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It really depends on the person and how they use that technology. People like I assume Gibson use tech as a means to an end, he hasn't bought a new app because he is comfortable with what he has and sees no need to try new things.

This is the same reason my mother had a hard time when she bought a new laptop with windows 7 on it, though surprisingly she really likes google chrome and tells everyone on a computer using internet explorer they should use chrome instead.

I guess the gist of what I am saying is that sometimes change can be to much for those who aren't the power user. I loved windows 7 on the RC and all the little improvements, the same with word and office 2007. I get excited about new OS releases and new programs and updates because I find them useful and it doesn't take me hours or weeks or months to become more productive because I live tech but others just don't have the time or desire to understand it.
Unfortunately it benchmarks 20-40x slower than stock Solr. If that wasn't the case, I'd use it in a heartbeat.
agreed, maybe I haven't expanded my mind enough but once I started using a widely used language to program in (not saying which) where I can write relatively easily, scalable maintainable code, find plenty of work and pay the bills, my desire to experiment with other, more obscure languages has kind of fallen off, there has to be a reason why some languages are widely used and others aren't. No language is ever going to please everyone but thats how life is, you can't always change the world to suit your preferences
> Is Go adoption happening?

Slowly (not surprisingly giving the youth of the language), but it is happening, see: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go
No, it's easier to scan menus, because they are left-aligned lists of text. Ribbons have tiles of various sizes depending on measured importance of the action, and that busyness makes it harder to scan.

The lower screenshot looks like someone visually puked all over the top of it. It's got knobs and gizmos hanging out like a big mess of wires, something you'd expect to see in a stereotypical movie genius's garage, not a user-friendly UI.

(Touch UI is a complete red herring, IMO. You want different UIs for different input modalities. That's exactly the opposite of making your mouse UI look like a touch UI; that approach is just as bad as making your touch UI look like a mouse UI, which is roughly what Windows kept repeating and failing with tablets and "Windows for Pen Computing" - the failure here literally goes back decades.)
you might be conflating 4chan with /b/. there's a lot of 4chan that isn't /b/. further, i think it's possible to argue that the huge amount of useless fluff on /b/ is not a bad thing - the whole point of it is to be a sink for that stuff.
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Why do you think it's an anti-pattern, and not separation of concerns? Even with a flexible template language (ERB being about as flexible as it gets), you're wise to put the hard work in the controller.

You wouldn't assign a variable like `articles = Article.all()` at the top of the template, then sort it later in the template, then filter it later still. Instead, you would put something like `@articles = Article.filter(conditions).sort(by_date)` (excuse the pseudo syntax) in your controller, then do a relatively simple loop over @articles in your template.

Under your proposed system, what would the controllers contain?
Rhetoricians have actually been talking about this for more than four thousand years. Everything's performance.
Here we go again with the code dashed off over the weekend. Sigh. Will this industry never grow up?
Is this "quantum locking" just a rebranding of the Meissner Effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect
What exactly is the facebook news ticker?

I stopped using Facebook a few months ago.
I interpret it more like "If you wouldn't want your mother to see you do it, then you probably shouldn't."

For what it's worth, while I absolutely love my civil liberties and freedoms, I do believe in accountability for one's actions. If I say something indefensible against a minority group, I believe that I should be ready to bear the consequences of my racism. I can either defend my actions with an intelligent argument or I can't. I shouldn't be able to just say "Oh. That was somebody else."

On the flip side, if I'm arguing for a controversial idea, then I will expect people to take the argument as insincere if I'm not willing to attach my name to it.

Anybody can say something anonymously, in the same way that anybody can pirate music. The people who are purposefully exercising civil disobedience are the ones I respect, whether or not I agree with their cause. That said, very few people actually practice civil disobedience. They download music and say 'Damn the man' wherever they can, but what actual GOOD does that do?

And just before anybody attacks me for trying to take away their right to privacy, I fully understand and support that it is our right, generally, and would never knowingly support/elect/fund or petition anyone trying to take that right away. But for me, personally, I think the bigger statement is always going to come from someone who is willing to risk their reputation to make a statement that's unpopular.
I started writing a reply but it turned into a blog post, here:
(http://casestatement.tumblr.com/post/11598425762/why-we-are-...)
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Bingo... This is what I was thinking about while reading the article, He cites 1 other blogger who has complained about this. Personally, I generally use the shortcuts for copy-paste but I do appreciate having the ability to avoid right-clicking to do some of the other tasks
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I know you aren't saying otherwise, I just wanted to add a bit to your "well known good practices" part. The fact is, in the professional PHP community, there are very much well established best practices (granted, not all our universal), but most are well established. The problem is, the leap from the beginning community to that professional community isn't natural. This is mostly a result of php.net catering to the beginner. It opens the doors to everyone.

Honestly, I feel there are a large number of quality sources for writing good PHP code. The problem is that isn't not all focused on PHP.

"everyone thinks they're an expert once they know how to open a mysql connection"

How true.

PHP is deceptively easy. It's akin to C, in that it will allow you to shoot your own foot if you ask it.
Anyone really interested in this should watch Albert Bartlett's lecture "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy".

It blew my mind when I first watched it two years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
right now I have a group in firefox with 200 old pages waiting to be read by me.
For me Go has made programming enjoyable again.
Yes.

(See I have to do this, otherwise there is no way to indicate assent. For PG to know this is popular, if he just looks at the regular site page, he would need a huge string of such comments.)
I find it painfully ironic that someone supposedly in charge of user interface and making "user experience better" would put in background music that he then has to talk over in a powerpoint presentation.

Edit: Also, I'm a little sad that you're being downvoted for a comparatively informative video.
Namely, handlebars allows you to use dot syntax to get inside nested hashes (objects). While you could argue that this isn't a good practice, it certainly makes it easier to create templates for an existing JSON API endpoint that contains nested objects.
I feel like I should turn in my nerd card, as I had no idea Google was currently offering two factor auth. Thanks for mentioning this!
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Here's a shot at an upper limit (idea ripped off from an Isaac Asimov essay I read a long time ago--late '70s most likely, but I re-did the calculations myself since I couldn't remember his numbers).

Imagine all humanity packed into a very large sphere, with each human allocated a mere 1 cubic meter of space. As the population expands, we have to enlarge the sphere to make room.

Starting with the current population, how long can a 1% growth rate be sustained before the frontier of the human sphere would have to expand faster than the speed of light to make room for the new humans?

That's a pretty good hard upper bound on long 1% growth can be sustained. If my calculations are right, it's about 9000 years from now. (That fits with my recollection of Asimov's result).
The article is nothing more than Google's anti-Facebook propaganda.
It's not meant for "any arbitrary website". But it will surely help where you need a real identity. Places like when you shop for something, some where. Definitely better than sharing your CC/Bank info!
Generally the community here was pretty good at voting based on worth of the comment in furthering the conversation and not on the opinion expressed therein.

Why vote? No one but you knows you did. The comment owner gets a number showing only assent or dissent which usually is irrelevant to their purpose for commenting.
>People seem to upvote when something should be upvoted //

How do you know?

All I see is some fading, which presumably means a comment has been heavily downvoted? But for all I know it could mean the commenter is new, or they're generally downvoted, or something else (perhaps it's cold in their city?).
With regards to generating random numbers, the Foreign Function Interface is also really useful. Here's a one-line wrapper around random(3).

foreign import ccall "stdlib.h random" c_rand :: CDouble -> CLong
Quoting a comment in the video linked to by fybren:

"This levitation is NOT due to the Meissner effect. It is﻿ negligible since we use thin films. If it were the Meissner effect the field would get distorted on a length scale of the diameter (~cm) and then two discs hovering above and below each other would affect it other. Which is clearly not the case. The discs are actually trapped in constant field contours rather than levitating."
This is a problem for Linkedin, as well. We have many facted personalities for work, but we are only allowed one-dimensional presentation. It's terrible, but most folks don't care or just don't know.
What? Your hardware failed so you dislike Android and "Android is a total rip of iPhone"? Ha, like notifications and multitasking?
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Google cares because it allows them to correlate all that juicy information you give them online with all those things you interact with offline. Together, these will combine into more targeted advertising (or "direct-to-individual marketing").

There is a HUGE financial incentive to force people into using their real names.
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Why have [up|down]votes then?

These "fights" do you have any sort of metric that backs up your contention?

IMO people downvote on opinion a lot more. Now the only time I vote is to upvote someone who's faded out (I'm assuming that's what fading means) and who is usually making a point I disagree with but nonetheless a good point clearly made. From a UX perspective the fading of comments sucks.

Vote blindness makes the whole site of far less worth to me.
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>Without publicly viewable results, polls are absolutely meaningless to everyone except the poster. //

Voting is a mini-poll on a comment. Without a result shown there's no point in voting.
It does help for students whose mother language are not English, and those who are blocked by government's firewall.
Most articles, if not all, have a layer of influence from the writer. Even something as simple as a top 10 list includes some bias. The bias exists in what the writer excludes and includes in the article. Even what I'm writing right now has some bias in it. Instead of saying "Even something such as a top 10 list" I said "Even something as simple as a top 10 list".
Who missed these red flags? Nobody I know in the valley. We've all been mocking @Groupon as an un-defensible and unsustainable ponzi scheme. For at least a year and a half there have been enough major news organizations backing this sentiment.

Come on. Online coupons. Groupon is the hype of boo.com, webvan, and Kozmo.com all rolled into one, with greedy investors hoping they can make a quick buck before people realized what happened.

Groupon is a glorified wordpress blog with 10,000 sales reps propping up the fake market with unsustainable or warranted demand. It's like watching Boiler Room play out in real life. There is no business process innovation here or technical innovation. The only innovation here is using huge marketing dollars to perpetuate a pump and dump ponzi scheme long enough for an IPO. Oh wait, that's not innovative, they did the same thing with dozens of companies a decade ago just before the first web bubble burst.
Not particularly quantum mechanical.

Well, no more so than everything else you might happen to see in your everyday life.
The problem with the multiple-vs-unique-ID debate is that people tend to ignore what these systems are really built for: data mining, behavioural analysis, targeted advertising etc.

Users will agree with moot that separate identities are better and safer, but this is not how the real FB/Google customers see it; advertisers and marketeers want to know that user-A is an engineer AND loves cooking AND has a pet AND goes on 4chan.org/tv, not just one OR the others.

That's why FB/Google try so hard to reconcile all your activities under one ID: to better represent the unique intersection of interests that will be resold to marketeers. Any feature they implement to "manage your faceted identity" will only give you an illusion of separation, and will inevitably link all your activities anyway, because that's necessary for their business model.

Note that this is not a rant (I use FB and G+ every day), I just think this point tends to be overlooked when talking about "social" websites, almost like it was not polite to point out where these businesses make their money.
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I find the ability to run the videos at 1.2 or 1.5x helps a lot.
>The price of everything else has increased over time, but wheat hasn't.

By what measure? Over the long run, prices have surely fallen for just about everything.
I've never used it myself but have seen e-junkie recommended in the past for in house affiliate programs.

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If you have a totally new way of looking at a subject, if you expose it to a place where your identity is valued, you will for sure get it damaged. So everybody refrains from posting potentially controversial opinions.

That's the part that scares me the most. In a world where everything you say is directly associated with you and indexabke forever in a search engine, people will have every reason to fear stepping out of mainstream opinions. The majority will become more beige. The minority will become more extreme. There will be less in between.

I prefer my world more interesting.
Whose complexity is it anyways?
With 4 people there is absolutely no reason to get 3000 sqft especially for $6500 per month. I would suggest either staying put or finding something much cheaper you can all live in and work in.

You are tiny and you have to act as if the money is yours (perhaps it is actually your own investment). Even if it is VC money you do not want to blow through that on BS stuff like renting space in a "nice" "cool" location. In the end it will make you run out of VC and need more, diluting you further and losing you money in the long run. No matter how you look at it, this is your money so spend it wisely! Ramen profitability is the goal! (PG plug)
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I once calculated that at a constant doubling rate of every 15 years, the human race would need to use all of the resources of the asteroid belt in about 12,000 years.

There's a lot of stuff out there.
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Somehow Jim Cramer with his infamous Bear Sterns prediction comes to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkbdjetlY8

Note that Jim Cramer is still running his show.
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>My points received per comment seem to be higher after that change. //

One often gets a lot of votes for a low value comment, something like a clarification. It's clearly valuable but before people would see that the vote on it was say at 2 points and wouldn't vote it up as that would be the right level for such a comment.

Comments that would have been -1 before now appear to be faded to almost nothing. I've no idea what that means WRT downvotes but presumably it means most everyone hates the opinion in that comment.
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I know this wasn't the question, but why do you need money?

You have "some ideas" for "some simple game projects"? That doesn't sound like a startup...that doesn't even sound like a project. Unless you have a very clear vision of exactly what it is you're wanting to do, you're going to have a hard time getting anyone to part with their money. If Tim Schafer has "some ideas", I'd give him money for sure....but unless you're proven, your ideas count for zip. It's the execution that counts.

A startup is a business searching for a business model that scales. A startup isn't a couple of guys with a few ideas that may or may not work.

If you have some awesome ideas, the best way to get money is to work on your idea until it is at a point where someone can see potential in it. It costs literally nothing to start working (providing you have the tools, which I'll assume you do). But it sounds like you're asking for people to put money in to...well...nothing.

Finally, if your idea of a project you and a few guys can work on, I'd suggest something a little less epic than "3D Sandbox mmorpg with really huge world designed and lot of monsters, characters and even own language for in game characters."
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Can you back this up with stats?

You're saying people - major contributors - were leaving the site because of incivility/hostility? I can't recall hearing of anyone doing that?
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question about text objects:

given the following string and with the cursor over f:

function(1,2,"3")

why does di" yield:

function(1,2,"")

but di( has no effect unless you are within the parenthesis already?

Why doesn't di( when issued over the f in function yield the following?

function()
You can make oil out of natural gas, coal, wood, hemp oil, cane sugar. Anything that has carbohydrates can, with an energy investment, be turned into a different carbohydrate.

Gas and coal would be first because they're closer to petroleum and massively abundant, but there's no chemical reason why other substitutes can't be used in the very long term.
No worries. I've actually probably only looked at the pictures. SecureId has some good ones.

http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/SecureId/
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I'm not sure why Google would care to know those things. The most profitable form of advertising is a direct search. "Bears tickets" is advertising gold. Joe liking the Bears on Facebook is not on the same level. Google might get incremental value on having the additional data but I don't think it's worth the reputation hit.
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Having ruminated on the subject of voting I think if it were my site I'd have several options including no vote display, up+down as seperates, comment coloring, user-based comment promotion, etc..

Then I realised that slashdot was probably closest to what I was after ... then I started going back to slashdot.
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Well, tulips.com will sell you 300 tulips for $347, though I'm sure you could get them a lot cheaper if you pick 'em up from the farm yourself. Roughly three to one, though, would appear to be the going rate.
Google and Facebook didn't get it wrong, they just don't want pseudonyms or at least limit each person so they can conquer/monetize the identity space. Two examples, (1) online commerce trust Google and Facebook identities sufficiently to allow them to purchase, similarly some poll sites can trust those identities, i.e., a single person can't vote a X times but creating X fake identities.
See now I misread you. :)
>something that can be enabled in registered accounts //

Even 'registered accounts with high karma'. /selfish
Is there a layman's summary regarding the significance of that paper linked on reddit?
How is that not isomorphic to Circles?
Sure. Groupon has a few problems.

But the idea that an underwriting firm such as Goldman or Morgan is some kind of arbiter of wholesome business fundamentals is ridiculous.

Sorkin knows better than to suggest that.
"Pump and dump" scam is, I believe, the correct term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
>"its[sic] a distraction"

This didn't need collective wisdom.
It used to. I don't think that is true any more. People used to vote towards what they felt was a value rating for a comment (how much it added to the thread). Now I feel votes are simply opinion based though there's not a lot of data to go on.
On a more serious note, I'd love to find out more about just how much weight they think this tech could support in the future. Those implications could be insane.
Ah, I see. It was hard to tell without any comment of your own on the grandparent.
I really wish there was "ac"/"ic" (or something) for comments. Especially for a gq motion it would be really helpful.
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If it's worth a few billions to Facebook, it's worth a few billions to Google.
Agreed. If the "floating" (I know its not actually floating in the traditional sense) object could carry its own light-weight cooling system then you wouldn't need to chill the entire unit to super cold temperatures. You might only need to cool the superconducting layer.
>Apple didn't invent the concept they just made it work.

No one argues that. The point made is whether Android is a ripoff (or heavily influenced) by iOS. The gap is far wider between the iPhone/P800 than it is between iOS and Android. If the P800 was that influential, early Android prototypes would've resembled the P800 instead of a Blackberry.
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In the lab we succeeded in putting up to 0.5Kg on top of one disc. Keep in mind that the thickness of the superconducting layer is ~1micron﻿ ! Its a strong effect.