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> while their education did not ensure their economic success, it played a role.

That half concedes the original opposing point.

> think of the return to education as stochastic

To say that the effect of education is stochastic means it includes some either purely random factor, or something else not understood or not considered -- i.e. the thing having a big effect is not the basic factor of education but something else. Well, that really does seem to concede the original opposing point.
s/Not cool/Illegal/

IIRC

And, that would be violation of Federal law. Documented on FB?... No thanks.

My father caught chicken pox as an adult, while travelling. It nearly killed him.

P.S. Looked at the story (duh). Says the same thing. Anyway, I'll leave my personal anecdote FWIW.
Ever wonder why it was so hard to find a Dell/OEM with Linux, OS/2, or BeOS, instead of Windows?

http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
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I think this was always an obvious side effect of Siri. The more interesting question is how does Google provide a competitive solution without cannibalizing their own revenue?
Thanks! I'll get on the keyboard shortcuts and title text now. I'm not sure why it would be slow since nginx is caching all of the demo pages.

About the inbox thing: I wasn't sure what the best phrasing for that would be, but the idea is that you can use the X and the Q buttons to process all of the items quickly so that your "inbox" (the items you haven't seen) stays at zero, even if your Queue (what you haven't read) has things in it.
I'm a high school science teacher, and I love this. I've always been surprised at how few wide-format periodic tables are out there. I think the periodic table looks much cleaner in the wide format, and it's much easier to teach atomic structure using the wide format.

I look forward to seeing how students respond to playing with this next week.
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Brilliant.

Given the target audience, I think a more concise description language that pseudo natural language would work better. Regardless, such a service can bring basic alerting to the huge number of sites which currently have nothing.
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Are you going to let people personalize their packs? It would be awesome if I could go back on and say how good my pack ways, and offer feedback on good and bad products.

Otherwise, looks pretty sweet!
For someone who doesn't know either, but is familiar with programming generally, which is more readable?

I can guess what 'with-lines-from-file' does, I can guess what 'string-split' does, i can guess what 'string=' does, etc. The only thing I might not understand is 'aref'.

With the AWK example, I have no place to start. Symbol-oriented languages, rather than word-oriented languages, are like that. They tend to be more concise for things very specialized tasks, like this, but that limits their generality. Show me a matrix multiplication routine in AWK versus Common Lisp.
Great! Now let's see the table of nuclides.
Well, a lot of new media companies, including Grooveshark, have made exactly that argument. It might work for larger artists with a built-in fanbase, which makes virality easier to achieve since it'll start with some sharing momentum. But for indie artists with very small fanbases (I'm talking hundreds of fans, not thousands), having your music available for free doesn't do as much for you. The fans who would have bought your album will now listen for free and not buy it, and nobody else has heard of you. Plus, explosive virality will be harder to achieve - in general - with such a small number of people to begin with.

Again, I'm sure Spotify pays out a significant amount to the record labels and major artists, but I'm talking here solely from the perspective of a small indie musician with a, say, 200 person fanbase. In that case I don't think your argument makes sense.
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Well, aside from being completely false...

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm
I don't think anyone here is questioning Microsoft's success. The question is more whether the tactics used by Microsoft to achieve that success (and the consequences of that success for people who weren't Microsoft employees) were admirable or despicable.
Not to be rude, but that sounded like the kind of thing that a Perl programmer would say :-)

I am all for people have gut feeling likes/dislikes for what languages they personally use, but who cares what programming language, religion, politics, etc. that other people like?

I have been using Lisp since the early 1980s, and Lisp languages are great for some kinds of applications and research. Same can be said for many other languages.
What a great post. Being Canadian, something didn't sit right with me with the Gretzky quote. I think the corrected version "skate to where the puck is going to be" is likely what the author meant. Here are two of Gretzky's actual quotes:

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

and

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

Another one of my favorite Gretzky quotes - "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?

Then she will lower the cost of her labor until her prices become competitive, and people will then choose to hire her.

What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?

Corporate value to society = consumer surplus generated - cost of printing green pieces of paper

(This assumes the corporation takes delivery of green pieces of paper rather than electrons, in which case it's value is even higher.)

Also, you still dodged the question of why your white girl deserves this job more than my brown girl. Is my girl simply less of a human being than your girl?
Yes, we're planing on this. We didn't want to run another test to see if people wanted it since it would complicate our multivariate test. Hopefully people will be able to trust their sexual preferences to our service. We think it's about time, since everything else is moving towards personalization.
I cannot be consistent with apples to oranges. If I required a specificity of 10 feet in my region selection, what then would be the "consistent" specificity of the rent slider? $1, $10, $100?

Also, inconsistent requirements != inconsistent UI.
Low information density on that page. Really do not need to see an activity stream of people I don't know voting Yes or No.
Ha, I guess the free trial makes it an easy decision. I'll give it a spin.
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If the manufacturers need the money they can sell the Apple debt for a few bp since the company is AAA rated
While I agree what windows support is nice, I have found running a virtual machine running Linux much easier even when there is official Win support. It's no different running an SSH terminal to a local system than a remote one, after all.
Even Coldplay just announced last week that their new album would not be on Spotify. They released it this week, it went to #1 by a landslide and a huge % of it was in digital sales. If it were available on Spotify, you can only imagine that's not what would have happened.
Ugh, natural language. Never works well.
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Excellent points. Much appreciated. My point is that just dealing with the flu, chicken pox, some transient herpesvirae infections, etc by letting the body's defences deal with it without actively vaccinating against them might be the best way to deal with problem. Often the body develops memory cells to defeat later similar infections on it's own. I am not convinced that the notion that we might over-vaccinate has been disproven.
There had to be a bit more to the Lucas thing, though. Like a minimum ticket price.

Otherwise I would have (as a theater owner) slashed my ticket price by 99% and doubled the cost of popcorn. Still a win for the moviegoer and theater owner.
Thanks for the feedback. I'd love to hear any ideas on language alternatives.
Thanks. That looks like what I'm looking for. I'll check it out some more.
I imagine it is illegal (someone else already said that here). Law and morality are not the same thing and are fairly often at odds. Historically in the US, slavery was legal at one time in some states. After it was abolished, racism was embodied in the legal code. Plenty of morally high minded people disagreed with those laws.

Whether legal or not, I don't find it acceptable. Similarly, on CF lists, people routinely post announcements that they have leftover medical supplies of some sort and are willing to give it away for free (sometimes on the condition that the recipient cover postage, sometimes not). This is generally viewed as socially acceptable on most CF lists because medical expenses for CF are extremely high and people coping with CF are typically financially devastated by that fact. On the only CF list I own, I announced that this was not an acceptable practice because I think the price of exposure to the germs of another person with CF outweighs the value of the supplies. So I think that's Not Cool either, even in cases where it happens to be legal (and legality of it varies by jurisdiction in this case and probably also depends on exactly what is being offered).
That's true when experiments are design to show gain in performance due to some aggregation technique. The mentioned article achieved that only for DT and the body of the article doesn't seem to focus on the effects of ensemble methods.
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Haha happily filled all the form until I saw the 9.99 per month hehe. Thats steep, given that its free to be on sites like Angel.co or Crunchbase.
Yup.

If you beat a 8000 m^3 cube into a big sheet of gold, you could cover the entirety of Connecticut and Delaware.
Really love the idea of text file based monitoring, hate the cucumber interface. I stomach it in rails but I'm not a big fan of English in my code
Here's 50 mins of it:
http://9to5mac.com/2011/11/04/a-incredible-50-minute-steve-j...
I don't get it. First, I can't imagine anyone would pay $10/month to be on the list (except for forgetting to cancel their trial). The fact that anyone can submit contradicts that it is a list of "awesome startups". The site itself is marginal (no SEO, one line descriptions, hidden information, no content, no freshness, etc). And it's oddly slow. Yuck.
I'm open to implementing alternative formats to Gherkin.

If you've got an idea of some psuedo code you could write that'd make the monitors.txt idea more attractive, please write some, I'm keen for feedback.
So far people seem to like the idea, but not so keen on cucumber for the language. Please contribute any pseudo code ideas below as I want to get this right
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A voting system on products could work. I'd definitely do it.
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Yeah, whole thread is going downhill fast. Sorry.
> drop out so you don't have to pay and just sit in on classes

No, I think he was just arguing that you should go to the library and anything that you don't understand you should look up on Wikipedia.

Because undirected study in a rich subject is a great way to understand it.
Fantastic idea. I see humans.txt (http://humanstxt.org/) was an influence. Why not stay in a concise format like that?
...and it still makes no sense no matter how often it's repeated to flatter JavaScript.
> Gates is just copying the idea...

That's Bill's tragedy. To be remembered as the guy who never had a really original idea...

(burn, karma, burn)
Not really. Yes, demand is exploding, and supply is increasing rapidly apace. Development of new extraction technologies is expensive, because we've used up most of the really really cheap oil, but there is way, way more that we simply haven't cared enough to go after yet. It will be more expensive, for a while, and then the cost will go down until it's gone, and we need to go after a slightly more expensive energy source.

But the insane volatility of the market, and rising prices completely out of proportion with the slowly, steadily increasing cost of extraction, is most definitely because of speculation.

And come on, how is that even slightly controversial? When someone with the capital to affect the price is in a position to profit whether the price goes up or down, what do you expect to happen to the price?
That's an earlier interview. Parts of the 1995 interview that is planned to be shown in theaters, can seen here http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221185/Video_Steve_J...
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I've been working on getting started in Scheme. It hasn't been easy. It seems like it's entirely married to Emacs, and I really, really don't want to learn Yet Another Editor. I'm finding the documentation to be very terse and unhelpful. Tutorials, guides, and documentation all drop terms casually which mean absolutely nothing to me. The key chording seems nonsensical. So far, I've spent about one hour learning Lisp, and many hours learning how to install and use the Scheme interpreter.

(I realize that it probably sounds silly to complain of learning "yet another" editor, when it's one of the two longest-lived for programming, but really, Emacs is extremely complex, and all I want to do is work through SICP)

As for the article, his description sounds like comp.lang.* .
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Good point. I'm curious to see if there's more of this from major bands. I love Spotify, but as a musician, it does make sense to capture all the sales you can at first, and then open up your album for free streaming later. Some fans will do whatever it takes to hear an album when it's released, and if you give them a free option upon release, you're losing those sales.
Will: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don't do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you could of got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.

Clark: Yeah, but I will have a degree. And you'll be servin' my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.

Unfortunately, I think that more and more liberal arts majors/grads are coming to this realization. It's become increasingly obvious that the degree is not worth the debt. Been to Starbucks lately? 9/10 of the employees there have a degree.

(And in an ironic twist, the guy with the degree won't be the one going on a skiing trip; he'll be the one serving fries.)
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Love the idea of applying agile concepts to your marketing efforts.
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May be available to Canadians, but you appear to need a 'tax identification number' from the IRS to open the account.

"Form W-8BEN should be completed by all Non-US developers planning to make their applications available for sale to US customers/end-users. The form and instructions may be found at the following IRS website ...."

Fortunately the form accepted '-' as a 'valid' number ... we'll see if they try and validate it later.
Self-directed study can be great, but it can also lead you into intellectual ratholes. It's important to have regular challenges to your thinking.

For most people, the dialogue, structure, and deadlines of a college course make all the difference.
Interesting. I like the idea of having this kind of thing be sent right to me discreetly, and I could imagine this being a really awesome service, but from your site it's very hard to figure out what kind of products actually come in the pack (examples might be good).
Pretty much no one needs to worry about scalability in the beginning. A properly constructed system will typically be more than enough.

And most should defer the pricing question by going free or freemium at the outset. If you end having built something that people like, it's easy to make money.
How does this compare to Total Commander?
Given the way entrenched interests warp and these days even write the laws, I try to keep an independent mindset.

In this case, I have two points:

- If you're going to do something like this, coordinating it on FB is a stupid idea. (Mailing contagious materials without taking defined precautions is seriously frowned upon.)

- Mail is sometimes inspected. Misdelivered. Undeliverable. Damaged. In this case, it is most likely not marked as hazardous. What might one be inflicting upon the unsuspecting handler of such an error condition?
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No. Not even close.

I can still run Windows apps from 1995. Not all of the ones I have, but I'm impressed at what /does/ run. I could probably even make my Windows 3.1 stuff run.

The Unix vendors didn't seem to care about this. Oh, there were standards, but they were awfully weak. And when it gets down to doing interesting, useful things, you were sunk when you needed to do cross-platform.

There's a lot to be said for having /some/ kind of winner. Though the stuff that goes along with that -- monocultures as a target for malware, corruption in the face of absolute power, etc. -- have to be dealt with somehow. Sheer fragmentation is bad for everybody.
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I've not been able to figure out an alternative to cucumber that has the same flexibility and readability.

For example, I've not a clue yet on how to improve on this example:

Feature: DuckDuckGo Search
It should continue to kick ass
And I should be able to search

Scenario: Homepage performance
When I go to http://www.duckduckgo.com
Then I should see the page downloaded in less than 0.5 seconds
And I should see the page assets downloaded in less than 2 seconds

Scenario: Search over SSL
Given I go to https://www.duckduckgo.com
When I fill in "q" with "site:news.ycombinator.com"
And I press submit
Then I should be on https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com
And I should see "Hacker News" within "h2"
I went to a liberal arts school, and the concept isn't about wasting your time studying soft subjects that can't get you a job. It's about being a well-rounded person. The idea is to learn a little about a wide variety of subjects and go in depth on one specific subject. Just because you major in English doesn't mean that you are stuck trying to be an English teacher or a writer... the subject is important, but the process is more important.

I happened to study biochemistry, which was somewhat useful. I purposefully didn't major in CS, because the department wasn't very strong - I could learn more on my own projects (I minored in it). My wife went to a different school, but she studied French (including literature). She's now a doctor, which is a fairly useful career.

Your major doesn't restrict what you can do later in life.
Exactly. All of the points made about free or semi-free education can just as easily be applied to the 'harder' subjects, and while there are plenty of examples of well-versed, successful, self-trained members of all disciplines, they are generally the exception and not the rule.
I am not saying provide it for free. Because marketing a free and paid app requires the same amount of effort.

Here are my thoughts when I tried marketing MockupTiger to all the websites. It summarizes the exact thoughts
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103713120145925411926/posts/G5nW...

But, for $10/month you are not providing any value yet.

First build value and then charge. Start free but with the intention that one day you will charge.
Am I the only one that thinks that Windows support was not really worth the time? Sure, you get to support a huge chunk of the OS market, but what are the real implications of Node running natively on Windows?
I think you're agonizingly close to the point the author is quoting Peter da Silva as trying to make in your last paragraph here. Roughly sketched -

1) text and file processing are very common tasks
2) Lisp is not especially suited at these tasks, though it is very well suited for some other tasks.
3) If a dialect of lisp more suited to these very common tasks were made, it would increase the popularity of Common Lisp for the tasks that it works well for by familiarizing people with it.
I thought this was going to be as easy as 'if you can't reach /monitors.txt, then the site is down'

but seriously, does nobody else see a problem with your monitoring configuration being hosted on the site being monitored? It is a bit like asking a hospital patient to keep an eye on his own charts and to let you know if anything goes wrong ..

do people really switch monitoring companies often enough to justify having a standard configuration format?

ps. cucumber syntax is horrible because it perpetuates a 'everybody speaks english' view of the world
Thanks for posting. But it must have been the 2nd to last or 3rd to last paragraph. Basically, I suggest reading both pages. :-)
i switched from this: http://imgur.com/QBQNt.jpg to this: http://imgur.com/No4os.jpg and to this: http://imgur.com/JVqRa.jpg and now i am basically using the macbook pro
Interesting idea. The proliferation of convention-dictated top-level URLs offends the design sense of many web architects. Possible alternatives are to:

• shoehorn a pointer to a varying URL inside an existing convention-dictated place – as for example with sitemap pointers inside robots.txt files.

• let the resource live anywhere but specify its location to consuming services via some out-of-band mechanism. That is, you still have to tell any monitoring provider where your particular monitoring-spec lives, probably via its signup interface, but you can still use the same format and unmoving file with multiple providers.
Thanks! Ah, that's part of the surprise! We're going to have themed months too - like wet fun, wild jungle, etc. It's all about surprise.

Lots of people want to try new things, and with sex, it's really difficult. I can be awkward to ask your significant other to do something totally new. But, if you get this package that tells you what to do, well...you're going to do it, and it will be a lot of fun.
It is both strictly correct and irrelevant to the topic at hand that the Lisp is easier to read. Because that's like saying "Lisp sucks because WTF does 'cddadr' mean anyway?"

AWK is a purpose-built language for splitting lines into fields and doing stuff with the result, so of course there's not a lot of boilerplate for splitting lines into fields and doing stuff with the results.

Lisp for doing a lot of fancy work with s-expressions is going to be high density code that's a lot harder for newcomers to read than verbose, plodding Java code that is working with a simple LinkedList class or something.

Readability (Edit: to newcomers) just isn't the relevant benchmark here.
I think what he's arguing is that if you spend lots of monwy on something, you should either be quite certain that it's an investement, or it should be money you don't care about. Bassically, don't get education you cna't afford. He jsut mentions the library and wikipedia as alternatives to college because they are affordable ways to get some of the same knowledge, not because they are viable replacements for one another.