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Electronics recycling splits into two halves. One is the 'recycling' of old but saleable equipment, mainly old cellphones and computers. These generally end up on eBay, or shipped out to Africa to be sold on. I suppose if you're too lazy or rich to sell your electronics yourself, this is perfectly harmless.

The other half is the actual recycling of broken or obsolete equipment that is valuable only as scrap. The processing of this waste is arguably the biggest environmental disaster happening anywhere in the world. This waste is shipped out to places like Guiyu and Lagos, where it is sorted by hand. PCBs will be burned on open fires to remove the solder mask, then dipped in acid to extract the gold and copper. Wire insulation is burned off and plastic housings incinerated in the street. Toner dust is blown into the air. Anything which will not burn and has no scrap value is dumped in fields. In Guiyu, levels of lead, mercury and cadmium in the water course are hundreds of times the safe limit. Drinking water is brought in by tanker.

Regardless of how careful a recycler is, they have no ability to control how equipment is resold. A bundle of waste might change hands half a dozen times before finally becoming scrap metal. I'd much rather see old equipment end up in EPA-regulated landfill than be "recycled".
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I agree that a distributed ecosystem would seem the way forward, do you have any pointers to the main features of the Appleseed project, particularly:

- What shortcomings in current approaches it is addressing

- What technical approaches are being used

- Why these are better than what we currently have

It would be great to have some description of how the distributed part of the system will actually work.
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Well, there's Reddit and its collection of small communities under the same banner.

But I think as more and more CMSs start introducing semantic information in their HTML, we'll start to have more client side features that work across all such websites, and eventually we'll go full circle and reinvent USENET, but now with a dozen layers of abstraction to support it.
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I don't look for roommates, just get my own place so the options are not quite as you described. Maybe you can post a ad to look for a roommate and find a place together that way? Not sure if that would work.

BTW, I responded to an earlier reply from another thread
"Dive into Python" contains chapter on XML processing[1] that uses grammar defined in XML to generate random English passages. A very funny and informative reading.

[1] http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/
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Well, it seems it is a fact that this guy can calculate, and you have neglected your homework.

A nuclear phase-out means that Germany needs to build 25 GIGAwatt of baseload power (that means 75 gigawatt of renewable day-only energy + an energy storage facility that makes a nuclear power plant look like a duracell battery).

So your own institutions have calculated that power-related CO2 emissions will double as the result of nuclear phase-out. That seems reasonable ...

Democracies don't deal well with consequences. A leading to B does not prevent voting for A and against B. But the case is simple : ceasing nuclear means giving up the fight against global warming for 20 years. You're government has ceased the fight against global warming, and this guy is not happy about it.

Your argument is dependent on the idea that you can be both, in the short, mid, and long-term. But working to prevent global warming means being pro-nuclear for now (for at least another 10-20 years). Your "scale for success" is going to screw up both initiatives.

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I fully agree projection figures are guesses, likely to show the situation in a good light, and as much use as a guide to the future as a random line drawn on a bit of paper.

BUT

that is not all that makes up a projection. The interesting and useful information is what assumptions have gone into making the projections, what understanding of the market is present etc. etc. By questioning the creator of the business plans about all of this you can rapidly find out if they understand their business, their market place and their competition.

(I'm not sure how this scales - but for small companies it's critical information. However it certainly works in some situations - IDC are projecting that Microsoft and Nokia will once again be a dominant force in mobile phones, reading the article their assumption seems to be that, Microsoft and Nokia have been dominant in the past and therefore, despite a changing market and any damage they have seemingly done to their own companies, they will be again. Having identified it I can now evaluate that assumption on it's own merits. With a small company this may well be more hidden. Another great example comes to mind: the work song nano cluster episode of Big Bang Theory when Sheldon points out that Penny's business plan will result in her earning considerably less than minimum wage)

Projections are not useless - they tell you what people are thinking and how well they understand key things needed to make it succeed. Just don't treat them as actual predictions of the future.
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134 points, 76 comments, and maybe 3 of them critically examining the methodology :/
It sounds like you are talking about a naive Bayesian classifier. PG wrote a couple of articles on his experience with these for spam filtering (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html). They're probably a decent high-level introduction to the area.

For a more in-depth, yet very accessible discussion, I would recommend "Speech and Language Processing" by Jurafsky & Martin (http://books.google.com/books/about/SPEECH_AND_LANGUAGE_PROC...). It's considered by many to be the Bible of NLP.
Well the answer you're looking for is that you're right. CO2 is only responsible for a tiny part of global warming. However, there's a feedback loop.

The theory is that the climate system is fundamentally unstable. A relatively tiny (but still quite large) amount of warming "upsets the balance" and causes warming by increasing water vapor in the athmosphere, the real greenhouse gas, which is a runaway mechanism. Additionally increased heat releases CO2 from the oceans, again increasing the situation.

So once CO2 started to cause a tiny bit of warming (probably before or during the 19th century, and more likely volcanic than human in origin), the reaction started, and it's been running ever since.

Of course, this does mean that even if all humans died today, after carefully shutting down every car and power plant, global warming wouldn't stop. It might (the simulations are inconclusive on this point) slow down.
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so whats stopping them putting it on github, if the people working "near" the projects center stick it on github and let a community form/extend/grow around it, i know i'd watch that repo
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COBOL will be around in a thousand, so long as there is payroll there will be COBOL.
For reference a couple of years ago some county or similar here in Sweden named Hörå had their website as www.hora.se, but that actually means whore here. Now we can have our 'strange' dots though which is a good thing.
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The beginning of the article seems very convincing, but it is hampered by the fact that it finishes off with a hurried list of rather weak points like "Show up", "Don't fail", and "Before/During/After the negotiations", which doesn't even fit within the "9 most important things" list structure.

Oh, and the last few points are basically links to linkbait articles like "the 100 rules for being an entrepreneur"...

Weird, considering the good beginning.
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I am not on Facebook, but the last few games I tried on iOS have a "post achievement on Facebook/Twitter" every single level. I can't help thinking that if anybody is actually pushing those buttons it must drive their "friends" absolutely bonkers.

On some level I can understand the concept of "keep your friends up-to-date with your life". But not using these definitions of "friends" and "life".
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It's not new material invented here, but process and that's perfectly patentable. Problem is that already published stuff is no longer patentable by anyone.
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Thanks for elaborating, that makes sense. It wasn't apparent to me, but those are good points.
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What?
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> .. but we can blame Microsoft for some confusion here.

Well, Microsoft may not have explained everything at once (Who does?) but that doesn't explicitly mean they forced people to overreact.
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“It’s time for a phone to save us from our phones,”

I haven't seen WinMo 7 commercials, but is this really their motto? Really?

I own an iPhone 3GS and a Galaxy S and for the first time in 10 years I'm actually excited about my phones - and Microsoft is telling me I need to be saved? Even though I worked really hard escaping the lock-in they've had on me with Windows and I still have to explain my choice of software to people that still send me files that can only be opened with Windows-software?

I can't believe the nerve of some people.
Web 2.0 for me was mainly about user-generated content like blogs, wikis, social networking etc.

You could do a lot if not all of that before as a tech and not-so-much tech but chances were that you did not. "Blog" made it hip and cool for everyone to write a lot about usually not a lot - but if you wanted to have a website you could very well do so before.

I assume you mean RSS and what followed the blogs back then - but this was not really the main idea of Web 2.0. Web services were happening at the same time but they are not "the" web 2.0, in my opinion.
Reminds me of the Mojave experiment Microsoft conducted.
I just don't get what's nano about it... It's about the size of a living humming bird, if not bigger.
Google is actually in the AI business, which is why I think they're the most likely to be around in the future.
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what I actually meant with my perhaps too self-satisfied pithy post was that whether or not an immersive Office is ready or will be ready for Win8 release, I'm sure they will have a suite of consumer-oriented apps similar to the built in WP7/smart phone apps (or Windows Live Essentials): music, photos, maps, search, social networking, messaging, games. They'll probably fund internal and external development of other key apps as well, again like WP7.
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that Google Trends result is filtered to show the USA only, yet the 'top languages' are, in order, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, French and then English in fifth.

makes me very skeptical about their numbers
I think there's definitely potential for an arms-race here (just like there was with email spam) but I don't think it's a reason for twitter to not enter the battle at all.
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Are there any good examples of the same app written both ways so that I can compare and contrast?
Can't you just not follow the spammers on twitter and be fine?
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Looks pretty great, well done!

In Firefox 6, the knob of the speed slider appears at the top of the page, instead of inside the slider track. It looks like this is caused by having "display: inline-table" on the #time_slider element. That seems a strange choice, given that there's no child-elements with "display: table-row" or "display: table-cell". If I change #time_slider to be "display: inline-block" instead, the knob appears in the right place and works as expected.
I just add "-RT" to my twitter searches.
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Asking around shops in downtown Boston hardly classifies as a 'survey', more like 'crappy journalism'.
> I haven't seen WinMo 7 commercials

Really? Well, here's a simple starting place. The videos + commentary will should help explain their slogan.

http://mashable.com/2010/10/11/windows-phone-7-ads/
(And the SGS is an awesome phone)
If by "unaffected" you mean "correct", then yes, as long as it is set up correctly for cross-compilation (I mean the compiler and assembler, which are unused on the target box in non-LTO mode).

But with GCC LTO, distcc will only distribute the parsing of the source code while the optimization and code generation will be done on the target box, so the speedup gain with distcc will be much smaller (LTO makes the ratio of work that parallelizable to work that is non-parallelizable much lower).

GCC LTO partitions the work, if it can interact with distcc it can distribute optimization too, at the cost of some missed optimizations. I don't know if that does the right thing in GCC 4.6.0
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It would require more than 30secs thought but I'm sure there are some heuristics which will work. I'm not even convinced the "report spam" button is connected to any action on twitter's server. And why not use blocking as an indicator? Surely if Person A @-replies several people, and they block A, then just disable @-replies from A.

Has anyone tried using a Bayesian filter for twitter spam? These have been very successful for email. In fact, I consider email spam a solved problem now (thanks Gmail!)

It's for things like this that I wish I could insert a proxy between my twitter clients and twitter itself and build my own rules/spam filter.
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Your work twitter account tweets the same link over and over again? That's pretty odd and frankly doesn't sound like a good use of twitter.

But @-replying or tweeting the same link to different hashtags? Spam, spam, spam!
Is this a blog post about Java GC or an excuse to use Prezi? I can't tell.
Is it possible to generate text by a sort of reverse-LDA, where you have topics (per-sentence or per-paragraph, ideally) and estimate the probability of a word to appear in a given topic?

You could then use these topics to generate more realistic-looking text as this ostensibly wouldn't have the wild jumps from one topic to another that naive Markov chains have.

Has anyone done anything like this, or should I give it a shot?
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I got my own theory, when i started programming, i was writing all the code by myself, just to understand all, but when it comes to write n-th time datepicer, or so, i use my old code, or download some new fancy good working code just to save my time, cuz i exactly know how it works. I dont get it bad to do so, as long, as you are good to write all this things by yourself :D But it can be true than in lack of skill someone can just google "awsome stuff doing source code" and use it, is this bad ? Its bad for programmer, who wont learn how to do it, but its $$ for company that save time.
I guess both, why to divide when you have a win win.
Labels are dumb. Programming's a tool; use whichever style gets the job done...

But if you must categorize yourself, read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and then read the Gang of Four Design Patterns book. If SICP resonates with you more, you're a functional programmer. If GoF resonates with you more, you're on OO programmer. As a nice side benefit, you'll have read two good books and hopefully expanded your mind.
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You're totally on the right track.

It's not an all-or-nothing thing. Excluding suspect accounts from @-replies and hashtag search results is a nice low-key way to keep the majority of conversations going. It's also subtle enough that the spammer might not realise that no one is listening.
And after your personal data has been extracted and sold to third parties, you go into your car to try to disable the lat/long transmitter and you go to jail because you triggered alarms which notified the authorities you were probably trying to hack into their systems and extract sensitive copyrighted software.

They have the freedom to track my locations, but I don't have the freedom to look at the source code that drives me to work.
Even knowing some of the specifics would be helpful. Imagine a non-engineer from now going back to 1500s and talk about flying.

They can say that you need 2 wings on the side, and you need to go really fast in a straight line before you can take off. Sometimes you can see the little flaps on the edge of the wing move up and down. Though you can also do it with little planes. And if you want rotating blades then it has to be smaller than planes (helicopters).

This should help a clever person (e.g. Leonardo da Vinci) figure out how to fly.
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I think a lot of developers are simply getting tired of MS cranking out half baked technologies and abandoning them after a while. If you want to write a desktop app there simply is no obvious platform of choice. You have Winforms (abandoned), WPF (slow, future unclear, do fonts render OK now?), MFC (has been out of date for 10 years), Win32 (hard to use), Silverlight (direction changes every 3 months). They all have different problems MS doesn't seem to interested addressing.

I wish MS would make a decision to bet everything on one platform (I don't care which), stick to it and make it really good.
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None of the Windows developers I work with or know in the community are not even concerned about this. Corporate and independent development in the .NET community are conservative and unlikely to jump on the latest thing from Redmond. They have been there, done that and got the free t-shirts for numerous hyped technologies. Most folks still haven't upgraded to VS 2010 or SQL Server 2008R2 yet. There's no point when the money in Windows development doesn't demand the latest and greatest fad. The smart ones wait and see what works, choosing to skip crap like Vista for Windows 7 and concentrate on the good stuff like C#.

As for Peter Bright, (as long time Arstechnica reader and forum participant), I have observed that his articles are designed to get page views. Arstechnica does this by blasting Microsoft and fawning on Apple. As a cynic this doesn't bother me, I can filter the noise and realize that Peter and Conde Nast have bills to pay.
Anyone else notice that within a year, you'll be able to write cross platform html5+js apps that run Black Berry, Windows 8, WebOS, Android and iOS?

If this becomes the standard, like I suspect it will, one of the biggest losers will be companies that run big app stores.
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Did you click through? It's transmitting lat/long coordinates, not an IP address.
This just doesn't seem like the sort of presentation you should use Prezi for, that's all. The zooming and swooshing and panning and spinning and turning and ... distracts from what I care about: the content. Don't get me wrong, Prezi can be really cool in the right situation, just not this one.

Of course, distracting people from the content is exactly what I'm doing here, so I'll leave it at that :-)
A simple to medium complexity WPF app will be slower than its Winforms or Win32 counter part. It will use a lot more memory too. There may be ways around this but why can't MS optimize it instead of forcing every developer to jump through the same hoops?
support for the Iraq war and George Bush, for instance

In what way was it sketchy? Was it just because you happen to disagree? I didn't agree with their endorsement of George Bush either, but I still think their argument for their stance was solid.
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http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ The authors bio page, he's probably in the freelance article shopping game and TC happened to pick this up. He seems to be all over the place, syndicated blogger or something, seems he's guest writer anyone see differently. The article feels like it could be written for any tech, business, entrepreneur, stuffy get rich quick tv booklet. TC save yourself the trouble and get a full time journalist staff or don't publish as much content just to get ads up.
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Until twitter sorts out this themselves, there is a need for something like a browser add-on that hides the following from hashtag searches: new accounts, Retweets, Accounts with less than 10 followers, Accounts that often tweet trending topics, Tweets with more than one trending hashtag