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"I sometimes interview 22-year-olds who claim to have 10+ years experience..."

I agree with your sentiment and they certainly shouldn't present themselves as having 10+ years experience. But similarly, people doing the hiring need to consider this. I'd much rather have that 22 year old with passion who's been programming since he was 12, than the 25 year old who has been programming since he learned in his junior year of university that he could make good money changing from Art History to MIS.
Works great and really ease to setup.
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I hate to be that person who points it out, but a trivial Google search will yield plenty of sources: http://www.google.com/search?q=uk+cannabis+user+population
On the topic of your postscript, check out continued fractions: they provide exactly lazily-computed arbitrary-precision values that can represent any rational exactly.
Right. Most people that have really improved the world have not done so by telling other people what to do, but by doing something themselves.

But I think you're wrong in that everyone that tries to change the world only has personal issues to overcome, and if they do everything is alright. Believing that is pretty much solipsism. Sometimes the world really is wrong and can be fixed.
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Do you have any ideas or predictions yourself?

Maybe I have a weak imagination, but Star Trek and other sci-fi have probably done anything that can be done with any kind of technology we can come up with. Beyond sci-fi is fantasy land, and sci-fi as a genre has reached that border, beyond that its where Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings take over.
Whoa! I feel like I've just been slapped in the face. Don't get me wrong, the design is beautifully, and the app is great. The thing is.. I've been working on something like this myself! And yours looks way more complete and polished.

Here's mine: http://www.fiestastic.com

NOTE: It's now in private beta, but if you (this goes both to the Crowdspottr team as well as anyone reading this :P) would like to give it a try, just sent me an email to manuel@fiestastic.com with a link to your Facebook profile and I'll add it to the list of "allowed users".

I've taken more of a regular website approach while you guys are doing first a mobile app/site, which makes more sense, but I'm not very skilled in native iPhone/Android development.

I'm not sure if I should be depressed (someone else is doing what I'm doing, and so far, looks better!) or happy (someone else is doing what I'm doing, so must be something worth doing!), but anyway, good luck with Crowdspottr! I'll be keeping an eye on you ;-)
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A second used to be a short time, now it seems like a thousand milliseconds.

You might find RFC 4429 IPv6 "Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection" interesting ...
I agree to a certain extent, but labeling Brazil as a third-world country and a "poor country" seems really off. How does one determine the "third world" label anyway? It is subjective.
Isn't this the reason for the design of Spring (Java framework/library)?

You can work in the whole framework (slightly unusual), or just use components as a library.
OK, it seems higher than I thought. The number I had was "more than 3 million" (from [1]) which would be 5%. But it seems the number may be higher.

This is regular users. Occasional users and people who have tried it in the past, are both much higher figures.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2923647.stm
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I'm still trying to get my head around this. To the layman, it sounds almost like something trivial (properties of metamaterials) extrapolated into a bit of a sensationalist headline.

So I go grab my good friend Schrödinger. We take his cat, subject of numerous cruel and unusual experiments, and stick it in a box. We tie the health of the cat to a quantum state which could condense either way. If it goes one way, the cat lives. If it goes the other way, the cat dies. Then we wrap the quantum state in these time-cloaking lenses.

We look at the cat, and what? Does the lack of ability to observe the quantum state mean that the condensation of probabilities never happened? Perhaps the cat disappears?

EDIT: Link for those who don't get the reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat
Regarding your issue of "I already know what my friends are doing" and "I don't want to go somewhere I haven't been invited", I guess it all depends on what you define as "friends".

Your closest 10 friends? Sure, it applies. But who doesn't have hundreds of friends on Facebook these days? Taking that angle it's easy to see how you'll find out cool events (not private parties to crash, but concerts, conferences, art exhibits, etc) that you can go to, that someone you know is also attending (even if you're not close friends, you'll probably give them a call to go together, meet there, or whatever).

Having quite a busy social life, yet still some days when there's nothing interesting to do, I've found my app (see my other reply), and by extension, also Crowdspotting, to be useful. Also they make for good conversation when you happen to meet those friends from time to time ("Oh, I saw you went to X or Y, how was it?").
I'm guessing here, but I don't think the bulk of cola purchases are made in convenience stores and supermarkets.
I'm not sure that Star Trek was prescient about what we would go on to invent, so much as it actually inspired a generation of inventors.
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Good to know. So I can use SQLite as a substitute to test things? Not as good as having the "real deal", but good enough for a start.

Yes, I meant a live preview. I just like to see things working. But as long as I get an email when it's done thats good enough. But a dashboard would really help.

That's a really nice idea. If you could use the nice display of both Cucumber and RSpec (instead of just the failure), that would make a nice addition to any agile shop. Just having that on display the whole day would really help with the process.

When you talk about analyzing the data, do you mean for example showing which Cucumber scenario broke the most/longest, etc? I like that idea, that would offer a new way to detect code smells.

All in all I really like your idea and just hope it won't be too expensive for a single person, no income side project.
This is similar to the way I use gmail: everything that I need to act on is kept on inbox. Everything else is either archived (I might need), or deleted. This way, I never have to look for mail inside folders. If I need something, I just search it.
Related:

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You appear not to have read the post you are responding to. I'm particularly baffled as to why you are reassuring me that other spreadsheets existed pre-Excel given that my post mentions VisiCalc and Dan Bricklin. As we used to say in high school: "No shit, Sherlock".

Nor are you making a germane response to my post, which is not that LibreOffice is bad and Excel is good, but that if the creator of Visicalc had been in the situation where a few short months after he created his spreadsheet someone was going to clone it and give it away for free, he may not have bothered.
Why not just link there directly, instead of bit.ly link via a blog post?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1492
Thanks, pushed back a bit and they seemed willing to compromise, so I guess it was just standard negotiating fare
No problem - just wanted to be clear.
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I just thought of something... With target demographics like that Facebook would be an excellent way to look for prospective mates.
So basically, time cloaking enables the possibility of Cuil[0] realities over 2.

[0] http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory
Our imagination expands as our possibilities become greater.

Also, there is the 3rd Clarke's law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".

Sci-fi can easily get into the realm of fantasy (I've already seen a scientifically explained napalm-breathing dragons in 21st century Earth on TV) and vice versa (I've read a story about designing and building spaceships by stacking many layers of different magic onto a wooden ark).

The really interesting thing that sci-fi can give us is this: assume that in described world, a selected type of "magic" is possible (handwaving it into a scientificly-sound concept for the sake of the reading experience) and extrapolate the consequences. What can be done with it, and - more important - how will people behave, how will it transform the society.

Orson Scott Card did something like this with the Internet in "Ender's Game".
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I did not say that relaxing is bad. I just wanted to clarify if that was the ultimate life's goal.

Although I can't help thinking that to be dead would probably be the ultimate relaxation. So if relaxing is your goal, why bother?
So frameworks provide functionality above your code, and libraries provide functionality below your code; it's better to be limited below than above; thus we should use libraries more than frameworks.

It's an argument I've come around to recently, but what I'd really like to see is some investigations of what styles of though can lead to functionality that is "scaffolding" for other code. That doesn't just provide a floor or a ceiling, but that provides a ladder that you can hang more code from. A simple example is Lisp conditions: they provide a hook in the code you can attach things to, instead of just providing a baseline to code off of. Event-based systems are another good example (whether this is a Javascript-like model, or a Emacs-like hook model). After all, the event model of HTML gives you enormous flexibility on handling events.

So here's a language-design question: what's a language we can talk about hooks in? How can you make a hook-based model maintainable? Is there any way to make hooks implicit (like advice --- though advice seems to still require too much internal knowledge to be maintainable if used everywhere).

Maybe an Erlang-like model where you have servers pass messages, but you add the opportunity to intercept messages? If the messages are fixed-format, they'd hopefully be well-defined enough for the whole system to be maintainable. And if you need security, you can use all of the now-well-known methods for authenticating and encrypting messages. (And hopefully the vm you're running on can make it cheaper than actually encrypting.)

But that seems like the sort of insufficient creativity endemic of Hacker News posts at 5AM. How do we do better?
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No. I'm not seeking to change to world or propose any new systems, and I find software patents objectionable. I just don't like the uncritical celebration of F/OSS as always helpful to innovation when there are clearly cases where it is a mixed blessing.
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Have you considered teaching online with a service like Udemy.com? You'd certainly reach a broader audience.
+1 technology has advanced much since then, but nothing spectacular enough to change SF. What we have is basically faster and smaller computers, and network effects due to global connectivity.

There's nothing really new in travel methods (nope, still no flying cars), cities are the same, VR never took off, human-level AI is still far away, we're still fighting for resources (with bullets) and space programs are being dismantled as we speak.

So it makes sense that our current sci-fi is still the same as that of the 80-90's.
Ok. I guess I was confused because the grand parent talked about advertising (Google's targeted ads).

Marketing in general, I agree, has some non-bullshit aspects to it. Not many, though.

But certainly the marketing that causes Coca Cola to be sold in way, way more places than Pepsi has been very effective.
If it were me I would leave the teaching of Javascript and jQuery to later on after you've helped them build an application that works (i.e. after all the backend stuff is hooked up). I hope you find somewhere to get set up :)
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That really sucks. Still, these people should have considered the possibility that the photos were not copies and that they would be deleted in both places.
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It's a custom implementation. They were vague on giving any details, but if I recall correctly it was written in Python. So probably a Twisted, Gevent, or Eventlet implementation.
It really sounds like the roles of your boss sound more like an assistant than a boss.

And I don't think anyone would question the usefulness of "general politics person" and "general team sanity person". The problem is, the roles are convoluted with "the ruler," and the question is, is "the ruler" really necessary, and even if the ruler is necessary, is this really the same person as the "sanity" and "politics" people.
I can't even make the mental connection between the title/article and this comment. Not even the racist/hateful mental connection. Am I missing something?
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I disagree with your sexist views but I also can see that you've been hurt by a woman and I'm sorry for that. Let's leave it at that.

I'm writing because I couldn't agree more about this:
'computer science' is out'a gas and not the main path to the future of computing

The bedrock and crucial content of the future of computing is from ... "Advanced pure and applied math."

YES. I'm working on a software construction mechanism that's more about applied math than computer science. Hit me up with an email sometime. You're sexist and crazy (everyone decent is crazy) but you seem to be one of the few that actually get it and I'm impressed by that. I'm david927 at google mail.
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Schrodinger's cat is a flawed thought experiment. The cat is not in a super-position of live-dead just because the decay (or absence of a decay) hasn't been observed by a human. Observation just means "interaction". If one particle interacts with another, it has been "observed".
Old. Shane Carruth showed me this back in 2004.
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I'm presuming that Lions in the wild have a far greater chance of death and injury as well - a good reason to stay in the zoo perhaps ?

Eitherway, good luck to us all!
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like using fonts that look rubbish on anything but OSX?
There's certainly prescient fiction still--post-cyberpunk; Peter Watts, Charlie Stross[1], Greg Egan, Richard K. Morgan...

But the coming technology and culture they're describing is either difficult to show compellingly onscreen, requires an outlier in IQ and education to understand, or is somewhere between disturbing and revolting to people who have no problem with starships and phasers.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
What's your audience? In my experience it's easy to teach someone how to build a simple website, but much harder to teach things like file-transferring, hosting, image formats, etc. However your topics seemed more-advanced than the basics, so I wonder who your students would be?
I agree that I might find some cool events through friends of friends. But I guess I was going by what I saw when I logged into Crowdspottr. Most of the events my friends post on Facebook are private parties or small events which I wouldn't want to gatecrash.

By the way, fiestastic looks great. I signed in with my Facebook but then was told I can't use it because you're in private beta! I think you should make that clear on the homepage itself. Any chance you can let me try it now?

I like that you show a map of events. That's another problem with Crowdspottr. A lot of the events it shows me are in another continent.

I think this is why beautiful looking apps are often not as useful as ugly ones. Instead of making the app useful, more time is spent on making it look shiny.
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Forget Star Trek and Galactica.

Frank Herbert was the one right. His extrapolation of 20th century is a dystopia and utopia at the same time.

But even he couldn't foresee that we will create no-chamber at the start of 21st century.
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I would guess that you were initially downvoted for a lack of specificity.
This is essentially a concept for a device that interrupts the observation of the space it protects by probes meant to glean temporal information. My understanding is that nothing spectacular would happen to the contents of the device, but to a probe aimed at the contents. That probe would be manipulated around the space, preventing it from making inferences about what would be occurring in the space.

As for what exactly constitute a temporal probe, I am not certain. Some form of laser meant to be manipulated by the occurrence of an event perhaps.
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space programs are being dismantled as we speak.

US is not the whole world.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2758221

China is going to launch its first mini-space station soon.
Yes, they are a few decades behind US/Russia, but they are moving.
Very interesting read. I have both submitted and reviewed several papers and grants. My impression is that peer-review is not as bad (as democracy example of the author), only when done with patience and passion. The barriers it creates are really troublesome.

I am doing a line of research in a very conservative community. You will be surprised how easily my work gets rejected from the journals, because they don't have the capacity, view and vision for such work. The grant scene is even much more devastating. Other groups don't want to let you in. You don't know who reviewed your grant; the reasons given are not major, but yet you are rejected. So, you end up wasting lots of research time looking for fundings. Quite boring.

Open journals are an alternative, of course. Yet, they need to be studies if they are an effective method of publishing. Then, the question is how to trust the results, and deal with many contradictory results. However, it seems it is time to tackle them than to worry though. My last publication goes to an open journal.

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definitely don't be depressed, take the lessons learned and apply it to everything else you'll ever do ..

and ask them for a job!

really impressed by this app by the way - my only issue with most new apps like this is that they usually don't work so well in europe, due to low rate of adoption, and lack of focus by entrepreneurs on non-US markets ...
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Anyone have a screenshot on OSX for comparison? I'm on Windows and I think the font looks fine...