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This is exactly the rhetoric that Steve Jobs wanted Google to avoid, and perhaps he was exaggerating. But really, while there are many excellent products that Google has built, not all of them are capable of generating revenue and/or adoption of other Google products. That is the fat that Jobs was saying Google should trim.
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Agreed. In this sense I'm worried that google will lean more toward "Internet For Dummies"(e.g. losing the + feature in favor of double quotes to make way for G+), attempting to coral my internet use into certain patters the same way Apple seems to (like removing the "Reader" link from the google bar to showcase G+).
I have no incentive for further discussion with you, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering to respond.

I'll just say that I'm well aware of the politics and technical issues in the E&P sector as well as domestic and international energy consumption (across all fuel types), and that you are on the border of being completely uninformed on this issue. Frankly, it's sad. You have an opinion, and have used Google to find articles that validate it... and here I am, having read RigZone for years, participating on Oil Drum, having independently given myself an undergrad+ education in petroleum geology, having invested real money in oil companies and reading dozens if not hundreds of 10-Qs and 10-Ks for domestic small to mid cap producers (whose assets span onshore, offshore, UDW, shale, and bitumen). And nothing I can say will jolt you out of your comfortable mindset where there is abundant petroleum for the taking if only DC would step back and let capitalism run its course.
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I said 'arguably'. I didn't claim to say the absolute truth. So I have no evidence, just my personal perspective.

If you want some evidence, google around, you'll notice that sympy is pretty much what everyone is using.
I'm assuming it's not the phones stack but sprint's stack. I think this is all on sprints side. So calls come in just like normal calls and your outgoing phone number is your GV number
> I had to telnet

Knowing/using ssh way more important than vi/vim.
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All these webgl demos cause my late 2008 macbook to grind to an absolute halt in a way that no other program seems to manage. You can almost hear the thing whimpering. Even the stuff like the volume control buttons on the keyboard stopped responding, and they normally take priority over everything else (handled by the kernel perhaps?)
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I just finished making zezti.com. I wanted something to help me keep track of what groceries i had and what i needed, without having to maintain a list. Zezti does just that, so i can check a list of exactly what i have in my pantry from the store. It also has a list for the old-fashioned folks.

While making this, i also learned Rails, JQuery, and JQuery Mobile. It is still a little rough, and I have heard that is certain situations, when adding an item to a list it starts looping. I have not yet been able to isolate it, but if you do, that would be hugely helpful. I hope you enjoy using this. (Sorry, the initial page load is rather slow, I'm working on it.)

P.S: There's also a mobile version at m.zezti.com
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I can't recall the details of the study, and while the methodology or scope of the study are subject to critique, it is one of those, you know, statistical studies. Not anecdotal evidence, and not "I've been in the business for so long" evidence.
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Wouldn't the regex for "mac" also match "macintosh" and "imac" and inflate the numbers?
Mark Pilgrim reversed (or ripped out, can't remember) the encoding detection that Firefox uses. It has done a fairly good job for my web crawling:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet
But for cashflow. There are investments that need to be made that are beyond the bounds of money on hand, not to mention that even if you can afford to pay up front you might deplete your ability to continue other programs services. This is why we have housing loans, credit cards, and car loans. This is commercial paper. this is national debt.
You can append &nfpr=1 to the query string to make it more strict. That's what http://finderr.org does.
The problem that Groupon has to overcome is making a sustainable business out of an unsustainable marketing model. In reality, daily deals aren't allowing brands to develop deeper, more engaging business to customer relationships.

However, with the proliferation of viral media and marketing and an increasingly social internet, they may find a niche of companies that truly benefit from the products Groupon offers.
It's an interesting souvenir and definitely nice to look at, but once you spend your BTC online, the intrinsic value (the BTC) and the store of value (the coin) become separated, and the coin becomes worthless. In fact, I don't even know how money would get exchanged... if you gave someone the coin, it still doesn't confer ownership. It's essentially an anonymous IOU, meaning it has no value.
"a wildly successful hedge fund manager friend of mine"

A very important and extremely wise sage for our times, no doubt...
> the value of SICP was to teach me how easy, beautiful and powerful it can be to program that way

That might be your value. But, the goal of SICP class is not to teach functional programming or create fpfs.
Because this doesn't capture the mouse it's really hard when you have to go to the top of the screen (menu bar) or bottom (taskbar). Without full screen mouse capture. WebGL will be nothing more than a toy when it comes to any kind of serious game.
There should not be down voting for the comments. But number of votes should be shown and moved up so that others can see which ones liked by community and others "left behind". Removing down voting is essential if number of likes are going to be shown to eliminate any emotional response and action (=downvoting).
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How they're going to track you if you exchange physical coins?
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In my experience chardet misclassifies very often iso-8859-1 as iso-8859-2. I saw the misclassification even in small spanish pages, which were using only the typical spanish characters.
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Oh, I agree that you'll eventually be unable to maintain or improve a codebase built on coincidence, just as you will eventually reach the limits of a chemical process that uses onions. For example, your onion process will be inconsistent at some level, precisely because onions are a hack with a lot of potential side effects. What breed of onions, again? How big should the individual onions be? Don't onions vary according to the soil you grow them in?

So you'll probably have to take the onions out, sooner or later. But: You've got to be prepared for the real costs of that project. It is very, very tempting to tell yourself that your simple change is "obviously" going to be cheap. Particularly in software, which is not chemistry, let alone biology [1], and which is so close to being deterministic and consistent and provable -- after all, the individual components often are that simple (at least in the absence of cosmic rays and lightning strikes), and every complex program starts out simple and easy to change, and the complexity can grow so slowly that you barely perceive the day-to-day increase. So you can convince yourself that you know what's going on in a software system. And then, whoops, you make a change, and it has a side effect, which has another side effect, and then the bug reports come in, from users you may not have even realized you had.

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[1] This is why it's great to spend a little time moonlighting as a biologist: You can practice living in a world without certainty. Biologists really don't know more than a small fraction of what's going on. Even individual bacteria are mysterious. If you've been raised on physics you will be shocked by biology. You really have to learn what controls and statistics and experimental design are about when you're trying to measure a biological system.
Hint: Google disables some drivers by default, although by simply navigating to chrome://gpu/ I was able to kick-start WebGL on my Mac.
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All previous messages in an SMS thread will be marked read each time you reply, so it's actually not so bad.

That said, there are even more downsides: no iMessage, no MMS, and increased latency for both SMS and voice in particular.

I'm in the process of porting my number away from Google Voice now. It was fun while it lasted, but I'm ready to be a first-class citizen again.
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I can't play it. I've played too many FPS and Flight Simulators in my time. The controls need to be inverted so i can fly it like a real plane. Too bad.
I think both packages are included, but sympy somewhat the preferred for new versions.
Here are some method:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/21/tanya-go...
I don't get it. If I recieve a physical bitcoin, how do I know it was not previously "redeemed"?
If you're a Rubyist, "gem install cheat" (http://cheat.errtheblog.com/)
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obligatory: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
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Taoism isn't really a religon, but more of a philosophy, and it's a really good one for a programmer. If you haven't read it then check it out. My favorite translation is here - http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote...
FWIW, My 4 kids all loved cars 2. They were bored at Up! and Wall-E (2 Pixar "misses" IMHO).

Actually Shrek 2 I think was on par with Shrek. My son watched it about 5 times on a flight from UK->US. I agree Shrek 3 was poor, but I think that was more to do with the story (or lack of) rather than humor etc.

Also with Toy Story... Our kids (And I) prefer Toy Story 2 to Toy Story, it just has a stronger story and more refined.

Agree @ Tangled though. Awesome back to form. Also Princess+Frog was excellent.
To redeem the coin, you have to peel back a sticker. The hologram for peeled coins takes on a honeycomb appearance according to the link.
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As far as I know, functional java was used as inspiration, but bolts were much more suitable for day to day tasks (a lot of pragmatic code already there).

No idea about the recent development in fj, they probably made some improvements in the meantime, too.
You don't. Even better, this would be great as a scam, if you simply count on it being handed a couple of times from person to person before someone decides to check the code online. Who are you going to complain to if it turns out not to work at redemption time?

Would you accept one of these without verifying that it has indeed not been redeemed. How do you know that your coin is the only coin with that particular code in it without redeeming it?
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So Worcestershire sauce-marinated fried chicken wings with a honey, ketchup and mustard sauce are a delicacy in Uruguay?

That doesn't sound very appetizing.
It would be interesting to see how many started their own startup.
It was also made possible by cheap ubiquitous i386 PCs - so it was really all due to the Microsoft monopoly
Guava is cool. But Java7 makes some of it's packages or classes redundant. Good stuff anyway.
If anyone is interested for UK data, then the UK government has a neat table here: http://data.gov.uk/appathon-2011

It is called "Salary of graduates by course topic (National Student Survey)"
There was a lot of OS research pre-unix. In some sense, unix, at least the API, killed them.

Lots of folks were working on "portable" (as in "easy to port") OSs at that time but unix won the battle on PDP-11s and the other ISAs failed to gain much traction.

My favorite was OS was Tenex, from parc (?) which later became TOPS-20. (TOPS-10 ran on the same basic hardware but was completely different.) However, it wasn't portable.
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> if you gave someone the coin, it still doesn't confer ownership

It does because the coin has the private key. Maybe it's better to think of it as a key to a (public) safe. The key represents the right to open this safe. So, by giving you the key, I give you the ownership to the content of the safe. (However, if I have another copy of the key it get's problematic.)

> It's essentially an anonymous IOU

Which is exactly the same as normal cash. The only difference is that you can destroy them without really loosing the money. So you have a worthless piece of metal. You can do the same with your normals coins (eg. melt them down), but then the worth is just gone ;)
Would be nice to have the source that created it.
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Does a pile of eight bitcoins equal a bytecoin? If so, then a single bitcoin would indeed be "a bit", because: "In the U.S., the "bit" as a designation for money dates from the colonial period, when a common unit of currency was the Spanish milled dollar worth 8 Spanish reales. As a way of making change, these dollars were cut into eight pie-slice shaped pieces which were called "bits". (For this reason, the whole coin was known as a "piece of eight".) Each eighth-dollar bit was then worth 12.5 cents, "two bits" was a quarter of a dollar (25 cents), "four bits" was a half-dollar (50 cents) and "six bits" was 75 cents."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(money)#United_States
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Nice. I've been using a call to the Google online translator to achieve the same result - http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?...
If you type @<name> it gets converted into +<name>.
There is a subtlety however. At most companies, you need less competence the higher you rise. What gets rewarded is playing the game, not competence.

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/rule-zero-how-things-reall...
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Have you looked at the ibis reader? I've used them for a while and I think it's well executed, but not updated often.
"No. But if I had been in a system with a shorter summer vacation from the beginning, I don't think I would care too much."

I suppose it's like someone that lives in North Korea: They don't know the freedoms they are missing because they've never had them.

" Summers were usually spent playing a lot of video games and going on boring camping trips with various relatives. At the time I loved the break, but I can hardly remember a summer where something really interesting and eventful happened."

Most of my favorite childhood memories happened during summer vacation. The thing is, once you are older..you can't ever re-create that time of complete freedom because you have life responsibilities. I don't want to take that a way from kids.
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Despite the name of the site, it's accepted that not everything that is posted is exclusively "news."
Lot of oil business Americans in Calgary so they wanted to make an exception for their plans? I dunno, that's my conspiracy theory...
"It is his outsiderness that seems most irritating and even alarming" - that's the main issue that people seem to be having with Yuri. If he was American, he would be yet another success story, flashier than the others, but still competent enough to have made it big.

As much as I admire the Silicon Valley investors who live in a normal house and drive a normal car, it's Milner's choice to go all out and get some expensive stuff if he wants - I suspect growing up in Russia, they didn't have access to any kind of luxury items when the Union collapsed, so the desire to get all the big houses, yachts and expensive cars is understandable.

By the way, I like it how he bought Mail.ru when it was cheap - it was certainly a smart investment (it's now the biggest mail service in Runet, not only Russia itself), at a time when most of them thought the fancy American invention, the Internet, went belly up.
Why would you take advice from a competitor, especially one that is suing you over exactly the subject matter of their advice?

Really, Apple telling Google to concentrate on services is like Google telling Apple to concentrate on hardware.

Google was iirc at some point involved in developing a little phone operating system that competed directly with one of Apple's cash cows. Naturally it would be great for Apple if google forgot about phones, Android and whatever else would cause them to one day run in to Apple in the marketplace.

If google would concentrate on search then that would be great news for Apple indeed.

Android is not a service, Chrome is not a service.

Search, YouTube and Plus are services.
Would it be difficult to make the game keyboard responsive? Cool stuff other than that.
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> What I find particularly interesting is that the PhD's clearly have absolutely no incentive of staying in academia.

That's not clear.

The total net worth of Stanford's CS professors is a couple of billion dollars. Yes, Billion.

Then again, they have incredible "deal flow".
I'm guessing you're not on Sprint?

The reason is, when you're on Sprint, you don't have to go through the "porting" process that you do if you're on other carriers. Your existing number stays your sprint number, but also becomes a GV number. Also, they now are rolling out MMS to sprint users. And even before they had MMS support, it's not like you didn't get them -- they just went directly to your phone and weren't available in your GV inbox.

The biggest (and only real) downside I experience is that yes, there is a lag (the phone rings several times) before my phone starts ringing. But it's not exactly tragic.
Why does everyone defend the unions so much here? They are the reason we have a sub-par education system in the US. Teachers get automatic raises not based on merit and it's very difficult to fire a bad teacher. Until this problem is fixed (which the unions likely won't fix on their own), the other things you try aren't really going to help.
What "Cells" are you talking about? Trellis looks cool; thanks for the tip.
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A quick first impression:

Change the font! That's a disastrous font to use on any website. Pick something more 'standard' like Arial or Verdana.

At the conceptual level, it sounds like a great idea. But when you actually get down to executing it, it can be a pain: who has the time to buy groceries, look in the fridge, and type everything out on a website?

You know what would be awesome? Taking a picture of your fridge or grocery cabinet, and the software automatically recognizing the brands and quantity of groceries without having to fill out any forms. That, I'd pay for!
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When many regulations and unions that won't fire bad teachers are the norm, it's fresh thinking.
-term still works. I guess Google+ needs the plus sign for something, so now "quoted" "terms" will include both quoted and terms, but not only as "quoted terms" but also "terms quoted". It's a bit of bother to use quotes when explicitly demanding a term, but no loss of functionality, as it seems.
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You misunderstand. I'm saying we could, but the slowdown wouldn't be 1/100. It would be more like 1/1 billion. At that speed, it would take years to simulate a second of brain time. Not only would that be useless, it would be impossible to know if you'd actually implemented it right without being able to test it in a reasonable timeframe. That's why we'll only be able to develop brain-like AI once our computers are much faster.
>best language to begin programming in
The problem is that how many of the new undergrad intake at MIT/UCB are new to programming !

It was a little easier back in the 80s when the new students would only have known BASIC or 6502 assembler
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They're similar, but I think Fern takes a pretty different perspective.
I believe that it's being done with the library at the main part of the website. I haven't actually tried to do it yet but it doesn't look like it'd be too difficult. http://accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/
Bitcoin is just fake money. Noboby is really buying in. No policy, no program, no tax plan, just dreams...
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Indeed, a faster multi-frequency fourier transform would be a huge deal. It would speed up everything that involves multiplying large numbers (encryption, but also lots of biology and other scientific problems), due to FFT multiplication.
How to find a good open source project to learn a new language
One of the most exciting things for a developer beginning a startup is the no-holds barred opportunity to choose their new language for their product or service. However picking the right language/framework, especially if it's reasonably new can be a difficult task; I find the best way to understand a language is by getting stuck into some good code to see how the wheels turn.

How did you find a great example of the language/framework you implemented?
Thanks for the feedback. I have heard a lot of negative things about the font -- Ill probably change it soon. I wish i could implement the picture idea, but honestly i have no idea where to even start, or if technology is advanced enough for that. If you have any idea, i would love to hear it.
In which case the simple truth is that, you don't have a reason to think "more Startups are using Python over Ruby" and you don't have a reason to think "more Startups are using Ruby over Python" (and you probably don't even have a reason to think the same number are using Ruby and Python.)

We might as well both face-up to not knowing anything about that particular question :-)
Given the background of Milner described in the article, I'd argue he doesn't care about material comfort and luxury. At all. Like Perelman - who lives with his mother in the middle of St. Peterburg, sees a lot of opera and is happy with that.

His 100M home is probably just another investment. He had bought a part of California state, tiny but pretty impressive one. He can also live in his investment which is a bonus.
If his 'outsiderness' is so irritating and alarming that's just nicely dressed up xenophobia.

And from what I've seen of it SiliconValley is not much prone to that. So why is it different with Milner?
Uh, that's gig of RAM. Heh