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The paper itself is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5211
From this http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6471/the_valve_way_gab... it sounds like their employees shuffle between projects and teams pretty frequently. I imagine some employees are more mobile than others, but from the sounds of most things about that studio, people are rarely locked down spatially unless they want to be.
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If demand exceeds supply, why don't landlords raise their prices?
If you distribute the GPL code and that non-GPL DLL together as a working system, then you still need to comply with the GPL restrictions.

The work-around you've suggested only works if you distribute the non-GPL DLL separately, and have your users plug it together.
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also the ride is nicer. But yeah, it's stupid.
The source paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5211
More red tape, exactly what businesses need! <sarcasm>

Even multinationals don't enjoy having to spend extra resources to keep track of such arbitrary requirements. Will they need to register only the IP of their VPN gateways, or also the client IPs? Will they need to specify the type of software they use? What are the chances that they'll also be asked for certificates, so that spooks can snoop anyway?

If I have a website running on servers in Jamaica, selling paper planes, and I use SSL because it's the right thing to do, will Pakistani customers be able to buy anything from me? Obviously I haven't registered with the Pakistani government, chances are that I don't even know what Pakistan is!

This is unbelievable.

(On the other hand, it's a wet dream for the likes of RIAA...)
Tables are for tabular data.

I'm going to rant now.

It think it is ridiculous that people get away with stating that one shouldn't use tables for layout because "Tables are for tabular data".

What is a table? It's a grid! And grid-based CSS layout frameworks are the new hotness; eg:

http://960.gs/

http://www.blueprintcss.org/

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/

(And look! Many of these are exactly what you listed!)

CSS has many wonderful features. However, I think the "tables are for tabular data" is an intellectually lazy argument that needs to die.

CSS should be used because of what it can do for you - not because of some theoretical argument about the purity of tags.
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Very similar to http://yourworldoftext.com/ , but that one was text only.

I love the concept, but I'm more inclined to Your World of Text because of the ASCII drawings and anonymity.
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I didn't mean to imply that the EU shouldn't have run an investigation. That is perfectly fair and logical.

But once that occurred US gov involvement should also be expected.
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Being a single founder has made me tougher, sharper and focused. I've been through Hell and back for the past 4 years. Finance background turned brogrammer.. to mobile strategist / development firm working with large clients.

I've been focused on credibility and positioning. Waiting for the right co-founder. Forming strategic relationships, staffing up and making key investments. Book deal pending, just acquired a software company.

Crush it...
Imagine how much boarding time could be slashed if robots handled the baggage. The line stops moving when people are trying to store their bags, even if stepping aside for a moment would significantly reduce delays for others.
In fairness, my question also applies to large portions of military red-tape.

I wonder if we could cut a trillion dollars by simplifying accounting rules in the government (including defense)
You are quite right. iPad apps have a much lower price point. Apple could have extracted significantly more rent if they hadn't allowed free apps.
While I think her comparison of the hobbyist nature of early computing to the current state of energy technologies ignores the massive amounts of research and money poured into energy, her assertion that personal computing is "solved" is interesting, to say the least. My inclination is to think that this is a short sighted and foolish perspective, given the youth of the computing industry, the plethora of nascent technologies, and the fact that personal computing has never remained settled for an extended period of time. That being said, there are decent points in there about the emerging dominance of intuitive design, embodied in the success of products that value simplicity over versatility.

What do you think?
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Yes, the main problem with this method is that it is socially unacceptable to split up families and groups while they wait to board and are boarding.

I think a slightly less efficient approach would be to somewhat batch up rows. So instead of having all of the people in the window aisle on one side of the plane enter, how about have 1 row of people (typically 3) on one side of the plane. Instead of doing every row at once, do every 3rd or 4th row. That way, the same amount of people will be in front and behind you as before (including moving up far enough to be out of your way when the group of 3 in front has reached their row). So then you can alternate sides of the plane, and also alter what set of rows on each side (basically, if 0 == row modulo 3, then you are the first set of rows to board).

Regardless of how anyone decides to partition passengers, however complicated, the computer just needs to make sure to number boarding passes accordingly so people can line up in whatever order you choose. Southwest kinda has that going on (your boarding pass has an A,B,C and a number 1-60 on it), but the letter/number is based purely on what order the passengers checked into their flight (and on southwest people get to sit wherever they want).
I don't disagree that a physical experience is nice, and I'm not even going to touch the "hot girl" point, since sex is one of the few things that is almost entirely physical.

But the physical experience of a book is completely orthogonal to the true nature of the book: that is, its content. I actually prefer physical books to e-texts, I like the experience better. But I don't delude myself that that's somehow more "true." I also like reading outdoors on a cool autumn day with the scent of woodsmoke in the air, but that's no more essential to a book than its physical medium.

The essence of a book is the thoughts contained therein, everything else is peripheral.
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For the record, I find the dogma around tables kind of grating at this point. I understand that table-based layouts get complex and it can be difficult to develop an accurate mental model, but the same goes for regular divs and CSS, especially considering all of the hacks necessary for IE to render CSS semi-properly. I don't know of many browsers that struggle with tables.

While I agree that it's a good general rule to use CSS/divs, if something is taking too long, my philosophy is that you should just make it easy on yourself and break out a table, especially if the layout is something obviously tabular visually.
Classic example of "cracking a nut with a sledge hammer". You don't need Monte Carlo to understand that boarding first rows is less efficient, or to come up with a much more efficient procedure. (And this is coming from a Monte Carlo lover).

What you do need is biz savvyness to understand that rows are ordered by passenger value (first and biz class first, followed by premium, platinum, frequent flyers, etc). These passengers pay a high premium to board and deplane first. Airlines are not going to lose these valuable passengers for a gain whose magnitude is uncertain at best.
it's worse than that... chipKIT isn't even the first "32-bit-microcontroller-based, open-source development platform" - maple is.

http://leaflabs.com/devices/maple/

when chipKIT met with us before launch (adafruit, limor fried and myself) we said this wasn't the first one along with a lot of other things we wanted to see them address and change, they didn't.
Ha, I'd say non maintainable software isn't working. Just matter of time until it's broke or needs updating.
Though back-to-front means that the expensive passengers can arrive closer to the departure time, and don't have to suffer through everyone in economy shuffling by them and hitting them with their carry-on.

It does cost them some flexibility, in that they can't board as soon as they arrive. But my experience is that sitting outside of a plane is generally far nicer than sitting in first class... at least on domestic flights. For international flights getting on sooner would be more desirable.
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Got him on my wall staring down at me now. More intimidating than I thought. I feel the urge to yell back at him.
So..regardless of if this is true or not, have there been any studies that suggest banning books actually creates more readers? If so, why aren't schools doing this on purpose and looking the other way when the "bans" get "violated" by methods like this? Can they ban math books and get a similar effect?
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While we're on the subject of statistics, airplanes, and mathematically-but-not-socially-correct ways to do things, I really wish they'd have seats on the plane spaced according to a height distribution of passengers.
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At least one U.S. airline (I forget which) briefly used a transparent scheme to work around this: the first class rows were boarded first, and from there was back to front.
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He should totally patent his boarding method. Who cares that it could save the airlines billions? He could rake in so much dough by licensing the method or suing airlines who use his method without a license! And if the patent is vague enough, he could probably collect on all the other inferior boarding methods too!

In all seriousness, the boarding problem only got worse once airlines started charging for bags as people starting carrying on more and more. I read somewhere that Southwest actually saves more money by offering free checked bags and saving on boarding time than they would make had they charged for free bags.
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> Most techies who have a negative opinion about any technology do it with hearsay and not first hand experience.

I've used PHP. Trust me, it sucks. It's not worthless, you can certainly build successful whatevers with it. But, it will suck. Perhaps in ways you can't even imagine cause you've never learnt a non-sucky language/system.
United/Continental does this (basically). First class first, followed by their frequent-flier-tiered passengers. From then on, it's back to front.
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Height distribution? I'd much prefer a wingspan-based distribution. There's nothing like getting stuck in a middle seat between two broad-shoulderd gentlemen.
You misunderstand a big part of a first class ticket. The curtain between first class and economy class doesn't make the seats more comfortable. It keeps "undesirables" out of the sight of snobs. If airlines want snobs to board later, they better install curtains segregating the lobby.
I don't think you understood my comment. I was simply stating that "Skype is P2P" is not a statement that is at all relevant to the conversation is above, it could be P2P and still not use your bandwidth when you are not actively using it.
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I think part of the reason that people could justify the expense of first class is exactly this -- the ability to sit there with a smug look while the rest of the plane exasperatedly waits to be seated.
Boarding statused passengers first aside, it seems like this could be easily communicable with announcements of "boarding even rows", "boarding odd rows".

I skimmed the paper and didn't see any mention of how to get passengers to obey gate agent instructions, though, which would be a prerequisite of implementing an effective boarding method. Perhaps this should be re-tested by airlines randomly selecting sold out flights with identical planes to try these methods.
You obviously don't have long legs.
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Looking at the paper, it seems the passengers were the same and boarded five times in a row, with the last two methods proving the fastest. The major experimental flaw seems to be that the passengers themselves might learn to become more efficient after concentrating on a normally rare task, and repeating it several times in a row. Also, since some of them were paid extras, they might just be getting impatient by the end, and rushing through at what would normally be an uncomfortable pace. The population sampling is also probably not representative.

I would have found the experiment more convincing if it had been used to validate the basic assumptions of the theoretical model instead (e.g. the statistical distribution of the baggage loading and seating times).
yikes, Gravatar has an open redirect.

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It's a fun trick, but it should't be possible.
I think you might have answered your own question, there ... ;-)
May vary depending on location. I flew United on Sunday, and they did a complete front-to-back load on both my flights.
(Hi pt!)

I think you left out "Arduino-compatible." But I agree with the sentiment-- that's definitely poor form exhibited by Microchip.
And the github link is broken. Should have been https://github.com/francoislaberge/multiplayer
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> Monte Carlo to understand

proved, not understood.
I am interested to know where they got the savings estimate. $110M seems like a bit much for cutting the boarding time by 10 to 20 minutes. I was under the impression that most airline delays were caused by weather and traffic, not boarding times.
Then there are those of us who have unique enough names that you can pretty much look us up and find there's only two in the whole US (and we're related). Having been a DBA at one point, it's always fun to tell folks that "really, if you just search for my name I guarantee you'll find me faster". Heck in most cases a search in a system that separates first and last names will let me be found with just my first name. If it weren't for that lousy Welsh actor, that would work on Google also (although full name turns me up as most of the front page).

My point is that this shouldn't be THAT surprising. I suspect full name and gender would uniquely identify a fair portion of the US as well. We're not as homogenous as some societies and I think this proves it...
I'd try loading people without carryons first, as the carryon stowage is what keeps blocking the aisle.
I'm prepared to admit that I am not motivated by this.

To me it sounds far more pleasant to sit there outside reading while everyone else has to queue up, then walk in just before take-off to get into my comfortable first class seat, without being jostled by the entire rest of the plane's passenger complement slowly trudging past me and impinging on my personal space.

Perhaps I'm weird.
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You're still missing the point. It doesn't matter.
Alternatively you could walk in as soon as boarding starts, sit down and start reading, and not have to worry about looking up every few minutes to see whether it's your turn to board yet.
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I keep hearing the same story of how most people meet their co-founder "x and y met in school".

I'm a few years out of university and have moved around a lot. Most of my trusted friends now days are non technical which makes my candidate pool near empty. I agree completely that getting on board with someone you don't know well is a bad idea.

It seems to me that all the rules placed around how you must have a team to get funded is restricting startups to the realm of college/uni students and there's probably a lot of opportunities being missed.
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If you want to maintain preference towards first class and board from front to back, why not just use the door at the back of the plane?
Gravatar is designed that way so you can use any default image.

The technique is described in the Gravatar docs under "Default Image."

http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/
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That is really cool! ;)

I didn't realize that this was a use-case anyone was interested in, but it sort of makes sense. I've added a parameter you can pass to RH.org to deal with the gravatar pull on my side, so you don't have to.

This adds a bit of serverload, since I need to make a bunch of requests, but it's not THAT bad.

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For someone who's known of Go but never took the time to learn or play it, that's the best sales pitch for it I've ever heard. Makes it sound like it has the fundamental simplicity of checkers and the strategic complexity of chess. Adding it to my learning list now.
Every story has 2 sides.

The code still belongs to you, so you can keep on working whatever inspired you. He didn't take anything from you, he just left. You should carry on. The vision inspired you, so maybe after your product hits big this $5k will seem small, half of which you were willing to pay anyway.

Your only loss to me here is $2,5k over 3 mths, and that is not even a loss, because you got work done the way you wanted for it, it;s just that you didn't expect to pay twice as much. On the other hand all the profits from future sales will be yours.

Note: The sky is never falling.
That's where the people-walking-by-jostling-me bit comes in as a motivator for staying out.

Besides, why look up when they're announcing things over the P.A.?
Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but I fly a few times a year and I thought this was how approximately every airline did things since roughly the dawn of time. They always start off with "first class, elite status members, families with small children, etc.", then once that phase is over they fill in from back to front.
I don't think you'd call this a Monte Carlo simulation. It's just an experiment.
What a shock to read that despite this knowledge, the airline industry continues to do things the exact same way, wasting huge amounts of time and money and fuel in the process.

This really isn't a smart industry, in many respects.
I don't think that boarding back to front is the necessarily an obvious win here. One thing you will see on flights is that people in the back often place their overhead bags in a compartment near the front. As they do not plan to access this during the flight, it causes them no trouble and saves carrying the bag back and forth. The downside, of course, is that people in the front quickly run out of overhead space while there is still plenty of room in the back. Shuffling bags back and forth is obviously costly and depending upon the prevalence of this behavior may result in less efficient boarding (as compared to front to back).
Actually with wind you also don't get power when the wind blows too hard, meaning you're at risk of being in a blackout for a lot of hurricane and tornado season.

What I don't understand is that these areas they refer to as natural wind resources are incidentally the areas that have had the highest instances of major tornadoes and hurricanes. I'm sorry, but erecting a structure purposefully designed to maximize wind drag in a storm zone is pretty stupid.

Nuclear power is the only viable method to go carbon-neutral before we hit the next century. It's also not likely to colossally fuck up our environment (see: Weather response to management of a large wind turbine array.), IE warning that it could shift the movement of cyclones in the atlantic.
I once got bumped up to Business Class and the experience sorely tempted me to spend the extra money in the future. It had nothing to do with smugness and everything to do with a seat that isn't painfully small, enough legroom to avoid being horribly cramped, ability to recline more than five degrees, and food that didn't make me want to vomit in terror.
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