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Some of the comments are priceless (as you would expect in a Mac vs PC piece), but this one really takes the cake...

"if you want to examine an OS' UI that has barely changed in 10 years, you only have to look at OSX."
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I generally like Siegler's stuff but he's so far down the rabbit hole now he can't see the reasoning behind concepts like 'bias' and 'disclosure.' Worse, he seems to be fully believe these things don't, or shouldn't, apply because he works in "new media."

It concerns me that a so-called bastion of tech reporting aspires to have all the ethics of TMZ or your friendly neighborhood penny stock newsletter pump and dump scam.
"be the change you want to see in the world"

The author is fighting an uphill battle on this one, but I appreciate her ideal. Never underestimate the power your words have on shaping a child's life.
People have done that with Clojure, see cake and jark. There are tradeoffs.
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OK, then excuse my facetious "haaa-haaaa" and replace "ironic" with "good" and "the way it should be" or something similar.
The Prof that I worked for when was in academia, who was really quite bright - his PhD was in non-linear control systems, had a wonderfully endearing habit of being quite open when he didn't understand something - he did this in way that made it obvious he was asking because he was generally genuinely interested in what people were telling him and wanted to make a decent effort to understand it.

I seem to remember that he was particularly delighted when, although he had no programming experience, someone explained how Unix fork() works!
agree with you. MG Siegler doesn't worry about that,
It's something we considered, but grafting it into the existing set-up didn't seem like it was worth the time invested, whereas the chef work Ced did not only made us actually more secure (with SSL), it also ticked a box on our security audit.

We're making plans for the next stage of our production platform just now, and will revisit all this stuff then.
The desire to be attractive is hard-wired into female biology. Fundamentally, we exist to survive and reproduce. Millions of years of evolution have evolved visual cues that signal health - especially reproductive health in both men and women however women's interest in successfully advertising their reproductive health is absolutely essential to what they have evolved over millions of years to do - which is bear children.

High intelligence is not necessary to survive and reproduce successfully even in today's world which explains why most women (and probably most - but less men) would rather be "hot" than "smart". In general, during the reproductive phase of their lives (and long after that as well), women focus advertising their reproductive health, and men - their status.

High intelligence however is key to acquiring status - which is much more important for men than for women which in my mind explains why more men than women are interested in being smart.
Just by telling somebody they are pretty you are NOT endorsing the beauty industry and boob jobs. How about teaching people how to deal with the media and PR industry properly instead?

By the way, there are beauty products targeted at men, too.

Also, telling somebody they are pretty does NOT imply that you consider anorexic looks to be pretty. In fact, it might give that person a good feeling about herself which just might counter the urge to become anorexic.
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That I am not very attracted to dogs or cows is a small giveaway.
Nope, that's not laptops - it was specifically a laptop study.

The slashdot story may have been representing this article, but I honestly can't recall http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey...
> Yet when talking to boys, people generally don't say - "Oh, what a handsome boy you are, and how nicely you dress!"

I agree it's not symmetrical, but I do hear this kind of thing directed at male children pretty frequently, especially in the relatives/family-friends type setting. "Oh what a handsome young man you have!" isn't uncommon at all. Though I do tend to associate it with older women, for some reason; at least as a young lad myself, I think it's a comment I heard mostly from older aunts.
I think it's premature to say that.

Intel has the best fabs in the world, and they can make chips as cheaply as anyone.

It is possible that at some point in the future Intel's margins won't sustain the continual investment in new fabs. That's a fair way off at the moment though.
This is not uncommon.

Or, rather, whenever I see these self-help/express yourself better/empower yourself authors they all look very attractive and poised. Female and Male.

Which annoys me. The advice in this case is good, and it doesn't feel entirely hypocritical because she admits an initial instinct to praise good looks that she has to suppress. But some of her other stuff seems less so (i.e. she is selling herself as "look, I am attractive, smiling, happy! Read my books to find out why" - and then the books are [apparently] about getting over things like beauty..)
I assume that the look is deliberate. Trying to look quirky and different with a bit of nostalgia thrown in. Or something like that.
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I can tell you from personal experience that it sure is ruff bein a rich white man in this day and age ...
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Also next up: the story how she spent an entire evening reading books with an ugly girl.
That's what I do on my MacBook Pro. It was much more palatable than discarding years of typing experience.

I don't dispute that it works. But it does rather detract from, well, the aesthetic elegance of the machine. Apple has these fancy backlit keyboards--it's a great shame to make the keycaps wrong.

Plus, it also causes big problems when I let others use my machine. Hunt-and-peckers don't stand a chance when your keys are mismatched. Though they probably struggle even with the regular Apple layout--good luck finding # on the keyboard, since Apple doesn't deign to print it. Sure, once you know it's option-3 it's not so bad, but I don't know how you're meant to just figure that out for yourself.

And the thing is, it's all just gratuitous. Apple's layout isn't in any meaningful sense better. It's just... different.
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Unless she wants to have a career as a top model. Then looking like a top model could help a lot.
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> Leiningen (the Clojure build tool) is written in the JVM, and on my machine it always takes 5 seconds just to start.

The lein help command does more than simply print a string, it searches for plugins available on your system. To measure the startup time of lein perhaps you should do:

% time lein version ~
Leiningen 1.6.1 on Java 1.6.0_26 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
lein version 0.75s user 0.05s system 130% cpu 0.612 total

Less than a second, not bad.

> time lein shows about 10 seconds to display all the output, and then it hangs for about a minute more before the process completes.

So there's a problem on your system. Most people don't have that problem. Check your plugins.
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The point is that even the overall sales of laptops has to go down as people have more options.
Well if you start doing that, you would spark off a new debate.

"Don't tell girls how intelligent they are".

Because then the very analogical argument will be used to say - telling girls they are intelligent is making them under perform in other areas.

In short, if you are not ready work hard and do something on yourself by your work alone. There are plenty of reasons you can use to justify what you are.
sorry to be the skeptic, but I don't buy this at all. its in everybody's best interest for arrington to manage the fund full time, be a guest writer, or speaker and be an advocate of his startups and aol and arrington both get paid when his companies exit. so why all the noise ... traffic. From all these comments people are eating it up. Just like arrington made all that noise about breach of contract with the joo joo pad and how he has all these lawsuits. he was fortunate they never held him to a contract.
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No one needs yet another Android today. Especially investing it its development. The game is over. Google won. ^_^

Update: the key words here are today and investing.
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Whenever I think about "beauty" this poem automatically comes to my mind -

Beautiful faces are those that wear–

It matters little if dark or fair–

Whole-souled honesty printed there.

Beautiful eyes are those that show,

Like crystal panes where hearth-fires glow,

Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

Beautiful lips are those whose words

Leap from the heart like songs of birds,

Yet whose utterance prudence girds.

Beautiful hands are those that do

Work that is earnest and brave and true,

Moment by moment the long day through.

Beautiful feet are those that go

On kindly ministries to and fro,

Down lowliest ways if God wills it so.

Beautiful shoulders are those that bear

Ceaseless burdens of homely care,

With patient grace and daily prayer.

Beautiful twilight at set of sun,

Beautiful goal with race well won,

Beautiful rest with work well done.

Beautiful graves where grasses creep,

Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep,

Over worn-out hands! Ah, beautiful sleep.

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In my book, that makes them about as slimy as GoDaddy.

It's one thing if you're a huge-volume customer or have unique needs, but companies that have two price lists -- one for the far more efficient (for BOTH parties) online sales channel, and a lower one for the human-intervention sales channel, just disgust me.
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I was musing on this the other day (beware; anecdote alert!). I went out for some drinks with a friend of mine from a long time ago - he is certainly not the sharpest of individuals, but a laugh and good fun in small doses (even if a lot of the jokes include farts :S).

For some reason he is also constantly surrounded by very attractive women. I've seen him out and about before and thought "I'd like to have some of that!". But my first impression when we were hanging out was that all these girls shared two things in common - good looks and zero intelligence. Most of the fart jokes came from them.

Which was a bit of a shock!

It took me a while to figure out that most of them weren't actually thick. I managed to have a conversation with one of them later on; and found she was a psychology graduate (one of my favourite pet interests :)), had even published a research paper on her work. Which was just confusing... there was this smart good looking girl, and she was hanging around acting thick.

Then I worked it out... they were acting as they were expected to (either by our perception or theirs) on a night out; shove on the lipstick, revert to street talk, laugh at fart jokes and play dumb around the men. The psychologist actually even said this about her career (paraphrasing): "oh.. well I never really tell people that, it puts them off".

Which is just a fucking sad reflection on society.
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Cool project, but the intro on Kickstarter is grossly misleading. It implies that you have a way to obtain the data about what should be rendered in addition to projecting it, when in reality this project is only about the projection part. It's not bad to talk about potential applications, but you're implying that they're part of the project when they're not.
Too late, no momentum, no real innovations. Just one Javascript/node.js hype is not enough to push to the market a new product, that should compete with iOS and Android.

Try to imagine how big Android is today and what momentum it has.
It will be interesting to find out what modern Chinese people know and think of Tiananmen Sq. events.
I'm not sure where your link on AllThingsD was meant to lead. Was it this article?

http://allthingsd.com/20110902/crunchfund-unethical-ventures...

Edit: Thought this excerpt was interesting (from the article above)

"Arrington told reporters yesterday that he has put a clause in his limited partnership agreement so he can report on anything he likes, and in any way, about his investors and their companies, however confidential, except those he invests in."
>It demonstrates a large amount of hubris to even think it should be.

So what? It's this same hubris which bucks against the biological directive to impregnate every fertile female that enters your field of vision. Since when do humans settle for the biological imperative?
>Human biology is not that quick to change

This implies that biology is why in most cultures men have higher status potential than women. Not only does this ignore lots of horribly obvious things, but in turn implies an understanding of how physiology affects behavior. Besides current science barely having a rough idea of some hormones' areas of effect (eg low testosterone levels having some positive or negative effect on aggression), we can't begin to aggregate how the average minute physical differences between men and women would affect something as high level as behavior. We're still learning the physical effects. Trying to reason beyond that is irrelevant at best. Meanwhile, centuries of oppression and concrete, prescribed gender roles seem alot more insightful.
I'm going to write up some sort of explanation once I can get my head around it myself.
I think the issue is not that being attractive is bad, it's just that often that's the _only_ message that is consistently heard by young girls.

Girls might hear positive messages about being smart, creative, independent, etc. from all sorts of well intentioned sources, but there isn't the same sort of powerful, all pervasive weight attached to them as the message that being attractive is important.

Appearance is the 'common standard' of value for a female in many societies. I think that is the real problem.
The parent is asking what those alternative techniques would ideally look like, from a game developer's point of view.
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I am a big fan of TC and of Arrington. Yes, he is not to everyone's liking, but he has built an amazing business from nothing. However, I have a problem with AOL & TechCrunch forming a startup fund.

TC has a huge impact on the startup market. They are the most powerful tech news business in the world and can literally move the market on a startup with a single blog post. If it is positive your user numbers sky rocket and the VC's are calling. If it is negative your investors are on the phone asking questions.

The CrunchFund gives them skin in the game. TC will determine to a significant extent the value of the CrunchFund portfolio.

We read TC because we trust them to give an unbiased view of our startup world. Yes, MG loves Apple and he gets a lot of stick for it. But what if it came out that all of MG's pension money and savings were in Apple stock. It changes things, right?

If the journalistic trust between the publication and her readers is lost, TC's influence and readership will dissipate.

IMHO the greatest threat to TC is not Arrington leaving. It is the CrunchFund, and the erosion of TCs integrity and credibility that will come with it.
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What a beautiful story of her interaction with that little girl. I hope i'm like that with my daughter when she's that age :)
>Human biology is not that quick to change.

No, but a lot of things with regards to our current expected behaviour of genders is in fact social, not biological. A lot of 18th century male behaviour would today be regarded as effeminate. Red was once the color of choice for baby boys, and blue for girls.

>Artificially boosting the career success of women just causes misery on the long run for men

Hang on, did anyone propose affirmative action here or something? All the blog talked about was trying to praise girls for their smarts rather than their looks. If this is enough to cause misery for you, I think you have self-esteem issues. (Edit: Oops, that was needlessly confrontational and personal. Apologies for last sentence.)

>I thought that the girl in your story was very smart, and even if people had treated her like a pretty doll for her entire life she would still be the same. Intelligent, critical and capable.

Perhaps, but as mentioned in the article, some girls as young as 5 think they are "too fat" and try to go on a diet. It is clearly an issue for some.
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Can't be a Windows thing since it's been like that for so long I can't even remember (Windows 3.1 maybe?).
Intel apparently is still an ARM licensee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale#Sale_of_PXA_processor_li...

I'm guessing the licensing fees are peanuts to Intel and probably come with patent indemnification.
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If you remember, we've talked over irc =)

I actually at first tried to improve upon libwm, but didn't go too far with it. There were some design points I disagreed with, and you've seemed to stop updating, so I've started prototyping on my own codebase. I wanted some simplicity, and make it easier for various ffi-bridges, so I went with plain c.

The code is too raw, so I won't link to it, but I'll definitely make some noise when I think it is at usable state.
I don't know if these ramblings will help, but here are some thoughts :)

First of all, the Y-combinator is a function of a function of a function (of a number), so we're three levels deep, which is part of what causes the head-spinning, I think. So ignore the Y-combinator for the moment.

Simply consider the function of a function (of a number) F:

F = function (f) {
return function(n) {
return (n == 0) ? 1 : (n*f(n - 1)); };
};

Here the argument f is a function number -> number, and the return value from F is itself also a function number -> number.

We can pass whatever functions from numbers to numbers we want to F to make new functions from numbers to numbers.

E.g., we could pass in

exf1 = function(n) { return n };

and we'd have

F(exf1) = function(n) { return (n == 0) ? 1 : (n*(n - 1)) };

Or we could pass in something like

exf2 = function(n) { return 1; }

in which case we'd get

F(exf2) = function(n) { (n == 0) 1 : n - 1 };

So now imagine god gives us the factorial function:

fact: number -> number
fact(n) = n*(n - 1)*...*1

Then if we pass this in to F we get

F(fact) = function(n) { return n == 0 ? 1 : n*fact(n - 1) }

But the above is simply a recursive definition of fact! So F(fact) = fact, i.e., fact is a fixed point of F.

Now consider the Y combinator. We know the Y combinator gives us a fixed point of a functional, i.e.,

F(Y(F)) = Y(F)

(Note Y(F) is simply a function, even though the argument to Y is a functional, i.e.,

Y: functional -> function

or

Y: (function -> function) -> function

or

Y: ((number -> number) -> (number -> number)) -> (number -> number))

So we know that one possible value for Y(F) is fact.

The article makes the claim that there is only one fixed point of F, which means Y(f) must actually be fact, but to be honest, I'm not sure why we know there can't be other fixed points of F which Y(F) might give us (though maybe this is obvious and I'm being stupid :).

But anyway we can tell by tracing through the definition of Y that it we really do get Y(F) = fact.
They use a different date format in China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_R...

It probably wouldn't be recognized by most people as the date of the Tiananmen Sq date (to be honest, to me it looks like 6 April 1989, so it's only signifgant if you write dates the way you write dates)
Of course it is; it's just our minds looking for patterns.
Some distros do experiment with that, since it's relatively easy to ship some default aliases. For example, ls is often aliased to some combination of --color, -l, and -h.
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No, the force that bucks against the biological directive to impregnate every fertile female that enters your field of vision is the very real threat of violence and social ostracization. Plus, unless you're a total sociopath: empathy. Unlike some people would have you believe, being a man does not equal being a rapist.
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That doesn't necessarily mean it's just a coincidence, though. The phone number may very well have been chosen by an American. Apple is big on central management, after all.
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Thanks for pointing this out. Everyone jumps at evolution whenever a discussion comes up about gender differences. There is probably an evolutionary component in there, but they way everyone declares "this is because in old times, men hunted lions while the women watched the children" to every gender stereotype is just ridiculous.

When related to dating, I like to call this "The Mystery Method Theory of Sexual Evolution", because most of the pervasive explanations about why the sexual market works the way it does is copied straight from Neil Strauss' book "The Game". A lot of these ideas are taken to be truth even though there is absolutely no scientific research behind them.
There is is a substantial difference.

Society's sense of your worth, and as a result your sense of self-worth is not tied into those physical characteristics.

This isn't a matter of how hard someone tries at life, this is a question on what basis society judges individuals by (and i should note, this is an emergent equilibrium. It's nudged this way and that, but now that it's driven by financial interests, it's hard to shift the equilibrium).

I have a friend who's 6'7". Invariably the first question he was asked when he met new people was "wow you're tall, do you play basketball?" He hates basketball. But society's perception of what he'd be good at was tied into his height. He can't change it, he didn't ask for it, and he certainly showed no interest or indication that he'd like to discuss basketball.

That's an outside force impinging on his sense of identity. Same goes for women and what they think society values. Some women play the game, double down and use it as a zero-sum weapon against other women to get ahead. Some don't have a choice, or the will, and just get trampled (by the first group of women).

But again, the difference is that you don't have to play this game. There are other games you can play, and society will accept you for it. Women don't get that choice. This is the game that has to be played, if they're to participate in society.
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Thank you for the feedback, and sorry for the overly lofty rhetoric.
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