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I think true AIs would be no more or less deserving of the love of their creator than the real people. Now maybe the programmer running the genetic training algorithm has no love for the AIs and then you're right, it wouldn't really fit. But what if the programmer did love then? What if, in fact, the programmer was a true AI herself, having gone through a similar experience and was proven moral, loving, and capable enough to do this job. How hard would it be for her to love them? Yes, turtles all the way down and all that but what about turtles most of the way down? Seems like a reasonable way to train more AIs.
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You could also Blog like a Hacker[1], and use no servers at all, like Amazon's CTO Werner Vongels[2].

You can see more from his own comments when he posted it on Hacker news[3].

[1] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hac...

[2] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3...

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2896860
I got into a computer systems engineering major at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, that was around 2000.

When I took the Programming III course (language: C++) I was really excited as I had done my own research into the subject, and was expecting to use the STL, templates and what not, the problem was the teacher only allowed _programs_ that ran in TurboC++ 3.1, if it didn't ran in that IDE/Compiler well, you were out of luck and you would just get a fail.

I immediately changed the course to a more open minded teacher, that indeed let us use gcc and all the things that it compiled.
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> If I could get a more refined feed from HN (just stuff that makes it to the front page

There is possibly a way, this twitter account provide only HN stories higher than 100 points, Twitter also allow to follow via RSS feed, unless they it turned off, https://twitter.com/#!/newsyc100 So it would provide readable feed for HN.
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Apple’s decision not to release specs with the original iPod, and again with the iPhone and iPad, was them realizing that it just doesn’t matter.

Yeah, actually it does. What an odd thing to say.
Sure but 99% of what I want is something that A. Has a library I want and B. can install it easily.

All those bells and whistles are nice. But they're not something I'm basing my technology stack on because most of the time theyre not something I need.
Definitely wasn't a scheme or evil plan, just my roommate who happens to be my loving girlfriend. Even so, I understand your frustration, and I'm sorry about that, Paul. Lesson learned.
We primarily use Java on Jetty, utilizing Apache Wicket as a rendering engine, with custom( non-jquery/prototype )javascript. Our DBMS is PostgreSQL, but this is immaterial to the web applications, because they acquire their data and perform service calls via REST, and handle cache invalidation through a MQ. The customer-facing applications themselves never talk directly to the database.
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I use wp-super-cache for this. However, it's still not the same as static site generation. The entire Wordpress system still gets loaded at least to the plugin loading phase.

There are numerous db hits that take place before this stage (mainly to figure out which plugins need to be loaded).

Also, the PHP must be interpreted in order to render html. The static site generation has _none_ of this as it's already pre-rendered in html.
Yeah, then they get sued by the DOJ over its monopoly in search.

It's not as easy as it sounds.
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I think this is a bit naive. It's like buying a car. Do people care if they buy a Toyota with a V-8 engine? Absolutely. They just don't know if that's good or bad, so they'll ask a car geek. After all, they want a car that is fast, gets good gas milage, and doesn't break all the time, and the engine affects all of those things. They just don't know if "Toyota with a V-8 engine" translates into those things.

Apple's biggest contribution is in making sure that the customer doesn't need to worry about the spec, not in making specs irrelevant.
Omnipotence means God has limitless power (or better, his power cannot be improved), not that he can do anything, whether logically impossible or not. This argument is a cavil, not a sound philosophical argument. Consider the set of natural numbers. You (given enough time and patience and brainspace) may have the ability to count up to any specified natural number. That does not imply you have the ability to count all natural numbers. Once you start dealing with infinities, your intuition goes out the window.

The natural numbers can be algorithmically generated. Consider streams in Computer Science, for example. But note that the existence of streams does not imply the existence of an actual infinity in the computer's memory, only an algorithm to reach any finite member of the infinite set.

As mentioned elsewhere. If God is the first cause of the physical universe, then his existence is necessary (in the philosophical sense) and therefore changeless (in the philosophical sense) and therefore eternal (as his existence is necessary - and he exists entirely apart from time).

Once you start to enter into a discussion of infinite things like omnipotence, omniscience, necessary existence, etc, you enter the realm of infinite cardinalities, transfinite induction, the axiom of choice, Hilbert's Hotel, Russel's paradox, and so on. Philosophers have understood the issues regarding God's natural attributes for thousands of years, but only in the last 100 or so years have we had the mathematics to start saying things about infinities that are not nonsensical.

Consider that, as a human being, you are only aware of the present. You remember the past, and you have no knowledge of the future. Now imagine a being who is as aware of the past as He is of the present. This is one who calls himself "I am". He says, "before Abraham was, I am". Or, he calls himself the "Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End". We aren't talking about a being with changing state and an awareness only of the present, as you or I. We have to be very careful with our intuition when examining such a subject.

Only the most rigorous and methodical mathematical argument can hope to establish anything positive or negative about such an entity.
It's clear to me that my own consciousness is dramatically influenced by my physical environment. After all, anything that physically interacts with my brain will affect my consciousness in some way. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that would imply it is a physical phenomenon, no?
Thanks. That one also doesn't require JS ("Why not JS"?).

(Call me old-fashioned)
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Probably many reasons, but Katango was backed by Kleiner Perkins - one of the more prestigious and well-known VC firms out there, and it was the first investment out of their sFund which targeted social services and apps.

The blogosphere and others in the startup community will almost always be interested in what Kleiner, Sequoia, Accel, Greylock, Union Square Ventures and a few others etc are funding as they are well-known and regarded as thought leaders in the venture community. So by default, what they fund becomes more newsworthy almost implicitly. I'm not saying this is right or wrong - it just is.
Relevant XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/977/
One of the best things in this article is how the kid, in the quote wherein he describes his 11-year old experience, spells the prefix "pseudo" as "sudo" -- that one little blip of an error totally reinforces the autodidact angle of the piece way better than any explicitly expositive thing (provided the reader is also of the nerdy inclination).
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Sparklines Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline

spark, the linked project, is just an implementation of a sparkline generator for the command line.
Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II.

But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are.

For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel.

Just a thought.
What helped me most was american/english media, and mostly movies. It gave me a better feel for the language than just reading something, and gives more context for association regarding unknown words and phrases.
awesome. i didn't know about that twitter account. thanks.
Cool idea. A bunch of the projects don't feel like short, weekend projects though. But still, a very cool idea.
However you choose to model it, the fact remains that there is no clear boundary between the state of a living thing and its surroundings.
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Spec sheets are an excuse, at least insofar as they're used as advertising. They're a presumptive admission the product is inadequate, rattling off a bunch of numbers in the hopes the customer will overlook the factual inadequacy. If the product does what the customer wants, the customer doesn't need (or want) specs.
There is nothing in your post that would give me any interest in what you are doing if i were a sales person (i'm not).

All i know (postively) is that you have an app, like 1000's of other people. OTOH, it is a co-founder position (although you say part time and refer imply >1 person already), so presumably no salary, you aren't making much money any time soon, you think sales people are douchebags (at best, inappropriate joke) and don't consider pitching 'real work'.
I also don't see why you need someone from sales 'so [you] can use stripe'. And AFAIK don't you have to use the app store on non-jailbroken iOS devices??

Anyway, you could have overcome all these faux pas if you gave even a hint of something interesting.. perhaps tell people what you are doing? even some kind of vision of where you hope to end up might pique some peoples interest to at least inquire further.
Thanks! First time I've heard of "sparkline". Of course I've seen these items for as long as I can remember, but I just call them "graphs". :P
You are assuming that there was a more detailed spec. that asked for something different to what he did. There's no indication of that in the article, you're just inventing things to prop up your argument.
Also, Ruby's lack of @ $ % is great. And the fact that it has a single object model, not falling to the Paradox of Choice[1] makes it a great alternative to Perl.

And what is best: I've never seen anyone that loved Perl not enjoy Ruby. They both have very similar ideologies, but Ruby stands on the shoulders of Perl, Smalltalk and Lisp. Therefore it could see farther.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to build the community and engage the existing users? I'm going to assume both is true. But the first thing you need to ask yourself is what are your goals with the community. Then ask yourself what tone do you want to set for it? Start by reviewing the communities of similar sites in your market. Some great examples would be the 37 Signals and Zappos communities. Balsamiq also has a great community too. All of them share a common trait: There is a personable approach in their writing and sharing.

A few things:
Instead of asking for PR at blogs, offer to guest blog at those places. It opens your company to a broader audience. Make sure to follow up on every single comment too. Then offer other companies' community managers to guest blog on your site. They will make sure to tweet/FB their posts to their audiences and it starts a reciprocal relationship.

Email is underrated. Yeah, I know people think its dead but we send out an email each week and highlight product developments, share articles relevant to our users, and highlight our blog posts. We have a very high open/click-through rate and see an increase in Twitter chatter for about 3 days post-mail.

Next, highlight your users: show the community how people are using your site/product/widget and ask your community to guest blog for you. Highlight your users in your weekly emails and tweet out their stories/contributions.

Have webinars or twitter chats that scheduled and have a unique hashtag. They don't have to be directly related to your product but a general discussion about the industry. Reach out to businesses in your field and ask them to co-host these with you in a roundtable fashion or Q&A setting.

The above should get you started and spark more ideas along the way. And the best part is you can do all of these at no cost except the time you spend. Good luck!
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That's 2005 gems starting with the letter "A".
where a few million dollars donated to the policeman's union by Goldman Sachs can buy the emptying of Zuccotti park

It's certainly not hard to imagine this (all you need are a few Valchek characters at some important desks), but do you have a citation for this?
and as a user of packages, rather than a package developer, I care about precisely none of that functionality.

I want this package installed (plus its dependencies), and I want it now, that's all.

I'm not sure I buy that (paraphrased) "Perl is good because CPAN has billions more packages than other language's repos" either, for one I remember trying to find a library that did SHA1 digests, there were three, and I managed to pick the one that give incorrect results...

of course in Python it's just built-in, as are sockets, http, smtp, imap...
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I want to use them as cheap embedded systems that without KVM.
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I'm not sure I agree. I look at the nutrition facts on the food I purchase. I look at the specs. when I'm buying a car, and the specs. do inform my purchasing decision. When I'm buying a computer, I do look at specs. to decide which computer will run my computational tasks most efficiently.

For me, a world without specs. would be bleak indeed.
Education is a symptom of value creation, not the cause of it.

In other words, education alone brings no value to society. If there is no incentive to create value, because you are already given an income with no strings attached, that education will not be put to any meaningful use.

It seems to me that the stipend would need to be based on a plan to create value for society. If some level of education is required in order to proceed with that plan, it could be granted as part of the implementation.

This reasonably mirrors the way entrepreneurs operate, which is essentially what we want to duplicate. The dream always comes before the education. The education is only a means to an end.
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Wish i could read the blog post. I am quite a happy Jekyll user.

And while Jekyll still has some downsides it is superior when it comes to handling a load spike from a HN post.
Except the differences aren't subtle at all. In laptops, choosing between brands can mean a major change in build quality/durability.

The difference between 4gb and 8gb of ram? Huge difference (even if you aren't running memory hog programs, the OS uses it for prefetch)

How about ssd vs rotational disk? Anyone who's had an ssd as their boot drive will tell you, it makes a radical difference.

So no, its not like a hammer at all.
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I don't think this makes sense. If it were true, that would imply that it would be easier to rewrite J to work on format 1, which is the flip side of claiming the conversion is the more difficult part. And if the arrows are more expensive than the components they are pointing to, this remains true for all such arrows, so adding more arrows means it's even cheaper to rewrite J n times than to write n converters; you can't make up the loss in volume.

This sounds superficially appealing but I'm not sure there's any actual wisdom here.
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Link to actual blog post: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/344
Can you imagine what would have happened if Wozniak hadn't known jobs before hand, and went looking for a "business guy" cofounder?

"Hmm, there's this Jobs guy. Egotistical. Maniacal. A complete sociopath. Takes over everyone's ideas as his own."

I don't see Apple being the same company.
And also there is:

* CPAN Forum - http://cpanforum.com/

* Annotated CPAN - http://www.annocpan.org/

* Discussion/review on pre CPAN modules - http://prepan.org/
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Statically typed languages are favoured when you're working on a team with 40 other developers and you want the idiotic changes being made 5 desks over to break before they check in, not after you've pulled their changes.

Autocomplete also makes life staggeringly easier, as do strong refactoring tools.

Not having to deal with memory management is also a big plus.

When you put those requirements together you end up with C#/Java. Which is why a fair number of places whack together UIs in C# and server side code in Java.
This is now the top story on the front page of Yahoo UK, with a large picture of Ilya. I'm not sure what to make of that.

I suppose one thing we can learn here is to be more sensitive about other peoples' work. Sometimes tech-related articles/comments/rants take a very harsh tone, and even though it might be valid criticism, it's easy to forget that some developer might have poured his/her heart and soul into what you're dismissing (or even ridiculing).
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Great idea. Some thoughts:

"A boutique network of developers & designers"

This is too dense: "boutique", "network", "developers", "designers".

Instead try something that reads well, like "Get help with your MVP" or "Get help with your weekend project". This has the added benefit of explaining the benefit.

In other words, IMO you should switch your short-and-big and your long-and-small message:

WeekendHacker

"Get help with your MVP"

"WeekendHacker is a site for entrepreneurs, programmers and designers to meet and work together on small projects and maybe turn them into the next big thing."
"In Ruby, ordinary variables lack sigils, but "$" is prefixed to global variables, "@" is prefixed to instance variables, and "@@" is prefixed to class variables."[0]

Okay, I don't know Ruby well enough to know if these are commonly used features, but the statement that there are no sigils is false.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)#La...
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If you want an appliance, then sure, you don't need to bother with specs; you shouldn't have to care about the processor speed of a dedicated music player any more than the microprocessor in a microwave.

If you want a computer, however, then specs matter quite a bit, because they determine how fast arbitrary general-purpose programs will run, and whether they can run at all.

Personally, when I buy a smartphone, I want a computer, not an appliance. If I wanted an appliance, I'd buy a non-smartphone, and I indeed wouldn't bother checking the performance specs.
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I assume you showed at each step where the results of the computations were stored? That's what the assignment was really about: can you inspect the stack and find a known value?

I was a TA in a computer systems class. Many of our homework assignments told the students to do a certain set of things, then explain why they see what they see. What I looked for was understanding. If you had shown on even one of the stacks where an expected value was, I'd give full credit.
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Yes and no. If you have a templating solution that works well on the client and server then this shouldn't add much complexity. Rendering the initial view on the server has the added advantage of supporting javascript-disabled clients too.

I muddled my point by mentioning Twitter - it was very nearly a non sequitur. They're supporting two paradigms but not because they want to. My understanding is that they don't have a single solution that works equally well on the client and server so they are using two different solutions.
I love reading investigative coding stories. Always fun to take a peek into secret--especially high-profile--code.

Thanks!
Is it really sad? Corporations wield a lot of power; that's why we built them. What would be sad is if they fail to stand up for our interests.

And then we might have to do something about it.
This storey shows its not necessary to sell a million to make an app worthwhile.

How many other niche apps are out there? Anything where you carry a computer or clipboard around is eligible. Specific to a task, or a general fill-in-a-spreadsheet-and-email-it app would fit the bill.
> Its the competition from US sites that is restricting clone solutions in local markets. US is not the target market for many-many businesses !( is it so difficult to understand)

The problem is you need a critical mass of customers with cards handled by someone other than Visa and Mastercard. This is not currently the case in most countries.

Doesn't help if you're not targeting US consumers if a large portion of your customer base will go elsewhere if they can't use their existing credit cards.
It's a safe choice. It is easy to find Java developers with enterprise experience. There are lots of vendors and consultants with Java expertise. There is a lot of corporate mind share around Java. And at this point, most companies have a large investment in Java (or .net) so it makes sense to continue on that path.

"Taking months/years to get something off the ground" has little to do with Java itself and mostly to do with corporate project lifecycles.
Right, that's the primary use in my mind. Not gonna be much use to a primary school student.
Then you get a rush on Underwater Basket Weaving 101.

California allows young adults to continue getting their parents' benefits until their late 20s if they're in school. This does not actually encourage people to get a useful eight-year education.
A shame this came out too late to be added to XKCD's "Map Projections" comic. I'd call it the "Manhattan Uzbekistan Projection."
You're assuming that I have any ownership of J, which I don't - it was written to work in a particular pattern that the CIO favoured five years ago, before he left to work for a consulting firm.

Also, A is a 30-year old legacy system sitting on a mainframe, B is an Oracle database inherited when we bought over another company, and Z is a third-party who we're shipping data to for their just-in-time procurement system.
On the other hand, maybe you wouldn't need 40 developers on the project if you weren't building it in Java...