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Here is an interesting article about a white american athlete who complained about bias agains white americans in the NBA.

see:

http://www.thegrio.com/opinion/should-the-nba-assist-white-p...

I see parallels, it's a cultural thing, generally speaking in the African American community tech startups are not valued like playing basketball/football or being singer/rapper/actor.

The startups that are popular in the African American community is the record label.

I also thought this was interesting as well:
http://deadspin.com/kyle-mcalarney/
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I agree I prefer git (and also agree that 99% of svn usage in our environment doesn't involve any merging), I think it's just that svn is filling our need for a remote backup/storage for the source code so we're sticking with that for now.

That said we are a very small team and all in the same office so it hasn't been an issue.

I suspect we will slowly start moving new projects over to git though.
Other discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170907

Frankly I'm assuming it's a scam, or at best very very badly named, until we find out more details.
I think the usual refrain is "Burn Hollywood, Burn"..
"[...] Marx found that 32.6 percent of tech workers who sign non-compete agreements wind up moving to entirely different industries when they take their subsequent jobs. In many cases, these workers stopped applying specific skills they had developed — often after obtaining a PhD — and took pay cuts."

Or why predictions of Silicon Valley's demise are generally premature at best, since it has a uniquely liquid market for technical talent.
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Bad title. Should be "The nonexistent war on lemonade stands that we just made up as part of our publisher's long-standing propaganda efforts".
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Another explanation could be that some packages started having Git as a requirement or dependency. I seem to remember there used to be a package related to the KDE desktop that required the SVN client. I'm not saying Git isn't becoming increasingly popular, but strange jumps might be explained by dependencies or renames, too.
You would think that anyone with half a brain would have foreseen that not disconnecting the 500KW generator from the set up would look suspicious. But neither the inventor nor the customer had this insight?

It's also very suspicious for the planned 1000KW output to be reduced to the exact output level of the generator.
Yes and no. While mocking shouldn't be encouraged, there's value in criticizing an idea; finding good answers to the problems raised by critics is indispensable.

The important thing is that you should approach it with a constructive mindset, picking it apart without disregarding it outright.
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I'm sure they did, but being connected to the grid is probably necessary for generating the 500KW.
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If it sounds too good to be true...?

No graphs, no public measurements, no scientific publication: no merit.

Honest inventors want to be transparent and have their historical claim validated by top-ranking organisation. Clearly another case of wired.com diving into the fantastic and inspirational. Just search and see what their methodology is over the past months. Just invest a bit more money and we can do a bigger test... Nice income source, not an energy source.

Just look at how the media is being manipulated. Amusing if it wasn't a waste of time and resources.
The money isn't so much in the chips in the device, so much as the people and time to develop it and test it.
That's all kinds of wrong. Citation, please?
It's the quest for "safety" - it got so much media attention what with all the terrorist threats and attacks (which existed long before 9/11), that it has been engrained in the minds of people as "safety and security at all costs" and has extended to most parts of life, not just external threats to the country (which is understandable, since most Americans never see any real terrorism but know that they have to fear it and protect themselves, so they find something else to protect themselves against).
It would be somehow ironic if senator McCarthy was, actually, the only non-communist McCarthy of his generation ;-)
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Well, at least kids will learn some history on how it was like to operate a speakeasy and avoiding/bribing law enforcement.
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That was the same schedule of Alan Kay around his time at XEROX PARC.

How did you come up with that idea? I also hate doing anything outside of those hours.
I'm one of them ;)
I don't believe this is real for a second, though I would love it to be. But I wonder why, if it was connected to the grid, did they not just produce the expected 1MW...
You're effectively proposing child labor.
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Thats a pretty good explanation.
I always wondered why do people love filters so much.

I think another reason is because its "cool" now.
You don't need a pick-up truck, just because you might need to move some furniture every few months. You don't need a car with a long range, just because you might want to go on a road trip once a year. You can rent.

I grew up about 100 miles from the nearest decent-sized city. You couldn't use a Tesla there, because you couldn't head to the city every time you got bored and had a spare day (well, technically you could, but you wouldn't want to cut things too fine). But if you live in a big city, and are unlikely to go on long trips more than a few times a year, electric would be fine.
Dear God, man! You think it's a good idea to have 4 year olds deal with the screwed up machine-like law system we have in place? Let them have at least some liberty and dreams before they turn 16 and start getting arrested and thinking of anarchy or suicide... oh wait, that was a sarcastic comment, wasn't it?
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A more important thing is you won't really need much of those data structures and algorithms for nearly 99% of the tasks that your are likely to do in any large corporate/typical business driven software today. Most of the data structures that you will need are covered by the standard tool kit that comes with the language. Most of your common sorting and searching needs come covered with the libraries.

But you sort of need to have other skills, like productivity , delivering extra value to business etc.

Also I don't see why all that is wrong. After all software there is written to make money. And if something helps you do that with ease. It's perfectly OK. You don't have to always take the most difficult path to prove you are good. Doing what is required to 'get things done' is just good enough.
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In comparison to their long form story on the Stuxnet virus, which was really boosted by the personal element, this one reads mostly as a tease with no satisfying pay-off.

As a story trying to build a narrative it frequently concerns itself too much with the technical detail, or 'setting the scene', with little to no consideration for closing the personal elements it opens up throughout. It's littered with incidental detail but not a great deal of substance.

For example: what happened to Montagna? He's the first person to be mentioned, is described as doing something pretty dangerous, and is forgotten about.

It then ends on such a note as to trivialise the entire article. All of this is only a problem because the article was written in such a way to make it one.
Right, you are repeating what I had already admitted, that my example is ridiculous. My response was to the suggestion that we should get rid of licenses and just let people run their businesses. In some cases, this is fine (and in these cases you probably don't need a license, programming is an example of this.) In other cases, not so much.

I'm thankful for the U.S. being strict on food safety / handling standards. I'm currently living in the Philippines and I had traveler's diarrhea for the first few months I lived here and I still get it regularly after a few years. Common sense helps, but it only goes so far.
Hmm, I maintained software dealing with shipping containers for the trucking industry and occasionally there where identical boxes that had different size and type codes. Granted they could have been data entry errors, but the software used the size and type codes to uniquely identify things.
Doesn't that depend on what sort of job you're trying to get? If someone is hiring for embedded systems development, and your resume has no details about your technical skills, but lots about Providing Value, there's a good chance they're going to wonder if you're technically qualified. They certainly won't be impressed if your attitude in the interview is: ok, sure, I don't yet know all of these details, but anyone can pick up a language in 3-4 weeks; did I mention I'm really good at creating business value?
You are making the assumption that working in a Start up always compensates for the losses through equity. That is true only if the Start up wins and ends making money or sells for good enough amount to money pay you that chunk.

But if it doesn't you loose time and money. And have to deal with added frustration of that loss and finding a new job.

At the same who is almost as good as you would have never been through all that. Made more money with the same learning experience as yours.

Its not about the positive scenario that's the problem here. Its the negative scenario.
Hilarious rant, but there's still the problem of the word "nigger".

There's a recent tendency to equate "nigger" with "white trash". White people don't call white trash niggers.

Innocent whites weren't hung from trees in living memory with crowds of blacks shouting "white trash!". The word "nigger" is more offensive (for now) because of the history of its use. It's an ugly word.

By analogy, ask an Irish Catholic which is more offensive: "white trash" or "dogan". Actually, don't ask, unless you know the person really well.
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This is a question for the guys in NYC. As you know, it's unreasonably expensive to start a company in NYC. The state registration fees are bearable (~$400 after everything), but then the requirement to advertise in local newspapers costs you a good $2000 due to NY advertising prices and the fact that the state randomly picks newspapers so you can't just pick cheap ones. Given that cost, i've decided to incorporate in Delaware. Of course, it didn't take me long to realize if i actually wanted to open a bank account / conduct transactions, etc, i needed to open a "sister LLC" in NY, or basically register as "doing business in NY state" which basically costs the same as registering a new business in NY, so now i have to pay two states. Great.

Anyway, i've also found that accountants/lawyers on Craigslist who claim to help with all this startup administrative stuff don't really help at all. They don't care to offer advice, they just tell you how much they'll charge you to fill out standard paperwork.

So my question is -- what have you guys done to figure out all the administrivia, when on a tight budget? Like i want to give this new programmer some equity that vests in 6 months. Do i just write him an email saying "You officially now have x% of the company, provided you complete yyy hours over the next zzzz months"?. I heard you can print out stock certificates. But couldn't anyone just go to a printer and print a stock certificate for some random company for some random number of shares? What document/company/bureacracy actually owns all these allocations? Is a locked Google spreadsheet with people's names next to ownership stakes good enough to hold up as "the official company ownership charter" in a court?

Mainly, have you found good people in NY who help you with all this crap? Anyone gotten free advice form the Small Biz Admin, or any of the little initiatives Bloomberg has setup supposedly to help struggling entrepreneurs?

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True, but few ways to kill someone will look like a software glitch.
They also have a Flash version - http://spielzeugz.de/lab/sticky-thing/flash/

While there is no way to run Flash on iOS devices, accelerometer works only with iOS.

I belive that's what Steve was talking about in his Thought on Flash where he concludes:

"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short."

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>>if it was funded by someone else (e.g. the public) then my view is that everyone who contributed to funding that research should have the ability to access and use the results.

If you show those results to "the public", they'll likely want their money back. I know I do.
Have you never seen any sports?

It's men (or women) competing against one another. I suppose you think its also a manifestation of some deep frustration when two white hockey players fight on the ice? Or when two black players fight in the NBA? Or when a black guy fights a white guy, etc. etc.
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reason has been posting articles about this for a while.

http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/18/lemonade-stand-crackdown-c...

http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/10/free-the-lemonade-three

http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/24/concord-cop-threatens-came...

http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/17/saturday-is-lemonade-freed...

http://reason.com/blog/2005/08/03/when-lemonade-is-illegal

http://reason.com/blog/2009/08/06/lemonade-is-not-a-crime

http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/01/reasontv-the-war-on-lemona...

But hey, I personally enjoy the smell of sand, so I wouldn't blame you for keeping your head there as long as you like...
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What I'm saying is that they are going to propose whatever is easiest for them to use to achieve their goal. They're not going to put in their own limitations. If people who care about this want reasonable laws, they need to propose some of their own. Theirs are usually equally in the opposite direction. And, most on the other side need to change their attitude about copyright because it's not likely to change and you lose credibility fighting for privacy and reasonable laws in the same breath as you say that information wants to be free when referring to copyrighted material.
Brilliant idea.
There are so many good products out there not getting any attention because they are not connected to the right people.
He isn't. Children in America today have no requirement to work for their survival. If a child wants to work for a bigger allowance, why not let them?
google what killer? all of google? he must be joking, or not know what google is.

i need people to read my article, so i'll put 'google killer' in the title then i'll have some bullet points, job accomplished.
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Great discussion. Thanks for the link. I understand the sentiment of adding more and a bit complex features.

Of course, Ruby has continuations, which is probably one of the hardest things to use correctly, and very few people use it.

The problem is that the alternatives, assuming the performance can be solved, are worse: use class methods all over, wrapper objects for the pimped classes, or just ignore safety and use Open Classes.

All of which are more complex to gem creators. The more complex and the less fun we make it for people to create gems, the less gems we will have.

I'll see if I can use ruby macros to implement it on 1.8.7, and make a better case for it.
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I've been using a lot of these new features in XCode 4 and my code is already much cleaner and more readable. Modern C++ really is a pleasure to use and I love writing code that's this high level but still smoking fast.
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That looks surprisingly good, and might even improve new projects which have to use C++. How long until compilers support all this?
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This has a simple explanation.

A permit, as defined by Black's law dictionary (paraphrased[1]), is authorization to commit an otherwise criminal/forbidden act. Thus if you had a skulking permit that authorizes you to steal and kill, you legally could commit what was a crime.

Permits, as treated/used by the US Government, are just another form of taxation. It has become "pay up, or it's illegal". According to my understanding of the Constitution this is illegal—but that's never stopped our government before.

So, with the requirements in place to make it illegal to manufacture/brew/sell food (including beverages, like lemonade or even tea) without a permit, we get a crackdown on kids selling bottled drinks or lemonade made from a mix, to enforce the laws.

And that's still ignoring the peddling license and the business license.

Just take a look at the permits/licenses required to operate shop today, and what is illegal because of it. I can't even finish my basement off without paying for a permit. For example, a heterosexual couple can't get married in most states without a permit. This practice came from interracial marriage being illegal in the 1900s and requiring a permit; prior to this time marriage was a (primarily) religious institution and people married without governmental interference. The idea of a marriage permit has since been promulgated as a "good idea," and "common-law marriages" are considered "bad ideas".

Give the government an inch and they take a mile...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

[1]: I had to paraphrase because I don't own a copy. I had to look it up in the library a while ago, and the definition stuck with me.
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This factor is not left out, it's at the core of the article:

"Even if you personally think it would be far better for science as a whole if you carefully curated and shared your data online, that is time away from your "real" work of writing papers. Except in a few fields, sharing data is not something your peers will give you credit for doing."

There is no question that in most (not all) fields it is not yet in an individual scientist's best interest to spend a lot of time systematically sharing data. The question is: might it sometimes be in the community's best interest?

This argument played out, for example, with the human genome in the 1990s, where many scientists were initially reluctant to share data (little individual reward for the time and effort). Ultimately, grant agencies required very early-stage sharing, something almost everyone would agree has benefited science as a whole.

The point of the article is that there needs to be a change to bring individual incentives for this kind of systematic sharing into alignment with the community's best interest.
He did say 'stop ridiculing' and not 'stop criticizing'.

It's impossible to have a discussion on perpetual motion or cold fusion because people who don't even understand the basics will jump in and start mocking everyone. These are extreme examples, but the same thing happens to any idea that someone thinks is impossible, naive, or bad.

(I'm not saying I think they are possible. I'm saying it should be possible to have a discussion about them... Because I'm also not saying they're impossible.)
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That's not teaching them about business; that's teaching them how to appease corrupt and autocratic government.
hah, its like a variable in a function making theories about what the whole program is all about, and that there might be many other functions similar to it. :D

take a look at this one too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
We have just started using some C++11 features, and with new features come new traps and potential complexities, as you'd expect with C++.

A few examples:

1. Implicit lambdas ("[=]") capture "this" pointer for data members, if you capture a shared pointer and let the lambda object leave the scope, the shared pointer won't be copied (http://stackoverflow.com/q/7764564/23643), which may create unpleasant results, like code blowing up in your face.

2. Overuse of "auto" (not exclusive to C++) may make the code harder to read, especially if storing a result returned from a function. You can't tell if the return value is a smart pointer or a raw pointer, value or a reference, so you can't figure ownership semantics just by looking at the local code.

3. Move constructors/assignment operators are a bit of a black magic, especially with regard to suppressing default implementation (http://mmocny.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/implicit-move-wont-go) and exception safety (http://cpp-next.com/archive/2009/10/exceptionally-moving). I would refrain from using it, until I fully understand it.

With that said, most of C++11 is a welcome change and makes C++ more pleasant to write, but, as always, you have to have your guard up and use new features judiciously.
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Could you expand a bit more on the drawbacks of BerkeleyDB JE which you found? Thanks!