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If you are working on software that will run on customers' machines tomorrow, it makes sense to do at least a good chunk of development on very average hardware. These days, most client development is web stuff, so you don't often have the excuse of compile times.

But if you're working on software that's supposed to run well on high-spec machines and servers, or targeting machines a few years in the future, then you're better off with a higher spec machine; one with lots of RAM and CPU cores, so you can play around with the various tradeoffs of time vs memory vs parallelism. Or if you have a big source tree - the one I have is perhaps 10GB in size, and takes about 14 minutes to build today - then it makes lots of sense to reduce turnaround time by throwing hardware at it.

For example, I work on a compiler that is used by the build tree. I can't really be sure the compiler is "good" unless it builds the whole tree, and the tree's tests run; if I checked it in as is, the integration server could find the problem, and then I'd be in everybody's bad books. Reducing the build time by 5 minutes, iterated over perhaps 5 or 10 builds in a day, and it starts adding up to non-trivial productivity advantages.
This resource provide improved listing (same modules, but sorted but forks/watchers):
http://modules.node-js.ru/
Don't replace it if it works for you, but due to Moore's Law computer hardware doesn't age that well. Older guitars that are well taken care of sound as good if not better than shiny new ones, but after a certain age your computer begins wasting your time.

Most programming time is spent sitting and thinking, but when I act I want the computer to respond as quickly as possible, whether compiling or running tests or opening a website.

That's not to say I don't share the sentiment about computers becoming less hackable and more consumer toys. It's a shame that laptops these days have almost zero user-servicable parts.
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Clicked on the subtitle "purveyor of impossible dreams" shown below his name "BRET VICTOR" till I had a `screenquake`. Cool!
Are these discrete products to their AdSense customers? I would think it would make more sense to break it down by display/text than by site.
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My workstation started life as an HP I bought at Best Buy in 1998. I've just upgraded it piecemeal over the years, and while none of the original hardware remains, I've never replaced it outright.

My two development boxes, also under my desk, are whiteboxes cobbled together from previous iterations of my workstation - the hardware gets handed down, and once it hits four generations old, it gets shelved in the garage. Those pieces occassionally get used to patch friends' computers. I've quadrupled RAM with old unused DIMMs for more people than I care to think about

If that isn't patched together, upgraded, and heavily worn, I don't know what is!
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Headline says "RightwayJS" because I need to choose some other name to framework (other than RailwayJS), but I'm still thinking about possible names. Rightway is on of.
I frequently run things like:

find -iname '*.foo' | xargs -P 8 -n 1 process-foo

The more cores, the better. I feel I'm really restricted from targeting the CPUs of tomorrow by lack of parallelism; if you're writing a piece of software you expect to possibly last 20+ years, you really shouldn't over-assume today's limited CPU count, in particular.

Work per clock cycle is improving at a not too shabby rate either. When I upgraded from a Q6600 to an i7 920, build times reduced by about 60%; Handbrake transcode times improved by even more.
Back in 2009.

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http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/04/goog...
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There is absolutely no substance to that article except the usual undertones of "the US should not be in total control of things." Giving any control over to the UN, however, has historically been a pretty poor idea.
What about a compromise? Why doesn't someone translate SICP to a more widely-used modern day functional language, such as Haskell or Erlang?
I bet you can. But can likely use emacs as well. I think if I had to pick one piece of software to live with on my desert island, it'd be emacs (assuming I had a reasonable boot loader and a filesystem to sit under it).
Look at the date on both of those news reports... :)

The first article cites the second one, and the author of the second one confirms it's an April Fools joke in the second comment on the page. They haven't dropped it at all.
I'm curious, how long did you spend trying to use Vim?
The big missing piece in Node is decent data mapping. Juggling looks like a good start and I'm glad the developer's separated it from the Rails project.
Neat! I use dropbox currently for ebooks. Your splash page design is nice, but I was disappointed when I saw the backend (mainly the logo)
Here is my take on the situation.

At the end of the day everyone wants to be happy. Some people are lucky enough to be happy without money. Others are happy after they get the money, but that is only because of the freedom granted to those with money.

I promise you will regret not earning lots of money while you are young. You are in a great position. You have no debt (that you told us about)and you stand to take up a really great job. If you even only put in 10 years in that really good job you will have bought your freedom in some way. Then you can do whatever you want and your family will be fine. I suggest taking that path...and who knows, your tech enthusiasm could just be a phase. We've all had them...who didn't want to be an astronaut?
That's a large swathe of fires in the northern sub Sahara every December. Any explanation for this ? I found the page below which shows a picture month by month

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003870/index.h...

edit: found it at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/modis-10-overvi...

"The global fire data show that Africa has more abundant burning than any other continent. MODIS observations have shown that some 70 percent of the world's fires occur in Africa. During a fairly average burning season from July through September 2006, the visualizations show a huge outbreak of savanna fires in Central Africa driven mainly by agricultural activities, but also driven by lightning strikes."
Don't know why I am answering because my response is most likely inaccurate, but IIRC (specifically from following him on Twitter) he used to use Arch linux for a while. I also remember him complaining about it and IIRC he made a switch. I am sure once he sees the post he will correct me and or answer you.
Maybe I'm being a closed-minded idiot, but "i write compilers for a living" isn't something a lot of programmers can claim. I guess I'm working on the assumption that most programmers are building enterprise apps. I don't know why I think that.
Most of the reasons cited for moving to Python are much more applicable to Haskell and Erlang. Additionally, both languages--and I say this as somebody addicted to Haskell--are too narrow: the perfect introductory language should be able to accommodate both functional programming better than Python and imperative better than Haskell.

Having a statically typed language would add unnecessary complexity to the course; those languages come later anyhow.

Finally, some of the particularly brilliant insights that Scheme gives (code as data and an extremely elegant interpreter in Scheme) are absent in both Haskell and Erlang.

That said, we really should have more functional programming in other classes. I think CMU does this with ML throughout the CS program, and I envy them in that regard. However, this is a different issue; I don't think a language like that would fit any better to SICP than Python.
Steve's advice to Nike:

"Nike makes some of the best products in the world. Products that you lust after. But you also make a lot of crap. Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff."

Dropping products, even crappy ones, that produce revenue is difficult when investors demand non-stop growth, quarter after quarter, and your employees are afraid of losing their jobs or political fiefdoms.
Well as far as I remember from when applying (unsuccessfully) to Stanford, they have a need aware policy, which means that they do take into account the financials of the student. So a student in a well-off family would be more likely to get in than a student in a lower class family (all other things equal).

I'd assume that would be a reason for lower student debt.
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It just remake of "Drink coffee, do stupid things faster with more energy". Actually major point is "faster", you shouldn't have exert more energy :)
Like I said in another comment, in my opinion, a 2006 (intro of a intel's c2d) computer with 8gigs of ram + an SSD was pretty much the last time your average programmer saw any appreciable gains on the desktop.

Things _have_ moved forward since then, especially if your are multi-thread/core sensitive. For everyone else, even at 8-10hours a day, I'm not sure it'd be considered a great investment for such incremental improvements.
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Right; I had forgotten about it, but now that you reminded me I used it in some minor project (maybe just a test project, can't really remember). But I then found Qt much better.
Forgive my denseness, but is "being larded with B players" a reference to employees? I'm not disagreeing, it just isn't clear to me if he's calling out Microsoft employees.
It's been said of Steve, at least in the early years, that if you wanted to know what Steve thought of an idea of yours, you would tell Steve your idea, he would tell you "that's shit" and come up with half a dozen reasons why your idea is shit, then he'd go off an meditate. If Steve comes back as says "hey everyone, I just had this great idea" then he liked your idea.
Indeed. Just make sure your code is clean, and you should be able to do a rewrite in the future.
RAM and i/o will certainly make the biggest difference for the average person or engineer. That and HID's and your display.

My computer before this one at its core was not the latest/greatest Mac Pro, but I had upgraded parts (RAM, video, HD) which made the biggest difference.
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I started learning SAS (I mostly use stata/matlab/python for my daily needs) but also ended up abhorring some parts of the syntax..
I am guilty as much as anyone of riding my hardware pretty hard and for far too long but you're just moving into silly mode. Case entry alone would make a prudent upgrade.
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Not to mention smart meters - those new radio based power meters that contact the utility to digitally report electrical usage. Our electrical utility is poised to install them in BC and publications are dirtying the water with paranoia like this:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/08/09/SmartMeterSkeptic/
and
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110808/bc...

Paranoia like this from the original WHO doc
http://www.magdahavas.com/2010/12/02/are-smart-meters-safe/

and then there's whole orgs worried they're gonna get cancer
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/08/11/smart-meters-not-green...

One random dude handed me a pamphlet about stopping the smart meters, citing that it was 10 feet from his head when he slept and that he'd have to find a new home if they actually install it.

I feel like I'm watching people make themselves crazy with panic over something that has little science to back it up.
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Aw, what's wrong with the logo? It was the only bit of the design I did myself :)

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This is a real problem. There were TWO of us at Drexel who interned one summer at Google. They published salary details BY EMPLOYER! I was livid when a professor made a snarky remark about how my internship paid better than his career. I gave the dean quite an earful over that.
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Fortunately, Google don't play the quarterly earnings game.
I would have loved to see Jobs' comments about Yahoo. He likely would have been so apoplectic he wouldn't be able to speak.

His meetings with record labels are kind of legendary for this very reason.
This is untrue. From the left column of http://www.stanford.edu/admission/:

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With very old code bases, you need to start removing things, otherwise it becomes unmaintainable. Sure, you need good testing and code coverage to make sure you did it properly, but that applies to any change.

It doesn't mean that the people implementing it 15 years ago were idiots, no, it all made sense at the time. But after years of maintenance some parts grew into an abomination (losing any touch with the high-level design), and other parts are not needed because the specific gadget it was supposed to support no longer exists.

If you don't refactor, you'll eventually have a landmine-ridden place where every change has impact on 10 different unrelated places. A company I worked at had this problem. They had to keep adding developers to handle bugfixes and feature requests, and it only became worse instead of better because they never made available time for refactoring.

"Removing code that you don't understand" is indeed wrong and shouldn't happen, but at least if you use SCM can always look back to understand why it was added. And then remove it anyway.

Believe me, that process makes sense for a factory but for source code you eventually end up with voodoo programming. The source is too complex for any human to understand, and it is impossible to teach new developers which didn't "grow into it".
> Sympy is arguably the most popular symbolic calculus library in any language.

I thought Maxima was still the most widely known and most capable open source CAS and scipy still in early development? Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?

This is of course not news, more like a random guy stumbling upon a random library and just linking it, i.e. spam.
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You can use OPDS (http://opds-spec.org/) to sync with iOS - Stanza works pretty well, although not so well on iOS5. Shubook works okay to read with on iOS5, though it's not the best.

There's a few other pay apps too that should work (generally under some 'network library') function, though I haven't tested them.
I believe this is only true for undergrads, and they started doing this in 06-07 or 07-08. I was undergrad '09 and definitely had loans for the first year or two, but not in subsequent years after they instated the "no required loans" policy.
the Google Labs shutdown, might be an echo of this.
> For symbolic math it uses sympy

My last information (could be a bit dated) is that Sage is using Maxima, has this been changed lately in favor of SymPy?
I suspect then this is like Colin Powell being known as Coal-in... He's stated himself his mother calls him Colin!
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ZOMG...

http://www.frys.com/search?query_string=&cat=-68384&...

Google dudes... I know you can't tell me anything because of NDA's and lawyers and stuff. But really?
What are you thinking?

Why not pour a couple of $ Billion into Desktop Linux?
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What do you use for reporting if any? Do you use still use SSRS? If so how? Would love to hear about how your reporting needs are met.
With the changes occurring at Google right now, could we be feeling the impact of Page taking this advice to heart?

It seems Google are pruning a lot of stuff they must see as external to their core business, and putting happy-safe bubble wrap around services like search (see todays story about the + operator being depreciated to the dismay of advanced users).

I suppose this is Google trying to improve themselves, lets just hope they can execute as well as Apple when it comes to making super simplified products that people want.
Disclaimer: I'm not a business person or anything remote.

I feel this is very important. Be a company that has an identity, stands for something. Speaking hyperbolically, if one could do everything well, there would be one company in the world doing everything.

I can't say in a few words what Yahoo! does. Google is the search company. Microsoft is the enterprise (Windows and Office) company. But Yahoo! is what? There is not identity.
Well, the way I'd phrase it is that the Swiss have realized that a sense of morals shouldn't get in the way of making a lot of money.
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I couldn't help noticing that more than 50% of the web page layout for this article is literally blank space.
I agree. I also think (possibly somewhat antagonizing your idea of pacifying merchants) that things like the banking embargo against Wikileaks and the probably inevitable expansion of those kinds of actions against whatever the antagonizer of established power of the day is.

Bitcoin is building a start point for what will inevitably be a cat and mouse game future of supporting unpopular (with Power at least) movements.
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Of course, the complement to this is that people whose knowledge of currency comes largely from Neal Stephenson novels give way too much credence to stories breathlessly championing Bitcoin as the future.

Something that can trace its ancestry in a vague way to Bitcoin? Maybe. Bitcoin itself? Exceedingly unlikely.
Yes, but that doesn't guarantee demand.
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And your comment reminds me of the method I used to circumvent my teachers monitoring/control software. He had his running over the LAN so all we did was bring USB wifi adapters which got us on the schools WLAN which took our computers off his software for some reason or the other.
Love the title. Though it made me think the video would be something different.

"Ghost in the Shell"-style tech is the way of the future.

Anyone else excited about the yet unreleased Sony HMD?
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Indeed. The closest I can think of to what he is saying is pareto coevolution
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There is a difference between the free market dogmatism displayed in the Economist, and the simple idea that the free market works better than planned economies. And yes, free markets fail, this is a staple idea in economics.

That said, i agree with others that I don't think the biases in the Economist are a problem. They make their opinions very obvious.
> conservative

The Economist is very free-market, but they are not 'conservatives' in the US sense at all. I think the label that best fits them is the European meaning of "liberal". They support some sort of universal health care, gay marriage, drug legalization, science not based on the bible, and other things that send the right wing in the US into apoplectic fits.

I heartily agree with the recommendation of subscribing.
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True; I was commenting on what makes it good for multi-core. Share-nothing helps; immutability doesn't (because they don't share data, unless on the same core). Unless there's some other benefit to immutability for multi-core...?