, or conversely, how to keep a side project sufficiently alive when swamped with more important things.
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It could be your use of the word 'trivia.' At least in the US, it sometimes carries a negative connotation. It might read to some like you are being sarcastic.
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I've been spoiled by Manhattan. I walk to my office (15 minutes away), I walk to the grocery and drug stores (both one block away), and I take the subway whenever I have to go somewhere "far away" (at most 20-minute commute). It reminds me of living on a college campus.
I bike in SF a lot and the hills don't really matter so much
+1 for ditching your car and moving to a place where you don't need one! huge expense that traps you instead of giving you the supposed freedom
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You have some interesting points, I won't argue about because my post a response to what blog was about. But I must disagree with you on the matter of cleanness, just the look of things alone is disgusting and yes the streets of NYC is dirty and in many cases disgusting. The cars like I said in most cases are tolerable as long as you're not in on someone just urinated in. This probably happens once everyday ( primarily on lines from the outer boroughs) because some people make the subway cars their room and toliet.
Here's just one example. There are thousands of companies and people on Crunchbase that are not notable enough for Wikipedia. Having that information on Crunchbase is extremely useful.
I always make sure the work that's paying the bills is done, before I work on the side project. Other than that, I'll typically commit to 5 hours a week. Usually in 2 sessions.
It puts the results in a quickfix window, which has a well-defined set of keybindings for navigation and refinement.
The old article you mention might be "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" by Clay Shirky?

http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Wow, he said he might go to 2.8. This is madness.
If you have 1.00+ scores, the positive feeling from being way up in the blue is nice. Also, I have a max distraction goal and I get some reinforcement from not seeing it until late in the day if at all. However, I agree I'm paying for little more than to support the free service.
I agree it is possible. It is probably possible in California also. But the title of your post says "...Move to New York"!
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UIUC is a top 10 CS school. Not sure you need to sweat it.

(CMU BS ECE '96 here)

Reading resumes, the right school helps but is not enough to get my attention alone.
Seems to be a common theme around here:

http://www.exratione.com/2011/03/the-side-project-considered...

"It seems strange to me that there exist developers who do not have side-projects: exploratory exercises in coding, tinkering, and scratching personal itches that run on the weekends, or here and there in the evenings as a replacement for mindlessly consuming mass-market entertainment. Do these people not enjoy their chosen profession?"
Yeah, I totally get that. I'm just assuming that the average vim user is going to prefer things to work vim-native over anything else.
Some things aren't brought into focus here.

(1) Off-highway driving happens. That means that the algorithms have to manage an uncontrolled environment where 'anything' can happen.

(2) It is very expensive to create bug-free software.

(3) You can't iterate by failing fast on life-critical systems after it is released. Failure means killing someone.

(4) Legal liabilities. It's not going to work to say something like, "This car's driver software is not warranted free from defects".

(5) Humans can manage situations utterly outside the norm; algorithms can not see beyond the vision of the designer.

I work in an industry which operates below the levels of software assurance that the medical/flight industries work at, and it is incredibly painstaking as it is. A fully automated car will be very expensive to build.

I am not a paranoiac regarding software. I am a paranoiac regarding software bugs and the limits of the software designers.
OK, I'll give you that. It can get real hot and sweaty instantly on the platforms. The change of temperature with the air-conditioned subway cars is brutal. Still beats traffic - I never feel like murdering the guy in front of me because of this.
I hardly read any books in my life. My fiancee at the time (now wife) encouraged me to read some books and recommended The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to start with. I liked it so much that I am a very regular reader now. After a day of coding, I find reading a book very relaxing, especially before going to bed. It just takes you to a whole different world. I certainly learn a lot about myself and the world in general from those books. It's just amazing.
I think this is even more interesting than the ol' waiter treatment tip. Some waiters have experience with different customers that is valuable knowledge you can use, if you get on their good side.

This way, you could have the waiter ask as a covert interviewer. :)
+1 for speaking with a Russian accent omitting the "the" before "subway"
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AWESOME! But I want to see this running somewhere as an actual chatbot.

(and could you add: "I worry... I worry...")
No, this is Linux!
Making a general statement about American culture, which I did, doesn't, necessarily, say anything about the details of the culture. As you suggest, and as I've also generally observed, among the Asian Americans that I've met, they tend to retain a culture that's more interested in academics than what is generally found in the American culture.

I think you allude to a good point that I would like to restate.

In this study, and in others like it, the blame seems to be put on the educational institution. But, it's not hard to see places where success is gotten independent of the institution (like, for your example, Asian Americans). So, it seems wrong to put all your faith in and all the blame on the institution.

I've tutored 100s of people and I've done lots of independent learning and, based on my interactions, I think I can say that the schools could be changed however you want and they won't fix the problem in America. See, the students that I've tutored didn't mainly have a problem in understanding the material, as far as I could tell, they had a problem in not wanted to learn. And, if I can teach myself calculus, physics and programming, you don't need schools to learn things.

As far as I can tell, one large problem is that, in America, it's more prestigious to be a manager, lawyer or securities trader than it is to be an engineer or scientist. Engineering and science is associated with curiosity and learning (things good schools should have), the other disciplines are more associated with prestigious and financial comfort and generally are not as socially or economically valuable. There's an interested piece in the New York Times on this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598158).
Queries that I have are usually answered by DuckDuckGo/Wikipedia.
My commute in Tokyo was usually fairly nice - As long as I avoided rush hour, I could get a seat and spend the trip reading. It was even better when I moved to Yokohama (longer commute, but more space and fewer stairs). The commute ended with a view of Tokyo Tower, an Egg McMuffin, and a ridiculously expensive coffee. Not to mention the trains were spotless, and there were vending machines everywhere.

Still, I'd have happily given up my nice commute for a shorter one any day. Particularly since catching it at the wrong time meant not only that I had to worry about being late, but that I'd be crammed like a sardine against the door.
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I once met a few developers through a friend of mine. My impression was that they had no passion for the job. Programming pays well if you're good at it. I think there are a lot of programmers who are just paying their bills.
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The problem is that you said they would execute 'ALL' code, which is not only terribly misleading but technically incorrect. It's a false statement that has no place in a proper discussion.

Also I think it's unreasonable to expect a browser without javascript to be significantly safer. Look at all the code-execution exploits in image decoders.
Good stuff Rob, simple & easy to use. This was always a minor pain point when looking at a google map on my laptop and wanting to view the same map on my iPhone.
My latest side project just attracted attention in a big way and it looks likely that we (myself and my brother; we worked on it together) will be founding a startup around it soon. We started the project for fun and all we expected out of it was some cool toys to play with, a little "oh thats cool" publicity and a fun learning experience. Its been a crazy past few weeks.

So, yes, side projects are very important!
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