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A gene is happy to sacrifice the genes of other individuals - it is not happy to sacrifice copies of itself, no matter where they are found. Hence we tend to protect mammals more than reptiles, apes more than other mammals, humans more than other apes, our own countrymen rather than those from other countries, and our family more than others from our country.

But when it comes to the vexed question of getting those genes to survive beyond our own mortal shell, the correct genetic strategy seems to be to protect our offspring, even at the expense of ourselves, so we commonly see parents sacrificing themselves for children, in many different species.

And that is of course the flow in Stross's argument about there not being any reason not to colonise. Sure, you can't be on multiple planets, but your offspring certainly can be, so if one of those planets goes up in smoke, your genes will continue on through your children on other planets...
After reading the article I feel it 'attacks' Sal individually and not the KA as a whole, quoting vocabulary used by him.
"Historical velocity is achieved through words and phrases such as “essentially,” “fast forward,” and “as you can imagine.”
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I'd be curious to find out this too.
Sigh, I realized today that Ctrl+Alt+Del isn't that unrealistic to hit, when you use Emacs. :-(

(But then, most any key combination is probably quite easy to get in Emacs, by missing a couple of keys.)
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Interesting, but (at least Theravada) Buddhist Enlightenment is quite free from thinking. (Notice free from, not devoid of). I suggest:

thought: go to null
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I feel that am sort of a younger version of you, on the other side of planet. 6 years with an Indian IT major (in a product unit, a million dollar banking product). Though I don't find my experience to be in "uninteresting" problem domains; as throughout my stay, I have been in the most technically intensive track within. Worked on a lot of code generators, internal tools and some system level stuff.

However, I find it very apprehensive and intimidating interviewing/applying for a startup. Few startups rejected my application simply because I am from a BigCo.

Thanks for the post, few of the responses here might help me too!
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but his argument is basically 'Linux couldn't open a file that everybody else could, but by dicking around with random half-assed documented tools we could do it anyway!'. Basically, 'we managed to do something that is absolutely trivial for everybody else by jumping through hoops and spending a bunch of time on it to do it the convoluted way.'. Hmm right, not exactly a compelling argument for Linux's superiority.
I don't understand all this pooh-poohing of these ideas.

None of them is great, but the point is that every one of 'em (well, all the ones I've read) could be, if executed correctly, a perfectly viable business. Picking out a few at random:

Presentation Consulting - Teach companies how to improve their presentations

That's not a bad idea. Is somebody already doing it? Possibly, but that doesn't mean you can't do it too.

Online flower shop with one-hour delivery

Sounds tricky, and you'd need to restrict it to a couple of major and dense cities, but again there's no reason it's not a viable business. Market it correctly by encouraging men to send their ladies flowers spontaneously, and you could surely make some money.

Build Your Own Back Pack Shop

Damn you, random numbers! I don't much like this idea, but there's gotta be somebody out there (schoolkids, I guess) who would love to build customized backpacks for themselves. Great idea? No. World changing? No. Profitable if you get the product and the marketing right? Sure!
If people are condescending towards you because you don't have an iPhone, I think you should try to find other people to be around. Running away is the correct response. :) It's easier said than done, of course.
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That's terrible, and I'm sorry for you. I'm very thankful for my medication though, because whilst not dependant on them, they do patch a few annoying bugs.
neat, but not worth being on front page.
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MtGox offers this but competition is always good.
I've just had my first branded backup device fail (with electronics grief, not media grief), received contradictory information about whether it was supported, and been told that, even if it was, there's no plan to put the media into new electronics, so I'm currently very resistant to any 'it just works' story.
I still believe Goupon style coupon accelerate retailer's business in some cases. But, the current sales style of sales reps in Groupon make both their customers and Groupon itself worse. Even in tech company, telling a lie destroys themselves. Groupon should change their sales style as soon as possible.
I have a friend that has done pretty much the same thing, although he hasn't found a tech cofounder yet.

My recommendation to the business types is to spec it out. Even if coding is beyond you, using something like Balsamiq to create a prototype that you can workshop, usability test, gauge interest in, etc. is a big help. Even if you can't convince a techie to join you, they'll be more likely to help point out the parts that will be easy or hard to implement, which can help define your MVP and estimate startup costs if you decide to outsource it.
It's a matter of perspective, there are shrill voices saying that if we scrap Trident all our economic woes will be over, but really there are much, much lower hanging fruit than that. A windfall tax on the big IT outsourcing firms would be a good start.
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Oh, great to see that Code Quarterly is coming along.

Hal Abelson: My math PhD was in algebraic topology, which had nothing to do with computers. Then I got interested, through thinking about topology, in the relations with distributed computing and that eventually formed a bridge into doing something in computing.

For those wanting to find out a little more about these connections, Herlihy & Rajsbaum, 2000, An Overview of Synchronous Message-Passing and Topology, is a really great place to start.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/mph/HerlihyR96/sv.pdf
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I enabled spaces so I could push the things I wasn't ready for into the corners.
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When you use "literally" like this, it's to indicate that what follows, whilst normally metaphorical, is in this case literal. How is "asking for a better representative on the information security front" a metaphor?

The incessant misuse of the word literally, literally makes my blood boil.

(See what I did there?)
Let's start with the factual errors.

> That’s for a TV channel and a pretty good website.

No, that's for eight or so TV channels, a similar number of national radio stations, a network of local radio stations, and a pretty good website.

> Well, if you are capable of receiving BBC broadcasts you pay the tax.

TV Licensing would like us all to believe that if we're capable of receiving any UK TV broadcasts (not just the BBC) then we have to pay, but it's not true. You have to pay if you actually receive a UK TV broadcast. Note that watching live TV through iplayer counts as receiving a UK TV broadcast, but watching an earlier programme timeshifted through iplayer does not. The BBC wants this changed, but this hasn't happened yet, I think.

> Every household in the United Kingdom is charged a flat fee

As well as not having to pay if you don't receive UK TV broadcasts, you don't have to pay if one of the householders is aged 75 or above.

Also, pubs/hotels/etc have to pay if they receive TV broadcasts, but it's not on a flat rate basis.
No big deal - skydiving during a rocket launch
We pay VAT on our phone bills and internet access bills as well. Paper-based newspapers and magazines are exempt though.
http://www.oembed.com/ does same thing I think , for free.
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See Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". If I remember correctly that was one of his hopes for OO...
>but that may be corrected in a few generations.

Or not, as the case may be. That's why you send out many such probes. You would have to assume that most attempts would fail. You are, after all, attempting to transplant human life with no human oversight.

Either way, it's merely prolonging the inevitable. The Sun has about 5 billion years of fuel left, which is coincidentally about the time the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda, ruining everyone's day. The Sun would be far too hot to support life on Earth long before that, but let's assume we've moved to a more gentrified suburb. Even were humanity to somehow escape the Milky Way in the next 5 billion years, we'll still just be building sandcastle walls in an attempt to hold back the tide. I'm reminded here of Asimov's The Last Question, an excellent short story:

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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I'm certain the methods being used here are just wrong. It looks like it's code generated by a symbolic algebra system. Chances are that using a more scalable methodology would eliminate the code size problem. For example, symbolic manipulations often have exponential space complexity in the depth of the expression tree, but automatic differentiation can do the required operation in polynomial time and space (often linear or log-linear).

Unfortunately, "no way to optimize" is basically a statement that the questioner is not interested in an algorithmic way to make the problem go away.
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I think this is primarily about finding a hack which is a short-cut to doing something in the officially recommended way (with Windows and Access)
my joy of using linux gone away long ago when i realized that i was spending more time searching forums, hacking drivers, trying solutions, paying more for compatible hardware, not having my laptop extra buttons work or trying to speed up a virtual machine just to have a usable photoshop than actually _using_ it.

i'm a happy mac user now (user, not fanboy) that enjoys having a posix compliant terminal in a window and photoshop in another, all working out-of-the-box.

i'm happy to pay for this.
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Urgh. In which case, you have my sympathies. It certainly wasn't that much of a hassle for me. Stick with it, I could certainly believe that MtGox is under a certain amount of strain right now.

That being said, they aren't the only option: other exchanges are cropping up, and bitcoin-otc is also available.
literally, like, amen.
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And the resulting way is far simpler and didn't require paying for anything.
Can't find any links to the suicides, I may be conflating the string of female prison suicides at Corton Vale in the 1990s (story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1852047.stm) with the more general pressure from MP's to reduce the number of women (primarily young, poor, single and with dependent children) jailed for licence fee non-payment that occurred at the same time (it dropped as a result from 250 to 50 a year in the middle of the decade, still far too many and possibly still the leading cause of female imprisonment in the UK).
> And the resulting way is far simpler and didn't require paying for anything.

because, of course, time is free.
Well, this is also my experience with linux: many things you want to do just don't work out of the box. There is always (nearly) a way to do things, though.

But if you really want to do work and not always fight against your tool of choice, linux is not the thing to use.

For coding, I replaced it with Mac OS. This saves me 98% of the problems I had on linux.

To be fair: I wouldn't know an out-of-the-box way to convert a MS Access file to csv on the Mac either.
Someone posted this a couple months back on HN: http://captainobvio.us/

It says to get feedback but if I remember correctly, it was a place for people to just submit ideas as well.
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This. I have ascended to a managerial position a couple of years ago, rising from the ranks to steer what used to by a group of my peers. A lot of cruft had been ailing the team for years, but one guy stood out: he had been fired, rehired and now acted as if there was nothing he could do to damage his standing in the team. When we were peers, it bothered me; when I became his boss, I really tried to sway his attention into the product, into learning, into becoming more than a "drag this out of the component box" programmer.

Needless to say, it failed. The guy was irreparably lazy, and trying to get him excited about building the things we are fortunate enough to get paid to build only made him try to put me under a bus when he got the chance. I had to let him go, and have slept better ever since.
The BBC is a much-loved institution. Whenever politicians propose changes to the BBC, people get hysterical about the supposed damage the supposed wrecking will do. This happens even when the politicians involved aren't Tories.

The BBC is better value for money than the pay TV channels, because the pay TV channels can't force people to pay for their product. If the BBC channels went subscription-only, the price would be higher than it is now.

The BBC doesn't carry advertising. Lots of people like watching TV without being interrupted by adverts. And the free commercial channels like not having the increased competition for TV advertising space.

The licence fee / TV tax is also far from universally admired, but as the alternatives are also flawed and it's the status quo, it endures.

I'd prefer it if it was based on ability to pay, but (a) that would make it more expensive to collect and more time consuming to pay; and (b) there is a danger that if it was collected by the Revenue, that would be a step along the road towards the BBC losing editorial independence.
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How about this story? "Something goes wrong and shit doesn't work. At this point, we would expect to be completely stymied. But no, instead, we manage with a bit of googling and dicking around to fix it!" The comparison isn't with opening this particular file on different operating systems; it's with how you can recover when shit goes wrong (which does happen now and then on all operating systems).
Wouldn't using the synaptic package manager work better? I've heard it touted as one of the reasons for Linux being superior than Windows and Mac (except for App store) by having a central repository of many programs. Want Gimp? sudo apt-get install gimp or mark Gimp in the package manager and it'll download and install all the related packages and dependencies.

My only gripe is that the search is not good but Google spoiled me.
Have you tried editing something with Google Docs on your iPad?
This is a brilliant idea because of it's simplicity, but I'm afraid of being SMS spammed, now that you have my number. The todo list idea is great, too.
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Not sure why you are downvoted, but I'm wondering too why anyone would use this costly method instead of, say, SimpleNote.
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You're just proving the point that linux ( and this can be said for ANY os ) is not for everyone.

For the past 6 years, I've been much happier with my experience using Linux and the several distro's I've tried my hand at while no it night be perfect I've learned a lot and have been generally more please.

I don't require or use Photoshop, however you do so your wants and needs are different than mine.

I can list problems I've had with windows, that had me run into driver issues, searching through forums and the many many mishaps ( not virus/malware related ) that I've run into. But in the end it would just boil down to my bad experience vs the millions of windows users who would protest to the contrary.
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Yes.

I recollect a similar situation when I volunteered for a Linux fest. (http://wiki.sampada.net/GNU_Linux_Install_Fest) The venue could only accommodate 50 odd people but > 300 had registered on the eve. We needed to update all that after 10:30 am seats may be full and we might not be able to accommodate all, at 10 pm.

Me and another friend of mine wrote a simple script to fetch mobile numbers of registrants, and another silly one to use gnokii and send an SMS to the fetched numbers. (http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/User%27s_Guide#SMS_Sending_...)

Linux is fun.
Linux users are mostly lost without Google, myself included. It gets you into a yak-shaving mindset. Ditto with Emacs. If I can stop fiddling I'm sure I'll be more productive.
You need sufficient mass for a black hole to be stable, otherwise it "evaporates". A very small black hole would evaporate so fast that "explodes" would be a better term.
Yes. For more perspective, the average density of the universe is roughly 3-6 hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.
as they say "Linux is only free if your time has no value".
Take home point is that merchant satisfaction is not a priority for Groupon. Their strategy is to try and get customers to stick. How is that going to work? Clever ad copy and ridiculous deals aren't going to keep anyone from checking out the competitor's deals. What they need to be doing is maximizing merchant satisfaction at any cost. Its the only way to win.
Exporting the file to a csv format (using microsoft access) wouldn't have taken any less time than me finding the right tool on linux and doing it, that is if I had Microsoft Access.
I find, for example, the Grand Arche uplifting. Tagging an architecture as not "human scale" seems to me an attempt to pit it against human aspirations.
mdb files are not easy to open, unless you have MS Access. Lots of Windows computers lack MS Access.

Now, you can still open mdb files on Windows, using the Jet Engine and something like ADO, ADO.net or ODBC, but the details of that are a bit too gory for the mild mannered command line junkies here.
Or use best of both worlds

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Ah .. And normally (If that is a word which makes sense in this context), the mass of a giant object (Like a star) would be the way to create this pressure? But theoretically you could do it by other means?
I scanned a dozen or so of the jokes and didn't find any of it funny.
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Since I get all the protolol jokes and I am sure there are very limited number of people on this earth who gets them, I feel like I am part of some technology brotherhood and that makes me feel good :)
I'm not trying to start an argument, but in regards to coding, I take your point completely if your talking about iOS development or something specific to Mac Programming, but if not, what exactly were the obstacles for development in Linux.

I use Linux mainly because of its ease of use in terms of development. I would be interested in hearing your arguments for the Mac. My friend recently got a Mac, and unbeknown to himself was forced to download a 2.something GB download for the developer pack just so he could get GCC, Now I know there are better ways to achieve this, but this to me seems counter productive.
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