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I think we shouldn't interpret things into this article which simply aren't there.
His main point is obviously "death is not a moment" that means the chemical processes in your body don't stop the moment the doctor says "He's dead Jim". I haven't thought about this so this is an interesting point.
So the question is what processes are still up&running in our brain during that time? I had hoped for a little bit more enlightenment from the article in that matter.
For 35 years, Steve Jobs did just one thing.
I'm fascinated by cultural nuances like this. I really, really wish there was a website where you could look up things like this based on culture. I don't know how one would start to gather the data for a site like that.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does, although I've never poked deeply enough / understood elisp well enough to know exactly how it does it.

Swapping out those regexen you have wouldn't be too much of a challenge, I don't think, at least for a first shot at it.

I'm more interested in the general structure of managing the counter, applying the various faces to lines, etc.

My email is in profile if you want someone to attempt to clean it up a bit (insofar as I'm capable of doing so) :)
Very interesting comments. I have lately been trying to choose between puppet and chef and I think I had a hunch that there was a better/cleaner way.

What do you recommend for managing the running state of processes, etc?
They used to use vim navigation style instead of arrow keys. They probably changed it to make it more user friendly. Maybe they could allow W,A,S,D navigation as more people are familiar with that.
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I don't see keyboard navigation as being standard, and what seems to be standard isn't very good. Perhaps browsers should have an option to limit JavaScript's ability to override keystrokes used in navigation. I use Pentadactyl, a vi-like keyboard navigation plugin for Firefox, which doesn't seem to be plagued by this problem. I learned about it here on HN.
myfromJust has a too specific type, and really should just be inlined as:

fromMaybe ""

checkInputFile encodes a no-result as a "no" string. This is a very un-Haskelly thing to do (Use a Maybe String, instead).

Use of C's if syntax is a bit weird, too. No need for these extra parens.

getRandomName weirdly uses getStdGen/newStdGen instead of just making a random generator directly.

basename is (incorrectly) duplicating standard library behavior.

saveFile uses fromJust, will crash at runtime.
Feedback from us Brits is even harder to parse. I always point those who are struggling to this handy table:

http://yfrog.com/z/gy5gxvxj
The article also says that his father abandoned his other children. Give Jobs' friendship with his sister and mother, I can see how that would make him not want to have a relationship.
I agree. What's running inside the browser (ie., the webapp) should never be allowed to override the browser itself.
Unfortunately, it's not race-free - if the target's already inside malloc, Bad Things will happen. A better strategy would be to invoke clone() to spin up a worker thread, somehow finagle a TLS segment good enough to fool libc and dlopen into working Well Enough, and loading the library via this thread (while the main thread is allowed to continue execution).
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I think your piece is interesting, informative, useful, and well written. I just don't think others' opinion on ideas are particularly relevant. My opinion on Dropbox/Heroku/AirBnb's ideas would have all fallen on the left side of the bell curve, which only shows my opinion on ideas is irrelevant. I am just saying that the position one is placed on the bell curve is not important. Understanding different cultures is very important.

I won't address the relative merits of different cultural norms on being supportive vs being brutally honest.
Its sort of difficult not to call your posts trolling.

Not having tools at hand is a major factor for not to pursue a project everywhere in the world. Not just in the open source world. I don't think Guido or Larry or Matz would have taken trouble to write a compiler to write Python or Perl or Ruby.

Not to mention nearly all major open source projects and many other closed projects are using gcc one way or the other. I bet even Apple uses gcc in some way.

Work happens by incrementally building on others work. Even Linus agrees RMS is one of the giants on whose shoulders he has stood to look farther.

RMS might have some problems communicating in most socially accepted ways. But he has achieved and helped other achieve far more things valuable. And he has done it in time. A lot of people have built on top of his work. And a lot of that work has made a lot of money and provided employment.

Its wrong to compare Steve Jobs and Richard Matthew Stallman. They are great in their own rights. But in terms of absolute comparisons, RMS has achieved far more than Jobs.

iProducts are the cool must have gadgets of this era, they haven't changed the world any more than video games have.
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YES! I hate the arrow key "feature" on Google's search results. I expect arrow keys to scroll the page, because that's how it works on every other website!
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The sad thing is that many sites can't even get basic keyboard support right, and that's something HTML handles quite well.

Classic example is Tab ordering. When I hit Tab, I should reach the most prominent and useful field immediately (almost always a big fat search field). But too often, my first Tab lands me somewhere useless, and if I'm really unlucky it even scrolls me all the way to the bottom of the page to reveal a stupid field in a signup form from an ad or something. 5 or 6 Tabs later I may eventually reach the Search field that was in the top-left corner of the page.
Awesome! Love it. Thank you man :-)
Same reason why there was very little crime for many years in China when The Party ruled the country with iron fist.

Laws are written by people in power -- be it dictatorship or democracy, the stronger the ruling class (represented by government, police/military and judiciary system), the harder to conduct criminal activities.

When a criminal activity gains enough support, it will be legalized, like marijuana and prostitution.
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If memory serves correct, he advised* us not to follow dogma.. so paying my respect to Steve as you suggested and avoiding a dogmatic discussion. Here's a track from another remarkable thinker:

" Is it possible to communicate not by "making known" but by "making understood how little we know"? If we can recognize that we know so little, a method for finding out little we know will become clear as well. As the Greek philosopher Socrates remarked, " The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing ". There are infinite number of methods to attain knowledge; finding the right method is up to the individual ". This single idea throws conventional communications methods into reverse. I call this method "exformation", as a counterpart to "information" ( pg. 376 , http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Design-Kenya-Hara/dp/3037781... )

* - not to follow dogma, if you think clearly, is a faulty recursive function
This is a random story, but I'm curious if anyone else remembers: A few years ago, I landed on Woz's personal website, and noticed a small blurb about a public AFP connection for his personal machine (I think, afp://steve.woz.org) I connected and was greeted by a bunch of software (a lot of commercial) that he made available for download. Even more amazing was just how fast downloading the files were.

A quick google brings up this thread (from 2001!!! which sounds about right, actually, for when I first connected...I'm fairly certain I was still on OS9 -- my my, how time flies!)

http://macosx.com/forums/archive/t-10013.html
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This is the first time I hear that programming languages can have charisma. Sounds slightly ridiculous. But I would like to see a study on the subject. What programming languages feel like and how does that affect the end results.
Very, very impressive.

But... I don't see the advantage of having a touch screen for ebooks. I only ever want the next or previous page. Yes, a touch screen is perhaps more natural _when compared to a paper book_, but hitting a button for the next page means I don't obscure the screen with my fingers, and it's more comfortable to press (less movement).
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It's really nothing special but I thought I'd post about it as Perl Dancer really ended up being a joy to work with. I've heard so much about Node.js and played around with it for awhile but for some reason I just felt like I was fighting with it the whole time (probably my lack of experience with JavaScript more than anything). In contrast, Perl Dancer turned out to be really easy for me to understand.
And the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard now, without replaceable standard modules
I would settle for a way to see mappings. Browsers already have to know what the mappings are in order to support them, they just don't share that information with users.

In a menu, all I have to do is read to find out what the keys are for each command. Much like each browser has a Back button, it'd be nice if all browsers could agree to provide a "legend" displaying the keystrokes that a web site has defined.

Of course, once the browser can display the mappings it can offer a more sophisticated way to disable them. For example, checkboxes for each key so you can keep the ones you like but get rid of the stupid ones.
Even iTunes is guilty of this (on OSX of all places!). Try to edit a songs info and use the normal CMD+Arrow to navigate to Home/End, it will move to the next song. Completely inconsistent and from within Apple on an Apple OS!
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I disagree.

Some people just want to be with attractive people. Or rich people. Or funny people. Or people of high social standing.

It's whatever their definition of "good for something" is... and that definition isn't always "smart".
Like Kellco I'm a female co-founder with no tech experience. Growing up I was encouraged to be creative and expressive. It wasn't until college that I was drawn in to the sciences and ultimately entered a male dominated field (as an adjunct professor in a lab oriented discipline). It works for me because I'm a people person but I love the creative impact of the scientific method, its structure, and how it opens the mind. When I began teaching myself to code and program for our company, I realized it isn't much different and I'm quickly growing to love the process. It's still a science after all. I think the hacker stereotype of the nerdy guy with no social skills needs to go the way of the dodo. :)
It is natural to feel challenged and threatened by obviously more intelligent co-workers and subordinates. Most people probably don't want to work with someone who thinks they are a superstar, and would prefer just to go home at a regular time. Those of us who wish to work in an intellectually challenging environment are probably a minority.

It is unfortunate that the article uses the term 'clever' to make a slightly unclear differentiation from 'knowledge worker.' Maybe if the term 'innovator' were selected then the article would be clearer. It would also help to explain why frequent feedback may be disadvantageous. Managing or harnessing innovative people is extremely difficult and it is an important subject to discuss and study.
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> I have Dropbox account #314

Did you wait until they had 313 accounts before you signed up, or was it by random chance?
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https://uloadr.com/u/rA44.png to get around the wsj paywall.
Stallman's entire approach is "free === good, proprietary === bad". His comments on Steve and "fools" is basically saying that freedom means we should all be using what he claims to be good.

Stallman is no less a "dictator" than Steve ever was, he's just not successful at it.
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Thanks ! Extremely useful for non-designer programmer like me !
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Jobs got good at focus and killing off old products. I'd suggest RMS start with autoconf.
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Right, and under the category of easily:
What languages do you already know,
What languages are you already actually comfortable using for a large scale project, and
What is the production server running.

If the answer to all of the above is PHP, then you're going to get projects done faster there than you would in Python or Ruby.
CA is amazing for everything described above, and doable from the SV, but it is muchless convenient than I imagine Vancouver Island is. Living in Seattle I can be actively engaged in any of the above with a 45 minute drive or less. From the SV, you are likely looking at a trip to Tahoe for any good climbing, hiking or skiing. It's doable, just not as convenient. (Note: I hate to appeal to authority, but I lived outside Sac for 4 years and Seattle the last year, and it is definitely easier here.)
Yep, I'm actually kind of excited to hit the news stand in the morning in hopes of getting a few. It's definitely a first.
wget http://bit.ly/psChocInstall

vs

((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString("http://bit.ly/psChocInstall"))
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I use Puppet, but primarily because of Moonshine, a Rails plugin that ties Puppet together with Capistrano and Rake, and has a nice plugin system.
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That's very interesting and sad. Poignant, there are a lot of rock stars and similarly driven people who seem to be striving against feelings of rejection from their parents. Not that adopted people have really been rejected, in my inexperienced analysis, but I've known a few who feel that way.

Another major immigration success story, too! From the Middle East no less.
IMO, backspace key is there, just like any other button. If you don't want to press it, don't.

If it bugs you enough, I'll write a chrome extension to turn it off.
I prefer to use whatever's native to the platform. On Debian that means start-stop-daemon; on CentOS the init.d functions.

It's a whole "my house, my rules" strategy. If you play nice with the underlying platform, it'll play nice with you. The downside is that you do have two packaging models to build for. I know that abstracting this is one of the motivations for Chef et al. I have yet to see a usage where this was worth the opportunity cost.
> is not responsive to the argument that not allowing muscles time to recover retards growth.

That point isn't in dispute. What is in dispute is the degree of alleged growth.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

> and especially for sleep is partly theoretical

Especially since he himself is nowhere close to the 2 hours claim. I heard someone else did this...

> Moreover, I think it's a misinterpretation to say that Tim is promising people, say, 2 hours of sleep per day by reading his book.

"YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each)

# How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested"

"From the gym to the bedroom, it's all here, and it all works."

"You don't need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.

That's exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers."

http://www.fourhourbody.com/

Praise quotes for the book, FROM the book:

“Timothy has packed more lives into his 29 years than Steve Jobs has in his 51.” —Tom Foremski, journalist and publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com ...More lives? Remove the "v" and I'd agree.

“Reading this book is like putting a few zeros on your income. Tim brings lifestyle to a new
level—listen to him!” —Michael D. Kerlin, McKinsey & Company consultant to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and a J. William Fulbright Scholar

“Tim has done what most people only dream of doing. I can’t believe he is going to let his
secrets out of the bag. This book is a must read!” —Stephen Key, top inventor and team designer of Teddy Ruxpin and Lazer Tag and a consultant to the television show American Inventor

And the subtitle:

"AN UNCOMMON GUIDE TO RAPID FAT-LOSS, INCREDIBLE SEX, AND BECOMING SUPERHUMAN"

How much Kool-Aid does someone have to drink before they aren't embarrassed to buy into these breathless sensationalist claims?
Barack Obama had a similar background, did he not? Immigrant father, a young student who seemingly wasn't ready for parenthood.
If the code produces an answer sooner, including coding time, it's the best code.

The real world rewards timeliness not comeliness.

Contests can, and should, require maintainable code by giving you one goal and then at acceptance throw some new requirements at you. But still, if you win you're showing your code was more maintainable even if it's ugly to others.
A question I'm struggling with at the moment for my own project, is whether allowing the password to pass through the hands of a third party developer is even wise?
If I were to attack someone with such a scheme, I would take care of serving clean files to a web browser (say, with the user-agent string) and the infected files to command-line invocations. :)
I too would like to have discussions like xarian's thoughts for all lectures.

Regarding the lecture notes - is there a wiki where we can all contribute to? Earlier today, the google doc was complaining about too many people editing the document.
I'm excited to try this. I'm trying to build something which is fairly firmly Core Data based right now but I desperately need a way to smartly cache client side because the database is growing too large. Hopefully Parse can help me out.

My biggest concern is how these are stored and whether I can trust queries to be cached for very long periods of time (like until the data updates).
With regards to the aforementioned comments concerning the USSR and the strange similarity in connection between the mafia and government... When the Soviet Union was making the transition from oppressive communist control, to more 'capitalistic" ventures, or free entrepreneurship as they called it, there were 2 things that happened. As a preface, it is important to understand that at the time of the USSR the government was the mafia in its own right. The KGB, which is not the same thing as the mafia (for the record), is a statehood security council (aka Russian CIA) with strong links to the political thresh hold. Anyways, first being, the "stipends" awarded to now oligarch businessmen. These billionaire barons, were all once soviet army members, or those of the KGB. The government could no longer control the rights to country-owned natural resource producing companies. Somebody had to take the helm. That somebody needed to be willing to give paybacks, majority of the time under the table. Secondly, in the late 80's and early 90's as communism was virtually dead, Russian began to see the birth of the Russia mafia as we know it today. With the government out of the way, per se, individual businesses began to spread like wild fire. Unfortunately, there was no regulation, or in this case, protection for the business or the owner. If you owned your own business, were profitable, you would get a knock on your door. You couldn't go to the cops/government because they were paid off and you damn well couldn't refuse to pay. Otherwise, you would end up dead, if not your family as well...
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There likely is some self-selection involved. The just-divorced/bankrupt/jailed for life (not all will exist, but they may) will not be that willing to comment on this.
Seems in part very similar to parse.com
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I disagree that "those of us who wish to work in an intellectually challenging environment are ... a minority".

I think what is true is that most people don't have the opportunity to be truly human at work (challenged, interested, etc) because the current system doesn't hire human beings, but just "function-fulfillers". Then we get disappointed when the human beings we hired don't act like simple robots... go figure ...

(I don't know how true to life the books are, but the Toyota Way series makes a big point about how important it is to allow -- demand, in fact -- people to grow and challenge themselves, from the engineers to the production workers. It is the US unions insistence on highly constrained work rules and job functions that made Deming hate them, rather than anything to do with wages.)

Also -- nobody wants to work with an arrogant asshole who "thinks they are a superstar", whether they are "a clever" or "a stupid". But it is only folks with low self esteem or power trips who willingly surround themselves with people of less talent themselves.

Knowledge worker? Innovator? -- that could be anyone, including a fry cook at McDonalds, if it was allowed to them. I have worked some shit, shit jobs, and I was always struck by how the spread in raw intelligence was about the same as in my elite private high school (now study skills and entitlement, however, is something the "non-clevers" just don't have at the moment, but that is a cultural thing that could be changed, if we cared.)
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If you happen to have wget, sure. Windows doesn't, by default. It is far more likely that the machine will have powershell, and if it does, it has the .net frameworks.

But, with wget, the line is

iex (wget -qO- http://bit.ly/psChocInstall)

which isn't too bad.
I think the problem is that Google is increasingly optimized for the vast majority of people who have no idea how search engines work and don't put any thought into their query. They make it so that you can search for "i have this mole and i want to know if it is cancer and also can i get tickets for the knicks game tomorrow" and get something useful, but when you need to search a specific error or programming construct you're out of luck. I wish I could remember specific examples, but I keep having + operators and quotes ignored by Google, or searching for two equally important words and having the second result not feature one of the words. Highly irritating.
I've decided against supporting the movement. I like what they ostensibly stand for. Corporate influence in politics is a tricky thing. There is palpable dissonance between deregulation in good times and bailouts in bad. Protesting that is all well and good.

But, as you say, many supporters are projecting their own views onto the self-proclaimed 99%. I'm worried about supporting a the misguided, vocal, projecting crowd rather than the stated goals. To some degree, political movements always suffers from this. OWS more than others.

On a side note, "the Occupy Movement" has a funny ring to it. Has occupation and liberation become synonymous at last?
It is whatever gives us a challenge to be more than we are -- richer, smarter, funnier, cuter, etc. Nietszche would call the drive to "overcome ourselves" just as instinctual (and fun) as the desire for soft, warm pleasure.