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> I've often done things iteratively and interactively that could probably have been done more efficiently if I'd taken the time to think out the correct incantation.

Maybe not. Efficiency is a measure of the time it takes accomplish something. 'Puzzling out how' can sometimes be a more relevant bottleneck than 'number of keystrokes.'
Paint me unimpressed. "eat my Data" was a way, way better and deeper presentation:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3172

Get the presentation here:
http://flamingspork.com/talks/2007/06/eat_my_data.odp
I've always developed software on not high end machines. (Or tested on old devices ... was still using an original iPhone when the 3gs was around).

I guess some webdevs don't do this - at least I have to assume they have some maxed out monster workstations when I visit websites that let my CPU usage go to 100%.
Well, that is the whole purpose of the Human Resource (HR) department, to treat humans as resources to be bought, sold, and manipulated.

FWIIW, I and several other engineers left a large company with all the standard large company HR BS for a small company. When the small company proposed implementing performance appraisals, I lead a court revolt based on the following article:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/humanresources/employeemanagemen...

My email to my boss:

"[T]hey are a way to document poor performance-in other words, a step in the firing process."

Bingo. Henceforth I will consider a (big company style) performance appraisal the equivalent of a "pink slip" - notice of the company's intent to fire me.

On the other hand, I will welcome an open and honest discussion of my performance at any time. I would expect a more substantial discussion periodically (at least yearly), preferably with the openness and honesty aided by judicious application of beer.

P.S. "Some of us" were BSing about this this afternoon and came up with a good analogy... You wouldn't do a "yearly performance appraisal" with your son, once a year beating the tar out of him for all the bad things he did and then giving him a gumdrop for the good things.
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Well it was never mentioned at all. It seems like an omission, don't you think?

As for projection, it seems like you reduce all of art to power transactions. Sometimes people just make things, you know?
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Also watch out for that SSD sitting in your machine making file access "free". :)
The graphic is unfortunately not very clear, for example because the arrows can split midway. This way it looks like Microsoft is suing just one company without being countersued, while in reality they're suing three companies.
Or talktalk, I don't even get cable out here in the country...
This is actually a bug that we are working through. Thank you for the specific example. Our intention is to always respect the query.
Tyranny of the majority. The ultimate expression is to remove the search box altogether and just show the most popular porn sites - because that's the most frequently searched-for result.

Or just show the Wikipedia article on Philosophy :)
There are special cases where this won't work. For example I'm working on audio processing software and I can't test it in a VM because audio latency in a VM is too big whereas an older and slower computer might have slow disk access, etc. but audio latency is still near realtime.
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Well, if not an IDE they might have running Photoshop in the background. Or some other resource hungry software.
JavaScript is one language where opinions are built not purely based on technological consideration but also a lot of politics. Best part is no matter what who think about the language, you don't really have a choice.

Most of the javascript programmers today are merely copy-paste JS programmers who basically just copy paste some iQuery code and modify to suite their own project.

A lot of credit goes to Cockford for popularizing Javascript as a core languages and sensitzinf programmers about the differences it shares with other programming languages.
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Hmmm, I signed up for your service. At the end, it was saying there were 500+ people in line ahead of me. I could spam my social media network to get to the front of the line, for a service I had never used. That was a big turn off for me, so I went with other avenues.
Thanks! I didn't even realize that was there.
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I realize that for most people, "academic" is synonymous with "moot," but all systems papers have experimental results.
Our product was placed there several years ago. It hasn't been obvious how to get it removed. We are actively trying to do so now.

It's not our official site but it was a one time a legitimate place to distribute software from. They just killed that of course.
No real panic here in Australia. Depending on what you want to do, just adjust your priorities and goals. eg 'offer free dry cleaning if unemployed' to attract potential clients when economy recovers.
Have you got yours? If I go to 'my account' there it says 'unable to process order'.
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Google could care less about Reader
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Lot's of peopel do good business in low margin, high volume markets. There is no sense that HP is or ever will be a great software hosue. I hoep Autonomy survives...
> world's most popular programming language

I don't even ...
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There isn't a shortage of LPNs. In a lot of places there are an excess of LPNs.
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Does the job nicely :)
There is slow and then there is unusable. The emulator is the later. If it had any decent performance it would run at the speed of the slowest android device available, but it doesn't even do that.

Using the emulator you're conditioned to the slowness. You can't even set a valid baseline. Now your application is so slow you can't tell if the performance is due to the application or the emulator.

Seriously, the emulator is a complete joke.
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Or even worse, they might not have a huge software running, but the small updaters, toolbars, anti-malware monitors, hardware 'managers' and all that crap can add up pretty quickly.

It's not rare for me to see applications running faster on my meager single-core 1.6GHz laptop than on considerably faster machines, only because they don't have to compete as much.
Surprised at the low number of CherryPy posts in this thread. Not only is it a great framework, it supports Python3 out of the box. My stack:

- ubuntu/debian - apt ftw

- python 3

- haproxy - proxy

- nginx - w/ uwsgi

- cherrypy - framework that supports PY3

- sqlalchemy - orm and sql

- postgres - relational storage

- mongodb - "mandatory" NoSQL

- 0MQ - messaging
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Current versions of Chrome support CSP, but by using the X-WebKit-CSP header. Once they are happy with the implementation, they will use the correctly named header.
1. No it's called pragmatism.

2. No not at all. Fossil fuels (read diggers) and human energy (read shovels) are far more efficient than solar at the moment.

3. A few solar stills and a reed-bed septic system.
its crazy that through marketing and all the push DuckDuckGo is getting that they only get searched 250,000 times a day.

With the hundreads of millions of searches that go on everyday you would think they could pull a little bit more.

I guess it truly is hard for people to change who they search with after all is said and done.
And saying what you just said is using reason.
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Generally (the past 2 years at least), if you have been a subscriber and you've provided your email address, they send out a killer deal around Thanksgiving (in the USA, end of November time). $10 for 12 print issues was awesome!

I've been a subscriber on and off for quite a few years. I won't be renewing this fall when my current subscription ends. The things covered in the magazine are way to varied for my tastes these days, although I'm sure many people like this. Along with going digital only (I like print), I can't justify paying for what is now in the mag. Sorry LJ.

As a side note, Dirt Rag (dirtragmag.com), an awesome mountain biking magazine has just gone to a soy printing process on recycled paper sponsored by Clif Bar. They're not abandoning print (they do have a digital version that's cheaper than print) but embracing that some people still want hard copy and charging a slight premium for it while taking on a small amount of extra premium sponsorship to put out a more "earth friendly" (my term) magazine. I like it. Also, what they write about is what I want to read about, that probably helps too.
> Sometimes people just make things, you know?

They do, but once you get into anything that matters, you enter power transactions. I am personally not very interested in things (including art) that don't matter; perhaps you differ with me on that.

Regarding aesthetics, I used to like sunset photos, then I used to like black-and-white photography with people in it, then I started to like pensive neutral landscape photography, and now they all make me vomit. Where does aesthetics come into this? Whatever it is, it is so fluid and relative to social norms and self-image (power structures again!) that it is probably not worth talking about without that context.
I picked up two TouchPads this weekend for my wife and I (but also spent half my weekend tracking them down). I really like the hardware and webOS for browsing, facebook and email but the app selection is severely lacking.

I would LOVE to put Android on it for the apps but have doubts that it will come to fruition. There's an influx of new TouchPad users but it's reached it's peak and can only go down from here.
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Sounds like they just lost a jack-of-all-trades by refusing to pay him what he's worth as he improves... And now they're trying to find another for the same price.

Imagine their surprise when they find out that's actually a job for 3-5 specialists at those prices.
"I really don't think an editor that requires that massive block of text to understand is good."

Isn't that a bit disingenuous? From what it sounds like, you were probably able to become quickly proficient with sam and acme because you were experienced with vi and ed.

It doesn't look like those editors are without any need for documentation. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/
That's because you assume there is the same number/surface of panels in both cases. Change the constraint not to the surface but to the volume.

The problem might just not be "take 10 pieces of a solar panel and find optimal layout", but "take a 5x5x5m volume and find optimal layout". Maybe with a flat panel design you could be able to put 10 pieces at most in there, but it would turn out you could put 30, and at any time half of them are shaded. That leaves 15 generating power, which is more than the flat panel.

I really don't know if it's the case. I just say that everyone is comparing stuff on a wild assumption that you can't put more unshaded panels in a space than on a plane, and so discard a possibly valid solution without attempting to take it on.

Probably we would all see mushroom-shaped trees looking at the sun like Pinus Pinea[1] if it was so optimal. Most trees are not though so there has to have something to it.

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pinus_pinea
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It looks like a Corolla.
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Certainly a constraint of that was for the panel to lay on a surface (however curved) as anything else would produce drag.
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As a Christian like you profess to be, I would probably look a little more closely at the words you choose.

What's the religious link to the word "babbling" or "retard"?
I wonder if anyone out there does actually test in a browser with 19 toolbars, virus scanners which intercept every read() call, and bonzibuddy?
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> The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream. The eye moves rapidly in small angular amounts and continually updates the image in one's brain to "paint" the detail. (...) Then we would see
(...) 576 megapixels (...) This kind of image detail requires A large format camera to record.

The first sentence seems to contradict the last. It's obvious that you can't take in a 120 degree view in detail even near to 576 megapixels in any period of time short enough to compare to take one photograph. If we instead consider a rather modest 1.3 megapixel camera, and using the 15 fps figure that's provided elsewhere in the article, it will take 30 seconds to "record" the scene in full detail. Also, that assumes that the scene is intensely diverse - it seems that the brain has a pretty efficient compression algorithm. Looking out at the sea, you can immediately dismiss 80% of the scene as "water" and "sky" and concentrate on the detail, arriving quickly at a very high resolution image for the 20%, even with much less than 1,3 megapixel "per frame" resolution.
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Agreed. These slides are like "Disks are not memory 101". I'd hope the talk went into more details.

After an hour or so reading semi-related material I have an understanding that goes beyond these basics :-/
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+1: a standard Power icon melting down. Which would be cool if the product was some gooey alien-ish thing.
Top Down approach works great for smaller or exploratory projects, yet i have had a few unpleasant cases of "cornering myself" - cases where a significant rewrite was pretty much required because a crucial implementation constraint was not visible from the top.

With small or ill defined projects, throwing out bits here and there is expected - but i suspect the method can pose serious issues to larger ones.

Example : Quote of Feynman's report on the space shuttle

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...

The Space Shuttle Main Engine [design] was handled in a different manner,
top down, we might say. The engine was designed and put together all
at once with relatively little detailed preliminary study of the
material and components. Then when troubles are found in the
bearings, turbine blades, coolant pipes, etc., it is more expensive
and difficult to discover the causes and make changes. For example,
cracks have been found in the turbine blades of the high pressure
oxygen turbopump. Are they caused by flaws in the material, the effect
of the oxygen atmosphere on the properties of the material, the
thermal stresses of startup or shutdown, the vibration and stresses of
steady running, or mainly at some resonance at certain speeds, etc.?
How long can we run from crack initiation to crack failure, and how
does this depend on power level? Using the completed engine as a test
bed to resolve such questions is extremely expensive. One does not
wish to lose an entire engine in order to find out where and how
failure occurs. Yet, an accurate knowledge of this information is
essential to acquire a confidence in the engine reliability in use.
Without detailed understanding, confidence can not be attained.

A further disadvantage of the top-down method is that, if an
understanding of a fault is obtained, a simple fix, such as a new
shape for the turbine housing, may be impossible to implement without
a redesign of the entire engine.
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"Couldn't" as in the contraction of "Could not", carrying the implication that google is incapable of caring less about Reader than it currently does.
Integration is one of the biggest bugbears I have with Google plus. All of the tools I use to consume media support Facebook and Twitter, but none support Google plus. Last week I quit Facebook for G+, and while I put up with having to sign in and post manually, it would be an awful lot better if I could share from flipboard, zite, instapaper or even a bookmarklet.
I think they mean "couldn't" and the fact that one of their less popular apps doesn't support one of their newly-launched beta apps isn't a big surprise.

I'm one of the people who desperately want this added, but I'm not freaking out over it and claiming Google doesn't care.
The skills he's talking about you'll want to have in-house as you optimize for conversion - probably working closely with whoever's doing traffic acquisition.

When just starting out, should you be seeking funding, I'd recommend sticking with someone focused on aesthetics - the guy he tells you not to hire. Pretty goes a long way with angel investors and venture capitalists.
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Could be useful advice though for any designer who wants to enter the realm of the bullshit artist, and make a small killing doing so ...
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They mention negative deceptive review detection as further work.
And also on Macs for testing on Safari.
My apologies on the poor phrasing. Yes, "couldn't" is what I should have said. But, I think you get the point.
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Isn't this how Unix emerged? The team was to build an OS on some given hardware with minimal resources and speed.

I remember reading this but cannot remember where.
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If we could build a robust fully-reusable space plane that can go Mach 15 free from the nastiness of the rocket equation then we already practically achieved inexpensive space access :). If you look at the rocket equation - it is the first 15 Mach that require to burn almost all this mass of fuel through all these big engines pumped from all these big tanks.

By not requiring full orbital velocity, we are freeing ourselves from the particular nastiness of the rocket equation on the surface of our planet. Our gravity well is just deep enough, that SSTO is just beyond the edge of what we can achieve with chemical rockets. I proposed Mach 15 because it's significantly less than the Mach 20 result, but in this case it's clear that I still chose a number too high.
Another interesting thing with Google Reader is that the mobile web app is ten times better than the native Android app. Wonder why they bother keeping both.
It's wish fulfillment for sci-fi geeks, a deus ex machine made out of unobtanium

What I'm proposing isn't made of unobtanium. Spectra has the required tensile strength.
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Looks like the bug was introduced by Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP.

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_4/ext/s...
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At what stage should a copywriter by brought it? Before or after the designer has done their work?
This is one of the reasons I'm happy to be Emacs and OS X user at the same time. Most of system input fields support main Emacs' shortcuts.
This is because Google Plus is so slick, it makes you forget that it's been online for less than two months. You're comparing the ecosystem of sites launched more than FIVE YEARS AGO with a brand new project.

The minute they release the damn API (we're all clamouring for it, but how long did it take for FB to have an API?), every developer and his dog will scramble to support it anyway.
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Assuming you mean the twitter bootstrap, it's just a bunch of useful CSS classes. The hotlink is a single minified CSS file.

I highly doubt the CSS included in the bootstrap is having a great massive impact on the performance of the new twitter interface.
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You and all the down voters are crazy if you don't believe this thing can change directions. Looking at the whole D-21 / SR-71 program for what this do.
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Is there a way to emulate varying processor speeds using VirtualBox or other VMs?
Thank you for that link. This is a far more interesting presentation than the OT. (Though it does assume some prior knowledge, like what fsync is, etc.)
So try a different example.

Scala also has multiple meanings. As of 3 months ago, it was almost impossible to find relevant pages about "Scala" or Lift through Google without knowing including more relevant information ("Scala Language" or "Lift Scala").
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I think the analogy is flawed, but for a different reason - if you're given the wrong dish in a restaraunt, you can't correct it in less than two seconds.

I would rather have a search that corrected typos and aimed for the best result which I could rapidly correct than a search which slavishly returned "No results for 'hgihway', did you mean 'highway'?" (as a simple example).
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Thanks for posting this. Despite not taking off here, it did very well elsewhere and there are already just under 3000 subscribers before issue 1 has even gone out! :-)
Is there a tool to slow down disk access?

I'm especially worried about UI thread getting blocked on file access to sleeping HDD or unreliable network drive (i.e. I don't want my applications to be as beachball-death-prone as Finder and iTunes)
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