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Characterizing people who disagree with you as "rabid" is not going to help your case, especially when one of those disagreeing with you is borderline-socialist and not generally a big fan of mass privatization.

Nor is using the bloated, corrupt, horrifically inefficient military-industrial complex as your model for how spaceflight should be carried out.

For once, a government agency is handling this right. They're transparently paying set, commercially-appropriate amounts of money to contractors that have a good chance of success, in exchange for meeting specific, objectively-judged goals.

If something goes wrong, there are obvious fallbacks. Boeing/Lockheed and the ULA aren't going anywhere, the ESA has a good track record, and Soyuz is at least as reliable as the Shuttle ever was (and a hell of a lot cheaper).

If SpaceX fizzles out, it's not the end of the world, or even manned space travel, any more than NASA's twice-over criminal negligence with the Shuttle was.
If you have every ported WPF to Silverlight you will know the changes are not minor. They are similar but the differences are large enough to make things very difficult in anything but trivial applications.

You also cannot share assemblies directly, which makes code reuse a big pain, no word on whether WinRT will support normal assemblies, but it's runtime is stripped down just as Silverlights is so probably not.
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Not directly related to this string of comments, but as far as providing feedback... How can I do this? I don't see an obvious place to provide feedback.

Markdown code blocks don't seem to be working. (You can't put 4 spaces before code, but backticks work)
Sorry that 'remember me' didn't work for you. It could have been a bug with how it was set up, or equally likely - a bug in some edge case that you were hitting.

I can assure you that it works now :)
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The fact that he was was with a large MNC says it all. His corporate brand likely does so much work for him that he's possibly forgotten just how hard it is to generate leads.

For example, I have a buddy who's climbing the ladder at Cisco, and qualified leads are always banging at their door. The hardest part is done for them -- he just needs to work with them to find the right solution to the problem, which is the rewarding part.

On the other hand, I do sales at a startup as a cofounder. 99% of my time is trying to find customers. Emails and calls are necessary evils -- I hate doing them, but what am I supposed to do? Just wait for people to come to us? They've never heard of my company, and its a risk to work with a startup. So, the bulk of my time with them, if I get them on the phone, is convincing them that my boutique firm can over serve the big players. Also, I don't have a "team" behind me -- I do everything. Opening, qualifying, meetings, closing, negotiating contracts. Your MNC interviewer has likely never had to do all of these things.

I also have to be technical -- I don't have a technical background, but I'm having to learn as fast als possible. It comes down to learning the costomers poblems faster, knowing the idiosyncrasies of my product, and being able to discuss solutions without having to "go back to my tech team," which is common with bigcos.

In all, its just the fundamental difference between large and small organizations. I assume there are also parallels on the development side.
i agree, it could use more math. i plan to add that in; my concern is that i don't want to scare people away.
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Here's my algorithm: everyone drives "defensive" all the time.

No new computers needed, and fewer "optimists" rear ending people.
WP has many plugins but for any installation only 3-5 are truly necessary. Some plugins are needed if you run a specific type of site, e.g. a community for which the Buddypress plugin is very nice. The vast majority of plugins are there as an alternative to basic php coding and you shouldn't really use them as they degrade the performance.

Page response times really depend on your hosting but you can acheive spectacular performance gains by using W3 Total Cache. I've had sites where the load time for the home page have gone from 1200 ms to 5600 ms.

Yes, if you want your own bespoke theme you will have to code - there's simply no way around this. The trick is to start of with a sane theme template and NOT the default wordpress theme, that one is too complex and bloated.
Which is entirely their fault. You don't treat basic needs(food, water, roof over your head) as investments, because no matter what the actual price is of those, you still need them. Instead, you should buy what's affordable for you, so even if the price drops, it doesn't matter.
I was hoping to finish the project before the teacher called on me.

the completely doesn't even need to be there
And even if that does become true, should everyone know how to program them? Or be able to express ideas about algorithms?

That's like saying everyone who has money should be an accountant.
When we got a talk from a renewable energy / car battery researcher at my university at the end of the talk I asked him "don't you think that given the costs and difficulties with scarce materials that it would be cheaper and more energy efficient to create power lines for cars on every road than to put a battery in every car?" -- and he agreed, except that this strategy doesn't have a good business model unless governments take major steps.
Where are you getting the 4.5% ROI? It's obviously not the stock market, if you're not caring what the market is doing.

Is it in bonds? Several cities and states are looking at defaulting on those. Even if they're corporate bonds, you're right back to being tied into the stock market again.

Perhaps you have it all in CDs. Probably a 20 year Cd if you're getting 4.5%. Fifteen years from now, the bank elects a new president whose new investment strategy is Beanie Babies. There months later, the bank goes under and you're praying that the FDIC steps in to bail you out.

If you're getting any ROI, there's risk involved and you can get wiped out the same way that the boomers did.
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>Someday I should record a video of me coding C++ in Visual Studio.

Please do. It's should not be that difficult to just switch on the recording software and upload it into Youtube. If you could also verbally describe what you're doing and how, would be appreciated.
At the end of humanity, when the Sun finally burns out, and Earth drifts into a slow freeze in the final sunset - mankind will still not have grasped economics.
No, its not. Helium is a limited resource that will run out.

Given the stupidity of the people running the world and their determination to use up fossil fuel resources as fast as possible so that "consumers" can sit in traffic and the like, the most likely transportation system of the future is the horse.
As you see brake lights 1/4 mile ahead slow down.

The slower the traffic is moving, the larger the gap you leave

Try not to actually stop, just slow down and leave larger gaps

Unfortunately implementing this would require some sort of intelligent onboard system attached to the car controls possibly using some sort of analog processing - rather than the current digital, drive as fast as possible to as close as possible to the car in front then slam on the brakes.
People doing public policy not thinking about its predictions, is one of its predictions.
From the jgc article...
It's obvious to most people that illiteracy and innumeracy are problems to be tackled at school, but it's not obvious that we are now living in a world where logical and algorithmic thinking are very, very important.

I wish jcg had written more about why logical and algorithmic thinking is important.
I get why we should teach our kids to code. I'm just hung up on how.

Existing games and non-boring instructional material is pretty thin on the ground, and much of it is of low quality.

To be fair, most college instruction in programming is also not great, so I don't think we're intentionally stiffing kids. But if learning to code is usually painful, fewer children will want to do it.
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Bayes lived in the 18th Century - pretty much everyone believed back then and it wasn't such an irrational view as the likes of DNA, cosmology, geology weren't as advanced.
I think that it is useful to understand the philosophy behind the process, but adapt the process to your own style.

There are two points that I have taken from the TopGrading process:
- hire people who are 'A' players who have succeeded at whatever they have done AND who have a passion for the role you are hiring for
- past performance IS the best determinant of future success, and the best way to answer the first question

The interview process generally starts at college where you dig into why they chose their course, the highlights, where they excelled, where they failed, who influenced them and why. Did they take on any leadership positions? Win any awards?

Then for each job they have had since, find out - why they chose it, what they found, what they fixed, what they learnt & what they would do differently. Would their boss give them a reference, and why did they leave.

At each turn, you are looking for: 'were they an A player / had outstanding results' and 'does their career path lead you to believe that they will be passionate about this job'.

There's a lot of nuances to it, but I wouldn't hire senior people any other way. I recently compared our hiring notes to a comprehensive personality test of a new employee, and they matched exactly.
Don't like it, don't sign it.

Was she under duress when signing? Nothing in the article suggests she was. She signed the contract voluntarily and should stand by her decision. If she was too lazy to do her due diligance before signing, that's her fault too.
Well, that's a start at least - I'm nothing to do with that project any more to verify if the workflow is any better and of more value to developers, but obviously that would be a larger concern and one I'd hope had also been addressed :-)
Too many people thought if you had a 401k it didn't matter because "stocks always go up." Too many people thought if you bought a house it didn't matter because "housing always goes up."

You have to take responsibility for your own investment decisions. This means not buying a McMansion and trying to keep up with the Joneses. This means not buying multiple huge SUVs and living in the suburbs and spending thousands on gas every year. This means not trusting some financial planner when they tell you that you should put 100% of your retirement in the stock market.

People need to think for themselves and take charge of their own financial future. The greatest generation did this - they grew up during the great depression and they understood that you had to save and not trust Wall Street. They understood that housing doesn't always go up. Their kids partied at Woodstock and forgot everything their parents told them.
They introduced them on the M25 (London's 100mi orbital car park) they also fitted them with speed cameras and heavy fines.
It made a lot of difference to the traffic jams, now people pretty much (BMW drivers excepted) follow them
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okay but... I don't HAVE an account. I'll create something more...participatory. Sorry. :/
Another benefit of larger rockets is the width of the components they can carry. I'm no expert, but larger spacecraft modules seem like a big win for long duration missions.
Do you have any plans, in Jira, to allow sub-tasks to have their own sub-tasks. Only having one level of nesting is extremely restrictive and an annoyance we come up against a lot. On the whole though I quite like Jira, particularly its integration with FishEye.

FishEye is also pretty decent although it chokes a lot with the size of our repository - we have a lot of code and a lot of branches which have really pushed the size up. A few JS optimisations would be nice as well - it can really chew up the CPU sometimes.
Oracle, just like Sun before it. Each time they do a code dump, the new and changed drivers can be integrated into Illumos by Joyent and other companies that depend on Illumos. Sure, it won't support "all the new hardware", but it will support enough. If they decide they need to, Joyent has the resources to do their own driver development.
Ya I know. I meant hacked as in regular drivers randomly broadcasting signals saying traffic jam ahead. Obviously it can be hacked, but it will have to be a lot more sophisticated then that.
I don't know where you grew up but where I grew up it was different. I went to Catholic school during K-12 while the rest of my friends went to public school in Brooklyn and Queens, NY. The teacher to student ratio was far greater for public school students and many did not have good parents or parents that cared. Teachers that live in the cities with large populations get paid nothing and they will not go out of their way for their students, which is needed. I was in a similar situation as you. I had lousy teachers making a lot of money and I came away learning particularly nothing from them. The school itself had protected me from outside influence which allowed me to learn on my own. Most of my friends, which came from the now defunct Jackson H.S. in Queens, have become drug dealers, ended up in jail, died or never went to college. These are people of white, black, Asian and Indian descent. The only friend that made anything of himself went to Brooklyn Tech and is now a medical teacher at Harvard. Even he went to Catholic school with me in K-8.

In the major cities, teachers are going to have to be pseudo-parents. This is not worth the effort for a salary of $35,000-45,000/year.
^ this

[sorry this is the sort of thing you get with no visible upvote]
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I read the tablet comment to mean that it was a reduced functionality version, not that it would be tablet only.
I use this in Conkeror, and it drives me batty when I stumble on comics that don't provide pagination links. This kind of stuff should be Web 101.
Capt Sully was flying an airbus and the NTSB have credited it with maintaining airspeed automatically allowing a safe landing.

Although they did credit Sully with starting the APU to allow the full airbus systems to continue operating rather than the more manual emergency only mode you have with the RAT.
Hey - I'm not sure what you mean? You mean do I realise that the guy I fired wouldn't find a job again?
Note that the 6502 documentary holds a decisive lead in the number of backers (25 vs. 11 for Arcade and 3 for Tape).

I presume this is a result of the huge amount of Apple II affection still out there.

When I got into the game industry in the 90's, a sure icebreaker with other programmers was to ask if they cut their programming teeth on the Apple II (like most), the Commodore 64 or maybe the Atari. All were 6502 platforms.
I like that idea, and I'd add it to mine:

People drive at a constant speed.

The root cause of traffic jams, in my opinion, is that people brake much quicker than they accelerate.

This leads to traffic bunching up, and then stretching out as people regain speed.

In the UK, the variable speed limits on major routes work if people obey them, as it cuts down this emergent behaviour.
...which is probably why Facebook Chat also supports XMPP clients. Shame that they don't do federation, though.
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I wonder if they still call them rogue traders when these big bets actually end up winning.
radical?
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And, of course, the submission title uses the entire word AND the asterisk, which is perhaps an attempt to poke fun? Or just a funny mistake.
"radical"? Hyperbole much?

It looks to be the same basic case as the iPod Touch, maybe with more of the iPad's angles. Hardly radical, probably not even new.
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Your friend's approach is all well and good if you're single, living with a bunch of roommates, and have no financial obligations other than to yourself. What happens when you get older, marry, and have a kid or two?
I'm in. Got the 3rd ed. while waiting for the shipment of the 4th (possibly long wait). Let me know if you're in a similar situation.
> Patchy support.

This. And on basic stuff too, especially in Webkit: flexible canvas size is broken (fantastic for a vector format), events handling is bonkers, looks vary drastically from one browser to the next, all methods of serving an SVG are shitty in different ways (and forget about using an SVG background, not going to happen), etc...

Tried to make a basic interactive SVG map (not much interaction too, big rectangular active surfaces), ended up scrapping everything and going with canvas. It looks like either nobody gives a shit about SVG on the browser side or the spec is either retarded or not implementable.
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I think this is where small presses (or specialized imprints/brands from larger publishers) can make a big difference, even in the post-paper-book world, for authors that appeal to a niche market.

Last week I was browsing the SF shelves at the local about-to-close Borders, and I ended up buying a book I had never heard of by an author I had never heard of without even reading the first chapter. One reason I took that risk, of course, was that it only cost my five bucks. But the reason I picked that book out of all the titles on the shelf, most of which were even cheaper, was that it was put out by Haikasoru (a small press specializing in translations of Japanese SF), and I really liked the last Haikasoru book I bought, and I read the editor’s LJ, and I like his taste.
This means not buying a McMansion and trying to keep up with the Joneses. This means not buying multiple huge SUVs and living in the suburbs and spending thousands on gas every year.

Are we really so positive that everyone who is hurting in this economy made these kinds of irresponsible financial decisions?
It's always possible to avoid having a preposition be the thing that a sentence ends with. If the version with the preposition at the end sounds more natural, I agree that's what you should go for.
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I've always found the Amazon approach interesting. As part of their sales funnel they email related content to you based on your browsing habits when logged in. Clearly they therefore have a large incentive to persist the user's login status.

Their logout link takes the form
"Hello %NAME%. We have recommendations for you. (Not %NAME%?)"

'Not %NAME%' is the logout link, which confuses the hell out of users (just Google 'Amazon logout'). Even if you know it's there, you battle subconscious friction in clicking that link when it is in fact your name.

This strategy has been around years and no doubt adds visibly to their bottom line, even while it exposes users to potential fraud issues with others using their account for one-click purchasing.
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The American Dream is a bit more restless than that.
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I always try to do the "average speed" thing in stop and go traffic (if for no other reason that I have a manual transmission and it's really annoying to have to stop and start...) and it has another effect that this page did not mention. The spaces that open up in front of you can often be quite large, and a substantial fraction of the drivers behind you (who presumably have not learned about travelling waves) will honk, flash their light, or even cut into the other lane, pass, cut back in front of you, speed up to 60mph and then slam to a stop, just because you are obviously "not keeping up with traffic".
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In my own case, I live within about 1.5 miles of the nearest stop...Los Angeles bus ridership skews markedly toward the socioeconomically disadvantaged.

The only places that are more than 1/3 mile from the nearest bus stop are in the (typically more affluent) suburbs. The socioeconomically disadvantaged tend to live in the more densely-packed urban parts of town, where there are stops on every corner. The wealthier areas of the city (e.g. Bel Air, Beverly Hills (north of Sunset), Hollywood Hills, Malibu, etc.) have fewer stops, but also fewer riders. Basically, where the majority of the ridership lives, there are plenty of bus stops.

As for solving the last mile problem, I don't think it's possible to make it profitable. Public transportation is only cheap because of subsidies from the city. $1.50 for a trip, $6 for an unlimited day pass, or $60/month is a very cheap rate, and your target market is used to paying those prices. Even in a golf cart, I'm not sure how much you could charge someone to make it profitable. You're not going to convince me to pay you even $1 for a ride to the bus stop to take a $1.50 ride.
There's a great deal of power in '.', which repeats the last command. So if you have to do something 12 times, your steps could look something like this;

- Run the command once

- Think "Hmm, looks like I have to do this about ten more times"

- Type '10.', repeating the last command 10 times

- See that there's only one left to do, since you guessed 10 and it was 11

- Press '.' one more time to do the last one

You won't win any vim golf competitions like that, but it's very easy to do.
This isn't really a ground breaking revelation but something that MS has been hinting at for months if not years. Win32 was never suppose to be so tightly integrated in the Kernel, it was suppose to be a user mode subsystem just POSIX.

MinWin was a kernel cleanup effort that was suppose to be part of Longhorn and then Win7. If MinWin is finished in Win8 then Win32 would just be a subsystem along side Metro and neither would be dependent on the other or necessary for the other to operate.

I can't find the reference but I remember reading somewhere a few months back that Win32 may not even be installed by default in Win8 and that it would only be installed when you attempted to load an application that needed Win32.
It's very easy for those of us in Gen X that do software development to be smug. After all, I don't know of any 65 year old Java programmers refusing to retire so that we can get a job.

In other industries where ageism is not so rampant, they might have it tougher than we do. Industries like healthcare, finance, etc, there are many positions that they are just not going to give up.

In a way, it makes me very cynical towards the older generation. They had the world given to them on a platter in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Instead they squandered everything they had. They started "Reaganomics" in the 1980s and since then median household income has decreased as adjusted for inflation. They started unnecessary wars, squandered our nations standing in the world, destroyed the housing market, the stock market, and the global economy. Now, when they finally retire they are going to dump themselves on us, broke, sick, and old, and expect us to take care of them with welfare payments, because they squandered all their money on McMansions and SUVs.

It's hard not to be bitter if you are Gen X and Gen Y. I know we all love our parents, but our parents generation is pretty fucked up.
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