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Stopped reading after the first pointless micro-optimization. With some very rare exceptions, the cost of these kind of optimizations in terms of resulting in hard to maintain and change code are far greater than the cost of bluntly adding more hardware.

I mean seriously, if you're using PHP's OOP functionality but you find yourself having to squeeze out performance by dropping getters and setters on your classes, you should really first take a step back and take a good look at your entire approach.
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I guess I wasn't the only person over 30 whose feelings were hurt at TC Disrupt
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I think the comparison to the Mac Dashboard is a very good one. With the introduction of SideShow in Vista, Microsoft showed an interest in simple at-a-glance apps, and it seems like they want to push that interaction model for 'tablet mode', while still leaving everything in place for 'desktop mode'.
I have to agree with you: the result cannot be blamed on the programmers alone. What I saw was a cultural mismatch, all the way from the control of the requirements to the selection of personnel. Making an ad is not the same as making a web application, the attributes of a good writer or artists are not what define a good programmer. I have successfully introduced a measure of sanity in two agencies I worked for, with great results (I really love making people's lives better), but that's not the whole market.

Yet, I can understand a bit of this mindset. Far too many websites are to be discarded by the end of the campaign. When so many products are supposed to last a month or so, people often forget about how sausages should be made.
You're right.. it's less awful than garbage collector, but its requirements are more stringent so the market leverages different demands.
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I think you are onto something here. I think the tiled interface will be very similar to the Windows Media Center shell. It's a specialized interface for touch, just like WMC is a specialized interface for couch surfing.

In the end it's not going to be very useful for end users unless Microsoft really bites the bullet and forces developers to migrate to the tiled interface, en mass. Apple did that with iOS, basically forcing developers to create entirely new apps, because the input method of touch was so drastically different that apps requiring mouse-level precision would never work. Microsoft will never do that, so instead they need to fragment their OS into two interfaces, touch and classic.

I fear a Windows 8 tablet will be the worst of both worlds. It will need enough horsepower to run "classic mode" with all of the baggage that brings, yet most tablet users are just doing simple media consumption so they can stay in tiled mode most of the time. In the end you bring a product to market that costs $1500, has a quad core CPU and 4GB of RAM, and gets 4 hours of battery life - not to mention it weighs 3 pounds. Basically you end up with the current crop of Windows tablets. A stylus will probably be included just to make classic mode usable.

I'm not saying there isn't a market for a powerful tablet that can run Windows 8 in classic mode, but those tablets have been around for years and they haven't gotten mass market traction for a reason.
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There's a million ways to skin that cat. In my own humble opinion, the very least someone could do for an artist and call themselves a label is to print up the physical product and/or help the artist negotiate the details of the distribution of the digital product. You can print up 1,000 on DiscMakers for a little over $1,000 last I looked, and only "labels" are allowed to put stuff on iTunes (last I looked).

Of course, most bands could afford the cost of printing, it's the process and cost of marketing that most bands don't have. That's the main attraction of a label of almost any size these days.
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I thought that snatching the type of content of my pages should be their job. I'm so naive.

No problem, I'll add a few kbytes to every single page of my sites, so I can replicate the information I've already stated in a number of sitemaps, video sitemaps, headers and XML files.

P.S: I'm not agaisnt standardization at all, I'm just saying, this comes a bit late.
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Amongst the last few books I read, I recommend Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Marlen Haushofer - The Wall (although this will be too kafkaesque for some), Fahrenheit 451.
I do love Jules Verne as well.

Atlas Shrugged should be known to anyone around here, I guess.. Relating to Atlas Shrugged: Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both books were very influential to me when I was younger.
I've just started reading "Vagabonding" by R. Potts. http://www.vagabonding.net/ So far quite nice.
And the "Original" is? Don't forget, computers are smart but dumb.
I've just started listening again to the unabridged Audible version of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle - I couldn't get into the book form but the audio book version is great.

Last few Kindle books I've read were:

See No Evil by Bob Baer, the experiences of a CIA case officer in the Middle East (which influenced the movie Syriana).

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, about the Big Swinging Dicks of Wall Street.

Decline and Fall by Chris Mullin, the diaries of one of the more decent members of the former Labour Government here in the UK.
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Good point. I would have enough to see me through for 12 months. I suppose that is the kind of time you would need to find out if a start up could be successful.
Direct link to the paper - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6034/1170.abstract

Unfortunately, I don't have full access. If anyone has it, can they post some more details about the experiment?
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There's a huge number of business developers this won't affect. .NET and "normal" desktop, web and server apps are still the bread and butter for these folks. Not everyone is on the bleeding edge.
I find it funny that SV Angel had to come out with a clarification on the matter. I recall feeling pretty bummed after hearing this presentation. It was a weird tone given the general can-do attitude of the TC Disrupt audience. Here's the way I resolve this ... I have my own reasons for not having done a startup earlier in life, and if anyone holds my age against me in an entrepreneurial endeavor, it is their loss.

I wish we had more discussion on the topic of insane ageism (I'm 31 and apparently, I'm over the hill?) in tech startups as opposed to more discussion on stupid bitcoins.
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Don't worry about quotes (PHP takes car of that now) and use autoloading instead.
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I fully agree with that.

Those kinds of optimization may be sensible to tighten some critical inner loops of your code. But especially there you should avoid high-level features anyway.

Also, before trying to squeeze out performance that way, you might as well rewrite that part of your code in C, and let the C compiler perform real optimizations.

However, chances are good that you don't even need that, as some intelligent combination of already existing fast PHP functions (implemented in C) usually does the trick.
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I just posted on this but will not link and just cut to the chase. Is anyone here able to answer this longstanding question I've had?

>>>If it was possible to shoot one photon at a time through the twin slits, would the photons consistently land at the same spots over and over again? I keep wondering if it’s deterministic. The interference pattern is always the same, isn’t it? So why not the placement of each photon to create it? Kind of like setting up a chess board: each photon has its place.
Yes. Obviously in a bubble.

As evidence for this, I'm going to submit an excerpt from an invite that I received to the NY Tech Meetup Silicon Alley Talent Fair and startup recruiting event..

I really hate to be a downer or criticize someone else's desire to start a business, but sorry, but there is no way that all these companies should exist.

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>>>You know, I can see real utility in a simple site that lets you upload data garnered from hacking escapades online to be easily searchable and presentable to the general public.

Did you ever read Stephenson's Snow Crash? You just described what the CIA becomes in that novel: crowd-sourced intel uploaded to a central site.
The iPhone hardly won the mobile wars with Android gaining that much market share (and even in some measurements, exceeding it) - it is a little like saying that the British have won the war of independence because they have the rebels holed up in a fort.
Not trolling, honest question: why is PHP still used? What makes it preferable over alternative server-side technologies? I have programmed PHP before, and I know I could just Google this question, but this kind of search usually turns up rants by language zealots.
I don't see what the problem is. It's a logical step and it's better for the mind than filling it up with .Net APIs.

I think the most vitriolic responses have been from people who have either been brainwashed by WebForms or never had to do anything on the web before.
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The initial code was supposed to be written in a straightforward way. That said, I was playing around with the code, and using tcmalloc with the original C++ code gives a better speedup (something close to 40% with the provided example.)
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One difference is that the command-line and DOS applications didn't require more CPU and memory resources. Another difference is that the mouse didn't remove the main input device for the command line - the keyboard. Yet another difference is that extending the command-line into GUI didn't coincide with a switch to an entirely different system architecture.

The argument is not that personal computer OSes and mobile device OSes won't be converging down the road. Actually that's the big thing with Lion, isn't it. And I'm sure it will be a similar thing with iOS 5. The argument, though, is that they will never meld completely because it is impossible (or at the very least very, very unlikely) to have both full backwards compatibility and full and proper casual computer, or tablet if you will, experience.
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You can also let the database aggregate that tree for you. For instance, PostgreSQL allows for ARRAY/RECORD data types that can be used for aggregating.

In addition, XML datatypes can be handy here. Those are generic, so you don't need to defined your RECORD types. However, if you use lots of XML elements instead of XML attributes, the communication overhead due to the big XML serialization might defeat performance.

This is why I prefer to aggregate JSON structures instead. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL doesn't yet have good JSON support, neither natively nor via contrib. So this requires a custom JSON implementation.

If you use a database without advanced data structures (such as MySQL) you can also try to aggregate your data by string concatenation. Of course, you need a non-occuring separater character, or better an escaping function here. This might still be fast, but will make your SQL query hard to write and hard to maintain.
A problem exists when you dont know what you want, then you dont know the keywords or the category. And the questions you might ask about the problem migth seem completley irrelevant to what you are trying to do.

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>>>You seem to be arguing from the belief that anything downloadable should be presumed to be in the public domain by default.

I don't know where the hell you got that idea from.

But let's go on. What do you think it's called entrapment to begin with? Because you put cheese in the trap. The mislabeled file was cheese. Period.

There are many legitimate reasons to search for illegal files. How do you think RIAA, MPAA and the rest find out what's been stolen? I search for things to see what's been stolen too. Are you arguing if the RIAA, MPAA or anyone in the course of researching piracy downloads a file to verify that it is indeed pirated they should be prosecuted?

EDIT: Here is my legitimate reason for pirating a book:
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I'm not sure age discrimination actually exists in the startup industry, and certainly anyone who equates correlation with causation doesn't have any place attempting to do anything that requires a modicum of intelligence IMHO. Nor would i want to work with a VC who made such an error.

What I find funny is that people just throw these stats out there without any acknowledgement of this, nor any discussion of confounding variables - at least David Lee is acknowledging that he should have done so during his presentation rather than after. I bet there is significant correlation between the founders of successful companies and their families socio-economic background too - look at how many are Ivy League graduates or dropouts. How about their marital status? Number of children? Personal debt? Tenure related benefits? These factors are likely much more significant than age in determining the amount of time and effort a person can put into something, and how much risk one is willing to take doing anything. However since age has a strong correlation with these other attributes it's just easier for people use age as a kind of summary statistic. Recognition of this is severely lacking, especially amongst the media types (who I'm sure actually do know better, but it's a pretty boring headline isn't it?).

Anyone can do anything they want with enough time and effort. Some people need less of these than others, and timing has a lot to do with success. But it has precisely fuck all to do with age alone.
There are lots of perf problems with SL on WP7 too.

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Actually they did not measure definite positions and momenta for single photons, which would be HUGE news and contradict QM. They did a bunch of measurements on a bunch of photons and deduced an "average".
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