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I would agree with your assessment. But it's not just Apple that's making life difficult for HP.

Simply put (and this has been happening for four or five years now) Assus Acer and Lenovo are eating HP's lunch on the low end and Apple is eating their lunch on the high end. All the while they are playing second fiddle to Dell ( and to an increasing extent to Assus) in between.

Additionally HP would need to play serious catch up to Apple, HTC, and in the international market Lenovo (maybe even Motorola although I don't know how that is going to work post acquisition) in mobil. And as Dell has learned, playing catch up in mobil requires throwing a lot of money down the drain without a guarantee for positive returns. (This last part about Dell is just my perception. For all I know Dell's margins on mobil have been stellar, but I don't think that's the case)

I understand the market's reaction to HP's pivote, although I think a lot of it is panic and hedging bets and some bad timing on HP's part, but that is what markets are suppose to do. I don't so much understand the tech industry's reaction to the move.
I'm not sure how long I'm supposed to wait, but after more than a minute, I still don't see a survey. I'm using firefox 6 on windows xp pro.
"Productivity has fallen"

Yeah that appears to happen when you inflate the money supply yet continue to measure in productivity using cash paid in devalued funny money. Prices in funny money are inflating by over 30% a year right now so of course salaries have to go up to prevent the hapless workers from starving. Productivity is doing great though in terms of real money such as gold, where the cost of labor has dropped significantly.

The article conveniently avoids discussing that and distorts other relevant information. For example, when they say "The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other country, yet without producing measurably superior results.", it is pretty misleading since it suggests results are comparable despite the high spending. It should instead read "while producing measurably inferior results compared to nearly all modern economies".
I'm pretty sure speeding is against the law even when there are no cops around.
But what says ICBM tech can't be adapted to simply turn slightly while re-entering?

Mostly the letter "B" for "ballistic".

You can turn while flying. You can't turn while falling. You can stick out a little control vane to try to change course a little bit, but at that sort of speed, in that sort of atmospheric density, and bearing in mind that during re-entry anything that is at all pointy will get burned off, I doubt you could do much at all.
It's a 4 paragraph blog entry meant to be funny and make you think a little bit. It's not trying to be anything more than that. "Intellectually dishonest" is an unfair charge.
I have real trouble understanding that. I don’t know how tablets are presented in the US but in my local German electronics retailer they are all right next to each other. The TouchPad even had more promotional material around it, it should have sticked out. (Ignoring the iPad which is right next to the other tablets but on an extra table with all the other Apple stuff.)

Ignoring the iPad, I don’t understand how the TouchPad could be less successful than all the other tablets. Android can’t be the reason, that’s not how the tablets are presented. They are the Samsung tablet, the Motorola tablet, the Asus tablet, the HP tablet. It’s not even obvious that the Motorola and the Samsung tablet run the same OS, at least if you are a casual shopper, trying out tablets. To me, Android and webOS didn’t feel different enough to make one the clear winner, at least if you have limited time and are just playing around with it. The price certainly can’t be the reason, they all cost about the same.

Android tablets seem to at least be a little successful, why is the TouchPad not at all successful?
Indeed, I just looked at http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-g...

There are 14 board members in total including Leo the CEO. Out of 13, 6 were appointed in 2011 while the board leader (Lane) was appointed at the same time as Leo Apotheker. That means out of 14, only 6 precede Leo.
Very interesting article.

This is the first time I hear the plural : ustaath -> usaatatha, I am a native arabic speaker and we always use asaatitha.

Also an old side project of mine, http://yoolki.com for en-ar transliteration
I don't get it. His previous employer littered his desktop with stupid icons?
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What's not plausible about this? People are doing it. It's not even much of a "loophole" since ultimately, 90% of people prefer to settle down for residency somewhere rather than keep travelling for years. The tax man always goes after the average 90% of people first. But yeah, depending on your citizenship you can do this, known as PT: "permanent traveller", perpetual tourist, previous tax-payer etc...

Be sure to know the rules of the countries you visit and more importantly those of your citizenship country. If you're German, you cannot do this less-than-180-days-per-year operation if you hold "tangible economic interests in the country" such as: being employed there, having property interest there, or other assets such as company shares in or from within the country etc.

So again, not a workable "loophole" for the majority of people but a decent state of affairs for the vast minority of Tim Ferris-style indy web-biz travellers with no significant "financial" assets or interests inside the country of citizenship.
I think his explanation is more than plausible. I don't believe Gruber's post happened coincidentally. I came to the same conclusion after reading a post on Hacker News by Cringely in February of this year. I would've posted Gruber's post but I felt it was redundant on this forum.

What happened didn't change. The blame rests on the HP board, regardless if the members changed over the years. I believe the Apple board got lucky when they re-hired Jobs because he was the perfect man for the job.
I've worked on a very similar project for WolneLektury.pl, but were fortunately allowed to use Python instead of Java.

XSLT and XPath proved to be tremendously useful, cutting development time at least in half. Thanks to the wonderful lxml library I could easily extend XSLT with any functionality I wanted. Of course I've kept the single best future of this domain language intact - its declarative nature.
I have had good experiences with what we call "Collaborative Contracts": http://www.zealake.com/2010/09/26/pay-less-for-your-agile-pr...

Basically, you charge an hourly rate but a rather low one. A bonus is added for reached milestones. This gives you the best of both worlds. The buyer is not tempted to "sneak in" more features or argue over some spec because he is still paying per hour. However, the developer is interested in working as efficiently as possible as the bonus is a fixed amount which will mean that his effective hourly rate goes up with fewer development hours.
newspeak was being ported to javascript, but it sounds like they may have given up because of limitations of javascript:
http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/03/truthiness-is-out-there....
Leakymails.com posted e-mails from goverment officials (the idiots used services like hotmail for work-related communications).
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Reminds me of the one by Fabrice Bellard: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Good catch. Although, when comparing an issue that affects no modern browser against an issue which affects all modern browsers, the issue which affects all modern browsers is perhaps a little more important.

And when there's a solution that is trivial to implement, and can fix the issue for two existing major modern browsers (probably more to come), it might not be a completely crazy idea to go ahead and implement it.

P.S. Thank you for graciously gifting me the final word
Tomorrow turkish redditors will be lost, due to governmnet
The reason why I will never learn Arabic is that "black man" and "slave" use the same word in that language ..
Today I learned how many people on HN can't recognize satire.
For what it's worth, my experience also echoes what Thomas is saying here. When he speaks of larger firms pulling shenanigans around doubling up work or other suboptimal practices...yeah, that's my company.

The only thing we ever billed at an hourly rate was forensic work, and that was specifically done to make up for the reactive nature of that work.

For everything else, it's a fixed rate contract based on the estimated number of person/weeks of work with a clearly defined scope as to what is expected to be done. Our contracting department (which itself is larger than most of the companies we work for) would never want to deal with anything else.
In Canada, anyway, there is something called the "right of paternity"

"This right includes the right to claim authorship, the right to remain anonymous, or the right to use a pseudonym or pen name."

I've heard stories that this is as far reaching as getting a bank account under a pseudonym, but I'm not sure about that. It DEFINITELY applies to publishing and copyright, which is what we're talking about. Google, in the case of G+, is a publisher.
Interesting post and interesting linked article. One part strikes me as especially noteworthy:

“Lieberman, Michel, and colleagues expect that some 15 of the 98 modern irregular verbs they studied -- although likely none of these top 10 -- will regularize in the next 500 years.”

Now, is this based on previous evolution of verbs? Because the past thousand years have had a certain feasibility of communication, locally, nationally and globally. I think the past 100 years with the advent of radio, television and now the internet, language is really going to evolve at a rate previously unseen in history.

The whole globe is connected, textually, verbally and visually, and it's immediate and constant. The past thousand years the only way to get your novel usage of a particular word or grammatical construct was to either go to some venue and talk, send a letter, or write a book. Now you can spread your literary love everywhere, constantly and with a wide audience. And not only to people with your local dialect, but every dialect. What a melting pot.

I'm quite a lover of language evolution. I moved to Italy a year ago in a very multilingual office, and my French and Italian colleagues noted how nice it is in English that you can verb nouns. It hadn't occurred to me that this wasn't possible in French or Italian. I expressed that though English is quite liberal and almost anything goes in a lot of areas, I still wish that people were more accepting of linguistic novelties. People scorn you if you play with language, or actively drop old ways, or invent new words, with the exception of high school kids who, in my experience, are the most inventive English speakers I've seen. When I was in school the amount of new language and idioms introduced every week was overwhelming.

I'm quite descriptivist, though. I like dictionaries that are extremely up to date, like [Wordnik](http://www.wordnik.com/), that encourage people to just use words freely, and take 3 seconds to explain to their partner in conversation what the word means, without fear that their new word isn't cromulent! (I just added "cromulent" to Chrome's dictionary.) Some words I like to use when talking to myself (hey, kids do it, so sue me), are words that don't exist already but are the 'root' of existing words, like inane (“That's quite ane.”), edible (“I think I'll ed some peanut butter sarnies”), etc.

Anyway, I'm rambling, too.
Not actually so. Unemployment has fallen from 10.1% to 9.2% since its peak in October 2009. Businesses aren't rehiring fast, but they are rehiring.

Oh, and it's not the highest since the Great Depression either -- there was a spike to 10.8% in 1982.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&...

Isn't data wonderful?
I wonder if Hurd stayed, regardless or not of personal issues, if he would've been fired for job performance.

To me it doesn't change, the HP board guided this company towards ruin.
"Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02": known life-extending diets (not paleo)
actually three letters, there's also the Thal, which is like a "d" (Dal) with a point on top of it, and pronounced as a deep version of "th."
So it's basically Qathafi.
But given the fact that there's a "chaddah" on top of it, all hell breaks loose when you're trying to write it in English.
What does his admission have to do with anything? The resolution was an attack on private property no matter what, read your constitution.
You are right, there is no proof, the news stands in the "Mercado Central" where shut down because of what?
There were other points in my response, are you intentionally ignoring them?
Hence adapted, and referring to the tech, not the object. Making a ballistic missile not-ballistic makes it into something else.

That this was a "plane" is inconsequential, and not even interesting, in terms of missiles - that they had at least minimal control at that speed is either a breakthrough, or duplication of existing techniques that can be applied to big-ass missiles (there, swap the B with "Big") more easily and more cheaply than to something designed to be re-used. Which, given the difficulty in adding controllable movement at such speeds to something way more complex than a one-use missile, implies to me that the techniques have existed for a while in cheaper forms, and this is just the first time they've been able to do it and (nearly) recover the device.

That's significant, but it's not a game-changer for missiles or making things go boom.
Coding backwards
This means nobody does it?
I suspect you'll want something a touch faster than O(l) for every lookup, in fact given the previous constraint of memory being no problem, you should instead use a hashtable.
If you like Python, there's one called PyWeek (http://www.pyweek.org/) that starts on September 11. Registration is open now.

As others have stated, the one Notch is participating in right now is called Ludum Dare (http://ludumdare.com/).
the pronunciation you mentioned are actually for the letters د and ض
Not sure if this applies to Arabic, but sometimes this happens when there is a old case which got lost and which had the same suffix as feminine singular. Usually that's genitive. For example Croatian (I'm a native speaker) uses genitive plural agreement for number >=5.

Feminine genitive plural happens to have the same suffix as feminine singular, and it could be possible to envision an future evolution of the language where the genitive is lost, while the number agreement rule could be preserve. So it's possible that grammars of this future language would state that feminine plural agreement for numbers >=5 you have to use the feminine singular.

Btw, I once read a very nice title of a german language book:

"Der Dativ is dem Genitiv sein Tot"

literaly, "the dative is [to] the genitive its death"

Which denotes the fact that in modern German the genitive case is being lost in faviour of constructs based on dative (the correct form would be "Der Dativ ist der Tod des Genitivs", i.e. "the dative is the death of the genitive")

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Dativ_ist_dem_Genitiv_sein_...)
Thirded. Wacky, but far from mindless, comedy in easily digestible morsels. Also, the English version is probably a translator's master-work.
"highly maneuverable" is an odd term here. What's the radius of an 8 g turn at mach 20? 555 km. The diameter is slightly smaller than the N-S length of California.
just to answer to the questions, I don't want to discuss unrelated things or support any of the sides, but since you answered my question I will answer yours :)

125 was a modification on the tax structure for farmers, it was treated in congress and rejected, so the president didn't used a DNU for that, also doesn't have anything to do with free speech, almost nothing to do with private property.

pension funds, was a law treated in congress and approved (where FPV wasn't a majority), so no DNU and not related to free speech, related to private property but since it was approved by congress and the constitution says that the state should give social security doesn't seem so wrong (I still don't have a position on this, just stating facts).

football TV contracts, AFA rescinded the contract with TyC before signing with the government, so it's a problem between AFA and TyC, I think there is a trial on this, not related with free speech, maybe related with private property but more with contract obligations than anything else (again, I don't have a position on this, just stating what I know).

about propaganda funds, you are right, I think they use a lot of resources on that and in some points they use it to pressure, but still the two biggest media companies don't require that funding and are openly against the government, maybe affects free speech but there is a lot of press against the government so I think that proves free speech (people calling the president a bitch or a whore can be an example of that).

the prohibition on clarin on the central market is censorship and should be clarified, still don't know if it was an order from the government, if that is then it should be punished.

there I answered your questions, I think you have a point on the publicity funds and the last one if it's proved to be related to the government.

but as I said it doesn't prove "a long record of abusing private property rights, and now, free speech." just some wrong doings that should be clarified and brought to justice.
Yep, forgot about the thaal. And yes, the shaddah is one of the big reasons for different spellings, some choose to put one meem in Muhammad (like I do), some try to be more "purist" and put double as is normal spelled in English. Mu3ammar has one shaddah on the second meem and a another shaddah on the thaal in Ghaddafi.
This is a perfect example of how to attain 'flow'. He's done the same (or very similar) thing before, so there is no distress or despair. The 48 hour window provides the necessary, low-key stress stimulus necessary.

MCN (an unusual motorcycle magazine) had a series on this. To attain flow, you need some stress, but too much stress will stop flow. This is probably why we find many parts of coding to be fun, but debugging and navigating poorly documented APIs to be painful.
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This graph from the Bureau of Labor Statistics refutes your premise. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=w...
I hate to defend the douchebag, but I'm afraid there is a germ of truth there.

DFW is perfect towards the end, when he talks about acceptance and awareness— the thesis ("This is water") is spot on. But the way he approaches it, as a question of choosing what to think, is fundamentally, tragically wrong.

To Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy folks call that focusing on cognition rather than experience. It's the classic fallacy of beginning meditators, who believe the secret lies in choosing what to think, or in fact choosing not to think at all. It makes rational sense as a way to approach suffering; "Thinking this way is causing me to suffer. I must change my thinking so that the suffering stops."

In fact, the fundamental tenet of mindfulness is that this is impossible. Not even the most enlightened guru on this planet can not think of an elephant. You cannot choose what to think, cannot choose what to feel, cannot choose not to suffer.

Actually, that is not completely true. You can, through training over a period of time, teach yourself to feel nothing at all. We have a special word to describe these people: depressed.

The "trick" to both Buddhist mindfulness and MBCT, and the cure for depression if such a thing exists, lies in accepting that we are as powerless over our thoughts and emotions as we are over our circumstances. My mind, the "master" DFW talks about, is part of the water. If I am angry that an SUV cut me off, I must experience anger. If I'm disgusted by the fat woman in front of me in the supermarket, I must experience disgust. When I am joyful, I must experience joy, and when I suffer, I must experience suffering. There is no other option but death or madness— the quiet madness that pervades most peoples' lives as they suffer day in and day out in their frantic quest to avoid suffering.

Experience. Awareness. Acceptance. Never thought— you can't be mindful by thinking about mindfulness, it's an oxymoron. You have to just feel it.

There's something indescribably heartbreaking in hearing him come so close to finding the cure, to miss it only by a hair, knowing what happens next.

[Full disclosure: My mother is a psychiatrist who dabbles in MBCT. It cured her depression, and mine.]
No it isn't. The intention to kill 1 person is not as reprehensible as the intention to kill 1 million.
I would absolutely love a more advanced Clojure book in the same vein as "On Lisp", especially if Stuart Halloway is in any way involved. Most of the content can probably be pretty similar modulo differences in the macro systems and such (probably have to axe the reader macros chapter...)
It's the first time you hear it because I got it wrong - thanks! Fixed now.
We know, we know. BUT no one has come up with a better syntax that really works, all the time. There have been suggestions but none have really worked.
Functional Parameters – a neat JavaScript Design Pattern
I'm happy someone was interested enough to just start coding :)
I recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)
Yeah, I read it, and I keep hearing people saying it. I just don't know what it's supposed to mean. Are we saying gay people are going to be using pseudonyms on G+ to avoid harassment? I keep hearing this and I don't get the angle.
Also, the switch statement is easy to add incrementally and change. Every so often, he'll go back to it and add some new values and a couple of lines of code.
What other way is there to block a website that can't be circumvented by changing DNS servers?
That's great! Thanks, Stuart, for doing this. When I was read PG's "On Lisp", I kept wishing the examples were in Clojure.
Reading is the reason I enjoy the portrait aspect ratio. Its the same reason my main desktop monitor is a 23" rotated in portrait (vertical) mode, 2048px high.

I think we are saying the same thing, no?
I think it's a PC v Mac issue.
How about His Master's Voice? (I've been told it's one of his more dense works, but I haven't yet gotten around to it.)
You can use both articles in Greek.
I agree with you. As a WP7 developer who has tried all 3 platforms so far, I have to say I find the UI of WP7 pretty intuitive. Yes it is playing catch-up at the moment, I agree with that. However, within 2 releases of the OS, Microsoft needs to provide features that are not there on Android and the iOS. Otherwise, MS will not hit the 10% market share that seems to be the necessary threshold to create an upward trend in more user acquisition..
I don't understand what all the hoopla is about. Real names is, IMO, part of the reason why Facebook is so successful compared to the earlier social networking sites. Unlike MySpace, Facebook friends were real people you know in real life. As a result, Facebook has become the de-facto internet identity provider. Google is just following that recipe.
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The reasons given by the authors of a law don't make the law fulfill that objective. In the case of the law you mention, I'd believe it was to protect free speech if they'd included provisions to distribute the official funds between every media outlet, otherwise I'd say it's another way to support only those that think like the current government and stagnate every dissenting opinion.
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