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This whole argument could have been summed up to some high school debate club member expecting to find someone with qualifications re: the feasibility of space colonization... which, frankly, deserves derision.

What is he really looking for here? A PhD in astronomy? Someone with those credentials is more likely to have studied patterns electromagnetic spectra than the logistics of travelling to and colonizing another world...

What he's really asking is, has this person spent a meaningful amount of time reflecting on this issue (if his works discuss it, one would imagine he would have) and engaged in peer-reviewed exchange of ideas (in the Journal of Space Exploration?) - SciFi author is a better set of credentials than any other formal qualification I can think of.
Alton Brown is the reason I started caring about food preparation. Good Eats is unlike most food shows in that its primary motivation is teaching the audience about food and the hows and whys of its preparation. I find that most food shows are about demonstrating individual, usually either uninteresting or impractical, recipes, or stroking the ego of the presenter. Throwdown With Bobby Flay, I'm looking at you.
> * Create new blobs for the added/updated files.
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> * Create updated tree objects. This can get tedious. If you update a file in /a/b/c, there's at least 3 new tree objects that you'll need to update.

You can do it this way, but the tree API will also take deep paths and recursively write all the subtrees for you and just return the new highest level tree SHA. You also technically don't need to write the blobs first to get the shas, the tree API can optionally take a tree.content field instead of the tree.sha field if you want it to write the blob and update the tree automatically for you.

As for examples, I'll do a blog post soon with some examples and we'll probably add a slightly higher level API more like what Gist has. For now learning the fairly straightforward object model and writing some client level abstraction shouldn't be too difficult.
I wait to read the actual breakdown on costs shipping, because that's where the interesting parts happen.

Don't let it show you are making too much money or your market will get crowded!
Yup, plus don't forget that the risk posed by having bad engineers isn't nearly the same as bad doctors. So to the extent that the control on doctors results in fewer bad ones, I am ok with it.

With engineers you can have one making 50K and another pulling 200K as you mentioned...despite similar degrees. I feel there is less variance in doctor pay at least partially because there is less variance in doctor quality.

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Yes, which I believe is why I mentioned that in my original question :-)
Don't forget that campaign candies and some people are looking for certain prints on their candy (e.g. Evagelion prints on candies).

A lot of footwork to cover here..

I recall yahoo.co.jp having webpages dedicated to some of this stuff.
I would be interested to hear more about the web analytic.

Also, I am wondering if anyone has tried the "fliers on campus" or "ads on message board" advertisement campaign
for a e-learning or tutoring-related website. I would like to know how to know what kind of visitors one can expect from the idea mentioned earlier by jdietrich.
Running outside is the same, at the end of the day you return to the same place you started. The point isn't to get somewhere fast, it's just to run. We do it because we want to be healthy and athletic people. In the same way, you join debate not to get at the truth, but to increase your mental abilities.
>> There are no property taxes in most of China, so people with money park it in real estate.
>Exactly the case in India. Most people there park money in real estate.

not true. there most definitely are property taxes in india. the reason why folks park money in real-estate is that it seems to an appreciating asset not being subjected to harsh vagaries of the volatile stock market...
I just understood the concept of tech matcher, which could be an incredibly powerful concept. I think you should highlight this more.
So yahoo.com is using jQuery now? There's like 10 references to YUI and zero for jQuery in the source... interesting algorithm.
Thanks for the link to Wikipedia, which I help edit, but you have to know that all the Wikipedia articles related to human intelligence are suspect summaries often based on suspect sources, as they have been the focus of a long-standing dispute with much edit-warring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

that is still going on. The statement that the world population's IQ is expected to decline is directly contradicted by the Flynn Effect,

http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/flynneffect.shtml

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flynns-effe...

http://www.psychometrics.ppsis.cam.ac.uk/news.13.htm

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/nurtural-intelligence/

http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/...

the observed steady rise in IQ scores across a large variety of countries over the last century.
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I love this. I particularly like the broad definition of "technologies", and the variety of ways to write matchers.

More importantly, I like that users can easily add their own technologies and matchers.
64000000/1300000000 = 4.9 percent is only a correct estimate of the vacancy rate if you assume that each apartment is to be occupied by only one person, which is surely an untrue assumption about China and any other country I have ever lived in. And see elsewhere in this thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746312

a more nuanced comment posted hours earlier.
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The big hope is that XCode 4.2 reduces the overhead (i.e. suck less) of Objective-C through LLVM & LLDB's improved debugger, more static checking and automatic reference counting.
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I love how it gets confused by Hacker News: http://underthesite.com/sites/news.ycombinator.com
The trouble is that it borrows a lot from C and then subtly changes it for no discernible reason. This is especially true with variable declaration.

Go is the only language I've ever tried for a while and been really put off by the syntax. I can't quite articulate why either. It's not...pretty. I write quite a lot of C++ and Python, so theoretically I should be a pretty good fit for Go. But it doesn't click with me.
I'm a native-born American, with a degree from an American college. I don't see why my pay should be reduced because of my location when I'm doing the exact same work.
There are good reasons. See the blog post I linked to.
Maybe SF is different, but I'm talking the Boston/Cambridge area, those are not "corporate" companies. Just an amazing coincidence those companies are mostly in college towns? I really wish you were right, but I'm not seeing it.
Interesting, but seems a little primitive compared to the cleverness in https://github.com/mitsuhiko/probe
Some more questions:

Is it difficult to wire money from America to developing countries like Cambodia?

For those cases where the people don't speak English, is it particularly difficult to learn the language when you're actually immersed in it on a daily basis?

What is the local social scene like? Is there a large expat community? If not, are the natives welcoming?

Hopefully it'd be possible to get some action. I don't mean to be crude, but that's sort of a requirement for me (and a lot of guys) to live in any place. It's obviously not an issue anywhere in America, but it certainly can be abroad. I have quite a few high school friends in the military, and those stationed in Japan and Korea have no problem getting local women, but Afghanistan and Iraq are a completely different story.
There have been a couple of stories where the formation of consortiums (Rockstar and Rangers) was discussed. This article smells a bit like lazy journalism:

>Then an unknown group calling itself Rockstar Bidco stepped forward with a whopping $4.5 billion offer — turning the Nortel sale into possibly the biggest intellectual-property auction of all time. The group, it turned out, was a coalition of Google’s biggest rivals in mobile phones.
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I love all those 'JVM roks!' or 'JVM is mature and stable!' stories. But I still unable to get it, why one user-level program (say, java.exe) must be better than any another user-level .exe? With its primitive and rudimentary integration with an OS (remember, it was designed to be isolated environment that runs everywhere, which means exactly opposition to efficiency and optimization). Wait! It can produce native code and able to run threads! Yeah, but LLVM produces much better code and there is clang++ with which we can build java.exe from its sources... ^_^
May be it rocks just because too much money was invested in the ecosystem and now they do everything possible to keep it breathing? ^_^ Remember? Your lovely Xeon CPU is a VM itself. Your lovely Virtualization stack on top of your OS is what? Do we still need so many layers of VMs? ^_^
btw, MS DOS is also quite mature, stable and production ready environment. Especially with something like qemm.exe and desqview.exe (do you remember them?)
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I can't think of anyway to get around once you add Static Typing.

Dynamic languages have much more bare function/object definitions.

Haskell does make Types look sexy on the other hand. So yes there could have been some borrowing from there.
Seconded. And if you're looking for the real in-depth (although slightly older) reference, check out Harold McGee's Science of Food and Cooking.
Can we purge the word "fanboy" from our collective lexicon?

I don't think I've seen a single discussion enriched by its use. It's just a catch-all insult, like the "fag" of the twenty-first-century tech scene.

(Don't even get me started on "fanboi")
This doesn't really tell you anything about a site. Most of the interesting stuff happens on the server side.
Would it not work if they did what Henry Ford was doing. Price them so the workers can buy them? That way the money stays in your pockets while the workers enjoy a better life? Win-Win.

This is mathematically impossible.

Suppose your workers purchase everything they own from a company store with an X% profit margin. If you pay your employees $Y, the actual cost to you is $Y(1-X). Increasing employee pay (holding all else constant) always increases your costs.
Strength reduction in this vein is pretty trivial though, even if there is lower hanging fruit. For example this is what transforming some_int * a_power_of_two looks like in PyPy: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/default/pypy/jit/metaint...
I've always found that slashdot's moderation system does a great job of handling that particular problem by allowing users to be modded "funny" in particular, making it not count for anything, and allowing users to add a moderation modifier to "funny" moderations (so you can redefine a +1 Funny to be effectively -1 Funny, if you wish).
Can't you do it every time someone votes? The scores aren't dependent on any other items other than their own votes, so each time it gets a new vote, you rescore it and it will drop or go up on the front page accordingly.
Go's performance isn't good enough to broadly compete with C++ yet, and for everything higher level I don't see a strong enough advantage over Java or Scala to start all over with a new library ecosystem.

That said, I'm keeping an eye on it. If it takes off I'll learn it but it doesn't make sense to make it a priority yet, IMO.
I don't doubt the author's credentials or expertise. My criticisms of his article stand; precisely because he's stuck in the day-to-day technical minutiae of running a system as large as Facebook's, I think he's missing the forest for the trees. And his jabs at academia just come off as being thin-skinned.
What triggers the error message "The pattern that you entered appears to be too general - can you make it more specific for this technology?"? I tried to add a technology for the use of rel="nofollow", using an XPath expression //a/@rel[contains(., "nofollow")] , and got that error message. What do I need to do to make it more specific?
Does probe try and fetch signal urls? (Like admin pages.). UnderTheSite.com makes a point of only looking at data that would normally be fetched by your browser. Probing a site for urls could be considered offensive.
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Good question, I think rel=nofollow must match too many websites. I'll look into it.
It incorrectly stated that my site uses cold fusion.
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RESTAS is written by someone who knows both Lisp and the web really well. It's a good sign when a developer resists the urge to invent a new templating syntax (specially a lisper, come'on) and chooses to use a boring semi-standard, like Google's Closure Template.

RESTAS is MVC, in the loosest sense of the word. The author, archimag, went way out of his way to make the "C" part, the controller, as flexible as possible.

RESTAS created its own module system on top of the Lisp package system. Importing a Lisp package from within an application also mounts that package's controller URLs underneath your app's.

He wrote one of the most authentic clones for Closure Template language. In fact, it generates HTML and JavaScript.

I could go on and on, but to put in a nutshell: the author actually looks at other web frameworks for inspiration, and is not someone trying to bolt an idealized "Lisp way" on top of the web. No continuations, no pretending that the web is a GUI, none of that crap. You want web, you get web: clean, modular, RESTful web.
Yes, it does probe at site URLs, you can look at libprobe.py to see all the indicators it takes into account.
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In what sense does a person who has just paid an engineer $599 for something "have no skin in the game"? Seems to me they have just anted up $599 worth of skin. Indeed, unless they return their new phone within a short period or the thing breaks under warranty, they're holding the bag. If they decide three months later that the phone sucks, it's not the engineer that feels sad. The engineer has made a profit.

There's an old saying about paying, pipers, and tunes that seems appropriate here.
"you have an open platform to share and annotate scanned docs."
I'd run with that!

Is anyone else running with that?

I mean sure you can annotate in acrobat reader (since Acrobat Reader 9), and sure you can use Flash paper + FLEX like Adobe connect and cozimo.com. But if just received a PDF as an email and I want to send back some comments/ suggest corrections what would I use?
Is there a web app for that?
On my machine, this comes up with 2.50.
"customer facing roles" and "management positions" sound like the shitty corporate bureaucracies which engineers want to stay from.

The corporate culture of exploiting engineers will soon come to an end.
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Awesome! Suggestions:

Do a reverse lookup on the site's IP and add matchers for the hostnames that show up.

Mention if they're round robining their DNS.

Add nmap OS fingerprinting.

Do a traceroute and log the IP of the closest router (final hop) to the site and add matching for that.

Add a wiki interface and build a crunchbase like app.

Add archiving of data and monitoring over time (as netcraft did in their original app).
Sure, if anyone has questions, I'll do my best to answer them.
Because life is to short to waste on being artificially nice to dumbasses you'll never know. Sometimes it's just far more enjoyable to tell the truth and speak your mind. We should celebrate such occasions.

Furthermore, perhaps this is culturally dependent, but nothing about those questions strikes me as genuine.
At the risk of sounding overly snarky, I don't think that GM's leadership is in any position to make recommendations on how to run a car company

Despite the general level of incompetence among GM's leadership there were a few smart people there. Lutz was one of them. He has a strong track record of developing successful products and has never been shy about criticizing his bosses.

And to get to his point, it's fluff

It's not fluff. Perhaps this synopsis of his book didn't provide sufficient detail, but his point is broadly acknowledged as one of the major problems with the US auto industry. If you look at a US made car from the early 2000's, the level of cost optimization at the expense of all other factors is embarrassing. It's indisputable that as MBAs have gained prominence in the US auto industry, the products have become less compelling. Lutz is simply advocating that the people who love the product be the ones who have the final say.

(Disclosure: I'm an automotive engineer)
It gets me so angry when I see complete idiots getting free corporate trips to europe to "present to customers" stuff that me and my fellow engineers built working late on weekdays,sacrificing our weekends...while these douchebags were at the bar talking to women about their exciting "work".
The solution is to solve a technological problem with an analog solution -- don't know the password, and store it in behind a suitable physical barrier.

An example of this is a retail drop safe -- it can only be opened by specific people at a specific time.

At the end of the day, you need to weigh the options. If you are an attorney performing your ethical duty, you have an obligation to rot in jail while the illegal warrant is litigated.
nmap OS fingerprinting seems a bit aggressive, but reverse-DNS checking seems like a great way to check which hosting platform a site uses.
This sort of reminds me of situations where people here comment on, say, legal issues related to tech. Someone always comes up with the argument that the poster doesn't know jack about the law, and they should shut up. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have a rational argument about it.
You can recover the original data by base64 decoding the content. It is strange though because the github API adds "\n"s to the content string that you have to remove before decoding.
Please consider allowing a small icon for a technology, to make lists of technologies more immediately recognizable.
In a way, I am happy that Google was outbid in its bid for Nortel patents. This highlights how broken this system really is. It is being abused by big corporations to maintain their hegemony.

It is allegedly a protection racket: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-why-google-and-android-mu...
That's getting less and less true with the amount of stuff happening in Javascript.
Yup, the whole thing looks like industry standard PR. Poor little Google one would hardly know they're a giant company who is using their search monopoly to undercut smaller competitors in the smart phone market.
Quantum algorithms such as Shor's Algorithm give us a complexity improvement, as in "make it easier to solve". They don't say a thing about how long it will actually take as the clock ticks. That's dependant entirely on hardware that 1) doesn't properly exist yet, and 2) will likely be incredibly slow for many years and will take quite a while to even become large enough to load the problem.
I concur, great example documentation like this makes it so much more appealing to dive into the library with clear goals and not worry about whether I'm using it correctly.

D3 looks very nifty - I'd like to investigate building a Google Motion Chart-type widget with it.
Yeah? Who is sad? Me or you? u think that a new browser window can stay in status bar and visible on all spaces. Do you know osx? Or you are the classic grudging and frustrated guy that say something only to increase their self-esteem? Yea u are right my english is not perfect but I think is better have an ESL than a wrong mind like yours. After that I will stop to waste my time with you. You are the true frustrated spammer.
There's a difference between being honest and being a self-absorbed jackass though. The original email sent by the student was harmless and sincere and the response from the blogger was pretentious and whiney.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't have posted this email exchange on my own blog if it was me because I feel it would portray me in a negative light. To each his own I suppose.
It's really not that hard, once you have some idea of the kind of program you're writing. Write it out normally, and start eliminating everything that can be eliminated (in particular, whitespace, braces, if statements that can be conditionals, subroutines, variables, etc). Takes some ingenuity with loops but it's mostly straightforward.

In this particular example the only really odd thing about it is the lighting calculation, which is an algebraically simplified dot product of the light direction (0, 1, -1) IIRC with the surface normal of a torus (gradient of the equation defining the shape). The derivation of that is long gone but it wasn't hard math.
I'll keep an eye out for that, it'll be an interesting read.

As to where to find cash strapped labs, definitely not the elite institutions that we always hear of, but perhaps more local or state universities.

This might be a tool that international labs in less well funded countries could appreciate, have you reached out internationally?
There are certain ideas out there that are just objectively dumb. Even if it works out for you at first. Building a startup's web app in assembly language? That's just plain dumb. Same with using SQLite for an application that handles millions of transactions a second. Or keeping a database of financial transactions without backups.

Believe me, there are times when you run into people who have ideas that are so dumb, you don't have to try them to know they won't work.
> they're a giant company who is using their search monopoly to undercut smaller competitors in the smart phone market.

How exactly is Google using their search monopoly to undercut smaller (or larger for that matter) competitors in the smart phone market?
Everybody has their own moat, and they use theirs to win the game. Nothing specific about Google.
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Really? To me it pretty plainly sounds like a term reserved for people who are dogmatic adorers. Zealots if you will. That's a very specific meaning, and not catch-all at all.
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