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This should be the least of our worries. The incentives are set up so strongly to produce a statistically significant result that indeed nearly all experiments do produce a statistically significant result. Scientists measure a data set. Then they work to find a subset of the data and a statistical test that gives them a significant result. Just ask a couple of scientists whether they ever did an experiment that didn't provide a statistically significant result. Proper statistics, where you decide on the test you'll apply and on what data before doing the experiment, is almost unheard of. And then there's publication bias, of course.
The banking cartel* gave itself more than half of the annual output of the world's largest economy. Bankers got and continue to get huge bonuses. Everyone else? Not so much. Heckuva job, guys.

As the article asks, “Banks don’t give lines of credit to corporations for free. Why should all these government guarantees and liquidity facilities be for free?”

The banks are simply too big as well. "Too big to fail" should mean "too big to exist". The process should be: get a bailout, get broken up.

*"A cartel is a formal (explicit) agreement among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production."
Note that long before governments had fiat currency in the “we will print as many dollar bills as we want to” sense, devaluation of specie-based currency was not uncommon.

According to Wikipedia, the Roman denarius had about 4.9g of silver when it was introduced under the Republic, 3.9g under Augustus (about 200 years later), and 3g in the later eras of the empire (a few centuries after that). The Byzantine histamenon coin was high-quality gold when it was introduced in the late 10th century, and had almost no gold by the late 11th. The English penny started out in the late 8th century as 1.5g of fine silver, then went to sterling (92.5%) silver in the 12th, reduced its weight to 0.97g in the early 15th, to 0.78g in the mid-15th, and so on.
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If 1984 were written today, I believe it would read a lot like this. However this one reads remarkably like reality. Good story Mr. Doctorow.
>Part of the problem stems from the acrimonious departure of Daniel Domscheit-Berg and other WikiLeaks volunteers in the summer of 2010. In his subsequent book about his time at WikiLeaks, Mr Domscheit-Berg accused Mr Assange of treating submissions with insufficient care and security, writing: “Children shouldn’t play with guns.”

In the book, DB mentions that before the departure the 'Architect' had been working hard on a new system which was really cool in some respect, but he took it with him (presumably for use in OpenLeaks).
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It's going to get noticed if you've got the BBC Trust, which is potentially a very influential organisation, pitching in. This article seems like exactly the kind of intelligent, rational contribution this debate needs.
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Sorry I wasn't clear, yes I did mean to ask if Doodles were as high-pressure/high-reward an area as Ads and Android
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Hardlinks don't always work well with tools; IIRC, I've seen backup tools support symlinks but not hardlinks.
I thought the continuous delivery book was written by Jez Humble and David Farley. Fowler provides a foreword for it http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321601912?tag=contindelive.... Other than that I totally agree with you comments - Lean Continuous and Agile are not orthogonal to Quality.
Some good points, but (there's always a "but" :-) as with most of these, let's call them modern processes (maybe not even that modern if you consider what the likes of Peter DeGrace were saying back in 1990), continuous delivery forces an engineering paradigm onto the (often unwilling) user.

What does the constant barrage of (for example) iTunes or Flash updates do to the user's perception of quality?

What is the impact of the Chrome release cycle on a corporate environment that needs to test each revision on a model office, in case there's an impact on one business-critical application or other?
Nothing beats "work samples", agreed. However, interviews should not be discounted. If interview is "deceptive" in your environment, you need to work on your questions. It took me about 10 face-to-faces with candidates in order to get my questions right. Couple of my own face-to-faces with other companies added even more insight into what I need to focus on in order to get better results for my questions.

Education is something that I always forget to look at while reading the resume.
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There is a lot of hand waving and unintelligible “simplifications” of the Higgs Boson. It is very difficult to explain this without math, but some of the important points are:

IF the Higgs Boson exists, it interacts with the “usual” matter. The main part of the interaction is the (apparent) mass.

The Higgs field is not constant, we can think about the irregularities in the field are particles, this particles are the Higgs’ Bosons.

The experiments in the LHC are trying to measure how this Higgs’ Bosons bounce with the “usual” particles, how the Higgs’ Bosons are created from “usual” particles and how the Higgs’ Bosons splits in a few “usual” particles.

The experiments try to get an isolated Higgs Bosons for a very small time, because they are not stable (perhaps 10^-20 seconds?). It is impossible to see it during that small time, so the experiments analyze the particles that are created after the Higgs Boson splits.

All the process is very difficult and noisy, so the experiments have to run for a few years. The equipments is new and they have to tweak them. So for a few years, the will be no interesting new, like “Higgs Boson tot found above 180GeV.”. It is a good sign, it is what is expected to happen.

But in about four years, IF the Higgs Boson exists, they will find it, we only have to wait.
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Riak is interesting, but its performance characteristics are unfortunately interesting in a negative sense.

First, single-node performance is awful. You would think that even on a single node, simple key/value lookup would be able to compete against something like Postgres; after all, the read pipeline should be much simpler. But it doesn't come close, in my testing. Not just key/value lookups; it's also dog slow at chasing links, and scales very badly with the number of links.

Now, Riak is intended to be deployed on many nodes, but in my testing with three nodes I did not see a significant increase in performance. The overhead seemed to be constant. In a master-less, distributed database, some compromise on performance is acceptable, but Riak looks much worse than would be acceptable.

Riak is focused on random access. Sequential access similar to that offered by Cassandra and HBase just won't scale beyond a few hundred objects. This problem is made worse by the fact that a Riak "bucket" isn't really a bucket, but a namespace; all data in a Riak database resides in the same storage, and bucket operations simply filter that data based on the bucket name. This means that any sequential access is off the table.

The Riak people suggest using links in order to emulate sequential access patterns and entity relationships. For example, if you want to blog post with bunch of comments, you would store the post in one key, and then comments in other keys, and then use child/parent links to glue them together. Unfortunately, this seems to scale very badly with the number of objects linked.

Not just read performance, either; it seems links are stored in a single chunk whenever an object stored, so when adding a single child, you have to write all children back to the object! Obviously that does not scale to thousands or even millions of objects. For a database that has no other means to deal with relationships, the weakness of the link feature is serious.

After all, you would face the same problem if you stored the list of objects as a key value (you have to rewrite the entire object every time, since Riak does not have partial updates), and since it's not feasible to scan keys based on prefix, for example, you end up with no alternative. I suppose you can use Riak Search, but last I checked it was built on top of Solr, which is not fast.

There are various minor annoyances, too. For example, unlike Cassandra, there is no operation to delete the entire contents of a bucket -- something which you want to do before/after unit tests --, so you have to sequentially enumerate the bucket's keys and delete each one, something which is just excruciatingly slow.

Here is a test case I wrote in Ruby to test performance: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12091499/Share/riaktest.tar.gz. It contains a script to test similar operations/queries against Postgres. The included Riak test results are for a three-node dedicated test cluster (plenty of CPU, RAM, I/O). I am open to the possibility that the config needs tuning, of course.
The title is inaccurate. They gave them $7.7 trillion dollars. It's the profit that was $13 billion on that loan, from what I can tell.
Good to know, thank you.

Of course, there's the potential incompatibility of the incompatibility reporter, but I digress.
I take it you either think Duchamp's readymades are either beautiful or not art.
The issue is that it is nearly impossible to detect "the same". Imagine the sample size required to differentiate between .5 and .500000001. Now, technically speaking, sure-- with any effect (however small) in the infinite data limit a difference would be detected. But this isn't really what these tests are intended for.
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Another grandmother gets thrown under the bus. Grandma as the archetype of computer ignorance is a played out plot device.
Great example of "Involuntary Memory" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_memory
Did pg base that statement off research? If so, I'd love to see it. If not… well, why not?
> Anything digital is inherently valueless. There is no cost to copy it.

Wouldn't books, then, only be "worth" the cost of the paper on which they're printed? How does making something digital automatically destroy any inherent value?
I had two parents with post-graduate degrees, but your experience sounds quite a bit like mine. I waited until year four to really bomb in University (mainly due to painful shyness that had been dormant until that point). I stuck with it, but that was a really eye-opening experience.
The process should be, you fail - you fail, no bailouts.
Can this be configured at runtime using an environment variable? It would be nice to test for bugs like this in dev.
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I also heard Lightsquared (national wireless broadband company) is having spectrum issues as well, as their band is right next to GPS, and there is much lobbying going on now, as the govt is trying to buy back some satellite bands and re-purpose them for terrestrial use.
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That's under the terribly flawed assumption that "culture" can only be had at a "startup."
I think this is related to why images and memes are, by far, the most popular submissions on reddit: they are simply easier and faster to understand.

It doesn't mean that they are necessarily better, but the time spent on understanding them are at a complete minimum.

You don't even need to be a technical person to get a grasp of why the spark graphs do.

The challenge of a private business is having to strike a balance between "important" and "intelligible".
I'm fine with not getting it. Fountain was the day we learned the art world can no longer pass the test of "The Emperor's New Clothes". Claims of art without craft and a moving beauty are at best disposable props for rhetoric, if not merely trolling gullible collectors.
I would argue that dodgeball is better expressed as an iterative algorithm. Consider the following pseudocode:

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Most people think like this. Dodgeball teaches while loops, not recursion.
That kind of attitude (i can/could program but it's boring sitting alone) will change soon enough when you can't feed yourself unless you program all day. The only debate is in how soon that occurs.
That would be even better. And if the units are small enough, it'll work. "Bailout then breakup" is a proposed mechanism for making those units small enough.
I went to college with people who had been raised according to the "praise hard work" theory (i.e. Asians), and it's got its own set of problems, I think.
From several folks I've known who worked at Mozilla, you just trade in money-dickwads for power-dickwads.

Obviously this varies depending on where you are in the organization. But the bottom line is: there are always dicks, and they always try to screw somebody (that's what dicks do), and in startups, there are probably more of them because millions is more interesting than power over a few people.
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This reminds me very much of the Carol Dweck's theory on the Fixed and Growth Mindset[1].

As it should, since that was the point of the posted article...
Are Ritalin and Thalidomide in the same reference classes, that it makes any sense to compare them? Specifically, one drug was offered for less than 3 years or so, and then withdrawn due to horrible unexpected side-effects that were suspected within a year or two. And another drug has been publicly prescribed for roughly 50 years and has been investigated in detail with a long list of pretty well-understood side-effects. (You tell me which is which.)
I'm afraid I can't find any other definition of art quite as accurate. I don't know if EVERYONE could say their pirated collection was art, but I think Manuel Palou successfully made his hard drive art.

Frankly, the fact that we're seriously discussing it here is adequate proof that it is art.
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I agree I should have left a demo up- I had decided I should just start over so I took some screenshots for reference then scraped it. Later as an after-thought, I decided to write it up. I didn't really expect this much interest- I'll try to get it back up tonight.

The exercise was a little more than straight-up horizontal centering. It was to take two numbers randomly generated with possibly different number of digits, center them together along with an operator as a block, but right-align the text within. Also a text input field was put below. The line above the input field is just a simple border.

For reference, the CSS tutorial I looked at was http://www.noobcube.com/tutorials/html-css/horizontal-and-ve..., but I didn't add the IE elements because I thought it was only necessary for IE 6 and 7, not 9.

So the horizonal alignment problem in IE is probably because I used display:block. But why don't the numbers line up the same in chrome and firefox? What's up with the field border being all over the place? My point is not that I know html and css well, which I clearly don't, or that this stuff is impossible. It's that even with the latest browsers and techniques, it's still easy to get very different displays. I just didn't expect that, given the huge hype surrounding html5 and css3.
Absolutely agree that being too attached to your current personal vision of the product and not having sufficient flexibility is a dangerous thing, particularly during the early days when it's important to learn from the market and be capable of pivoting quickly. Though I'm not sure you can emphatically state it's the "number one" reason without a bit more than a single anecdote.

One of the commenters mentioned Steve Job's ego. I'm not sure many people really know as much as they think they do about Steve's actual management style and how his personality affected decision making (http://lucisferre.net/2011/11/18/the-cargo-cult-of-jobs/). But I think it's important to note you can certainly succeed in spite of your ego, just as you can succeed with it, by knowing when to put it aside. Nothing is quite black and white.

I do, however, think that some amount of ego is necessary if one expects to lead a business.
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You might find my blog interesting: http://unicornfree.com - I just ran a series on pricing, and will be doing other practical nuts & bolts things soon. (Mixed with, I admit, no small amount of philosophy.)
that particular statement acts like everything should be hard

If it wasn't hard, why should you be praised at all?
Delta actually does the seat back (or on the overhead monitors depending on the age of the plane) thing during taxiing to the runway.
You can actually go watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpzUo_kbFY

The camera angles and lighting are a bit surreal when watching it after having been up for 96 hours though.
Isn't one, in consumer terms, a fungible commodity? ie. a latte in one coffee shop is almost identical to another - especially if it's the same franchise?
I'm not aware that Liberty have expressed a formal opinion on net neutrality or the various recent suggestions that Internet access should now be considered a fundamental human right, though if anyone has seen something relevant then I would be interested to read it.

I suspect Liberty are more concerned right now with the various mass Internet snooping provisions that seem to keep cropping up. Net neutrality seems a little on the commercial side and perhaps a little below the radar of an organisation that is campaigning against things on the level of torture, detention without trial, freedom to protest peacefully, etc.
So much work can be knee-jerk reactions: see a problem, fix it. Leading in a technical environment can mean holding back, getting people to step up and participate. In this sense, leadership is more like parenting than engineering.
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All languages are ageing languages so i think a better term to use would be mature languages. That conjures up a completely different emotion :)

> Don't get me wrong: Java, C#, C++ are maybe not aging but their user base isn't growing anymore or not with the same strong growth rate like newer languages

Is this anecdotal? Because its very hard to know what is going on with absolute certainty and trends vary from place to place and over time.

Just thought I'd take a snapshot of Stackoverflow question metrics:

Java 180,637
PHP 167,657
Javascript 151,666
C++ 97,785
Python 82,640
C# 45,493
Ruby 34,497
Perl 14,735
Scala 6,670
Clojure 2,283
Lua 1,616

It's important to not take these figs has gospel outside of Stackoverflow.com. However considering Stackoverflow only started in August 2008 then these figures do suggest that mature languages have been growing at a very healthy rate.
My I/O psychology class in grad school :)

Seriously though, if you're interested in this, check out Applied Psychology in HR Management: http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Psychology-Human-Resource-Mana...
In 1999 I was on a flight and sat next to an EE who worked for Boeing on commercial airliners. He said that there was virtually no chance that a cell phone would cause any interference. He said that as far as he could tell the FAA rules stemmed from the FCC that stemmed from the cell carries pressuring the FCC not to allow it. The reason he suggested was that cell phones at altitude have line-of-sight to dozens of cell towers. As airplanes full of cell phones fly through the air they associate and disassociate with cell towers very quickly. The towers have to switch the handsets from tower to tower more quickly than usual causing a lot of network traffic signaling overhead between cell sites. Here's a wikipedia article on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft#Cell_...

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I know of almost a dozen Kindle Fires that parents are holding onto to give to their kids at Christmas. I think the Amazon downloads will pick up quite a bit in the next 3 months, especially for apps that could appeal to older kids. But it'll be interesting to see how the Amazon numbers compare to the Android Market.
You're half right:

"There is always, repeat always who is going to do more work than you."

This is true. The trick is to be smarter than them -- do more of the right things, do the right things more right, and make wise choices to create leverage.

We could "trust you" that it is "inevitable he will end up being successful someday." OR we could look at the startup graveyard and see how many people who worked their fucking asses off, harder than anybody else, still, in the end, failed.

Because they didn't put all their focus into creating leverage, because they thought "working hard" was enough, or even "working smart."

Brute force is almost never the answer.

"Working harder" is a fool's game, because any fool can play it.
> This comment looks casual, but with $50,000 you don't have to work anymore until the end of life.

Sadly, $50,000 doesn't go far here in the US. Don't get me wrong - it's definitely a nice chunk of change, but it's far from "don't have to work anymore" land. It's more in the "pay off one's student loans/credit card debt" area of things.

Where I live, average home prices seem to be around $320k, so this would barely cover a down-payment.
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> I've been there, thinking my vote mattered...

I wasn't referring to merely voting. I was referring to actually getting into politics and enacting change from the inside. If you just vote, you aren't enacting any change. You're signaling your belief that others are better able to handle this then you.
For sure. I'd pay $1000 for a machine that perfectly ironed my shirts. I hate ironing