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It's about "moving the cheese". Most people are creaturea of habit, when you move their cheese it forces them to change their habits and instills panic due to fear of the unknown. More so if the person affected isn't tech savvy. They are afraid they won't be able to do what they did before, they are afraid they'll make some new mistake that will have disastrous consequences, they are afraid of being embarrassed with making some novice blunder that will cause everyone to laugh at them, etc.

For these folks changing their browser, even a little bit would be like you or I walking into the bathroom and finding the toilet paper replaced with 3 seashells. You can get past that moment of panic with some coaching but some people don't like to be helped so there may or may not be anything you can do.

My philosophy: if you're getting tasked with being the family IT department, lay down some rules: they use what you suggest or they don't get support.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese
Funny seeing this just after I got done spending 2 hours waiting for Windows to apply all the updates.

Windows, check.
Adobe, check.
Java, check.
All browsers (with Chrome default), check.

Success.
Well you could do that today if you as a programmer could manually tell the system "please load addr x, y and z into the cache".

But if the cores of the CPU starts to communicate with the actor model then you wouldn't be using the memory close to the cores as a cache but as a storage area for messages that haven't been sent/processed yet as well as possible for thread local storage.
I love how you spelled "idiosyncrasies" correctly but failed with "its".
is django dead? just wanted to give it a try...
This is an excellent document for visual thinkers. I wish there were more of them. It reminds me of my dog eared copy of TCP/IP Illustrated. Now that the patents have all lapsed on GIF images it would seem to be a candidate for coming back but of course the PNG standard has made great progress in the mean time.

For a long time, and perhaps today, GIF was the most reliable way to have a diagram in a web page that would display like you expected. I keep hoping that SVG support will rise to the level that GIF support had in its hey day then I can have a web page that goes from phone to 24" display and the drawings still look nice.
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It is "unsafe" for the would-be helper to help people who aren't asking/paying for help and who don't understand the difference between a easily changed default setting and installed spyware.

With such people, you never know when they will simultaneously accuse you of "breaking" their computer and remove your access to said computer so that whatever you've done that they believe "breaks" the computer indeed becomes "permanent" and is something they can be permanently pissed at you for.
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Businesses exist solely to solve the problems of others. Domain knowledge required to solve and implement a solution to one of those problems is irrelevant – it can be acquired at any point in time, including after the problem has been identified.

That leaves us with the question: Does the domain knowledge accumulated in a PhD program lead one to later find problems that they would have never otherwise been determined to solve?

My hunch says it depends. Some people will find a solution and then go looking for a problem. Others will find a problem, and then go looking for solution. For the former group, a PhD will be quite valuable, but not so much for the latter group – the chances of them even having studied the right domain in advance is slim.
No, bash is not a monad. Really. This sort of article tends to obscure more than it illuminates.

Bash runs the commands of a pipeline in parallel, so you don't get the sequencing of side-effects that monads provide. You'd better off saying that shell commands are plain functions (mapping stdin to stdout) than insisting they're Kleisli arrows.

But to play along with the conceit: the pipe operator would translate into the >=> operator, not >>=. The first command in the pipeline has a stdin, it's just that usually the first command in a pipeline is one that ignores its stdin.
Isn't that basically Berkeley DB?
And I was too late, already submitted: http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9701967776...
I don't see any conflict.
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Give it a week or so, they'll need patching again.
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You bring up a good point... I think what you describe is attributable to fear of failure, or perhaps even just failed expectations. That is, the more effort you put into something there is some expectation of success to follow. When that doesn't match up to expectations... if you already have a fragile self-esteem or had self-doubt going into whatever venture, you just feel it all the more.

Of course the issue is success isn't a linear thing, it has peaks and valleys, but its sometimes hard to rationalize this as you're actually going thru it - you really just have to push going through those feeling like a loser phases.
This might not be a popular opinion, but as an individual who's capable of designing and implementing this, I'd rather vote in a politician who projects my ideals.
So.... old technologies suck because they're stable and scale, and new technologies suck because they're fun but aren't stable when they scale?
For those who, didn't see it three month back. There was a great threat about procrastination:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886187
Don't you think a bigger problem is that it's too much of a psychological hurdle for non-technical adopters? Try explaining the concept of bitcoins to most people and they'll become more hesitant, confused or even fearful than interested. Even if the technical concerns are addressed I don't think this gap can be overcome in our lifetime for such a concept to be widely adopted; the current system is too far entrenched.
After, you know, asking.
Robot originally referred to andoids, too. The word was invented by Karel Čapek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek) for one of his plays. I recommend his "War with the Newts".
I don't think too many people would object to the lockup period being based on join date. Ex: 30 days minus one day for each month you've been working at the company.
Assuming you have the most efficient code possible, the efficiency and speed of the interpreter can still affect the ability to scale an app.

Another thought is, the interpreter may or may not have scaling / clustering available, be it through a built-in functionality or an external queue or something.

Sometimes we have to code around interpreter/speed issues. I work in the JVM languages sometimes. I have to do things differently directly in Java if a particular JVM language I use isn't cutting it. Same goes for ".NET", which is over 30 some languages.
After reading all the comments it seems there are people who are playing with this kind of technology. Is there any open source code which can be studied?
>You could build some functions to manipulate fragments from XML, then build some higher-level functions from those, etc., then traverse your data (whatever it is) and use the functions you've built to emit XML in a clean and _precise_ way. I think Haskell already has such a library -- perhaps someone's ported it to F#?

Are you talking about Parser combinators? haskell [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec] and F#'s FParsec [http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/]?
I'm a little fuzzy on it, but its named gz for historical purposes due to boot loaders. There is even lzma2 compressed images, and they are still named .gz afaik (which admittedly is less than it should be).
Except that this factor isn't consistent with the known uncertainty discount, even if we and the person in question understand the discount rationally.

In fact, it is often wildly different from the known rational answer. In other words, we have some hardcoded responses to scenarios that are probably built on evolutionarily rational behavior, but which don't apply well to specific scenarios in which the "correct" rational behavior is easily determined.
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Reddit is over there.
Yeah, internet usage characteristics vary a lot from place to place. There is an amazing study from 2010 on internet behaviour around the world: http://2010.tnsdigitallife.com/ (swf)
The site's background image (a gradient) is 1M. Uhm...
That's one good thing about using a feature like WebGL :)

By forcing my users to use the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome I get access to a lot of nice new functionality.
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"If it were that simple, we wouldn't be having those problems, would we?"

How do you figure? Our behavior is driven by powerful forces, and rational analysis is a relatively new factor. The book "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely explores how our cognitive biases (such as anchoring and many others) often remain in place even after we are told that they exist and how to identify them.
Imagine we'd had the internet for a century ...

Sixty years ago it would have been a Commie flagging button.

Forty years ago it would have been a button to flag a Dirty Hippy.

Twenty years ago it'd have been a Denounce-a-Doper button.

Alarmist politicians: bringing you a different instance of the same buggy social design pattern since 500BC.
If there are sparks there is light. A spark is a very wide band transmitter - it creates just about every single frequency of light possible.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_gap_transmitter
yeah, precisely
newer IEs are ok.
Chrome is ok.
Firefox is ok.
Opera is ok.

this is an issue that most have solved very long ago, and the rest? well they don't read hacker news or ars anyway.
I don't do something unless the profits are clear. I once had $3,000.00 stolen from me, so I've learned early on to avoid anything too risky. And I'd rather make pennies doing something I love than dollars doing something I hate. It's absolutely different for everyone! But I'm confident you've probably learned a lot from your endeavors and have more respect for money. It's an interesting thing when you first start dealing with money...yikes...sometimes we have to learn the hard way.
77.8 million internet users as of November 9.

That 14 million number is very questionable. Facebook has around 30 million users. I bet 13 million of those are inactive profiles that fell for their bait-and-switch.
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Thanks man! And you're not making up for lost time :) Everybody's life is completely different.
Does anyone know if this will get implemented into ActionScript? I want let so much.
Of course. They work very differently.

If you have heat from friction you expect the heat along the length of the ship.

If you have heat from compression you expect it at any point where the ship is not parallel to the air - but not along the length of it.

Heat from friction can be aided by a low friction surface material.

Heat from compression can be aided by not having any surface very perpendicular to the air (spread out the change in angle over a distance).

With heat from friction you want a short ship - so just have the angled surface and be done with it.

Heat from compression would benefit from a longer ship so you have space to gradually change the angle of a surface.
Reinventing the wheel could be both wasteful and dangerous
> Further, rather than just saying "We've got this great new invention-- a better technology, and we're moving to that!" the message seems to be "we are just wanting to re-invent the wheel, so to justify it, we have to make a negative claim about couchDB.

Ubuntu re-invent a lot of wheels (sometimes poorly). Just off the top of my head: upstart, unity, launchpad...
Hoarding may happen only in the growth phase. As soon as that becomes stagnant...people will stop hoarding them.

Yeah, that seems to be the trend. It's opening up more and more (thankfully!).

And isn't hoarding kind of a different word for saving money?

Well, I'm not saying the hoarding is necessarily a bad thing. I just mean that hoarding, yes, like saving, limits the available quantity of bitcoins. That raises the barrier to entry for many, many people, but as you pointed out that will deflate over time, hopefully.
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Yeah, that's my sense of it. Median as opposed to mean. I'm just not sure what OP's "opposed to" / preferred measure is.
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Yeah, this is just some silly fanboyism.

Comparing revenues to the inflated market cap of Apple is silly and meaningless. Apple's revenues aren't $370B. It's a completely different metric.
Because it's just bad science.

To quote from the article:

"But autism researchers Christopher Jarrold and David Routh at the University of Bristol, UK, pointed out that Baron-Cohen reported the analysis of data only for engineers, not for the other occupations surveyed. After analysing the same data, they found that fathers of children with autism were more likely to work in medicine, science and accountancy, as well as engineering, and less likely to have manual occupations. They suggested that these fathers were simply more likely to have reached a higher level of education."
I have two ASD sons, both very "high functioning" -- and I don't mean "high functioning asperger's", I mean high functioning people. I have always told them that their various issues are two-edged swords. This was a major cornerstone of raising them to cope effectively with being so different from the norm. FWIW, here are some things I wrote 500 million years ago on the topic (probably full of dead links and things I don't recall saying): http://www.kidslikemine.com/aspie.shtml
Simple, scorn of the abstract. The hour spent watching tv is valued more highly, right now, than the consequences that come some point in the future. The tv-watching hour presses the brain's reward buttons harder than the abstract notion of having your work done ahead of time.

Taleb's "The Black Swan" has a nice discussion of scorn of the abstract, though not in the context of procrastination.
I had the choice to: Do a MBA or a PhD. I chose to do a startup. Best decision ever.
No it stands for "Big Zipped Image". Nothing to do with bzip2.

The choice of compression is not encoded in the filename.

http://www.kernel.org/doc/menuconfig/init-Kconfig.html#HAVE_...
further explanation: Since the whole ORM is designed ground up for relational databases, it has always seemed very hackish to me to add the non relational support. IMO better to use the ORM and Admin for what it was intended and just add further upon the stack with pymongo, redis-py etc for those that want to interact with non relational databases.
I stalled the laptop purchasing decision for my mom and grandmother and ended up letting other family members get my grandmother a laptop (Windows), and I let my mom get talked into buying a Mac by some friends and family members and abdicated all tech support responsibility by arguing that I only knew how to use Windows.

It worked; all blame is shifted away from me (as it should be) to the electric contraptions and other people who talked them into getting the laptops in question.

I think I increased my life span by twelve years and freed up a couple of hundred hours a month by that.

I am basically the Machiavelli of tech support.
Good question: In this case C++ was the server, and Python (via urllib2) was the client.
Lieberman is proof positive that one need not be intelligent or even well-informed to be a policy maker in the American government, merely well connected.
Clumsy pointers, or why most C coders don't get OO
(2) is used alot by porn sites (So i hear).

Mouse hovers show an animated GIF representation of the 'film' as a preview.
No. This is a project that lets you use Django on Google App Engine, nothing more.

(It also has a new maintainer, so no issues there either. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274745 )
Thanks, but this is what I get from that: http://imgur.com/tDt6m

I just don't understand why some sites "enhance" mobile browsing like this and make the experience worse off than just looking at the normal page. The iPad has an excellent browser.

And, also for the record, clicking the gear at the bottom and pressing "view desktop version" does exactly nothing other than disappointing me again.
I agree, it would be nice if Django would develop further abstractions for example for key value stores and document stores, and add functionality to the admin for those.
From what I was told in high school when they used to bring out the VDG's was that it would take a voltage potential in the millions to be harmful.

What my guess would be is that the mechanical energy from forcing the charged cellophane into compact rolls was forcing the free-electrons off of the cellophane belt and they were simply carrying on travelling. By the description it sounds like the rolling phase was giving the electrons a downward motion if it was a "tent" shape operation.

My guess it that it was simply a voltage-potential field. If the energy had found a way to ground itself it would have, and anyone walking around on a concrete floor wasn't going to provide a quicker route to ground. Probably similar to how a pigeon doesn't explode sitting on a power line, because despite sitting on a line with millions of watts of potential energy, until it comes actual energy (like when a tree branch hits across the lines) it's not dangerous.
Um, you're not OP.

What are you suggesting as a preferred measure of central tendency if not median? The usual suspects include arithmetic mean (strong outlier bias, especially for incomes), or mode (which has other problems).

Or are you suggesting that measures of central tendency are inappropriate for this sort of analysis altogether? In which case, what population/sampling moments would you use instead?

I'd suggest that 2 is false. For a policy analysis, you're interested in either total (mean) or typical (median) outcomes. Probably median. You might toss in some floor/ceiling limits as well (if a particular course of action has a highly bi-modal tendency, with one mode being particularly low, it's not so hot).

As to my own feelings on the matter: a good college education is really valuable. I've certainly met people who are brilliant and/or successful who haven't finished, or even in some cases attended college. One of the biggest problems (and it ultimately does become a problem) with the latter is what I call the "chip on the shoulder" issue: it's an awareness that the person has that they haven't been to college and a mix of compensation and confidence issues resulting.

Much of what you learn in college comes from the context: who you're exposed to, what you're exposed to, library access (much less significant today than 20 years ago, given the Internet and its resources, but there are still huge amounts of information not readily available online). You absolutely can experience much of this outside the academic environment, but you've got to work at it.

At the same time, there are many schools (and student bodies) which are uninspired, and programs which do a poor job of preparing students for the outside world. There were holes in my education. There was much that I learned in college which was self-directed, or incidental.

One of the bigger lessons was the degree to which you might want to discount some random professor/researcher's claim of something ;-)
I want to know as well.

My guess is one or two people take charge of the product direction, be they developers, or business development, or whatever.

(I've been on a few teams where one person has taken this Product Manager-esque role, and made sure we don't run off the path and into the Brambles of Indecision.)
Another hero of mine has passed, but much of her, just as she taught us, remains.

But death means never getting a chance to have a conversation with her. I am so sad to see her go.
I'm not a troll, I'm familiar with these tools. I've even written a prototype of a web application(IDE). And I know very well how much it is pain in the ass to develop using web technologies, compared to proper frameworks(.NET, Qt, Cocoa, you name it). Web technologies are the least common denominator, something that is more or less supported by everyone, but sucks compared to good tools. Of course if you really try - you can build something great with it(Google Docs, GMail, Cloud9 and many other amazing apps). But it requires 10 times more effort compared to good tools.

The advantages of the web are not the technologies it's implemented with, but very founding things like URL, instant delivery of content and applications. All of that is completely unrelated to the current technology stack. Google is a good example for you. They are probably the most experienced people out there in creating complex web applications. And yet they are the ones who try to bring technologies to replace them - Native Client, Dart programming language.

And you not even contradicting me, by saying "What's your solution? Replacement languages for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript so that not only do we all have to start from scratch with new languages but then wait even longer for browser support?" Yes, web stack is the current state of affairs. And it will take some strong man with balls to get rid of it and build a better new world. And yes, there are better technologies than that - a good example is QML for example. And I am by far not the only one who isn't satisfied.
Needs an `auto` setting for width and (or) height.

Looks great otherwise.
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+1

It's like saying "$hot-software-de-jour doesn't scale" when the article actually said "we couldn't get it to scale in our server environment - which is a cluster of Arduinos powered by solar cells".

There's nothing wrong with having a workload/architecture/environment that doesn't suit a particular piece of software, and if you do it's right to choose something else that does suit your needs. Saying (or implying) that piece of software is bad because it doesn't suit _your_ strange requirements is about as credible as saying "Photoshop sucks 'cause it can't send email!"