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It's a prize. A prize in the field of economics, which is hardly physics. Unless there is some empirical process for selection and award, it's just the result of a committee's opinions.

If we can agree on that, certainly you can see that the door is open for the members of the committee to be swayed by lots of things, including his political work/views. To act otherwise is to try to turn respected scientists into some sort of mechanistic non-humans. People are influenced by all sorts of things, at the conscious and unconscious levels.

I have no idea what part of my statement is controversial. Yet it seems to just drive some people nuts.
The line "being a developing nation, it means opportunities are fewer, and you tend to get stuck where you are longer than you usually want," is very interesting me. I can't speak to that notion exactly, but here in the US people very often feel exactly the same about managers in any job so far as becoming "very passive so not to anger their manager."

It's often much easier to survive the day-to-day by being passive and doing things inefficiently or wrong than it is to trying to 'do the right thing'. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say most management _everywhere_ prefers employees to do things "their way" over "the right way."

And insofar as how to combat it, your simple suggestion pretty much hits the nail on the head. Just make sure on-site management understands that too.
Yes I am aware how that it is typical for the committee to cite works from decades ago.

That we're still debating Keynes and Smith indicate that economics is not like physics -- it has a long way to go. We certainly didn't debate Newton for a century: it was too obvious he was correct. There is lots of room for opinion. QED
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I'm with you davidw, but I just got tired of over and over again saying "it's off topic". I give up.
See also the classic that Slate chose to republish, macroeconomics in one lesson, Baby-Sitting the Economy:

http://www.slate.com/id/2202165/pagenum/all
The poster's attitude to me seemed to be "I'm not pro-my-country-no-matter-what-the-facts, but I believe it to be superior in this one respect."

For which you went for the jugular and called him jingoistic. A better response would have been to engage in a discussion over whether or not his assumption was true. He was open to the discussion, and by not taking it you shut him down for no reason at all.

As you noted, ignorant was a little over the top.

My point is that both of you guys are wasting your time unless you're willing to talk to each other and not past each other. When somebody says "I'm not trying to be X" and then acts like X, I see that as an opportunity to 1) define X, and 2) talk about the facts. It's not the place to trash the commenter. They're reaching out, for cripes sake.
The code base has now been recycled 5 times over, and
they keep adding layers to it instead of cleaning it up.

There have been lots of stupid extensions - technologies in the space we call COM - but they don't reflect on the core. And with the core - they've cleaned it up multiple times. Microsoft have been excellent at doing incremental releases with the exception of Vista. Everything else (including Windows 95) has just been a steady increment on the previous version. Dot net is an attempt to create a clean new alternative stack to allow them to stablise the legacy system so they can get it stable and then just leave it.

With NT3 they did as little as possible by taking lots of inspiration from OS2 but fixing up the things it got wrong such as single input queue. What were the major features improvements of Windows 2000 over NT4? Some steady interface improvements that were already available for NT4 as a patch, plus you could change IP addresses without rebooting. XP over 2000? More annoying user interface, support for some new hardware.

Also, you say 'recycled'? It has and respects legacy, and I agree that this holds it back - there are certain things about the core that are awful and hard-wired that way for the rest of time. One of the major reasons I avoid it for anything more than running browsers and office is that I can't stand the command-line limitations. But code doesn't get worn out through reuse. The major criticism I'd have of Vista is that they were so carried away by the prospect of duplicating the ridiculous operating environment that I hate about my OSX environment that they didn't recycle enough!

(One thing I admire about Apple. When the OS code got old
and crufty, they weren't afraid to start at the beginning
and do it right.)

They didn't though. They just rolled NeXT forward and wrote compatibility layers for the Apple stuff. I can't cite this exactly, but when he was launching NeXT, Jobs said something along the lines of "it's late, but there may just be enough time left to establish one more workstation platform". And really they cheated because it's just unix with their own GUI.
It's irrelevant. Copyright is dead (by which I mean that business models based on selling copies of a piece of information are becoming non-viable); the worst this bill will do is harm a few thousand individual file sharers. This will slow down the transition to the information-is-free-as-in-beer society, but it cannot halt it.

This is not to be read as a moral judgement: what I say is true regardless of whether I -- or anyone else -- approves of it. Bits are copiable, and the law cannot change that, any more than a law could make water not wet. The only way to stop filesharing would be to destroy the computing and Internet infrastructure, which no nation can do unless it wants to be as poor as North Korea.

In the medium term the main effect of this might be to stimulate the creation of new P2P software that is more robust against attacks, and which makes it harder for the MAFIAA to snoop on what files people are sharing.
I would personally much rather hack up a Firefox extension in Python than to try to do it in Firefox's standard plugin architecture thingamajig (Javascript/CSS/voodoo/???).

You'll still need to do "CSS/voodoo/???" to integrate your extension to the Firefox UI.

What you get to do is to use Python instead of JavaScript (a matter of taste), and you get access to Python libraries, which cover desktop-side computing much better than JS.
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I think his way of doing research is the way computer scientists do research. I.e. instead of taking a very complex programming model (like Java's or Haskell's), most CS researchers invent their own mini languages (that in a lot of cases are simple extensions of lambda calculus or turning machines), these mini languages makes it much easier to reason about specific things. An example: Java's generics were first presented in a paper that added them to a mini-language that only mimicked some properties of Java.

That said, his way of working also seems to be very "hackerish", i.e. instead of using "the normal ways", he hacks a model together that show some properties that the conventional and more complex models have a hard time showing. This is basically also how great hackers work, e.g. Paul Graham's Arc (it's very unconventional and simplified - but great at showing the essence of the hacker's ideas).

Anyway, great link!
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so true.

as a friend told me once, when you add a second person to your team and it's the wrong person, your overall performance will fall under 100% of what you could be doing alone.

This is what I sometimes feel that I'm unfortunately experiencing myself (we are two).
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And, Marginal Revolution has the best overview of why Krugman won the prize:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/10...

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/10...
Thanks for being so pedantic for us. We understand how valuable your time is, and it's quite flattering that you chose to spend it on catching and correcting microscopic ambiguities in our discussions that might have otherwise gone undiscovered.
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Now that's independent advice! ;)
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I found this very interesting. Specifically, I've never worked through implementing all the set operations in shell myself. You can see these as functional programming, and you often represent sets and multi-sets as lists in fp. In shell, your elements just can't contain '\n'.

Regarding the value of this, I see two main points:

1. When you're shell scripting (see next point ;-), you'll need some of these, and the situation might prefer not calling other programming languages.

2. The shell commands as used here are a fairly compact and convenient base for expressing these and many other computations. Many other environments would have a hard time representing computations processing more data than can fit RAM. Something comparable might be RDBMS-backed LINQ.
That makes the rant even more pointless.
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I guess I should start saving up — sucks being a student! My 1.83Ghz 2006 MBP does everything I need, but I cannot help wanting one of the new ones! :D
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I'd love to see a 3G modem built into the MacBook, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Also, what's with the optical drive? Does anyone actually use an optical drive all the time while on the go? Wouldn't an external drive make so much more sense? Or is my usage pattern waaay out there?

I might just end up getting one of the new MacBooks (as my first ever mac) but only if the HDD is user-accessible.

EDIT: These are meant as actual questions, not flamebait.
It's apparently okay for folks to rent two weeks a year and okay for someone to rent to said folks

a huge fraction of the "stay there two weeks a year" folks try to rent the other weeks

I disagree. Few people maintain a property only to rent it for two weeks a year. Once you bother to rent it, you try to do it for as long as possible. On the other hand, people who buy one, two, ... n houses for vacationing or speculating purposes can often afford to have them empty.

In any event, that's irrelevant to my point. Be them a huge or tiny fraction, I'm not so much against those. A house that gets occupied, by owners or renters, for most of the year, serves a genuine need.
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Macs seem to have an absurd resale value, you could always try to sell it.
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Non-dichotomous abstractions that fail to get a deep personal response from the reader don't make good reading (or at least publishable reading).

On a positive note, like you said, at least it's suggesting there's more than one group: thanks to Mr. Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley poster children, we assume that everyone peaks in their 18-25 range, so it's actually refreshing to be reminded of cases in the past where this wasn't true.

Actually seriously addressing the issue and trying to find a complicated system of abstractions to describe it would be far to... academic. In my mind, that means "refreshingly deep", but I bet in most minds it means "booooooooooooooooring".
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No idea why you are getting voted down.

I think the Air is really designed for the 'no optical drive' crowd, but I agree that I don't often use by MBP's drive.

I too would like to see a 3G modem built in.
Rent it out to other programmers ;)
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I think acquirers may eventually have chief acquisition officers who will both identify good acquisitions and make the deals happen….Maybe in the future big companies will have both a VP of Engineering responsible for technology developed in-house, and a CAO responsible for bringing technology in from outside.

At the moment, there is no one within big companies who gets in trouble when they buy a startup for $200 million that they could have bought earlier for $20 million.

Isn't he talking about the VP/BizDev here? I know, for instance, that Cisco has an entire group dedicated to evaluating and executing acquisitions.
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I'm not a fan of the Air, the price/performance ratio is just off. In particular, even with a rumoured upgrade to the HDD, it's just too damn small, and the RAM would be a severely limiting factor for me. I'd much prefer a Macbook with as-is spec but minus the optical drive. It would make it a bit lighter, a bit thinner and a bit cheaper, too.
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Wow. It's like Fermi with a 2000 word essay explaining the number of sides on a triangle: Three.
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By way of agreement with you, I will say there's no "but in a way" about it. As I recall--I was a Mac developer at the time--Copland was everything Jobs is not. A large, bureaucratic team. Infighting and feature poaching between the Pink and Blue teams with nobody to step in and provide Adult Supervision. No hard ship date with a command to abandon anything that wouldn't fit (real artists ship, Copland did not ship).

Much has been made of how little Jobs contributed to the original Macintosh. However, looking back we see what he did contribute: the all-consuming focus on shipping a product, and the willingness to make the hard decisions needed to do so.

This was entirely unlike the Copland effort in every which way.

http://tinyurl.com/2lrwzd (Wikipedia article on Copland)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent (and Taligent)
You can't make judgments without knowing the business plan and how they executed it. It's quite likely the entire venture was doomed and this guy held it together long after it would have been unsalvageable otherwise.
Why do you think that reddit has no value?
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Understood. I wouldn't want you becoming a criminal. Or at least, not over that.
I dunno. The third-person complimentary stuff he gets up to sometimes gets to be too much. :/

EDIT: No? No jokes today? I'm sorry.
I agree. Narcissism is healthy. But when the point is the article is "how I became less narcissistic by not paying as detailed attention to Facebook," and it's an article that pays deep attention to his personal experience on Facebook, then an accusation of hypocrisy makes a wee bit of sense.
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Knowing SUN, they'll GPL theirs when this filesystem is 90% done.

Btw, can we screen the devs a bit better this time?
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To my knowledge IronPython cannot easily call python extensions written in C/C++. So going with IronPython means using Microsoft's .NET libraries (or the mono clones) for many tasks, just as using JVM based languages means falling back to Java libraries as a replacement for those Python/Ruby libraries that haven't been reimplemented on top of the VM.

Python has a huge number of libraries and it keeps growing. I don't think the attempt to reimplement everything on top of .NET/Java is going to succeed. The people who maintain these libraries are not going to do it so where's the army of people who will take on such an incredibly boring task? I hope, one day, C/C++ libraries will be conveniently accessible from the VMs.

The only viable alternative would be to implement all Python libraries exclusively in Python. That's something that current maintainers of C/C++ extensions might consider doing. But Python would have to be much faster for this to work.
When I open Photoshop on my MacBook it sounds like the fan is going to break off (it spins fast).

I would like to get a new one, but I was thinking about just getting a Mac Pro for the heavy work at home and using the laptop for school/travel.
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That blogs design hurts my eyes. Its pure form over function.

Who decided to use white text on a nearly white background for the navigation?
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Well, I can appreciate that this is "election silly season"... I'm very politically active for one of the candidates; I just think that politics is a very touchy subject. It can cause deep divisions amongst people who would otherwise get along just fine.
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I've arrived here a few weeks ago from .au, and know virtually nobody asides from a few gents at FOWA last week.

Where are the best places to meet others in the Python / web dev / entrepreneurship community and enjoy a pint?
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"Instead, though, we have a proper site suggestion that is clear and directs the user where they meant to go"

Not what the article is about. Domain squatters are registering commonly misspelled domains and filling them with Google ads. The point is whether or not they should be allowed to own these domains (copyright), and whether or not Google should be allowed to profit from them. I don't think anyone is advocating a different way of 404 handling (another huge area for potential profit, see NSI/FF etc.)
"For example, Jesus is the most humble man possible, yet he claimed to be God. "

Assuming you believed someone called Jesus existed, and believe in the bible, Jesus did not say he was God.

He actively avoided bringing this topic up, but did agree with others who said he was the Son of God and King of the Jews.
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It is simple. Become profitable. That is what businesses were designed to do. Once you become profitable, you get lots of options. You can take Dividends aka share of profits, sell to another firm, sell to Private Equity (OK, without cheap credit that game is over for a while), even go public when the time is right or in the right location (eg AIM in London). Think Buffet more than Soros. Something happened around 1995 when techies became traders. Build a great biz and forget about Mr. Market. If your current VC won't finance you to profitability, change your business model and if you cannot do that close shop and start again. Bernard Lunn (author of the article)
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This is the first Krugman article I've read, and while I don't know much about the economy, his points all seemed pretty logical. Krugman's also an amazing writer. That's probably the first economics article I've read and enjoyed.
great work matt
Very cool, though not something a decent unixadmin can't do :)

Note before you think this is "old crap" this approach scales to multi-core and multi-processor and can handle quite large sets. For really large sets you might need to play a bit with sort flags and perhaps do those steps it in two phases.

Hardcore unixadmins often freak out developers when their month long projects on handling some files in production could be replaced with some scripting and in fact run it orders of magnitude faster. Multiprocessor means multiple L1 and L2 caches, less I/O blocking, etc. :)
Oh, I love Prof. Krugman. Saw him at his press conference yesterday, and hoping to congratulate him today.
I give VCs and startup founders more credit than you do. If I met someone who blackballed Matt on the basis of a satire like this, I would wonder why they were being so insecure and/or vindictive.

That being said, hang on a moment (waits 60s). Funny, no calls from VCs. I wonder if it was this:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/04/venture-capitalist-passe...

Seriously, the people I know (probably many fewer than everyone else) are the types to laugh hardest at this stuff. I recall meeting with an investment banking boutique about writing valuation models for them. The partner told me that before getting to work I had to familiarize myself with the Code of Ethics for his profession. He handed me a heavy tome.

I opened it, to find... blank pages! He laughed heartily. I can't see that guy spitting on Matt's shadow as they pass in the street.
no! Why?
Yeah: they apparently devalue extremely slowly.

Depending on if they do release a new 17" MBP or not, I might look into that. If I can sell my 5-month-old one and make back my money, it would be a pretty neat deal overall.
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the macbooks (current gen) have a really easily replaceable hard drive, here's hoping the same is true for the new one.
i have a similar setup and i'll never look back.
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Really? I've always thought that Google's had the easiest-to-read CAPTCHA of all the ones I came across.
- Unjustified name-calling irrelevant to the point of the article.

- Compared to the other groups influencing society (marketing departments, political parties, artists, The Media), modern environmentalists and "commies" are 1. powerless 2. arguably beneficial, if perhaps not trustworthy as a factual source.

- Calling your point-of-view "obvious" on a complex topic is Proof By Intimidation.

http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~berwin/humour/invalid.proofs.ht...
I actually wasn't impressed at all because I don't think we can ever know if she questioned him or gave him a hard time.

It could have been an unbelievably painful number of years for both of them and she could have given up on him years before but was stuck supporting him. It doesn't sound as nice but it is probably closer to reality...
Good reference article. This is one of those things that you always need on a service website, but never know where to start.
"And that was just the beta."

I don't understand what you mean here. Do you think Microsoft will fund even more people to make SilverLight-exclusive content after the beta?
About Harvard professors spending time/resources on such things - it is a social phenomenon. And given the money involved here, a business phenomenon as well.
I thought the Mac Pro is really noisy. I sent mine back.
This is well thought out.... Thanks PG