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Actually, pen & paper have magical properties, which are probably backed up by some psychology, which is not known to me (yet?). Obviously, things like geometry for games & effects, drawing interface mockups and others involving visual diagrams are much easier to do on paper, but also things like creating project estimates by splitting it in subtasks, writing a list of features & ideas to consider etc - basically creative induction of lists, works better on paper even though you would think computer would be better for it, since you can insert and move around text. It's like when I sit at the computer, my creativity shuts, but when I sit at the paper, it starts flowing.
I'm using FastLadder (fastladder.com / source code on .org) for one reason: it is not Google.

Since I was not completely satisfied by it, I recently coded a simple RSS reader in Rails. It's really bare-bone and requires a lot of polishing, but it works.

Now it requires some love for implementing many of the ideas presented in this thread (duplicates, tagging & bayesian categorization, proper bookmarking, presenting only fresh news), but I don't have much time for it :(
That's what I said, I think?
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Actually, I was thinking 'porn star' rather than prostitute, which makes the replies go on a different track than intended. While I'm sure the whole 'not as much fun when done for a job' thing still applies, it does so for different reasons.

I have actually had the opposite experience in my job as a software developer, though. I wanted to keep programming as a hobby, but eventually needed a career. I've found that I enjoy it even more than when it was just a hobby. There's more to it, I get to do it for longer, other people bring me ideas that I get to figure out how to implement... It's very rewarding.

I'm also odd in that I've enjoyed every job I've ever had, and miss some aspect of it, if not the whole job. I wouldn't give up my current job to go back, but they will always have a fond place in my memories. My experience is that most people can't say that about a single job, let alone all of them.
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Maybe he should recommend the use of the "LaTeX Beamer class"[1] along with TikZ[2]. I used the duo on different scientific presentations and everything was always properly displayed especially with complex graphs or formula.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home
[2] http://www.texample.net/tikz/
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I wouldn't say I 'love' philosophy, but it has always interested me. Pondering how and why are essential tools for both professions.

I really should stop and read some serious philosophers' books.
So, once Google+ gains popularity, guys at Facebook will realize Friends List is a cool feature, will make it more visible and then kill Google+?
I would argue that Fusion power has been 20 years (aka 2 power plants) away after we built JET in 1983. Except, we never actually built the next fusion power plant. Based on past progress I would estimate Fusion as a useful power source is 50+ years away. However we could build a net energy gain Fusion power plant today just using the scaled up ITER plans that we scaled down to useless levels. At this point the real issue is cost and Fusion is useless unless it's cheaper than wind power.

Edit: You can see actual progress on ITER http://www.iter.org/doc/all/edit/img_galleries/chantier_25.0... But, wait that's just an amphitheater the actual fusion power plant is still a hole in the ground http://www.iter.org/doc/all/edit/img_galleries/dsc_0767.jpg (June 2011).

PS: The US program has been derailed by attempts at fusion using lasers which had nothing to due with power plants and everything to do with simulating bombs. As to Europe they are just really slow Japan did make some interesting progress but they don't really allocate the money to fund such things.
I'm sorry to say, but I agree that Kagan's a total douche, both for this and previous remarks online. The amount of posts about sexism is starting to annoy the hell out of me, but it does deserve attention.
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Why does the word need to indicate that she is a she? Do you think her awfulnes and femaleness are connected?
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Nobody is proposing having anyone "policing speech".

What we are discussing is one individual's massive failure in self-policing, and another individual's response, calling him on it.

Nobody's trying to change the system. Rather, this is how the system works: when you're a presenter, you say what you want. If you act like a jerk, people will most likely publicly point out that you acted like a jerk, which should theoretically lead to some self-insight for the presenter in question.

I'm still puzzled by your presumed outrage.
Indeed. I wasn't offering a dissenting view, just reiterating that this isn't sexist. Apologies for confusion :)
I hate to create a throw away account for this, but I've had the same experience as you. I got the impression Noah was mostly a kid who is good at hustling, but with no ethical framework to support him. The recent email in which the readers were lead into thinking Tim Ferriss was involved, is just one example of his professional standards. To his credit, his customer support can be very good and prompt.
The more you study the better you get so try http://alljapaneseallthetime.com

There's some great posts about methods and motivation on that from someone who learnt Japanese in about 18 months.
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I find that dividing tasks into smaller subsets and setting 5-10 minute countdowns for each one to be quite productive as well.
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The other side of a business card is always a bit of a waste of space so I want to use it wisely - in the event of an apocalypse, what's the most useful bit of information that would fit* on the back of a business card?

* limit is probably ~500 chars in a compact font, i'll send you a copy of the business card if I use your suggestion ;)
I hear the statement: "Technology T is Y years away", all the time, it is usually is just speculation and wishful thinking.

I would rather people replace that overused line with the statement: "Technology T has barriers B, C and D preventing its successful implementation and mass production". Leave feel-good speculation out of it and focus on overcoming the obstacles.
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Perhaps some of those things might happen, but not necessarily all of them follow from the first.
I am a little puzzled at the importance ascribed here to the core idea of G+ Circles, as laid out in the slide deck. Mostly because we designed an identical sharing model and even gave it the same name at Etsy, without having read the deck. (Then we decided that was way too complicated and implemented something significantly simpler, but kept the name.)
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If Asian countries are enthusiastically funding the research, why couldn't the US just license the technology after it is developed?
I have to agree, I don't find the analysis or the train of thought particularly insightful. It seemed apparent to me that facebook being 'unable to change their core product' meant exactly what he figured out it meant 6 paragraphs later... not that they couldn't do it, technically.

Also, does he understand the extent to which Facebook actually uses PHP? "quick, adaptable tools like PHP" ... um... seriously?
We've spent almost zero effort trying to make our site "look" the same in all browsers. Our acceptance testing is simple, "does the site look good in the browser being tested?" AND "does the site function as a user would expect?".

That's it. It's probably saved us hundreds of frustrating hours trying to support the various issues with the different versions of IE (all of which may as well just be an entirely different browser for development and testing).

Our educated guess is that most users will use one browser, and not do side-by-side comparisons of browsers and how the particular site lays out.

So IE doesn't give them rounded corners, gradients and decent drop shadows...know what? They're already used to a crappy web experience anyways. No amount of design effort will turn IE into Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Just let IE be IE, make sure all the buttons are more or less where they are supposed to be, and everything works.

This post is spot on.
I keep hearing "fusion" and keep wondering if we shouldn't go for the thorium route first. It's safer than fission w/uranium and can even be taught to third world countries without fear of giving them nuclear bombs.
Some ideas :

- Herman Miller Aeron chair - pick up a used one from ebay, still pricey but very comfortable

- chalk wall or large whiteboard, I prefer chalk but it is messy

- comfy little couch if you can, just to have a break from the main chair, ikea do a cheap little one

- skateboard decks make a nice wall decoration

I have an office design blog with loads of other ideas, wont post the link here but it is in my profile.
JSLint is opinionated but it's hard to argue that anything in there isn't a good idea, even if it isn't necessary. CSSLint is just opinionated.
Almost the complete opposite of a company I worked at in the late 90s where the CEO would say things like "If rover will eat I will feed him" (meaning if the customer buys the schlock we're selling who cares what you think) and "Quality Assurance is an impediment to revenue".
Hmm, I don't have an OS X machine to test it on. Chromium on Linux looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/kEiQ2.png

I think it's an issue with the font renderer or font specific to your browser/OS combination.
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Makes the whole window flicker in Chrome. Also I don't like the stretch-out effect.
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It's compiled from the same kernel source so it should have THP (I admit here that I've not verified this with CentOS 6). And yeah, THP is great.
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Yea, I find that sometimes happens to me too. With a pen and pad, it seems like my mind just subconsciously clears out all the potential distractions and translates that brain power to creative uses. Almost like it's optimizing for what it expects me to do.
How would the director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory benefit from that?
Virtualization solves this. You just install two OS instances with the differing requirements, and then run it all on some super-stable host OS (RHEL 6.1 being ideal). The host OS doesn't get involved in details of what web app requires what, because that has all been pushed up to the VMs.

Edit: Yes I do implement production servers like this. Apache + mod_rpaf + mod_proxy runs on the host to act as an accelerator, cache and to direct requests to each VM webserver.
Beta/Dev channel? I had to switch it off, it's a pain
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I think with a pen & paper we are actually focused on completing the tasks written down, instead of working to record the stuffs to do into the productivity system.
Okay guys, WHAT THE FUCK ?

I don't even know where to start... Why would he chose a white-sounding name ? To "bide" his Korean name ? Once again, what the fuck ? My alias is Teraka since something like 10 years, I originally took it because I liked Karate and had no imagination (I was like 8 or something), and I'm not Japanese, I'm French... Why in hell would you need a reason to pick whatever alias you want ? It's even the reason why there's aliases... Seriously...

Next, the conspiracy theory. What is the point in thinking that it's in reality a big company that just wants to make profit ? His explanations makes perfect sense, he made a 20 minutes video in which he explains in great details all the questions you could have, and he did nothing that could make anyone thinks he's a fraud, except for using a domain name that he already owned, because of a copyright issue...

I can't believe how stupid the internet can be sometimes... Let the poor guy alone, and thank him for doing all his work so that YOU could watch Starcraft more easily...
Less proliferation risk, but not zero. It's still possible to build a bomb from U233 (obtained from the thorium cycle).
I will just repeat it: your prices are too low.
> Do you have sources for a static compiler for Smalltalk

> Considering how dynamic that language is I have some trouble imagining such a thing.

Smalltalk always uses a virtual machine, it does not always use a JIT.

I said a static compiler doesn't make sense for a dynamic language (saying you can't do it is tautological, it is like trying to get dry water).

I am talking about dynamic compilation to machine code (Not JIT). From that, you can alter how much code in-lining and optimization happen in nested calls. It is a much used technique and I do not need to prove its validity.

Everyone in here seems blind to the possibility, which puzzles me.
Except that cavemen can't preserve food for long periods of time. Cat's spend a lot of their time asleep because hunting is risky behavior and hunting at the wrong time can easily waste energy. Granted I think the amount of time early humans spent hunting is over estimated by most people, but even still if there is easy energy sources to scavenge going hunting is a bad idea.
He doesn't count the background as a color though. I'm more confused by slides 55 and 56.
Nice work! It kinda reminds me of the "dj-esque" site a friend and I made: http://www.turntubelist.com - but more "now" ;)
"I don't really like my ex."

When it's justified, "I think my ex was abusive," for example. That's quite biting, as far as I am concerned.

Edit: oh, I didn't relate to the "female" part. That's because you can't do that without being a horrible person yourself.
We could and we would end up much poorer than those Asian countries. They would make the licenses such that the majority of the benefit would go to them.
This seems like the classic "bug v user error" argument on a much different plane.

This quote:
"“Galvanic corrosion has not been a factor on any Austal-built and fully maintained vessel,” Austal stressed, implying that Independence hasn’t been “fully maintained” by a negligent Navy.

That’s an, ahem, interesting approach to customer relations for America’s newest warship-builder."

...was particularly funny though.
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"I don't want my conference content modded by the speech police, thanks very much."

I think Stewart Lee says this much better than I would:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAOCVwLrXo
"asshole"?
Do I understand correctly that you believe it is okay to refer to a woman as a "bitch" in the workplace (and startups should actively screen for people who feel otherwise)?

This is not a rhetorical question, I'm just taking your suggestion to "read carefully" very seriously indeed, because right now it seems to me you are making a statement about yourself you may regret later.
The SSL certificate is for "redirector.zerigo.net", and is self signed. If I add an exception to my browser I get through, but all I get is a completely blank page and a 404 status code.

Is anyone seeing an actual website at the moment?
Also a very similar post Safely Storing Passwords from a few days earlier on blogs.perl.org which includes a Dancer bcrypt plugin: http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_aitken/2011/07/safely-stor...
I wonder what the performance difference would be between using the Python Apache plugin and running qrencode - the C executable ( http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.en.html ).

I know it's not clean to call shell commands from Apache - not to mention the obvious performance hit with swapping environments - but perhaps the ELF vs Python JIT might compensate for this.

Also, i'd be interested in a comparison of features between the two.
"Does it though? There's an assertion here in this write-up that 'bitch' is in the same class of insult as various racial epithets which are far more taboo. I don't think that's the case."

Oh please. The "there are worse things" fallacy is so old there are books on it. Even specifically on the case of "discrimination of women is not as important as whatever-is-deemed-important-by-dudes today".
Exactly. With a pen and paper, YOU have to be the system. You have to be more conscious, present, and aware when you make decisions.
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Thanks! Incidentally if anyone wants to see what my friends and I were listening to today search #cueyoutube on Twitter!
I also blogged about this topic on blogs.perl.org the other week with some code examples that work a little better [1].

Your code appears to work, but is subtly broken in a few ways. Firstly since you don't return the hash in the "standard" format ("$2a", "$", two digits, "$", salt as 22 base 64 digits, '.', and 31 base 64 digits for the pass), one can't tell what work factor was used to create the hash - making it hard to verify a password. Secondly the salt isn't sufficiently random, there are modules out there that provide more randomness for cryptographic applications such as this.

It's nice to see people blogging about this kind of thing for perl, but it's important that the code is correct.

[1] http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_aitken/2011/07/safely-stor...
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Dev channel, should have included that, sorry.
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Getting 114ms from it to a Linode in Atlanta, GA. 92ms to a machine in New York. 19ms to a machine in London. Which seems OK given the distance.
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Noticed that it didn't work on my iPad as well. May be an early release, but mobile compatibility is crucial.
Much like with Matt Aimonetti's "CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star" presentation[0], the male-dominated nature of the tech industry sadly often makes men think that it's acceptable to say and do sexist things at industry conferences. It's already hard enough to get women into technology, and things like this only make it even harder.

0: http://omploader.org/vNWNrNg/gogaruco-couchdb-090418194027-p...
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Thanks for the feedback. I will make some changes.
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"Bitch" is a derogatory term toward women.

Is that still under debate? Would you be able to say "bitch" in front of your mother and not feel uncomfortable?
It's about reality rather than logic or an ideal world.

In certain company, any reference to the female gender that doesn't fall in close proximity to the words "empowering", "role model" or "inspirational" can be taken to be a slight on the gender and a demonstration of the speaker's disrespect for them.

Note that I haven't shared whether I agree with this or not but.. it's how it is. And depending on how safe you want to play it, you choose your words accordingly :-)

I used to be an idealist, acting as I thought the world should be (everyone equal, etc.) but business has been a lot better since I've acted how it is, which includes avoiding potentially negative references to any physical traits whatsoever. Think.. would the President use this on a slide? Why not?
JIT is dynamic compilation to machine code. Feel free to explain why your technique is not JIT, though.
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Have a look at Authen::Passphrase::BlowfishCrypt [1]. it handles a lot of my suggestions automatically and is more suited to your general-case than my code is.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~zefram/Authen-Passphrase-0.007/lib/A...
My point is that you do not have to go full static compilation to achieve the benefits of using machine code and static compilation techniques.

Compiled Common Lisp (without any annotations) is much faster than interpreted python, simply because all of the dynamic dispatch is handled in machine code.

To achieve speeds closer to Java and C++ in Common Lisp, you certainly need type annotations (And a working knowledge of the given compiler).

But we aren't talking about those speeds, we are talking about maybe a 4x improvement, which could be done. Racket is popular because it is easy to use and has a nice library. There are a number of schemes which are faster than it is.
Absolutely, improving garbage collection is definitely more interesting/important than code that runs 'faster' for arbitrary benchmarks.
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Am I missing something? I'm sure two iPhones were up there as well.
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I had the same issue as you. I had a stack of books that I wanted to get through but always found it hard to force myself to make the time in the day to read them. I started taking books to work and reading in my lunch breaks. This worked quite well and also provided a good break from work which left me ready to get stuck into work for the afternoon.

I have recently moved over to London(UK) and now I catch the train to work(25min train time each way). I now use this time to read and I love it. I am actually getting through the books on my list.

The commute to work is obviously not for everyone but I would recommend giving the lunch time reading a go.
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There's opinionated, and there's badly-thought-out. From the article:

= Don’t use too many floats =
Arbitrary, and impossible to test for. All Lint is
doing is counting how many times you declare "float"
in a stylesheet. It doesn’t matter that you may only
ever use one float on a given page.

I agree with Wilcox on this; between that, "Don't qualify headings" and "Don’t use IDs in selectors", I'm not crash-hot on using CSSLint for anything other than plain syntax checking.
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