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Is "Hello World" in C just the one .c file, or do we have to count the standard libraries? How about the hardware designs of the PC running it? If you look at just the .c file, it's a few lines, if you look at everything that's actually required to run it, that's a bit more complicated.

And yet nobody would ever claim that the fundamental minimum complexity of the "Hello, world!" algorithm was more than a few lines of text, because the "important stuff" in that algorithm has nothing to do with all of the irrelevant complexity in the operating system and hardware, all of which could be done in millions of different ways without changing the fundamental algorithmic insights that "Hello, World!" requires.

Yes, there are epigenetic factors that get passed along, but their effects tend to be transient, lost over a few generations at most, adding maybe a handful of tunable bits of information to the genome that can be quick-flipped as the environment demands. I don't know that anyone has ever suggested that any non-trivial amount of data is actually passed millions of generations down the line through this mechanism (keep in mind, to seriously take issue [i.e. beyond a mere factor of 2] with the estimates that you disagree with, you'd need to find more than 25 megabytes of evolutionarily-accessible data that lives somewhere other than DNA), and I'd be extremely interested to know if that was the case. Every evolutionary biologist I know focuses almost exclusively on genetic code as the evolutionary substrate because it's the only available channel that seems reliable enough for information to flow through unmolested over millions of years.
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Okay, follow up, I watched half of the talk. Wow. What an insightful guy. I really enjoyed what I heard so far.

The section about testing and guardrails seems to have been blown way out of proportion. I fervently believe in Agile/XP practices, TDD and all such good things. But I'm not naive enough to say that "because I have tests, nothing can go wrong". And that seems to be his main point here.

It makes me think...it seems like all languages and methodologies have a "Way" of the language (call it the Tao of the language). The closer you get to "The Right Way of Doing Things" within a language, the more you reach the same endpoint. And I feel that's what Rich is talking about here.

What I like about this talk is that it could be useful for programmers of any caliber or toolset to hear. If I could have heard some of these principles when I was first learning BASIC, it would have been useful.
Very cool idea! Would love to hear how quickly you are able to get one ;). I definitely would give you some money myself, but I actually have the same goal and am tight on money as I am trying to start a startup myself.
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Wait a minute, being knowledgeable in the humanities should vastly increase the number of people with whom you have something in common!
SWAT Teams are raiding the homes of cheese makers???

Once again, a message that may start out strong, but looses the plot about 1/3 of the way in. Don't tell me about people who have been beaten and murdered, show me. In this society, I need proof. The voice of a random person on YouTube isn't enough for me.

As someone who has apparently taken empowered steps to expose corporate irresponsibility, you'd think that he would be able to use the technology at his fingertips to provide more than a rant about the injustices he speaks of.

Also, there are lots of crazy old laws that don't get enforced yet never were taken off the books. Bringing them up here doesn't help your case, it actually shows that you are as out of touch as the law makers who never cleaned up their stuff.

There are enough tangible issues to fix that going into the things that people can't relate to, or can easily refute causes the movement to go backward rather than forward.
"So yeah, set your goals right and you'll find you've chosen the one industry where you really can own that coffeeshop."

So there's an interesting idea... Lots of startups start up in coffee shops, at least occasionally overstaying their welcome (from the coffee shop owners point of view). It probably wouldn't be _too_ much of a stretch for a talented developer/consultant to back a $200k investment in return for "office space" for him and his cofounders/employees...

(In much the same philosophy as Starbucks "3rd place" style of business)
No IE support and Mozilla's is still in infancy. They only work nicely in Webkit at the moment, so JavaScript it is.
CSS animations like this are proposed in CSS3 but only heavily implemented in Webkit at the moment. Mozilla has some support, IE is entirely and unsurprisingly lacking.
Your comment made me take heart if I understand it correctly. Sometimes I feel I'm the only person out there who thinks SQL has a certain beauty and elegance.

I find it a little funny sometimes to hear all these "web scale" folks put down SQL, and then praise something like MongoDB because you can do map/reduce.

I saw a presentation by the author of the Lift framework in Scala and he made a bit of a joke saying "gosh...all this FP stuff...the folks who created SQL heard about that a long time ago".
Green tea actually does have cancer-fighting properties, it's anti-angiogenic. It's also involved in preventing and/or reversing the methylation of epigeneteic cancer genes.
That goes for people rich and poor. We all have to face death.
So glad to see this here. I live in the boston area, and have been attempting to acquire appropriate cannons with which to play. If you're in the area and wish to join me in my mad quest (in either finding the cannons, or playing), message me (@vonkow on twitter works too).
The congress passed continuing resolutions that would have kept the government running. President Clinton vetoed the resolutions, so there was no money for operations. That caused major portions of the government to shut down. unless you are really trying to parse the words, I'm not sure why it isn't fair to say Clinton shut the government down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governmen...
I've been using Inkscape forever and I love it. Very easy to learn. It's one of those programs that I never even knew had a settings/preferences window until years later, because the default behavior is just that good.

Even after switching to a Mac, I still use it for everything even though some UI and behavior is terribly out of place.
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Thanks! Never heard of http://coderbuddy.com before so looking forward to exploring it.
"stop pretending it's some government bureaucracy thing."

You added the word "government". I checked. It doesn't appear anywhere in the original post, or as of this writing, anywhere in a comment not in a reply to you. I don't consider listing other failures anything like a defense for the failure at hand. I'm pretty happy to indict large bureaucratic organizations in general.
If you're on a mac I have a good blog post which shows how to setup aquamacs for clojure.

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The steps are pretty much the same for regular emacs, you just need to put things in ~/.emacs.d/ instead of ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs\ Emacs/
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Following in von Braun's footsteps again. In his book "The Conquest of the Moon" (http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Moon-Wernher-Von-Braun/dp/B00...), von Braun wanted to send his ships (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonander.htm) to Sinus Roris, for protection against micrometeroids.
I've already replied to some of this, but re: your mice vs. humans example, my views on this are that the fundamental algorithmic innovation that makes humans so intelligent was already present in mice, and almost all critters in the "bigger than a bug" families. Fundamentally we do process information in the same way as mice, it's merely a matter of turning up some of the intensity knobs (or more likely, adding a few more well-tuned layers to the network that already exists) to let humans take intelligent thought to new realms of utility.
I couldn't get it to work on an iPad 2 that was locked with a character password (the qwerty keyboard pops up).
Context is important. To me this seems like a quote from Jobs at his angriest after he felt like he had been stabbed in the back by Schmidt.
Here's the thing: If it was such a big problem, why was Schmidt allowed to join Apple's board in the first place?

Schmidt was elected to Apple's board in August 2006, a year after Google bought Android (and over a year after Apple started work on the iPhone). Unlike Apple, Google's smartphone ambitions weren't secret. Could they seriously expect Schmidt to file everything he learned about Apple's smartphone plans in an unmarked section of his brain that he didn't use when he was at his day job?
Something I've been wondering, and I'm way out of my depth here - would determinism be something that could eventually find an explanation in information theory?

My layman's argument against determinism was something like: OK, even if my biological self is making my decisions for me, how does it get the inputs that drive those decisions? Imagine a simple exercise study, conducted without face-to-face contact. Half of the participants are told to exercise, and half are told not to. At the end, the half that is told to exercise will have exercised more often than the half that did not. Therefore, if the world is deterministic, what's "sending" that determinism from the study to the participant? My conclusion was: I dunno, information is flowing?

Though I guess that's where quantum mechanics comes in, and I guess there's probably also an information-theoretic aspect to that.
Not necessarily. There's a big question facing the Post Office right now that becomes acute in the next few months, which is whether the US government will bail out its pension fund, which is utterly and completely unsustainable. Google "post office pension" for things like [1], in which it becomes evident that however they may be not the Federal government de jure they sure are a part of the Federal government de facto, just as trying to pretend Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac are fully independent entities whose actions are wholly their own and have nothing to do with the government is a complete joke. At the very least they have the same special Moral Hazard relationship that the Federal government does not extend to just any "entirely separate business entity".

(The only thing that would be any different if they were an officially recognized Federal agency is that instead of worrying about whether they might in the future cost us billions of dollars in pensions by act of Congress, they would have already cost us billions of dollars in pensions by act of Congress.)

I'm way more interested in de facto relationships that de jure. You can say anything you want legally, what matters is the actual relationships.

[1]: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/22/justice-depa...
there is no need to celebrate the death of Steve Jobs. I'm not a fan of Apple, but I think we all aspire to have 1% of the affect he has had on the world.
Why are they bothering to do this? They're not getting to grope beautiful women - truckers are notoriously male, and they're not getting to see shiny, blue nudes. Isn't this sort of work highly demoralizing to the average TSA "officer"?
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A nicely written article. However, this point:

"In retrospect, we can now tell that Jobs clearly had
a tumor that was unusually aggressive for an insulinoma."

... seems to undermine the author's own argument that Jobs's nine months of ineffective dieting and dithering was not necessarily a problem. Was it an aggressive tumor, or not? If so, then the early CAT scan was a lottery win, and it was incredible that Jobs failed to cash in the winning ticket. If not, then sure, maybe nine months more or less didn't matter.

As one of the commenters emphasizes, what's truly incredible is that he even considered waiting nine months before seeking state-of-the-art treatment. An intellectual environment where smart people make decisions like that is not healthy for any of us. That's the real reason why we should fight woo where we find it, as if it were a cancer in itself.
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The iPhone was stolen from Compaq's iPaq and Microsoft Windows CE/Mobile. Bill Gates should've been the one who was angry.
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That would be a good place to start...
Does delivery or signature confirmation (DoSC, I made this up) service cost money? Is it profitable? If the answer is yes and yes then charging for and scanning 95.95% needlessly DoSC items is good for the USPS and the 3/4 inch requirement is seemingly stupid. If the answer is yes and no then a silly requirement makes sense, but is still silly. If the answer is no and no then the service should probably cost money.
I hadn't thought of it before, but Jobs rant regarding Android sounds eerily similar to his thoughts re: Microsoft stole Windows.

It seems once again history is repeating itself. The open-ish nature of Android, and the diversity of devices has lead to it's taking market leadership from the initiator. The complaints I hear about Android sound similar to the initial complaints of early versions of Windows.
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Is the excitement about it starting to wear off already? I wonder if people will still use it a month or two from now.
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This is exactly the type of journalism that gives people the wrong impression about entrepreneurship.

This makes it sounds so easy.
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> you English is fine

Speaking of ironies, a sort of reverse-Muphry here?
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LOL, Brin was right on target. I ask myself how on earth can I guy write SO MUCH of a blog post and still have time to get things done. If Yegge is not not able to summarize his POVs in one page or two then it's better not to try at all.
Disclaimer: I'm a poker player and small time affiliate.

The poker related ones seem to venture well into the unethical or illegal category. That doesn't take away from the difficulty or cleverness of the hacks, but unlike the candy theft story, there is no acknowledgment that some of those things might have been unethical or illegal.

Edit: I now see the conclusion that notes the potential for illegality, but I feel like the body comes off as way too proud about aiding a scam of a business (the affiliate "arbitrage")
It proves that the fucking United States of America will do anything if they want. UN is just a drama.
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Wow. This is the reason why the USPS is going bankrupt in front of our eyes.

If they don't change ridiculous rules like this, they'll never survive.
I thought Schmidt also left the room when they discussed the iPhone.
>He's not talking about people doing programming work for low pay. He's talking about talentless people--of which there are many. I mean--people who would starve to death or become criminals if it wasn't for the social safety net.

right. as I said:

>I mean, at it's root, I think there is a valid question, "what do we do with unskilled laborers?"

It's a hard question. the thing is, unskilled or minimally-skilled (no job is completely unskilled) labor is worth something. the problem is that right now, there is a greater supply of unskilled labor than there is demand. But this has not always or even usually been the case.

(I mean, there is also then the problem of living on unskilled living wages, which I think is a lower priority than just getting people jobs.)

Maybe lowering the cost of unskilled labor would boost demand? I don't know. Most unskilled work is near the skilled workers, and eh, the cost of rent (or commuting) will put a natural 'minimum wage' in place. I think here in silicon valley, at least, that natural minimum wage is already rather higher than the state-mandated minimum wage. This, of course, varies a lot by location.

The big problem with this is that wages for the unskilled have not been keeping up with inflation, while wages for the skilled have, and the skilled and unskilled are in competition for some resources, for example, housing within commuting distance of the city.

>And the solution is genetic engineering, an infant technology.

This makes a lot of assumptions; The first assumption you make is that the demand for unskilled or minimally skilled labor is significantly less than the supply. At the moment, this is true; but I don't think this is normal. Throughout most of history, most people supported themselves by doing minimally skilled labor.

The next assumption is that the factors that attributes that allow a person to get and keep a skilled jobs are all genetic.

Obviously, there are huge holes here. Personally, I believe that there is such a thing as generalized intelligence, though this is only weakly supported by the scientific evidence. Further, while I feel that this generalized intelligence may be dependent largely on genetic factors, the scientific support for that theory is also pretty weak.

Even if I'm right on both counts, and generalized intelligence exists and it's largely genetic in nature, the correlation between wage and IQ is... weird. Earnings tend to increase with measured IQ up to a point, then they flatten. It could very well be that IQ correlates with something else that correlates to wages.

My point is just that the evidence for unskilled workers being genetically unskilled is, well, not very strong.
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Apple steals good ideas and improves upon them all the time.

Does he have to hold such a grudge? A bit ridiculous and a bit petty.
Seems more to be about multitouch than Android itself considering the rant was following early 2010 HTC phones, which if my memory serves were among the first American Androids to have multitouch. After all, the G1 and Droid were out for a while before that. And there was a strange period where Android devices were capable of multitouch, but it wasn't enabled in American devices. All signs pointed to a sort of gentlemen's agreement between Google and Apple. I don't really buy into the Eric Schmidt as mole theory, but I can easily see two at one point close partners making a non-binding agreement that over time became untenable for Google.

I can see Jobs getting angry about that, especially since he always seemed very proud and protective ("and boy have we patented it!") of the iPhone's multitouch. It strikes me as more than a tad hypocritical, but the personal betrayal might explain the reaction.
Or if Motorola owned the idea of a cellular phone.
Slime and Clojure have improved, mainly through clojure-jack-in and ritz. Of course the Common Lisp Slime experience is still better but the essentials are definitely there with Clojure.

There are several heavyweights in the Clojure community that use VIM and have developed good plugins, and Rich never seems to be using SLIME during presentations, so you can definitely get by fine without it.
"Google's smartphone ambitions weren't secret."

Techcrunch the day Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's board:

"back in August 2006 when he took the seat Google had virtually nothing even remotely competing with Apple’s core products and services. "

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/03/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-res...
This made me lol...literally!
Here is not a bad place.

There's also the HN Freelancers Google Doc (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs...) - it lists ALL the contractors.

I'm also on that list, BTW :)
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We're handing out ownership stakes in pure ideas within a system intended to protect realized, specific implementations

I’d say the iPhone contain specific, realized ideas. Thus, I challenge this statement. To me, if you can’t accept Apple patenting the specific, tangible things they do to make the specific, shipping products they sell, you might as well join me over here in saying that all patents are broken.

They’ve solved an awful lot of problems at one infinite loop. I’m sure they have filed plenty of overly broad patents, and plenty where you can toss out half or more of the claims, but like Microsoft, they have pumped billions into R&D that has resulted in actual products with discernible differences from what came before them.

Apple is neither a patent troll nor is it a copycat shop like most of the PC manufacturers. If Apple doesn’t deserve patent protection, nobody does. And yes, I’m perfectly fine with the idea that nobody does.
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"On the first day of 1990, he proposed, and never mentioned it again for months. In September, exasperated, she moved out. The next month, Mr. Isaacson writes, he gave her a diamond engagement ring, and she moved back in."

I found this to be hilarious :D
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Wrong in all accounts. The GDP never actually fell. Average growth in 1994-2002 was actually just shy of 3%/year. Not good, but never negative.

As for the boom that came afterwards: Lula kept the basis of the economic policy started by Cardoso. In was only in the last two years of Lula's second mandate (2009-2010) that they tried to loose a little bit on government spending (as a way to fight contagion by Housing Crisis), and inflation had shown signs on creeping up again.

And even that increase in spending was only possible due to the austerity policies from the previous 15 years that allowed the country to grow their reserves. Had they not followed the IMF rules, they would be in the same situation that Greece/Portugal/Ireland/Italy are today.