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Is there a way to disable flash but whitelist domains whose flash assets I will display? (Meaning I want to whitelist the domain actually serving the asset, not the page displaying them.) I suspect that approach would get rid of 90% of flash ads, while still allowing me to watch youtube or play the occasional flash game.
If this plan (by some wild chance) became reality, the data utility could add a new box electrical box. That's one of the easiest issues to solve.
Exactly. The article was quite interesting up until the introduction of the trojan kitten that systems are only overly complex because the people who build them need to justify spending 40 hours a week in a cubicle to build them.

Systems are complex because the world is complex. If it could be done simpler, faster and more secure, it would be done simpler, faster and more secure.
Reading Coders at Work does not make me smarter either (and I've read it).

Don't get me wrong, it is an interesting book but let's not forget that it is a personal interview type of book. These people are telling stories about their life + computers. Not necessary to focus on educating other people.

If you look at the list of the people for CaW, most of them are either in Research or no longer actively writing code in recent environment. They might write code fragments or design stuffs (more like Architect role).

But I do like to pick some of the opinions regarding unit-test that all of these so-called great developers believe and shove them to other developers :).
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"What the Eurozone really needs is functional finance: define your goals for the real economy (e.g. full employment, high real living standards) and then do whatever it takes to achieve that in the financial arena."

... just wish away reality by printing more Euros?
Television and Social media? How did my recommendation engine miss it?
I used to say: "There's nothing wrong about coding while being drunk, just don't commit!". But now, it'd be more "There's nothing wrong about coding AND commiting while being drunk, just don't push it!"
yup there is a minimal ad on the side. I didn't appeared for the few queries I had tried (people names). I tried searching for a laptop and there came the ad on the side ;-)
Doesn't this work the other way around?

Perhaps not since his previous clients would have been individual cases for disparate individuals and there wouldn't have been so much 'data'?
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You seem to wish to invoke second order effects only while saying "what's good for Mercedes is good for Germany".

Consider the second order effects of a stronger currency. Germans can now purchase big screen TVs, food and non-German cars for less money than before. They still have money left over which can be spent on personal trainers, pedicures, restaurant meals, etc. Or conversely, they can work fewer hours.

In this world, Germans have the same number of Mercedes-Benz cars as before, and they also consume more restaurant meals and leisure.
Most engineers are male, why do you use 'she'? Also it distracts from your other points.
Since when do they use Bing? I thought they did their own indexing.
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If the problem is that you are too timid to get things done normally, the solution is not to get drunk. The solution is to get some balls.
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What are those other sectors?

Not an insult btw. I genuinely want to know.
Agreed. IMO, this is the only way to do this sort of thing. Build apartment buildings on top of or very close to data centers.
Edit: Sorry I think I misinterpreted your comment first time round, thought you were just a random person weighing in with an assuming comment. Still though you seem to have changed your tone slightly since your last comment. I didn't say I smoke a bong every 30 minutes, far from it, I'd probably be comatose if that was the case. I was just trying to offer some insight
It is possible they didn't use the right tool for the job.
That's an unrealistically elaborate hack. Try "someone showed up in an orange overall and carted it off".

(Also, people trying to pad their work exist, but are not the chief cause of software complexity.)
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I am intrigued and wish to know more of your ideas.

What are some ideas for automation of the physical word? I am always looking to feed my creativity algorithms with new domains.
I definitely don't dispute that – it probably depends on where you hang out online. I saw a lot of rah-rah on the "mainstream" media (CNN, etc.) and aggregators like techmeme.com, etc.
How far would the commute be from LA to SF to Cupertino? If there's a local transit network, I would include Apple's revenues.

OED: 1. they commute on a stuffy overcrowded train: travel to and from work, travel to and fro, travel back and forth, come and go, shuttle.

Travelling home during the weekends and then back on weekdays continuously would be commuting.
Not even one positive comment? No one is excited that they are making a highly affordable surface for 10 times+ less? We are a startup/hacker community after all, I don't think it is too much to ask!
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See who's funding or advertising in a publication and it'll give you a pretty good idea of what to expect and what not to expect. The onus of proof against homeopathy is on you, I feel.

Add: Google CSE on those publications http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=007606573058381115019%3A5j... but the container implies the content..
Something the site didn't answer, what high-level languages are suitable for writing highly-parallel network code? I need to write some code that does stuff like: given a couple million URLs, download each, extract an element, gather all extracted elements in a list.
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i think a 4 year old would understand that, and think it is a wonderful scam, if she could get away with it.
The problem, in part, is that VCs want naive, unfettered young people. The VC model has sort of evolved into a kind of talent betting pool.

If you're sophisticated enough to have a proven track record, you're probably also more sophisticated about retaining equity and control.
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It must be replicated. In the meantime, it's probably a good idea for people in Northern areas to take 1-2k IUs/day.
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What about adding a random conversation starter? Maybe it's just me, but I've always found it awkward when a conversation is forced (i.e. two random people pushed into the same chat room, now talk).
"The number of seed-stage fundings is outpacing series A fundings."

That is always the case, just as it is always the case that series A fundings outpace IPOs.
Everything will feel like it's missing an AI when you see cars driving themselves everywhere you look. I can see the general shape of it (lots of automation), but it's hard to say what it'll look like.

I try to keep speculation to a minimum because most specific predictions of the future end up being wrong even if the rough idea is right.

The best I can come up with is automated bicycle messengers, but that's as likely as any idea I could come up with.
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Because someone would argue the opposite (that engineering needs to be more welcoming to females) if saalweachter used he instead.
Could it be that a company dedicated to promoting, analyzing, integrating, and categorizing open source software wanted to use an open source solution themselves? And although the open nature of Java can certainly be questioned due to the manipulations of Sun (and now Oracle), it's certainly more open that .Net, at least since 2007.
"One of the things he told me is that a recession is the best time to start a business: the table is cleared and the posers don't want to work hard to make it. More room for the truly dedicated."

We've been in recession for years now, just not specifically in SV, where most of this stuff takes place. But people latch on to it, and many people think they're "starting a business in a recession" right now.
Maybe we should have TV shows like this, I can't help but feel anything that gets the general public a bit more aware about how this stuff really works and makes them more suspicious about "bad" practices is a net win. Not to mention that if it had some pretty good writers it would make for quite compelling TV. I'm thinking something in the Crime genre, maybe like CSI?

Heck, I'd watch it! I might learn something =D...
I think EXOdesk and Microsoft's Surface will probably have their lunch eaten by the more successful tablet manufacturers. They already have huge app ecosystems and it isn't an insurmountable technical challenge to increase a tablet's size by a factor of 4.

That being said, I hope they do succeed. The more competition the better.
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Reading the comments below, it completely sounds like the Housing Bubble discussions between 2004 and 2008. You had the doomsayers saying for years that "house prices are too expensive, there's going to be a crash" and the momentum chasers saying "no, this time it's different, there's not enough land, house prices are here to stay."

In the comments, you have the same sentiment of "It's too frothy, there has to be a pullback", or "There won't be a pullback, this time it's different than 2008."

After surviving the dotcom crash and the 2008 financial crash, it definitely seems like we are headed towards a global recession in 2012. No matter what path we take, whether Europe can save itself or not, the best case scenario is going to be a sharp pullback in European economic output. Worst case is that the euro falls apart and the entire global financial system is rocked. My guess is that Germany won't allow this to happen because they will suffer disproportionately, so they will allow the issuing of Eurobonds.

So that being said, economic growth will slowdown worldwide. I think the US is the best place to be, given its sluggish-but-not-catastrophic growth.

BUT it's not the US's GDP that matters, it's the investments of American rich people that matters in terms of funding VCs. If rich people take a hit because a majority of their investments get whacked, then they will stop investing in venture funding. There's a pretty strong correlation between VC funding and the stock market. Already the markets are down pretty hard since they topped in June. If you remember the dotcom boom, it was during a massive bull market in the stock market. As well, after the crash of 2008, the nadir of the markets being March 2009, there's been almost a doubling of the stock market since then, so by 2011 lots of rich people got very, very rich and are willing to spread out their investments.

However, since June, the US markets are down 15%. The German market is down almost 30%, Chinese markets down 23%, Indian markets down 22%, Brazil down 25%. There are a lot of rich people around the world that don't feel as rich as they used to. If this trend continues and spills over to 2012, these rich people will definitely pullback on discretionary investments, the top of them being venture funding. So if you want a gauge on how VCs will behaving, I'm personally going to be looking at the stock market to see how it's going to behave.
Great point on taking care of the monotony a few drinks in. How you're coping with disliking flying is a whole other conversation haha.
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It makes me want to cry out of frustration.
I'm pretty darn excited for an automated car to drive me to work and then go back to my garage. Or to drive me home after too much to drink at the bar. Or to take me between major cities at like 200 MPH on robo-freeways.
better question is, why do you find it so distracting?
Well, how about medicine, biology, finance and banking, industrial production, logistics, printing, transportation, etc, just off of the top of my head?

There are tons of stuff to do a startup on besides some social gimmick.
Growing large and risk averse is what all bureaucratic organizations do.

Using IE6 as an example, in my case at least, for that isn't accurate.

In 2002 I installed a brand-new shiny system to replace our then paper-bound order system. Required IE6.

Fast-forward to 2011 - the version I installed is still in use. IE and Firefox latest work 'ok' for the client, but the administrators must maintain a copy of IE6 [1] for their functions. [2]

We didn't upgrade in 2004 because the costs were prohibitive. We dropped support in 2006 because the cost to support our obsolete version went through the roof, and we were going to implement those functions in JDE 'real soon'.

I stopped supporting the system in 2007, and it went to another team, but we're still using the thing, same version, in 2011. IE6 is still required, of course, for the admin stuff.

All of the decisions that force a handful of people to use IE6 were made above the IT level.

In this case, at least, ain't us man.

[1] Or Safari with UA set to IE 7.
[2] It's a shiny pop-up java thing that looked real slick back in 2001.
Not really, ad impressions count!
I'm in Sweden so my knowledge of the situation comes from inferring a general Zeitgeist via online reading on this and other sites. So take my remarks with a few grams of salt.

That's interesting btw, care to tell me a bit more?
Tell me more about the general shape then :)
Well muting TV or skipping ads on recorded shows is different from using adblock. Ad block reduces the ad impressions, recorded or muted TV still counts as an "impression".
Cool. The reason I ask is because I am always trying to come up with ideas (see http://ideashower.posterous.com) but I feel I keep circling around a few domains when I brainstorm ideas. I could do well to expand my vision.

If you have any ideas in those areas please do share :)
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I am not very sure that a student choosing Computer Science implies that he likes it at some level. It is very common in India to choose Computer Science or Electronics for engineering studies because every other guy seems to be doing the same thing.
Similarly, if you travel internationally to attend an open source hackathon, when speaking to customs never use the term "work" or "hack" for that matter. Reprogram your brain to use the word "conference" to describe the event, and describe what you're doing as "hobbyist coding for fun."
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"""Don't you think intelligent people have better things to do than to rewrite old code, just because Apple's platform lacks important features that have been well-known for several decades?"""

Yeah, you probably missed the whole point of the comment, TFA, and several other stuff besides.

It's not Apple's platform that's the problem, is TeX/LaTeX that is lacking important features. In EVERY platform.

People have been hacking them on to it, but having a better codebase to start off, without the assumptions TeX/LaTeX make would really make it so much easier.

"""The notion that every time we have a new language/platform, we must REWRITE THE WORLD!! is absurd and a huge waste of resources."""

Yeah, good thing that nobody suggested anything like that in the thread.

Btw, the notion that you can add your worthless reply without first understanding what the parent poster says is absurd. You should stop making excuses for it.
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Can't use quantum entanglement to transmit information unfortunately... It would be nice though.
Because it's like he is trying to advocate feminism in the middle of his other points.
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The Common Crawl index, already has 5bn ranked pages, and the data is open to everyone - http://www.commoncrawl.org/
Agree, that's exactly the thing i found non engaging about chatroulette. That's why I put this Icebreak box to show you the common points you have with your partner.
Not sure what to add... ???

The "start a business in a recession" is common guidance/wisdom. It seems to make some sense - it'll weed out the people who aren't truly interested in starting a business, because it'll be harder than in 'normal' economic times.

The difference is, for web/tech startups, it's probably easier now to get started, insomuch as the cost of starting something is far less than it was 5 years ago, and there's more money being invested in small web startups than a few years ago. So... lower costs to startup, more money being invested, and we see more of these happening.

However, people think they're "starting a business in a recession" because the general economy is in recession. The "web/tech startup" economy is not in recession - seemingly quite the opposite, really.

In a year or two when the startup money stops flowing so easily, we'll be in 'startup recession' territory, and that's where the "start a business in a recession" wisdom will be tested, but I suspect not as many people will put it to the test.
I would hope that it's also a mutual respect for others work as well. I don't refrain from theft because I might get caught but because society functions because of a mutual respect for their work.

This is partly why we have such a business problem in finance and the media, both severely lack mutual respect between parties.
I think devs should have admin rights on their boxes

I no longer support dev desktops, but I do admin the systems they use - servers, databases.

I'm cool with what you say in principle. If we're talking your own desktop, sure, no problem. As long as you're responsible for cleaning up your own mess.

But root on 'my' dev servers - no way, Jose. Those guys don't know unix, don't know what they're doing with root. They get shell accounts, they can do what they need to do.

Maybe it's the way we're setup. Typically 'the' box they're using is shared with other devs and applications. One fubared 'rm' as root and they've taken down great chunks of our development environment.
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First thing you need is some sort of waiting room. I didn't have any time to even really add my name or anything and the same dude from Belgium keep coming up and then he uses the OMG! button and I close the window.
If you had an antenna and an omni, though, you could connect a local subnet to the wider area. If you had a few directional antennas in each local subnet (say, an apartment complex connected by omnis), then the subnets would connect to the rest of the world.

Wireless meshes don't work. They need to be fractal - local omnis, then cantennas, then backbones. If every geek had a cantenna (plus an omni to connect to the non-geeks, and another geek with a cantenna), you could light up most cities (OK, maybe not quite a city ... I don't really know). From there, you need some super-geeks finding ways to connect the city nets (private fiber?), but you don't need many super-geeks.
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All this cash floating around also seems to lead to startups sucking up all the best talent. Do coding geniuses really need to be working on photo-sharing apps, as opposed to, say, rocket programming?

I'm not sure your counterfactual is well-chosen. Round these parts (UK), bright physicists/engineers/compscis seem to mainly end up in finance, trying to stay on the right side of zero-sum-game financial jiggery-pokery.

Photo sharing may not be the best possible outlet for their talents, but at least it has some social value.
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Google uses some clever trick to hide the closing tags in your browser. Download the file and open it in your editor of choice, the closing tags are there.

http://i.imgur.com/vCyrY.png

EDIT: Or chrome is auto-adding the tags? As mentioned below curl doesn't replicate the same results, nor does Firefox.
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Yup getting 503s all over the place.
Well I'm drinking Absolut Vodka right now, but that's just 'cause I'm hung over. Writing code is the farthest thing from my mind right now...

Seriously though, let's start a discussion about better coding through chemistry in general. Nicotine patches? Smart/nootropic drugs? Supplements? Preferred caffeine delivery vectors? Etc. What works for you?

Anyone tried Modafinil?
No network of any reasonable size/complexity can keep out a focused attacker. If you think yours can, you are wrong.

Today's threat models are dominated by the criminal, opportunistic attackers looking for user information or computing power. Real discussion and countermeasures for focused attacks are severely lacking.

Governments know this. CISOs know this. They speak of it privately to each other, but rarely in public because the issues are so sensitive. Messaging from industry is dominated by the vendors who both have significant equities in the "we're secure!" message and speak very narrowly about the security of their applications, but rarely/never about the collection of those applications into these beasts we call networks.

Posts like this are becoming more commonplace, but neither industry nor academia are making tangible strides to solutions. If you want a startup idea, focus on security and go disrupt.
Except the 'market' for software is not comparable to any other real market because it is built on so called "Intellectual Property" which is basically government granted monopolies.

This is again one of the reasons why complex software 'wins' in the 'market': more complex software over which you have a monopoly increases lock-in.

Add in software patents, and real competition in this 'market' is almost impossible.
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