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I completely agree! As a "framework-less" Java developer where I had written apps with 100k+ LOC, the application code is always separated from the web layer.
When I started Rails I scratched my head for days trying to figure where the application code should reside.

I hope this turns into a best practice.
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Now you can mine Facebook vs. population census and calculate who is a CIA employee ...
Which experts are you referring to? Pundits on tv? The president? The head of the CIA? The president had an agenda that he wanted to pursue since 2001. Him and his staff were selective in what information they believed. The director of the CIA unfortunately told the president what he wanted to hear. Pundits on television took them at their word.

There were people who said there was no evidence that Iraq had WMD, and they were ignored. This is not a case of "they did the best with the information they had." This is a case of "they made their conclusions first, and looked for the evidence second." Books that touch on this subject: "Plan of Attack" and "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward; "Legacy of Ashes" by Tim Weiner; "Your Government Failed You" by Richard Clarke.
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See, this strikes me as CS-driven code smell. Why not use an association between User and Story (maybe through :assignments) and just `user.stories.create(...)` or `user.assignments.create(:story => story)` ? No spurious class necessary.
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No, not so fast.

What you said -- "Google Voice numbers can only receive MMS from Sprint numbers" -- is true.

But if you're on sprint, you no longer need to use a "Google Voice" number. You just use your sprint number. It's able to verify that the number you type in is Sprint, and if so, it connects it behind the scenes to GV and disables any add'l GV number you're given.

When you do it this way -- the "proper" way to use GV on sprint -- then MMS pose no problem. ANYBODY can send me an MMS. It won't show up in the GV app unless it's sent by another Sprint user. If it's sent from another carrier, GV will ignore it and it'll show up, like any other message, in the native Android messaging app.
> "In his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, written during the Great Depression, Keynes likened the activity to a newspaper contest in which, “The competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; so that each competitor has to pick, not those faces he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom are looking at the problem from the same point of view.”

This seems like it would be an interesting game; the last time I saw it was when I had a customer hosting the same (using porn images, and real money, back in 2001). I didn't know it was from Keynes back then!

Is there anything like this today (other than financial markets in general; I mean something purely in the form of a game, and iterated with discrete rounds, vs. fairly continous).
Can you give me a list of these perfectly objective sources of journalism? I'd like to read them.
This is either desperation, great biz dev work from Klout or a smart way to get influential people to use Windows Phone.

I think the reason it's New York only could be that they want to target as many New York influencers as possible, then treat to them a concert. If they can get lots of influential people on Windows Phone it could spread in one of the largest US markets.

The question is does Klout equal influence and am I over analysing their intentions?
I imagine that this display is merely a proof of concept. There aren't many electronic devices that use displays of that size, but perhaps 6.1" was the smallest that Toshiba could scale a 1600p display.

Or perhaps the electronics required to produce such dense pixels are still quite large, and whose rectangular dimensions wouldn't allow for displays of the same density without a wide bezel.
I always feel bad for companies trying to show off a higher resolution screen -- if my screen has a lower resolution, by definition it's kind of hard for my screen to accurately portray its quality; at best I can only see what my screen can deliver.
The best part of this idea is that it's incremental. Past manned missions seem to have a long period when stuff gets studied, then when it comes time to spend the real money, it gets killed in favor of the study phase for some other mission.

By costing a comparatively modest amount at a time over a long series of missions, it's more likely that it will be easier for Washington to complete a mission that's already well underway and take credit for it than to kill it to save a little bit more money at that point.

And to be really pessimistic, even if it does get killed halfway through, if we've put a fuel station in space and started filling it, we can at least try to reuse those resources for whatever the next mission is.
There is a claim that answers your question in the very beginning of the article.

>Currently, all of the fuel needed for a mission is carried up with the rocket, and the weight of the fuel limits the size of the spacecraft.
A bush hunter... is that a euphemism for something?
Yes, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) detects N frequencies in parallel, where N is the block size, and you can disregard the uninteresting frequencies. The fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm that computes the DFT. For detecting M frequencies where M << N, the Goertzel algorithm requires less computation than the FFT. Also, the Goertzel algorithm allows targeting more exact frequencies regardless of the sampling rate (Fs), while the FFT's bins have a fixed spacing of ±Fs/N.

As with everything, there are trade-offs associated with these three options.
"Also, using printf() for debugging? In 2011? I seriously hope you guys don't do this."

OK, I'll bite. I haven't done any serious straight up C programming in over a decade, and yes, I used a lot of printf for debugging back then. What's the best way to debug C programs now? (I imagine printf wasn't the best way to debug programs when I was writing C, either.) A different logging library? gdb?
Thanks for changing the title.
It's highly un-PC to say, but any money coming out of Russia requires a higher level of scrutiny due to the environment there.

Actually, it's probably a great idea to research any investor throughly before taking money. There's an incredible berth of information on how to create attractive companies for investment, but not so much on dating your investors.
No. In fact, I have never heard of a case where a startup refused investment from a venture fund because of who their LPs were.

Incidentally, the Start Fund is Yuri's private fund. It's not part of DST.
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I suspect that it's less a case of Tabasco being ideal, and more a compromise between "ideal" and "aquirable world-wide".

Having spent literally months trying to find the correct chilli sauce for authentic Pho recently, I'm sympathetic to that argument.
Every time I see a reference to the meme that the top M% of the population has N% of the total wealth for some N > M, I always want to point out "Inequality in Equalland" (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...), a thought experiment which shows that even in a society equal to the point of parody, 20% of the population would hold at least 64% of the wealth just by saving for retirement over the course of their careers.

It makes slightly more sense to talk about income inequality, and much of the article looks at what a top-tier income looks like, but it makes little to no sense to gripe about wealth inequality.
To measure airspeed I guess something has to have air flowing through it or past it, and that something would be susceptible to icing. That said, current pitot have very good ice protection, and AF447 was an extreme example with a known problematic type that Air France were in the process of exchanging.

Perhaps GPS ground speed data with previous wind estimates could at least help with establishing that "something must be wrong with the airspeeds".
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> Nevertheless, when he arrived in New York

He blew off the people who flew him out, IIRC
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Says the guy shamelessly poisoning this thread with negativity rather than just addressing the points in the article
I don't know, maybe the extra resolution is perceivable in the precise ends of strokes of ideographic Japanese, Chinese and related writing systems? If so, it is a huge market. (For the english alphabet, even old monitors seem fine to me.) Also, 500 ppi is just unbelievably awesome - useful or not.
The authors certainly see it in this way: The transition to compilers as services dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for creating code focused tools and applications.

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh500769

I agree with the parent. Yegge's platform rants is what I thought of, too.
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Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I now see that there are a number of parallels—but I still think the contrasts are more striking.

First of all, Eric Schmidt did an excellent job. In 2011, Page inherited a that is hugely profitable, practically owns search, and has successfully expanded into many other markets. While there's no doubt that he'll do many things differently, you can pretty much guarantee it's not going to be anything on the order of the massive purges Apple experienced in the late 90s. Apple in 1997 was mortibund; almost nobody thought Jobs had a serious chance at turning it around.

Schmidt successfully did for Page and Brin what John Sculley was supposed to do for Jobs; provide guidance for an inexperienced founder until they can assume the chief executive role.

And while I agree with much of what you wrote, I take exception to the idea that, outside of search, Google 'doesn't do anything particularly well'. They have a range of excellent and successful products, most of them well integrated into their core business. I refuse to accept the idea that, for example, Maps, Gmail and Android aren't products 'done well'.
HIV got pretty lucky a few times; it's relatively difficult to contract, so if any of those steps had been disrupted long enough for people to learn about it, we might not have tens/hundreds of millions killed by it.

Keeping it contained in Africa for a bit longer, getting rid of the infected plasma selling organization in Haiti, and a different initial population, might have made all the difference -- imagine if a monogamous/non-needle-sharing person got infected, disease ran its course with first-world medical facilities, and became a research curiosity.
This sort of article is why serious people tend to roll their eyes when the Wall Street Journal comes up. Their agenda -- to humanize and sympathize with the 1% -- could not be more obvious. Why should I feel bad for someone who describes losing their $100m house as heartbreaking?
That doesn't make much sense. You can send a booster stage to orbit, complete with engine, cluster boosters (or add already full tanks) if needed and dock the spacecraft (which can be assembled in orbit too) in place. There is no reason to send empty "fuel depots" to orbit or to transfer cryogenic fuel and oxidizer in zero-G.
That is what this captain suggests:

http://travel.usatoday.com/experts/cox/story/2011/05/Ask-the...

Something scary from a Boeing pilot in the comments:

Loss of all airspeed indications is not something we train
for. It's always assumed in transport category aircraft
that redundancies built in will always give us at least
attitude, heading, and airspeed.
Until we invent strong AI, jobs will always exist that humans can do better than computers. And once we invent strong AI, work becomes optional for 100% of people. (Or we all die horribly because somebody screwed up making the strong AI.)

Socialism works if and only if society can continue to function with 0 people working.
Wow. It looks like this post may be just the ticket out of your mess...this singular post has 322 comments! Go build an online community for all those who can relate and make tons of money - it appears you'll have an audience! BTW: it's all about the process. You think it's bad now b/c you're deep in it, but one day, when this has passed as all things do, you'll look back and realize you needed this experience for your future success to have occurred. ;)
As a self-described anarcho-capitalist, I have to say that most such theories of privately-owned and -operated courts and police that I see thrown about on the internet are terrible, extraordinarily simplistic systems that just make us all look like naive utopians.

To my mind, a much more sensible system would resemble the federalized structure we have now in the States, only without physical/territorial borders preventing an individual's migration from one jurisdiction to another, and without any considerable barriers to entry for emergent States.

Essentially, a minimal and immutable Constitution with a federal registry of member states and arbitration services -- member states which any group of people may establish on their own, and to which any individual may freely subscribe (or renounce); arbitration services publicly listed, from which the member states (and individuals) could select ordered preferences for, with a Federal arbitration council as a final fall-back option, should no parties have coincident arbitration services on their lists.

My notion of anarchism is not that it is against laws or the establishment of governments, only against compulsory subscription and subjugation to them. Removal of territorial borders as the basis for what constitutes a "State" and allowing a free market in decentralized legal systems to arise, under controlled conditions that provide rules and means for these budding governments to interact and cooperate with each other within a larger scope of law, is the only way any stable form of anarchism could ever occur.

tl;dr As an AnCap, I support a federalized breed of constitional clan politics, NOT Rent-A-Cops and Kangaroo Courts.
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You must have read a different article. The article I read went to great pains to point out the staggering extravagance of many wealthy people in the U.S.

EDIT: I mean "Versailles"? Seriously? Like just building the largest residence in the U.S. wasn't ostentatious enough by itself?
Sounds like you shouldn't be using Rails if this is your philosophy. I'm of the school of thought that if you're going to use a framework when building an app, then you should lean on it for just about any task that it will let you. Especially if you're using a well-maintained and widely used framework like Rails. There are multiple benefits to this approach. For one thing, it makes it easier to onboard new team members. There are tons of people who are Rails experts, and are very familiar with its paradigms and features. People like this can very quickly get up to speed with just about any Rails project. A large team can also communicate and work much more efficiently if they are all using the same code structure/helpers/etc. If you're a one man show, it might work just fine for you to build specialized gems for all of your "application" (though the line you've drawn between application and framework seems pretty vague) though there is going to be a fundamental lack of structure to your entire project. It'll make sense to you for a little while until it gets so big that even you don't understand it. It's going to be difficult to perceive test coverage, and in practice, all those little gems are going to vary pretty wildly in structure.

You'd be better off just using Sinatra and including ActiveRecord, and whatever other Rails libraries you want to use.
Let me be more precise. When I said the situation was not as simple as his comment implied, I meant that even if Yuri's money was tainted in some way, it was being used as a counterweight to another bad thing.
> (For the english alphabet, even old monitors seem fine to me.)

Possibly. But operating systems have to go to great lengths to display text well, with subpixel antialiased rendering and all sorts of clever tricks to make the most out of the limited resolution. This often doesn't work well, leading to complaints like these:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000041.html
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/981-Antialiased-Text-Is-Not-All...

If we get up to 500 ppi, that's well into inkjet-printer quality text without any antialiasing at all. Text would look rather nice. (Although I may be alone in peering at laser-printed text just to admire how smooth it is.)
I must have missed this. When did Google get slapped with an anti-trust investigation?
An interesting article on connections between the Russian mob, Putin, the KGB, and Russian investors.

The Facebook angle is just a bit of linkbait spice, and is only a small part of the article.

If I were Zuckerberg, I wouldn't really care where my investors were. Once you are liquid, you just can't control what happens to your shares. And at Facebook's stage of development, they aren't going to change direction just to get another minority investor (unlike a new start-up, which can be sunk by a VC overthrowing their CEO, stacking the board, wiping out the value of employee options, and other such tricks). I'd watch my back when travelling in Russia, though (whether or not I'd taken their money).

edit: other interesting bits - legal threats against bloggers; and ISPs taking down blogs due to the threats.
In Rails, the application belongs in app/, not lib/ or a gem. If this does not meet your admittedly obsessive design concerns then I suggest not using Rails.
I suppose it's dependent on how you read the article. I assumed that we were supposed to be sympathizing with these people -- although we both realized how ridiculous that would be.
Which do you think happened first? Firing half of his work force, or deciding to finally put his house on the market. That's a pretty important distinction. In time of stress, who gets sacrificed first? Your employees or your luxuries?

Also --- "from the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York to the tax battles in Washington, portrayals of millionaires and billionaires are being shaped more by partisan ideologies than economic realities" --- really? Thousands of people in LA lining up to receive free health care because they are insured is "partisan ideologies"?

What is "economic realities" then? The price of a Gulfstream?
Most definitely. My 8-year old girl is going to have to learn about fisting and BDSM at some point. Preventing that would just make me crazy and over-protective.
You are suffering from selection bias. You experienced applications that already needed to scale. For every one of those, you have a hundred that never made it. Had they started with harder to develop with technologies, they would have failed without having any completed products.
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Isn't it inherently unlikely for a disease contracted from wild chimpanzees to be contracted by someone with access to first-world medical facilities?
Job ads at indeed: http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=Java%2C+C%2B%... (Click Relative to see which are increasing compared to others more easily)

Doesn't seem to be losing popularity among employers.
“Are these the folks you want having access to all the personal data on your Facebook account?”

If I had to choose, I would say these folks do indeed sound scarier than Zuckerberg.

The piece needed a better closing sentence.
Raise your kids like you want, but I would argue that the potential positive gain to be had from telling your daughter that you trust her to be responsible and come to you if she has problems is far far far greater than the: [probability that she will randomly run into that while she is still 'too young'] multiplied by [whatever harm that could conceivably cause].

I know protective parenting is all the rage, but think about it rationally.
Simplicity was my main point. The fact that it was faster just followed. As a matter of fact I haven't rebooted this machine in about 3 weeks.
One must not mistake education with school. Sometimes they are linked, sometimes they are not.

It would be foolish to take away from this article that education is unimportant - all of the people listed are incredibly well educated.

The well educated will save America. How many of these people have gone to school, that's another matter altogether.
A major portion was an IRS rule change which made it less tax efficient to do conspicuous consumption on the company dime. Japan has a treatment closer to the old way, and Japanese CEOs have wages which are not too dissimilar to American engineers but lifestyles which are similar to American CEOs. (e.g. Want a private flight to a vacation in Europe? That can be arranged, sir.)
Who cares? He's dead and nothing will "fix" that. Seems like a shit-poor reason to oppress the living.
I do agree that with a sufficiently high DPI, we can stop worrying so much about anti-aliasing and especially sub-pixel anti-aliasing

The articles you mention don't so much represent cases of "doesn't work well" as "no one solution satisfies everyone"; that problem does indeed go away when you have enough DPI.

(We still have to care about hinting, though, because among other things we want character boxes to overlap to avoid excessive whitespace in strings like "AV" or "Tr".)
I can't see how tool use is unnatural by any definition. We do it without any prompting, as do chimps and even some birds. Ours are just more complicated. Living past 18 is a natural result of having enough food to eat and relative safety, again deriving from our natural intelligence.

My point is that it's an uphill battle to declare any given real phenomenon as unnatural at all.
If we stretch that further, then even a 1% share is not necessary, so why bother?
Definitely.

I meant if there were a limited population of humans exposed to chimpanzees (in Africa), and maybe it crossed over and stayed in a pretty localized group.

Then, in the lucky alternate universe, the first patient from outside being infected being a ~60 year old western/rich visiting professor who doesn't do drugs, and maybe doesn't even have sex with his wife, and is basically a closed system. Returns home HIV+ but doesn't spread it to any other humans before AIDS develops, he goes to a hospital (where there's already reasonable biosafety against blood-borne pathogens), and someone figures out there's a new virus in Africa which can only be contracted through relatively direct contact.

Then, a few tens of millions of dollars of treatment (practicing better biosafety in Africa, letting US medical device manufacturers send needles/etc. paid for by the government, etc., would probably be enough to keep the whole thing contained, and maybe eventually eradicate it.

Unfortunately that's not what happened.
What link-baity nonsense is this?

Yeah, people running/founding companies might drop out of school to do so, the people that they're directing, however, are engineers with graduate degrees.

Stay in school. The idea that articles like this perpetuate "Lose pounds NOW and eat whatever you want!" errr... I mean "Commonly accepted fact of life is incorrect! You're Harry Potter!" is a bad one. Stay in school. Get your degree.

No, high school dropouts won't "save America", people who figure out an economic system that can function in a post-industrial economy will.
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