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This is either all or nothing. I might have to have a professional image. What I do from here is a picnic since that would be the ultimate gift. I do have to agree this having the best Radialabs will be one of the best things for you. I'm moving away from that concept myself.
IIS isn't blocking any of its threads once it's handed a request off to Node.js. IIS receives the incoming connection and proxies it via a named pipe into the Node.exe process, so the performance and capacity is much the same as if the requests went directly to Node.
The above is practically the worst thing you could write on this topic.

As engineers, we are accustomed to think of writing as a mere exchange of data. But in the political arena, writing is an act. The act embedded in the above comment is to convey the defeatist attitude of its author. "Don't bother to campaign against this bill, only a constitutional amendment will do".

Never say the other side is going to win. Never say the other side is too strong. WE are going to win, we are going to keep going no matter how long it takes.
No EDM option?
So do you believe removing the current minimum wage altogether would be beneficial to those people currently around that level of pay? Given the current high levels of unemployment I would expect to see a fairly substantial drop in wages, where it is already almost impossible to live on minimum wage.

Also, once Detroit is removed from all Federal programs, how does it pay to feed all the currently unemployed people there?
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Some larger companies worry too much about the product and its release date, and don't seem to care about day to day improvements of software development.

At least from my short experience at a large company, 0% of time is allocated to improving build infrastructure and tooling. Am I alone in this?
Is this for public facing sites? I remember there used to be an annual fee of $8 000 plus a pageview hit if you had an intranet app. We ended up using OSM because of it.
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That's a false analogy though. To keep with your automobile theme, this is more like taking a car, and using it as a boat.

Instead, we should throw support behind something that is designed to be a boat. In this case, for example, SVG would fill the role of rendering logos much better.

My point is, I'm not sure how much of this bleeding edge demonstration will be able to trickle down into the real use case of CSS, which is in web page presentation, not drawing pictures.
Personally, it's whatever I can listen to that I can't sing along to. That can either be something purely instrumental (most of Pendulum's songs, e.g.), something in a different language (Sigur Ros), or mashups (Girl Talk).
I generally work in silence. If there is chaos in the office I plug in my noise canceling earbuds and listen to soundtracks.
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No, it isn't.

RMagick is a leaky, slow and unmaintained piece of software. It is also used only for small retouching on images, the primary use-case being to make thumbnails. PIL on the other hand is more reliable and can do things that RMagick does not, like actual drawings or to put it another way, whatever you can do with GDK, you can do with PIL, all in one nice package.

PIL is not perfect either, but there's nothing like it for Ruby.
Nothing electronic to choose from?
Come on man - Electronica
and we've coincidentally had 2 major bubbles since. First the dotcoms...

Dotcom bubble: 1995-2000.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley: Nov 1999.

Further, if you measure the housing bubble in the usual way (movement in the price/rent ratio), the housing bubble also started in 1998.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=31w
I subscribe to the view that music hinders concentration more than it favours it. Your brain is forced to multitask, which is inherently more difficult than concentrating on one line of thought.
However, I have seen it working in a pavlovian way, signaling to the brain that "it's time to work". This can be useful when conditioning people who struggle to concentrate for long periods.
Minimal Techno. It is really weird that you ignored all electronical music styles.
Another vote for EDM
Was posted on TC and discussed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3155358
> In summary: no, they're in CSS3

No. In summary, the question itself does not make sense, it's like asking if the sun tastes better than communism.
I should clarify : I'm not looking for an OO language or something with all the bloat of C++. Just a minimal superset of C with lambdas.
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haha, no eletronic music in the list? Silly Americans ;-)

I vote for minimal techno
Please don't make this into another democrat vs republican issue. They may be using different language but both parties are essentially the same when it comes to the things they actually do.
> A lot people think there is only a fixed amount of wealth around.

A lot of people also think that the economy/creation of wealth can only go up, by only focusing on the last 200 years or so of economic history. I call it "blind faith in economic progress", which was fine to believe in around the 1880s or so, but anymore.
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Electronica, Trip-hop
Probably will change by the time you're that old, I'm expecting.
No electronic music, what?

I'd think programmers would listen to electronic music more than the average person... Kraftwerk, anyone? (in my ears right now)
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Your comment is a commonly claimed statement, which hides many points.

How much of the income does the top 50% get? Without that, your figures are useless.

Just concentrating on income tax hides the fact lower earners tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on other taxes (such as sales tax).

ycombinator is not the place to repeat poorly researched, often quoted and misleading statistics, without a proper discussion of how they effect the current discussion. Sorry.
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If the bailout loans didn't come then, then Greece would have had to negotiate a debt restructuring then rather than now, gaining 1-2 years at least.

As for austerity, there is the healthy streamlining and downsizing of public expenses and there is the hobbling of the private sector with new and higher taxes. The latter solution merely sinks the Greeks further.

Public debt is not strictly meant to be paid off ever, but it should grow no faster than the overall economy for this indefinite deferral to work. It also means the productive aspect of society, namely the private sector, not be hindered by too high taxes or regulations.
tl dr; TED Talks spark discussion, let's watch some together and discuss. The group will be facilitated by a program.
This. I program, which means using words (naming variables and methods, etc). If a song has words I can understand, it seems to distract the language part of my brain too much. So instrumental music works best for me.

Silence is the very best thing, but music is better than background conversation.
Like others pointed out - glaring omission of electronic music. I am a death metal fan, but for coding I prefer uplifiting trance.
The answer is 2011. The question can be brute force.
Just an observation: I believe I would strongly prefer a timeline, like

iPhone 3 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
iPhone 4 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nexus one ||||||||||----||||-------
Other ph. ||||||||||||--------

This would make several things much clearer (e.g. what's the uptake of 2.3? Have Android manufacturers gotten better or worse?)

Still, interesting.

EDIT: Just FYI, at 47 minutes this has 9 points.
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I love this. Challenging small but crazy ideas always strengthens our creativity. Remember your childhood. We created a lot of unique stuffs by using imperfect materials around us such as junk and bulk. These continuous challenge will be nutrition to help us become great creators.
Have you considered extending the chart? Right now it seems very iOS versus Android, and is only useful for people in the United States.
There should be an option for White Noise.
Electronica, drones and anime soundtracks
Electronic music; mostly trance.
It's not often that I get worked up over failed platforms but Nokia's botching of Maemo really makes me angry.

The N9 shows they had a viable, potentially world beating platform. Not only have they thrown it under a bus but, with its passing, so goes any hope of a true linux based smartphone (and accompanying ecosystem) ever achieving mass market exposure. It's tragic.
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I would not call them silly when the most voted options at this moment is classical music.
Has anyone tried this with a Python backend and a Ruby user interface?
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soma.fm - Secret Agent, Groove Salad, Space Station.
As JoachimSchipper said, provide a timeline and mark release dates of Os versions on it as well. This way it would be much cleaner and gives more context.
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Without reading the article, if you pick those two data points (1959 and "today") two very big things happened:

A big violent crime increase (if for no other reason than the baby boom) plus the perception of it and a breakdown of the criminal justice system in the '60s and '70s. Back in the '50s "juvenile delinquency" was the big issue and we did have some tools that tried to deal with it, but those were largely discarded, plus they don't apply beyond age 18 or so. ADDED: Also note the deinstitutionalization of the dangerously insane which started in the '60s and '70s, they're now dumped on the streets or into jails and prisons.

A national sweep of "shall issue" concealed carry licensing regimes started by Florida in 1987 such that we went from 10% of the population being able to carry concealed to 65% today (not sure if that includes Wisconsin, which flips from no issue to shall issue November 1st). And of course every prediction of the gun grabbers that this would result in a bloodbath not coming to pass.

Plus the baby boomers graying; my SW Missouri concealed carry class was overwhelmingly early middle aged on up. As you get older, the reality and perception of your ability to defend yourself and your loved ones without a gun (America's martial art, after all) goes down. Heck, if you're like me you, growing up with guns and hunting, you didn't buy them once you were on your own until you had someone else to protect.

Many have commented on video games having an effect and I believe it, but I think the numbers of people influenced by them are too small as of yet to have had this great a change in revealed public opinion (I don't entirely trust any survey that asks questions about guns and I'll note that outside of the recent meaningless SF handgun ban vote (because California has preemption) no referendum on banning handguns has ever passed in the US, not even in Massachusetts in the '70s).

We (in the gun community) believe video game fans are an ever increasing important part of "Gun Culture 2.0" and they fit right in with its emphasis on self-defense and the many newer shooting sports that are both oriented towards that and that are for most people more fun than punching holes in paper. For example, "three gun" competitions, rifle/carbine, shotgun and handgun. (In the hunting area, metallic silhouette shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_silhouette_shooting is another example (although I suspect that's fun for just about any non-vegetarian :-), and of course wing shooters have had clay pigeons to shoot at for a very long time.)
The current situation is somewhat unfair to the indiscrete / non-tech-savvy consumer since they might buy an Android phone without understanding the differences from the iOS ecosystem. At least several of my friends did. "They're about the same right? And this one was $30 cheaper!" And I genuinely feel bad every time this happens.

Note that I of course have no gripes with Android OS/concept itself -- it's a good contender to iOS. My gripe is with the current gouging of consumers by hardware manufacturers/cell phone companies, of the fragmented/poor/outdated hardware coverage in many models, lack of upgrades, et cetera. And don't forget the mandatory "crapware" that carriers pre-install.

This is quite different from buying, say, a Dell/HP PC vs. a Mac -- in both cases do you get a working, upgradeable machine.
Or you could stop all government subsidies to corporations and set up a business tax structure that is heavily favorable to worker-owned cooperatives at the expense of shareholder-owned corporations. Corporations are just machines for extracting productivity from large numbers of people and concentrating the wealth produced by that productivity in the hands of a few. Worker-owned cooperatives do not share that design flaw. They also have little to no motivation to outsource.
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My gut says he already tested it on Battle.net, that'd be the first thing I'd do... It's probably not a good idea to make that public though, as the legality of this AI is still uncertain.
> Community development seems to work well enough for individual projects, but not in-between projects

that's pretty close to saying that community development doesn't scale, isn't it ? :-)
It has been shown that at the very least music can actually help you concentrate such as the 'Mozart effect'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect

It's certainly not for everyone nor do I believe music should be played like you're having a party in your office for it to be effective.
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The problem is that in many cases you have to choose between assorted office/home background noises or music. In which case music (at least, known and predictable music) probably hinders concentration least.
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yes and sophisticated HFT systems screw large funds from moving into and out of positions with relative ease/fairness.

Fact: when you make a large trade, there is a price impact. I.e., if you sell lots of GOOG, the price goes down.

Once upon a time, large funds could use their own sophisticated algorithms to make sure their unsophisticated counterparties feel the price impact. I.e., the big fund disguises their intent, Joe IRA buys from the large fund, and then the price goes down after Joe already owns the stock.

Nowadays, HFT makes the price impact happen immediately, typically splitting the difference with Joe [1].

Why is this worse?

[1] The HFT's try to outbid the large fund in order get ahead of it, resulting in Joe getting a better price.
You should include iPod Touch and how apple forces a charge for updates on that device.

This chart is also skewed a bit and should be based on intervals of releases rather than "years since". I don't recall seeing any iOS5 backports to iPhone 2G or 3G.
Violent crime has been on the way down since the '90s [1] (also when Doom came out), so public opinion will probably start to reverse.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=violent%20crime%20since...
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+1 for Techno / Electronica (Chemical Brothers - Further, for example)
Wow, if those shown stuffs will be searchable and we can run e-commerce, such technology might completely change our world. Interesting.
But isn't this exactly what the core of craftsmanship is about: aligning yourself with the needs of the business (i.e.: try to beat that number, increase velocity, finish more stories), but not compromising quality?

This only becomes a problem for weak developers that lack one of the most important skills: the ability to say "no".
Usually wealth, education, and women's rights lead to a drop in fertility, so if you're worried about population growth your #1 priority should be to help poor countries get richer. Ditto for pollution.
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What about the Siri app that got pulled from the app store, so that the top-billed new feature is only available on the latest phone?

I own a first generation iPod Touch and haven't forgotten how quickly OS updates for that device stopped, or how many features were unavailable even when the OS update itself was available. And yes, you had to pay for the OS update.
>And don't forget the mandatory "crapware" that carriers pre-install.

ICS supposedly solves this problem but one has to wonder how many low-end Android phones will be sold in the next year (or even two?) that won't support ICS since the N1 won't be getting it.
I actually originally started doing it that way, but thought it was more relevant vis a vis release date than calendar date. I do intend to include that when I finish doing all of the phones. (Yes, I'm a bit OCD :) ).

Google apparently says less than 50% are on Gingerbread, despite way more than 50% of Android phones having been sold since 2.3 shipped.

I do think manufacturers might have gotten a bit better, but I guess we'll see. That's one of the reasons I want to do the next 6 months or so of phones.
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>riddled with superfluous explanations

How do you know they are superfluous? How do you know they weren't added over the years as they became needed after people did stuff?
I don't think Apple charges for iPod touch updates anymore.
Am I misunderstanding this:

"7 of the 18 Android phones never ran a current version of the OS."
"12 of 18 only ran a current version of the OS for a matter of weeks or less."

That makes 19 out of 18 phones. That looks like an error. I wonder what other errors there are here?
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That's not quite right though; there is a CSS level 3 and these specs are in it.
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I actually had letters on there ("E", "F") etc for releases but on top of the sales windows & the support windows it was just too much on one chart.

I do plan to provide all that information as a comprehensive list of phones/updates, ideally along with the ability to sort by carrier, manufacturer, etc.
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Very much so - I made a note or two re extension & non-US at the end of the post. Definitely my intention.
Why is iOS vs. Android only useful for people in the US?
"never" is also "a matter of weeks or less"
Indeed. Including, but perhaps not limited to, possibly offending your hosts/organizers when you don't drink the Pepsi they so carefully provided for you. In the Western world we might not care so much if he leaves a few sodas on the presenter's table. That may not fly so well in cultures that don't drink as much soda and abhor waste far more than we.
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Depending on what you classify as a "matter of weeks", I count five devices in the latter category.
No, the original iPhone & 3G don't support iOS 5. But they did support the current version of iOS for 3 years after they were released - far more than any Android phones of the period.

(And, no, they don't charge for iPod Touch updates any more - that was technically an accounting regulation issue that the government changed.)
The chart could definitely be made easier to read. I also thought it claimed that the original iPhone got iOS 5 since current = 5 right now. Instead, the chart says that after three years, the original iPhone was still running the latest version at that time (iOS 3)
Necessarily will likely be a short-term (5-year or less) exemption from these policies for small business owners (defined as those whose executives take home in salary + bonuses less than some threshold, say $200k).

E.g., small businesses like Apple and Google.
This particular study wasn't designed to answer that question, as is stated at the end of the article. It's possible but based on this set of evidence we can't really draw any conclusions about that. I imagine there's already work being done to address that question though because it's an important thing to understand especially in the context of DNA methylation having an impact on quality of life.
I'm not confusing African ethnicities. I mean people from the same extended family, living in london.

Take a look at this link: http://www.traedays.com/blog/2006/06/are-you-thinking-what-i...
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Limiting it to 3 years masks the fact that lots of people still had iPhone 3G phones on 2 year contracts when Apple stopped offering updates for it.

That said, the fact even that's off the scale is worrying for Android.
The graph in the article says otherwise: inflation-adjusted income for all groups has been rising.
I was mildly interested until I discovered that the blog was void of any useful content other than an attempt at re-defining craftsmanship to mean whatever TDD mantra the poster believes in.

Don't know why this is on the front page.
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For working (finance) - no music. For coding (casual) - Trance. Something like AvB. It helps me get into that flow state & when I'm there I block it out completely anyway.
I'd say Gingerbread will still be the most pre-installed Android version during all 2012.
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A mix of different types - anything with a fast beat and hard sounds
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I'm a libertarian and also tend to think that economic inequality is not necessarily bad as long as no one is getting actively screwed, and everyone's economic situation is getting better. But there's data indicating that economic inequality is correlated with a lot of bad things:

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
It isn't. I was referring to the fact that the chart:

- only compares iOS and Android phones, and

- only compares updates from American carriers.