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Cool. I think the touchscreen itself could probably get you there 80% of the time without being docked, so a bit different from a laptop with a touchscreen :-)

Might require thinking about the flow of an encounter, though, so that it's docked at the appropriate times. That could be a problem?
I also like:

'Every time I tell a suit about an idea of mine and they ask “what’s your exit?” the answer is “death,” because my goal is to make software that is useful and makes users happy and that’s all I need.'
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Haha yes, you're totally correct. It was intended more as an illustrative analogy than a formal point of debate, but I take your point.
A little bit unrelated, but as of today, what would be the advantages of choosing pgsql over mysql for someone who already has decent knowledge of mysql? Is it still a matter of preference (and being able to deal with the mysql license) or did pgsql progress so much over the last 3-4 years that it became superior? What are the pros over mysql?

I'd consider switching to pgsql for a future project but throwing my mysql expertise out the window for nothing seems like a bit waste of time.
SQLAlchemy (and its excellent documentation) is the reason I switched to using an ORM.

(Now that I am in Ruby land though, I am a little sad that arel/ActiveRecord/DataMapper do not seem as on their game.)
I'm reading Robert Sapolsky's Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers right now (very interesting on subject of stress) and given what I've read, I would not be greatly shocked to learn that Parkinson's, herpes, or food allergies are affected by stress and the remediation of it.

It's impressive how integral stress hormones are to metabolism and disease. You wouldn't expect the psychogenic effects of a placebo to cure these diseases, but it makes sense that a placebo, or some factor tied to them that helps to lessen stress, could alleviate the intensity of outbreaks or symptoms.
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This kind of thing is pretty culture-specific. Here in Argentina, it matters a lot if someone can introduce you — even if it's your accountant's uncle. Also, for some reason, people don't answer email. You have to call them on the phone or talk to them in person.
For me, at least, it's usually from friends who mention that show z is awesome, completely disassociated from where that show appears. Why would I be loyal to HBO when I know that AMC has some great shows as well, as does Showtime. HBO doesn't have the monopoly/near-monopoly on good stuff that it would need for their version to be attractive. I'm far from a normal TV watcher, though.
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Drug makers are just having trouble coming up with new drugs and making up asinine excuses. Placebos are still placebos.
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I know I always found these a huge imposition for no gain as a student. Email to a designated address: easy. Run a Unix command on the CS department server to submit: also easy. Deal with some bullshit LMS to figure out what it wants: hours of my time.

Even as a prof, they're a pretty mixed bag. For a lot of simple things, it's infinitely easier to ask students to just email me something as an attachment, with a particular subject line, and then set up a quick procmail filter to grab and process the attachments. Then you can actually run scripts on the result, which it turns out in computer science is something you sometimes want to do (you might even want to run tests on code!). The role of these LMSs appears to be to make it as hard as possible to just get a damn zip file with all the data so I can run my scripts, and then also difficult to upload my grading results back into the system. Maybe that would be okay if they included internally all the functionality I might need, but: 1) it's hard to use any functionality they do include; and 2) as far as I can tell, they don't include anything like compiling code with gcc and running instructor-submitted tests on it.
That's from the next post. Were you reading in Safari Reader? It's running the posts together ...
Dawkins is perfectly aware of this. In fact, he gives arguments of your flavor in The God Delusion. See also

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind...

He is aware that his approach is not optimal in terms of changing people's minds, but I'm not so sure he cares.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik
Years ago we used this at Singshot to evenly distribute numerical assets across subdirectories. Very useful these days for shardy cloudbucket applications.
If smugness and self-congratulation were the problem with fundamentalists, then the world would be a much better place. If it hadn't been for one really good science teacher, nobody at the high school I attended would have been taught about evolution. Large voting blocs are swayed into furious action by talk of "the sodomite agenda". I realize that a lot of people live in pretty secular areas, and can pretend that circlejerking is the only real problem with religious nuts, but that's just not true.
Wouldn't that be blocked by cross-site AJAX restrictions? Or are we talking about injecting <img> and <script> tags into the document?
Just to point out, Nathan will be speaking at the Clojure/Conj conference this year. Talking about Cascalog.

I have a schedule conflict this year :( but would recommend the conference to everyone - the first year was informative with contagious enthusiasm. The other speakers also look cool.
"Drugs" in the general case do work. Empirically so.
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We have a few desks open in a co-working space that we'd like to offer for free to someone or some team that needs them. We have space for 2-3 individuals or a team of 2-3 people that need some office space in SOMA near 2nd and Stillman.

Currently we have a gaming startup, a lead gen business, a field rep for a marketing agency, a social media startup, and a couple of ruby developers working in the space. Just looking to add a few more interesting people to the mix.

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This is great - thanks very much for the notes! Looking forward to that ebook version :)
Alternate patriotic strategy: learn to live comfortably on an untaxably low income, or an unreported cash income. Draw the maximum benefits you can. Keep yourself healthy and don't buy health insurance. Help to accelerate the inevitable collapse of a corrupt, immoral, and unsustainable system.
Yeah, but these engines will keep pumping out their lower power, directly connected to a shaft and propeller, for very long periods of time with minimal maintenance (read Prime Movers or I'm sure lots of other sources for e.g. how the linkages to the pistons keep them from wearing out of round quickly). These are monster ships that are entrusted with just one engine ... that says a lot.
Hmm, that is strange - it is posted as "page 2" of the article for me. I am using Chrome.
I have trouble believing anybody who has used Moodle as either an administrator or a student would really believe it's "miles ahead of anything else" unless you'd literally never looked at another LMS at all.
Internally consistent? How do they explain why drinking diluting sewage (say, bottled water) doesn't make me a greek god?
"In the 1950s, the United States Department of Defense was concerned about the ability to survive a nuclear first strike due to a dependence on an effective communication network. Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation concluded that the strongest communication system would be a computer network that would be able to break messages into units and that the network route these message units went along a functioning path to their destination, where they could be reassembled into coherent wholes."

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Lowering costs to compete with the near free alternative makes your company a poor competitor in comparison to them. This is because you have much higher costs and probably are not sufficiently different to justify it.

Options:
1. lower costs and essentially adopt the crowdsourced model
2. increase costs and quality and sell a premium product

Either way, the main thing is that you have identified that you do not want to tread water.
Your customers beg to disagree.
This has a pretty decent, if dated list: http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html

Few of the items on that list bit me personally.
If Dawkins is aware of my points, his approach does not seem logical. The God Delusion approaches religion as a broken philosophy or a disease of the mind, not as an evolutionary phenomenon.

He does not quote any of the plethora of papers written on this subject, such as can be found here:

http://evolution-of-religion.com/publications/

A scientific approach to religious behaviour would not invoke philosophical arguments such as NOMA, or dismissive arguments such as labelling behaviours practised by the majority of the human species as a "mass delusion".
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If the mind is behind the placebo effect, can we cut out the middle man with a treatment of "deciding you are going to get better." If we remove the lie behind the placebo, and it still works--is this then a power we all possess, and have been accessing all along, but didn't understand or acknowledge?
Microsoft is starting at 0 market share on pad devices, and expects to dominate android?

they are only #3 in search with ~10% market share. Ever heard of microsoft money or microsoft office accounting? Both dead and never out competed intuit's quickbooks/quicken products. Microsoft had 16% of the smartphone market at their heyday... now 4%. Microsoft does not win them all. And yeah, they've done the phone partnership before... never dominating.
That is a reason to diversify, not to Balkanize the organization even further.
O'Reilly is wrong about the Tea Party-- the entire movement got started during the crisis in 2008. The Tea Party and conservative Republicans initially defeated the TARP bailout in the U.S. House. And the Tea Party and Ron Paul are the main reason that the Federal Reserve -- the kingpin of America's corrupt banking regime -- is under political fire.

The Tea Party doesn't have much presence in NYC and its leaders weren't involved in this particular protest, and "Occupying" is a sixties lefty word that's not going to turn out the Tea Party rank and file.
While I am as dubious as the rest of you about how likely we are to actually see this, I appreciated learning that adhesives are one of 3M's 46 core technology platforms. Does anyone know what the other 45 are?
The new age street market merchants. If you don't hustle, you don't make it. My favorite quote of the post:

"The App Store is a most vicious yet glorious technological battlefield, where your apps are your soldiers. One can either moan, shut shop and disappear when their soldiers are hit, or one can ruthlessly battle it out till the end with every last one of them."
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Just because something is free of charge doesn't mean it should be readily adopted.
whats the incentive for people to allow you to track them ? I hope you're not relying on deals
I have traveled very extensively through the US (still, there are plenty of places I haven't been). From my experience, you'd have to look very hard to find what I'd classify as a tent city.

That being said I know where one is and I've been there working with a local church organization. It's in the woods behind a local shopping center, and at any given time there are about 15-20 people living there.

The church helps out the best they can, but the vast majority of the men living there wouldn't leave if they were offered free housing. Most of them have mental issues, and the only way to really get them out would be involuntary commitment.

In short, it's ridiculous to find a tent city somewhere, film it, and use it to claim that America is devolving into Calcutta.
Ha, I did not know that he had a forthcoming children's book! This should be good.
I haven't watched the Film you suggested.

What you seem to be saying is that somehow this will resolve itself. I honestly doubt that is even remotely possible. Investment banks and hedge funds are making huge amounts of money, why would they change their business model? If the investment bank model stops working smart money will move. Smart money already has moved, look at Goldman Sachs. Goldman has since the crash been playing new tricks and old games that worked to make money. Why would someone stop playing when the game they know is still helping them to win? There is no incentive to change. Devious practices continue in multiple institutions, the market is more volatile than ever and the profits are still increasing.

Change only comes from within because of some internal conflict or contradiction. There is no conflict of ideas in the banking industry, their goal is still making money with money. Their goals and methods are still closely aligned. That means that the change must come from outside. Either reform (legislation and government force), revolution (social force) or depression (economic force through a market collapse). Doing nothing just delays the inevitable.
The only plugin available explicitly states (on the Settings page, after you install and avtiavate it) that it doesn't upload directly to S3. It has to upload to your server first.

edit: actually, I think the upload to S3 button is different from upload media button. That's why I didn't see it.
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I have not written production C++ in over 5 years. For those of you who are still in the trenches with C++, do you view this as an improvement?

Put another way... Which would you view as the better engineering investment: refactoring/rewriting code with these new models of C++ --or-- investing in porting to a managed environment such as C# or Python or <insert language here>?

I confess I'm a purist. I miss Good Old Fashioned C++. This feels like lipstick on a pig. Actually, it's worse than that. It feels like my 60 year old mother trying to dress up in skimpy clothes intended for teenage girls. I just wish she would accept who she is.
This is a wild speculation on my part but it just popped to mind. Perhaps the reason faux drugs are more and more useful is because we're using them to treat a rising number of faux illnesses. Maybe some of the cases where placebos are working more and more are illnesses we have dreamt up in a feel good society. Restless leg syndrome for example. I know because I get this from time to time but I don't think its an illness to be medicated... Usually I've just not been active enough or eaten too much dietary sugar before bed. We seem to be finding a condition to explain every little discomfort so perhaps, while some of the conditions may be real for some people, the more vague the symptoms become, the higher the odds someone in the study groups only thinks they have it, and the higher the placebo effect. Imaginary drugs for vague imaginary conditions. Anyhow, just a loose theory that just popped into my head completely unsubstantiated by any research. My legs are itchy, going for a walk.
And this is why Netflix' business model is doomed. There is no way for them to compete with Comcast, who already gets $50 each month for Internet alone.

There's just no way the content creators are going to give Netflix better terms than they give cable operators. None. Won't happen.

And Netflix cannot afford to pay what cable pays, because it's all added cost to them.

Netflix is between a rock and hard place, they know it, and they did the absolutely worst thing they could do. They should have just let things ride, milk the cash cow they'd created, and see how it plays out. Instead, they shot the cow, spilled the milk, and seem oblivious to the overwhelmingly negative reaction from their customers. sigh
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This hits too close to home.
Looks great Peter. Are you going to do an affiliate program? I guess you pretty much are the source for all things Ruby, so maybe that wouldn't make sense in this case.
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What about people who agree with his message, but still think he's a dick? Are they not allowed to exist?

Dawkins is an intelligent atheist skeptic, but he's also an incredibly sexist, insensitive ass whom many believe is consistently hurting the cause he claims to promote. You're allowed to think the latter even if you largely agree with his opinions as an atheist skeptic.
That is one of the most punchable faces I've ever seen.
It isn't. In terms of Eliezer-style rationality, a much more effective approach would be to study marketing and psychology techniques and take a more calculated approach to changing minds. But I think Dawkins is disinterested in this because of its artificial (albeit highly effective) nature, and would rather speak raw truth. For him, the goal is to get the scientific viewpoint out to as many people as possible, not change their minds. He would ideally like for them to realize on their own that the scientific viewpoint is more cogent. He knows there are more effective means, but perhaps it offends his notion of purity. I suppose that is ironic.
If you're describing Dawkins as fundamentalist, then you either a) don't know much about him, and what he stands for, or b) have a grave understanding of what fundamentalism means.

It bothers me that Dawkins gets that accusation that often, when it's clearly false.
I live in Calgary where, despite the old boy network, we have a large number of female IT professionals and engineers. They still face barriers, but it's improving.

Your hiring experience sounds unusual. You never get resumes from women? You never interview guys who sound good on paper, but turn out to be duds?
This is a little off topic, but I can't stand sites that make me click 'next' 10 times just to read their article.. It instinctively makes me not want to read it.
Thanks Tim O'Reilly.

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/tahrir-moment-...
It is a shame that their app is not reliable. I like it but had to go back to ihackernews.com because I kept getting errors when trying to read the comments.
Most importantly: will I be able to adblock these as easily as the like button?
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Having an exit, I think in this context is more about having an appropriate platform to pivot. I mean, no person or product lasts forever.
Yes, this is what I was thinking. Could we teach people mental techniques to "delude" themselves into getting better? Kinda reminds me of doublethink from 1984.
The Los Feliz Charter School in LA uses them for classrooms. See the top picture (or the video walkthrough) at:

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The building is a converted warehouse, and the shipping containers sit in clusters inside the warehouse.

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> I know that there's some dangerous ideas put out there by fundamentalists, but for the most part, if they stick to themselves and are generally good people who don't interfere with others then I don't really care what they believe.

It's easy to have this perspective if religious fundamentalism has not had a major impact on your life. However, if your parents were religious fundamentalists, you would likely view things in a different light (or, more likely, you'd be just as religious as them).

Mine are, and I enjoyed a childhood characterized by a morbid fear of eternal damnation, church twice weekly, private Christian school to ensure that I did not come into contact with peers from less- or non-religious households, and a total abhorrence of modern science and particularly evolution. However, my parents are intelligent people - it was not their fault they were both born into religious households - and they instilled in me a great love of reading, which backfired for them because, as a science/computer geek, I eventually started in on science books and started to question everything.

For me it was like a great window of truth opened on the world and suddenly, everything made sense - and was also so much better than I had been taught. Of course, that caused no end of problems within my family, in part because I passed along my newfound knowledge to my younger siblings. Dawkins would have been proud of me as a young adolescent.

Most of my friends from those days never read what I read, and they carry on in the same fundamentalist, "the earth is 6,000 years old and homosexuality is evil" fantasy land. And of course, they indoctrinate their children just as thoroughly as they were indoctrinated. Religion excels at that.

Meanwhile, my parents, who I love dearly, are still convinced they are both heading for an eternity burning in hell because they have yet to experience the born-again moment that Protestant Christians pine for. The problem, I think, is that they are too honest with themselves. They really just need that single powerful religious moment (aka hallucination) that they would get if they fasted for three days and prayed continually in a closet, but they haven't had it. So these dear, sweet, kind and incredibly honest and ethical people are still plagued by the morbid fear I managed to cast off as an adolescent.

Just because people are "good" doesn't mean that the religious beliefs that have taken over their lives are not damaging to the lives of others and particularly children. I would take Dawkins' earnest, educated, rational and well-meaning brand of urgent atheism over fundamentalist religion any day.
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