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C++ has garbage collectors. They're just not standard:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/libgc.html

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n183...
>But, but, but... thanks to modern technology, aren't there so many better options for seriously smart folks with physics and math degrees?

If people want to pursue money, who are you to judge?

See, I don't think you quite get how much this sentiment pisses me off. I'm 19. I just got a bachelor's in physics. I've done research in a bunch of fields. And I'm going into graduate school next year.

People who think I'm somehow obligated to pursue anything beyond money can go blow a goat. Am I? You're goddamn right I am. I'm looking at tenure track or something similar because I love the people in academia, and because I love the work that I do. I love the people in academia because they don't think like this. They aren't generally judgmental pricks who will fault someone for pursuing their own interests. "generally".

I've dealt with so much shit from people who treat me like some sort of fucking alien for being good at goddamn math. Every-fucking-body else in this fucking country is more self-centered than a gyroscope. If I could reach you, right now, I'd strangle you. Seriously. God-fucking-damnit.

It's bad enough that I get to watch the ivory tower crumble around me. It's worse when people act like I'm obligated to live there.

In conclusion, go fuck yourself. You have no ground to stand on being 'disappointed' in me or any of my peers.
Intel? I always think of them as the bread and butter of IT. Only 45 more years and they'll be a centennial company.
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They don't say why or where those users are going. If the users aren't going anywhere else, they just decided that Facebook weren't for them. This might be alright for Facebook because I guess they want committed users that log on the site several times per day, not users that log once in a while.
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Does anyone have any good guesses as to what the "next" Facebook will be? I mean, in my experience, it basically went Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook. While Facebook is certainly in the drivers seat to a much greater extent than MySpace was five or six years ago, history indicates they'll eventually be knocked off their throne. However, I haven't seen or heard of any serious newcomers in that space. I've personally seen enthusiasm for Facebook diminishing over the past year or two, but will Facebook be end up being the ultimate "social network"? Is that basically settled?
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A Black Swan in this context would be a shock to the system that no one saw coming nor could see coming. For instance a change in the sun which would drastically warm or cool the earth far beyond the effects of CO2. Maybe a natural disaster or an industrial accident that had a cascade effect that would reach beyond what anyone could have seen coming. You can't do anything about either of these things but that won't stop people from suggesting it could have been avoided with the right (or more of): "fill in the blank with your favorite solution to all problems in life."
I actually like that both Clojure and Scala have names that otherwise don't mean something else. This unambiguity means you can more easily search for related pages and get more meaningful data out of Google Trends. Java will bring up some coffee references and the island in Indonesia. Python is, well, obvious. Just as two examples.

I'd much rather everything not also be something else.

GIMP is actually appropriate because AFAIC the program is completely crippled.
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I've never made any pasta from scratch, but they sell whole-wheat pasta at my local grocer, so I assume it must be possible.
My hope is that people have simply tired of the concept. The privacy implications are staggering.
Thank you for posting this. I, too, read The Goal for Ops Mgmt and appreciated it, but not nearly as much as I do after 6 years back in the Real World. I've headed back to Amazon and have purchased The Goal (and a bunch of his other books, too), excited to read them with fresh eyes.

A moment I should notice: I'd underestimated the value of Goldratt (or B-school's professor hadn't hammered it home) and now he's gone. Fortunately, his books are still available.
If true, this is pretty interesting in the context of the privacy and other mishaps from Facebook over the last few months.

I wonder what the breakdown would be for the reasons for quitting.
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Weird that Nokia wasn't mentioned. Depending on how you count it, Nokia is nearly 150 years old:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia
Sure you could run dynamic sites as well.

But this isn't a VPS option.
disclaimer: I'm 18, self taught, and have been working professionally for several companies and universities(Stanford included) since I was about 12. I'm a Thiel Fellow now(http://20under20.org search "nick")

Find a co-founder and build a product. It doesn't have to be anything world changing, but make it something substantial. Waking up to work on something and seeing daily or weekly progress is incredibly fulfilling, and having someone to work with on a long term project is an experience everyone should have.

Who knows, it might become something. My first project(web app) took a summer of fulltime work, made absolutely no money, but got millions of views, and taught me a ton.

This kind of dedication is also something that colleges love(especially Stanford), if that's one of your ultimate goals.
I don't think this is just Facebook, perhaps the so-called social media jumped the shark. I think it jumped the shark a year ago for both Twitter and Facebook (CNN, Ashton Kutcher contest) but the numbers are starting to catch up now. Also don't discount the Linkedin IPO where some would argue the social media was exposed.
I don't see anything wrong with a general social network that supports sharing information with people you know. Regardless of how far people have stretched and abused the concept of "people you know" (and "information"), the infrastructure seems useful. So I don't want to see social networking go away; I want to see it entirely decentralized, such that each person's social network goes through that person's personal site.
My sense is that Facebook is really well made, and isn't going anywhere (i.e., Facebook is to social networking what Google is to search). I could see LinkedIn getting destroyed, though. They fill a very real need, but don't seem to do it very well. This is all very qualitative, but I never feel like I have a pleasant experience on LinkedIn.
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When it comes to system-killing bugs, it also matters whether you update daily or less often; system-killing bugs often get reported right after a mirror pulse and fixed one or two mirror pulses later (less than a day).
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I think FB has another 2-3yrs before a newcomer comes along. FB will eventually be the 'old' site and uncool to be there. Speaking of privacy, there's a huge privacy hole on the site right now. Currently if I request to add certain people, their data feed starts to populate my wall before they've even accepted the friend request. I think it's because they're part of a group or network I'm already in.
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Although I do not want to come across as being biased (due to me working on a multi-live social concept), however I do believe Live interaction both on mobile devices or web app is where the next legion of 'Social networking' is headed.

Whether i'm right or wrong, only time will tell. On the subject of de-throning facebook, that will be hard. Though it is do-able but for the moment, let's not kid ourselves, Facebook will remain the beast and king of Social media for while.

They are just to big and efficiently run to go down like myspace.
A couple of book suggestions:

Fowler's "Passionate Programmer"[1] and Uncle Bob Martin's "Clean Coder"[2] are both excellent books on making a career out of writing software. Not specific to a particular tech, but both quick interesting reads that contain lots of nuggets of great advice.

Good luck on your journey. I'm sending this link to my 13yr old son. He's been exploring Ruby and Processing.

[1] http://pragprog.com/titles/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Progr...
How many Facebook users care about privacy? I agree that there are considerable issues with regard to Facebook and privacy, but I'm not sure that most of their users are proactive in caring about it as much.

It is probably more likely that people are tired of Facebook, and aren't using it as much.
Maybe you should try standing like people do at a bar (the drinking kind). There's a leg rest or rail, which, if you put one foot on it, makes it easier to stand for long periods.

Not sure why it works. Maybe it supports your weight without making the muscles do it.
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Why are Android and iOS are categorized as companies, separate from Google and Apple respectively?
Well you don't want to go down that road. By having everything showing, you're giving more control to the user (they get to decide which mode of learning is best for them) and search engines get to digest your content and reward you with "free" traffic.
1. Yep, e-paper does require a controller. We're developing one at the appropriate thickness.
2. It's reasonably conformable, but it doesn't need to be any more so than the plastic substrate of e.g. an Oyster card.
3. That number strikes me as a little off, but in any event we're comfortable with the differential between the power we've got coming off the coil and what the display + controller need.
4. Agreed - but that's a different use case entirely.
5. You'd be amazed what volume can do.
6. Again, we're developing a custom controller.

What kind of an engineer looks at a situation like the one you describe and sees it as anything but a tasty challenge, anyway? : . )

Thanks for taking the time to think this through, though.
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Not really.

The example given is equivalent in badness to:

g = Timer()
assert g.startTimer() == 0

... and then wondering why the timer doesn't start when you run your program in "optimized" mode.
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Have fun. It seems like you're trying to learn things you really aren't that interested in and solving problems you don't care about. My advice, play. Build things you want to, for yourself. You will get better doing something you love rather than learning to hate something you were once passionate about because you're trying to do everything everyone else expects you to do.
We're two of those deserters here. It seemed too much like tv, in reverse. Everybody transmits and nobody watches.
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Where else would they go, at this point? I don't know of any competitors that are live and able to target Facebook refugees. Diaspora is still in Alpha, for example, and I suspect that the buzz on that one has been fading for some time.
I believe the Python runtime has special-case handling for concatenating string-literals, and for concatenating string whose reference count is exactly 1. String concatenation isn't wholly defanged, though.
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The "social graph" is more valuable when it has everybody in it. One of the reasons facebook has such a tremendously high valuation is that social graph concept; the notion that the way people are connected and the way they interact is valuable information.

I'm not sure that the revenue they've begun to generate (which is reportedly sizable) is actually coming from that magical "social graph" rather than just plain old advertising (and quite spammy advertising at that), but that was the premise for huge valuations in the past.

So, facebook gets value from occasional users, and having occasional users go away does hurt them in the long run, since I guess the long bet with facebook is still the "social graph".

Regardless of that, negative growth in their most lucrative markets is a horrible sign for a company like facebook. Slow growth is one thing...but losing people by the millions? That indicates significant breakage. I don't know enough to know what kind of breakage, as I'm not really a facebook user (I login maybe once a month).
Yes. Python is not that mysterious.

For generic objects, the __lt__ and __gt__ methods are simply defined the only way that's sensible, which is effectively as a pointer location comparison.
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Lisp for web application development
I am trying to figure out to know why would Lisp make the difference in a web application development when compared to ROR, Php frameworks, Python etc. I had been trying to figure out a way along with making my mind to start using lisp completely on one of my projects. I am wondering if people could share their experiences in developing web apps using lisp.

I know there are refs on alegro and other links on the web which point out lisp based applications. I also have come across where pointers point out to viaweb being developed in lisp and that being migrated away from lisp. Similarly reddit development starting with lisp and then moving off to python etc. Why doesnt lisp perform as web application programming language though it has a whole bunch of programming features better than other languages?

I also have tried my hands on a mix of some of the lisp based libs/frameworks (hunchentoot, weblocks, cl-who, clsql, postmodern and others) which help to develop web apps in the proces of figuring a stable mix of lisp based components to develop the web app.

Please share your experiences with web app development with lisp which are running in production environment currently and not those just being replaced or migrated to someother language (eg viaweb which should be now 10 years old, or reddit even).
By their very nature, centralized social networking sites like Facebook force you to share information not only with the people you know, but also with the owners of site.

Some people don't mind this, but I for one don't want Facebook, MySpace, or any other social networking site knowing who my friend are or what I'm sharing with them. It's simply none of their business.

The only hope I see for a truly privacy-respecting social network is a distributed, peer-to-peer network. That way you'd be communicating only with those you know, at least in principle.

But even there there are major problems, such as the need for information to travel over untrusted hops to get to its destination. Encryption can help with some of it, but would still be subject to traffic analysis. Maybe a social network could be created over TOR. I don't know.
My (admittedly biased) hope is that a distributed social ecosystem will emerge.

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org
Why bother having assert statements at all in a language if they're going to stick around in production code? If you're actually worried about something actually going wrong you shouldn't be looking to an assert statement (but, instead, probably a straight condition).
Encrypted, peer-to-peer social networks are prohibitively difficult. More likely, we'll see node-to-node social networks first.
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This is also really interesting for everyone else's majors as well - really seems to come down to pursue what interests you.
Start your own company immediately. You can give your day job higher priority, but definitely try your hand at this life! In 3 years when you graduate you will be thankful for the experience, or for the extra money you'll have in your pocket.

Don't plan to fail.
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This article is terrible. It is essentially taking the hottest tech companies of today and making a conjecture that because they have maneuvered well to get where they are, that 100 years from now their methodologies will still apply.

I realized this author had no clue when he/she explained that Microsoft isn't a safe bet while Facebook is. Um, last I checked MS had a $200 billion market cap. I don't think you can compare that to a website that has been in existence for 7 years and hasn't even shown profitability. I'd bet a week's pay that he/she hasn't ever used an Oracle product or could even explain how its database technology is used.
I think it's only fair to mention that this is on my netbook - it's reasonable, but not the most powerful machine.

Netflix doesn't work because of no Silverlight.

Hulu and YouTube are unwatchably slow when fullscreened. They work perfectly fine under Windows on an older machine. In addition, having a YouTube chrome tab open slows everything to a halt.

The built in Ruby is an older version, and it conflicts with any new version you install unless you use something magical like RVM. It's very confusing for someone new to the Ruby toolchain.

The installed Java VM doesn't seem to work with Minecraft, and getting it to work involves doing things that remind me of DOS gaming back in the 90s.

Gmail has been freezing in Chrome since updating to the latest version of Ubuntu.

None of these are killers, and the OS is generally fast and awesome. However, I have the choice between spending 10% mental overhead wrestling with my machine and context-switching to deal with bugs, or spending $2k and buying a Mac. Cumulatively, I feel the Mac will be cheaper.
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My 'Aha' Git moment:

Discovering that '-d', '-D', 'rm', and ':' are all inconsistent UI behaviors for removing things

Consistent behavior is "distributed" across multiple commands. Variety is indeed the spice of life!
> Criticizing it for its obviousness makes sense

That was my intention. I was perhaps unclear.
Anyone know their methodology? I clicked around a bit and couldn't find any information. Without knowing more my prior would attribute it to a bug.
Which someone? The average city dweller? Probably. A farmer? Not at all. What they do hasn't really changed; just gotten much, much more efficient.

Same goes for a civil engineer; would be very useful in medieval times. Software engineer not so much!
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My small recommendation, as a just-graduated high school student with similar interests:

Self-study for the AP Computer Science AB exam.

Read through a Barron's review book and do the review questions as you go. It should be fun and easy, and you'll get college credit! (Stanford will give you advanced placement if you get a 4 or 5 on the test.)

When I did this, in tenth grade, it taught me at least 3 things:

Basic data structure and algorithms, like you mentioned. Useful.

OOP. This helped me become better able to manage complexity, and get to the point where I could develop 1500+ line web apps.

Java. I actually applied the concepts I was learning to JavaScript instead, and got away with never compiling any Java. (Java did come in handy later though, when I wanted to hack on some Minecraft plugins!) Many things are less straightforward in JS though (like OOP), and will require more outside reading.

As I studied APCS, I became more and more into JavaScript. Lately, I've been working with CouchDB, which is a database and web server that lets you build entire web apps with just HTML, CSS, and JS. CouchDB could serve as the "glue" that you're looking for!
It would be slow in terms of fixing the oceans of OSS code that doesn't cleanly configure/compile in a cross-compilation environment, rather than the compilation process itself.
The only reason I still have my fake profile is because pretty much every site out there has 'connect with facebook' so it makes it super easy to get access to content that's only viewable by registered users. I basically provide 0 value to facebook in terms of my activities since I never visit my actual profile. I wonder how many of those millions of users are like me.
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From your logic I can only draw the conclusion that government owns society. You may believe that it is so, and that it's even rightfully so. I choose to disagree. I was born free, and the soil that I was born on can in no way be owned by the government. The government never homesteaded it. Since the government can't have greater powers than those of individuals who choose to delegate their powers to the government some individual has to have homesteaded the soil and explicitly signed it away to the government. Of course, this never happened, we all know how our governments came to claim sovereignty over huge land areas. I say that might does not necessarily make right, I say you own what you mix your labor with. Although government claims to be the highest authority and backs that up with the threat of violence, you can't assume that their claim is rightful.
Tons of functions in most imperative languages are structured in an early-return-on-error style, with exceptions simply being a special case of that. That is neither novel nor uncommon.
The methodology is basically using the Facebook Ad Tool. The tool let's you target a set of users for your ads and tells you the size of that population.

The article clearly discloses the inherent issues at play.

> Going forward, we’ll be watching closely to see what longer-term trends emerge. Bugs in the Facebook advertising tool that we draw this information from, seasonal changes like college graduations, and other short-term factors, can influence numbers month to month and obscure what’s really happening.
Sure, but the world would have been a better place had Go not existed and Rust had all the limelight.
How does its GDP/capita relate to cost of living/capita?
"With" from Path. I think Path is not going to get critical mass. "With" or a copy of it, however, is going to be big. The service essentially lets you say who you are with in the moment by snapping a picture. It's like checking in Time with a picture.
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About 5 or 6 years ago. Prolog is still used so if you are enthusiastic you might do an open source project in Prolog to draw attention of other people using the language.