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Maybe you're missing the point, however. What about the people who want to crank out some simplistic, but nifty apps which could drive further use of the iPhone, but they can't build them, because they (for some reason) can't afford a Mac. (But they have lots of available time. I'm thinking unemployed geeks, college students, etcetera)
I have maybe three or four apps that I'd love to make for the iPhone.

But, I don't own a Mac (As frankly, when it comes to desktops, I prefer PCs and I am a big Build-Your-Own person), so, I can't develop.
Odd how rich countries that function well are interspersed with countries that don't work quite as well (at least in terms of ease of doing business). Italy is fairly low on the list, yet I'd take Canada or Britain's economy any day.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. My lather was starting to dry and I needed a good rinse.

One thing and I'll let you go. "a strong correlation is usually evidence that an underlying cause exists, whether direct or indirect in nature"

Oh really now? Well that explains my theory as to how carrots are deadly poisonous. You see, I've found a 100% correlation between the consumption of carrots and death, usually within 80 years. I'm also working on a theory that sunlight is a cause of all cancer, seeing as how there is another 100% relationship between all people with cancer and exposure to sunlight.

Science is the creation and study of models, abduction, based on the use of deduction and induction. Correlation is simply a tool used to create the model. When we forget we're comparing models, then it's easy to simply fall back on simple correlation-based arguments. That's like forgetting geometry and simply observing the circumference of a circle is usually about 3 times the diameter. It's true, but it's not creating an abstract calculus that can then be extended.

I find your continued use of "armchair scientist" to be an ad hominem, as if by using that name my argument would carry less weight. Last I checked we weren't providing credentials to express opinions.

I'm done playing. timr -- you can follow me around to another comment on the board and continue your picking. I have to go get my armchair adjusted for physics.
I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#.

Probably because I don't use them recently.
"SquirrelFish Extreme" sounds like the kind of software product name that The Onion would come up with.

...or, somewhat surprisingly, Apple.

(Airport Extreme, Quartz Extreme)
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> and have no desire for anything more

Except for food, shelter, health, transportation, recreation...
And who is David to say this? MS is one of the biggest companies in the world, makes billions in revenue, used by all major coorporations, and 37signals are just some tiny tiny fraction of that, and stopped innovating years ago and just live off marketing and PR.

So why should I pay attention to this tiny tiny company instead of the big successful one?
As startup developers, if we're developing technology, we're going to be competing with other technology in the user's environment. I don't think the politicians know what to do with all of these gadgets and such that are part of our everyday lives.

As a pilot, I'm used to working in a highly complex and interruptive envioronment. But even then, you have to forcefully prioritize those gadgets and interactions that are vital and those that are not. And even then it's just a stop-gap measure. For years, cockpit designers have been aware that pilots can easily get lost in the gadgetry. I remember reading one story of a small corporate jet, (I think a Lear) that took off on a beautiful clear sunny day and flew directly into the side of a mountain -- the pilots were busy programming the flight computers and weren't looking out the windows.

Not sure how this one is going to play out.
I fully await the day that the left starts defining other ptolitical views as forms of mental illness.

The biopsychology of politics.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1842523,00.ht...

The study, published in the September 19 [2008] issue of the journal Science, involved 46 Nebraska residents with strong political convictions. Researchers examined the link between each participant's stated political views and his or her physiological response to a perceived threat in the lab. People with stronger measurable threat responses, the study found, tended to adhere to "socially protective" political policies, or those that suggest more concern for preserving the social unit — for example, supporting the Iraq war and the death penalty, but opposing abortion rights and gay marriage.

Researchers shied away from using labels such as conservative and liberal in their study, but they concede that volunteers who registered a heightened sense of threat also tended to subscribe to conservative attitudes.
We're of course intending to raise funds. At this stage we're writing the business plan, putting together the engineering drawings, doing simulations, and sourcing components for the first prototype build. We'll be moving into fundraising mode soon.
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> They force an inappropriate fundamental data type on everything, and are only of benefit if you want to fiddle with the insides of extant functions.

Please explain.

(And I know composition, etc. I also use Haskell and Forth.)
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No, I don't really care about 4chan.

I just think penicillin was an odd example.
Here's the equivalent (of some) in Python:

def make_adder (how_much_to_add):
return lambda initial_value: initial_value + how_much_to_add
print map ( make_adder(10), [1, 7, 3, 9] )
# [11, 17, 13, 19]

my_favorite_adder = make_adder(42)
print map ( my_favorite_adder, [1, 7, 3, 9] )
# [43, 49, 45, 51]

def make_modifier (operator, operand): # a bit more general than make_adder
return lambda (initial_value): operator(initial_value, operand)
print map ( make_modifier(pow, 3), [1, 7, 3, 9] )
# [1, 343, 27, 729]

note: The lisp syntax looks weird to me, but in converting this, I really noticed the convenience of lisp's (1). symbols (not needing quotes); and (2). lists (not needing commas). Interesting.
Interesting, from that page you can see that ruby has many more news stories despite its lower search volume.

Also interesting: on the usa-only graphy, ruby and c# have had about the same search traffic since 1996. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&g...
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But just like the spectrum auction, even when it loses it wins.
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But the definition of "afford" has changed in 20 years, too, right? Part of the reason so people have these things is because of credit (and, more importantly, debt).

I reckon many people (including plenty who shop at Whole Foods/Wild Oats rather than a food bank) can't "afford" their lifestyles, either, but cheap credit (which may be coming to an end) makes it seem that way.
This list is VERY inaccurate and completely misleading. I don't know who the dolts where that published it.
It's funny how a completely new version of a three-months old javascript engine appears just a few weeks after the launch of Chrome. Not that that's bad, of course.
Your examples bely either a fundamental misunderstanding of the mathematics of correlation, or a willingness to ignore them to fake an argument.

First, you can't "correlate" with incidence of death -- it's not even a binary variable, since everyone dies. Of course, you can correlate with onset of death, but that would make your example silly; if there were an observed acceleration in onset of death due to carrot consumption, it would only serve to illustrate the value of correlative studies in science.

Likewise with sunlight exposure -- you've just flipped the constant to the predictor (everyone has experienced sunlight exposure), and attempted to correlate with a variable output (cancer occurrence). Again, mathematical nonsense.

That said, I don't dispute anything you've said about models, abductive, deductive or inductive reasoning. But you can reason all day long, and without empirical data, you've got nothing but a castle on a cloud. Ultimately, you're always going to come back to correlating at least one observed variable with another -- the predictor, and the response. This is basic science.

Why do I refer to "armchair scientists"? Because I couldn't think of a better term to describe those people who want science to be just like math, but conveniently forget that mathematics rests entirely upon a set of fundamental axioms that are simply asserted to be true. The people who learned about one logical fallacy some time in high school, and latched on for dear life, conveniently forgetting that every scientist in the world knows about the same fallacy.

Moreover, these folks aren't familiar with the details, so they don't see that the places where mathematics most closely touch science -- quantum theory, string theory, etc. -- tend to be extraordinarily messy. The math frequently depends on assumptions and approximations that are accepted based on their similarity to observed data. For example, right now, thousands of scientists are banging subatomic particles together in a subterranean tube in France, in order to observe something that the mathematicians think might be there. If it isn't, the mathematicians get to start over.

Again: it all comes back to observing things. And as long as we're observing things that are difficult to observe, I have a feeling that cranky internet scientists will be there to argue from the comfort of an easy chair that empiricism has it all wrong.
This is brilliant. Only today I was doing some web design where I fucked around in Flash for a few minutes putting a cross-fade together.

When i'm on the clock tomorrow I'll test how well this performs cross-browsers, and if all runs well sub this in... the site's already utilising jQuery.

EDIT* Funny, after some very quick testing I found FF to handle it the best. Opera was a little jittery, especially with the zooming. Chrome was more jittery, especially with zooming.

IE handled everything fine, except the zooming, which seemed jittery too; however surprisingly it didn't seem quite as bad as Opera or Chrome's rendering.

Safari's out of action on this laptop for a few days while i'm tinkering with it, so I can't test how that renders.
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I've been following this field for a while.

Best I can see, we're heading for a place where the quality of your ideas don't matter -- instead, we'll simply place you in an easy-to-digest psychological stereotype. The only reason I see for this is to decrease debate among the public at large -- why argue with somebody who obviously is afflicted with some malady?

I wonder why we aren't seeing the same studies being done on empiricists versus rationalists? Or terrorist versus non-terrorist? Or baseball fans versus football fans? Or religious versus non-religious?

Wait -- we are seeing religious versus non-religious. And we're seeing politics. But unless I'm mistaken, there's not a lot of research on other potentially interesting areas. (aside from the normal marketing stuff) I'll leave it to the reader to speculate as to why this is.
> Those on which they aren't opposed aren't worthy of mention, and so aren't.

They were. Harm and fairness were identified as issues that both ideologies regard as being most important.
SunSpider is used pretty widely; it claims to be a balanced benchmark, but where the balance point between different language features lies will depend quite a lot on what kind of application one happens to be writing, so it's more an art than a science.

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
I commented, but it needs to be signed off by Sergey.
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This was required reading in my Econ 101 Class.

A must read.
However, a caveat: this book, along with Carl Menger's Principles of Economics, will turn you into what some might call a "[Ron] Paulite".

Then again, some see that a term of endearment. ;p
Jason, thanks for the complement and the criticism. To clarify a couple of points: Zoho CRM has nothing do with SugarCRM code. It is entirely written in Java - just as all the rest of the Zoho suite, in fact, it shares the same underlying Java distributed framework with the rest of Zoho.

vtiger has a clean open source license, same as Firefox (MPL) - the entire product is available on that license - and vtiger offered it on exactly equal terms to everyone, including SugarCRM. What is "ripping off" about that? SugarCRM basically has been trying to have it both ways, using the word open source liberally, but not quite living up to it. About half the product they offer is not open source at all. They basically have abused open source as a marketing term. vtiger called them on it. vtiger is doing well - it is now a separate stand-alone company, which was spun out a while ago.

As for our "soulless" UI, I suppose the marketplace will judge. We do have a lot of very happy customers - otherwise we won't be in business. On innovation, have you looked at Zoho Creator?

On the corporate side, there is only a single entity: AdventNet, which itself is a bootstrapped, organically grown company. We just have been around long enough (12 years) to afford to do things like Zoho.
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I think what is meant is that the list is the primary data structure for everything in lisps. Fortunately, it is not the only data structure in lisps. I dislike constructs where eg. a graph edge is built as:

'(GRAPH-EDGE <source-vertex> <target-vertex>)

whereas in ML you would write

type edge = { source: Vertex.t; target: Vertex.t }

which is not a list, but an entirely different representation. In Common Lisp the representation could of course be a CLOS object or a DEFSTRUCT (I think, my CL-fu is definitely not that good).

As for the composition, lisps are lacking (nice) currying which is one of the basic building blocks when constructing combinator-libraries.
One alternative to short selling as a hedge is a structured note linked to inverse performance of a stock. But how scalable is this option? If anything, we are moving backwards with this solution as there would be less transparency in this "unregulated market". Who knows what kind of risk these counterparties will take?
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Yes, and to everyone who now claims he was really sure of the bubble back then: why didn't you make a fortune in short selling?
That right there almost makes me wanna buy a new iPhone just for it.

Almost. While the iPhone certainly gives game developers entirely new game control dimensions to work with, it's still too expensive in my books. As for the iPod touch, I'm just waiting for them to pack in enough storage for my whole library, and then I'm there.
If you read the article it should be clear we didn't code all that stuff in just two weeks. Or if we did then we are stupendous badasses. :-)
This web site is unfortunately in French (Belgium).
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Pictures are self speaking, text is mostly warnings to not cut or burn yourself when building up the setup.

The author wrote in the last sentence that the hardest part was to eat the sausages that had a awful taste.
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Reminds me of Firesomething:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/31
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My goodness. I don't understand why you invested in those hedge funds in the first place if you thought the managers were overpaid. I wouldn't mind giving Jim Simons his 5% of assets and 44% of gains if I could invest in Rentec. Unfortunately, I'm not a Rentec investor, so his compensation is literally none of my business.
Nice! I've been waiting for a write-up like this.

Because Flash has such good browser support, it's common for bits of rich functionality on sites to be implemented with little SWF files, with or without UI. Sound players, upload widgets, cross-domain sockets, even browser-proof clipboard access. I do all my web programming in Emacs, and the text-file-based development method he suggests is right on.
I'm completely against it, but there is a theory that it was a stop-gap to what is being called a "financial" terrorist attack.

Most of the short sales put on this month were from overseas, mainly coming out of London and Dubai. It's still a longshot conspiracy theory.

Even so, the broker/dealers and the SEC have been far too complicit in naked short selling. The rules against this have been in place for years, just never enforced.

Sources: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/
It's a ban on about 900 stocks, mainly financial. The action ends Oct 2nd, unless they extend.
McCain is often pretty out of line with typical Republican doctrine. I'm not sure the ban is specifically a McCain thing, but it does seem very political. Far fewer people complained about rich Wall Street fat cats when those fat cats got rich by making mortgages cheap; now that a few of them have gotten rich by betting that mortgages would be priced rationally again, folks are upset.
Zoho Creator, I believe that CogHead was the first one, and even if not, you have MS Access and a bunch of other tools targeting the same approach
"Their products are soulless and lack innovation"

this is a culture thing. i'm sure there's innovation, but having worked with indians, i know they prefer to present their product in an classical and conservative way, and that they frown upon aggressive marketing (à la MTV)

the same for Tata and Mittal steel, one of the biggest companies in the world, and who have typically a weaker brandname than Chrysler for instance.
I certainly wouldn't count on raising funds from angels at this stage. Most of the qualified investors who do angel funding are in stocks and real estate, two sectors that have been doing so very well of late.
I nominate taw's dead comment for "Most mysteriously dead comment of the week".
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Here's another more detailed bloomburg article on Griffin works ~ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=as...
I'll echo the posts claiming that a short-sell ban is a recipe for disaster. Short selling isn't just a way of betting on the market declining. It's also a hedging strategy used by arbitrageurs, market makers, and options traders.

Actually, as far as speculative short-selling goes, one can argue that it doesn't do enough in bringing prices to fair values. Here's why. With most stocks, it's possible to sell them short and make near-fair interest on the cash. For example, your clearing firm might charge you 3.8% on money borrowed for long positions, but give you 3.4% on cash held in short positions-- a 40bp spread, which is costly but not a show-stopper for a skilled trader. Although you can't withdraw the money without closing the position, because you have more cash than equity, you're earning interest on the cash component. In cases where a stock becomes hard to borrow, banks will lower the interest rate on cash held, sometimes to negative values. When this happens, the stock inevitably trades higher than a fair market value, because of the penalty involved in short-selling it.

Another danger of short-selling, related to the hard-to-borrow factor, is that clearing firms (banks) can force short-sellers to close out their positions at any time. They're intrinsically limited in how much short interest their customers may hold, and will, on occasion, force less preferred customers to close out, possibly unfavorably, in order to allow preferred customers to short-sell.

In addition to "hard to borrow" securities and short squeezes, speculative short-selling is generally very dangerous, especially in a bubble, for more intrinsic reasons. If you're short a stock, and it goes up in the short term, you must put more money in the account (to build equity to a reasonable level) or close the position, early and unfavorably. There are a large number of people who bankrupted themselves by shorting Nasdaq futures at 3000 in 1999. They thought tech stocks were overvalued, and they were right, but they nonetheless were creamed when the thing shot up to 5000 before coming back down.

Arbitrageurs and market makers are good for markets. They provide a lot of liquidity, meaning that bid-ask spreads tighten and it becomes possible to buy or sell large blocks without moving the market to an unfavorable price. Essentially banning what they do is going to result in complete disaster.
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They do look pretty good, but I don't think they are a real company. It looks like they are a one or two person company running out of Mail Boxes Etc. Read this story for more info.
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How common is it, really, for someone to stay with a company for 20 years? And why do I care about data that won't affect me on either end until, at the least, 2028? Presumably, all these numbers will be very different by then.
In my college days I was very interested in AI and learned Prolog and Lisp.
"the community is judgmental and unfriendly to newcomers and thorny and un-inspiring."

Brandon's reply agrees with this criticism, because "I have heard this same criticism from other people than you, and at this point I assume it must really be true."

The comments here focus on lisp. Lisp isn't the problem.
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Just curious, but how many really high volume websites do run on MSSQL?

MySQL might not be all singing and all dancing but being able to handle load by throwing free boxes at it must be nice, and using MSSQL server in an environment where you don't even know how many databases you have could be somewhat expensive.
How much did it cost to make?

I think with Android the 'pond' will be much larger and will make $250K look quaint.
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