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I think a proper response to this question would be in the form of another... What would happen if the US doesn't default? I was raised to think that my parents tried their damndest to leave this world a better place for their children. They might have, but their generation sure failed in that respect. Continuing the charade as if a debt-based economy isn't hurting anyone is just asking for more trouble down the line. Why don't we, as a people of the world, do the responsible thing and get rid of the corruption linking politicians, multinational corporations and banks. The people of the world are suffering and it ain't getting any easier. I heard Latvia just voted to oust their parliament because it was as bad as the US government. Corrupt politicians doing favors for the ones with the "money" and leaving the little guy (the other 99%) to fend for himself.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/07/20117232155...

Also, Ron Paul has some words of wisdom on this topic. He has been saying the same thing his entire career and people keep calling him crazy. I think it's about time we listen.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-22/default-now-or-suff...
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I think Skud's comment (Skud is a she btw), that google relies too much on technical knowledge and has a dearth of people with soft technical knowledge in their organisation is probably valid.
Those are both pretty cool! My only suggestion for colorblendy is that it wasn't immediately obvious what it was, and I couldn't edit the middle input textbox. (In other words, maybe style the middle box differently).
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Actually this is very British humour. It may not work well for everyone, but in Britain, it's likely to be memorable in a positive way for many people who read it.
The easy fix is 'java -version', which will trigger a download of the Java runtime and JDK. All that crazy hackery is not needed.
In terms of least revenue, that would probably be my webcomic, http://www.zoitz.com/ , which has had millions of views but for which the only revenue has come from a small textbook licensing deal.

In terms of greatest loss, that would be my photo deblurring tool, http://www.blurity.com/ , which is suffering from my failure to achieve product-market fit. It's had some revenue, but its need for a powerful server has kept it in the red.
One might make a case about James being a scientist, however that's the sort of after the fact revision which Kuhn describes in Structure of Scientific Revolution.

But there is no way to make that claim about Kant and Critique of Pure Reason. The logic underpinning such an argument - that Kant's view of the mind does not match popular current scientific theories and therefor does not constitute science - would also place Newton's Principia outside the realm of Physics.

To suppose that the thrust of Kant's categories do not underpin modern psychology one would have to be the most radical of behaviorists. Modern psychology readily accepts that a person's experience of the world is largely shaped by the features of their mind - e.g. reframing.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reframing]

As for what psychologists claim as their epistemological basis, I suspect that the rate at which psychologists would claim James as a predecessor is significantly greater than the rate at which planetary astronomers who would claim Giordano Bruno's work as their epistemological base.
Kumon is not too bad. (Disclaimer: my sister-in-law in Taiwan used to be a Kumon teacher there, back before when I had children.) Some of the stronger students in the supplemental math program I teach are Kumon alumni.

But there are plenty of other good math programs. I use ALEKS regularly for all of my children,

http://www.aleks.com/

there is also EPGY,

http://epgy.stanford.edu/

and especially there is Art of Problem Solving,

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/index.php?

with its vibrant online community and very challenging online courses.

And of course Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

is free to users (supported by foundations) and still developing. And there are local math circle programs

http://www.mathcircles.org/

and supplemental class programs like mine.

So Kumon is good, and perhaps helpful for your family, but it is not strictly necessary.
Well, reading over my routine of writing down only interesting ideas, many of the ideas are still interesting. Reading over my freewriting, it's just a lot of "let me think of what to say, oh I bought a MacBook and played a game." I wouldn't even bother writing down an idea during the exercise, I tried once but I was tired by then and couldn't flesh it out.

That site has some cute charts that try to measure your mental state, I was curious to see what they'd show. I lasted 7 days, at the end charts got way off and I gave up.
I doubt that Picasso said "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up," first because a little googling reveals no source for it (other than the usual spam sites), second because this is a popular post-1960s belief about children (the kind of thing Picasso's generation was unlikely to say, but that later generations would eagerly attribute to $arbitrary_great_artist), and third because from what little I know about Picasso's ego it seems unlikely that he would distribute the status of artist so equitably. So I think this quote should be put in the category of bullshit-till-proven-authentic.

It would be fitting if it were bullshit, since it motivates an argument that all anyone had to do in 1907 was decide to paint a few whores and they'd end up with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d%27Avignon.
Could a service that creates a new ´wallet´ for every single transaction provide effectively unbreakable anonymity? Forgive me if the question doesn´t make sense... I haven´t used bitcoin.
I don't use Facebook, but many of my Google+ contacts are people that I've know for years on IRC. I'm going crazy because I can't see pseudonyms, and so I have no idea who's who.
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>Treat your career at Google, if you're fortunate enough to have one

You nailed it here. People agree to be treated as sh!t just to be included into the set inclusion into which is perceived as being "fortunate".
For those of us who haven't hit homebrew's edge cases in years of use are probably fine to keep using homebrew. If it ain't broke...

I just want it to install packages. It does that so I'm happy.
Since NASA has repeatedly demonstrated its inability to develop a new rocket (something like $21B wasted in failed attempts over the last 20 years), it certainly makes sense to outsource launch services to the free market instead of trying to relive the Apollo era.

However, since there is a lot of interesting exploration and science that NASA could continue to do that no profit incentive exists for (deep space probes, space telescopes, etc.), so recommending the complete dismantlement of NASA goes too far.

NASA should fund commercial launch providers and buy launch services, and focus its substantial budgets on some really exciting exploration.

Launching things into orbit is a solved problem, no need to solve it again. There is an infinity of unsolved problems NASA could attack once they get over their fixation with building new rockets.

Demonstrating the capability of private industry is SpaceX, who spent $250M in NASA funds to develop and fly a large launch vehicle and a capsule. (econgeeker's details are wrong but the low cost is correct, and Orbital is the firm that is using Russian technology)

$250M is nothing compared with the $20000M NASA planned to spend on its launch vehicle and capsule program.
I think you're misunderstanding the question. It sounds to me like they're asking about named entity recognition[1], which is a bit more involved than just having to write a parser (unless you're crazy enough to try parsing it by hand). And it's certainly more involved than I would expect someone who works in Developer Relations to have to answer.

The reality of the situation is that the author should probably have just taken the question that the interviewer was a techie who didn't know how to ask about soft skills.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_entity_recognition
hah! the first one is completely useless. You should totally make an iOS version....I bet anything you could make money at 0.99$ (assuming it hasn't already been done).

The second one is pretty neat. It needs some polish, but I can't help but think that could actually be somewhat useful.

Good work!
Yes, but the limit is: 65k only for a single incoming IP address. So 1m is fine, presuming the clients all have different IPs. So, for testing, i'm going to have to do 1m/65k = 16 servers running concurrently at 64k connections each.
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"Well, when your founders were graduate students at Stanford, and they implemented a hiring policy right out of school, it shouldn't be surprising that they have an arbitrary filter like that, and a focus on identifying personalities that are nearly identical to the founders."

IIRC, Google's hiring process is largely imported from Microsoft (which was the reigning tech giant at the time of Google's founding, so naturally they looked to them to see what they were doing right) and GE (where Google's SVP of People Ops had previously been VP of HR).
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mogade.com sucks down about $170/month in hosting costs. 2 $35 web servers, 2 $50 db servers (all for redundancy). (i use the hardware for other things too)

It has been my best learning project (what gave me the knowledge to write mongly.com and the little mongodb book). It's also solid Rails experience which is important for me given that I want to transition out of .NET.

Closing in on 500 000 scores store (it's 1 score per user per game, so it gives you an idea of how many unique users). Around 100 games use it (all WP7)
http://smsmyride.com/

http://cueyoutube.com/

http://pimpmysalary.com/

I've never made money from them, nor have any of them gained significant popularity (although pimpmysalary.com is actually receiving an entry every 3 mins. Or so - maybe that's my breakthrough success!!)
For any other Aussies that, like me, vaguely remember the plans for building this near Mildura but can't be bothered watching the video to find out why it didn't happen, the reason cited is a "complete lack of incentives".

Sad that something like this couldn't get a dime from the Australian government while the US "welcomed them with open arms" (and, presumably, truckloads of cash).
I'm trying to debug an iPhone browser freezing issue with one of my sites, but this doesn't reproduce the issues. That would be really useful. As an aside does anyone know of a good way to debug this? I would kill for an iPhone version of Firebug right now...

I suppose this is useful for testing basic layout without mucking with your UserAgent, though.
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Interesting... but I'm not convinced this "proves time travel is impossible." I am not sure we know enough about time, and how it operates (if that's even the right word) to really speculate about how time travel would work, if it were possible.

I mean, Superman movies, Star Trek movies and Doctor Who aside, how much thought has really been given to how we would travel in time, even hypothetically? I know there has been some but is this something serious scientific minds spend time considering???
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ESA manages to launch telescopes much more complex than Hubble in spite of not owning a single rocket.
5 files and a stored proc is, sadly, normal. Most applications grow just large enough to require the layers (for organization), while never gaining much from them (like reuse).
I took the Murmur3 hash function and ported it to C, adding documentation as I went. After all, even the greatest technical achievement can be held back by lack of basic documentation. It's a great hash function, very fast and well-behaved, but to date this project has brought me neither wealth nor fame. Of course, it's only been online since earlier this afternoon. If you need to hash something, for whatever reason, I hope this will be useful to you:

https://github.com/PeterScott/murmur3
the distributed ledger means that you don't have to trust anyone to perform a transaction. bitcoins act as digital bearer bonds in the same way that cash does in meatspace.

In addition I can securely store an encrypted file containing my private keys on several cloud services and access it from anywhere in the world. If done correctly, it is possible that no one knows that I have this asset until I try to cash it into a national currency.

That's just bitcoin itself. The bitcoin protocol opens up the possibility of all sorts of distributed and secure interactions, contracts or property titles for example. namecoin is a distributed DNS service based on this idea.
I'm very much a layman with regard to SEC rules, but I believe there's a rule that says you have to go public if you have 500+ shareholders. So, if 100-200 employees are willing to sell all of their stock now, does that mean Twitter gets to avoid being hit by the SEC rule for another 6-12 months?
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They didn't have to build components at factories in 50 different states.

They didn't have to include secret USAF, CIA, AAA etc requirements in the design.

They had a simple goal - get payload to LEO cheaply - not a nebulous goal of 'make America look good in space'
99%? No. The Carnot limit is much lower than that for the temperatures at which steam turbines operate.

Besides, the thermodynamic efficiency isn't particularly relevant for technologies like this anyway - you're not paying for the input, after all. The efficiencies you care about here are watt/area, energy payback time and, ultimately, $/watt.
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I think you're missing a crucial "way things work" here...

Yes, a lot of these things happen through more-or-less the path of least resistance... Sure. But that doesn't mean there's a certain consciousness, a certain awareness among those who allow, who occasionally guide things this way.

I'm way, way on the other of the spectrum from Rand and have no use for her politics in general.

But this particular quote is a fine description for bureaucrats of all pin-stripes, all cardigans and all suits. No one would ever say this but they feel the awareness that proliferating laws give them power against nearly everyone when nearly everyone breaks the laws. And that power, of course, can used against whoever criticizes, annoys or stands against them.
The Census says there are 110,692,000 occupied homes in the US, so 150k is 0.136% of that.[1] That means that there would need to be 738 of them to meet demand.

Now, the EIA says there are about 5700 power plants currently operating in the US [2]. Continuing with the back of the envelope math, that's almost 8 times as many as would be necessary if they all produced as much as this one. Pick whatever factor you want for "non-home" energy, but we're dealing with the right order of magnitude.

Combine that with the clean energy aspect of it, and I don't see a lot of reason to be cynical.

[1] http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/ahs/ahsfaq.html
[2] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=65&t=2
I agree that JOIN starts to fall apart in a distributed environment. However, with replication, and proper understanding of the level of consistency, or lack of, your application can tolerate, a single database can scale quite far.

In fact, you will only run into three sorts of major deal breakers with the big-db + replication model. The first is if your data is just too large to fit in a single db to begin with. This is quite a bit of data, but certainly big datasets are all over the place. The second is when the write load is so high that the master database cannot keep up, or the slaves are using a lot of resources just to keep up with the replication. The last is that you need very fast access to the data, faster than a general purpose SQL engine can satisfy (think kayak, search engines, etc).

However, NoSQL isn't a solution to any of these problems. NoSQL datastores provide the storage component which you can use to build a system that can handle large datasets with huge churn. I don't mean this in the trivial 'the database isn't the application' sense, I mean it in the 'you are going to end up implementing a JOIN like construct in application code with NoSQL' sense.

The query in question, the one that took 4 seconds, simply could not be implemented in a NoSQL system, except for implementing all the logic of the query in application code, and even then there is assurance it would actually be as fast or faster unless you are smarter in your implementation than the query planner of whatever relational DB. Relational databases are a general purpose tool, and therefore in theory you can always implement a custom solution that will outperform any given query. However, your solution is at that point fast but inflexible, if you need to slice the data a different way, or produce reports that join or group the data differently than you had anticipated, a NoSQL solution will require you to write far more code that is harder to understand and verify the correctness of than a SQL query.

NoSQL solutions also push a lot of data consistency tasks into the application code. In a 'good' relational database, you can put lots of controls in place to ensure that the data is completely consistent, and you can even put some 'sniff test' constraints on, to, for example, ensure that the data at least conforms to what you expect it to look like. There is nothing that scares me more as an application developer than data quietly being corrupted. Such a scenario can cost months of developer hours to correct. Really robust constraints don't completely eliminate the possibility, but they at least cause some reasonable percentage of bugs that would cause silent data corruption to be caught early, and without causing any change in the underlying data (transaction rolls back). Your application code is therefore much simpler, easier to test, and faster to implement.
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No, most probably the state (as in us) will have to pay for it. I don't understand your attitude. You want somebody to do all the work of bringing this new technology but then you don't want them to charge to at least recoup their investment and make some money for themselves.
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The funny thing is that it's accuracy hasn't changed - which tells you all you need to know about Nasa
A slanted journalistic piece that doesn't tell the other side-- in particular, the inventor. Instead of finding one, the article says they can't. (Surely, the news broadcasters can find some inventor's view.) Where's the other side of the story?

If the other side isn't presented, I'm always suspicious whether the story has integrity.
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I think it's a perfectly apposite quote. No, the proliferation of laws is not there as the result of an evil conspiracy to make everyone guilty of something. But sometimes you can clearly illustrate harmful side effects in fiction by postulating evil conspiracies that do things for the sake of the harmful side effects.

Nobody knows the law anymore. Everyone is guilty of something. If the police want to arrest you, they can find some charge or another. Who has power in a world like that? Why, the person who decides whether or not to prosecute you for a law that thousands or millions of other people are breaking.
Even if it was possible to create new wallets for every transaction, wouldn't you want to spend it somehow? Then, the "flow" of cash from a subset of wallets at the same time indicates _something_.
A slanted journalistic piece that doesn't tell the other side-- in particular, the inventor. Instead of finding one, the article says they found it extremely difficult. (Surely, the news broadcasters can find some inventor's view.) Where's the other side of the story?

The only ones it found were inventors who said they couldn't understand the dumb legal language of the claims, and thus, said all was stupid. Obviously, someone is stupid, and the news team could have found many inventors who did understand the language. Why is such slanted journalistic article seen as having truthful?

If the other side isn't presented, I'm always suspicious whether the story has integrity rather than sensationalism.
The problem wasn't NASA. The problem was, NASA was told to build something impossible - a cheap and reliable spaceplane. It was many times more complex than anything else ever made (including the Saturn V). It was never going to be cheap and reliable. (Well, it might be possible today, with decades more experience and technology). Only the "yes men" said it was possible, and they got promoted. The rest of the engineers were forced to work in a bubble where a realistic big picture didn't matter.

OK, you can privatize that. But the same problems will apply. Look at Australia's military acquisitions. Every vehicle we buy costs 10X the MOTS price, because there's always a requirement "modifications for Australian conditions". The private operators read this as "complete idiots in command", and charge accordingly. A privatized space sector would work the same way - stupid government orders will get stupid prices.
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>EDIT: Since comment scores are not visible, I will note that this is being upvoted, downvoted, upvoted, downvoted. I would be curious as to what is so seemingly controversial. Any thoughts?

Show me a parent who doesn't think their kid is "gifted".
I thought it actually did take a weekend because when I say 'weekend project' I literally mean that I spent one weekend on it and then it was working. I posted some time ago about http://bemyfirstcustomer.com which I thought of and then coded in a weekend.

Little projects are a really nice distraction and I use them to clear my mind. I've found out early on that spending all my time developing the same thing, https://mijura.com in my case, was draining. Short projects also let me test out new libraries, hosting providers etc. That said, a weekend project can prove popular and then consume an immense amount of time. This happened to me with http://vodafail.com, which I initially created while waiting on hold for customer service.
The comic was cute. It's a shame you gave it up. I always thought that kinda stuff was a lot of work though (I've read some thoughts on this from Gary Larson). Seems like the kinda thing you need to keep up regularly to ever grow.

Kinda makes me think that a "syndication platform" for we comics might not be a horrible idea.
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The Empire State is New York State: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State

Or did the article headline really mean the empire state BUILDING? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
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