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We have the menu bar up top. The problem is people not knowing they can search, not that they don't know the shortcut for it. If people can't get it from the menu bar, I don't see how this would help.
We're discussing a difference of (small) degree, and your point is that correlation is sometimes causation?

Ok? Stipulated? Now what?
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Another unintuitive probability (to me anyway) is the size of a group of people you need to have before it's more likely than not that 2 of them will share the same birthday
Windows 8 tablets (that's a mouthful) need to compete with iPad in battery life and physical weight more so than UI or developer interest.
On name & address madness
A couple of reasons why it's difficult & silly to try and normalize names and addresses.
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> I don't hear a lot of complaints from the Python or Ruby camps about how much they desperately miss static typing.

Perhaps you would if Python or Ruby were used more often for, and I hate to use this term, "Enterprise" type applications -- especially ones that have teams with 50 some developers. They're not though, and they're probably not for the fact that they're dynamically typed and that often causes chaos when there's that many people involved and communicating with them becomes a job in and of itself. The more you have to spell out things in your code the less likely another person will misunderstand its meaning.

Anyway, I personally would still prefer a statically typed language just for the added compile time safety. To me the "save + refresh browser + manually check if change works" process of development is way more tedious than having to work with type constraints that fail to compile if they don't make sense. That and decent type inference really helps in 90% of the cases where static typing seemed tedious to me.
Here's his original post, now with an update at the beginning: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/X58hnS9P...
While I'm sure many of them actually are sold out (and yours might be by now), if anyone else lives near a Wal-Mart make sure to not just call but go by the store and look around.

At mine, they had moved them from their original place to another display on the other side of department, and as I walked up behind a couple of employees I overheard one telling the other that they'd been telling everyone who called or asked that they were sold out (in an attempt to ensure there were a few left to buy at the end of the day I assume). They had a stack left.
Imprison the woman for rape and get full custody due to criminal ineligibility of the woman? (And being in prison at the time). Then when she get's out of jail you get child support payments. It sucks to have some stranger's child, but usually women who do this know the man in some way.
Is there no voice over on this one?
There are a few items that are so hard to mess up (e.g. toilet paper — it's just a long roll of paper!) that they are indeed perfectly fine at the dollar store. But all the food and a lot of the other items are really awful, and it makes people wary of relying on the stores for anything.

I don't know, maybe this is a regional thing and it's only been that way in places I've lived while other places have awesome dollar stores. But I've had friends who lived in places only marginally better than slums who still would only very reluctantly shop at dollar stores because they didn't trust that the candles wouldn't burn down their house and the food wouldn't poison them.
Just type C. - stands for either, takes up less space than having a VDU17 in the program!
The first example that comes to my mind is Apple. When audio compression and bandwidth allowed music to be transfered trough internet connections and P2P networks threatened to disrupt the music market, they had iTunes ready and quickly cut deals with record labels. Now they pretty much own the legal music market.

The second one is the HP pocket calculator. Before it existed, nobody knew how bad slide-rules were. HP disrupted their own market for desktop calculators (but did it before someone disrupted it for them)

Apple is also playing this post-PC game with their mobile platforms. They are fighting against Android for a better position on the next round. It looks like the next match won't take long to start.
No, I am arguing that my lack of a good argument does not imply that the converse argument is true.

So ... retract your argument that college has no credentialling value in getting a white collar job (outside of the professions) ;) You have no evidence.

(Heuristically, I have evidence, but it is poor. But poor is better than none.)
Which is why I find CL more appealing to my palate...
Thank you for the high-level overview and the book recommendations in your post.
Seems like an interesting website. Will there be issues of the questions and answers getting out? Or will that be obvious in a second round interview?
Apple is in the business of selling hardware. How does owning Twitter make it easier to sell hardware?

Besides, their foray into the ad business (iAds) was a miserable failure.
I gave specific pieces of evidence: sales, technology, trading, marketing. Rebut.
I remember reading this anecdote to explain the anthropic principle:

http://beust.com/weblog/2010/08/17/fun-with-the-anthropic-pr...
This paper has been proven correct, if you replace the word "threads" with "processes" and note that erlang has provided a solution with the compiler support they advocate. Outside of erlang, (and some equivalently obscure environments) little attempt has been made to make concurrent processes manageable, and this is why you see the predominance of event-based systems. We're in a multi-core era and and you can't really say you're "concurrent" when your event model only runs on a single core.

While I think, if your choices are the typical thread support and its problems and an event based system then events are the way to go... I believe the great majority of developers have decided to use node or twisted, et. al, either because they'd never heard of erlang, never understood its strength, or weren't willing to deal with the initially alien looking syntax.

I think this is a mistake, but rather than fight it, I'm working on a solution that allows coffeescript to run within a distributed system based on erlang. I've had to provide some work arounds and conventions for the coffeescript developer to follow a sequential programming style, but have the ability for coffeescript to really run concurrently on multiple CPUs or multiple machines, with a common shared state.

(I described some of this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906290 and went into the architecture a bit more here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2848647 )

Granted, it is easy for me to say it should be done a different way, and until I publish code it is all talk. I'm very aware of this... but I would like to suggest that there really is a difference in erlang, and that events are a compromise that don't inherently actually allow for concurrency. Concurrency is a better solution, isn't that hard to do now (if you write straight up erlang) and I'm working on making it even easier (if you're willing to be constrained a little, bit, but I think the popularity of node.js shows people are willing.)

If it seems I'm shilling for my project, I am a little bit, but I'm also wanting to get it out there so that if I'm making a mistake maybe someone can identify it... or be inspired to build a better way on top of it.

If you want updates, I have a twitter account @nirvanacore that only talks about this project.
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How is this different from what TopCoder.com has been doing since last 10 years?
So there is some theoretical and experimental work arguing that the Fibonacci sequence minimizes the energy of soft particles interacting repulsively when constrained to the surface of a cylinder. In 2009, some physicists found the pattern when they made a "Magnetic Cactus": http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0622
Science writers should have some understanding of the field they're writing about, though. If they don't understand the scientific details and none of their domain expert contacts are able to help, they should at least able to recognize the difference between a peer-reviewed article and a blog entry. Spotting unverified claims doesn't require any science knowledge at all.

<bracing myself for the downvotes>

Don't be lame.
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The existence of good govt spending does not imply that govt spending is good.

Of course, government spending is neither inherently good nor bad.

But the thing to watch is how same cable of rent-seeking corporations that suck-up a good portion of what you aptly-label bad government spending also whips-up the "anti-government" mob when threatened (or simply greedy).

Why is it that an honest-to-God investor in productive enterprises like Warren Buffet can call for higher taxes on the super-rich but the criminal Koch brothers bend all their effort to oppose this? Well, lower taxes for these new American oligarchs is just one piece of their entire campaign of state capture.
The "One True Language Paradigm"....

... Is functional programming!

(while it lasts that is).

Keeps the money circulating.
Wouldnt it be cleaner if you send messages to a computation state (this request in a future phase) as an indirection, as the pid might not be allocated yet?
Those people don't want the lifestyle afforded to Chinese factory workers, but the fact is that this lifestyle is an improvement for the vast rural Chinese underclass; this argument comes dangerously close to suggesting that we should further impoverish millions of people to improve the lot of tens of thousands of Americans.

It seems to be a simple fact that the US is structurally disadvantaged in electronics manufacturing.
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Yes, but I think that's a bad analogy because winning a chess game is good for you, but preserving a national infrastructure of innovation and manufacturing is good for everyone.

It can be difficult to make choices that preserve the common good at the expense of one's own short term good.
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How much of that is inertia is anybody's guess.
From left field ... You're in a pretty good situation, as you realize. Studying investing is a good thing, especially from your probable motivation.

Why not take that idea, studying investing, and pursue studying. Dive in deep and wide into something that you've been intellectually curious about, but never thought it was practical to pursue. Maybe investing, maybe other things.

I've been surprised many times how I've gotten ideas and insights into "the problem at hand" from totally unrelated areas. They say we dream to sort the day's data, and I think you can get similar benefit from letting your active brain go where it may. You may gain some surprising insight into "the life at hand." You may also get some business ideas that you otherwise wouldn't. :)

I liked martinkallstrom's response too.
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You can assess the fairness or bias of the coin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_whether_a_coin_is_fair

If you wish to start with a probability distribution assuming a degree of fairness you can do that and it won't be so prone to fluctuation of the start. I don't know anything online about this offhand but check out "Data Analysis A Bayesian Tutorial" by D. S. Sivia section 2.1.1 for a worked out example.

Once you're doing that, then you need to calculate the optimum amount to bet. If the betting will continue indefinitely then a sensible thing to do would be to bet to maximise the expected logarithm of your bankroll, which you calculate with the Kelley criterion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

If you only get to make one bet then you may just want to maximise expected value.

EDIT: didn't explain how to translate the fairness distribution into win/loss odds because I don't know offhand, you could always simulate.
Jesus, Silicon Valley / tech is one big soap opera. Is there any other industry outside of show business that has this much gossip and fake drama?
"OOP ... contains a simple metaphor and simple device for turning totally bad code into slightly less bad code, for allowing completely unrelated stuff to relate together in a half-assed way."

haha, nice. i don't think it's quite that cynical, hybrid OOP/FP languages like Scala seem to have a better industry record than pure functional languages, at least for the internet companies we hear all about.

OO isn't inherently bad, and FP isn't inherently good, but knowing how to think in FP will certainly make us better engineers, and the "functional in the small, object-oriented in the large" seems to be gaining acceptance in elite circles.
I don't at all disagree with you that disruptive innovations happen but, the problem as I see it is that you've simply _described_ some past innovations of such a sort without hitting the sticky problem of quantifying such a thing. How do you 'call' a 'match' and on what authority?

The analogy to chess, I assert, rather breaks down quickly, as most analogies tend to, when examined closely. A two-agent zero-sum game is mathematically unlike an n-agent non-zero-sum game with non-total knowledge.
Our strength is in management, finance, design and software development.

So that means that the 90% of the population that doesn't work in these fields is going to be out of luck? Well, looking around I suppose it does. Uh, and there's plenty of software and finance back-office moving to India.

A policy that plays primarily to a "strength" which encompasses only a small portion of the population ... well obviously primarily going to benefit that portion.
Anyone from the Node community care to tackle this?
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On the whole, the people who lost the American factory jobs are still vastly better off than the significantly larger cohort of Chinese rural poor that ended up with those jobs.

There's probably a lot of worthwhile policy steps we can take to help American ex-factory workers, but reclaiming the factories needn't be one of them. Factories may be a dead end.
The paper doesn't dispute that you can write good, high-performance servers with event-based programming. It's disputing the claim that you can't do it with threads, and then claiming that threads are an easier model for programming servers.

Here's a thought experiment: if your language of choice offered threads so lightweight as to be almost free, with proper preemptive scheduling, not limited to a single core, with the I/O using something like epoll or kqueue underneath -- would you use it?

Erlang and Haskell offer this right now. Python can give you a passable approximation. It really is as cool as it sounds.
This reminds me of the story of Roman conquerors' celebratory parades, with the slave saying "all glory is fleeting." It seems as if you must consciously intervene to prevent erosion; otherwise that story wouldn't be passed down as much as it has been.
I personally suspected that something is likely to be wrong with that "solar battery tree", but didn't have time to dig deeper.
I quickly took a look into comments, didn't find any heavyweight names there, didn't find any solid comments and quit without upvoting the article:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902329

Unfortunately 630 other people upvoted it.

I do upvote this "Debunk" article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906538

Important conclusion:

In news ranking I would clearly prefer to rely on subset of Hacker News readers. Not on the full set.

I actually would prefer not to see articles that are upvoted by the same people who upvoted junk science article.
This obviously doesn't work for mining engineering or nuclear engineering students.
Possibly, it would create a bit of goodwill from developers. Goodwill is good for the bottom line.
Yes, this acts as a pre-screener
"Of course, government spending is neither inherently good nor bad."

True, but it tilts heavily toward waste. You're never as careful with someone else's money as you are with your own.
The other important measures are also more falsifiable, and more changeable between companies and industries. Every company has margins and revenues. You could argue that investors ought to understand the businesses they own, but that doesn't mean they will.
I dont think it is inertia, it is just that making stacks small enough is a harder issue than just making a fast evented system. More to change. Will take longer or involve more radical change, like shifting to Erlang say...
While I don't have an opinion on the theory under discussion, I think the way to read into the OP's definition of 'war' is 'total war', which the US has not been involved in since WW2. The 'total war' part is required for the massive culling that the OP seems to think is needed for a prospering society.
You posited that in "sales, technology, trading, marketing" there is no value to a degree as credentialing, but you didn't offer any evidence that I can find. Please correct me if you cited a study.

My evidence, to be fair, is the graphs I have vaguely seen associating educational outcomes with salary and "higher" job classifications.
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He makes about €172,493 in sales a day (source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp). $15,000 is relatively nothing to him.
But who says the system self-destructs? The market has worked in this case - computers are yet cheaper, without a loss in quality. What outcome would be preferable?
The same kind of stealing what Apple is suing Samsung for.
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There's a good demo at http://pivotaltracker.com (registration required, though)

All joking aside, this project probably will appeal most to people already familiar with Pivotal Tracker, much like the Basecamp clones out there will appeal to people familiar with Basecamp, who either can't afford or don't want to pay for Basecamp. I don't think these kinds of projects really hurt Pivotal Labs or 37signals in any significant way, and can even help them in two ways: 1) having some competition to light a fire under their butts, and 2) often times when you use these FOSS clones you realize how much better and smoother the real versions are and go back.
> this argument comes dangerously close to suggesting that we should further impoverish

I apologize if my comment came across as suggesting a course of action. I'm merely commenting on the original commenter's assertion that Americans do not want manufacturing jobs. I have personally found that to be untrue, even if the job that they wish to have might not be possible here because of economic and/or regulatory reasons.
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The changes in technology since then have made the paper's point more relevant. Threaded servers can exploit multicore processors, and if they're preemptively scheduled, you can write threaded server code without worrying too terribly much about taking excessive CPU time -- not something you want to do in an event handler on a single thread. Some really solid software implementations of lightweight threading have been made, and they work great.

So, what hardware and software changes were you thinking of?
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Maybe the problem is that I am confusing functional programming with purely functional programming?

Yeah, you nailed it. Writing a whole program with purely functional constructs is a little mind bending, since procedurally fundamental things like "printf" don't really exist. But that's just something that's much easier to do procedurally; it's hard for everyone, and there's no real secret to understanding it.

The important thing to remember is that languages don't have just one paradigm. An imperative language with first-class functions (as most high-level scripting languages have) is functional, just not "as" functional as, say, Haskell. You can use functional concepts in a language which isn't purely functional, just like you can use OO concepts in a language which isn't purely OO.

The good news is it sounds like you get functional programming much more than you thought, and you've definitely got the right attitude towards learning.

As long as you're open to being corrected, and honest about the limits of your knowledge, there's nothing wrong with trying to teach something you don't fully understand yourself. Teaching is one of the best ways to learn. Keep it up :)
Except if I want to see if Steve Yegge or Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak or X has a twitter it is extremely difficult. In general you have to search on google for their personal website and hope that it mentions their twitter info on the page.

The situation is even worse for finding your friends if they have their username as Rogue7777; you can't sit down at a computer and determine if your friend has a hackernews or reddit account for example. That is fine for some communities where it is a feature that any random schmo can theoretically have the same visibility as Linus Torvalds, but that is the exact opposite of what Facebook, Twitter and Google+; you care foremost about who is saying it and want to listen to what specific people have to say, not hear what any random anonymous 13 year old thinks about copyright law.

The issue isnt "real names", its "name you are commonly known by", unfortunately that is an extremely difficult thing to determine by looking at usernames; in general people don't call their friends "texans for marijuana legalization" or "darth vader" in real life though.
Plus, node is fun, and has a very nice community. I've been pushing threads in this discussion, but don't let that discourage anybody from playing with node.