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My exposure with Python is through Motion Builder 2012 and 2009 (Deploy for the first one, but due to asserts causing crash&exit, I develop with the 2009).

It was my first great exposure to python (I have some C, C++, lua, lisp behind me). I have to say wasn't expecting Python 2.5.2 and Python 2.6.x? (2009 and 2012 respectively) to support each other, but with "import from future" and other tricks I was able to get code working on both.

So thanks for the article, as my day job requires some more knowledge of it (but personally I do not favor python)
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> You make it sound like Anwar al-Awlaki had a beer with al Qaeda so we decided to whack him.

Well, that's practically all that we know-- he was killed for propagandizing on behalf of some terrible ideas. But it isn't illegal to propagandize on behalf of terrible ideas, whereas it is illegal to execute US citizens because you find them loathsome and geo-strategically inconvenient.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could learn publicly what Anwar al-Awlaki actually did, and whether his actions were criminal? As far as I can tell, it's unclear whether anything al-Awlaki did would actually satisfy the "imminent lawless action" test in a civilian criminal court. I suspect the senior officials responsible for his assassination understand this too, which is why they would prefer to dispense with the niceties of extradition and trial.

So here's where we find ourselves: in a world in which the US government openly assassinates US citizens who have not been convicted of any crime, and no one bats an eyelash.
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Agreed - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Law which is exactly the problem you described (but in a more general way)
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>In many people's eyes he's just grabbing fame by latching himself onto Steve Jobs.

Interesting. This is exactly the opposite of how most technical people I know would describe the situation.

>I think he would have gained less publicity but more respect if he stepped out of the limelight a little more often.

I don't see why a technical person should avoid publicity any more than a business person. I mean, sure, it's better to have publicity for your technical achievements, but let's face facts. Few in the mainstream media care about your technical achievements.

As for the Kathy Griffin thing, eh, so he's seeing someone famous. Who cares? I mean, it's not something that'd make me respect him more, but I guess I don't really see why it'd make anyone respect him less.
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Not the same thing, but reminds me of this video presentation:

http://igniteshow.com/videos/im-barbie-girl-cs-world
Yes, even I expected it to automatically tag images.
But after reading the instructions (which was hard to get at first look), I got what the site does.
You can in fact use GDB's scripting language to implement this [1] [2].

[1] http://johnnyjacob.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/gdb-scripting-sh...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5590897/scripting-in-gdb
I lived most of my life estranged from my father due to issues I won't get into here. When I was 32 though we finally got to know each other more as adult friends than as father/son. As much as I never saw any reason to get to know him before hand, I thoroughly enjoyed the few years we had to reconnect before he passed away 3 years back. It makes me somewhat sad that Jobs never took that opportunity. Not saying it would have turned out the same but it's disappointing it was never tried. I know I was surprised that despite the fact we were polar opposites (lumberjack, software developer) we still found a lot in common. Made me think there might be a little something to that 'nature' thing after all.
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I've read that the unique interactions that parents have with their kids shape them profoundly throughout life all the way to adulthood and beyond. Their parents are their first role models and a lot of what will shape them into adults is learned from them. As long as your genes do not give you any learning disabilities and beyond a minimum level of intelligence your environment is more important than your genes. For one thing, he would never have met Woz. A genius whom designed the first Apple computer.

Imagine that Steve Jobs had been put into a different family in a different State, Province, Country and that the environment was good. i.e. Loved by his parents and received a good education. Would jobs have turned out the same? Would he be the founder of a multibillion dollar company? You seem to imply that the answer is yes, I've read plenty of literature that says no since the daily interactions in your environment have a great influence into what you become.

We are the sum of our experiences.

Finally, we could test if the genetic make up of Steve Jobs would make that much of a difference. Clone 100, or better yet, 1000 steve jobs, raise them, and see what happens.
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Obvious link-bait. What the author hates most is the fact that he didn't write the book, and isn't as successful of a writer. The 4-hour work week isn't for everyone. There's all kinds of businesses, but the 4-hour work week can turn people on to the idea of lifestyle businesses. Those aren't for everyone, and running a non-lifestyle business as a lifestyle business is a mistake.
Simply great.

Feature request: If there's a slider with the thumbnails of all the textures which can be browsed in single page, that would make the searching easier, instead of clicking next page so many times!
1. I hate, hate, hate that the backspace key is a shortcut for "back". I have never, not once hit the backspace key wanting to go back to the previous page.

2. I'll generally give the bigger players like Google some lee-way in trying out new functionality like this. It's the smaller sites that should generally stick to familiarity (except for the handful who are making a point of exploring behaviors).
Mm.. I don't think you could have seen Drew's original Dropbox screencast and thought "This is going nowhere".

But I suppose that's why I have Dropbox account #314...
"Clevers"? Plural, as a noun? Give me a break.

Maybe I missed something in my 3 second skim, but this guy sounds like he just wants to ride some asinine gimmick like "Seven Habits.." or "The Southbeach Diet".

Here is my take on managing people, "clevers" and "non-clevers" (stupids? muggles? non-college?...) Remember that the people you hire are, in fact, people, rather than cranky forklifts. People need challenge, creativity, and growth to thrive, though they are often willing trade some time doing monotonous bullshit if there is a decent tradeoff; if you do have do monotonous bullshit, make sure they get to some cool stuff that follows from that. Figure out their "will-to-power" and how they view themselves, and align your goals with their own.

Remember that even though you went to an Ivy League school and they graduated from the local junior college, they need the same stuff as you.

"Clevers"?? really? he should be embarassed.
In his section talking about the brute force method of solving the puzzle, he seriously overestimates the number of possibilities for the whole puzzle.

Example: For grid2, he lists square A2 as having 4 possibilities (1679) and A3 as having 5 possibilities (12679). Which is true, if you ignore the rules of sudoku. Specifically, not all of those combinations are worth trying. If you choose a 1 for square A2, you would not choose a 1 for square A3.

Wikipedia lists there as being 10^21 unique sudoku puzzles, which is many orders of magnitude smaller than his listed 10^38 different combinations for grid2.

In short, I think a proper brute force method would be significantly faster than what he initially thought it would be.
If I recall correctly, google+ started asking for ID scans.
I actively avoid using Google Image Search because they've hacked up keyboard navigation and even basic page scrolling with so many custom interactions.
I think there are benefits and drawbacks to both being supportive even if you don't think that the idea is good, and to being brutally honest.

After living here long enough I'm no longer trying to judge, it's just the way things are, and I just learned to translate. That's why I made the graphs.

I think it's only irrelevant if you understand this difference of translation and adapt to it.

Not everybody understands it though, specially when you first move here or when you first have contact with the US. I know it took me a non trivial amount of time to realize it.
Tech events can be a good way to network and recruit likeminded people. Unless your startup is doing something tech specific (building tools for tech people), then it's probably not a place that will drive much business. I don't see the harm in doing tech events if the goal is networking.

I think the bigger strategic mistake is startups who focus on getting tech press. The PR isn't going to help recruiting much (certainly not on the level of meeting someone face-to-face as you might at a tech event), and it's not going to help much from a marketing standpoint. The pursuit of tech press, just to be written about seems like a waste of effort.
1. I do it all the time. Shift-backspace happens to mean forward too. ;)
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Recommending Perl in lieu of PHP?

Yeah. Right.
We say "that's nice" for everything up to about the 99th %ile, where it's "Jolly good, carry on".
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I am not sure that the American viewpoint is necessarily bad in this case, especially as it pretains to working on projects. I think it is pretty safe to assume that people are more likely to pursue something further if they have positive encouragement. Thus, if "it's a good start" generally means that it is an awesome idea to a group of people, couldn't that be translated into meaning that those people continue working on something after they have shown it to others more often? I have nothing to back this up with, but it is just how I would interpret the idea.

Additionally, I always hear the line "it's a good start" as an acknowledgement that the person sees some potential in the idea, but that it needs a lot of work to achieve said potential. In fact, I can't remember a time that I have heard "it's a good start" by itself in a sentence. It is usually accompanied by a ", but ...", and I think the person behind the idea would know that this is coming, as he/she should know that there is still a lot of work that can be done.
You perhaps used clickpass to login. PG was discussing removing it here http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3085168, and if you depended on it, it would make sense to email you a password so you can log in.
If so, then employers might as well stop screening candidates and hire everyone who applies.
The only thing that I miss on 2.7 is psyco. I support a somewhat popular python app in the open source world, and write a lot of python at the day job, and I usually deploy an executable with bundled python interpreter, and 2.6, because psyco does not work on 2.7, and makes a HUGE difference on 2.6
I disagree.

Firstly, the fabrication process everyone is excited about puts the memrister cells directly atop the cmos logic gates as just another layer to the die. No external memory bus to tap into. So you'd need the sort of equipment used to remove layers from dies to expose the cells for reverse engineering, testing, etc. If someone with these resources is after you, you're already fucked regardless of the exact technological vector.

Secondly, a system designer could trivially add some amount of volatile storage for holding security sensitive data. Various schemes of encrypted pages that are decrypted using a key stored in volatile SRM within the CMS could be used. In other words, we could do the same things we currently do with hard drives between the memrister array and SRAM that acts as a decrypted cache.

Thirdly, you're applying an expectation to all memristers that is not applied to existing storage technologies. It might be a fair criticism of a concrete product that operates in an insecure way, but it's absurd to apply this expectation to an entire technology.
This one pops up from time to time; always an interesting read though.
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Except for the "iex" this isn't really Powershell specific - it's just instantiating a .NET framework object and calling a method on it. It might as well be C#.
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Nice site with great textures! Thank you for sharing.
I'm not able to write a correct PHP script.
That's why I think I own the right to call this language PHP.reboot.

If you think you can hijack the name of a programming language name like this you will probably have to come up with a better reason than this.

I have a Phd in Computer Science, I study computer
languages, compilers and runtimes

No, that's not a good enough reason.
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I actually really like that I can use arrow keys to navigate between links on the Google search page. I'm a keyboard geek and I prefer not having to use the mouse. I especially like that I can say Cmd+Enter and it will open the link in the new tab.

But like others have posted, I have never ever hit backspace either expecting to go back to the previous page.
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I don't agree, and then the image of them together is what sticked with me as Apple ][ user. He had fun doing some dancing and that's all - if nothing else shows that a geek can have some fun.
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Hundredths of ms sounds pretty fast
Ya, would just require a default settings per texture.

Maybe the quick and dirty fix is the left half grey light, the right half grey dark?
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Have you tried pypy?
When using multiple textures on a page, how can you effectively transition from one to another?

I have seen the linear gradient close to the edge (creating the turned-under effect), but that seems overdone. Other ideas?
I have a been in a love affair with PHP and also have been FRUSTRATED for its lack of few things. Despite the fact that PHP lived as a royal king of its era, few new comers like Rails, NodeJS are really taking the attention away; I've been always wondering and why wasn't community really taking the great examples of nifty syntax from ruby and evented model from Node to create the same beast again? I've been waiting 3 years for getting myself out of crappy array('foo' => 'bar') syntax to something neat like {'foo': 'bar'}. I really appreciate your move to create something where we would be able to fix these issues. Keep up the good work!
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That being different from using wget or curl in bash or easy_install how again?
I took the overly sensational title as a warning flag and I was right. The article seems to take weak premises and then founds size-able claims on them.

For example:

"Mean­while, Apple may obvi­ate the need for Google alto­gether with Siri as it intro­duced a rad­i­cal new way to han­dle search on a mobile device (and with the major­ity of Google mobile searches com­ing from iOS devices, the search giant has to worry about this intrusion)."

That Siri utterly kills the need for Google on a mobile device (not even on iPhones, on mobile devices) is complete lunacy. Not to mention that Siri is not a radical way to handle search. Voice search has been around for a while--see Vlingo and Google Voice Commands.

The rest of the article is just as bad about making tall claims with weak evidence.

Another quote:
"Mean­while, Google will con­tinue mak­ing large amounts of money (prob­a­bly bil­lions) on its cur­rent offer­ing but may find it hard to show the gen­eral pub­lic how it is rel­e­vant today."

Let's analyse a typical day in my life. (Although I will add, that I don't think this behavior is limited to power users, but I'm sure plenty of non-geek users share similar behavior.)

Wake up and check gmail.
Use my Android phone to track my bike to work
Check Google calendar for any appointments
Look up a good barbershop on Google Maps after work
Video chat with my mom using google chat at night

Maybe the article is right...Google is so irrelevant.

Edit: Wanted to add a link re: the article's last point
http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/14/google-earnings-q3/
Yes, I know. I should have mentioned that in my comment, but my point was that the agreement as originally written did not line up with the OPs comment.
Echo that. It's not just clevers (as the author has coined the word), but everyone wants to be with smarter people. Have u heard anyone say - I'll hang out with this good for nothing dude. This article is a joke.
Continuing the generalizations depicted in this post - I would say that the politely disingenuous "this is awesome" response is actually endemic to the West Coast. I've found folks in the Bay Area in particular have a strong aversion to "negative energy".

Having spent some time on both coasts I'd say its not necessarily an "American" thing, its more a "Californian" thing. Here in NYC, I'm learning that negative feedback is pretty common and often encouraged.
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A managers job is to bring the "clever" out of all the people he or she manages.
"This strikes me as very true, but irrelevant"

Not in the context of other people (specifically non-Americans) trying to understand feedback. I find I can say something to an American that is "fantastic!" only to be told by a German "that it would never work". It just emphasises the need to get feedback from multiple avenues, ideally from people who have different world-views. Your example reactions to the three startups backs this point up.
Somehow this resonates with me as a game developer, and actually Naughty Dog's use of Lisp (common lisp) got me into learning it, but slowly has been moved to lua (but can see the difficulties in using lua as live coding language)

pretty cool, and also started using emacs since then....
I went from a Thinkpad T400 to an MBP, and I had no problem getting used to the keyboard, outside of the fn/ctrl/opt/cmd button placement. I'm not sure if any Thinkpads have backlit keyboards, but it's miles ahead of the Thinklight.

@OP: After switching, the MBP is a hands-down winner to me. That said, at twice the cost of a Thinkpad, it had better be..
> IMO backspace as a shortcut key deserves to be overridden.

Absolutely. That shortcut has screwed me up so many times I can't even count. I found a way to disable that function entirely in Firefox. If anyone else wants to do the same, you just change the browser.backspace_action setting on the about:config page to 2.
I'm curious if anyone knows of any developers who now regularly use something like an iPhone/iPad (more likely the latter) to program. I know Paul Graham has written about this stage in the evolution of mobile devices, but is anyone doing it yet? For myself I've played with a Lisp interpreter written for the iPod Touch, but of course it was something of a ridiculous activity. If we can start doing that then I'll feel a bit more "post-PC".
"for them it's a proven workhorse language in which they can get things done on the web" ... which has a lot to do with its broad adoption (and thus easy hiring), and with certain software packages like Drupal, WordPress, Moodle and so on.

When has the elegance or power of a language ever been a consideration in the general business culture?
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I read it a couple years ago, which is why I remember things like testosterone in the 600 range, but I have to look it up to see... 653.3.

Did you look at the pictures on that page?

Note how many tricks there are:

* Tanning

* Shaving

* Different lighting

* Flexing vs. not flexing

...and the #1 trick: STANDING CLOSER TO THE CAMERA

It's just flat obvious in the back double-biceps pose. He's not flexing on the left; he IS flexing on the right, and he's about 8 feet tall in comparison. He's also closer to the camera in the first pic, making his biceps appear larger.

Then in the next two, his "after" photo is further away, making a direct comparison more difficult. Possibly as a misdirection, after firmly establishing the larger "after" pictures in the first two examples. But in the arms down pic, he's clearly standing with his arms and shoulders flexed in the after pic. Also note the pulled-up shorts which is worthless for comparing quads because it's only done in the after pic.

You'd think "careful documentation" would at least get the only photographic evidence done right. I checked the book and the sizing discrepancy wasn't nearly as bad but was still present, and always in favor of the after shots, including the side chest pose.

As for the claims of having someone at SJU do the weighings, you only have his word for it, AND you have no way to coordinate these pictures with those numbers. Or any verification of his workouts or diet. Or any testing for steroids (you can always trust an athlete's word on that one!).

In addition, hydrostatic weighing can be gamed by not exhaling for the "before" weight, which increases buoyancy and will make the bodyfat estimate too high. In addition, the hydrostatic method is known to underestimate bodyfat in muscular individuals.

See
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~ens304l/uww.htm

This whole thing is the equivalent of Cosmopolitan or teen magazines for girls. They use airbrushing and photoshopping to sell makeup to females at the equivalent of $5,000/gallon.

Muscle magazines do the same for teen boys. They use bodybuilders on huge stacks of anabolics pretending that protein powder did it! to sell to males.

(And 4 Hour Workweek is the same principle except for entrepreneurs.)

The general tenor of the discussion I recall was that his "after" pictures look a few pounds heavier, bodyfat is not noticeably different (note waist INCREASED 3.5 inches), and the rest is flexing, tanning, lighting, etc.
He seems like one of the most lovable guys around. I've heard tales of students running into him buying hotdogs on campus at Berkeley. That's enough to make any engineering student's semester.
Oh I agree, I was just trying to suggest why Google might have done it.
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