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Looking around my old DOS files, qbasic.exe is 254,799 bytes, plus a 133,810 help file. 400kb is larger than anything on that list, but we can think of lots of things larger than 400k. I don't seem to have Turbo C++ on my system any more, but it came on floppies and was probably no more than 15MB unpacked.

The entire MS-DOS 5.0 distribution is around 2.2MB. Norton Utilities is 2,316,176 bytes. For a complex application that uses graphics and fonts, Print Shop is 2,716,489 bytes. The average Flash game is larger these days, although that is largely due to music and bitmaps. Individual files in my /usr/bin that are larger than all of MS-DOS or Norton include python2.7 (2,375,356) mono (2,637,288), gdb (3,888,248), doxygen (5,413,488), and smbclient (6,512,344), and these files are stripped.

Linux kernel modules are still relatively small. Most are under 50k, although mac80211 is 257,001 and i915 is 451,033. The psmouse module is 73,312, almost twice the size of Turbo Pascal to drive my mouse.

Most files in /bin are still small. Turbo Pascal is just barely larger than ed (38,464) and cat (38,484), and is smaller than touch (42,552) on my system as well.

Turbo Pascal is also smaller than the gzipped man file for rsync (49,400), /etc/bash_completion (58,739), the Neko compiler (176,073) and DLL (94,203) for Windows, and GNU cmp for Windows (57,344).
You're memory doesn't seem to go along with facts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Chicago#Temperature_...

Seems like the coldest high temperature in Chicago's recorded history was -11ºF

FWIW I've lived in both SF and Chicago and quite like Chicago's climate/seasons and really liked the city life much more than I did in SF (although the stuff a couple hours from SF is fantastic), and I'm not at all alone (I live in NY now)
I Googled for my Twitter handle and Klout after reading this, and what bugs me the most is this bit in the Google snippet:

"Andrew Johnson is on Klout."

Which implies that I have joined the site. If this were some pornography site, they'd have a lawsuit on their hands.
I rather suspect it's simpler than you think. Attractive-from-behind people are attractive by virtue of their figure. Before they turn around, everything we have seen we find attractive.

Unless you find every person you see from behind first, initially attractive. But I know I certainly don't.
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looks interesting but getting the following error: http://bit.ly/uPmrTE
For those who aren't familiar: San Francisco weather sucks, but the valley has great weather. It's weird, but in SF, there are actually relatively few days where you'd want to be outside in shorts and a t-shirt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate
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I love O'Reilly's books. I discovered the $5 ebook upgrade, and plowed through registering and upgrading all 30-off books that I've accumulated over the past 20 years. Then I bought a few since then on their daily deal.

But the real kicker was I suddenly had a coupon code that lasted for about 2 weeks that was for $5 for any new ebook. I blew about $200 that pay period, so now I've got enough reading material for half a life-time.

I so wish Amazon would loosen up on their Kindle DRM. I've only purchased a few titled, and my Kindle is pretty much am O'reilly Reader these days.

I really wish the cost of the ebooks was in the $5 range for most titles (O'Reilly or not). At that price, I'd purchase so many tech books on impulse, I'd probably never get around to reading most of them, but rather to have them for reference.
Also, they hope to be selling the model A for $25 and the Model B for $35.
Governments sometimes have some very strange priorities. California is spending a lot of cash on salary and pension. It looks like it is going to get a lot worse in CA (lots of unfunded commitments). Its all tax money, it just where the reps vote to spend it.

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Shouldn't they make Lisp books cheaper in honor of John McCarthy as well?
At the same time. From the Issacson bio, I think there was no reserved CEO parking spot either.

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Thanks, I knew about that when it came out, but before I was able to install it, the preview of 1.9.3 came out - which is when I first noticed just how much faster it was.

After running a few tests on the commandline, rake and rails commands are even faster than they were in RC1.
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An simpke, elegant 8-bit microprocessor is very simple to hold in one's brain. That said, the 8080 and its offspring would never be my choice. I'd suggest the 6502, the 6809 or the 32032 (which is not 8-bit, but very easy to understand)
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Indeed TP did not have any linking step. I still recall trying to fruitlessly find "Link" on the menu for quite some time until it hit me -- oh, no linking needed. But TP did include a run-time with each of the generated executable. This run-time was part of the compiler and it was approximately 10K (from memory, so I could be wrong). That makes the compiler about 22Kbytes worth of code, which is even more impressive.
You dawg!, I hear you like type systems ...
Argh, you're right, I didn't realize that I had to flip the switch. I've just done that, but given it's a Sunday night it might take a while for it to activate. I'll repost when that happens.
It's not clear to me why the top private schools are able to offer so much better aid packages.

Willingness to compete with each other and huge endowments?
I've tried introducing one person w/ higher mathematics knowledge to scheme and it went well.

I think that people think that imperative programming is somehow 'more natural'. I still sort of think that but, I haven't seen that bourne out when I try teaching programming.

All programming is foreign to people when they start. And you are influenced by what you start with.

I started with Forth ( ages ago ) and when I first started using an imperative language, it was a struggle for me.
See if these might help - http://howtolaunchastartup.com/2011/06/20/21-must-read-resou...
Here's a great article about California's fiscal woes:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-...

The article talks about legal difficulties in raising property rates, huge pension costs, a culture of entitlement and endemic political obstruction.
> People will bash you for making an "absolute truth"

I think people are bashing the statement because it's wrong, not because it's absolute. At least, I have no problem with people making absolute statements as long as they are correct, but this one certainly isn't.
That's not a free college degree, or a $10k college degree. That's a degree that costs piles of someone else's tax money.
It's definitely a game. One that's rigged (and not in your favor), but you better do your best or you might not get a second chance.
Too bad there's been essentially zero activity on MRI for over a year.
I see several possible markets for this:

* Mobile device manufacturers who want an 'unbiased' alternative to Android and Google TV, so as to reduce their dependence on Google and transition away from a variety of marginal dead-end proprietary platforms that will be difficult to maintain and extend in the long run.

* Governments and corporations that have standardized on Ubuntu for desktops and laptops and would derive many benefits from using the same platform and administrative tools (e.g., Landscape) on tablets and mobile phones.

* Emerging vendors who want to bring to market new consumer devices and home-automation systems and would want an independent software platform that is easily extensible (e.g., Control4's products are built atop Ubuntu).

* Individuals and other entities who could take advantage of a full, unfettered, 100% Free GNU/Linux stack on their mobile devices. (If it works well, I, for one, would at least try it.)
We used to joke that a JPEG screenshot of an old Atari 2600 game was always larger than the object code that ran the actual game.
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The threading change for 1.9.3 is a scheduler change that just lessens the chance of thread starvation. It's nothing to get excited about.
You don't want to limit yourself to one language, and it seems that for every task there's a better language (than CL).
Yes it would. Not a bullet proof one (is there any?) but a good indicator.
Good read. Going to take me a while to figure out what I agree with and what I don't.
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Depending on the goals of the learner, something with immediate visual feedback is nice. Logo/turtle graphics or Smalltalk would be good for this.

While you're not going to write my-first-blog in Logo, it's something my 5 year old can get her head around. And it's the thin edge of the lisp wedge :)
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Who is to say whether it is correct or not? Even if you disagree with the point, I don't see anything that makes it "certainly [not correct]".
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Argh. Misnegation from earlier version. "As you point out, the importance of rhumb lines comes from the fact that..." -- there shouldnt' be a not there.
The University of Washington is screwing over it's youth in the name of money. They've been actively reducing the number of 2-year community college transfers they accept because they'd rather have 4-year students. More money that way. Even worse they've reduced the number of in-state students they accept because out-of-state tuition is substantially higher. The focus needs to be on having an educated population and that no longer appears to be the goal.
I suppose it depends on which hood you want to look under. :)

I see CS as basically dual-grounded: everything is ultimately just syntactic sugar on machine code, and everything is ultimately just syntactic sugar on lambda calculus. Which reduction makes more sense depends on what you care about; the bare-metal view comes into play more when you're talking about low-level performance, while the mathematical view comes into play more when you're talking about algorithms and correctness. I guess it can get into some philosophical debate about which reduction is more "real"...

I'm not entirely sure which way is easier to start from. The argument you make here, that students have trouble going from mathematical abstraction to bare-metal implementation, is probably true; but I think students who first learn on asm and C also have trouble going the other way, from thinking about executing a series of instructions to thinking about enacting computations. That's one reason there's been some experimentation at places like MIT and UT-Austin with not starting with an imperative language, which they feel is very hard to get people off of once they've started with it.
Having watched the event live in person, I think this point has been taken out of context. Mark's point was that there's no way he could have succeeded with facebook without the valley as he was young and inexperienced, but knowing what he knows now he could have been successful back in Boston.

My interpretation of his comment was that it is easier to be successful through getting noticed in a place where there is less noise from everyone and their dog starting companies, but being in that situation is invaluable if you don't know what you're doing.
I think one of the major reasons a lot of tech startups are failing is because so many of them don't even begin to focus on monetization and are still stuck on being acquired with a big exit. Even with the whole Lean Startup movement, I think so many startups are still far from thinking the way they need to to make a profit in a reasonable amount of time.

MVPs and customer interviews and everything else are great, but at the end of the day, what's most important is that you target a market large enough to sell to enough customers to make for a sustainable business model. Even a perfect product can fail if a market is too small or worse, completely non-existent.
Google Voice is a great product which could be so much better, it's pretty clear it's one of those things Google has not looked after or worked on much. It's also a complete pain to set up. Your average Joe is going to struggle to get it up and running and nicely integrated with Gmail. I've watched two reasonably techie people struggle to work out to make/receive calls inside of Gmail.

Note that if you struggle with cell reception and want to make calls over wifi then T-Mobile's UMA service - they call it "Wifi Calling" - is a good solid solution which just uses wifi as an alternate bearer for all your phone's usual capability. (voice, text, data)
Not sure what the point of the childhood friend thing is.

I was a very very awkward youth (I didn't speak English well and I was one of few Indian students at my school) so I had a lot of trouble making friends. I don't have many friends from my childhood because I wasn't very good at it, I didn't really establish lasting friendships until High School and College.
A group of my friends, from Oklahoma, claim to have been contacted by YC about their application a month ago, or so. I'm wondering if it's more common for the groups being considered for the invite out for the in-person interview to be contacted ahead of the 31st date.
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Because this is a guy who's supposed to be an authority on software engineering & reading something like that makes me wonder how on earth he ever came to be an authority. It's a bit like someone convincing you they're a racing driver then admitting they're not really sure what the clutch does. (Yes that's hyperbole, but still...)
I think the biggest value in unity is experience. Canonical and the linux community in general are gaining a lot of UI research experience with unity. An area of linux often left un-experimented. It might not be everyone's favorite and it's certainly still under development, but at least Canonical is trying to do something genuinely difficult.

Who is it for? It's for everyone to try, and then try to improve. It's open source. It's changing constantly, and you can help. Don't let your human desire to stick it to people for doing something you don't like get in your way of helping make a difference.

I personally think unity is great. More screen real estate, feels more organized, less UI cluttering my experience. Most importantly it's a step forward into the unknown. Trying to bring a modern UI to an operating system that is more than ready for some mass appeal.
Look at this way..the odds of the person being released by Zeta alive given past Zeta actions is at zero.

Anonymous is playing a zero sum game here folks..surprised that not one of you picked that up yet..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%E2%80%93sum_game

Since both Zeta and Anonymous cannot be made to suffer the same gains or losses together its zero sum instead of nonzero sum.

anonymous is minimizing the maximum loss by releasing all information on cartel's activities including not only pay offs to law officers and others but also information on their families as it is a non zero game between more than two players with the third player being zeta's competition.

Translation, Zeta got played and schooled.

If there turns out to be more things or issues involved than it becomes a nonzero sum game with the same nonzero sum equations and n+1 being the profit or loss. In other words if the US or Mexican government decides to get involved on a side than it leans towards a non zero game with more than 4 participants as the loose collections of actors representing either government than becomes non-cohesive collection of more than one actor in the equations.
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It sounds pretty neat, but how could all this intimidating-looking type theory this be made useful for ordinary programmers who don't know what a monad is?
Here's a Pascal-ish parser: http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
Why was this downvoted? I found it very informative and interesting - personally, I can't wait for GV to be a native option on the iPhone 4S w/ Verizon, though that'll never happen.
another part, is that selling is just plain hard(especially B2B)...and many of the startups don't have the market of customers who'll actually pay to scale their numbers.
It doesn't matter. You can''t compare some car mods to all iPhone mods, and you can't assume that the companies' claims have any weight.

Even if your analogy didn't stink, and it does, it would still be meaningless because it's just a thing you said, not a validated and useful model. So give it up.
This feels like something that someone completely removed from people who don't know how to program would say. I can't imagine the horrors I would've gone through if I couldn't fall back on the fact that my first language (C++) basically looked like the mathematical notation I was used to (infix binary operands, prefix functions). Until the standard is to write math in prefix (I'm definitely not condoning this), Lisp is not the right language to start with.

This remains the biggest problem with places like HN. When everyone has a similar background, they can agree on conclusions that the rest of the world would find ludicrous.
Harvard has an endowment of $32 billion, on which they claim to have earned an investment return of 21.4% for the fiscal year 2011. (Source: http://www.hmc.harvard.edu) That $6.8 billion in income can fund a whole lot of financial aid.
If you use an Obihai device, I highly recommend that you setup a new Google voice account for it, separate from your main Gmail account, for just this reason. You still get an extra phone line that you can make and receive calls on, and you don't need to worry about your Gmail session intercepting your phone calls.
They could both be true, the bio only claims that Joanne had never told Mona until that phone call. The claims aren't mutually exclusive. The excerpt of the bio also quotes Joanne so it could be assumed that it's Joanne's perspective.
Curiosity, not argument:

Why don't you think Clojure meets those criteria?

- Canonical implementation on the JVM

- Borrows modern functional programming concepts from Haskell (type classes -> protocols, immutability, etc)

- Robust concurrency constructs. While not directly copied from Erlang, designed with clear understanding-of and respect-for Erlang's successes and failures.

- Minimalist standard library

The only thing I can think of that isn't minimalist would be the reader-macros for vectors, maps, sets, lambdas, etc. However, it seems like those serve to reduce confusion & strike a decent balance between uniformity of syntax and clarify of meaning.
From what I've heard, it is not uncommon for YC to send out clarification questions. However, I have no idea how that correlates to interview invites.
The 60 Minutes interview passed over the Apple II very briefly, but it was tremendously significant, for being one of the first computers popularized with a killer app.

Obviously, this wasn't the be-all and end-all, but VisiCalc did for sure sell many Apple II computers.
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I'm wanting to learn C++. Is it still worth it to start off with K&R? Obviously I would probably go through K&R later, but it might be better to start off with something more relevant.
The standard U.S. college loans, which you have to pay back even if you've declared bankruptcy, also sound a bit like indentured servitude.
I have no illusion as how Microsoft is happy this will make it harder for users to move away from Windows.

This pressure on OEMs is an anti-competitive move by a monopoly abuser and, as such, must be dealt with properly.
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People who are deprogrammed don't upgrade a device that still works fine every few months, or stand in line outside of retail stores to buy such devices. Most companies don't upgrade their hardware every few months, even though many of them could afford to.

We're all programmed to a certain degree one way or another. The question is what is acceptable programming and what is not.

No idea who Osho was, but Apple customers do seem "cultish" sometimes. Apple should be selling casings for PC's and smaller devices. Because as the NYT published eulogy said, Mr. Jobs did not value novelty. If you crack open an Apple product there's nothing novel on the inside.

Anyone could build a more powerful machine themselves. It's the Apple design they could not easily replicate.
Goodness. I have survived all of the media without crying. Until this.
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I cried like a baby while reading the last part of this eulogy. It brought me straight back to a hot hotel room where I saw my uncle - a second father to me - die from brain cancer.

Makes me want to donate more to medical research (my favorite foundation is SENS.org, but there are many good ones). I think it's okay to be sad, but we also have to do something to make things better.
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Well said. I'm adding this to my .txt of quotes.
Oh, I think the ArXiv would gladly do this if even a little momentum built. They have added mathematics and finance in the past.
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This really made me pine for the following feature Google will have in five years: "It looks like this was written in English by a non-native speaker. Would you like us to make this more grammatical? (Yes) (No)"
I think this is explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
If Ubuntu had solved the hardware problem in the laptop space already I'd say more power to them. As it is, they really should be cherry picking a limited number of best-of-breed laptop make/models, ensuring support for those and then baking that into their LTS support cycle.

Given the unbelievably more complex hardware environment of handsets, the fact they haven't solved the laptop problem space yet makes me feel like they are biting off more then they can chew.
Extraordinary writing. Everybody should have such a talented sister at the lectern on the day they're remembered.
Oops, too late to edit, but I forgot that when Beethoven wrote his Testament his fame up to that point had been largely as a pianist, with a healthy side order of composition. And I believe he might have expressed some worry that his piano playing might suffer... which in fact it did; history contains quite a few tragi-comic written descriptions of Beethoven's latter-day attempts to play and conduct.

But his composition just got better, so in fact his declining fame as a performer was balanced by his increasing fame as a composer.
OT: man do I hate it when companies tout meaningless business metrics as a measure of achievement. Two billion API calls might be cool, but $2b in revenue would be a lot cooler.
Still waiting for open-source code for the board. (Yes, including the 3D accelerator.)
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Goodness.

I have survived all of the media without crying. Until this.