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Prolog is great for teaching: I don't many disagree with this, and I don't that this is what's at stake in <i>Prolog has been killed</i>.
I can't buy into this argument.

What's important is that you're supporting society, not whether you're at the coal face of saving lives. If it were, Elon Musk should be a paramedic, not inventing electric cars.

Even if you do only run an online payments system, a project management webapp, or a site like Twitter, people and businesses are using those things in support of other enterprises. Those things could include space travel, saving lives, new technologies, and more. You don't need to be at the coal face to be pushing the world forward, just doing something to support all of the people who are.
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Yup. I tend to do this with Google News. I scan through it, clear everything down to zero, and open any interesting stories in tabs, and then work through them.

I also have tabs open for multiple build servers, internal wiki pages for the work I'm doing, and some reference pages for the actual coding I'm doing.
If I had one wish for future browsers, it it is:

I wish there would be a good/convenient way to open several independent browser instances for different purposes. There should be a way to name each instance.

For example at work I really wish I could have one Chrome instance for research on project 1, one instance for project 2 and one for private stuff. When I close on of the them there should be a way to reopen it later exactly in the state I left it.

On startup I want to see a main browser window which list all my instances. When I click on one of them, a normal Chrome broswer opens with all the corresponding tabs (and perhaps specialized bookmarks).

Right now I have about 100 tabs open for different projects and private stuff. With the proposed systems I could put several browser instances on different workspaces next to the editor/console of the specific project.
Imagine if this would have happened 'after' MS had taken over Nokia.
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A few minutes or half an hour are different...this guy has upwards of 500 tabs - you can't come back to that in a few minutes or half an hour...

I said 10-12 tabs consistently - and by that I mean app tabs that remain open. The rest should be opened for research as needed AND THEN CLOSED WHEN FINISHED. For everything else that you need to consistently check updates on, you need to find a way to turn it into an RSS feed or Twitter feed or whatever that feeds into an existing tab for an app you already have open (e.g. Google Reader or your social media aggregator of choice).

This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once. You would be overwhelmed by 500 tabs of information...that's why most of us have 1 site where all our information aggregates and 1 email address where the rest forward and 1 cell phone rather than 5-6, etc. I'm saying that people that do this type of EXTREME tab browsing are inherently disorganized and lack focus and attention to anything they do.

Yeah, downvote it to hell, I really don't mind. If you do this on a regular basis though, I'd love to hear from you and how you feel about whether you are an organized individual and one who adequately focuses on the things that are important to you.
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Exactly. Javascript, in my opinion, is like Flash: it should be used when needed but not anymore than that.

And NoScript is awesome.
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I think it is time we recognize that it is not the systems that shape our world but the individuals.

There is no optimal system, be it political, economic or whatever.

You can always find loopholes.

I think it is time we take responsibility for what we do - then there is no need for a better system.

The patent system is not responsible for people attacking each other - its the people.
I'm not single. My girlfriend is a philosopher, and she supports me a lot. The no kids part is definitively true though.
Right. And who in his right mind would use an ancient emacs setup if you just need to pay a few bugs and get a _really nice IDE_, eh?

Or - why would anyone have a problem storing a huge collection of records/cds if you just need to throw a couple of bucks at Apple to get it on your iOS device?

People are sick. Let's call them out.

(Careful, this post might be mocking and contain a good amount of sarcasm)
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I gotta be honest, that was depressing to read. Why would he want to raise $24mm when he could just build a profitable sales machine from day one, with a Scalable and repeatable sales process? I think he should read the book _The Lean Startup_ by Eric Ries.
What a great article - thank you. But please, that's it with the fund raising, please stop now.

You've demonstrated that SEOmoz can get through tough times and grow organically. You've even grown SEOMoz to a reasonable size and are now able to layer on team members almost as fast as you can hire them. Next year you'll be much bigger, and it's going to be even easier.

As you say the fund raising process distracted you from the main customer cause, and I suspect that having those funds would most likely have done serious damage.

So it's good to see you are sticking to your guns and moving away from fund raising to keep building the business. There seems to be no reason to give any of it away for the sake of a few bucks a year or two earlier than otherwise expected.

Perhaps you could also slow growth just a fraction and take some more cash out to ensure that the shareholders are comfortable along the way. While it might take a year longer to get to $100 million, you'll be a lot happier along the way.

The contrarian VCs of old would be writing checks, but by the time SEO is cool with many of the current crop you'll be starting your own fund.

Great stuff.
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Your situation doesn't seem that different from mine actually. I'm also married, which does make a big difference in lifestyle.

But I cannot possibly bring myself to throw away books. It's (almost) religious. Books are the foundation of civilized culture. The nazis burnt books and destroyed cultures (the things parents teach you..).
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If your using the dev branch of Google Chrome, you can setup profiles to accomplish this. To enable it you'll need to type `about:flags` in the URL bar and scroll down to where it says enable multiple profiles. Then you can setup a bunch of profiles with different bookmarks/preloaded tabs. Each browser will have it's own history, cookies, associated account, etc.
Language nit: It's "on his watch" (a Navy term).
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That sounds great -- I only recently learned of pandas (I normally don't use much of NumPy/SciPy), but I will keep an eye out on this.
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I think the same goes for a DBA too (unless very specialized and handling TB's). Having basic C# knowledge helps a DBA and with CLR based programming, it is recommended too.
Even if you argue the decision to abandon WebOS devices was sound the execution of it was horrendous. They utterly destroyed whatever value was left in the WebOS. To me, it can't be an accident. This is Leo Apotheker deliberately making sure that the brand is unsalvagable, thus ensuring he can act with freedom going forward to transform the company how he wants - not in shareholder's interest, but in his own interest.
That book hasn't been released yet... I've had it preordered for 10 months.
After actually playing it--the penchant of the controlled blob to end up running into invisible walls is absolutely eye-gougingly irritating.

That said, I look forward to the video-- I'm curious as to where the "horror" comes in.
I'm actually trying to have more fun. Traveling, eating out, having more quality time with people. However, I understand why you think his but I can't identify with it (yet?).
Same here. But now that I have had them in storage for a while, the next step (giving them away / selling them) doesn't seem so big anymore.
Article assumes that a .NET developer will only be connecting to a MS SQL Sever database and not a third-party database like Oracle, Postgres or SQLite... Other than that it's not a bad article except the number one problem I see among developers that don't understand SQL Server is how and when to use indexes.
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Actually, phpBB 2.0.0 which was released in 2002 supported: IBM DB2, MS Access, MS SQL, MySQL3, MySQL4, Oracle... and Postgres 7.

But you are right, many of the other popular projects did not make this effort.
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facebook is total bullshit. we dont need social networking. not to mention it makes millions vulnerable to fraud and other types of hacking. people see facebook as an easier gateway to bullying too.
Google claims that they're release the source for Ice Cream Sandwich (due before the end of the year), so we'll know one way or another soon enough.

That being said, I think Google is probably right about Honeycomb not being ready for public release. In particular, the amount of trouble they've had modifying Honeycomb to handle 7-inch tablets (and based on the reviews of the Acer Iconia A100 they've failed so far - last I heard Kindle doesn't work!) is a pretty serious indictment of Honeycomb. Especially when you consider that pre-Honeycomb, Android didn't have any trouble handling screen sizes that differed by a similar margin (consider a 4.3 or 4.5" flagship handset vs a small phone or Blackberry-style form factor).
So long as it's got your e-mail address and links to relevant home/profile pages, you should be fine. The point of a business card is to enable people you've met once to contact you. There's no reason that has to be by phone.
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Whoa, nope, never heard-of/seen that one before now, (I hate it when that happens.)
This is why we can't have nice things.

If Rand wanted the world to know he would have said so. And guess what -- if we were to successfully guess, I'd imagine the next time someone like Rand decides to share fundraising experiences with the world instead of just his close friends, he or someone else in his position will think twice. So please, since I think it's better for everyone instead of just those in entrepreneurs' networks to hear stories like this, don't be a dick.
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Probably not. This web page is from the PR department of Microsoft Research. The probability is low enough even if it had come from researchers, not PR types.
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I agree with that aspect, however I dd not throw them away, I gave most of the technical ones away at user groups and conferences, and the novels to a second hand shop.

No I couldn't destroy them either. Also you have to separate the actual material in the book itself, from the dead tree that gets dragged around with it.

When I was honest with myself, it was purely the financial aspect that made getting rid of my books a difficult proposition. I gave away over a thousand euros worth of books. I kept less than 10 that I hadn't read yet, and will give them away once they are read. We kept a lot of my 2 year old daughter's books, as she doesn't have a kindle yet, but we didn't keep all of them.
Seems like many people here enjoy playing video games but they do not like that some very smart people chose to program them instead of "making the world a better place". Hmm.. makes me think why do you consider it like that. Its one thing to say that the gaming industry is bad because of bad working environment (a new info to me) and quite other to say that its bad to work for since it does not make the world a better place. A game is made because someone wants to play it. Why do they want to play it? Because life is a bitch and we get frustrated.(And I am fairly sure that people who are "making the world a better place" also experience that). So they try to escape the daily motions of life by shooting zombie faces or kicking someone's ass by making a avatar of them in a wrestling game. That brings us a sense of relief and allows us to fight another day or week or month (depending upon your gaming habits). So why not? My puny human brain cannot understand all this bad rap given to these poor game programmers who are maybe working in the worst environment possible (according to some comments here).

edit: Reading this again I realize that some people will argue that they are not against the therapeutic values of games but they get angry when people waste time on it. Hmm... interesting counter argument. Lets see, I can cut my hands with a kitchen knife so maybe I should throw it out right now. Dammit punyhuman you may fry your brains with this mobile crush it, right now. Punyhuman is surrounded by such things, they are all after me. Help HN people.
No, it's like McDonalds getting out of the McFlurry business.

HP has a large enterprise hardware business with much bigger profit margins. This includes servers, storage, ethernet switches, etc. Everybody seems to forget this.

Given the onslaught of chinese PC manufacturers and the diminishing profit margins, this makes some sense (like it did for IBM, that also dropped their PC business but kept their server business).
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I can say from a web dev's perspective that the ubiquitousness of MySQL is only part of the allure (an important part though). MySQL makes simple stuff very easy to implement, it's a great solution if you just want your database to store your stuff and get out of the way. Sure, like any other DB it requires some expertise if you want performance, but it makes this incredibly simple. It just works and you don't spend a lot of time arguing with the software.

It also has a single feature that I find incredibly cool: it supports automatically generated row IDs. It's been a while since I last tried Oracle and Postgres, but at the time you had to create a second table just for a sequence number and it was extremely awkward to handle.

Could the auto-increment feature in MySQL be better? Sure, for example it would be nice to have an option where the row is identified by a hash value instead of a continuous sequence. But even in its limited form today it beats having to wrestle with the glued-together equivalent as implemented in "real databases".
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This is nothing to do with programming (although it's obviously in the domain of some programs that people write) and it's nothing to do with starting a business. It is, however, about a particular stumbling block on the road to a whole area of math, calculus in particular, analysis (both real and complex) in general.

Having seen that there are people here who are interested in math but profess a lack of fundamentals, I thought this would therefore be of interest.
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Not necessarily. Plenty of Android apps are written with flexible layouts, so they aren't stretched. They may not give you more views than the phone version, but they can still use the larger screen to display more information. One simple example of this is Firefox (which hasn't really started on their tablet version yet), but there are others.
Surely every programmer should know their database well enough?

Or even "Surely every X should know their Y well enough".
I was going to ask the same thing. It doesn't seem like that significant an improvement but I'm no expert. Also I do wonder if the performance improvements are mostly due to gpu acceleration as opposed to a switch to a different software model.
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Great post. I like the way author splits the big problem into smaller ones and reduce the learning curve by different stages. When I recommend vim to my friends, they are usually frightened by the OReilly's thick vi/vim book and most people cannot "survive" in vim before they give up.
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There are loads of tablet-optimized applications available for Touchpad. They are differentiated from the non-tablet versions in the app store with the word "Touchpad" displayed clearly beside them. Furthermore, the developers themselves often append "HD" to the end of their existing application names to indicate that the "High Definition" version is designed to make use of the higher resolution on the tablet vs. the phones.

I have my Touchpad just two days, and already have tablet-optimised clients installed for Twitter, Facebook, Box.net, an excellent video 3rd party video player for divx, and a comic book reader for reading my .cbr files. Combined with an excellent e-mail client and a Webkit web browser, I'm covered for my media and web browser needs.

The only thing missing right now is document editing, but that is due in an OTA update from HP which they have promised to deliver shortly (let’s hope they stick to these promises in order to try to restore some confidence in this very shaken webOS community).

So frankly as an owner of both a pre3 and a Touchpad, the whole "but webOS does not have enough apps" argument just does not ring true for me. If I want to do real work, I’ll fire up my PC. But as a web and media tablet, the Touchpad has me covered and then some.
One question:
Is there a way to continue with that way of life once you have kids? And start to need some more stuff?

(Another point this may be off topic)

Something about your 30-day-no-candy experiment.

If you continue trying to about complex sugars, you'll see that you will not miss carbs at all.

For a different reason (I'm a body builder -hobby-) I tried 3 months with no carbs at all, and I really felt good!
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Nice tutorial—better than many.

However, these kind of tutorials always fail to mention the number one way to learn Vim:

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Those two (and successive pages in the user manual) will teach you practically everything about Vim—and they're included right in Vim.
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The really great thing about deep networks isn't that they're more accurate. It's that they're radically simpler.

Current speech recognizers are basically layer upon layer of tricks discovered by researchers over the course of decades. Chop up the input signal. Then take a Fourier transform. Take the log to even the signal out. Do another transform to de-correlate different components of the audio. Add noise to the input. Project down to a subspace. Switch objective functions halfway through training to trade off different kinds of errors. Use more Guassians here. Use fewer there. Pump it into a language model.

It works, and it's a marvel of engineering, but it's not "artificial intelligence." It's pretty much a big stack of statistical hacks piled up over the years.

The nice thing is that a deep belief network can figure out a lot of this structure automatically, much closer to how the brain works.

This paper is actually incremental, not a "leap forward." They've basically replaced two of the middle layers of a speech recognizer (the Gaussian mixture model and hidden Markov model) with a modified neural network. But the exciting thing is that the neural network can start there, and slowly eat its way toward the outer layers, replacing a big stack of hacks with one simple algorithm.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as minimalist, but 5 months ago I moved out of my apartment, put everything in storage, packed a week worth of clothes, a macbook air, ipad, ipod and set off around the world.

I used to have quite a bit of "stuff": home theater, nice car, video games, etc. But I don't find I miss it very much at all. If anything, the only thing I really miss is my dog. Right now I'm working on my iPad app at an amazing cafe in Budapest. There really is no other place I'd rather be.
I agree to xradionut. The article has good information but only a couple of index related links. The how, why and when of indexes will complete the article
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Very cool idea, kudos! Just minor nitpicks:

You could do with a clearer message regarding the actual rules of the game. I'm logged in right now and I still don't know the exact mechanics of what it is I'm doing there.

It's spelled "Independent" ;-)

Clicking on user names shouldn't trigger an internal server error. I think it's actually fine if you don't have user pages right now, just link to their Twitter profiles.

All in all: for a 48h node-learning session this is awesome work!
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