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I find that pretty interesting, and quite the opposite of my experience. I'm guessing that it has to do with the size of the boring corporation.

I worked for a mega corp, and redtape and layers upon layers of bureaucracy would pretty much make any project take months instead of a day. Additionally, there were plenty of times where the right arm was working on something and the left arm didn't know about it, so it was also working on the same thing. Finally, the customers didn't really know what they wanted, the databases weren't designed properly by a solid DBA, and really good system architects weren't brought on early in the design, which resulted in an extremely poor working applications.

All-in-all, it was definitely soul-crushing, and I personally have no desire to do it again. YMMV.
Hence my unusual spelling.

I'm not sure the white trash equivalency is really gaining momentum, though.

Whites never deeply disliked their poorer and less-educated brethren despite looking down on them, and there has been a spate of "white trash is cool" with the popularity of the Cable Guy and Redneck comedy tours.
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I'm not too into gatekeepers, so I'd like this to be true:

you might rightfully question whether Published In A Journal is really personally or societally significant as opposed to close approximations like Wrote A Blog Post And Showed It To Smart People

But honestly I have never found a blog post that I could see as replacing journal articles, if your goal is to promote advancement of scientific knowledge. I like blogs, and read them often, but they aren't normally in-depth, with solid scientific evidence for their results, with discussion of how they relate to existing results, etc. The closest is probably in mathematics, where some of the mathematics blogging is quite high-level and results in actual new discoveries--- but those blog posts are mostly written by math professors (e.g. Terence Tao's blog), which doesn't seem to be what this article is proposing.

Where on the internet can I find blog posts of the same scientific standard that one finds in, say, http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/ ? I read quite a few statistics, data-mining, and machine learning blogs, and while there is a lot of good content, I haven't found anything that I'd say replaces a journal article; it's more along the lines of tutorials and tips and tricks (which are also very valuable, but a different kind of contribution).
I'd say by the middle of next year you should be able to use the a lot of the features portably.

GCC: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

Clang: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html (currently down)

MSVC: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.a...

Notably lacking in current production versions:

1. explicit overrides in GCC

2. lambdas in Clang

3. Variadic templates, range loop in MSVC
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For some examples of people using Snap in the real world, check out http://snapframework.com/faq#is-anyone-using-snap-in-product.... The guys at Silk (http://silkapp.com) use Snap for some of their back end infrastructure. Janrain discussed their use of Snap in this presentation http://vimeo.com/21210266. In fact, when you log in to ladygaga.com a Snap server is involved at some point. In addition to those, I and others have used Snap to build non-trivial proprietary websites.

Snap intentionally has not made ORM/persistence decisions. The developer is free to choose any Haskell library (including the one used by Yesod) to interface with a database. There is a library written to simplify the use of mongoDB with Snap (pre-0.6). The new snaplet abstraction introduced in 0.6 makes writing these kinds of libraries much easier and provides a clear path to follow, so I imagine we'll be seeing a lot more activity in this area. In fact, someone has already released an HDBC interface as a snaplet. They even have a tutorial for it here: https://github.com/norm2782/snaplet-hdbc/wiki/HDBC-Snaplet-T....
This requires JS; could you amend the title to note that?
Engineering is a older profession that Medicine. Remember it was wheel and before that tools to invent the wheel that got invented.

Software is a sub branch of engineering. Like veterinary doctors. In fact man kind had taken huge leaps in engineering before they took in medicine(Stuff like Pyramids of Giza etc).

Doctors and Lawyers have a nature of work which if done badly or of subjectively low quality a persons quality of life gets very hugely impacted.

Its like high risk, high gain.
The open access to publication argument already has nearly unstoppable momentum. In 2008 the NIH --- by far the world's largest funding agency, with a $30+ billion dollar a year budget --- adopted a policy requiring that all NIH-funded research be made openly accessible within 12 months of publication. See, e.g.: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm

Similar policies have been enacted by all 7 of the Research Councils in the UK. And there are many more such policies in place at institutions all over the world, including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and many others.

A treasure trove of information about open access is Peter Suber's website. See, for example, his timeline: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

The timeline stops in 2008 (he changed jobs), but if you look at progress up to that point, it's clear that this has enormous and rapidly increasing buy-in at grant agencies, libraries (who are the main "customer" for journals, in that they pay) and major universities. It will be very difficult for other parties to stop this change, provided people continue to work for it.

At this point, momentum is starting to build for more open data, and also for other kinds of systematic online sharing of research information. Why not give researchers an incentive to (say) upload online videos showing how certain lab experiments are done? At least in some labs there's stuff that's very difficult to describe in a paper, but easy to show in a video. And so this would be very valuable. (There are initiatives underway to do this, e.g.: http://www.jove.com/ )

I entirely agree with your final point - "The system of funding and promotion is going to have to undergo a very big shift before this dream comes to life". There's enough traction now within universities to start to have this discussion. Certainly, some senior scientists are dismissive; but many are extremely interested, and engaged.
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You're overlooking the vast network of powerful Xoogler/VC/founder contacts this guy has surely developed in the past decade. He's also likely picked up world class
experience in ecommerce, advertising, billing, and infrastructure scaling at Google.

Commodity programming is an inefficient use of this person's time and luckily he will be known and respected by enough business leaders to be able to carve out a more valuable (and again, mutually beneficial) arrangement somewhere in the Valley.

This job may involve C++ but it won't be as generic as you described. Think Paul and Bret at FriendFeed. "Python Programmers" was not their $50 million value proposition.
Perpetual motion is physically impossible. It fully deserves ridicule. Cold fusion will stop being ridiculed once there's a reproducible experiment.

Pseudoscience deserves absolutely no respect. Quite the opposite. The same goes for any variety of bullshit.
This always makes me smile. He comes so close to realizing the truth about C#, but he stops just short of connecting those dots.
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I agree that the chance they thought this (US Govt. terrorizing their own citizens) is what would happen is slim. However, their goal of wanting to hurt the US population / Government in a significant way was far more successful than they could ever imagine.

The additional intervention in the middle east was a given either way so I don't think that can be looked at as a loss for them.
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Good points. Re. 2, we decided to only use auto for iterators, which eradicated a large amount of boilerplate without being too confusing.
That's what I was thinking. Neighbours talk less often to each other these days, and instead, they rely on the police to fix these sorts of issues. It's just a side effect of an increasingly individualistic society.
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I hadn't heard about this either, but it's evidently true. Search on "TSA VIPR". Unbelievable.
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This is ludicrous, the current legal system more than adequately provides opportunity to go after "sites that are clearly infringing" and getting access to "information about individual users."

This is a law for someone that is lazy and feels the current legal process is too costly and time consuming for them.
All that is true. But I don't think that's it alone. The core of the problem is that there are public officials, "public servants" as they try to call themselves, that come to work and say "Gee what am I going to do today? I know I'll go harass some little girls. Yeah, they're breaking the rules, after all. Good job! Go me!" and are completely ok with it.

Its not even so bad that they are ok with it. There have always been rotten apples. Its that (despite the small outrage), everyone else has just sort of become numb to this kind of ass-hattery. Try to imagine what would have happened in Mayberry in 1960 if the code enforcement office pulled something like this. I believe nearly everyone at the office would have instantly found themselves looking for a new line of work. It quite likely would have been difficult for them to even continue living in that area.

The whole idea of putting a human being at that post was to avoid this machine-like enforcement without discretion.

There's some kind of deep intractable cynicism that's changing the worldview of the United States (probably the whole "western world" to a lesser extent). Its more than just fear-"save me from the terrorists!", it has a raw edge of hopelessness to it that has never been present in the USA before.
The difference is that nobody forces you to comply to standards. If you want to hack around on your device, install third party software, concoct your own APIs and drivers or patch the kernel, nobody can stop you (and shouldn't be allowed to, either). While you can argue that a restrictive system is a sort of standard as well, you are forced to comply to that standard with no alternative, and that's bad.

Besides, standards, at least open ones, are usually collaborative efforts of multiple actively involved parties, while restricted systems are controlled by a single entity - which again is bad.
pretty sure any developer is likely to have several of these installed; I know I've needed to install them to pull stuff from various open source repositories, regardless of the fact I use git for personal projects
I meant Best (member of the set of) long articles!

Calibre can pull from news sites and format to epub then donwload to your ebook readr IITC
Good point. It's easy to see who profited most from the 9/11 attacks.
>Hence my unusual spelling.

Oh, I wasn't intending to criticize you. Yeah, I agree.
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You may disagree with those views, but if they are predominant among the people who have final say in hiring you, and at what salary, then the advice is good.

Are they, though? I can see they might be if you're in consulting (as the author of this post appears to be), but I've never heard of an interview at somewhere like Google or Intel that wants to hear you talk about Providing Value; they want to know your technical skills.
I wouldn't exactly call C++ "high level", but I agree that the new features make it nicer to use when you have to.
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I think the problem is more general and it's not the culture. It's just much easier to find arguments for how the idea could fail rather than ones supporting it or proving it might work.
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Wow that's interesting. Never realized lambdas capture "this" and not the actual data members itself!

That also means you can get in big trouble if the object that got captured was deleted, ouch.
No, it's not safer than I'd like to admit just because you don't agree with my analogy. I am relying on empirical evidence, thank you very much.

Are you one of those people who thinks that the Mac has fallen first at Pwn2Own because it's a "nicer" computer that all the hackers want? Because that's not the case at all. It's been shown a number of times that OS X can be rooted more easily than Windows.

So, no I don't think it's "safer" because of anything technical either. Even if it were though, that wouldn't matter. Windows is safe, yet it can be hacked much like any OS.

The only remaining possibility must be true: Hackers don't pay little attention to OS X because too few targets are using them to make it worth the effort.

Windows is the larger oasis (quite obviously to the non-obstinate reader). This is because even with virus protection, you can't protect users from themselves and more users means more chances to try. If a malprogrammer can get you to run a binary, you're done. If OS X were the more popular OS and it were being run by almost every business in the world that utilize computers, then I have zero doubt that it would have the same problem as Windows in that regard.

I don't think that it will ever be a problem though for Apple since I doubt OS X could ever reach the same market penetration within the highly hacker-targeted business and enterprise market. So, people can go on believing what they want I guess.
And if DARPA have genuinely just funded research that will permit them to run cold-fusion powered units they'd be publishing this knowledge for all to use rather than using it as a decisive advantage why...?

I agree that this looks very suspicious and by Occam's razor it's probably a hoax. But by Clarke's third law, when successful fusion is finally announced honestly - whether it's this time or beyond any of our lifetimes - it's going to look quite a lot like a hoax, I suspect.
Would you say the same about your TV, your wristwatch, or your car? If not, why not? They all run software that you don't have the source to, and in some cases can't modify at all (burned into ROMs.)
Sure, you'll get a much higher submission rate... But that only matters if you're willing to pay so much that people suddenly don't care about their existing jobs. (And possibly location.)

Otherwise, you've got a lot of 'candidates' that aren't.
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It reminds me of the awesome "failure" scene in Meet the Robinsons. We should ask what experiments have been run on the idea, what has been proven or disproven.
> If you are sufficiently skilled to create a popular iPhone app

How much of this skill set is programming, and how much is design and marketing and the ability to navigate Apple's approval process? (Legitimate question, not rhetorical.)
It's the uploader who decides to now make the document downloadable?
Copyrights maybe...?
The point isn't whether there's an excuse or not. It's just that in practice it is better tactics to try for just open journals first. This isn't a moral argument, it's a pragmatic one.
Ask HN: The Homo Universalis of Our Age?
I have been thinking about this ever since I got into university to study Computer Science. I always was a guy that likes learning new things about a lot of different subjects and as a result I got very emotional about university: I believe it should be a place where you don't only study something so you get a degree in order to find a high paying job later but a place where you also expand your horizons, hear about new ideas and begin discovering who you are.

So, after a lot of thinking I ended up with this one question: How would you describe the Homo Universalis of our Age and what would you suggest one does to get as close to this as possible?

If you want me to put it differently, and with less words, which are the main areas of study one should pursue and which topics (books/works/etc) should one follow for each one of them?
Even primitive cultures have medicine men. But they don't have engineers, at least, certainly not full-time ones.
Taking ideas seriously is the only way to test them. If scientists hadn't once upon a time took the idea of perpetual motion machines and ESP, etc. very seriously, we could not be so certain today that they are not true.

Instead of mocking someone who espouses one of these notions (which I have never found to be an effective method of convincing them that the notion is false), I wonder if encouraging them to take it more seriously (e.g., look up experiments, actually run them, etc.) would be much better t convincing them its wrong.
The "positive" (actually breakeven) scenario is what the "71-94 roll" refers to in the OP. The more common negative scenario is if you "roll 1-70", I didn't dispute that. I simply did a half-full glass rephrasing of the 71-94 case instead of the original half-empty version.
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C++ always seems to lead to traps. In point #2, you're obviously right about the micro-coding/readability point. But the premise is kind of scary: you're dealing with a code base where the ownership semantics of an object are captured only by a function return type? Yikes. That's a framework issue: if everyone working on the source isn't 100% sure what that return means, you're guaranteed to get bugs with or without auto. Non-trivial ownership/allocation/copy semantics (i.e. anything other than "on the stack" or "operator new") are deep C++ voodoo, not something you worry about in passing as a readability thing.
Ridiculing serves as an information overload protection, it shuts the inventor up and prevents ones brain to explore the idea in more depth.

One has to respect that people don't want to be bombarded with information. They have a life, too.
what would be super interesting is an obfuscater that sort of did the opposite of this. Feeding it normal source would output a Shakespearian play that could be decoded and run on another computer.
This is why Lisp never had manual allocation. It's a booby trap for a new generation, kind of like the collision between heap allocation and exceptions was in our youth.
"My Share: 747,264 pixels"

Half of that is whitespace. The old design does not dedicate 66% of screen estate to the user's content, it's more like 33%.
Most people criticise out of envy. They don't want to think that somebody else has a better idea than them, by pointing out flaws they assert their own ego.
Not only have I seen them ...

I've played them ... NCAA Div 1 Track and Basketball.

Anyone fighting in Track and Basketball is fighting because they are getting beat. And because they are generally a whiny Beeyotch. And that was true even back in my day, (early 90's).

Never played other sports, (hockey), so I can't say. But if you are fighting in Track or Basketball ... I can guarantee it is because you are a beeyotch. Now you couple this fact with the fact that the CBA gets into fights with nearly every visitor that beats them...and you have to think there are some frustrated players over there. Google China vs. Brazil or China vs US or China vs Australia or China vs anyone really.

I question whether you have played sport at a sufficiently high level if you believe that fighting is just a part of it. Or if you have ... your coaches failed miserably in getting the point of athletics across to you.
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By client's place, do you mean an individual in their personal residence or client as in a business and in their business establishment?

If it's a business in a business establishment, I think it's fine and in fact that's what I am doing most of the time as a contractor.

Working in a client's personal residence is another story though. I would never do it and I would suspect that he/she just lack the understanding about our line or work. Perhaps you could ask the next time you have a client that demands this situation. The insights might be very intriguing.

Good luck with your work.
Thanks for the test run. a few comments:
- while having the enforced borders certainly will enhance a child's ability... maybe have a toggle to disable it? drawing inside the lines is more of a skill development device for children.
- maybe explore ways to improve the drawing tool? penultimate's ink-like quality looks and feels great. maybe faster motions make a larger stroke than subtle movements?

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So I'm guessing this guy invented the bit about his secret customer too. Hired some actors in lab coats to play engineers from said company.
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No, see what I said. Surprise is important. It's not just that you're working to "not be[...] in a room of straight, white, male people". It's that when you walk into such a room, you learn to see the black people who are not there.

This is meant to be a behavior-driving, meta-level change. So for example when you're promoting people, you realize that your candidates are skewed, and maybe you apply your own reverse-skew, maybe you go investigate why black candidates aren't making it to you - you don't just colorblindly take the situation as it comes, as if were unbiased happenstance.

I don't consider it reverse racism to try to skew back a biased pool of candidates towards what an unbiased one would look like. It is perhaps, a bit quixotic to try to repair a society wide disease with local affirmative action. But it does help.
Actually, I have a problem with that. Even if it was a front for parents to sell food without a permit, frankly I'd be okay with that. The fact that our government has produced an environment where I need permits, approval, and licenses to sell something is ridiculous.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that he's talking about... No idea deserves ridicule, only an open mind and constructive criticism - after all, cold fusion and other things would have a better chance at becoming a reproducible experiment if people wouldn't mock everyone who comes up with a new idea in the field, no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
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Considering that conservative has, to many people, a slightly different (and more often than not, negative) meaning than what the word actually means, the confusion is honestly a bit understandable. The word just has become tainted by its political connotation.

I don't know where it is from, but someone once told me that "Conservative does not mean to guard to ashes, it means to pass on the flame."

Sadly, to many people, it means the former - refusing to acknowledge or even actively trying to stop or revert progress, upholding obsolete, indefensible and deprecated traditions, values or positions and generally being unreasonable.

I would consider myself conservative in the true sense of the word: I want to preserve favorable conditions, a sustainable enviroment, an inhabitable planet and free and open knowledge and culture for future generations.
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