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That sounds amazing. Unfortunately, our schedule is already set. But if anything changes, this is great info to know :)
At what level is the presentation of statistics in his book? I'm interested to learn more about the application of statistics and Bayesian methods (as a physics major I intend to deal with lots of data), but I haven't taken formal courses on statistics yet.

(Of course, being a physics major, I don't mind having to hurt my brain a bit to get through it, so long as it's good.)
> I'm definitely impressed, I don't think I've seen a Flash game that looks as good.

I assume the main reason is that 3D in Flash (Molehill) is very recent? Now that Flash has that capability, you can write a game that looks like that in Flash directly, Unity is not strictly necessary (although it might be a useful game engine on top of Flash).
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I am not sure how I feel about the first. On the second, it's very different. You don't get to pick what you want to hear, when you want to hear it. So, you discover something new on the radio, if you want it, you go buy it. You don't just sit and wait for it to come on again. With Spotify, you hear something you like, you have no reason at all to support the artist with a purchase, and you'd have to listen a ton of times for them to make any money.
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"IE will never regain their old glory days."

Thank goodness for that.
I don't see what's so hard about unlimited meaning unlimited. Australia has the right idea here. If you advertise no limits, and then attempt to enforce limits, you rightfully deserve the smackdown you'd get.

Moral of the story: Don't say you can provide something you can't.
That math is very inaccurate. Most of their users don't pay, and none of them listens to every track once.
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Very good point - that would make perfect sense. It would fill a big hole in the Flash developer tools, and if Unity were refocused to Flash, it would give Flash a huge boost: Get all those Unity developers working on Flash, indirectly at first, but they would eventually write the UI for their games in Flash and so forth. And it would make them less likely to use other game platforms.

I would be happier if Unity exported to HTML5, and I assume that would be unlikely if Adobe bought Unity. But from Adobe's perspective buying Unity would be the right thing to do.
My understanding is that it's not considered "true" open source by many people, because of the license that it's released under, but their website gives easy access to all the source code.
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Molecular gastronomy should converge with this. Imagine the wacky tastes and textures that we would be able to create.
False dichotomy. The smart move is what they're probably going to do; ride cable as long as they can, while profiting wildly, then transitioning towards the internet when the margins on cable become too tight. Since they own the rights to the content they'll have no problems opening their own internet channels.
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How do Christians in Uganda or Christians of old stack up in all this? Isn't the premise of Faith itself unreasonable?

Also, do you consider WBC to be unreasonable? What about parents who disown children who are gay or convert to a different faith? Are they unreasonable and do that not because of their own faith?

You are right that very recent, popular, western versions of Christianity don't normally allow people doctrinally to be hostile but isn't that attributable to outside influences?
"If you do want their work they'll have to redo it in turn, based on the latest set of changes." - and this is exactly the problem that locking is trying to help solve. I don't see how you can state that contention isn't a failure, if people are then to have to redo work! These are real people, presumably working to some kind of deadline. They have better things to do (and their paymasters have better things to spend their money on) than spend time redoing changes that they've already done. (It sort of sounds like you don't think non-programmers would ever have the need to edit a file at the same time as anybody else might be editing it! Sadly that is not the case...)

As for using an external tool or process to manage the locking, perhaps one has to actually experience this approach in person to appreciate its limitations? Or maybe what's in my mind's eye is different from what's in yours? Anyway, I would not recommend doing this myself.
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I put my keyboard on top of my iMac and just stand up at work sometimes. Works just as well. Sitting for so long cannot be healthy.
It's a type of Exquisite corpse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_cadaver

According to wikipedia the original version was text only, while I think the pure image version is most common on the internet, but the alternating version is definitely the most fun to play! :)

I've always thought a fascinating thing about the game is how certain images are so iconically associated with particular words that they'll make it through several iterations. (Such as the zombie example elsewhere in the thread -- once a zombie appears, it's so recognizable that it sticks around.)
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Why is Bayes' theorem such a magnet for cranks? Is it because you make your prior anything and pretend it's partially true?
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I wonder if this shot across Netflix's bow (which it likely is, way too early to definitively walk away), combined with Netflix's lower (base) digital subscription, will open the door to premium Netflix packages -- Starz as a premium add-on for $5/mo.

That might create tons of new opportunities network content bundles or al a carte show seasons, and mute the furor over the digital-only switch. For $15/mo. you might be able to get Netflix Streaming + Starz + Breaking Bad.
I studied it with a couple of friends at work and I ended up with same conclusion. Scala was hard. Way too hard for the average corporate programmer. It could work in a startup environment, it would not work in corporate america. Flat out, the programmers are just not there.

It is a good language, just too complex. :(
Good post. I disagree about Apple TV. I think they don't want to have an app store. I think they're fine with adding sports channels, but for movies they want you to buy them through iTunes. They'd love a deal with Starz, through iTunes. I don't think they want competing middlemen on their platform though.
They probably were but just didn't announce it.
It just occurred to me that the restrictions on Doom and Doom II officially expired on Aug 31st, and Sep 01st is the anniversary of Germany's invasion of Poland.

Just an interesting coincidental juxtaposition of events.
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Yea, I totally agree that sharing links without a chance of a conversation springing from it can feel like a bummer.

This is one of the reasons why I decided for Handpick to send a single email to all people in a single group, so anyone can Reply-to-All and get a conversation started.

I've been using Handpick to keep in touch with my friends, loved ones and folks I care about it for close to a year this way, hope you'll find it useful too =)
I think this is a great question-- my sense is a lot of people who pay attention to him do so out of necessity of getting coverage and fear. Without Techcrunch, it will be interesting to see what is left, besides his Howard Hughesque issues.
It will be fun to see how the environmental movement takes this. I bet some pragmatists will love it, some will go ballistic due to the GM nature of it, and some will maintain that we shouldn't be eating any meat, even the humanely grown substitutes.
I guess what I meant to ask is what is the point of this code - what operation is it performing.
I tried yourpane.com, which emails you a unique link that you use to login each time, replacing the username and password challenge, is this a good idea?

I'm using GMail/Google account login coupled with regular username and passwords for Handpick.
Molecular gastronomy is technology taken from the industrial food sciences, so they're probably one step ahead of you already.
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I agree. I immediately thought to myself "oh...networking in assembly...that's something I wouldn't mind taking a look at". But as usual I read the comments first and saw your comment. Thank you, now I will not bother following the link.
Love the Startup Genome Project report... great idea well executed by some ambitious folks.

re: infographic... I guess I'm kinda old-school, but I'm in the camp of data lovers who sees the utility of infographics as one that enriches viewers by easily bringing to light some otherwise difficult-to-intuit metrics and comps.

This is a really pretty picture, but don't treat it as a TL;DR version of the actual thing, which I find much more informative: http://startupgenome.cc/
It used to be called "Structured Assembly Language"; it had huge proponents in the 80s, even gurus who were trained in Pascal and Ada and wanted to take structure programming to the mainframe.

On the PC, various assemblers added "high-level" macros; Turbo Assembler had .if, .while and .struct type macros. Even processor manufacturers where on the bandwagon; that's why the x86 has the ENTER and LEAVE instructions, to make function calls "trivial", at the risc of performance.

In the 90s you had at least on academic (Randal Hyde) who wrote HLL, high-level assembly language, and along with it a very successful series of text-books on indented assembly.

Anyhoo. On the x86 side at least, the Netwide Assembler was created by a bunch of volunteers, one of its initial goals was to remove high-level cruft and make assembly straightforward again.

Personally, I think assembly is something best reserved for fun, one-off hacks, and inner-loops.
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Hey koopajah,

It might not be immediately apparent (I may need to work harder on better UI or copy here), but after you click on the bookmarklet, you'll be able to select which groups to share what with.

So check all checkboxes for CS and Java-specific stuff for Java-loving groups etc.

Yea Subjot looks like they're tackling the signal to noise problem on Twitter as a consumer, while I think Handpick is approaching from the other direction, where the producer becomes highly selective and specific about what he shares with who he shares, just because he cares =)
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My son turned a year old a few weeks ago. He's going to grow up choosing content on demand from our Roku. Maybe some WonderPets from Netflix. Or a current TV show from Hulu. Or the latest viral video of some kid a year older than him rocking out the Beatles on the drums on YouTube.

He won't be familiar with linear television schedules, or the idea of running home in time for a show. To him, our TV will be the place where he chooses what to watch, when he wants to watch it.

What these stupid studio executives don't understand is their grandchildren will be doing the same thing. Whether they like it or not.
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Personally, I'm looking forward to lab-grown fur coats more than anything edible. I wore a fox-fur coat once and it was amazingly warm and light. I'd far prefer such a coat to down or synthetic if it could be made without killing the fox.

I think people who write about the ethical or taste issues are missing the boat. Peoples tastes and ethics will change as the technology does and the meat improves.

The most interesting perspective, in my opinion, are the entrepreneurial opportunities. Lab grown meat is the starting point. Lab grown fur, animal fats, leather, etc and so on are only a matter of time. The potential markets are colossal and can revolutionize many industries.

Here's a post on a vegetarian entrepreneur's (me) take on lab grown meat -- http://joshuaspodek.com/vegetarian-entrepreneurs-test -- from after the recent New Yorker article.
I always find there to be a very poor correlation between complexity, quality or efficiency and lines of code written. Therefore, I find the conclusion that they over-do development or approach more complex problems highly questionable. It might just be that they are not the most thoughtful programmers.
This would go along much better with inconsistency. Instead of developing software, you set your mind on scaling fast, write a bunch of code and fall into the inconsistent startup category.
This is great. I organized EuroPython 2011 and I wish I had something like this to help the attendees to find each other more efficiently.
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Also note, Math for Industry 201 always uses fish stocks as an example.

Catch too many fish, and you get a suboptimal population growth - the babies that do get born do well (due to a lack of competition), but there's so few born that this doesn't really matter.

It's more true for slow growing fish, like salmon, and tuna.

Fun fact, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was not formed to stop whaling, but because it was obvious that whale stocks had collapsed, and international co-ordination was needed to allow them to grow back to an economic level. The whaling industry collapsed slowly, got a second wind as steam ships made fast-moving blue whales a feasible target, then collapsed again as the blue whales ran out. The IWC was formed in 1946, and it wasn't until the 70s that the anti-whaling movement gained any steam.
Your developers already use (the advanced features (linq)) of C# : Easy(ier). C# is dragging a lot of my fellow developers to the functional world.

It's fascinating to watch as these developers "get it" finally.

I found Scala very close to functional C#. In fact I'm most comfortable now with Scala on the JVM (when i must be there) as Java itself has stagnated for so long, it's no longer fair to call C# a Java clone.
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It is worth splitting hairs because AT&T and Verizon are guaranteed to either make $75+/mo (it was $110 for my minimal minutes plan) for 2+ years OR a $200+ cancellation fee to make up for the cost of the phone.

You can buy a Virgin mobile phone and never activate it. You can stop paying without penalty after your first month. That's unsubsidised.
Hmm, I haven't taken a look at Facebook's API on selective sharing yet.

I'll look into it, but only after Handpick is solidly loved by all you beta testers that signed up.
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That's a fair point, one wonders if all the flash and crawls and such give folks seizures. The concept would work well for audio as well though, and then listening to it as a sort of dynamic podcast while driving might be more useful than waiting for an hour of half hour point to arrive. If they could do that and give me traffic updates for the road on which my phone was telling them I was on? That would totally rock for me too. While I feel for the guy who's stalled on the Bay Bridge if that means they don't have time to mention that 101S is about to become a parking lot, then I'm screwed.

If I could have someone who I could say "what's new?" and have them tell me, knowing what they have already told me, so that I could actually just get what was new. I'd really really appreciate that and leave my car radio in aux-in mode 24/7 :-)
I would guess, based on how wildly inaccurate usaar333's data would be otherwise, that he or she is referring to getting a single room in a multi-bedroom house/apartment, not a full one bedroom apartment. Even the Richmond has 1 bedroom apartments that run over $1900/mo.
I don't know, but it does seem to be sometimes evangelised with more fervor than I'm comfortable with. Us v Them is always a suspicious narrative.

Even in this article, stuff like:

Finally, in 1983 the US Air Force sponsored a review of NASA's estimates of the probability of shuttle failure. NASA's estimate was 1 in 100,000. The contractor used Bayes and estimated the odds of rocket booster failure at 1 in 35. In 1986, Challenger exploded.

makes me uneasy. The rhetoric is too clearly marked.
I'd imagine it's due in large part to a lack of focus on the problem they're actually aiming to solve. "Even though we're solving Problem X, why don't we add Feature X, Y and Z?"

Lesson to learn? Focus on your solution to the problem people are having, and listen to your customers. Don't worry about the features you can add 3 months from now--your startup may not even last that long. Worry predominantly about getting the initial traction, sustaining it and developing a positive relationship with your customers.
I might be wrong, but didn't some games have three versions: One as designed, one with covered boobage for the US and one with less blood & gore for Germany? I think the Conan MMORPG was one example of that…
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I should throttle back my skepticism as well. I understand the intent of the project and I think it's a noble one.

We've already lost an entire generation of potential programmers by not having something like this in the post Apple ][ / BBC Acorn / C64 era. Maybe I'm an old fart by thinking that we don't need a full desktop running at 1080p to make the kids happy, but what do I know anymore.

It's an exciting and ambitious project that only the scale of current SoC systems can achieve. Unfortunately the environment also means licensing of cores and building of these highly complex chips by massive companies like TI and Broadcom. We're all afraid of obsolescence as things accelerate even more, of course, which is probably why we're so hard on Broadcom here.
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Have you tried Newslook? It's news video from third parties (i.e. Reuters) curated by editors.
I think you have to be unable to access DirecTV via satellite.
There is also the "Eeew, ick" vegetarians, they're unlikely to change.
"They'll have no problems opening their own internet channels."

I think that Netflix (and Hulu) show that part of the appeal of online content consumption is that the content and the curation/presentation don't have to be intrinsically tied. Having to pay for a Starz account to watch Starz content through the Starz Player is about the most '90s thing they could do.

Having their content on Netflix or Hulu makes media companies feel like second class citizens because -- from their current worldview -- they are. They're no longer the tastemakers, the editors, the curators. They're now just the guys with the content, and in their eyes the content guys are the red on the balance sheet, they're the means to an end.

If advertising is the mousetrap, the content is the cheese, and its a big goddamn blow to traditional media outlets to discover that on the internet, they're cheesemakers or they're nothing, because there are waaay better mousetraps out there.

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* Stratifying your content curation by creative entity feels counter to what people seem to be expressing they like.

I think people like Netflix because it has a disparate collection of content which it recommends, filters, and curates, and lets users choose and collect within that content. You don't need to go to Netflix' "BBC" section to watch Doctor Who -- it's just there, filtered by Netflix' employees and algorithms to sit next to other like-minded content. Content made elsewhere, curated with care, and paid for.
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Ya, but I think they are basically right, Apple basically has the "groovy" market (I guess they call that mind-share these days) whatever, so if you are going to release a non-Apple Tablet, it needs to do more and cost less. Not that different than the PC market.
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However, there is an inherent bias towards YC funded startups. A TC with bias towards Arrington funded startups would be in some weird way comparable.
Fantastic game. If I may, I would enjoy more colors, and/or overlapping colors to mix/kinda fight over transparency issus.. but that's just the wanna be painter in me. I want it to be more like actually painting.. and that just gave me a brilliant idea for destorying ms paint and whathaveyous....

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