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The amount of entitlement on both sides of this debate is always pretty amazing/amusing to me.

1) Publishers (and I am a publisher with an ad-supported site): Nobody owes you an audience or a payday. If advertising is so annoying that people are going out of their way to block it, then you're in trouble.

2) Readers: Nobody owes you professional-grade writing/video/whatever. If it's impossible to make a living doing this stuff -- and in the first decade or two of the web, the way to make a living doing this stuff has been advertising -- then most people will stop doing it and your life will be worse for it.

I don't know what the solution is, but pretending that the other side of what ought to be a mutually beneficial relationship is your prisoner and that you have the right to demand they do things to meet your needs and your needs only won't get you far.
here's a good test: the ROSE framework is developed by LLNL. it's basically an LLVM also-ran. compare its code quality, its use experience, and its overall worth (the code for both is open source!)
Depression is a choice as much as feeling pain is a choice. Some people can cope with it, others cannot. Persistence will break down any coping mechanisms.

I remember being depressed with suicidal thoughts, and basically spending the full night telling myself to stfu because I refuse to do it, yet I could not control the thoughts, only the actions taken. It was very difficult, basically the rational part of the brain desperately battling with the emotional part, and that emotional part does not seem to get tired... I cannot imagine people living this way for extended periods of time, would require help from people who care, and reaching out to em.

The down side is that depression has a component of hopelessness to it which prevents people from reaching out to others where had they had a well balanced state of mind they would.
Languages like Go and Scala roll out various mechanisms that bring us back to the bad old days of C, when we had to check the return/value and or the error code after every function call... if we wanted error handling to work.

I cant speak for Go but Scala's Option type is very different from C error codes since it is a monad. As a result you can use it with Scala's 'for' comprehensions (which are roughly the same as Haskell's arrows) and write code that looks roughly imperative without having to explicitly handle any errors.

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Optio...
ARM is still a non-issue in the server market. Maybe in a couple of years, but today there are remarkably few applications of it.
That's weird, do you think it's related? Maybe a bot like onur said indexing all sites on that ip range?
have you considered that we don't have an internet fridge because not enough people want it?
IBM is betting big on BigFix. I'm guessing this is a large component of that buy.
Perhaps these latter ideas are simply large/hard problems, not "ideas so strange no one has even ever considered them before".

However, if you were a hush-hush R&D lab investigating some ideas that were so far out there no one has ever heard of them, would you really tell them to the NYT so they can include them in their profile of your lab? I doubt it.
FYI the map is rapidly filling with non-tech, non-startup companies,including galleries, art, fashion, nightclubs, etc.
having just recently finished reading the Jobs biography, this turn of events for Dorsey reminds me of him: ousted from leadership, appointment on the board, heading a new company (Square vs. Pixar), and then serving as head of two companies simultaneously.
What about the terrible 2s? My kid is not even two and I already can't wait till she moves out. /jk
Wow, we disagree. As much as I like to do my own development in dynamic languages like Clojure and JRuby, for me:

I would much rather have library and framework code that someone else has written, debugged, and supports to be written in Java: easy to browse in a good IDE, statically typed, lots of unit tests so you can hack away with some protection, etc.
Is it proper to study canine pyschology via dogs kept chained all day long? It helps you understand the chained dog, if that is your goal --- but it doesn't teach you the nature of the dog. I'd like to see studies of teenagers raised neurosis free --- not studies of kids who have been dominated and forced to submit all their lives (which is the essence of American moral conditioning), filling them with repressions that finally reveal themselves during adolescence as antisocial behavior.
Hmm. I see a few practical issues with this. I need to keep a fire burning the whole time? Not practical for many (most) homes and also will result in a lot of wasted heat.
IBM GS is tech-agnostic; they don't just implement IBM mainframe solutions, they'll take your money to do SAP, Oracle, whatever you want, same as any of the other bodyshops.
Sad thing is Kaczynski is still with us, while Jobs is not.
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It would be nice if it sorted by relevance; i.e. a search for background would give you the definition of the background property first instead of the -webkit-background-composite property which is almost certainly less relevant (worse match, less used).
It also takes a lot of support, and circular support as even if you are feeling down, your partner may be too, and its both your jobs to keep the other happy. Its very stressful being in the limbo state with everyone trying to kill you, you are trying to build something, you want to get money to continue working, nobody thinks its a good idea till you prove it which takes time, etc.

It definitely takes a mental fortitude and a dash of ignorance to do this stuff.
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I have a solar charger/battery. Surprising how often you can't get enough sun to matter, as you need many hours of continuous direct bright light to collect anywhere close to enough.

I'm imagining a sort of pencil-sized Sterling; stick one end in the fire and the other in a cup of cold water. Not reliant on ambient/weather conditions for power.
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> As long as it is an auction process, there is intense pressure on all involved to extract as much value as possible from every customer.

When I walk into a physical store, there's not a google ad in sight, yet they're trying to extract as much value from me as possible.

That's why I doubt that advertisers would behave differently under a different ad pricing system.
Spot on, but CL's error generation/capture/recovery mechanism only helps in single-threaded code composition. Erlang's model of linking up processes so that a "supervisor" process get notified if a servant dies is the counterpart in a concurrent scenario. Together, they seem to me to cover most of the ground.

Furthermore, in Haskell you can throw an exception to another thread, though I'm not sure whether that's any more valuable as a design tool than a plain message passing channel. (see also "throwTo & block statements considered harmful" http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-December/...)

Go's "defer" is nice syntax btw.
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Running the WoW servers, maybe.
Nice, but a few UX nitpicks:

* Default to sort by relevence: Put the more relevant matching properties at the top. For example, I type "backg" instead the highest result being the obscure "-webkit-background-composite" ... actually most relevant result "background" which should be the first result instead of the third.

* Default results list to condensed format: Instead of showing the full verbose docs for every matching result instead show a sparse summary of each result with a option to expand it. If there's only one matching result then show the complete doc for it

* Nice example palette for standard colors. How about an example palette for the standard font families?
So let me get this straight. Not only does Microsoft have useless/trivial patents, but they shouldn't have gotten them in the first place because of prior art. Plus, with those patents they get to claim a license fee as large as the license fee for their whole OS - WP7. On top of that with those useless patents they get to act as if they owned the whole of Android, and get to dictate manufacturers how to make their Android phones?

I have no words for Microsoft, they're simply despicable and I don't know how anyone could support such a company that has proven time and time again they will adopt such tactics to destroy their competition. They've probably done a lot of this behind the scenes with Linux and other browsers before. We just didn't find out about most of it. And we almost didn't find out about this, either, if it wasn't for B&N.

But what I don't understand how could HTC, Samsung and all the others agree to this so easily? HTC has grown 3x every year for the past 2 years because of Android, and Samsung has become the largest smartphone manufacturer surpassing both Nokia and Apple thanks to Android, and they say nothing against Microsoft or try to protect the ecosystem that's been feeding them?

Shame on them for not standing up to Microsoft, and kudos to B&N, which wasn't even a manufacturer not too long ago, for having the guts to stand up Microsoft and protect the Android ecosystem.
In addition to the complaints about this flooding history, I expect the "background" style to appear first once I've typed "bac", and even with "background" there's some webkit thing first.
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At my (admittedly meager) 1024x768, between browser and now the google groups redesign, ui area takes up almost half of the upper space before any content is shown.
great article. we ran an experiment over the summer with cold calling as well, as many people thought it would be a successful sales strategy for us. being in the payment processing world, we knew business owners were constantly being cold called and most likely did not want another point of contact. however, we wanted some data to show people who made that suggestion in the future.

our hypothesis was correct: our conversion rate was nill, even when tinkering with the sales script. i think the variation is due to the fact that the target customers in this article were not as heavily cold called as our target market. so, it made them more open minded. here's a link that shows our data:

http://feefighters.com/blog/950-and-1500-calls-tales-in-tele...
Good point. I'm not sure what most of that stuff was doing in hardware in the first place, tbh. Haproxy has been better then hardware load balancing for a long time.

What is interesting is the move off cisco's proprietary routing algorithms and into more standard quogga/etc.
He never met with the CEO[1] and in fact messed up the name.

It is in the realm of possibility (and quite likely) that he talked with people inside IBM. But I don't think they were really pushing for him to buy it. At least it doesn't appear that way.

[1]http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/14/warren-buffett-ibm/
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I have an HD7. What I quoted from you is not true.
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I read an article some time ago (sadly, I forget where/when) which put forward the hypothesis that our teenage years are actually the only ones in which our minds are "correct"- every emotional experience is more intense, hearing music for the first time is life-changing, etc...

It's an interesting thought. And perhaps slightly depressing.
I don't think this style is much better than exceptions. I think Go could have done itself a favor if it has variants + pattern matching. I find those to be, in many cases, superior to exceptions as the compiler checks you are handling everything and you can easily encode success and failure in the variant type.
Talking about weekend projects developed at events like http://garage48.org/, two of the teams from these Garage48 events have won Seedcamp investments and become real startups: http://qminder.com/ and http://campalyst.com/

So weekend projects can turn into real companies.
Wasn't there another article like this?
> What is wrong with you?

There's got a be a more polite way to phrase that.

Also, while I understand the reasons for disabling JavaScript generally, is this really something to get that upset about?
I don't believe that's true. The military's
been trying to develop self driving vehicles
for decades and one of their teams did compete
in the darpa challenge and lost. And I
don't see self-driving vehicles being
unimportant now that the wars are fought
against civilian combatants. The military
is (or should be) desperate for them, they
would avoid almost all military deaths that
occur now (ied's blowing up humvees
transporting things from the greenzone in
baghdad for example).

What are the more
important stuff that government scientists
deal with that academic/industrial scientists
are not up to? Don't believe the hype the
military-industrial complex sells about
itself.
I really don't have a problem with people disliking Microsoft over its business practices but I really dislike articles where people write things like "Redmond Devil". I pretty much stop reading at that point.
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Well, we've increased average lifespans significantly, which matters to a great many people more than if .001% lived to age 200.

That said, is there any way to know if we've increased the maximum lifespan? It seems that accurate birth-date records in many parts of the world didn't start until the 1900s, as there's even difficulty 'verifying' the oldest person in the world today.

You're probably right that on the top end we haven't seen a ton of progress though, I think that first we have beat the things that tend to kill you in old age (cancers!) before we'll start dumping major resources into actually preventing the damage from aging itself that causes us to top out a little after 100.

Hopefully we'll also manage to reap an affordable vaccine or cure for malaria and some of the nasty diseases of tropical poverty in the next 20 years too, which will help that average skyrocket even more.
The percentage of users with Javascript disabled[1] is smaller than the percentage of users using Opera[2].

So there is nothing wrong with choosing to not support 2 out of every 100 users; that's simply a time/cost assessment. What's wrong with you?

[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...

[2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>hind site

hindsight
--and one reason the company gave for wanting to split in 2 is that content owners were insisting on counting DVD customers in calculations of royalties due.
I'm not sure to understand what you mean.

Human beings live in societies with codes, fears and prohibitions.

What kind of environment are you thinking about?
At least they didn't refer to it as "M$".
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Well, take a look at the gigantic runways to the left of those strange symbols:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.47333,93.511505&spn=0....

They seem to be falling apart now, but I don't see what in the area would need such huge runways. There was a plane or two in that circular pattern, but nothing like the type of plane graveyard we have here in the US. I actually think you're probably right. Given the terrain it would make sense that there is something going on in the mountains here.

I'm noticing that bright blue paint in a bunch of places. The roof of that facility I linked to was bright blue like your door and also the buildings falling apart to the NE of the runway are the same bright blue.
> There also wouldn't be this bug where using an empty list as the default value of an optional parameter would do the wrong thing (the same list object is reused on subsequent calls, when it is no longer empty).

That's not a consequences of not using "functional collections" - lisp has non-functional collections, yet the empty list doesn't have that behavior.

Note the difference between "an empty list" (correct for python) and "the empty list" (correct for lisp). That reflects a design decision that has consequences. Neither is superior in all circumstances.

In some sense, this is an instance of an overloading error. Python's lists aren't lisp's lists and there are many other definitions.
The $185 price probably contributes to the placebo effect. It was expensive so it _must_ work.
As for HTC, I think they are hedging their bets. They license WP7 as well, and don't want to bet their entire company on Android.
And yet teenagers are also incredibly bad at assessing risk and making decisions that impact their life in the long term. Sounds like it would be a disadvantage, from an evolutionary point of view.
"much of [iOS] is dreadfully ugly"

This is complete unadulterated bs. Thank you for a good laugh today.
Hi, thanks for the question -
The fuel source intended for the Volo Engine is some type of biomass - for the biomass the plan is to use a gassifier to get the heat out of the biomass. Solar is a good possibility, but not enough solar in the northern part of the US to make enough heat.
Hmm, so reallocating a few billion dollars is going to fill the multi-trillion dollar output gap we've fallen into these past few years? No, the answer is no.
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When I lived with a former Airbus engineer, he explained that these systems were running 80486 processors due to their relability (in the sense that nothing unexplainable would ever happen). That being said, he also told stories of how the complexity caused software bugs to manifest themselves that often disappeared before their causes were determined.
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aah, that's very interesting.. though I'm skeptical a pencil sized one will be able to output that much of power :).
The problem with Stirling engines is that power output is kind of low when compared with a similar sized IC engine.
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Perhaps he'd like to study feral children, those wonderful paragons of human strength, dignity and achievement.

I hear some of them eventually learn to speak, and not defecate indoors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_children#Documented.2Fall...
No, I meant that 'hypo' means a lack, and 'hyper' means an excess, so I would expect a 'hypo'-manic CEO to be some sort of depressive and not look like a great candidate for funding and a 'hyper'-manic CEO to be extremely energetic and convincing and voluble and so at an advantage with VCs.
Lets hope not - we did complete a working prototype, proving out the mechanics, linkages, and feasibility. We are pretty close to budget on the full sized model - bearings may take us slightly over the $100 mark.
It's important to put some face to tech/science
breakthroughs otherwise the general public doesn't
relate. Also, in that vacuum you'll get
politicians gaining credit. Kennedy gets
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while in the manhattan project at least
oppenheimer gets credit.
"I don't know why there complaints about the marketplace."

Er, because there are 10 times the apps in their competitors' marketplaces. Yes, wp7 has the low hanging fruit covered but there are many apps that cater to niches that are not present. It's like Excel vs OO Calc. Yes, Calc can do most of what Excel can do but it is the remaining few percent of functionality that makes a non-solution for people. And it is a different subset for different people. Just like with wp7 vs Android and iOS. What is so hard to understand here?
Which is all well and good unless users don't have a choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screen_readers
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I have a Windows Phone device and work in an office where most people use OS X and some have iPhones. I have yet to hear anyone prefer Andoid to Windows Phone with some actually preferring the WP interface to the one on their iPhone.

If I were buying a new phone today, it would really be a hard choice between the Lumia and the iPhone 4(s).
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Say what?

It's an 85-140W thermal envelope chip, with 16 very fast cores (iirc, AMD vs. Intel TDP). That's in a completely different planet to a 1W sluggish(ish) ARM core.

Or, slightly more to the point: Oak ridge is making a supercomputer using these chips. These are designed to be very fast. They are not designed to be low energy in the ARM sense of the word.

These are, iirc. designed to be used in visualised server (cloud) and other high compute environments.
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As far as I can tell either your point is a circular argument or it's an English-language nomenclature complaint fixable by s/exception/fooglewoo/.

Either way it doesn't address the real argument, about where it is appropriate to use try and catch. What is inherently better about multiple return values at every level, compared to semi-centralized catch blocks?
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Except, that's a poor argument: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript
I've got a miniature Stirling on my shelf. It's a two cylinder setup that runs off of two small alcohol lamps (about the equivalent of two candles), and is air cooled. It weighs about a pound (but could probably be lighter). I don't know exactly how much power it puts out, but it's not much - you can stop the flywheel with light finger pressure.

More heat would produce more power, but I think pencil sized may be a bit optimistic. I like the idea though.
Connecting SCADA to a typical IP network is all the rage these days.

Better hope your SCADA engineers don't believe in security by obscurity or design by "That'll never happen".
Not sure about you, but I prefer to do almost all of my defecating indoors =]
Your right, there would need to be a storage device in the system - this is just the first piece that coverts the heat to work - The temperature range we are designing to is about 420 degrees F hot to 100 degrees F cold. Think of it as a small outdoor appliance. It would need some type of fire box for heat generation - we are outlining a small gassifier for bio mass but that will come latter.
What would be useful is an apples-to-apples comparison. The WhisperGen is about £3,000 in the UK but that's a complete installable unit in the home that burns natural gas and hooks up to the electricity and water supply.

It sounds like your $100 is for just the motion part of the engine (perhaps I'm wrong about that). Do you have a sense for what it would cost me to go from having nothing to a working system in my home generating electricity?
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One might think that HTC, Samsung et al have little direct interest in defending the free use of Android - as the Android OS lowers the barriers to entry for other new (start-up?) manufacturers. It might be that they see the Microsoft tax as being well spent.