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I am not a physics person, but how is this article saying anything more than "our current system [which the finding of faster-than-light neutrinos would break] breaks because these particles aren't exhibiting behavior that we think they should be exhibiting if they're really doing what we think they're doing. Therefore, they're not doing that."
Two of the original open source projects, emacs and GCC, did this for many years.
In fact, if you shared the source code of development versions, you were banned from the FTP server that contained it.
And doing that doesn't feel the same as slinking around dungeons and fighting dragons, which is probably terrifying and deadly... but on the upside holds far more social prestige than playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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He says relying on tests and type-checking to verify a program still does the right thing after making changes is "guardrail programming".
Can't find anything very current, but if you look at names here, Backtype, flightcaster, Runa, there's a lot of info. Best is to hit a user group/meetup or start one:

http://www.meetup.com/clojure/

http://clojure.org/community

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http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/category/clojure/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1453259

http://clojure02.managed.contegix.com/display/community/Cloj...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/d7ofw/akamai_lookin...
Yes, but mine is open source (software and hardware), Lego Technic compatible, and costs about $100.
>Oh that's a terrible point! Thermodynamics laws are nothing like predictions about the future. I would have thought linguistic slight of hand like this is beneath Kurzweil.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm not a huge Kurzweil fan, but as far as I can tell he's saying something reasonable here - that when he talks about LOAR, he's describing a phenomenon rather than a physical process, and that this is an accepted usage of the word "law". I don't think he's playing semantic tricks so much as responding to a semantic complaint.
This was done at Rich's request. I've asked whether we can release them now that the video is available.
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Looks like pretty straightforward PHP4. I wouldn't really hold that against it unless you plan to do development with it.
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Agreed. Is the login server not allowed to run on port 443? Is it not permissible to redirect HTTP traffic on other ports such as 8080 and 9006?
This is more in the aggregate, but what is considered best practice when loading JS scripts in a page in terms of sum-total size?

This script (looks cool, btw) comes in at 7k. It seems very easy to me to add "7k here, another 7k there" and next thing you know your page needs to go on a diet.

Question is: what's the threshold that everyone follows?
Hey we were in the TechStars NYC class and in the TV show (Veri). I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but TechStars was the best thing to ever happen to us. We came in with a prototype and in three months had a product, traction, funding, and a great network of mentors to help us. We couldn't have done this without them. Regardless of how people feel about the idea of a TV show, I'm very grateful to TechStars for everything they've done and I think any TechStars CEO would say the same.

- Lee Hoffman (CEO, VERI)
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This is an excellent idea. Having a robot to play Angry Birds for me would save a lot of time.

If only they'd adapt it to play Fruit Ninja too.
I think you may be taking this a bit more seriously than either party intended. See bostonpete's comment below.
But how much do they want all this, and does this require major improvements in computing power?

It looks to me that almost everything you listed could be done on the computers of five years ago. It's all nothing but software improvements. Existing hardware is good enough.
I don't think this is a case of the internet changing brains, but more that our internet usage somewhat correlates with what our brain makeup is. Interesting, but I don't think surprising.
Any issues regarding copyright?
>They could have done that but chances are a few of the less reputable OEMs would have ported code from Froyo or GB to get the dialer working again. The open nature of it means there is no restriction that could not be unrestricted.

Unfortunately, this is probably the biggest mistake that Google has made with Android. Google could have gone the route that the Mozilla foundation has with Firefox, where Mozilla does not allow modified Firefox source versions to use any of Mozilla's Firefox-related trademarks without their consent(http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html). If one does wish to use the Firefox source in an official way, Mozilla has a "Powered by Mozilla" mark that they grant out for people that use the source.

Google did not put such a policy in place with Android, which really limits their power with respect to "rogue" OEMs. Since they aren't charging for use of the OS, it's It has also led to the current issue that a lot of people have with pre-installed crapware or UIs.

Ideally, I think that Google should have created a "Powered by Android" mark that they could grant to anyone that follows certain restrictions, like full comparability with the Android App store, the ability to root the phone, multitouch, etc. That would help them to protect their brand, especially in this case, because it would allow Google to enforce any potential issues like trying to shoehorn a 7" tablet UI/OS onto a 3.5" phone. Also, like Firefox, it would not stop guys like Cyanogen, because they could still use some other public mark.
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Moore's Law gives us more for your money, where "more" can be more speed or more (cheaper) devices for the same cost.
ok thanks! still curious about the reasons why this hack is better than the one I've stated above? As I can see they're both using GET instead of PUT/DELETE and both adding extra parameters (one is using header, other is using request). Why would this be any better?
Maslow [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs] would disagree with the fundamental premise of this post.
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Difficulty of writing a test can certainly be a complexity indicator, but in my experience the evidence is against testing having served this purpose very well to date, at least for the kinds of complexity addressed in this talk.

If you look at around 31:27 in the talk, you will see ten complex things, with proposed simple alternatives. If testing helped people feel the pain of complexity and discover simple things, we would see projects where people had problems writing tests, and switched strategies as a result.

Do you see people moving from the complexity column to the simplicity column in any of these ten areas as a result of writing good tests? I don't. What I see is people cheerfully enhancing testing tools to wrestle with the complexity. Consider the cottage industry around testing tools: fixtures, factories, testing lifecycle methods, mocks, stubs, matchers, code generators, monkey patching, special test environments, natural language DSLs, etc. These testing tools are valuable, but they would be a lot more valuable if they were being applied against the essential complexity of problems, rather than the incidental complexity of familiar tools.
can this be used with JRuby? e.g. for JRuby on Rails?
It's hard to know what you're actually testing without profiling. My guess is it's only the overhead of netty and lamina at play here, and not clojure itself. There are profiling facilities to know for sure, and the author should try to check that out. I can get like 8k request/s from clojure with jetty last time I tried.
I'm the author of Aleph, the Clojure web server being benchmarked.

The most recent release of Aleph has focused on adding instrumentation and support for easily creating asynchronous workflows. A lot of new abstractions have been introduced, and "Hello World" performance has suffered a bit as a result.

However, now that all this has been introduced (0.2.0 is very close to release), I'm planning a "tick" release [1] that will focus on regaining some of the lost performance.

So please don't judge Clojure's potential for performant Hello World servers by what Aleph can do right now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock
It can be tough to get a good ROI on that first $100. Getting good at advertising takes time, practice, and money.

No reason not to try, just don't expect AdWords to easily turn $100 into $200 or even $101.
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I have no interest in seeing slides, I want video.
The reason people don't typically act this way is that anyone who tries to give honest advice quickly realizes than in 90% of cases, the person seeking advice doesn't want to be challenged. Especially budding entrepreneurs, who are often precariously balanced between wild optimism and despair. It's very hard to stay positive when someone points out that your baby isn't quite as beautiful as you imagine.
I didn't realize Thunderbird supported Dovecot's tagging abilities. Is that something I need to enable? How do I use it? I've been using TB for years because it's the only IMAP client that does things the way I want (other than Mutt), but I didn't realize I could have arbitrary tagging with it.
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I prefer DDG for general search, but google was too good at digging up obscure code errors. I end up spending more time looking for errors than general stuff (which I guess means I'm a terrible programmer), so grudgingly switched back to the googs.
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It just seems unfortunate that the practice which they are supposed to be doing is filmed, edited and put in front of people in perhaps the worst light possible to tell the story someone else wants to tell.
I totally get EROEI. In fact, I used to be the canned beans buying type.

But, after years of thought, I realized that the EROEI has a fatal flaw. It completely discounts humanity's ability to discover creative efficiency improvements. The EROEI calculations are done with today's technology, and do not include future improvements.

For example, I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, where the oil industry started back in the 1800s. Capped oil wells abounded in the woods, because at some point in the past, it stopped being efficient to drill them with 1800s drilling technology. Today, old high school friends are making bank reopening those wells and even drilling new ones with modern techniques.

The political problem is an interesting one, and I have opinions on it. But I hesitate to air them here because they are unconventional. The haters would probably drop my karma back down to -20.
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Most of the time I do give up part way through, and I don't find his articles a joy to read at all.

Yegge needs to learn brevity. He makes good points, and still even I feel like I'm wasting my time reading his articles; I can only imagine how Brin feels.
I've been thinking about this. Saying "I'm a software developer" just doesn't communicate what I do, even though programming is... well, what I do. Thanks for reframing the problem succinctly.

You thought about this, so how do you describe your profession?
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No I don't, because you still need time and a certain amount of randomnesses to make discoveries.

Another way to put it is that even if you are twice as intelligent as Newton, you won't discover twice as many things or discover things twice faster.
The law applies to 'second-hand dealers', and it's not clear whether this term is defined. Does it only apply to professional second-hand dealers, or to anybody selling anything?
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Seems this has regex support, but I don't see any mention of it anywhere. Try it out.
> The problem with this statement is what is meant by "just come" to the country.

But it used to, and as I've mentioned in other posts here, that is what US propaganda is selling -- we are so good because we are a nation of immigrants and we like to tell stories about our grand-grand fathers jumping on the boat to America and so on.

So it is strange that America ended up with a draconian immigration process.

Not blaming Japan, or other countries, they never claimed to be "melting pots" or anything like at. So this is mainly a jab at the propaganda vs reality.

Look at it from another point -- globalization. It is an interesting word. It is presented as being cooperation between countries and companies. Very nice indeed, except that you'd think it also means opening borders more and letting globalization spreading down to the individual level. For example US companies flood the market in South America with cheap corn and chicken, killing off small farmers, but when those farmers want to jump across the border to find jobs picking lettuce in Alabama, they are called "illegal aliens", they are breaking the law you see. So while for some borders are opening (large corporation) for individuals borders and immigration are closing.

> That I don't know. In my experience the barriers are always money, time, patience, and background. Usually in that order.

Wait, but everyone's epic grand-grand-father that came to Ellis Island did have $1M to invest in a US business. And I don't really mind the time. 10 years? - sure! But can I do that in US? Just come and tell them, let me stay here for 10 years, then give me a passport.
Especially if you plug in a service like 300milligrams: 300.mg

It basically gives you a stream of updates so you can track what is happening across a whole host of platforms. One of the guys creating this was at YCNYC.
You can return any content type you want and you should use content negotiation to return the type the client is expecting. The HTML descriptions are only suggestions.
Legal tender is a form of payment, defined by law, which must be accepted by creditors as payment for debts.

That seems at odds with a law preventing the use of legal tender for certain transactions.
thank you for informing the numbers, I get much better results with straight ring and jetty through clojure, so it's annoying to see 'clojure is exactly this slow relative to the others'
> "it's not like we're lost somewhere in the middle of Utah"

Actually, rural Utah is remarkably well connected.

A lot of major backbones run through Salt Lake City, and many communities in the middle of Utah have fiber to the home (via the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, or UTOPIA). Right now, I live in a town of under 20,000 people and get both download and upload speeds in the 20 megabit range with pretty low latency.

As you said in a few posts up, it's a local problem. This community decided broadband was important, so we voted for it and got it. Other communities and governments don't really recognize the importance, so you can be just a few miles from major backbone and yet be stuck with dialup or weak satellite.
If there isn't already solid legal protection from states passing laws like this, then we ought to consider a constitutional amendment.
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It is relative, but many people bought Android phones because their techie brother-in-law raved about it. He raved about it because it was "open".

I have little doubt this was a major cause for Android crossing the chasm, so it does seem a bit disingenuous to only be "kind of" open.
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I am in neither the doomer nor the pollyanna camp on this, as I said.

Keep in mind that EROEI includes not only the energy cost of operating technology but also the energy cost of developing it. Every engineer who worked on that fracking technology? Every car trip they made to/from the office, etc., all has to be included in the energy investment required to get that shale gas out of the ground.
In my reading of this, it's for dealers only - pawnshops and such... in which case it wouldn't really prevent the thing it's attempting to prevent.
Most sales don't involve debt, though. The law couldn't prevent you from using cash to pay off a loan you took out for the item, but it can prevent you from directly paying cash for the item (I think).
I agree, but the devil is in those details. Look at the variations among actual humans.
An idea for extending this:

-Add pagination. I don't mean dynamic/AJAXed pagination -- The entire list can still be loaded in the background (which would still make the list sorting/filtering possible).
With a commitment to deceptive editing, even award-winning films and famous, eloquent speeches can be made to seem stupid.
For many people, high intensity/high contrast also causes eyestrain. There's nothing wrong or unreadable about medium contrast text, despite what the somewhat triumphalist contrastrebellion would have you believe.
To quote Andrew Sullivan:

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Read the story behind the motto.

It started as a one-engineer campaign, almost a joke. He'd write the motto on whiteboards in meeting rooms. It spread from there.

I think the heart was in the right place. It seems to have moved.
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"Apart from the semantics", the difference is 16.
So, what's your list?
Very cool script. Any support for permalinks?
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If you don't need your list to be on your site, you can always use listly for social lists/polling like this example of startup tools - http://list.ly/list/9E-tools-and-services-for-a-lean-startup
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That is correct. This is why merchants can refuse your business if you want to pay for something expensive with pennies.
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Two years ago, I was developing some HVAC equipment modeling software as part of a sales automation package whose worst case scenario needed to calculate the max cooling capacity, and a few other thermodynamic stats, for roughly 18 million different configurations. No matter how much I optimized it, the CPU didn't have enough juice to "instantaneously" plow through all of that math. The best I could get it down to was about 20 seconds. More CPU power would definitely be nice.
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Luckily in the tech scene, often times all you have to do is just ask.
I think more important than script bandwidth is # of requests.

As long as you combine your scripts, and use Google's APIs to load the cached version of common libraries like JQuery and JQuery UI. You could easily be using 10 of these libraries and still be wayy ahead of the curve as far as bandwidth is concerned.
This is my number one gripe about infoq. I love skimming slides to see if it's worth investing an hour in watching a talk.
Brin is not the CTO of Google: "Sergey Brin co-founded Google Inc. in 1998. Today, he directs special projects. From 2001 to 2011, Sergey served as president of technology, where he shared responsibility for the company’s day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt."

http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/execs.html#ser...
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These are relatively simple programs, which should be easy to stop. More concerning is the usage of computer programs that compose original material. Using learning techniques, researchers have written programs capable of creating original cs papers from a given corpus (ie SCIgen, and other techniques). How long until we see junk books created by these more intelligent (and much harder to detect) algorithms?
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Microsoft Sued For Monopoly Abuse by Israeli Firm
Sounds like a press release from a corporate CEO.

Either way - Dope pivot w/ Veri, Lee
“It’s a great day,” Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said on CNN on Thursday morning. “I think the administration deserves great credit. Obviously, I had different ideas on the tactical side, but the world is a better place.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/world/africa/qaddafis-deat...
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I'll be completely honest, this felt too much like a fluff piece with advice that was too general to be helpful.

I can break down your post into this advice:

1) Listen to what people say

2) Ignore the people insulting you

3) Post on a weekend

4) Reply to feedback

5) Use feedback to improve your product

The problem is, you really go no deeper than that. For example, in #1, (Comments that are targeted at you can be hurtful at first, but don’t take them personally), you say "However, it is important to not take them personally. View it from a larger perspective. Why are they criticizing you? There must be a reason why. Try to understand them and see what you are able to do." What did you do to understand them? What were you able to do based on their comments? How can you iterate off that? Why do you think people said that? How did you incorporate their thoughts into your product? Your second paragraph (For the record, English is my first language and I’ve been speaking it since I was born) sounded too much like you were still taking the comments personally.

#3 is another example. You seem to only have one data point to support your theory. You also said yourself you added samples and changed prices. Could that have been it? Could it have been luck? Could it have been the hour it was posted at? It sounds like it might be true but you have barely any evidence to support that claim.

#5 is another example. I would hope that you would always use feedback from a community to improve your product, especially a community with it's pulse on the tech world and entrepreneurship. How did changing things increase your sales? What other things are you trying to do to improve?

I hope you don't take this as a negative comment, just more constructive criticism. When I read a blog post, if it offers advice to me, I want to read something more specific than "Use suggestions to improve product".
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This asset requirement is not for shopping at the mall and making sure you don't starve. It is to invest. This money has to be spent on investment and creating jobs in US.
I've learned that HN traffic and Reddit traffic are good for quick feedback and high viewcounts, but not for repeat visitors or people stick around. It's almost entirely bounce traffic.
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Siri is beta, and throwing a couple million users (iPhone 4S buyers) at the servers that support it is a pretty good sample size for testing a beta. Give it time.
I'm sure there's law around this, but I can imagine a secondhand seller giving a short-term (e.g. 5 seconds) loan to a buyer and then the buyer paying off the debt in cash. :-)