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> I feel like the traders on Wall Street would be the first people to want an economic bounce back.

This lies near the crux of the widespread belief that wealth merely lets you buy more stuff.

Currency is the formalization of power, which is intrinsically relative: you have more power when the people near you have less.

Imagine a village of 10 people, where 9 have $20k in wealth and one has $80k. This relative difference in capital allows the wealthy person to earn more than 4x more income. This means he can easily outbid everyone else for, say, the choicest cuts of meat at the deli; the best investment opportunities; the dinner with a visiting performer; the nicest house on the block; the flattering stares of the village's prettiest dame.

Let's pretend a car costs $90k, so that it's not affordable to any one person in the village. One day, a car manufacturer contacts Mr. 80k to ask him whether he thinks his village would be a good place for a marketing stunt in which everyone was given a $90k car, which they could choose to sell if they really wanted to. Since this is a small village in a big economy, it's not as though all this extra wealth will cause serious inflation. The question is, how should Mr. 80k respond?

If Mr. 80k is a homebody only interested in absolute wealth -- having more things for him to play with on his own -- then he should go for it! He'll finally have a car!

But it might be in his interest to say "no": sure, at $170k he'll still be the richest, but now the ratio of his wealth to the wealth of his friends will have gone from 4x to 1.5x. Could this have a materially negative effect on his current standard of living and his economic security?

Well for one, while he'll be able to afford better investments, there will be more people to compete with for them. If everyone has a car then Mr. 170k will no longer be able to loan out his horse and buggy in exchange for favors and status. The previously receptive dame might start to notice Mr. 170k's bald spot, and spend more time staring at a younger prospect. When the local celebrity comes to village, Mr. 170k will have to bid higher to taken them to dinner. Mr. 170k will no longer be a crucial lynchpin of local politics, so the village alderman might no longer call on him as often. And Mr $170k will no longer be treated with the same reverence while on his evening walks as he had previously received.

So while Mr. 170k could nearly double his wealth, if the marketing promotion were to happen, Mr. 80k might perceive the decline in relative status as costing him far more.

So, no: depending on the kind of rich person you are, you might prefer for other people to stay poor. Unethical and immoral? Maybe. Rational? Certainly.
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She was famously flat broke, I doubt she could have borrowed money or done any of the other things to get traction. What she got from her publisher was marketing, contacts, distribution of review copies ... (it certainly wasn't editing).

Big famous authors are not going to go with Amazon, they can self publish (c.f. Zappa, Radiohead). Smaller authors are not going to get effort put into them and are better off buying lottery tickets than relying on Amazon for career development. The people do who do the work Amazon won't do? Publishers.
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A simple solution could be :

- Apple has a limited set of "actions" that third party app can "suscribe" to ("checkin", "reminder", ...), like there is a limited set of multitasking capabilities

- Limit the number of Application that "suscribe" to an action (i.e: only 4 apps can checkin, if another app wants to suscribe, display a warning to the user so he disable other apps in settings, like for notifications)

- Prompt the user the first time "Where would you like to checkin", and remember the choice for future checkins. The user can also specify ("Check me in" - "I will check you in using Foursquare at ..." - "Use Facebook Places")
I actually don't mind the alt+tab behaviour, although I do find it takes too long to open the sub-menu when I pause on a group.
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Why you added VIM and RVM into the mix? Those are distractions.
Not many people outside of media circles are talking about the real trend that's going on nowadays (although Monocle magazine keeps sharing the secrets

Interesting. I had a look at the Monocle website but couldn't find anything. Do you have any useful links ?
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Perhaps, the down-votes have a point.. I insulted Sam's memory by connecting an incisive picture to this link from Forbes. Perhaps, I should have just left the picture unattributed.

Sorry about that.. it was induced by strange inexplicable feelings of sadness combined with sincere revulsion.

Interesting guidelines here ( that often seem to be ignored ) :

" Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I guess, there is no cure for Eternal September.
OK - $750/month for a room in a shared flat is actually reasonable. But if I were you, I would look at the rooms at around $1000/month. The selection should be much nicer and with fewer competitors. Then you can take your time to get advice from colleagues and probably find something equally nice for $750/month within 6 months.
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I say this as a huge fan, but Monocle's Web site is.. not good. They're very much focused on their print magazine. They're definitely living by their word, though, a loyal subscriber base (a subscription costs more than news-stand and we lap it up!) and highly profitable.

Perhaps I'll take some time to distil the philosophy into a blog post sometime, since it does take a lot of effort to get into a print magazine if it's not at a newsstand near you. It's only a must read for international business and media types.
Yes, all those better ways to do the configuration, such as gconf2, oneconf, and other shit is really annoying, same like people who missing power and flexibility of a text file, not an XML but plain old var=value, or, OK, some Yaml.

But what can we do? The mediocre crowds are migrating from windows realms and they like to copy and paste, not to think and learn. ^_^
I agree with the premise that production code won't be as elegant as you might like once the real world starts creeping in, but describing code as 'ugly' seems to lack information.

Is the code badly formatted? Poor choice of variable names? Non-idiomatic language use? Monolithic code blocks? Spaghetti code? Depreciated methods? Dangerous hacks?

Ugly could mean any of these & more. Some are less tolerable than others.
I have a problem with people turning from Ubuntu because they lost a pet feature. Ubuntu is changing how to look at the desktop and surely what was built around the old api will not be fully supported at first. But it's just a matter of time before it's functional again.

I'm pretty sure the Desktop Cube can be made to work seamlessly with Unity. But it's not Canonical's job to make it so. And if Canonical somehow managed to lock some of the desktop features into Unity, than we must simply pressure then into building something more flexible so as to allow other open source providers to work with a more pluggable interface.
Yeah. If anything it should be called "iOS patterns". There's very little here to extract as general mobile patterns, and lots of these "patterns" would collide massively with both Android and WP7 if employed in an app.

The fact that this website doesn't even work well on a PC should really tell how iOS-centered it is.

Some people may think users don't care, and that everyone loves the iWay, but I've seen complaints on Android market that "this is just a copy of the iPhone-app. We want an Android app". Why? Because the UI semantics are different enough, well beyond the point of noticeable.
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Looking at the example given of how lovely obj-c is:

filteredArray = [allRecords filteredArrayUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"someField == %d", someFieldFilterValue]];

Makes me wonder if the author has ever seen languages that do this like so:

let filteredArray = Seq.filter (fun f -> f = "foo") allRecords
" Do they just hate rich people?"

Yes. More precisely, they're angry about recent economic stagnation and unemployment and are scapegoating the rich.

Economic difficulties leading to mass populist movements with a defined, minority scapegoat (especially the rich, or the bankers) is a dangerous pattern. Even in this thread you see people calling for violence. The last element--a charismatic leader--is historically all that is needed for something like this to turn very ugly, very fast.
I never know whether to upvote something like this or not. Perhaps I should, because I thought it was interesting and relevant enough to submit it myself:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102321

But then again, perhaps I shouldn't, because no one upvoted it when I submitted it, so the concensus of the HN community is that it doesn't belong.
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"Aside from HiFi gear, I doubt there is another industry SO full of emotional marketing, dark obscure magic and so much mis-information accepted as fact as guitars and especially guitar amps."

Similar industry -- so it might not count as a separate example -- but the high end of the market for speakers and stereo equipment is nuts. There's not as much romanticism and near-mysticism as there is in the guitar market, but there's plenty of uberexpensive, tube-thingy tech from the 1950s. A buddy of mine has a setup in his living room that could reasonably pass for an ENIAC panel at first glance.
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I stated explicitly that the bankers had bribed the politicians.

You responded with a statement that the bankers did not do so, and that in fact the politicians had caused the damage, and then blamed the bankers. A direct contradiction of my assertion.

You are now claiming that "of course the analogy is flawed". No sir. The analogy was effective. It was the logical conclusion that you made using the analogy that was wrong, and you now admit so.

I stand by my analogy. Our economic system has been rooted.

How to fix it? How can we do that, when the people writing the laws are the ones who would be jailed by them?
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No, it doesn't. OS X has several crucial behavioral differences.

* OS X does not launch a second window if the application icon is clicked twice. Some like this (I do), some don't, but it's how the Mac UI works, and is a critical part of the window management paradigm in use.

* OS X displays each individual minimized window separately in the dock, and lets you choose a single window to un-minimize with a single click.

* Just clicking the main application icon will not simply un-minimize all windows at once.

* If there are no un-minimized windows, it will un-minimize the oldest.

* If there are un-minimized windows, it will bring them all to front in relative stack order, focusing the topmost, but will not un-minimize anything.
Thumbs up for your comment. I'd like to add on that.

Let's take a very prosperous society.
Even if all people get wealthier (let's say 2x), which would mean improvement in life quality and all, and 10% of them get massively richer (let's say 20x), then we as a society still have a problem. Because it will be extremely hard for someone who is in the bottom part to get to the upper one. Because of numerous reason I could elaborate on: they will not be able to afford the same schooling, or be in the same expensive circles which creates the networking opportunities. Numerous studies show growing inequality reduces social mobility (American Dream, where are you?). Sure, a couple persons will prove that wrong, but statistics are here.

So at some point, inequality is in itself a problem, even if everyone has enough to eat and more. Because everybody should have chances at succeeding - that is, changing things, but also taking responsibilities. PG means often that being a hacker is enough and you can change a lot with that only, but I think this is not enough. CEOs, judges, bankers, politicians should come from a diverse background. And you don't get there without some equality.

And don't get me started on inheritance ;)
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Something can't be a "systemic dysfunction" while being the sole fault of 1% of the population, either.
The action itself (en masse) defines whether the statement is true or false, much in the way of "my vote does/doesn't count".
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I wonder if SQL Server actually provides a facility to parse your SQL and highlight deprecated features. The runtime counters are handy but only count features which are executed so you can't guarantee to catch everything.
I guess, the way to defend it would be by demonstrating expressiveness. Syntax hardly matters.

- Closures (I guess blocks might achieve the same, never worked in Obj-C)

- Lambdas

- Dynamic Typing or Type Inference. You need at least one of those.

- Or any other construct that enhances expressiveness.
"How many jobs do those 400 create?"

As few as possible... the shareholders demand it!
Money coming out of falling stocks usually goes somewhere else.
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Right you are.

Also, maybe since all the power-users are so dissatisfied, they could join and manage a new packaged Ubuntu, maybe OUBUNTU (old ubuntu). They have that choice.

I for one am happy to have a linux distro geared towards everyday desktop use and modern devices, and that I can show my family/friends as an alternative choice and have them not reply that it's just so damn ugly.
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Is see the freedom of choice as one of the core benefits of Open Software. But losing power users to other distributions is bad for software that depends on user contribution and support. If the people that contribute most of the knowledge to discussions on forums and IRC channels switch to other distributions live isn't getting better for the amateur-user, it is getting worse.

If user contributions are part of your business model you should also try to appeal to those users that are capable of delivering contributions.
If you were a purely profit-minded trader in a situation where you have the chance to make a million with 50% chance and lose a thousand with 50%, and in the scenario where you lose a thousand, other members of society take a collective loss of hundreds of millions, what would you do? My numbers are not indicative of the historical reality but are just to illustrate the idea of socialized costs. Anyway, I think your choice is clear.

This trader is not intentionally causing crashes, but is increasing systemic risk of crashes. 'Purposefully' causing crashes is not necessary for actually causing crashes.

The problem is both the sysadms and the hackers. I don't think, though, that the anger is directed 100% at the hackers, though the location of the protest, apart from the actual message you see on the signs if you bother to examine them, may suggest otherwise.
Thanks a lot for the link, very interesting. Alright it is not "pattern" in a strict sense but it gives a good overview of the composition of some apps.
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I disagree with PG. Ofcourse you can create wealth by fixing an old car. But you will need two things: investment (an old car) and resources (time for instance).
When you are working +100 hours a week (commuting included) just to make ends meet it's very hard to fix an old car. Most of the people I describe here are totally exhausted when they come home from work. When you are exhausted it's very hard or even impossible to get out of your situation.
Here's an open problem that is not hard to understand (high school math is sufficient), but whose solution would be one of the most important advances in mathematics in the last 100 years, easily:

Let H_n = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n

So, H_1 = 1, H_2 = 1 + 1/2, and so on.

Let divsum(n) = the sum of the divisors of n

For example, divsum(10) = 1 + 2 + 5 + 10 = 18, and divsum(8) = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 = 15.

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Prove that for n > 1,
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It turns out that this is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis. Their equivalence is shown here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0008177v2
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Yeah... Besides, people will have a lot of trouble justifying stuff like "custom tab navigation" as a solution to an interaction problem beyond "it looks cool".
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I respectfully disagree. He may legally entertain other offers, but that doesn't make it ethical. If it was ethical, and wouldn't cause residual harm to his reputation, there would be no issue telling the world he was doing it.
It's actually in South-African Rand, meaning ~380,000 USD.
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For me, it's essential that I can fluidly switch between last 2-3 or even 4 windows, no matter what they are. (I regularly move tabs into new window in firefox when I need to do this).
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I've followed a very similar road.

For me, the thing which halted that ivory tower mindset was changing languages. I find that after spending a lot of time in a single language, I start thinking along that language's lines when I'm designing software. There are a lot of things which are a good idea in some languages and rubbish in others. Eg, enums are great in C, but useless in Javascript. Interfaces and abstract classes are silly in ruby.

I think there's a trap programmers fall into with this stuff, where we get used to some method / philosophy. After awhile, its easy to forget that the method comes with a price that is being paid daily. Only by periodically re-evaluating all the little decisions you make can you start to get a real sense for when those decisions are appropriate.

But as for the code rot problem, there are two solutions I've seen which made a difference:

- Test-driven development (full on, no cheating, tests before you write code. 95%+ code coverage)
- Code reviews before every commit

But both of these methods will slow you down heaps in the short term.

I find proper TDD makes me about half as productive in the short term. In the long term, it slows down big redesign work because there's twice as much code to change. The benefit is that you can formalise all your obscure edge cases in tests. If your test coverage is good enough, you can safely refactor code without breaking anything. This removes fear from development and lets you make clear decisions about design. (Also, its amazing how many bugs you find when you start writing tests. It is humbling.)

I suspect that most of the benefits of code review comes from simply setting aside time to talk about code style. It consumes a lot of time. In exchange, you get higher quality code.

How much you care about speed and code quality really depends on what the project is. You need to try them both out some time to be able to make that decision properly.
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Am I missing something with this "pie fallacy"?

If you restore a car and then sell it to someone that needs a car then surely there is someone else who has sold one less car. The same principle applies to crop prices when all the farmers have a bountiful year.

Surely the reason that wealth has grown, is that the human population has grown - creating more needs and desires, and more workers to meet them.
They haven't stopped, many thousands of people still work for them.

And please don't downplay what Gates has done. He may have been a ruthlessly competitive businessman, but he has had a larger positive impact on the world than almost anyone else alive.
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