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People don't complain either.

I think you can put an asterix on this one. People don't complain about long hours in Japanese megacorps for the same reason they don't complain about them in game development studios: if you care enough to complain, you're at nearly zero risk of ending up with that job. Nobody becomes seishain at a Japanese megacorp and then suddenly gets surprised about the working conditions. I went into it with eyes wide open, too. (Although I really underestimated how much that would impact my happiness.)

The folks who would most dislike 17 hour days or 70 hour weeks communicate their displeasure by opting out of the system entirely. (Or, if they're young ladies, by going the pink collar route and quitting at 25 when they get married or 27 when their first child is born.) There is an oft-reported thing for Japanese young men of my generation to take to, basically, grifting (odd jobs, part time employment, mooching off parents, etc) as opposed to doing the salaryman thing, because the salaryman thing sucks so badly. It is probably exaggerated because it sells newspapers, but I'll bet there is a kernel or two of truth in it (c.f. "metrosexuals", "sexting", etc)

Similarly, if you look around my social circle of Japanese techy friends, you'll see a bunch of societal rejects. Not because they're geeky anime nerds, although a few are. They just saw the handwriting on the wall and said "Meh, not for me." So we've got freelancers, folks ensconced in various academic posts, weird government sinecures for techno-artists, a raft of quirky startups, permanent students, etc etc. (I'm not exactly Grade A Salaryman Role Model Material myself anymore, either, even for a white guy.)

That said: any viable alternative to this system, whether for Japan or the video game industry or Silicon Valley or anywhere else its evil takes root, is a victory for all that is good and just in the world.
The last time I was in an RS it was for a capacitor. I found the bin (in the back of the store), dug out what I needed, and went to pay for it.

The salesman just sneered at me and didn't even trouble to ring it up; he just gave it to me and waved me out the door.

I haven't been back.

I'll stop by one this morning, I'm curious if they've changed at all.
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> Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind?

In fact, this is not a relevant question, it's the same like we'd be asking "who's the tallest philosopher?" or "who's the most handsome?". Heraclitus or Epicurus or Thomas Aquinas are as relevant to us, people of this day and age, as are the philosophers that by chance happen to live in the same time with us. I don't know who said it first (Hegel, I think), but I think that the history of philosophy is the same thing as philosophy itself, there's no linear progress from the pre-Socratics to the post-Marxists.
Actually I lived in the US for 5 years. My tax return was fairly simple - but TurboTax asked a lot more questions to maximize deductions and tax credits (which were not applicable to me)

We have made an "opinionated" UI where we show only the common deductions. If you want a not-so-common deduction, you can claim it, but its not part of the regular workflow.
Yep, it's not purely the brain size that matters, it's the ratio of brain size to total body mass. And Neanderthals did indeed have larger brains than humans. They also started wearing pigmented jewelry before we did, in fact we might have learned it from them.
One can argue philosophers, or a philosopher, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon, developed the scientific method. Bacon and Galileo were contemporaries. I don’t know if either influenced the other at all. Maybe they each independently discovered modern science.
> "Neandertal chromosome segments found in all tested non-african populations, and some tested african populations"?

Yes, your more accurate statement is correct.

> "It seems the distinction might be no neandertal genes found in sub-Saharan African population samples?"

Regarding the Sub-Saharan distinction, the article text's terminology describes haplotype B006 as "virtually" absent from Subsaharan Africa. They then explain this as meaning that 6 out of the 1420 subsaharan samples contained B006, including 5 from tribal groups in Burkina Faso. They explain this away by supposing that these tribal groups must have historically interbred with north African groups, which is not an unreasonable guess, but I am sure it is also true for many other subsaharan groups as well. North African incidence rates of B006 are comparable to the middle east and Russia and higher than China.

So, 0.4% of sub-saharan samples contained B006, but not none. Also, north-western mexico, east south america, east china, siberia and indonesia all have similarly extremely low incidence rates, but no explicit mention of these areas is made in the paper, it's just seen in the data. Only subsaharan africa is called out for special mention. The highest rates of B006 are in western Canada - greater than 25% in some areas.

There is also a separate problem of the circular argument due to the inherent selection bias of brute force digging through the data sets looking for a gene with these characteristics. It's not like they started with a gene they knew was neandertal only, researchers sought out a gene in the single sequenced neandertal sample which had lower modern african incidence rates and from that concluded it was a non-african sourced neandertal gene, then turned around and concluded the reverse, bringing the argument full circle. That's another problem but I'd just as soon not get into that since I would much rather assume that is all good and only focus on the very misleading titles that are going around in articles about this paper.
Wow, very well said. Really liked Dr. Peacock's story. I have to ask though, in his account and to further prove the reason for questioning, did the vascular reconstructions actually end poorly or was it a success?
HD split into OS/Apps/Frameworks/Installations and My files.

myfiles/stuff/* where * is folder name a generalized name for its content's context. EG: 'university" contains everything i've done in school. "books" are all the books i have. "grad" is stuff relating to grad school. "songs" is...well, im sure you get the point. ps: 'songs' is also my iTunes default folder

myfiles/dev/* - * means project name. work/freelance/whatever - all go in here.

myfiles/myname/* - uber personal stuff

This is the final stage of evolution of how i structure my laptop. I actually quite like it now.
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It's just an additional alias in the grammar, no real measurable slow down given the size of the parser as is.
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I suspect the reason Google wants your real name is to match it with credit headers. And before anyone calls me a tin-foiler please read the following and understand that I work in the industry. I'm not making a judgment call one way or the other as to whether this is "right" or not.

For those that don't know a credit header is information in a credit report that gives identifying information about a person. Credit headers contain:

Name, AKA's, Maiden Name, Date of Birth, Social Security Number and Issuing State, Relatives, along with Current and Previous Addresses which can go back 25+ years.

Credit headers have been ruled as to NOT be part of a credit report:

http://epic.org/privacy/fcra/

<blockquote>A credit header is identifying information from a credit report. It includes name, mother's maiden name, date of birth, sex, address, prior addresses, telephone number, and the Social Security Number.

Credit headers came into use after the FTC changed its definition of a credit report in the course of settling a case against TRW (now Experian). The FTC allowed the CRAs to treat headers as "above the line" information and to sell it with no legal protections for the individual. The reasoning was that this information did not relate to credit, and thus should not be considered part of the credit report.

Credit headers are used for location of individuals and for target marketing. They are sold in bulk by the CRAs and can be purchased online.</blockquote>

Google can simply take your IP address, trace it back and then run your name against the header database to locate individuals in your area with that name. The more unique your name the easier you are to identify. If you have a common name it would be further cross-referenced with other information like relative names or maiden names. Once identified they have your complete life history.
About the video: We had a really awesome intern - Ayush who created the video. I am waiting for him to graduate to hire him (for reasons besides shooting a great video)

The story is a bit contrived ;)
API design is something I have been meaning to look into - thanks for the link.
The design initiative going on at Google is really interesting, as it's a considerable departure from people's perceptions of Google products.
I agree that writing code on paper is annoying, but a few things that made it bearable for me were:

- At my school, exams that required writing code by hand were open book and open note (and occasionally even open-laptop with wifi off): no memorization necessary.

- A wide range of syntax errors were acceptable without any penalty to your grade. The questions were designed to test understanding of data structures, algorithms, and good program design, and that was what the grade was based on, not syntax.

- These code-by-hand exams were really good preparation for job interviews that require you to code by hand (or on a whiteboard, which to me is even scarier). I don't know why interviewers don't let you type your code in an IDE instead of writing on a whiteboard, but since they don't, it's nice to have some practice writing code by hand under pressure.

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> but dropped out when it became clear that it was a path to becoming the world's expert on Gendered Discourse in the Hungarian Mining Industry, 1872-1876; or perhaps on a very narrow technical problem in analytic philosophy.

On the other hand, it's not so dispiriting when you consider that you'd probably be the world's foremost authority on the topic... forever.
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"threw up in my mouth a little." "Gee, let me get this straight." "Bullshit." "Seriously?"

I have to say that one of my regrets about growing up in programmer circles is seeing stuff like this held up as an acceptable example of how adults communicate with other adults.

It took me a long time to realize that this style of communication is not necessary, is not effective, and reflects poorly on the speaker. C'mon, this guy appears to be in his 30s or 40s and has written books, so why does he write like he's an angsty teen? (I know Linus does it. I think it's lame when he does it too.)

There's still room for humor and snark, here are three of my favorite blog postings/articles ever, all very snarky, but not embarrassingly juvenile:

http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-...

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experime...

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html
anything@example.{com,org,net} will probably work for your purpose, if you just want an email where you can send stuff to without annoying a real person.

You should not assume that something sent to one of them would be non-recoverable. (That is a poor assumption for email in general, due to how SMTP works. Basically, everybody "between" sender and recipient gets to see everything, and "between" can be a very, very scary place. You get no guarantees as to the policies of the people who compromise "between.")
This is the second such purchase since 2006, when they picked up Neven Vision. Then just as now, it gives me the creeps that any company of this size and technical capability would start hoovering up companies specializing in facial recognition. Planetary scale biometrics, anyone?
You need to find out more about Carmack and Woz. Agree with the rest.
Researcher develops cocaine vaccine - no pharmaceutical company will produce it
With this and other discoveries regarding Neanderthals in mind, does it still make sense to call them non-human in any meaningful sense? I would think the fact that we all interbred would be enough to knock down the species barrier, but I don't know for sure.
India is attempting to simplify the tax code a whole lot. The government was trying to remove some of the complex tax deductions scenarios. There was a lot of hue and cry from the people affected. The government backed off and kept the deductions.

So its a very tough balancing act I think with tax code reform.
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While it is good that you kept the UI very lean, you would probably benefit from having a UI/UX guy help you with making the app feel a bit more 'dressed up'. Currently this looks like a developer designed it (I should know, I suffer from the same problem).

Also, having worked on pretty much the exact same product for the French market, one thing I remember people liked was help sections. By that, I mean big long blobs of text that explain the law in detail. On each form page you could display the relevant explainations, and then compile that into a searchable index, and even use that on dedicated pages for SEO purposes.

Oh and maybe you wanna say 'the easy way [to do your taxes]', rather than 'an easy way'.
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I liked that book, too, but later controversies surrounding Diamond have made me wonder how much I should rely on the narrative presented there.
I actually think this was a good move by the PR. I think most people understand that space travel is in its newest form and by calling it a reservoir NASA is challenging science so that one day this distant water can become a practical reservoir.
Reminds me of the experience of sitting around a table with some brilliant people arguing about what our role-playing-game characters should do next. Hey, we're in a heated, passionate, frustrating meeting, and we're not even getting paid!

We should start a company or something...
Hey. Just a point of correction - East Africans are just as black as people from the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. You may find communities along the coasts, such as the Swahili, with significant Arab ancestry but most inland tribes are not different from their Western or Southern African counterparts. The greatest differences occur between language groups. Take the Nilotes for instance - the linguistic group which my tribe, the Luo, belongs to - we tend to be relatively tall and thin, with very dark skin, as compared to the more stout, lighter skinned Bantu groups. These distinctions also exist between the Western African branches of Nilo-Saharan (the Nilotic parent group) and the Bantu communities in the region. Southern African communities are largely Bantu though. In short, the vast majority of East Africans are what you'd call black, no different from any other black populations.

PS: "Sub Saharan" is rather long. We really don't mind "Black" Africa.
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I think the comparison to Streisand effect is way off. Oracle has not issued any cease and desist letters to third parties. All they did was edit their own website. Big whoop.

If a company's policy changes, they can't update their website to reflect the new policy? Really, the internet is carved in stone?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 provides a number of test/example TLDs and second level domain names.

I just sent email from gmail to devnull@example.com, without an immediate bounce.

I don't know if this is considered rude or benign, nor whether it satisfies your need. I also don't know what happens to anything sent there: storage, logs, etc.
Mikael,

Can you elaborate a little bit on what you mean by "dressed up". I am looking for feedback here :-)

Yes its mostly a developer driven UI.

About Help Section: I am continuously building out the help section from what people ask on our support aliases.

About SEO: Excellent tip. We have seen traffic come to our few blog entries on certain long tail google queries. So we will be working on this next.

I don't see your email on your profile. Maybe I can pick your brains about what you did for the French Market.
My experience of doing internship at an Indian startup.
I have little formal knowledge in the area, but wouldn't a cocaine vaccine ruin any medical potential for that class of drug?
I simply rotate my flatscreen monitor to make it upright. This way i get 900x1600 resolution, and >80 lines (10pt monospace) in one screen.

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This title is 5 words longer than it could be, because people don't have real names.

Apologies in advance for the self-citation:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

My name+ is confusing gibberish where I live. It is highly likely likely that when I have children, they will go through life having multiple sets of gibberish so that they can pick the non-gibberish option when asked "What is your real name?"

Does your startup really want to get into the is-that-gibberish-gibberish-or-am-I-just-ignorant-of-the-way-they-do-things-in-weird-places-like-the-United-States adjudication business? If so, try validating names. You will have loads of fun.

+ : Well, a name I go by, at any rate. There's at least eight different ways to write my "real name" correctly, not even counting nicknames, online handles, or the like.
I instantly (and incorrectly) assumed that this was some conspiracy theory-laden story about how big pharma doesn't want to stop cocaine use and the war on drugs is too profitable and etc. etc. etc., but thankfully I was wrong. Here's the key line from the story:

the dilemma is clear: What would happen if the media got
wind that inoculated drug users were buying even more coke
than before. It would be a public relations nightmare for
any business.

So that's it - and it makes sense. Vaccine makes cocaine less effective, so people buy more (in the short term) to try and get the same high, until they finally realize that doesn't work and give up using it. Long term good, short term PR nightmare.
If nobody will manufacture it then it is time to start a startup. Even with the potential PR problems of patients going broke buying more cocaine at first, they will probably be able to find investors. Remember that the google founders at first tried to sell their search engine. Nobody would buy so they had to start google.

They could probably even put the patients in a rehab facility to prevent them from buying more cocaine. Also, this problem should be the first thing that should mentioned to anybody that is listening to prevent the media of acting like they just broke the news on "the evils of using this vaccine that the manufactures were trying to hide" (you know how sensationalist they are) If they do that then news organizations will probably not be able to make a big deal about it.
That would be neat, but you'll have to be satisfied with joining a group of at most 9 strangers...
If the vaccine works, the big question is: who will buy it? The biggest market that I'd see is addicts who commit crimes and are required to have the treatment as part of a court ordered program. How big is that market? Pharma isn't about to spend millions on a phase III trial for a fairly small market.

If they really want to see their vaccine approved for use, maybe they should start their own company to produce it. If there is enough of a need for the vaccine, the should be able to find funding (VC or grants).

Now, I could really see their nicotine vaccine doing very well, since there are lots of people who would voluntarily take a vaccine to stop smoking.
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Find a partner with equally strong passions.

I.e. he/she understands that you need your time to geek out on your stuff because he/she needs the same thing.
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"What would happen if the media got wind that inoculated drug users were buying even more coke than before. It would be a public relations nightmare for any business."

not to mention a public health nightmare! cocaine has effects on more than the brain.

also, their study is pretty sketchy: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19805702

why are there so many individual differences? why does it work on some people but not others? shouldn't a vaccines effect be pretty standardized?

also, why after 20 weeks are the placebo and high-ig concentrations equal in terms of cocaine-free urine samples?

with questions like these, it seems pretty obvious why no one wants to roll into stage III with this in its current form. it's shitty to hear when it's your life's work but ... it sounds like it needs more work.
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Seriously, though, bits don't rot.

If we could pause the world, would it be unethical to do so? It's not the same as destroying the world. I'm just responding to the implicit reference to pausing-ai-being-unethical. pause != destroy.
Depending on your needs there are some options for online data backup solutions. If your needs are more consumer oriented, say files and media vs. databases, exchange servers and networked files - take a look at www.backblaze.com/ They are famous for their innovative server chassis and driving the cost of backup down for everyone through innovation.

I don't think that they have a pro product that allows for specific backups of MS Exchange Server, MS SQL Server.

If you are looking for a backup solution that have in the past classified as business solutions - look towards www.ibackup.com, www.backupright.com, www.i365.com.

I suspect that with more moving to the cloud in a few years the distinction of business vs. consumer may alter.
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Well, the laws protect some employees at the expense of others. Specifically, they protect employees who prefer time to money while harming employees who prefer money over time.

It's just protectionism - some people can't compete and use the government to hobble the competition.
If you're a programmer of a certain vintage, you've been reading writing like this on mailing lists for years. It's easy to think programmers in particular produce embarrassing writing. However, most blogs are written in this style, not just blogs by programmers. This issue is not confined to the internet, or the contemporary age. The editorial page in my hometown's daily paper was not any better. If one reads historical letters to the editor in regional newspapers, you'll find that adults have been communicating in poorly written, juvenile language for centuries .
Oracle's been fucking up links/etc... to the sun.com domain for a while now.

Remember all the research papers that you can't get to that were originally on sun.com? Same thing as this. Not overly surprising, but its sad to see so much useful content get nuked. The sun engineers that blogged generally had some really cool things relating to what they did. Like the dtrace guys, the kernel guys, and generally anyone in their engineering groups.

It was extremely open as far as businesses go, and I for one will be sad to see oracle nuke the sun.com domain's useful bits away behind contract paywalls. Even though the company I work for has contracts, the general vibe isn't close to the same.