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I definitely do not recommend a "games curriculum" at any college I'm aware of.

A mix of good theoretical CS with some hands-on OS, database, compiler and data structures work is probably best. Graphics, naturally (though you can be successful at a games company without knowing much about graphics -- honest).
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Considering that some top journals (such as Nature and Science) require or recommend Word format, your rule of thumb is ridiculous.
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It... doesn't work like that. I wish it did. They literally do not care that it was a communications error. Under law, they sent the letters they were supposed to, and called me at least once. That's as far as their mercy extends.

It seems unlikely that the credit bureaus would listen to me over Cal Coast Credit (the collectors).
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Regarding the amount of work per child being exponential, is this from your personal experience? My experience is the opposite.
How is that consolidation ? It's just a struggle for one more push before the IPO, one more spike for their company to be valued as high as possible. It's a smoke curtain.
Don't get me wrong, if I were Groupon I would do the same thing, but please, don't call it "consolidation"
I see what you did there.

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I'm fairly certain Apple will never allow a "Pay by Facebook" option in its stores or iTunes, no matter how much people ask for it.

For that reason, I'm not sure how Facebook having its own currency can hurt Apple.

Having an iTunes currency platform that stretches beyond Apple's properties does however sound interesting.

And now that they have a serious server farm they may be technically able to explore that option.
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Sorry, naner. When I try to be precise about things and not essentialize, it does require some amount of padding with jargon (pertaining to specificity) which would otherwise be taken as bullshit-like if not read by the fielded eye. What I try to do is stay away from generalizing and making indefensible claims. Next time, I'll stick with graphs, which is how I formulate my ideas and relate different social forces in the first place. To be dry: I wanted to be as accurate as possible, but it clouded all meaning.
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I am not someone who buys stocks, and I really have no idea how the IPO will go, but Groupon strikes me as particularly unappealing company.
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It is surprising how little attention has been created by this huge PV panel price decrease, from $4.00 a watt to $1.25 in three years.

Solyndra is an early casualty, since their business model depended on PV panel prices to fall much more slowly.

The economics of home based solar electricity depends on three numbers, the panel price, the local retail electric rate, and the interest rate of the loan for the system. Right now, in much of the US, you can see that a PV system makes sense for new construction. A simple example:

$12500 : 4500 W PV system w/no storage (grid backed up)

4% interest rate, payment of $60/month

$0.11 per kwh avoided cost, the system generates about $70 of electricity/month

In a nutshell, this is grid parity, right now in 2011. And the owner of such a system does not need to worry about utilities increasing their rates over the years.
Double-sharps are actually a great example of syntax for experts being inappropriate for novices. The double-sharp on a note indicates that that particular note is part of an upward motion. Writing the same note as the equivalent natural would instead indicate downward motion (assuming a sharp key). Knowing the intended motion of a note can influence phrasing and help a reader predict the next note of the melody without looking ahead.

Of course when you start out reading notes, double-sharps are confusing as heck.
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The odd scroll thing on the left is interesting, but it just seems to be directly tied to the browser scroll bar. Is there a practical, or at least non-redundant, use for such a thing?
It's not silly if it's significant.
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"I feel bad for Netflix. They're between a rock and a hard place. The content providers want more money and eventually want to cut out the middleman."

This is true, but the content providers are also between a rock and a hard place, but don't seem to realize it. A generation of kids are growing up knowing how to get content for free, but the low cost, convenience, and value add of netflix is worth it if you aren't poor.
To connect the dots here: I think both Moot and I employ a sort of essentialist rhetoric to get attention, the same way you would write something enormously more controversial under a pen name. A more strict interpretation of Moot's argument is that Facebook should be filled with pen names, as people need to be creative instead of simply informative, and that rigidity kills creativity. A strict interpretation of my argument is just as you said, but also that the well integrated identity comes before anonymity before anonymity may become useful / audienced. Moot's simple championing of anonymity misses the point that you need an audience first, which is gathered by putting people in a position where they can willingly be exposed to its content. It's the same as why farmville isn't 100% evil: it brings people to the web who otherwise would never be there, and acts as a positive externality on all other web sub-industries.
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The first 10k users were hard to get and we had to do a little bit of out-of-pocket PPC advertising to seed the community, after that we focused on building links, SERP and building a product people liked. It was a long road and between 0 and our first million users and we almost gave up many times. At some point we even had the site up for sale on eBay - I am so glad we didn't find a buyer :)
Misleading title.

s/no more accurate/no easier for beginnners to learn/
Aw, man... saw "PA" and thought "Pennsylvania". You know, not everyone gets to live in California so long that Palo Alto becomes shortened to an acronym. :(

Looks like an awesome barbecue though! Will there be coding involved?
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> Some stripes on the road don't make cycling safe.
> Cyclists that think carefully and act predictably do

I don't have any data to back this up, but it's my feeling that there are more drivers on the road that just don't pay enough attention to the road than there are reckless cyclists. At the very least, when there are cycle lanes there is a 'barrier' where if a driver crosses it they are unquestionably in the wrong.

> require licensing for bicycle-only drivers

I would argue that there is less of a need to cyclists to get licensed. Recklessly driving a car is far more dangerous than recklessly driving a bicycle.
We rent movies on-demand via either Amazon (streamed through my TiVo) or via AppleTV. It gives us access to stream new movies with a pay-as-you-go pricing structure which is more in-line with how many movies we watch (probably one a month, if that). For us, Netflix was never a replacement for cable because there's still enough live content on cable we wouldn't get via Netflix, or without having to jump through hoops to easily get onto a television.

Netflix made the catastrophic mistake of reminding their customers how much they were paying for their service at the exact time new content was back on television ... then did it again a couple weeks later. They couldn't have executed any worse IMO.
Netflix doesn't have fixed costs. As they become more popular, licensing becomes more and more expensive and it becomes easier and easier for content owners to jerk them around for their own benefit.
"It was pretty scary at the time"

The point was that he made the decision in a time of general uncertainty, but certain that dropping out was the right decision.
I am always amazed to hear that Netflix customers are outraged (!) by having to pay a whopping $10 to receive unlimited access to online streaming on demand. Really, if you can't afford $10 to sit infront of the TV and watch movies all day long, maybe you should get out there and find a real job instead of sitting on the couch.
If you can't isolate that sole characteristic, your findings aren't empirically significant.
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Too many assumptions. The biggest of course is that that "22%" number will continue despite the fact that "the learning rate has been exceptionally high".

Another assumption is that natural gas prices will stay the same, when actually they are going down right now.

Not an assumption but rather an omission: He uses a 25 year payback period for solar, but does not include opportunity cost of that money (i.e. how much that money would have brought in interest) over 25 years. Once you include that (and you should) it doesn't look as good. And in any case 25 years is far too long. 10 years is the standard for evaluating payback periods.

6% over 25 years is 4.5 time the base value. So the solar power actually costs 4.5 times as much as he assumes. Even assuming just 3% would give you 2.1 times your cost.

Edit: These calculations are a bit off since they assume paying for the standard power all at once at the end, but actually you make payments throughout.
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1) Added cost gives no incentive to car drivers to start commuting by bike, which would have at least some effect on congestion, pollution and health.

Maybe not directly, but the funds generated from licensing and penalties could go towards education programs, tax rebates for those who start commuting by bike, improving safety for cyclists, etc. My guess is that there's a network effect to be had. Once you hit a certain density or,(ugh) critical mass of cyclists on the road you get a point where it is safe and socially-accepted enough that it will become commonplace, and everybody wins.

2) How do you enforce it?

I don't know, I have no experience in the machinations of government. However, I'm confident that if you tell state and municipal governments that they could generate revenue off of it, they will find a way.
Thanks. Could you explain in more detail how and under what conditions (location, type of system) a 4500W panel system generates 70/.11 = 636 kWH of power each month?
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I'm not arguing for the abolishment of copyright entirely. I just think 90 years+ is a term far too long. I'd like to see it reduced to something in the 20-30 yr range, and perhaps some broadening of fair use and derivative works allowed without license.
That doesn't contradict his observation. Changing your program to use custom memory allocators can solve fragmentation issues, but that's a much bigger step than the changes required to avoid too many (or too expensive ) full GCs (i.e. tuning the garbage collector directly, gettting "permanent" data out of the garbage-collected heap, minimizing mutations so there's less to scan...).
If you write the letters, and keep sending them, eventually they will fall off of your credit report. Once you ask a credit reporting agency to remove something, they have to contact the original creditor who then has a set period of time to respond, or the listing is removed.
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> most people that run red lights don't go around
> talking about how they know better than the law.

You've obviously never been pulled over for performing a 'rolling stop' at a stop sign. Most people that are pulled over for such things will complaint to high hell about them.

There is large area between running a red light at 90mph without even batting an eye, and coming to an almost (but technically not complete) stop before continuing through an intersection with a stop sign.
This is great, developers could use a voice at the W3C. Wait, how did they do that awesome effect with the screenshot that's slanted and angled like that? Is that a special filter, or did they do that in Photoshop?
Bullshit.

Simply by choosing to ride a bike, a cyclist makes the roads so much safer (comparatively) for everyone else, they could cycle backwards through the streets while blindfolded and it would _still_ likely be a net benefit to the safety of others on the road (nothing claimed about the cyclist him- or her-self).

And this is before you consider the notion that the vast majority of drivers speed (speed limits are seen as the _lower_ limit by many), and many tailgate, roll through stoplights, turn and change lanes without signaling, and send text messages while doing all of the above.

The safety numbers are so overwhelmingly in favor of cycling, talking about the "endangerment of others" in this context is, quite frankly, laughable.
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why am i not surprised? a huge price hike in the middle of a struggling economy.

I do feel bad for Netflix and i hope they recover. it was just a one-time bad business decision behind a great brand name. what a costly learning lesson for the ceo!
Very nice. I might see if it interests my kids.

I thought there is a "no interpreter" rule?
Interesting.. Thank you. Would you mind pointing out where to get further info? What if they respond in time?
For those of you not from Chicago, Chicago has created an experimental bike lane on a downtown street. They put some reflective poles in the middle of the side of the road where cars park, then designated everything from those poles to the curb a bike lane. Cars now park to the left of bicycles and to the right of cars, creating an interesting setup. There is no risk of being "doored" now, but traffic coming out of side streets can't see bikes in the bike lanes. They've compensated for this with tons and tons of paint on the road and lots of signs.

I have ridden the Kinzie one in both directions. I usually need to turn left at Clinton or Des Plaines, and this is now very difficult, as it's tough to move from the poled-in area to the real traffic lane at speed. To turn at Clinton, I have to cut over traffic right after the bridge. To turn at Des Plaines, the lane change is simpler because the poles are gone, but that giant hill makes turning left there very difficult. I like to get over to the left well before the intersection so that I don't miss the turn due to too much traffic, but the poles force me to stay in the bike lane longer than I might want to during heavy traffic. (OK, there is never any traffic on Kinzie, so this is not a real problem.)

The stop signs along the route are very difficult for everyone, because nobody knows how to react to this weird lane thing that exists nowhere else on earth. Should cars yield to bikes? Should bikes yield to cars? There are some signs put up that try to tell you what to do, but I've read them a million times and can't remember what they say.

Kinzie is such a lightly-used street that I don't understand how these dividers help make the road safer. That big hill at the 5-way intersection is the only thing non-ideal about Kinzie, and of course that's never going to be fixed. Some reflective poles in the middle of the road don't do it for me.

While this doesn't excite me, there are changes that would. Parked cars could be removed from the side of the road, leaving enough room for cyclists and cars to truly share the right lane. (No need for bike lane markings; the extra room is just as good and much cheaper to create.) Speed limits could be lowered from 30 to 25, so that, with training, bikes and cars could actually be going to same speed. This means that traffic light timings would be just as good for bikes as for cars, meaning that there would be no travel time advantage for cars.

I doubt this will happen, so as a substitute, how about giving people speeding tickets in Chicago? I've never seen anyone get one, and I've seen people getting off the freeway and continuing to drive 75 on the surface streets. 75 on a city street? Come on.
OMG...I was just trying to explain to a friend why she should wait 3 - 5 years before having kids, but I found it so hard to put into words.

That graph is SOOO true. Haven't even read the entire post yet, but after 2 kids (both under 4) that graph sums up the entire experience - from my perspective anyway - more true than any words can.
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what a petty move! management needs to grow up!
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You can't publish benchmarks on Amazon EC2 either. Doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to people that they're unable to find out whether an EBS volume will provide better or worse I/O than, say, a consumer-grade laptop 4800rpm 2.5" drive.
I love the design of those slides but the angled text on just a few puts me off. I don't know if its just me but I have trouble with angled text. My eyes just can't seem to focus and so it all looks like gibberish.
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Reddit seems to be doing pretty well... and they grow every day. "Sure" I hear you say, "they are a pittance compared to facebook", but really, what out there isn't. And Reddit, unlike Facebook for most of it's existence, has had serious competition. (I don't consider MySpace to be FB competition, since really the migration to FB began pretty much as soon as FB opened up to full public consumption).

Just a data point in the other direction.
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Because the only secrets a government should be allowed to keep are the ones where a loss of secrecy would render the whole point moot. So, for example, when planning a wartime offensive against an enemy the military and by extension the government must have the privilege of keeping their plans a secret, since to do otherwise would make the plans useless. Once keeping the plans secret no longer serves that purpose they should be made public.

Diplomatic cables do not meet this standard in the general case. They are a log of a government's interactions with another government, and thus need to be public so that the people can confirm it is working in their interest, and not conspiring to implement a global copyright regime at the behest of Big Media, or aiding a foreign government in oppressing its people, or sending detainees to foreign soil with the understanding that they'll be tortured, or trying to overthrow democratically-elected leaders, or any of the other reprehensible things that the American government is doing literally while I type this, right now.
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Hey Todd, you should try buying something in each store. The actual purchase experience is so different that it's shocking (at least it was for me)

The Microsoft store has the look worked out, but the actual purchase process is horrible compared to Apple's (still better than most retail stores though...)
> [Autobiographical memory] might be boosted by anonymity and pseudonyms, as a way to pull down barriers to risky behavior, but anonymity and pseudonyms do much less for aggregate [utility per person] than postmodern, perceivably rigid reflections of reality on Facebook do.

There's a lot here about self-gratification through performative identity, but nothing about the value society derives from the unflinching evaluation of unpopular ideas. I find this to be nearly absent in "this will go on your permanent record" oriented venues, which in turn is why I find those all but useless. It's reception and counters to my arguments that I value; what I write would be anonymous (and on slashdot it was) if a dissociated pseudonym weren't required.
> Do you have an example of "someone using <vehicle> did <unsafe thing>" where it wouldn't be considered way more egregious if someone did it in a car than a bike?

Speeding, for one.

Talking on the phone or texting while driving, for another.

These things are responsible for countless preventable deaths on the roadways, and yet they're completely tolerated by most drivers.

Except text messaging, perhaps. In that case, it's always the asshole on their cell phone in the _other_ car doing something stupid. Of course, you never notice the dozens of times that _you're_ the asshole, because you're trying to fire off that quick text.
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In reality, most people that are cyclists are not dicks, at least where I am. Most people go out of their way to avoid pedestrians. There are some people that are 'dick cyclists,' but I see them act like dicks towards cards, pedestrians, and other cyclists alike. It has nothing to do with a position of power, and more to do with a general attitude.

The problem between car drivers and bike riders, is that there are a lot of drivers that view the position of the person in the car as the 'normal' position, and the position of the cyclist as the 'abnormal' position.

Take the article that the OP is in response to. It is written along the lines of:

I drive a car, and do not drive bicycle. I therefore
have little vested interest in infrastructure relating
to bicycles and a strong vested interest in infrastructure
related to cars. Therefore I see infrastructure related
to bicycles as 'stealing' time/space/resources away
from the infrastructure related to cars.
He says that $700 worth of solar cells would produce 4000kWh of electricity per year which is what the average family consumes. Over the course of 25 years ("a lifetime of household electricity") had you purchased that from the grid, it would have cost $25,000. Ignoring maintenance, you get $25,000 worth of electricity for an initial one-time investment of $700. Though that's production cost, and excludes installation, maintenance, etc. so likely multiples of that at retail.

I think you misread the 25 years as being a payback period.
I mention Reddit and in the post. I remark that it has to do with autobiographical memory, which is a very postmodern force. But it would have a hard time gaining a userbase if something like Facebook and Myspace had never existed. The latter bring the userbase to the Internet in the first place, where Reddit is a secondary outcome that could not have possibly gained its userbase without the effects of a social network (aka people posting reddit links on Facebook).