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I'm going to speak from experience here. My IQ is in the range talked about in the article, I'm a few years from 30, and I do have a history of polydrug use/abuse. It seems intelligent people are also more likely to become depressed as well. My thoughts are that people like the ones described in the study as being more intelligent are more thoughtful, analytical, and sensitive. They need an outlet and drug use is a form of self medication.

I doubt is has as much to do with economics as some would argue. Some of the poorest people are addicts and they find a way. I myself have been out there on the streets with a negative bank balance yet somehow managed to find my fix through various forms of petty theft and manipulation. If I could produce $20 bills right now like I used to back then I'd be a rich man. Addicts find a way.

Of course I'm sure a majority of them were not addicts but casual users. I see some comments suggesting that a single use of drugs within the past year doesn't count somehow. It's as if to imply that drug use is far more common than it is. I agree that more people use drugs recreationally than we really know but I'd venture to guess that there are far more people completely abstinent from any type of drug use than there are those who use once a year or more. That kind of thinking comes from users themselves who are surrounded by other users (ranging from rare, casual use, to full blown addiction and abuse) and begin to think the rest of the world behaves as they do.

I'm on the board of the Heroin Epidemic Relief Organization (HERO) and the numbers we're seeing agree with this study. We're seeing a trend where students who are more intelligent (based on standardized tests, GPA, and, if available, IQ tests are using drugs more often than average students and below. We're talking about 6th through 12th grade kids. That study was done by the Robert Crown Center here in Chicago and I'm not sure if it's published yet but if it is it would be on their website.
The author is missing a key element in his model of life, one which significantly affects the outcome of the thought experiment: his simple loops are independent, they have no shared state. Real existence is not so clean---living beings are constantly being altered by their environment, and conversely altering it. It would be impossible to simply 'save the state' of a living being without saving the state of the entire universe in which it resides (the virtual machine). This makes reincarnation (or at least the very simple model presented in the article) impossible.
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I wasn't intending to speak in hyperbole, although I understand that I may have come across that way. I tried not to dive into too technical of stuff, but provisions to allow control of DNS servers is not something to be taken lightly. In addition, the SOPA model puts the burden of proof on the accused party and allows the alleged infringed rightsholder to suspend their services immediately upon making a claim.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that this is a huge shift in the balance of power which makes it end up sounding like hyperbole.
There's a clear reason for the death of the spec. The NYT mentioned a few months ago, that software has improved the speed of calculations much more dramatically than hardware did. Is anyone surprised that the closed systems are winning!?

"the White House advisory report cited research, including a study of progress over a 15-year span on a benchmark production-planning task. Over that time, the speed of completing the calculations improved by a factor of 43 million. Of the total, a factor of roughly 1,000 was attributable to faster processor speeds, according to the research by Martin Grotschel, a German scientist and mathematician. Yet a factor of 43,000 was due to improvements in the efficiency of software algorithms"
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Hmmm. I'd just go through all the links here, since Gabe did a great job curating the best stuff online:

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/how-to-learn-abo...

I should probably step back from what I said earlier and stress that there's not one canonical set of 'standard terms' - there's just terms that are typical and terms that are rarely or never seen. Unless there's a compelling reason, I'd keep things typical.

I'd also Google and read up on convertible debt, which might be a good option. There are pros and cons to convertible debt, but the associated legal costs of doing convertible debt are generally lower, so a big chunk of the money you're investing won't immediately get eaten up by lawyers. You can't avoid legal bills - whatever route you take, the company will need a lawyer with relevant experience. But you can minimize the cost.
I've been telling myself I would register for awhile now. After reading this, I signed up right away. It only took a few minutes, just waiting on the collection kit.
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The reason employers exist is they represent accumulations of capital. McDonald's provides free grills, fryers, cash registers, storefronts, uncooked hamburgers, lettuce, buns and ketchup to every employee. Not every person wants to assemble all the capital equipment necessary to sell hamburgers; those that don't can walk into a place with all the capital already provided and settle down to do what might be their optimal specialty, producing burgers. They don't get as much return, but then they don't have capital invested either.

The minimal capital investment, even for these supposed "borderless" technology jobs, is several thousand dollars. For every person in the world that doesn't have several thousand dollars (which is to say, the majority of them), employers who provide capital equipment will continue to exist.

Employers aren't going away.
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Google didn't help China censor the internet (as stated in the 1st paragraph). It makes it very hard to read the rest of the article after seeing this. In fact, Google pulled its services out of China because it wouldn't succumb to censorship requests. Google this --> "google pulls out of china"
Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors.

Any tips to improve with this?
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One more "geekCred--;" for letting WordPress (or whatever) convert two '-' to a single '–'.

More on topic, though: I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that both solutions are equivalent or easily interchangeable. For me the simple and 'process the files once' approach makes a lot of sense and even seems more transparent than a big beast like WordPress. Whether Jekyll or Blosxom - something that feels less like a CMS and more like a way to write simple texts.

1: http://www.blosxom.com/
Here is a blog post from Fred Wilson with a passel of standardized funding docs.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/standardized-venture-funding...
The issue I have with this type of question is that it assumes the transaction costs to switch between tasks is 0 or minimal. If so, then yes, huge efficiencies can be gained by figuring out where people are underutilized when and making use of that capacity. If the tasks are all similar and easy to switch contexts (i.e. the call centre in the article is probably a good example?), then OK, makes sense.

But for a lot of things, switching contexts is expensive. Productivity drops, and any cost savings can be easily nullified. One may argue that the capacity wasn't going to be used anyway, so it's a waste if not used. But I find the calculations used to estimate capacity assume that transaction costs for switching contexts is 0 instead of some large number. Thus, they actually overestimate capacity, thereby causing not only lowering productivity because they jam too many contexts into the space that still need to be handled on time, but also lower job dissatisfaction.
It has to regenerate the entire site each time. I guess the reason for this might be because it can't be sure every page is updated otherwise. Take for example adding a new post and you have a "recent posts" widget in your sidebar. This affects every page on the site and therefore it must be rebuilt.
The author originally posted this article on his blog a few days before this one. If you ignore the trolling then there are some interesting comments on what Perl offers today: http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2011/10/why-pe...
>For instance the cost of the design suite in the US is $1,299 while in the UK it is £1,032 ($1,638) before taxes are applied.

Tell me for what software that isn't true. For some reason every publisher charges more for software (and games) in Europe and Australia, when compared to Canada and US.
Did this realization make you do a lesser number of awesome things on average than before you had it? More? About the same? I'm just wondering if there could be a basilisk effect for someone who previously thought there were unlimited awesome points available to them, read your hypothetical, started believing in finite awesome points and hoarding them, and stopped doing as many awesome things as they used to.
Then in that view, "God" doesn't really care about each of us more than a programmer cares about the thousands of solutions that are created and destroyed while the program is running to reach a single best.

Somehow, I don't think most religious people (with exceptions like Deists) will feel comfortable with that possibility ;)
> It's stories like this where I would like to see a more 'journalistic' approach, i.e. hearing both sides of a story. I have a hard time believing a teacher would simply put an 'F' on a project because, even though he's seen it running on the phones of his colleagues, he would say 'I don't understand how it works so I'll just fail it'.

You have to understand how the system works in the UK. From ages 15-18, there are ~4 years of exams, preparation for exams, that kind of thing. Ultimately these exams are mostly meaningless, their main purpose is to get you a place at university (which is only 3 years, go figure).

The exams are set by these big official exam boards. Now during this time, the teachers aren't going to be thinking "Does this deserve an A", they're going to be thinking "Would an examiner give this an A". The exam boards circulate marking schemes. If it doesn't meet the criteria sufficiently (has the candidate demonstrated with this that they know the difference between a file and a folder in this project?), it's not going to be given an A, regardless of merit.

I've had teachers explain to me that otherwise A-quality projects have been given low marks because they were written in C++ instead of VB6.
Same here, only using it all with pure Java, git and vim. Probably the greatest web framework I've ever used.
After using Jenkins at work, I felt "it sucks" and came with it's own bunch of problems. So I'm working on a Hosted Continuous Integration service and scratching my own itch. I work on weekends and completed a bare prototype at a hackathon on the first weekend this month. Working on polishing it and releasing it by this month end.

My status: I just added support for private projects this weekend.

P.S: The app is at hotbuildapp.com but pardon me, I havent updated the online version since the hackathon so the landing page sucks (there's a lot of development going on tho).
Honestly, the only point there that applies to any language is the "freedom" one. The rest are, with varying margins, real differentiators. Especially the CPAN ecosystem one. No other language has that.
Similar experience in US school. Took IBM assembler class. 1st assignment: divide two numbers, assert, get dump and mark on dump where result of division was stored.

Instead I wrote a macro-driven RPN calculator. Did some fancy math, printed the RPN stack at every step, exited cleanly.

Got the paper back - red X, you have 2 days to turn in the requested assignment.

Needless to say I did the absolute minimum for that instructor for the remainder of the term. She got what she wanted - a drone student showing absolutely no initiative (at least in her class)
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haha I'll definitely have to fix that :) Blosxom looks interesting, does it support markdown?
What are these "UK schools"? From what I can tell the Scottish courses do include development. Here are some past exam papers and coursework:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/findpastpaper.htm?subject=C...
All that is fine, but the Chinese analogy is inapt.
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Please stop saying "UK schools" - the education system in some parts of the UK is completely different to England's.
So, when, "formally speaking" did the U.S. become a fascist state, in your opinion? No need to name the day, a rough decade span would be fine.
I also use GWT on a project I'm working on, except the back end is a combination of nginx, nodejs, and postgresql, so I don't get the luxury of coding everything in the same language. However, so far I've found GWT pretty great to work in as it gives you the discipline of java while letting you easily write client side code.
Pretty sure that the Scottish education system is different
It’s kind of odd that the article doesn’t look at the social aspects. Different social groups have different patterns in and attitudes towards drug consumption. These patterns change over time. Note, research is based on findings from 1970. In 1970, drugs might still be tied to counterculture, and thus to people with on avarage higher education (and on avarage higher iq), while in 2011 drug use seems to appear in much more diverse layers of society…
SOPA can say you have to stand on one leg and recite the pledge of allegiance backwards, but courts will have the final say on what the allowable scope of the law is. The whole point of having an independent judicial branch is that it provides us with a fine-grained mechanism for watering down stupid or even malicious overreach on the part of the legislative or executive branches.
* Naturally my reason leads me to different inescapable conclusions than his.*

Which should be a big honking, flashing neon sign that you're both arguing without any facts to back you up, ie you're both just making stuff up. You might as well argue about whether Santa has white or black fur as the trim on his coat, for all of the utility that you will get out of such arguments.
You can provide capital to people who are not your employees. See: Uber (dispatching system + installed customer base = capital), any crowdsourcing company, and BCC (when I hire freelancers to write bingo cards).

With specific regards to minimal capital investments to do knowledge work: I think that this will soon be the cost of a handset, which is lower bounded by ~$5 at the moment and has no reason to stay that high, either. (The greater problem is that in a perfectly efficient worldwide marketplace for information work, poor people in Africa -- and poor people in America, for that matter -- generally have nothing that I want to buy, at any price.)
Then you are missing out and are letting the masses decide what you read. Technical experts have highly targeted RSS feeds and thus highly relevant information. Once you give up on that you've really just given up.
write more :o) it's the only way you'll get better and it's a good way of saying "fuck you" to those that cricise...

[other things i do include silently talking to myself in the foreign language while i am out walking (describe what is happening) and trying to listen/read in an "aware" way - for example, when listening to someone speak, try to consciously note the gender of the nouns they are using (doesn't work for english, but you get the idea...). but the most important thing is practice - my spanish got much, much worse when i started working from home rather than in a spanish-speaking company]
Yeah. I guess in the end I am still speaking in hyperbole whenever I compare it to the Chinese situation. Unfortunately, I feel like the non-technical populace simply won't understand it any other way. There are no comparable systems. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that we have at this time the luxury of broaching this subject lightly. I tried to avoid being heavy-handed about it as much as possible, but I don't know how else to approach it.
It seems like it's more like Audi computer vs. Honda computer:

1. Price matters

2. Key metrics like HP are used in sales brochures to most buyers

3. Metrics like 0-60 time or torque will be available for advanced buyers
The average wage on Mechanical Turk is $1.40/hour.

If we delete the "cloud computing" buzzword and instead insert "crowdsourcing labor to the lowest cost source worldwide", and for "everyone" we substitute "U.S. workers", then yes, it's clear that over time this will accelerate the wage depression in the United States which has already been occurring.
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A different take on the same topic:

Greg Egan, Crystal Nights: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/
I can't tell from the site itself, since it's non-responsive (back to WordPress?), but from the comments here it appears the author objects to Jekyll regenerating the entire site every time.

If that's the case then I suggest he tries Hakyll, which has a dependency system built in so that it only rebuilds what it needs when files change.

http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
What are the differences between CPAN and, for instance, Maven repositories?
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Keep practicing English to improve your English :)

I'm getting burned out on RSS, too. I think the burnout started for me when TechCrunch decided that publishing every single idea that came to mind was somehow a good use of my reading time.
You're probably right. The fact is that in order to grade assignments, there needs to be a standard. GCSE's are very simple exams - they give a qualification to people who leave school at 16, and they let people identify what areas they want to study further at A-Level or university - but they're not designed with flexibility in mind. If the person in the article wants to spend their time at home writing Objective-C and iphone apps all day long, he's welcome to - if he's as clever as he claims he is, he'll have no dearth of free time because the work load for GCSE's is relatively minimal. The smart thing to do would have been to simply follow the assignment as given (a nice simple powerpoint presentation) and get on with doing fun stuff at home.

Yes, there's a shortage of qualified computer science teachers. Yes, ICT teachers probably should understand programming to a limited extent, but currently? they don't. It's not until university that the people grading his assignments will truly be able to understand his brilliance (assuming he is as he claims...), but while I don't agree with the current state of the system, I also don't think that we should ensure that every ICT teacher in front of a class of GCSE ICT students (the majority of whom would simple be unable to write any Objective-C) should be educated in current programming fashions like iPhone development so that the one brilliant student in the class can do his coursework in it.
Does this mean 8 hours per day is enough if you're CEO of a single company?
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Thank you! I will do exactly that. However, I won't be able I go into much detail about the project on the forum. I'll want to do that one-on-one, for a number of reasons I'm sure you understand.

Any suggestions for a good thread title? The last thing I want to do is seem like heartless spam.

Thanks,

Victor
Thats what we saw and why we started the project - just not enough solutions for real world requirements. The engine itself is somewhat simple, its the thermodynamics that are tricky - There are only a few moving parts, no spark plugs, no oil, no valves and works off of any kind of heat.
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Well another dev and myself just had this exact same conversation. There is a lot changing and I see a new technology on Hacker News every day. To be honest, the main reason to look around is because there is so much change happening.

I don't believe .net is the best for us, we use it because we have so much written in it and our libraries are very large.

I am currently looking at NoSQL, Mongo seems to be the one we are favouring at the minute.

The one thing that really makes me want to experiment is knowing that sites like Facebook use multiple technologies to run the site and that's how I want to be.

I currently feel stagnant and trying to make our projects fit into .net.

I appreciate your comment
The essential point about specs is bang on, but comparing computer purchasing to soft drinks over-trivializes it. Soft drinks have nearly zero feature differentiation.

Lots of consumer goods have meaningful features. One dishwasher might be quiet. Another might use very little energy. A third may heat its own water, sanitizing the dishes. You may want a model that can be fitted with a panel to match the cabinetry.

What dishwasher manufacturers have moved away from is specifications that do not strongly correlate with features. How many horsepower does a dishwasher motor have? How many chips are in its circuitry? What does it weigh? These things are rarely front and centre, because most buyers can't draw a connection between them and a benefit they will enjoy.

The trend is not towards brands being the only thing that matter, but rather towards features that probide benefits. RAM and Megahertz are specifications. Being powerful enough to do speech recognition in real time is a feature. Siri is a benefit.
I've been using TunesViewer for the 2010 class lectures, and it worked well.
>Twitter heavily uses rails

Twitter abandoned rails for java.
I've seen several people who bought machines with 512Mb, not realising that was a small amount, who then complain that their computer is very slow, despite being brand new. It does make a difference, however, most people don't understand the specs and top brands insist on shipping machines with poor specs.

As a side note, I wish my iPad had more memory (it has 256Mb), because the browser crashes on web pages with a lot of data/javascript.
The article linked was from 2005. They actively helped China censor the Chinese web prior to 2010. I was actually over there prior to, during, and after they pulled out. Prior to 2010, Google operated google.cn as a filtered web search, similar to Baidu now.
One can claim that humans are more like shared-nothing message passing processes, which can alter and be altered by their "surroundings" without sharing state per-se.

Shared state/memory seems more like a representation of the Borg ;)