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Is there by any chance any use cases of why would someone use one concurrency model (e.g. ZeroMQ) over another (gevent)?
What do you mean? Numbers in functional programming? If you really want them, I suppose you could implement them using the Church encoding.

Really, though, I'm surprised you'd want to consider doing it. These "numbers" sound far too involved and elaborate for the lambda calculi and their children. Better stick to the tasks functional programming was designed for, like writing fixpoint combinators and being snide in comment threads. ;)
Seinfeld was a successful comic. The end goal for a lot of comedians is to parlay it into an acting career, which Seinfeld did. Forbes estimates his net worth at $800 million. If that isn't a successful comedic career, than I'm not sure what is.
Well he's saying it should be like a utility, but it isn't.
This won't fly in the real world. If an academic writer includes a link to their code in their paper, when it goes through peer review before being published, it will no longer under be a blind review; the reviewer will know who wrote the code by virtue of the github account or domain it's uploaded to. Blind reviews are important, as if you know you're reviewing a paper by someone who rejected your paper, you're more inclined to reject it. That really happens, people are that petty.

Additionally there's the risk that the reviewer will reject the paper, and download the code and publish a paper about it quickly in some other journal/conference.
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This democratization of language isn't necessarily correct.
There's a reason why we don't declare the existence of God as truth just because a majority of the population believes it.

There's a reason why majority rules isn't always appropriate. It's because often the majority can be wrong. We won't redefine the answer to the Monty Hall problem just because 9/10 people get the wrong answer.

If we're constantly redefining words and meanings, then why have definitions at all?
Absolutely fascinating, and inspiring me to get out the sketch pad I've had laying around for years...
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I don't know. As far as I know, Priceline (PCLN) is doing the same thing. Are they going to push PCLN do the same?
Definitely, it's an area I need to work on significantly ;)
I don't know if creepy is the right word, but I get a weird feeling about it. It isn't that I feel like I'm losing my privacy by people seeing things I posted on facebook years ago, it is more that I am not that person anymore - I liked that my facebook profile was a current snapshot of who I am.

I actually enjoyed going through the timeline on my own, reliving some of the memories, and for personal use I think having the timeline available will be really neat to check every couple years or so, but beyond that, I don't know if I want to manage my 'current' image actively enough to keep it open or not.
So, surprisingly, this rant is more or less accurate, imo. (I went to med school, residency, fellowship)

I mean some things stronger than others, but it hits on the major negatives as you go through training. I know a lot of these rants tend to romanticize how hard people's own professions are in a "no one else has it this hard" type stance. We see similar "how hard it is to be a programmer" type rants as well. But, I'll pull out the one aspect that I've always felt I lost.

"3) You will spend the best years of your life as a sleep-deprived, underpaid slave."

I do feel like I missed being young (20s) and just having a regular job, enjoying life with my friends. 4 years of medical school, and 3 years of residency pretty much wipe out age 22-29. So I do regret that.
I'd argue that this sort of article applies mostly to the "glamourous" professions -- things that kids want to be when they grow up, jobs that will impress your nephews. Actor, musician, doctor, certain varieties of lawyer, physicist cough, athlete, artist, airline pilot.

These sorts of professions have a ready supply of suckers wanting in, which means that the competition is tough, the work is hard and the compensation is minimal at the lowest levels. For all of these professions, the advice is the same: there are definitely some cool bits to the job if you can reach the top, but it's a really tough slog, so don't go into it unless you just can't think of anything else you want to do with your life.

But then you've got the less glamourous professions. Accountant. Actuary. System administrator. Management consultant. Less glamourous varieties of law. Pet sitting. Running a lawnmowing business. And hundreds of other occupations which don't readily spring to mind because they don't impinge much on the public consciousness, but which exist and pay well and are good jobs for folks who can't think of anything else in particular that they'd like to be doing. Since there aren't huge masses of people clamouring to become actuaries, junior actuarial positions are actually well paid and generally reasonable jobs. On the downside, your nephews won't brag to their friends about their uncle the actuary.

Figuring out where programming jobs fit into this classification is left as an exercise for the reader.
It was a bit aggressive but not absurd and not really dishonest (they weren't trying to hide anything). And ultimately doesn't impact cash flow or earnings which are much more important.

It's like Priceline counting the whole fare as revenue whereas Expedia only counts the commission.
It is also used in eliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography, when you study the Jacobian Variety a curve: http://modular.math.washington.edu/edu/Fall2003/252/lectures...

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I'm dental myself (waay easier than med in my opinion), but I do have friends in med. (Well, people I used to spend time with before they got socked with residency). So, I'm curious: were you _relieved_ to be able to take a different path than working as a doctor?
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He mentioned getting a Wacom Intuos tablet. I've been considering getting one, or maybe this new device:

http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/30/wacom-introduces-inkling-table...

This video turned me on to the Wacom:

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/home/category/hardware

He discusses tablets at about the 2m mark.
Isn't the IPO expected to value Groupon at over $15 billion?

Or did you mean "should not"?
I've been looking for that thread for a long time. I remember seeing it a few years ago when I was getting into drawing myself. But I sort of got lost along the way. Ended up spending more time on coding than drawing. I guess one can only focus on so much. But it's still definitely something I want to get into.
Remember this quote from Mason's leaked memo: "We are generating cash, not losing it — we generated $25M in cash last quarter alone, adding to the $200M we had before. In other words, we’re doing the opposite of running out of money."

He chose the words "generating cash" carefully. If it wasn't contrary to his point, he should have addressed revenue instead.
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Being a doctor doesn't take 8+ years of education just because it's a competitive field.
"Facebook is definitely not the company you want operating the world's social infrastructure."

I couldn't agree more. It's too bad that I was never able to get anyone to believe me when I pointed this out at the very beginning, but I'm glad people seem to be paying attention now.
Seems like it is still a bad metaphor then: are Facebook platform developers really analogous to freed slaves?
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There are rules that govern what amounts should be classified as revenue or not. I believe in Priceline's case, since it actually buys the flights from airlines and has loss potential, it makes sense to book the whole fare as revenue.
Just make facebook a social plugin/driver to your stand alone web app that you can swap out with ease. Make adding your app to G+ be a 1 week/ 2 day project for features available on both.
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It's the sort of thing you aren't fully aware of while you are in it. After I quit practicing, it really felt like an enormous weight had been lifted. Just due to the responsibilities involved.

People ask me if I miss it. I do not. That said, I don't want to make it sound like it was terrible. There was a fair amount of job satisfaction and rewards as well, like most things, and at the time I felt like I enjoyed it.
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I'm in a somewhat similar situation. Where are you located? I'm in Northern VA. Let me know if you are interested in talking about some ventures. I have a BS/MS in Computer Science, working in an applied science group, and I want to build some product. (C, C++, Python, Common Lisp)
Why don't these guys hack from a virtual machine, in starbucks, then delete the virtual machine, then never visit the same coffee shop again? how would they get traced from doing that?
Look, I know there's some disagreement with this comment, but why has this received so many downvotes? It isn't wildly unhelpful, is rather reasonably phrased, and doesn't attempt to pounce on the situation and make sensationalist claims...

Again, I'm not arguing this shouldn't be addressed if you disagree with some or all of it, but it isn't like this is some kind of trollbait that usually receives this kind of aggressive downvoting...
I'm living in Viña del Mar with a collection of other Start-Up Chile teams. You need to return to Santiago for reimbursements but you'll earn points for moving out to a region.

Almost any project you can justify as being beneficial to the community will qualify for the points. If you meet with 40 chileans for one-to-one mentoring you'll likely exceed the minimum requirement with ease.

The visa gets fast tracked, most people got theirs within a month using a basic police check. You can't start the programme or arrive in Chile without the visa, and entering with a tourist visa is not an option.

I took a few Spanish lessons before arriving and really need to start doing more. It's not easy but you can just about get by with English.

The programme isn't tied to the office, it's an extra benefit if you want it. I mostly work from my apartment. The stipend is enough to get a good apartment in Santiago, you'll need to find a Spanish speaking friend to help you find a good value one. There are clusters of Start-Up Chile teams living in "aparthotels" that have very flexible short term leases.

We had no connections in Latin America before getting here. It's more important that you have a quality startup and your application meets the other criteria detailed in the process.

There are teams here at all stages, some had launched before arriving, don't worry about it.
I've lost a little respect for Schmidt with this news.
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OK, I'll bite: what are the tools that MySQL is supporting that PostgreSQL isn't?

PHP blog generation software, or some lower level, more general purpose tool???
Wow that article sure is unbiased!</sarcasm>

But seriously, every state has a different rate, every county, every city. The article mentions a federal solution is up next. So what, a federal database by address of the rates each person is in, and 52 filings per year for the 50 states plus DC plus Puerto Rico, and a requirement to register each purchase with this system? Gee, that should help small business a lot.
... pretty much. I'm doing med school now, and it's been fun. How does one balance this stuff with hackery and such? "You don't" is the answer I've been getting, but I suspect/hope that it takes some clever time management.
[I]t is the consistent daily action that builds extraordinary outcomes... Skipping one day makes it easier to skip the next.

A recent New Yorker article quotes singer Tony Bennett on his practice regimen as saying "The first day you don't do the scales, you know. The second day, the musicians know. The third day, the audience knows."
Damn, I'd had some hopes about going there, although it certainly would not have been easy with two kids in tow. I guess something like LiberWriter is not so exciting because it doesn't aspire to be the next big thing, but the fact that it already makes money seemed relevant. Oh well, que sera, sera (which is actually not used in Spanish, because the song title is based on the Italian che sara`, sara`).
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Reading that first year of Penny Arcade is night and day from the material they put out now.
Oracle has a problem in that PostgreSQL is somewhat of a threat, in terms of features and similarity. OK, the default stored procedure language is not exactly the same, but it's fairly close to PL/SQL.

Nobody is going to mistake MySQL for Oracle, and I suspect Oracle wants to keep it that way, while dragging MySQL along just enough to prevent an exodus of FOSS developers to PostgreSQL.

I should probably re-evaluate MySQL again, but they scared the Hell out of me back in 2001 when I found it did not support rollback, nor foreign key constraints, nor transaction isolation at the time. I KNOW THEY HAVE FIXED THIS STUFF SINCE THEN, but the mentality that thought it was OK to leave that stuff out??? I did enough xBASE stuff in the 80s to know I did not want to back to that confusion. I would rather use an ISAM interface than debug query planning in SQL, but having to use SQL, and getting none of the data integrity benefits?!? Screw that!

Y'all enjoy your MySQL, and I hope the whole source code license issue works out well for you :-)
I started MacRumors.com in my 4th year of medical school, which is a very light year. And it grew in the following years. I quit in 2008 to do it (and other sites) full time.
I'm married to a resident and this article is a very accurate portrayal of a resident's life. Her work schedule is insane. It's not just the amount of hours but the fact that these hours are packed and spent with difficult people and life or death situations. After a day of work she often mentions she didn't have time to eat or pee during the day. She has had some call shifts that lasted 40h strait (more than 3 days) where she got only 3 to 4 hours sleep breaks per night plus a few eating breaks here and there because it was busy the whole time. That meant no time for a shower in those three days, only superficial cleanups and quick change of scrubs when things got too bloody/amniotic.
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You're right. He could be on his way to such a level but definitely has not reached it yet.
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Momentum and familiarity.

I run a big website and would love to switch; the only thing stopping me is that I'd have to manually fix hundreds of carefully hand-crafted queries to support pg syntax.

If someone wrote a "MySQL emulator" layer for postgres, I'd switch tomorrow. (And I'd work quickly to progressively replace emulated calls with real pg SQL -- it's a lot easier to justify the effort after you make the switch than before!)
Followed closely by simple made easy please? I've been describing rich's talk as something I will probably carry with me the rest of my life. We talked for 5-6 hours about the concepts he posed after that keynote. I really want to share it with others now that I'm back at the office.
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Last I heard actuarial science is brutally competitive and quickly becoming a slog. Apparently all the asian math geniuses see it as their only way to please their grandparents without switching to medicine or law.
In most (if not all) papers I read there was already pseudocode, which is actually better than real programming language, because it lets you express your algorithm in a concise way without all the real world overhead, like initialization, allocation, etc. If you cannot implement algorithm yourself by reading its description and pseudocode, it means that either you don't fully understand what you just read, or your programming skills need some polishing, and you should be rather reading textbooks than research papers for a while.

Also keep in mind that papers are written for the colleagues in the field to read, and not for the laymen, so it's no surprise that authors use the terminology familiar to people in the field. It makes no sense to write research papers with laymen in mind, because 99.999% of them don't care and the remaining 0.001% will learn terminology soon enough.

Also, you really should not expect that reading research papers will be as easy as reading newspapers, don't you agree?
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The biggest one is PHPMyAdmin. LAMP's a pervasive thing. (Not that I like LAMP, mind you, but it's important to be aware of why Pg hasn't made large dents in the MySQL market share over the past decade.)
Thanks for assuring me that it is at least possible. I guess I'm still one of those idealistic greenhorns... thinking that I'd be more useful to the medical community if I were also a computer hacker.
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i had a second hand 12" powerbook G4 with applecare that gave me a lot of problems—i think it was seven screens of death—bad joojoo. anyway, it had finally gotten that usual suspects replaced all at once, and it worked fine, until the week applecare expired and the devil came to take back it's own. so the guys at the mac experience gave me a number to call and the conversation went something like this:

so, i love the idea of this computer, but it doesn't seem to love me, any chance i could get fair market value for it or something?

_well let me take a look at its history_

and after two minutes or so

_well you're out of warranty…_

PAUSE (oh shit, i'll have to sell it for parts on ebay)

_…but that's a lot of fixes and we're gonna go ahead and settle with you. since we no longer make a 12" powerbook, what would you like a 13" macbook or a 15" macbook pro_

let's just say that that was the last thing i expected.
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It blows my mind that Apple, of all companies, thinks that it is actually okay to delete all of a customer's data from their cloud storage service 'in order to serve you better', especially in a case like this where most of the files are probably music you bought from iTunes in the first place.

Apparently it's okay because it's still a 'beta', but this just seems lazy to me and may undermine any early adopters' faith in Apple's cloud services.
Assuming you grew up with Asian parents (disclaimer: I did), how'd breaking the news to your parents go when you decided to leave school and run a website full-time?
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Reminds me of when I couldn't find a Smart Cover for my iPad. Frustrated I emailed Steve Jobs and the next day I got a call from Ireland (I was in India then) and they delivered one to me at my home. India does not have an online (or offline for that matter) store and they don't do deliveries. Big company, very good customer experience for me with the first Apple product I bought myself.
> One could say the same goes for any given field

Please name a sport, business, or other profession that involves staying up 40 hours straight unshowered, unfed, on a routine basis, for years, trying to not die or get anyone killed.

I can think of only two: medicine and the military. I do both. They're roughly equal. Given the choice between residency and deployment, I would need more information.

edit: Actually, I'm facing that choice now: do I apply for residency or orders which will probably involve going to Afghanistan. I'm leaning toward Afghanistan.
Your counterpoints are irrelevant. You can obviously attach code to the article, so that there's no need to include any link or other similar thing. If a reviewer wants to do the thing you described, the actual possession of the code is not a big help for him -- what actually keeps him from doing that is honesty, decency and the respect he has among his colleagues he would instantenously lose.
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if you prefix anything with a dash google takes that keyword out of search queries, for the most part.

so if I wanted to search for computer stuff, but nothing to do with windows, I'd type in: "computers -windows"
There are some famous examples of tweaks that don't make the paper, but are actually critical to successful methods. Antony Jameson's aerodynamic codes are prime examples. He made good money for decades because Boeing and some other majors couldn't reproduce his code on their own, but his code gave better predictions compared to the wind tunnel, so they used it to design several generations of aircraft.
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parents took it surprisingly well. don't think they would have taken it well if I had tried to quit years earlier. the site had grown pretty big/successful, and they mellowed over the years.
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Hi guys,

I wonder if there's any good podcast that interest hackers like us here. I enjoyed books like Passionate Programer (Chad Fowler) and thought it'd be a nice to have a podcast that dish out tips, advice, and stuff that matters to hackers.

Mixergy and those startups-focuses podcasts doesn't quite fit what I have in mind.

Do you have any to recommend?
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Neither sound very good to me, nor are they really explanations. "Hidden" is just as bad as "magic" here. And isn't the second basically the standard aether theory that was soundly defeated at least 100 years ago? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment
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I grew up with Asian parents (who are doctors themselves, no less). Before I went off to med school, they were actually pretty open to other career choices. We spent quite a bit of time making sure that medicine was the way to go before confirming my enrollment. But after that, they've been committed to preventing me from giving up ;p
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